Most companies run loyalty programs to retain their customers and increase customer engagement. But it's not easy to run a loyalty program. An organization needs to put in efforts to make it successful, especially in a country like Australia where the competition is tough and companies keep coming with bigger and better loyalty programs every now and then.
In order to make a loyalty program successful in Australia, most companies promote their loyalty programs by marketing them aggressively. It works because aggressive marketing lets people know what a loyalty program is offering them and how a loyalty program adds value to a product or service. In short, marketing a loyalty program makes the customers use your brand.
When an organization sets out to promote its loyalty program, its objectives are twofold – to make their new customers aware of their loyalty programs and keep the existing customer base engaged with their targeted campaigns. This article will share three valuable tips that will be the guiding light for Australian companies who want to run successful loyalty programs. For more tips and guidelines, contact Power2Motivate Australia today.
Loyalty programs are incomplete without discounts. Discounts are and will always be a fundamental part of loyalty programs. But sometimes too many discounts are not very effective. For instance, if a customer is already determined to buy your product or service, then a heavy discount being offered via loyalty programs is sort of a waste on such customers. The best way to run a loyalty program is to offer a different discount card to new customers and a different one to loyal customers who you know will purchase your product in any case.
Loyalty programs offering simple discounts do not always appeal to all customers. It's something they have grown used to. Simple discounts do not offer an experience that stimulates the senses of customers. This is where the emotional appeal must be used to create associations with loyalty programs. Emotional and memorable connections will leave a deeper impact on customers for sure. What companies need to do is come up with exclusive offers for its loyal customers to make them feel special and different from the company's ordinary customer base.
Brands like L'Oreal do this. They personalise their loyalty programs. Personalisation can be done easily in loyalty programs because the data collected through these programs offer companies a great opportunity to know their customers in detail. With the help of that data, brands can devise personalised and effective discount strategies and experiential rewards that are targeted towards specific segments of customers.
These three tips can make brands in Australia run loyalty programs effectively and achieve the desired results in no time. Although this is not all that can be done to make a loyalty program successful, these three tips must have given you the idea of how you need to administer your brand's loyalty program.


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Devon and Cornwall police launch investigation into fox hunters following leaked webinars
The videos disclosed how fox hunters create "smokescreens" during hunts. At one point a former police officer says "I hope no police officers are watching."
Webinars hosted by The Hunting Office which disclosed how they create "smokescreens" to protect huntsmen are being examined by police officers, it has been confirmed.
Devon and Cornwall Police have launched an investigation after a hunt saboteur group leaked a series of Zoom meetings run by the sport's governing body and attended by over 150 hunt masters in August.
The panel was made up of leaders of the hunting community including Conservative Peer, Lord Mancroft and ex-Police Inspector and Liaison Consultant to the Countryside Alliance, Phil Davies.
They talk about creating "smokescreens" that allow them to continue hunting illegally, with Davies at one point saying "I hope no police officers are watching".
Commenting on the footage Deputy Chief Constable Paul Netherton, National Police Chief Council lead for fox hunting, said: "Police are currently investigating and examining video content from two Webinars on the theme of hunting which have recently come to our attention.
"We are working in conjunction with the CPS to see if any criminal offences have been committed.
"As these events were online and there are no specific geographical areas for one force to investigate, Devon and Cornwall Police are leading the investigation on behalf of all UK forces.
List of Covid fines goes viral after thread uncovers heartbreaking stories
Over two billion litres of raw sewage discharged in Thames in two days
Living costs worst since 1992 with inflation almost double the NHS pay rise
"We understand this is a contentious issue. However, at this time this is a live and active investigation which we cannot comment further on."
Lee Moon, spokesperson for the Hunt Saboteurs Association, said following the leak that: "These videos provide irrefutable proof of what we have long known – almost every single fox, hare, deer and mink hunt in the UK is routinely flouting the Hunting Act and illegally hunting and killing live animals.
"This is a nationwide conspiracy being perpetrated by peers and ex-police officers. The fact that they wear suits and ties shouldn't disguise the fact they're nothing more than an organised criminal gang who are sticking two fingers up at the majority of the population.
"Well over one hundred hunt masters attended these seminars and were treated to over three hours of lectures inciting them to commit criminal acts and perjure themselves when dealing with the police."
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Johnson's poll lead collapses as Tory MPs mount rebellion against PM
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Weather forecast, alerts and UVB index for London, Saturday 27 March 2021
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'It's called being a god damn bloody adult': Aussie politician's blunt takedown of anti-vax bill

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S'anomena Transceptor casolà o Transceptor de construcció casolana als equips d'emissió/recepció de ràdio construïts pels radioaficionats mateixos.

Història

En els primers anys, la majoria dels radioaficionats construïa els seus propis equips, ja que en aquella època no existien equips comercials fàcilment disponibles. Aquest procés el va anomenar construcció casolana o "homebrewing" en anglès.

Entre 1930 i 1950, els radioaficionats havien aconseguit construir equips de raonable qualitat amb vàlvules de buit. La cobertura de bandes comprenia les bandes entre la Banda de 160m i la Banda de 10m, entre 1,8 i 30 MHz, i pesaven de l'ordre de deu a trenta quilograms. Els radioaficionats francesos d'aquesta època de pre-i postguerra recorden (probablement per aquestes raons de pes del material) que l'examen no es passava en un centre d'examen, sinó a casa. L'examinador venia, s'assegurava que el candidat tingués els coneixements necessaris i sabés fer servir el material, habitualment, un transceptor de construcció casolana.

Després de la Segona Guerra Mundial, alguns empresaris van començar a comercialitzar "kits", consistents en tots els components necessaris per construir la ràdio, el diagrama del circuit i instruccions detallades per a l'acoblament. Diverses vegades, el kit servia com un primer assaig abans de dedicar-se a la construcció casolana. De vegades aquests kits es venien armats, i els mateixos empleats de les empreses que comercialitzaven els kits, els feien pel seu compte en les seves hores lliures per guanyar una mica més de diners. Probablement, l'empresa Heathkit hagi estat la que més hagi contribuït a la difusió del material de radioafició de construcció casolana.

Les lliçons apreses construint (i modificant) el seu propi equip van ser fonamentals per desenvolupar la mestria tècnica dels radioaficionats d'aquesta època. L'adveniment dels semiconductors i amb ells les tècniques d'industrialització en massa i de miniaturització de components van fer baixar tant el preu dels aparells comercials que avui resulta antieconòmic fabricar un transceptor de construcció casolana. Actualment, només una minoria de radioaficionats utilitza exclusivament aparells de construcció casolana. No obstant això, la pràctica d'armar ràdios a partir de kits segueix vigent, i actualment hi ha molts proveïdors de kits de construcció.

Regles de joc

La construcció casolana difereix de la construcció d'un kit, pel fet d'utilitzar parts i dissenys obtinguts aquí i allà. Encara els constructors més experimentats poden mancar del temps i dels recursos per construir una ràdio equivalent a una moderna ràdio comercial, ja que les ràdios comercials tenen circuits específics i els seus dissenyadors tenen elements de disseny i de simulació fora de l'abast del radioaficionat comú. Tanmateix, és possible obtenir resultats similars als d'equips comercials amb dissenys senzills i components recuperats, on el plaer de construir la seva pròpia ràdio s'uneix a la satisfacció d'aprendre electrònica.

QRP

Els transceptors QRP són ràdios de baixa potència: 5W màxim per al mode A1A (telegrafia) i 10W màxim per al mode Banda Lateral Única. Per la seva baixa potència i les baixes tensions requerides, són particularment adaptats per operar sense perill i sense requerir materials massa costosos. Per aquesta raó, molts transceptors de construcció casolana són també transceptors QRP.

Desafiaments l'enginy
Una característica d'alguns transceptors de construcció casolana, és l'ús de caixes metàl·liques originalment destinades a contenir caixes de cigarretes, pastilles, galetetes, conserves de peix o bombons. La miniaturització requerida per l'envàs Aguza l'enginy dels constructors. Als Estats Units, es fan servir envasos de pastilles (Altoids, veure foto) o bé llaunes de tonyina, a Anglaterra l'envàs d'un altre tipus de pastilles (O ZON), ia França hi ha qui ha utilitzat llaunes de galetes bretones o de pastilles de menta dels Vosges.

Radios a vàlvules de buit

Els radioaficionats nord-americans anomenen "Bichos de llum" ( "Glowbug") a les ràdios senzilles, construïdes amb vàlvules de buit, records dels transmissors de l'època 1920-1930. Un transceptor casolà d'aquest tipus inclou típicament un receptor regeneratiu o de conversió directa, i un transmissor de telegrafia amb un oscil·lador Hartley, de vegades amb una sola vàlvula.

Sense amplificador, aquestes ràdios poden eroge potències de 3-70 watts.

Com les vàlvules d'aquestes ràdios requereixen altes tensions, de l'ordre de 150 a 300 Volts (una tensió de 40 Volts pot ser ja letal), l'alimentació és de corrent altern, a 110 Volts (Estats Units) o 220 Volts (Europa).

L'estètica d'alguns d'aquests transmissors, autèntics clàssics, de vegades assoleix alts nivells de bellesa.

Ràdios a transistors
Tot a finals de 1960, predominaven les ràdios a vàlvules. A partir dels anys 70, els transceptors de construcció casolana evolucionen per l'adveniment del transistor: usen 13,8 Volts de corrent continu (inofensiva excepte rares excepcions), els components es miniaturitzen, es tornen més fiables, i menys perillosos. Alguns dissenys més sofisticats (en el sentit estrictament etimològic del terme) comencen a utilitzar a partir dels anys 90 microcontrolador és Atmel o PIC.

Associacions de constructors
Hi ha diverses associacions de constructors. Probablement, la més prestigiosa sigui el club britànic , que edita la revista SPRAT. A Espanya l'associació que aglutina els aficionats al "cacharreo" és el EAQRP qui també publica el seu propi butlletí, el QU-R-PE.

Alguns transceptors de construcció casolana
 El BITX és un transceptor capaç de transmetre a la Banda de 20m en mode Banda Lateral Única. Optimitzat per a ser construït per radioaficionats a l'Índia, on hi ha una certa dificultat per procurar-se certs components especialitzats, és un disseny intel·ligent que ha estat reproduït amb èxit per constructors aficionats de diversos països.
 El Pixie, petit i esvelt com la fada que li confereix el seu nom, és un dels més enginyosos dissenys publicats.
 El Transceptor Puça dissenyat pels catalans Eduardo Alonso (EA3GHS) i Joan Morros (EA3FXF) ha suscitat molt d'interès i ha estat publicat a la revista SPRAT del GQRP Club.

Vegeu també
 Radioafició
 QRP
 BITX Transceiver
 Revista Lúpin (molt activa en la publicació d'articles de radioaficionats constructors)

Enllaços externs
 Pàgina del radioaficionat estadounidannse AF4K  - En anglès. Molts articles interessants.
 Yahoo rfamplifiers - Un lloc per als qui dissenyen i construeixen els seus propis amplificadors per a les seves ràdios.
 soldersmoke - Un podcast en anglès per a constructors aficionats - Punt de discussió per als que s'apassionen per aquest hobby.
 Rock-Mite - Un lloc de kits nord-americà. En anglès.
 Lloc d'Olivier Ernst F5LVG - Un lloc de gran qualitat tècnica. En francès.
 G-QRP - Lloc Web de l'associació de constructors britànics G-QRP, editors de la famosa revista SPRAT.

Radioafició

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Come hear a live reading of excerpts from the upcoming Sci-Fi thriller Cyberwar by writer R.J. Huneke at Stony Brook University!
Never before heard or seen material will be read aloud at the event hosted by the Stony Brook Sci-fi Forum at 7 pm on September 24, 2014.
R.J. will be signing posters, accepting pre-orders, and offering entry into exciting Cyberwar contests.
Those interested in attending can do so at the Stony Brook University Forum Union Building Basement, Room 047.


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Ivo Frosio (* 27. April 1930 in Muralto; † 18. April 2019) war ein Schweizer Fussballspieler. Er nahm mit der Nationalmannschaft seines Landes an der Fussballweltmeisterschaft 1954 teil.

Karriere

Vereine
Frosio spielte in der Saison 1949/50 für den FC Locarno in der Nationalliga A. In einem Teilnehmerfeld von 14 Mannschaften schloss er mit seinem Klub als Elftplatzierter ab. Zur darauffolgenden Saison wechselte er zum FC Zürich. Nach nur einer Spielzeit schloss er sich dem Aufsteiger und Stadtrivalen Grasshopper Club an. Mit den Grasshoppers gewann er auf Anhieb das Double, wobei er beim 2:0 im Cupfinal gegen den FC Lugano nicht eingesetzt wurde. Diesen Erfolg wiederholte er 1956 mit seinem Team.

Ein Jahr später schloss er sich dem FC Lugano an, bei dem er 1961 seine Karriere in der Nationalliga B beendete.

Nationalmannschaft
Frosio bestritt 13 Länderspiele für die Schweizer Nationalmannschaft, in denen er ohne Torerfolg blieb. Er debütierte am 20. September 1952 im Stadion Wankdorf im Europapokalspiel gegen Ungarn.

1954 berief ihn Nationaltrainer Karl Rappan in das Schweizer Aufgebot für die Weltmeisterschaft im eigenen Land. Während des Turniers wurde Frosio jedoch nicht eingesetzt.

Sein letztes Länderspiel bestritt Frosio am 25. Oktober 1959 bei der 0:8-Niederlage im Europapokal ebenfalls gegen Ungarn.

Erfolge
 Schweizer Meister: 1952, 1956
 Schweizer Cup: 1952, 1956

Weblinks

 Ivo Frosio in der Schweizer Nationalmannschaft (englisch)

Fußballnationalspieler (Schweiz)
Teilnehmer an einer Fußball-Weltmeisterschaft (Schweiz)
Fußballspieler (FC Locarno)
Fußballspieler (FC Zürich)
Fußballspieler (Grasshopper Club Zürich)
Fußballspieler (FC Lugano)
Schweizer Meister (Fussball)
Schweizer Cupsieger (Fussball)
Schweizer
Geboren 1930
Gestorben 2019
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Sembcorp Marine Delivers Vito Floater to Shell
OE Staff January 6, 2022
Photo: SCM
Singapore's Sembcorp Marine said Thursday it had completed the construction of the Vito floating production facility, bound for deployment in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico for Shell.
The integration of Vito's topside structure with its hull was executed by a pair of goliath cranes with 30,000-tonne combined lifting capacity and 100-meter hook height in Tuas Boulevard Yard in Singapore.
"The yard's ability to perform this type of mega-block lifting enabled the Vito topsides and living quarters to be fabricated and assembled at ground level to minimize work-at-height risks, before integration with the four-column FPU hull in a single lift," Sembcorp Marine said.
The Vito FPU was delivered to Shell on December 27, 2021, and the platform departed Tuas Boulevard Yard for Singapore's anchorage to prepare for loadout and its sailaway to the Gulf of Mexico in the United States.
Vito will be Shell's 11th deep-water project in the area, and will be located 240 kilometers (150 miles) southeast of New Orleans, in a water depth of 1,219 meters (4,000 feet). The platform will produce 100,000 barrels of oil equivalent (boe) per day at peak production.
Wong Weng Sun, Sembcorp Marine President & CEO, said: "The successful construction and delivery of Vito FPU is a key milestone in our newbuilding track record and a testament to Sembcorp Marine's proven expertise and differentiated capabilities in the construction of turnkey projects for the offshore, marine and energy industries. We would like to thank Shell for their strong teamwork and steadfast support in overcoming the challenges and constraints brought on by COVID-19. We look forward to continuing this partnership with Shell for the Whale Host Facility (WHF)."
Sembcorp Marine is currently building a second FPU project for Shell, involving the fabrication and integration of the FPU topsides, living quarters, and hull, for the Whale development located in the United States Gulf of Mexico.
The Whale floating production unit will, when it comes to the hull, be a 99% replica of the Vito project. The topside will be an 80% replication of the topsides from Vito.
Delfin Plans Louisiana Floating LNG FID in 2022
U.S. liquefied natural gas (LNG) developer Delfin LNG said it plans to make a final investment decision (FID) to go forward…
Three Indian Navy personnel were killed in an explosion on a ship at a naval dockyard in Mumbai on Tuesday, the navy said.It…
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Norway-based offshore vessel owner DOF Subsea has secured a contract extension for the Skandi Acergy construction support vessel.
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By Rachel Held Evans, on September 22, 2009.
So last week I received quite a flood of responses to my post,Why Calvinism Makes Me Cry – both on the blog and in my inbox. I'm happy that the post started such a lively conversation, and I appreciate all who contributed so thoughtfully to it. Thank you!
What makes me cry – mostly Christians who like Jacob limp through life because they wrestle with God when they should just let Him bless them, who live like spiritual paupers when they could be enjoying the abundant life that Jesus came to give them, but rather who live like they are unbelievers; having no heavenly Father to take care them.
Usually, my first reaction to these kinds of messages is to get defensive and frustrated by the fact that critical thinking, compassion, and honesty are so often presented as liabilities to faith within the conservative evangelical community. But I sensed from the tone of the message that this person truly cared about my well-being and that his heart genuinely breaks for people like me who seem incapable of simply accepting what we are told.
After a pretty lame attempt to explain to him how doubt has actually enriched my faith over the years, how walking with a limp has made me more dependent on the steady shoulder of my heavenly Father, and how I don't really want to be fixed if being fixed means accepting without question or concern the notion that God creates the majority of the human population for hell with no hope for salvation, I decided just to turn the response over to you guys instead.
How do you respond in love when good, well-meaning people want to "fix" you for having questions about theology? How do you respond when you share your deepest doubts and fears only to be told that those doubts and fears make you a weak, ungrateful Christian? And how do you respond when, deep down, you're a little afraid that it's true?
Oh, and while we're on the subject, check out a great post about doubt and faith on Kathy Escobar's blog, and the fantastic new Web site devoted to Anne Jackson's very cool"Permission to Speak Freely" project.


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How the wealthy are maneuvering to get the vaccine first
NEW YORK — Edward Goldberg's phone would not stop ringing. A concierge doctor on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, Goldberg had been fielding calls from patients who went to St. Barts or Aspen — the wisdom of public health officials be damned — and came back with COVID. All that faith in private air travel as a means of inoculation had failed them. But that was only part of the New Year's onslaught. Many healthy people were calling, too, because they had an urgent desire for the coronavirus vaccine. It didn't matter that their work, in so many cases, put them merely on the front lines of winning market positions — the vaccine was here, so surely there was a way to gain access to it immediately. Yet another contingent, still, was calling Goldberg's office, inquiring about membership in his practice, operating under the assumption that they would then be fast-tracked for the vaccine. Concierge medicine involves the payment of annual fees — in Goldberg's case, $20,000 a year — for what is essentially unlimited access to a doctor's care. When asked how quickly someone might receive a vaccine, Goldberg is left to explain that New York state is levying huge penalties against any medical outfit that tries to game the protocols for distribution. "What Cuomo did really protects me when it comes to these pushy concierge types because I can say that I cannot risk the fines and loss of license," Goldberg told me. In December, Gov. Andrew Cuomo threatened sanctions of up to $1 million (and the revocation of the right to practice) against doctors, nurses, urgent-care providers or any others who delivered the vaccine unethically. On Monday he went further, proposing a law that would criminalize the administration of the vaccine to anyone trying to jump ahead in a line that prioritizes health care workers. But entitlement breeds nothing if not persistence. At a different concierge practice — that of Alexander Goldberg (unrelated to Edward Goldberg), who is also known as Dr. Hamptons for his oceanfront house calls, and who offers everything from "lip enhancement" to "pain management" — temerity is also running high. "I've had people calling me left and right,'' Dr. Hamptons' son, Mark, who manages the empire, explained. "I say that we don't even have the vaccine yet, and then they say, 'Well, I'm the first guy you're giving it to when you get it,' and I say, 'Yeah, uh-huh, sure.'" It was inevitable that in an era marked by inequity and radically conflicting interpretations of truth that the rollout of the COVID-19 vaccine would be marked by so much delusion on multiple fronts. On the one hand are the rich, who are accustomed to finding workarounds whenever they want something that is in short supply and see little need for a different approach when it comes to protecting themselves from a disease that has largely devastated the underclass. When you are living the good life, you want to preserve it. For every 100,000 people lost to deaths of despair — attributable to poverty, joblessness, addiction and so on — there is at least one Silicon Valley billionaire putting millions of dollars into life-extension research in the hope that he can reach the age of 200. At the same time that there are so many desperate to resume the business of going to Paris or Reykjavik for the weekend and hosting dinner parties for 35, there are the skeptics who believe that the vaccine is trouble. In a survey of 1,117 Americans conducted in early December, a quarter of respondents said they would not take the vaccine when it became available to them, while another quarter said they were not sure. Some have voiced reasonable concerns about the speed with which the vaccines — from Pfizer and Moderna — were approved. But others have fallen prey to circulating conspiracy theories: The vaccine was going to sterilize you or alter your DNA or leave you with a microchip that would allow Bill Gates and the government to discover what you were really doing when you told your wife that you were going to Home Depot. A little over a week ago, Lara Devgan, in what has now become something of a pandemic ritual, posted a video of herself getting the vaccine on Instagram. Devgan is a doctor but not a pulmonologist or an internist. She is a Park Avenue plastic surgeon with a skin care line sold at Sephora that includes something called Hyaluronic Serum for $245 a bottle. While it might have seemed odd that a cosmetic surgeon was getting a vaccine so soon — and publicizing it — she thought of her gesture as a public service. (She also works in emergency rooms doing post-trauma reconstructive surgery.) Some of her patients — those who have had cosmetic fillers — were worried that the vaccine would cause temporary facial swelling. This is indeed a very rare side effect. But the tabloid press had hyped it, and now Devgan was hearing from people who said they might skip the vaccine altogether because they preferred not to have laugh lines. Although one approach might be to skip collagen in the first place, Devgan wanted to show the world that you can have it all. "As someone who performs injectable facial fillers — who likes them and uses them myself — I believe the vaccine is safe,'' she told me, "and the concept about worrying about how your face looks is not a reason not to get the vaccine."
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/world-news/how-the-wealthy-are-maneuvering-to-get-the-vaccine-first/articleshow/80199029.cms
French vaccine rollout slowed by red tape, focus on elderly [https://www.bna.bh/en/Frenchvaccinerolloutslowedbyredtapefocusonelderly.aspx?cms=q8FmFJgiscL2fwIzON1%2bDsJToxfaohM9eFMLHfThUrE%3d]
Terror mongering rampant among us [https://www.mwnation.com/terror-mongering-rampant-among-us/]


Grana Padano is a kind of hard cheese. It is a kind of parmesan cheese. The name comes from the noun grana ('grain'), which refers to the distinctively grainy texture of the cheese, and the adjective Padano, which refers to the river Po.
Grana Padano was created by the Cistercian monks of Chiaravalle. They used ripened cheese as a way of preserving extra milk. By the year 1477, it was regarded as one of the most famous cheeses of Italy. Today, this product is made in the regions of Piedmont, Lombardy and Veneto, and in the province of Trento.
Like Parmigiano Reggiano, Grana Padano is a semi-fat hard cheese which is cooked and ripened slowly (for up to 18 months). It is produced by curdling the milk of grass-fed cows. The cows are milked twice a day, the milk is left to stand, and then partially creamed. It is produced all year round and the quality can vary seasonally as well as by year.
A wheel of Grana Padano is cylindrical, with slightly convex or almost straight sides and flat faces. It measures 35 to 45 cm in diameter, and 15 to 18 cm in height. It weighs 24 to 40 kg. The rind, which is thin, is white or straw yellow.
Grana Padano cheese has been produced since the 12th century, and production and quality are now overseen by the Consorzio per la Tutela del Formaggio Grana Padano.
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Every snack you make, every meal you bake, every bite you take, i'll be watching you.
I spend a lot of time holding the fridge door open looking for answers.
I was going to be productive today but napping sounded like a better idea.


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Крутая — деревня в Пыщугском районе Костромской области, входит в состав Верхнеспасского сельского поселения. Население составляет 121 человек (2018).

История
Первые упоминания примерно в 1659 году.

В 1905 году деревня сгорела, остался 1 дом, за год была снова отстроена.

До 1931 года в деревне было 18 дворов.

География
Расположена в междуречье рек Крутая и Малый Шистом, в 25 километрах к юго-западу от райцентра — села Пыщуг.

Население

На 2000 год население составляло 270 человек.

Транспорт
В четырёхстах метрах от деревни идёт автодорога Мантурово — Верхнеспасское.

Примечания

Населённые пункты Пыщугского района


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Q: Determine roundness of polygon in QGIS Suppose a polygon layer in QGIS with differently shaped polygons (no multi-geometries, let's keep it simple). Is there a way to calculate some kind of roundness characteristic of the individual polygons. I imagine a value of 1 would be a perfect circle and 0.01 would be some kind of lengthily stretched out polygon (and the edge case, 0 would be a line). In the Field Calculator, it would probably look something like this:
 exterior_ring( geom ) / $area

but I don't know what to put in geom to get a useful number. Of course, if there is a more elegant solution to get some kind of measure of shape, I am open for suggestions.
I need this to get rid of really thin polygons after a clip operation. I put that in bold, because I just noticed that's a really useful information!
I'd need a solution I can use in Field Calculator or with some plugin.

A: Roundness is simply the ratio of the area of the circle with the same length as the polygon to the polygon area (area(Circle)/area(Polygon)) or vice versa (it depends).

Open Field Calculator, select field type, run the following expression:
($perimeter * $perimeter / (4*pi()) ) / $area

For a circle-shaped polygon, it returns ~1; for a square, ~1,27; for a line-shaped polygon, ~0.
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schemes for characterising perceptual shape
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Q: Angular (click) not included in html when rendered, any idea? I am new to angular, the Angular (click) even though has added to the tag, but it doesnt show in webpage html, and I could't click it as expected. any idea of what happening here? Thanks
import { Component, OnInit } from "@angular/core";
import { EventService } from "./shared/event.service";
import { ToastrService } from "../common/toastr.service";

declare let toastr

@Component ({
  template: `

Upcoming Angular Events

        <event-thumbnail (click)="handleThumbnailClick(event.name)"
        [event]='event'></event-thumbnail>

  `
})

export class EventsListComponent implements OnInit {
  events: any[]
  constructor(private eventService: EventService,
    private toastr: ToastrService){

  }

  ngOnInit(){
    this.events = this.eventService.getEvents()
  }

  handleThumbnailClick(eventName) {
      this.toastr.success(eventName)
  }
}

is there any wrong in the sequece of importing module?
@NgModule({

imports: [
    BrowserModule,
    RouterModule.forRoot(appRoutes)
  ],
  declarations: [
    EventsAppComponent,
    EventsListComponent,
    EventThumbnailComponent,
    EventDetailsComponent,
    NavBarComponent
  ],
  providers: [
    EventService,
    ToastrService
  ],

Error message showing in the console.
EventsListComponent.html:7 ERROR TypeError: Cannot read property 'extend' of undefined
    at m (toastr.min.js:1)
    at Object.i [as success] (toastr.min.js:1)
    at ToastrService.push../src/app/common/toastr.service.ts.ToastrService.success (toastr.service.ts:8)
    at EventsListComponent.push../src/app/events/events-list.component.ts.EventsListComponent.handleThumbnailClick (events-list.component.ts:34)
    at Object.eval [as handleEvent] (EventsListComponent.html:7)
    at handleEvent (core.js:11107)
    at callWithDebugContext (core.js:12204)
    at Object.debugHandleEvent [as handleEvent] (core.js:11907)
    at dispatchEvent (core.js:8561)
    at core.js:9005

A: This issue is not click event. You are passing the event.name in the parent DOM. But *NgFor event is present in the child DOM. In Angular click event usually not shown in the DOM.

A: thanks for the great help. the (click) event work finely, I found the problem from the package 'toastr'. I reinstalled it, and import it in angular.json right under jquery was imported (before was above jquery.js). and everything works fine now. thanks you everyone, happy coding :)


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Joseph B. Weis, age 72, of Clinton, IA, formerly of Preston, IA, passed away Thursday August 26th surrounded by his loving family. Funeral Service will be held at 11:00 a.m. Tuesday September 7th, at St. Joseph's Catholic Church in Preston. Visitation will be held one hour prior to the service at the church. In lieu of flowers donations may be made to your favorite charity. Services may be viewed live on Facebook: http://bit.ly/3zvOj9W Joe was born in Clinton, IA, July 29th, 1949, son of Joe and Lorina (Jacobs) Weis. He graduated from Preston High School in 1967. After High School, Joe worked construction and helped to build Hawthorne Woods Apts. Joe entered the US Navy from 1967 - 1971 and served aboard the USS Sarsfield DD 837 during the Vietnam War. After serving his country Joe returned to construction. Joe was a machinist for 24 years with the Chicago Northwestern Railroad, and worked for several years with Valley Distributing as a truck driver. Joe enjoyed hunting, trapping, and fishing. He was an avid Hawkeye and Cub fan. Joe loved gardening and always shared growing tips with family and friends. Joe is survived by three brothers, Vincent Weis of Denver, CO, Gerald (Sally) Weis of Harpers Ferry, IA, and Donald (Jean) Weis of Camanche; four sisters, Mary Ann Huebner of Vancuver, WA, Bernice (Ron) Gerdts of Clinton, Jo Ann (Bob) Weems of San Antonio, TX, and Bernadette Hankemeier of Miles, IA; many nieces and nephews; and a special friend Brooke Richardson. Joe is preceded in death by his parents, Joe and Lorina; sister-in-law Lisa Weis; brother-in-law Steve Hankemeier; and nephew Troy Weis. Joe's family would like to give a special thank you to all the staff and the Iowa City VA hospital for the amazing work they do.
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Having finished October on a strongly positive note, equity markets appear to be losing some of that momentum ahead of tomorrow's US payrolls report. The rise in US markets was mostly driven by a decent rebound in tech stocks, though the sector still finished the month lower by about 8%.
A slide in the Nikkei225 was counterbalanced by a continued rebound in Chinese markets as traders bet on further stimulus measures from Chinese authorities and the latest Caixin manufacturing PMI survey for October picked up slightly.
As a result today's European market open has been a somewhat mixed affair as investors take stock of not only how far we fell back in October, but also whether the rebound seen in the last two days marks the beginning of a slow move higher, or a temporary pause before another leg lower.
On the earnings front Royal Dutch Shell's latest Q3 numbers always had a high bar given BP's results earlier this week, but also the strong performance that the company put in with its Q2 numbers earlier this year, which saw profits rise by 30%.
Today's Q3 numbers also saw a big rise in profits, this time by 40% to $5.6bn, however the trouble with a high bar is that sometimes you can miss it, and this is what has happened again this quarter, coming in short of expectations of $5.7bn. This may help explain why the shares have underperformed this year, up around 2% compared to an oil price that is higher by 10%.
Looking at the underlying numbers over 9 months, income is 94% higher compared to 2017, with basic earnings per share higher by 91%, with the higher oil price helping to boost those numbers, however investors appear unimpressed with the shares continuing to tread water.
The $25bn second tranche of the share buyback program announced earlier this year will also take place over the course of the rest of the year.
BT Group surprised the markets this morning in the wake of the appointment of its new CEO Philip Jansen at the end of last month. The company raised its guidance for the year to a range of £7.3bn to £7.4bn, sending its shares sharply higher, after reporting a 24% improvement in first half profits before tax to £1.3bn. This was despite lower revenues from the same period last year, which fell 2% to £11.59bn, as the company improved its margins in its consumer business.
Australian miner BHP Billiton announced this morning that it would be returning the money it received from BP for its US shale assets to shareholders, by way of a $10.4bn stock buyback and special dividend starting immediately.
Just Eat shares have taken a pummelling in recent weeks, down over 25% since July, over concerns that the entry of companies like Deliveroo and Uber could well take a huge lump out of its earnings. Today's numbers would appear to conform some of those concerns with the company also warning that its investments in Brazil and Mexico would push its full year numbers towards the lower end of its target range for guidance, however most of this would appear to be discounted with the shares slightly higher on the day.
The pound has had a buoyant last 24 hours on speculation that we could get a Brexit deal this month, while reports of a deal on UK financial services has also helped sentiment. Speculation that a rate rise could well come sooner rather than later has also helped boost the pound, given the recent budget announcements amount to a fiscal loosening which may prove to be inflationary in the longer term.
All of the above would of course be contingent on a benign outcome with respect to Brexit negotiations, while today's Bank of England inflation report and rate meeting while unlikely to move the dial in terms of the timing of a rate rise, could surprise if the central bank guides higher on its inflation expectations.
An adjustment higher in the central banks inflation forecast could shift rate hike expectations which on current prices appear a little on the dovish side. Today's manufacturing PMI for October should also give a decent indication as to whether the recent travails in the global manufacturing sector are weighing down UK activity, which has remained fairly resilient despite sharper slowdowns in Europe. Expectations are for a decline to 53 from 53.8 which would still be its lowest level this year.
US markets look set to build on the gains of the last two days with another higher open this morning, despite today's weakness in Europe with US investor's markedly more optimistic than their European counterparts.
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For those that are interested if you search fire fighter into seek.com.au their a couple of firefighting jobs going at the moment.
Hey mate, I can't find these, are they in SA?
Search fire fighting without a location. No they currently after structure firefighters to work out of Oakey for Falek at the military base and Corporate Potection Australia and looking for crew members and a team leader to work out on the Surat Basin in Queensland on gas platforms. I know a few paid firefighters and they recommend once you can get a job in the firefighting industry it's fairly easy to get into where you want to go as you have that proven experience.
I don't know about how other fire services look at it but in the SAMFS, you need structure fire experience and regardless of what you know, you still need to pass the testing....... no back door entry. Even transfering between Australian Metro fire services is difficult, and in most cases not possible.
Like everything in life nothing is guaranteed but previous experience certainly helps.
From today seek now have advertised positions for Aviation Rescue Fire Fighters for Airservices Australia including Adelaide as well as firefighters for transfield services in Perth.


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Romance stories beg for nighttime scenes: The carriage traversing the torch-lit drive leading to the mansion. A stroll through an ornamental garden. A midnight chase, lit only by stars and moon.
Well, the moon can be a problem. Because you've got to know where you are. Mention it twice in your story, and you'd better have the phase right. Two full moons in two weeks? Oh, I've written it. I haven't (yet) forgotten the color of the heroine's eyes, but that moon is one slippery customer.
And don't forget the nocturnes. Ha, vampires (if you write them), along with other nighttime hunters: birds (owls, nightjars, poor-wills, etc.), raccoons and foxes, mosquitoes and crickets and moths. And, of course, orb weaver spiders waiting on their newly-made webs.
To illustrate, I mention the moon in Chapter 28, as Darcy heads out (in borrowed clothes) to spy on Mr. Wickham. I bailed on the phase, as you will see. But my google doc spreadsheet tells me that it's six days past full, ha. So I was safe.
Darcy set his teeth. To think that he used to pride himself on his clothing! Beneath the cloak he wore a borrowed frock coat and beneath that, a brown waistcoat of boiled wool—heaven help the buttons! The most shudder-worthy item was the plaid neck cloth. Never had Darcy worn anything other than white in the evening. This might be only Meryton, but a man had his standards. He'd wrapped Collins' muffler high around his throat and hoped for the best.
The moon was hidden by clouds. The temperature was falling, with waist-high fog drifting across the lane. Darcy knew that he ought to have begged a lantern from Mrs. Hill. But then he must confess to her his errand, and he knew where that would lead. Mrs. Hill would raise a ruckus, and in the end he would look even more a fool.
And wasn't it too bad that his letter to Fitz had gone awry. Ten to one his cousin had been sent off somewhere—with Fitz one never knew—but how he would enjoy himself tonight. Unlike Darcy, Fitz was fond of larks and pranks.
Darcy turned his mind toward his destination. There was a name; Denny had said it or perhaps Captain Carter. About how the officers' usual game could set a fellow back at— Darcy paused to think. Yes, that was it—at the Rose and Crown.
Tomorrow's (oops) Monday's post for O is Outsmart. Because like me, you probably have very intelligent readers. Keeping ahead of them is a piece of work!
Living in Oregon, we see more than our fair share of clouds, but they do save the author who loathes slowing the momentum.
It ain't Ireland, but I'll take it. Thanks for stopping by.
Is he planning on gambling? or Drinking? Where does this Darcy in Collins' body get the wherewithal? I know he is going there to spy but he must pretend to fit in the place.
Oh, that was lovely. Yes, the moon is a slippery fellow and your description of the fog in the lane is gorgeous and brought back a host of memories. Also, loved the description of the clothing. And yes, yes, yes to the nocturnes and the unexpected.
Many times descriptions mean research–reading articles about the English countryside, etc, to mine out just the right words. At the end of the book, I finally hit upon "dappled sunlight." I wish descriptions came more easily!
But fog rising from fields is something I've experienced here in Oregon. A relief to find the words on my own! When I lived in the mountains (California), sometimes fog would rise from the valley and creep through the the passes, wraith-like. I do love fog. And the stormy sea, but that's fodder for another post…or book.
There are many reasons I don't write fiction, and the noon details are just one example of things that would trip me! I know the details are important, and will pay attention the next time I'm reading. I notice when something is not right so maybe I'm more attuned to it than I think.
I tell my students that fiction writing is the domain of the Introvert. Romance! Adventure! And without risk! You should see the delighted expressions on the faces.
Well, there's yet ANOTHER reason for me to shy away from fiction. Look how clever you have to be. I loved your descriptive excerpt. I used to run at 4 in the morning while the moon was still visible (at certain phases, of course!) My favorite memories are of a full moon reflecting off of barren fields covered in snow. I loved having SOME light, as there are no street lights on the dirt lanes in our rural area.
See, we city dwellers have no idea. When we lived in the mountains (California, Mount Pinos, an area so remote that the silence made my ears ring), I was astonished to discover how bright the stars were. And that the full moon on snow was like daylight!
This was fun, and a great example of why the details matter. I have problems with holidays, often putting Christmas before Thanksgiving. In Canada, that's December before October, so it's a problem indeed. I've solved that somewhat by keeping a calendar now, having learned the hard way that it's much easier to do it as I'm drafting rather than going back to fix it later. Little details like the moon though? Oy. They continue to astound me. Great details in your writing. I, too, loved that bit about the fog.
I am learning to keep a Google Doc flow chart, imposing a calendar with moon phase and the weather I've chosen for that day, etc.
Oh, goodness. When reading, I immediately notice a wrong moon phase or eye color change or vegetation that doesn't match locale, or whatever. My own novel? Every day is Tuesday, and other problems! Much enjoy your posts!
I am easily cowed by details because I'm writing Jane Austen's England, a place I know little about. Visiting London for a few days does not count! I rely on books and photos and the Internet.
How many times have I shaken my head over novels set in "glamorous" Hollywood–which is not Beverly Hills–that had little resemblance to the real thing, (well, as it was in the 7os and 80s). The city streets were nothing special, aside from a few old theaters and the stars on the sidewalk. I should add that the past twenty-five years have seen a lot of redevelopment in the downtown area. Okay, so I'm rambling. Details matter, although I do my best to be pleasingly vague!
This is something I have never considered when writing my stories! It is so easy for details like celestial bodies to fall through the cracks when you're caught up in the emotion of your scenes. Laura, I found it very effective how you gave pointers on writing, an insight into your own methods, and an excerpt from one of your pieces. By describing the element of nighttime it got my imaginative juices flowing and totally put me in the mood to be beside Darcy in a costume of my own! I probably would have brought a lantern though… Mrs Hill's questions or no. Might be something I could try on my own blog every now and then.
Yeah. Noble ideas to work toward as I move the new story ahead, sometimes in Slug Mode.


The wildfires that struck Rafina, north east of Athens, have now claimed at least 80 lives with the number set to rise as many are still missing. This terrible catastrophe shows the interaction of climate change and austerity, both the result of a society that puts people before profit.
The fires in Greece take place in the context of an intense heat wave that is global in scale and has produced fires not only in Greece but in Northern Sweden above the Arctic Circle. Brid Smith TD visiting her sister in Sweden reports temperatures of 32C in the shade and 40C in the sun. In hotter parts of the world such as Algeria and Iran they are soaring well over 40C and approaching the limits of human habitability.
Fires, floods , droughts and intense storms – extreme weather in all its different forms – is what climate change means, not just rising sea levels in the future, and they are happening now.
The world's governments have known this was coming for at least 30 years, since the establishment in 1987 of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), if not before. But because of the commitment to short term profit and hence to the oil and gas industries and to fossil fuels, they have chosen to fiddle while the planet burns and now we are starting, only starting , to reap the whirlwind.
But there is another crucially important factor in the Greek disaster – the crushing austerity programmes imposed on the Greek people by the EU and slavishly implemented by the Syriza government.
As a result the fire service budget has been cut by over €100 million since 2007. And this in a country where wildfires are a regular phenomenon. 4000 fulltime fire fighting posts have been cut since 2011. At the same time 700 firefighters have been made available for privatised airports and roads.
This criminal social vandalism is just part of a much wider cuts programme that has decimated all the social services to which victims of the fires will now have to turn.
Another feature of the catastrophe worth mentioning is the fact that migrant community organisations have issued calls to their members to rally round and come to people's aid, and among the heroes of the rescue operations, lifting people from fire threatened beeches were Egyptian fishermen. These are precisely the people who have been targeted by the Golden Dawn fascists, some of whom are currently on trial for the murder of an Egyptian fisherman.
At the same time the Turkish Firefighters Union has issued a statement of solidarity and offered assistance – an important stand in a situation where Turkey is the traditional 'nationalist' enemy.
Finally the parallels with Grenfell are all too obvious.
All these things- the refusal to tackle climate change, the decimation and privatisation of public services, the disproportionate impact on working class communities – have a common root in the capitalist system's relentless pursuit of profit over the needs of ordinary people.


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Q: EPSON imagescan v3 doesn't recognize my scanner through WiFi I'm using Ubuntu 19.10 and EPSON L3150L3156. It is connected through WiFi. The printer/scanner works perfectly on Windows, but I can't figure out how to use it on Ubuntu.
From here, I installed "ESC/P-R Driver (generic driver)" Printer Driver, and from here, I installed Imagescan v3. But Imagescan v3 doesn't recognize the scanner. When I execute imagescan --no-interface, it says "no usable devices available".
The manual says I have to set the IP Address, so I executed the following command:
CUPS_DEBUG_LEVEL=2 /usr/lib/cups/backend/snmp 2>&1 | tee snmp.log

to identify the IP Address. It said the URI is lpd://192.168.35.251:515/PASSTHRU, and I edited /etc/imagescan/imagescan.conf accordingly:
[device]

net.udi    = networkscan:esci://192.168.35.251:1865
net.vendor = Epson
net.model  = DS-5500

But Imagescan v3 still doesn't recognize the scanner. Why?
EDIT: It turns out my printer/scanner is not L3150, but L3156. This page doesn't show the driver for Linux. Does that mean EPSON doesn't officially support L3156 on Ubuntu?

A: I don't know if you figured this out already, but I think you have the syntax wrong. The first line should be:
myscanner.udi    = esci:networkscan://192.168.1.123
You have the prefixes backwards. I don't think you need the port number unless it was changed.

A: I had the same problem, though using Debian 10. I looked into the imagescan.conf file. It seems that the manual contains a simple typo. In the file, the title of the section (or whatever it's called) is:
[devices]

and not [device]. When I inserted the scanner's data under [devices], it worked.
(But still, the previous answer about syntax error stands. I used the syntax as in the manual, so opposite to what you originally posted).


From the archives... St. Patrick's Day got me to feeling just a wee bit nostalgic about Ireland. I'm headed there again this summer, so I thought it was time to pull out my travel journal from my first trip. Erin Go Braugh!
If you missed part one, you will find it here. And on Friday I posted a bunch of photos from the trip. You'll find them here.
"Here you are!" he said, pointing to a miniature red car in the lot.
That's it? Three tips. That's all I get? I felt a bit gypped. I mean, I thought maybe ten or twelve tips… a baker's dozen. Just three tips?
I tried to look cool and confident as I crossed the parking lot – oh, I mean car park. The little red Nissan looked friendly and cute. It was one of those tiny, round European cars – about the size of a Mini Cooper with four doors and a back seat designed for third graders.
Nonchalantly, I sidled up to the door and unlocked it. Damn. I opened the door and found I was standing on the passenger's side. Seriously? They were going to let me drive away with this car? And with only paying €14 in extra insurance costs? I tried to pass my mistake off as intention: I put my backpack and purse on the passenger seat and then walked around to the other side to get in.
Sitting in the driver's seat felt oddly familiar and yet disorienting all at once. The gearshift and the parking break were on the left, but the windshield wipers and the lights were on the steering column where they belong. The radio was where it belongs – but now it was on the left, too. Fortunately, the pedals were in the same place. Until I sat down I hadn't even considered the thought that perhaps the pedals would be different. They were not. Gas. Brake. My foot found the familiar positions.
I'd decided that if I needed to, I could just drive to the hotel parking lot and leave the car for the day. It wasn't far. I knew I could make it that far. But if it went ok, I was going to head to a ruined abbey about 30 km away. I wrote out my route: N18 to R471 to R462 to R469 to Quin. I started the car. Hug the center line. Hug the center line. Hug the center line. And suddenly I was out of the car park and on the airport road. I was driving on the left!
As I exited the airport, more red signs and flashing lights: DRIVE ON THE LEFT.
Do you think one or two tourists has had trouble with this concept?
I got to my first roundabout and pulled out – to the left. Michael had said, "If you miss your exit just keep going. Think about Chevy Chase." I read the signs. I followed the directions. I said aloud, "Look kids! There's Big Ben! There's Parliament!" And somehow I ended up on my way to Quin.
While driving on the left was vaguely disorienting, it also became more and more intuitive – that is, until I came to a stop. At each intersection or stop I had to remind myself: "hug the center line." It worked. Michael, in spirit, was my driving instructor all day.
Now, I will say, I never quite relaxed. By the time I returned to my hotel room at 11 pm, my right foot was cramped and sore from tension. And think about all of the distracting things you do when you are driving: talking on the cell phone (illegal here), eating, reading maps, putting on makeup (never!)… I would imagine this was the safest day of driving I've had in a long time!
My first stop was to be Quin Abbey. About 30 km from the airport, the drive took me through gorgeous Irish countryside in County Clare. I drove through the towns of Hurlers Cross and Sixmilebridge (yep, all one word). In Kilmurry, I took one of many wrong turns but finally headed northeast toward the town of Quin.
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I have a love/hate relationship with change. If things stay too stagnant for too long, I get terribly bored. When too many things change all at once, I find myself desperately seeking comfort.
Recently, my life has seen a lot of change, and it's mostly been positive. I am genuinely happy about it all. Yet, I found myself building a fort out of my living room furniture in silly efforts to feel like I'm 10 years old again. When I was still using the fort days later, I knew, perhaps, I was feeling a bit unsettled.
Have you felt that way? Like your life is a carousel that's spinning and you just want to get off? Believe it or not, change is good for you. Here are a few reasons why.
1). Changes makes you flexible. Being stubborn and resistant to new things will make a normally stressing situation even more so. Change helps you be fluid and go with the flow.
2). Change makes you smarter. If things never changed, you'd never learn anything new. And every time you learn a new skill — even if it's just how to adapt — you are that much smarter than you were yesterday.
3). Change reminds us that anything is possible. It's easy to think that anything that's stuck will always be that way (i.e., the career that won't lift off the ground or the marriage that's coasting on neutral). But when you see things change, whether it's in your life or some one else's, it's encouragement to know that nothing stays the same forever.


And take a morning stroll around Green Park. This petite Royal Park is a popular picnic spot during the warmer months, but as autumn approaches it really comes into its own. The sight of crisp golden leaves scattered across the grass, with Buckingham Palace in the near distance, is pure Instagram heaven.
At Le Caprice. This 35-year-old restaurant is a Mayfair institution, and it offers a superb brunch, including an optional Bloody Mary or Buck's Fizz. We recommend the Spanish-inspired fried-duck egg with chorizo, potato and padrón peppers.
In charming Shepherd Market. This blink-and-you'll-miss-it enclave is where the 17th-century May fair, from which the area takes its name, was originally held. It's home to many quintessentially British boutiques and proper little Victorian boozers.
With ice cream at Fortnum & Mason. Of course, this iconic former greengrocer's is famous for its afternoon tea, but as a decadent alternative we recommend paying The Parlour a visit. Choose from old favourites like a knickerbocker glory or banana split, or try original creations such as a kir royale popsicle or even an afternoon tea-inspired sundae.
In Burlington Arcade, an ornate covered walkway replete with delightfully traditional antique stores and jewellers. It's located across the way from Fortnum & Mason and leads to Bond Street, where you then have the option of exploring Mayfair's many landmark shopping areas or continuing to bustling Oxford Street. If you do, don't miss a stop at Selfridges, one of London's biggest and best department stores.
At a Sam Smith's pub. This historic independent brewery has branches dotted all over town and is as authentic a British experience as you can possibly get. What's more, a round of drinks with a portion of chips thrown in costs less than a tenner – practically unheard of in central London.
In the glittering West End. Whether it's classic productions like Phantom or Les Mis, or an acclaimed newcomer such as Aladdin or The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time (above), a weekend in London without a West End pitstop is simply unthinkable.
With a nightcap at the all-new Bar at The Athenaeum. Take your pick from an eclectic menu of innovative cocktails created with craft spirits, or, for those of a more traditional palate, the bar's famously extensive whisky collection is still going strong. Post midnight, if you're keen to carry on the party and make the most of your 24-hours, you can always hail a taxi and head into Soho to check out some late night haunts.


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I held fond memories of my travels through South East Asia. The grind of city living and 9-5 was taking it's toll on my natural state of wanderlust. I wanted to explore, adventure, learn – and throw myself in the deep end of a wild experience. My teenage dream to live and work in a developing country was still in the forefront of my mind. As a strong willed young woman, I knew I would see my dream into fruition – I just hadn't worked out how to yet.
Cambodia evokes feelings of hope, simplicity, sincerity and life; a stark contrast from the recent history of war, famine, despair and helplessness Cambodia faced only 40 short years prior. I think it's the resilience and warmth of the Cambodian people that visitors are drawn to. In my many conversations with foreigner's holidays and living in Cambodia, the draw card is hard to articulate, but it gets under your skin – in a good way.
After a few weeks in country I felt the need to take language classes, to get my head around the Khmer language. My teacher, Pisey, was a small framed and confident Cambodian woman. I was immediately taken by her kind and calm teaching manner, and felt at ease in her presence. After two classes Pisey announced it would be her last class with the group. Curious, I stayed back after to learn why she couldn't be the one to help me master Khmer, and what she was going to do with herself.
While I had done my research and had experience working with people from differing backgrounds and cultures, nothing prepared me for the challenges I experienced along the way.
Pisey had an opportunity to work as Outreach Coordinator at a new NGO opening to provide women with much needed emotional support and life skills education to women in Siem Reap. I was shocked. It felt serendipitous. Pisey was equally amazed to hear that my career, back in Melbourne, was exactly this, except on a much larger scale. We bonded and became instant friends. It was hard not to with a woman so warm natured, and with a smile that soothed as it radiated.
The very next day I accompanied Pisey to her new workplace, Women's Resource Center, meeting the then Director, Bouny, a Khmer Canadian who grew up in Canada after her family relocated there as a result of the Khmer Rouge.
It wasn't long before I was helping out every afternoon after my English teaching. I used my experience with WIRE Women's Information in Melbourne to help WRC with creating client files and referral documents and trained Pisey in face to face counseling techniques, case management and feminism.
As my teaching term, and time in Cambodia, came to an end I was so proud of my students and their accomplishments, yet felt a deep sadness I would no longer be able to support the up and coming WRC team. To my delight Bouny announced that if I ever wanted to come back to Cambodia to continue training the staff, I was welcome as a volunteer anytime. Little did Bouny know that that was the only invitation I needed. Before I flew out of Cambodia back home, I had spoken to my boyfriend about moving to Cambodia together, to which he excitedly agreed, and booked us one way tickets to Cambodia for 3 months after I landed back in Australia. I had just enough time to earn some extra money to take back to support myself, sell everything we owned, move out of our apartment and throw a farewell party!
That was over five years ago… Today I look back and reflect on the 5 years I dedicated to supporting WRC. I feel it's been a privilege to commit my time and experience to help build Women's Resource Center to it's current position of 11 local staff managing 6 programs operating in center, local schools and the neighboring villages. It has been a roller coaster of ongoing learning, hurdles, teamwork and successes.
Admittedly, I was a naive foreigner setting my sights on Cambodia to serve and contribute to. While I had done my research and had experience working with people from differing backgrounds and cultures, nothing prepared me for the challenges I experienced along the way.
Most significantly to me, I was looked up to highly. To many this could create a sense of self worth and pride. For myself, I was uncomfortable with being looked up to so favorably, simply because I was a foreigner. It quickly became my ambition to reverse this situation and encourage my colleagues to see me as a counterpart and equal. And for them to recognize they are the experts in their culture and people. I made the point that I was fallible and did not hold all the answers, which is a common misconception of foreigners.
The hardest factor I grappled with was the slower pace of everything in Cambodia, specifically in the workplace. While most people would assume this would be welcomed with open arms, in comparison to the fast passed 'West', it is a drastic adjustment to have flexible or open deadlines and lesser management. However it soon became evident why everyday tasks need take days or weeks, when emails bounce back, calls go unanswered, meetings are cancelled and the power and Internet drops out weekly. Like most, I arrived planning to have x, y and z complete within unrealistic deadlines. Lessening my expectations and desire to over achieve was an adjustment. Once I made it, it made everything much easier.
Despite the challenges, I utterly love the WRC team of confident, capable and committed staff who are Women's Resource Center. Without the staff's dedication and passion towards women's empowerment and gender equality, WRC could not provide the invaluable services it does; providing women the space to be heard, validated and informed. To be a part of these women's professional journey and development has been an honor. I can see my impact to the staff directly, and my indirect impact to the women they work with and support so wholeheartedly.
Above all, I knew my main objective was to one day become redundant. Many people saw this as honorable and gracious. For me, I feel it is my responsibility as a foreign professional in the non-government sector, to truly uphold and embody this objective.
I have recently become redundant [success…!!], and have stepped away from a daily role of the center. It is a huge honor to now serve on the board of directors and have the opportunity to continue contributing to empowering women and girls in Cambodia.
Realising my childhood dream and contributing towards sustainable change in women's rights and empowerment in Cambodia has been my greatest success to date. I still have a full life ahead of me, so it's now time to dream a new dream, and chase it, because dreams do come true.
Women's Resource Center in Siem Reap provides women and girls in Cambodia with emotional support, referral services, and informal education so they can be empowered to make informed decisions about their lives. You can read more about their work, vision and values on their website.
Photos of Sally and the WRC team by Sam Jam.
Wanting to explore, adventure, learn and throw herself in the deep end of a wild experience, Sally resigned from her job in Melbourne, Australia, and got on a plane for a three-month - turned five-year - adventure. Now she serves on the board of directors for the Women's Resource Centre with the opportunity to continue contributing with a passion to the empowerment of women and girls in Cambodia.


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Múlagöng o Ólafsfjarðargöng es un túnel en Islandia, situado en la región de Norðurland Eystra en la Ruta 82. conecta Dalvík y Ólafsfjörður. Mide 3.400 metros y fue inaugurado el 1 de marzo de 1991. Fue elmás largo de la isla hasta 1996, cuando lo superó el Vestfjarðagöng.

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We are over halfway through our summer break and already planning, in expectation, for another great school year. It is that time of the year that we welcome all of our families to the upcoming school year at Southwest Georgia Academy. For some of you, this is your first warm welcome to our school family and for many it is more of a welcome back. I speak for the entire Warrior Faculty and Staff when I say that we are grateful to have you and yours with us as we embark on the school's 48th year of dedication to serving families through educating their children.
As usual, we have utilized the first part of the summer to enhance, market, practice, stimulate, modify and discuss a variety of areas that make up our "home away from home." The continued heart of SGA is the most beneficial and effective piece of the puzzle so we thank you for being a tremendously large part of the family piece and for sustaining the heartbeat of the school. Your children will be joining us before we know it as we move into the 2017-2018 school year at SGA. It is my hope that SGA will serve not only as an exceptional institute of learning but as a safe haven for everyone as we come together as one big family to live, learn, and prepare our children to succeed in today's society and world.
1. Clean-up day is Saturday, July 29 at 8:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
3. We will continue to hold students to the rules and dress code stated in the school handbook. The handbook and changes will be reviewed and discussed with students August 4th. Please review the updated handbook on our website the first of August.
4. K5 orientation is July 31 in the music room at 6:30 p.m.
5. The official student's schedule will be made available to parents as early as August 1st at the close of the PTO meeting. PTO meeting will be at 5:30 in the Joe Bryan Auditorium.
6. New family and faculty supper is August 1st in the SGA cafeteria at 6:30 p.m.
7. K3/K4 orientation is August 3rd at 6:30.
8. Tailgate supper is August 10th.
9. Chapel began three years ago and will continue this year. The last Wednesday of each month is when we gather for chapel in the Joe Bryan Auditorium at 8:40 AM. We encourage any parent to come and attend chapel with us!
10. On the first day of school, August 3rd, we would like to invite all students, parents, faculty and staff to come to the flag pole outside the main building at 8 AM for prayer as we embark on the new school year.
I said this last year and I would like to reiterate the same message— effective communication is a vital component to a successful school experience. The staff at SGA wants to keep an open line of communication so please feel free to email or call or schedule a meeting or conference. In addition to these forms of communication is the alternate: the school website, Information Now, Facebook and the 411 page. Last but not least, I want to extend a thank you to you, your children and the talented and dedicated staff at Southwest Georgia Academy. The support of my efforts and the success of the school could not happen without each and every one of you. Thank you for putting your trust in Southwest Georgia Academy.
We would like to begin the 2017-18 school/PTO year by offering our thanks to Chase and Elizabeth Brooks, who did a great job as our PTO presidents last year. They, along with our Treasurer, Leigh Fain, have made this quite an easy role to slip in to. We are thankful for their guidance as we begin our journey as PTO leaders. We've laughed along the way that life has come full circle. It seems that our parents were just serving in various roles when we were students at SGA. Now, here we are, trying to help better our child's school and this place that is so dear to our hearts.
In order to encourage continued excellence from our PTO, we are implementing a system whereby the Presidents from the previous year will serve in a mentoring/advisory role to the current year Presidents. Additionally, the Vice-Presidents will be "Presidents in Training" and will assume the role of Presidents the following year. We believe this system will allow for us to build on successes from year to year while ensuring we don't repeat mistakes. This will also allow us to avoid having all the responsibilities heaped on just one set of parents who have agreed to serve our school in the vital role of PTO Presidents. Please be in prayer as we continue to look for Vice-Presidents. We know that just the right person will step up to the plate to take over the PTO responsibilities next year.
We are excited about what the 2017-18 school year holds for SGA! Through hard work, exceptional attitudes, unity, and everyone's commitment, we can continue to make SGA a great school for our children. It is only through the continued work and efforts of dedicated parents, teachers and supporters that we will build on the proud tradition of SGA. Thank you for allowing us to serve as Presidents this year!
Please call Ashley (229-308-3083) if you are interested in filling this position.
PTO now has five primary fundraisers: Football/ Basketball Concessions, Fall Festival, Buck Daze, Reverse Raffle, and The Big Blue. Each of these fundraisers has a committee and we are listing the chairpersons below. If you are interested in serving please contact them.
A strong PTO is vital to the mission of Southwest Georgia Academy. PTO provides over $125,000.00 to support the activities of our school, including: technology, books, supplies, maintenance, janitorial supplies, teacher pre/post planning meals, teacher appreciation, new family supper, literary, academic breakfast, library supplies, Accelerated Reader materials, and PE equipment. The list goes on! It is essential that we all work together to raise these important funds in order to enhance and elevate our children's experience at SGA.
COKE Rewards: mycokerewards.com/schools login or register if you are not already a member. Enter your codes to collect points. Search for Southwest Georgia Academy and enter the points you want to donate! Please do not send these to school. You can create an account and donate them to SGA.
Calling all Warriors to come and join us for our annual SGA Clean Up Day on Saturday, July 29th from 8AM-11AM. We have asked Mr. Dalrymple to identify 5-6 projects that we can focus on to improve our school prior to the start of the new school year. Once the projects are identified, we will be gathering materials and calling on volunteers to help complete the tasks. If you are unable to help on July 29th, but would still like to take part in this important activity, please contact Leigh Fain in the school office at (229) 725-4792.
In order for SGA to be successful, we must have the active participation of all our parents. Parents certainly should be actively involved in the lives of their children, but we must also have all parents contributing to the success of our school. Part of this responsibility is the requirement of all parents to work at a football or basketball concession/cleanup or at the annual Buck Daze fundraiser in December. Dianne Johnson, (229)793-2694, has graciously agreed to coordinate concessions and sign-ups for us. When you registered your student for the upcoming academic year, you were given the option of "opting out" of this requirement by paying $200/parent. If you did not "opt out" the expectation is that you will work at least one event. Each parent will be given the opportunity to sign up beginning with those who show up at Work Day on July 29th. The next opportunity to sign up will be at the initial PTO meeting on August 1st at 5:30 PM. Thereafter, the sign-up book will be maintained by Leigh Fain and available to all parents in the front office. All parents will be expected to sign up by Friday, August 18th. If you have not signed up by this date, then you will be assigned an event to work and you will be notified. Choosing not to work, or being a no-show, will result in a $500.00 fine per parent ($1000.00 per family). Administration has informed us that any outstanding debt to PTO (as a result of not having met your work requirement) will be reason to disallow your student from sitting for their final exams. Should you not be able to work your assigned time, it is YOUR responsibility to find your replacement and then sign up for another time slot.
SGA Grands had a great school year in 2016-2017. We are looking forward to 2017-2018. Our attendance has been down for meetings, but we are so thankful for the Grands who send in their $30.00 dues. Most of them add a little, or a lot, as a donation. We have some awesome people connected to our school. We encourage all parents to make sure that we have names and addresses for your children's grandparents. Please just drop a note to our attention in the school office and we will add them to our summer mailing list.
We are so excited to have a new meeting place of our own. This past year, we renovated one of the little red school houses on the back of the campus. This is where we hold meetings now. We also share the building with the piano teacher. This was our biggest project of the year. We also host the cake walk at the Fall Festival, maintain the butterfly garden, donate to the school website charges, provide grade level Accelerated Reader winners with lunch at McDonalds, host Christmas Bunch for faculty and staff, and give goody bags to all students and staff. We are in the process of renovating the restrooms in the lunchroom building. We are also building a flower bed with drainage under the K3-K4 windows. Our kids had a blast at the lemonade stand in May. So did we! We may be 'Old Warriors' but we love to support our school and our grandchildren. We have fun in the process. Encourage Grandparents in your family to join.
We have a proposed date of October 19th for this year's Fall Festival. The usual process of getting things set up is for each homeroom to have a parent that oversees the class' booth. That parent/chairperson is responsible for organizing the parents in the class ( which includes setting up a booth, preparing a parent work schedule for that booth, and taking the booth down at the end of the evening).This year, instead of the Fall Festival committee assigning booths, we'd like for each class to create their own booth (with the exception of K3, K4, K5, 11TH and 12th grades, which will be assigned a booth).All homerooms must have a chairperson whether it be someone that has volunteered or one that is teacher appointed. To increase SGA's profit from this fundraiser, we will be renting a minimal number of inflatables from B & B this year. We ask that teachers work with their chairperson to decide on a booth and for them to submit their booth idea to the office by September 5th to allow the committee time to review booth ideas to ensure there are no repetitions.
I would like to say thank you to everyone that supported the lunchroom last year. We will continue to strive to provide the best possible meals for the lowest possible price. Lunch and Breakfast prices will remain the same for the 2017-2018 school year. Lunch is $3.50 (includes milk or juice) & Breakfast is $1.25 (does not include milk or juice). We are always looking for ways to improve. If you have any ideas, please do not hesitate to call 725-1888.
If you would like to be added to our substitute list for the 2017-2018 school year, please call Miss Leigh in the school office at 725-4792.


The way I see it, Loyola was genuinely a good team in the 2018 NCAA tournament. Probably about a 6 or 8 seed. in order to get to the final four, they were VERY lucky.
First, the top 1,2,4 seeds lost. Very fortunate.
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I believe that both Purdue and Virginia played some two big men minutes in the NCAA tournament. Did anyone else notice or hear that?
The commentators seemed pretty confident that Dean had a conditioning advantage and that if he could keep it close with Foster after one period, he could get the win. Pretty impressive to see Foster come back for the win.


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Home / 2011 / August / 31 / UBC researchers find a new culprit in Alzheimer's disease: Too many blood vessels
UBC researchers find a new culprit in Alzheimer's disease: Too many blood vessels
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University of British Columbia scientists may have uncovered a new explanation for how Alzheimer's disease destroys the brain – a profusion of blood vessels.
While the death of cells, whether they are in the walls of blood vessels or in brain tissue, has been a major focus of Alzheimer's disease research, a team led by Wilfred Jefferies, a professor in UBC's Michael Smith Laboratories, has shown that the neurodegenerative disease might in fact be caused by the propagation of cells in blood vessel walls.
Examining brain tissue from mouse models of Alzheimer's disease, Jefferies' team found nearly double the density of capillaries compared to normal mice. They also found a similarly higher density of capillaries in brain samples of people who had died of the disease, compared to samples from people who didn't have it.
Jefferies, in an article published online today by PLoS One, theorizes that the profusion of blood vessels is stimulated by amyloid beta, a protein fragment that has become a hallmark of Alzheimer's disease. The blood vessel growth, or "neo-angiogenesis," leads to a breakdown of the blood-brain barrier – the tightly interlocked network of cells that allows oxygen-carrying blood to reach brain tissue while blocking harmful substances, such as viruses.
"When the blood vessels grow, the cells of the vessel walls propagate by dividing," Jefferies says. "In the process of splitting into two new cells, they become temporarily rounded in shape, and that undermines the integrity of the blood-brain barrier, potentially allowing harmful elements from outside the brain to seep in."
The deterioration of the barrier might in turn allow the depositing of amyloid beta, which accumulates around neurons and eventually kills them.
Previous research had touched on the "leakiness" of the barrier, but it was assumed that it was caused by the death of blood vessels – not their growth.
Jefferies also sees an intriguing parallel with the "wet" form of age-related macular degeneration, in which blood vessels grow behind the retina and then leak blood and fluid, leading to hemorrhaging, swelling, and formation of scar tissue.
"Given the new link between both conditions, the next logical step in the treatment of Alzheimer's disease would be to look for treatments that specifically target blood vessel growth," says Jefferies, who holds appointments in the departments of microbiology and immunology, medical genetics and zoology, and is also a member of the Biomedical Research Centre and the Brain Research Centre.
Jefferies collaborated with Dara Dickstein, a professor in the department of neuroscience at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York. The team at UBC included graduate student Kaan Biron and technician Rayshad Gopaul.
The research was supported by grants from the Canadian Stroke Network and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research.
Find other stories about: alzheimer's disease, amyloid beta, angiogenesis, blood-brain barrier, CIHR, health, macular degeneration, neuroscience
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Oklahoma Birther Bill One Step Closer to Becoming Law
Big news on the conspiracy theory front: On Wednesday, an Oklahoma House committee approved a bill requiring presidential candidates to present a valid, long-form birth certificate before their names can appear on the ballot in the Sooner State. More than a dozen states have considered "birther" bills since the beginning of 2009, but yesterday's vote puts Oklahoma on track to become the first state to actually enact such a law. The vote means the bill, which has already passed the state Senate, just needs to be approved by the full House before it can go to Republican Governor Mary Fallin's desk.
The bill's sponsor, Republican state Sen. Ralph Shortey, explained to The Oklahoman that under the proposed legislation, President Obama's certificate of live birth would be insufficient—even though not all states provide long-form birth certificates. He also took pains to note that this isn't a birther bill:
"A lot of people are classifying this as a birther bill which I don't think it is," Shortey said. "The concern has stemmed from the questions that have arisen from President Obama."
It's a bill that arises out of concerns that the President of the United States is ineligible for office because he was born in a different country, and therefore requires him to present a valid birth certificate, which he has already done. But it's not a birther bill; where would anyone get that idea?
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Birther Bill Author: What's a Long-Form Birth Certificate?
Birther Bill Surfaces (and Dies) in New Hampshire (UPDATED)


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Tyler Andretti is an American professional wrestler currently signed to All Elite Wrestling (AEW) under the ring name Action Andretti.

Professional wrestling career
Andretti was trained to wrestle by MCW Pro Wrestling, debuting in November 2019. Over the following year, he primarily appeared with MCW Pro Wrestling in Maryland and Virginia. In June 2021, Andretti debuted with Game Changer Wrestling, competing in a scramble match on its "Zombie Walk" pay-per-view. Over the rest of 2021, he appeared with MCW Pro Wrestling, Game Changer Wrestling, and other promotions in the northeastern United States including National Championship Wrestling, Pennsylvania Premiere Wrestling, and the Susquehanna Wrestling Organization. In November 2021, he won the Shane Shamrock Memorial Cup promoted by MCW Pro Wrestling. Beginning in January 2022, Andretti began appearing regularly with Combat Zone Wrestling. In October 2022, he defeated Brian Johnson to win the MCW Heavyweight Championship. In December 2022, he lost the title to Ken Dixon in a four way match.

Andretti made his first appearance with All Elite Wrestling (AEW) in January 2022, losing to Dante Martin on an episode of AEW Dark: Elevation. He made further appearances with AEW in January and October of that year. In December 2022, he made his AEW television debut at Dynamite: Winter Is Coming, defeating Chris Jericho in an upset that drew comparisons to the May 17, 1993 bout between Razor Ramon and The Kid. Shortly thereafter, AEW president Tony Khan announced that Andretti had signed a full-time contract with the company. Andretti went on to feud with the Jericho Appreciation Society. In February 2023, he participated in the fourth annual Chris Jericho's Rock 'N' Wrestling Rager at Sea, wrestling abroad the Norwegian Pearl.

Professional wrestling style and persona
Andretti wrestles in a "high flying" style. His finishing move is the shooting star press. He is nicknamed "the Sight to See".

Championships and accomplishments
MCW Pro Wrestling
MCW Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
Shane Shamrock Memorial Cup (2021)

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American male professional wrestlers
Living people
People from Philadelphia
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Ukrainian officials blame Russia for VPNFilter attack on chlorine plant
Doug Olenick July 13, 2018
The Ukrainian Secret Service is blaming Russian intelligence for an attack it thwarted that was launched upon a chlorine distillation plan in the Dnipropetrovsk region using VPNFilter malware.
Ukrainian officials said if the attack had succeeded it could have led to a breakdown of technological processes possibly leading to a crash. Reportedly, the plan was to block the sustainable functioning of the overflow station, which provides liquid chlorine that is used to clean water from water supply and sewerage enterprises throughout Ukraine.
If the attack had succeeded it could have caused a man-made disaster, the Ukrainian officials said.
In June there were reports that Russia was planning an attack against Ukraine.
In an interview with Reuters, cyber police chief Serhiy Demedyuk accused Russia of installing malicious backdoors on the systems of companies based in Ukraine, in preparation for a potential cyber offensive. Targets reportedly include banks and energy infrastructure firms. "Analysis of the malicious software that has already been identified and the targeting of attacks on Ukraine suggest that this is all being done for a specific day," said Demedyuk, reportedly.
In May, researchers at Cisco Systems' Talos threat intelligence unit blamed Russian actors for infecting millions of routers and Network Attached Storage devices with VPNFilter, a malware that can spy on network traffic, exfiltrate data, and potentially brick systems and cut victims off from the internet. The surreptitious campaign especially focused on Ukrainian targets.
"Consumer routers show up in very unexpected places at times, but critical infrastructure is certainly the last place I'd expect to find them. Due to the lack of details provided by the Ukranian Secret Service, it is not possible to know which devices may have been compromised with VPNFilter malware and what they were being used for in this plant. It is possible that the infected systems were routers in the homes of employees who remotely access the facility or that the plant may have had some affected network storage devices," said Craig Young, computer security researcher at Tripwire.


In our large and trendy decorated breakfast room you can enjoy our rich continental breakfast buffet with fresh products and hot dishes. An extensive range of fresh fruits, cereals, dairy products and a variety of breads ensure a healthy start of the day.
If you want you can enjoy your breakfast on our beautiful terrace.