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Complete Madness In The Biden Administration: Energy Policy
Manhattan Contrarian By Francis Menton | November 27, 2021
Is President Biden doing anything right? To this observer, his policies range from at best merely incompetent, to at worst malicious hatred of the country and people whose interests he was elected to advance. Somewhere in between those two extremes we have Biden's energy policy. In this arena, appropriate adjectives would be inconsistent, incoherent, and destructive. Don't even attempt to make sense of it. To summarize in one word, it is complete madness.
I'm old enough to remember the 1970s, and the two "oil shocks" that occurred during that decade. A brief summary of the history can be found in this 2012 piece from Foreign Policy. By 1970/71, U.S. oil production had peaked and begun to decline. 1973 brought the Yom Kippur War in the Middle East, and OPEC halted oil shipments to the U.S., Western Europe and Japan. By January 1974, crude oil prices on the world markets had "more than quadrupled" (from around $3 to $12 per barrel). Further constraints on supply in the late 70s, most notably a big drop in supply from Iran following the ouster of the Shah, were followed by a further tripling of the price, this time from about $12 to about $36 per barrel. Government efforts at price controls were largely unsuccessful at restraining prices at the pump, but did cause shortages and lines at gas stations that maddened consumers. Without adequate domestic oil supply, the U.S. became a supplicant to the big international exporters, mainly OPEC and Russia. As reported in that Foreign Policy piece, President Carter reacted by "mak[ing] energy independence the central ambition of his presidency."
Energy independence was a bi-partisan goal of American Presidents and of the Congress, until President Obama came along. Obama had the opposite strategy. He had drunk the climate Kool-Aid, and thought that the right goals were to restrict the production of fossil fuel energy, which would cause prices to rise and thereby restrict consumption. The famous quote from Obama, uttered in 2008 during his first presidential campaign, was "under my plan of a cap-and-trade system, electricity prices would necessarily skyrocket." Although that statement specifically dealt with electricity prices, the same principle would apply as well to all energy prices. And Obama sought to put his strategy into practice, both by putting proposed "cap-and-trade" legislation before Congress, and by attempting to use his executive powers to restrict domestic fossil fuel development. However, the cap-and-trade legislation failed in Congress, and domestic "frackers" worked around Obama's federal restrictions to greatly expand U.S. domestic oil and gas production, mostly on private lands.
One could disagree with Obama's energy policy — I certainly did, vociferously — but at least it wasn't self-contradictory.
And Trump, of course, reversed Obama's policies of energy restriction, encouraged development and fracking, and within one term had achieved the energy independence that had been the bi-partisan goal of U.S. Presidents for the three decades before Obama. Energy prices fell dramatically, the U.S. was no longer beholden to the bad actors among the oil exporting countries, and all of those countries — from OPEC, to Russia, to Venezuela — were left with gaping revenue shortfalls to pay their bills.
Now, for the Biden madness. As far as I can tell, here are the key elements of Biden's energy policy:
Do everything possible within executive powers to restrict domestic supply of fossil fuels. Executive orders issued in the early days of the administration canceled the Keystone XL pipeline and ended leases for oil and gas development on federal lands. Other orders commanded an "all of government" approach to restricting fossil fuels, so that, for example, financial regulators are now involved in arm twisting banks and other financers to steer clear of the fossil fuel industry. As recently as October 21, the Financial Stability Oversight Council — a consortium of federal financial regulators headed by Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen — got into the game with a press release announcing that it would now be "at the forefront of the agenda of its member agencies" to address "the threat of climate change" by restricting access to financing by fossil fuel developers.
When energy prices inevitably soar, beg Russia and OPEC to increase supply. As early as August, the Biden Administration had begun begging Russia and OPEC to increase supply to keep oil and gas prices from going too high. But wasn't forcing prices to "skyrocket" the whole idea, the very mechanism by which consumption and "emissions" were to be reduced? And the begging has continued into this month, joined as you might expect by leaders from European countries who also find themselves with energy shortages and soaring prices due to their own suppression of fossil fuel development. As the New York Times reported on November 4, "President Biden and other world leaders have called on countries like Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates to increase production because oil prices, which collapsed during last year's pandemic lockdowns, have now reached their highest levels in seven years."
Blame the soaring prices and supply shortages on anything but your own intentional policies. Per that New York Times piece, on November 2 Biden said that the rise in oil and gas prices "is a consequence of, thus far, the refusal of Russia or the OPEC nations to pump more oil." Apparently in the weeks since then, he or his handlers have had a political epiphany, and have decided that it would be more beneficial to blame the increase in prices on the evil oil companies. On November 17, Biden sent a letter to FTC Chair Lina Khan asking the Commission to investigate "mounting evidence of anti-consumer behavior by oil and gas companies."
Here's my question: If soaring oil and gas prices are caused by anti-consumer conduct by greedy oil and gas companies, were those same companies really less greedy when Trump was President and oil and gas prices were falling?
With Obama, at least he appeared to have some understanding that the whole idea of his policies of fossil fuel suppression was to force consumption down through the mechanism of rising prices. But with Biden you're never sure. Is he just too stupid to understand that his policies were designed to have, and likely would have, the effect of dramatically raising prices and throwing us back into dependency on OPEC and Russia? Or is it that he understood what was likely to happen, but thought that the American consumer/voter would be stupid enough to fall for his tawdry effort to blame some bogeymen for the intended results of his own policies? Is there a third alternative?
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Fusarium wilt Tropical Race 4 research program (BA14014)
Key research provider: The Queensland Department of Agriculture and Fisheries
Publication date: Wednesday, October 21, 2020
This investment, which ran from 2015 to 2020, built a strong foundation for the Australian banana industry to manage Fusarium wilt with minimal impact on production, by addressing three key areas: prevention, resilience and resistance.
For prevention: improving on-farm biosecurity using new tools
On-farm biosecurity is a crucial part of the strategy for managing Fusarium wilt in Australia, and this investment developed tools to help banana growers implement effective biosecurity practices. The Quality Banana Approved Nursery (QBAN) scheme for banana planting material has been updated under this work, allowing banana growers to have greater confidence in the planting material used to establish new fields. Also, the Best Management Practices for Biosecurity online tool has been rolled out via www.bmp.abgc.org.au, to allow growers to check their current practices and produce reports for their current situation.
Together, these outputs place Australian banana growers in a better situation to prevent the incursion of Fusarium wilt on their farms.
For resilience: establishing management practices to help supress Fusarium and increase plant tolerance
By understanding how the Fusarium wilt organism produces spores, how it survives in the soil and how it sues alternative hosts, better management advice can be developed to assist in avoiding the spread of the disease. The foundations for understanding the epidemiology of Fusarium wilt have been built in this project, resulting in a greater understanding of the infection process and how inoculum can build up in the soil, such as during the desiccation of the bananas or other plant material.
The research team established a benchmark for healthy plants where there is a relatively stable microbial community, which promotes healthy plant function. In systems where homeostasis can be maintained or enhanced there is slow progression of Fusarium wilt, and plants appear asymptomatic. There are strong indications this occurs in north Queensland banana soils which have a higher clay content, increased vegetative ground cover and where nitrogen fertilisers are not overused.
There may be other practices that promote homeostasis, which can further enhance the resilience of the banana production system. However, there are also 'disruptors' to microbial homeostasis that enhance the expression of Fusarium wilt in susceptible cultivars.
Disruptors to homeostasis can be environmental stresses imposed on the plant such as weather extremes, heat, cold, waterlogging and drought, and those imposed by management practices, such as nutritional deficiencies, excessive nitrogen, poor soil management, soil acidity, loss of microbial diversity and tillage.
The research found that all plants found within banana plantations have the potential to host Fusarium wilt if the level of inoculum is great enough. However, the progress of re-infection can be slowed either by reducing inoculum or enhancing microbial competition. Fusarium spp. have been found to be a dominant component of the banana microbiome and it is when the microbial competition is reduced that pathogens like Fusarium wilt can dominate the soil microbial community, rapidly reinfecting plants and causing disease.
For resistance: evaluating and using resistant cultivars
Banana cultivars with enhanced resistance are a key component in continuing banana production where TR4 has become widespread. This research has demonstrated that it is possible to have a relatively low budget banana breeding and selection program within Australia using currently available resources. This work is commencing with cultivars that have shown some resistance to TR4 and then selecting plants with improved agronomic characteristics. This approach has been successful in fast tracking banana lines with potential suitability for the Australian market that have productivity equivalent to Williams, but with enhanced TR4 resistance.
The cultivars that were successfully used to produce new lines, GCTCV119, CJ19 and GCTCV215, and tested against TR4, all retained their resistance to the disease. This demonstrated that the lack of Cavendish banana cultivars with resistance to TR4 is not the greatest constraint to the development of cultivars, but rather is their agronomic suitability for the Australian banana market. Subsequently, greater success in developing suitable banana cultivars could be achieved by screening of plants that have known resistance to TR4, based on improved agronomy in north Queensland and then confirmation of their resistance to TR4 in the Northern Territory.
Access The Banana Best Management Practice (BMP) online system which supports environmental and on-farm biosecurity
You can also read more about the project in these articles in Australian Bananas magazine:
See page 18 in the April 2019 edition to learn about the progress of Goldfinger mutagenesis – elite tasting selections to be propagated for detailed evaluations
And on page 19 of the same edition, learn more about the importance of retaining organic ground cover to help develop disease suppressive, productive soils in Wanted, dead or alive - ground covers
Read more about the research in the update provided from p15 of the April 2018 edition
See an update on the project on p8 of the April 2017 issue.
And in these articles published on the Australian Bananas website:
Progress on TR4 mutagenesis and varietal screening
The banana microbiome research and opportunities to suppress Panama disease.
What happens to soil organisms and banana production when nitrogen applications are manipulated.
Goldfinger evaluations and get further updates from the levy-funded Better Bananas
How Fusarium moves through the plant
Developing banana varieties resistant to Panama disease
You can also watch:
This ABC Landline story featuring Dr Tony Pattison from the project talking about the benefits of vegetated interrows based on the team's results – Banana Resilience: Banana industry stronger than ever
This video looking at combatting the disease with soil management.
This short video detailing a recent NextGen group visit to some of the field trials in the Northern Territory.
Banana Best Management Practice (BMP) (external link)
Article: Understanding the movement of Fusarium within a banana plant article (external link)
Video: Combatting Panama disease with soil management (external link)
Article: Unravelling the mystery of the banana microbiome (external link)
Article: The banana nitrogen dilemma - balancing production and soil health (external link)
Trial updates: Developing new resistant varieties - Goldfinger mutagenesis work (external link)
Article: Progress on TR4 mutagnesis and varietal screening in the NT (external link)
Articles: Australian bananas magazine, issue 55, April 2019 (external link)
Video: Banana Resilience - Banana industry stronger than ever (external link)
Video: NextGen group visit to project's field trials in NT (external link)
Pursuit for Panama resistant varieties article (external link)
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News Release 10-Oct-2017
Research to personalize pre- and probiotic Rx to reduce diseases linked to HIV and alcohol use
Grant and Award Announcement
New Orleans, LA - The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism has awarded LSU Health New Orleans a $401,500 grant over two years to study the role of gut bacteria in the development of heart and metabolic diseases in those with HIV who use alcohol, as well as devise strategies to address these risks. David Welsh, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine at LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine, and Patricia Molina, MD, PhD, Professor and Head of Physiology at LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine and School of Graduate Studies, will lead the research.
"This project will develop prebiotic and probiotic therapies that are personalized for each patient in order to reduce comorbid illness, particularly illness related to harmful alcohol use, in people living with HIV," notes Dr. David Welsh, the study's principal investigator.
Communities of bacteria, or microbiota, that live in the gastrointestinal tract are increasingly recognized as a focal point in the regulation of metabolic disorders and related conditions, such as cardiovascular disease. Both alcohol use and HIV infection disturb the gut microbiota and increase their ability to breach the gut barrier and leak into tissues, triggering immune activation and inflammation.
Although early clinical trials of probiotics in people living with HIV yielded mixed results, it could be because individual differences in their gut bacteria were not taken into account. The LSU Health researchers believe that by developing a Precision Medicine strategy based upon individual gut microbiota characteristics using specific combinations of prebiotics and probiotics, gut bacteria may be kept in balance, and the risk of heart disease, diabetes and other metabolic disorders linked to harmful alcohol use may be reduced in this vulnerable population.
"Therapeutic interventions targeting the microbiota offer great potential to attenuate the metabolic health issues prevalent in alcohol-using people living with HIV," says Welsh. "The data generated by this project will provide guidance for the design of clinical trials to be conducted in the second component of the grant."
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, at the end of 2014, the estimated number of new HIV infections in the United States was 37,600 and an estimated 1.1 million persons aged 13 and older were living with HIV infection in the United States, including an estimated 166,000 (15%) persons whose infections had not been diagnosed.
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Q: Optimizing texture swapping on opengles for the iPhone I have 2 1024x1024 sprite sheets, one containing several 480x320 background images and another containing a variety of smaller elements as entities and interface. My framerate drops like a rock whenever I enter a scene in which I have to display sprites from both textures (forcing me to re-bind twice per frame, interface texture->bg texture->interface texture).
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Is there something wrong with the way I'm swapping my textures?
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A: Unless you're updating the data in the textures you should only call glTexImage2D once for each texture when your application startup.

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Patrick Mahomes' parents: Everything you need to know about Randi and Pat Mahomes
Brandon Biskobing
Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes is undoubtedly one of the biggest stars of the NFL over the past couple of years. The sky's the limit for the young man after winning the MVP in 2018 followed by a Super Bowl win and MVP in 2019.
Let's get to know the dynamite decision-maker for the Chiefs through his parents – Randi and Patrick Mahomes, Sr.
His father – Patrick Mahomes Sr.
Patrick Mahomes definitely got a lot of his athletic genes from his father.
Pat Mahomes Sr. was a Major League Baseball pitcher. Born on August 9, 1970, the elder Pat Mahomes was a three sport athlete in high school. He played football and basketball as well as baseball at Lindale High School in Texas. The elder Mahomes actually did not begin pitching until his senior year of high school following an injury to a teammate. He initially signed to play baseball at the University of Arkansas, declining both football and basketball scholarship offers from Division I programs. Patrick Sr. was then drafted by the Minnesota Twins in the sixth round of the 1988 MLB Draft and chose to go pro right out of high school.
He would make his Major League debut in 1992 with the Twins, playing for them for five years before being traded to the Boston Red Sox. He would spend two seasons with the Red Sox before being released. Mahomes would then go to Japan, playing for the Yokohama BayStars of Nippon Professional Baseball for two years.
He would return to the Majors two years later, playing for the New York Mets from 1999 to 2000. He would then have year long stints with the Texas Rangers, Chicago Cubs, and conclude his career with the Pittsburgh Pirates. In 2003, Mahomes would be sent down to the Triple-A Nashville Sounds and bounce around the minors and independent baseball for the next seven years before retiring following the 2009 season.
One interesting note is that Pat Sr. initially tried to steer his son from football to baseball. He had concerns about the brutality of the game which could take a toll on his son. In the end though, Patrick Mahomes the quarterback seems to have made the right decision. In such a short span of time, he's already made his mark in the NFL's history books.
His mother – Randi Mahomes
His mother Randi Mahomes was born in 1976. She married Pat in the late 90's and gave birth to Patrick on September 17, 1995. Not much is known about Randi outside of her relationship with her son. The two remain extremely close, even as the quarterback entered superstardom. She often says in the media that her son Patrick is a blessing. She also says that Patrick is a responsible son and a loving brother to both his siblings. Randi is very protective of her children. She hates it when people make fun of Patrick's voice which is a little different than normal people.
Randi, like Pat Sr., may have influenced Patrick Mahomes' athletic career as well. She was very high on the academic side of things for her son Patrick. Randi always made sure to remind him that "student" came first before "athlete". When it came time for Mahomes to make a decision on whether to declare for the MLB draft or to take a college football scholarship, Randi was there. Although she didn't dictate his decision, she reminded him of the great opportunity a college education presented for him. Ultimately, it turned out to be the best decision for him to make – reaching unimagined heights for his football career.
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Mima Xari pushchair review - Which?
The egg-shaped futuristic-looking Mima Xari is a 3-in-1 pushchair that will certainly turns heads with its eye-catching design. We first tested this model way back in 2012, but a lot has changed in the pushchair world, and with our testing, since then. So we've sent the Mima Xari back to our expert labs to put it through our latest safety and durability testing. In the meant time, read our review on what we expect it to reveal.


Decorative pillows add that extra finishing touch to a room. They're both functional and pretty, which is the perfect combination. But there are tricks of the trade for decorating with pillows that every pro knows. We've rounded up our top 7 to share with you!
1. Try Being Artfully Odd.
Designers love to use things in group of odd numbers like 3 or 5. It isn't that we just love prime numbers – it's a balancing act. Those odd numbers are more artful and provide a balance to your room. Try 3 pillows on each side of a sofa, or 5 on a bed. It isn't a hard-and-fast rule, but it works almost every time.
Whether it's a different shape or an unusual material, try mixing things up. Nothing says you have to use square pillows that are all the same size! We love using varying shapes and sizes, and even throwing in something more adventurous, like the leather pillow on the sofa above. How cool is that equestrian look with the stirrup-like details?
Use different colors and patterns in the grouping. It adds more visual interest and gives you a range of textures. We used the pillows in the project above to provide pops of color in a mostly neutral room.
4. Tell a color story.
Pull colors from other items in the room, like art, drapery, or accent pieces. That helps move the color story through the room, like in our Playful Modern project above. Those bright pink pillows not only pop on the sectional, they also draw the eye to the gorgeous pink swivel chairs!
5. Decide on your firmness level.
Pay attention to how the pillows are filled. Pillows that are super-firm will give you a more traditional look. If you want to be more casual, use some pillows that are more loosely filled and let them droop decoratively, like the yellows ones in the photo above.
Don't skimp on the size – that's a rookie mistake. Designers like to use pillows that are at least 20 inches in width, but we prefer 22 to 24 inches for the largest pillow in the group. That adds a designer touch and makes the room look more luxe.
7. To chop, or not.
This is something that designers still debate – whether to put that signature karate chop into the top of a pillow or not. To be honest, it's entirely up to you! We even mix things up in our projects, with a serious chop in one pillow and more of a fold in another. For this particular tip, it's up to your personal preference.
Pillows are fabulous decorative accessories that add color and personality to your room. Use these tips to make the most of the look!


The words fall softly around our shoulders like sunlight, like gold, nourishing us like water to plants.
Read the words slowly. Let them nourish you!
The Long Time Sun is always there, even if it's behind the clouds, warming the earth, warming and lighting our lives. The earth, the light, the ocean, our ancestors and the love we have given and received are there inside and outside us, strengthening and protecting us, our invisible cloak.
Thank you, Karolynn, for these and so many blessings!
This this is a blog that I have turned to many times as I have dealt with the events surrounding the holidays. All love surrounds me. I just have to see it and allow the energy. I am truly blessed.


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It's probably too much to ask of an audience to buy into the terror that is posed by the Druids; however, The Guardian does just that, and instead of being scary, it's just insanely silly.
The Guardian is sort of a paranormal The Hand That Rocks the Cradle. Jeannie Seagrove plays a super-hot British nanny that has just been hired by the most boring yuppie couple ever, Carey Lowell and Dwier Brown, after the birth of their son. Like, The Hand That Rocks the Cradle, no real references seem to be necessary to land such a job, because if they did, they might find out that just about all of the little babies Seagrove has had in her care have vanished.
So what's going on? Well, Seagrove is some sort of Druidic priestess or something and she needs the babies in order to sacrifice them to a tree...or in a tree...or a tree god...or I dunno. It's all kinds of murky; she takes the squalling child, intones some incantation and voila, the baby is part of the tree. Also murky is the crucial timing factor involved in this ceremony, because Seagrove often talks about how a baby's blood 'turns', making newborn blood change into infant blood. Who knows?
Also thrown in for good measure is Seagrove's power over a certain, although different, tree that is able to obliterate a group of potential rapists by using its limbs and roots to gut and dismember them. Yes, it's a killer tree. Even though The Guardian, up to this point, hasn't exactly been good, when this scene occurs, it's just time to give up trying to make any sense of it. What was just bewildering has now become bewildering and inane. Director William Friedkin certainly deluded himself into thinking he could bring the same level of terror to The Guardian that he did with The Exorcist. Somehow, a hottie, blonde, Druid babysitter doesn't make the soul quake with fear, or is that just me?
The film ends (not quickly) as it must with the final violent showdown between Seagrove, who is starting to turn into a tree herself and needs the baby's blood before it 'turns,' and the couple, who are, by this point, seriously wishing they called those references.
The only explanation I can come up with for why a Druid was chosen to be the villainess in The Guardian is that it was one religious group where the current membership would be, should I say, less than influential. They could be assured no angry letters from worldwide Druidic societies would be sent to try to keep the movie from being released. Oh, if only there were.


Despite offering a laundry list of useful features, there are some annoying aspects to the iPhone and iPad's latest operating system.
The new iOS 10 beta is full of fun and useful features: Messages is completely revamped, you can delete Apple apps you hate and the Music app kind of makes sense now! Yet, as with any new release, there are some annoying aspects to iOS 10.
Despite using iOS 10 for the past three weeks, I still struggle with the previously simply task of navigating the lock screen. Apple did away with the slide to unlock gesture we've used from day one of the iPhone. Instead, you now have to press the Home Button to unlock your phone. I know, that seems simple. Maybe it's just me. For whatever reason, the process of unlocking my iPhone now follows the pattern of picking up my phone, putting my finger on the Touch ID sensor... and waiting. A couple of seconds later I realize I have to press the home button to go to my home screen. Other times I pick up my phone, swipe to the right and stare at my screen as a list of widgets are displayed.
Eventually I'm sure I'll get the hang of it, but thus far it's one of the more annoying changes to iOS.
Hey, guess what? You can now delete Apple apps from your iOS device. Long press on an app icon until it does its special dance, then tap on the X.
See ya later, Stocks. Sayonara, Tips. I won't even miss you.
Neat, right? Kind of. When you delete an Apple app you're basically removing the icon from your home screen along with any user information stored within the app. You aren't actually deleting the app itself, potentially freeing up precious storage on your device. Buy hey, I suppose it's better than having a folder full of junk apps you never open.
Speaking of deleting Apple's apps, after doing so you can't set a default app to take its place. For example, if you remove Calendar and Reminders and want to use Fantastical 2 as your default app for appointments and task lists, you're out of luck.
In fact, if you invoke an action that would normally launch one of Apples' apps (such as tapping on email address when Mail is deleted), you're greeted with an error message.
What's the point of deleting an Apple app if you can't truly replace it?
Admittedly, it's still early and there's time for Apple to alter the unlock process. Although, it's unlikely fully deleting apps or setting a default app will be added with this year. Maybe iOS 11?


Yushoi sent us some of their healthy Snapea Rice Sticks to try. The four flavours: Lightly Salted; Soy and Balsamic Vinegar; Sweet Chilli and Lemon, and Smoked Salt and Szechaun Pepper are all delicious. Our favourite was the Szechaun Pepper with its rich and smoky barbecue taste.


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This is an interdenominational mission support organisation, operating in Eastern Europe. Its aim is to support the work of national churches and individual national Christians as they try to spread the Gospel in their own countries. In recent years, the Alpha Course has proved a particularly effective tool in evangelising throughout this region.
Part of the work of Eurovangelism involves delivery of humanitarian aid through its humanitarian ministry EUROAID. St Botolph's also supports EuroAid's annual "Harvest for the Hungry" project, which helps hundreds of thousands of desperate people in Albania, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Moldova, Montengro, Romania, Russia, Serbia and Ukraine.
St Botolph's church is twinned with "Evangelical Church Kosevsko Brdo" in Sarajevo, Bosnia, and visits between the two churches are arranged, as well as mutual prayer and financial support. St Botolph's Lay Reader, Derek Wade, is a former Director of Eurovangelism, and was the founder of the annual Harvest for the Hungry project.
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Niall advises clients on all aspects of commercial, urban and rural property including commercial and residential leases, development options and promotion agreements, mineral extraction leases, wind farm options and leases and hydro scheme leases. He has particular interest in development property work.
Niall has had considerable experience in grant/lottery funding matters, security work and heritage property and acts for a number of high profile charitable trusts and organisations as well as national institutions on their property matters. Niall also acts for pension funds in the purchase, sale and letting of commercial properties. Through his close contacts with estate agents and surveyors, Niall acts for clients leasing, buying and selling prime development, residential, commercial and country properties.
Previously an associate with Dundas & Wilson, whom he joined as a trainee in October 1987, Niall has been with Turcan Connell since its formation in 1997. He became a partner in 1999. He is recognised as a leading name and is highly recommended by Legal 500. He is married with a son and daughter.
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The NHS European Office is the conduit for the NHS to engage with the EU agenda. Hosted by the NHS Confederation, we are the representative body for the range of NHS organisations in England on EU affairs. Our work includes: - monitoring and influencing EU policy and legislation in the interest of the NHS - playing a key role in analysing the implications of the UK's vote to leave the EU on the NHS - facilitating access to EU funds for NHS bodies and their partner organisations - supporting pan-European collaborations and sharing successful EU practices.


To begin the school year and throughout each term, the school community celebrates with both class and whole school liturgies. We welcome parents and friends to celebrate these occasions with us. These events will be advertised in the school newsletter. Assemblies are held each week on Monday from 8.50am – 9am and Fridays from 2.30pm or 2.45pm – 3.10pm. Parents are encouraged to attend the Friday assemblies as they are an important community building activity.
Masses will be held throughout each Term. Please watch the newsletter for details.
Holy Days, Special Feast Days, Family Masses and special Sunday Masses appear on the calendar. The newsletter also informs you of such occasions. Sacramental celebrations and programs are also highlighted.
Parents are most welcome and encouraged to attend on all of these occasions.
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The focus of the sports program is on participating and skill development rather than competition.
All students must wear the school sports uniform on the day indicated in the school newsletter unless a note accompanies your child giving reasons for this not being the case.
Children must wear the correct school uniform when representing the school. During school faction carnivals a coloured shirt will be supplied for each child to wear on the day.
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ADHRB at HRC41 condemns ongoing repression in Bahrain and revocation of citizenship
On Tuesday 25 June, during the 41st session of the Human Rights Council, Americans for Democracy & Human Rights in Bahrain (ADHRB) delivered an oral intervention during the Item 2 General Debate with the High Commissioner. In the intervention, ADHRB raised concerns about statelessness in Bahrain, the closure of civil society space, the dissolution of all the major opposition political groups, and the closure of the last remaining independent newspaper. Continue reading for the text of the intervention, or click here for a PDF.
Madame High Commissioner,
ADHRB would like to thank you for your opening remarks and for calling the Council's attention to important thematic concerns, including statelessness, and impunity.
We see the Bahraini government consistently use these tactics to repress fundamental freedoms. In the past few years, Bahrain has effectively closed civil space, dissolved all the major opposition political groups, and closed the last remaining independent newspaper. It has jailed political opposition leaders and human rights defenders, like Nabeel Rajab, a human rights defender and leading figure who called for human rights across the region, and Abdulwahab Hussain, Sheikh Ali Salman, and Hassan Mushaima, political leaders who called on Bahrain to respect the right of self-determination. In this, its agents have acted with impunity, torturing protesters and denying prisoners necessary health care.
Now Bahrain has taken new measures to suppress dissent, targeting social media and further criminalizing online activism. Recent amendments to the kingdom's anti-terror legislation allow prosecutors to charge citizens with "promoting terrorism" simply for liking or sharing a tweet that the government deems "damages national unity." The Bahraini government also is increasingly using citizenship revocation as a tool of reprisal, specifically against political opposition and human rights defenders. Since 2011, over 900 Bahrainis have had their citizenship revoked – leaving many vulnerable and stateless.
A country with such a record should not be a member of the Council. The Council must take concrete steps to hold Bahrain accountable, including through invoking General Assembly resolution 60/251 to revoke its membership due to its rights abuses, and release all political prisoners.
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Soccer Mommy: The Best of What's Next
On Collection, Sophie Allison trades the Tascam recorder for the intricate setup of a friend's mini-studio in Nashville
By Nina Corcoran | August 16, 2017 | 3:30pm
A lot can be learned about a person by looking at their room. For a bedroom pop artist, a room becomes doubly telling. When Sophie Allison picks up the phone, she sounds bubbly, and for a moment I forget Allison is the 20-year-old musician behind Soccer Mommy. The New York-via-Nashville songwriter makes you feel like you're lounging on her bed beside her, chatting about miniature details with grandiosity and life-changing decisions with passive shrugs. Her room begins to take shape even if you're not there.
In what has become the bedroom pop norm, Allison took to Bandcamp to release music for free under an alternate name—2015's songs for the recently sad and 2016's for young hearts are particularly notable, though maudlin—and was surprised to find a wave of listeners fall head over heels. What separates her from the rest, however, is her phrasing, the way she shapes musical sequences to show emotion. Sonically, her songs sound intimate, but it's the way she as Soccer Mommy captures teenage insecurities through tastefully nonplussed delivery that sticks with listeners.
Technically, she's still enrolled at NYU as a Music Business major, but Allison considers her on-campus dormroom there secondary to the bedroom at her parents' house in Nashville, just around the corner from Belmont University. "Here, I can just go to a local place and will probably see a ton of people I know just chatting at a park or coffee shop," she says of Nashville. "In New York, that doesn't happen. You make plans. You go to lunch. You get drinks. You don't just show up to an area and run into people you know off the cuff."
To her, the bedroom there is perfect. It's a spacious room dotted with windows. A bed sits in the center of the room looking out onto the street, framed posters from nearby art fairs rest on the walls, a record player sits by her dresser, and her miniature studio—three electric guitars, one acoustic, a drum kit, a keyboard and a bass—is haphazardly strewn about.
"If you're dating someone, of course, [the feeling] is stronger—and it hurts a lot more if it ends—but it can be pretty intense when you don't know someone as well as you want to. Idealizing a person in that way prevents you from knowing them, and that can be damaging because it's a toxic feeling that causes anxiety, nervousness and self-doubt. It's almost more toxic than a breakup because there's no real end. These songs are very clearly coming from a girl not caring about herself as much as another person—and getting walked all over for that."
Soccer Mommy released a mini-album called Collection. It's reimagined songs from the past, now backed by a full band. The days of using a Tascam recorder are replaced with the intricate setup of a friend's mini-studio in Nashville. Everything on the record was recorded there, save for "Allison," the album opener. She recorded that one in her dorm room shortly after her class covered ProTools. "I got to learn a lot from that class," she says, "and being able to use it to record and produce 'Allison' felt really exciting."
Lean in close to the record and Allison's work as Soccer Mommy turns into life lessons. Each track is a tangible act of learning, growing and seeing the world. She isn't trying to be deep. Just look at the titles of her aforementioned releases; they're straightforward without being dull. Allison tries her best to experience life, and her songs capture it frame by fame. Marked by episodes of sadness of anxiety, Collection winds up being a narrative rearranged to better represent where she's at now, which means the late-night questions on "Waiting for Cars" and loaded lyrics of "Death by Chocolate" take on new meaning.
Perhaps the biggest influence on Soccer Mommy's reworked sound is love. Over a year ago, she began dating her guitarist, and the two are still together. "He's stuck with me at this point," she jokes, explaining their shift from long distance to moving into an apartment together. "It's strange; I've never felt weird performing songs about past relationships [in front of him] because I don't think I write songs about one person. It's usually about how I felt throughout a relationship or crushes, even platonic ones." In her eyes, her songs capture the various feelings of love without dedicating them to a single individual. She condenses various characteristics and moments into a warped theme that listeners can relate to.
Those smitten qualities of Collection walk a fine line. Allison isn't trying to write the next love song. She isn't stroking her romantic woes either. Instead, she tackles infatuation by treating it with the seriousness it deserves. "It's different dating someone versus having a crush on someone, but I think the feelings are the same," she says. "If you're dating someone, of course, [the feeling] is stronger—and it hurts a lot more if it ends—but it can be pretty intense when you don't know someone as well as you want to. Idealizing a person in that way prevents you from knowing them, and that can be damaging because it's a toxic feeling that causes anxiety, nervousness and self-doubt. It's almost more toxic than a breakup because there's no real end. These songs are very clearly coming from a girl not caring about herself as much as another person—and getting walked all over for that."
Of all genres, bedroom pop may be the most unfairly undervalued because its twee-like lyrics and approachability to non-musicians invite dismissal. It's easy to create that style without a musical background. It's hard to create your own voice within it. Allison not only honed her skills as Soccer Mommy, but she took her time doing so, and she's counting on others to do the same.
"If there's a genre anyone can do, it's probably making beats or bedroom pop—things accessible if you have a computer—but I don't think that's a bad thing. It means you don't need to have a lot of money or access to instruments to be able to make music," she says. "If the song's good, it's good. It doesn't matter how or why they're making it. Because as long as a song is original, it doesn't matter where you created it, even if you recorded it in your childhood bedroom."
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Russia searches for North Korean ammunition as Bakhmut battle drains supplies – US
The Pentagon has repeated reports that Russia is turning to North Korea for supplies of ammunition for use in Ukraine.
The comments of a senior US military official on Monday come as Russian President Vladimir Putin's forces remain focused on the town of Bakhmut in Ukraine's eastern Donbass region, which is at the center of fierce fighting.
The US-based think tank Institute for the Study of War (ISW) said Monday that Russian forces "are engaged in intense fighting over Bakhmut and are providing significant resources to keep up the pace."
The think tank had previously said Russia is investing much of its firepower in the city, which has been hotly contested for months despite having little strategic value.
Amid claims that Russia was facing dwindling supplies of ammunition, the US official was questioned about reports that Iran was supplying Russia with weapons, including ballistic missiles, and what the impact might be on the battlefield.
Ukrainian military drives an armored vehicle down a street in Bakhmut, Ukraine, December 12, 2022. The Pentagon has said Moscow is turning to North Korea for ammunition amid the raging Battle of Bakhmut.
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The official told the background briefing, "Given this current state of Russia's ammunition stockpiles, it's not surprising that they continue to look at ways to work with countries like Iran — and North Korea — to try to gain additional capabilities."
The official said Russia's stockpiles of usable ammunition were "quickly dwindling" and that this would force Moscow to use stocks that "we would consider demeaning conditions."
Russia is likely to struggle to replenish fully operational artillery and rocket ammunition from foreign suppliers, increased domestic production and overhaul, the official said.
"It's not surprising that they are turning to countries like Iran and North Korea to try and get more reliable ammunition."
Citing declassified intelligence information, The New York Times reported in September that Russia was buying artillery shells and missiles from Pyongyang and was trying to get more equipment from the rogue state.
In November, White House National Security spokesman John Kirby said the US had information that Pyongyang was secretly supplying Russia with a "significant" number of artillery shells.
However, a North Korean defense ministry official said that Pyongyang "never had any arms deals with Russia" and had "no plans for the future," calling the allegations rumors that were part of a "hostile attempt" by the US to "taint" the secretive country.
news week has reached out to the Russian Defense Ministry for comment.
There have been several reports that Russia's missile stockpile was quickly depleted, although it can still launch significant strikes on Ukrainian targets, and the true state of Moscow's arsenal is unknown.
A report last week by the UK-based investigative organization Conflict Armament Research (CAR) says Moscow is still making cruise missiles with imported components. It had examined the remains of Kh-101 missiles marked with codes showing they were manufactured in 2022.
One of the report's authors suggested that Russia may have found a way to circumvent sanctions to obtain missile components — or had significant pre-war reserves of those parts.
https://www.newsweek.com/pentagon-russia-ukraine-munitions-bakhmut-north-korea-1766637 Russia searches for North Korean ammunition as Bakhmut battle drains supplies – US
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Shut the Box has been popular in northern France for many years. You can buy a special box set for the game in some parts of the world, but it is easy enough to make at home. Draw nine boxes (numbered 1 to 9) on a sheet of paper with the boxes large enough to be covered by a counter each.
Aim: To achieve the lowest score.
1. Players roll both dice to decide who will go first (highest score).
Usually a player will try to cover the higher numbers (7, 8, 9) first. Player One then throws both dice again and attempts to cover any remaining boxes with the new total. The combination must add up to the total on the dice. Once a player has covered the 7, 8 and 9, they can choose to throw just one die (The plural of die is dice). Player One continues her turn until she cannot cover any boxes using combinations which add to the total thrown. At this point, Player One finishes her turn with a score equal to the total of the uncovered boxes. If she has covered every number (a score of zero), she has "Shut the Box".
3. All the counters are then removed. Play continues in a clockwise direction until every player has had a turn. The player with the lowest score wins that round.
4. The game can be played for any number of rounds or for a certain time limit. The overall winner is the player with the lowest total score over all the rounds.


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Avelo Roy
Making it seem easier than it looks, Avelo Roy, the Managing Director & Startup Mentor at Kolkata Ventures, has been founding and running startups in style, since the age of 19. Balancing academics at Illinois Institute of Technology with the creation of his first startup, he managed to scale it into a million dollar business within a span of three years. The list of accolades after his name go on from a tech entrepreneur to a four times TEDx speaker as well as a TV Host.
He has a flair for mentoring and runs the largest startup incubator in East India called Kolkata Ventures. Under his guidance, over 400+ startups have been successfully incubated resulting in 4500 jobs across East India.
Rama Iyer
Chief Innovation officer at T-hub.
Responsible for leading Innovation charter for India's best known ecosystem brand T-Hub & chawking the course for its 2.0 foray. Also, Advisor, Business & Technology Leader with 20 years of experience, which includes running Incubators, Creating Global & Strategic relationship, Advising Venture Funds, Startup's, Due-diligence, Setting up Engineering Teams, Product Management, GTM and devising Strategies. Adept in Delivery Management, Project Management, Business Development, System Engineering, System Design & Development.
Raghavendra Hunasgi
Raghavendra Pranesh Hunasgi is a global Marketing and Branding expert helping Fortune 500 companies unleash the power of insight-driven marketing.
A globally-renowned entrepreneur, author, speaker, and a 21st-century leader and influencer whose words and work in the field of marketing and branding are helping organizations leapfrog to the next level.
Raghav has advised three presidents and two prime ministers, Forbes listed him as top social media influencer, the United Nations inducted him as a digital evangelist. He is a Harvard Business School alumnus – named Digital Transformation Guru and India's leading media house Economic Times top 100 business thinkers of India.
Karuna Mayi
Karuna Mayi comes with 15 years of expertise in Enterprise sales and has worked with various Fortune 500 Companies. She has hands-on experience in Strategic Sales, International Business, Market Development & Key Account Management across industries in multiple regions i.e. North America, South East Asia, PAN India. Promoting International Trade & Investment for StartUps, Large Enterprises, Government.
Ram Kiran Dhulipala
Ram Dhulipala leads the Digital Agriculture Theme at ICRISAT, Hyderabad. Prior to working with ICRISAT, he worked as a software engineer in Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) from 2004 to 2010. In TCS, he worked primarily in the telecom domain for customers, such as Ericsson, and British Telecom; and was into technologies like VOIP, OSI stack and SIP programming. He also has rich experience in architecting solutions in Enterprise IT environments. As a manager he has worked in executive positions in the corporate sector in the areas of finance, corporate strategy, program management and mergers and acquisitions (M&A) across diverse sectors. Ram is a strong believer in partnerships and has managed complex projects that bring together people/teams with diverse skills and backgrounds. His areas of expertise include Technologies such as VOIP, OSI stack and SIP programming; architecting solutions in Enterprise IT environments; finance, corporate strategy, and program management.
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Mark Fritz is a Leadership Specialist on the Power of Ownership.
Mark's 25 year career was focused on leading change. He started his international development in Singapore, and then went on to lead enterprise systems change in marketing companies across countries like Egypt, Netherlands, Italy and Japan.
With this change experience, Mark then lead EAMER organizations in reengineering, information systems, and customer services; and was often asked to lead these organizations through significant change.
Throughout his career, Mark has successfully led virtual organizations, and built strong diverse teams that deliver.
He has also taught in MBA and executive education courses in business schools throughout Europe, mentors executives from across the world, and runs leadership programs for executive teams and their leaders of the future.
With the experience of leading enterprise change and virtual organizations throughout the world, Mark shares the mindsets and habits that enable your teams to OWN the results.
Mr Ananth Ravi
Mr Anath Ravi has over 3 decades experience in leading Corporates, viz., Canbank Financial.
Services Limited (1986 -1992 - Advisory Services), GE Shipping (1992-1995- General Manager, Finance), HCC (1995-1997 - VP, Finance), RIL (1997- 2010-President, Corporate Finance), GTL Infra (Dec 2010 – July 2011, CEO & Whole time Director) and Reliance Jio Infocomm Limited (July 2011 to January 2018). He had initiated the setting up of the 4G telecom project of Reliance Jio Infocomm in the State of Karnataka and was the State Sponsor until January 2018
Mr Ravi hadspearheaded mega financial closures for a wide array of businesses, ranging from Construction, Infrastructure (Shipping, Power, Ports, SEZ's) to Petroleum Refinery, Gas Transportation to Telecom. I also acquired considerable expertise in legal aspects of Project Financing. As a recognition to his contribution for corporate sector the Government of Karnataka appointed him as a Member of "Vision Group of Industries" constituted under the chairmanship of Hon'ble Chief Minister of Karnataka.
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Charted Accountant, Mangalore.
Mr. S.S. NAYAK is a Chartered Accountant practicing in Mangalore for the last 3 Decades & also has Associates in Udupi & Bangalore. He has visited numerous countries on professional assignments. He has authored two books, "Words of the wise" and "More words of the wise". He is a guest faculty for ICAI in India & Abroad & also for premier Management Institutions, various Banks & MSME Forums. He has mentored thousands of Entrepreneurs to set up Enterprises in India and Abroad.
Pavan Mujumdar
Startup Mentor and Business Coach.
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With a BE mech degree from MIT Manipal and PGDM from EDI Ahmedabad, he has 15+ years of work experience as an employee or partner, in roles of team-member, manager and leader - in the corporate, farming, development and consulting sectors. His areas of expertises Areas of expertise: strategy, business development, strategic marketing, product development, frugal solutions, opportunity scan, cross-sector partnering, value chains, ethnography for design, enterprise and cluster development, responsible and inclusive business, innovation for impact and sustainability, livelihoods, producer collectives, etc.


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Flinders Street railway station is the centre of Melbourne CBD in Melbourne and one of the city's most recognisable landmarks.
The design of this grand Edwardian baroque building was selected by an architectural competition held in 1902, and the red brick and golden stucco building was constructed between 1905 and 1910.
Stretching along Flinders Street for more than a city block, and boasting grand archways and an expansive ballroom, it is public architecture on a majestic scale — a symbol of the importance of railways to the growth of the city and its suburbs.
Flinders Street Station has become far more than a place of transit. Meeting under the clocks is a Melbourne institution and ¨I'll meet you on the steps" refers to the wide staircase underneath these clocks.
Just one minute under the clocks will give you an idea of Melbourne's fabulous and diverse population.
In celebration of its 100th Birthday in 2010 we created this print for Melbourne lovers.
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Q: Inherited Database with Corruption and a Bad Checksum We have inherited a corrupted database 'DBName', with no good backup available to us. The corruption apparently happened some months ago.
We have tried a few thing:
DBCC CHECKDB(DBName); --Shows no errors

BACKUP DATABASE DBName TO DISK = 'D:\Backup\DBName.BAK' WITH CHECKSUM

This backup fails with detected error:
Msg 3043, Level 16, State 1, Line 3 BACKUP 'DBName' detected an error
on page (1:188137) in file 'D:\Data\DBName.mdf'. Msg 3013,
Level 16, State 1, Line 3 BACKUP DATABASE is terminating abnormally.

This puts a row into msdb.dbo.suspect_pages with event_type = 'Bad Checksum'
dbcc traceon (3604)
DBCC PAGE('DBName',1,188137,0) WITH TABLERESULTS
dbcc traceoff (3604)

ParentObject    Object  Field   VALUE
BUFFER: BUF @0x0000000E931A54C0 bpage   0x00000007D1BC6000
BUFFER: BUF @0x0000000E931A54C0 bhash   0x0000000000000000
BUFFER: BUF @0x0000000E931A54C0 bpageno (1:188137)
BUFFER: BUF @0x0000000E931A54C0 bdbid   64
BUFFER: BUF @0x0000000E931A54C0 breferences 0
BUFFER: BUF @0x0000000E931A54C0 bcputicks   0
BUFFER: BUF @0x0000000E931A54C0 bsampleCount    0
BUFFER: BUF @0x0000000E931A54C0 bUse1   42902
BUFFER: BUF @0x0000000E931A54C0 bstat   0x809
BUFFER: BUF @0x0000000E931A54C0 blog    0x215a215a
BUFFER: BUF @0x0000000E931A54C0 bnext   0x0000000000000000
PAGE HEADER:    Page @0x00000007D1BC6000    m_pageId    (43690:-1431655766)
PAGE HEADER:    Page @0x00000007D1BC6000    m_headerVersion 170
PAGE HEADER:    Page @0x00000007D1BC6000    m_type  170
PAGE HEADER:    Page @0x00000007D1BC6000    m_typeFlagBits  0xaa
PAGE HEADER:    Page @0x00000007D1BC6000    m_level 170
PAGE HEADER:    Page @0x00000007D1BC6000    m_flagBits  0xaaaa
PAGE HEADER:    Page @0x00000007D1BC6000    m_objId (AllocUnitId.idObj) -1431655766
PAGE HEADER:    Page @0x00000007D1BC6000    m_indexId (AllocUnitId.idInd)   43690
PAGE HEADER:    Page @0x00000007D1BC6000    Metadata: AllocUnitId   -6148914691236560896
PAGE HEADER:    Page @0x00000007D1BC6000    Metadata: PartitionId   0
PAGE HEADER:    Page @0x00000007D1BC6000    Metadata: IndexId   -1
PAGE HEADER:    Page @0x00000007D1BC6000    Metadata: ObjectId  0
PAGE HEADER:    Page @0x00000007D1BC6000    m_prevPage  (43690:-1431655766)
PAGE HEADER:    Page @0x00000007D1BC6000    m_nextPage  (43690:-1431655766)
PAGE HEADER:    Page @0x00000007D1BC6000    pminlen 43690
PAGE HEADER:    Page @0x00000007D1BC6000    m_slotCnt   43690
PAGE HEADER:    Page @0x00000007D1BC6000    m_freeCnt   43690
PAGE HEADER:    Page @0x00000007D1BC6000    m_freeData  43690
PAGE HEADER:    Page @0x00000007D1BC6000    m_reservedCnt   43690
PAGE HEADER:    Page @0x00000007D1BC6000    m_lsn   (-1431655766:-1431655766:43690)
PAGE HEADER:    Page @0x00000007D1BC6000    m_xactReserved  43690
PAGE HEADER:    Page @0x00000007D1BC6000    m_xdesId    (43690:-1431655766)
PAGE HEADER:    Page @0x00000007D1BC6000    m_ghostRecCnt   43690
PAGE HEADER:    Page @0x00000007D1BC6000    m_tornBits  -1431655766
PAGE HEADER:    Page @0x00000007D1BC6000    DB Frag ID  1
PAGE HEADER:    Allocation Status   GAM (1:2)   ALLOCATED
PAGE HEADER:    Allocation Status   SGAM (1:3)  NOT ALLOCATED
PAGE HEADER:    Allocation Status   PFS (1:186024)  0x40 ALLOCATED   0_PCT_FULL
PAGE HEADER:    Allocation Status   DIFF (1:6)  NOT CHANGED
PAGE HEADER:    Allocation Status   ML (1:7)    NOT MIN_LOGGED

It appears that the page has been deallocated, because object ID = 0
The following command does not resolve the error:
DBCC CHECKDB ('DBName', repair_allow_data_loss)

We would appreciate some help in resolving this problem since (as noted above) the backups are all failing.