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13:32 Armenia should use all the opportunities to ensure maximum integration with Georgia, Turkey, Iran and Azerbaijan. Prime Minister
19:46 Speaker of the Croatian Parliament to visit Armenia
19:15 EU Commissioner: Instability in Arab East will intensify the Eastern Partnership
17:28 THE OSCE PA President to visit South Caucasus
17:57 The Website of the Armenian Movie hacked by Azerbaijanis
EU, Azerbaijan sign gas deal to bypass Russia
Author: Gabriele Steinhauser
The European Union and Azerbaijan signed a deal Thursday in which the Caspian country commits to supply Europe with "substantial volumes of gas," an agreement the EU said was an important step to reduce the bloc's dependence on deliveries from Russia.
However, Baku has not yet decided whether the EU-backed Nabucco pipeline project will get the award from the big Shah Deniz II gas field, or whether the contract will go to smaller rival projects.
Moscow's disputes with Ukraine and Belarus have in the past cut off supplies to Central and Western Europe, making European policymakers keen to develop alternative routes to get their gas. Currently, the EU gets about 40 percent of its natural gas from Russia.
"This is a major breakthrough," European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso, who signed the agreement with Azeri President Ilham Aliyev in Baku, said in a statement. "This new supply route will enhance the energy security of European consumers and businesses."
In the agreement, Azerbaijan promises the EU to provide sufficient gas to enable the creation of the so-called Southern corridor — a route from the energy-rich Caspian basin to Europe that bypasses Russia. The infrastructure will be provided together by Europe and Azerbaijan, the EU said in a statement.
Currently, several pipeline projects are competing to create the Southern corridor. The EU has thrown its weight behind Nabucco, a massive 3,300 kilometer pipeline proposed by a consortium of firms led by Germany's RWE AG that could move up to 31 billion cubic meters of gas a year from Baku all the way to Austria.
But in recent months, the 27-country bloc appears to have softened its position on what pipeline to support.
"For the EU it's decisive that a European project and a European firm gets awarded this contract," said Marlene Holzner, spokeswoman for the EU's Energy Commissioner Guenther Oettinger, who was in Baku with Barroso.
In its statement, the EU said that Azerbaijan will decide in the next months which project would get the award for the Shah Deniz II field. The bloc hopes to have a commitment by March, the month a euro200 million ($266 million) support package the EU has promised Nabucco expires if there's no investment decision. The EU's package would only cover a fraction of the pipeline's estimated euro7.9 billion cost.
In addition to Nabucco, there are a number of smaller pipeline projects. ITGI — backed by Italy's Edison SpA, Greek gas company Depa and Turkey's Botas — would take gas from Turkey's border to the southern heel of Italy, while the Trans Adriatic Pipeline — proposed by Switzerland's EGL, Norway's Statoil ASA and German E.ON AG — plans to go from Greece, across Albania and the Adriatic Sea to Italy.
Both ITGI and TAP would rely on Turkey's existing pipelines to get the Azeri gas to EU borders.
Many energy experts have long questioned the feasibility of Nabucco, arguing that there is not enough gas in the Shah Deniz field to make the project commercially viable in the coming years and that getting gas from Turkmenistan or Iraq — two other potential suppliers for Nabucco — will be difficult.
"We do not see enough gas available for a pipeline as big as Nabucco before 2020," said Jonathan Stern, director of gas research at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies. "The small projects seem to me to be more the right size for what can be done this decade."
According to the institute's estimates, until at least 2018, Shah Deniz II would be able to ship a maximum of about 10 billion cubic meters of gas to Europe — less than a third of Nabucco's full capacity.
For the question whether the Southern corridor will actually become a reality anytime soon, Thursday's agreement "is not really groundbreaking," said Alexandros Petersen, a Eurasia expert at the Atlantic Council is Washington. "The real story is what project of the Southern corridor the Azerbaijanis are going to pick."
/Associated Press/


SUSANVILLE >> The Lassen National Forest is selling excess office furniture and miscellaneous items via Internet auction, which began Monday and continues through 8 a.m. Dec. 1.
The official auction page is at www.gsaauctions.gov. The items located in Susanville can be found by entering the sale number, 91QSCI15126, in the search box. Be careful to verify the location when looking at individual items, as there are also items included in the sale that are not in Susanville.
If you have questions or need further information, Property Management Officer Janie Ackley will be available by phone through Wednesday, Nov. 26, at 530-252-6695, or by email at jackley@fs.fed.us through Dec. 1.


Our client needed expert technical services to develop a set of deliverables that included analysis documents, functional specifications, proof of concept (POC), implementation and education. Additional requirements were implemented to accommodate technical capability to deploy and maintain a robust BI capability; collect and determine technical and business requirements of the primary stakeholders (HFO, OPD, and IS) for BI reporting and analytics; transfer critical BI architecture and design knowledge to ODOT staff; produce functional specifications to deploy a BI capability that includes enterprise considerations; and install, configure and optimize the BI design solution using MS SQL 2005 and .NET 2005 to report against at least two ODOT data sources.
ESN took advantage of being a Microsoft Gold Partner by utilizing all the resources provided by Microsoft, allowing our teams to explore beta versions of new technologies such as .NET 2005 and SQL Server 2005. In these technologies, Microsoft integrated reporting services, analysis services and integration services (SSIS) and provided Business Intelligence Development Studio to develop the BI applications in an easier and more cost effective way. Our teams strived to implement a solution leveraging the new and enhanced features of SQL Server 2005 and .NET 2005. The solution included Ad-hoc reports, personalized Web pages and data extraction using SQL Integrated Services. ESN also helped educate ODOT staff on unfamiliar technologies.
ESN helped the client familiarize itself with the alternative conceptual BI designs through presentations to the technical staff. ESN also provided further knowledge transfer to all staff members throughout the project by constructing a BI system in their lab environment.


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I am a self-taught artist.
I enjoy painting faces and figures. But more than just portraits, the subjects in my works personify issues relating to identity, society, spirituality and socio-political affairs.
My works have been featured in several shows and added to various private collections internationally.
Follow me on Instagram to get regular updates of my works in progress.
Solo Shows
Galeri Chandan
The Imaginarium
Hillyer Art Space
STATE OF FLUX
Volvo Art Loft
Chan Hampe Galleries
Raffles Hotel, Singapore
APAD KONTEMPORARI 2017
ION Art Gallery @ ION Orchard, Singapore
CELEBRATING DIVERSITY
Art Tag Circle
Pan Pacific Singapore Art Space, Singapore
part of Singapore Art Week 2016
(participating artist and acting curator)
Galeri Utama, The Foothills@Fort Canning, Singapore
MOSAIC 1, 2, 3
Art Apart Fair 7th Edition
Presidential Suite, ParkRoyal on Pickering, Singapore
THE AFFORDABLE ART FAIR SINGAPORE
CONVERGING AND TRANSCENDING
Fullerton Hotel Gallery Space, Singapore
FIGURATIVELY SPEAKING
Maya Gallery
THE AFFORDABLE ART FAIR SEOUL
Dongdaemun Design Plaza, Seoul, Korea
ONCE UPON A HILL
an art event celebrating Fort Canning Hill by APAD
APAD CONTEMPORARY 2014
National Library Building, Singapore
SINGAPORE ART WEEK 2014
Aliwal Arts Centre, Singapore
INTERPRETIVE REALMS
ENCORE!
SONGSANG
DECEITFUL TRUTHS
THE AFFORDABLE ART FAIR BRUSSELS
APAD: CONTEMPORARY TWENTY ELEVEN
National Library, Singapore
THE AFFORDABLE ART FAIR AMSTERDAM
APAD: CONTEMPORARY TWENTY 10
APAD: TRADITION, INNOVATION & CONTINUITY
Singapore Art Museum
THE SINGAPORE ART SHOW 2007
APAD CONTEMPORARY 2007: KAMPONG
Malay Heritage Centre, Singapore
reACTION: SANGKAR
ARTrium@MICA, Singapore
TODAY ONLINE (Singapore), 22 January 2016
THE COSY TYPE: ART APART FAIR
Hands down, this boutique fair has the best venue — and it's the only ground-up local initiative of the three. Led by Rosalind Lim, Art Apart takes place at PARKROYAL on Pickering, which, is an architectural beaut in itself. Taking over almost all of the rooms on the 14th floor — where you get a nice view of the surrounding area — it's literally a fair for "high art". Thankfully, the prices aren't. With works hung and placed everywhere, including inside the bathtubs and toilets, think of it as a salon-style fair gone wild. It's the complete opposite of Art Stage and falls somewhat in the Affordable Art Fair-type (AAF) camp.
The works are mostly of the two-dimensional variety and, admittedly, the quality can be rather hit-and-miss. The paintings by Singaporean artist Rofi definitely falls in the former category and we even spotted one of recent President's Young Talents co-winner Ezzam Rahman's "skin art" pieces. But, in a way, the misses are balanced out by the unique experience of walking into the various rooms and stumbling across something (hopefully not in a literal sense). Another plus: You can immediately see how a painting could look in your bedroom (or toilet, for that matter).
As for crowds, well, visitorship is around 3,000 to 3,500, and the average prices of the works are around S$2,000 to S$3,000, but there are some in the three-digit range, too.
One thing it has over this year's Art Stage, however, is its support for local art students: Around 20 of them from Nanyang Academy Of Fine Arts are showing here. All of these for an admission fee of S$10. Oh, and did we mention the views?
MAYO MARTIN
THE STANDARD (Hong Kong), 4 February 2015
CRUISING ALONG AT 50
Fifty may be middle-aged in human years but mere babyhood in terms of a country. And in Singapore – where SG50 is the latest to join MRT, ECP, COE and other acronyms – 50 years is just enough for its people to start becoming comfortable in their own skin.
Finding a Singaporean identity has always been a tricky task since the island state broke away from Malaysia on August 9, 1965.
The population may be predominantly Chinese but they don't identify with the mainland (if you want to gain an enemy, ask a Chinese Singaporean "which part of China are you from?"). And though they share history and culture, they are not Malaysians.
This struggle to establish an identity is a prevalent theme in Singapore literature and art.
Malay Singaporean artist Rofi, who goes by one name, says art is "a form as identity. It's how I want to identify myself."
He adds: "When you say Chinese art, you already have a picture in your head of calligraphy or ink wash. Think Malay art, Indian art, Filipino art, then think Singapore art … what is the image?"
There is a need, he says, to create Singapore art that is unique to the country. One way is to harken back to Singapore's own legends.
For his latest artworks for "APAD Presents: Once Upon A Hill," Rofi tapped the legend of Sang Nila Utama – the Srivijayan prince who founded the Kingdom of Singapura in 1299.
One of his works, Indigo & The Forbidden Hill, is a portrait of the prince, whose name translates to Indigo Prime. The paths of Fort Canning Hill, where the prince built his palace, are superimposed on his face.
The wood-and-metal installation outside the Singapore Art Museum refers to the part when Sang Nila Utama spots a lion and decides to call the island Singapura – or Lion City.
Using legends and cultural references is a way for artists to work within Singapore's tough censorship laws.
It looks like, after 50 years, the community has found a way to be creative but still stay within out-of-bound markers.
IVY ONG-WOOD
SPOT THE ARTIST: SIX LOCAL ARTISTS YOU SHOULD CHECK OUT DURING SINGAPORE ART WEEK 2015
The countdown begins for the biggest visual art bonanza to kick of the year: The Singapore Art Week. The nine-day event, organised by the National Arts Council, Singapore Tourism Board and the Economic Development Board, gets under way on Saturday and will feature more than 100 events that culminate in the three-day Art Stage Singapore fair, which opens on Jan 22. Art lovers will be spoilt for choice, not only when it comes to internationally renowned artists such as Fernando Botero and Gilbert & George, but homegrown artists as well.
Familiar and established names are set to lex their muscles, among them Suzann Victor, Jimmy Ong, Vertical Submarine, David Chan, Ruben Pang, Dawn Ng, Darren Soh and Nguan. In fact, with so many set to come out of the woodwork, we've decided to take a different route and shine the spotlight on a handful of under-the-radar talents well worth casting an eye on.
In 2005, Rofizano Zaino decided he wanted to take painting seriously. A graphic designer by training, the selftrained visual artist began taking part in small group shows, including annual ones by Malay arts group Angkatan Pelukis Aneka Daya (APAD). "I had reached a point in my career where I wanted a challenge and I wanted to do something creative without using the computer so much and answering to someone else's brief," said then44-year-old. He took it a step further in 2011 with his first solo show at The Substation, and the following year, another solo at Chan Hampe Galleries.
Still, Rofi admitted: "Sometimes I do feel like I'm an outsider in the art world. If you went to LASALLE or NAFA, your lecturers are practising artists. I didn't have that."
What he did have was a recognisable style. "Subject-wise, I'm known as an artist who does a lot of faces. Faces are my favourite subject matter. I use faces to frame the messages in my work. So when I paint a face, it's not about creating the likeness of a person like one would do in a portrait; I'm using the face as a kind of 'vessel' to carry the idea I want to convey. Having a message in my work is always important to me. I think my background in branding developed a sense of delivering an idea through symbolism. I used to create logos that represented ideas. Now I do it with another form of identity, the face," he said.
For Singapore Art Week, he's curating the APAD group show Once Upon A Hill at Galeri Utama at Fort Canning. Seven artists will look to the site's history in their works and Rofi himself will be presenting three pieces: An installation using salvaged wood from Fort Canning Hill, his first attempt at a sculpture and an imagined portrait of Sang Nila Utama using the map of Fort Canning Hill as the outline silhouette.
THE DAILY SENI (Malaysia), 27 December 2013
Visitors to Galeri Chandan are greeted with an entrance decorated with wire fence. This time, the exhibition features works by Malay Singaporean, Rofi, who started as a graphic designer and has spread his wings into the world of fine art. A total of 13 pieces of art work in a variety of media including charcoal, acrylic and fabric on canvas, with two pieces installed with wire link fence, adorn the walls of the gallery. These works have been featured at Hillyer Art Space, in Washington DC, USA and The Imaginarium, Georgetown, Penang, prior to coming to Galeri Chandan.
Based on the titles of the works and images presented, it appears Rofi is interested in portraiture and figurative works that inspire feelings of inner turmoil, trapped behind precise swabs of palette knives. Portraits are broken into planes like cubic fragments, that while sharp, do not create a harshness in the faces. 'Speak Your Mind, But Mind Your Speech' features a man seemingly suffering in the tangle of barbed wire as he is forced to be careful with his speech. 'Guide Me' combines the face of a Malay woman staring upwards, weaved into motifs of a batik, to appeal for God's guidance (perhaps?).
The application of dark hues and a shiny finish resembles oil painting, but he uses acrylic paints. Nevertheless, the use of collage fabric looks quite awkward aside a well-executed acrylic treatment due to lack of surface treatment. 'Padi' for example, using fabric as 'corduroy', looks weak when viewed in person. 'A Storm Brewing' is the most impressive work in my mind, because the sense of anger in the face of the man is apparent under dark clouds.
'Sinking', is also a good example of the successful use of mixed media. Swathes of acrylic on the fabric (batik) strengthens the work surface texture. 'No Trespassing', a close up of a pink-nosed woman with red metal plate across her lips, as if forced to be silent.
Rofi, has travelled far in the field of visual arts. In addition to his work in the collection of the Singapore Art Museum, he has had shows in the United States, Netherlands, Belgium and China.
AZLIZA AYOB
cosmoArteTV, 5 September 2013
Transcript: (2:05 – 3:10)
His name is Rofi and he is also having an exhibition in Washington DC right now, and he's expressing his political, social, cultural views through his mixed media paintings.
Very powerful work, very powerful... It's three-dimensional, he uses of course the metal fence which when you see in person you actually get a great sense of what it is that he's doing. It doesn't always translate well on images but in person it's more striking. And of course, it's about one's ability to be able to communicate and not be silenced. It's about censorship, very much, (and democracy)... absolutely.
ANGELA DI BELLO
Director, Agora Gallery
THE WASHINGTON POST ONLINE, 20 July 2013
Rofi's show is titled 'Psyche', but he seems most interested in the surfaces of the human countenance. The Singapore artist boldly divides faces into a series of planes, although he doesn't distort their geometry with cubist vehemence. The starkest aspect of his work comes from mixed-media additions, including metal shards, barbed wire and the newspaper that obscures the top of one subject's head. The menace in these works comes not from Rofi's palette knife, but from external forces the artist doesn't (or perhaps can't) fully depict.

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At present, "The Trick Kids" is a rather obscure Bray series. A total of ten films starring jointed dolls - animated via the stop-motion technique - were produced under the direction of Alexander Leggett. Unfortunately, little information has yet been uncovered on Leggett and his work; and no materials or related to this series have thus far turned up among the Bray Studios papers.
From what we know thus far, "The Trick Kids" seems to have represented an early licensing tie-in. The series promoted toys in much the same way that other early cartoon series promoted characters from newspaper comics. Happifat Dolls, a popular set of dolls at the time, were represented by the eponymous "Happifat," a roly-poly boy doll. "Flossie Fisher," pictured at left, was the female half of the duo and again represented a doll brand of the same name. Today Happifat dolls, Flossie Fisher dolls, and their accompanying furniture and accessories are often found in antique shops.
Unfortunately, none of the Trick Kids films have yet surfaced, and the images on this page are all we have to represent the films at this time.
Above and below: Excerpted items from a 1916 Film Fun book.


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Posts Tagged 'Congress'
Posted: June 17, 2011 in anthony weiner, Congress, Legal, Media, Media Bias, Media Criticism, New York Times, News, People, Politics, State Politics, Technology
Tags: anthony weiner, betty, Congress, ethel, facebook, ginger lee, heckler, howard stern, megan broussard, patterico, pelosi, resignation, twitter, veronica
21 days after Weinergate first broke, the Congressman from NY finally resigned today. For the record – for me, it was never about the sexting or the pics. This was about the false accusations and the sociopathic lying of a man who was elected to hold the public's trust. That trust was shattered three weeks ago. It never should have taken this long. (TMZ has confirmed that the heckler is in fact Benjy Bronk from the Howard Stern show).
For the best, most complete coverage out there on every step of this story, please visit Patterico's site. It was Patterico who first reported the details on the 17yr old girl from Delaware with whom Weiner was communicating via Twitter. Hopefully, our research will continue on this part of the story and others to which it is connected. We have not been permitted to publish certain components, but perhaps this will change soon. We hope.
Also, this post from The Prudence Paine Papers entitled Weiner and the Teen is fantastic – a comprehensive look into the girl we've come to know anonymously as "Ethel."
Menendez NJ Recall Update: The Tea Party Goes to Court
Posted: December 21, 2010 in Congress, Legal, Tea Party
Tags: american civil rights union, Articles of Confederation, committee to recall, Congress, Constitution, election law, First Amendment, New Jersey, nina wells, recall election, Sen. Robert Menendez, Tea Party
It's Not About the Recall, It's About the First Amendment
Review of case briefs, case law research, and consultation with a number of attorneys, judges, and legal professionals contributed to the writing of this article.
Tea Party activists might be smarter than some would like to think. And depending upon the outcome of a court case later this month, they might also play a role in setting legal precedent.
When New Jersey state election officials denied their submission to initiate a recall effort against U.S. Senator Robert Menendez, calling it unconstitutional, a grass-roots recall committee's constitutional instincts kicked into full gear. Attorneys for the committee, themselves Tea Party activists, filed to appeal the agency decision and began writing their supporting brief.
Meanwhile, seemingly everyone was now weighing in as a legal expert. Some insist the decision is simple: NJ has no constitutional authority to recall a US Senator; despite what its state constitution says, that authority is reserved for the federal government alone. For weeks now, legal scholars, political pundits and the media have been chattering online about the case, now before the Appellate Division in the Superior Court of New Jersey, some treating it more like a sideshow and an outlet to take pot shots at Tea Partiers than a legitimate court proceeding with real constitutional significance.
But Dan Silberstein and Richard Luzzi, attorneys for the Committee to Recall Robert Menendez, a committee initiated by members of the Sussex County Tea Party, see this case in an entirely different light. They insist this case is not about whether a recall order from the state is judicially enforceable against a United States Senator, rather, it's all about protecting the first amendment right to free speech. And they are taking the matter very seriously. Based upon recent developments in the case, apparently so are several others, including some high profile legal experts and the courts.


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Natural -World Premiere Album- est la 1compilation de la chanteuse Crystal Kay, sorti sous le label Sony Music Entertainment Japan le  au Japon. Elle atteint la  du classement de l'Oricon, et reste classé pendant 9 semaines, pour un total de  exemplaires vendus. Il contient de nombreuses reprises :
 Make Me Whole est une reprise de la chanson homonyme de Amel Larrieux sortie en single en 2000,
 Time after time est une reprise de la chanson homonyme de Cyndi Lauper sortie en single en 1984,
 Over The Rainbow est une reprise de la chanson homonyme de Judy Garland sortie en single en 1939,
 Love of A Lifetime est une reprise de la chanson homonyme de Honeyz sortie en single en 1999,
 Liberty est une reprise de la chanson homonyme de Masayuki Suzuki sortie en single en 1987,
 No More Blue Christmas, est une reprise de la chanson homonyme de Natalie Cole sortie en 1994.

Liste des titres

Liens externes
  Fiche officielle de l'album
  Fiche sur le site de l'Oricon

Album musical sorti en 2003
Album de Crystal Kay

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"TSX" - In a synthetic software environment, certain Intel Transactional Synchronization Extensions (TSX) functions may interact in ways that could result in unpredictable system behavior. This would only occur in extremely rare circumstances. Intel is not aware of any commercially available software exhibiting this behavior, and this is issue is not security-related. Intel is releasing a microcode(MCU) based workaround to prevent such hypothetical behavior.
"RCOMP" - An RCOMP and package C6 exit can lead to a system hang that results in machine check bank 4 status register bits 31:24 with a value of 0x09, 0x71, or 0x73. It is possible for BIOS to contain a workaround for this erratum.
"MCE" - Addresses potential platform stability issues which could result in platform reset and MCE(IA32_MCi_STATUS.MSCOD=00FH), (IA32_MCI_ STATUS. MCACOD=0150H).
A number of Fujitsu products are affected by these vulnerabilities. Fujitsu is working to distribute patches for all affected products that are currently supported. Older systems that are no longer supported will not be patched.
This page will be updated regularly as soon as new information is available. Besides a list of affected systems, also more detailed advice will follow.
Refer to the list of affected Fujitsu products (APL). This list is updated regularly.
Select "product group" and "product family".
Step 3: Use the Intel-SA-00185 Detection Tool to verify that the issue has been remediated.
Before proceeding, please check the expected availability of the relevant ME update package.
Step 2: Download the ME update package.
After downloading the .zip file, containing the ME Firmware Update Pack, extract all files/directories/subdirectories in the Firmware.ME directory (\Firmware.ME) of the .zip file to the desired directory on the hard drive.
Step 4: ME Update Procedure.
The "Firmware.ME" directory contains the ME update files which can be used in Windows environment. Run "update.bat" in Windows cmd environment with administrative privileges to start the ME flash procedure. Please choose 32-bit or 64-bit directory if using a Windows 32-bit or a Windows 64-bit installation.
To run the ME Update procedure using a Windows installation, it is necessary to have the Windows "HECI" driver installed. Please use the Intel(R) Active Management Technology Driver package for Windows.
To run the ME Update procedure using a Windows PE installation, it is necessary to have the Windows "HECI" driver installed. This can be done at runtime by "drvload.exe< Path to HECI.INF>\HECI.INF". The "HECI" driver can be extracted from the Intel(R) Active Management Technology Driver package for Windows.
Should you require any further security-related assistance, please contact: G02D-psirt@ts.fujitsu.com.
Fujitsu does not manufacture the affected microprocessors, that Fujitsu buys from third party suppliers and integrates into its products. Therefore, this communication is based on the information and recommendations Fujitsu has received from the third party suppliers of the affected microprocessors.
Fujitsu does not warrant that this communication is applicable or complete for all customers and all situations. Fujitsu recommends that customers determine the applicability of this communication to their individual situation and take appropriate measures. Fujitsu is not liable for any damages or other negative effects, resulting from customers' use of this communication. All details of this communication are provided "as is" without any warranty or guarantee. Fujitsu reserves the right to change or update this communication at any time.


Cambridge trainer Shaune Ritchie is excited heading into the Christmas-New Year period with his in-form racing team.
Heading that list is High Chaparral four-year-old The Good Fight who recorded his second career win from eight starts in the Pathways – The Immigration Specialists Premier (2400m) at Te Rapa on Saturday.
Ritchie has a lot of time for the gelding, who he purchased out of Rich Hill Stud's 2016 New Zealand Bloodstock Premier Yearling Sale draft for $300,000, but said he still has a bit of maturing to do.
"He's a beautiful type of horse with a good pedigree and he's starting to show that now," Ritchie said.
While he has nominated The Good Fight for the Gr.3 NZ campus For Innovation & Sport Wellington Cup (3200m) at Trentham next month, his main target for the summer is the Dunstan Feeds Championship Final (2200m) at Ellerslie on New Year's Day.
"The world is his oyster, but it is very hard to know how high we can aim," Ritchie said.
"I have nominated him for the Wellington Cup, but he's going to run in the Dunstan Final (at Ellerslie on New Year's Day) and then we'll take a breath and have a look.
"He's just got a bit of maturing to go and I'd just like to see 12 to 15 more kilograms on him before we take on the open horses.
Ritchie is bullish about Excalibur's chances in the Wellington Cup after his fourth placing behind Mongolian Marshal in the Gr.3 Waikato Cup (2400m) at Te Rapa on Saturday.
"That's his goal race (the Wellington Cup) and he hit the line very well on Saturday," Ritchie said.
"We had a few feet issues with him. His first two runs were superb, but he got a little infection in his feet and we had to put the bar plates on him on Saturday and they will be coming off next time.
Meanwhile, Ritchie is looking forward to lining up Sultan of Swing in the Gr.2 Rich Hill Mile (1600m) at Ellerslie on New Year's Day after his win in the Gr.3 J Swap Contractors Sprint (1400m) at Te Rapa on Saturday.
Although pleased with Saturday's win, Ritchie does hold some concerns about the way his charge is finishing his races of late.
"He's been a very good horse. His form is remarkably consistent, but in his last couple of starts he's looked like he's had an unwillingness to win races," Ritchie said.
"He went up alongside Magnum (on Saturday) like he was going to win and then he got headed. I thought he was going to give it away again, but he kicked back on the line.
All going to plan, Sultan of Swing could be set for bigger targets next year.


Thirty years ago last week, Digital Equipment Corp. (DEC) released VMS v1.0 with support for the DEC VAX hardware platform.
The operating system has hit the big 3-0. Is a midlife crisis on the horizon?
DEC has long since faded from the computer landscape, first going to Compaq in 1998 then to HP in May 2002 when it bought Compaq. But OpenVMS lives on.
As part of its anniversary celebrations, HP is rolling out a new marketing campaign for the middle-aged OS, as well as an incremental upgrade for the platform on HP's Integrity platform.
"OpenVMS 8.3.1H1 includes support for all of the really advanced management features within the blades environment," Dan Klein, marketing manager for OpenVMS at HP, told InternetNews.com. "OpenVMS will now be fully on a par with HP UX."
Klein was quick to point out that HP UX, which is HP's Unix operating system, is a completely different system than OpenVMS. With the new release, OpenVMS gets the same power and cooling management functionality features to take full advantage of the HP Integrity blade environment that HP already has in its HP UX 11i version 3 system.
The new release is only for the Integrity version of OpenVMS, not for Alpha, the other key constituent architecture that OpenVMS supports. The Alpha-based server is a descendant of the DEC Alpha product line HP inherited from DEC in 2002.
Klein admitted the 1H1 release was notpart of the OpenVMS plan earlier this year, as HP was not sure how much interest there would be for blades in the OpenVMS world. According to Klein, there has been a huge upswing in customers' interest in blades between April and October.
Though the 1H1 release is all about OpenVMS on Integrity, HP is still strongly supporting Alpha.
Klein noted that the next release with support for both Alpha and Integrity is set for the end of 2009. While HP no longer produces Alpha-based servers, it has publicly committed to guaranteeing OpenVMS support for Alpha until at least 2012.
"From a functionality perspective, Alpha customers don't need to move and we're committed to a single code stream," Klein said. "As customers look to improve their bottom lines, they're going to want great efficiency, and Integrity gives customers more opportunities for consolidation."
Klein argued that Alpha users can save 30 percent on power and cooling by moving from Alpha to Integrity. The Integrity platform is also capable of running Windows, HP UX and OpenVMS in a single chassis thanks to HP's virtualization engine that ships with Integrity servers.
Although HP would like customers to move to Integrity, it doesn't mean Alphas will end up in landfills. In fact, Klein revealed that HP is still supporting VAX systems customers bought 25 years ago.
"A fair assumption is that as long as a customer wants support and will pay, we will support it," Klein said.
As OpenVMS hits its new age milestone, HP is also rolling out a new marketing push and an anniversary Web site, both of which Klein said celebrate customers, and which include Amazon.com, the U.S. Postal Service and the national railways systems of Germany, Holland, Belgium, India and China.
"People don't realize that it's out there and it just keeps working," Klein said. "So one of the things we're trying to do is increase awareness."


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With open enrollment for most Affordable Care Act (ACA) health marketplaces ending Dec. 15, consumers are being advised to not wait until the last minute to seek help figuring out which plans are best for their health care needs.
ACA enrollees can get personalized help unraveling the details of health care coverage, which can be complicated and confusing. Consumers can go to healthcare.gov and click on the "Find Local Help" tab to get contact information for trained assisters and local insurance agents and brokers. They can also call the marketplace hotline (800-318-2596), which is available seven days a week, 24 hours a day.
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Otis is grumpy. Kat is grumpy. I'm grumpy. Sheesh.
I'm blaming it on the season. Or maybe it's the economy. Perhaps the Audacity of Hope hasn't reached us yet.
Nah. That's not it. I'm actually quite bullish on the future. Sure, I think America is in trouble over the next 20 years, but that really doesn't affect me. I'll be retired by then (hopefully) and cruising down the Pacific Coast Highway in my Ferrari. Or something like that. In the mean time, I still can't shake this feeling that I'm spinning my wheels.
Since I got off Active Duty, I've gotten a huge pay raise, more time off and I have a lot less stress. My kids are doing well in school. My nanny hasn't crashed my car. Things are looking good.
It would be easy to say that when I was in the Army I had "purpose," and now that I'm out I've lost my way. I don't think that's it. It's more a feeling like I shouldn't be here. That part is true, actually. We thought we would have moved away from Seattle by now, but we are here until at least the summer and possibly longer. That means another winter with little sun and lots of rain (bring on Vegas!), and it also means more time spent in the doldrums.
On a semi-related note, I played in the finals of the league racquetball tournament last night. I went in as the 5th seed, but lost in the first round to the same guy that beat me in the last tournament. I stayed to watch the semis, and at one point, one of the players came bursting off the court in mid-match yelling and cursing about his opponent. I felt like saying, "Chill out, dude. It's just a game," but I held back. It's probably a good thing, because he looked ready to kill. He went back in the court and proceeded to trounce his opponent. You'd think he'd be in a better mood after that, no?
He was still cursing about a bad call made by his now-defeated opponent. I wanted to say, "Dude. You won. Chill out." He had that helter-skelter look so I held back again.
Maybe I need to get angry at something. At least it's different from the doldrums.
A friend and I started playing last year, you may have to make a trip up to Seattle and teach us a thing or two.
Let me know when and I'll be there!
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I'm sure that's part of it, too. I really wanted to tell him a story about the kids yesterday. He would have loved it.


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Functional significance of dendritic swelling after loud sounds in the guinea pig cochlea
D. Robertson
School of Human Sciences
Exposure of the guinea pig cochlea to loud pure tones caused a dramatic swelling of afferent dendrites beneath the inner hair cell (IHC). This swelling occurred in a restricted region of the cochlea basalward of the exposure frequency location. For a 110 dB tone swelling wasjust detectable in 1 μm sections for a 18, min exposure and was clearly visible after a 22 1 2 min exposure. Swelling was reversible. Exposures which caused swelling produced a loss in sensitivity of the flat low frequency 'tail' of the frequency-threshold curves of single auditory neurons whose most sensitive frequency was a 1 2 octave higher than the exposure frequency. The findings are consistent with the notion that dendritic swelling causes a non-selective decrease in sensitivity to all frequencies of sound.
Hearing Research
https://doi.org/10.1016/0378-5955(83)90031-x
10.1016/0378-5955(83)90031-x
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Dive into the research topics of 'Functional significance of dendritic swelling after loud sounds in the guinea pig cochlea'. Together they form a unique fingerprint.
Cochlea Medicine and Dentistry 100%
Neurons Psychology 100%
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Robertson, D. (1983). Functional significance of dendritic swelling after loud sounds in the guinea pig cochlea. Hearing Research, 9(3), 263-278. https://doi.org/10.1016/0378-5955(83)90031-x, https://doi.org/10.1016/0378-5955(83)90031-X
Robertson, D. / Functional significance of dendritic swelling after loud sounds in the guinea pig cochlea. In: Hearing Research. 1983 ; Vol. 9, No. 3. pp. 263-278.
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package eu.bcvsolutions.idm.rpt.report.identity;

import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileInputStream;
import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.Serializable;
import java.time.LocalDate;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.UUID;

import org.apache.commons.io.FileUtils;
import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired;
import org.springframework.context.annotation.Description;
import org.springframework.stereotype.Component;

import com.fasterxml.jackson.core.JsonEncoding;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.core.JsonGenerator;
import com.google.common.collect.Lists;

import eu.bcvsolutions.idm.core.api.dto.IdmIdentityContractDto;
import eu.bcvsolutions.idm.core.api.dto.IdmIdentityDto;
import eu.bcvsolutions.idm.core.api.dto.IdmIdentityRoleDto;
import eu.bcvsolutions.idm.core.api.dto.IdmRoleDto;
import eu.bcvsolutions.idm.core.api.dto.IdmTreeNodeDto;
import eu.bcvsolutions.idm.core.api.dto.filter.IdmIdentityFilter;
import eu.bcvsolutions.idm.core.api.service.IdmIdentityContractService;
import eu.bcvsolutions.idm.core.api.service.IdmIdentityService;
import eu.bcvsolutions.idm.core.api.utils.DtoUtils;
import eu.bcvsolutions.idm.core.bulk.action.impl.IdentityRoleByIdentityDeduplicationBulkAction;
import eu.bcvsolutions.idm.core.eav.api.domain.BaseFaceType;
import eu.bcvsolutions.idm.core.eav.api.domain.PersistentType;
import eu.bcvsolutions.idm.core.eav.api.dto.IdmFormAttributeDto;
import eu.bcvsolutions.idm.core.eav.api.dto.IdmFormInstanceDto;
import eu.bcvsolutions.idm.core.ecm.api.dto.IdmAttachmentDto;
import eu.bcvsolutions.idm.core.model.entity.IdmIdentityContract_;
import eu.bcvsolutions.idm.core.model.entity.IdmIdentityRole_;
import eu.bcvsolutions.idm.core.security.api.domain.Enabled;
import eu.bcvsolutions.idm.core.security.api.domain.IdmBasePermission;
import eu.bcvsolutions.idm.rpt.RptModuleDescriptor;
import eu.bcvsolutions.idm.rpt.api.dto.RptReportDto;
import eu.bcvsolutions.idm.rpt.api.exception.ReportGenerateException;
import eu.bcvsolutions.idm.rpt.api.executor.AbstractReportExecutor;
import eu.bcvsolutions.idm.rpt.dto.RptIdentityRoleByRoleDeduplicationDto;
import eu.bcvsolutions.idm.rpt.dto.RptIdentityRoleByRoleDeduplicationDuplicityDto;

/**
 * Report that is used for show duplicities
 *
 * @author Ondrej Kopr
 * @since 9.5.0
 *
 */
@Component(value = IdentityRoleByIdentityDeduplicationExecutor.REPORT_NAME)
@Enabled(RptModuleDescriptor.MODULE_ID)
@Description("Identity role by identity deduplication.")
public class IdentityRoleByIdentityDeduplicationExecutor extends AbstractReportExecutor {

	private static final org.slf4j.Logger LOG = org.slf4j.LoggerFactory
			.getLogger(IdentityRoleByIdentityDeduplicationExecutor.class);

	public static final String REPORT_NAME = "identity-role-by-identity-deduplication-report";

	public static final String PARAMETER_TREE_NODE = "treeNode";

	@Autowired
	private IdentityRoleByIdentityDeduplicationBulkAction deduplicationBulkAction;
	@Autowired
	private IdmIdentityService identityService;
	@Autowired
	private IdmIdentityContractService identityContractService;

	@Override
	protected IdmAttachmentDto generateData(RptReportDto report) {
		IdmIdentityFilter filter = new IdmIdentityFilter();
		UUID treeNode = getTreeNode(report);
		if (treeNode != null) {
			filter.setTreeNode(treeNode);
			filter.setRecursively(true);
		} else {
			LOG.info("Tree node id isn't filled. Report will be done for all identities.");
		}

		// prepare temp file for json stream
		File temp = getAttachmentManager().createTempFile();
		try (FileOutputStream outputStream = new FileOutputStream(temp)) {
	        // write into json stream
			JsonGenerator jGenerator = getMapper().getFactory().createGenerator(outputStream, JsonEncoding.UTF8);
			try {
				// json will be array of identities
				jGenerator.writeStartArray();

				counter = 0L;
				List<UUID> identities = identityService.findIds(filter, null, IdmBasePermission.READ).getContent();
				if (count == null) {
					count = Long.valueOf(identities.size());
				}

				boolean canContinue = true;

				for (UUID identityId : identities) {
					List<IdmIdentityContractDto> contracts = identityContractService.findAllValidForDate(identityId,
							LocalDate.now(), null);
					for (IdmIdentityContractDto contract : contracts) {
						RptIdentityRoleByRoleDeduplicationDto newRecord = createRecordForContracts(contract);
						if (newRecord != null) {
							getMapper().writeValue(jGenerator, newRecord);
						}
					}

					++counter;
					canContinue = updateState();

					if (!canContinue) {
						break;
					}
				}
				// close array of identities
				jGenerator.writeEndArray();
			} finally {
				// close json stream
				jGenerator.close();
			}
			// save create temp file with array of identities in json as attachment
			return createAttachment(report, new FileInputStream(temp));
		} catch (IOException ex) {
			throw new ReportGenerateException(report.getName(), ex);
		} finally {
			FileUtils.deleteQuietly(temp);
		}
	}

	@Override
	public String getName() {
		return REPORT_NAME;
	}

	@Override
	public List<IdmFormAttributeDto> getFormAttributes() {
		IdmFormAttributeDto treeNode = new IdmFormAttributeDto(PARAMETER_TREE_NODE, "Treenode",
				PersistentType.UUID);
		treeNode.setFaceType(BaseFaceType.TREE_NODE_SELECT);
		treeNode.setDescription("Filtering users only on this organization unit and recursively down.");
		//
		return Lists.newArrayList(treeNode);
	}

	/**
	 * Get selected tree node and recursively down
	 *
	 * @param report
	 * @return
	 */
	private UUID getTreeNode(RptReportDto report) {
		IdmFormInstanceDto formInstance = new IdmFormInstanceDto(report, getFormDefinition(), report.getFilter());
		Serializable treeNodeIdAsSerializable = formInstance.toSinglePersistentValue(PARAMETER_TREE_NODE);
		if (treeNodeIdAsSerializable == null) {
			return null;
		}

		return UUID.fromString(treeNodeIdAsSerializable.toString());
	}

	/**
	 * Create new record to report for given contract.
	 *
	 * @param contract
	 * @return
	 */
	private RptIdentityRoleByRoleDeduplicationDto createRecordForContracts(IdmIdentityContractDto contract) {
		List<IdmIdentityRoleDto> duplicityIdentityRoles = deduplicationBulkAction
				.getDuplicatesIdentityRoleForContract(contract);

		if (duplicityIdentityRoles.isEmpty()) {
			return null;
		}

		List<RptIdentityRoleByRoleDeduplicationDuplicityDto> duplicity = new ArrayList<>(duplicityIdentityRoles.size());
		for (IdmIdentityRoleDto duplicityIdentityRole : duplicityIdentityRoles) {
			RptIdentityRoleByRoleDeduplicationDuplicityDto dupl = new RptIdentityRoleByRoleDeduplicationDuplicityDto();
			dupl.setValidFrom(duplicityIdentityRole.getValidFrom());
			dupl.setValidTill(duplicityIdentityRole.getValidTill());
			IdmRoleDto roleDto = DtoUtils.getEmbedded(duplicityIdentityRole, IdmIdentityRole_.role, IdmRoleDto.class, null);
			dupl.setRole(roleDto);
			duplicity.add(dupl);
		}

		RptIdentityRoleByRoleDeduplicationDto item = new RptIdentityRoleByRoleDeduplicationDto();

		IdmTreeNodeDto treeNodeDto = DtoUtils.getEmbedded(contract, IdmIdentityContract_.workPosition, IdmTreeNodeDto.class, null);
		IdmIdentityDto identityDto = DtoUtils.getEmbedded(contract, IdmIdentityContract_.identity, IdmIdentityDto.class, null);

		item.setIdentity(identityDto);
		item.setWorkPosition(treeNodeDto);
		item.setIdentityContract(contract);
		item.setDuplicity(duplicity);
		return item;
	}
}

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Our client was a new driver and en route to her first pregnancy scan when she became a little lost. She was running late, nervous about her scan and unsure of how to get to the hospital from her place of work. She had only been driving for a little over a month at the time and was consulting her sat nav and checking it against street signs when she veered a little to the left and collided with 3 parked vehicles.
The third collision caused her to completely lose control of her vehicle which flipped over and landed on its side with the airbags deployed. She was absolutely beside herself and had to be rescued from her vehicle. Fortunately everything was fine with her pregnancy and subsequent birth. The Police - instead of simply warning her - charged her with careless driving contrary to section 3 of the road traffic act 1988 (as amended).
Careless driving carries 3 to 9 penalty points and the Court also retains the power to disqualify at its discretion. As a new driver our client required to retain her driving licence by receiving no more than 5 penalty points.
On 8th May 2018, our Mr Simpson delivered a plea in mitigation to Glasgow Justice of the Peace Court resulting in the imposition of 5 penalty points and a fine of £300. Our client kept her driving licence.
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Our client was accused of driving at a speed exceeding the 60mph limit, namely 73mph, contrary to the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984, ss. 86 & 89 @ Perth Justice of the Peace Court. Risk to Licence: Driving less than two years and facing possible revocation under the New Driver Regulations. No case to answer submission upheld and found not guilty....


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Cut and serve it ala mode with your favorite ice cream and garnish with some bacon strips.


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Q: Page inside a folder can't find App_LocalResources I'm using App_LocalResources on my project without problems, that was until i created a aspx page inside a folder, I created the resx file with the same name as i did for others but when the page is inside a folder I cant call the resources for that page.
The way I call resources is:
bt_name.Text = GetLocalResourceObject("bt_name").ToString();
And the soluction struture for the aspx and resx are:
Solution -> Folder -> Page.aspx
Solution -> App_LocalResources -> Page.aspx.resx
What am I doing wrong?

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The Fed was the first to pivot on November 29, 2021, Jerome Powell for the first time dropped the word 'transitory' in his description of inflation. What followed was the first-ever rate hikes in the history of the United States, Europe, and indeed most countries.
The US Fed starting in March has raised rates by accumulative 425 basis points this year to 4.25 to 4.5 percent. By December, the European Central Bank (ECB) wasn't far behind in raising rates, it has raised rates four times by accumulative 250 basis points.
Read Here: Year ender 2022 | A year of multiple challenges for the Indian economy
The Bank of England raised rates by 325 basis points, divided over eight hikes, although it began hiking in 2021 itself. 2022's legacy in economic literature was the word 'pivot'. Almost every central bank was caught napping on inflation and had to take a 180-degree change or a pivot from their dovish stance.
The US Fed pivoted in November 2021, the latest to pivot is probably the Bank of Japan, which raised its cap on the 10-year yields from 0.25 percent to 0.5
The RBI and the Indian Economy
Back home, inflation was a headache, but not quite as ugly as it was in the developed Western economies. It stayed outside or above the mandated 2 to 6 percent zone in which CPI has to stay. So this forced the RBI to write to the government explaining why the mandate wasn't met. The letter unfortunately wasn't made public.
Inflation apart, the Indian economy had a good 2022, at likely 6.9 percent growth rate 2022 India was one of the fastest-growing large economies. Growth was reflected in the robust demand for credit growth. 7.50 percent to 17.50 percent over the year. The steady rise in GST collections and direct tax collections is another proof and now these taxes look set to surpass budget targets by a good measure.
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The worries were the twin deficits, while the fiscal deficit at 6.4 percent for the central government and 2.6 percent for the states is the known devil. The one that sneaked up was the rising current account deficit triggered by a fall in exports thanks to the global slowdown, also crude prices were another reason. The rupee, therefore, fell around 10 percent in 2022.
Recession, shallow or deep is expected to hit the United States and Europe. The IMF forecasts global growth to slow from 6 percent in 2021, to 3.2 percent in 2022 and to 2.7 percent in 2023. At 2.7 it would be the weakest since 2001, except for the global financial crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic years.
As a result, India's growth is also seen slipping to around 6 percent in 2023, but it may still be one of the fastest-growing large economies.
Now that's the bright side, the dark side could be a continued weakness in rural demand, lethargic private sector capex and continued high fiscal deficit.
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Bigelow Laboratory's Dr. Aeppli to determine how oil spill remains six years after Deepwater Horizon
Dr. Christoph Aeppli from Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences was awarded a grant to investigate the long-term fate and effects of petroleum released during the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. For this project, which will last until the end of 2018, Aeppli teamed up with Ryan Rodgers of Florida State University and Chris Reddy of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.
"During oil weathering, petroleum hydrocarbons are transformed into novel compounds," said Dr. Aeppli, Bigelow Laboratory senior research scientist. "Not much is currently know about these oil transformation products, but there are indications that they potentially have toxic effects."
The three researchers will determine how the oil spilled from the Macondo Well weathered in the environment by using cutting-edge analytical methods. Specifically, they will investigate, how the chemical composition of oil has been altered in the environment over the past six years, and how marine organisms may be affected by these changes.
"I'll be assessing how oil weathering changes its toxicity so that we can better understand how the oil spill affected the Gulf of Mexico ecosystem. This work will help predict the fate and effect of oil, which will help inform and improve cleanup efforts in future spills," Aeppli added.
This award was one of 22 research projects funded for the 2016 – 2018 period by the Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative to individuals and teams studying the effects of oil on the Gulf of Mexico ecosystem and public health. A total of $38 million was awarded to researchers to be spent over the next three years. For his part, Aeppli will receive $600,000 over three years to conduct his research.
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Human Evolution, an Ongoing Story – Patrick F. Clarkin, Ph.D.
Over at Scientific American, Kate Wong compiled a list of some of the most compelling discoveries in human evolution from 2013. I won't rehash her entire list here, but the ones that will stick with me for a while include the variation found among the Dmanisi hominins, probably all within the same species. The other is the genetic evidence for interbreeding between Neanderthals, Denisovans, and other extinct humans. Fascinating.
These things also acts as reminders that science doesn't stand still. This also makes me empathetic and excited for students of human evolution today. The picture is fuller, but also perhaps a bit more difficult to grasp, compared to the days when I was an undergraduate. There were fewer specimens available then, and the the genetic evidence just wasn't there. At that time, there were no hobbits, or Denisovans, Orrorin, Sahelanthropus, or sediba. Ardipithecus was only recently being understood. I sometimes joke with students that the exams on human evolution I had to take were necessarily simpler than the ones they do. They nod in agreement (of course we know more now than we did then!). But they also groan at all the funny sounding names that seem so unwieldy upon first encounter.
I still say that that this is where a scientific approach shines. At a fundamental level, what science has going for it is the recognition that all conclusions are tentative and contingent upon future discoveries that could potentially overturn what we know today. We need to be prepared to change our minds should new evidence arise. That's often easier said than done, but the principle still stands. When the economist John Maynard Keynes was once criticized for being inconsistent, he replied, "When my information changes, I alter my conclusions. What do you do, sir?" Stubbornness and blind adherence to one's cherished beliefs are nothing to be admired when they are unwarranted.
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JOHN 3:16--- FOR GOD SO LOVE THE WORLD, THAT HE GAVE HIS ONLY BEGOTTEN SON,THAT WHOSOEVER BELIEVE IN HIM SHOULD NOT PERISH, BUT HAVE EVERLASTING LIFE.
1 JOHN 3:1--- BEHOLD WHAT MANNER OF LOVE THE FATHER HAD BESTOWED UPON US, THAT WE SHOULD BE CALLED THE SONS OF GOD.
1 JOHN 4:16--- AND WE HAVE KNOWN AND BELIEVED THE LOVE THAT GOD HATH TO US. GOD IS LOVE; AND HE THAT DEWLLETH IN LOVE DWELLETH IN GOD, AND GOD IN HIM.
ROMANS 8:38,39--- FOR I AM PERSUADED, THAT NEITHER DEATH NOR LIFE, NOR ANGELS, NOR PRINCIPALITIES, NOR POWERS,NOR THINGS PRESENT, NOR THINGS TO COME, NOR HEIGHT NOR DEPTH, NOR ANY OTHER CREATURE, SHALL BE ABLE TO SEPRATE US FROM THE LOVE OF GOD, WHICH IS IN CHRIST JESUS OUR LORD.
ROMANS 5:8--- BUT GOD COMMENDETH HIS LOVE TOWARD US, IN THAT, WHILE WE YET SINNERS, CHRIST DIED FOR US.
( SO IF GOD LOVE US WE SHOULD LOVE ONE ANOTHER!!!
ISAIAH 11:12-- AND HE SHALL SET UP AN ENSIGN FOR THE NATIONS, AND SHALL ASSEMBLE THE OUTCAST OF ISRAEL, AND GATHER TOGETHER THE DISPERSED OF JUDAH FROM THE FOUR CORNERS OF THE EARTH.
MATTHEW 6:19-21 LAY NOT UP FOR YOURSELVES TREASURES UPON EARTH, WHERE MOTH AND RUST DOTH CORRUPT, AND WHERE THIEVES BREAK THROUGH AND STEAL, BUT LAY UP FOR YOUR SELVES TREASURES IN HEAVEN, WHERE NEITHER MOTH NOR RUST DOTH CORRUPT AND WHERE THIEVES DO NOT BREAK THROUGH NOR STEAL. FOR WHERE YOUR TREASURE IS THERE WILL YOUR HEART BE ALSO.
2CORINTHIANS 9:6-7 BUT THIS I SAY, HE WHICH SOWETH SPARINGLY SHALL REAP ALSO SPARINGLY; AND HE WHICH SOWETH BOUNTIFULL SHALL REAP ALSO BOUNTIFULLY.EVERY MAN ACCORDING AS HE PURPOSETH, IN HIS HEART, SO LET TIM GIVE,NOT GRUDGINGLY,OR OF NECESSITY:FOR GOD LOVETH A CHEEFUL GIVER.
EXODUS 35:5 TAKE YE FROM AMONG YOU AN OFFERING UNTO THE LORD: WHOSOEVER IS OF A WILLING HEART, LET HIM BRING IT, AN OFFERING OF THE LORD; GOLD AND SILVER, AND BRASS.
COLOSSIANS 1:28 WHOM WE PREACH,WARNING EVERY MAN AND TEACHEING EVERY MAN IN ALL WISDOM, THAT WE MAY PRESENT EVERY MAN PERFECT IN CHRIST JESUS.
EZEKIEL 18:30 THEREFORE I WILL JUDGE YOU O HOUSE OF ISRAEL, EVERY ONE ACCORDING TO HIS WAYS, SAITH THE LORD GOD, REPENT AND TURN YOURSELVES FROM ALL YOUR TRANSGRESSIONS; SO INIQUITY SHALL NOT BE YOUR RUIN.
MARK 16:17 AND THESE SIGNS SHALL FOLLOW THEM THAT BELIEVE; IN MY NAME SHALL THEY CAST OUT DEVILS; THEY SHALL SPEAK WITH NEW TONGUES.
ROMANS 10:16 BUT THEY HAVE NOT ALL OBEYED THE GOSPEL. FOR ESAIAS SAITH LORD,WHO HATH BELIEVED OUR REPORT.SO FAITH COMETH BY HEARING AND HEARING BY THE WORD OF GOD.
JOHN 16:19 NOW JESUS KNEW THAT THEY WERE DESIROUS TO ASK HIM, AND SAID UNTO THEM, DO YE ENQUIRE AMONG YOURSELVES OF THAT I SAID, A LITTLE WHILE AND YE SHALL NOT SEE ME AND AGAIN, A LITTLE WHILE, AND YE SHALL SEE ME.
HEBREWS 10:37 FOR YET A LITTLE WHILE, AND HE THAT SHALL COME WILL COME AND WILL NOT TARRY.
MATTHEW 26:28,29 FOR THIS IS MY BLOOD OF THE NEW TESTAMENT WHICH IS SHED FOR MANY FOR THE REMISSION OF SINS. BUT I SAY UNTO YOU, I WILL NOT DRINK HENCEFORTH OF THIS FRUIT OF THE VINE UNTIL THAT DAY WHEN I DRINK IT NEW WITH YOU IN MY FATHER'S KINGDOM.
HOW TO DRAW NIGH TO GOD!
DRAW NIGH TO GOD,AND HE WILL DRAW NIGH TO YOU. CLEANSE YOUR HANDS, YE SINNERS; AND PURIFY YOUR HEARTS, YE DOUBLE-MINDED. BE AFFLICTED,AND MOURN,AND WEEP: LET YOUR LAUGHTER BE TURNED TO MOURNING, AND YOUR JOY TO HEAVINESS. HUMBLE YOURSELVES IN THE SIGHT OF THE LORD, AND HE SHALL LIFT YOU UP.JAMES 4:8-10. THE LORD IS NIGH UNTO ALL THEM THAT CALL UPON HIM, TO ALL THAT CALL UPON HIM IN TRUTH. PSALM 145:18. HEAR MY CRY, O GOD; ATTEND UNTO MY PRAYER. FROM THE END OF THE EARTH WILL I CRY UNTO THEE, WHEN MY HEART IS OVERWHELMED: LEAD ME TO THE ROCK THAT IS HIGHER THAN I.PSALM 61:1-2. MY SOUL, WAIT THOU ONLY UPON GOD; FOR MY EXPECTATION IS FROM HIM. PSALM 62:5. ALL THAT THE FATHER GIVETH ME SHALL COME TO ME; AND HIM THAT COMETH TO ME I WILL IN NO WISE CAST OUT. JOHN 6;37. AND THE SPIRIT AND THE BRIDE SAY, COME. AND LET HIM THAT HEARETH SAY COME. AND LET HIM THAT IS ATHRIST COME. AND WHOSOEVER WILL, LET HIM TAKE THE WATER OF LIFE FREELY. REVELATION 22 :17.
(GALATIAN 5:26) LET US NOT BE DESIROUS OF VAIN GLORY,PROVOKING ONE ANOTHER,ENVYING ONE ANOTHER.(JAMES 5:9) GRUDGE NOT ONE AGAINST ANOTHER,BRETHREN, LEST YE BE CONDEMNED:BEHOLD, THE JUDGE STANDETH BEFORE THE DOOR. (1peter2:1) WHEREFORE LAYING ASIDE ALL MALICE, AND ALL GUILE,AND HYPOCRISIES, AND ENVIES,AND ALL EVIL SPEAKINGS. (ROMANS13:13) LET US WALK HONESTLY, AS IN THE DAY;NOT IN RIOTING AND DRUNKENESS,NOT IN CHAMBERING AND WANTONNESS, NOT IN STRIFE AND ENVYING.(JOB 5:2) FOR WRATH KILLETH THE FOOLISH MAN, AND ENVY SLAYETH THE SILLY ONE.


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Rite to Die: Sallekhanā and End of Life
By Layla Eplett on September 29, 2015
Ranakpur Jain Temple, Rajasthan, India. Credit: Paul Panayiotou Getty Images
There are many aspects involved in preparing for the end of life. For Jains, it may include Sallekhanā, a voluntary and gradual reduction of food (and eventually water) until the individual fasts to death.
Originating in the Ganges basin of eastern India between the 7th–5th century BC, Jainism is often described as a cousin to Hinduism and Buddhism. Karma is a central tenet and asceticism and forgiveness are emphasized. Jains believe in reincarnation and that all beings have souls, and as a result, they are strict vegetarians. Nonviolence is a fundamental component of the religion and it is said Mahatma Gandhi was influenced by Jainism in his youth.
The Jain belief that nearly everything--even plants--has a soul and their adherence to nonviolence factors into their taking the vow of Sallekhanā, explains Dr. Whitny Braun, a bioethicist at Claremont Lincoln University. She has spent nine years researching Jainism and a book based off her dissertation on the subject is anticipated to be published in 2016. According to Braun, "Philosophically and logistically in life, the only way to be completely nonviolent is to stop taking other lifeforms and the only way to completely stop taking life forms is to not consume them. So for Jains, the ultimate way to exit this life is to stop eating, to stop taking those lifeforms."
The decision to take Sallekhanā is made once a person feels their life has served its purpose. Not all Jains opt to take Sallekhanā but, if they choose to, they consult with a monk who provides spiritual guidance. There are rare instances where the monk may not believe it is the appropriate time to begin the vow of Sallekhanā but, if there is a consensus, the process is ideally a gradual one, taking twelve years, with shorter versions for certain circumstances. In their remaining time, the person makes a conscious effort to make amends, asks for forgiveness, and slowly consumes less food and liquids until death--an end that ultimately occurs due to renal failure.
The process of Sallekhanā contrasts with how deaths typically occur in the United States, where end of life is associated with high costs. The concept of death is also departure from those typically seen in the West--while no one looks forward to passing, Braun explains the Jain perspective differs from Judeo-Christian beliefs since life is seen as cyclical. She also emphasizes the need for closure to occur prior to passing.
"Their cultural understanding is you have to leave when the time comes. On one hand, I thought that would be very painful but on the other hand, it's not that dramatic clinging to life end that I've seen so many times in the hospital where people are saying things to each other that they should have said five, fifteen, twenty years ago. You're not saying that in the last five minutes of your life when you're hooked up to a morphine drip."
The death is intended to be peaceful and is sometimes described as euphoric. While Jains may attribute the euphoria to a spiritual experience, from a medical perspective, when foods and liquids are withheld, the body enters a state of ketosis. In its advanced stages, ketosis can sometimes produce feelings of serenity and mild euphoria, and studies have indicated minimal pain may be experienced during the process.
A serene death through Sallekhanā isn't always the case, and sometimes science and religion can be at odds. The practice has caused controversy in the past for this reason. One of the most known examples of Sallekhanā involved a 24 year old Jain nun in Ladnun, India who was believed to have been tormented by past lover's bhut (spirit) from a previous life. Because of the voices she heard, she could not do her meditations, read scriptures, do prayers, or any of the prescribed acts which are necessary to be a good nun. Consequently, it was viewed that she was unable to grow spiritually and she took a vow of Sallekhanā, passing 54 days later.
The body of a physically healthy 24 year old reacts differently to abstaining from food and water than an elderly hospice patient who may die in the same manner, notes Braun. These factors led Braun to believe her death was unpleasant, and she also speculated that the nun may have been schizophrenic. "There's a part of me that wants to ask why couldn't we have gotten her help but, in the Jain sense, this is but one life of many and it was better that she just wrapped this one up quickly and moved on and had peace."
"The crux of it," asks Braun, "is how do you hold onto your old gods, if you will, in an era dominated by science and technology?"
The nun in Ladnun represents a more extreme example of Jainism and the vow of Sallekhanā. There are four million Jains worldwide with varying levels of adherence to their religion, ranging from the most strict ascetic monks and nuns to members of the laity, known as householders. Although all Jains adhere to the same basic rules, monks and nuns are expected to live more austere lives than householders, who are often affluent and prominent within their communities.
Over the last few decades, there has been an increase in the number of Jains living abroad--an estimated 100,000 live outside India. As they move to large cities within India and throughout the world, their environments have influenced the way they interpret Jainism and how they reconcile science and religion. Braun documented one of the first people to undertake Sallekhanā in the United States, chronicling her decision and final days.
Dr. Bhagwati Gada and her husband, both physicians, emigrated from India to Texas in the 1970s. Initially, Gada had chemotherapy and radiation to combat her colon cancer. Although Jains view nearly everything--including bacteria--to have souls, she made an exception with cancer cells since they were dependent on her body for growth. Once her cancer progressed to Stage 4, Gada felt she had gotten all she could from her body and took a shorter vow of Sallekhanā. Deviating from the tradition of cremation, she opted to have her body donated to science. If her body was only a vessel for her soul, Gada thought it could be more effectively used following her passing since the bulk of cancer research done in the United States is done on a Caucasian population.
"One thing you will find amongst Jains universally is that Sallekhanā is abstaining from food and water and that it is a very conscious decision," says Braun. She explains that the ideal version of taking the vow could have occurred when the religion originated--an individual could have slipped into the woods to complete Sallekhanā. Despite there being a universal consensus on what it is overall, there are issues to consider now that weren't there when the religion began and Braun notes that there can be dissent within the Jain community, and even within a family, as to what constitutes Sallekhanā.
Since Sallekhanā is intended to be a quiet, peaceful transition, Gada's family did not anticipate the pain she would experience towards the end of her life. Although it hadn't been discussed, her children, who are also physicians, had Gada on a morphine drip to alleviate some of her pain. Even though she had no food or water at the end of her life, Gada's husband believed she didn't technically take a vow of Sallekhanā since she received morphine. Her children disagreed, seeing the morphine as facilitating the peacefulness meant to accompany Sallekhanā.
In the Jain religion, suicide is seen as an act of violence against oneself and is strictly forbidden. However, Sallekhanā has been in the news recently, as a case in India is set to determine whether it is protected under the Indian constitution's religious freedom legislation or if it is punishable under section 309 of the Indian Penal Code, which criminalizes attempts at suicide. The case, which uses portions of Braun's dissertation, is expected to take three to five years before there is an official ruling from the Supreme Court.
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Layla Eplett writes about the anthropology of food. She has a Masters in Social Anthropology of Development from the University of London's School of Oriental and African Studies and loves getting a taste of all kinds of culture--gastronomic, traditional, and sometimes accidentally, bacterial. Find her at Fare Trade. Follow Layla Eplett on Twitter
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Ereignisse
 Das Nibelungenlied erscheint nach Wiederentdeckung im Jahre 1755 in der ersten vollständigen Ausgabe in einem Sammelband von Christoph Heinrich Myller.

Siku Quanshu

Die Siku Quanshu (Die Vollständige Bibliothek der Vier Schätze, ), die größte Büchersammlung der chinesischen Geschichte, wird nach rund neun Jahren fertiggestellt. Die Redaktion bestand aus 361 Wissenschaftlern, mit Ji Yun und Lu Xixiong als Chefredakteuren. Man sammelte und anerkannte über 10.000 Handschriften aus der kaiserlichen Sammlung und anderen Bibliotheken. Etwa 3000 Schriften wurden vernichtet, da sie als Mandschu-feindlich eingestuft wurden. Letztendlich wurden 3461 Bücher für die Aufnahme in die Siku Quanshu ausgewählt. Sie werden in 36.381 Bänden mit mehr als 79.000 Kapiteln gebunden. Auf den ca. 2,3 Millionen Seiten finden sich etwa 800 Millionen chinesische Schriftzeichen. Vier Exemplare für den Kaiser werden in extra errichteten Bibliotheken in der Verbotenen Stadt, dem Alten Sommerpalast, Shenyang und der Wenjin-Kammer in Chengde aufbewahrt. Drei weitere Kopien für die Öffentlichkeit werden in Siku quanshu-Bibliotheken in Hangzhou, Zhenjiang und Yangzhou hinterlegt. Alle sieben Bibliotheken erhalten außerdem eine Kopie der kaiserlichen Enzyklopädie Gujin tushu jicheng von 1725.

Prosa

 23. März: In Frankreich erscheint die Erstausgabe des von Pierre-Ambroise-François Choderlos de Laclos verfassten Briefromans Les Liaisons dangereuses (Gefährliche Liebschaften). Nach vier Wochen sind die 2000 gedruckten Exemplare ausverkauft.
 De Sade schreibt im Gefängnis den Aufsatz Dialog zwischen einem Priester und einem Sterbenden. Der Text wird erst 1926 veröffentlicht.

Drama

 13. Januar: Friedrich Schillers Drama Die Räuber wird im Nationaltheater Mannheim uraufgeführt. Das öffentliche Interesse ist groß, da bereits die ein Jahr zuvor erschienene Druckausgabe großes Aufsehen wegen ihrer offenen Kritik am Feudalsystem erregt hat. Theaterdirektor und Regisseur Wolfgang Heribert von Dalberg will die Handlung dadurch entschärfen, dass er sie 300 Jahre in die Vergangenheit verlegt. Hauptdarsteller August Wilhelm Iffland tritt jedoch in der Rolle des Franz Moor mit zeitgenössischer Kleidung auf. Die Aufführung löst einen Skandal aus.

 Vittorio Alfieri: Saul

Wissenschaftliche Werke, Essays

 Marie-Gabriel-Florent-Auguste de Choiseul-Gouffier: Voyage pittoresque de la Grèce Bd. 1.
 Georg Christoph Lichtenberg: Über die Pronunciation der Schupse des alten Griechenlands
 Friedrich Nicolai: Versuch über die Beschuldigungen welche dem Templeorder gemacht worden
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Les Rêveries du promeneur solitaire und  Les Confessions werden postum veröffentlicht.
 Johann Georg Sulzer: Vorübungen zur Erweckung der Aufmerksamkeit

 Joseph Priestley: An History of the Corruptions of Christianity, wird offiziell verbrannt.

Geboren

 1. Januar: Johann Gottfried Abraham Frenzel, deutscher Maler, Kupferstecher und Kunst-Schriftsteller († 1855)
 20. Januar: Joseph von Hormayr, österreichischer Geschichtsschreiber († 1848)
 2. Februar: James Chalmers, schottischer Druckereibesitzer und Zeitungsverleger in Dundee († 1853)

 4. März: Johann Rudolf Wyss, Schweizer Autor († 1830)
 7. März: Franz Sartori, österreichischer Arzt und Schriftsteller († 1832)
 17. März: Sophie von Kühn, deutsche Verlobte von Novalis († 1797)

 3. Mai: Pius Alexander Wolff, deutscher Schauspieler und Schriftsteller († 1828)
 22. Mai: Hirose Tansō, japanischer Gelehrter, Pädagoge und Schriftsteller († 1856)
 29. Juni: Hans Christian Lyngbye, färöischer Herausgeber des ersten Buchs in färöischer Sprache († 1837)

 1. Oktober: Bernhard Joseph Docen, deutscher Germanist, Bibliothekar und Schriftsteller († 1828)
 13. November: Esaias Tegnér, schwedischer Lyriker († 1846)

Gestorben

 März: Johan Vibe, norwegischer Dichter (* 1748)
 12. April: Pietro Metastasio, italienischer Dichter und Librettist (* 1698)

 22. Mai: Daniel Triller, deutscher Mediziner und Schriftsteller (* 1695)
 15. Juli: Isaak Iselin, publizistisch tätiger Geschichtsphilosoph (* 1728)

 Mathias Etenhueber, deutscher Dichter (* 1722)

Weblinks

 Österreichische Zeitungen des Jahres 1782 in AustriaN Newspaper Online (ANNO) der Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek
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Russia to launch Glonass satellite on Feb. 24
MOSCOW, February 9 (RIA Novosti) - Russia will launch a new Glonass-K navigation satellite from the Plesetsk space center on February 24, the Defense Ministry said on Wednesday.
The Glonass satellite network is Russia's answer to the U.S. Global Positioning System, or GPS, and is designed for both military and civilian uses. Both systems allow users to determine their positions to within a few meters.
"A state commission on the launch of a Glonass-K satellite on board a Soyuz carrier rocket from the Plesetsk space center held a meeting today at the headquarters of the Russian Space Forces...and confirmed the launch date on February 24," spokesman Alexei Zolotukhin said.
The Glonass-K, which has a service life of 10 years, will beam five navigation signals - four in the special L1 and L2 bands and one for civilian applications in the L3 band.
The complete grouping must have 24 operational and 2-3 reserve satellites for Glonass network to operate with global coverage.
Russia currently has a total of 22 Glonass satellites in orbit and will launch another three Glonass-M satellites on board a Proton heavy carrier rocket later this year to complete the orbiting Glonass grouping.


It's that time of year again – the weather is warming up. That means parasites are waking up… and they're hungry! Protect your pet with a spot on or collar treatment that perfectly fits their needs.
The 2016 flea and tick forecast has just been released… and it doesn't look good. Experts from the Companion Animal Parasite Council predict that biting parasites are going to be out in full force this year. This is bad news for pets, who are at risk from contracting parasite-transmitted diseases such as Lyme disease, anaplasmosis, ehrlichiosis, and tapeworms from fleas and ticks.
Depending on where you live, parasites may pose a year-long concern or a seasonal problem. Even if your pet spends most of his time indoors, that won't stop fleas and ticks from latching on when they get a chance. The most effective way to keep your pet protected is with an active ingredient treatment.
Two of the most commonly used active ingredient treatments used by pet parents are spot on and collars treatments. But what option is best for you and your pet? Let's take a closer look at what each of these options offer.
What are Spot On Treatments?
Spot on treatments, such as PetLock Plus, contain insecticides that come in a small tube of liquid and are used to kill fleas, flea eggs, larvae, ticks, and chewing lice. The treatment is applied directly to your dog's skin, usually between the shoulder blades.
The liquid contains Fipronil and (S)-methoprene that work to keep adult parasites off your dog, as well prevent larvae from developing. Once it's absorbed, the liquid medication spreads over the surface of your dog's skin through the sebaceous glands.
•	Kills fleas, flea eggs, larvae, ticks, and chewing lice, which can transmit diseases and cause various allergic reactions.
•	Easy to use treatment that's applied once a month.
•	Costs less then Frontline Plus, but offers the same protection for your pet.
•	Available for dogs and puppies (8 weeks of age and older) weighing 6 to 132 pounds, and cats over 1.5 pounds (8 weeks of age and older).
•	Long lasting and waterproof.
What is a Flea and Tick Collar?
A flea and tick collar is a protective band that's worn around your dog's neck, just like a collar. The PetLock Collar kills fleas and ticks for up to 6 months, as they contain the same active ingredient as Scalibor Protector Band. As well, the PetLock Collar offers patented Insecticide-Release Technology.
•	PetLock Collar provides season long control against fleas and ticks that can transmit harmful diseases to dogs.
•	Kills larvae, nymph and adult ticks for up to 6 months and prevents future infestations from occurring.
•	Weatherproof, waterproof, and long lasting.
•	Available in both small and large sizes (for dogs and puppies 12 weeks of age and older, 6 to 132 pounds), the PetLock Collar can be easily adjusted to fit your dog's neck.
•	It offers same active ingredients as Scalibor Protector Band for Dogs, at a lower price.
Along with its overall effectiveness, many pet parents want a flea and tick treatment that's easy to use and is cost efficient. With a collar, as long as your dog doesn't mind wearing it, you don't have to worry about fleas and ticks for six months. If your pet prefers the sans collar lifestyle, spot on treatments are the best way to go – an easy way to remember is to apply it on the first day of a new month.
And a lower price is just icing on the cake! Because PetLock Plus and PetLock Collar offer the same flea and tick protection as other brands, your pet enjoys all the benefits of a parasite-free treatment, and you enjoy a little more spending money (to spend on pet treats, of course!).
Stop nasty parasites from making a meal of your pet this year. Check out PetLock Plus and PetLock Collar, and get a drop on fleas and ticks before they set up camp on your dog or cat. You can purchase PetLock Plus and PetLock Collar online or in store at Petco.


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