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Travels with the (Not So) Intrepid Mr. D'Arcy: A Persian Story
By Daniel Newman
"IF STUDENT DIARIES are not often seen as the transformative stuff of history, then they should be," writes Nile Green proleptically. This is particularly true, it seems, if it is one that creates "an ethnography of amity," which is the case with the diary he explores in his book. Green's narrative centers on a six-strong Iranian student mission sent to England in 1815, and the chronicle written by one of its members, the Shiraz-born Mirza Salih.
The succinct description does not, however, do this vast expanse of a book justice, as it is so much more than a mere rehash of a travel journal, however interesting that journal's contents may be. Rather, the travelogue appears at the nexus of a wonderfully intricate web threaded by interconnecting events, personalities, alliances, and sensibilities. Green painstakingly constructs an opulent narrative canvas, in which "Jane Austen's England" — Inglistan, as it was known to the Iranian guests — constitutes the throbbing and vibrant backdrop to the peregrinations of the lead characters and their interactions with(in) an environment that, at the time, was still wholly unfamiliar and intractably alien: there was no Iranian community in Britain at the time, and even Muslims were few and far between.
What was so special about this mission? It was not the first, as they were preceded by two compatriots in 1811. Nor was Mirza Salih's the first Persian travelogue of a journey to England: since the beginning of the century, two had been produced, one by the Indian-Muslim Abu Talib Khan, who visited Ireland, France, and England (1799–1801), and another by Abu 'l-Hasan Khan, the Shah's envoy to King George III in 1809. The answer lies in the extraordinary nature of the stay, the depth of the students' engagement, and the impact they had on their home culture after their return. The picture that emerges is one of an ethnologist traveler avant la lettre, with a keen eye and interest in every aspect of the "contented" English society into which he completely immersed himself.
The 19th century started with the humiliation of the Ottoman Empire as a result of Napoleon's occupation of Egypt. Iran, for its part, became embroiled in an ill-fated war against Russia (1804–'13), which culminated in the loss of its northwestern provinces. It was the Russian threat that aligned British and Iranian interests. Britain sought a buffer against the threat of both Russian and French designs in Asia, while Iran was interested in the modern sciences and technologies to bolster its military capability. The Crown Prince Abbas Mirza — a visionary modernizer and reformer — had established a military academy for this very reason, and British officers had been dispatched to Tabriz to provide assistance, just as French advisors had previously been sent to Istanbul.
Far more revolutionary for the time was the fact that the Prince also wanted his subjects to acquire the "new sciences" in their place of origin. And so it came to pass that one of the British officers, a certain Captain D'Arcy — one of many "Austenesque" references in the book — was charged with accompanying six selected youths, who were to study a variety of subjects: artillery, chemistry, lock-making, engineering, and translation. No plan was in place as to the length of their stay, educational institutions, or even living arrangements. For what could possibly go wrong?
The students arrived amid a wave of "orientomania," a passion for all things Eastern, triggered by Napoleon's Egyptian campaign. Visitors from those parts were lionized by an adoring public, with the press feeding a seemingly unquenchable thirst for the most minute details about these exotic creatures. The last to have received this treatment was the already-mentioned ambassador Abu 'l-Hasan Khan, who had to draw the line at English ladies stroking his beard.
Green's book is arranged along three broad topics: "Knowledge," "Faith," and "Friendship." The overarching themes, of course, are encounter and identity, alterity and similarity. Mirza Salih's world is populated, dissected, analyzed, and brought to life through a plethora of archival sources. In the process, what emerges is "an alternative history of England, a history in which Muslims were present at the birth of modern Europe." And herein lies the value of the book: piece by piece, the puzzle is completed as the narrative unfolds through the prism of Mirza Salih's own words and experiences.
The first chapter — "In Search of a Teacher" — deals with the students' tribulations as seekers of knowledge, also known as taliban, grappling with both their feckless chaperone D'Arcy, a lack of funds, and increasingly desperate attempts at giving themselves an education. As their allowance had been woefully inadequate for London-living and additional funds were not forthcoming, financial worries took up a great deal of the students' time during the first months. They were at one point reduced to selling some Persian shawls. More worryingly, no provisions were made for them to learn English. The ever-resourceful Salih hit upon the revolutionary plan of offering their linguistic services in exchange for English lessons and, presumably, payment as well. Fortunately, they had a ready-made target audience at an East India Company military training college in south London, where Persian had pride-of-place as it was the organization's administrative language.
The students' budgetary problems did not prevent them, however, from enjoying the London life, with visits to the theater, opera, and coffee houses. One of them even purchased an exorbitantly expensive watch — all charged to the long-suffering D'Arcy, of course! Succour finally came through the good offices of the former ambassador to Iran — and famed "Persianist" — Sir Gore Ouseley, who convinced the Foreign Office to provide the students with lodgings and a stipend for instruction. Education in their chosen fields could finally begin, whether it was at the Military Academy or as apprentices.
This also afforded them the first opportunities at seeing the new sciences in action. Green gives the reader a cornucopia of detail and facts as he paints a panorama of education in the period. After a brief journey to rural Devonshire, the Muslim students head toward the dreamy spires of Oxford, where they also come into contact with the firebrand evangelist movement.
As they do the rounds of college high tables, Green takes the reader on a tour of "oriental" studies in England and, more specifically, the attempts at introducing Persian at Oxford. These had come to naught since it was considered the preserve of "tradesmen" by a university aimed primarily at graduating clergymen, while its academics were ordained churchmen. This naturally put paid to any aspirations of Salih to join the university.
The trip to Oxford would prove highly auspicious for Salih, though, for another reason. He had already developed a keen interest in the press and printing, and it was near Oxford that they saw paper mills and learned about the various paper-making methods. It is worth remembering that at the time no printing of any kind was being done anywhere in the Muslim world. And so Salih found his vocation — of which, more later.
The connections between the Persian visitors and leading representatives — though, "militants" might perhaps be a more appropriate term — of various Christian movements really set this group apart from other Muslims traveling to Europe. It is no doubt to the guests' credit that they appeared to be singularly devoid of any negative preconceptions. While other Muslim visitors — most of whom came from Arab lands — either lacked any interest in Christianity or, more frequently, took a decidedly critical stance, Salih showed considerable knowledge of the state of Christianity, whose landscape was in dramatic flux in England.
Even encounters with proselytizing evangelicals did not push Salih toward "querulous or defensive opinions. His eyes were wide open to the merits of England's Christians." To some extent, this may be put down to a natural side effect of interpersonal contact with what were "often very sympathetic people." More surprisingly, the Muslim students were enlisted into the evangelical endeavor, through assistance no less than in the Persian translation of the Bible, by the Cambridge professor of Arabic, Samuel Lee, who was a leading light in the movement.
One should be wary of viewing this through present-day lenses, and Green underscores the pragmatism of the Iranians, who saw their participation as part of a reciprocal arrangement that helped their own education through the support their new acquaintances were able to provide. And their networking did not stop there as Salih and at least one of his fellow students became Freemasons.
This pragmatism should be considered within a broader context that caused considerable soul-searching in the 19th century among Muslims, some of whom were reluctant to accept "infidel" inventions. In the end, rationalism prevailed, though discussions continued unabated throughout the century. So, in some ways, there is much to be said for Green's statement that, "Mirza Salih was at the genesis of the rationalizing age of Islamic history that in the nineteenth century tried to re-create Islam into a religion in harmony with the discoveries of science."
The students' experience at Cambridge was much determined by Samuel Lee and the warm personal relationship they had with him. Evenings were once again spent at bibulous college dinners, even if the accommodation left somewhat to be desired. But then again, they "would not be the last foreign visitor[s] to be dismayed by the dinginess of Cambridge guest rooms."
Meanwhile, their education continued as they piled visit upon visit to places of industrial invention in all areas: pottery, cloth, steam, iron, rail, shipping, and so on. His chosen field firmly decided, Mirza Salih found an apprenticeship through his evangelical contacts at the works of Richard Watts, who specialized in printing Bibles. He was the house printer not only of the Bible Society, but also of the Church Missionary Society, as well as the Prayer Book and Homily Society. As Watts's workshop churned out thousands of Bibles in Arabic-script languages, Salih got a lot of practice printing Arabic fonts.
The final part of Green's book looks at the emotional ties between the Iranians and some of their English hosts. It is fitting, perhaps, that the book should end with this aspect since it is the natural cognate of encounter or, to use Green's own phrase, "an ethnography of amity." This is also where we gain an insight into more personal aspects of the students' life in England, such as food and the opposite sex. Contrary to other Muslim travelers' works, here, references to halal food are conspicuous by their absence. What's more, Green adduces plenty of secondary evidence suggesting that the Iranians were not averse to the occasional — or even frequent — tipple. This is a far cry from other premodern Arab-Muslim visitors, many of whom expressed concern about the lawfulness of living cheek-by-jowl with Christians.
Naturally, not everything could be mentioned in a book that would be read by others back home. Sometimes, Salih did go out on a limb, and his respect for English society was such that he cannot bring himself to condemn English women for drinking alcohol. As for relations with women, well, there was the illicit and the licit. While the illicit remains shrouded in mystery, despite Green's best attempts, the latter came in the form of one of the students marrying an English woman, who traveled with her husband to his native country and remained there.
And so the adventure was over. Or, was it? Green's epilogue discusses how the travelers fared in their later lives. Most rose to high offices in the administration, whereas the author of the travelogue founded the very first newspapers in Iran, and also designed its first modern university, the Dar al-Funun.
Green, at all times, takes a refreshingly measured approach, and eschews the kind of faddish postcolonialist spin that often bedevils analysis of literature of the period as it is fluffed and kneaded into an "orientalist" or "occidentalist" dough. One of the problems dealing with 19th-century Muslim travel literature is the temptation to overstate the long-term impact of influences to which the visitors were subject and, more important, the extent to which authors propagated change in their home societies. One might argue, for instance, that it is rather tenuous to state that Mirza Salih's readings and translations of Hume turned him into a "Muslim champion of liberty, constitutionalism, and scientific free inquiry." However, this does not detract in any way from the travelers' very real and unique contribution to their home society's culture and history.
Green's book is meticulously edited, except for two minor points. First, there is at times some inconsistency in what is being referenced. Second, I think the volume would have benefited from a bibliography or, at least, a suggested reading list. But with that aside, this is a marvelous book by one of the finest historians of the region. It is a major contribution to our understanding of early relations between the Muslim East and "the West," as well as an enchanting tale of tolerance, diversity, and freedom of exchange. Green's prose is engaging and elegant, and he wears his erudition lightly. This is a must-read for anyone interested in the humanity of encounters among cultures.
Daniel Newman is professor of Arabic at the University of Durham (UK).
The Love of Strangers
What Six Muslim Students Learned in Jane Austen's London
By Nile Green
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By Eric Ormsby
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A "sedimental" story
Taylor McDaniel
Sofia Teixeira Santos
Photograph: Taylor McDaniel
Painted rocks hidden around Scotland are bringing communities together
Sitting on the cold metal bench at Queen Street low level, something caught my eye. On the seat next to me was a rock. Small, smooth, and beautifully painted. On this rock someone had painted an elephant standing on some grass. I was the only person on the bench and I looked around, thinking maybe somebody had left their pretty rock by accident. Nobody else seemed to have noticed it. I wasn't quite sure what to do. It was a tiny work of art and I felt like it needed a home, but I felt weird about taking it. After some deliberation, I decided to pick it up, and found that there was a message written on the back. "Hide or keep. Fb 'love on the rocks Scotland' L.F.M."
I was intrigued, and took the rock with me on the train that pulled into the station a moment later. Once we were out of the underground tunnel, I searched Facebook for Love on the rocks Scotland, and found a whole group dedicated to painting, hiding and finding rocks. Scrolling through the page's posts, I also found the rock. My little elephant rock had been hidden just a few days before at Coatdyke station. It had ridden the rails to find its way to Queen Street, and now I was taking it further west to Hyndland. As I made my way home, I decided that, for now, I would choose "keep" and investigate this stony trend further. In the process, I learned a lot about this unique hobby and the thriving communities that come together around beautifully painted "love rocks" worldwide.
Screenshot from Facebook announcing the elephant rock's first hiding spot.
I soon found out that these rocks have different names. Some call them love rocks, some call them kindness rocks but it seems that no matter what they're called, everyone who finds one falls in love with the concept. The trend has even garnered attention from some major publications including the Telegraph and the Guardian.
The Love on the rocks Scotland Facebook group was founded by Andrew McVie. Finding a rock in Glasgow started him down the love rocks path and he has now been painting and hiding rocks for two years.
He noticed that Facebook didn't have a dedicated love rocks page for Scotland, and decided to create one himself. He said: "I saw a Facebook group for UK and they mainly posted about England so I made a Scotland page."
He hoped that the group would help grow the hobby. "I started the Facebook group to help grow this fab hobby in Scotland. It's a great way to get kids and adults exploring new areas looking or hiding rocks."
Started in October of 2017, Love on the rocks Scotland now has close to 2,000 members, and it's common to see posts come through every few hours. These include people showcasing their painting skills, announcing that they have hidden a rock somewhere and jubilant posts announcing found rocks.
I decided to try my hand at identifying the artist behind the rock I had found. Within five minutes of posting a photo of the elephant rock in the Facebook group, I received a comment: "The wee elephant one is mine!"
My rock artist was Lorna Murray from Airdrie, and she told me all about how she got started creating these little pieces of art. After seeing some more of her posts on Facebook, I expected to learn that Murray had been painting rocks for years, but she told me she painted her first kindness rock in January or February of 2019. She said: "I got started when a girl at work told me about it. I hadn't heard about it as a 'kindness rock' I had drawn on rocks before, but just for fun."
She is active in multiple stone groups online, including Love on the rocks Scotland and NL hiding rocks, a group based in North Lanarkshire. She said that she now carries around painted stones in her pockets on the off chance that she finds a good hiding spot while she's out and about. She said that the hobby is relaxing and rewarding. "It's a great feeling when someone posts your stone and lets you know that it's been found and that it has brought a smile to their day. That makes me smile."
Another local group, Orlas Rocks, was started a few months ago in March and now has over 600 members. Erin McGill and her seven-year-old daughter, Orla, started painting rocks together and fell in love with the hobby. She said: "We went out, found rocks, got acrylic paint pens and got started. It's so addictive!"
McGill finds ideas for her and Orla's designs by looking online, looking at the latest trends or even letting the shape of a particular stone inspire a design.
Murray's designs also have a variety of inspirations. She said: "The designs come from different places. Songs I like, favourite quotes or animals. Sometimes things catch my eye in a magazine. I try and mix them so that some are more suitable for adults and some, boats, trains, dinosaurs, [are] for children."
The Glasgow Sloth's contributions to the love rocks craze. Photograph: Taylor McDaniel
McGill started the Orlas Rocks facebook group to see how many people Orla's rocks were reaching. From there, it grew quickly. They now have group members and friends taking rocks with them on holiday and hiding them around the world.
"My friend took rocks to Australia and we were [featured] in a local newspaper there. It was amazing." She continued, "We have some going to Spain, Florida and Singapore this week."
McGill pointed out that there are benefits beyond the artistic. "People give me great feedback about how it's getting their kids off their tablets or TV and getting them outside again."
After seeing a rock project by a school that allowed each child to have a painted rock in a footpath, McGill decided to bring the idea to her community. "I contacted my local councillor about getting this done in our local park for every child in Penilee. They are working alongside me to try and make this happen. We are so pleased. And what a thing for our community to get to do over the summer."
The author's attempt at Scotland's national animal. Photograph: Taylor McDaniel
Such a simple hobby seems to have immense power to pull people together and provide small moments of joy in everyday life. Murray told me about a touching encounter she had with a mother and daughter.
"One day I was walking around, hiding stones and found one I had left previously of an owl. I picked it up, thinking I would re-hide it elsewhere. I had it in my hand when a woman with a wee girl passed me. I asked the wee girl if she would do me a favour and hide my rock for me. I explained to her mum [that it was] a kindness rock.
"The mum told me that they had just been talking about being kind to one another and it was 'meant to be' that they had bumped into me. The mum and daughter explained that the wee girl's dad had recently passed away and they had been going through a hard time.
"I told the wee girl that she needed to keep the stone, not re-hide it and [that] the owl was a reminder to her to be kind to her mum. I walked away feeling that in a small way that that wee stone had helped someone when they needed it. I think in essence that's what these stones do, help people or at least bring a smile to someone."
When I thanked her for painting the elephant rock because it had inspired this story, her response summed up what many seem to think of these painted rocks. She said: "It's amazing to think that a common thing such as a stone can change a person's day, give them ideas or give them a wee uplift. It really does amaze me!"
Video: Sofia Teixeira Santos
In the spirit of the hobby, the team here at The Glasgow Sloth decided to get into the rock-painting game. I did my best to recreate our logo as well as trying my hand at Scotland's national animal, the unicorn. My colleague, Sofia Teixeira Santos, went for a sweet little strawberry, and my girlfriend painted a prickly cactus. I plan to get more of the Sloth team involved in painting rocks in the coming days, because just like everyone I spoke to warned, it is addictive, and I can't wait to paint more. All the rocks we painted will be hidden around Glasgow in the next few days. If you find them, let us know on social media.
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In our monthly showroom roundup, all the expansions and openings to have on your radar.
Outdoor furniture brand Dedon opened a 5,600-square-foot Manhattan showroom. Designed by Copenhagen-based design studio GamFratesi, the showroom features exposed brick, wood frames and other naturalistic features.
Madison, Wisconsin–based appliance brand Sub-Zero, Wolf and Cove opened a 7,500-square-foot showroom and demo kitchen in Miami. The space will host programming involving food and the rooftop terrace.
New York–based design firm Pembrooke & Ives is becoming bicoastal, opening an office in Los Angeles in early May.
Spanish surface design manufacturer Cosentino is opening a new City Center in Los Angeles in early April, its fourth in the US, in addition to locations in San Francisco, New York and Miami.
Lladró Lifestyle Barcelona is the first porcelain lifestyle showroom in Spain. It was designed by architect Hector Ruiz and features not only Lladró porcelain, but other home decor and jewelry brands as well.


The talented videographer Anwar Allen created this video about our DTM neighbors Beer Run. If you haven't been, the Carlton Road hotspot is open for breakfast, lunch and dinner Monday through Saturday, with brunch on Sunday. Awesome coffee and espresso bar, 17 beers on draft, 700+ bottled beers, wine and other food and drink items, too. Oh, they also cater and deliver.


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Haynes, T.B. et al., 2014. Occupancy of yellow-billed and Pacific loons: evidence for interspecific competition and habitat mediated co-occurrence. Journal of Avian Biology, 45, pp.296–304.
Haynes, T.B. et al., 2014. Patterns of lake occupancy by fish indicate different adaptations to life in a harsh Arctic environment. Freshwater Biology.
Lewis, T.L. et al., 2014. Pronounced chemical response of Subarctic lakes to climate-driven losses in surface area. Global change biology.
Lewis, T.L. et al., 2014. Multi-trophic resilience of boreal lake ecosystems to forest fires. Ecology, 95, pp.1253–1263.
Haynes, T.B. et al., 2013. Method- and species-specific detection probabilities of fish occupancy in Arctic lakes: implications for design and management. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 70(7), pp.1055 - 1062.
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Etiquette & Languages
How Swearing Works
by Tracy V. Wilson
Why People Swear
Rather than establishing his place in a group, Spock's swearing in "Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home" humorously demonstrates that he does not belong.
In early childhood, crying is an acceptable way to show emotion and relieve stress and anxiety. As children, (especially boys) grow up, Western society discourages them from crying, particularly in public. People still need an outlet for strong emotions, and that's where swearing often comes in.
A lot of people think of swearing as an instinctive response to something painful and unexpected (like hitting your head on an open cabinet door) or something frustrating and upsetting (like being stuck in traffic on the way to a job interview). This is one of the most common uses for swearing, and many researchers believe that it helps relieve stress and blow off steam, like crying does for small children.
Beyond angry or upset words said in the heat of the moment, swearing does a lot of work in social interactions. In the past, researchers have theorized that men swear to create a masculine identity and women swear to be more like men. More recent studies, however, theorize that women swear in part because they are emulating women they admire [ref].
In addition, the use of particular expletives can:
Swearing vs. Cursing
A lot of people use the words "swearing" and "cursing" interchangeably. Some language experts, however, differentiate between the two. Swearing involves using profane oaths or invoking the name of a deity to give a statement more power or believability. Cursing takes aim at something specific, wishing for or trying to cause a target's misfortune.
Establish a group identity
Establish membership in a group and maintain the group's boundaries
Express solidarity with other people
Express trust and intimacy (mostly when women swear in the presence of other women)
Add humor, emphasis or "shock value"
Attempt to camouflage a person's fear or insecurity
People also swear because they feel they are expected to or because swearing has become a habit. But just because swearing plays all these roles doesn't mean it's socially acceptable, or even legal. In the next sections, we'll look at social and legal responses to swearing.
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Q: ListView padding before and after items My ListViews all add a huge amount of padding before and after their children.
For example I have the following ListView in my master
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<ContentPage xmlns="http://xamarin.com/schemas/2014/forms"
             xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2009/xaml"
             xmlns:viewModel="clr-namespace:ViewModel;assembly=App"
             x:Class="Pages.Master"
             Title="Menu">
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  <ListView ItemsSource="{Binding Pages}"
            ItemSelected="ListView_OnItemSelected"
            BackgroundColor="Red">
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        <ViewCell>
          <Label Text="S" BackgroundColor="White" />
        </ViewCell>
      </DataTemplate>
    </ListView.ItemTemplate>
  </ListView>
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And it renders the following:

And as soon as you scroll just a little it'll reveal the first element (i.e. the top red space is equal to the height)

Similarly you can keep scrolling until the last item completely disappears (i.e. the bottom red space is equal to the height)
I don't change the properties/styling of ANY of the views in code - it's all done in the XAML, so why is there such a huge amount of space before and after?

A: It appears to be a problem with the rendering of ListView.Header and ListView.Footer
I added the following to my list view XAML and it removed the giant padding:
<ListView.Header>
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As this problem was affecting all of my list views, I chose to instead add it as a globally applied style in my App.xaml:
<Style TargetType="ListView">
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    </Setter.Value>
  </Setter>
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Stephen Strasburg Throws A Successful Simulated Game In Arizona; Will Start On Tuesday
By Jordan Ruby Aug 5, 2010, 6:59pm EDT
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It's been a few weeks since we saw Stephen Strasburg pitch, and frankly, I was beginning to miss him. Luckily for me, and the rest of the Nationals fans in D.C., it seems like he is well on his way back to the mound.
Strasburg pitched a simulated game on Thursday, and according to Adam Kilgore of the Washington Post, the results were very positive.
Stephen Strasburg finished his anticipated simulated game at Chase Field with no apparent issues, throwing roughly 40 pitches -- fastball, curveballs and changeups -- over two simulated "innings." Strasburg experienced some wildness, but most important, his pitches were crisp, his velocity almost as blistering as the 106-degree Arizona heat that engulfed the park with the retractable roof open.
The batters in this game were Justin Maxwell and Willie Harris, who took alternating hacks over the course of two simulated innings.
Maxwell swung and missed three times, and Harris swung and missed once. They took most of the pitches, but each hitter ripped one line drive. After his, a simulated single to right-center, Harris shot his fist into the air and yelled, "Yeah!" before walking out of the cage and giving Maxwell a high five.
I guess we can call that a moral victory, Willie.
But he can have that hit, the most important thing to Strasburg, and the Nationals organization, is that he made it through the day without any arm problems, and wasn't scratched from the start before it even started.
UPDATE: Kilgore is now reporting that Strasburg has been named the starter for Tuesday's home game against the Marlins. Scott Olsen's start will be moved back a day.
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Episode 207 - E3 2011 Day 3 - Show Notes
F5 Live: Refreshing Technology
Episode 207 - E3 2011 Day 3
Wednesday Jun 8, 2011 (01:33:15)
We'll talk about Nintendo and the hidden treasures from everyone's conferences.
Jon Wurm
Jon is a F5 Live co-host and UpStream contributor as well as the Chief Cash Officer of PLuGHiTz Corporation. We don't know how he wears so many hats so well or how he still finds time to feed his need for all things tech but some questions are best left unanswered. If you're up for a challenge go find him on Xbox Live @shinobiJon and if you figure him out...let us know.
Allante Sparks
Allante - also well known as Wolff - is the newest member and co-host for PLuGHiTz Live! Radio. A gifted artist, he is usually found drawing up a character or two or sketching up whatever comes to mind. Do not think that he is not a hardcore gamer because he is about as hardcore as it gets! His favorites range from fighting games to RPGs, adventure and even a racing game here and there. Fighting games are his forte and he relays this message for all who oppose: You mess with the Wolff and you get the fangs!
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E3 2011 - Zelda's Not Too Old to Party
E3 2010 brought us the celebration of Mario's 25th anniversary. This year, we get the opportunity to celebrate Zelda's 25th anniversary. The presentation even started with a live orchestra playing music from Zelda games. While we won't be getting a Hyrulian Wii, we are getting a huge collection of new games and accessories.
E3 2011 - Nintendo Asks, Will You Wii U?
Coming into E3 this year I knew that Nintendo couldn't afford to wait another year to do something with their next console and it seems they did as well. Before we get into what Wii U is all about I want to mention Nintendo's stage this year. It was actually a 3 tier stage which had a nice 3D effect that wasn't over done. The icing on the cake, though, was how they tailored all the video specifically to conform with the stage. I didn't think I would be awarding Nintendo my 'Best Setup' award this year but they earned it. Sony had some improvements in their design as did Microsoft but Nintendo's made a statement. Congratulations Nintendo.
E3 2011 - Nintendo 3DS Loads Up on Games and Features
It seems like focusing on events has helped the some of the presenters this year. Nintendo was no different as they focused on three key items. They talked about the new home console Wii U, The Legend of Zelda's 25th Anniversary and what we're going to discuss this time, the Nintendo 3DS.
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Web applications should have the ability to acquire, manipulate and pass data in a wide variety of forms, including as a sequence of data made available over time.
-			This specification defines the basic representation for byte streams, and programmatic ways to read and write byte streams and errors raised on those operations.
-			WritableByteStream hides details of actual communication with the data sink while allowing for efficient transfer of bytes.
The ReadableByteStream interface defines a general protocol for data producing APIs to communicate with data consuming code.
-			This interface represents possibly infinite byte streams which are obtained over time and read once.
-			ReadableByteStream hides details of actual communication with the data source while allowing for efficient transfer of bytes.
-			By the combination of the following features, this interface suite responds to various needs of byte stream handling.
-			The ByteStream is a simple implementation of both WritableByteStream and ReadableByteStream interface.
-			The example takes the ReadableByteStream from a producer, XMLHttpRequest, and gives to a consumer, the video tag.
In addition to the ReadableByteStream interface, this specification introduces an interface called WritableByteStream for data consuming APIs.
-			The WritableByteStream interface provides a write() method which allows applications to write data to the data consuming API as listed in consumer.
-			If you have a producer code which should do work only when pulled, waitForWritable() should be used to wait for pull event.
+			An producer can also do work only when pulled by using waitForWritable(), which will inform the producer when to produce data. This is useful when high-performance is necessary.
-			Interfaces introduced in the later sections provide simple and convenient way to consume data.
-			Before describing them, here, we'll describe the model of data source which produces bytes to be consumed via the ReadableByteStream interface instances.
+			Interfaces introduced in the later sections provide simple and convenient ways to consume data.
+			They connect raw sequences of bytes using Promises and method invocations.
+			Before describing them, we'll describe the model for a data source, which produces the bytes to be consumed via the ReadableByteStream interface instances. The data source model is not directly surfaced in the API, and is described here to provide details on how internal operations such as fork() can be handled.
-					Receives retrieval request for generation of bytes from ReadableByteStream and reply to it with newly produced bytes.
+					Receives retrieval requests for generation of bytes from a ReadableByteStream and replies to it with the newly produced bytes.
-			A WritableByteStream has an associated data sink <dfn>dataSink</dfn> and it notifies the WritableByteStream of the number of bytes the data sink can newly accept.
+			A WritableByteStream has an associated datasink, which notifies the WritableByteStream of the number of bytes the data sink can newly accept.
-			An associated integer variable <dfn>bytesRequested</dfn> holds the number of bytes can be written to the dataSink.
+			An associated integer variable <dfn>bytesRequested</dfn> holds the number of bytes which can be written to the dataSink.
-			An associated Promise <dfn>waitPromise</dfn> is used by waitForWritable() method.
+			An associated Promise <dfn>waitPromise</dfn> is used by the waitForWritable() method.
-						If <var>data</var> argument is an ArrayBufferView, modification made on the ArrayBufferView's contents between write() method call and fulfill of the returned Promise may affect the data written to dataSink.
+						This method waits until the WritableByteStream bcomes able to accept any non-zero amount of data.
-						Once writeClose() has been called on a WritableByteStream, any more method call must not be made on the WritableByteStream.
-			dataSource of the ReadableByteStream is set to refer to the data source and <dfn>readerId</dfn> of the ReadableByteStream is set to the reader ID.
+			The dataSource of a ReadableByteStream refers to its data source, and <dfn>readerId</dfn> of a ReadableByteStream refers to its reader ID.
+			An associated flag <dfn>readPending</dfn> which prevents multiple read operations from being run.
This flag is set to false on construction.
-			An associated integer variable <dfn>readExactPullAmount</dfn> temporarily overrides pullAmount if necessary for readExact() method call.
+			An associated integer variable <dfn>readExactPullAmount</dfn> which temporarily overrides pullAmount if necessary for readExact() method call.
-			An associated integer variable <dfn>pipePullAmount</dfn> temporarily overrides pullAmount if necessary for pipe() method call.
+			An associated integer variable <dfn>pipePullAmount</dfn> which temporarily overrides pullAmount if necessary for pipe() method call.
-			An associated integer variable <dfn>bytesBeingRetrieved</dfn> holds the number of bytes being retrieved from dataSource.
+			An associated integer variable <dfn>bytesBeingRetrieved</dfn> which holds the number of bytes being retrieved from dataSource.
-			An associated integer variable <dfn>bytesBeingOutput</dfn> holds the number of bytes consumed on the last read operation.
+			An associated integer variable <dfn>bytesBeingOutput</dfn> which holds the number of bytes consumed on the last read operation.
-			An associated queue <dfn>retrievedDataBuffer</dfn> holds bytes retrieved from dataSource.
+			An associated queue <dfn>retrievedDataBuffer</dfn> which holds bytes retrieved from dataSource.
Retrieved bytes can be queued in retrievedDataBuffer in any form.
-			An associated flag <dfn>eofReached</dfn> indicates that the EOF is received from dataSource.
+			An associated flag <dfn>eofReached</dfn> which indicates that the EOF is received from dataSource.
-						Specifies as what type data will be read from the ReadableByteStream by a read() and readExact() method call.
-						This attribute can be set to any of ByteStreamReadType items.
-						This attribute is tells ReadableByteStream a hint how many bytes the reader can consume currently.
-						This flow control functionality is provided as a separated attribute rather than as an argument of the read() method based on assumption that most people don't change the value so frequently.
-						It's possible bytes more than pullAmount value is received by read().
The returned Promise is fulfilled only when bytes of the specified size is read or the EOF is reached.
-						The size of data read by this method is exactly the same as the specified size unless there are bytes less than the specified size until the EOF.
-						This method creates a new ReadableByteStream which refers to the same dataSource.
Data sources are range reference counted so that a range in a data source is freed only when all the ReadableByteStreams sharing the data source finish consuming it.


Solar electricity systems capture the sun's energy using photovoltaic (PV) cells. The cells convert the sunlight into electricity, which can be used to run your organisation's lighting and appliances. PV cells don't need direct sunlight to work – you can still generate some electricity on a cloudy day.
G.P.Green Ltd will design and install your solar photovoltaic system in accordance with the Microgeneration Certification Scheme (MCS) requirements ensuring that your panels are in the best position to take advantage of the light captured on the roof of your buildings. PV cells come in a variety of shapes and colours, from grey "solar tiles" that look like roof tiles to panels and transparent cells that you can use on glass.
We only use fully MCS approved products and we are also members of the RECC Assurance Scheme, which is the consumers independent authority that governs sales and procedures in this industry.
If you already have solar panels installed, we can also offer you maintenance checks to ensure everything is working properly.


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Trevor Gingerich
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Trevor is ministering at Humber College in Toronto ... because we must! Would you help him continue to reach this community of young leaders with the gospel message?
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Ministry Location: Humber College, Toronto, ON
Ministry Focus: Campus Ministry
Picture this: a close-knit community of 19,000+ people. Young, passionate students with big aspirations, all training for professional vocations. Many will become influential leaders in our world, aiming to shape the fabric of our society in the coming years. 19,000+ students... thinking, learning, setting the trajectory for the rest of their lives. In 2008, Mission Canada appointed its first missionary to this largely unreached community: Humber College in Toronto (Rexdale), ON. With excitement, Trevor planted The Embassy at Humber.
The Embassy exists to help students discover hope, purpose and life to its fullest through the message, mission and living person of Jesus Christ. It's a place where students can gather to worship regularly and be exposed to biblical teaching that's applicable to their surroundings and pertinent to their unique stage in life. Although studies show that large numbers of Christian young people turn away from faith during post-secondary education, Trevor is actively working to reverse these statistics. He believes that our Canadian colleges and universities represent mission fields that require missionaries. Would you consider helping him reach this influential community of student leaders?
Ministry in a COVID-19 pandemic season can be challenging and different. So much needs to be done in new ways and format, especially moving to online connections with students. Let this video clip of post-secondary students at Humber College, some Embassy alumni and myself and Becky inspire you and bless your heart. Our Embassy at Humber ministry is represented by many languages, nations and students who are close to or drawing close to God in these unique times in which we live. Let "The Blessing" be a blessing to your soul today, and may you know that God is at work!
The Blessing - The Embassy
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Thank you for helping us reach students at Humber! Your support is much-needed and appreciated in a big, big way so that we can continue on in the work God called us to here on this urban campus when we took a big leap of faith in 2008. God is faithful, and good things are happening at Humber!
Here's the challenge when it comes to how ministry at Humber is resourced: The Embassy will never be self-sustaining because the college does not allow Trevor to collect donations from students. Therefore, he is faced with the task of raising 100% of all the funding required to keep the ministry afloat year after year. That said, would you consider supporting him financially? Your donations will go directly toward addressing the expenses associated with The Embassy's continued ministry: salary, resource, supplies and equipment expenses. Know that even a small amount makes a difference (especially if you choose to give a monthly, recurring gift). Thank you for your generosity and for letting us know we can count on you to stand with us.


The Business of the Month Award is run by Mid Yorkshire Chamber of Commerce in association with UKTI and Eaton Smith. It is open to firms in Calderdale, Kirklees and Wakefield.
INK Digital, an award winning digital agency based in Halifax has been awarded the Business of the Month prize for May.
INK Digital operates in the digital and online services marketplace. They are a communications agency specialising in creating and developing interactive digital solutions including websites, email marketing campaigns, mobile applications and touch-screen solutions.
Formed in 2002 with little more than one room, a computer and a lot of hard work and determination, the business has grown steadily now employing ten staff and operating out of state of the art offices at the impressive Elsie Whiteley Innovation Centre in Halifax. Showing steady year on year growth through some difficult trading conditions INK Digital has had a record last 12 months with an increase in business of 30% on the previous year, and can demonstrate a very impressive client base across a number of sectors. These include Renault, The University of Manchester, Unipol, British Land, The University of Leeds, the NHS and MYCCI among others.


One way to gain blog readers involves having your blog featured on another blog so the readers of that blog, which may have more readers than yours, can follow the link over to your site. (The added links going in and out of your blog and the other blog help your blog and the other blog gain some traction in the search engines as well.) If those readers like your blog, they may come back day after day, thus becoming regular readers.
To help you gain some extra readers, or unique visitors, and links to your blogged blook, I wrote a post with a way to add your blogged book to a list. As time goes by, however, that post has become harder to find here on my blog. I do want to give you an opportunity to share your blogged books here on my blog. So, I've created this page to simply feature the list and make it easy for book bloggers to add their blogs.
You are welcome to add your blogged book to my list, if you like. There is one rule, however.
To add a blog to this list, you must actually be blogging a book.
You must be writing your book from scratch post by post on your blog.
If I can't find one or more of these characteristics of a blogged book, I will remove your blog from the list. You can "appeal" via email to namir (at) copywrightcommunications.com.


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The Ready Set Rocked Lively Pop Jams at The Space in Hamden, CT on May 26, 2016 [Zumic Review + Photos]
by Olivia Perreault
The Ready Set's Jordan Witzigreuter. Photo by Olivia Perreault
The Ready Set, an indie pop band from Indiana, headlined an intimate show at The Space in Hamden, Connecticut last Thursday night, a venue the band had not played for seven years.
On their current Waking Up Tour, Emblem3 have been the opening band for most dates. This concert featured a different lineup revving up the crowd for The Ready Set: Four Door Theatre from Nashville, Five Stories Falling from Connecticut, and Crash The Party from New York City. When The Ready Set Frontman Jordan Witzigreuter finally hit the stage with his infamous fox mask, the crowd went crazy, jumping and singing along to the upbeat tune "Higher."
Throughout the night, each of his songs perfectly transitioned into the next as Witzigreuter sang a mixture of both new and old jams. He sang classic radio hits like "Young Forever" and "Love Like Woe." Also, off of his previous album, The Bad and The Better, he performed "Carry Me Home," "Castaway," and "Are We Happy Now."
The Ready Set at The Space in Hamden, CT. Photo by Olivia Perreault
The room erupted with applause after each song, feeding off of Witzigreuter's positive energy. He definitely has a star quality, and it was easy to sense his ability to connect with the crowd as he danced around the stage. TRS's newest album, I Will Be Nothing Without Your Love, was just released on April 8. The audience already seemed to know the songs by heart as they jammed along with him to the single "I Will Be Nothing Without Your Love."
To end the night, Witzigreuter explained that he doesn't like encores, and proceeded to sing two more songs instead of walking off the stage and coming back on. With a final burst of energy, he enthusiastically performed "Being Afraid" and "Give Me Your Hand (Best Song Ever)."
After the concert, I spoke with Witzigreuter and he told me that it was great to come back to Hamden and play such a small venue. He shared that he's played shows to 200 people that were more energetic than shows he's played to 10,000 people, so it all comes down to the energy and the crowd. Playing these smaller headlining dates, he can really see fans singing along and reacting to his new songs in a "face to face way."
"It seems like people like the album and have reacted well to the honesty behind it; I feel like it's a little more honest and real than I've been able to be in the past," Witzigreuter said. "So I think that affects people in a way, and I've wanted to do that for a while."
While on tour, Witzigreuter is already working on his next "new thing" and trying to stay busy all the time. He said that he is working on probably two or three more tours for the rest of the year, and until then, he's just "enjoying the ride." On most dates of the current tour, The Ready Set are performing with reggae pop band Emblem3. Witzigreuter hopes the shows will help raise awareness of his music, since the two bands don't necessarily share the same fan base.
I Will Be Nothing Without Your Love is available on Amazon.
For The Ready Set's latest music, news, and tour dates, check out their Zumic artist page.
The Ready Set dates for "The Waking Up" tour.
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Election Day 2022: Lesley Israel Looks Back on a Career in Campaigns, Discusses What's Changed and What Remains the Same
Dec 5, 2022 | Politics
Esteemed political consultant and international democracy advocate, Lesley Israel, unveils the highly anticipated fifth installment of her acclaimed podcast series, Work That Matters, which focuses on her celebrated career in politics.
EASTON, MD, December 05, 2022 /24-7PressRelease/ — In the last episode of Work That Matters, Lesley Israel took a sharp left turn to discuss the importance of family, inviting listeners to peek into her past and enjoy a series of anecdotes that were, in turn, happy, sad, funny and interesting—sometimes even all at once. Lesley was as comfortable talking about family as she usually is talking about her profession. And while it may not be fair to call the new episode a return to form—which implies a dip in quality when in fact there's been anything but—let's just say Lesley Israel is getting back to work!
Episode Five of Work That Matters arrives today was recorded a few weeks ago on Election Day, which Lesley & Co. felt was appropriate given the subject matter. This new installment is all about political campaigns; old ones, new ones, what's changed, what remains the same. And there couldn't be a more suitable guide through this unique world than Lesley Israel, who has spent her entire adult life—and parts of her childhood—immersed in the world of politics and government.
In this fifth installment, Lesley discusses her time on the Hubert Humphrey campaigns, as well as those of Teddy Kennedy, Scoop Jackson and Birch Bayh. She also discusses political strategy and what it takes to get the job done.
"I've had an extraordinarily rewarding career in so many ways," explains Lesley, "But managing campaigns was always something I felt particularly passionate about. There is a palpable energy on any campaign trail, which culminates in Election Day. There's nothing in the world like it. It's democracy in action."
It is no coincidence that this interview with Ms. Israel was initially recorded on the day of midterm elections. The folks who make the Work That Matters podcast a reality, particularly Lesley Israel herself, believed it to be the perfect occasion to go back in time, while also looking ahead.
For more information please visit Lesley Israel's official website here.
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There has been a large increase in the number of REC and AVC graduates in Lesotho following a workshop in the country last week. This item originally appeared on our Facebook feed.
The University of Pretoria (UP) Onderstepoort Veterinary Faculty has integrated the Rabies Educator Certificate (REC) into their veterinarian-training coursework this year. This online rabies-awareness resource was included in the veterinary school's community-engagement module, part of which focuses on rabies education.
On March 16th, the OIE and WHO, FAO and GARC released the final version of the global framework for the elimination of dog-mediated human rabies.
The End Rabies Now (ERN) campaign was officially launched on Wednesday, 24 February at the British Houses of Parliament in London. The ERN campaign is calling for an end to human deaths from dog-mediated rabies by 2030.
The new Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), adopted in September 2015, have a wide reach, encompassing economic development, education, justice, peace and environmental sustainability. Besides the health goal that specifically mentions neglected tropical disease (NTD) elimination, several of the other goals (related to poverty, inequality, education, and infrastructure) could directly and indirectly benefit rabies control.
Official launch event held at House of Lords.
How bad is surveillance for human rabies?
Two recent publications demonstrate widespread under-reporting of human rabies cases, but a new WHO initiative will help to improve the situation.
To improve the knowledge of health professionals in rabies enzootic countries, the Institut Pasteur used customized online training (COLT), which focuses on small sets of trainees and is designed for situations where direct training of specific skills by experts is needed.


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FACEBOOK, INSTAGRAM AND WHATSAPP ALL GO DOWN IN MAJOR OUTAGE – Biggest hack in history? Cyberattack?
FACEBOOK and its affiliated services are reporting severe outages across its network following a mysterious breakdown that has affected hundreds of millions of people.
Along with Facebook, its own messenger service and Whastapp and Instagram are all down. Users across social media are reporting seeing a 505 error message on Facebook. Mike Sington said: "Facebook, as well as WhatsApp and Instagram owned by Facebook, are all down.
Coincidence, after whistleblower levels major bombshells against Facebook or major hack taking them down?
Commenting on the outage, Ari on Twitter said: "How is WhatsApp, Instagram, Messenger, and Facebook all down at the same time like how does that make sense."
It is unclear what caused the outage but issues were reported at 4.44pm BST.
When looking at trend aggregators, outages across all three major platforms began to be reported at similar times.
Courtesy of express.co.uk
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Cyberattack Strikes T-Mobile and Causes a Major Data Breach Targeting 40 Million Customers
More than 40 million T-Mobile customers have been hit by a US data breach, the company has admitted.
It blamed the breach on a "highly sophisticated cyberattack".
It said it is "taking immediate steps to help protect all of the individuals who may be at risk from this cyberattack".
The firm said that while criminals stole personal information, no financial details were leaked as a result.
The breach only came to light following online reports last weekend that criminals were attempting to sell a large database containing T-Mobile customer data online.
The US telecom giant confirmed that hackers had gained access to its systems on Monday.
"Late last week we were informed of claims made in an online forum that a bad actor had compromised T-Mobile systems," it said.
"We immediately began an exhaustive investigation into these claims and brought in world-leading cybersecurity experts to help with our assessment.
"We then located and immediately closed the access point that we believe was used to illegally gain entry to our servers."
The company said its investigations identified approximately 7.8 million current T-Mobile postpaid customer accounts' information in the stolen files, as well as just over 40 million records of former or prospective customers who had previously applied for credit with T-Mobile.
It said that approximately 850,000 active T-Mobile prepaid customer names, phone numbers and account PINs were also exposed but that it had reset all of the PINs on the accounts to protect customers.
It added that no phone numbers, account numbers, PINs, passwords, or financial information were compromised in any of the files of customers or prospective customers.
"We take our customers' protection very seriously and we will continue to work around the clock on this forensic investigation to ensure we are taking care of our customers in light of this malicious attack," the company said.
"While our investigation is ongoing, we wanted to share these initial findings even as we may learn additional facts through our investigation that cause the details above to change or evolve."
Hackers previously stole the personal information of 15 million T-Mobile customers and potential customers in the US in 2015.
There is no indication yet that former UK customers of T-Mobile have been hit by the data breach.
The company's UK operation T-Mobile UK was rebranded as EE in 2012 and sold to BT in 2016 for more than £12bn.
Courtesy of BBC News
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Playstation, Amazon and online banks all down as major internet outage hits users
Users of PlayStation, Amazon and online banks have all reported the services being down in a major internet outage.
Websites of several airlines, banks and technology companies including Amazon's AWS, Delta Air Lines and American Express were among those facing outages, according to DownDetector.
Websites have not been loading and and have been displaying domain name system (DNS) service errors.
Thousands of gamers are said to be experiencing issues with the PlayStation Network.
PlayStation users took to social media to vent their frustration, reporting receiving messages such as "PlayStation network is currently busy".
One said: "Gotta love it when the PlayStation servers are down on my day off."
PlayStation have been advising users to try and use their Fix&Connect tool.
Issues with popular online banking services including HSBC, Lloyds and Barclays have also been reported.
HSBC users have reported issues with the app and internet banking.
One tweeted: "My mobile app has stopped working and the hsbc page online is down, are there problems ?? I needed to transfer money 20 minutes ago.(sic)"
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HACK ATTACK – Hackers breach UK Foreign Office computers sparking fears of hostile state attack
A FOREIGN Office outpost has been breached by hackers sparking fears of a hostile state attack, The Sun can reveal.
The Government's Wilton Park agency based in Sussex was hit by a sophisticated cyber attack last month.
The facility was set up by Winston Churchill in 1944 to bring together diplomats, business and world leaders, and was struck by an attack shortly before Christmas.
Following an investigation by the National Cyber Security Centre, it is understood a significant number of individuals whose data was stored on Wilton Park's computers servers have been warned their details may have been compromised in the attack.
The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office confirmed the digital assault had taken place but declined to comment on suspects.
But sources said they were confident the incident is not connected to the Solar Winds Orion hack that has blighted the US government in recent weeks and was blamed on Russia.
And insiders told The Sun no classified information was breached and the Wilton Park computers servers are separate to top secret Whitehall databases.
The NCSC are now working with the agency to strengthen their cyber defences.
The FCDO said: "We take data security very seriously. There is no evidence that data has been taken following a cyber incident at Wilton Park."
Last year Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab warned: "There are various objectives and motivations that lie behind these attacks – from fraud on the one hand to espionage.
"But they tend to be designed to steal bulk personal data, intellectual property and wider information that supports those aims.
"They're often linked with other state actors, and we expect this kind of predatory criminal behaviour to continue to evolve over the coming weeks and months ahead, and we're taking a range of measures to tackle that threat."
An NCSC spokesperson said: "We are aware of this incident and have been working closely with the FCDO and partners to support the investigation."
Courtesy of thesun.co.uk
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SolarWinds Hackers Breach US Nuclear Weapons Agency
Department of Energy is responding to a cyber incident related to the SolarWinds compromise in coordination with our federal and industry partners. The investigation is ongoing and the response to this incident is happening in real-time. At this point, the investigation has found that the malware has been isolated to business networks only, and has not impacted the mission-essential national security functions of the Department, including the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA). When DOE identified vulnerable software, immediate action was taken to mitigate the risk, and all software identified as being vulnerable to this attack was disconnected from the DOE network. — Shaylyn Hynes, DOE Spokeswoman
Additional background: As part of its ongoing response, DOE has been in constant communication with our industry partners, including the leadership of the energy sector Subsector Coordinating Councils, and is also in regular contact with Electricity, Oil & Natural Gas (ONG), and Downstream Natural Gas (DNG) Information Sharing and Analysis Centers (ISAC).
Nation-state hackers have breached the networks of the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) and the US Department of Energy (DOE).
NNSA is a semi-autonomous government agency responsible for maintaining and securing the US nuclear weapons stockpile.
The NNSA was established by the US Congress in 2000 and it is also tasked with responding to nuclear and radiological emergencies within the Unites States and abroad.
Officials familiar with the matter told Politico that federal investigators have found evidence of hackers gaining access to US DOE and NNSA networks as part of the ongoing US govt compromise campaign.
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), the Office of Secure Transportation, the Richland Field Office of the DOE, and Sandia and Los Alamos national laboratories were all hit according to the report.
The hackers have mainly focused their efforts at FERC according to the DOE officials, but they did not provide more details on the incident.
This series of attacks has led to the hacking of multiple US government networks as officially confirmed by the FBI, CISA, and the ODNI for the first time in a joint statement issued earlier today.
The list of US government targets compromised so far in this campaign also includes the US Treasury, the US Department of State, US NTIA, US NIH, DHS-CISA, and the US Department of Homeland Security.
The group behind this compromise campaign, suspected to be the Russian state-sponsored APT29 (aka Cozy Bear), was present on the networks of hacked organizations for long periods of time according to a CISA alert from earlier today.
"CISA has determined that this threat poses a grave risk to the Federal Government and state, local, tribal, and territorial governments as well as critical infrastructure entities and other private sector organizations," the agency said.
"CISA expects that removing this threat actor from compromised environments will be highly complex and challenging for organizations."
The backdoor used in these attacks, tracked as Solarigate or Sunburst, was distributed via SolarWinds' auto-update mechanism onto the systems of roughly 18,000 customers.
SolarWinds' customer list [1, 2] includes more than 425 US Fortune 500 companies, all top ten US telecom companies, as well as several government agencies including the US Military, the US Pentagon, the US Department of Justice, the State Department, NASA, NSA, Postal Service, NOAA, and the Office of the President of the United States.
However, CISA also said that it has "evidence of additional initial access vectors, other than the SolarWinds Orion platform; however, these are still being investigated."
CISA has also issued an Emergency Directive following the string of confirmed US govt hacks asking federal civilian agencies to immediately disconnect or shut down affected SolarWinds Orion products on their networks.
Additionally, since the campaign was discovered, Microsoft, FireEye, and GoDaddy created a kill switch for the SolarWinds Sunburst backdoor that will terminate the infection on victims' networks.
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MAJOR TWITTER OUTAGE ACROSS MANY PARTS OF THE WORLD – CYBER ATTACK?
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Hackney Council hit by 'serious cyber attack' London, UK
Hackney Council says it has been hit by a "serious cyber attack", which is affecting many of its services and IT systems.
The council says it is working with the UK's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) and the Ministry of Housing to investigate and understand the impact of the incident.
It is not year clear what type of cyber attack has hit the council or whether residents' data has been exposed.
In a statement on the council's website, which is still up and running, Mayor Philip Glanville said: "Our focus is on continuing to deliver essential frontline services, especially to our most vulnerable residents, and protecting data, while restoring affected services as soon as possible.
"In the meantime, some council services may be unavailable or slower than normal, and our call centre is extremely busy," he added.
"We ask that residents and businesses only contact us if absolutely necessary, and to bear with us while we seek to resolve these issues."
Courtesy of Sky News
https://tinyurl.com/y6drw3nw
in Cyber Threat Alert, Earth Changing Extremities, Information Technology Alert, Virus Cyberattack Alert
#Hackers disrupt #website of #Russian #Embassy in #London, #UK for 20 hours
Access to the website of the Russian Embassy in London remained unreliable for almost 20 hours after unidentified 'hackers' targeted it with a denial-of-service attack, the diplomatic mission said.
The attack started at about 16:30GMT on Monday, a spokesperson for the embassy told the media. By 12:00 on Tuesday, embassy IT staff managed to restore access, the report said.
"An investigation into what happened is underway," the spokesperson said, adding that Russian diplomatic staff were apologizing to anyone whose plans may have been affected by the downing of the website.
Courtesy of rt.com
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in Air Traffic Alert, Aviation Alert, Aviation Systems Alert, Earth Changing Extremities, Gatwick Airport, IT Alert, Plane Diversion Alert, Planes Grounded, Virus Cyberattack Alert
#Gatwick #Airport #Flights #Suspended After #SystemsIssue #CyberAttack?
Gatwick Airport says flights have been suspended due to an "air traffic control system issue" in the control tower.
Outbound and inbound flights will be delayed until at least 9pm, according to the Eurocontrol Netowrk Operations Portal.
A statement from Gatwick says: "Due to an air traffic control systems issue in Gatwick's control tower, flights are currently suspended. We are working with ANS, our air traffic control provider, to rectify this issue as quickly as possible.
"We apologise and passengers should check with their airline directly or on our website flights page for the latest information on their flight."
Due to an air traffic control systems issue in Gatwick's control tower, flights are currently suspended. We are working with ANS, our air traffic control provider, to rectify this issue as quickly as possible.
— Gatwick Airport LGW (@Gatwick_Airport) July 10, 2019
UPDATE: 10 July 18.10: Due to an air traffic control systems issue in Gatwick's control tower, flights remain suspended. We are working with ANS, our provider, to rectify this issue as quickly as possible. We apologise and advise passengers to check flight info with your airline.
The issue began at 5.08pm on Wednesday afternoon.
The airport say there is already a divert plan in place, and inbound flights are being sent to other airports.
Gatwick, in West Sussex, is Britain's second busiest airport, behind Heathrow.
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in Cyber Threat Alert, Earth Changing Extremities, social media, Virus Cyberattack Alert
#YouTube, other #Google services are down in North #America, some parts of #Europe
Google services, including YouTube and Gmail, have been down this Sunday afternoon. The US has been apparently affected the most, according to user reports.
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No one in his right mind is ready for this charade about to be forced upon us. Has no one learned anything from the storm on the coast two weeks ago? Idiots!
auto makers are laying people today.
Gosh.........are ordinary people entitled to get laid in LIE-beral Canada???????????????????????
LIE-berals plan to use their carbon crap and trade scam to make sure we cannot heat our houses!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Make sure we cannot afford hot water to clean and bathe with!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Make sure we cannot get to work since gas powered cars will be illegal!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And our public transit is ALREADY OVER LOADED and worn out!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And of course those costly electric TOY carws that are beloved of LIE-berals will be too costly for most of us!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Of course it wont really matter what the electric toy cars cost because the carbon crap and trade scam will kill off most of our jobs anyway!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So we can just hang out around the "temporary homeless shelter and wait for some civil service union Hog to hand out the bowls of soup and bread!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Staying home and having LIE-berals laying us might not be so bad?????????????????????
But will LIE-berals respect us in the morning?????????????????????
THEY DONT RESPECT US NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Even though Our idiot Boy and his loser LIE-berals have not yet managed to turn Canada into a Soviet dictatorship just yet!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
But LIE-berals ARE WORKING ON IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
DECEIT ABOUT LIE-BERAL GOALS AND TRUE MOTIVES IS THE ORDER OF THE DAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
\they make sense for commercial purposes given their lower operating costs.
Canada is definitely NOT ready for electric vehicles. Most of our rivers have already been compromised and much of our animal habitat has been flooded, while we in the enviable situation of having billions of barrels of a valuable resource sitting in the ground and ready for use. Only idiots would wish otherwise!
The point was, "why switch when gas is as plentiful as ever and it will be cheap for some time'.
The part they are missing is gas may become 'rare'.
People who have the brains to understand do!
You're barely ready for the horseless carriage.
There are scads of Teslas around where I live. It has become quite a common car marwue, in fact. It is downright trendy to own one and the local Tesla dealer (Yes, there is one in Oakville) can't get enough inventory to satisfy the demand.
You might ammend your statement to read "Rural Canada is definitely NOT ready for electric vehicles."
88% of us live in urban areas, btw.
Just like gun laws, car suitability for major Canadian cities depends on how they work for farmers.
... hence the numbers of Iarge pick-up trucks clogging up the suburban mall parking lots.
You have been snorting the manure again!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!
You KNOW IT AINT GOOD FOR YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !
iF LIE-BERALS cared about farmers they would not be ramming wind towers down their throats!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
If LIE- berals cared about farmers they would do more to protect farmers from drunken idiot thieves like Coulton Boushie!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
If LIE-berals cared about farmers they would not be giving farmers a hard time about owning guns they use to protect livestock from coyotes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This could have happened a long time ago, we would have never used petrol and diesel cars and polluted our cities.
But I am happy that it is happening now.
Germany just announced a plan to decommission all 84 of its coal-fired generating stations over the next 20ish years.
Still trying to sell his mouldy green vision of the future - that sensible people recognize as a mouldy green DELUSION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Last fall the Germans signed that multi billion dollar natural gas deal with Russia- so they would have the fuel they NEEDED to replace the coal fired plants!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So now the services are in place - since Germany does not have any racist natives on reservations to black mail their govt into paralysis like Canada does- and now they can start closing the coal plants and replacing them with natural gas!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
But our foolish Hoid does not mention that neither Germany nor Spain- two of the FORMERLY most enthusiastic supporters of investment in green power WILL NOT be expanding their mouldy green options!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yes- the Europeans are no happier with their mouldy green than Ontari-owe is with the Wynne- bag LIE-beral version!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Tesla lowers price of model 3 to $42,700 usd before incentives.
And you save how much on gas per year?
With supporters like you - LIE-berals are truly DOOMED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
That $42,700 USD looks PRETTY SICK next to the $20,000 Cdn for a nissan Qashqai!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!
And HOW MUCH ARE you going to pay in extra taxes to support the LIE-beral sponsored electric TOY car subsidies??????????????
And how much will you PAY to get a fast charger installed in your home so it wont take too long to get your electric Toy recharged????
And how many places will you NOT BE ABLE to drive your electric Toy while on holidays for fear of travelling out of reach of a suitable charger?????????????????
And how much more in taxes will you pay to have LIE-berals install faulty, easily broken and COSTLY fast chargers?????????????
You DO REMEMBER what a HASH LIE-berals have already made of their first contracts for installing chargers mainly in Toronto dont you??????????????????????????
And what kind of CLUB will LIE-berals have to BEAT US WITH in order to persuade us to BUY those COSTLY electric Toy vehicles with their LIMITED RANGE, modest cargo capacity, absolutely ZERO trailer towing capacity and awkward refueling system???????
As for NO BRAKE JOBS- I have not herd that the El CHEAPO Tesla 3 base model has that dandy dynamic braking system so I call BULLSH+T on your brake claim!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Come on now Hoid- admit it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This is actually looking to be the case.
GM is going all-electric by early next decade - which means within 5 years.
The decision has been made. I hope hydrogen technology continues to evolve. It might be an all around better solution.
We'll go back to burning coal to satisfy the sudden spike in demand for electricity to charge cars and generate hydrogen gas.
Start up can be a bit smoky.
Starting a Bituminous Coal forge the easy way.
The turbo will still be useful.
Don't forget doing our part to ward off the coming ice-age. Should we not get paid for our sacrifice?
(CNN)The Tesla Model 3, an electric sedan with a starting price that just got reduced to $42,900, was the best-selling luxury vehicle of any kind last year.
So............GM is going to produce costly NOVELTY electric Toy cars for a tiny niche market until it folds up and disappears completely!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I am so glad you straightened that out for us HOID!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!
After all- TESLA has set the electric Toy car marketing bar pretty high!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Offering high cost and requiring lots of insulting tax subsidies that are all being revoked by Cdn govt at the instruction of disgusted Cdn voters!!!!!!!!!!
And Tesla has YET to make a profit..........................though Musk assures it it WILL HAPPEN at some point in the future!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
If only he can bamboozle investors for another decade or so!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And of course Cdns are breathless with disinterest regarding how badly electric Toy car batteries will do in a major cold spell!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Does ANYBODY want to ask how many electric cars WOULD NOT HAVE MADE IT HOME in the GTA on one single battery charge in the last couple of weeks with the snow and extensive traffic delays!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Do you have one? or are you just preaching?
I was parked in a Longo's lot last Saturday and I was surrounded ON ALL SIDES by Teslas. They are very common, here.
And in related news- General Motors has decided to PHASE OUT production of sedans entirely because Cdn motorists prefer SUV`s and pick up trucks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And a $42 grand U.S. dollars BASE MODEL Tesla still looks STUPID compared to a $20 grand Cdn dollars Nissan Qashqai!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And poor HOID thinks he can SELL Tesla cars based on LIE-beral Faje News and bait and switch LIE-beral financing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Tesla and Mercedes said to be in deal to produce e version of Sprinter vans.
The long and troubled relationship between these two companies notwithstanding, I have long said that an e van is required to cement the commercial viability of the e vehicle. The Dodge Caravan currently holds the position as the most widely used commercial vehicle in the North America and needs to be displaced.
It is good to see Mercedes swallowing what little pride it has left to throw in with Tesla again.
It must be hard to cooperate with the company that is putting you out of business.
Since beating them is out of the question joining then (again) may be the only answer.
Electricity is a finite resource. I would agree with them when the technology is developed to the point of them being able to run from Solar panels mounted on the roof.


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Q: send querystring to facebook app canvas I am trying to create facebook app, and I do not know how to pass the querystring.
How do I pass a querystring parameter to facebook app?
I have added my url to canvas url in facebook app.
http://www.pollsdb.com/get.aspx?qtnid=1&width=239&headerhight=40&height=204

I want users to be able to access different polls by changing the qtnid in the querystring.
How should I do this?

A: A query string you give in your canvas URL settings gets passed as it is.
If you want to link to your app from outside, you have to use the app_data parameter – everything you put in there gets passed to your app as well. If you need to transfer multiple values, JSON encode them before assigning them to app_data or something like that.


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County may get fewer road funds
Published 11:23 pm Wednesday, September 10, 2008
By Stephanie Nelson
The number of road projects throughout the state, including those in Covington County, may soon decline after a decline in federal gas tax revenue has transportation officials predicting a cut in federal highway funding.
When combined with an 11 percent decrease off the top of those federal funds for "administrative fees," county engineer Darren Capps predicts funding for the number of highway projects throughout the state will be greatly diminished.
"Covington County gets $500,000 each year from the federal government for highway projects," Capps said. "We just got a memo last week from the state that said they're going to keep 11 percent of that as an 'administrative fee' since they're the ones that distribute the money to everyone."
Capps said the county is required to put up a 20 percent match for the funds.
"That half million has been consistent for the last 14 years or so," he said. "And with the way the cost of materials is — especially asphalt — that's only enough to do one project.
"Sometimes we have to combine two years's worth of money just so we can complete a project," he said.
Currently, the county has five highway construction projects under way, Capps said.
"We just (awarded a bid for) a $630,000 project for County Road 70," he said. "Then there is a section of Antioch Road, which is about $200,000. We've already sent out bids for the three projects for 2009."
Those projects include repair to two roads in District 3 and one in District 2 — in District 3, County Road 89, where it meets County Road 18 to County Road 10 and County Road 18 to U.S. Hwy. 331, and in District 2, County Road 98 from U.S. Hwy. 84 to County Road 49. It is a total of 5.7 miles of paving.
Commission Chairman Greg White has stated repeatedly that collections for gas tax revenue have flat lined for the last seven years.
Alabama Transportation Director Joe McInnes says his department will likely reduce project lettings beginning in November, unless Congress approves $8 billion in additional funding for the states.
U.S. Secretary of Transportation Mary Peters announced Friday that the decline in gas tax revenue will cause states to receive less federal highway funding than originally anticipated, unless Congress acts. Congress is considering legislation that would provide $8 billion to the National Highway Trust Fund.
McInnes said Tuesday a cutback in federal funds had been expected, but not this soon.


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I can't believe Abul is back. Dilshan put a mark on his behind. I still remember losing a perfectly winnable game due to the incompetence right from the start from Abul and Rubel. Now Rubel has done other great things, so that was forgiven. But yet to see a good thing from Abul.
Rony was GROSSLY unlucky with his t20 chances. Would have gotten a hell lot of more wickets if the field placements were right. Remember the ball going through two fielders at slip more than once.


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OU Protest Misdirected
WHETHER about 40 University of Oklahoma students protesting a new law linking federal aid to registration for the draft are an isolated group or the tip of an iceberg of discontent is hard to tell.
What is clear, though, is that their campus rally climaxing in a march on the office of OU President William Banowsky was targeted at the wrong objective. They said they wanted to learn the university's position on the new federal law, which, beginning June 30, will deny federal aid to students who have failed to register for the draft.
A graduate student who led the march declared, "This is an issue the university has to confront." Even Dr. Banowsky, in talking with the students, said the university "may be caught between your legitimate feelings and the requirements of law." He instructed the chief OU legal counsel to research the new law and "the university's options."
That may have been intended to make the students feel better, but it's difficult to see any option the university has but to enforce the law. If the students don't like it, they should tell their congressmen, not march on the university president's office.
Most young men are complying with the law and registering when they turn 18. The OU protesters' real motivation may be revealed by the name of one of the sponsoring groups, "Students Against the Draft." Yet no actual draft is involved; Congress would have to pass another law to authorize actual conscription.
Since nothing like that is contemplated, there is little point in such a protest unless reviving the old anti-war fervor is the goal. BIOG: NAME:


Restaurant Shabu Shabu 强强滚 is a eat all you can type of shabu shabu restaurant at Bandar Puteri, Puchong. Shabu Shabu is actually a Japanese dish whereby sliced beef are cooked in a pot of boiling soup on the dining table, just like Chinese's hot pot / steamboat.
Chinese steamboat restaurant normally give only one big pot but most Shabu Shabu restaurant are using personal pot. I personally prefer a personal pot as I can cook up my own soup and it is more hygiene.
The lobby of the Restaurant Shabu Shabu with many chairs for waiting customers. We arrived here quite early so there were not many customers yet.
The inside of the restaurant, which you can see pot heater for each chair.
Another view of the spacious Restaurant Shabu Shabu.
Pork slices are served by a staff walking around while other food are served via the conveyor belt. Pork slices are fresh and cook within 10 seconds in the boiling water.
My pot cooking vegetables soup.
Abalone slice, mushroom and some vegetables ready to be eaten.
Pork liver and pork slices. Among all shabu shabu / steamboat restaurant I have visited so far, this is the only one serving liver which is one of my favourite food.
The fish balls, must have in any hot pot session.
The fresh and juicy pork liver.
There are 3 types of sauce for you to dip. Personally I prefer the middle one as it is spicy enough with a hint of sourness.
The fresh prawn with the vegetable ball. Prawns here are fresh on the day we visited.
This is how the food are served on conveyor belt, just like sushi.
Eat all you can and stack up the plates as high as you can.
After your hot meal, ice cream are available for you to sweeten and cool down your mouth. Photo here showing yam and coconut flavour.
Magnolia ice cream but I couldn't really tell the brand.
Drink all you can with the green tea, orange juice or the sky juice.
The pricing model for Restaurant Shabu Shabu. At first I thought the more people you bring, the cheaper it is, but actually not after I done some calculation. Basically it is still RM 34 for an adult and RM 19 for a children.
The menu showing all the food available here at Restaurant Shabu Shabu.
The exterior of Restaurant Shabu Shabu, looks like newly renovated.
Here is a simple map on the name card showing how to find Restaurant Shabu Shabu.
Name card with the phone number to call and the Ho Chiak! logo.