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These are the city employees, contractor killed in Virginia Beach Municipal Center shooting
By: CNN Wire , WTVR Web Staff
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. -- One was a man who'd worked with Virginia Beach's public utilities department for 41 years. Another was a contractor who was just in the building to file for a permit.
Officials released the names Saturday of 12 people who were killed in Friday afternoon's shooting at Building 2 of the Virginia Beach Municipal Center.
All but one were employees of the city of Virginia Beach, City Manager Dave Hansen said.
The 12 slain were:
Laquita C. Brown
The Chesapeake resident was a right-of-way agent who worked 4½ years for Virginia Beach's public works department.
Tara Welch Gallagher
The Virginia Beach resident was an engineer who worked six years for the city's public works department.
Mary Louise Gayle
The Virginia Beach resident was a right-of-way agent who worked 24 years for the city's public works department.
Alexander Mikhail Gusev
The Virginia Beach resident was a right-of-way agent who worked nine years for the city's public works department.
Katherine A. Nixon
The Virginia Beach resident was an engineer who worked 10 years for the city's public utilities department.
Richard H. Nettleton
The Norfolk resident was an engineer who worked 28 years for Virginia Beach's public utilities department.
Christopher Kelly Rapp
The Powhatan resident was an engineer who had worked 11 months in Virginia Beach's public works department.
Members of Tidewater Pipes & Drums on Saturday remembered him in a Facebook post.
"Chris recently moved to Virginia Beach and immediately joined the band after learning how to play the bagpipes from our friends in the Greater Richmond Pipes & Drums," the post said. "He was quiet but had a passion for the pipes and Scottish culture."
"Peace be with his wife, Bessie, and their loved ones," the band members added.
Ryan Keith Cox
The Virginia Beach resident was an account clerk who worked 12½ years in the public utilities department.
His brother, Ervin, posted photos and remembered him on Facebook.
"My heart is hurting because my baby brother was murdered today by the shooter in Virginia Beach mass shooting," he wrote.
"I won't hears his beautiful singing voice at church or home anymore. I loved my brother and will truly miss his caring soul. Until we meet again in heaven."
Joshua O. Hardy
Hardy lived in Virginia Beach and worked as an engineering technician for 4½ years in the city's public utilities department.
Michelle 'Missy' Langer
The Virginia Beach resident was an administrative assistant who worked 12 years in the public utilities department.
Robert 'Bobby' Williams
The Chesapeake resident was a special projects coordinator who worked 41 years in Virginia Beach's public utilities department.
Herbert 'Bert' Snelling
The Virginia Beach resident was a contractor who was trying to fill a permit at the time of the shooting.
Virginia Beach Mayor Bobby Dyer told CNN that Snelling was a friend of his. He said he was devastated to learn on social media around midnight about his death.
"He started off as a carpenter that did work at (my) house, and then he became a friend. We socialized," Dyer said.
"He was just such a great guy. He was a consummate professional. He did great work. ... This really hits home with me."
They had met five years. A home repair job turned into happy hours and friendship. Their wives got together.
"It's just such a sense of loss and this didn't have to happen," he said.
Hansen told reporters Saturday that he'd worked with most of the slain, and that he'd served in the US military with Nettleton in Germany.
"They leave a void that we will never be able to fill," the city manager said.
Depend on WTVR.com and CBS 6 News for complete coverage of this developing story. Check back with WTVR.com and watch CBS 6 News for updates.
The CNN Wire contributed to this report.


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Маточник может означать:
 Маточник — ячейка сота особой формы, служащая для вывода пчелиной матки.
 Маточник — инструмент для производства первой, грубой винтовой нарезки в отверстии, метчик.
 Маточник — термин в нумизматике.
 В ботанике
 Маточник — русское название растения «шлемник обыкновенный».
 Маточник — русское название растения «мелисса».
 Маточник — русское название растения «иван-чай узколистный».
 Маточник — региональное название растения «белокопытник лекарственный».
 Маточник — одно из названий растения «пижма обыкновенная».
 Маточник — одно из названий растения «змееголовник».
 Маточник — у растений — часть пестика, завязь.
 В сельском хозяйстве
 Маточник — специально подготовленная клеточка, гнёздышко для помещения в него матки из строившейся семьи пчёл
 Маточник — помещение для содержания маток домашнего скота.
 Маточник — работник, ухаживающий в животноводческом хозяйстве за матками.
 Маточник — растение, корнеплоды и т. п., используемые для выращивания новых растений.
 Маточник — участок, где растут семенники или саженцы каких-либо растений.

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washingtonpost.com > Arts & Living
Jon Stewart's 'Daily Show' interview with President Obama scores big ratings
Big draw: Barack Obama has given Jon Stewart's "Daily Show" its first- and second-biggest audiences ever. (Charles Dharapak/associated Press)
By Lisa de Moraes
Just under 3 million people watched "The Daily Show's" Jon Stewart interview President Obama on Wednesday night -- the Comedy Central late-night show's third-biggest audience ever.
The two bigger episodes?
Both back in '08 -- when Stewart interviewed presidential candidate Obama (3.58 million viewers) and, separately, when he interviewed future first lady Michelle Obama (2.92 million).
Stewart conducted the groundbreaking interview in Washington -- he's here all week, getting ready for the Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear on Saturday.
"Groundbreaking how?"
We're glad you asked.
"The Daily Show" says that it was the first time in the history of the Comedy Central show that an episode consisted of a guest interview for the whole show.
It was also the first time a sitting president was called "dude" during an interview -- which was discussed, dissected, analyzed and tsk-tsked.
But, wait, there's more!
We're all but certain that it's the first time a sitting president has had to wade through two long commercial breaks in the course of being interviewed. Two very long ad breaks.
And we're absolutely positive that it's the first time a network has put a sitting president in the position of immediately following a promo for its show "Pretend Time," in which two cherubic children see a "vomiting" bald-headed tiny man's "head" pop out from the zipper of a man's pants causing the children to shout happily, "Mr. Creepy!"
Nicely played, Comedy Central!

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District court dismisses claims against Kinder Morgan pipeline project
Travis County District Court has dismissed all claims made against Kinder Morgan's Permian Highway Pipeline project.
The project is a $2 billion project that will help provide the infrastructure needed to allow further development of the Permian Basin in West Texas by providing an outlet for increased Permian natural gas production to growing market areas along the Texas Gulf Coast and Hill Country area.
The district court ruled that the Texas Railroad Commission is not required to set standards for routing the pipelines or private land-takings. The decision removes a challenge to the state's licensing process that lets gas pipeline companies determine their own route and acquire land without a landowner's consent.
Kinder Morgan says that the route has been carefully evaluated to minimise potential impacts to the environment and landowners, while also being cost-effective and constructible.
Tom Martin, president of natural gas pipelines for KMI, says: 'Kinder Morgan is very pleased with the ruling made by the Travis County District Court. The court's finding validates the process established in Texas for the development of natural gas utility projects, as well as the steps we have taken to comply with that process. We will continue to engage all stakeholders as we work to complete PHP.'
Once complete the pipeline project will transport up to 2.1 billion cubic feet per day of dry natural gas through 430 miles of 42-inch pipeline from the Waha, Texas area to the Katy, Texas area, Texas Gulf Coast markets and Hill Country area.


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Something that most of you probably don't know about me is that I am afraid of fire. Truly. When I was younger I somehow lit my hair on fire once or twice, and since then I just haven't been a fan.
I do however like scented candles. They smell good. But because of my fear of fire we rarely have any in our home. So when I heard about Flameless Candles from Enjoy Lighting, I just had to try them!
Flameless Candles are similar to other scented candles in that they come in a variety of scents, colors, and textures. But instead of being lit by flame, the enjoy lighting candles contain led lights and are powered by batteries.
Inexpensive - LED Lights will last up to 10 years or 100,000 hours. Batteries do have to be changed but they can last up to 300 hours.
To Buy - Flamessless Candles can be found at a variety of places and price varies by store. They would be great for tight spaces in homes, wedding decor, or any other place a traditional candle wouldn't be recommended.
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1st Mandatory Entry - Go to EnjoyLighting.com and then come back and tell me what candle you would love to win.
Giveaway ends May 23rd 2011 @ 11:59 PM MST. This contest is open to residents of the U.S. The winner will be selected at random.org and then announced on my blog and contacted via email. The winner will then have 48 hours to respond before a new winner is selected. Note - Enjoy Lighting will not give or send candles to winners of past Enjoy Lighting blog reviews and giveaways.
I like the Distressed Textured Colors...super cute!
I emailed a few friends and family about the giveaway; hoping they enter as well!
ooh the distressed brown (roasted hazelnut) sounds divine!
I'd love the Ivory Smooth Vanilla Scented Wax Pillars.
I entered your Janey-Mac Wall Decals giveaway.
I like the Cranberry Mottled Pillars.
I entered this before the 13th, but the comment disappeared. I like the Cranberry Mottled Pillars – Bayberry Fragrance best!
I'd love to try the Burgundy – Pomegranate Passion.
I would love to win the Cocoa Brown Mottled Pillars – Sandalwood Fragrance!
I like Enjoy Lighting on facebook!
I also entered the Kidtoons giveaway!


The City of San José does not provide marriage licenses. Marriage licenses may be obtained from the Office of the County Clerk-Recorder with the County of Santa Clara. For more information, please visit the Office of the County Clerk-Recorder.
Civil wedding services are non-religious legal marriage ceremonies performed by a government official or registrar. The City of San José does not have officiants or a registrar to preside over wedding ceremonies. Couples may either provide their own officiant for their wedding ceremony at City Hall or schedule a time with the County of Santa Clara to have a designated officiant provided to them.
Couples may schedule with the Santa Clara County Clerk-Recorder's office to have a civil wedding ceremony held in a private and decorated ceremony room. Ceremonies are scheduled from Tuesday through Friday between the hours of 10:30am and 3:40pm. For more information, visit the County website.
The Rotunda at San José City Hall can serve as your wedding destination for ceremonies and/or receptions. The structure is a modern architectural beauty stretching 110 feet high with terrazzo flooring and glass surroundings flowing with natural light. The building is like a blank canvas lending itself to any wedding design.
or call 408.535.1248. Site visits are scheduled Monday through Friday between 9am and 5pm.


In the below interview, Katherine Lam from HP ArcSight outlines some of the most prominent security threats emerging in the IT space today, and offers expert advice for organizations looking to overcome the security challenges they face as enterprise data volumes continue to grow.
Q. As Cloud Computing, Mobile, and Big Data continue to evolve, what are you seeing as the biggest IT Security threats emerging today?
As organizations continue to move toward hosted applications through SaaS or cloud models that reside outside their security infrastructure, data and information about who accesses the data becomes lost.
In order to tackle evolving security threats, businesses need to gain unique and actionable security intelligence from Big Data and third-party applications delivered through the cloud.
Most enterprises have established security and risk management policies and have invested in security systems. But, as threats have become more "industrialized", it is critical that the ability to identify, protect, and remediate threats evolve as well.
Understanding what data capabilities become critical in a cloud environment is key.
In addition, mobile devices have changed the way people interact with businesses, pushing applications from the data center and making the data available in the cloud. As applications become the main attack vector, strong security measures need to be implemented in order to protect business services accessed by mobile devices.
Devices get lost. Devices are stolen. This is not new and will certainly continue, but with the proliferation of mobile computing, the effort that organizations put into securing vulnerabilities introduced by lost or stolen devices has become more important.
Encryption on corporate computers is now standard protocol for most Fortune 500 companies. Ten years ago the news was filled with stories of data lost from stolen PC's. This has been reduced, in part because of legislative requirements, but also because corporations have learned their lessons the hard way. However, these same standards are not applied to mobile devices, and in the age of "Bring Your Own Device" (BYOD) to work, this is still a critical problem that needs attention.
The rate of mobile vulnerabilities continues to increase rapidly, rising 68% from 2011 to 2012. In addition, 48% of mobile apps tested in 2012 gave unauthorized access to the data stored on the device (HP Cyber Risk Report, 2012).
Q. How has Cloud Computing changed the way we need to look at IT Security?
A. As enterprises adopt cloud computing, compliance and data access control become barriers, as the extended infrastructure creates an additional attack surface, making it difficult for companies to manage their risk.
Most enterprises have established security and risk management policies. But, as threats have become more industrialized and market-driven, it is critical that the ability to identify, protect, and remediate threats evolve as well.
In order to manage risk for an enterprise using cloud, having visibility into the actions of the users, the applications and the data is key. Visibility with context brings understanding, which becomes critical in a cloud environment.
A. Enterprise Data that is stored on devices, which may belong to the user (BYOD), and where the enterprise has no management over the end-point, represents the most significant challenge—and the most risk.
Mobile devices, especially BYOD, and public Wi-Fi networks are inherently insecure. Additional security controls are required to protect IT infrastructure (server) and business applications.
data that is transmitted outside of the walls of the enterprise. A risk-based strategy is essential where the data is encrypted, the architecture is secured, security events are correlated, and threats are continuously monitored relative to business risk.
Mobile environments can be complex and introduce new vulnerabilities to the enterprise. Is your view of compliance and policies as dynamic as the environment it measures? More importantly, if attacked, could you identify the source and stop it from happening again?
Q. How is HP Autonomy currently working to help organizations overcome the security challenges they face as enterprise data volumes continue to grow by the day?
A. HP recently announced the integration of the security information and event management (SIEM) capabilities of HP ArcSight with the HP Autonomy IDOL content engine. The new solution helps organizations automatically recognize the context, concepts, sentiments and usage patterns related to how people interact with data.
Meaning-based security connects the dots between massive data stores to paint a picture of what is actually happening. The integration between HP ArcSight and HP Autonomy IDOL is able to make sense of and process unstructured, 'human information,' and creates business value from that meaning. It provides sophisticated identification techniques to improve the contextual understanding of all content types, including social media and audio. Embracing traditional legacy methods such as keyword, Boolean and parametric search, as well advanced, proven techniques such as conceptual and contextual search, HP's approach enables clients to manage, quickly find and easily visualize relevant information. Automatic clustering and hyperlinking of data provides advanced visualization capabilities to speed the investigation process and the certifying of threats and culprits.
Q. In your opinion, what sets HP Autonomy's data protection solutions aside from other solutions on the market today?
- Create meaningful context to a security event that no other solution can. For example, if a bad IP address is discovered on the network.
Today, HP protects more than 200 petabytes of data each year and the unique combination of these two technologies extends security monitoring that no other solution can.
Q. Can you please give us a few customer examples of how HP Autonomy's security solutions are being successfully implemented today?
It is very difficult to protect data in today's hybrid enterprise. You can lose data through multiple transport channels and devices and even well-meaning internal users may inadvertently leak data.
When a user generates an "information" related event, like sending an email or accessing a file, an event will be generated and sent to HP ArcSight ESM. Now, that we have ESM connected with Autonomy IDOL, it will query IDOL for the context behind the event. IDOL will send back to ESM a full set of information properties like, information classification, category, etc. This set of properties will be used to fire events that can be processed by HP ArcSight.
In this example, an email was sent out from "Jameson Jones" to Peter Chambliss with potentially information related to Mergers (~57%), then he sent an email with content, potentially related to research (~51%) and then some HR data.
Intelligence has a long history of providing pivotal information to decision-makers. Many have proposed that we must apply this concept of intelligence to information security and the struggle against the threat landscape. Without intelligence, we cannot proactively protect against attacks or potential attacks, mainly because we don't understand the motivations and what's behind them. One source, out of many, is the human intention or behavior of internal employee or an outsider to the company.
IDOL technology enables organizations to actively get this type of intelligence by monitoring the spiraling amount of user generated content on the internet (social media) and analyze it for sentiment. Sentiment analysis extracts meaning from these articles, posts, tweets and conversations and automatically performs detailed statistical analysis to identify emerging trends. IDOL can determine the degree to which a sentiment is positive, negative or neutral for the entire content or a segment of the content.
By enabling the tracking and analysis of human sentiments associated with data, organizations are better equipped to quickly identify threats that would have previously gone unnoticed.
In both of these use cases, HP was able to give context to human generated data, so that events that could create additional risk to a company could be discovered much earlier, and mitigated before data was able to leave the corporate network.
Katherine Lam is a Product Marketing Manager for the Enterprise Security Products division at HP. In this role, Katherine is responsible for evangelizing the HP ArcSight enterprise security information and event management suite of solutions. Previously she was focused on Application Security, as a Product Manager for HP Fortify on Demand. Katherine has over 12 years of experience in Product Management, Product Marketing and IT Management.


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O Rio Curuçá é um rio brasileiro do estado do Amazonas, Região Norte do país. Banha o oeste da unidade federativa e deságua no rio Javari.

Em 13 de agosto de 1930, a área próxima à latitude 5° S e longitude 71.5° W sofreu uma explosão inexplicada com um impacto estimando entre 0,1 e 1,0 megaton de TNT (0,42 a 4,2 PJ).

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With that said, in my experience as a Perris real estate professional, I've also found that providing the very best service is essentially about putting my clients first. This means keeping myself accessible, being a good listener as well as a good communicator, and responding quickly to your needs.
So when you decide that you'd like to buy or sell a home in the Perris areas, please contact me. I have sold the most houses in this area, with of course, the help of my team. You can also confirm this through the Multiple Service System (MLS). Thank you for your time.


Stamford Street Halls London provides you with comfortable accommodation and modern amenities (including a fitness centre) in Londons vibrant South Bank area.
Stamford Street Halls London is part of Kings College London, set around a landscaped courtyard and conveniently located just steps from the lecture buildings. This modern, purpose built halls of residence provides you with a single study room with private bathroom facilities and a fridge, within a self-contained flat. Each flat has four to eight bedrooms and swipe card entry. There are also fully furnished kitchens, a fitness centre and laundrette at Stamford Street Halls London.
London Stamford Street Halls provides you with bed linen, towels and bathroom kit as well as a TV lounge and pay-phones. Waterloo Station is just minutes away from London Stamford Street Halls, with all of the sites of the South Bank within easy reach. Stamford Street itself extends from Waterloo Road to Blackfriars Road, and was built across Lambeth Marsh. There are even royal connections, as it is believed that Queen Victoria bought her first horse in this street, from Coxs Horse Repository.
Where is Stamford Street Apartment Rooms Located?
The teaching rooms of Kings College Londons Waterloo Campus are just steps from London Stamford Street Halls, and London South Bank University and EF International School of English are also just a short stroll away. Wander over Hungerford Bridge and you will find more language schools, including ELS Language Centre and Regent London.
Waterloo, located in Zone 1, is the nearest mainline station to Stamford Street Halls London. You will find three underground lines at Waterloo, as well as overland trains and the fast Eurostar service to France. You could combine your educational trip to England with a day in Paris, which is just two and a half hours away.
The huge collection of sites on the South Bank are just a short stroll from Stamford Street Halls London, including the IMAX Cinema, London Eye, Royal Festival Hall, London Aquarium, Saatchi Gallery and National Theatre. You will also be able to enjoy magnificent views from the South Bank across to Big Ben and the Houses of Parliament.


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Anxiety 101
Ambassador Feature
Braeden Whitehead
Queen's University in Kingston is the centre of Braeden Whitehead's universe but Uxbridge will always be home – as close to his heart as his friendship with Cam Hicks.
Meet Queen's Ambassador Braeden
"A big bear, a big friendly guy" is how Braeden remembers Cam, adding "his smile, his laugh" remain as fresh in his mind as they were when he and Cam attended Uxbridge High School and worked side-by-side at Wooden Sticks golf course.
"All the guys here (in Uxbridge) are mutual friends of Cam's. He was the glue; he brought all the guys together. Afterwards, the guys basically became inseparable. And we had a ton of support from the Hicks. They wanted to ensure we were OK. That was humbling."
Braeden's involvement with Cam's Kids started innocently enough. Already doing orientation and training development for Brookfield GIS, he was approached by Cam's brother Andrew who asked him to take on the task of onboarding Cam's Kids Ambassadors. Braeden said yes and hasn't looked back, his admiration for, and appreciation of, the foundation's work growing daily.
"It's a way to remember who Cam was and hopefully ensure somebody in his position growing up doesn't go through the same thing."
"You see a lot of organizations that focus on mental health, which is fantastic, but I think it's very important to have an organization that focuses strictly on anxiety or aspects of it. Certain things that fall under mental health could get lost in the shuffle or might not be highlighted as much because the focus is on such a broad range of topics. When focusing strictly on anxiety, which a lot of students go through in high school or university with so much change, it's important to have resources available for them."
Braeden's role with Cam's Kids sees him interview every prospective Ambassador. To date, there are some 70.
'It's cool to see who's taking the initiative and pushing it out there to make the organization grow. I'm meeting these people through FaceTime or Skype interviews after reading their application and then I'm seeing some of the initiatives they're undertaking. Kids, on their own without a group, have got Cam's Kids' name out to their entire school."
Always in the back of Braedon's mind, anchoring his purpose, is his friend Cam.
"I think he'd be proud that we created something that is helping people. I know he'd be incredibly proud of his brothers; incredibly proud of his parents for being so supportive of his friends. He's somebody that should have had a life that lasted a lot longer. It's tough when you think 'What if he was still here?' You try not to think of that too much."
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Allie Werner (Risk: Moderate-High) - Suicide & FaithSuicide & Faith
The Magnitude of the Problem
Suicide is Complex
Suicide Protective Factors and the Role of Faith
Faith Leaders: The Right Person at the Right Place and Time to Make a Difference
Three Opportunities to Address Suicide: Prevention, Intervention, and Postvention
Risk Factors, Triggering Events, and Warning Signs
Risk Factors: Things About People
Triggering Events: Things That Happen to People
Warning Signs: Things People Do
How People Communicate Risk
Talking with Potentially At-Risk Faith Members
Opening the Door, Establishing Rapport
Easing into the topic
Responding to "No's"
Following up on "Yes"
Bringing it together
Video Cases
Bishop Young & Kaden
Bishop Young & Nathan
Father Certain & Charlotte
Father Certain & Jasper
Reverend Molock & Allie
Reverend Molock and Carter
Suicide & Faith
Training Faith Leaders to Identify & Prevent Suicide
Faith Member Background
Allie Werner (Risk: Moderate-High)
Allie Werner, 25-year-old Caucasian female, graduated from college two years ago with a degree in art history, her long-time passion, and despite great opposition from her parents, both high-profile lawyers. She's the only child of successful parents, and grew up under intense scrutiny and pressure. Allie and her parents have been estranged since they cut off her funding for college during her Junior year. She's blown off steam with drug use and some alcohol abuse since she was a teenager.
Allie felt confident that her student loans and credit card debt were a calculated risk that would pay off when she landed her dream job. After three months of searching, and several painful rejections, she applied to be on a temp agency's roster so that she wouldn't get evicted.
Since then, she's worked a string of random part-time jobs that don't engage her head or her heart; they just (barely) pay the bills. After finding scant opportunities to work in her chosen profession, she starts to feel resentment towards her professors, who all sounded so optimistic about her job prospects. Her last temp job ended a month ago and there are none available now. She's been on dozens of job interviews, but can't find anything.
She feels embarrassed that she drove herself so far into debt for college and now can't find a job in the field she was trained for. Her dried-up income stream is bad news; her school loans are all past due and delinquent. Both of her credit cards has also gone into collections; she doesn't answer the phone anymore because of the threatening creditor calls. She feels she can't mention any of this to her parents because of the condemning and judgment she's sure she'll face. She doesn't have enough money to pay rent this month, and is convinced she'll end up homeless.
On the weekends, she hides from her roommate, Meredith (23), who seems annoyingly calm and peaceful and won't stop asking her to come to yoga with her. Try as she might, Allie can't muster the energy to open the blinds, take a shower, get dressed, and go outside. Her emotions feel painfully vivid in some moments, dull in others. Only with a lot of nagging from her roommate can she handle some of her apartment chores. Her friends got tired of inviting her to parties only to have her bail on them, so they don't bother calling any more.
Everyone else her age seems to be doing fine with such ease. Marcella (26) and Heidi (25), her two best friends from college, both secured their dream jobs before they'd even graduated, and Alex (26), her friend from church, seems satisfied working an entry-level position while he networks his way into his field. Allie's sure that something basic must be wrong with her, though she's doesn't think she's depressed or anything. She just needs to solve this job thing and she'll be fine.
She's been sneaking leftover prescription pills from the back of her roommate's medicine cabinet, and has recklessly combined prescriptions a couple of times, just to see what would happen. She's had a hard time sleeping for months now, and has not slept at all for a week. Her insomnia has made her moods intense and abusive to her roommate.
Allie's very hesitant to reach out because she feels like she's wasting her minister's time; s/he should be meeting with the people who have real problems, not her. However, she knows her minister would be mad at her if she doesn't say something, so she asks Marcella to come to the church with her so she won't chicken out. Allie's nervous about admitting her dark thoughts and actions to her minister, someone who she's known for some time.
Guarded Memories
Allie remembers witnessing some terrible fights about money and appearances between her parents when she was a child. Some ended in her mother throwing things at her father and leaving the house in a whirlwind, often drunk. Her parents never said a word to her about their fights; in the morning, they appeared at breakfast as if nothing had happened at all. Allie was so ashamed of their behavior that she could never tell any of her peers.
When she began dating, she found herself attracted to powerful guys who would dominate her life, both socially and sexually. She was drawn to the humiliating feeling she would get when they hurt her. She slept around recklessly and when she got to college, she continued this pattern, mixing her bad dates with alcohol abuse. Recent physical symptoms have made her suspicious that she has herpes, but she has no health insurance for treatment and is too embarrassed to go to a public health clinic.
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Q: Echo GDI Object Count to Command Line or File I'm ultimately looking for a way to set up an automated alert that will warn me if a process's GDI Object count is approaching the default 10,000 limit. I have a known issue with some software our company uses that causes explorer.exe to have the count build up until it crashes without warning - there's apparently a fix for this in a later version of the software, but we cannot upgrade for reasons beyond my control. My idea is to create a background program/script that will pop up an alert when it sees a GDI count approaching the 10,000 limit. However, the only ways I can seem to view the GDI count is through a GUI either in task manager or Process Explorer - if I could somehow just dump that to a text file automatically I'd be set, but I don't know if that's possible.
I've tried the GDIView software, but our company Antivirus flags it and that is outside my control.
I've downloaded sysinterals, but I can't figure out any way to get one of the command line tools to echo the GDI count I can get in Process Explorer. I've also tried tasklist, but similarly can't find a way to get GDI count out of it.
For reference, I'm on a Windows 10 machine here. I also have the linux subsystem enabled and have the ability to run Ubuntu through that. I am open to doing something in batch or python if that's of any use - though it seems powershell is blocked from running scripts (I might be able to get around that though).

A: I found a small section of Powershell code that will give you the per process count by Rudolf at Getting GDI object count per process in Powershell
"Number of GUI handles per process"
$sig = @'
[DllImport("User32.dll")]
public static extern int GetGuiResources(IntPtr hProcess, int uiFlags);
'@

Add-Type -MemberDefinition $sig -name NativeMethods -namespace Win32

$processes = [System.Diagnostics.Process]::GetProcesses()
[int]$gdiHandleCount = 0
ForEach ($p in $processes)
{
    try{
        $gdiHandles = [Win32.NativeMethods]::GetGuiResources($p.Handle, 0)
        $gdiHandleCount += $gdiHandles
        $p.Name + " : " + $gdiHandles.ToString()
    }
    catch {
        #"Error accessing " + $p.Name
    }
}
"Total number of GDI handles " + $gdiHandleCount.ToString()

It should be possible to modify the commands within the try ... Catch statement to add an if statement that matches your explorer name and posts a message box.

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Evergrande Unit Seeks Delaying Possible Yuan Bond Repayment
7:24 AM IST, 05 Jan 2022 5:25 AM IST, 05 Jan 2022 7:24 AM IST, 05 Jan 2022 5:25 AM IST, 05 Jan 2022
(Bloomberg) -- China Evergrande Group is seeking to delay an option for investors to demand early repayment on one of its yuan-denominated bonds, in the latest sign of distress amid a broader real estate debt crisis.
The property giant's onshore unit Hengda Real Estate will hold an online meeting Jan. 7-10 for holders of the note, it said in a filing to the Shenzhen stock exchange. The bond is its 4.5 billion yuan ($706 million) 6.98% security due 2023, which has a Jan. 8 put option. The firm is proposing to postpone that option date as well as an interest payment also due that day to July 8.
The note will be suspended from trading from Jan. 6. Bondholders will review the company plan for the changes and the adjustment wouldn't trigger a default, according to the statement.
The development comes as China edges closer to potentially overhauling the world's most indebted developer that was started 25 years ago by Hui Ka Yan. A lengthy battle over who gets paid from what remains. Beijing has been reluctant to bail out Evergrande as it sends a clear signal that the Communist Party won't tolerate massive debt build-ups that threaten financial stability.
Evergrande was labeled a defaulter for the first time in early December as it missed making payments on dollar bonds. A seven-member risk management committee was established at that time to "actively engage" with creditors. That panel includes senior managers from Guangdong state-owned enterprises and China Cinda Asset Management Co., the nation's largest bad-debt manager.
Evergrande will likely not repay any bonds until an overall restructuring plan comes out, according to Ting Meng, a senior credit strategist at Australia & New Zealand Banking Group Ltd. Onshore notes don't have grace periods so any failure to repay could trigger a default, and the move could help sidestep that for now if the company gets agreement from creditors, though eventual repayment would depend on how the restructuring shapes up, she said.
Evergrande's Condemned Towers on China's Hawaii Show New Threat
Evergrande to Include All Offshore Bonds in Restructuring
China's Nightmare Evergrande Scenario Is an Uncontrolled Crash
Evergrande's cash crunch has become a focus for global investors, concerned that a collapse might spark financial contagion and curb growth in the world's second-largest economy, which depends on the housing market for about a quarter of gross domestic product.
Its dollar bonds are trading at deep discounts to par value as investors brace for what could be one of China's largest-ever restructuring processes.
Evergrande, saddled with more than $300 billion in total liabilities, is prioritizing payments to migrant workers and suppliers as regulators urge the cash-strapped developer to head off any risk of social unrest. It is also under pressure to finish homes for 1.6 million buyers who have already put down deposits, and must repay retail investors who bought some of its wealth products used to finance construction.
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We've put together a little glossary that discusses the common types of NYC buildings, what makes each building unique, and a few pros and challenges of renovating each type of space.
Here in the city, you'll often have an overzealous realtor calling a building a brownstone when it's really something completely different. Or maybe you'll have a friend that boasts about her brand new loft, but it's simply an apartment with an open floor plan.
Anyway, we've got some thoughts on the matter of naming and categorization. Check out our round-up below!
Brownstone has been a popular building material for several centuries, and the material has been quarried across the country, from Wisconsin to New Jersey.
These days, it's common to see subdivided brownstones across NYC–many of which, if occupants are lucky, retain the original charm of fireplaces and bespoke millwork.
You have the option to rent subdivided spaces like the garden apartment, top floors, etc.
Usually comes with a rear yard!
Built before World War Two (and typically after the turn of the century), pre-war buildings often feature thicker plaster walls, higher ceilings (usually nine feet or higher), hardwood floors, built-ins (like bookcases or shelves), and ornate details.
Pre-war buildings embody defining look of NYC streets–a grand, bold, solidly constructed homage to the industrial and capitalist boom that swelled the city's population before the Great Depression. Pre-war buildings are often run as co-ops–and are often concentrated in the Upper West Side. One famous example of an idyllic pre-war is The Dakota, the can't-miss architectural landmark on Central Park West.
A note about Pre-War living, however, is that these buildings were obviously built under old school societal conventions. If you're purchasing a pre-war apartment, note that many floorplans did not prioritize rooms that we now consider to be crown jewels in the modern home–like the kitchen, for instance. Pre-war apartments also rarely have central air conditioning, as the technology was not largely available in NYC until the 1970s.
You guessed it: post-war buildings were constructed after World War Two! These buildings often afford more flexible layouts for those who want to renovate and encompass everything from all-glass high rises to red- and white-brick co-op buildings. Amusingly, contemporary apartments that are built to look like pre-war are still, unfortunately, categorized as post-war.
As the name implies, these buildings do not have elevators and often times leave the intrepid individual a bit winded by the time they reach the top floor. Typically up to six stories in height, these buildings are "tenement style" constructions, often found in neighborhoods like the Lower East Side. Unlike brownstones, these taller buildings were built to house multiple families, and they're typically the least expensive type of non-subsidized housing available in NYC.
Lower density living arrangements – ie. it's quieter!
Originally built as opulent single family residences, these grandiose spaces include amenities like basements, terraces, and gardens. These days, however, many townhouses have been converted into multi-family dwellings with the luxury addition of elevator transport.
Most townhouses function as co-ops or condos after subdivision. Others simply remain as jaw-dropping mansions or have been repurposed into museums, such as the Neue Museum on Fifth Avenue–formerly known as the William Starr Miller House.
These days, the definition of a loft is commonly expanded to any apartment with high ceilings and an open floor plan, regardless of the building's industry-related genealogy.
With all those windows, there's a chance the space will be drafty!
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But since hiking mountains doesn't pay the bills for most people, we have to take little snippets of green where we can. And fortunately, there are more ways than ever to make that happen. Whether you choose all-natural beauty products, pack a veggie-heavy lunch using tree-patterned, eco-friendly bags, wear nature-inspired jewelry, or whatever else, following the tips below will help you weave nature vibes into your daily life—no matter where you actually are.
What better way to be reminded of nature than to apply a lip balm made with 100% natural ingredients? The original balm, which has a hint of peppermint oil, will leave your lips feeling refreshed and tingly. And the other flavors—pink grapefruit, pomegranate, vanilla bean, and strawberry—are equally nature-inspired. No matter which flavor you choose, the balm is super moisturizing and hydrating, so it'll stay with you long after you apply—especially helpful if you get sucked into screenland and need a reminder of the great outdoors.
Say goodbye to the days of sad desk lunches with these cute, reusable, dishwasher-safe bags that are a visual reminder of Mother Nature. But they honor her in another way, too: Using one of them replaces 500 plastic bags in its lifetime. Just be sure nobody steals it from the company fridge.
It's happened to all of us: You buy a ton of vegetables on Sunday with grand dreams of healthy stir-fries and roasted sheet pan dinners, but work and life get in the way, leading to a sad soggy mess in your fridge. Womp. You won't produce that waste as easily, though, if you use these 100-percent organic cotton bags. To use them, simply dampen the bag, fill it with your produce, and pop it in the crisper drawer. Your vegetables will stay fresh for a week or more—all you have to do is mist the bag with more water if it dries out.
Even if you live don't have room for your own garden, eating at a farm-to-table restaurant isn't the only way to eat farm-to-table. There is a middle ground, and it can be found in this hydrogarden. Each pot is actually a re-purposed wine bottle—which makes it all the more eco-friendly. You get to pick your herbs — choose from organic basil, chive, oregano, parsley, and mint — and then you'll have fresh ones year-round to cook with and make your kitchen smell fab.
The best part about this beautiful dried herb situation is that you could just display it on your wall and leave it at that. Or you can take it to the next level and actually pick the sprigs of (herbicide- and pesticide-free!) preserved lavender, oregano, sage, and rosemary to make tea or enhance the flavors of dinner. Either way, you're in for a treat.
Keeping plants in your home is a great way to bring more nature into your life. And you don't even need big fig trees or ficus trees to get the effect—all it takes is a couple solid succulents. Hop on the succulent train with this sturdy 4-by-4-inch glass and brass terrarium. Add your tiny plant of choice and some colorful stones and you're good to go.
Cooking at home is a great way to bring more nature into your life, especially if you focus on plant-friendly dishes. To up the ante even more, use these eco-friendly bamboo utensils to serve your food. And get this: The "give it a rest" name isn't just about being cute. The spatula, spoon, and slotted spoon all have a bump on the back, so that when you set them down, your soup, sauce, or whatever you're making doesn't leak all over your counter top. That means no more need for a spoon rest, aka one less dish to wash—sweet.
This beautiful pillow is hand-cut and hand-sewn and features artwork by Tordis Kayma. And since a portion of every purchase from Society 6, which turns artists' original work into home goods and other products, goes to the artist, you can feel good about where your money is headed, too.
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The banyan tree is a symbol of life and power, but even if you don't believe in symbols, the earrings are still beautiful no mater what. Plus, the company provides its artisans with training opportunities, savings programs, and other support—so you are buying wisely.
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Software Briefs: IBM, Adobe
ARN Staff (ARN) 08 October, 2003 17:40
IBM acquires OS-migration specialist
IBM has announced the acquisition of the application porting services business of Sector7 USA, a privately held firm that specialises in helping companies migrate their legacy server operating systems to platforms such as Linux. Sector7 offers tools and services for migrating applications and data to and from OpenVMS, Linux, Unix and Windows. It also handles database consolidation and migration, such as moving from an Oracle database to IBM's DB2 software and vice-versa. IBM has acquired a majority of Sector7's assets and intellectual property. IBM said it would hire Sector7 employees to work in its Global Services division on projects that include Linux migrations as well as server and database consolidation. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Opera strikes licensing deal with Adobe
Adobe Systems will include the cross-platform rendering engine from Norwegian niche browser maker, Opera Software, in its future products using the Macintosh and Windows operating systems. "Our small-screen rendering (SSR) technology was particularly important to Adobe," Opera spokesperson, Live Leer, said. "Users would like to create pages that work in many different devices and platforms; SSR allows for that." Opera's SSR technology takes a Web page written in Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) and reformats it to fit on a smaller screen, eliminating the need to create code pages in special languages. "The big difference now (with Opera inside of Adobe products) is that application providers can test Web and mobile pages within the program itself, whereas before they had to launch an external application," Leer said.
Bolting down business security begins with employees


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Psychic debugging: When reading unfamiliar code, assume it's mostly correct
Date: April 23, 2007 / year-entry #140
Summary: You may be called in to study a problem in code you've never seen before or be asked to look over a proposed change to some code you've never seen before. When this happens, you have to take shortcuts in your analysis because following every function call to the bottom would not only take far...
You may be called in to study a problem in code you've never seen before or be asked to look over a proposed change to some code you've never seen before. When this happens, you have to take shortcuts in your analysis because following every function call to the bottom would not only take far too much time, but also take you so far away from the code in question that you will probably forget what you were looking for in the first place.
For example, suppose you're looking at some code that goes like this:
Gizmo *gizmo = get_gizmo_from_name(name);
if (gizmo) {
Gizmo *parent = gizmo->get_parent();
parent->set_height(newheight);
You might have some questions about this code.
What if name is NULL? Is it legal to pass NULL to get_gizmo_from_name?
What if the gizmo doesn't have a parent? Is there a potential NULL pointer dereference here?
Are the gizmo and parent reference-counted? Did we need to do something like gizmo->Release() or a parent->Release() to keep the reference counts in balance and avoid a memory leak?
Finding the answers to these questions may take some time. For example, you might have access only to the diff and not to the entire project, or a grep for the definition of get_gizmo_from_name in the same directory that has the function in question doesn't turn up anything and you have to expand your search wider and wider in an attempt to find it.
This is when you invoke the "Assume it's mostly correct" heuristic. The theory behind this heuristic is that whoever wrote this code has a better understanding of how it works than you do. (This is a pretty safe bet since your knowledge of this code is approximately zero.) The problem you're looking for is probably some small detail, an edge case, a peculiar combination of circumstances. You can assume that the common case is pretty solid; if the common case were also broken, the problem would be so obvious that they wouldn't need to ask an outsider for help.
Therefore, look at the other parts of the code. For example, you might find a code fragment nearby like this one:
// rename the gizmo
Gizmo *gizmo = get_gizmo_from_name(oldname);
gizmo->set_name(newname);
That already answers two of your questions. First, you don't have to worry about checking the name against NULL because this code fragment doesn't check, and by the heuristic, the code is mostly correct. Therefore, NULL is most likely an acceptable parameter for the get_gizmo_from_name function. Because if it weren't, then that code would be broken too! (This is sort of the counterexample to what Mom always told you: If everybody else jumped off a bridge, then it is probably okay to jump off bridges.)
Second, this code doesn't do anything special when it's done with the gizmo so it's probably okay just to abandon the gizmo without need to do any special reference count management. Because if you had to dispose of it in a special way, then that code would be broken too!
Now, of course, this heuristic can be fooled, but if you're operating with only partial information, it's often the best you can do. Get it right often enough and people will believe that you too have psychic debugging powers.
Greg D says:
Interesting point! As a relatively junior dev, with only about 2 years of industry experience after 2 years in grad school, I find myself falling into this overanalysis trap more often than I should.
Perhaps it doesn't help that, in so doing, I've also discovered a few lower-level bugs (slow handle leaks, e.g.). The minor nature of those bugs doesn't really justify the amount of time I'd spent spelunking that code, though.
I may partially blame the grad school experience too, as I often had to drill down deeply through definitions, etc to understand and complete my work.
Andrew Kimpton says:
Raymond Chen wrote an article in his long running series 'Psychic Debugging' today which…
Skip says:
As a counterpoint to this, while you should assume that the code is mostly correct, you should not assume that the comments around the code bear any relationship to the code itself. Programmers are lazy, and many times when a piece of code is updated, the comments won't be.
When I'm diving into someone else's code it's usually a good idea to use an editor that parses the code into different color objects, and for me to set the comments color to be light grey on white. That way I can read them if I try to, but when I'm scanning the code quickly it doesn't interfere with my comprehension.
nksingh says:
Are there some better tools for this task than grep?
I tend to prefer Visual Studio or something like Source Insight which create a database of symbol definitions. I'm just wondering if there are any good tools to examine debug info to automatically get to definitions from callsites.
I'm curious about how experienced folks find stuff, and hoping it doesn't come down to a bunch of grepping.
Rushabh Doshi says:
This is exactly the idea behind one of the checkers in the Stanford Metacompilation project. The paper's title is "Bugs as Deviant Behaviour" and can be found here:
http://metacomp.stanford.edu/derive.ps.gz
In short, you assume that most of the code is correct and infer a belief about the library being used. When this belief is violated, its probably a bug.
BryanK says:
nksingh — ctags / etags can do that on *nix, I think. And one or the other of those can usually be used from your editor of choice (depends on the editor though). Not sure about "tags" files in Windows in general, though I'd suspect the functionality exists somewhere.
I know that VS6, VS2003, and VS2005 all have "go to definition" options on the right-click menu for most identifiers. It didn't work all that well on C++ code (in my experience: I haven't tried it in VS2005), but it works great in C# in 2003/2005, and VB in v6/2003/2005.
Michael Puff says:
But sometimes the obvious is overlooked just because it is obvious. Once a colleauge asked me for help because he got an access violation everytime he would run a particular code. At first glance the code was OK. And the code was OK. But we kept gettimg those odd access violations. In the end it turned out that he was using an object he hadn't created yet.
That taught me two things:
Don't start looking at the code from the middle.
First check the most simply failour reasons. ;)
Norman Diamond says:
The theory behind this heuristic is that
whoever wrote this code has a better
understanding of how it works than you do.
(This is a pretty safe bet since your
knowledge of this code is approximately zero.)
thedailywtf.com knows better (even if they don't know why their original name was better ^_^) I envy people who can work in an environment where your heuristic works.
Monday, April 23, 2007 3:55 PM by nksingh
Are there some better tools for this task than
grep?
findstr? ^_^
Monday, April 23, 2007 4:49 PM by BryanK
I know that VS6, VS2003, and VS2005 all
have "go to definition" options on the right-
click menu for most identifiers. It didn't
work all that well on C++ code (in my
experience: I haven't tried it in VS2005),
You're not missing much. It works "sometimes" in VS2005 too, including SP1. Browsing all references works sometimes too, and it really is useful when it works.
cmov says:
@Skip: That's why I tend to use *no* comments when I write something. Good code documents itself. And if that makes it hard to read, well, it was hard to write too…
I *do* comment the places where I'm not certain about the functionality, and put in the comments what it should do and why the attempt to achieve something was written the way it was written.
If I'm in a "comment mood" and add comments to places where I'm certain it works OK (for others to read when they feel like it), I *never* put in comments what can be found in man pages or on MSDN, etc. Standards can change over time anyway.
Tom M says:
nksingh, have you tried Visual Assist X from http://www.wholetomato.com/, because it has some really good goto definition functionality, amongst other things.
nksingh: you've also got head, tail, less/more at your disposal :)
Once you've found a couple of interesting files use e.g., less which allows you to search inside the file ('/' is the command..)
Visual Studio has a nice "Find in files" function btw. Believe Eclipse has a similar feature.
MGR says:
Usually I ask the developer to show me the portion of code were he/she believes the bug can be. Then go thru that code roughly asking my doubts to them. Then I go for those area's where they have NEVER thought even to look for the bug. In most of the cases the bug occurs, were they say, there is no chance of finding one!!!
The Old New Thing says:
Use the vtable.


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The Oxford vaccine
Professor Sarah Gilbert, University of Oxford Jenner Institute
The World Health Organisation declared COVID-19 a pandemic on 11 March 2020. Even before then, scientists around the world had started work on a potential vaccine.
The Oxford vaccine is based on decades of in-depth research, supported by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) and developed by the University of Oxford and AstraZeneca.
It has been shown to be effective, safe, easily distributed and administered. It will be available on a not-for-profit basis during the pandemic.
The Oxford team
The Oxford COVID-19 vaccine team comprises scientists from the Jenner Institute and the Oxford Vaccine Group. It is led by:
Professor Sarah Gilbert
Professor Andrew Pollard
Professor Teresa Lambe
Dr Sandy Douglas
Professor Catherine Green
Professor Adrian Hill.
The team has decades of experience in vaccine research, and have been regularly funded by the Medical Research Council (MRC) and other UKRI councils.
Professor Ottoline Leyser, Chief Executive of UKRI said:
We are proud to have supported this promising and inexpensive vaccine, which could be easily distributed at fridge temperature and administered by healthcare systems worldwide.
The Oxford-led vaccine team is among the first in the world trialing a vaccine because, before this pandemic when coronaviruses were only one of many possible epidemic threats, the UK government invested in their vaccine research and development.
Find out how they were able to move quickly to start developing a vaccine for COVID-19 and begin human trials by April 2020.
Video above: How did Oxford University move so fast to create a coronoavirus vaccine? (Credit: UKRI). An autogenerated video transcript is available on YouTube.
How does the Oxford vaccine work?
The Oxford vaccine (ChAdOx1 nCoV-19) is made from a virus that is a weakened version of a common cold virus (adenovirus). This has been genetically changed so that it is impossible for it to grow in humans.
The Oxford team chose ChAdOx1 as the technology for a COVID-19 vaccine as it had previously generated a strong immune response from one dose in other vaccines.
It's also a well-studied vaccine type that has been used safely in thousands of subjects.
The teams had already used ChAdOx1 vaccine technology to produce candidate vaccines against a number of pathogens including flu, Zika and Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS), another coronavirus.
Is the vaccine effective?
The Oxford vaccine began clinical trials in April 2020, when 1000 people were given the vaccine.
Video above: The first human trial of a COVID-19 vaccine in Europe (credit: UKRI). An autogenerated video transcript is available on YouTube.
The team has made rapid progress since the pandemic was announced and has shared data and results with the international community:
data from the first two phases (Oxford Vaccine Group) indicated no safety concerns and a strong response to the vaccine
in September the team reported that the vaccine provoked a strong response in older adults (Oxford Vaccine Group), who are at increased risk of severe COVID-19
in November, a peer-reviewed study of data from phase three of the trials confirmed the Oxford vaccine is safe, effectives and gives good protection.
Professor Sarah Gilbert explained the whole process to the MRC, read the MRC blog here.
Trials are continuing in the United States, Kenya, Japan and India and researchers expect to have over 60,000 participants in the trials by the end of the year.
AstraZeneca has agreements in place to supply three billion doses of the vaccine, which will be available to people around the world in 2021.
Large-scale manufacturing is ongoing in over 10 countries to support equitable global access.
For more information, visit: The Oxford Vaccine (Research at Oxford).


The journey for Alonso Bermudez to make his amateur boxing debut started months ago when he showed up after moving from Monte Vista to the Fort Morgan Gladiators gym, hoping to get a final few weeks of training in before an MMA fight he signed up for.
During those first few practices at the gym, head coach Ernie Marquez didn't feel it was the right time for Bermudez to be getting into the octagon against an opponent.
"I remember saying to myself that he's not ready," Marquez said. "I called the guy in charge of the promotion for the fight, and I told him that this kid isn't ready to get in there."
The call drew some ire, Marquez expects, but he still feels it was the right call to make.
"I'm sure he was upset that I was saying he wasn't ready," Marquez said.
Instead, Marquez and the rest of his coaches began working with Bermudez in boxing, training to develop him to follow his passion to fight. With nearly a year of practice under his belt, he will finally make his amateur boxing debut this Friday on the Young Guns fight card presented by Airtight Boxing in Denver.
"I'm very excited for it," Bermudez said. "I've been training for almost a year now."
Bermudez is the third boxer from the Fort Morgan gym to fight on the card, joining Francisco Temich and Placido Montoya. He is scheduled to fight Norman Kimbrough in his debut and called it the right time to step in the ring.
"I've always wanted to do this," Bermudez said. "I feel ready."
Bermudez was a late addition to the fight card, Marquez said, and added that with the additional training he has received, he looks ready to go for his debut.
Most of the work in the fight camp has focused on the basics for Bermudez, from throwing simple punches and combinations to working on moving in the ring and slipping punches from his opponent. The jab could be a critical punch in the fight as it is the one he feels most comfortable with heading into fight week.
Another big help for his fight camp are Temich and Montoya, who have trained with him and are giving some tips while also working for their fights as well.
"It's a good feeling knowing you have some from your team that are behind you," Bermudez said.
The camp for all three fighters has included sparring sessions with each other and boxers from other gyms that made the trip to Fort Morgan to get a different look in practice. In addition to the work in the ring and on the punching bags, Bermudez has worked hard on his conditioning to be in shape for the full fight.
The extra time practicing appears to be paying off, and he gives credit to everyone in the gym for their help up to this point.
"There's been plenty of motivation for me to not give up," Bermudez said. "Everyone has helped me with all of the stuff I needed to work on."
This Friday, he looks to put everything he has learned together and will try to come out with the win. His coaches and teammates say the tip they have given him for his fight is to give it everything he's got.
"They have said to not give up and to put everything on the line," Bermudez said.


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Earlier this week Nayland College had a team competing in the first ever Tasman Secondary School Junior Ki-O-Rahi Tournament.
The young year 9 team was made up of four females and six males and had a very successful outing, placing 3rd in the mixed division. The team won two games and lost two games. Nayland College had the only full year 9 team competing in the tournament and they competed predominantly against year 10's.
In a sport that is growing in the region the team will look to do well in next years competition having gained much experience this year.
All the of the females had a tiring day as four females had to be present on the field at all times. This meant that the four girls had to play every second of every game. The entire team were outstanding and improved significantly over the course of the day.
Mia Troy had a stand-out day, as her speed proved to be essential. Brodie Seelen made some crucial touchdowns and Ethan Musika lead the team well.
A great day had by all the players and management.


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DMPQ- What are the major objectives of Gold monetization scheme? How it's going to benefit india's financial situation?
December 30, 2020 by rawan239
The Gold Monetization Scheme is a welcome step initiated by the Government of India to unlock the unused and idle gold lying in households and institutions and bring them into mainstream and release the capital locked in for use in the economy for its development. The key objectives of this scheme are stated as under:
To mobilize the gold held by households and institutions in the country.
To provide a fillip to the gems and jewellery sector in the country by making gold available as raw material on loan from the banks.
To be able to reduce reliance on import of gold over time to meet the domestic demand.
According to the government, gold deposit accounts will utilise the 20,000 tonnes available within the country and help in cutting down the 800-1,000 tonnes of gold the country ships every year. Among the regulatory issues for banks, it said some certainty on use the gold deposits as part of their Cash Reserve Ratio (CRR) and Statutory Liquidity' Ratio (SLR) requirements would be helpful. Irrespective of the difficulties, it underscored that the scheme holds great benefits on the macro front, saying, it can lower gold imports by bringing into circulation domestically-held idle gold, thus, helping the external balances. Additionally, the easy availability of the precious metal can reduce costs for jewellers and increase the exports. Seeking to mobilise idle gold worth up to Rs 60 lakh crore held by households and institutions, the government proposed a new scheme offering tax-free interest on depositing the yellow metal with banks. The draft of gold monetisation scheme also provides for incentives to the banks. Individuals and institutions can deposit as low as 30 gms of gold, while the interest earned on it would be exempt from income tax as well as capital gains tax.
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Lakers Video: Larry Nance Jr. Working Alongside Gunnar Peterson During Offseason Training
Jesse Buss Explains Lakers' NBA Draft Strategy
The front office of the Los Angeles Lakers understood that a complete overhaul of the organization was necessary, in order to move towards the future of Lakers basketball. With Magic Johnson and Rob Pelinka now running the show, one of their first major hires was the new Director of Strength and Endurance Training, Gunnar Peterson.
Peterson has a lengthy pedigree in the fitness world, serving as the lead trainer for many famous celebrities, including Johnson himself. With the Lakers transitioning towards their new training facility, Peterson will be given the state-of-the-art necessities, in order to improve the overall conditioning and endurance of the roster.
Although the NBA season has officially come to an end, you can find the young core of the Lakers in the gym, eagerly improving. Forward Larry Nance Jr., with all the athleticism in the world, decided to work alongside Peterson on some core and abdominal workouts, via Peterson's Instagram:
@larrydn7 big work!!! I love how you push it!!! Go Lakers!!! @lakers @lakersworld16
A post shared by Gunnar Peterson (@gunnarfitness) on Jun 16, 2017 at 11:41am PDT
Often viewed as the most mature player of the young core, Nance Jr. was steadily improving his all-around game during his second season. Figuring to be a key piece to the 2017-18 season, Nance Jr. is already working hard towards leading the resurgent Lakers, with both his basketball IQ and hustle on the court.
Peterson laid out the foundation to his plans when he was originally hired in late May, stating that his goal is to improve the overall athleticism of this young roster. He has spoken in depth about increasing Brandon Ingram's lower-body strength, while also wanting to work on Ivica Zubac's lateral quickness.
While Nance Jr. certainly doesn't require as much athletic workouts as other Lakers, he is certainly leading by example. During his sophomore season, Nance Jr. averaged 7.1 points, 5.9 rebound, 1.3 steals and 1.5 assists in 22.9 minutes per game.
The Lakers certainly have turned the page on their new era of basketball, with the rebuilding phase entering its fourth season. While fans anxiously wait towards the 2017 NBA Draft, the young core of the Lakers remain focused on improving their overall game each and every day.
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It's never been a more exciting time to be a marketer. The proliferation of devices and channels provides us with more opportunities to reach and engage with our customers than ever before. At the same time, customer expectations continue to rise – they want personalised and relevant experiences, delivered to them in real-time, wherever and whenever they want. This represents a significant challenge for marketers and it's clear that an integrated approach is needed to meet and exceed customer expectations.
Despite understanding what we need to do, too few of us are actually doing it. That's one of the main findings from The Multichannel Reality report from Econsultancy and Adobe. Surprisingly, there hasn't been a notable increase in the number of companies taking an integrated marketing approach across channels. And even those of us who are tackling multichannel marketing aren't making substantial progress.
Technology lies at the core of the problem. We have the marketing tech to build an integrated marketing platform. However, many companies are not digitally mature and still have separate, non-connected technologies managing data for different channels. These non-integrated tech platforms are a top-three obstacle to integrated marketing, along with disparate data sources and inefficient organisational structure and cultures.
The report shows the way forward beyond technology. Those companies with an integrated marketing platform and compatible organisations and cultures are more likely to hit their financial goals. The CFO needs to know that.
How well you know your customer is a vital part of the formula for success. The 360 degree, single customer view is the key. The report shows the way to achieving that holy grail of marketing prowess. It can also help you assess your current multichannel marketing efforts so that your company can create even more meaningful experiences for your customers.


Miriam Beth Gottesfeld and Joshua Bruce Fine were married last evening by Rabbi Jacob Lantz at the Silvermine Tavern in Norwalk, Conn.
Mrs. Fine, 31, is a lawyer at the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company in New York. She graduated from Middlebury College and the University of Pennsylvania School of Law. She is a daughter of Elise and Stanley Gottesfeld of Chappaqua, N.Y. Her father retired as a marketing manager in White Plains for I.B.M.
Mr. Fine, 39, is the director of educational services at Microedge, a computer software company in New York. He is also an adjunct instructor of computer technology and applications at the school of continuing education of Columbia University in New York. He graduated from Indiana University and the University of Bridgeport School of Law. He is a son of Diane and Leonard Fine of Norwalk. His father is a professor of chemistry and the director of undergraduate studies in chemistry at Columbia.


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Q: Indexing Additional Field with TTL in MongoDB I want to index an additional field along with the TTL.
As mentioned in the docs, https://docs.mongodb.com/v3.0/core/index-ttl/#restrictions, MongoDB doesn't allow compund indexing with TTL.
" TTL indexes are a single-field indexes. Compound indexes do not support TTL and ignores the expireAfterSeconds option. "
Is there any hack by which I can make a compound index with TTL?

A: No, to my knowledge, there isn't. You can base the TTL index on an array, in which case the index will use the earliest date value to determine when to delete a document.


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Aframomum melegueta
Alligator Pepper
Ginny Grains
Ginny Papper
Greater Cardamom
Guinea Grains
Guinea Pepper
Guinea Seeds
Melegueta Pepper
Grains of paradise (botanical name Aframomum melegueta) is an herblike perennially growing plant that is indigenous to the marshy habitations the length of the coast in West Africa. This species belongs to the ginger family – Zingiberaceae. Occasionally, the stems of grains of paradise may be small and they generally bear marks of fallen leaves and scars. On average, the leaves of this plant are 35 cm long and 15 cm broad, having an excellent arrangement of the vascular system. Grains of paradise flowers are attractive and fragrant. While the upper part of the flowers has a rich pinkish-orange hue, their lip is orange-colored. The fruits of this herbaceous plant enclose many, minuscule golden reddish-brown seeds.
For several centuries, people in West Africa, native place of this herbaceous plant, have used the seeds for several purposes, including medicinal and culinary. Even in Europe, people have been using the seeds since the 800s. Currently, the seeds are used extensively in the northern regions of Africa and to some extent in Europe. They are available in a number of stores that specialize in selling spices. Alternatively, you may also order them through traders importing spices.
In the 14th century, some traders christened the seeds of Aframomum melegueta as grains of paradise to make the spice appear more exotic and, raise the price of the commodity in this manner. In the 15th century, it became fashionable for a while to use grains of paradise in place of black pepper, a more costly spice. However, over the years, grains of paradise have turned out to be more expensive compared to black pepper.
A peppery spice, grains of paradise is also known by a number of other names, including Guinea grains, alligator pepper and melegueta pepper. As the alternative names of this spice suggest, it has a somewhat peppery flavour. However, the taste of grains of paradise is further complex to black pepper. In fact, its flavour can also be compared to that of ginger, coriander and cardamom with a tinge of citrus. Occasionally, some people describe the scent of this spice as being extremely "floral". Although the flavour of grains of paradise is mild compared to black pepper, it is loaded with a kick, particularly when you use it in large quantities.
Initially, the seeds of grains of paradise inside the pods have a reddish-brown color and as they mature, their color changes to grey. The seeds are sold as whole as well as ground form. Generally, the quality of this spice is superior when the grains of paradise are in whole form. Moreover, the whole seeds are useful for chefs as they can grind them to the extend they require for each particular dish.
As far as grains of paradise's true identity is concerned, there is some confusion, because sometimes the term grains of paradise is wrongly applied to seven fruit species, especially Cardamomum minus, Cardamomum malabaricum, Malabar cardamom and even the Zanzibar pepper. Some people also mistake Nux vomica, which is employed in the form of a homeopathic remedy, for the fruits of the grains of paradise. In effect, now Aframomum melegueta has been recognized as the true grains of paradise species. Precisely speaking, since the Middle Ages, people have know this fruit as "grains of paradise" and the name signifies the fact that there was a time when this fruit was a very valuable commodity.
Similar to cardamom, the grains of paradise is also used in the form of a spice, mainly owing to the pleasing flavour of the seeds. The grains of paradise seeds are pungent or spicy, but not extremely bitter to taste. These days, this fruit is primarily employed to add essence to spirits, wines and beer. However, during the Middle Ages this was a very popular spice in Europe as well as many other regions of the world. Notwithstanding the popularity of the spice in the past, currently very few people outside the African continent are familiar with grains of paradise. However, it is still a popular spice in Arab cuisine, especially Tunisia and Morocco. While many people have used this fruit as a substitute of black pepper, some have also been chewing it, especially in cold weather conditions with a view to keep their body warm. Moreover, the seeds of grains of paradise are commonly added to veterinary medicines.
Parts used
People in Africa as well as nearly all other tropical regions cultivate grains of paradise (A. melegueta). They have been using the fruit of this species to treat various health conditions. However, currently this fruit is seldom used outside its native regions. The grain of paradise is one plant that is exclusively used in traditional African medicine.
Although the essential oil obtained from grains of paradise is available, it is very difficult to find. The attributes of the essential oils are akin to those of the grains of paradise fruit. However, the oil is usually preferred for its aroma. In many African countries, people use the grains of paradise fruit in the form of an aphrodisiac, in addition to a remedy for leprosy and measles. It is interesting to note that in laboratory studies the extract of this fruit has shown to augment sexual arousal as well as sexual behaviour in male rats. In addition, the extract of A. melegueta is also employed to reduce bleedings or hemorrhages, especially those related to childbirth.
Grains of paradise also contains a number of other phytochemicals that possess purgative (potent laxative), anthelmintic or anti-parasitic (effective against worms and others), galactogogue (increases breast milk production), and hemostatic (a medicine that purifies the blood) properties. This herbaceous plant has also been found to be effectual in treating the deadly condition known as schistomosiasis, which is a main predicament for medical authorities in many places in Africa.
The fruit of grains of paradise is also known to be effectual in treating intestinal infestations and infections. Some people also use this plant's fruit to cure indigestion and calm heartburn. It is interesting to note that the fruit of grains of paradise is among the plants that scientists are studying currently to determine if it can be used as a substitute for allopathic medications in the tropical regions, where people are constantly endeavouring to discover inexpensive as well as more easily and locally available phytomedical alternatives to treat the common health conditions prevailing in these regions. In fact, people in these areas are most commonly affected by various tropical diseases.
It is worth mentioning here that often it has been found that phytomedicines, which are naturally occurring remedies, are compared to synthetically manufactured medicines.
The use of grains of paradise is quite familiar in Chinese herbal medicine, wherein they are sometimes used as a substitute for cardamom, which is available more readily. In Chinese herbal medicine, grains of paradise are recommended for treating intestinal uneasiness, vomiting as well as pain and uneasiness during pregnancy.
In West African traditional medicines, people also use the seeds as well as the rhizomes of Aframomum melegueta in the form of aphrodisiac, diuretic and even stimulants. Studies undertaken on rats in laboratories also endure the view that grains of paradise seeds and rhizomes augment the sexual urge (libido), especially in rodents, and they also possess the aptitude to alleviate pain as well as inflammation. Therefore, it is believed that they may be useful in treating arthritis. Nevertheless, further studies are necessary; especially they need to be examined on humans, before using them to treat arthritis.
Gorillas inhabiting the lowlands in West Africa consume the seeds of grains of paradise via their diet and it seems that the seeds possess some kind of therapeutic properties for these animals' cardiovascular health in the wild. Since the diet of the captive lowland gorillas does not include these seeds, they may sometimes suffer from poor cardiovascular health, especially the animals living in zoos.
Culinary uses
The seeds of grains of paradise may be used in the same way as you use black pepper. You may either ground the seeds during cooking to infuse their flavour or use them on the tableside to relish an enhancement of spice. As the taste of these seeds can be so different and compared to so many things, you may employ them to augment as well as contrast the primary flavours of any dish.
If you desire, you may accentuate the seeds' citrus flavours by breaking some and adding them to garnish salads. The seeds have a somewhat herbiness, which can be augmented by combining it with herbs like thyme (preferably lemon thyme), sage and rosemary. You may also add them to curries as well as rich sauces to augment their flavour. They are also used in gingerbreads and spice cakes. Grains of paradise seeds possess sweet warmth. The seeds impart a peppery heat to all these foods, but it is less punchy compared to the black peppers, but never less palatable. Hence, most people have a preference for these spicy seeds.
You may also crush some seeds and use them in combination with vinegar and garlic to rub the mixture on chicken, lamb or pork prior to roasting. Most importantly, grains of paradise seeds can easily replace black pepper.
Habitat and cultivation
Aframomum melegueta or grains of paradise plants have a preference for marshy habitats. However, this species is also fond of warm weather conditions. The climate in West Africa is perfect for cultivating this species, together with a number of other tropical species. In fact, Aframomum melegueta was among the earliest spices that were imported by Europe from Africa.
Constituents
Chemical analysis of the grains of paradise (Aframomum melegueta) seeds has shown that they contain essential oils like paradol, gingerol and shagaol. These oils, which are the active constituents of the seeds, are said to contribute to their peppery, hot and somewhat bitter flavour. In addition, the seeds also enclose other nutrients such as manganese, starch, tannin, gum and a form of brown resin. Several studies have shown that the seeds of grains of paradise have effectual antimicrobial and anti-fungal activities.
Side effects and cautions
Grains of paradise seeds are considered to be safe for use by nearly all adults. Nevertheless, the use of these seeds may sometimes result in irritation or pain in the stomach, intestine as well as the urinary system.
As there is very little information regarding the effects of using grains of paradise during pregnancy and by nursing mothers, it is advisable that they should stay away from these seeds to be on the safer side or contact a doctor before using them.


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ESPN Suggests Patriots' 'Reason For Hope' In 2019 NFL Playoffs
by Adam London on Mon, Dec 30, 2019 at 7:45AM
The Patriots are down, but they're not out.
New England's regular season ended on a sour note, as the reigning Super Bowl champions let a first-round bye slip through their fingers via a stunning home loss to the Miami Dolphins on Sunday. The Patriots now will have to play on wild-card weekend for the first time in a decade.
Arguably no team in the AFC could have used the bye more than the Patriots, who struggled mightily for the majority of the second half of the season and are dealing with injuries to a handful of key players. Not to mention, their 42-year-old quarterback probably could have benefited from an extra week of rest. But while New England's chances to reach Super Bowl LIV now are slimmer, ESPN believes all hope shouldn't be lost in Foxboro.
"The Patriots always find a way," Kevin Seifert wrote. "Even after one of the more trying and frustrating seasons of the Bill Belichick/Tom Brady era, they are just three games away from the Super Bowl. If they could win 12 regular-season games while Brady produced his lowest-ever QBR, then what can't they do? (QBR was first tabulated in 2006.) Their league-leading defense has carried it through the year, and defense is never more valuable than in the playoffs."
New England will try to prove Seifert write beginning Saturday night when it hosts the sixth-seeded Tennessee Titans for a wild-card tilt.
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OK, I can understand there being statues to the white-supremacist traitor army in places like Kentucky and Maryland, which were, after all, border states during the Civil War. (It was in Baltimore where, on Patriots Day in 1861, the 6th Massachusetts was assaulted by secessionist dickwads, the event immortalized, if such a word can be used, in a huge mural in the State House on Beacon Hill.) But, seriously, people, Montana? The Great Falls Tribune surprised the hell out of me with this one.
During an administrative meeting Wednesday evening, Aug. 16, Helena Mayor Jim Smith said city officials will wait to decide what will happen to the monument after it is removed. Smith has previously said he opposed removing or altering the granite fountain, which was commissioned by the United Daughters of the Confederacy and dedicated in 1916. On Wednesday, he said he believes the memorial is now a safety concern.
I think we can all agree that Montana is a northern state, right? I mean, it wasn't even a state during the Civil War, and this fountain wasn't erected until 1916. As best I can tell, the Daughters of the Confederacy, the Bless-Your-Heart wing of white-supremacist backlash, performed Johnny Appleseed duty with these monuments and statues any place to which Southern folks fled after they started a war they couldn't finish, a war that wrecked their parasitic local economies. Many of them went west, to work the mines, or work the railroads, and get rich, or, at least, less poor. This, apparently, is the reason the Daughters put up these abominations in places like Montana, so that the expatriate Confederates could take comfort in the fact that the cause of white supremacy was alive everywhere in the country.
Despite the fat-headed involvement of the president*, who went bananas on the subject over his electric Twitter machine again this morning, there is a germ of a very healthy historical moment in our current discussion of these statues. In case you were wondering, and why you would be at this point is a good question, the president* took one more opportunity to reassure his white-supremacist base that he's their boy.
Pro Tip: any time he makes a reference to "culture," that's not a dog-whistle, that's an air-raid siren.
Seriously, though, I think the fact that we're arguing over whether or not we should end the free ride through our history that treasonous racists have enjoyed for 150 years is a very salubrious moment. For example, it is now much more widely known that the great majority of these statues were erected long after the Civil War, and that most of them were erected either during the high-tide of lynching in the South during the beginning of the 20th Century, or during the 1950s, when mass-resistance to racial desegregation was gathering steam in the old Confederacy. (This latter phenomenon also accounts for the resurrection of the Confederate battle flag.) These were not put up as tribute to heritage or history. They were put up as reminders to African-American citizens as to who really was in charge of their lives, 13th amendment or no. These were tributes to the "culture" of Jim Crow, of sharecropping, and of lynching. More people are aware of that now than were aware of it two weeks ago, and I think that's all to the good.
Over the weekend, former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice made the unfortunate mistake of saying that to remove the statues was to "sanitize history." This is, of course, a familiar charge, but it also is a criminally inaccurate one. These statues were put up in the first place to sanitize the history of the men who fought to maintain chattel slavery and the men who later re-established white supremacy in the old Confederacy. Removing them does not sanitize history. It fumigates it.