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Coco, the 12-year-old poodle, recovers after the attack. (Credit: Alison Cyphers)

A Swansea family watched its 12-year old poodle get attacked by a coyote over the weekend in the front yard. Coco was outside going to the bathroom at 10:15 p.m. when Alison Cyphers heard a shriek.

“I run out there and the coyote has him in his house,” she said.

At first Cyphers thought it was a wolf because the coyote was so big. She scared off the animal and took her dog to the veterinarian where he received stitches and tubing inside of him.

“Come to find out there have been coyotes running around in the neighborhood. I didn’t know that,” Cyphers said.

The Illinois Department of Natural Resources didn’t have any other specific reports of coyote attacks in the Swansea area, but does say this is common this time of year. Coyotes have less food available during the winter and see small pets as food or as a threat to their food.

Cyphers says she learned a valuable lesson, something she wants to relay to anyone with a small pet.

“Hopefully if you have a small pet you keep them on a leash,” she said. “Even if it’s 10:30 at night, three in the morning. Put them on a leash.”

The Illinois DNR also says on its website coyotes are rarely a threat to attack humans but they will kill livestock, poultry and domestic pets. They also will populate all sorts of places, including urban and suburban areas.

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Red Tree Sponge, Ptilocaulis sp, are a fairly common sponge from Florida and the Caribbean characterized by their bright red and orange color and tree like shape.  We collect two main species, on of which has rough sides and is found along the reef line, and one that has smooth sides and is found inshore and in the Gulf of Mexico. They inhabit primarily deeper water, and dont seem to occur in water shallower than about 20.   Most of the nano ones we sell are the smooth skinned ones from inshore and the Gulf of Mexico,

Sponges are filter feeders, primarily feeding on bacteria and dissolved organics, so they can be a little challenging to keep in some reef tanks.  If not fed regularly with some sort of planktonic food, the will slowly starve to death in most reef tanks, so be prepared to feed them on a regular basis.  Most sponges will have a small amount of substrate attached to their bases which can be superglued or epoxied to a rock so they will stay put in your aquarium.  You can also wedge the sponge into a crack in the rockwork of your tank, but I would not recommend planting them in the sand because the base may end up dying.  Contrary to everything youll read about sponges, these sponges can be safely removed from the water and exposed to air for brief periods of time without any lasting damages.  Weve handled thousands of these sponges over the last 30 years and most have been exposed to the air for brief periods of time without any problems, so dont make a huge deal about not letting the sponge touch the air while you move it from tank to tank or while you mount it on a rock.

The target size for the tree sponges we ship is about >4 to 7 inches tall and it will have several branches.  The sponges are wrapped in paper towels and submerged in water for shipping and they generally ship real well and will do well in your tank.

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  1. Rated 5 out of 5

    Nice, as always larger than paid for!

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    I wanted to wait to review this sponge. I’ve tried keeping sponges before that I purchased elsewhere & initially they looked good but didn’t do well. I’m happy to say that after after more than a month in my tank this sponge is doing very well! When I first put it in it must have been getting too much light because it started to turn white in spots. So I moved it to an area under a ledge & it colored right back up! It’s gorgeous!

  3. Rated 5 out of 5

    Elwood R (verified owner)

    Beautiful specimen for both size and color. Adds a punch of deep red to my aquarium–thanks KP Aquatics!

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    jvcasuso (verified owner)

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    Richard Andres

    This sponge is HUGE. You will not find a nicer sponge for this price. The one I got was the size of my hand including my finger with an additional 3” stalk at the bottom. HUGE. I hope it holds up as well as the other sponges I have received in the past.

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    Cindy E Dailey

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    Great condition, beautiful color …after a month this sponge is still in great health

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    Lori Walton

    This is the best sponge for color and the size…you guys ROCK!!! Love it I want more!

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    Jessie Bohnenkamp

    Wow- just got mine in…this is amazing and so… red/orange! Just like a crayon! I was surprised that it was so big. VERY pleased.

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    Great bright red addition and looks very nice. If color is needed, this is it.

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    Denise Whatley

    If you need COLOR, you can’t beat the size, shape and distinct orange of this sponge. Before adding the tree sponge, my flame scallop (purchased almost 1 year ago from Sea Life) was almost hidden in his cave. The orange of the sponge helps to bring out the bright color in the scallop so that he is now more visible.

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Protecting your family is about doing more than making sure your kids are wearing a helmet whenever they go out bike riding. It’s about doing more than ensuring that your other half gets home safe after a night out with their friends. To truly protect your family, you have to make sure that they are covered financially and that they never have to face money problems. To see what needs to be done to protect your family financially, read on.

Get insured

The first thing you need to do to protect your family, regardless of whether you or your family are still relatively young or not, is to get yourself covered with insurances. By getting your life insured, no matter what happens to you in the future, your family will be covered financially.

By performing this all-important task, you will protect your family from having to pay off your debts should you leave them and this earth behind. You may think that you have no debts to pay off, but even something as innocent as a financed car that you have not yet paid off constitutes as a debt. For this reason, taking out life insurance is a must.

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Your family might be yours and yours alone to protect, but that doesn't mean you can't accept help in doing so along the way.

Specifically, unless you’re trained in the field of lawyering and soliciting yourself, you have to ensure that you seek legal assistance. By doing so, you will be sure that your family’s finances will be well looked after. What’s more, you’ll be able to circumvent the world of finance and, more to the point, family law with an expert by your side. This expert will de-jargon all of the complex issues that surround this kind of law and they will always work towards ensuring that your family’s financial interests are well protected. This means that you should not delay in getting in touch with family law solicitors who know how to resolve emotive legal issues, especially if you and your partner ever find yourself separating.

Teach them how to spend

The best thing you can do to protect your family from suffering financial calamities is to teach them how to spend properly. Both your spouse and your children should know the difference between wants and needs, and they should know the importance of saving.

When it comes to teaching your children all about what it takes to spend well, you should start early. The younger they are when they know all about how finance in the real world works, the easier their transition into adulthood will be. You should set them allowances each week and you should make it clear that if they overspend with their pocket money, they won’t be getting any more.

Your natural instinct is to protect your family from all harm. The need to do this extends to the world of finance. It’s up to you to ensure that all is as it should be with regards to your family’s funds, and it’s your job to make sure nobody in your family ever has to face a financial fiasco.

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The Joplin Globe reports that the sentence ordered Monday for 39-year-old James Henneha, of Joplin, was the only one possible after he was convicted last month of first-degree murder in the death of 38-year-old Tonya Crawford. Her body was discovered in January 2016 in her Joplin apartment, three days after she was last seen at her workplace in Galena, Kansas.

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Dozens of community leaders and advocates came out to the City Council meeting for the vote, with several—including ACLU of Louisiana Executive Director Marjorie R. Esman—speaking in favor of the ordinance.

Even after significant reductions in the jail population, New Orleans remains one of the most incarcerated cities in the most incarcerated state in America. Ninety percent of the jail population in New Orleans is people who are awaiting trial—and most are only there because they can’t afford their bond. This has created a de facto debtor’s prison, where those able to pay their bond go free and those too poor to pay are left imprisoned for days, weeks, and even months. Since poverty in New Orleans disproportionally affects communities of color, so too is the jail population disproportionately Black and brown. And as reported by the Prison Policy Institute, locking up the poor leads to an endless cycle of poverty and jail time.

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“Tony Forster told the select committee today that using robots or remote cameras, as has been already tried, is fine but it doesn’t change the fact that people need to re-enter the drift to recover any bodies and evidence that is found.

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La Téci goes abroad: Belgium with Robin van Loon and Jaïr Mathurin. The 15th of April 2018 La Téci packed its stuff for a road trip to the south. Accompanied by not one but two models; Jaïr and Robin. La Téci held its first duo photo-shoot in a disclosed location somewhere in Belgium, chosen for its design and vibe.


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New Delhi, Aug 9: The Ministry of External Affairs on Thursday said that it has not received any request from anyone in India for attending the swearing-in of cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan as Pakistan Prime Minister. "We have not received any such request," ministry spokesperson Raveesh Kumar said in response to a query at a media briefing here. "I have read in the media that some people have said that if they go they will seek MEA's advice," Kumar said. "If they approach us, then we will decide what advice to give."

Earlier, there were reports that Khan would be inviting some of his fellow cricketers from India and as well as Bollywood stars but nothing has been confirmed. Though the swearing-in ceremony was initially scheduled to be held on August 11, it has now been postponed and a fresh date is yet to be announced.


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You can hate the public transportation system, you can hate how fabulous some people pretend to be, like bartenders who will give you a detailed, critical analysis of Woody Harrelson’s role in Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri and how his character was pointless to the plot while the entire time you just want them to mix your drink and leave you alone.

But on the other hand, the city’s brutal way of life also has an amazing, communal side to it and there are certain things that can only happen in New York that are downright magical. Like a group of random strangers, upon hearing Cardi B.’s “Bodak Yellow” blasting in a subway, breaking out into dance together.

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Someone put evidence of the wonderful phenomenon on Twitter and people were loving it.

The event was hailed as being “classic New York.”

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Because Times Square might be a hotspot for tourists, but it’s a dreaded warzone for any poor soul trying to just get to where they need to go.

But yeah, back to the happiness. It was nice to see that for a change.

People who participated in the dance-fest started picking themselves out in the video.

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Jamal Murray Adds A New Chapter To His Campaign Of Lakers Antagonism

Jamal Murray apparently loves being a dick to the Lakers. Last December he caused a brief kerfuffle by dribbling rudely around Lonzo Ball in the closing seconds of a Nuggets home win. Three months later he again pissed off the Lakers—and drew a classic Not Mad response from Lonzo—with something he said either to Lonzo or Luke Walton in the final moments of another Nuggets home win. It was evident then that the Lakers very much do not appreciate Murray’s showboating.

The Lakers got a measure of revenge less than a week later, when the Nuggets visited Los Angeles and Murray was serenaded with a “Murray sucks!” chant during a nine-point Lakers win. Isaiah Thomas chucked a ball at him, the teams skirmished after a hard foul, and the animosity between the teams was cemented. It’s a good NBA beef.

Tuesday night the Nuggets beat the crap out of the Lakers, again at home, this time by the score of 117–85. 85 points is the fewest scored by the Lakers this season, and the 32-point final margin made for by far the worst Lakers loss of this new LeBron era. But before things got out of hand, back in the second quarter, after a blocked Lance Stephenson layup, Trey Lyles threw a long outlet pass to Murray, who pump-faked Kentavious Caldwell-Pope into low Earth orbit, then dropped in a layup to push Denver’s lead to nine points. After the bucket, Murray appeared to gesture at Caldwell-Pope:

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New England Patriots’ Patrick Chung’s Concussion: What Happened

The NFL and the NFLPA on Thursday concluded their joint investigation of Patriots safety Patrick Chung’s concussion. The inquiry found that there were no protocol violations even though Chung was initially not tested for a brain injury after being sent off the field by a game official. This appears to have indeed been one of those situations that simply was never noticed.

To review: Chung was slow to get up at the end of a play early in the second quarter during a Sept. 16 game at the Jaguars. Umpire Barry Anderson noticed this, and directed him to the sideline. Chung sat out for one play and then returned. He was never evaluated for a concussion before returning, as required by the protocol. He continued to play for the remainder of the half, and at halftime he was declared out with a concussion. He also sat out last week’s game at the Lions, but finally cleared the protocol and returned to practice on Wednesday. Chung is listed as questionable for Sunday’s game against the Dolphins.

This is from the NFL-NFLPA’s joint statement:

The NFL and NFLPA conducted interviews with relevant Patriots personnel, the game official involved, the unaffiliated neurotrauma consultant (UNC) and the booth ATC spotter, all of whom fully cooperated in the review.

The interviews established that the booth ATC spotter, booth UNC, sideline medical staff, and the game official each concluded that they did not need to initiate the Protocol. The game official observed that Mr. Chung was slow to get up and therefore removed him from play, but he did not identify a need to trigger the Protocol. Additionally, the unaffiliated medical personnel (booth UNC and booth ATC spotter) reviewed the play, did not identify a mechanism of injury and concluded the player was not exhibiting signs or symptoms suggestive of a concussion and therefore did not initiate the Protocol.

So what happened? In real time, it’s difficult to tell:

Chung wound up at the bottom of the pile, beneath where linebacker Kyle Van Noy (No. 53) got pushed at the end of the play. A moment later, Chung was shown on the ground, with Anderson standing over him and motioning for a stoppage.

That’s when Anderson sent Chung off.

A CBS camera caught Chung on the sideline briefly having a word with a person the Boston Globe identified as team doctor Mark Price. Chung does not appear to speak to the unaffiliated neurotrauma consultant that every team is required to have on its sideline during a game. He is not tested for a brain injury.

After sitting out for one play, Chung can be seen walking from the sideline to return to the game (top of screen).

And here he is (bottom left corner) back on the field for the play after that.

Watching all of this, it’s easy to wonder why Chung was never assessed. The protocol specifically stipulates that “the club’s athletic trainer, team physicians, Booth ATC Spotter, coach, teammate, game official (emphasis mine) or Sideline or Booth Unaffiliated Neurotrauma Consultant” can report that a player is showing symptoms. That appeared to be what happened when Anderson sent Chung off. But according to the NFL-NFLPA investigation, Anderson never alerted anyone on the Patriots’ sideline that he thought Chung had sustained a head injury. And when Chung got to the sideline, he apparently exhibited no visible symptoms (which is possible, immediately after a blow to the head) and didn’t self-report any kind of head injury. Back in he went, as soon as he was eligible.

The NFL added a third UNC to be positioned up in the booth along with the certified athletic trainers who are tasked with spotting any situations or symptoms that might warrant an evaluation. But recall how quickly the play unfolded, and how difficult it was to tell exactly what happened to Chung, even looking at television replays. I watched it multiple times and couldn’t find it. Only after queuing up the coaches’ film was I able to see that Chung smashed heads when engaged with a block from tight end Niles Paul (No. 81), who had lined up as a fullback:

To see it on the broadcast footage, I had to slow it down:

Obviously, with no one on the sideline to notice anything and with Chung only sitting for one play, there wasn’t enough time for anyone to get a good enough look to send word to make sure Chung was evaluated.

According to the NFL-NFLPA statement, the Pats’ coaching staff “observed behavior that warranted a sideline review” after Chung had returned to the game, which is inarguably the most positive development of all here. Chung was then given the sideline assessment and passed. But at halftime, he was examined again and “found to have potential concussion symptoms and therefore was ruled out for the remainder of the game.”

The NFL has certainly been reluctant to enforce the protocol in the past, and it’s too frequently blamed the protocol’s inadequacies for any breakdowns that may have been preventable. The league has also only once disciplined a team for a violation. But as Thursday night’s episode with Vikings wideout Adam Thielen showed, the protocol can function effectively to protect players from themselves. In Chung’s case, there wasn’t much anyone could do. Football is a violent game, and there’s often simply no way to make it completely safe.

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Why the Mueller Indictment Doesn't Allege the Russians Swung the Election

By Charlie Dunlap
Thursday, February 22, 2018, 12:00 PM

In announcing that 13 Russian nationals and three Russian companies were being charged for “seeking to interfere in the United States political system,” Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein made it clear that the indictment contained “no allegation … that the charged conduct altered the outcome of the 2016 election.” Could a future indictment show that? Maybe, but I think that’s unlikely. Here’s why.

I doubt that Rosenstein would make a point of discussing the outcome of the election if he really expected that some future indictment would claim the results were compromised. If Rosenstein knows now that there is such evidence, when that fact does comes out it—as it inevitably would—it would hardly be flattering to him or the Mueller investigation itself.

Indeed, if Mueller’s enterprise is to have the credibility it needs, it must distance itself from any suggestion it is misleading the public in any way. I don’t think Americans like seeming to have been fooled by public officials, and I would expect that Rosenstein and Mueller are keenly aware of the strategic downsides of appearing to deceive (even if there are tactical benefits to inducing complacency in the Trump camp).

Consider, for example, what might happen if Mueller later presented evidence of collusion between Trump campaign officials and the Russian government—a very distinct issue from whether the Russians successfully tainted the election, which the president may not appreciate. If that coincided with a revelation that the Mueller investigation had evidence of election compromise all along, defense counsel—not to mention politicos—could play the outrage card in a myriad of public settings and have a heyday of the “are you trying to hoodwink us again?” variety. That’s not the message prosecutors want conveyed to a jury pool.

Even those hostile to Trump might be appalled that government officials thought they were entitled to withhold information that’s so indisputably critical to the citizens of a democracy. Some things have such immediate and grave importance to the body politic that they really do transcend any particular criminal investigation. True, Rosenstein could insist that he technically only said that there was no evidence in the original indictment, but that’s the kind of legalistic quibbling that, in my experience, the public loathes. So I think it’s doubtful (albeit not impossible) that Mueller is currently harboring evidence that election results were skewed by Russian scheming.

There are other, more technical reasons beyond trying to read the tea leaves about Rosenstein’s reasoning to conclude that the Russian election machinations did not succeed in changing the results. In December 2017, the Columbia Journalism Review (CJR) did an analysis of just such Russian efforts during the election and determined:

[W]e believe that the volume of reporting around fake news, and the role of tech companies in disseminating those falsehoods, is both disproportionate to its likely influence in the outcome of the election and diverts attention from the culpability of the mainstream media itself.

CJR points out that even if there were millions of shares, reactions, and comments involving the top 20 fake news stories on Facebook, it’s wrong to overstate their influence because despite the seemingly large numbers, they actually would have “accounted for only 0.006 percent of user actions.”

Similarly, CJR critiques a New York Times story which “reported that Russian agents ‘disseminated inflammatory posts that reached 126 million users on Facebook, published more than 131,000 messages on Twitter and uploaded over 1,000 videos to Google’s YouTube service.’” CJR counters:

Big numbers indeed, but several paragraphs later the authors concede that over the same period Facebook users were exposed to 11 trillion posts—roughly 87,000 for every fake exposure—while on Twitter the Russian-linked election tweets represented less than 0.75 percent of all election-related tweets. On YouTube, meanwhile, the total number of views of fake Russian videos was around 309,000—compared to the five billion YouTube videos that are watched every day.

Bottom line? Citing yet another study, CJR concludes that the Russian “fake news” effort “would have had to be much larger—roughly 30 times as large—to account for Trump’s margin of victory in the key states on which the election outcome depended.” And it’s not just CJR that’s critical of the Russian operation. As CNBC’s Jake Novak notes, a recent academic study shows that “the best estimate of the effects of campaign contact and advertising on Americans’ candidates choices in general elections is zero”—so the Russian ads might not have had any effect in persuading voters at all.

Even if we assume that political advertisements are effective, the Russians would have had to overcome the effect of the massive resources of the Clinton campaign. According to the Washington Post:

Clinton's unsuccessful campaign ($768 million in spending) outspent Trump's successful one ($398 million) by nearly 2 to 1. The Democratic National Committee and left-leaning outside groups also outspent their Republican counterparts by considerable margins.

With that kind of financial superiority, it’s no surprise that the 800-strong Clinton campaign staff wildly outnumbered Trump’s, which totaled a mere 130. Additionally, Clinton had the money to dwarf Trump’s media buys. In the crucial period shortly before the election, NBC News reported that Clinton was outspending Trump nearly three-to-one on TV and radio ads. To be clear, this not a critique of Clinton but rather, an impersonal assessment of the sheer size of the campaign enterprise the Russian social media ploys sought to upend.

And it wasn’t just paid advertising in which Clinton had a significant advantage over Trump, it was also her nearly total domination of America’s editorial offices. Business Insider said “Clinton's final endorsement tally crested 240 editorial boards,” as opposed to just 19 for Trump. Furthermore, Clinton collected an “overwhelming” number of endorsements from the U.S.’s best known celebrities (though it isn’t at all clear that they helped her). In other words, from a conventional electioneering perspective, Clinton did many of the right things.

Still, there is a persuasive argument that traditional metrics of an effective campaign – TV and radio ads, newspaper endorsements, etc.—in which Clinton prevailed simply did not work in this election. Election postmortems (from Wired and Politico, among others) suggest that the Trump team invested more heavily in social media and Facebook advertising compared to Clinton’s focus on standard campaign tactics.

So it wasn’t just Russian trolls using Facebook to attack Clinton and support Trump: The Trump campaign was doing so aggressively and independently—and it worked. (There is nothing in the indictment that suggests any kind of coordination between the Trump campaign and Russian trolls in disseminating ads on Facebook.) And according to Facebook General Counsel Colin Stretch, the Russians spent just $46,000 on pre-election ads compared to $81 million from Trump and Clinton combined. The Russian ads were a drop in the bucket as far as political advertising on social media went.

In short, as energetic as it may have been, the Russian effort was still too puny—and perhaps too ill-directed and inartful—to be decisive. This reinforces the CJR’s conclusion that Russia’s information operation, while a “real problem” and rightly concerning, was not what determined the outcome of the election. Likewise, the Times has written that a recent study shows that “the people most likely to consume fake news were already hyperpartisan and close followers of politics, and that false stories were only a small fraction of their media consumption” Thus, the Times notes, “Russian efforts are indicators—not drivers—of how widely Americans had polarized” (emphasis added).

What about the Russian hacking that leaked the DNC emails, as well as those of Podesta and others? The hacked emails did impose unwanted transparency on the DNC, but that was an altogether different and arguably less-dangerous threat than that posed by other Russian activities, including “fake news” and its ilk. The latter was an ongoing campaign, while the DNC hack was a finite incident. Over time the DNC successfully diverted attention away from the embarrassing and, to some, the distasteful information the hack revealed. The story became not what was revealed, but who was behind the revelation. Eventually, the DNC could posture itself as an innocent victim of a Russian cyber assault, as opposed to a petri dish of nefarious political intrigue.

And it’s hard to disaggregate the effect of the email releases from other factors that might have swayed voters. For example, many Catholics found the references to their faith in the Podesta emails “extraordinarily patronizing and insulting”—and Catholics did vote for Trump by a margin of seven points. But that might also have been a result of Clinton’s stance on abortion, her failure to reach out to working class Catholics in the Rust Belt, or insufficiency of the support for her candidacy from Latino Catholics relative to that they gave Barack Obama.

So there are many reasons for Hillary Clinton’s defeat. But it’s a mistake to give the Russians credit they don’t deserve for that result. Nonetheless, it’s also very dangerous to underestimate them or to assume that they won’t try again.

They most likely will, and they’ll do so in an even more robust and sophisticated way. If the Russians used 1,000 trolls in 2016, they have the talent pool to vastly increase that number if they want. Moreover, with its “rich tradition of subversion,” the Russian intelligence apparatus is adept at studying previous operations and coming up with even more inventive strategies. After all, as Jack Goldsmith notes, “with a relatively paltry budget of $1.25 million per month, Russia achieves the most disruptive information operation in history that continues to roil American politics even if it did not swing the election.” Count on Russia to give it another try.

The lesson is obvious: America still needs to do whatever it takes to preserve the sanctity of the electoral process against the Russians or any other foreigners “seeking to interfere in the United States political system.”


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Kyle Eastmond has been handed a four-week suspension after appearing before an independent disciplinary panel on Tuesday evening.

The Tigers centre was charged for a dangerous tackle on Bristol fly-half Ian Madigan, contrary to Law 9.13, in last weekend's loss to Bristol.

Eastmond plead guilty to the charge and was suspended for four weeks by the independent disciplinary panel comprising of John Brennan (chair), Matt Bayliss and Tony Wheat.

Independent panel chair John Brennan said:"The player accepted the charge and accepted through his representative that the entry point was mid-range due to there being direct contact to the head of the opponent."

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When replacing a vehicle, a manufacturer must provide a replacement vehicle that is either identical or of comparable value. The manufacturer must also reimburse the consumer for fees and sales taxes, as well as necessary towing and rental costs incurred as a direct result of the nonconformity.

The Virginia lemon law states its protections don’t apply to a consumer who hasn’t first resorted to the manufacturer’s established informal dispute settlement procedure, i.e. arbitration. The arbitration mechanism must be certified by the Virginia Division of Consumer Services. The manufacturer must also have provided adequate written notice of the mechanism’s existence, including its incorporation into the terms of the warranty.

For more information on arbitration and other frequently asked lemon law questions, click here.

The manufacturer must abide by the decision of the arbitrator, while the consumer does not. If dissatisfied with the outcome, a consumer can bring civil action in court. By filing a claim under the Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act, Virginia consumers can hire lawyers who will represent them without the vehicle owner having to pay any attorneys’ fees directly out of their pocket. This is because the federal Act provides that the vehicle manufacturer shall pay the claimants’ reasonable attorneys’ fees if the claimant prevails against the manufacturer. Lemonlawusa.org encourages vehicle owners with a lemon to hire a lemon law attorney. You can bet the car manufacturers have legal counsel at the ready to help defend against lemon law claims both in arbitration and in court.

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How to Build a Terrarium

I’m not sure where the hell this idea came from but the seed was planted, so to speak, when I got a leaking aquarium and some goldfish from my kids for my 43rd 25th birthday recently. I tried fixing the tank but getting the old silicone off was near as hell to impossible so I quickly gave up and splashed out on a cheap new tank which was missing a filter and lighting system, things I realised painfully that you can’t be without when trying to keep pissy, smelly goldfish. So fancy tank number three is now in operation and me and the fish are happy. But what to do with the two old tanks!? I googled “uses for old fish tanks” and a pile of images of Terrariums or indoor gardens in a box came up. Terrariums it was so.

Terrarium Science

After a little research I realised that they were all built the same way pretty much, gravel or stones first in on the bottom for good drainage and root dispersal, then soil or compost for the plants to grow in, then some sand and/or gravel on top mostly for appearance sake. Finish off with some ornaments and there you have it. Simple. The only real complication I found after a little research is that Terrariums can be open (dry) or closed (wet) and the one you choose governs which types of plants you put in. I had two old tanks so why not build one of each?

You’ll need the following. Most of it is pretty inexpensive, apart maybe from the plants themselves. Particularly the Cacti:

  • A large Glass Box or Bowl (or old fish tank or two)
  • Some way of closing or sealing the Terrarium if you’re building a wet one (I used old plywood cut to size)
  • Gravel or ornamental pebbles (old aquarium gravel maybe?)
  • Soil or Compost (get some in your garden for free)
  • Sand
  • Small Stones, Sea Shells or other Ornaments
  • Plants

  1. Clean out your container first then add a layer of gravel to the bottom. Deep enough to let water gather or contain meandering roots
  2. Add a layer of soil carefully, deep enough to contain the plant roots (maintaining the visible layers rather than mixing them gives a nice visual “geological” effect at the end)
  3. Make holes deep enough to fit your plant roots after removing each from their pots and shaking off excess compost
  4. Add the plants and press down gently, covering in any gaps with surrounding soil (use a few layers of kitchen roll if handling Cacti)
  5. Add a layer of sand or decorative gravel with a spoon, placing some under plant leaves if possible to keep things tidy looking
  6. Add ornaments as required
  7. Use a soft, small paint brush to “clean up” any errant sand or gravel from plants, glass etc..

In the case of an open, dry Terrarium, you shouldn’t need to water regularly if at all. Unless you notice extreme drying or plant decay. You water the like of Cacti the same amount you would if they weren’t in a Terrarium but it might depend on latent heat and where you place your Terrarium, ie – in the sun or shade, moist or dry environment. I have mine as a centrepiece of the sitting room coffee table.

In the case of a wet or closed Terrarium, it may actually need less maintenance than a dry, open one. The idea, if you do it right, is that you create a mini ecosystem. The plants photosynthesise in the closed, humid environment, expel oxygen etc and the whole process creates moisture that gets trapped inside the container which the plants then absorb again. However if you notice it drying out, just add very small amounts of water. Again, Terrarium positioning is important.

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Songwriting Tips

Here’s a bit about how I write (or used to write!) music and songs. Back when I had the time to write music full time and when I was depressed enough to have material to write about, I’d write and record maybe a song or 2 a day. Most of the 50 or so songs I’ve written were completed in the space of a few months.

My preferred method would probably have been to simply strum chord patterns on the guitar untill I found a progression I liked. Then I’d hum over it to get the basis of a melody. A tape recorder or dictaphone was invaluable for when you’d stumble on something decent because the chances of remembering it later were slim to none and there is no worse feeling than knowing you had something but it got lost in your head somewhere. These days if I have a melodic idea, I’ll probably record it on the iPhone!

Once I had the basis of a melody and harmony I’d have a look at chord and scale charts I had up on the wall in my music room to see where I could break out into a chorus or middle eight type bit, different from the main structure. Ocassionally I’d do the same on the keyboard or maybe start with a melodic riff on either the guitar or keyboard and try add chords to it.

Lyrics would probably have been my weak point and I remember getting pretty worked up about not being able to either find the right words or get them to fit into my musical structure. Thesaurus books and Rhyming Dictionaries helped big time here. For some reason, starting with lyrics and trying to add music to them never worked out that well unless the lyrics were written specifically for music. If not then they tended to be too untidy to fit into the rhythmical structure. I wrote a lot of poems for example and tried to add music to them but had a hard time with the more non-linear ones!

Of course one of the best songwriting tips anyone could give is to simply listen to as much music as possible to make sure you have a wide, eclectic resource to draw on when it comes to creating your own music. Despite this fact, a lot of my music came out bluesy/folky and dark but I guess you find your own stlye too!

Hope that helps any budding songwriters out there.

Being Creative

I used to spend most of every day writing Songs and Poetry back in the 90’s and sadly I’ve lost my touch a bit although it could be argued a fair bit of what I do now with Web & Graphic Design is creative too. I remember the great pride I had in myself for writing a piece of music or poetry and whether it was good or not didn’t matter! All that mattered was that I created something from scratch, from a blank canvas as such.

Being creative forces you to use a little more of your brain that you normally would and use a different part ot it too. Its nothing but a heatlhy excercise and it helped keep me sane in hard times. There are few nobler endeavours and I must get back to it soon.


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Today the Supreme Court rendered its decision in the landmark Myriad case, holding that naturally occurring DNA segments are not patentable, but synthetic DNA segments are patent eligible based on the patent eligibility requirement of 35 U.S.C. 101 which prevents patents on products of nature. It is important to further recognize that methods of using naturally occurring DNA or non-natural methods of producing natural DNA are still patent-eligible.

The full implications of this decision will take years to determine, as lower courts are confronted with variations of the fact patterns in future cases and render new decisions and importantly, as the Patent Office issues guidance and interprets how Myriad will be applied during examination of patent applications. Stay tuned as more guidance becomes available.

For now, while the Myriad case may cast doubt on a very small subset of nanotech patent claims, the commercially most important areas have likely been preserved as patent eligible. In most cases, a pure naturally occurring nanotech material is not claimed alone in a form isolated from nature. To the contrary, it may be claimed as a method of producing large quantities of the natural nanomaterial or as a method of using it or as a combination product where the natural nanomaterial is combined with other non-natural components to produce, for example, a semiconductor device. These types of claims are unlikely to be impacted by the Myriad decision, so we can expect limited impact on nanotech.


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Former Liverpool defender Stephen Darby has been forced to retire from football after being diagnosed with Motor Neurone Disease.

Right-back Darby made six senior appearances for the Reds between 2008 and 2011 before he moved to Bradford City in 2012.

Darby made over 200 appearances for Bradford before making a switch to Bolton in the summer of 2017. He was part of the Bantams side that went all the way to the League Cup final in 2013 as they were beaten by Swansea at Wembley.

Darby was captain of Liverpool's Youth Cup-winning side of 2006 and made his first-team debut for the Reds in a Champions League tie against PSV Eindhoven in 2008, before being given his maiden start the following year against Fiorentina.

Martin Jorgensen competes for the ball with Stephen Darby during the UEFA Champions League Group E match between Liverpool and Fiorentina

However, Darby has now been diagnosed with MND - a rare illness which affects the nervous system - and has sadly been forced to step away from the game less than a month away from his 30th birthday.

In a statement released on Bolton's official website, Darby said: "It is with great sadness that I announce my immediate retirement from professional football due to a recent diagnosis of Motor Neurone Disease.

What is Motor Neurone Disease?

What is Motor Neurone Disease?

1) MND is an umbrella term to describe a group of related diseases which affect the motor nerves in the brain

2) It is a progressive and ultimately terminal disease that results in degeneration of the nerves, in the brain and spinal cord.

3) It's caused by a problem with cells in the brain and nerves called motor neurones. These cells gradually stop working over time. It's not known why this happens.

4) These affected nerves become damaged, preventing the messages from the nerve reaching the muscles causing weakness and muscle wasting.

5) Current research indicates that a combination of factors, both genetic and environmental, appears to be the main cause for MND.

6) In up to 10% of those with MND, it is caused by a mistake in the genes which is then passed down through families.

*Facts taken from the NHS*

"I would like to take the opportunity to thank my teammates, Phil Parkinson and all the staff at Bolton Wanderers Football Club for their amazing support at what has been an extremely difficult period for myself and my family.

"I would like to ask for privacy at this time so I can adjust to the battle I have ahead and so that I can spend time with those closest to me."

Bolton boss Phil Parkinson, who also managed Darby at Bradford, paid tribute to the defender, labelling former Liverpool full-back "an outstanding professional and a fantastic person."

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Stephen Darby against St Gallen, with manager Rafa Benitez looking on

"This is heart breaking news for Stephen and his family and the thoughts of everybody at Bolton Wanderers Football Club are very much with him and Steph," said Parkinson.

“He is an outstanding professional and a fantastic person.

“He was simply magnificent during his time at Bradford and was a key figure in the resurgence of Bradford City as a football club.

“He typified everything the city and the football club represented and led by example on and off the pitch.

Bradford City's Filipe Morais and Stephen Darby celebrate on the pitch

“The Bolton Wanderers fans didn’t see the best of him due to limited first team opportunities, but I can assure everyone that he made a significant contribution in last year’s survival.

“He constantly set high standards in training every day and encouraged and drove his fellow teammates on.

“All the staff and players at Bolton Wanderers Football Club think the world of him and are determined to give him every possible bit of support.”


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What Are the Treatments for Chickenpox on the Scalp?

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A woman washes her hair in the tub. (Image: Alliance/iStock/Getty Images)

Since the introduction of an effective vaccine in 1995, chickenpox has become increasingly uncommon in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, or CDC. In most cases, the disease first strikes the trunk or face and then moves outward, affecting the scalp and extremities. Treatment for chickenpox of the scalp focuses on symptomatic relief and skin hygiene to reduce the risk of secondary bacterial infections. Some patients also require antiviral drugs.

Antiviral Drugs

According to University of Alabama Medical School Professor Richard J. Whitely in the 2008 edition of “Harrison’s Principles of Internal Medicine,” some individuals with chickenpox develop as many as 2,000 blisters while others—especially young children—may have fewer than 50. People with extensive disease and those categorized by the CDC as “high risk” for complications of chickenpox benefit from prescription antiviral drugs that reduce the severity and duration of symptoms. Common choices, says the Mayo Clinic website, include acyclovir, valacyclovir and famciclovir.

Topical Astringents

In the 2008 edition of “Fitzpatrick’s Dermatology in General Medicine,” University of North Carolina dermatologist Craig N. Burkart explains that topical astringents reduce swelling, stop secretions and inhibit bleeding in people with chickenpox and other inflammatory skin conditions. Astringents used to treat acne are too harsh for chickenpox of the scalp. Whitely recommends over-the-counter aluminum acetate. The American Medical Association recommends a mixture of oatmeal and water. Applying a topical astringent one to three times per day during the early phase of the disease may help control irritation and accelerate healing.

Good Hygiene

According to Whitely, good hygiene helps prevent secondary bacterial infections of chickenpox lesions, especially on the scalp where hair oils trap dirt and bacteria. Patients should wash their hair daily with mild shampoo, applying conditioner to the ends of hair only. People who normally use other hair products such as gels and sprays should refrain from doing so until chickenpox lesions are completely healed. Brushes and combs should be directed away from the scalp. Baths may be superior to showers. Soaking your scalp in tepid water during a bath, says Whitely, often provides relief from itching, superior even to medicated anti-itch lotions.

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