The Princess Ultra model wood stove comes fitted with an ash drawer, making it a good choice for those looking for a stove that is easy to maintain.
The Princess accepts wood up to 16″ in length. With a 6″ flue, this stove is best-suited for small to medium sized properties. This stove also includes a thermostat and offers low burn times up to 20 hours, 82.5% efficiency and emissions as low as 2.42 gr/ hr.


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package com.hangon.map.util;

import android.content.Context;
import android.util.Log;
import android.widget.Toast;

import com.android.volley.Request;
import com.android.volley.Response;
import com.android.volley.VolleyError;
import com.google.gson.Gson;
import com.hangon.bean.map.Datas;
import com.hangon.bean.map.Gastprice;
import com.hangon.bean.map.Price;
import com.hangon.bean.map.Status;
import com.hangon.common.MyApplication;
import com.hangon.common.MyStringRequest;

import org.json.JSONObject;

import java.io.Serializable;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Collections;
import java.util.List;
/**
 * Created by Administrator on 2016/4/23.
 */
public class GasInfoUtil implements Serializable {
    private static final long serialVersionUID = -758459502806858414L;
    /**
     * 当前位置
     */
    private static double locationlatitude;
    private static double locationlongtitude;
    /**
     * 精度
     */
    private double latitude;
    /**
     * 纬度
     */
    private double longitude;
    /**
     * 图片ID,真实项目中可能是图片路径
     */
    private int imgId;
    /**
     * 商家名称
     */
    private String gasname;
    /**
     * 距离
     */
    private String distance;
    /**
     * 运营商类型
     */
    private String brandname;
    /**
     * 加油站价格
     */
    private List<Gastprice> gasprice;
    /**
     * 省控油价
     */
    private List<Price> proventprice;
    /**
     * 加油卡
     */
    private String fwlsmc;

    /**
     * 加油站地址
     */
    private String gasaddress;

    /**
     * 家油站区域
     */
    private String areaname;

    public String getAreaname() {
        return areaname;
    }

    public void setAreaname(String areaname) {
        this.areaname = areaname;
    }

    public String getFwlsmc() {
        return fwlsmc;
    }

    public void setFwlsmc(String fwlsmc) {
        this.fwlsmc = fwlsmc;
    }

    public String getGasname() {
        return gasname;
    }

    public void setGasname(String gasname) {
        this.gasname = gasname;
    }

    public String getBrandname() {
        return brandname;
    }

    public void setBrandname(String brandname) {
        this.brandname = brandname;
    }

    public List<Gastprice> getGasprice() {
        return gasprice;
    }

    public void setGasprice(List<Gastprice> gasprice) {
        this.gasprice = gasprice;
    }

    public List<Price> getProventprice() {
        return proventprice;
    }

    public void setProventprice(List<Price> proventprice) {
        this.proventprice = proventprice;
    }

    public String getGasaddress() {
        return gasaddress;
    }

    public void setGasaddress(String gasaddress) {
        this.gasaddress = gasaddress;
    }

    public GasInfoUtil() {
    }

    public GasInfoUtil(double latitude, double longitude, int imgId, String name,
                String distance, String brandname, String gasaddress, String fwlmsc,
                List<Gastprice> gaslistprice,List<Price> listprice) {
        super();
        this.latitude = latitude;
        this.longitude = longitude;
        this.imgId = imgId;
        this.gasname = name;
        this.distance = distance;
        this.gasaddress = gasaddress;
        this.brandname = brandname;
        this.fwlsmc = fwlmsc;
        this.gasprice=gaslistprice;
        this.proventprice=listprice;
    }

    public double getLatitude() {
        return latitude;
    }

    public void setLatitude(double latitude) {
        this.latitude = latitude;
    }

    public double getLongitude() {
        return longitude;
    }

    public void setLongitude(double longitude) {
        this.longitude = longitude;
    }

    public String getgasName() {
        return gasname;
    }

    public int getImgId() {
        return imgId;
    }

    public void setImgId(int imgId) {
        this.imgId = imgId;
    }

    public void setName(String name) {
        this.gasname = name;
    }

    public String getDistance() {
        return distance;
    }

    public void setDistance(String distance) {
        this.distance = distance;
    }

    public static double getLocationlatitude() {
        return locationlatitude;
    }

    public static void setLocationlatitude(double locationlatitude) {
        GasInfoUtil.locationlatitude = locationlatitude;
    }

    public static double getLocationlongtitude() {
        return locationlongtitude;
    }

    public static void setLocationlongtitude(double locationlongtitude) {
        GasInfoUtil.locationlongtitude = locationlongtitude;
    }

    public static List<Datas> gasinfo = new ArrayList<Datas>();
    public static void VolleyGet(final Context context) {
        try {
            String url = "http://apis.juhe.cn/oil/local?key=3196d37ad7261ff8f9f7d9c9e168a166&lon="
                    + locationlongtitude
                    + "&lat="
                    + locationlatitude
                    + "&format=2&r=3000";

            MyStringRequest request = new MyStringRequest(Request.Method.GET, url,
                    new Response.Listener<String>() {
                        public void onResponse(String response) {
                            if (response == null || response.isEmpty()) {
                                return;
                            } else {
                                JudgeNet judgeNet = new JudgeNet();
                                Log.e("aaa", response);
                                Gson gson = new Gson();
                                Status status = gson.fromJson(response, Status.class);
                                if (status.getResult() != null) {
                                    gasinfo = status.getResult().getData();
                                    Collections.sort(gasinfo);
                                } else if (status.getResult() == null) {
                                    Toast.makeText(context, "抱歉,周围加油站查找失败,请重试!",
                                            Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
                                }
                            }
                        }
                    }, new Response.ErrorListener() {
                @Override
                public void onErrorResponse(VolleyError volleyError) {
                    Toast.makeText(context,"网络或者服务器异常,请重试!",Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
                }
            });
            request.setTag("StringReqGet");
            MyApplication.getHttpQueues().add(request);
            return;
        }catch (Exception e){
            e.printStackTrace();
//            Toast.makeText(context,"网络或者服务器异常,请重试!",Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
        }
    }
    public static List<GasInfoUtil> infos = new ArrayList<GasInfoUtil>();
    public static List<Datas> getGasinfo() {
        return gasinfo;
    }
    public static void setGasinfo(List<Datas> gasinfo) {
        GasInfoUtil.gasinfo = gasinfo;
    }

}

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NFC Business Card – follow up your business!
The cloud and mobile end-user devices make data increasingly accessible, even on the move. Yesterday, data-sharing meant hard copies, or PDFs on CDs or USB sticks – today all you need is a download link. Data transfer by USB stick is certainly no faster, and definitely more complex than with our NFC-Business Card. With the TUOMI NFC-Business Card, you can retain that personal touch with partners and customers.
This is how it works. Simply upload to the cloud the data you wish to make available, then give your customer your NFC Business Card with their own personal download link. You can administer this individual link via teggee, or in our tagsShare secure area. The TUOMI Tag Management System NFC link directs you to the right place. If you want to release a press kit or company report at a specific point in time, you can set this up through the same link. We can also enable detailed reporting tools, so that you can assess how your partners respond to your card-based campaigns. We are happy to provide information on a wide range of options.
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Rumor Has It: In a town this small, a secret is hard to keep
by Jill Mansell
Would you be tempted?
Newly single, Tilly Cole impulsively accepts a job offer in a small town as a "Girl Friday." Fun job, country house, fresh start, why not? But soon she finds herself in a hotbed of gossip, intrigue, and rampant rivalry for the town's most desirable bachelor-Jack ...
Newly single, Tilly Cole impulsively accepts a job offer in a small town as a "Girl Friday." Fun job, country house, fresh start, why not? But soon she finds herself in a hotbed of gossip, intrigue, and rampant rivalry for the town's most desirable bachelor-Jack Lucas.
Rumors of Jack's "love 'em and leave 'em" escapes abound, and Tilly decides to do the mature, sensible thing... avoid Jack at all cost. But the more time Tilly spends with Jack, the more the rumors just don't make sense. Tilly doesn't know what to believe... and Jack's not telling.

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Ithaca police identify man found dead in ditch
by Jeff Stein September 17, 2014 September 17, 2014
Ithaca, N.Y. — The Ithaca Police Department has identified the man found dead in a ditch near Walmart on Tuesday.
Peter Felko, 20, of Cortland, was found submerged in about a foot of water, according to police.
Officer Jamie Williamson said in a news release that Felko resides in Cortland "but also has ties to the Ithaca area."
"The autopsy and toxicology examination have yet to be completed," a statement said. "Police investigators do not believe that foul play is involved.
Ithaca police responded to an access road that leads from Elmira Road to Fairgrounds Memorial Parkway around 8:42 a.m. on Tuesday.
For more, see The Voice's reporting yesterday.


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WILLIAM SODEN ( 1837 - 1917) , OREGON , WISCONSIN
William Soden was born in Butternut , New York in 1837 ,
the son of Thomas and Sophie Emery Soden , of Warwickshire,
England . William moved to Fulton , Wisconsin in 1845, where he
farmed with his father. He enlisted at 25 on 24th July , 1862 as a
2nd Sergeant in company E , 23rd Wisconsin volunteer Infantry in
Oregon , Wisconsin
On 1st April , 1863 he was promoted to First Sergeant. He became
ill during his army service and kept a diary of his experiences.
He fought in .Kentucky , Mississippi , Tennessee, Arkansas , Missouri
and Louisiana. He was eventually taken prisoner after the battle of
the Sabine Cross Roads and released on 17th May , 1865 after 13 months.
He mustered out as a Second Lieutenant on 24th June, 1865.
An interesting little story in Wayne's book about William Soden was
that William while a prisoner had to get out to see a sick relative. Being
a member of his local Masonic lodge, he approached one of the sentries,
whom he suspected of being like he a Freemason, and got his ok to leave
for a few days and visit his family member. The agreement for his punctual
return a few days had to be adhered to. He returned within his time allowance.
It is interesting to note that he was taken prisoner at the Battle of Sabine Pass,
in which the Confederates successfully prevented the Union side from getting Texas.
The Confederate leader at this engagement was Dick Dowling from Tuam in
Co. Galway, Ireland. He owned a few pubs in Houston and at the outbreak of the
Civil War he got command of the Davis Guard which with its proven experience of artillery
sank a number of Union ships and took over 350 prisoners. William Soden was one of them.
William married Harriett Louisa Hayes , and set up his own carriage making shop
at which trade he was qualified. He served as a town clerk from 1888 to 1906 .
He then resettled in Edgeley , North Dakota at the age of seventy , to be near
his two daughters. William died on 31st May , 1917 at 79 years of age as the
result of a stroke. Harriett, or 'Hattie' as she was known , died on 25th August , 1917.
They were married for 51 years.
( Source: Times to Remember by Wayne Salisbury, 1998)
This webpage is copyrighted. © 2023
Felix Soden. All rights reserved.


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Midnight at the Tuscany Hotel »
Midnight at the Tuscany Hotel
Markert, James, 1974-
Thomas Nelson,
Central New Fiction
F MARKE
[2019] Thomas Nelson, 357 pages ; 22 cm. English
A story of the power of memory, Midnight at the Tuscany Hotel explores the mysteries of the mind, the truth behind lore, and the miracle of inspiration.
After thirteen months at war, Vittorio Gandy is haunted by memories, and his former life is unrecognizable. Once a gifted painter, now he can&;t bear the vivid, bleeding colors on a canvas. His young son doesn&;t remember him, and his wife, Valerie, is scared of him. But the most disconcerting change is in Vitto&;s father, Robert Gandy, who has fallen from being a larger-than-life sculptor to a man whose heart has been broken by the death of his muse&;Vitto&;s mother&;and whose mind has been taken by Alzheimer&;s.
When Robert steals away in the night, Valerie, Vitto, and his new acquaintance and fellow veteran John go to the only place Robert might remember&;the now-abandoned Tuscany Hotel, where it was once rumored that creatives of all kinds could find inspiration. When they find him there, Robert&;s mind is sound and his memories are intact.
Before long, word gets out that drinking from the fountain at the hotel can restore the memories of those suffering from Alzheimer&;s and dementia. The rooms once again fill up with guests&;not artists this time, but people seeking control over their memories and lives. Vitto desperately wants to clear his own mind, but as he learns more about his late mother&;s life and her tragic death, he begins to wonder whether drinking the water comes at a price.
Alzheimer's disease -- Fiction
Artists -- Fiction
Dementia -- Fiction
Fountains -- Fiction
Memory -- Fiction
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Run by renowned sculptor Robert Gandy and his wife and muse, Magdalena, the Tuscany Hotel hosted guests of a certain kind—artists, actors, scientists, and engineers who left their worries behind so that they could create their latest masterpieces. Surrounded by lore, the hotel was rumored to free the mind and inspire artists' gifts. But tragic circumstances force Robert and his family to move. After thirteen months at war, Vittorio Gandy is haunted by memories, and his former life is unrecognizable. Once a gifted painter, now he can't bear the vivid, bleeding colors on a canvas. His young son doesn't remember him, and his wife, Valerie, is scared of him. But the most disconcerting change is in Vitto's father, Robert Gandy, who has fallen from being a larger-than-life sculptor to a man whose mind has been taken by Alzheimer's. When Robert steals away in the night, Valerie, Vitto, and his new acquaintance and fellow veteran John go to the only place Robert might remember—the now-abandoned Tuscany Hotel. When they find him there, Robert's mind is sound and his memories are intact. Before long, word gets out that drinking from the fountain at the hotel can restore the memories of those suffering from Alzheimer's and dementia. The rooms once again fill up with guests—not artists this time, but people seeking control over their memories and lives. Vitto desperately wants to clear his own mind, but as he learns more about his mother's life and her tragic death, he begins to wonder whether drinking the water comes at a price. --from Amazon.
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In every turbulent flow with non-zero viscosity, heat is generated by viscous friction. This heat is then mixed by the velocity field. We consider how heat fluctuations generated in this way are injected and distributed over length scales in isotropic turbulence. A triadic closure is derived and numerically integrated. It is shown how the heat fluctuation spectrum depends on the Reynolds and Prandtl numbers.


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Q: Set up for SSH connection from a public server to private server- EC2? I have an EC2 Linux server which has public IP in subnet a, besides I've made another EC2 server in subnet b, which has a private IP. Both servers are in the same VPC. I want to ssh to the private server from the public server. The SSH port is open on the security group setup of the servers. But I got permission denied (Public IP)
[ec2-user@ip-10-0-10-62 ~]$ ssh ec2-user@10.0.20.71
The authenticity of host '10.0.20.71 (10.0.20.71)' can't be established.
RSA key fingerprint is 11:19:79:39:a3:04:d2:23:5e:af:9e:c6:98:9c:7b:bd.
Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no)? yes
Warning: Permanently added '10.0.20.71' (RSA) to the list of known hosts.
Permission denied (publickey).

I believe, I need to add the public key of private-server into public-server somehow. But I don't know the proper way for it and if I'm missing some other setup.
I've googled but couldn't find a straight way to fix this.
Updated:
If I use add agent, then only from my pc I can ssh to the private server and if there would be more users that need to ssh to the private server, all needs to do agent forwarding so I'm not sure if that's the best way for this case. What if I use key when I want to connect to public server, then ssh to private server without using key. Like:
ssh ec2-user@10.0.20.71

One Ans: default key location can be used. (Identity File)
Setting the default ssh key location

A: You should have assigned a public key to the second instance. You should have also downloaded that public key when you created it. You'll need to upload that public key file to the first instance, using SFTP or SCP. Then you'll need to specify the path to that public key file using the -i option of the ssh command.

A: Since you launched each one with its own keypair, you will have to use each server's respective keypair to ssh onto it.  So, there are 2 ways to log onto 10.0.20.71.  1) You could put a copy of the private key used to launch it onto the public server and would then use it to auth to the private server - e.g.
[ec2-user@ip-10-0-10-62 ~]$ ssh -i you_private_key.pem ec2-user@10.0.20.71

An arguably more secure solution would be to use ssh agent forwarding.  With this solution you are not storing private keys on servers.  On your computer you should have the 2 keys you used to create the 2 EC2 instances.  You can add both of these to the ssh agent with the command
$ ssh-add /path/to/key

Once in the agent you can log onto the public server with agent forwarding:
 ssh -A ec2-user@<public ip address of public server>

Then ssh to the private server without a key (agent forwards the key from your computer)
ssh ec2-user@10.0.20.71

A: The instance from which you want to connect is as good as the machine that you're using to connect. So Assuming that you have an instance A and an instance B, and if you want to connect from A -> B then it is as good as connecting from your machine to B
To achieve this, you have to do the same that you did to connect to machine B, download the pem file of B onto machine A (in this case, you will have to upload the pem file to machine A by using scp command)
Post this, you should be able to ssh correctly. Again, I would like to know the usecase for ssh, since there are many other options to share data between servers with the help of samba, sftp, etc.
You can check this link on how to scp: scp (secure copy) to ec2 instance without password
Cheers!

A: Assume keypair2.pem is the private key of your private server (10.0.20.71) (if you used AWS dashboard/CLI/SDK to create a keypair, the private key is returned)
From public server:
ssh -i keypair2.pem ec2-user@10.0.20.71

If the private server is a Ubuntu machine:
ssh -i keypair2.pem ubuntu@10.0.20.71

If you still have issues, post the output of:
ssh -v -i keypair2.pem ec2-user@10.0.20.71

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'Next negotiation will be for Bake Off': Tory MPs suggest PM's days are numbered
Even supporters only trying to get her past 28 May, to serve longer than Gordon Brown
Rowena Mason
Sun 10 Mar 2019 12.30 EDT Last modified on Wed 10 Jul 2019 05.38 EDT
There cannot be another no-confidence motion in Theresa May until December. Photograph: Pool/Reuters
Cabinet ministers have been having haircuts, holding drinks parties for their backbench colleagues and hitting the airwaves to opine on Theresa May's Brexit deal.
She is still prime minister with crucial negotiations with the European Union underway but many of her Conservative colleagues are behaving as though it is only a matter of time before the removal men turn up at Downing Street.
"Give it a few months and the only negotiations Theresa will be doing are how much she can get for an appearance on Celebrity Bake Off," says one Conservative MP.
Nicky Morgan, the former cabinet minister sacked by May in 2016, was one of the first publicly to suggest the prime minister's days in No 10 were numbered. She suggested the cabinet could ultimately be forced to get rid of her if her deal is voted down and parliament cannot agree on an alternative.
A new prime minister could then conduct a "reset" of the UK's policy either by starting again with negotiations or trying to achieve a standstill agreement with the EU before departing on no-deal terms.
What happens if May's Brexit deal is voted down? And if it passes?
Even if May's deal is voted through, there is an appetite among senior leave supporters for her to go after the May local elections, allowing a Brexit-supporting prime minister to negotiate the future relationship with the EU.
There cannot be a no-confidence motion again in the prime minister until December, after she won the last attempt by Tory MPs to oust her. But one Conservative MP said he believed the hardline Eurosceptics in the Tories and DUP would simply make it impossible for her to govern, thereby forcing her to resign.
He said the prime minister had made the fatal mistake of "feeding buns to the crocodiles" in the European Research Group – and they were going to eat her alive.
Even some of May's supporters are now only trying to get her over the line of "Gordon Brown Day" – 28 May – the point at which she will have served for prime minister longer than her Labour predecessor. Tory moderates may want to keep May in position to hold off a Eurosceptic leader as long as possible but they may not be able to prevent her government from crumbling. If things get really bad, a delegation of Tory grandees – the men in grey suits – could have to deliver the message to the prime minister that she does not have the power over her party to govern effectively.
With that in mind, cabinet ministers, junior ministers, former ministers and rank and file Tory MPs are feverishly considering their options when it comes to throwing their hat into the ring for a potential leadership bid.
Tory leadership contenders
His style is notably technocratic, with few rhetorical flourishes and an emphasis on his consensual approach and long record as a minister, notably during more than five years as health secretary, a traditional graveyard of ministerial careers. Hunt's attempts to talk up a backstory as an 'underestimated' entrepreneur can fall flat given he is also the son of an admiral and was head boy at Charterhouse.
Overall, Hunt's approach can seem uninspiring and hard to pin down in terms of core beliefs, hence the 'Theresa in trousers' nickname among some Tory MPs – one that is more catchy than accurate (since May herself often wears trousers).
In the final round of MP voting Hunt edged out Michael Gove, 77 votes to 75.
Johnson's progress to Downing Street appeared unstoppable even before an overwhelming victory in the first round of voting among MPs. Most of his colleagues believe it is now all but inevitable that he will be Britain's next prime minister.
His well-disciplined campaign team will continue with their strategy of subjecting him to minimal media exposure, though once the field is narrowed down to two, the final pair will appear in more than a dozen head-to-head hustings for Tory members. The team's main aim is simply to keep heads down and avoid Johnson creating headlines for the wrong reasons. It may not have worked.
Johnson came first in the final round of MP voting with 160 votes.
The frontrunners are considered to be Boris Johnson backed by Jacob Rees-Mogg, Jeremy Hunt, Sajid Javid and Dominic Raab. But Michael Gove could have another go, Liz Truss has undoubted ambitions, Andrea Leadsom has been mulling another attempt, David Davis still has not given up hope, Matthew Hancock is being "urged to stand" by colleagues, Esther McVey and Priti Patel are favoured by some hardline Eurosceptics, and Gavin Williamson has shown signs of gearing up for a shot at the top. Would Liam Fox even try again for consistency's sake after failing in the last two contests?
That is not to mention the new generation of Conservative MPs who believe the party would be better off in a fresh pair of hands untainted by the record of the coalition era: James Cleverly, Tom Tugendhat and Johnny Mercer are all said to fancy their chances.
May quitting will not get Brexit deal through, say Eurosceptics
A pro-EU candidate would be unlikely to gain much traction but that has not stopped speculation about MPs promoting a second referendum such as Justine Greening and Phillip Lee testing the water. Amber Rudd, the work and pensions secretary, has also been touted as a frontrunner but recent surveys has shown her deeply unpopular with Tory members after her involvement in trying to get a no-deal Brexit off the table.
One Tory adviser, considering the multiplicity of possible candidates, reckoned it was actually harder to find Conservative MPs who did not see themselves as future prime minister. "Perhaps Chris Grayling," was all he could come up with.
One lesser-known cabinet minister was joking last week about his colleagues all "posturing" in cabinet with interventions designed to help their leadership ambitions that would later be briefed to the media. Would he himself consider running? He turned more serious: "If asked, I would serve."
With such an open field, it would be up to Conservative MPs to whittle down the list to two candidates, with that choice then put to the party's extremely Eurosceptic membership. Quite a few Tory MPs are therefore already strategising how to keep Johnson off the ballot paper given his popularity with the members and probable backing by the selectorate's darling Rees-Mogg, who has long been on a rubber chicken circuit of wooing party activists at fundraisers and dinners.
Johnson and Rees-Mogg have been plotting the leadership run for some time, including holding soirees for Tory MPs. Other candidates, such as Raab, have also got fairly well advanced but under-the-radar campaigns complete with advisors from the former Vote Leave operation, but his star is nowhere near as high with members as Johnson and Rees-Mogg.
As an alternative "Stop Boris" candidate, Javid, the home secretary, has made a series of interventions that appear designed to appeal to a rightwing selectorate – including the decision to pursue an attempt to strip British citizenship from Shamima Begum, the east London teenager who went to Syria to join Islamic State. Hunt has also been veering rightwards at times, comparing the EU to Soviet Russia, but at other times not endearing himself to hardline Eurosceptics by warning that a failure to back May's deal risks no Brexit.
And when it comes to it, many Brexit-supporting Tory MPs and members are likely to be wary of backing another candidate – Hunt or Javid – who like May voted to remain at the referendum.
Johnson himself has been fairly low-profile during May's struggles to get her deal approved by Eurosceptics, with others leading the charge against it in the media. But one Tory MP says Johnson is no doubt remembering the Conservative party maxim that "he who wields the knife rarely wears the crown".
One former Tory minister said: "I would prefer to back Matt [Hancock] but if he doesn't run I would probably go for Boris. Conservative MPs will back whoever they think can win an election and return the country to a positive mood around Brexit. At this point, much as I dislike him, they think the only hope we've got is Boris."


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J&J has struck a deal with Chinese biotech company Genscript, giving it entry to the global market for CAR-T therapies.
Despite success in haemato-oncology with drugs such as Imbruvica and Darzalex, Janssen has been conspicuously lagging behind in CAR-T and the wider cell and gene therapy field.
Its new alliance with Genscript and its US and European subsidiary Legend Biotech should help remedy this – but the deal hasn't come a moment too soon, as competition in this field is intensifying daily.
Genscript's (CAR) T-cell drug candidate is LCAR-B38M, which targets the B-cell maturation antigen (BCMA) to treat multiple myeloma.
This is the next frontier in the CAR-T field, following the breakthrough approval of the CD19-targeting CAR-Ts, Novartis's Kymriah and Gilead/Kite's Yescarta this year in lymphoma.
Legend Biotech's LCAR-B28M has shown some of the most promising results among a host of CAR-T candidates for multiple myeloma.
Data presented at this year's ASCO conference showed that among 35 relapsed, drug-resistant patients, 33 – 94% of patients – demonstrated clinical remission ranging from a complete to a partial response.
There was a 100% objective response rate, according to investigators, as well as signs of a durable response. This stunned commentators, as the Chinese company's work had been little known of before.
However there is plenty of competition: GSK's GSK2857916 has a FDA Breakthrough Therapy Designation status in this setting, and encouraging data was presented at the recent ASH conference.
Bluebird Bio and Celgene, Novartis, and Autolous also studying this class in multiple myeloma, making it a very crowded field.
J&J's pharma division Janssen is to pay a $350million upfront payment to kickstart the alliance, but will pay much more in undisclosed if and when this and subsequent CAR-T candidates reaches the market.
Janssen will record worldwide net trade sales, except for sales made in Greater China. The companies have entered into a 50/50 cost-sharing/profit-split arrangement, except in China, where Janssen and Legend have a 30/70 cost-sharing/profit-split arrangement.
Janssen will make an upfront payment of $350 million that will be recorded in Q4 and additional payments based on development, regulatory and sales milestones.
LCAR-B38M has already been accepted for review by the China Food and Drug Administration (CFDA), putting it in pole position for approval in the world's most populous country, and a pharma market of growing importance.
The cell therapy is also in planning phase of clinical studies in the United States for multiple myeloma.
"Despite significant advances, multiple myeloma remains an incurable disease for most patients, creating the need for additional, highly active options. LCAR-B38M provides an innovative approach with the potential to transform the treatment of myeloma," said Peter Lebowitz, global therapeutic area head, oncology, Janssen Research & Development.
Another emerging frontier is the use of CAR-Ts against solid tumours, and to this end, Gilead has just acquired again in the field, buying Cell Design Labs for up to $567 million.


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EMAIL PAGE TWO
EMAIL FROM IRAN ASKING THE EMAIL ADDRESS OF THE CENTRAL IGNORANCE AGENCY
Subject: awareness
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2002 04:11:22 -0800 (PST)
From: didi nadidi <chici1212@yahoo.com>
NOTICE NOTICE NOTICE
THIS IS AN EMAIL FROM IRAN I KINDLY REQUEST YOU TO GIVE ME SOME EMAIL ADDRESSES OF CIA (INTELIGENCE SERVICE OF AMERICA IN ORDER TO DELIVER SOME IMMPORTANT NEW ABOUT IRAN ##
(We replied that we had no way of knowing the CIA's email address)
SECOND REQUEST FROM DIDI NADIDI
With many thanks for your responce,can you do me a faver please try and find an email of CIA center or give my email to one of them its my reguest from a freind and i want to deliver some secret and very immportant news to them ,please do it and try please. thank you for your prompt action on the above.
best regards, ##
(At this point, we forwarded both of Didi Nadidi's emails to The New York Times and have received no further word about the matter,)
I LIVE IN ELIZABETH, N.J., WHERE THE RENT IS CHEAPER AND WHERE LIFE IS AS BEARABLE AS IT CAN BE
Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2002 20:49:36 -0500
From: "Trace Richardson" <tracedef@nyc.rr.com>
To: <info@blacklistedjournalist.com>
So do you live in NYC? How's life these days? I've enjoyed your writings.
Trace.
IS THIS GUY WANKING OR WHAT?
Subject: I DEMAND !
Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2002 12:34:56 -0500 (EST)
From: robertlavelle@cs.net
To: robertlavelle@cs.net
I demand total and perfect happiness for every man woman and child, Forever and ever and ever and ever.
To achieve that I need everyone to understand that space ends, space does not go on forever, it ends.
The big difference between space ending or not ending is if space does not end then space does not have a shape but once you understand that space ends then space can take a shape and that shape can move.
Then I need to talk to everyone three times half hour each time at the end of the third half hour the rapture shall occur and everyone shall be taken to heaven.
Robert Lavelle ##
THE ENRON SCANDAL
Subject: For your attention
Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2002 12:00:04 퍍 (UTC)
From: hill_a99@yahoo.co.uk
Andrew spotted this on the Guardian Unlimited Observer site and thought you should see it.
Note from Andrew:
Thought you may like to see this in case there hadn't been adequate reporting of this issue by US newspapers. Hopefully the twine is beginning to unravel, eh?
To see this story with its related links on the Guardian Unlimited Observer site, go to http://www.observer.co.uk
Price of power
He has won the Afghan war, but President Bush's peace is threatened by the Enron scandal.
Ed Vulliamy reveals how far the White House is entwined in the biggest bankruptcy in US history
The Bush files - Observer special
Ed Vulliamy
Saturday January 12 2002
As he approaches the first anniversary of his inauguration, George W Bush is under siege. He has won the war in Afghanistan, but finds himself engaged in a new battle against a scandal that is threatening to dog his administration and tarnish his reputation.
Bush and his administration have been revealed as entwined in a story of corporate greed and political manipulation by an energy firm called Enron, now under double criminal investigation.
The scandal---in which the life savings and retirement funds of tens of thousands of employees vanished while a number of executive directors lined their pockets - reaches so high that John Ashcroft, the Attorney-General, has had to withdraw from the investigation because he received Enron money, and lawsuits are the pipeline to force Vice-President Dick Cheney for details of his contacts with the company.
The day Bush took office---a year ago next Saturday---was as cold and comfortless as his victory; his motorcade braved driving rain and a gauntlet of demonstrations marking the most contested and ugliest election result in US history. After 11 September, the world changed and so did America's view of Bush. He became the only President since Franklin Roosevelt to maintain the support of over 80 per cent of Americans for weeks on end.
But now the White House is laid bare by what rivals call 'Enronomics'---the political fable of the Enron corporation.
It has long been reported how the Bush administration and family is beholden to the energy industry. Before the Afghan war, an 'Energy Task Force' favourable to the industry was the main concern for Cheney, who himself came to office from the biggest oil equipment firm in the world.
Enron was just the kind of scandal a war would hide. The company plunged from a stock rating worth $60 billion---seventh on the Fortune list of US companies--- into the biggest bankruptcy filing in US history, registered on 2 December.
The ethical---maybe criminal---core of the scandal is that Enron trapped its employees into a 'stock-lock', whereby they were not allowed to sell share options bought by way of savings. When the company collapsed, they lost everything. Meanwhile, Enron's executives---blessed by inside information and foresight---made a killing by scrambling to sell shares before the price collapsed.
The victims of Enron's rise and fall were regular employees who opted to join a savings plan by investing in their employer---and why not? With soaring energy prices and giddy profits, the share value quadrupled between 1997 and January last year. The catch was they were not allowed to sell.
They were people like Pat Betteridge, of the subsidiary Portland General Electric company in Oregon, who remembers grand claims by Enron chief executive Kenneth Lay on a visit north: 'We like to think of ourselves,' he bragged, 'as the Microsoft of the energy world.'
Betteridge used his $300,000 retirement savings to buy 3,500 shares---now worth not a cent. 'If I was hired to do electrical work and I botched it as bad as them,' he says, 'I'd either be doing time or get my licence yanked.'
The beneficiaries of the company's surge to power were those who boarded the wheel of perpetual motion that binds the Bush administration to the energy industry. Then the company's brass even tried to make their fortune out of its fall as well.
The Observer has dug into Enron's past to find that intimate connections with Bush and his Texan Republicans started long before the campaigns that brought them to Washington
Enron is a Houston-based utility trading company that sells energy to consumers, industrial and domestic. It is one of the biggest of its kind in the world---a standing it owes in no small part to Bush's governorship in Texas.
Texas's 1992 Energy Policy Act opened a regulatory black hole into which Enron moved and thrived, forcing established utility companies to buy energy from it. Meanwhile, in Washington, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, under the presidency of Bush's father, allowed for an exemption in trading energy subsidiaries. The practice would be Enron's downfall.
The 1992 trading commission was chaired by Wendy Gramm, wife of Texas Senator Phil Gramm, close friend of the Bush family and recipient of $97,350 in political donations from Enron.
Once the exemption was accomplished, Mrs Gramm resigned to join the Enron board. As a member of its current audit committee, she is expected to play a key role in the forthcoming lawsuits and criminal investigation into bankruptcy and document destruction.
In 1997, Enron was anxious to break into Pennsylvania, one of America's biggest energy markets, with its huge consumers in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh. The company was having difficulty, and Lay asked Bush (who liked to call him 'Kenny boy') tohelp.
Bush duly called the then state governor, Tom Ridge, to pitch for Enron, whose bid duly succeeded. 'I called George W to kind of tell him what was going on,' said Lay at the time, 'and I said it would be very helpful to Enron if he could just call the governor and tell him Enron is a serious company'. Ridge was made Secretary of Homeland Security---Bush's new White House office---after 11 September.
Lay and Enron have been bountiful contributors to George Bush Jnr. Since 1993, company executives have donated nearly $2 million to him personally. Lay also donated $326,000 in soft money to the Republican Party over the three years prior to Bush's presidential bid and his wife added $100,000 for the inauguration festivities.
The administration is splattered with senior officials owning stock in Enron. Economic adviser Larry Lindsay and Trade Representative Robert Zoellick went straight from Enron's payroll into office.
The biggest holding is that of Army Secretary Thomas White, who as a former Enron executive holds stock and options totalling $50m to $100m. Rove himself holds as much as $250,000 in stock, and other holders include Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, his assistant William Winkenwerder, Assistant Treasury Secretary Mark Weinberger, Economic Undersecretary Kathleen Cooper, Education Undersecretary Eugene Hickock, the ambassadors to Russia, Ireland, the Emirates and officials in the energy department, including its chief financial officer Bruce Carnes. It is not known which---if any---of these privileged stockholders sold their shares along with the Enron bosses, or suffered the same loss as everyone else. Such details will appear when they make this year's filings--- leaving any that did so open to ethical, if not criminal, inquiry.
Bush has pursued the aggressive deregulation policies preferred by Enron and its kind, including legislation that exempts key elements of Enron's energy business from oversight by the federal government---pushed by none other than Senator Phil Gramm.
Lay's hand can meanwhile be found behind such episodes as the sudden replacement of Curtis Hebert as chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission by Texan Pat Wood, a friend of Lay. According to one source, the sacking after only weeks in the job came after 'an unsettling telephone conversation with Kenneth Lay' in which he was 'prodded to back a faster pace in opening up access to the electricity transmission grid'.
For all its troubles, Enron continued to benefit from Bush policies---markedly a refusal to step in and help California during the energy crisis last year, leaving consumers to pay the price... to Enron.
Enron was so close to the bosom of the administration that Lay and other executives were called to the White House for six meetings with Cheney and his staff---the last one only a week before the company made the staggering announcement that it was slashing shareholder equity by $1.2bn.
For Enron was playing a double game. In the run-up to the announcement, its president, Greg Whalley, was frantically lobbying another wing of the administration for help in arranging loans. His point man was Undersecretary Peter Fisher.
Lay discussed the upcoming bankruptcy twice with Commerce Secretary Don Evans--- one of the Texan 'Iron Triangle' that propelled Bush to power. Later, he also twice pleaded Enron's case to Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill.
But the Republicans were not the only political heavyweights to benefit from Enron's greed. The company has made donations to many Democrats too---ome 27 per cent of its political contributions, according to the Centre for Responsive Politics in Washington.
And among Enron's top point men in Washington during the bankruptcy saga was Clinton's former Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin, who was revealed by the Washington Post yesterday as having made a representation last November to the current Treasury on behalf of the company. Rubin is now chairman of the executive committee of the Citigroup bank, one of Enron's principal backers, trying, with the JP Morgan bank, to raise $1.5bn in an effort to see the company through the bankruptcy crisis.
These are matters for the six Congressional committees preparing to investigate Enron. But they will have to wait for the two criminal investigations launched this week: one into Enron's bankruptcy, the other into the admission by the company's auditor, Arthur Andersen, that it destroyed thousands of documents about the bankruptcy.
Andersen had good reason to destroy the papers. The reasons for Enron's destruction when all the winds seemed to blow behind the company's fortunes are associated with the labyrinth of subsidiaries built up by Chief Finance Officer Andrew Fastow, fired on 24 October, and other executives.
Fastow created partnerships with what were described as outside, independently--companies with names such as 'Chewco' or 'Jedi'---after characters in Star Wars ---that were owned by him or others with Enron backing.
As a result, hundreds of millions of dollars were slushing overseas to tax havens as Fastow and other executives---so they said---sought to shore up the company against a possible fall in energy prices. What they were allegedly doing was amassing personal fortunes.
The ensuing gaps in the balance sheet became a gaping abyss which could not be hidden and down which the company finally fell. Enron admitted that it had overstated profits by $400m in reports issued since. However, Chewco alone enabled Enron to be able to keep some $600m of debt off its books.
The crucial criminal issue is whether executives misled investors by inflating revenues and minimising debts. The political issue is how closely entwined is the Washington elite - and the immediate circle around Bush.
Seven months of Bush's oil-friendly presidency was driven out of the spotlight by 11 September. It had pleased the industry for its isolationism and determination to withdraw from world affairs - the Kyoto Accords on global warming or arms reduction with Russia.
Domestically, Bush's cause was an articulate one: a tax cut worth $1.3 trillion, of which nine-tenths went to the 1 per cent of wealthiest Americans, and ambitions to drill for oil across the Alaskan wilderness and deregulate controls over the oil and energy industries.
By the afternoon of 11 September, Bush had become the vanishing president during his people's hour of need, cowering underground beneath an Air Force base in remote Nebraska. But by the end of that week, Americans saw in Bush not a spoiled brat, but the man they wanted to lead the nation to war.
Now the Enron scandal brings the presidency home, with Bush as Winston Churchill preparing for the 1945 election in Britain. The would-be Clement Attlee is Tom Daschle, leader of the Senate Democrats, who last week left the unity of war behind to unleash his congressional campaign for November 2002 with an offensive over welfare, tax policy, health care, energy and the environment.
The elections are critical to Bush and the Republicans: no US president apart from Nixon and Reagan has not lost ground at the mid-term polls, and the Democrats, even without making substantial gains, can keep control of the Senate while taking over the House and state governorships.
For the State of the Union address Bush will give on the twenty-ninth of this month, White House staff are scrambling to entwine the war in Afghanistan with the continuing domestic agenda. But the minefield they must cross is named Enron.
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3,000 Primary, Secondary School Teachers Recruited in the Last One Year - Adefisayo
The Honourable Commissioner for Education in Lagos State, Mrs. Folasade Adefisayo has disclosed that a total of 3,000 Primary and Secondary School teachers were recently absorbed into the teaching workforce of Lagos State in a bid to boost capacity and provide quality education for the pupils.
Speaking on Tuesday at a Ministerial Press Briefing organised to mark the first anniversary of Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu in office, the Commissioner noted that the Education Sector, which forms part of the Third Pillar of the T.H.E.M.E.S agenda of the present administration, has witnessed tremendous improvements due to high premium on the quality of teaching and learning in all schools in the State.
According to her, several workshops and training programmes were organised for teachers drawn from the various Education Districts, including the Special Needs Education Division, as improved capacity and welfare of schools' personnel remain paramount to the present dispensation.
Adefisayo, while highlighting the activities and achievements of the State Government, pointed out that the Ministry is focused on the socio-economic development of an emerging economy that encourages responsible citizenship, development of human capacity and crucial support for transition into a knowledge-based economy.
She revealed that the Lagos State Government's plans for Education are being executed along key strategic areas under the Babajide Olusola Sanwo-Olu (BOS) Education Transformation Plan 2020 with many initiatives and intervention projects.
The Commissioner informed that the Ministry had embarked on the construction and upgrade of Public School infrastructure across the State with the completion of six blocks of 92 classrooms in primary schools and three blocks of 54 classrooms in secondary schools to ease classroom congestion while ensuring capacity development and welfare of students.
While noting that the State Government under the Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC) and State Universal Basic Education (SUBEB) intervention projects also commenced the delivery of 10,164 furniture and 60,000 chairs and tables to public schools Statewide, Adefisayo stated that Governor Sanwo-Olu has approved the establishment of well-equipped standard science laboratories in 11 Senior Secondary Schools and five Government Technical Colleges, including the repair and rehabilitation of 60 selected schools in Lagos.
She further hinted that in its first year the present administration, through the Ministry of Education, has instituted better school governance, administration and improved quality of primary education with the launch of the EKO-EXCEL (Excellence in Child Education) programme which aims at transforming teaching and learning in all State Primary schools with the training of 4,400 teachers and social officers in January 2020.
In her words: "The Eko Excel initiative is already operational in 300 public primary schools in the State. The State government also provided two new buses, laptops, photocopying machines to Basic Education Quality Assurance Officers for monitoring of Primary Schools".
"We have improved the capacity and welfare of students, our pupils have continued to emerge tops at several competitions nationally and internationally by clinching medals and trophies for the State at the JETS Competition, World Robot Olympiad held at EDUTUS University Gyor, Hungary, and the Chinese Bridge Proficiency Competition to mention a few", she stressed.
She observed that with COVID-19 pandemic, the Ministry has ensured that the students remain engaged by organising electronic learning and teaching platforms through Radio, Television and the Internet, adding that a total of 135,445 pupils are being fed one meal per day in 976 schools across Lagos, through the ongoing Home Grown School Feeding Programme.
Adefisayo also declared that the administration has invested so much in technology as a learning aid while setting up a team of Technology Professionals to support its teaching workforce, stressing that the Ministry has reviewed the Nigerian Curriculum and integrated it with the 21st Century skills while the year 2020 major Book Review is ongoing.
She, however, reiterated that the Ministry organised the Y2020 Public-Private Partnership (PPP) dialogue, a strategic initiative aimed at partnering with stakeholders, Public, Private and Non-Governmental Organisations that are passionate about improving the quality of education in the State.
The Commissioner expressed the readiness of the State Government to ensure the revitalisation of the education sector towards making it more effective and efficient for the attainment of self-reliance and socio-economic development towards a Greater Lagos.
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Infovista announces research collaboration with BT
Infovista collaborates with BT to explore Network Functions Virtualization (NFV)
PARIS, France and HERNDON, Virginia – July 3rd, 2014 – InfoVista, the global leader of network performance orchestration software solutions, today announced a research collaboration with BT to examine Network Functions Virtualization (NFV).
BT's internationally recognized Adastral Park campus collaborates with counterparts from InfoVista to examine the potential of the company's Ipanema virtual ip|engines. The objective is to demonstrate the ability of Ipanema, InfoVista's Application Performance Guarantee solution' to provide virtualized WAN optimization and application performance functionality, removing the need for distributed network devices.
The initial focus of the research has been on key areas of application performance management such as: connectivity, Quality of Service (QoS), acceleration, and reporting. Dr Tim Whitley, MD of Research & Innovation for BT said: "NFV has real potential as a technology, which is why we have a wider program in place to determine exactly which network functions can be virtualized. Effectively managing and controlling application performance remains absolutely critical to BT's enterprise customers, so we welcome the opportunity to explore the future uses of Ipanema's virtual ip|engines from InfoVista."
InfoVista commented: "We appreciate that the nature of networks and the methods of computing are changing rapidly. Virtualizing our technology has the potential to deliver numerous benefits to our customers, including: reduced expense, quicker deployment, reduced power consumption, hardware independence, and even greater scalability. We are delighted to be working with BT on this research project."
BT and InfoVista have an existing commercial relationship that sees Ipanema's ip|engine devices deployed in BT customer branch and data center locations. This managed service, branded BT Connect Optimisation, underpins BT Global Services' Application Performance Management service offer. By working closely together, the two companies enable BT's enterprise customers to guarantee the performance of their critical IT applications (such as ERP, CRM and Unified Communications applications). Ultimately this approach ensures applications perform as needed, which significantly improves business productivity and the end-user experience.
About BT: www.btplc.com.
BT is one of the world's leading providers of communications services and solutions, serving customers in more than 170 countries. Its principal activities include the provision of networked IT services globally; local, national and international telecommunications services to its customers for use at home, at work and on the move; broadband, TV and internet products and services; and converged fixed/mobile products and services. BT consists principally of five lines of business: BT Global Services, BT Business, BT Consumer, BT Wholesale and Openreach.


After his team lost at the 2017 Mid-Season Brawl, Jung Hyuk "Sake" Lee decided against taking a taxi back to their hotel in downtown Jönköping. He'd done the same thing in 2016 when his team fell at the DreamHack Summer event. On both occasions, he hiked the winding two-and-a-half-mile trail along the southernmost point of Vättern Lake. He'd used the hour walk to clear his head and breathe in one last look at the windswept Swedish countryside.
Not this year. After the 2018 event in Sweden, Sake rode the bus with the rest of Gen.G, Mid-Season Brawl trophy in tow.
Gen.G have completed the Heroes Hat Trick, winning the HGC Finals (as MVP Black), the Gold Club World Championship (as KSV Black), and the Mid-Season Brawl in succession. The latest victory looked like it might have been an easy win at first, as the team steamrolled the group stage and playoff bracket in Sweden, taking a clean 16 games in a row before meeting Team Dignitas in the grand final.
Team Dignitas showed up to play, knocking Gen.G back on their heels time and time again until a heads up call in the final Battleground secured Sake and team their first Mid-Season Brawl win.
"This was the hardest day of my career," Sake said to the surprise of no one at the post-event press conference. Before dropping the first map in the grand final, his team had been on an absurd 38-0 win streak since losing out to Ballistix at the Eastern Clash in March. A final score of 4-3 was a result no one, including Sake, had expected.