The creators of the deeply unpleasant GPCode Trojan have released a new version of the malware that encrypts victims' data files and tries to extort money for the unlock key.
The major innovation this time compared to a version from November 2010 is that the criminals demand a slightly higher fee of $125 for the key paid through the Ukash payment pre-paid card site instead of using direct money transfer.
GpCode.bn, as it has been named by Kaspersky Lab, also throws up the same unmissable text message in uncertain English that takes up most of the desktop of anyone contracting it via a drive-by web download.
"All your personal files were encrypted with a strong algorythm RSA-1024 (sic)," it reads. According to an analysis by GpCode experts at Kaspersky Lab, the criminals use their own RSA 1024 key to encrypt a separate AES 256 key used to scramble the files on a user's PC after infection.
"Remember don't try to tell someone about this message if you want to get your files back! Just do all we told!," the message continues, really a ploy by the criminals to buy time before antivirus suites notice the programme. Sadly, 'telling' someone about GpCode would be fruitless anyway – the encryption is strong enough that the only way to recover files is to resort to backups.
As with the November version, the user can limit the file-scrambling damage caused by the malware by turning off their PC at the point they see the desktop message, before turning and booting from a recovery disk.
"Don't hesitate to turn off your PC or pull out the power cable if this is fastest!," recommend Kaspersky researcher, Nicolas Brulez.
GpCode is a Trojan that just won't go away and has re-emerged at longish intervals since first appearing in 2004. It could be a proof-of-concept Trojan if it weren't for the fact that the malware proved its effectiveness long ago.
The malware seems to be designed to harvest modest amounts of money from a small number of victims in an attempt to stay below the radar of researchers. Because it is fairly easy to create a signature to detect GpCode once noticed, the malware creators need it to operate using a low profile for as long as possible.


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Examine the role of the appraiser in establishing and determining value. This lecture is given as part of Collector's Day at RISD. Speakers include Mary Bartow, Sotheby's; Steve Pincus, DeWitt Stern; and Suzanne Gyorgy, Art Advisor, New York.


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I suppose I've heard it a hundred times that God works for His glory, but it's an important thing to remember. Even our salvation took place so that God can show how glorious His grace is. Ephesians seems to talk a lot about the unbelievable treasures we have in Christ; it would be easy to lose focus and to forget that we receive these so that we might praise God.
Clearly, I need to start praising God more instead of letting these riches go to waste. I suppose a great way to do that would be to (gasp) talk about what God has been teaching me. It's kind of weird…I feel with many fellow Christians as though talking about spiritual things is "off limits" except when we're in small group, church, etc. God forbid that we talk about what is most valuable and precious to us — the one thing we have in common as a family. My roommate Mike and I recently discussed how silly it is to think we can be bold in declaring the truth of the gospel to unbelievers when we won't even discuss it among believers.


A rising number of shrimp shipments from India are being refused entry in the United States due to the presence of salmonella, a harmful bacteria.
That country's sector regulator, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), refused 10 'entry lines' last month for this reason -- eight were from India.
"FDA has reported refusing 60 entry lines of shrimp for salmonella this year, of which the vast majority originate from India," said the Southern Shrimp Alliance (SSA), a US-based body of shrimp fishers and processors.
Salmonella poisoning is often linked to contaminated water or foods and can cause food-borne infection, called salmonellosis.
"The rejection speaks about the unhygienic condition of shrimp farming in India. Nevertheless, the number of rejections by the FDA is on the rise because India sends the highest number of containers to the US," said an exporter, seeking anonymity.
The FDA was recently allocated an additional $3.1 million in the coming financial year for inspection of imported seafood. This would raise its spending on these activities to $15 million in FY19, an increase of 26 per cent in the allocation. Trade sources said the body might get more aggressive in inspections, leading to more rejections of consignments.
The US imported seafood worth $2.3 billion last year, a rise of about a third over the earlier year. Frozen shrimp is 95 per cent of this.


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A lot of thought has gone into human mortality, and how we can prolong life. Less thought has gone into the question of why nations die. But nations, like people, do have a beginning, and do have an end. Thus
Ten Must-Read Books for the Thinking Christian
In the past several years many thousands of books have been published. Hundreds of those are important. Dozens are quite significant, at least from a Christian point of view. But with so many valuable recent titles out there, I thought
Christianity and Partisan Politics
A reader of this site posted a comment in which he (rightly, I believe) questioned whether I am correct to align myself with more-or-less the conservative side of politics. I replied to his comment with a comment of my own,
A review of The Truth About Tolerance: Pluralism, Diversity and the Culture Wars. By Brad Stetson and Joseph Conti.
InterVarsity Press, 2005.
This book is about how a good concept – tolerance – has been redefined and subverted by the secular left. Tolerance, properly understood, is a useful personal and social good. But stripped of its original meaning, it
A review of Breaking the Da Vinci Code. By Darrell Bock.
Nelson 2004.
With over 40 million copies sold into 44 languages (as of May 2006), the Brown blockbuster has certainly made an impact. And the May 2006 film version simply adds to the book's success. But the book is as
A review of Truth and the New Kind of Christian. By R. Scott Smith.
Crossway, 2005.
It has always been a temptation for the Christian church to slavishly copy the latest trends of the day. While there is a place to present an unchanging message in new forms and expressions, it is decidedly unwise
A review of Lies That Go Unchallenged in the Media and Government. By Charles Colson.
Tyndale House, 2005.
Charles Colson is always worth listening to. And many millions do, with his Breakpoint radio series. The essays here come from this program, and comprise some of the best of Colson's Christian commentary on the issues of
A review of Lies That Go Unchallenged in Popular Culture. By Charles Colson.
Charles Colson is a leading Christian commentator and apologist. His daily radio commentary, Breakpoint, provides short, punchy and pithy observations on the current scene, be it social, political, moral or cultural. His incisive commentary is fully
A review of Creed Without Chaos: Exploring Theology in the Writings of Dorothy L. Sayers. By Laura Simmons.
Baker, 2005.
Most people, when they hear of Dorothy Sayers, immediately think of her delightful detective novels based around Lord Peter Wimsey. But she was much more than another Agatha Christie. She was also a superb thinker and committed Christian.
A review of How Do You Know You're Not Wrong?: Responding To Objections That Leave Christians Speechless. By Paul Copan.
Paul Copan is a rising star in Christian apologetics and philosophy. He has written a number of excellent titles defending the Christian faith, on both popular and more academic levels. This volume follows two of his earlier works,
The Gospel According to Dan Brown
With over 40 million copies sold worldwide, translated into 44 languages, and a blockbuster film due out in mid-May, The Da Vinci Code has made Dan Brown a very wealthy man. But a whirlwind of controversy has surrounded his novel,
A review of The Books the Church Suppressed: Fiction and Truth in the Da Vinci Code. By Michael Green.
Monarch Books, 2005.
There are a number of good books out which critique the many fallacies and inaccuracies in Dan Brown's best selling novel. The books by Darrell Bock and Ben Witherington come to mind here. But this volume does
A review of Above All Earthly Powers: Christ in a Postmodern World by David Wells
David Wells is one of our more perceptive commentators on church and culture. In his newest book he looks at modernism, postmodernism, and the crisis in Evangelicalism. An excellent commentary on church trends.
Christianity Lite
In our efforts to reach people with the gospel, and make the message of Christ attractive, it is possible that we are in fact watering down the very gospel we are trying to share with people.
While we often mean
A review of Paul Meets Muhammad: A Christian-Muslim Debate on the Resurrection. By Michael Licona.
There are many differences between Islam and Christianity. One of the major differences concerns what happened to Jesus at Calvary. Did Jesus die on the cross and rise again on the third day, or did he not? Christians
More Christian Persecution
I trust you have been following the case of the Muslim convert to Christianity who has been sentenced to death. I raise some issues about the case in an article below, if you are interested.
A Religion of Peace?
Christian bashing thwarted
Today Senator Ron Boswell sent out this media release. The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
Democrats mission to abolish prayer fails
The Democrats' attempt to abolish prayers in the Parliament and remove tax advantages for religious groups was intolerance
Hollywood, Religion and C.S. Lewis
Hollywood seems to be getting religion lately. Or perhaps more accurately, Hollywood is discovering that there is money to be made in religious films. The Passion by Mel Gibson was a big money-maker, and put Hollywood on notice that they
What Are We Fighting For?
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Charles Sheffield, né le  à Hull en Angleterre et décédé le  à Rockville dans l'état du Maryland aux États-Unis, est un mathématicien, physicien et écrivain de science-fiction et de fantasy britannique.

Biographie
Charles Sheffield suit ses études au St John's College (Université de Cambridge) où il obtient un diplôme en mathématique et en physique. Par la suite, il est fait docteur en physique théorique de l'Université de Washington.

Il travaille d'abord comme membre du bureau technologique du Congrès des États-Unis et comme consultant à la NASA pour l'analyse des effets du champ gravitationnel de la Lune sur les engins spatiaux dans les années 1960. Il est par la suite nommé président de l'American Astronautical Society et reste conseiller scientifique et relecteur pendant des années pour les revues New Scientist et , ainsi que pour le Washington Post.

Pendant quelques années, il est ensuite responsable scientifique de la compagnie Earth Satellite Corporation, qui analyse des données provenant de satellites. À cette occasion, il publie de nombreux rapports techniques ainsi que deux livres, Earthwatch et Man on Earth montrant des images de la Terre vue de l'espace avant de consacrer sa carrière à l'écriture.

Il commence à écrire des romans de fiction alors qu'il a près de 40 ans. Son intention première était de vendre trois histoires, uniquement pour se prouver qu'il en était capable, puis d'arrêter d'écrire. À la mort de sa première femme en 1977, il trouve refuge dans l'écriture et ne cesse de produire depuis.

Sheffield ne rencontre pas de succès immédiat, bien que ses textes soient rapidement achetés à crédit par un éditeur du magazine Galaxy. Souvent considéré comme un auteur de hard science-fiction, il est toujours soucieux de conférer une grande crédibilité scientifique à ses récits, au point d'ajouter une annexe à la fin de ses romans ou de ses cycles de nouvelles pour expliquer les fondements scientifiques utilisés dans ceux-ci.

Bien qu'il reste très peu traduit, il est surtout connu en français pour son roman La toile entre les mondes (The Web Between the Worlds) qui décrit la construction d'un ascenseur spatial. Ce roman a d'ailleurs été publié pratiquement simultanément au roman Les Fontaines du paradis d'Arthur C. Clarke qui traite du même sujet. Cette coïncidence les a tous deux beaucoup amusés, au point que Clarke écrira quelques années plus tard la préface d'une réédition de ce roman.

Charles Sheffield est président de la Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America de 1984 à 1986. Parmi de nombreux prix littéraires, il remporte le prix Seiun du meilleur roman scientifique au Japon en 1991 pour The McAndrew Chronicles, le prix John-Wood-Campbell Memorial 1993 du meilleur roman de science-fiction pour Le Frère des dragons et les prix Hugo et Nebula 1993 pour sa nouvelle Giorgia on my mind. Il s'est également intéressé au fantastique, notamment avec une collection ayant comme personnage principal Erasmus Darwin, le grand-père de Charles Darwin.

Il écrit également une rubrique régulière pour le site Web Baen Books. La dernière rubrique qu'il a écrite concerne la découverte de sa tumeur cancéreuse au cerveau qui entraînera sa mort.
Après la mort de sa première femme, Sarah Sanderson, il épouse Linda Zall dont il divorcera quelques années plus tard pour épouser Nancy Kress, également auteur de science-fiction.

Œuvres

Séries de romans

Série Proteus

Série McAndrew

Série Heritage

Série Cold as Ice

Série Jupiter

Romans indépendants

Recueil de nouvelles

Autres publications

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  Biographie et bibliographie
 Bibliographie en français

Naissance en juin 1935
Naissance à Kingston upon Hull
Écrivain britannique du XXe siècle
Écrivain britannique de science-fiction
Écrivain britannique de fantasy
Étudiant de St John's College (Cambridge)
Lauréat du prix Hugo de la meilleure nouvelle longue
Lauréat du prix John-Wood-Campbell Memorial
Lauréat du prix Nebula de la meilleure nouvelle longue
Décès en novembre 2002
Décès à 67 ans
Décès dans le comté de Montgomery (Maryland)

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According to Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook's co-founder and CEO, his creation was supposed "to make the world more open and connected." After massive privacy breaches and the proliferation of misinformation and hate speech, that mission lies in ruins. Roger McNamee, an early investor in the platform, joins our podcast to discuss what went wrong.
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Besides regulating, one would need to somehow completely demonetize uses of user-generated content/metadata like the ones described. Cracking this nut is gonna involve going at some pretty sacred beliefs about capitalism.
There are maybe some ways to mitigate. In theory, moore's law type effects rapidly drive down the cost of creating parallel payment systems and comm networks to do all the same things as VISA/mastercard/google/facebook - but with licensing terms that are essentially reversed (a copyleft of sorts). Not that it will ever happen, most people are perfectly happy to sign away their life in exchange for a better selfie, or whatever tomorrow's equivalent of that will be. The appeal of this is it would preserve the actual value of social media - enabling lots of people to rapidly cooperate to crowdsource and verify information with higher reliability than traditional centralized media. China's government is terrified about this possibility, and to be honest, so is the US, for reasons that span the spectrum of defensibility. An international open-architecture system would be perhaps a way to avoid the negatives, but of course anything like that would invite sabotage.
Nor can Congress as a whole really be expected to do much without being forced to by a crisis. If this podcast's interview guest thinks the 2016 election can serve as that crisis, I would point out that the reaction has been to actively encourage further development of the spying and social control apparatus - with the facile excuse of national security, but of course the benefits will go to the contractors first.
Probably awareness is the main thing that can be done.
Thanks Petey. You make excellent points. It will be interesting to see how Congress takes up this issue and moves it forward. One thing is for sure, this is going to be a major focus in 2020.
The following link: reveals the truth of where FB is coming from. Bottomline deceit, insult, and exploitation for personal greed ONLY. FB is a platform based on THEFT, with only ulterior motives of exploitation.
No one worldwide should forget Zuckerberg's "DF" remark. His view of his data-based platform of, by and for theft.
*NB at 14:47: It was Michael Cohen's Rockefeller Center office that was raided by the FBI in April 2018. Paul Manafort's home was searched in August 2017.


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Description of the unsafe condition.
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Latchford peut faire référence à :

Patronyme

Bob Latchford, footballeur international britannique ;
, footballeur britannique ;
, politique canadien ;
, chanteur britannique ;
, joueur de cricket britannique ;
, footballeur britannique
, diplomate et avocat américain.

Toponyme

Australie
, base de l'armée australienne

Canada
, ville

Royaume-Uni
, village

Latchford (Hertfordshire)
Latchford (Oxfordshire)

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Saturnin Arloing (* 3. Januar 1846 in Cusset, Département Allier; † 21. März 1911 in Lyon) war ein französischer Tierarzt, Infektiologe und Professor für Anatomie und Physiologie. Er identifizierte unter anderem den Erreger des Rauschbrands (Clostridium chauvoei) und leistete Pionierarbeit bei der Prävention der Rindertuberkulose.

Biographie

Arloing wurde am 3. Januar 1846 in Cusset in der Auvergne als Sohn eines Hufschmieds geboren, der dieses Gewerbe bereits in der dritten Generation ausübte. Sein Vater überzeugte den intelligenten Jungen, Tiermedizin zu studieren und sich danach als Tierarzt in Cusset niederzulassen.

Mit elf Jahren trat Arloing ins Collège von Cusset ein, wo er sich als sehr guter Schüler erwies. Bereits mit 16 Jahren bestand er das Eintrittsexamen für die Studienzulassung und studierte von 1862 bis 1866 an der Ecole nationale vétérinaire in Lyon (ENVL) Tiermedizin. Da aber sein Vater inzwischen verstorben war und die Familie die Schmiede verkauft hatte, kehrte er nicht nach Cusset zurück, sondern nahm unter Auguste Chauveau eine Stelle als chef de service der Anatomie und Physiologie in Lyon an. Dort arbeitete er unter anderem über die Anatomie des Nervus laryngeus recurrens, des Beckens und des Hufes der Pferde sowie über die Geschlechtsorgane der Hasenartigen.

1869 erhielt Arloing einen Ruf als Professor für Anatomie und Physiologie an der Universität Toulouse. Dort promovierte er neben seiner Forschungsarbeit an der medizinischen Fakultät zum Doktor der Medizin und erhielt das Lizenziat der Naturwissenschaften. Während des Deutsch-Französischen Kriegs war er in der Bretagne stationiert und untersuchte dort einen Ausbruch der Rinderpest.

1876 kehrte Arloing als Professor für Anatomie nach Lyon zurück, wo er eng mit seinem ehemaligen Lehrer Chauveau zusammenarbeitete, zum Chef der experimentellen Medizin der Universität Lyon aufstieg und vom Institut de France ausgezeichnet wurde. Hier promovierte er 1879 mit zwei Arbeiten zum Doktor der Naturwissenschaften: je eine über den Schluckakt bei Säugetieren und Vögeln und eine über die Vermehrung der Kakteen durch Stecklinge. Zusätzlich erhielt er einen weiteren Doktor der Medizin für seine Untersuchungen zur anästhetischen Wirkung von Chloral, Chloroform und Äther. 1880 habilitierte er sich mit einer Arbeit über die Bildung von Haaren und Nägeln.

Zusätzlich zu seiner Professur für Anatomie wurde Arloing 1884 Professor für allgemeine Physiologie an der naturwissenschaftlichen Fakultät. Er behielt diesen Posten aber nur zwei Jahre: Nachdem Chauveau 1886 als Generalinspekteur der Tierarzneischulen nach Paris berufen worden war, wurde Arloing zum Rektor der Ecole nationale vétérinaire in Lyon und übernahm auch Chauveaus dortige Professur für Physiologie. 1887 übernahm er auch Chauveaus Professur für experimentelle Medizin an der medizinischen Fakultät.

1898 gründete Arloing zusammen mit Cadeac und Mathis die veterinärmedizinische Gesellschaft von Lyon. 1900 begründete er das Institut für Bakteriologie in Lyon, dessen erster Direktor er wurde. Zusätzlich war er Vorsitzender des Alumni-Vereins der ENVL, Mitglied des Conseil départemental d'hygiène des Département Rhône und diverser anderer beruflicher Zusammenschlüsse im Bereich Medizin und Agrarwissenschaften.

Während seiner Karriere war Arloing Gastdozent in Lille (1872), Nantes (1875), Basel (1889), Berlin (1890, 1902 und 1907), Washington, D.C., Philadelphia (1908) und Stockholm (1909). 1889 wurde er korrespondierendes Mitglied der Académie des sciences.

Am 21. März 1911 verstarb Arloing in Lyon an einem Herzinfarkt, vermutlich als Komplikation einer Grippeinfektion. Ihm zu Ehren ist eine Straße in Lyon benannt. Im Ehrenhof der tiermedizinischen Fakultät in Lyon steht seit 1923 ein Denkmal für ihn. In seiner Heimatstadt Cusset wurde ihm ebenfalls ein Denkmal gesetzt und eine Straße nach ihm benannt.

Arloing war seit 1873 mit Mlle Roux verheiratet, die er vier Jahre zuvor in Lyon kennengelernt hatte. Ihr gemeinsamer Sohn Fernand Arloing (1876–1944) wurde ebenfalls Bakteriologe und Professor für Medizin.

Forschung

Arloings Forschungsinteressen lagen vor allem in der Anatomie, Physiologie und Infektiologie.

Anatomie

In der Anatomie interessierte er sich für die Anatomie der Einhufer, die Geschlechtsorgane der Hasenartigen sowie für die Anatomie des Schädels der Hunde. Er gab die 2.–4. Auflage von Chauveaus Traité d'anatomie des animaux domestiques heraus, eines Lehrbuchs der Tieranatomie.

Physiologie

In der Physiologie erforschte Arloing die sensible Funktion des Nervus laryngeus recurrens beim Pferd, die Auswirkungen des Sympathikus im Halsbereich auf die Tränen- und Schweißbildung und die Funktion des Nervus vagus bei der Innervation von Magen und Herz. Außerdem wies er in verschiedenen Tierarten die Existenz von zwei verschiedenen Typen von Muskelfasern nach, nämlich der schnell kontrahierenden weißen und der langsam kontrahierenden roten Fasern.

In der Anästhesiologie beschrieb Arloing die Auswirkungen verschiedener Anästhetika auf die Körpertemperatur, die Atmung und den Blutkreislauf unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Blutversorgung des Gehirns.

Infektiologie

In der Infektiologie galt Arloings hauptsächliches Interesse vier Krankheiten, nämlich dem Rauschbrand, dem Gasbrand, dem Puerperalfieber und der Tuberkulose. Daneben untersuchte er auch die Möglichkeit der Gewinnung von Diphtherie-Antitoxin aus Pferden, das Wachstum von Bakterien auf verschiedenen Nährböden und den Einfluss des Lichts auf die Virulenz von Bacillus anthracis, den Erreger des Milzbrands.

Zusammen mit Thomas und Cornevin isolierte er den Erreger des Rauschbrands, einer Krankheit, die damals oft mit dem Milzbrand verwechselt wurde, und belegte so die unterschiedliche Ursache der beiden Krankheiten. Zu Ehren seines Lehrers benannte er den Erreger als Bacterium chauvoei. Später wurde dieser aus taxonomischen Gründen zu Clostridium chauvoei umbenannt. Gemeinsam mit Thomas und Cornevin entwickelte Arloing sodann eine Impfung sowie ein Serum zur passiven Immunisierung gegen Rauschbrand.

Für den Gasbrand hatte bereits Louis Pasteur eine bakterielle Ursache beschrieben. Chauveau und Arloing bestätigten dessen Rolle bei der Entstehung der Krankheit und entwickelten vorbeugende und therapeutische Maßnahmen zur Anwendung in Krankenhäusern.

Das Puerperalfieber war in den Geburtsabteilungen der Lyoner Krankenhäuser zu Arloings Zeit weit verbreitet. Chauveau und Arloing beschrieben Streptokokken als hauptsächliche Ursache und entwickelten auch hier prophylaktische und therapeutische Maßnahmen.

Tuberkulose

Die Tuberkulose war ab 1868 eines der hauptsächlichen Interessengebiete Arloings. Ab 1868 erforschte er auf der Basis der Arbeiten von Jean-Antoine Villemin die Übertragung der Krankheit sowie in Zusammenarbeit mit Chauveau auch deren verschiedene Verlaufsformen. Arloing und Chauveau bewiesen dabei, dass eine Infektion über den Magen-Darm-Trakt möglich ist und beschrieben die verschiedenen Erreger der menschlichen sowie der Rinder- und Vogeltuberkulose.

Als Folge dieser Forschungen wurden in Frankreich ab 1872 neue Methoden der Vorbeugung gegen die Rindertuberkulose eingeführt, auch wenn die Debatte über die verantwortlichen Erreger noch weiter ging: So vertrat beispielsweise Robert Koch  die Ansicht, dass eine Ansteckung des Menschen mit Rindertuberkulose nicht möglich sei, da es sich beim Erreger um ein anderes Bakterium handle. Ihre Ansicht war dabei wohl auch von Interessen der deutschen Rinderzüchter beeinflusst, die gegen die Importverbote tuberkulöser Rinder nach Frankreich opponierten. Unterstützung erhielt Arloing beispielsweise durch Edmond Nocard, der 1895 in Les tuberculoses animales weitere Belege für Arloings Sicht publizierte. Auch Emil von Behring, mit dem er in brieflichem und persönlichen Austausch stand, unterstützte seine Rindertuberkuloseforschung. Arloing debattierte das Thema an mehreren Kongressen mit Koch, den er 1908 schließlich durch seine Experimente vom zoonotischen Charakter der Rindertuberkulose überzeugen konnte.

Arloing erforschte auch die Möglichkeit, die verschiedenen Tuberkuloseerreger durch aus erkrankten Menschen und Tieren gewonnenes Immunserum zu agglutinieren. Im Rahmen seiner Forschungen untersuchte er auch das von Robert Koch entdeckte Tuberkulin und versuchte auf der Basis dieser Substanz eine Schutzimpfung gegen Rindertuberkulose zu entwickeln. 1911 verfügte er über einen Impfstoff, der drei Viertel der geimpften Rinder vor der Ansteckung schützen konnte, während sämtliche Tiere in der Kontrollgruppe erkrankten. Durch seinen Tod später im selben Jahr konnte er das Projekt nicht mehr abschließen.

Werke (Auswahl)

 Le berceau de l'enseignement vétérinaire – Création et évolution de l'enseignement vétérinaire. Imprimerie Pitrat aîné, Lyon 1889.
 Als Herausgeber von Chauveaus Traité d'anatomie comparée des animaux domestiques. 2. bis 5. Auflage.
 Caractères ostéologiques différentiels de l'âne, du cheval et de leurs hybrides. 1882.
 Cours élémentaires d'anatomie générale et notions de technique histologique, Paris 1890.
 Les virus. Félix Alcan, Paris 1891.
 Leçons sur la tuberculose et certaines septicémies, Paris 1892.
 Sur l'obtention de cultures et d'émulsions homogènes du bacille de la tuberculose humaine en milieu liquide et sur une variété mobile de ce bacille. In: Comptes rendus de l'Académie des sciences. Paris 1898, 126, S. 1319–1321.

 Ein vollständiges Verzeichnis der Publikationen Arloings findet sich in Archives internationales de pharmacodynamie et de thérapie. 1911, 22, S. 3–25.

Literatur

 Harry W Paul: From Knowledge to Power. The Rise of the Science Empire in France, 1860–1939. S. 95.
 Laurence J Street, H S J Lee: Dates in Infectious Diseases- A Chronological Record of Progress in Infectious Diseases. S. 66.
 Anton Sebastian: A Dictionary of the History of Medicine. S. 68.
 Anonym: Exposé des titres et des travaux de S. Arloing. Imprimerie Pitrat aîné, Lyon, 1887.
 Anonym: Publications principales de S. Arloing sur la physiologie normale et pathologie, animale et végétale, l'anatomie et la tératologie. Manuscrit de la bibliothèque de l'Ecole vétérinaire de Lyon, 1911.
 Anonym: Publications principales de S. Arloing. In: Arch. Int. Pharmacodyn. Ther. XXII, 24 p., 1912.
 G. Rollet: Biographies vétérinaires. Manuscrit de la bibliothèque de l'Ecole vétérinaire de Lyon. 1994.
 V. Krogmann: L'enseignement à l'Ecole vétérinaire de Lyon aux XVIIIe et XIXe siècles. Dissertation. Lyon 1996.

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Eye on SF
Travels with Chesa
Steve Adams Uncategorized June 8, 2021 June 12, 2022 9 Minutes
My parents were all dedicated to fighting U.S. imperialism around the world. I'm dedicated to the same thing."
Chesa Boudin, New York Times, 12/9/2002
I recognized there there are cases for where armed struggle is a legitimate tool for social and political change in the face of much greater, more highly organized force.
Chesa Boudin, Gringo, 2009
But far from avoiding the legacy of his parents, Boudin embraces it. It is impossible to understand him, the author says, without understanding the strong impression that their politics made on his own.
James Kirchick, The New Republic, Fall 2009
As members of the Weather Underground, San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin's biological parents bombed a number of buildings in an attempt to overthrow the United States. After killing a few innocent people, they were jailed in 1981, and a one-year-old Chesa was adopted.
You might have hoped that Chesa's adoptive parents would have been less radical. No such luck. Not only were Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dorhn members of the Weather Underground – they were the founders of the movement. On the run from the government for years after committing a series of felonies, they only escaped serious jail time because some of the evidence against them turned out to have been illegally obtained.
Meet the parents:
Given these two fine sets of folks, it's worth asking how much daylight there is between Chesa's value system and those of his murderous moms and dads.
And we've got plenty of information here, thanks to Chesa's 2009 autobiography "Gringo", which, as the name implies, reflects mainly his experiences in Latin America. Reviewing the book, The New York Times rolled its eyes at Chesa's insipid observations and stilted writing:
There is no wit in "Gringo," no humor, no sharp observations, no strange or thrilling adventures.
New York Times, 4/16/2009
No, there isn't. But "Gringo" has plenty of a few other things, including a burning hatred for America, a desire for radical socialist revolution, and the promotion of Venezuela as a model civilization. Let's move through each country Chesa visits, and learn about the man as we go.
The book begins with his trip to a Spanish immersion program in Guatemala during high school. Newly arrived in the country, he walks past a factory and logs:
The sweatshops I saw that day…were one of the faces of neoliberalism that defined the economic landscape I was travelling through. Guatemala, like many countries across the global south at the time, was part of the "Washington Consensus", a partnership with American-based financial institutions like the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund…this resulted in such disastrous economic performance that the 1980s became known as the "lost decade" in Latin America.
A few points here. First, his views parrot exactly those of his terrorist parents. The Weather Underground was founded to fight against so called "American Imperialism". The apple doesn't fall far from the tree.
Second, as their names imply, the World Bank and International Monetary Fund are not American institutions, but global organizations with the majority of the world's countries as members.
Third, the "disastrous economic performance" in Latin America in the 1980s was due mostly to local governments' behavior in the 1970s. Here's how former Chairman of the Federal Reserve Ben Bernanke, who has just slightly more economic expertise than Chesa, explains it:
[Latin American] Governments had run up large amounts of external debt in the 1970s in an attempt to maintain growth in the face of oil price shocks and macroeconomic mismanagement at home. But in 1982, during a period of high real interest rates and slow growth around the globe, Mexico briefly defaulted on its debt, an event that marked the beginning of the debt crisis of the 1980s. The crisis effectively closed off the region's access to international credit.
In reality, bad luck, poor management, and too much debt lead to this "lost decade". In Chesaworld, it was all the America's fault.
What else in Guatemala is America to blame for? Well, pretty much everything.
You might find it a stretch to blame the bad teeth people in poor countries like Guatemala have on America, but Chesa finds away. The culprits? Pepsi and Coke. Chesa sees ads for these in the country, and surmises omnisciently that these imperialist companies have "left even young children's teeth rotten, while adults had more metal caps than I'd seen anywhere outside rap videos."
Chesa moves in with his host local family, and immediately begins indoctrinating them on the evils of the US, boring them to tears:
I regularly sought conversation about the tragic history that decades of brutal civil war, unleashed by a United State-supported coup, had visited on the country. But whenever I tried initiating a discussion about President Jacobo Arbenz and the role of the CIA in overthrowing him back in 1954, my host family and their friends seemed uninterested.
Really, Chesa? Nobody cared about a rich teenager, lucky enough to have been born in the US, slumming it with a poor host family while espousing anti-American theories? No irony there. I bet you were fun at parties.
In Chesaworld, every shortcoming in Guatemala can be tied back to the US. Poor diet and environmental damage? Yup, America's fault:
High-quality meat was being produced locally, often on land that had been cleared of jungle using slash-and-burn techniques, with all the attendant environmental problems. But this was too expensive for locals and was shipped to Guatemala City – or more often to the United States.
So, what do we know so far? That Chesa, just like his four parents, really doesn't like the US.
Having diagnosed the ills of Guatemala, Chesa returns to Chicago, and heads off to college, where he does a study abroad program in Chile.
Terroist leanings in Chile
Chesa visits Chile in 2001. He spends his time there feeling guilty for being American:
Many Chilean military officials implicated in the [1973 Pinochet] coup, torture, and human rights abuses were trained the US….Even though I wasn't born at the time of the atrocities, I felt connected to them, and somehow implicated.
Pinochet's coup and the downfall of Chile's democratic socialist experiment had represented a victory for United States imperialism and corporate profits. It was hard not to feel a sense of shame for the role the US government and the CIA played in supporting the Pinochet dictatorship….
Here, stunningly, Chesa praises his parents' terrorist activities in the US:
But I took solace in the fact that my family, unlike other study abroad students I knew in Chile, had taken action in support of Chilean democracy, against the coup and their own government's disgraceful role in it.
What actions is Chesa praising here? It was around this time that his parents' terrorist organization was bombing both the US Capitol and the Pentagon, Osama Bin Laden-style. And it's here that he gives us the quote at the top of this post, about the benefits of armed struggle.
For the record, the US had no direct role in the Pinochet coup, though it did support elements against Marxist Salvadore Allende, after he joined forces with the USSR and threatened to nationalize US companies operating legally there.
What we learned: America does horrible things, and violent responses, like those of his parents, are probably ok.
Venezuela: The Promised Land
I'll spare you quotes from Chesa's travels through Argentina, but suffice to say the US, the CIA, and the IMF and really, really, bad actors responsible for every malady in the country.
In his next adventure, worthy of a brief mention, Chesa travels to Brazil in 2003, thrilled at the election of Socialist President Luiz Lula.
I was excited by the prospect of a country as powerful as Brazil having a progressive, working class president.
Unfortunately, Lula didn't ultimately seem radical enough for Chesa's tastes:
Lula would ultimately disappoint many of those on the traditional Brazil left with conservative economic policies and good relations with Washington…
Ask yourself: which parts of the global community see good relations with America as a bad thing? Yet these are the people Chesa aligns himself with repeatedly in the book.
Lula, incidentally, was later sentenced to 10 years in prison for corruption and money laundering.
Finally, in 2006, Chesa lands in Venezuela, then in the process of transforming its country from a market economy into the type of socialist paradise Chesa admires so much.
Chesa isn't one to let ignorance stop him, as long as radical politics are on the menu:
I knew almost noting about the Chavez government except that it purported to represent power to the people, wealth redistribution, and anti-imperialist global south regionalism, which sounded like worthy goals to me.
Chesa gets caught up in Chavez destructively unique brand of socialism:
One of Chavez's central themes was that to end poverty, power had to be given to the poor. That simple concept made sense in a revolutionary kind of way, and I wondered why I hadn't heard it articulated so concisely before.
Before long, he actually joins the Chavez administration as a translator. He realizes, to his delight, that he's playing an active role in the type of socialist revolution his parents could only dream (or perhaps bomb) about:
I had heard plenty of of criticisms of export-oriented neoliberal economies before…rarely had they put forward alternative models on a national scale, and the had never, to my knowledge, been seriously debated within the inner circles of a head of state….Venezuela seemed like the perfect country to try and imagine and implement an alternative system.
These must have been heady times for our young radical:
I took to signing my emails to friends and family "in the belly of the revolution"
While the Chavez administration was typically suspicious of Americans, Chesa had the ultimate revolutionary pedigree.
I had found one of the few places on the planet where having parents in prison in the United States for politically motivated crimes actually opened doors rather than closed them.
Tip: when you find yourself working for any organization that glorifies Americans in jail for murder, it may be time to seek other employment.
Chesa believed so deeply in the socialist revolution in Venezuela that he co-authored a book on the subject:
And translated another of Chavez's speeches:
The results of Chesa and Chavez's radical socialist policies were predictable and depressing. Paragraph 3 of his Wikipedia article says it all.
What we learned: Chesa loves the radical socialism of Chavez's Venezuela.
Colombia, and wrapping up
A couple of years later, Chesa heads down to Colombia, to survey the awful damage the US has wrought on the country:
President Uribe, a darling of the US State Department, has a sordid history. His popularity in Washington as a conservative, pro-United States neoliberal….
That association with America, the Great Satan, is all Chesa needs to know to condemn him. In a meeting in Colombia, Chesa condemns the US in sweeping terms:
I was self-conscious of our position as the only two representatives from the United States, a country that, directly or indirectly, had fueled the violence in all of the Latin American countries represented in our solemn gathering.
Who makes such statements, besides terrorists and deeply misguided radicals? Chesa is one of the two.
The book continues in the same way. His next trip is to Ecuador, where, of course:
United States oriented economic policies, particularity the dollarization of the economy, had totally undermined the area's traditional sustenance farming economy.
Probably not a bad thing – "sustenance farming" doesn't seem like much of a life. But Chesa can't resist a dig at the US.
Back in Venezuela in 2006, Chesa continues with his now-familiar tirades against the US. Just one example, which succinctly sums up Chesa's world view:
Maybe if we "estadounidenses" [Americans] did a better job of making sure our tax dollars didn't go toward undermining democratic experiments or overthrowing or destabilizing governments unwilling to adhere to US policy imperatives, people in countries like Venezuela could do a better job resolving their own internal problems.
You get the idea. No shortcoming of any country is anyone's fault but ours.
At the end of the book, a 28 year old Chesa is living in New York City, but keeps a close eye on his hero down south:
I followed from afar as Chavez introduced a new currency, removed price controls on milk, and successfully brokered the release of hostages held for years in Columbia.
What we learned: The usual. America, Bad. Venezuela, Good.
"Gringo" gives us plenty of insights into the mind of a young, revolutionary radical. Will Chesa take up bombing government buildings in the hopes of destroying the "Imperialist America" he despises? It's hard to say, but the fact that we even have to consider the question makes you wonder if Chesa Boudin is the right person to head criminal prosecutions, acting on behalf of the government, in San Francisco.
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Well written. It's also worth checking out the 2002 documentary called 'The Weather Underground'. They were responsible for a number of bombings around San Francisco.
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Might be worth pointing out the other (Democrat-led) petition to recall Boudin, at safersfwithoutboudin.com
I guess the thinking is that a recall effort led by Republicans is bound to fail in SF, which is why a group of Democrats started their own.
Steve Adams says:
Liberal New Yorkers voted for (fellow liberal) Mike Bloomberg, who ran as a Republican.
I guess voters are smarter than to be scared off by such labels, especially when they aren't true.
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Q: TypeError: unhashable type: 'list' - creating frequency function I am taking a text file as an input and creating a function that counts which word occurs most frequently. If 2 or more words occur most frequent and are equal I will print all of those words.
def wordOccurance(userFile):

    userFile.seek(0)
    line = userFile.readline()
    lines = []
    while line != "":
        if line != "\n":
            line = line.lower() # making lower case
            line = line.rstrip("\n") # cleaning
            line = line.rstrip("?") #cleans the whole docoument by removing "?"
            line = line.rstrip("!") #cleans the whole docoument by removing "!"
            line = line.rstrip(".") #cleans the whole docoument by removing "."
            line = line.split(" ") #splits the texts into space
            lines.append(line)
        line = userFile.readline() # keep reading lines from document.

    words = lines

    wordDict = {} #creates the clean word Dic, from above
    for word in words: #
        if word in wordDict.keys():
            wordDict[word] = wordDict[word] + 1
        else:
           wordDict[word] = 1

    largest_value = max(wordDict.values())

    for k in wordDict.keys():
        if wordDict[k] == largest_value:
            print(k)

    return wordDict

Please help me with this function.

A: In this line you are creating a list of strings:
line = line.split(" ") #splits the texts into space

Then you append it to a list, so you have a list of lists:
lines.append(line)

Later you loop through that list of lists, and try to use a sublist as a key:
for word in words: #
    if word in wordDict.keys():
        wordDict[word] = wordDict[word] + 1
    else:
       wordDict[word] = 1  # Here you will try to assign a list (`word`) as a key, which is not allowed

One easy fix would be to flatten the list of lists first:
words = [item for sublist in lines for item in sublist]

for word in words: #
    if word in wordDict.keys():
        wordDict[word] = wordDict[word] + 1
    else:
       wordDict[word] = 1

The list comprehension [item for sublist in lines for item in sublist] will loop through lines, then loop through the sublists created by line.split(" ") and return a new list consisting of the items in each sublist. For you, lines probably looks something like this:
[['words', 'on', 'line', 'one'], ['words', 'on', 'line', 'two']]

The list comprehension will turn it into this:
['words', 'on', 'line', 'one', 'words', 'on', 'line', 'two']

If you would like to use something a little less complicated, you could just use nested loops:
    # words = lines
    # just use `lines` in your for loop instead of creating an identical list

    wordDict = {} #creates the clean word Dic, from above
    for line in lines:
        for word in line:
            if word in wordDict.keys():
                wordDict[word] = wordDict[word] + 1
            else:
                wordDict[word] = 1

    largest_value = max(wordDict.values())

This will probably be a little less efficient and/or "Pythonic", but it will probably be easier to wrap your head around.
Also, you may want to consider splitting each line into words before cleaning the data, because if you clean the lines first, you will only remove punctuation at the end of lines rather than at the end of words. However, this might not be necessary depending on the nature of your data.

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Kelai Pharmaceutical Announces Research Partnership with Ric Scalzo Institute of Botanical Research
by Kelai Pharmaceutical May 31, 2022
San Diego, CA – Southwest College of Naturopathic Medicine & Health Sciences' (SCNM) Ric Scalzo Institute for Botanical Research is a 4,285 square-foot Biosafety Level 2 Lab (BSL-2) Viral Culture, Cell Culture, and Molecular Bioassay lab coupled with a compound isolation laboratory and compound identification and quantification facility located on the Southwest College of Naturopathic Medicine campus in Tempe, Arizona. The Institute's team of researchers is led by Molecular Biologist, Jeffrey Langland, who is the Chair of the Research Department at SCNM, and who also holds an appointment at Arizona State University.
The Institute began working in collaboration with Kelai Pharmaceutical ("Kelai") in April on a project investigating the in vitro activity of Kava (Piper methysticum G. Forst), including the toxicity of various fractions of the extract, traditional water extractions, and ethanol extracts for cellular toxicity and interactions with the CYP450A enzyme system for hepatoxicity and exploring various mechanisms of action for anxiolytic properties.
Kelai Pharmaceutical specializes in the development of advanced drug delivery (ADD) technologies that utilize natural compounds to create safer, more effective, and innovative therapies for addiction, mental health disorders, and related conditions
"We are particularly excited about starting the discovery partnership with the Ric Scalzo Institute for Botanical Research that builds on a rich traditional use of Kava. We see this as the platform for accelerating our forward-looking research and discoveries around Kava," said Jacqueline Jacques, ND, Chief Executive Officer, Kelai Pharmaceutical. "Kelai will be the first company in the world to have this depth and knowledge regarding the bioactivity of kavalactones. We intend to validate existing theories about kava and discover new therapeutic targets."
"It has already been an exciting few months of discoveries since research began at the Institute," said Dr. Langland. "It is a privilege to work here and have the resources and support to continue this important work to further the use of evidence-based botanical medicine that uses responsible sourcing worldwide."
When considering botanical material for research, the team analyzes the plant's background, supply chain, ethnobotanical history, and relevant clinical data. Because a therapeutic botanical made for mass distribution must have a sustainable supply chain for a responsible product to be developed, sourcing considerations are incorporated with ethical guidelines. The partnership between the two companies will accelerate research and development of botanical medicines.
About Southwest College of Naturopathic Medicine & Health Sciences
SCNM is a school of medicine and health sciences grounded in naturopathic principles. Its vision is a world that embraces the healing power of nature. For more information on the Ric Scalzo Institute for Botanical Research, visit scnm.edu/research.
About Kelai Pharmaceutical
Kelai Pharmaceutical is a U.S.-based pharmaceutical company that brings together powerful natural molecules with patented Advanced Drug Delivery technology to create safe and effective new treatments for addiction and mental health disorders. As a strategic joint venture created by Thorne HealthTech and Mycrodose Therapeutics, Kelai leverages the resources, intellectual property, and human capital of both companies to focus on lean drug development and innovation geared toward safe and effective new treatments for mental health and addiction.
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Jacqueline Jacques ND, Chief Executive Officer
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A Tipperary hotel has been shortlisted for a national award.
Mulcahy's on Gladstone Street in Clonmel will fly the flag for the Premier County in the 2018 Great Carvery Competition.
They are among the best pub and hotel carveries across Munster who will compete for the Island of Ireland culinary title in their category.
They're up against the Rochestown Park Hotel in Cork and the Castle Hotel in Macroom for the Munster crown.
The provincial winners will be announced on September 10th followed by the crowning of the overall KNORR Great Carvery Hotel and Pub of the Year titles on the 21st.


The social media marketing agency hired by General Motors to increase the auto giant's online presence has opened a new office in Detroit and upped its hiring, technology blog Mashable reported Monday.
The company, Big Fuel, currently has about 15 people at its Detroit office, CEO Avi Savar said, and is looking to double that number by March.
The agency has another 80 people in New York.
Savar said he hopes to have a staff of more than 200 by the end of 2011.
Big Fuel was brought on by GM about three months ago. The agency has not yet created any campaigns for GM, but Savar said a few are set to launch in January, including one for the Chevrolet Cruze called "Cruze-arati" that gives Cruzes to people who have big followings on social media.


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>> HOME > REVIEWS > The War of the Worlds
8:15 PM, October 30th, 1938, the night before Halloween, millions of people worldwide crowded around their radios to listen to the Columbia Broadcasting System's 17th installment of Orson Welles and The Mercury Theater on the Air.
The broadcast for that night was to be an adaptation of H.G. Wells' The War of the Worlds. It began simple enough with the announcer introducing Orson Welles and Welles beginning with an opening monologue from the book.
What happened next though was nothing short of historic. After the short introduction, the show changed into what seemed to be a routine broadcast of the time, live music from a club in New York City. This was interrupted repeatedly by breaking news of strange phenomena on the planet Mars. Those who tuned in late or were not paying attention thought they were listening to CBS' regular broadcast. Even some of those who were paying attention were duped into believing they were no longer listening to the regularly scheduled broadcast.
Reports of strange explosions on Mars and mysterious flaming objects flying through the sky interjected the music. These were followed by reports of, what scientists concluded, were meteors hitting the Earth. On the scene broadcasts in Grover's Mill, New Jersey, where one of these 'meteors' impacted, described an object that was definitely not a meteor and potentially of extraterrestrial origin.
It was soon discovered that these objects were Martian spacecraft and full of Martians and their machines bent on attacking the people of Earth. Over 1,500 were reported killed from the Martian's heat rays and gas weapons near Princeton, New Jersey.
The effect of all this was a hysteria like no other gripping the nation and the Atlantic seaboard in particular. Despite the radio listing stating that it was a dramatization and several announcements as such during the broadcast, thousands of people fled their homes to escape what they thought was certain death at the hands of the Martians. Telephone operators in the United States and Canada were flooded with calls to the police, newspapers, and radio stations begging for confirmation and information on how to survive the attacks.
People called to ask in which direction to flee the city? Was it safer in the basement or on the roof during a gas attack? People showed up at their local police stations barely dressed yet ready to be evacuated to safety. In the Welles broadcast 7,000 New Jersey National Guardsmen were mobilized, which prompted numerous calls from guardsmen asking where they should report.
Power distribution problems shortly before the broadcast amplified the terror in the New Jersey area where lights flickered and dimmed and caused problems with radio reception.
All over the US people huddled together in the streets wondering what they could do in the face of the terrible Martian threat. People in San Francisco thought New York was near destruction and the Martians would soon be heading west. A woman ran into a church in Indianapolis screaming, "New York destroyed; it's the end of the world. You might as well go home to die. I just heard it over the radio."
In the end the Martians... well, if you haven't heard the broadcast on one of the many anniversary broadcasts what are you waiting for?? Get out there and get a copy of the broadcast that caused a nation wide panic and find out for yourself.
I'll end this review with Orson Welles' ending monologue from The War of the Worlds broadcast because it sums up the entire broadcast better than anything I could write about it. After you read it I hope that you'll take the time to listen to this wonderful broadcast for the first or 101st time.
"This is Orson Welles ladies and gentlemen. Out of character, to assure you that the War of the Worlds has no further significance than as the holiday offering it was intended to be. The Mercury Theater's own radio version of dressing up in a sheet and jumping out of a bush and saying boo.
Starting now we couldn't soap all your windows and steal all your garden gates, by tomorrow night so we did the best next thing. We annihilated the world before your very ears and utterly destroyed the CBS. You will be relieved I hope to learn that we didn't mean it, and that both institutions are still open for business.
So goodbye everybody and remember please for the next day or so the terrible lesson you learned tonight. That grinning, glowing, globular invader of your living room is an inhabitant of the punkin patch and if your doorbell rings and nobody's there, that was no Martian, it's Halloween."
The Radio Spirit, Complete & Unedited version of The War of the Worlds starring Orson Welles runs 59:18 minutes on one CD and is available direct from Radio Spirit, Inc. through the link below.
Purchase your CD copy of The War of the Worlds today!
Reviewed by: Hauntmaster 7/13/2003


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The Complaints
Paying The Price Talk about ethics charges! Breaking the rules will cost Newt Gingrich $300,000. By Richard Lacayo/TIME
Newt's Day Of Deliverance But an intercepted cellular call gives him and the Democrats more ethical problems. By George J. Church/TIME
Newt's Influence Slips Away Gingrich worked the phone hard to save his job, but no matter what the outcome of the vote for Speaker, his influence is already greatly diminished. By Richard Lacayo/TIME
Ethics Committee Hearing Transcript, Jan. 17, 1997
Download or read special counsel James Cole's full report.
The House Ethics Committee Report
House Ethics Manual
Newt Gingrich's Dec. 21, 1996 Statement
GOPAC
Newt Gingrich's Sixth District Home Page
The Official Friends of Newt Gingrich
CQ: David Bonior Biography
CQ: Newt Gingrich Biography
CQ: Nancy Johnson Biography
Gingrich's Ethics
Of more than 70 complaints filed against Gingrich, two are still pending:
Did Gingrich improperly finance his college course and televised town meetings? Filed Sept. 7, 1994, by former Rep. Ben Jones (D-Ga.), the complaint alleges Gingrich violated federal law by using tax-deductible donations to finance his college courses, "Renewing American Civilization," which he taught between 1993 and 1995 at two Georgia colleges. It was backed by Kennesaw State College Foundation, Reinhardt College and the Progress and Freedom Foundation, all tax-exempt organizations. A second project was televised town hall meeting, developed by GOPAC and backed by the Abraham Lincoln Opportunity Foundation, a charity to benefit urban youths.
Download or read the special counsel's report.
The ethics committee did not find that Gingrich broke the law, but said he should have sought legal advice on the propriety of using tax-exempt funds for his courses, which the committee found supported GOPAC's goals. Plus, the committee noted Gingrich provided "inaccurate, incomplete, and unreliable" information to the committee, while not accusing him of lying. The committee found Gingrich guilty of House ethics violations which "did not reflect creditably on the House of Representatives."
The speaker is not off the hook yet legally, however, as the Internal Revenue Service is conducting its own investigation.
Did Gingrich accept improper gifts from GOPAC? Filed Jan. 31, 1996, by Democratic Reps. David Bonior (Mich.), Pat Schroeder (Colo.), George Miller (Calif.), Rosa De Lauro (Conn.), and John Lewis (Ga.), the complaint alleges Gingrich took improper gifts and contributions from GOPAC, a political action committee he used to control. The ethics committee has yet to rule on the complaint.
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Habitat distribution modeling reveals vegetation flammability and land use as drivers of wildfire in SW Patagonia
Paritsis, J and Holz, A and VEblen, TT and Kitzberger, T, Habitat distribution modeling reveals vegetation flammability and land use as drivers of wildfire in SW Patagonia, Ecosphere, 4, (5) Article 53. ISSN 2150-8925 (2013) [Refereed Article]
Copyright 2013 Paritsis et al. Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
DOI: doi:10.1890/ES12-00378.1
Despite important recent advances in modeling current and future global fire activity in relation to biophysical predictors there remain important uncertainties about finer-scale spatial heterogeneity of fire and especially about human influences which are typically assessed at coarse-spatial resolutions. The purpose of the current study is to quantify the influence of biophysical and anthropogenic variables on the spatial distribution of wildfire activity between 1984 and 2010 over an extensive southern Patagonian-Andean region from ca. 43° to 53° S extending from coastal rainforests to xeric woodland and steppe.
We used satellite imagery to map all detectable fires >5 ha from 1984 to 2010 in four study areas (each of 13,100 to 36,635 km2) and field checked 65 of these burns for accuracy of burned vegetation class and fire perimeters. Then, we used the MaxEnt modeling technique to assess the relationships of wildfire distributions to biophysical and human environmental variables in each of the four regions. The 232 fires >5 ha mapped in the four study areas accounted for an area of 1,314 km2 indicating that at least 1.8% of the total area burned between 1984 and 2010. In general, areas with intermediate productivity levels (e.g., shrublands) have higher fire probability compared with areas of low and high productivity levels, such as steppe and wet forests, respectively. There is a marked contrast in the flammability of broad vegetation classes in determining fire activity at a regional scale, as well as a strong spatial relationship of wildfires to anthropogenic variables. The juxtaposition of fire-resistant tall forests with fire-prone shrublands and woodlands creates the potential for positive feedbacks from human-set fires to gradually increase the flammability of extensive landscapes through repeated burning. Distance to roads and settlements were also strong predictors, suggesting that fire in all regions is ignition-limited. However, these anthropogenic predictors influenced probability of fire differently among study regions depending on their main land-use practices and their past and present socioeconomic contexts.
human-ignition, Landsat, MaxEnt, Nothofagus, shrubland, spatial fire prediction, vegetation flammability, wildfire
Ecological Applications
Ecosystem Assessment and Management
Ecosystem Assessment and Management of Forest and Woodlands Environments
Holz, A (Dr Andres Holz)


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