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Introduce an air of mid-century elegance to your home decor with our antique-style solid wooden coffee table! This coffee table is made of solid Sheesham wood. Sheesham, also known as rosewood or palisander, is a tropical hardwood famous for its rich grain. This table has stable and secure top to place drinks, fruit baskets, decorative items, etc. The solid Sheesham wood has been given a beautiful finish by polishing, painting and lacquering, making it exude a refined look. The table has a big storage shelf, which provides sufficient space to accommodate large household items. Additionally, the coffee table can also be used as a couch table, a living room table, a side table etc. The coffee table is easy to assemble. Important note: The exquisite craftsmanship and the beautiful solid Sheesham wood grains make every piece of furniture unique and slightly different from the next; the delivery is random.

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Chemoattractant receptor-homologous molecule expressed about TH2 cells (CRTH2) binds to prostaglandin D2. character of asthma implies that all strategy is fitted with a 1 size to pharmacotherapy is unlikely to reach your goals. The development of novel asthma treatments requires an individualized approach, where medicines are targeted toward subgroups of patients with distinct characteristics who are most likely to benefit. A clinical phenotyping approach has been advocated in order to identify patient subgroups with clinical characteristics that are associated with a treatment response or prognosis.3 Endotyping is the identification of a patient subgroup defined by the presence of a biological mechanism.3 Recently, biological treatments for asthma have been developed that use biomarkers to identify patients with specific mechanisms (i.e., endotypes).4 The use of both clinical phenotype information Rolapitant inhibition and biomarkers to select patients for novel anti-inflammatory treatments aligns to the precision medicine strategy that takes Rolapitant inhibition an individualized approach to pharmacotherapy to optimize the benefit versus risk ratio.5 Our understanding of the complex nature of inflammation in asthma has evolved far beyond the simple dichotomy of allergic versus nonallergic asthma. The subset of lymphocytes called T-helper 2 cells were thought to drive allergic inflammation, leading to the term TH2 inflammation being associated with asthma.6 We recognized that many cytokines involved in allergic inflammation are also released from other cell types, including the recently identified innate lymphoid cells (ILCs).7 This has led to a change in terminology to the more general T2 inflammation.8 Furthermore, T2 inflammation, such as eosinophilic inflammation, can exist in the absence of allergy.9 To add further complexity, non-T2 inflammation can also contribute to asthma pathophysiology, such as through the IL-17 cytokine family, which is associated with neutrophilic inflammation.10 The most commonly used pharmacological treatments for asthma are inhaled beta-agonists and inhaled corticosteroids (ICS), which provide bronchodilator and anti-inflammatory effects, respectively. Combination inhalers containing ICS plus a long-acting beta-agonist (ICS/LABA) have shown greater clinical efficacy than ICS alone, providing a treatment option that’s utilized for most asthma patients widely.11 However, there can be an unmet medical want, as much individuals stay managed while acquiring ICS/LABA combinations badly. The usage of long-acting muscarinic antagonists has an extra Rabbit Polyclonal to UBA5 bronchodilator choice for these individuals.12 Monoclonal antibodies targeting eosinophilic swelling and T2 swelling have already been developed for asthma,13 but there’s a dependence on additional book anti-inflammatory remedies. Chemoattractant receptor-homologous molecule indicated on TH2 cells (CRTH2) can be a G-protein combined receptor that binds towards the ligand prostaglandin D2 (PGD2).14 There is certainly proof from in vitro research, aswell as pet and human being investigations, that CRTH2 is involved with eosinophilic and allergic inflammation.15C17 Several orally administered CRTH2 antagonists have already been developed for the treating asthma lately.16,18 This informative article reviews the data for the involvement from the CRTH2 pathway in asthma as well as the outcomes of clinical tests of CRTH2 antagonists in asthma individuals. We consider long term perspectives because of this course of medication also, including considerations which asthma subgroup is most probably showing a clinically significant treatment response, and whether biomarkers may be used to determine these individuals. PGD2CCRTH2 biology Arachidonic acid metabolism Rolapitant inhibition by cyclooxygenase enzymes and, subsequently, prostaglandin synthases leads to the production of prostaglandins.19 PGH2 is converted to PGD2 by PGD2 synthase in various cell types including mast cells and leukocytes.20 Mast cells are an important source of PGD2 in tissues,21,22 with lower levels produced by TH2 lymphocytes,23 dendritic cells,24 and eosinophils.25 PGD2 undergoes rapid metabolism, with a short half-life of ~30 min in the circulation.26 The main products of PGD2 metabolism are 12PGJ2 and 911PGF2, which also have agonist effects at PGD2 receptors.27,28 The biological effects of PGD2 are mediated by three G-protein-coupled receptors: CRTH2 (which is also called the D Rolapitant inhibition prostanoid receptor 2[DP2 receptor]), DP1, and T prostanoid (TP) receptors. 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Gumboots and Soup

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Yes, it’s that time of year. My mystery volunteer squash that threatened to overtake the garden have been harvested. The raised beds are looking a little bare, save for a few remaining carrots and beets, a scrawny row of last minute radishes, and the over-producing kale and swiss chard (Grant was done with kale back in June).

The wet weather has blown in. In short, it’s soup time.

My friend Keith called and insisted we go hunting for wild mushrooms. Dreaming of mushroom soup, I grabbed a few containers and we headed out to harvest a local and zero waste meal. Turns out that the mushroom patch wasn’t, as I’d expected, in the forest. It was right downtown. On the edge of a large grassy median in the heart of Yaletown (which, if you’re not from Vancouver, is a pretty fancy pants area).

And that is how I ended up in my gumboots harvesting mushrooms on a median in downtown Vancouver at rush hour as streams of business people walked by. (Never one to draw attention to myself in a public place, I found it a tad embarrassing). I was a little worried about the toxic traffic fumes impregnating the mushrooms, but Keith insisted he’d done this before.

In the end, we had wild, urban, shaggy mane hungarian mushroom soup for dinner (hungarian mushroom soup courtesy of The New Moosewood Cookbook – that recipe alone is worth the price of the book); zero waste, local, and pretty darn fun.

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  1. Deanna

    Have you and Grant tried Kale Chips? It is an amazing and addictive way to consume copious quantities of kale in a short time. Even for people who dont’ really like kale or leafy green things – like our five year old son – he likes them. He really likes them. :o) Email me if you want the recipe.

    • We’ve tried them twice. The first time I think I over did them, and they just tasted like dried out lettuce. The second time I added some spices and they were not bad. We ended up eating an entire bunch of kale in a single sitting. I think I expected them to be more like potato chips though, and they are definitely not.

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April 1st in Germany — Happy Birthday, Renewable Energy Sources Act!

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Not a Joke

On a cloudy saturday, on April 1, 2000, the German “Renewable Energy Sources Act” entered into force replacing the “Feed-in Law” of 1991. It’s unique features were 1) a renewable-energy-source-specific feed-in tariff (FiT) guaranteed for 20 years and 2) minimum goals for the share of renewable energy generation for the decades to come. At a time when renewables had a share of about 6% of electricity production, the law called for an increase to 12.5% by 2010 and 20% by 2020.

Since Germany has rather limited untouched resources for conventional hydro power, most of the new renewable capacity had to come from wind, solar, biomass, geothermal, small hydro, or other so-called “alternative energy sources.” Considering that the share of these sources amounted to only 1.7% of electricity production after almost a decade of renewable energy investments based on the “Feed-in Law” of 1991, critics called the “Renewable Energy Sources Act” a waste of money that would accomplish nothing. The goal of 12.5% for 2010 was laughed at for being unrealistic and an “environmentalist pipe-dream.” Many so-called “energy experts” actually went on record and claimed that such goals were impossible to reach because the physical potential of renewable energy sources would simply not be enough.

And criticism didn’t end when the success and the actual potential started to show. In 2005, the head of the conservative party and current Chancellor of Germany Angela Merkel said, “Increasing the share of renewable energy sources to 20% by 2020 is unrealistic.”

A Taste of Tomorrow…

12 years later, the laws of physics haven’t changed, but the so-called “experts” have been unmasked as ill-guided charlatans. Just 11 years after its introduction, the “pipe-dream law” reached it’s minimum goal for 2020. In 2011, a share of 20.1% of renewable electricity generation was achieved, despite electricity demand being 6% higher compared to 2000. Many conservative politicians and CEOs of conventional energy corporations have come to the painful realization that they underestimated the potential of renewable energy sources and the law they campaigned against and laughed at on April Fools Day more than a decade ago.

As the law entered it’s 12th year of existence, nature gave it a fitting birthday present yesterday. Wind and solar worked together to show what they are capable of, while hydropower and biomass provided their share with their baseload-capable form of production. The exact numbers for all renewable sources are hard to come by at this point in time and the complete electricity-export numbers won’t be available for at least another week, but it’s quite certain that the “energy mix” of April the 1st looked something like this:

The strong performance of renewables had several effects:

  • At least two of the remaining nine nuclear reactors had to be taken offline to grant wind power it’s priority in the grid.
  • Lignite power plants operated at an average of just 11 GW all day. That’s less than 60% of their installed capacity.
  • The capacity factor of conventional load-following and peak-load power plants using imported hard coal, natural gas, or oil fell to approximatly 6-8%
  • Due to the current market design and the resulting Merit-Order Effect, peak-load power actually sold cheaper than baseload power at the European Energy Exchange. While traders and industrial customers paid very cheap 2.4 ct/kWh for baseload power, they could buy “expensive” peak-load power for only 1.8ct/kWh on the spot market.

Of course, it was a Sunday, which means that overall demand was rather low, but nonetheless, it’s been a wonderful birthday gift for the “Renewable Energy Sources Act” and a small glimpse into the future.

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Savory Taṇhā in Performance (Thursday)

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Yesterday the New York Times published an essay with the unfortunate headline, Digital Theater Isn’t Theater. It’s a Way to Mourn Its Absence by Laura Collins-Hughes. Journalists and columnists don’t usually get to choose their headlines, there are people who specialize in that -- and a good thing, too, try writing one.

Unfortunately, while the mourning may be real, the phrase “digital theater isn’t theater” is a statement I have to take issue with. And why wouldn’t it be? I am currently the writer/director of a piece of live, if digital, theater.

Collins-Hughes accurately describes the thrill of live theater so; “Bodily immersed in an experience, sharing a single space, we emerge at the finish of those performances imprinted with sense memories.” Yes, we do. It’s why some of us chose this path, as opposed that of movies or television. It’s why I have spent the better part of two decades working on behalf of students to bring live performance right into their classrooms, another mission which has been suspended for the duration.

“Immersed.” That word makes me shudder. Remember immersive theater? An entire popular genre rendered suddenly extinct. They may try to open Broadway, but Sleep No More isn’t rousing any time soon.

And yes, we have enjoyed the recorded dramas that has been made available to us, especially the highly-anticipated Hamilton movie. But they really are just movies, aren’t they?

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“Even the Hamilton movie,” Collins-Hughes remarks, “a thrilling and democratizing testament to the power of stage performance, can’t capture the soul of theater, because that soul lives in the room.”

We saw it, we may even have watched it at the same time as LMM and the entire company the evening it debuted, joining in on a nation-wide Twitter commentary, a virtual lobby in which we could compare notes and share our thoughts and feelings.

But even in spite of this opportunity to commune over a piece of theater, even one as professionally executed as that, it was still only the document of a live performance, and not the thing itself.

Which brings me to Savory Taṇhā (sixteen short plays performed by a rotating ensemble), produced by Cleveland Public Theatre to be performed via Zoom, and enjoyed by a live audience of viewers. Not to be archived, not to be seen again. To heighten that sense of immediacy, each night different members of the five person ensemble will be performing different roles from the same sixteen scripts.

We had our first performance tonight, and it went very well. We had a wonderful audience, somewhere between thirty and forty people. They get to see and greet each other before the performance, and also after. It is true, audience mics and cameras are turned off for the performance, so we miss out on any possible laughs or other audience reactions, a necessary sacrifice.

The post-show discussion, however, was very nice, and a warm validation of what I was hoping to accomplish. They commented on the connection between actors, and the great intimacy. In rehearsal I emphasized how, in spite of its many limitations, this medium provides an opportunity for intimacy and closeness that a live performance in front of a hundred audience members cannot, and that we should take advantage of that.

One commented on how though each character has a unique voice, they are still people that you know personally. And that some of them are you.

Finally, it was so great to see colleagues and friends I have made who I have never met in person, but with whom we have shared work, audience members watching from Virginia, Los Angeles and elsewhere, and having the opportunity to share this work with them. Oddly enough, I am currently in North Carolina.

And I challenge you to tell me what we're doing isn’t theater.

Cleveland Public Theatre presents "Savory Taṇhā (sixteen short plays performed by a rotating ensemble)" featuring Anne McEvoy Zyrece Montgomery,  Zach Palumbo, Brian Pedaci & Hillary Wheelock with remaining performances Friday, July 10 & Saturday July 11, 2020 at 8:00 PM.

Source: Digital Theater Isn’t Theater. It’s a Way to Mourn Its Absence (The industry’s show-must-go-on smile masks a harder truth: that there is no substitute for the live interaction between performer and audience) by Laura Collins-Hughes, The New York Times (7/8/2020)

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Pros and Cons of Hiring an Adwords campaign manager

This is probably one of the most important questions you can ask when it comes to having a successful PPC (pay per click) campaign. Adwords campaigns that are managed by business owners who are not 100% familiar with Google’s system have up to 80% more chances of failure.

Choosing to self-manage your Google Adwords campaign can be a good decision if you know what you are doing. On the other hand, if you are not certainly that you know how to maximize your impact, it is wiser to hire a professional and experienced Adwords campaign manager.

Here are some questions to ask yourself in order to determine if hiring a professional Adwords manager is the best decision in your specific case.

1. Am I Getting Any Results? AKA: Conversions

If you are not getting the expected results, you should probably try something new – hire an Adwords campaign manager or management company. The fact of the matter is that Adwords really works if used correctly. Hence, if your Adwords campaign is not preforming optimally and generating you a steady return, you are probably missing something important.

2. Have You Taken Any AdWords PPC Training?

If you have not watched all the free videos about Google Adwords and you have not attended the advanced Google Adwords workshop or the Affiliate Summit (or any other Google Adwords workshops), chances are that you know almost nothing about Google’s PPC platform.

An experienced and trustworthy Adwords campaign manager has definitely read a lot about Adwords and has taken part in many workshops and most likely is certified by Google.

3. Are You Tracking Your Campaign ROI?

If you are able to track your campaign results, you are already two steps ahead of everyone else, as you know what ads are working. However, very few people manage to track their own results successfully. If you are not part of them, it is time to call in a pro.

Theres just no way to optimize a campaign without knowing what keywords are making you money and which ones you are taking a bath on.


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Chai Chet Restaurants – Our Guide

UPDATED for 2019-20 Season

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Chai Chet restaurants tend to appear and disappear with the seasons but you’ll still find plenty of choices at reasonable prices.

At the top end of VJ Plaza, the highly respected Italian restaurant Marco is one of the best of its kind on the island, with the affable host serving up homemade pastas, pizzas and mains – plenty of good reviews in Tripadvisor.

Also in the vicinity, the Thai and western food at Yes, Wow and Goya Cafe are popular with those staying at the likes of Coconut Beach Resort – it’s pretty standard fare but keenly priced. Opposite the supermarket side door, there is an excellent noodle soup restaurant, with options ranging through from clear to tom yam, pork blood and yentafo (the bright pink one). Next door is a good cheap Thai style diner.

J and G Bistro across the street from VJ Plaza is another hybrid restaurant with a wide menu, also offering breakfast and coffee. By Thai Hill Garden Resort, Nhong Korean BBQ has an open air buffet from 229bt per person and you’ll also find a couple of curry and rice shops nearby along the front. In amongst the beer bars, King Pizza is recommended too. At the far northern end of Chai Chet, Max’s Bistro remains popular with the expats, in particular its pasta nights and own unique BBQ.

Down on the sand at the southern end, Flora i Talay and Koh Chang Paradise have some decent in house diners which are worth a visit but the restaurant to look our for is up by the road, Nong Bua Seafood, next door to Pajamas Hostel. It’s the same owners as the one in White Sand Beach but this branch is more of a chic affair much in contrast to the delightful shabbiness of its sister. Like Marco, this is one of the best restaurants in the area, with our review here. Incidentally, opposite is also a very good somtam diner, the one with the the chickens turning on the spit.

For a decent cup of coffee, the Koh Chang chain, Marin, has a large and wonderfully cooling a/c shop on the corner of Coconut Plaza.

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Nong Bua Seafood

Per Person: B-BBB

At the southern end by the beach walkway, sister restaurant to the hugely successful White Sand version, same menu of classic Thai dishes centring on seafood at great prices, but this one is a very relaxed and chic affair. Very popular with locals and tourists alike. Full bar, some western choices.

Per Person: BB-BBB

Tucked away in VJ Plaza in the middle of Chai Chet, highly recommended Italian restaurant run by Marco. Fresh lasagne, ravioli, pizzas, sangria, tiramisu, homemade bread and a friendly taverna style atmosphere – a little corner of Italy.

Max’s Bistro

Per Person: BB-BBB

At the far northern end as you enter the Chai Chet area, South African run bistro offering Western and Thai food, with weekly pasta nights (Tuesdays) and bbq specials (Fridays). Wide selection of grilled meats, salad bar, fresh breads. The place to go for a western fix. Popular. Full Bar.

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‘Learning Never Ends in Photography,’ says Street Photographer John Lawrence Rapisardi

New York based photographer John Lawrence Rapisardi is an American born on 19th January,1993 who believes that photography is a field where learning never ends. He justifies it with his own experience in the pursuit. John comes from a family of writers, poets, and intellectuals from Sicily, Italy.

“I discovered my interest in design and photography at a very young age. Since then I have swayed creatively been different hobbies but in more recent years I landed with photography and have stuck with it,” says a passionate Rapisardi.

John Rapisardi’s love for photography takes him places as he spends a lot of his time traveling the world to develop his photography skills. In the past five years or so, he has explored the Middle East, the Caribbean, South America and Europe and has put together a well-received body of work.

There is no set curriculum when it comes to photography. It is a complicated field where experience is the only real teacher. Rapisardi understands this well and always considers himself a student who is continually evolving. This attitude allows him to learn from everything.

“I usually focus on my portrait and fashion photography because I find it to be a little more interesting. I like when I am able to engage with a subject and collaborate. Travel photography is a little more static to me. I don’t really travel places just to take photos, I just always have my camera with me.”

Rapisardi has a few portrait and fashion collaborations planned which will be released after New York Fashion Week. He is a notable budding creative in the city and someone to watch for in 2020 in the field.

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Meet World’s Youngest Serial Entrepreneur Akhilendra Sahu

We are living in a world of Technology, where everything is online. This virtual age has created many opportunities for businesses, and it has opened all the doors of success for the companies who can reach every corner of the world with the help of Technology.

Today Individuals and businesses want to become famous on the online platform and why not when you get millions of people from different corners of the world. It allows you to make a big name, and with that, you had the opportunity to earn big bucks.

We have seen many entrepreneurs worldwide who have stamped their authority with their apps and E-commerce websites. With that, Digital Media Marketing has grown immensely and its importance too. We are seeing lots of experts today making their name worldwide, but out of the experts, very few are Indians who are making good bucks and name worldwide with their excellent digital media marketing work. Out of that few, we came across one real find of India who has stunned everyone with his Digital Media Marketing skills Akhilendra Sahu. This young lad comes in the few names from India who has taken Indian flag at world level with pride by giving some extraordinary results online with his strategies.

Ahilendra Sahu is founder & ceo of ASTNT Technologies Pvt Ltd (An IT Company) , Technical Next Technologies (WebHosting Company), FoodChilli (Exclusive Restaurants & Online Food Delivery) & Recently he started his new company “InfinityFame”. He is becoming a new leader of Social media not only in India but globally. His company InfinityFame.Com has become a big brand which is working for top celebrities, influencers and public figures. If you search “Youngest Serial Entrepreneur.” Akhilendra Sahu’s name comes in the top list of Google search. He is setting a benchmark for newcomers in digital media marketing.

Akhilendra Sahu and his team are doing fabulous work in Digital Marketing. Akhilendra doesn’t follow the trend in Digital Marketing, he is becoming part of changing pattern in Digital Marketing, as he always updates himself with new techniques in Digital Marketing.

It is not easy to cope up with new challenges online, as India was not known for Digital Marketing till now. But the emergence of Akhilendra Sahu and his company InfinityFame.Com is a good sign for newcomers who want to learn Digital Marketing. This lad is setting a great example to young ones in India how to grow in the world of Technology.

India has always given top names to the world in every field and now its time to add the signature of an Indian in Digital Marketing too. After a few big names in Digital Marketing Akhilendra Sahu is the only name which is signing high in Digital Marketing from India.

Akhilendra Sahu has been working for top companies and Individuals for the past few years, and he has given some fantastic results to them. Small to big brands Akhilendra Sahu this lad is working with everyone in India and abroad.

He has become a household name in the Digital Marketing world because of extraordinary skills. He is an influencer of Digital Marketing and only name of India who is signing high at world level. His fan following is growing at a rapid pace; he is accompanied by small to big names on social media with thousands of fans online.

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Orlando Bloom Shares What He’s Most Looking Forward To About Having a Newborn

With all of us, Orlando Bloom is very much excited to experience this new phase of his life with Katy Perry. Orlando is expecting a daughter with his fiance and we cannot wait for the angel.

He said expressing his delight that he is excited. Orlando says it feels like a magical time for him since his daughter is coming into this world. The actor explained in an interview with Good Morning America on Thursday.

Orlando is also looking forward to all the late nights when he has to wake up and tend the baby. He jokes about holding the bottle specifying that it will be a breastfeed bottle thing.

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LONDON, ENGLAND – AUGUST 28: Orlando Bloom attends the London Premiere of “Carnival Row” at The Ham Yard Hotel on August 28, 2019 in London, England. (Photo by David M. Benett/Dave Benett/WireImage)

He continues saying how he is looking for all those quiet nights with his sleeping baby. ‘I’m looking forward to that because I love those quiet times at night when the world feels like it’s asleep and you’ve got a sleeping baby,’ he said.

Orlando explains the quiet times with you and your family nursing the baby is what he is looking forward to. He talks about being present in the moment and doing whatever to nurture the little life that he has in his arms.

Thankfully, Orlando is not new to this experience of fatherhood. He has an eight-year-old son with his ex Miranda Kerr.

Katy Perry had announced their pregnancy most gracefully. She unveiled her baby bump in her music video and gave the world a happy surprise. Katy was wearing a white gown, caressing her baby bump in the video for the single Never Worn White.

By April, the couple held a gender reveal party where they found out they were having a baby girl. Katy and Orlando got engaged on Valentine’s day in 2019.

The couple is excited about this new phase in their lives. They have a few names in mind but they want her to tell them what her name would be. Katy revealed recently that they will not be deciding on a name until the baby arrives. The pair wants to see which name fits their baby.

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Katy revealed recently on Mix 1041 that her baby will decide the name herself. She further says that she will look at her baby and will realize instantly, the name that fits her.

“We have yet to decide specifically on her name because, I think, we’ve got options and she’ll tell us. I’ll look at her and go, ‘Oh yeah yeah, you are her, you are that’”, Katy explains.

The new mom-to-be also revealed the emotional rollercoaster she is in during pregnancy. Katy later explains all the emotions that she feels. She reveals that she has been under every emotion during this time.

“I’ve been every emotion under the sun,” she says. Katy further explains saying she felt overwhelmed, anxious, happy, overjoyed, and depressed too. I’ve been all of it,” Katy says.

She further states that this is a wild time to bring someone into this world. Katy continues saying how even before this year started people were thinking how uncertain it all is. Now she describes being in the world as feeling “shaky boots”.

The singer also reveals how eager both her and Orlando are to become parents. They cannot wait to hold the little bundle of joy.

She further says that little girls are always supposed to be daddy’s little girl. Katy wonders how it is going to be saying, “we’ll see”.

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Halloween Heartbreak Ends Regals Soccer Season

On a gusty Halloween evening, the No. 2 California Lutheran University women’s soccer team lost 2-1 to the No. 3 Occidental Tigers on Wednesday, Oct .31 in the semifinals of the Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Association playoffs.

Occidental was able to break through for the first goal in the 12th minute after a controversial tackle left sophomore forward Dylan Wensley a great look on goal. Wensley recovered the ball in the middle of the field from Regal’s junior defender Riley Martin and shot a high-arching shot that landed in the top left corner of the goal, just past the outstretched hands of sophomore goalkeeper Gabby Flores.

Looking for an equalizer in the 27th minute, first-year defender Danielle Vis got the ball on the left side and was able to dribble past the defense and get a shot off with her left foot that missed just high of the goal.

Following a few more opportunities to score, the Regals went into the half trailing 1-0.

Four minutes into the second half, the Regals looked to get things going as sophomore defender Alexandra Fagerberg was able to steal the ball and quickly pass to senior forward Ryley Settles on the right side. Settles dribbled into the box and took a shot from the right corner that deflected off the defense and landed in possession of senior midfielder Emily Williams who took a shot that was blocked by the goalkeeper.

In the 59th minute, Occidental missed a great opportunity of their own thanks to great defense by the Regals. After a cross from the corner forced Flores out of goal, the Tigers shot on an open goal but junior defender Zandra Stewart was able to bicycle kick the ball away before the ball crossed the line.

The Tigers responded again five minutes later with another goal into the top right corner from a free kick taken just outside the box to push their lead to 2-0.

Not finished without a fight, the Regals got on the board with just three minutes left as a handball in the box gave the Regals a penalty kick. Fagerberg took the shot and scored into the middle of the net to move the score to 2-1.

With one last chance to equalize, Settles took the ball down the middle of the field with 15 seconds remaining and got a shot off under pressure that missed just high as time expired on the clock.

“It’s sucks to end on a note like this, but I’m just really proud of everyone coming together and carrying us through this season,” Williams said on her final game at Cal Lutheran. “This has been the best four years of my life and I’ve made so many new friends, but I know that they’re gonna kill it in the year to come.”

Only graduating six seniors, the Regals will come back next year carrying 23 returners prepared to continue where they left off.

“We just have to learn from this year and move on,” Fagerberg said. “We’ll miss the seniors for sure, but we’re positive moving forward and we’re gonna be better next year.”

Assistant Coach Jonathan Decker said he was frustrated with the loss, but also excited about the years to come.

“It’s always tough to end like this, but I’m proud of this team and we’re excited about what we’re gonna have back next year,” Decker said. “We’re really creating a good soccer program here and we’re gonna play the game the right way and this year showed that we’re definitely on the right track.”

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Roosters calling for players to commit

With just weeks until the start of the Group 11 Rugby League 2016 season, the Cobar Senior Rugby League committee is calling on all interested players to make a commitment and sign up now to play.

Club secretary Jessica Claus said while they have had 20-30 players from week to week at league training, many of those are shift workers and the club will need more to be able field competitive Under 18s, Reserve and First Grade league teams this season.

“We’ve got good numbers registered for the Ladies LeagueTag team and it’s looking like being a very strong team this season,” she said.

“We need to get more league players on board and they need to register now.”

Jessica said with the season starting in only two months, the club is facing a real crisis.

“We have a strong committee and we are committed to the club,” she said.

“We just need the players to also commit.”

She said while they expect to lose possibly four core league players in the wake of the recent Endeavor redundancies, she believes there are still a number of potential players out there.

“We’ve got a lot of talent in this town.

“It doesn’t matter if players are unfit, we can get them fit,” she said.

Jessica said the committee has alerted the Group 11 Rugby League executive of their situation.

She said Group 11 is keen to help get the club back on track.

“There are a number of other teams in the group who are struggling, especially fielding under 18s teams.

“Ross McDermott and Paul Loxley are coming out for our crisis meeting and to help with registrations,” she said.

“They are supporting us and are keen to help us get the club back up and running to how it should be.

“We hope the community will also get behind us.

“The club is a big part of this town.

“We’ve lost netball and AFL, we can’t lose football as well,” she said.

The club is calling for all interested players, sponsors and supporters to go along to a meeting tomorrow night at the Cobar Bowling & Golf Club to help avert a crisis.

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2014 Moreau Naudet Chablis Vaillons 1er cru

Not sure if complexity in wine flavours is necessarily a good thing but when all the smells and tastes are sumptuous, well then I’m happy to cope with the competition for my attention. Opening with almost caramel toffee, bit of aldehyde, damn cork perhaps? Quickly turns to creme brûlée, then wild waxy honey, quince and ripe exotic citrus. Twists and turns with air, a little hazelnut through the middle, bruised apples and pears, finally a yoghurt tang and wet chalky soil. Power packed but so self contained by pith and mouthwatering acidity. Great white Burgundy from the north end of things. Essence of Chablis, the world’s most delicious Chardonnay surely?

12.5% alcohol. Cork, they flirted with Diam in the past too, doh. About $80 I think.

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The global peer-to-peer Bitcoin (BTC) marketplace, Paxful, and Medellin-based blockchain company, CoinLogiq, are joining forces to bring 20 new crypto ATMs to Colombia and, later, 25 to Peru.

Colombians will have access to 20 new ATMs

In a press release shared with Cointelegraph on Sept. 5, Paxful announced that it is joining forces with CoinLogiq to bring 20 new ATMs to several points of interest to the main Colombian cities such as Bogota and Medellín.

The partnership between the two companies will reportedly encourage people to withdraw digital currencies in the area of Medellin and other cities in Colombia and will offer customers the ability to buy Bitcoin using different payment methods, such as online transfers, gift cards and other more traditional methods like cash and credit and debit cards.

Colombia is experiencing a crucial moment for its cryptocurrency industry. Due to the clear interest Colombians have in adopting digital currencies, the Republic Bank is already part of the Distributed Ledger Technology initiative to assure greater security and tranquillity to the growing rate of cryptocurrency users.

CoinLogiq’s role

Ray Youssef, CEO and co-founder of Paxful stated that he is proud to be working together with Coinlogiq. He added:

“Latin America has real heroes in the CoinLogiq crew. They genuinely care and are focused on real use cases. This is what makes bitcoin real and a part of people’s daily lives. We are proud to work with them,”

CoinLogiq CEO, Dwayne Golden Sr. shared his hopes that the alliance with Paxful will encourage more such relationships for other global leaders within the crypto community. He continued by saying:

“I am now even more convinced that mass adoption will not happen without the influence of the kind of synergy that can now exist as a result of this Paxful and CoinLogiq joint venture.”

Magdiela Rivas, Paxful’s Manager for Latin America, added that this partnership will also be responsible for installing another 25 crypto ATMs in Peru.

80% of Colombians open to investing in crypto

Cointelegraph reported on Aug. 16 that according to a recent survey commissioned by Paxful, an astounding 86.5% of Colombians are familiar with cryptocurrency and 80% are open to investing in the digital asset class.

Close to 86% added that they are convinced that crypto-specific regulation would be necessary in Colombia.


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Bagpipe chanter, 1897

The dedication on this broken chanter reads: 'The smashed chanter on which Piper Findlater VC played at the charge of the Gordons on Dargai Heights Oct 20 1897'.

George Findlater of 1st Battalion The Gordon Highlanders was awarded the Victoria Cross (VC) during the Tirah Field Force's assault on the heights of Dargai. During the attack, the force suffered heavy casualties in the open ground in front of the Afridi's positions. The assault faltered, but eventually the ridge was stormed by the Gordons and 1st/2nd Gurkhas to the sound of Findlater's bagpipes. He had continued to play despite being shot in both feet and unable to stand. Under heavy enemy fire, he sat up and played the bagpipes to encourage his comrades in their difficult, uphill attack.

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Royal Marine Commandos withdrawing from Suez, November 1956

Photograph, Suez Crisis (1956).

In November 1956, British and French forces invaded Egypt in collusion with Israel. This was a reaction to Colonel Gamal Abdel Nasser's nationalisation of the Franco-British Suez Canal Company. The Royal Marine Commandos played a major role in the British military deployment. 40 and 42 Commando undertook amphibious landings at Port Said, while 45 Commando carried out the world's first helicopter-borne assault.

From album of 60 photographs compiled by an officer of The Glider Pilot Regiment, possibly Capt R E Pink, during Operation Musketeer, Nov-Dec 1956.

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The Berklee Popular Music Institute (BPMI) is a one-year program (fall, spring, and summer) that provides practical access to high levels of the music industry with a focus on the thriving concert festival circuit. Students will learn how to navigate careers in the ever-changing music industry as they hone their skills in communication, marketing, promotion, and live music. Curriculum activities are designed in collaboration with today's top industry figures to reflect contemporary trends and practices in the music industry.

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The capstone of the curriculum includes opportunities for students to participate at prestigious festivals and industry conferences.  Students will be required to travel to festivals such as Lollapalooza, Osheaga, the Governors Ball, and Music Midtown, where they will act as artist managers, production and tour managers, and artist media representatives. Students will also be required to attend and work at some of the largest live music industry events such as the Billboard Live Music Summit and Pollstar Live

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Marijuana policies are changing, but they are not always based on scientific knowledge

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By Diana H. Fishbein, Elizabeth Long and Sharon Kingston, opinion contributor for The Hill

Misconceptions regarding marijuana distort perceptions about its hazards and benefits. While marijuana remains on schedule 1 of the federal Controlled Substances Act, a number of state-level laws are changing the policy landscape. However, these changes are not always informed by decades of scientific knowledge.

Incorporating existing science into the policy narrative promises to provide critical opportunities to make course corrections and avoid policies that are neither too restrictive nor permissive.

A critical issue in marijuana policymaking is whether marijuana is addictive. Extensive scientific research has determined that marijuana does, in fact, have dependence-producing properties, activating several neurochemical “reward” systems of the brain, including the opioid system). Importantly, using marijuana also significantly increases risk of using other substances and developing a substance use disorder (SUD)).

Teenagers are at heightened risk for experimenting with drugs, and the earlier they use, the greater the risk for eventual dependence. Marijuana’s regular use during adolescence leads to dependence at higher rates than alcohol and, once dependent, adolescents experience a wide range of adverse effects

The brain is rapidly maturing during adolescence making it vulnerable to environmental influences that can alter the course of brain development. Consequently, chronic and/or heavy marijuana use in adolescence has been associated with a number of developmental delays. For example, teens who use marijuana heavily often show deficits in a range of cognitive functions (e.g., memory, reasoning, attention, concentration, decision-making).

Also, marijuana use can exert negative impacts on mental health, by triggering psychotic disorders like schizophrenia in susceptible individuals, and worsening other mental health problems (e.g., bipolar disorder, substance abuse, social anxiety). We also see an increased incidence of suicidal ideation, attempts and completion

Importantly, even regular use (not only chronic/heavy) may disrupt healthy neurodevelopment. And the earlier marijuana use begins, the worse the outcomes the worse the outcomes.

Heavy use of marijuana also affects the reproductive system, potentially stalling development of reproductive systems, leading to a lag in brain areas responsive to the male hormone, testosterone, as well as problems with sexual performance.

The real concerns for teenagers are not death from overdose but rather impediments to short and long term functioning and its potential for SUD. Yet, there is a broad lack of awareness of these consequences

Although legislation restricts possession of marijuana by minors, recent more permissive drug laws are leading to a greater number of teens who perceive marijuana use as harmless. Decreases in perceived harm is directly associated with increased drug-taking.

Formulating policies that are consistent with scientific evidence will greatly increase their effectiveness. Several policy recommendations are offered here for consideration:

  1. Invest resources in delaying the age of initiation of marijuana use past the age when the brain is still under construction (~ age 25) to reduce impact on neurodevelopment. Thus, risk for SUD would decline and the cascading negative effects on health would be prevented.
  2. Importantly, fund and widely implement a high-quality public education campaign to inform youth, parents, adults who work with youth, and healthcare providers about the dangers of marijuana use during childhood and adolescence.
  3. Support screening, early detection and intervention. Focus both on at-risk youth who have not yet initiated to avert pathways to use and youth who have already begun using marijuana to avoid negative consequences including SUD.
  4. Update the regulatory structure to keep pace with commercialization applying uniform standards on the types of products that can be sold or marketed to the public.
  5. Support initiatives to reduce stigma related to SUD treatment and increase knowledge regarding marijuana’s effects, thereby encouraging young users to seek treatment.
  6. Invest in research and increase access to marijuana by scientists studying the impact of marijuana on risk for addiction and effects on neurodevelopment in adolescence.

Marijuana has a history replete with ill-informed notions about its effects. Fortunately, recent decades have produced a substantial body of evidence on marijuana to guide our policy decisions guide our policy decisions.

Diana Fishbein, Ph.D., professor and program director, The Pennsylvania State University and co-director of the National Prevention Science Coalition (NPSC). Elizabeth Long, Ph.D, postdoctoral scholar, Edna Bennett Pierce Prevention Research Center, Pennsylvania State University and member of NPSC. Sharon Kingston, Ph.D., associate professor of psychology, Dickinson College and Secretary of the NPSC.

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hpb_grousing02I don’t “get” HPB and their pricing on comics. They are a used-books store, firstly. Their very premise is “everything is half-off the publisher’s list price” (printed cover price in most cases). Meaning that reasonable expectation is that you walk in, and everything is half-off. Not “pull a random book that’s appealing and discover it’s full price or 150% cover price or 200% cover price.”

Because they are a generalized books store, and have numerous “sections,” they are not a subject-speciality store. You want historical reference? They have it–but they’re not a “Historical Reference” shop. Books on pets/animals? Section for that, too–but they’re not an “Animals books” shop. Religious texts? Sure, they have a section for those, too–but they’re not a “Religous books” store. Vinyl records–yeah, they have those as well, but they’re not a “Record Store.” CDs, but even Records and CDs, they’re not a “Music Store.” They have DVDs and Blu-Ray, and I’m sure I’ve even seen VHS…yet they’re not a “Movie Store.” So even though they have comics and graphic novels, they are not a “Comic Shop.”

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At least a couple of the HPB locations I’ve been to have had a whole separate section for “Rare,” “First Edition,” “Autographed,” and “Out of Print” books. This works well–this section is a “special” section of the store that provides space for the anomalous pricing…these rare, collectable volumes/editions are outside of the store’s broad, general premise of half-off: this section is where you would expect to find that $100+ signed First Edition of a book from 1892 or such. Or the now-long-out-of-print oversized Marvel Hardcover edition of House of M from 2005 or so.

As such, I find that it is quite reasonable of me to be able to expect that if I’m browsing the general “Graphic Novels/Manga” section of the store (not the Rare/Collectable) section–that everything will be at least half-off. If something is damaged, overly common, donated, or whatever factors lead to it–more than half off is a bonus, and quite acceptable…even though it’s the inverse that drives me batty–finding something less than half-off or even with a price at or above cover price. For me, it only goes one-way: cheaper than half-off = good, less than half-off = bad…and I admit that readily.

hpb_grousing01Typically, the vast majority of their graphic novels and such are well-organized, with four primary categories: DC stuff, Marvel Stuff, manga, and non-DC/non-Marvel/non-Manga. Within those, they tend to be roughly alphabetical, and generally the same series is clustered together with numbered volumes in a series mostly in numerical order. My core complaint here is when the higher-priced “collectable” editions are mixed in…when I get excited about the Batman: The Greatest Stories Ever Told thicker volume being present, it’s a huge turnoff to the store in general to be looking for the $9.99 price thinking it’s a $19.99 volume and finding a sticker indicating that HPB is actually asking $29.99 ($10 above cover price!) because it’s marked as “Out of Print.” If it’s out of print and thus rare and they’re not willing to “let it go” at half-off the cover price…it should not be shelved in with the general stock! I’m not shopping at HPB for rare/out of print stuff, and if it’s not half-off cover price, it is functionally not in stock at all even if the store has a copy present, for my purposes of general browsing.

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Back to my earlier bit about their not being a comic shop: their pricing on single issues. HPB‘s pricing has been erratic and trending toward the ridiculous, and the other day I would escalate it from “ridiculous” to flat-out absurd! Being curious, I checked to see what the single-issue stock was like…and they had a relatively new-looking sign indicating that all comics are $2.00 unless otherwise marked. I do not fault them for setting a “general” price, or a “minimum” price or such, but there are a number of factors that collectively leave me extremely irked essentially “on principle” with that $2 mark. (Among other things, numerous prose books into the mid 1990s were roughly $4 each, so that at the “half price” they would be $2 as vintage items compared to relatively recent comics; let alone 1990s comics that by and large are hardly worth 25 cents apiece). To me, HPB does not “earn” the “legitimacy” with their comics to be asking “top dollar” for them.

I would strongly argue that most single issues of comics from the late 1980s/early 1990s to the early 2000s (if not at this point as recent as 2005 or so) are functionally 25-cent-bin books. Between digital and collected volumes, the single issues hold very little “value,” after their first couple weeks or life of the story they contain. It typically seems to me (and I could be wrong) that in many cases, it’s the long-time comics folks who are adamant about having “the single issues.” I imagine casual fans are happy just to read the stories, and would be content with collected volumes, perhaps moving to single issues if they’re completely caught up from collected volumes to where the only option is the single issues, because the current story has not yet finished for there to BE another collected volume. As such, once the story is in a collected volume, there’s little demand or collectability to the single issues.

hpb_grousing03HPB‘s comics are primarily in open bins to be flipped through. Typically their “priced” issues (the “unless otherwise marked” issues) are at least bagged if not bagged and boarded. So those $2 default-priced issues are the ones that likely were not worth protecting and individually pricing, as well as the ones that are more prone to damage from anyone/everyone “flipping through” the bins, bending covers, ripping/tearing, etc. and damage as sturdy bag/board issues get pushed back in, yanking a cover off, or causing the “loose” issue to be folded under, its bottom folded and the whole thing pulled downward…or tape from the protected issues sticking to a loose cover, etc. Someone simply browsing is more likely to pull a “loose” issue out and flip through it than to attempt to take an issue out from a bag or bag and board (especially if there are signs requesting one not do that).

Aside from being loose and more prone to browsing-damage…these “single issues” are not a curated collection. HPB has some dividers indicating letters of the alphabet, and that’s about the extent of the organization of the issues. The “A” section might start with several issues of Avengers followed by a couple Mighty Avengers and Dark Avengers (“M” section and “D section mixed here with “A”) before getting to an issue of Action Comics Weekly and then some issues of Angel: After the Fall and then an issue of Avengelyne before getting to a bunch of scattered issues of Clone Saga-era Amazing Spider-Man and then 4 out of 5 issues of Amazing Spider-Man: Renew Your Vows and so on. There might be 50 scattered issues of Amazing Spider-Man, but they range from #372 to #595, and are in no discernable order. There’s no telling if there are even any instances, say, of two consecutively-numbered issues…unless one personally goes through all the bins (not even just this “A” section) to pull the issues and then sort by number.

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photo from HPB website, https://www.hpb.com/092

One might be able to–at a glance–see that there are dozens (if not hundreds) of late silver-age or even bronze-age Superman comics (spanning Superman, Action Comics, Superman’s Pal, Jimmy Olsen, Superman’s Girlfriend, Lois Lane, Superboy and the Legion of Super-Heroes, The New Adventures of Superboy, Supergirl, The Daring New Adventures of Supergirl, Adventure Comics Featuring Supergirl, etc). These will be “priced” issues, ranging perhaps $1.75 to $25 or $30 or $35+. And yet… they’re all intermingled, out of order, and so on. Absolutely maddening to even consider seeking one or two specific issues in the mess. And asking even $2/issue let alone the higher collectable prices…but at best you can find most of a given series scattered within a mess of comics whose series titles all begin with the same single letter.

hpb_too_expensive_comics_02At 25 cents or even 50 cents…sure, throw the stuff in loose and let the customer sort it out. You’re not making any significant money of a couple single issues here and there, no need to go to the effort of clear, detailed sorting. I, for one, have no problem with just flipping through several bins of stuff looking for something that is (to me) an unexpected treasure, when I’m “only” out 25 to 50 cents per issue. My effort is made up for by the insignificant price. But once you’re getting to $1 an issue or $2 an issue that’s a much higher, significant bit of money off single issues (and I’ve not seen any HPB location use any “middle-tier” pricing like 75 cents (from the 25 to 50 cents) nor $1.25, $1.50, or $1.75 between $1 and $2!) If I’m paying $1 or $2 per issue, I’m a lot more “serious” about the issues and as such expect the seller (HPB) to take it seriously as well. Have everything in order by series and number within the series. If you think you know enough about comics to know which ones are truly “key” issues worth having a higher price, know as well which version of series go in what order, and which number comes before another number.

Perhaps I overthink it, but…respect the customer. Respect the fact that someone who doesn’t know anything about comics doesn’t care about this particular issue over that particular issue, and thus will have zero interest in laying out $25 when there are sixteen other issues with Superman on the cover for $2 apiece, any one of which works as “a Superman comic for the kiddo.” Meanwhile, anyone who is willing or capable of laying out $25 for a single (not particularly great condition) issue does actually know at least a little bit about comics and that the used-books store is not a comic shop nor is this customer at a convention or other comics specialty location.

photo from HPB website, https://www.hpb.com/077

Additionally, one should know enough to differentiate between printings (at the height of the Death of Superman, the newsstand edition of Superman #75 went for around $10. Past 2010, the fourth printing of this issue–that probably was never “worth” more than about double cover price (or $2.50) certainly is not a $10 issue. In 2016, one should realize that those ridiculous, astronomical prices of certain issues in the 1990s–be it one of the Deathmate issues or the original Gen13 #1 or whatever–were already inflated and inaccurate, more a sales gimmicky thing of Wizard Magazine than much else. Maybe Gen13 #1 for one month in an issue of Wizard was listed as “$40.00,” but 20+ years later, I don’t know (of) anyone who would pay $10 for the single issue (probably not even that for a collected volume of the first 4 or so issues–the first story)!

hpb_too_expensive_comics_03Finally and perhaps most shocking to me recently…”clearance” comics were seen priced at $1 (they were 25 cents or 50 cents as recently as six months ago)…but $1 by tear-away stickers directly on the covers of the comics themselves. Essentially, the comics were being defaced to mark them as “clearance” items…and at $1 apiece. I could sort of see at 25 cents apiece or 50 cents apiece, marking them physically, indicating they’re not the “$2 unless otherwise marked” comics not otherwise marked. But putting stickers on them that are designed to tear apart and not remove simply or cleanly is flat-out insulting.

If things were priced consistently and clearly I would also have less problem…but all of the above taken into consideration, in short, sometimes it looks to me like it’s just someone at HPB looking at an issue or a graphic novel and thinking “hey, I think that was something I “heard” was valuable…better price that higher to not lose out!”

hpb_grousing04I posted recently about a paperback edition of The Irredeemable Ant-Man that I found, priced as expected at half-off the cover price. And yet, by the same apparent “logic” that seems to “mandate” something like Batman: The Greatest Stories Ever Told or a hardcover of Avengers Forever be priced at 150-200% above cover price, the Ant-Man book should have been $10-$20, but it wasn’t. Because who gives a darn about The Irreedeemable Ant-Man compared to Batman or The Avengers?

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22 November 2004 by Richard Chirgwin

ForeScout Launches SecuredWire in Oz

A newly-arrived security vendor is taking what I might call the honeypot principle as the basis of a suite of products designed to overcome the “day zero” problem.

ForeScout Technologies’ SecuredWire is, as general manager Richard Galpin told CommsWorld late last week, designed to focus on the attacker rather than the attack.

Here’s the operation which Galpin described: the ForeScout technology creates a weak “ghost” server outside the corporate firewall. Visible to the Internet, this virtual server will be polled and scanned by potential attackers (very much like a honeypot).

Having identified a weak address and port, the attacker will then try to initiate a conversation with that port, at which point the ForeScout server can capture the attacker’s IP address. It then blocks the address at the firewall for a user-configurable time (since most users are on dynamically-allocated addresses, Galpin said, there’s no point in blocking an ‘attack’ address forever).

While the virtual server has a normal IP address, the ‘real’ SecuredWire server does not. The company’s designed the system to communicate over a private Ethernet connection with the secured side of the network, to prevent attackers identifying the presence of the device.

There are, he said, three possible configurations. A SecuredWire server configured with one NIC – really only suitable for evaluation purposes – will be a fully visible member of the IP network it’s attached to. With two NICs, the device can sniff Internet connections without exposure, using a private IP address on the second NIC to communicate on the secured side of the corporate network.

A third, more secure configuration uses three NICs: one for the stealth sniffer, one for the private network, and the third providing a direct connection to the firewall.

The system can also be used to defend corporate networks against attacks such as worms which have already entered the system (for example, through a laptop). By shutting down only the source of malicious internal traffic, the company claims it can keep networks operational even after some machines have suffered virus or worm infection.

If you’re a pessimist like myself, you will have noticed that there is an attack vector which could be used against ForeScout: hit the system with a large number of attacks, apparently from a large number of originating IP addresses. If successfully used against a SecuredWire-defended e-commerce site, this could act as a denial-of-service attack in which ‘real’ users were unable to pass the address blocks.

However, as Galpin pointed out, this sort of attack depends on the assumption that the attacker knows SecuredWire is in use at the target site. In ‘stealth’ mode, with no IP address except that assigned to the ‘honeypot’ virtual server, finding the device wouldn’t be trivial. And the potential for such an attack, he said, is why the ‘time to live’ of the block is adjustable: an e-commerce site would set a comparatively short block time, to avoid the risk that genuine users might inherit an address that’s currently blocked.


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Sunbird Stepping-stone Project

This project is inspired by a key partner Ingcungcu. Although there are several justifications for the project development and execution, the project major roles can be seen as a) diversification of species b) plant abundance. Diversification of species entails restoring the historical migration routes of Sunbird & Sugarbird to and from Table Mountain. These birds play a major in pollinating Fynbos particularly, Sugar bushes, Proteas, Ericas and bulbs.

This process involves selecting the ‘right’ plant species to plant in priority sites. The right plants herein would mean plants that attract birds. This process is then followed by a routine of bird-monitoring

Photo: Orange-breasted Sunbird by Derek Keats (CC BY-SA)

Cape Flats Sand Fynbos and nectar-rich (Iingcungcu)

Species Notes
Albuca juncifolia Easy to grow
Erica mammosa
Erica verticillata Easy to grow
Lachenalia reflexa Easy to grow
Leucospermum conocarpodendron
Protea burchellii
Protea repens Easy to grow
Salvia lanceolata
Watsonia meriana

Penisula Shale Renosterveld nectar-rich (Iingcungcu)

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Chasmanthe aethiopica Easy to grow
Chasmanthe floribunda Easy to grow
Watsonia spectabilis

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  • 1.  CA Sigle Sign On integration with SAS 9.4

    Broadcom Employee
    Posted 03-26-2018 09:22 AM

    Hi, i need to integrate CA Sigle Sign On with SAS 9.4 Intelligence Platform.

    The SAS Guide provide some direction on how to do that:

    SAS 9.4 integration with CA Single Sign-on depends on two software applications from CA:
    CA Single Sign-onWeb Agent (any version)
    CA Single Sign-on SDK r12.x

    SAS 9.4 support for CA Single Sign-on (formerly known as CA SiteMinder) requires configuring a Web Agent to communicate with SAS Web Server and a custom security module for SAS Web Application Server. SAS provides the custom security module. Successful authentication results in a security token (SMSESSION) being set in the user's web browser cookies. The security module receives the security token in the request and communicates with the policy servers through an API to decode the user credentials from the security token. This works in conjunction with web authentication to integrate with existing CA Single Sign-on environments

    Did someone already tried this solution, do we some documentation from CA that describe in detail this kind of integration?

    Best Regards

  • 2.  Re: CA Sigle Sign On integration with SAS 9.4
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    Broadcom Employee
    Posted 03-27-2018 01:53 PM

    Claudio,  I didn't see in the CA's Runbooks or in this packaged solutions site below anything related to what you are asking.

    Packaged Work Product Catalog for Security Solutions - CA Technologies

    But, of course, somebody in this Community may know if we've any work done with SAS.  Also, you can check with SAS Support.

    In addition, if you need CA's assistance to help architect or design, our CA Services Packaged Work Product team can get in touch with you. The best way is to open a case with CA Support to start that dialogue.

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Investing in an uncertain world -
Symposium and Alumni Networking Reception in Shanghai

Registration is now closed. If you would like to attend, please email alumnievents@city.ac.uk.

Date: Thursday, 14th November 2019
Time: 18:30
Grand Hyatt Shanghai, Jin Mao Tower, 88 Century Avenue, Pudong, Shanghai, China, 200121

City University of London and Cass Business School are pleased to invite alumni to an evening symposium and networking reception in Shanghai. This event - kindly supported by HSBC - is a great opportunity for alumni to find out about the latest news from around campus, engage in stimulating discussion and network with fellow alumni and University members of staff. Beverages and canapés will be served throughout the networking reception. You are welcome to bring a guest.

18:30 Registration, Welcome drinks and Networking

19:30 Welcome by Professor Andrew Stockley, Dean of The City Law School

   Masterclass Investing in an uncertain world by Professor Ian Marsh, Professor of Finance at Cass Business School
   In conversation with Professor Andrew Stockley and Professor Ian Marsh followed by Q&A

21:00 Networking Reception over canapés and drinks

Speaker profiles

Professor Andrew Stockley - Dean at The City Law School

City, University of London appointed Professor Andrew Stockley as its new Dean of the City Law School in November 2018. Prior to his appointment, Professor Stockley was the Dean of Law and member of Auckland University’s Senior Leadership Team (2011-2018). From 2006-2011, Professor Stockley was the Senior Tutor and a Fellow at Brasenose College, Oxford, where he was also a member of the Law Faculty. He undertook his doctorate at the University of Cambridge. The first part of his academic career was spent as a member of the Law Faculty at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch. He is an Honorary Professor of Law at the University of Auckland and a Senior Member of Brasenose College, Oxford.

 Andrew Stockley

Professor Ian Marsh - Professor of Finance; Module Leader – International Finance at Cass Business School

Professor Ian Marsh primarily works in the areas of international finance and financial economics. He has analysed a range of issues related to foreign exchange markets, pricing in credit risk markets, and the market microstructures of several different asset classes. He has consulted for financial institutions on international equity allocation and exchange rate valuation models, and has worked with the Bank of Finland to examine the implications of credit risk transfer innovations.
The co-editor or co-author of two books, Handbook of Exchange Rates (Wiley) and Exchange Rate Modelling (Springer), Professor Marsh has also contributed chapters to more than a dozen academic books about foreign exchange and international monetary policy. He publishes extensively in leading journals, including the Journal of Finance, the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis and the Journal of Monetary Economics. Professor Marsh serves on the editorial board of the Review of Economics and Institutions.
The Institute for Quantitative Research (INQUIRE) awarded Professor Marsh the INQUIRE Prize for Research for his paper (co-authored with Richard Payne) on short sales and market quality in the UK. Originally published in the Journal of Banking and Finance, the paper received considerable attention in the press, including coverage in the Financial Times and several European financial newspapers. He was also awarded the Financial Management Association European Conference best asset pricing and investments paper award for his co-authored work on currency regimes and the carry trade.
Professor Marsh has taught classes at undergraduate, masters, MBA and PhD levels and is currently developing a module on international finance to be delivered on the new on-line Cass Global MBA. He has been course director of the MSc in Finance and the Cass Finance PhD and is currently director of the suite of Cass undergraduate courses in finance
Before joining Cass Business School, Professor Marsh served on the faculty of the University of Strathclyde and has been a Senior Research Fellow the Judge Business School, University of Cambridge, and a research manager at the Bank of England. Earlier in his career, he worked for the International Monetary Fund, and in the City of London as an international banker and financial market economist.

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Who is the graffiti big dog on your local motorway and major A road bridges?

In fact here I am talking about him on a tour

Anco seems to rule Belfast. What a lad

That’s so cool! Never fails to raise a smile as we drive off the M60 near Northenden to be greeted by ‘BUMBAG’ in six foot high lettering.

Used to see Bloodaxe quite a lot going through South Yorkshire on the train

Just looked him up and this is the man himself

This guy.

He did one at Selhurst station.

Also there is a lot of good street art in Croydon.

Run DMC.

Barely alive Clive

In Haslemere during the late 90s-mid 00s there was a turf war between ‘Roil’ (royal) and ‘Dair’ (dare). Was always Roil

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Maybe that is their name? Or even better, they are actually a whale.

dunno but in town here I think it used to be the Get Money Cru!

literally came here to say DFUQ (on the basis that it’s the only graffiti tag i remember seeing in more than one place in the local area). am i remembering correctly that you aren’t that far from bracknell @Balonz ? HELCH hasn’t made it this far yet

when i was a kid it was çeed. i googled them a while ago when it randomly popped into my head and found their soundcloud

Helch has ruined GIVE PEAS A CHANCE and for that I will forever be Helch’s enemy

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Yeah not too far, I’m in Surrey but DFUQ’s reach is great. Helch is more M25.

When we drive up the M61 then M6 to the Lakes there’s a lot of environmentalist graffiti on bridges giving people a hard time for using cars. To these enviro-punks I say fuck off, individual motorists can’t be to blame for the really shite and really expensive public transport.

The Pies The Pies

This sexi artist

reading this book at the moment which has a bit about DEAN and how he got way further out than youd expect him to

think it was a @scout recommendation, if not it’s prime scout territory

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Wow, amazing !

I heard somewhere he had some fairly radical politics but I’m not sure how true that is


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UPDATE: As of April 30th 9:59 AM PDT, this contest has ended. Stay tuned for the announcement of all 80+ winners!

Today marks the beginning of our biggest swag contest ever! We’re running a MONTH long challenge with over 80 chances to win some fresh Cisco Meraki swag.

How it works

As of today, certain actions you take in the community will earn you points. Those points will enter you to win a smattering of rad prizes. You needn’t opt in — simply taking one of these point-earning actions will do:

  • Reply to any topic or blog post — 5 points
  • Start a topic (e.g. ask a question, pose a discussion point) — 5 points

To optimize the bang for your buck, writing high-quality posts can earn you even more points:

  • Receive a kudo — 7 points
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As you can see, the more helpful your action to the community, the more points you receive!

There are 3 tiers that you can reach based on the number of points you amass. Within each tier, at the end of the month, we’ll use a complex algorithm for selecting winners (a hat) to receive swag as outlined below:

  • Tier 1 requires 30 points and will have 50 randomly selected winners who’ll receive a custom, limited-edition “I Speak Meraki” Pin

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That means that, over the course of this month, you could write just 6 replies or author just 3 solutions anywhere in the community and be entered to win one of these:Screen Shot 2019-03-25 at 4.36.31 PM.png

How will I know how I’m doing?

To keep you all up to date on your progress, every Friday I’ll post a list of everyone who has reached Tier 1, Tier 2, and Tier 3.

When are the winners chosen?

On April 30th at 10 am PDT, the contest will end. We’ll then randomly select winners for each tier (50 for Tier 1, 25 for Tier 2, and 10 for Tier 3) and we’ll also draw the lucky winner of the GRAND PRIZE.

We’ll announce each of the winners here, so be sure to stay tuned!

More details:

  • Promotion period: Tuesday, April 2nd, 2019 at 10am PDT through Tuesday, April 30th, 2019 at 9:59am PDT
  • Up to three possible entries per community member: Each time you progress a tier, your entry remains in the tier below as well (meaning more chances to win stuff!). If you are randomly selected to win in two or three separate tiers, you’ll receive only the prize from the highest level tier. If you are selected to receive the Grand Prize, this will be in addition to any tier-level prizes
  • Shipping limitations: We can only ship prizes to residents of these Eligible Countries
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Any chance we can get some swag before Avengers: Endgame?  Meraki; representing on Friday!

Looking forward to my new MV12 Camera! Thank you for keeping it interesting @MeredithW!

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Ready to play! #merakiswag

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Feeling a camera and 5 years licence coming on! Looking forward to seeing how this is able to be integrated with the API backend!

Amazing!! i watch Game of Thrones through my meraki Wireless

Who Else?

"Dawg it" Never let your computer know when you're in a hurry.

Shot Meraki!!  Love it!!

great - really cool products

Excellent 🙂

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Exciting 😁

MERAKI 4 THE WIN! Hell Yeah!

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Way to go!

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OK - please swag me! I am swagless...
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Getting noticed

Hey! I've already received prizes here in Brazil, why not anymore at least for Tier 1 to 3 ? ;/

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Excellent Good luck to everyone.😉

Great Idea!!

This is great! Wish I knew earlier 🙂

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I would like to send Audience Stream data to Trade Desk. For that I need the Trade Desk Cookie Matching Service Tag. I found a documentation about it but I would like to know if Trade Desk has to privde a cookie for this or how do I get the cookie utag_main_ttd_uuid? Is this set by Tealium? For me it is important to know if I only have to implement everything in the documentation or if I have to do any additional things?

Trade Desk Cookie Matching Service - requirements

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Hi @SKammerlocher

I assume this is the documentation that you found:

For it to work, The Trade Desk will have had to set a cookie, but it's 3rd party so may have been set from a visit to a completely different website.  As long as a cookie from The Trade Desk is present, this method should work.

If there isn't a cookie already, it may be possible to use The Trade Desk tag to create one, as long as you have a valid account.