Over 900 CCTV cameras with default or weak login credentials ended up hacked into and brought together into a global botnet, researchers said.
A dictionary brute-force attack allowed the attackers to get into the CCTV systems and take them over, said researchers at Incapsula.
It appears whoever configured the devices ended up using weak login SSH or Telnet passwords and didn't change the default ones at all, or left the cameras open to outside connections, researchers said in a blog.
All compromised CCTV systems were running BusyBox, a stripped-down version of the Linux operating system, specifically built to run on IoT devices with limited memory and CPU resources, Incapsula researchers said.
After the devices suffered compromise via brute-force login attacks, .btce malware ended up dropped on their system, along with malware derived from ELF_BASHLITE (also known as GayFgt and Lightaidra), a malware family specially designed for BusyBox setups running on ARM architectures.
All infected devices launched distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks using HTTP GET request floods. The DDoS attack mainly ended up carried out against a well-known cloud service provider.
One of the devices researchers studied sent over 20,000 HTTP requests per second. Another device had multiple brute-force attacks and logins recorded in its logs from different IP addresses, meaning it suffered more than one hack.


Struggling to find Mother of the Bride outfit ideas for your big day? You've come to right place! We've scoured our best-dressed guests from real weddings to find the best-dressed mothers-of-the-bride – and groom – to bring you, and her, some much-needed inspiration!
You might be planning a spring or summer wedding but the evening will bring a chill, so remember to wear something with extra coverage. Pashminas work well but we prefer stylish jackets that are nipped in at the waist. Three quarter length sleeves make the whole look less bulky, too.
"Think of the venue while selecting your outfit, especially if some of the celebrations are taking place outdoors. If you are taking your jacket off in the evening, you might want to consider having a lace bolero or a shrug, which will give you two looks in one, while still giving you arm coverage," Ian Stuart suggests.
Should you wear a hat or fascinator as Mother of the Bride or groom?
We say, absolutely! Not only does it help set you apart from the other guests, it's also one of the only formal occasions in our lives that requires a hat, so why not go all out? Some of our real mums are sporting fabulous hats and fascinators below – which is your favourite?
Think outside the box when it comes to materials. "Most people go for simple silk when looking for a Mother of the Bride outfit but often a chic wool crepe, exquisite lace or silk jacquard can be a glamorous alternative," suggests designer Susie Stone.
Consider your fabrics carefully and choose one that will see you through from day to night.


AM: The first big push is in the early summer. By this point we will usually have a title and some idea of casting, which is very helpful (well the title obviously - it helps to know what story you're writing!). Then it's writing, rewriting and editing all the way through until the middle of November when rehearsals start.
AM: About a week before the first public performance we do one last full run of the show before going into 'Tech Week' (this is when the hard work really begins as we put the show together on stage with lighting, sound and costumes). It's not unusual for tweaks to the script to happen at this stage, but it's really exciting for the whole company to come together and see what an amazing job the cast has done in the two week rehearsal period. I usually have a good cry and laugh far too loudly at my own jokes.
AM: The worst part is definitely thinking about Christmas all year round. You think it's hard when crackers go up on the shelves in October? Try writing happy Christmas scenes in the height of summer! The best part is being part of the Cambridge pantomime family and seeing the same old familiar faces every year in the cast, crew and lovely Theatre staff.
Aside from a pantomime writer, what would your dream panto role be?
AM: I'm no actor but I would love to tread the boards just once as an Ugly Sister and spend a season just being really mean to Cinderella - rather than writing her a happy ending!
And one reason why the people of Cambridge should us for Aladdin?
AM: Getting kids into the Theatre at a young age is such a valuable experience that'll stay with them for life - I still remember my first panto! Cambridge Arts Theatre's panto is the biggest and best in the region, if not the country (well I am biased), so what more reason do you need!


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Mid 2007, Mikael became General Manager/CEO of Handelsbanken Netherlands. He was appointed a member of Handelsbanken's Group Senior Management in 2013. Mikael was subsequently appointed CEO of Handelsbanken UK on 14 September 2016.
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This was also part of the third layout we did and finished up being used and we are pleased we did.
The Sprinter has as standard I believe, a single drivers seat and a twin passenger seat. What we did was move the twin seat behind the drivers seat, watched e-bay for a single passenger seat (and a box) and did the swap around.
The front bit was easy as the holes in the floor were partly used from the twin seat, and that was just about a done deal. The only thing I discovered here was that there is an SRS cable connected to the centre seat seatbelt. I thought it was something to do with the airbag system but on checking with the dealership I got the van from, they said it basically just retightens the seatbelt in a collision.
So the next thing to point out is that it's ok to disconnect this cable, providing you don't start the engine or turn on the ignition as this brings on an SRS fault light on the dash. Well, I really do know what I'm talking about on that last bit cos sh.. mine came on. Anyway, once the seat was in it's new position I extended the cable into the back and reconnected it again and I knew the light would stay on cos the stealership want money to switch it off, Luckily, my local garage has the software to turn it off.
Where you need to do a little califudging is when you come to put the seat in the back, you'll then notice that it slopes forward because the floor in the front runs uphill.
I welded a lump of angle iron onto the front edge to level things up and hoorah, all was sorted. I whacked some bolts through the floor and put plates on the underside after speaking to a company who put rear seats in vans.
I was concerned about the legality of things should there be an accident or from an MOT standpoint. They said if I was doing it to sell, the way the seat was fixed would have to be tested and basically take a load of up to 3 tons without pulling out but as it was for myself, that didn't apply. I wanted it right for my own peace of mind as my granddaughter would be riding there some of the time.
It then left a seatbelt short. The guy at the seat place said for MOT purposes, they would be quite happy at the test if it just has a lap belt, so I hope he's right cos that's what I've done. It's due for test next month so time will tell!
I planned, and have since, fitted my two leisure batteries under one side of the rear seats, worked a treat. Used two Bosch S5 100amp batteries. wanted 110amp but they were 40mm longer and they would not have fitted in there had I got them.


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It might no longer be Robert Redford's swan song from screen acting as originally advertised, but this lovely character study, based on the true story of a gentlemanly bank robber in the early 1980s, still works as a career capper and heartfelt tribute to the iconic star.
2018 might have more powerful works of cinema. It might have stronger award-season contenders. But it's doubtful most of them will be as lovable as "The Old Man & the Gun," the latest from "A Ghost Story" auteur David Lowery. This thoroughly winning portrait of real-life career bank robber Forrest Tucker was originally billed as Robert Redford's final screen performance (though the Oscar winner has since wavered on that claim), but make no mistake: Lowery is the real standout here.
The film opens with police chatter, followed by a ticking clock, which suggests we're about to see a tense caper. Not quite. Despite its slim running time, this "Old Man" is mellow and laid back, and all the more enjoyable because of it. Based on David Grann's New Yorker article, the movie sets its comfort-food tone from the get-go, by depicting the most courtly bank robbery imaginable. Tucker (Redford, crinkly eyes and radiant smile wielded for maximum effect) suavely holds up a bank and makes a smooth getaway circa 1981.
When he realizes the cops are in pursuit, Tucker does what any soft-spoken lawbreaker would do. Pull over and help a woman whose car has broken down. Wouldn't you know it? Lowery slyly gives viewers a "meet cute" moment. That motorist on the side of the road is Jewel (Sissy Spacek), and the character will not only serve as Tucker's love interest, but his conscience as well, Jiminy Cricket to his Pinocchio. Sitting across the table from him at a diner some time later, Jewel is understandably skeptical when Tucker, who chooses to let down his guard on instinct, chooses to tell her what he does for a living.
Unbeknownst to the charming reprobate, police detective John Hunt (Lowery muse Casey Affleck, sporting an attractive pornstache) is on his trail. The lawman, a devoted family man in an interracial marriage, is no mere plot device. Lowery devotes a sizable chunk of screen time to look in on Hunt and his loved ones at home, and in one of the film's most accomplished sequences, the detective and his two children stop by a bank at the same time Tucker is robbing it, right under his nose. The overlapping dialogue, paired with Joe Anderson's agile camerawork and Lisa Zeno Churgin's staccato editing, give the scene the feel of a Robert Altman movie from that period. Like the rest of the film, it's jazzy and light on its feet, but not necessarily in a hurry to move things along.
Lowery seamlessly glides back and forth from Tucker's pleasant crime spree, his courtship of Jewel and his interaction with associates Teddy (Danny Glover) and Waller (Tom Waits). (Reporters dub the trio "The Over the Hill Gang.") "Old Man" is the kind of movie that casually tosses the fact that Tucker was able to escape from San Quentin at age 70 as an aside. As the film progresses, and Hunt continues to put the pieces of his investigation together, Tucker emerges as a complex figure, a neglectful father with a chronic compulsion to break the law, the one thing that gives him the most pleasure in life. Elisabeth Moss, playing the daughter for whom Tucker was a stranger, is only in one scene, but she leaves an indelible mark, and adds another layer to this fascinating character study.
Lest you think the movie romanticizes nonviolent crime, Lowery also makes sure to convey the ripple effects of Tucker's actions. A late-in-the-game attempt to outrun police on his tail drives home the notion that, for all his charm, Tucker is not a good guy, even as we can't help rooting for him to, at the very least, find happiness with Jewel. A less inspired movie would have used the couple's differing sense of right and wrong as a road block to their relationship, but "Old Man" is too affectionate to take that path. The closest it comes to depicting this divide comes when Tucker dangles the possibility of shoplifting a piece of jewelry Jewel tries on at a mall. Jewel's reaction encompasses the conflicting emotions at play, straddling the line between decency and the thrill of the steal. Every scene between Redford and Spacek, who astonishingly had never acted in a movie together, is a treasure.
"Old Man" is a triumph of texture, a tender, deeply felt slice of Americana with the magnetic draw of an adroitly structured short story. It exudes enough warmth to melt ice, and it's useless to resist its old-school appeal, down to a letter-perfect ending that not only pays tribute to Redford's contribution to the seventh art, but also serves as a valentine to stubborn old coots eveywhere. This classic vintage car of a movie is running on all cylinders.


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Katy Perry's Teenage Dream Isn't Mine
Alyssa Rosenberg
So, apparently Katy Perry, at least in her new song, thinks it's awesome that "You think I'm pretty / Without any makeup on / You think I'm funny / When I tell the punchline wrong." To which I say, the hell without all that:
I realize I'm in the midst of a bout of humorlessness here, and it's just a stupid pop song. I like me some Lady Gaga, and her lyrics aren't Shakespeare either (though the nonsense chanting in "Bad Romance" has something compelling about it). But I kind of don't care. The first part of the trope in Perry's song, the whole "OMG he sees something about me that the rest of the world is too shallow to notice!" thing is simply annoying and incoherent.
But really? The whole, "you're cute even though you're dumb" thing feels a little gross. Sure everyone's been kind of awkward at some point. But for every girl out there who hears this song and recognizes herself in the tight jeans is a teen or 'tween who wishes someone would notice that she's smart, and funny, even if she hasn't gotten the jeans thing figured out, and is annoyed that some dude is hanging all over some chick who has left her brain in the book compartment of her locker. It's a sour little line that curdles the fantasy. And the hook and chorus aren't nearly compelling enough to pull me back into it.
Alyssa Rosenberg is a culture writer with The Washington Post.


I first met Kiki a year ago preparing for a field trip for my American Sacred Space class. She may be Elvis Presley's most devoted fan, showing up at Graceland early every Saturday morning to clean the Meditation Garden and refresh the flowers on his grave.
Kiki told me that she moved to Memphis in 1985 from Greece to be closer to Elvis. She explained that for many years she came to Graceland every day to care for The King's grave, but now she has a day job at a local restaurant and comes only on weekends.
Every Saturday she boards a city bus with her armload of fresh cut flowers to make the long ride out to Graceland in time for the free walk-up time at 7am. She often chats with visitors and pilgrims paying their respects at the gravesite, and over the 30-plus years of her devotion, Kiki has met a number of relatives and close associates of her idol.
But most of all she fulfills a dream she had as a young fan in Greece decades ago, to care for Elvis's final resting place and keep fresh flowers on his grave.


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Meltdown: The GOP's Leadership Struggle
October 10, 2015 Topic: Politics Region: United States Tags: Domestic PoliticsCongressRepublican Party
Who will fill Boehner's shoes?
by W. James Antle III
When House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy stunned Washington by pulling out of the race to succeed John Boehner as speaker, it brought to mind another Republican politician who recently crashed and burned.
Scott Walker, whose chances of winning the GOP presidential nomination once looked almost as promising as McCarthy's chances of becoming speaker, had an interesting way of distinguishing himself from fellow Republicans.
Walker said there were Republicans who had experience winning but avoided picking important fights. You could imagine he had Jeb Bush, who has talked about losing the primary to win the general, and John Kasich, who accepted Obamacare's Medicaid expansion in Ohio, in mind.
The Wisconsin said there were also Republicans who had experience fighting the good fight for conservative causes, but often without success. One imagines Ted Cruz's unsuccessful bid to defund Obamacare was an example of what he was talking about.
While Walker was clearly alluding to his onetime rivals in the presidential race, his point applies with even greater force to the Republicans in Congress. Their establishment or leadership class has experience winning and holding power. Boehner in particular has excelled in the art of self-preservation, as well as rescuing the party as a whole from certain public relations fiascoes.
But to what end? Americans, including some conservative Republicans, are confused about the GOP's positive governing vision. Even the negative vision of beating Barack Obama when it counts most often eludes them. Beyond sequestration, a partial spending victory many moderate Republicans and defense hawks revile, there has been little fighting--and the winning has largely been confined to the midterm ballot box.
Conservatives may be unrealistic about many things, but it doesn't seem entirely fanciful for Republicans to think there is something to be gained from fights over Obamacare, late-term abortion and unchecked mass immigration.
Then there are Republicans in Congress who are always spoiling for a fight but can't explain to you how their battles could possibly be won, especially when their objectives often require Obama's signature and their only weapon is shutting down the government.
Many of these Republicans believe government shutdowns are harmless because the party has often maintained control of Congress afterward, even gaining seats following the 2013 partial shutdown. (In that case, the shutdown happened a year before the congressional elections and had already largely been forgotten by the time most lawmakers were on the ballot. Ask Ken Cuccinelli, who had to run for governor of Virginia while it was going on, how helpful it was.)
And of course, most of the no-surrender caucus represents safe Republican districts where they can survive such machinations with relative ease.
However honorable the fights, they seldom result in victories. From Obamacare to federal funding for Planned Parenthood, the taxpayer dollars flow. Sometimes there's truth to the saying that lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for. Usually in politics, however, it is best to achieve at least symbolic wins that may change public opinion over time.
Or to paraphrase a quote often attributed to George Patton, the object of politics isn't to lose your majority but to make some other dumb bastard lose his. (Well, politics should have a nobler object than that, but you get the point.)
Winning for winning's sake has no purpose, as wielding power should never be an end in itself. But you cannot use politics to effect change without ever controlling the levers of government. Walker was right that Republicans need someone who both fights and wins. But that message wasn't persuasive enough to beat a reality TV show star in a presidential debate, and he wound up out of the race before the first ballot in Iowa was even cast.
The governor of Wisconsin might not have been the right messenger, but until Republicans heed some version of this message, the best representative of their party won't be Walker, McCarthy or Boehner. It will be Casey Stengel.
Can't anyone here play this game?
W. James Antle III is politics editor of the Washington Examiner and author of the book Devouring Freedom: Can Big Government Ever Be Stopped? He tweets at @jimantle
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Network Rail launches £1bn West Midlands train services wish list for 2043
by Paul Dale	05.Jul 2016
Plans for an additional ten commuter services into Birmingham Moor Street as well as significant improvements to lines running from the city centre to Leicester and Worcester have been published by Network Rail – but passengers may not fully benefit until 2043.
A strategy for the future of rail services in the West Midlands sets out proposals to deliver several long-awaited projects including re-opening passenger services from south Birmingham into an enlarged Moor Street with pedestrian links to New Street Station and the new Curzon Street HS2 terminus.
It's also proposed to deliver four-tracking of the West Coast Main Line between Birmingham International and Stechford, freeing up capacity on the crowded route, as well as providing an additional platform at Snow Hill Station.
But the huge financial investment required to modernise the West Midlands rail system, in excess of £1 billion, means that most of the improvements will have to wait. Network Rail says its strategy up to 2024 is to address growing demand by providing longer trains able to accommodate more passengers.
The strategy document which has been released for consultation suggests there will be an additional 3,300 seats on key commuter routes and 2,900 seats on long distance services by 2024. Most of the high-cost improvement schemes will be delivered between 2024 and 2043, if the plans are accepted by the Government.
Of significant interest to Birmingham will be a proposal to re-open the 'Bordesley Chords', effectively building new tracks into Moor Street, which will enable passenger services to resume from Kings Norton and Moseley. The project has for years been high on a city council transportation wish list.
The cost of the Bordesley Chords project, running ten additional services into Moor Street each day, is put at up to £375 million, or £500 million if the route is extended to Longbridge and Barnt Green.
The strategy document states that demand for travelling by train has rarely been greater.
Rail's share of travel into Birmingham at peak times was just 17 per cent in 2001. Today it is 38 per cent. Forecasts show commuting into Birmingham will grow by 49 per cent in just 10 years from 2013 to 2023, and 114 per cent by 2043, according to Network Rail.
Network Rail says the arrival of HS2 in 2026 will be transformational, with new stations at Curzon Street in Birmingham city centre and a Birmingham Interchange at to Birmingham Airport/NEC.
The document adds:
It is a great time to be planning for the future of rail travel on these routes, but meeting this growing demand is not without its challenges. The network in the West Midlands benefits from relatively modern infrastructure, with renewed signalling across the route and the landmark enhancement of passenger facilities at Birmingham New Street.
However, the level of on-track capacity available to meet growing demand for services into central Birmingham has remained largely unchanged for decades. Meeting further growth beyond 2024 would require increased network capacity in central Birmingham to be provided.
Network Rail pays tribute to the work being carried out by Midlands Connect, a partnership of councils and LEPs across the Midlands which has a remit to transform transport infrastructure.
The arrival of HS2 at Birmingham Curzon Street in 2026 provides an opportunity to consider central Birmingham in a different way. The new station will be located adjacent to Birmingham Moor Street station and is planned to drive significant regeneration, in terms of both jobs and housing around the station.
The Midlands Connect partnership is identifying the economic benefits of the HS2 network and strongly endorses the objective of maximising the opportunities for as many passengers as possible to access these services. A key element of this is the West Midlands HS2 Connectivity Strategy, under development by the Greater Birmingham and Solihull LEP.
Midlands Connect has named Birmingham to Nottingham and Leicester as key growth corridors for the Midlands. Network Rail says the route is critical to the freight industry, taking traffic from Felixstowe as well as heavy freight traffic, including oil and metals, with terminals located at Lawley Street, Kingsbury oil depot, Castle Bromwich, Birch Coppice and Hams Hall. The Freight Market Study forecasts large increases in intermodal freight volumes
To accommodate demand to 2043, two approaches have been considered; one looking at providing longer trains, and the other at providing additional services. These additional services would deliver both demand and connectivity conditional outputs, but would only be achievable if additional capacity is also provided in central Birmingham.
The Birmingham to Worcester rail line has been identified by Midlands Connect as an 'Intensive Growth corridor'. The route takes in the redevelopment of the former Rover car site at Longbridge, Birmingham University and the Queen Elizabeth II Hospital.
The strategy document says Kings Norton could become an important passenger interchange if services that currently call at University Station are diverted to Birmingham Moor Street Station.
Proposals include:
Four tracking between Birmingham International and Stechford £175m-£375m. A longer term option to meet demand for passenger and freight services by 2043.
Water Orton grade separation. Will help to maximise route capacity and reduce potential crossing moves between passenger and freight services in the Water Orton area. £250m – £500m. A longer term option to meet demand passenger and freight services by 2043.
Bordesley to Birmingham Moor Street and Barnt Green and Kings Norton grade separation. Will help to maximise route capacity and reduce potential crossing moves between passenger and freight services. Indicative cost £250m – £500m A longer term option to meet demand for passenger and freight services by 2043.
Snow Hill Station. Reinstatement of Platform 4, signalling enhancements, extension of sidings.
Indicative cost £35-75m
Birmingham to Nottingham/Leicester corridor. Four track layout between Water Orton East Junction and Castle Bromwich Junction, reconfiguration of the track layout and enhanced crossings on the main lines. Reconstruction of platforms at Water Orton Station. Upgraded signalling between Wichnor Junction and Kingsbury Junction. Indicative cost £100-250m
Birmingham to Worcester/Hereford via Bromsgrove corridor. Reinstatement of Platforms 2 and 3 at Kings Norton. Track remodelling at Kings Norton and new station facilities. Indicative cost £10-20m.
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While Big Tech has taken it on the chin from Washington lately, First Lady Melania Trump had some encouraging words for Microsoft.
She was was in Seattle promoting her Be Best kids online safety campaign.
of parental control, tech accessibility (the XBOX adaptive controller), and improving safety.
The First Lady appeared to like what she saw.


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The Thirty Fourth lecture "Anderson localization on infinite-dimensional networks and many-body localization" in Open RQC Colloquium will be held in National University of Science and Technology MISIS (Moscow, Leninskiy prospekt 4) lecture hall № Б-536 (5th floor), on 22d of December 2017 at 10:00 a.m by Vladimir Kravtsov, an Emeritus Scientist of International Centre for Theoretical Physics (Trieste, Italy), an Associate Staff Member of Landau Institute (Chernogolovka, Russia).
Many-body systems are represented by an infinite-dimensional networks in a Hilbert space. That is why the single-particle localization on such networks is an important playground for modeling Many-Body Localization in interacting quantum systems. I show how these two problems are related and demonstrate that certain simple statistics on such random networks mimic in great detail the experimental results in ultra-cold interacting atomic systems. Then I review new developments on Anderson localization on Bethe lattice and Random Regular Graphs, in particular the discovery of the non-ergodic extended phases in these systems and transitions between the localized, non-ergodic extended and ergodic (fully extended) phases. The new results are based on the one-step Replica Symmetry Breaking formalism borrowed from the theory of spin glasses and the newly developed numerical algorithm of Inflationary Population Dynamics. Both of these methods will be shortly discussed.
Vladimir Kravtsov is an Emeritus Scientist of International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy. He was born in 1952 in Nizhnii Novgorod, Russia. He finished Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology in 1976. He received the Ph.D. degree from MIPT. He served a member of V.M. Agranovich Theory Group in Institute of Spectroscopy Russian Academy of Sciences from 1979 to 1995. Vladimir Kravtsov was a Humboldt Fellow in Wuerzburg University, Germany, in 1990-1991, and a Postdoc Fellow in University of Heidelberg, Germany, in 1991-1993. In 1993 he defended the Thesis and received the title of Dr.Rer.Nat.Habil. (Dr.Habilitation, the senior doctor degree in Germany) on behalf of the University of Heidelberg. In 1993 he also became a Visiting Staff Associate in International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy, and a Staff Member of ICTP (Associate Professor) in 1998. In the period of 1995-2008 he was a Staff Member of Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics and remains an Associate Staff Member of Landau Institute until now. From 2002 to 2014, he was a Head of Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics Section (Professor Chair) in ICTP. Vladimir Kravtsov has over 100 publications. His research interests include superconductivity in strongly disordered systems, random matrix ensembles with multifractal eigenstates, anderson localization in the space and time domains, relaxation and transport in non-equilibrium quantum systems and others.


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Pursuit from San Bernardino to Ontario reaches…
Pursuit from San Bernardino to Ontario reaches 100 mph, ends with arrest
By Beatriz E. Valenzuela | bvalenzuela@scng.com | San Bernardino Sun
PUBLISHED: March 8, 2019 at 11:05 a.m. | UPDATED: March 8, 2019 at 1:13 p.m.
A felon led San Bernardino County sheriff's deputies and California Highway Patrol officers on a pursuit Thursday night, March 7, from San Bernardino to Ontario that reached speeds of 100 mph.
Just before 10:30 p.m. deputies from the Central Station attempted to stop a vehicle being driven by Juan Sanchez, 40, of San Bernardino for a traffic violation, sheriff's officials said. Deputies tried to pull the vehicle over at State Street and Highland Avenue but Sanchez drove away.
Sanchez drove west and later stopped in the 2100 block of Palmetto Avenue in Ontario, sheriff's officials said, but he refused to come out of his vehicle and threatened to shoot himself.
The Sheriff's SWAT team was called and after negotiating with Sanchez for more than an hour, he surrendered and was arrested.
Sanchez was booked into West Valley Detention Center in Rancho Cucamonga on suspicion of felony evading, possession of a controlled substance for sale and for being a felon in possession of ammunition. Bail was set at $100,000.
In 2008, Sanchez was convicted of inflicting corporal injury on a spouse or cohabitant. As a condition of his plea bargain, charges of assault with a deadly weapon and criminal threats were dismissed. He was given a two-year suspended sentence and ordered to serve 178 days in county jail. But he violated his probation and was resentenced to the original two-year term, San Bernardino County Superior Court records show.
Staff Writer Brian Rokos contributed to this report.
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Tibet: Students Demonstrate For Freedom
Hundreds of Tibetan students have taken to the streets to demonstrate support for protestors who are demanding greater freedoms under Chinese rule. The protesters argued they are "shouting for the freedom of Tibet and also for the return of his holiness, the Dalai Lama, back to his homeland" and "that Tibetans will continue despite China's efforts to suppress and intimidate them".
Below is an article published by Voice of America:
Hundreds of students have taken to the streets in eastern Tibet to demonstrate support for protestors who are demanding greater freedoms under Chinese rule.
The protest Friday in the town of Rongwo in Rebkong, eastern Tibet - called Quighai Province in Chinese - was in reaction to the death Thursday of 18-year-old Kalsang Jinpa who died after setting himself on fire.
Witnesses said the former monk raised a white banner calling for the Dalai Lama's return to Tibet. They also said the protest drew a large crowd and the situation there remains tense.
Word of the new protests came as China opened its 18th Party Congress in Beijing for a once-in-a-decade leadership transition.
Rebkong has now seen five self-immolation protests since March, including Wednesday's fatal protest by 23-year-old single mother Tamding Tso.
Tibetan exiles also confirmed Thursday that another man set himself on fire a day earlier in Driru, in Nagchu Prefecture in the Tibet Autonomous Region.
On Wednesday [november 7th, 2012], three teenage monks from the Ngoshul Monastery in Goman Township set themselves afire. One of them died on the scene.
The new self-immolations bring the total number to at least 69 since February of 2009. In 54 cases, the protesters have died.
In Dharamsala, India Thursday exiled Tibetans gathered to pay homage to the protesters during a special prayer service.
One of them, Lamsa, expressed hope the fiery protests would resonate with the rest of the world.
"We want them [world community] to show their support. We want them to know what exactly is happening in Tibet," Lamsa. "We also want them to send press (media) in Tibet to know the facts.''
He also said it was no coincidence the protests took place just as China embarked on its leadership transition.
"This is because there is no freedom in Tibet and they are shouting for the freedom of Tibet and also for the return of his holiness, the Dalai Lama, back to his homeland," he said.
London-based Free Tibet Director Stephanie Brigden agreed, saying the protests were clearly aimed "at sending the next generation of China's unelected regime a clear signal that Tibetans will continue to fight for their freedom despite China's efforts to suppress and intimidate them."
U.S.-based Human Rights Watch cautions against drawing any conclusions about the timing of the latest protests, though HRW China Director Sophie Richardson calls the latest wave distressing.
"Until we see the Chinese government take steps toward meaningfully and seriously dealing with the kinds of grievances people in the region are articulating, we're going to see more of these," she said.
Richardson also says there are no indications Chinese leadership will take any public notice of the self-immolations during the much-watched Party Congress.
"I'm skeptical there will be any public or discernable discussion about Tibet or immolations except, perhaps, as vague references in the context of broader discussions about security and the quest for a more harmonious society," she added.
But Richardson says it is likely Chinese officials are talking about Tibet behind the scenes, especially given the way Tibetans are responding to the self-immolations.
Funerals and cremation ceremonies for self-immolators have been drawing larger and larger crowds, sometimes numbering the thousands. Often, there is little notice such memorials are about to take place, suggesting Tibetans are managing to spread the word about the protests despite the ongoing Chinese crackdown on sharing information.
"That has to have caught their [Chinese security officials'] attention," Richardson explained. "Whether they have any intention of responding to those in a rational way that is geared towards understanding and responding to the grievances really remains to be seen. But I think until that happens we are going to get more of this heart-breaking news."
On Wednesday, Tibet's government-in-exile pleaded with China to change its approach to the issue of Tibet.
Parliament Speaker Pempa Tsering says it may be the only way to stop the deadly protests. He also lamented that many Tibetans feel they have no choice but to burn themselves alive to make their cries heard.
China has long accused Tibetan exiles of self-immolating as part of a separatist struggle, denouncing them as terrorists.
VOA's Tibetan service reported last month the offer of cash rewards in China's Gannan prefecture, called Kanlho prefecture by Tibetans. Posters promised $8,000 to anyone who provides information "on the people who plan, incite to carry out, control and lure people to commit self-immolation."
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"Come on," said the cab-driver, sparring away like clockwork. "Come on — all four on you" (title given in the index of illustrations, p. x) by Phiz (Hablot K. Browne). Household Edition (1874) of Dickens's Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, Chapter II, "The First Day's Journey, and the First Evening's Adventures; with their Consequences," p. 1. Wood-engraving, 4 ⅜ inches high by 5 ¼ inches wide (11.2 cm high by 13.6 cm wide), framed, half-page; referencing text on pages 4 and 5; descriptive headline: "The Cabman and the Horse" (p. 8).
Scanned image and text by Philip V. Allingham. Formatting, color correction, and linking by George P. Landow. [You may use this image without prior permission for any scholarly or educational purpose as long as you (1) credit the person who scanned the image and (2) link your document to this URL in a web document or cite the Victorian Web in a print one.]
Text illustrated: The Pugnacious Cabman, Reprised
"Would anybody believe," continued the cab–driver, appealing to the crowd, "would anybody believe as an informer'ud go about in a man's cab, not only takin' down his number, but ev'ry word he says into the bargain' (a light flashed upon Mr. Pickwick — it was the note–book).
"Did he though?" inquired another cabman.
"Yes, did he," replied the first; "and then arter aggerawatin' me to assault him, gets three witnesses here to prove it. But I'll give it him, if I've six months for it. Come on!" and the cabman dashed his hat upon the ground, with a reckless disregard of his own private property, and knocked Mr. Pickwick's spectacles off, and followed up the attack with a blow on Mr. Pickwick's nose, and another on Mr. Pickwick's chest, and a third in Mr. Snodgrass's eye, and a fourth, by way of variety, in Mr. Tupman's waistcoat, and then danced into the road, and then back again to the pavement, and finally dashed the whole temporary supply of breath out of Mr. Winkle's body; and all in half-a-dozen seconds.
"Where's an officer?' said Mr. Snodgrass.
"Put 'em under the pump," suggested a hot–pieman.
"You shall smart for this," gasped Mr. Pickwick.
"Informers!" shouted the crowd.
"Come on," cried the cabman, who had been sparring without cessation the whole time. [Chapter II, "The First Day's Journey, and the First Evening's Adventures; with their Consequences," pp. 4-5]
Commentary: Redrafting Seymour's 1836 Illustration
Phiz vigorously reinterprets Seymour's The Pugnacious Cabman (April 1836) in this uncaptioned 1873 head-piece that leads off the first chapter (although the incident realised actually occurs in Chapter 2). Oddly enough, Phiz has interjected a figure who looks very much Sam Weller onto the cab, rear left. He has, moreover, minimized the background, including the Regency blocks of flats in Seymour's original, as he has focussed on the confrontation of a terrified Pickwick and a very sturdy cabman, whereas Seymour had made a rather belligerent Pickwick the larger of the two figures (left) and had given the hot pie-man greater prominence. With no visual tradition as a context, Seymour had shown Pickwick in a buttoned-up "duster," whereas Phiz has given us the familiar figure of the tailcoated, rotund figure of Pickwick in his habitual white waistcoat. By changing the orientation of the original Seymour plate, Phiz in his 1874 Household Edition illustration Phiz was able to move the focus from a panorama of a crowded street scene to the conflict between the surly cabdriver. Moreover, Phiz has signalled by including Pickwick's wearing his spectacles once again that, despite the supporting caption, the altercation has already subsided and that Alfred Jingle (who must be the lank figure to the right) is now intervening as Pickwick's saviour.
Although Pickwick and his colleagues encounter such secondary antagonists as Dr. Slammer and Captain Boldwood, the story's principal antagonist, out-of-work "stroller" Alfred Jingle, conspicuous by his green coat and his distinctive, staccato ode of speech in the text, makes his appearance after Pickwick's initial pummelling by the cabman. Jingle, as Dickens dramatizes him, knows how to play to a crowd as he attaches himself to Pickwick (undoubtedly with an eye to the main chance):
He was about the middle height, but the thinness of his body, and the length of his legs, gave him the appearance of being much taller. The green coat had been a smart dress garment in the days of swallow-tails, but had evidently in those times adorned a much shorter man than the stranger, for the soiled and faded sleeves scarcely reached to his wrists. It was buttoned closely up to his chin, at the imminent hazard of splitting the back; and an old stock, without a vestige of shirt collar, ornamented his neck. His scanty black trousers displayed here and there those shiny patches which bespeak long service, and were strapped very tightly over a pair of patched and mended shoes, as if to conceal the dirty white stockings, which were nevertheless distinctly visible. His long, black hair escaped in negligent waves from beneath each side of his old pinched-up hat; and glimpses of his bare wrists might be observed between the tops of his gloves and the cuffs of his coat sleeves. His face was thin and haggard; but an indescribable air of jaunty impudence and perfect self-possession pervaded the whole man.
Such was the individual on whom Mr. Pickwick gazed through his spectacles (which he had fortunately recovered), and to whom he proceeded, when his friends had exhausted themselves, to return in chosen terms his warmest thanks for his recent assistance. [Chapter II, "The First Day's Journey, and the First Evening's Adventures; with their Consequences," p. 9]
Parallel Scenes by Seymour (1836) and Furniss in the Charles Dickens Library Edition (1910)
Left: Robert Seymour's April 1836 steel-engraving, The Pugnacious Cabman, which fails to introduce Jingle. Right: Harry Furniss's derivative illustration, Mr. Pickwick and the Cabman. (1910) [Click on the images to enlarge them.]
Eytinge's Diamond Edition (1867) and Kyd's twin studies of Alfred Jingle (1910)
Left: Sol Eytinge, Jr.'s dual character study of the slippery actor and his valet, Mr. Alfred Jingle and Job Trotter. Centre: Clayton J. Clarke's Player's Cigarette Card No. 8, Alfred Jingle (1910). Right: Kyd's extra illustration, Alfred Jingle, Esq., of No Hall, Nowhere. (1910) [Click on the images to enlarge them.]
Related Material: The Household Edition Volumes
The complete list of illustrations by Seymour and Phiz for the original edition
Thomas Nast's American Household Edition Illustrations (1873)
An introduction to the Household Edition (1871-79)
Other artists who illustrated this work, 1836-74
Robert Seymour (1836)
Hablot Knight Brown (1836-37)
Felix Octavius Carr Darley (1861)
Sol Eytinge, Jr. (1867)
Bentley, Nicolas, Michael Slater, and Nina Burgis. The Dickens Index. New York and Oxford: Oxford U. P., 1990.
Davis, Paul. Charles Dickens A to Z: The Essential Reference to His Life and Work. New York: Checkmark and Facts On File, 1999.
Dickens, Charles. Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club. Illustrated by Hablot Knight Browne ("Phiz"). The Authentic Edition. London: Chapman and Hall, 1901 [rpt. of the 1868 volume, based on the 30 May 1857 volume].
_____. Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club. Frontispieces by Felix Octavius Carr Darley and Sir John Gilbert. The Household Edition. 55 vols. New York: Sheldon & Co., 1863. 4 vols.
_____. Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club. Illustrated by Sol Eytinge, Jr. The Diamond Edition. Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1867. 14 vols.
_____. Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club. Illustrated by Thomas Nast. The Household Edition. 22 vols. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1873. Vol. 2.
_____. Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club. Illustrated by Hablot Knight Browne ('Phiz'). The Household Edition. 22 vols. London: Chapman and Hall, 1874. Vol. 5.
_____. Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club. Illustrated by Harry Furniss. The Charles Dickens Library Edition. 18 vols. London: Educational Book, 1910. Vol. 2.
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The historical account of Maxstoke Castle below is taken from "Abbeys, Castles and Ancient Halls of England and Wales: Volume II" by John Timms and Alexander Gunn published by Frederick Warne & Co. 1872.
"On a plain, in a sequestered spot surrounded by trees, above a mile north of the village of Maxstoke, and three miles from Coleshill, stands this Castle, which has its history, chequered with the fortunes of its owners. This ancient structure was built by Sir William Clinton, eldest son of John Lord Clinton, in 1356, and is one of the very few remaining buildings of that interesting period. The Castle came into the possession of Humphrey Stafford, Earl of Buckingham, by exchange with John, fifth Lord Clinton, for Whiston, in Northamptonshire, and became the favourite residence of the Earl; but upon the decapitation of his son, Henry, Duke of Buckingham, for his attempt to dethrone Richard III, in 1483, the Castle was seized by the King, who visited it on his progress to Nottingham Castle, previously to the battle of Bosworth, when he ordered all the inner buildings of Kenilworth Castle to be removed here. After the death of King Richard III, Edward, the son of the last Duke of Buckingham, was restored to his father's honours and estates. He fell a sacrifice to Cardinal Wolsey, and was beheaded in 1521; upon which event the Emporer Charles V exclaimed, "A butcher's dog has worried to death the finest buck in England." Then sunk forever all the splendour and princely honours of the renowned family of Stafford.
"A frightful succession of calamities befel both the ancestors and descendants of Humphrey, Earl of Buckingham, as well as himself. His grandfather was murdered at Calais, his father killed at Shrewsbury, his son at St Albans, and himself at Northampton; his grandson, and great-grandson were both executed as traitors, and he had to relinquish the rank of Lord Stafford, to which he had become entitled, and his sister was at that time the wife of a carpenter.
"To return to Maxstoke. The year after the beheading of the son of the last Duke of Buckingham in 1521, the estate, again forfeited, was granted to Sir William Compton, ancestor of William, Lord Compton, who, in 1526, disposed of it to the Lord Keeper Egerton, who, two years afterwards, sold it to Thomas Dilke, Esq., in whose family the property still remains. The plan of the Castle is a parallelogram, with a hexagonal tower at each angle, inclosing an area containing the dwelling, which was partly destroyed by an accidental fire; but a great portion of the ancient edifice yet remains, and is a fine example of the architectural style of the age in which it was erected. The gatehouse in the centre of the front is approached by a stone bridge over a moat, which encompasses the Castle walls; above the entrance are sculptured the arms of Humphrey Stafford, Earl of Buckingham, impaling those of his Countess, Anne Neville, daughter of the Earl of Westmoreland, which are supported by two antelopes, assumed in allusion to the Earl's descent from royal blood, his mother being the daughter of Thomas of Woodstock, Duke of Gloucester. The badges of the burning nave of the Stafford knot are also sculptured on the gatehouse, which was built by the Earl of Buckingham previously to his being created a Duke in 1446. The great gates put up by this nobleman are still in their original state, and are covered with plates of iron; the groove for the massive portcullis is also to be seen.
"In the neighbourhood of the Castle are the remains of a Priory, founded by William Clinton, Earl of Huntingdon, in 1331, for canons regular of the order of St. Austin; it was dedicated to the Holy Trinity, the Blessed Virgin Mary, St. Michael, and All Saints. The endowment of this Priory was ample, for it was valued in 1534 at 129/. 11s. 8d. per annum: it was granted in 1538 to Charles, Duke of Suffolk. The ruins are rendered mournfully picturesque by the varieties of evergreen foliage that environ them in every direction."
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Colorado hospital sees 'historic' pediatric admissions — and it's not just COVID-19
Gabrielle Masson - Thursday, October 14th, 2021 Print	| Email
Aurora-based Children's Hospital Colorado is seeing unusually high pediatric hospitalizations as respiratory illnesses that typically peak in the winter emerge earlier and COVID-19 rates among children remain high, reports The Gazette.
"Fortunately, we here at Children's Hospital Colorado have been able to meet the recent surge, but we're in a difficult moment in time," Sean O'Leary, MD, infectious disease physician and director of pediatric research at the hospital, told reporters Oct. 14. "Respiratory viruses that we normally see during the winter are at very high levels right now, and those combined with children with COVID-19 have led to a pretty full hospital."
Children's is still accepting out-of-state transfers and hasn't hit capacity, Mike DiStefano, MD, CMO at Children's Colorado Springs campus, told The Gazette.
Colorado pediatric COVID-19 rates have been higher than any other age group during this surge, which began in August, reports The Gazette. Dr. O'Leary said September infection rates were higher for children than any other point of the pandemic.
"With well over 500 pediatric deaths as I speak, COVID-19 fits squarely in the top 10 causes of childhood deaths in the U.S.," Dr. O'Leary said. Children's has treated more than 1,000 COVID-19 patients and several deaths, he said.
Beginning in August, RSV has already hit unprecedented highs, despite normally peaking in winter. Rhinovirus is also circulating, and COVID-19 surges are driven by the delta variant, children returning to school and inability to receive a vaccine.
"This is historic. This doesn't happen," Dr. DiStefano said. "I've been doing this for 15, 18-plus years, and this is not when we see our respiratory surge. It's really, highly unusual."
He also said the various respiratory illnesses are "all equal at this point" in terms of pediatric hospitalizations and hospital visits, noting that one is not more extreme than the other.
Nearby, Denver-based Rocky Mountain Hospital for Children, while not at capacity, is "certainly very full, depending on the day," spokesperson Stephanie Sullivan wrote in an Oct. 13 email to The Gazette. "It's really a combination of a variety of medical, surgical and respiratory cases, but not predominantly COVID."
If pediatric hospitalizations continue to trend upward as flu season picks up, "it could get pretty difficult for our community," Dr. DiStefano said.


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BMI, Lung Cancer, Inversely Associated in Current and Former Smokers
Dave Levitan
Body mass index appears to be inversely associated with the risk for lung cancer, even after smoking status is carefully taken into account. A new prospective study found this association was restricted to current and former smokers and was actually stronger after adjustments for smoking were made.
Body mass index (BMI) appears to be inversely associated with the risk for lung cancer, even after smoking status is carefully taken into account. A new prospective study found this association was restricted to current and former smokers and was actually stronger after adjustments for smoking were made.
Cigarette smoking's association with lower BMI has always been a significant confounding factor
Many earlier studies have found that increasing BMI is associated with decreasing risk of lung cancer, but cigarette smoking's association with lower BMI has always been a significant confounding factor. In the new study, led by senior author Gretchen L. Gierach, PhD, MPH, researchers examined this association in 448,732 men and women between the ages of 50 and 71 who were recruited during 1995-1996 for the National Institutes of Health-AARP Diet and Health Study. The results were published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.
The cohort consisted of 271,238 men and 177,494 women; the median BMI of men was 26.6 kg/m2, and 25.8 for women. Less than 30% of men had a BMI that is considered normal weight, while 43.1% of women were of normal weight; 70% of men and 56% of women were either current or former smokers-former smokers had the highest BMI among both men and women, while current smokers were the leanest group.
Over a mean follow-up period of 9.7 years, 6,093 men and 3,344 women were diagnosed with lung carcinomas. Of those, there were 166 men and 249 women diagnosed who had never smoked. The overall incidence rate of lung cancer was 233 per 100,000 person-years among men, and 192 per 100,000 person-years among women.
In a multivariate model that adjusted for smoking status, BMI was significantly and inversely associated with the risk of lung cancer in both men and women. For men, the hazard ratio for men with a BMI of 35 or higher vs. men with a BMI between 22.5 and 24.99 was 0.81 (95% CI, 0.70-0.94). For women, the decreased risk was even more pronounced, with a HR of 0.73 (95% CI, 0.61-0.87.)
When stratified by smoking status, it became clear that the inverse association between BMI and lung cancer risk was only present in current and former smokers. "Among never smokers, we observed no association between BMI and the risk of lung cancer in either age-adjusted or multivariable-adjusted models," the researchers wrote. The inverse risk was slightly stronger among current smokers than among former smokers.
The investigators also wanted to examine any potential residual effects of smoking on lung cancer risk. They tested the BMI association in models stratified by amount of time since quitting smoking and the number of cigarettes smoked per day; the inverse association remained intact except in men who quit smoking 20 cigarettes or fewer at least 10 years ago, and women who quit the same number of cigarettes between 5 and 9 years ago.
"This finding suggests the need to consider alternative explanations for the inverse association between BMI and risk of lung cancer," the researchers wrote.
One of these possible explanations involves increased levels of estrogen among obesity. Studies have shown decreased risk of lung cancer with the use of menopausal hormones, so it may be possible that the increased hormones in obese individuals directly lead to the reduction in cancer risk. The authors noted that the stronger inverse association in this study among women would support such a hypothesis.


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By kayla	Identity
what the Bachelor/Bachelorette/Bachelor in Paradise has taught me: part 1
First of all, I included all three of these shows because I watch (or have watched) all of them. I wouldn't put myself on the "obsessed" level yet, but I'm definitely above "just curious about what's going on" or "staying culturally relevant." For example, the first thing I did today when I had some free time after work was catch up on "Bachelor in Paradise" and that's probably what I'll do tomorrow because it's a two-episode week y'all!!
As I was catching up on the show this week, I couldn't help but feel this uneasy pit in my stomach. I started to feel kinda bad for those involved in the show. I was sad for every single female that ends up in one of those "confessional" moments and says something similar to, "I just want someone to fight for me," or, "I guess I'm just not good enough."
Today, those confessions just stopped me in my tracks. I realized lots of things that I'd like to cover in the coming weeks, but we'll start with this:
Insecurity exists everywhere.
If there's one thing I've picked up on with the Bachelor franchise, it's that they really like beautiful people. Every person on every episode is beautiful. And every one of them, at some point or another, doubts themselves. They feel inadequate. They feel as if they are missing something.
It reminds me of the time when Adam and Eve were walking with God in the garden. The Lord had brought them together in perfect harmony and the Bible says that they were "naked and were not ashamed." Then, they rebelled, went their own way, and did the one thing God told them not to do. The first thing that happens after that bite is that they realized they were naked. And they were ashamed of their nakedness. So ashamed they hid from God.
One of the most compassionate statements in the Bible, in my opionion, is in Genesis 3:11. God asks them, "Who told you that you were naked?"
Who spoke that in to your life? Who told you that you were anything other than beloved?
That's what I want to ask the contestants on the Bachelor/Bachelorette/Bachelor in Paradise.
Who told you that you were naked? Who told you that you weren't enough? Who hurt you so deeply that you feel unworthy?
Then I want to tell them about the greatest love of all that can heal all wounds. I want to tell them about Jesus. I want them to feel whole.
We all feel that, don't we? We all feel inadequate.
We all want to feel whole.
Praise God that Jesus makes us just that. Whole. Complete. Beautiful. Beloved. Wanted. Redeemed.
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Research finds turbo-charging hormone can regrow the heart
Researchers have discovered a way to stimulate muscle regrowth in the heart of a mouse, opening up prospects of new treatments for the 55,000 Australians who experience a heart attack each year.
The animal study found it was possible to regenerate muscle cell numbers in the heart by up to 45%, by 'turbo-charging' a hormone that helped coordinate cell growth.
According to study lead author, UNSW Associate Professor Richard Harvey, based at the Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute, this is an important step toward repairing a broken heart.
"Unlike blood, hair or skin cells, which can renew themselves throughout life, cell division in the heart virtually comes to a standstill shortly after birth, which means the heart can't fully regenerate if it is damaged later in life," Professor Harvey said.
"Previous studies have demonstrated that it is possible to coax heart muscle cells to proliferate again, but only at very trivial levels.
"What the research team has been able to do is boost heart muscle cell numbers by as much as 45% after a heart attack."
The scientists focused on a signalling system in the heart driven by a hormone called 'neuregulin'.
By switching the neuregulin pathway to 'turbo charge', the researchers found that heart muscle cells continued to divide in a spectacular way in both the adolescent and adult periods. Stimulating the neuregulin pathway during a heart attack led to replacement of lost muscle.
"This big achievement will focus the attention of the field on heart muscle cell replacement as a therapeutic option for ischemic heart disease," Professor Harvey said.
"The dream is that one day we will be able to regenerate damaged heart tissue, much like a salamander can regrow a new limb if it is bitten off by a predator. Just imagine if the heart could learn to regrow and heal itself. That would be the ultimate prize."
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Is it legal to spank or use physical discipline on my child?
In this post, we look at how spanking and physical discipline are treated under both criminal and family law in Canada, and encourage parents to use healthy alternatives when parenting your children.
The Supreme of Court of Canada touched upon the issue of the legality of spanking and physical discipline in Canadian Foundation for Children, Youth and the Law v. The Attorney General of Canada, where they considered whether section 43 of the Canadian Criminal Code violated our constitution.
It can be used by teachers and parents as a defense to a criminal charge of assault where they have used physical discipline against a child.
In a 6 to 3 decision, the Court upheld section 43 as constitutional and narrowed the applicability of the defense by finding that parents cannot strike children with the intent to harm them, and they cannot spank a child younger than two or older than 12 years old.
The Court justified their decision stating that Infants and toddlers could be physically hurt and are unlikely to see the connection between their actions and the spanking, and striking teenagers "can induce aggressive or antisocial behaviour." The judges also ruled that parents could not hit children with belts, rulers or other objects, or slap them anywhere on the head.
Since the judgement, there have been numerous cases where parents have been found guilty of assault for spanking or using other forms of physical discipline on their children, particularly where the force was not reasonable, where they used an object, or where there was intent to harm rather than to correct behaviour.
While using physical discipline is not illegal in circumstances outlined by the Supreme Court of Canada, this only means that using physical discipline is not a criminal offense leading to charges and a criminal record if found guilty.
The considerations involved in a family law case are very different from a criminal proceeding however, and the use of physical discipline on your child is likely to have a substantial impact on your case in this context. This is true even if you are using physical discipline within the parameters set by the Supreme Court of Canada.
The Criminal Code generally enforces minimum standards of behaviour and upholds the basic rights of people, in this case children.
In a family law case the court is not looking for parties to uphold a minimum standard of behaviour but to seek out the parenting arrangements that are in in the best interests of the child based on the parenting capacity and circumstances of the parties. In this context, the court will consider the physical discipline as an indication of the party's parenting style and capacity, as well as the potential or actual effect of the behaviour on that particular child.
There has been a substantial amount of research that indicates that spanking and other forms of physical discipline have a negative effect on children. This research also indicates that physical discipline only ensures immediate compliance, and does not serve an effective teaching function.
The good news is that parents can always learn new, more effective methods of discipline that do not have a negative impact on the well-being of the child. The harmful effects of physical discipline are correlated with the severity and frequency of the discipline, so taking steps to learn new ways of addressing parenting issues should have a significant impact on outcomes even if physical discipline has been used previously.
From a legal standpoint, the court hearing your case is more likely to be concerned with a parent's current parenting skills and capacity and whether they will remain constant than what has happened in the past (barring of course any extreme circumstances and a multitude of different factors that may include the child's views, if appropriate).
Making the effort to learn new skills and to become a better parent and co-parent is always worthwhile. It will make a substantial difference in your legal case and will improve the health and well-being of your family. At Connect Family Law, we can direct you to the appropriate professional to get the assistance that you require.


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LILBURN, GA – April 29, 2014 – Jasmine "Jazz" Tandy and her nine-year-old son Chaz are fleeing from a ruthless organization that kidnaps and exploits children with incredible psychic abilities—and their only hope for survival is a covert group called the Guardians who protect these children from the organization's merciless hunters.
In SOULSNATCHER ($4.99 LazyDay Publishing, April 29, 2014), children with extraordinary psychic powers are being kidnapped and used as pawns in a deadly supernatural war. Children such as Kaylee Daley, who can control and manipulate plant life, Mara Fleming, who can see into the future, and Chaz Tandy, who can heal people with his touch.
Dr. Larssen Sössnacher—the ruthless organization's leader, called "Soulsnatcher" by the remarkable children he abducts and exploits—believes Chaz is the miraculous prodigy who will grant him the immortality he craves... and he'll stop at nothing to get Chaz.
Cody Jackson, a Guardian and martial arts and weapons expert, rescues Jazz and Chaz from Soulsnatcher's hunters and takes them to Homestead, a safe haven where the children learn to use their powers to help others. But Soulsnatcher's hunters raid Homestead and capture Chaz and several other children. Jazz, Cody, and the Guardians track them to Soulsnatcher's lair and battle them in a surreal deadly showdown… with the souls of all the children as the ultimate prize.
Kerry Denney has been studying events, projects, places, and people with bizarre undertones for decades—from "Chariots of the Gods" to "Project Blue Book" to dream-related and psychic studies and beyond—accumulating a vast, eclectic collection from which to envision and create an infinite succession of compelling supernatural stories. With multiple awards and publications and seven paranormal novels incorporating his "Reality Bender" brand in his repertoire, he is uniquely qualified to write novels featuring elements of the fantastic and surreal.
New York Times bestselling author James Rollins, author of The Eye of God and the SIGMA FORCE series, says, "Soulsnatcher grabs you by both the heart and the throat, as children with incredible powers are put in the path of villains with truly horrific ambitions. Here is a story rife with adventure, suspense, and a dash of humor, and it had me turning the pages deep into the night - and it will have you doing the same."
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