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Conspiracism, Extremism and the Battle Over Sacred Values
GNET > Coronavirus > Conspiracism, Extremism and the Battle Over Sacred Values
8th September 2021 Dr. Gerard Gill
By Dr. Gerard Gill
8th September 2021 In Coronavirus, Insights
On 24 July 2021 in Australia, against the backdrop of a city and state sinking further into crisis, a rally of thousands took place. The central concept was 'freedom'. This was a local manifestation of global conspiracist efforts, with a small German group seeding a wave of rallies around the world via social media. In Australia, a growing handful of figureheads has emerged, some with concerning ties to violent extremism and cultic groups like QAnon.
The size of the rally, however, indicated that this central coordinating group of conspiracy theorists could not account for all present. Many others with more grounded concerns had evidently felt the need to have their frustrations heard. While Western countries have gone some way to mitigate material impacts of the pandemic, many are still suffering, and arguably everyone is dealing with an unprecedented level of uncertainty and powerlessness.
The otherwise-uninitiated bulk of participants at events such as the July rally are not only targets for recruitment by more experienced and organised conspiracy theorists. Neo-Nazis and other violent extremists have been active in exploiting the propaganda opportunities presented by COVID-19, honing in on issues such as the restriction of personal freedoms, and the associated disinformation and misinformation. The Australian National Socialist Network (NSN) has recently been subject to an extensive exposé which revealed the group's ties to international terror groups and celebration of the Christchurch shooter Brenton Tarrant.
The NSN and its affiliates have spoken online about the recruitment potential of anti-lockdown actions, and in the violent demonstrations in Melbourne recently, white supremacist propaganda with QR codes leading to further material was distributed openly. Given the presence of elements such as this within the conspiracist milieu, it is prudent to understand and address the vulnerabilities of the wider populace before those issues are assimilated into extremist narratives.
Terror Management and COVID-19 Politics
A compelling analysis of the psychological effects of events such as pandemics is Terror Management Theory, which posits that people react to the "basic anxiety associated with the salience of death by increasing their adherence to affect-laden and identity grounded generalized beliefs (ideologies, religious credo, traditional values), usually based on the ingroup-outgroup polarization." In other words, distressing situations tend to cause people to double down on their existing worldview as a source of stability. The specific ways this manifests can be beneficial or deeply pernicious.
A recent study has indicated some common psychological traits among COVID-19 non-compliers, some of which imply certain shared values. These traits include low-agreeableness, aversion to new experiences, extroversion, prioritising freedom and self-interest, perceiving their culture as tolerant to difference, less trust and engagement with official information sources, and unhealthy coping strategies. To the extent that these relatively new findings are reliable, they are potentially informative in terms of how to approach those at risk of influence by conspiracists or extremists. Forthcoming research has identified engagements on Telegram where fascists and neo-Nazis appeal to comparable traits and values to influence online conspiracist spaces.
Reframing Sacred Values
The term "Sacred Values" is used by cultural anthropologist and violent extremism scholar Scott Atran to describe motivating beliefs that are held to be inviolable, beyond negotiation and held apart from prospects of success or failure. The presence of Sacred Values is observed across places and cultures, bound up with peoples' identities. They are powerful factors in both conflict and its resolution – the question is how to reframe them to serve the latter end.
Atran proposes a number of strategies to reframe Sacred Values. Doing so is never an easy task but the approach is potentially informative in countering appeals to these same values by harmful actors. One approach is to refine Sacred Values to exclude outmoded claims. In the example given by Atran, this involved two sides in the Israel-Palestine conflict both conceding that their narratives included historical inaccuracies. More generally it means building trust by admitting fallibility, and could involve establishment figures acknowledging that past words and actions mean sections of the population have good reason to distrust the government.
Another strategy is to exploit the inevitable ambiguity of Sacred Values. As previously mentioned, the recent anti-lockdown protests centred around the ambiguous concept of 'freedom'. Unpacking and clarifying what this value actually means to different people might open up ways that this can be addressed and individuals more effectively supported.
While Sacred Values are held to be inviolable, it is possible to shift the context in which they apply. This need not appear disingenuous so long as the reasoning is sound, and may encourage an individual to provisionally prioritise some values over others. For instance, arguments may be made that immediate self-interest, in keeping healthy and safe, provisionally takes precedence over the exercise of personal freedom, or that the eventual reinstatement of that freedom necessitates increased engagement with official sources of information.
An important part of building trust and reframing values is to apologise for what you sincerely regret, however this is a fraught undertaking as if this is viewed as insincere it can exacerbate the issue. An acknowledgement that many people have been let down or hurt by aspects of the pandemic response may be appropriate in this sense, however the nature of the messenger needs to be carefully taken into account as politicians and media figures may already be too distrusted by many for such a gesture to be effective. Relatedly, it is essential to demonstrate respect where possible. Ways to do this include avoiding trying to bypass Sacred Values with money or other incentives, and find concessions that can be made that are symbolically important.
In many cases it may be possible to reframe responsibility. Measures such as lockdowns and the flow-on effects from those lockdowns are essentially caused by the virus – while the details may be debated, the pandemic necessitates government actions that change peoples' lives immensely. This message may be lost on individuals who deny the reality of the virus, but effectively reminding many others who have been affected is a worthwhile pursuit. Measures may be necessary in support of the message, such as addressing misinformation, and the benefit will likely be lost if this reframing is used to excuse missteps that were in fact within the government's control.
The Australian Security Intelligence Organisation's submission to the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security notes that, with the advent of frequent lockdowns and restrictions on movement, extremists have unprecedented access to a home-based online audience for propaganda and grooming. They have also taken notice of the opportunities afforded to them by various discourses arising around COVID-19. Vast swathes of the Australian population are likely to be in various stages of lockdown for the rest of this year, and the situation is similar in many other places.
The psychological consequences of the circumstances thrust upon us may include some inspiring acts of generosity and solidarity. However our responses can just as easily manifest as polarisation, confusion, fear and conspiracism – mental states that are amenable to violent extremism. To counter this, it is crucial that people are supported as they make sense of the world and their society. To do this, it is necessary to understand what people need, both materially and in terms of values.
Dr. Gerard Gill
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Epstein bail bid hurt as court slams private guards for rich
Wealthy people charged with crimes have no right to be freed from jail and watched at home by private guards, the federal court weighing Jeffrey Epstein's appeal of his bail request ruled in a separate case.
The U.S. Court of Appeals in New York on Thursday refused to overturn a bail ruling that is keeping Jean Boustani, an executive of the Privinvest maritime services companies, behind bars. Boustani had asked to be released to home confinement while awaiting trial for his part in an alleged $2 billion fraud and money-laundering scheme.
The appeals court discussed the issue of private armed security guards for wealthy defendants—a request made by Epstein, who's charged with trafficking underage girls for sex and is now appealing a lower-court judge's refusal to release him on bail. The Boustani ruling could doom Epstein's bid because the judges in his case are likely to apply the same logic.
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"The Bail Reform Act does not permit a two‐tiered bail system in which defendants of lesser means are detained pending trial while wealthy defendants are released to self‐funded private jails," Circuit Judge Jose Cabranes wrote for a three-judge panel.
Martin Weinberg, a lawyer for Epstein, didn't immediately return a voicemail seeking comment on the ruling.
n recent years, some wealthy defendants accused of serious crimes have been released to what critics describe as a gilded cage—home confinement in opulent apartments, watched by private guards they paid for. Among them: Bernard Madoff; Marc Dreier, the New York law firm founder who was charged in a $400 million fraud; and Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the former head of the International Monetary Fund who was accused of sexual assault in state court.
Prosecutors later dropped charges against Strauss-Kahn. Madoff and Dreier pleaded guilty and are serving long sentences.
That bail practice has been controversial. U.S. District Judge Richard Berman, who denied Epstein's bail request last month, had earlier ruled against a similar request by Reza Zarrab, a wealthy Iranian-Turkish gold trader who eventually cooperated with prosecutors.
The appeals court in its ruling Thursday quoted Berman's decision in the Zarrab case, in which he said that granting bail to defendants because they can afford to pay armed guards is "unreasonable because it helps to foster inequity and unequal treatment in favor of a very small cohort of criminal defendants who are extremely wealthy."
In Epstein's case, Berman ruled that he poses a "danger to the community." While noting that Epstein could use his wealth to flee, he also said the financier posed a threat to his alleged victims and potential witnesses. He pointed to "compelling testimony" from two women who said that Epstein had sexually abused them when they were teens and who claimed he continues to be dangerous.
"Many judges, like Judge Berman, have been uncomfortable with the appearance of favoritism to wealthy defendants as most people cannot afford such arrangements," said Harry Sandick, a partner with the law firm Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler in New York who isn't involved in the case. "The decision offers little help to Epstein."
In the Boustani case, the court said it may be appropriate to include private guards as a bail condition when the defendant's wealth is the only justification for finding a risk of flight. But it said the lower court based its decision on additional factors, including the seriousness of the charges, the strength of the evidence against Boustani, his frequent international travel and his ties to countries that don't provide for extradition to the U.S.
Epstein, who may have to wait more than a year for his trial, has been confined since his July 6 arrest in the Metropolitan Correctional Center in lower Manhattan. Last week, he was found injured and unresponsive in his cell, with marks on his neck. Epstein's lawyers declined to say whether he was assaulted, possibly by another inmate, or whether the injuries were self-inflicted.
Epstein is charged with trafficking teenage girls for sex from 2002 to 2005. He pleaded guilty in 2008 to Florida state charges of soliciting prostitution, after striking a non-prosecution agreement with the U.S. He served 13 months in jail and was released for work during the day. Federal prosecutors in New York say they aren't bound by the deal as they now pursue their own charges.
Boustani was arrested in January at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport and remains jailed after a federal judge in Brooklyn ruled he's a flight risk. He is charged in a scheme tied to deals that allowed the East African nation of Mozambique to borrow $2 billion in 2013 for maritime projects and coastline protection.
Abu Dhabi-based Privinvest was hired to provide equipment and services for the projects, prosecutors said. Boustani is charged with agreeing to pay $50 million in bribes to Mozambican officials and $12 million to co-conspirators at Privinvest. He has pleaded not guilty.
The Epstein case is U.S. v. Epstein, 19-cr-490, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York (Manhattan).
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Giants Sign Mark Melancon
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San Francisco has found their guy.
According to Buster Olney of ESPN [via Twitter], the San Francisco Giants and free agent closer Mark Melancon have come to terms on a deal, that will be finalized pending the outcome of his physical.
Ken Rosenthal of FOX Sports provided further clarification on the deal, tweeting out that Melancon's pact with the Giants is for four years at a price tag of $62 million, making this the largest contract ever to have been handed out to a reliever, a record previously set by Jonathan Papelbon who signed with the Phillies back in 2012 for four years at $50 million. The team later confirmed the move via the following tweet.
#CheckMark ✅#SFGiants sign @Mark_Melancon_ to a 4 year deal.
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— SFGiants (@SFGiants) December 5, 2016
Melancon, 31, has established himself as one of the top closers in the game. He didn't really break onto the scene until his 2013 campaign with the Pittsburgh Pirates, where he finished 3-2 with a 1.39 ERA, and converted 16 saves in 71 innings of work. Over the past four seasons, Melancon has compiled 147 saves. San Francisco would serve as his sixth team in nine seasons, as he's also pitched for the Boston Red Sox, Houston Astros, Pittsburgh Pirates, Washington Nationals, and New York Yankees.
The Giants have long been pursuing the right-hander, dating back to this summer's trade deadline. Despite their pursuit, the Giants came up short, losing out to the Washington Nationals. Not acquiring Melancon came back to hurt the Giants down the stretch, as Santiago Casilla struggled mightily. As the season came to a close, Giants GM Bobby Evans appeared to second-guess his pursuit of a top-notch closer, telling Jon Heyman of Fan Rag that he felt like a "knucklehead."
Entering this offseason, the closer market was one aspect of free agency that was going to be watched closely. With the news that Melancon being taken off the market, that now leaves Kenley Jansen and Aroldis Chapman as the top options. Having seen that their division-rivals just made a move to lock-down the back-end of their bullpen, one has to believe that this puts more pressure on the Los Angeles Dodgers than ever, to sign either Chapman or Jansen. A recent report suggests that Jansen could see strong interest from the Miami Marlins, who rival teams believe are willing to offer Jansen a five-year, $80 million contract.
Given the fact that three of the Giants main four relievers in Casilla, Javier Lopez, and Sergio Romo have officially hit the open market, the addition of Melancon makes a perfect fit on many levels. Melancon will likely join the likes of Will Smith, Hunter Strickland, George Kontos, and others in the 'pen next season.
Whether this move is it for the Giants this winter, well, that much remains to be seen.
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This past weekend in Miami, some of the aftermarket industry's leading suppliers gathered at what has become a truly one-of-a-kind event. These particular suppliers were being honored on Friday, Jan. 25, at a black tie affair hosted by National Performance Warehouse (NPW) for reaching the million-dollar mark with the family owned performance parts distribution business.
NPW, based in Miami, is run by President and CEO Larry Pacey at the helm with his two sons, Chris and John, serving as part of his leadership team. Chris Pacey, who serves as executive vice president, has been with the company 16 years; his younger brother John, for 13 years as VP of operations. The company is a member of both the Aftermarket Auto Parts Alliance, as well as AAM Group. NPW is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year.
Among this year's honorees listed below, eight were new additions to the club in 2019. Four recipients, including Dorman, Federal-Mogul, Gates and SMP, reached the $5 million vendor mark this year. By volume, the vendors recognized at this year's event total approximately $150 billion dollars in revenue.
*names in bold are new vendors on list for 2019.
All of the suppliers recognized were given the opportunity to say a few words upon accepting their crystal awards and each took time to thank NPW and the Pacey family for the unique recognition, which is not seen anywhere else in the industry. "I've accepted trophies before but I think it was the most fun accepting this one," said Joel Kruger of ACDelco.
Also during the event, Pacey provided guests with an update on NPW's growth in 2018 and its business outlook for 2019. The company experienced a compound annual growth rate of 25 percent in 2018, as well as acquiring four warehouses in the past 12 months. Pacey said the company plans to continue its growth through acquisition in the coming year, specifically looking to expand in the central U.S.
Following Pacey's update, John Washbish, president and CEO of the Aftermarket Auto Parts Alliance, gave a keynote speech. A popular speaker on the aftermarket circuit, Washbish shared a business lesson for the audience in his characteristic humorous storytelling style. "We are a family of family owned businesses," Washbish said of the 45 independent Alliance shareholders. "And, we are fortunate indeed to be able to be with this great family," he added, pointing to the Pacey family.
The weekend of events in Miami continued Saturday evening with the FAST Expo Customer and Vendor Awards, with the winners seen below.
NPW's weekend of events continued on Sunday, Jan. 27, when more than 4,500 people attended the NPW Fast Expo trade show, the company's best attendance ever for the event. The trade show featured 125 exhibitors, headlined by three-time NASCAR Cup Champion Tony Stewart, Street Outlaw's Jeff Lutz, Darrell Gwynn, Miami Heat Dancers and more. NPW raffled off a 383 Chevrolet Motor with proceeds going to the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society during the event. Other giveaways included a 50-inch TV given out every hour, with the final door prize of a Caribbean cruise.


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Collaboratives for leadership in applied health research and care (CLAHRCs)
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Patterns of collaboration in complex networks : the example of a translational research network
BMC health services research, Vol. 14, No. 1, (2014), p.225-1-225-10
http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/DP0986493
10.1186/1472-6963-14-225
Long, Janet C
Cunningham, Frances C
Carswell, Peter
Braithwaite, Jeffrey
Background: This paper examines collaboration in a complex translational cancer research network (TRN) made up of a range of hospital-based clinicians and university-based researchers. We examine the phenomenon of close-knit and often introspective clusters of people (silos) and test the extent that factors associated with this clustering (geography, profession and past experience) influence patterns of current and future collaboration on TRN projects. Understanding more of these patterns, especially the gaps or barriers between members, will help network leaders to manage subgroups and promote connectivity crucial to efficient network function. Methods: An on-line, whole network survey was used to collect attribute and relationship data from all members of the new TRN based in New South Wales, Australia in early 2012. The 68 members were drawn from six separate hospital and university campuses. Social network analysis with UCInet tested the effects of geographic proximity, profession, past research experience, strength of ties and previous collaborations on past, present and future intended partnering. Results: Geographic proximity and past working relationships both had significant effects on the choice of current collaboration partners. Future intended collaborations included a significant number of weak ties and ties based on other members' reputations implying that the TRN has provided new opportunities for partnership. Professional grouping, a significant barrier discussed in the translational research literature, influenced past collaborations but not current or future collaborations, possibly through the mediation of network brokers. Conclusions: Since geographic proximity is important in the choice of collaborators a dispersed network such as this could consider enhancing cross site interactions by improving virtual communication technology and use, increasing social interactions apart from project related work, and maximising opportunities to meet members from other sites. Key network players have an important brokerage role facilitating linkages between groups.
Interorganisational alliances
Network theory
Macquarie University. Australian Institute of Health Innovation
Macquarie University. Centre for Clinical Governance
http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/342997
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The Australian Paediatric Surveillance Unit (APSU) conducts national active surveillance of rare diseases of childhood, including infectious and vaccine preventable diseases, genetic disorders, childhood injuries and mental health conditions. This report is a summary of surveillance results for communicable and/or vaccine preventable diseases studied through the APSU in 2005.
The Australian Paediatric Surveillance Unit (APSU) conducts national active surveillance of rare diseases of childhood, including infectious and vaccine preventable diseases, genetic disorders, childhood injuries and mental health conditions. Studies of communicable and vaccine-preventable diseases are supported by the Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing through its communicable diseases program. This report is a summary of surveillance results for communicable and/or vaccine preventable diseases studied through the APSU in 2005.
neonatal group B Streptococcus infection.
The APSU aims to provide epidemiological information that is representative of the Australian population and maximal case ascertainment is a high priority. Despite a representative mailing list (93% of all paediatricians in active clinical practice in Australia participate in monthly surveillance) and high monthly response rates, complete case ascertainment is unlikely. This is particularly relevant in remote communities where children have limited access to paediatricians. However, for most conditions studied by the APSU no other national data are available to estimate completeness of ascertainment. APSU encourages the use of complementary data sources where available and reporting by a range of specialists to maximize cases identified. Reported rates for conditions ascertained through the APSU therefore represent a minimum estimate for these conditions in the relevant Australian populations.
* All reported cases that have been classified by the Polio Expert Committee were 'non-polio AFP' according to WHO criteria.
† Includes confirmed and probable cases.
|| All HIV infections except for one (source of infection unknown) resulted from perinatally acquired HIV.
¶ The study of neonatal groups B Streptococcus infection commenced in July 2005. Due to the short surveillance period of only 6 months, a rate is not reported.
APSU data contribute significantly to the national surveillance effort, providing valuable information for clinicians, policymakers and the community. The APSU is often the only source of national data that includes clinical and/or laboratory details and data on both in-patients and out-patients. The key findings for studies undertaken in 2005 are summarised in Table 2.
To determine the notification rate of AFP in children aged <15 years.
To determine whether AFP is caused by poliovirus infection and if so, whether it is a wild, vaccine, or vaccine-derived strain of poliovirus.
Decreased notification rates resulted in failure to reach the WHO AFP surveillance target of 1 case per 105 aged <15 years per annum.
The primary diagnoses for AFP remain Guillain-Barré syndrome and transverse myelitis.4 There were 3 cases of AFP due to infant botulism in 2005.
Only 19 per cent of cases had adequate faecal specimen collection—well below the 80 per cent WHO target.
cCMV continues to be the most common infectious cause of malformations in Australia.
cCMV infection was not associated with maternal illness in approximately one third of cases, and should be considered regardless of maternal history.
To document the incidence of congenital rubella infection.
To determine the vaccination status of mothers of infected infants.
There were no cases of congenital rubella reported in 2005.
As the risk of congenital rubella remains, particularly among immigrant women born in countries with poorly developed vaccination programs, such women should have serological testing for rubella after arrival in Australia, and vaccination when appropriate.
Travel to rubella endemic counties in the first trimester by women with no prior rubella immunity poses a risk of congenital rubella to the foetus.
To identify new cases of perinatal exposure to HIV, paediatric HIV infection, and AIDS.
To describe the pattern of perinatal exposure to HIV in Australia.
To monitor the perinatal HIV infection transmission rate and use of interventions for reducing the risk of mother-to-child transmission.
Six reported cases of HIV infection in children were newly diagnosed in 2005, including 5 cases of perinatally-acquired HIV infection and 1 case of HIV infection acquired in a high HIV prevalent country in sub-Saharan Africa.
The 5 cases of perinatal HIV infection were all born in Australia. These cases were reported through national surveillance for newly diagnosed HIV infection. Although the mother's HIV infection was diagnosed prenatally in 2 cases, interventions such as elective caesarean, avoidance of breast feeding and anti-viral therapies were not used.
Antenatal diagnosis of the mother's HIV infection and use of interventions is required to minimise the risk of mother-to-child HIV transmission.
To determine the incidence of neonatal HSV infection in Australia, its mortality and morbidity.
To determine its mode of presentation e.g. localised, disseminated or complicated by encephalitis or pneumonitis and mode of transmission.
Over half of neonatal HSV infections in Australia are caused by HSV type 1, in contrast to the USA where HSV type 2 predominates.
Disseminated HSV infection in the newborn may be associated with the early onset of pneumonitis in infants (in whom the chest X-ray may be normal). This is highly lethal unless antiretroviral therapy is initiated.
To determine the reported incidence of newly diagnosed HCV infection in Australian children.
To describe the clinical presentation, investigation and management of newly diagnosed HCV infection in Australian children.
To document the presence of known risk factors for HCV infection in an Australian paediatric population.
To determine the prevalence of co-infection with hepatitis B virus (HBV) and/or human immunodeficiency virus in Australian children with newly diagnosed HCV infection.
Perinatal transmission is the main source of HCV infection in Australian children.
Most HCV-infected children are clinically asymptomatic with mildly elevated liver function test at diagnosis. However, HCV induced chronic liver disease and liver failure have been reported among children.
To estimate the incidence of newly diagnosed NTM infection in children seen by child health specialists in Australia.
To describe the epidemiology and spectrum of disease and document known risk factors.
To describe diagnostic investigations used in Australia; frequency of use of skin testing and the clinical utility of the test, including differential skin testing.
This infection most often presents as lymphadenitis predominantly in immunocompetent children.
Mycobacterium avium intracellulare and Mycobacterium fortuitum are the most common organisms isolated in Australian children.
Surgery is the most commonly offered therapy and in NTMI lymphadenitis complete excision is associated with a lower risk of relapse.
There is marked heterogeneity in the antimicrobials and course prescribed.
the distribution of GBS genotypes between isolates.
Preliminary results only, as the surveillance period is only 6 months.
Over half of the reported cases have been early onset at less than 8 days of age.
The number of notifications received so far is consistent with other available data.
Further information on the above studies may be obtained by contacting the APSU: website www.apsu.org.au Telephone 02 9845 3005; email: apsu@chw.edu.au, or the Principal Investigator for each study.
The Australian Paediatric Surveillance Unit is funded by the Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing; the Faculty of Medicine, University of Sydney; the Division of Paediatrics and Child Health, Royal Australasian College of Physicians; and the National Health and Medical Research Centre Enabling Grant no: 402784.
We acknowledge the important continued contribution of all paediatricians and child health professionals who participate in surveillance studies conducted by the Australian Paediatric Surveillance Unit.
1. Elliott, E, Cronin P, Rose D, Zurynski Y (Eds). APSU Annual Report 2004. Australian Paediatric Surveillance Unit, 2005; ISSN:1443–3524.
2. Zurynski Y, Cronin P, Elliott E. Communicable and vaccine-preventable conditions under surveillance by the APSU: 2004 update. Commun Dis Intell 2005; 29:407–411.
4. Kelly H, Brussen KA, Lawrence A, Elliott E, Pearn J, Thorley B. Polioviruses and other enteroviruses isolated from faecal samples of patients with acute flaccid paralysis in Australia, 1996–2004. J Paediatr Child Health 2006;42:370–376.
5. Thorley B, Brussen KA, Elliott J, Kelly HA. Vigilance is required for Australia to remain polio free. Med J Aust 2006;184:474–475.
6. Munro SC, Trincado D, Hall B, Rawlinson WD. Symptomatic infant characteristics of congenital cytomegalovirus disease in Australia. J Paediatr Child Health 2005;41:449–452.
7. McDonald AM, Li Y, Cruickshank MA, Elliott EJ, Kaldor JM, Ziegler JB. Use of interventions for reducing mother-to-child transmission of HIV in Australia. Med J Aust 2001;174:449–452.
8. Elliott E, Jones CA, Mews C, Hardiker W, Kesson A, Polis S, et al. Reported risk factors for hepatitis C virus infection in Australian children: results of national surveillance. J Paediatr Child Health 2005;41:S3.
9. Hardiker W, Elliott E, Jones CA. The silent infection: should we be testing for perinatal hepatitis C and, if so, how? Med J Aust 2006;184:54–55.
10. Blyth CC, Palasanthiran P, Best E, Jones C, Daley AJ, Burgner D, et al. Non-tuberculous mycobacterial infection: results from a national surveillance study. Abstract – Royal Australasian College of Physicians Congress, 8–11 May 2006, Cairns, Australia (oral presentation). J Paediatr Child Health 2006. In press.
Although the aim of this surveillance is to identify AFP due to poliomyelitis or associated with polio vaccination, there are many non-infectious causes of AFP.
The study of neonatal group B Streptococcus infection commenced in July 2005.
This report was published in Communicable Diseases Intelligence Vol 30 No 3, September 2006.


1) Be completely familiar with the pertinent tax certificate sections of the Arizona Statutes and the Tax Certificate Process.
A tax lien is a security interest on a property for unpaid real estate taxes, assessments, penalties, advertising costs and fees. If a property owner fails to pay the delinquent taxes and fees, the Treasurer must offer a tax certificate for purchase at the tax certificate sale. A tax certificate only represents a tax lien on the property and does not convey or promise to convey ownership of the property.
Delinquent taxes, tax liens and the sale of tax certificates at public auction for unpaid taxes are administered by the County Treasurer and provided for in Title 42, Chapter 18 of the Arizona Revised Statutes.
Some counties will only accept bidder registrations for U.S. persons or other U.S. entities as defined in IRS Form W-9. For those counties, registrations utilizing an ITIN or foreign registrants requiring IRS Form W-8 or any other non-US registration type will not be accepted.
Any bidder who knowingly registers improperly shall have their winnings reversed by the Treasurer and the user's account will be disabled.
Please visit the Bidding Rules page to determine if this county permits the registration of foreign bidding entities.
There is no special software or hardware needed. In order to participate, bidders must have a computer with access to the Internet. For those without Internet access, computers will be available for public use at designated locations in the county.
Please visit the Bidding Rules page for information regarding public access in this county.
Bidder training classes will be held live via the Internet once a week for several weeks prior to the close of the auction. These webinar classes generally last about 2 hours and cover use of the web site only.
Deposits - There is no fee to participate, however, many counties require a deposit equal to a percentage of the total face amount of certificates the bidder anticipates winning.
For example: If a bidder anticipates winning $100,000 in tax certificates and if that county requires a 10% deposit, they must deposit $10,000 with the Treasurer.
Budgets - Some counties do not require a deposit. Instead, the bidder creates a "budget" based on the total face amount of certificates they anticipate winning. The budget must be created before bids can be placed.
Please visit the Bidding Rules page for the deposit or budget requirement for this county.
ACH (Automated Clearing House) - If the county accepts ACH (electronic check) transactions as a deposit or payment method, fund transfers will be made on this web site, using the ACH wizard provided. Bank accounts utilized to create electronic check transactions must allow ACH debits.
Unless otherwise specified, ACH transactions generated on this site are "one-time" only authorizations. If you are a successful bidder and owe money to the Treasurer, you must initiate a separate ACH transaction, in the time allotted, to make your final payment.
Some counties have adopted an auto-debit policy for final payments whereby bidders complete an ACH pre-authorization form prior to placing bids. At the close of the sale, successful bidders are automatically debited for their final payment using the bank account information provided in the pre-authorization.
Wire transfers and counter payments - Wire transfers, cash, cashier's checks and money orders may also be accepted, however, these forms of payment are not processed online and must be delivered to the designated Treasurer's office by the date/time specified.
Some banks charge a handling fee for wire transactions. It is the bidder's responsibility to add any additional fees (if required) to the amount wired to ensure full payment reaches the Treasurer's account in the time allotted.
Please visit the Bidding Rules page for the deposit/payment methods permitted and/or the ACH policy utilized in this county.
The auction officially begins when the certificates in batch 1 are awarded. Each subsequent batch will close every 30-60 minutes (depending on the county) until the last batch closes when the auction ends.
Please visit the Bidding Rules page for the auction dates and times in this county.
Auction participants enter their lowest acceptable bid for a certificate. Valid bids may be entered between 0 and 16% in 1% increments.
At the close of each batch, the auction software evaluates all bids with a valid budget/deposit and the certificate is awarded to the bidder with the lowest interest rate bid.
Direct bid auction - Auction participants place the lowest acceptable bid for a tax certificate, and if you are the lowest bidder, you will be awarded the certificate at the interest rate you bid.
Proxy bid auction - Auction participants enter their lowest acceptable bid for a tax certificate. The auction system then checks all other bids and enters a bid on your behalf at 1% less than the next lowest bidder. The system stops entering bids on your behalf when you either win the auction or your lowest acceptable bid is reached.
Note: In some counties, if a 0% bid is placed, it does not use the proxy bidding system and the bid will be entered as a direct bid at 0% interest.
Please visit the Bidding Rules page to determine if direct or proxy bidding is utilized and how 0% bids are handled in this county.
What happens if I exhaust my budget/deposit while I still have active bids?
Primary accounts - Upon registration, a single bidder account or "Primary" account is created for each User. This is typically all you will need to become a bidder and participate in one of the tax certificate sales. Most counties will allow users to register and manage multiple Primary accounts.
Single Simultaneous Bidding Entity - Some counties have adopted a Single Simultaneous Bidding Entity rule which states that each User (bidding entity) shall register only once for the purpose of bidding on or purchasing tax certificates, AND, shall not have a financial, legal or contractual relationship with any other bidder (bidding entity) registered in that county.
Sub-accounts - In some counties, users may add additional accounts under their Primary. These are known as Sub-accounts and allow one buyer to easily administer multiple bidder accounts. If the county permits them, they may be added using the Sub-account tool provided. All deposit, budget and bid actions performed by the Primary will be automatically replicated to all sub-accounts associated with that account.
Please visit the Bidding Rules page to determine if to determine if multiple bidder accounts or sub-accounts are permitted in this county.
At the end of an auction, all certificates won by sub-accounts are electronically assigned to the primary account. This transfer is known as a rollup.
Note: Some counties charge a fee per certificate for this transfer which will be added to the amount due to the Treasurer.
Please visit the Bidding Rules page to determine if rollups are used and, if so, if a fee per certificate is charged in this county.
Any deposit money not credited toward winning bids will be returned to the bidder approximately two (2) weeks after the close of the auction.
For deposits made via ACH, refunds will be credited to the most recent bank account utilized to make a successful funds transfer. For all other forms of deposit, the county typically issue will a paper refund check, mailed to the address associated with the bidder's auction account.
What happens to unsold certificates?
Certificates that were not sold during the auction are struck to the county. These county-held certificates will become available for purchase once the auction is closed and balanced. Some counties may offer their county-held certificates for sale online on this web site.
Please contact Realauction.com Customer Service for additional information on over-the-counter purchases of certificates in this county.


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Q: Alternative Date/Time Libraries for Go Are there any alternatives to Golang's time package? I can't come to grips with its clunky interface and strange way of doing things. The language overall is great, but this part of it just never clicked with me.
Anyone? A really good, thorough tutorial would work too (I have not managed to find one yet)
What I'm trying to do right now is a goroutine that updates only 10 times per second (or any variable interval that I set it to). I've not yet implemented it, as the package is not playing nice. Here's the psuedo code.
function GoRoutine(updatesPerSecond int) {
    interval = 1000msec / updatesPerSecond

    for {
        if enoughTimeHasPassed {
            doThings()
        }
    }
}

A: Did you read the documentation at http://golang.org/pkg/time/?
You need to use a Ticker:
func Loop(fps int) {
    t := time.NewTicker(time.Second / time.Duration(fps))
    for t := range t.C {
        fmt.Println("tick", t)
    }
}
func main() {
    go Loop(60)
    time.Sleep(10 * time.Second)
}

then use it like go Loop(60).

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Head Coach Jason Kidd Is Excited To Work With KP, "Perfect Fit For Luka"
During his first press conference as the head coach of the Dallas Mavericks, Jason Kidd remarked just how excited he was to work with both Kristaps Porzingis and Luka Doncic, saying that the two were a perfect fit for each other.
"We're excited about KP being healthy," Kidd said. "I think he's excited, ready to work, and I think you're going to see a different KP."
Seeing as many fans wanted to ship the big man out of town following his disastrous performance in the first round of the playoffs, a "different KP" is seemingly the best case scenario. Even though Mark Cuban tried to sugarcoat KP's horrific showing in the postseason, blaming it on the role he was asked to play, the reality is the team's number two option was relegated to nothing more than a decoy on the offensive end of the floor.
"I think (Porzingis) has been unfairly maligned," Cuban said when the subject came up in the presser. "He did exactly what was asked of him in the postseason."
Perhaps Cuban was just trying to show a bit of confidence in his $30 million a year player, but the entire problem is that the role KP was asked to play wasn't that of a number two. If Kristaps were a true number two option, he wouldn't have had a role that kept him away from the ball for stretches of the game.
Coach Kidd appears to have a lot of faith in the 25 year old Porzingis, and thinks that he has all the tools to be Luka's running mate. A healthy summer working on his game, as opposed to rehabbing an injury, could prove the Mavs brass correct. Seeing as his current trade value couldn't be lower for a guy on a max deal, hoping for a better KP in 2021-2022 is the only option.
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Watch Sarah Brightman's Angelic Performance of Ava Maria - Truly Soul Stirring!
This very well may be the most beautiful version of Ava Maria ever recorded. Sarah Brightman is beautiful and does this classic song amazingly well. This will lift your spirits!


If you missed Thursday night's episode of The Underground Vault on CJBU (Caper radio) in Cape Breton, NS, you missed host Alex Kuchma's interview with Jesse Dangerously about his new group with Ambition, The Library Steps, and their new album, Rap Dad, Real Dad. The good news is that it's archived on Soundcloud for your eternal enjoyment.
And as usual, the playlist is a dope mix of underground Canadian hip hop with plenty of great selections from the past.


His family were refugees in Russia during the First World War, where his father was shot in Pleskava. He was shot by bolsheviks, and as a result Blaus was passionately opposed to communism for the rest of his life.
October 11, 1923 - member of the Artillery Spotting unit.
June 15, 1924 - participates in the Aviation Festival at Riga/Spilve. Flew as the observer in DFW C.V #3, flown by R.Gulbis.
June 29, 1924 - passenger in LVG #27, flown by R.Gulbis, which has a hard landing in heavy winds (breaking the tail skid).
August 6-7, 1929 - participates in a goodwill flight to Tallin, Estonia.
Dec. 9, 1929 - is assigned one of the first new Bristol Bulldog fighters.
1931 - the recipient of the annual Clifford Harmon award (from the Ligue Internationale des Aviateurs) as the best pilot in Latvia.
January 2, 1934 - replaced by Kandis as Commander of the 1st Fighter Squadron.
1935 - the Latvian Aero Club is reconstituted and, as a member of the transitional administration, Blaus is assigned responsibility for aerodromes.
May 1, 1936 - Named Commander of the 6th Recon Squadron.
June 7, 1936 - Commander of the 2nd Fighter Squadron.
1939 - serves as adjutant to R.Kandis, Commander of the Aviation Group.
1940-41 (Soviet Occupation) - employed by the Priekule agricultural school, training farm tractor operators.
Also see Photo G005 in Group Pictures page.


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Nona Marvisa Gaye (* 4. September 1974 in Washington, D.C.) ist eine US-amerikanische Sängerin, Schauspielerin und ehemaliges Fotomodell.

Leben und Leistungen
Nona Gaye ist die Tochter des Rhythm-and-Blues-Sängers Marvin Gaye und Janis Hunter (* 6. Januar 1956; † 3. Dezember 2022). Im Alter von drei Wochen wurde Gaye von ihrem Vater auf dessen Konzert in New York City dem Publikum vorgestellt. Marvin Gaye sagte damals: "Dies ist meine Tochter Nona, und sie wird einmal ein großer Star."

Als Gaye zehn Jahre alt war, wurde ihr Vater von seinem eigenen Vater in dem Haus, das er für seinen Vater gekauft hatte, mit seiner eigenen Waffe erschossen. Im Alter von dreizehn Jahren begann sie, Drogen zu konsumieren. Ein Jahr später brach sie die Schule ab. Im selben Jahr bekam sie einen Plattenvertrag, nachdem sie eine Version des Hits That's the Way Love Is, ursprünglich von ihrem Vater stammend, vorgetragen hatte. Das Album war kommerziell allerdings nicht erfolgreich. 1994 arbeitete Gaye mit Prince zusammen und ist auf dessen Album The Gold Experience zu hören. Außerdem singt sie mit ihm im Duett den Song Love Sign und wirkt als Hauptdarstellerin im Musikvideo mit. Nach einem gescheiterten Suizidversuch wurde Gaye 1996 in eine psychiatrische Klinik eingewiesen.

1997 wurde Gaye Mutter eines Sohnes namens Nolan Pentz. Zwei Jahre später plante sie, sich erneut musikalischen Projekten zuzuwenden. Man schlug ihr stattdessen vor, sich der Schauspielerei zuzuwenden. Daraufhin sprach sie beim Casting zum Film Ali vor und bekam die Rolle der Ehefrau der Box-Legende Muhammad Ali.

Nach dem Tode der Sängerin und Schauspielerin Aaliyah Haughton im Jahr 2001 ersetzte Gaye diese in ihrer Rolle in Matrix Reloaded.

Diskografie

Alben
 1992: Love for the Future

Singles
 1992: I'm Overjoyed
 1993: Things We All Do For Love
 1994: Love Sign (mit Prince)

Filmografie
 1989: Harlem Nights
 2001: Ali
 2003: Matrix Reloaded (The Matrix Reloaded)
 2003: Matrix Revolutions (The Matrix Revolutions)
 2004: L.A. Crash (Crash)
 2004: Der Polarexpress (The Polar Express)
 2005: xXx 2 – The Next Level (xXx: State of the Union)
 2005: The Gospel
 2009: Blood and Bone

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We are working an interesting modification of a Plat House 3 plan that will include a screened side porch. This is an easy modification to the standard Plat House design in either the 2 or 3 bedroom configuration.
You simply extend the side overhang rafters to a new beam, and create your screened enclosure wall. This is a plan mod that we can do for you, or you can work through this easily with your builder. In fact one of our customers from Arkansas did this very thing to make a screened porch off the master bedroom of their home.
That is awesome. I love screened porches.
Glad to hear you are making progress, and even more glad that you still read the blog!
Hey, FYI I featured your Plat in the header of the Blueprints section of the new catalog - check it out.


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Shipwreck Endurance is still 'bold and beautiful' after a century in Antarctic waters
The historic site will be left in peace on the sea floor
Mar 9, 2022, 5:26 PM UTC |
The stern of the Endurance
Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust and National Geographic
The wreck of one of the world's most legendary exploring ships was just found in icy waters off Antarctica — and the pictures from the expedition are incredible.
The taffrail and ship's wheel of the Endurance
The discovery comes more than 100 years after the ship Endurance was crushed by sea ice, leaving explorer Ernest Shackleton and his crew to find an alternate (and brutal) route home. The ship's final resting place was discovered by the expedition Endurance22, which used high-tech underwater search vehicles to find and document the wreck.
"In a long career of surveying and excavating historic shipwrecks, I have never seen one as bold and beautiful as this," Mensun Bound, the expedition's director of exploration, wrote in a blog post.
Detailed records kept by Endurance's captain Frank Worsley during the 1915 expedition helped the team narrow down the search area. The wreck was found on March 5th, just four nautical miles south of its last known location. It was found 3008 meters (9868 feet) under the surface of the icy Weddell Sea.
The Endurance22 mission's icebreaker S.A. Agulhas II surrounded by sea ice
Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust and James Blake
The Endurance was in gorgeous shape, with paint still visible on parts of the ship. While there is some damage (as would be expected from a ship that was crushed in sea ice), features like the ship's wheel and the iconic name are still remarkably intact. Since it is considered a historic site, nothing on the wreck was touched — it will be left as-is on the seafloor.
Starboard bow of the ship
"It would appear that there is little wood deterioration, inferring that the wood-munching animals found in other areas of our ocean are, perhaps unsurprisingly, not in the forest-free Antarctic region," polar biologist Michelle Taylor of Essex University told the BBC. She identified the organisms seen in the images of the wreck as "stalked sea squirts, anemones, sponges of various forms, brittle stars, and crinoids (related to urchins and sea stars)."
A Sabertooth vehicle on board the S.A. Agulhas II
Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust and Nick Birtwistle
The team used an underwater vehicle called the Sabertooth, made by SAAB, to find the wreck. The Sabertooth can work either attached to the ship via a tether, or autonomously, traveling up to 100 miles away from its ship. Even if the mission's icebreaker, S.A. Agulhas II, couldn't get close to the wreck site, it could send a Sabertooth under the ice to investigate.
Displays showing the wreck inside the control room for the Sabertooth vehicles on board the S.A. Agulhas II
Esther Horvath and Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust
Equipped with a high-definition camera and sonar, the expedition's vehicles were specially designed to locate and map the wreck site. A laser scanner on board will map the wreck in enough detail to create a 3D model of the site. The data is expected to let researchers see the site with a "level of accuracy comparable to that of an archaeological survey on land," according to the expedition's website.
During the search for the Endurance, other researchers on the expedition were monitoring and measuring sea ice, making detailed maps of the ocean floor, and testing engineering limits in some of the harshest conditions on Earth.
A documentary of the expedition is expected to premiere on National Geographic this fall.
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Moving now from the Triassic to the Early Jurassic, we find that the dinosaurs have attained dominance, while most of the other Triassic types of animals have died out in two major Triassic extinctions - the mid-Carnian and the terminal Rhaetic. Apart from one or two early types, the dinosaurs seem to have been unaffected by these extinction events.
As the Jurassic Period opened, Italy, Greece, Turkey, and Iran were attached to the North African portion of Gondwanaland. The climate was warm and moister than during the Triassic. Reptiles were the dominant form of animal life and experienced a great adaptive radiation. In the oceans various types of ichthyosaurs and plesiosaurs evolved. In the air the pterosaurs began to diversify. On land many Triassic dinosaurs (prosauropod herbivores and coelophysid carnivores) continued, while a number of new forms (giant sauropods and armoured scelidosaurs) evolved. Under the feet of the dinosaurs rodent-like tritylodontid Therapsids co-existed with primitive shrew-like mammals and lizard-like sphenodont reptiles. Crocodiles appeared also, but they were mostly aquatic forms.
During the early Jurassic then, evolution seems to have polarised: on the one hand there were the ruling land animals, the great dinosaurs, which filled the ecological roles now taken up by medium-sized and large mammals; on the other hand the first mam-mals had appeared, and together with the tritylodont Therapsids they filled the small rodent and insectivore niche. The mam-mals were to remain small and individually insignificant - comparable to shrews, mice and rats of today - although doubtless very significant ecologically, for the 135 million years of the dinosaurs reign.
"During the Early Jurassic on the southern continents, Gondwanan floras came to resemble more closely those of the northern continents. Typically equatorial groups like Bennettitales and Cheirolepidiaceae, along with dipteriaceous and matoniaceous ferns, became more important components of the Gondwanan flora. Major differences between Jurassic floras of Gondwana and Laurasia included the relative paucity of Ginkgoales and Czekanowskiales and the greater importance of podocarpaceous conifers in the southern regions, although podocarps are known from Laurasia as well."
In the several million years following the Rhaetic extinction of the last armoured placodonts and great Shastosaurs, a new dynasty of marine reptiles, consisting of new types of ichthyosaurs, plesiosauroids and pliosauroids, and fish-eating crocodles, quickly evolved and diversified.
The Ichthyosaurs included a number of types of streamlined medium-sized 2 to 3 meter long) animals, similiar in size and appearance to modern Dolphins, although their body-design and ectothermic metabolism indicated they were sprinters rather than endurance swimmers, and larger predatory types (family Leptopterygiidae), attaining 5 to 9 meters in length, and ecologically comparable to modern toothed whales.
The Plesiosaurs were another diverse group, including both small and giant forms. Foremost among them were the Rhomaleosauridae, large but primitive pliosaurs with powerful crocodile-like jaws and medium-length necks. Reaching upto 7 meters in length, these animals shared the role of top marine predator with the Leptopterygiid ichthyosaurs. But already the plesiosaurs were beginning to evolve into the familiar long-necked small-headed Plesiosauroidea and the larger headed, short necked, streamlined Pliosauroidea that were to inhabit the oceans for the rest of the Mesozoic era.
The third party of Mesozoic marine reptiles, the Teleosaurid crocodiles, appeared in a rapid evolutionary radiation only at the end of the early Jurassic (Toarcian epoch). Theye were to continue as a success story until the end of the Jurassic, but were less common during the Cretaceous, dying out early into the period.
" Early Jurassic herbivorous tetrapod assemblages were dominated by prosauropods, cynodont synapsids, and a variety of mostly small ornithischian dinosaurs. The latter included, in addition to the Fabrosauridae, the Heterodontosauridae and the armored Scelidosauridae. The Heterodontosauridae were bipedal forms that foraged 1 meter above the ground. The skull was sturdily built and had a well-developed dentition with robust, closely spaced cheek with distinct wear facets along the length of the tooth row. These dinosaurs would have been capable of processing relatively plant material. The Selidosauridae were quadrupedal forms characterized by robust, leaf-shaped teeth with high-angle double wear facets. Their foraging range was probably within 1 meter above the ground. The Tritylodontidae were small to medium-sized, extremely mammal-like cynodont synapsids, which persisted well into the Middle Jurassic. They had multcuspid cheek teeth that met in complex occlusion and an extensive palinal power stroke, well suited for shredding fibrous plant material. These quadrupedal forms foraged within a meter above ground level. The structure of the shoulder girdle and forelimb suggests capability for digging, and wear on the enlarged incisors is consistent with digging for underground plant parts."
Image: © Alison Jeffs, from Science Views, by permission.
With the Rhaetian extinction of the basal Rauisuchia, the Dilophosaurine theropods emerged as the top predators of their day. The first of the great dinosaurian carnivores, the Dilophosaurs were active, graceful animals, easily able to tackle the contemporary prosauropods, vulcanodontid sauropods, and scelidosaurs that made up the main herbivorous fauna of the times. The double crest on the top of the head was probably a sexual display device.
During the early Jurassic then, evolution seems to have polarised: on the one hand there were the ruling land animals, the great dinosaurs, which filled the ecological roles now taken up by medium-sized and large mammals; on the other hand the first mammals had appeared, and together with the Tritylodontid Therapsids they filled the small rodent and insectivore niche. The mammals were to remain small and individually insignificant - comparable to shrews, mice and rats of today - although doubtless very significant ecologically, for the 135 million years of the dinosaurs reign.


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Perdita medialis är en biart som beskrevs av Timberlake 1977. Perdita medialis ingår i släktet Perdita och familjen grävbin. Inga underarter finns listade i Catalogue of Life.

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Hey. Since it is Cyber Security Awareness month I've decided to take extra steps in defending myself online. I've researched various articles like this and such and gathered many tips. So I want to know what you guys and gals are doing to protect yourself? I use HTTPS Everywhere, Privacy Badger and uBlock Origin plugins, NordVPN with CyberSec turned on, ProtonMail for mail, use Incognito mode very frequently. I think I'll keep my files in a cloud-based storage too. And of course 2 step authentification where possible. What do you use? I'm curious.
1. Stay away from WordPress 3 out of every 4 websites that get hacked are WordPress websites.
2. Stay away from PHP as it is the most hacked language in the world.
The best thing we can implement is updating everything to the latest - firmware, security patches and all. Having 100% security is not possible all the time, when we talk about internet stuff. There might be loopholes, that is why always have backups at least at 3 different places, or use RAID based backups which are more reliable.
Hi cabylake I agree with having more than one backup and I would say RAID could be one of them but I would never make RAID my only option.
First lets state the obvious, RAID 5 is never a good option. There is never a scenario where RAID 5 is the best option. It might be second best, but its never best.
But instead of talking about the different types of arrays and their features, lets talk about just one of the properties of RAID.
Lets say your using RAID 1 which is a 'mirror-type RAID', as it saves the same information on all disk.
Now lets say some files on your system are corrupted so the way RAID 1 works is that the corrupted files are instantly saved on all disk arrays. So you can not retrieve the uncorrupted files.
That is the one of the differences between a copy on a RAID array and backup copy.
This means if a virus gets on the system and deletes everything RAID will erase everything and copy over it with nothing.
Now lets say the server room catches on fire and the whole server burns, well your data is lost now.
The entire point of RAID should be having many copies of your backup. Hard drive storage is cheap so it doesn't make sense to combine two 1 TB hard drives to create a seamless 2 TB.
The idea being if the hard drive fails, no problem, the system keeps running on the other drive and when you get a replacement for the failed one, RAID rebuilds it and starts mirroring data again.
But what happens if the hardware RAID card fails ?
That is why having more than 1 backup solution is always better. RAID is only suitable for ongoing work.
that is why always have backups at least at 3 different places, or use RAID based backups which are more reliable.
I thought someone might read it and believe if they were using RAID they didn't need a backup. And then they get hacked and wonder why they can't back it up.
If you lead your online eCommerce projects on IOS devices I recommend https://osxtips.net/ full of tricks and tips how make your device more reliable and do not spend your precious time in vain. My iPhone X screen for instance turned black recently and that website solved that problem less than for five minute.
yes cyber security is more important these. phishing attack, mailling, social media hacking these are crimes are going in these days.
1. Do not give your details to anyone.
2. Don't click on suspicious message in mails.
3. Change your password in a month.
4. Use strong password with special characters like @#$.


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Under the Banner of Heaven
A Story of Violent Faith
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This extraordinary work of investigative journalism takes readers inside America's isolated Mormon Fundamentalist communities, where some 40,000 people still practice polygamy. Defying both civil authorities and the Mormon establishment in Salt Lake City, the renegade leaders of these Taliban-like theocracies are zealots who answer only to God.
At the core of Krakauer's book are brothers Ron and Dan Lafferty, who insist they received a commandment from God to kill a blameless woman and her baby girl. Beginning with a meticulously researched account of this appalling double murder, Krakauer constructs a multi-layered, bone-chilling narrative of messianic delusion, polygamy, savage violence, and unyielding faith. Along the way he uncovers a shadowy offshoot of America's fastest growing religion, and raises provocative questions about the nature of religious belief.
"Fantastic. . . . Right up there with In Cold Blood and The Executioner's Song." —San Francisco Chronicle
"Powerfully illuminating. . . . Almost every section of the book is fascinating in its own right, and together the chapters make a rich picture. . . . An arresting portrait of depravity." —The New York Times Book Review
"This year's most audacious work of nonfiction. . . . A white-knuckle mix of true-crime reporting and provocative history." —New York Post
"Scrupulously reported and written with Krakauer's usual exacting flair, Under the Banner of Heaven is both illuminating and thrilling. It is also the creepiest book anyone has written in a long time—and that's meant as the highest possible praise." —Newsweek
"Krakauer writes with almost astonishing narrative force. It is hard to stop reading." —The Baltimore Sun
"Stunningly researched. . . . Elegant reportage. . . . An evenhanded inquiry into the nature of religious belief itself." —Newsday
"Captivating. . . . Fascinating and appalling. . . . [Krakauer] should be applauded—and read." —The San Diego Union-Tribune
"A great book. . . . Krakauer has found a fascinating story in plain sight, right in the heart of the American West, and told it with the narrative drive and unflinching honesty that marked his 1998 best seller, Into Thin Air." —The Oregonian
"Jon Krakauer is at his provocative best." —The New Orleans Times-Picayune
"A fascinating page-turner. . . . Engrossing. . . . Krakauer's knack for crackling narrative and taut focus . . . drives this thought-provoking story." —The Columbus Dispatch
"A hair-raising true-crimer." —Chicago Sun-Times
"Terrifying. . . . Startling. . . . Mov[es] deftly between past and present [and] provides a fascinating glimpse of the church today." —The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
"A powerful portrait of how two seemingly ordinary Americans became murderers." —The Economist
"Illuminating . . . provocative. . . . Krakauer is an adept chronicler of extremists [and] the tour guide of choice for secular quests." —Los Angeles Times Book Review
"Marvelous. . . . A departure from Into Thin Air and Into the Wild . . . but every bit as engrossing." —Entertainment Weekly
"Well-researched and evenhanded. . . . Thought-provoking." —USA Today
"Startling. . . . Timely. . . . Krakauer uncovers a ghastly trail of forced marriage, polygamy, violence and mind control. . . . A chilling look at Mormon fundamentalism." —The Charlotte Observer
"Horrific, gripping. . . . Soberly written and courageously reported." —Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel
"Engrossing. . . . Incisive. . . . [Krakauer is] a very careful reporter. . . . His clear-headed, unbiased examination of the church—leavened with genuine respect—and his conclusions . . . are hard to argue with." —Boulder Daily Camera
"One hell of a chilling read." —Maxim
"Compelling. . . . Provocative. . . . Illuminating. . . . A gripping tale." —The Christian Science Monitor
"A disturbing picture of Mormon fundamentalists. . . . Krakauer's straightforward style and excellent storytelling ability make the book interesting." —Rocky Mountain News
"A terrific read." —Reader's Digest
"Riveting. . . . Intriguing. . . . Breezy, smooth and vigorously written, this ambitious book is entertaining and informative. . . . Krakauer reconstructs the Lafferty brothers' descent into fatal fanaticism magnificently, interweaving their story throughout the book and giving this wide-ranging work narrative coherence and emotional resonance. . . . [He is] a superb storyteller." —The News & Observer
"A powerful look at how religious belief can cross the line into fanaticism." —San Jose Mercury News
From the Trade Paperback edition.
THE CITY OF THE SAINTS
For thou art an holy people unto the Lord thy God, and the Lord hath chosen thee to be a peculiar people unto himself, above all the nations that are upon the earth.
And it shall come to pass that I, the Lord God, will send one mighty and strong, holding the scepter of power in his hand, clothed with light for a covering, whose mouth shall utter words, eternal words; while his bowels shall be a fountain of truth, to set in order the house of God.
The Doctrine and Covenants, Section 85
revealed to Joseph Smith on November 27, 1832
Balanced atop the highest spire of the Salt Lake Temple, gleaming in the Utah sun, a statue of the angel Moroni stands watch over downtown Salt Lake City with his golden trumpet raised. This massive granite edifice is the spiritual and temporal nexus of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS), which presents itself as the world's only true religion. Temple Square is to Mormons what the Vatican is to Catholics, or the Kaaba in Mecca is to Muslims. At last count there were more than eleven million Saints the world over, and Mormonism is the fastest-growing faith in the Western Hemisphere. At present in the United States there are more Mormons than Presbyterians or Episcopalians. On the planet as a whole, there are now more Mormons than Jews. Mormonism is considered in some sober academic circles to be well on its way to becoming a major world religion--the first such faith to emerge since Islam.
Next door to the temple, the 325 voices of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir swell to fill the tabernacle's vast interior with the robust, haunting chords of "Battle Hymn of the Republic," the ensemble's trademark song: "Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord . . ."
To much of the world, this choir and its impeccably rendered harmonies are emblematic of the Mormons as a people: chaste, optimistic, outgoing, dutiful. When Dan Lafferty quotes Mormon scripture to justify murder, the juxtaposition is so incongruous as to seem surreal.
The affairs of Mormondom are directed by a cadre of elderly white males in dark suits who carry out their holy duties from a twenty-six-story office tower beside Temple Square.* To a man, the LDS leadership adamantly insists that Lafferty should under no circumstances be considered a Mormon. The faith that moved Lafferty to slay his niece and sister-in-law is a brand of religion known as Mormon Fundamentalism; LDS Church authorities bristle visibly when Mormons and Mormon Fundamentalists are even mentioned in the same breath. As Gordon B. Hinckley, the then-eighty-eight-year-old LDS president and prophet, emphasized during a 1998 television interview on Larry King Live, "They have no connection with us whatever. They don't belong to the church. There are actually no Mormon Fundamentalists."
Nevertheless, Mormons and those who call themselves Mormon Fundamentalists (or FLDS) believe in the same holy texts and the same sacred history. Both believe that Joseph Smith, who founded Mormonism in 1830, played a vital role in God's plan for mankind; both LDS and FLDS consider him to be a prophet comparable in stature to Moses and Isaiah. Mormons and Mormon Fundamentalists are each convinced that God regards them, and them alone, as his favored children: "a peculiar treasure unto me above all people." But if both proudly refer to themselves as the Lord's chosen, they diverge on one especially inflammatory point of religious doctrine: unlike their present-day Mormon compatriots, Mormon Fundamentalists passionately believe that Saints have a divine obligation to take multiple wives. Followers of the FLDS faith engage in polygamy, they explain, as a matter of religious duty.
There are more than thirty thousand FLDS polygamists living in Canada, Mexico, and throughout the American West. Some experts estimate there may be as many as one hundred thousand. Even this larger number amounts to less than 1 percent of the membership in the LDS Church worldwide, but all the same, leaders of the mainstream church are extremely discomfited by these legions of polygamous brethren. Mormon authorities treat the fundamentalists as they would a crazy uncle--they try to keep the "polygs" hidden in the attic, safely out of sight, but the fundamentalists always seem to be sneaking out to appear in public at inopportune moments to create unsavory scenes, embarrassing the entire LDS clan.
The LDS Church happens to be exceedingly prickly about its short, uncommonly rich history--and no aspect of that history makes the church more defensive than "plural marriage." The LDS leadership has worked very hard to persuade both the modern church membership and the American public that polygamy was a quaint, long-abandoned idiosyncrasy practiced by a mere handful of nineteenth-century Mormons. The religious literature handed out by the earnest young missionaries in Temple Square makes no mention of the fact that Joseph Smith--still the religion's focal personage--married at least thirty-three women, and probably as many as forty-eight. Nor does it mention that the youngest of these wives was just fourteen years old when Joseph explained to her that God had commanded that she marry him or face eternal damnation.
Polygamy was, in fact, one of the most sacred credos of Joseph's church--a tenet important enough to be canonized for the ages as Section 132 of The Doctrine and Covenants, one of Mormonism's primary scriptural texts.* The revered prophet described plural marriage as part of "the most holy and important doctrine ever revealed to man on earth" and taught that a man needed at least three wives to attain the "fulness of exaltation" in the afterlife. He warned that God had explicitly commanded that "all those who have this law revealed unto them must obey the same . . . and if ye abide not that covenant, then are ye damned; for no one can reject this covenant and be permitted to enter into my glory."
Joseph was murdered in Illinois by a mob of Mormon haters in 1844. Brigham Young assumed leadership of the church and led the Saints to the barren wilds of the Great Basin, where in short order they established a remarkable empire and unabashedly embraced the covenant of "spiritual wifery." This both titillated and shocked the sensibilities of Victorian-era Americans, who tended to regard polygamy as a brutish practice on a par with slavery. In 1856, recognizing the strength of the anti-polygamy vote, Republican candidate John C. Frémont ran for president on a platform that pledged to "prohibit in the territories those twin relics of barbarism--Polygamy and Slavery." Frémont lost the election, but a year later the man who did win, President James Buchanan, sent the U.S. Army to invade Utah, dismantle Brigham Young's theocracy, and eradicate polygamy.
The so-called Utah War, however, neither removed Brigham from power nor ended the doctrine of plural marriage, to the annoyance and bafflement of a whole series of American presidents. An escalating sequence of judicial and legislative challenges to polygamy ensued, culminating in the Edmunds-Tucker Act of 1887, which disincorporated the LDS Church and forfeited to the federal government all church property worth more than $50,000. With their feet held fast to the fire, the Saints ultimately had no choice but to renounce polygamy. But even as LDS leaders publicly claimed, in 1890, to have relinquished the practice, they quietly dispatched bands of Mormons to establish polygamous colonies in Mexico and Canada, and some of the highest-ranking LDS authorities secretly continued to take multiple wives and perform plural marriages well into the twentieth century.
Although LDS leaders were initially loath to abandon plural marriage, eventually they adopted a more pragmatic approach to American politics, emphatically rejected the practice, and actually began urging government agencies to prosecute polygamists. It was this single change in ecclesiastical policy, more than anything else, that transformed the LDS Church into its astonishingly successful present-day iteration. Having jettisoned polygamy, Mormons gradually ceased to be regarded as a crackpot sect. The LDS Church acquired the trappings of a conventional faith so successfully that it is now widely considered to be the quintessential American religion.
Mormon Fundamentalists, however, believe that acceptance into the American mainstream came at way too high a price. They contend that the Mormon leaders made an unforgivable compromise by capitulating to the U.S. government on polygamy over a century ago. They insist that the church sold them out--that the LDS leadership abandoned one of the religion's most crucial theological tenets for the sake of political expediency. These present-day polygamists therefore consider themselves to be the keepers of the flame--the only true and righteous Mormons. In forsaking Section 132--the sacred principle of plural marriage--the LDS Church has gone badly astray, they warn. Fundamentalist prophets bellow from their pulpits that the modern church has become "the wickedest whore of all the earth."
Mormon Fundamentalists probably cite Section 132 of The Doctrine and Covenants more than any other piece of LDS scripture. Their second-most-popular citation is likely Section 85, in which it was revealed to Joseph that "I, the Lord God, will send one mighty and strong . . . to set in order the house of God." Many fundamentalists are convinced that the one mighty and strong is already here on earth among them, "holding the scepter of power in his hand," and that very soon now he will lead the Mormon Church back onto the right path and restore Joseph's "most holy and important doctrine."
SHORT CREEK
Extreme and bizarre religious ideas are so commonplace in American history that it is difficult to speak of them as fringe at all. To speak of a fringe implies a mainstream, but in terms of numbers, perhaps the largest component of the religious spectrum in contemporary America remains what it has been since colonial times: a fundamentalist evangelicalism with powerful millenarian strands. The doomsday theme has never been far from the center of American religious thought. The nation has always had believers who responded to this threat by a determination to flee from the wrath to come, to separate themselves from the City of Destruction, even if that meant putting themselves at odds with the law and with their communities or families. . . . We can throughout American history find select and separatist groups who looked to a prophetic individual claiming divine revelation, in a setting that repudiated conventional assumptions about property, family life, and sexuality. They were marginal groups, peculiar people, people set apart from the world: the Shakers and the Ephrata community, the communes of Oneida and Amana, the followers of Joseph Smith and Brigham Young.
Philip Jenkins,
Mystics and Messiahs
Snaking diagonally across the top of Arizona, the Grand Canyon is a stupendous, 277-mile rent in the planet's hide that functions as a formidable natural barrier, effectively cutting off the northwestern corner from the rest of the state. This isolated wedge of backcountry--almost as big as New Jersey, yet traversed by a single paved highway--is known as the Arizona Strip, and it has one of the lowest population densities in the forty-eight conterminous states.
There is, however, one relatively large municipality here. Colorado City, home to some nine thousand souls, is more than five times as populous as any other town in the district. Motorists driving west on Highway 389 across the parched barrens of the Uinkaret Plateau are apt to be surprised when, twenty-eight miles past Fredonia (population 1,036, the second-largest town on the Strip), Colorado City suddenly materializes in the middle of nowhere: a sprawl of small businesses and unusually large homes squatting beneath a towering escarpment of vermilion sandstone called Canaan Mountain. All but a handful of the town's residents are Mormon Fundamentalists. They live in this patch of desert in the hope of being left alone to follow the sacred principle of plural marriage without interference from government authorities or the LDS Church.
Straddling the Utah-Arizona border, Colorado City is home to at least three Mormon Fundamentalist sects, including the world's largest: the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. More commonly known as the United Effort Plan, or UEP, it requires its members live in strict accordance with the commandments of a frail, ninety-two-year-old tax accountant-turned-prophet named Rulon T. Jeffs.* "Uncle Rulon," as he is known to his followers, traces his divinely ordained leadership in an unbroken chain that leads directly back to Joseph Smith himself. Although his feeble bearing would seem to make him poorly cast for the role, the residents of Colorado City believe that Uncle Rulon is the "one mighty and strong" whose coming was prophesied by Joseph in 1832.
"A lot of people here are convinced Uncle Rulon is going to live forever," says DeLoy Bateman, a forty-eight-year-old science teacher at Colorado City High School. Not only was DeLoy born and raised in this faith, but his forebears were some of the religion's most illustrious figures: his great-grandfather and great-great-grandfather were among the thirteen founding members of the Mormon Fundamentalist Church, and his adoptive grandfather, LeRoy Johnson, was the prophet who immediately preceded Uncle Rulon as the leader of Colorado City. At the moment, DeLoy is driving his thirdhand Chevy van on a dirt road on the outskirts of town. One of his two wives and eight of his seventeen children are riding in the back. Suddenly he hits the brakes, and the van lurches to a stop on the shoulder. "Now there's an interesting sight," DeLoy declares, sizing up the wreckage of a television satellite dish behind some sagebrush off the side of the road. "Looks like somebody had to get rid of their television. Hauled it out of town and dumped it."
Members of the religion, he explains, are forbidden to watch television or read magazines or newspapers. The temptations of the outside world loom large, however, and some members of the faith inevitably succumb. "As soon as you ban something," DeLoy observes, "you make it incredibly attractive. People will sneak into St. George or Cedar City and buy themselves a dish, put it up where it can't easily be seen, and secretly watch TV during every free moment. Then one Sunday Uncle Rulon will give one of his sermons about the evils of television. He'll announce that he knows exactly who has one, and warn that everyone who does is putting their eternal souls in serious jeopardy.
"Every time he does that, a bunch of satellite dishes immediately get dumped in the desert, like this one here. For two or three years afterward there won't be any televisions in town, but then, gradually, the dishes start secretly going up again, until the next crackdown. People try to do the right thing, but they're only human."
As the TV prohibition suggests, life in Colorado City under Rulon Jeffs bears more than a passing resemblance to life in Kabul under the Taliban. Uncle Rulon's word carries the weight of law. The mayor and every other city employee answers to him, as do the entire police force and the superintendent of public schools. Even animals are subject to his whim. Two years ago a Rottweiler killed a child in town. An edict went out that dogs would no longer be allowed within the city limits. A posse of young men was dispatched to round up all the canines, after which the unsuspecting pets were taken into a dry wash and shot.


A surprising FOX report shows that in 2003 only 4% of the US households used only wireless phones, while 42% used landlines only. Now the percentage has changed in favor of the wireless telephony, so, in 2008 17.4% of the households used landlines only, while 20.2% went with the wireless option.
Also, back in 2003, 42% of these people used both fixed and wireless phones, but now the number has gone up to 59.6%, while 2% of Americans still chose not to use any phone at all.
Moving on to the demographic, we learn that folks between 25 and 29 years of age are the best wireless phone consumers, as they stand for 41% of all users, followed by those from the 18-24 age range, with 33%.
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