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10 password-related cyberattacks your company should be aware of
By Passportal Blogger
Most companies protect their devices and accounts with passwords, making these jumbles of letters and numbers the first line of defense against unauthorized access. While undeniably important, passwords often give people a false sense of security because they view them as unbreachable. This naivete can result in vulnerabilities cybercriminals are ready to exploit. If bad actors do access a user's password, they can easily compromise devices and data, leading to potentially devastating consequences.
Given that managed services providers (MSPs) hold the keys to their customers' sensitive information, they are often blamed for security breaches—even when the MSP is not at fault. So it is critical for MSPs to be familiar with the most common password-related cyberattacks. By understanding some of the cybercriminals' methods, MSPs can take steps to prevent these attacks and keep their customers' data secure.
Common password-related cyberattacks that your company should be aware of
While companies don't need to memorize every possible attack scenario, MSPs should be well-versed in the most common password-related risks and attack types. These can include:
1. Unauthorized use by an ex-employee
When people talk about password-related cyberattacks, they often focus on attacks by third-party bad actors. While those attacks can be disastrous (in fact, they make up the rest of this list), attacks from inside your organization can be equally damaging.
When you don't regularly change passwords and have an established process for removing employees' access after they leave the company—whether by choice or not—you open yourself up to the possibility of a disgruntled ex-employee using his or her unauthorized access for a cyberattack. This scenario played out at Cisco, where an ex-employee accessed Cisco's cloud infrastructure several months after resigning from his position and deleted 456 virtual machines stored in the cloud. While fortunately no customer data was lost, the attack still cost Cisco over $2,400,000 in customer refunds—and in employee time needed to restore the damage.
The best way to prevent these attacks is with a secure password manager that makes it easy to stay on top of the appropriate granular access for all of your passwords. For instance, a good password manager can help automatically remove an employee's access to the company's network and data as soon as the employee leaves.
2. Phishing and social engineering
Social engineering attacks involve manipulating users into voluntarily giving up personal information. In a phishing attack, a cybercriminal disguises an email to make it seem like it comes from a legitimate, trusted source. The email will likely include a link asking the user to reset their password or check account information. That link will typically lead to a page designed to look authentic and trick an unsuspecting user into sharing their account information with a cybercriminal.
The best way to prevent phishing attacks is to educate yourself and your employees about the telltale signs of social engineering, including grammatical issues, nonstandard URLs, demands to act quickly, and nonstandard company graphics. If any of these are present, someone might be trying to steal your password.
3. Trojan horse
In a Trojan horse attack, malware is disguised as a harmless link or as legitimate software and is shared with users in hopes that they will download it. Similar to a phishing attack, this malware is often hidden within a falsified website, a misleading email, or even a fake advertisement. Once the malware is downloaded, the cybercriminal will often be able to access the user's password and other sensitive information. As with phishing and other social engineering attacks, the best way to prevent a Trojan horse is through education. Seeking out security awareness training for your employees is a great place to start.
4. Brute force attack
This attack is based on probability. As the name suggests, it involves determining a user's password through brute force, beginning with weak, commonly used passwords (like Password1234)—often guessing the password letter by letter. A hacker typically uses software to randomly test millions of passwords against a website until the right one is determined and the cybercriminal is able to access an account. Once they've cracked an account password, hackers can potentially access a huge amount of company data.
By making company passwords more complex, you can reduce the likelihood of a hacker successfully committing a brute force attack. Additional security measures like CAPTCHA tests and setting a specific number of password attempts can also help prevent bots from unleashing brute force attacks on your accounts.
5. Dictionary attack
This attack is a slightly more complex version of a brute force attack. A dictionary attack takes advantage of the fact that people tend to use common words and ignore password best practices. In a dictionary attack, the cybercriminal uses a list of highly probable words, word combinations, and credentials gained from earlier data breaches. This list will then be used to test a variety of possible passwords (often with numbers before or after the words) until they get it right.
6. Rainbow table attack
These attacks are another step up from brute force and dictionary attacks. Rainbow table attacks work to reverse the password encryption often performed by MSPs to prevent access via malware and other attack vectors.
The most common way to encrypt passwords is through hashing—a one-way encryption process with no single formula to reverse encrypted data. Rainbow tables are tools that run many possible hashing combinations to unencrypt hashed data. The best way to prevent rainbow table attacks is by "salting" your hash using a function that adds random characters to the encrypted data to throw off hackers.
7. Keylogger attack
In a keylogger attack, the cybercriminal installs software that tracks the user's keystrokes. By keeping a record of everything a user types, keylogging gives a hacker employees' usernames and passwords—no matter how complex—as well as which app or website a given set of credentials are for. Because a keylogger attack is a type of malware attack, it usually relies on users falling victim to a different attack first, like a phishing attack that successfully gets them to download malware when they click a disguised link.
8. Traffic interception
In this attack, cybercriminals use software, like packet sniffers, to monitor your network traffic and capture passwords as they travel along the network. The process is similar to tapping a phone line or eavesdropping in that it monitors and captures critical information you believed was private. Traffic interception can be used for both encrypted and unencrypted passwords, though encrypted passwords will be much more difficult for the hacker to crack.
9. Credential stuffing
Credential stuffing demonstrates the ways a single data breach can have long-lasting repercussions. In this attack, a cybercriminal takes previously breached data from one service (like a social media platform) and uses it to attack another (like a business or a bank). If hackers do this en masse, they'll probably eventually find a match and use those credentials to jump to other accounts.
Credential stuffing only works if users duplicate passwords across multiple accounts. That means the best way to prevent this type of attack is by ensuring your employees have unique passwords for all of their company accounts.
10. Third-party attack
Also called a supply-chain attack, a third-party attack is when a cybercriminal gets access to your system through an outside provider, vendor, or partner who has access to your data. Given that MSPs often hold the key to many of their customers' systems, third parties frequently target them so they can access multiple organizations at once.
As with many of the attacks listed above, the best way to prevent third-party attacks is by using a safe, reliable password manager that helps ensure a hacker can't gain access to your encrypted master vault.
How to avoid password-related cyberattacks
Given that passwords remain the most vulnerable entry vector for cybercriminals looking to exploit a company's data, MSPs need to take concrete steps to keep themselves—and their customers—secure. The most critical step is standardizing and enforcing higher credential security standards. That means eliminating password reuse, preventing common passwords and passphrases, and ensuring former employees lose access as soon as they leave the company.
To make it easier to enforce the continuous use of safe credentials, MSPs should invest in a centralized password management solution like N-able™ Passportal™. Passportal is an enterprise-grade password manager that can help you automatically generate and store complex passwords to keep data secure. In addition to strong password generation, multifactor authentication measures, and the option to offer automated password resets to your customers,
Passportal also supports granular access control to ensure that only authorized personnel can access the most sensitive information.
For MSPs looking to help their customers avoid password-related cyberattacks, a cloud-based password manager like Passportal is the perfect solution to keep credentials secure and prevent a potentially devastating breach.
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Looking out from the marketplace in Vevey, seconds before the rain from the previous photo started down. I'd often watched this location via a webcam located in the clock tower at the end of the square, wondering what it was like in real life.
This post also marks an update to The Zone! It's a work in progress, a half-carved stone, but a step towards eradication of the ancient markup of the site (the result of iteration since 1999). A lot has changed on the web in 11 years, though there are still people using IE6, a 9 year old, standards-breaking security risk. The new site should work nicely in any modern browser like IE8, Safari, Chrome or Firefox, but will likely be unusable in non-compliant browsers such as IE6. Browsers supporting CSS3 features will also get some extra goodness. Enjoy! I'll be crafting more bells and whistles in time, but it's a start!
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Board index Non LEAF Discussions Other Electric Cars & Plug-In Hybrids
Re: Hyundai Kona Electric
DaveinOlyWA wrote: ↑
Hyundai has all but said no real deliveries in 2020. VW, nothing till "maybe late 2021" Both are hitting EU "soon" though.
You mean just for North America or anywhere.
DougWantsALeaf
Location: Chicago North Side
It does seem that cars carry a premium price in Europe/UK as well as other parts of the world compared to the US. I would go after high margin regions first as well.
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DougWantsALeaf wrote: ↑
FYI: in the EU prices are listed with (~20%) VAT.
webeleafowners wrote: ↑
Just us. As mentioned EU will be supplied more than a year before us. I am guessing we will still get token deliveries to the states that require it but nothing more
IEVS:
Comparison Between Kona Electric And 1.6T Shows Another EV Burden
https://insideevs.com/features/395345/k ... urden-evs/
Reporting a Motor Trend "fuel" cost comparo for a road trip (LA to Paso Robles, 220 miles) using QCs. ICE, $63.03 for gas. BEV, $140.97 for electricity. If charged solely at home, $25.87, but 9.6 hours to charge. BEV 258 mile EPA range, ICE 396 miles. Note that they were using EA and EVgo chargers, both using a per minute rate, and they charged to 100% twice.
Direct link to MT article:
Gas vs. Electric: Which Is the Better Hyundai Kona?
Here's how the Kona Electric compares to the Kona 1.6T
https://www.motortrend.com/cars/hyundai ... kona-1-6t/
GRA wrote: ↑
Charging to 100% is a waste of time and money. The only exception would be if it was a meal stop. You would spend much less of both by doing a few 30 minute charges. On a 100 kw station, I only charge to 45 KW and unplug, on 50 KW, I charge to 35 KW. Beyond that, the cost escalates considerably.
As Dave pointed out, they charged the car too full. The Kona is also at a disadvantage on the EA pricing scheme. It advertises something like 80kW max, pushing it above the 1-75kW tier and into the much more expensive 1-125kW tier, which is nearly 3x the cost! Even though the car rarely pulls more than 75kW. And then when they charge to 100%, they are pulling 10kW and paying for 125kW!
So yeah, a lot could have been done to improve the Kona EV experience.
That said, their goal was to just go without planning, just like they did in the gas Kona. Unfortunately, it's too early in the game for that. A little planning goes a long way!
Of course and they noted that:
The most common argument I hear about electric vehicles—Tesla or otherwise—is that you plain can't travel long distances because the charging infrastructure doesn't exist or because it takes too long to charge.
That may have been the case as recently as five years ago, but things have changed. Companies like ChargePoint, EVgo, and Electrify America have Level 3 fast charger stations sprouting nationwide, with the latter already offering more than 1,700 fast chargers (and counting) spanning coast to coast and border to border. You can thank Volkswagen's dieselgate scandal for that.
So we devised a plan: We'd drive both cars north to the growing vineyard town of Paso Robles, with Reynolds driving the gas Kona and me the electric one on the northbound leg, swapping cars for the return south.
Normally a 220-mile trip that would take between 4 and 5-and-a-half hours, depending on traffic, the drive is about the same distance as a trip from New York to Washington, D.C. or Chicago to Detroit. In other words, it's a realistic distance that the average American family may expect to travel to visit family or friends in a distant city a couple times per year. Too near for an airplane but too far for an EV?
To level the playing field, we decided to treat the two cars as equally as possible. We'd both leave our L.A. headquarters at the same time, fully charged and gassed up, take the same route on both legs, and drive in the same manner north and south. To make matters more difficult for the EV, we weren't going to bother with any fancy route-planning apps—we knew there were both ChargePoint and Electrify America fast chargers along I-5 near Paso Robles, so if we needed a charge, that's where we'd go. Once in Paso Robles, we'd fully fuel both vehicles, turn south, and start out again.
Before the trip I was a bit apprehensive that the Kona Electric would only make the journey with great difficulty. Truth be told, though, the experience couldn't have felt more normal. . . .
After a sole half-hour stop near Bakersfield, with me snacking at an Electrify America station and Reynolds at a Taco Bell, both the Kona Electric and 1.6T arrived no worse for the wear 4 hours and 25 minutes after we'd set off. Ducking an illegally parked non-electric Mazda CX-5 and Mercedes-Benz C-Class (no respect!), we plugged into Paso Robles' sole remaining free Electrify America fast charger space, charged the Kona Electric's battery to full—in retrospect an expensive decision—and went off to brim the gas Kona's tank and grab lunch.
The return trip, this time with me in the gas Kona and Reynolds in the electric, went much the same as the first—uneventful. Although I missed the electric car's smoothness and quietness, I didn't hate getting back to L.A. about 90 minutes before Reynolds, whose 5.5-hour journey included a stop at an Electrify America station to charge and grab a late lunch—and heavier late-day traffic. . . .
Our over-reliance on Electrify America stations, which charge a $1 session fee plus a per-minute fee based on the charge rate your vehicle is capable of accepting (which, in our case, works out to $0.69 per minute for up to 125 kW) to fully charge the Kona's battery is largely to blame for the massive cost—especially because EV charging rates slow significantly once a battery exceeds 80 percent capacity.
Our two times charging to 100 percent were blow-out expensive, Reynolds said, calling the decision "stupid" in retrospect. Per-minute charging by Electrify America and EVgo puts a preposterous penalty on charging to 90 or 100 percent, particularly Electrify America, which has higher dollar-per-minute rates.
"Our loosey-goosy planning exposed how eye-wateringly expensive minimal planning can be if you choose to travel across Electrify America's network," Reynolds said. "The Kona Electric cost us over double what the gas version did to do basically the same trip—even while using far less energy. This is completely upside down from the usual situation where the EV is about half the cost per mile of a gas car, based on far cheaper home charging. If we fumbled like this all the way across the country, we'd be broke by Brooklyn."
It would break with the spirit of our story, but a little planning would've gone a long way. Although there's no app available for other EVs as easy to use as Tesla's Trip Planner (because it's built into Tesla's infotainment system), free websites like ABetterRoutePlanner.com show that we could've easily saved $40 or so if we'd fast charged the Kona's battery only enough to get us to our destination and then opted for slower Level 2 charging overnight at our hotel. Hindsight and whatnot.
As with all things in life, both gas and electric powertrains have their compromises. The former offers a less refined experience, is generally more expensive to run day to day around town, and pollutes more. But there are refueling stations everywhere.
The latter is generally more expensive up front, will cost more to travel with, requires some planning before embarking on a long journey, and will take longer to refuel on the way (though we predict that ever speedier fast charge times will soon enough minimize the recharge/refuel time difference).
We set out with our two Konas to answer two questions: All things being equal, is gas or electric better to drive? And can the average American household get by with an EV as its only car?
When it comes to driving these two Konas, we prefer the electric one. "Just about every minute you drive the EV is better than that minute in the gas car, except for braking to a stop," Reynolds said. The Kona Electric is silky smooth, powerful, and refined. The Kona 1.6T is good, but the Kona Electric is better.
The latter question has a more complicated answer, but we think the answer is yes, with some obvious caveats. . . .
The MT writers were even fairly positive on the current state of the charging infrastructure, although it obviously has a long way to go to equal that serving ICEs.
As GetOffYourGas noted, part but by no means all of the excessive charging cost is that Hyundai and Kia BEVs get especially screwed by EA's pricing. I suspect if they'd been using EVgo they might have saved $20-$25 or so.
Leaf Plus gets the best deal at EA chargers funny enough. Upper 70s and still lowest tier pricing.
Yeah, I've wondered about that. the car must report a max. rate of 75kW or less, even though it can take more. I emailed Kia to tell them to reduce the max. rate to 75kW from 77-78, or else let owners dial a rate.
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Redemptor Hominis (Latijn voor: De Verlosser van de Mensen) is de eerste encycliek van paus Johannes Paulus II en verscheen op 4 maart 1979.

Deze encycliek gaat nader in op Christus als centrum van de Kerk en uitgangspunt van de theologie en is tevens het eerste deel van een trilogie over de Heilige Drie-eenheid : Redemptor Hominis werd immers later gevolgd door Dives in Misericordia (1980, over de vergevende liefde van God de Vader) en Dominum et Vivificantem (1986, over de rol van de Heilige Geest).

Zie ook
 Lijst van encyclieken van Johannes Paulus II
 Paus Johannes Paulus II

Externe links naar de tekst
 Redemptor Hominis vertaling in het Nederlands
 Redemptor Hominis vertaling in het Engels op de website van het Vaticaan

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, the pious and venerable bishop of Sodor and Man, was born at Burton, a village in the hundred of Wirrel, in the county Palatine of Chester, in 1663. He was educated in the city of Chester until qualified for the university, when he was entered of Trinity college, Dublin. During his residence there he made great proficiency in academical studies, and had at first an intention of devoting himself to that of physic as a profession, but he was soon persuaded by a dignitary of the church to turn his thoughts to divinity. He continued at college till 1686, when he was ordained a deacon by the bishop of Kildare, soon after which he left Ireland, partly owing to the confusions which prevailed under the unhappy reign of king James II.; and in the latter end of the same year, became curate of New Church, in the parish of Winwick, in Lancashire, of which his maternal uncle, Dr. Sherlock, was then. rector, and here he first displayed his affectionate and conscientious regard for the poor, by setting apart a tenth of his income (which was only 30l. a year) to charitable purposes.
In 1689 he entered into priest's orders, and it was not long before his excellent character recommended him to the notice of the earl of Derby, who, in 1692, appointed him his domestic chaplain, and preceptor to his son, lord Strange, with a salary of 30l. and he being appointed about the same time master of the alms-house at Latham, worth 20l. a ye'ar more, he set apart a fifth part of the whole for pious uses. In this situation he remained till 1697, when, to use his own words, "he was forced into the bishopric of | the Isle of Man," a promotion for which he was in all respects eminently qualified. Being first created doctor of laws by the archbishop of Canterbury, he was confirmed bishop of Man at Bow church, Jan. 15, 1697-8, and next day was consecrated at the Savoy church, by Dr. Sharp, archbishop of York.
In the beginning of April following he landed in the Isle of Man, and was enthroned in the cathedral of St. Germain's in Peel Castle. His palace he found almost a ruin. It had not been inhabited for eight years, and nothing but an ancient tower and chapel remained entire. He was, therefore, obliged to rebuild it, and the expence, which amounted to 1400l. interrupted, in some measure, his charity to the poor, but this he soon resumed, and his beneficence ever afterwards increased with his income. About this time the earl of Derby offered him the valuable living of Baddesworth, in Yorkshire, to hold in commendam, probably as a compensation for the expences he had been at; but he declined the offer, as being incompatible with his resolution never to take two ecclesiastical preferments with cure of souls, especially when he must necessarily be absent from one of them.
From this time our prelate continued to perform all the offices of a good bishop and a good man; and we hear little more of him till 1721 and 1722, when the orthodoxy of his spirit, and zeal for church-discipline, seem to have involved him in altercations and difficulties. When the famous work called "The Independent Whig," came into the diocese of Man, the bishop immediately issued an act against it, dated Jan. 27, 1721, declaring its purpose to be subversive of the doctrine, discipline, and government, of the church, as well as undermining the Christian religion. But his zeal against it did not stop here, for he took it upon him to seize it wherever he found it: and accordingly, when, Mr. Worthington sent it as a present to the public library of the island, the bishop commanded one Stevenson to take and keep it; so that it should neither be deposited in the library, nor yet restored to the right owner. Complaint was made to the governor of the island, who committed Stevenson to prison till he should make reparation. The bishop remonstrated; and the governor replied, in which reply he charged the bishop, who had pleaded obedience to the king's commands in his attempts to suppress irreligion, with having neglected to use the prayers composed in the time of the rebellion in 1715, which was also an equal object of obedience. The issue of this affair was, that the book was restored, and Stevenson set at liberty.
But there happened another dispute between the bishop | and the governor, which, so far as the bishop was personally concerned, was much more serious; and it is related thus: Mrs. Home, the governor's wife, had defamed Mrs. Puller and sir James Pool with a false charge of criminal conversation; and, in consequence of being contumacious, and refusing to ask pardon of the persons injured, was by the bishop interdicted from the holy communion. But Mr. Horribin, his archdeacon, who was chaplain to captain sHorne, received Mrs. Home to the communion, and was suspended by the bishop. Upon this, the governor, conceiving that the bishop had acted illegally, fined him 50l. and his two vicars-general 20l. each; and, on their refusing to pay this fine, committed them all, June 29, 1722, to Castle Rushin, a damp and gloomy prison, where they were closely confined, and no persons were admitted within the walls to see or converse with them, and where Dr. Wilson was treated with a rigour which no protestant bishop had experienced since the reformation.
The concern of the people was so great when they heard of this tyrannical treatment of their beloved pastor and friend, that they assembled in crowds, and it was with difficulty they were restrained from proceeding to violence and outrage against the governor, by the bishop himself, who, being permitted to speak to them through a grated window, exhorted them to peace, and told them that he intended to appeal to the king, and did not doubt but his majesty would vindicate his cause. He also sent a circular letter to his clergy, drawn up in such terms as seemed most proper for appeasing the people, and desired it might be generally communicated throughout the island. After some delays, owing to the technical formalities of law, the bishop's appeal was heard before the lords justices in council, July 18, 1723, and the proceedings of the governor were reversed, as extrajudicial and irregular, and the fines were ordered to be restored to the bishop and his vicarsgeneral. This was accordingly done, and upon the bishop's application for costs, the king, by the president of the council, and sir Robert Walpole, promised that he would see him satisfied. In consequence of this engagement, the king, some time after, offered him the bishopric of Exeter, then vacant, to reimburse him, but our unambitious prelate could not be prevailed upon to quit his own Diocese; upon which his majesty promised to defray his expences out of the privy purse, and gave it in charge to | lord Townsend, lord Carleton, and sir Robert Walpole, to remind him of it; but the king going soon afterwards to Hanover, and dying before his return, this promise was never fulfilled. The only recompense he had was by a subscription set on foot by the archbishop of York, amounting to 300l. not a sixth part of the expences of his application to the crown. To add to the indignation which we are confident every reader will feel, ic may be mentioned, that from the dampness of the prison in which the bishop was confined by the brutal governor, he contracted a disorder in his right hand, which disabled him from the free use of his fingers, and he ever after wrote with his whole hand grasping the pen. He was advised to prosecute the governor, &c. in the English courts of law, to recover damages; but to this he could not be persuaded, and extended his forgiveness to those who had ill-used him, in the most sincere and liberal manner.
After this absence from his diocese of eighteen months, which he had spent mostly in London, where he was beloved and admired to a degree of enthusiasm by all classes of people, he returned to the island, and resumed his ex^ emplary course. In 1735 he came to England for the last time, to visit his son, the subject of the following article; and being introduced at the court of George II. he was much noticed by their majesties, and particularly by queen Caroline, who was very desirous of keeping him in England, but he could not be prevailed upon to quit his poor diocese, the value of which did not exceed 3QO/. a year. On his return he visited the province of York at the request of archbishop Blackburn, and confirmed upwards-of fifteen thousand persons.
In 1739 the clergy of the Isle of Man were much alarmed by the death of the earl of Derby, who dying without issue, the lordship of Man, as a barony in fee, became the property of the duke of Athol, who had married the heiress of a late earl of Derby. This threatened to deprive the clergy of their subsistence, for the livings of the Isle of Man consist of a third of the impropriations, which had been originally purchased of a former earl of Derby by bishop Barrow, in the reign of Charles II.; but now the duke of Athol claimed the impropriations as an inseparable appendage of his estate and royalty. The clergy were now in danger of losing all their property, for the deeds of conveyance from the earl of Derby to bishop Barrow | were lost from the records of the island, and the affair became every year more difficult, until at length, by the care and diligence of the bishop and his son, the deeds were discovered in the Rolls chapel, where they had been deposited for safe custody. This discovery put an end to the dispute, and in 1745 the deeds were exemplified under the great seal of England, and every precaution taken for the future payment of the money.
In his latter days bishop Wilson formed a plan for translating the New Testament into the Manks language, but did not live to make a further progress than to translate the four gospels, and print that of St. Matthew. This important work was completed by his successor (See HlLDESLey). This seems to have been the last concern of a public nature in which he was engaged, beyond the immediate duties of his bishopric, which he continued to execute to the latest period of his life, notwithstanding the infirmities naturally attending his great age. He had attained his ninety-third year, when, in consequence of a cold caught by walking in his garden in very cold weather, after reading evening prayers in his own chapel, he was confined for a short time to his bed, and expired March 7, 1755. He was interred in the - church-yard of Kirk-Michael, almost the whole population of the island attending the funeral, and lamenting their loss.
Bishop Wilson's life was an uniform display of the most genuine and active benevolence. Considering himself as the steward, not the proprietor, of the revenues of the bishopric, he devoted his income to what he esteemed its proper use. The annual receipts of the bishopric, as we have just mentioned, did not exceed 300l. in money; some necessaries in his house were of course to be paid for in money; distressed or shipwrecked mariners, and some other poor objects, it was also requisite to relieve with money; but the poor of the island were fed and clothed, and the house in general supplied from his demesnes by exchange, without money. The poor who could spin or weave, found the best market at Bishop's-court, where they bartered the produce of their labour for corn. Taylors an'd shoemakers were kept in the house constantly employed, to make into garments or shoes that cloth or leather which his corn had purchased; and the aged and the infirm were supplied according to their several wants. At the same time he kept an open hospitable table, covered with the produce of | his own demesnes, at which he presided with equal affability and decorum. His manners, though always consistently adorned with Christian gravity, were ever gentle and polite; and in his conversation he was one of the most entertaining and agreeable, as well as instructive of men. With these qualities of the gentleman, the bishop united the accomplishments and virtues of the scholar and the divine. He was well skilled in the Hebrew, Greek, and Latin languages; and there was hardly any part of science that could be serviceable in his diocese which he did not understand. In his younger days he had a poetical turn, but afterwards laid aside such amusements, as thinking them inconsistent with his episcopal character. During the fiftyeight years that he held the bishopric, he never failed, unless on occasions of sickness, to expound the scripture, to preach, or to administer the sacrament, every Sunday, at one or other of the churches in his diocese, and, if absent from the island, he always preached at the church where he resided for the day. He alternately visited the different parishes of his diocese on Sundays (which the dimensions of the island will permit in a carriage) without giving them notice, and, after doing the duty of the day, returned home to dinner. His family prayers were as regular as his public duties. Every summer morning at six, and every winter morning at seven o'clock, his whole household attended him in his chapel, where he himself, or one of those divinity-students whom he maintained in his house, performed the service of the day; and in the evening they did the same. Thus it was that he formed his young clergy for the pulpit, and for a graceful delivery. He was so great a friend to toleration, that the papists who resided in the island, loved and esteemed him, and not unfrequently attended his ministrations. Dissenters likewise even attended the communion-service, as he admitted them to receive the sacrament, either standing or sitting, at their own option, so that there was neither schism nor separate- congregation in his diocese. The few quakers also, who were resident on the island, visited and respected him. Many other amiable, and some singular traits of the character of this excellent prelate may be seen in the work from which the above particulars are taken.
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I have long been interested in, and collected, automotive ephemera. Here are just a few of my favorites for you to enjoy. Watch for occasional witty captions contributed by my fellow collectors. I will keep uploading "new" ads here as time and space permit. I really enjoy looking at the artwork, the slogans, the period clothing and styles, all representative of an age gone by, but not forgotten.
Playing on the phrase "newness for the sake of newness" could easily have backfired.
Cadillac - the Car driven by the Jet Setters!
From this low angle, she looks very aerodynamic--for her time.
I have to say, her dress really DOES bring out the color of the wheels.
What's not to love? It's a 55 Buick in Black & Red!
He looks angry and She looks confused. It must be the dress!
This one looks almost like a Norman Rockwell painting.
I love the exaggerated length and shortened height the illustrator has employed in this drawing.
Futuramic, huh? I wonder why they stopped using that slogan? Too late to go back now!!
I've always loved this car, but until I saw this I wasn't aware Chrysler used it in their print ads.
Talk about Over-Confidence. "Pride Goeth Before the Fall"
Did They Ever Look This Good in Real Life?
Wow! Looks Like It's About to Take Off For The Moon.
Longer, Lower, and Wider than Reality. The Illustrators took more than a few "liberties"
The Hudson illustrators really knew how to strech out their renderings.
Nowadays, that housewife wearing an apron is a real anachronism.
This one is filled with the super-elegant characters Cadillac liked to use in their ads of the period.
More elegant characters going to classy places like the country club, in their Cadillac of course.
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The 8 Scientific Pillars of the Paleolithic Diet
Is the Paleo diet concept scientifically valid?
If your primary source of information about Paleolithic nutrition is the mainstream media, then chances are you've been led to believe that the answer to that question is no. If your primary source is the scientific literature, however, then you've undoubtedly realised that the true answer is yes, and that much of what is written and said about the original human diet outside of the realm of science finds its origin in the minds of ill-informed and biased individuals who don't know much about evolutionary health promotion, ancestral human diets, or Darwinian medicine.
The fact is that no other diet has scientific roots that are as deep and strong as that of the original human diet. Those who get their information about Paleolithic nutrition primarily from blogs, social media, and newspapers and/or have repeatedly heard government-supported nutritional authorities say that the official dietary guidelines are based on the best available scientific evidence, may find that hard to believe, but it is in fact the truth.
The thing that most clearly separates the scientific foundation of the Paleolithic diet from that of other diets is its unique diversity of different building blocks. Not only does it contain many clinical trials and observational studies, but it also has a lot of other forms of research incorporated into it. In this article, I thought we'd have a look at 8 of the most important constituents of the scientific foundation on which the Paleo diet is built.
1. Paleontological research
Among evolutionary biologist and paleontologists, it's well known that the Agricultural Revolution unfavorable affected the health of Homo sapiens. The human population grew rapidly following the dawn of agriculture; however, that doesn't necessarily mean that people got healthier. On the contrary, examinations of fossil remains have revealed that Neolithic humans who had taken up Agriculture didn't grow to be as strong and tall as Paleolithic hunter-gatherers (1, 2, 3, 4). Moreover, they were more prone to develop tooth decay, malocclusion, periodontal disease, and many other diet-related health problems (1, 2, 3, 4, 5). This isn't surprising, seeing as they ate a less diverse and starchier diet than their preagricultural forebears.
These findings are very consistent, in the sense that whenever and wherever people have made the transition from eating a hunter-gatherer style diet to eating a more simplistic diet that is largely built up of grains and/or dairy foods, adverse health outcomes have been a part of the "transition package".3, 4 The dietary shift that accompanied agriculture was not solely responsible for bringing about the decline in the human health condition that accompanied the first major epidemiological transition in human history; however, it was undoubtedly a major contributing factor.
2. Genetics research
The natural question that arises from the previous section is: Have we overcome the health problems that accompanied the Agricultural Revolution?
The short answer to this question is no. Over the past millennia, certain diet-related genetic adaptations have spread within some human populations and equipped people with an enhanced ability to digest and metabolize various forms of modern foods. For example, within certain populations that have a long history of eating starchy diets, natural selection has driven up the copy number of the AMY1A gene (6), a gene that codes for an enzyme that is involved in carbohydrate digestion.
With that said, we know for certain that we're not well adapted to consume grains and dairy foods (1, 7, 8, 9). The adaption that has occurred is only partial. This statement is supported by the fact that we, just like our ancestors, are prone to develop tooth decay, bone mineral disorders, and many other health problems if we consume a lot of grains and/or dairy foods (7, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14).
Foods are composed of a great variety of different nutrients and other compounds. Perhaps needless to say, if an animal species suddenly incorporates a completely new food group into its diet, just one or a couple of smaller genetic changes are not going to fully accommodate for that dietary change.
The key thing to remember is that natural selection doesn't necessarily "make" organisms healthier, happier, or more long-lived. Rather, Darwinian evolution occurs as a result of variation in reproductive success. A lot of people can eat and digest milk and grains and not experience any acute gastrointestinal issues or major reproductive impairments; however, that doesn't necessarily mean that it's healthy for these individuals to consume those foods.
The bottom line is that we are still largely hunter-gatherers from a genetic perspective (3, 15).
3. Clinical research
Some people seem to be under the impression that very few or no Randomized Clinical Trials (RCTs) have looked into the therapeutic potential of hunter-gatherer style diets. This is simply not true. Over the past decade, several clinical trials on Paleolithic nutrition have been published (16, 17, 18, 19, 20), some of which were conducted by the legendary researcher Staffan Lindeberg and his research team.
These studies have shown beyond any doubt that the Paleolithic diet is a very healthy diet. Some of the studies have a fairly small sample size, however, as a whole, I would say that the clinical evidence is fairly convincing. The results from the studies in this area all point in the same direction, in the sense that they suggest that Paleo-style diets are highly efficacious in the treatment of various metabolic and inflammation-driven disorders and produce greater health improvements than "prudent" diets such as the Diabetes diet. This is exactly what one would expect to see, seeing as the Paleolithic diet has certain unique characteristics that separate it from other diets (something we'll talk about later).
Some people seem to think that a solid body of research shows that it's healthy to eat a lot of whole grains. This is simply not true. Several RCTs and meta-analyses have indeed shown that the consumption of whole grains is associated with various positive health outcomes (21, 22), but these studies have a major limitation, and that is that they don't compare prudent grain-free diets (e.g., Paleo-style diets) with diets rich in whole grains; rather, they compare the health effects of whole grain consumption with the health effects of refined grain consumption or the consumption of some other unhealthy food or a flexible diet. Hence, they by no means prove that it's healthier to eat a diet rich in whole grains than a prudent diet that doesn't contain any grains at all.
I think one of the major problems that plague the field of nutrition today is that there's too much focus on clinical research. Some people seem to be under the impression that everything needs to be tested in RCTs and that the only evidence that truly matters is the evidence that is derived from strictly controlled, double-blinded studies.
I disagree with this perspective. As I see it, the clinical research is merely the icing on the cake. This icing is not much use if we don't have a cake. Personally, I prefer a cake that is composed of a variety of scientific evidence, including evidence derived from research conducted within the disciplines I talk about in today's article.
4. Morphological research
You can learn a lot about what an animal should eat by studying the structural composition of that animal. Some animals are clearly designed to consume a plant-rich diet. The cow for example has a large intestinal system in which trillions of microorganisms are hard at work, turning the cellulose-rich plants the cow is eating into fatty acids and other end-products. Other animals, such as the lion, on the other hand, don't have a huge fermentation chamber, but largely rely mostly on its own genes to break down the foods they're eating.
Typically, animals that eat a lot of plant matter has larger guts than those that eat more animal based diets, which is not surprising, seeing as the latter diets tend to be more calorically dense and less bulky than the former. Moreover, plant-eating animals rely on gut microorganisms to break down many of the food substances they take in and therefore need a "chamber" where their gut microbes can live and do their fermentative work.
Another thing that separates animals that eat a lot of plants from those that eat mostly meat is that the latter tend to have more acidic stomachs (23). This isn't surprising, seeing as an acidic stomach acts like a barrier against food-borne pathogens and also because hydrochloric acid plays a role in protein digestion.
Where does our species, Homo sapiens, fit into all of this? We're somewhere in the middle between the lion and cow mentioned earlier. We're not wired exclusively for meat eating; however, we're not wired exclusively for plant consumption either. We're omnivorous.
The thing that seems to elude some vegans and vegetarians is that a large body of evidence shows that our ancestors transitioned over from eating a largely plant based diet to eating a higher quality, more meat-based diet some ~ 2.5-3 million years ago (3, 24). This idea is not only supported by archeological research (e.g., examinations of stone tools), but also by studies looking into the evolution of the human body. As more meat, and perhaps also other energy-rich foods such as tubers, were incorporated into the human diet, the large intestines of our ancestors started shrinking (25). One doesn't have to be a genius to understand why, all that's needed is a basic understanding of nutrition and evolution.
Animal source foods are primarily digested in the upper parts of our digestive systems, in particular the small intestine. Fibrous plant foods on the other hand are primarily broken down by gut bacteria that dwell deep down in our large intestines. You don't need a huge large intestine to break down a meat-heavy diet; hence, it's not surprising that our ancestors' colons shrank as a result of selective processes when they started eating more animal source foods. Not only has the human colon gotten smaller throughout our evolutionary history, but the human stomach also seems to have gotten more acidic (23), which is another indication that our ancestors gradually started eating more meat.
The morphological research clearly refutes the notion that we are designed to eat exclusively meat or plants. We're clearly designed to eat a mix of the two. Moreover, it's important to point out that none of the animal species that are in close proximity to us on the tree of life consume the milk of another animal or eat a grain-based diet. We don't really know for certain exactly what the gut of a mammal that is designed to eat a diet rich in grains, dairy foods, and processed foods looks like, seeing as no such mammal exists.
5. Nutritional research
RCTs, observational studies (which we'll talk a little about later on), and systematic reviews and meta-analyses are far from the only types of studies that are useful for learning about human nutrition. Over the most recent centuries, we humans have made great strides forward when it comes to elucidating the composition and characteristics of the food we eat. We've "broken down" various types of foodstuffs and given names – vitamin C, protein, fiber and so on – to their constituent parts. We've also looked into how the consumption of different types of foods affects various metabolic and inflammatory parameters.
This brings us over to something that's really fascinating about the original human diet, and that is that it has certain nutritional characteristics that clearly separate it from "modern diets" (9, 10, 26). Among other things, the foods that were a part of the Paleolithic diet have a low-moderate energy density, high satiety index score (27), and high nutrient density (28). Moreover, when compared with cereal grains, they all have a much lower carbohydrate density, and when compared to fatty dairy foods (e.g., butter, cream, cheese), they have a much lower content of saturated fat and total fat. Furthermore, when compared with cereal grains and dairy foods, Paleo foods are low in antinutrients, hormones, and/or other potentially problematic compounds. Hence, it's not surprising that the Paleo diet is so therapeutic.
A large body of evidence shows that these discrepancies between the original human diet and modern diets are at the root of many of the diseases and health problems that plague the modern man (8, 9, 29, 30).
6. Mammalian research
As pointed out earlier, it's abnormal for a mammal to eat a diet that contains large quantities of grains and dairy foods. The thing that eludes a lot of people is that the milk of each mammalian species that is present here on Earth was specifically designed, via natural selection, to support the growth and development of the young of that species.
Milk is not just this white liquid that is rich in calcium, protein, and fat. Rather, it is a very special type of food that has potent immunomodulatory properties and contains a variety of compounds that up until very recently were not a part of the adult human diet. From an evolutionary perspective, it's very abnormal for a human adult to drink milk. Hence, it's not surprising that the consumption of milk has been found to be associated with a variety of adverse health effects (31).
As pointed out earlier, the fact that some people can digest milk without experiencing gastrointestinal distress does not mean that it's necessarily healthy for these folks to drink milk. Some of the issues with milk can be remedied via fermentation; however, others remain pretty much regardless of the type of processing technique that is used.
The story is somewhat similar for grains. None of the free-living species on this Earth that we most closely relate to consume a grain-heavy diet. Domesticated animals on the other hand are often given grains. This is part of the reason why they are not as healthy as their wild counterparts. This simple fact, that domesticated animals that are fed grain-heavy diets tend to get fat and sick, should get us to think twice about eating a lot grains. Obviously, our biology and physiology differ a lot from that of for example a cow; however, we're no different from the cow in that we too get sick and fat if we eat a diet that matches poorly with our evolved biology.
Unlike animals, plants can't run away from predators (e.g., mammals that want to eat them). They have evolved other ways of defending themselves. One of the things they do is that they produce metabolites that are toxic to their "foes". Some plant foods, such as cereal grains, are particularly rich in these types of secondary metabolites, some of which are capable of disrupting various physiological processes within the human body (1, 7).
It's believed that our primal ancestors ate a great diversity of different plants; hence, they didn't expose themselves to very large quantities of just one or a couple of secondary metabolites, seeing as different plants produce different toxins. Many early farmers and contemporary humans on the other hand consume large quantities of just one or a couple of plant species. Not only that, but many of the plant species that we consume today have only been a part of the human diet for a short time, meaning that we may not have evolved a way to neutralize the toxins they produce.
A lot of mainstream nutritionists seem to pay little attention to these things. Instead of looking at how things work in nature, they spend all their time sifting through clinical studies and government-produced nutritional guidelines. This is unfortunate, because it's impossible to make sense of what different organisms are designed to eat if one doesn't look into the role that different foods play in the diets of various wild animals and the interactions that take place between organisms and their nutritional environment.
7. Anthropological research
Over the most recent centuries, many explorers and scientists have visited non-westernized, traditional societies that live or lived largely cut off from the modernized world. Some of these travelers, such as the legendary Weston A. Price, documented the health and physical fitness condition of the people they met on their travels. Whereas some of the reports from these travelers are fairly superficial and subjective and contain limited detail, others are based on comprehensive health examinations. These latter reports are those that evolutionary nutritionists such as myself are the most interested in.
The most striking thing about the studies, books, and reports that cover the health of traditional populations is that they pretty much all indicate that non-westernized people who consume hunter-gatherer style diets are largely free of chronic diseases such as diabetes, colon cancer, and celiac disease (10, 32, 33, 34, 35). Moreover, when compared to westerners, they are in much better cardiovascular and metabolic health, as measured via assessments of various blood markers (10, 32, 33, 35). For example, when Staffan Lindeberg and his colleagues visited Kitava in 1989, an Island in Papua New Guinea, they found that the people who lived there were in excellent health. Acne, cancer, and heart disease were all but absent and nobody was overweight (36).
Some non-westernized people who consume traditional diets that contain some non-Paleo foods have also been shown to be fairly healthy; however, in general, it seems that there is a gradual decline towards worse and worse health as we move from hunter-gatherer type diet towards western-style diets.
Perhaps needless to say, other factors besides diet are important up in all of this. For example, most traditional people are quite physically active and spend a lot of time outdoors, which cannot be said for the typical westerner. Hence, these types of studies don't prove causality. With that said, there is no doubt that one of the primary reasons why the Kitavans and other traditional, non-westernized people are so healthy is that they eat a healthy diet. This statement is supported by the fact that the results from the studies in this area all point in the same direction and that every time a group of traditional people transitions over to eating a more westernized diet, negative health outcomes follow (10, 34).
8. Microbiome research
The trillions of microorganisms that colonize our bodies have a profound impact on our health and well-being. Among other things, they regulate our immune systems, shape our behavior and thoughts, and break down some of the food we eat. Given this, it's obviously important that we take good care of the friendly bugs that colonize our bodies, as well as do what we can to keep unfriendly critters at bay.
Over the past decade I've spent a significant amount of time reading up on the human microbiome, and I've put a lot of thought into the question of what we should eat to optimize the diversity and stability of our microbiotas. One of the most important things I've learned throughout my decade-long travels through the world of the microbiome is that "modern foods" affect the composition of the human microbiota in such a way that the health of the human host is negatively affected.
This statement is supported by a big pile of scientific evidence. Several studies have shown that the consumption of very sugary and/or starchy foods, including highly processed foods and both refined and whole grains, induces the growth of proinflammatory oral bacteria such as Streptococcus mutans (12, 13, 14). Furthermore, a long list of studies have found that the consumption of foods that have a very high fat density, such as cream, sets the stage for translocation of bacterial endotxoins from the small intestine into systemic circulation, endotoxemia, and chronic inflammation (35, 36, 37). Other types of evolutionarily novel foodstuffs, including whey protein supplements, can also disrupt the microbiota (38).
When we think about it, it's not really surprising that modern foods are capable of altering our microbiotas in such a way that our health suffers. Natural selection acts to adapt organisms to their environment. Microbes are an important part of our environment; hence, it goes without saying that microbes constitute one of the selective pressures that have acted – and continue to act – upon the human genome.
Up until very recently, all humans on this planet ate a hunter-gatherer type diet. Throughout evolutionary time, the human biology has evolved to match well with the type of microbiota that is produced by a Paleo-style diet.
When our ancestors' diets changed with the Agricultural Revolution, their microbiotas also changed (39, 40). The grain-heavy diet they started eating produced microbiotas that matched poorly with our ancestors' genomes; a statement supported by the fact that dental caries and periodontal diseases were more common among early farmers than among preagricultural humans (1, 3).
Just like our Neolithic forebears, our oral health suffers if we eat a lot of starchy and/or sugary foods. This clearly suggests that our bodies are not very fond of the type of microbiota that modern diets produce.
It's well established that the human microbiome has changed a lot over the past 10.000 years (41, 42). These changes can partly be attributed to changes in the human diet. Highly processed foods are obviously particularly problematic; however, we shouldn't overlook the fact that many types of grain and milk based foods also cause problems. Whole grains contain fiber; however, much of this fiber is of the insoluble type and is not accessed by colonic bacteria. Moreover, as pointed out earlier, the consumption of grains have been shown to adversely affect dental health via its effect on the oral microbiota.


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The Cottage is the perfect retreat for those seeking seclusion and independence. It has queen and twin single bedrooms, both with ensuite bathrooms.
A historic farm house in a country setting just out of Queenstown. Relax in the king, Queen or Twin Apartments after a day of exploring the slopes of our Ski region.
If Queenstown Country Accommodation in a peaceful, rural setting is what you seek, then look no further. Willowbrook's spacious and modern, fully self-contained studio apartments are in an idyllic, rural setting below Coronet Peak Ski Resort in the heart of the beautiful Wakatipu Basin. Surrounded by majestic alpine scenery, Willowbrook Country Apartments accommodation is just 15 minutes from the bright lights of Queenstown and 5 minutes from the quaint and historical settlement of Arrowtown and The Hills golf course - home of the NZ Open Golf Championship. Award - winning Millbrook Resort is also close by (just 3 minutes' drive from our front gate) and we are within easy reach of all ski fields, wineries and some very picturesque golf courses. All apartments of course have free parking adjacent to the accommodation.
Four acres of mature garden contain (among other things ...) a tennis court, a luxurious spa pool and some very friendly sheep. Willowbrook, close to Arrowtown is ideal for Ski accommodation being within easy reach of 5 ski fields, Coronet Peak, The Remarkables, Treble Cone, Cardrona and the Snow Farm.
All our fully equipped holiday apartments have Sky TV, DVD players and free Wifi and there is a complimentary DVD library guests are welcome to borrow from. If you are coming to ski or snowboard, you'll find your apartment lovely and warm in those colder winter months thanks to powerful gas heating. Ensuite bathrooms in our Queenstown accommodation all feature underfloor heating and large showers with unlimited gas hot water (the Queen Studio Apt and The Cottage also have bathtubs). Living areas are generously sized and have dining tables, chairs and sofas along with deluxe kitchenettes and plenty of fridge space. Sundecks come with barbecues and beautiful mountain views and laundry facilities are available for guests to use 8am to 8pm.
As peaceful as the location of our Queenstown accommodation is, there is no shortage of restaurants. Arthurs Point is 7 minutes' drive towards Queenstown; prestigious Millbrook Resort (boasting four restaurants) is three minutes drive and the quaint gold mining settlement of Arrowtown is only five minutes away.
In the nearby Gold Town of Arrowtown on the banks of the Arrow River, dining options are plentiful with everything from a la carte dining to bar snacks and some very exciting and eclectic eateries. In your apartment at Willowbrook, you will find contact information and some sample menus. No problem if self-catering is your choice; your kitchenette has everything you need to prepare (and eat) a feast and there are directions to the nearest supermarkets inside your apartment.
Willowbrook Country Apartments – look forward to seeing you!
Willowbrook operates a NO SMOKING policy in all Apartments and Self Contained lodgings.
Check in time: from 2.00pm.
This cosmopolitan resort near the bottom of the South Island of New Zealand has it all. Thrill seekers can take their pick of adventure activities, while those seeking relaxation can chill out on one of several golf courses, in a vineyard, at a luxury spa or in the many shops, galleries, bars and restaurants.
Indeed the surrounding Wakatipu Basin offers every conceivable form of outdoor activity, from bungy jumping to winery tours, from white water rafting to gold panning, not to mention of course, some of the most beautiful walks in the world. Follow the link for more ideas on activities in Queenstown.
Alternatively, take in a part day in historic Arrowtown (5 minutes from Willowbrook) or soak up the magical Southern Lakes country scenery in Glenorchy and Paradise where scenes from Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit were filmed. So for your next self contained country Cottage experience, come to Willowbrook in Queenstown.


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Home Entertainment Drake Pays $350K To Lady That Accused Him Of Sexual Harassment, You Wont Believe The Fetish Things They Did.
Drake Pays $350K To Lady That Accused Him Of Sexual Harassment, You Wont Believe The Fetish Things They Did.
Drake paid out $350,000 to a woman who accused him of sexual assault during the British leg of his 2017 Boy Meets World tour.
The amount plus lurid details of the alleged incident have been made public in a complaint filed by Laquana Morris against her New York attorney, TheBlast.com reported Wednesday.
The settlement was made by the rapper even though no charges were brought against him following an investigation by police in Manchester, England.
In her complaint, filed with the New York Attorney Grievance Committee against Alexander Cabereiras, Morris describes what allegedly happened after she and Drake went back to his hotel room following his Manchester concert in February 2017.
The former stripper and Instagram model wrote: 'Drake forced me to perform oral on him. It wasn't your ordinary oral it was more so a fetish.'
She then describes how he told her to spit into a cup 'until he had measured it.'


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Nardya Miller shares important message in her last days alive
AT THE age of 25, Nardya Miller has just one week to live. After endless medical battles, she has a message for you.
Alexia Purcell
News Corp Australia
Nardya Miller has been given just a week to live. Picture: Supplied
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A DYING Brisbane woman is using her final days to promote the importance of organ donation.
Last Wednesday, 25-year-old Nardya Miller was given a week to live. On Sunday she was submitted to palliative care.
The beauty salon owner has Cystic Fibrosis (CF) and her body is rejecting a double lung transplant she had over two years ago, the Sunshine Coast Daily reports.
Ms Miller's fiance Liam Fitzgerald said it isn't CF that is killing her, it is the chronic rejection she was diagnosed with three months ago.
"CF was a part of her life for 23 years and got her to needing a bilateral lung transplant but after the first 11 months post surgery, being so perfect, the lungs started to fail, over and over again requiring treatments she never thought she would have to go though.
Nardya Miller started her own beauty business despite her 'never-ending battle' with medical problems. Picture: Supplied
"She went through rounds of plasmapheresis to try stop donor specific antibodies but nothing worked."
Mr Fitzgerald said Ms Miller wants everyone to know how important organ donation is.
"The only way people will ever have a second chance at life is to be an organ donor."
Ms Miller's cousin Tachae Douglas-Miller said she underwent the lung transplant in 2014 because she was "sick of not being able to breathe and sick of fighting a never ending battle".
"Although we hear stories on how new lungs had changed people lives, Nardya wasn't so lucky.
"After undergoing the double lung transplant she didn't realise she was so ill."
But instead of letting her illness get the better of her, Ms Douglas-Miller said she started up her own beauty business and bought a house with Mr Fitzgerald, adopting three "beautiful little fur babies".
"She started to make her dream of opening her own beauty store a reality (because) she didn't want to stop working as she didn't want to burden her fiance with debt.
"Unfortunately now, Nardya is losing the battle ...(she) won't be going home."
Ms Douglas-Miller and her sister Ainsley Douglas-Miller started a Go Fund Me to help keep Ms Miller's dreams of not leaving her fiance in debt, alive.
Already more than $15,000 has been raised by more than 400 people in six days, smashing the initial $10,000 target.
"We are overwhelmed by everyone's generosity. I can't thank everyone enough."
Despite only having days to live, Ms Douglas-Miller said Ms Miller is still "witty, humorous and talkative".
"Although we all know what the reality is."
* If you wish to donate, the details are here.
Originally published as Nardya Miller shares important message in her last days alive
Thousands of anti-vaccine protesters and lockdown opponents have descended on Australian city centres during 'freedom' rallies.
Australian officials will not recommend N95 masks as best to protect a wearer from Omicron, despite US advice and Australian studies declaring it to be true.
Getting vaccinated does not impact pregnancy rates but a study shows catching Covid can temporarily make it less likely a couple will conceive.


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