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Applicants to the Kelowna Feldenkrais Teacher Training Program must be 19 years of age or over. Prior experience with the Feldenkrais Method, individual lessons, group classes, and readings are preferred but interest and maturity are essential. Applicants will have attained the maturity and focus in life that will be a suitable foundation for entry into the Kelowna training program.
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Our Work
Weekly / Monthly Meetings
- Weekly outreach (Tuesday evenings)
- Monthly drop-in at Flushing Workers Center
- Bi-weekly Core Collective calls
- Monthly General Meetings / AAPI Migrant Workers Coalition Meeting
- Weekly dinners, outings, art, solidarity actions, and other sex worker-only programming
Main Projects:
- Crisis Response Network: ICE / Know-Your-Rights Collaboration with Alexandre Law & New Sanctuary Coalition, immigration bail fund, ICE court accompaniment (discussion in process), referrals to Womankind and other vetted service providers (Red Umbrella Certification)
- Migrant Sex Worker Oral History Project / labor conditions survey project (with Dr. Elena Shih – Brown University)
- Survivor Leadership / Worker-Leader Workshops (Worker-Leader 8-week training institute, funded by Third Wave Sex Worker Giving Circle)
- Coast-to-Coast Chinatown (March 2020, Red Canary Song hosting Coast-to-Coast nation-wide + Canada conference, with training in outreach to migrant massage workers, and changing anti-trafficking narrative to sex worker labor rights)
Long-Term Projects
- DecrimNY – In coalition with other organizations across the city to decriminalize sex work through the Stop Violence in the Sex Trades Act. We are also participating in the campaign to investigate Vice NYPD corruption, and ban the profiling and arrest of trans people of color (Walking While Trans bill).
- New NYC Worker Center Federation – with Freedom to Thrive, National Domestic Workers Alliance, Street Vendor Project, and other migrant workers projects; exploring portability of benefits for migrant workers who are unbanked, and looking at cooperative models. Supported by Assemblymember Ron Kim and NY State Asian Pacific American Task Force.
- RCS Mobile health van: medical care as alternative to policing in anti-trafficking (Zil Goldstein, Callen-Lorde — discussing collaboration with Planned Parenthood).

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Three years ago, the news spread throughout the world about the spread of the almost incurable Ebola fever. Now they talk less about it, but there is still no medicine against the disease. Therefore, the creation of drugs to combat the virus is still relevant – this is done at the Novosibirsk Institute of Organic Chemistry named after N.N. Vorozhtsov SB RAS jointly with the State Scientific Center of Virology and Biotechnology Vector, the publication Science in Siberia .
Filoviruses Marburg and Ebola are usually studied in parallel – because of the almost identical structure. Both cause high mortality, are transmitted through body fluids, and against them there are no registered medications. In all cases, symptoms do not appear immediately (after about 7-10 days), and all this time a person does not suspect anything, infecting others.
Against these microorganisms, a vaccine already exists: a drug based on antigens or weakened parts of the virus. However, this is not a cure, but prevention: even if the vaccination was done in a timely manner, it does not always help. To effectively combat the disease, scientists from the NIOK SB RAS plan to use inhibitors – substances that block one or another stage of the life cycle of the pathogenic organism.
Typically, the inhibitor is inserted into the virus or binds, for example, to its vital proteins. In a pathogenic organism, everything works like a clock: the slightest interference can lead to disruption of work and cause death. The grant of the RNF was allocated to the development of new effective antiviral drugs with a broader spectrum of activity.
"When a virus enters the body, it goes through several stages: attachment to the host's cell, penetration, reproduction and access to another cage," says Candidate of Chemistry Anastasiya Sokolova, a researcher at the NIOH SB RAS. "We are not focused on a specific stage: the main thing is to destroy the virus."
To create inhibitors, scientists chose two substances: camphor and borneol. The first in its pure form does not exhibit antiviral properties, but if it is added to it, making changes in the structure, it is possible to obtain many compounds against various diseases. Earlier it was confirmed: camphor and borneol derivatives show pronounced antiviral activity against influenza. Recently, Siberian researchers have conducted experiments showing that camphor-based compounds inhibit the Marburg virus on pseudovirus systems (based on recombinant viral particles that are physiologically virtually identical to natural, but biologically safe). Similarity with Ebola suggests a high probability of victory over both microorganisms.
"So far, experiments have been conducted only on pseudovirus systems containing surface glycoproteins (complex proteins) responsible for the entry of the virus into the cell," explains the researcher. "This approach is safer, and if the compound inhibits this system, there are prerequisites for victory over the pathogenic agent."
In order to carry out experiments directly with the Marburg and Ebola viruses, the laboratory of the highest biosafety class BSL-4 (Biosafety level) is needed: in Russia such is only available in Novosibirsk at the State Research Center for Virology and Biotechnology Vector. Such studies are very expensive, so only the most promising compounds are tested on real viruses. For this, scientists first synthesize libraries – structurally similar compounds based on borneol or other reagents. After these substances are transferred to biological research, and on their basis are allocated potential inhibitors that can send "fight" with the real virus.
"It's difficult to answer exactly how these compounds are fighting the virus, because the research has just begun," Anastasia Sokolova adds. – In order to more or less understand the mechanism of action of the drug against the flu, it took us about five years. Here we work only a year, and while the task is to confirm the effectiveness of the connections. On cells, this has already been done, but on guinea pigs – not yet, so it's too early to talk about clinical trials. "
Another important benefit of such a study is the prevention of possible bioterrorist attacks: the deliberate use of viruses or bacteria as a means of causing massive diseases.
So, after the completion of the global eradication of smallpox on the Earth and the abolition of vaccination in 1980, more than half of people do not have immunity against orthopoxvirus infections. In 1972, the Biological Weapons Convention was signed, which banned the production and stockpiling of biological weapons, but the risk of bioterrorist attacks still exists.
Cooperation with the University of Leuven in Belgium will give specialists from NIOCH SB RAS the opportunity to conduct more extensive studies of the effectiveness of these compounds. In the framework of the project, in addition to the Marburg and Ebola filoviruses, it is planned to check the library of Siberian scientists for inhibition of the so-called flaviviruses – yellow fever, West Nile fever. They differ in structure and in a set of proteins, which is important, since it is with them that inhibitors are bound. Also, in conjunction with SSC VB "Vector" will be tested inhibitors on the virus of smallpox.
"With low molecular weight (less than 1,000 g / mol) inhibitors in our country and even the world, scientists work quite rarely, which again is associated with a lack of necessary laboratories," concludes the researcher. "Also, camphor and borneol are relatively inexpensive and non-toxic natural raw materials: these substances have long been used in cosmetics and perfumes."
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Technically, there are two things a disability policy can do—pay or deny. But Unum now has a third option that pretty much puts you in limbo.
Suspension of Benefits
If you don't do what Unum wants and when it wants, you might fall into this category. And you may not get your disability benefits restored. Because Unum has no contractual provision, it can suspend your benefits forever. On the other hand, if this option isn't in your policy they cannot legally do that because it denies the insured of their rights.
Linda Nee, a Licensed Disability Claims Consultant and former Unum claims specialist, referred her client to an attorney after he received the "suspension of benefits" letter. "The attorney argued that this tactic by Unum is in violation of ERISA after 30 days and denying an Unum policy holder appeal rights," says Nee, who believes this is yet another strategy to deny benefits. "My client's benefits were restored, but only because he got legal help."
Nee has another client still "on the hook", which begs the question: how many Unum policy holders collecting disability benefits have been suspended? "Unum regularly schedules appointments with their independent medical examiners but my client requested that Unum reschedule," Nee explains. "Unum suspended his benefits from the time he requested another appointment until the time that he showed up. This is a punitive measure, another tactic of denial."
It's no secret that Unum is outsourcing much of their administrative work to a company called Lucens Group. Nee says this company handles social security requests and they could also be handling settlements. Unum recently underwent two rounds of firings, including VPs in claims. Is Unum downsizing—outsourcing and firing their executives-- because they are cash poor? Nee says that Unum executives have "golden parachutes" so if anything happens they will get their money. As a former high-ranking employee of Unum, Nee knows from personal experience that executives can exercise their stock options, which they are awarded on a yearly basis.
As for people handling claims at Lucens, they don't have to be experts. Unum simply gets Lucens staff to request a file and they do all the administrative work. With the exception of settlements (according to Nee, that might be next up), Lucens has qualified people to do that work.
Outsourcing isn't new to Unum. In the mid 1990s they outsourced to India the IT department and their entire data center. And they decreased the number of employees in favor of outsourcing to other companies. Nee has inside information: she knows Unum employees who are still working and call her with information. "Within the past six months they started another round of firing IT employees," she says, "and they are terminated for poor performance."
Poor performance could mean just about anything. Nee's "insiders" tell her that employees are given a phone and if they exceed the data plan or use the phone for personal use, that counts as poor performance. Or an employee is given an unreasonable workload and cannot possibly meet their goals.
In the not-too-distant past, Unum has barely escaped class action lawsuits based on gender and sex discrimination. Nee says that, If you're over 50 years old and female, start clearing out your desk. Sounds like Unum is due for wrongful termination lawsuits. And wrongful disability denials.
Linda Nee is a licensed disability claims consultant with her company, Disability Claims Solutions, Inc. As a former claims specialist with Unum, her experience is a valuable asset in providing consulting services to those who file claims. And those people whose claims have been denied.


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Hylton Casting is seeking talent to be Extras in the project based on the long-running show Soul Train and it's creator Don Cornelius.
Soul Train was a staple in the 1970's and aired for decades with the last iteration of the show airing in the 2000's. Soul Train offered a chance for African American artists to showcase their work to a national audience and many have called Soul Train the first national television series that was aimed directly to an African American audience.
Casting Details
Dates: Mid to Late December
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Nine9 Talent Application
The new BET show is set during the early stages of Soul Train and is now casting Extras.
They are currently casting Extras for the television series American Soul to work in country bar scenes filming on Wednesday, 12/12/18 in Conley, GA.
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We wanted a new multimedia screen for Horizon Lanka as our old one was broken and beyond repair. So, as usual, we posted a request on our Facebook page to that effect. Within a few hours we got a message from Mr. Sunimal Weerasooriya, a good friend and a well-wisher of Horizon Lanka since 2002, saying he is ready to fund the whole amount, 14,500 LKR (100.56 USD) needed for us to purchase the multimedia screen we needed. As promised, he transferred money to our organization's account and we bought the multimedia screen.
This multimedia screen is much bigger (8' X 6') than our old screen and we use it for public events at Horizon Lanka such as presentations, concerts, etc. We also use it for our dance practices, watching movies, using Internet, doing demonstration lessons, etc. This is very useful for us. These days we are creating a new dance item to cheer our sports team with the combination of New Zealand rugby team's Haka dance and some other dances.
We thank Mr. Weerasooriya, the Senior Vice President – Technology, Productivity & Innovation for the Transnational Group in Singapore.
for this personal donation he made to our organization. (Mr. Weerasooriya offered a valuable free ICT course training opportunity for one of our staff members in 2002 on the request of Mr. Prabhath Rajakaruna of the USA.)
Nimanditha Thathsarani Disanayaka firstname.lastname@example.com Grade 8, Horizon Lanka


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An MC Romance.
I'm not the settling-down type. But now I want something I've never wanted before. My family.
Jackal (Devil's Boneyard MC 1):
Josie: I spent an amazing three days with Jackal before he disappeared, back to his club, the Devil's Boneyard. He made it clear what we had was a temporary thing, and I was fine with that. Then I faced the scariest thing ever. Telling my big brother, Tank, a Dixie Reaper, I was pregnant and alone at the age of nineteen.
Jackal: I've thought about Josie since I walked away. I never counted on the little girl glued to her hip. Now I want something I've never wanted before. My family. Because Josie and our daughter, Allegra, are exactly what's been missing in my life. Figures the one I want more than anything might be the first to send me packing. But I'm not letting anyone take them away.
Wraith (Dixie Reapers MC 8):
Rin: My mom died when I was little, my dad when I was fifteen. My half-brother convinced the state to grant him custody, and my life has been hell ever since. Every time I try to run, he finds me, but this time will be different. I'm asking the Dixie Reapers for help. I didn't count on the sexy man with the dark, brooding eyes who makes me want things I've never wanted before.
Wraith: I'm not the settling-down type. Maybe once upon a time, but not anymore. Now I'm faced with the strongest, most beautiful woman I've ever met. But I'm no good for her, or anyone else. She thinks she's not worthy of me, but it's the other way around. I need Rin back, and I'll do anything to make her mine.


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Staircases within the house are no longer mere connecters between floors, but an integral part of its architecture and can be suitably designed to suit internal ambience depending on availability of space. Stairs that were traditionally fashioned out of iron, steel, bricks, stone, wood and cement are now being given trendy shapes and designs with new metal alloys and fiber based materials.
We have compiled a list of 15 staircases designed lovingly by our creative partners that can add style and glamour to your house.
This unusual staircase design has been fashioned out of pipes that are firmly held together and have wooden planks on them for stepping ahead to the next floor. Minimalistic and simple the staircase may look fragile but it is strong enough to handle several adults like a regular staircase and has railings on both sides for safety of children as they tend to run down stairs.
No piece of architecture within a house makes a striking impression as a grand staircase with ornate designs and unusual combination of colors. The perfect staircase to make a grand entrance into the living room, the design falls short of being too ostentatious due to the simple monochrome color mix. Lovely chandelier with charming white crystal lights enhance the beauty of the glorious staircase.
If you are looking for a traditional wooden staircase that is artistic and strong enough to stand the test of time then this clean, wide and open creation in wood and metal should suit your needs very well indeed. Strong metal banister with creative designs on the railings holds your attention while gliding down wide wood stairs.
Who would not fall in love with this smartly designed staircase tucked neatly on the side and almost blending into the wall with its unobtrusive design made of wood and glass. The tiny recessed lights near each step give a additional touch of mysticism to this beautiful staircase that opens out into a grand living room with a colorful ceiling and fairy-tale style chandelier.
Here is a smartly designed floating staircase that makes up for scarcity of space by using simple wood and metal to make a graceful connection between both floors. Slim design and light materials have been used here to create easy to use steps endowing the region with fluidity.
This lovely spiral staircase in blue and black disappearing into a circle to the next level appears like a storm vortex descending down. White stone stairs encircled by silvery railings and banister add to the edgy finish of dark blue roof illuminated by hidden lights giving the place an air of mystery.
Minimalist design has been given a new twist here with entire flight of stairs built around a column of timber slats placed in a circular column. This unusual staircase design is built in such a manner that it does not require a banister as the slats function as support for the staircase built against the wall.
This beautiful staircase design built into an unobtrusive section against the wall is made of two contrasting materials that compliment each other here. Transparent glass supports a long flight of wide wooden steps that are held together by steel rods at different intervals.
Simple in design and structure, this eclectic staircase is built in cantilever style with just an elegant glass railing supported by steel rod. While the staircase may appear suspended in mid air but it is solidly supported by Y shaped concrete structure that hold the stairs in place.
Children live in a fantasy world of their own with princes, queens and other magical beings so why not give them a private area of their own where they can enjoy their make believe fantasies. Designers Aum Architects have done exactly that by building this pretty block staircase that little ones can walk up to and settle into their beds and imagine themselves to be a part of Jack's adventure on the beanstalk.
This breathtakingly beautiful staircase with matured timber handrail and polished stone steps enhances the elegance of the grand hall room. Built in spiral style the stairs have metal slats that act as safety measure against slipping on stone.
This elegantly designed glass staircase may looks fragile and delicate but it has been designed with chemically treated architectural glass specially tempered for the purpose. Minimalist in design and layout the staircase's grandeur is enhanced by the crystal glass chandelier suspended in the center.
This colorful staircase is a colorful combination of rustic colors and modern design. Bright yellow walls support dark maroon stairs descending into polished marble floor bringing out innate Indian love of bright colors.
To call this Mediterranean style staircase etched with vivacious magenta glass tiles beautiful would be an understatement as it is both stylish and breathtaking against the elegant background of white walls and stainless steel banister.
Elegant and classy are the two words that come to one's mind on viewing this grand staircase designed out of iron and wood. It comes spiraling down in full Victorian regalia of dark mahogany stairs encircled by wrought iron designs and mahogany balustrade.
Interested in exploring more staircase designs? Then these amazing staircases that stand out should suit your needs.


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Andeavor Adds 760-Plus Stores in 2017
SAN ANTONIO — In 2017, Andeavor increased its branded and retail store count by 31 percent, or 763 stores, year over year to boost its marketing portfolio to 3,255 locations.
"We are focused on driving growth and improvements in our marketing business by placing products into the highest-value branded distribution channels, adding new retail sites to the network, implementing store improvements to enhance our convenience store position, and extending our value chain into new geography such as Mexico," Andeavor Chairman and CEO Greg Goff said during the company's fourth-quarter and full-year 2017 earnings call on Feb. 16.
The 31-percent increase came largely as a result of Andeavor's $4.1-billion acquisition of El Paso, Texas-based Western Refining Inc., which closed June 1, combined with its purchase of 39 convenience stores from Auburn, Calif.-based Flyers Energy in July.
In addition to acquisitions, Andeavor continues to execute on its organic growth plan. This plan includes rebranding and expansion into Mexico, according to Steven Sterin, executive vice president, chief financial officer and president of Andeavor Logistics.
"Our organic growth plan execution has resulted in the addition of 64 net new branded stores year over year," Sterin reported during the earnings call.
"Following the acquisition of Western Refining and leveraging our excellent retail store management capabilities, we converted 50 multi-site operator stores to company-operated in the fourth quarter," he explained.
Andeavor expects to convert an additional 50 stores to company-operated in the first half of 2018.
"These conversions allow us to capture additional non-fuel margins and enhance overall station profitability," he noted.
According to Goff, the company "successfully" began the expansion of its marketing business into Mexico, which extends Andeavor's West Coast value chain south, into the northwest region of Mexico. Andeavor's target is to supply 15,000 to 20,000 barrels per day by the end of 2018.
"We also signed a wholesale supply agreement to begin wholesale marketing operations using the ARCO brand," Goff said.
Andeavor officially began marketing in Mexico and opened the first ARCO station in Tijuana, Mexico, in the third quarter of 2017. In all, the company was supplying roughly 60 stations in Mexico — including 28 under the ARCO brand — as of Jan. 31, he said, "and we are experiencing strong customer acceptance at these sites."
The company expects to increase its marketing presence across the entire northern part of Mexico, with an estimated 250 to 300 stations planned through 2020.
"We continue to see strong demand in each of our geographic regions, and we remain excited about the growth prospects in our marketing business as we expand our network of stations by leveraging our extensive brand portfolio and converting more stations to company-owned and -operated, which allows us to capture more value," the chief executive said.
Western Refining Integration
Eight months into its acquisition of Western Refining and Western Refining Logistics, Andeavor reports "a very successful" integration and is rapidly moving toward full value-chain capture, according to Goff.
"We are making excellent progress integrating the business and identifying and capturing the synergies," he said. "By the end of fourth-quarter 2017, we estimated we had achieved approximately $190 million in annual run-rate synergies consisting of approximately $100 million of corporate efficiencies and about $90 million in value-chain optimization and operational improvements," he explained.
Financial Results
For the fourth quarter, Andeavor generated overall earnings of $879 million, compared to $78 million a year ago. Full-year earnings were $1.5 billion.
Looking just at the company's marketing business for the quarter, segment operating income was $236 million and segment EBITDA was $255 million, compared to segment operating income of $169 million and segment EBITDA of $192 million a year ago.
Total fuel margins for the fourth quarter were 12.2 cents per gallon vs. 11.4 cents per gallon last year. Retail and branded fuel margins for the quarter were 23.4 cents per gallon, compared to 19.6 cents per gallon in 2016.
"The fuel margin increase was driven by stronger overall demand, along with positive contributions from stores added in the Western Refining acquisition," Sterin said.
Q4 merchandise margin increased to $47 million from $1 million in the same quarter in 2016, driven by the new company-operated stores Andeavor added.
For full-year 2017, marketing operating income was $788 million compared to $830 million a year ago and segment EBITDA was $856 million vs. $889 million in 2016.
Full-year fuel margins were 11.2 cents per gallon in 2017 vs. 12.7 cents per gallon the prior year. "This was at the low end of our expectations reflecting low fuel margins in the first and third quarters," Sterin said, adding that the first quarter was impacted by severe weather on the West Coast and the third quarter saw prices impacted by hurricanes.
"As I reflect on the year, we executed our strategic plans, delivered on our growth and productivity targets, and transformed our portfolio through the acquisition of Western Refining, as well as other high-return acquisitions," Goff said.
"We faced a challenging fourth quarter, but none of these challenges change our outlook for 2018 or impact our ability to deliver on our $1.4 billion of EBITDA growth by 2020, productivity plans, or capturing the full synergies of acquisitions," he concluded.


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09/05/2013-IT decision makers are always under pressure when it comes to procurement of new IT-infrastructure. The pressure comes especially from the finance department that always wants an optimal price performance ratio and the IT-directors who expect the best suited hardware for their needs. So why should an enterprise incorporate the Thecus® N8900 in their infrastructure?
High Availability for your storage to ensure constant uptime
The Thecus® N8900 supports HA (High Availability), which guarantees you a higher uptime for your storage network by giving you the possibility of having 2 completely identical systems running at the same time- both interconnected by a high speed Ethernet connection. While one system is running as the master system and doing all the computing, the other system will constantly mirror the data onto its own drives. In case of a failure in the master system, they will change roles in a blink of an eye so that users will not even know that there was a switch of systems. After the takeover, engineers can easily recover the damaged system without the need to shut down any operations. Please note, however, that a high data-transfer rate is required for this feature (which is another reason why the Thecus® N8900 supports lightning fast 10GbE technology).
Leverage greater capacity easily with Daisy-Chaining
Daisy-Chaining can easily be handled by the N8900, just use it as the master device and connect up to 4 Thecus® D16000 to it in order to easily increase the storage capacity of your network. You can also connect several master devices together to achieve even greater capacities!
With simple and cost-saving capacity expansion, the ability to ensure an optimized uptime, and the strong performance of the Intel Dual-Core 3.3GHz processor supported by 8GB of DDR3 RAM, the N8900 is undoubtedly ready for all the requirements that enterprises face.
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For additional system stability, the Thecus® N8900 features Dual DOM: The firmware and system configurations are stored twice on the device so that if the primary DOM gets damaged the system will still be able to function properly thanks to the backup.
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Just €10 a month buys a lot of data across Europe but people in some countries have it much better than others.
You might not expect €10 to buy a lot of smartphone data and if you're in Germany, France, Belgium or the UK, you'd be correct.
In these countries average amount of data you'd get with a smartphone plan between €9 and €11 is around one gigabyte, with no plans delivering more than two gigabytes, according to GlobalData research.
But if you lived in other countries, your €10 would go a lot farther.
The same amount of money that buys less than two gigabyte of mobile data in Germany, France, Belgium and the UK buys up to 18 gigabytes in Romania and up to 10 gigabytes in Poland, Austria, Italy and Turkey.
There's an 18-fold difference in the average mobile data on offer for €10 across these markets, the lowest amount (0.3 gigabytes in Belgium) and the highest (5.4 gigabytes in Romania).
Against this backdrop, the European commission was wise to build 'fair use' limitations into its 'roam like at home provisions' in force since June 2017.


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Charles Roff can be commissioned to photograph portraits, nudes and landscapes. Charlie will accept commissions based on their challenge and intended conclusion. Projects which entail a unique final piece of art are preferred.
For enquiries or further information call +44 (0)1736 332229 or email email@example.com
Whether it's the Cornish landscape - which he has been photographing for over forty years - or the naked body, the key to Charlie Roff's work has always been spontaneity. Everything feels as if it's done on the move. There is nothing set up, nothing overtly stylised about his photography.
In his non-commissioned work in particular, Charlie has the ability to catch the moment as it passes - and yet once caught it is often hard to believe the image was not pre-arranged. There are many examples of these 'caught' images scattered throughout his work. 'Mantelpiece' is one of the more famous. Who would credit that it was not posed? This is not to say Roff's photographs are hit and miss. Like any good artist, he is constantly pre-visualising the world in terms of his pictures. He seems to always be aware of the foreground/background relationships; in awe of what he sees around him, fascinated by light and shade.
But Charlie's not precious about his work and he has a great, undying enthusiasm for life which spills over into all he does. It's this confidence that gives his photographs an edge. But it was only by coincidence that photography became his preferred form of expression. It suited his life style, always wanting to move fast, to record things on the run. If you are born in the Highlands of Scotland on New Year's Day, brought up by the Zambezi River, move to Iran, study photography and film in England, drive a truck through the Sinai desert and fall in love with Cornwall, what else can life have been but a journey? Between running a successful photography publishing company, working for the National Trust, doing charity exhibitions for War Child and helping to make a BBC documentary in Bosnia, Roff has continued to roam the plant taking photographs of sexy girls.
Tom Stoppard praised and bought his pictures, other photographers collect his work and wonder why he is not commissioned in their place - only perhaps that he does not socialise or present himself as a commercial photographer. Many aspiring or so-called photographers envy him for that very reason, because he really does do it like a natural thing.
There is nothing coy about his images, there is no pretence that he is showing us something other than he and most other men desire. And if he is a voyeur it is only as a witness to the pleasure women take in their sensuality. The women themselves are participating in the creation of the photographs, they are as at ease in front of his lens as in front of their lovers, and in Charlie's case this is often one and the same. Roff's work is a secular hymn to pleasure.
- Foreword for Erotic Journey by Brian Patten, 9th February 2001


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Today is the Feast of the Transfiguration: the day when some of the apostles saw Jesus on a hillside with Moses and Elijah appearing with him. And, the three were talking to one another. The gospel of Luke says they were talking about Jesus' imminent arrival in the place where they were – apparently, heaven. Good ole Peter wanted to set up a shrine to the event and to Jesus, but he was dissuaded when a voice from the midst of a cloud that enveloped him said "This is my beloved Son," – much like the voice at Jesus' dunking in the river by John the Baptist.
I like to think of the Transfiguration as a strategy planning session with the elders. Jesus, much as Moses did, went up on the mountaintop to get advice, to communicate with the Creator. Possibly Moses fared better than Jesus; he heard the voice of God; we are told only that the apostles heard the voice of God at the Transfiguration. Moses got his directions directly from the One; Jesus conferred with the aides. Moses lived a long life after his encounter; Jesus died a bloody death a short while later.
So Jesus says, "Okay, I'm headed for Jerusalem where I'm going to die. Right now, this repatriation isn't going too well; not many are following my lead, and I'm not sure that I've told them what they need to know. So what do you think I should do to make this journey more effective? How should I change my preaching and teaching and healing to get the most out of these last few days?"
Moses was a great leader, educated in pharaoh's courts, and he knew about the importance of looking like a leader. Perhaps he advised Jesus about the donkey business that we celebrate on Palm Sunday. Sometime after the Transfiguration, Jesus bestowed his power upon a number of people including his apostles and another seventy that he sent out to tell the good news; so someone probably told him about getting more done by delegating. He reviewed the costs of the current program with the people who followed him – any good CEO knows the pluses and minuses of the project and tells his helpers. Elijah probably helped Jesus formulate some of the prophecies about the Day of Vengeance and the suffering and the redemption.
What a learning experience that must have been for Jesus! He had the great leaders to guide him in the most important project of his life...telling people that they could have a relationship with God and with their neighbors – a relationship of love. We can't know how much advice he remembered, how much he forgot and how much he discounted because it was out of date. What we do know is that some of Jesus' most powerful teaching and healing occurred after this event.
Many of us have a pretty good idea where we headed and some concept of how we're going to die. We've had the benefit of the world's greatest teachers in person, through books, news and film. We've heard great voices proclaim the truths of each generation.
Unfortunately, most of us are still plodding along just as we were before we heard or experienced these truths. We applaud those who are out there doing, but we sit comfortably in our homes and cars and boats and let others do.
The story of the Transfiguration is a great altar call, a true mountaintop experience. Each of us is called to witness to the good news that God is available. Each of us is called to proclaim and live out this good news using the best advice we can hear. Each of us must use our own Transfiguration as a strategy-planning session for the rest of our lives. What advice are you hearing?
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Bad timing and an extraordinary hot spell conspired to reduce our chances for sex to nil. So it was a great relief when the situation improved enough for M to summon me back to bed this morning. I went downstairs, shrugged my nightshirt over my shoulders and slid between the sheets, a little too cool in the morning for the first time in ages. I laid on my back and M curled against my side, an arm draped over my chest and a leg across my thighs. We curled, cuddled and caressed, tossing and turning to kiss, nuzzle and stroke. I kept the pace very slow, drawing things out, resisting the urge for a fast, savage fuck.
My hands roamed freely over her body, kneading her buttocks, gripping each cheek, pulling to open her cleft, squeezing it tightly together again. I drew my fingertips along her torso, counting the ribs, making her squirm at the occasional ticklish point. She leaned over me and I raked both hands across her back, lightly dragging my nails enough to make her arch her back like a purring cat. My hands found their way to her legs, stroking her flanks and settling at the top of her inner thighs. I petted and stroked there for the longest time, marveling at the baby-soft flesh. I strayed as high as possibly without touching her lips, teasing her, listening to her gasp, feeling her squirm under me. Before long I had ample evidence my teasing was working, as her thighs were moist from her drooling cunt. I inched just the barest bit higher, until the side of my hand whispered against her dripping lips. M found my neck and bit hard as I taunted her.
I pressed my fingers directly against her sopping twat, slipping side to side against her clit, pulling a gasp and groan from her. I pinched her lips and clit hood, the slick folds of skin squirting from between my fingers. I rubbed for several seconds, and then pulled back before she spilled over into an orgasm. M groaned in frustration and reached down to wrap her hot palm around my cock. She squeezed my shaft firmly, and I tortured her again, roughly rubbing her to a peak and then backing away before she found the release she craved.
M tossed her head from side to side, her hair splaying on the pillow. "Why won't you give it to me? Why won't you let me cum?"
"Are you begging me? How badly do you want it? What will you do for me?"
"Anything! I'll do anything you want! I'll be your little cum slut, I'll milk your cock with my cunt, just .. please, give it to me!"
I continued toying with her pussy as she begged, rubbing her to the brink of orgasm, then pulling my hand away. "You'll be my fuck toy? Service my every whim?"
"I will, I promise! Just let me cum, please!"
With that, I pinched her clit hood firmly, then rubbed aggressively. She started a prolonged crying orgasm, and I continued rubbing through her peak until her cries grew sharp, and then I pressed firmly against her clit until I could feel her blood pulse. Her thighs locked rigid for several seconds, an then as soon as she started to move, I attacked again, ruthlessly driving another orgasm from between her thighs, smearing her own cum all over her thighs and lips, and she groaned in relief again.
As soon as her eyes could focus again, M sat up on her knees and straddled my lap. My cock still in hand, she angled it straight up and sat down with a satisfied grunt. She pumped up and down several times, wriggling to get as low on my cock as she could. As she lifted one time, I reached down and spread her lips obscenely, and when she dropped low again, her bare clit slapped against my pubic bone, and she cried with surprise. We rocked together for several minutes, my hips driving up against her thrusts, my palms cupping her ass.
I put my hands on her shoulders and pushed M backwards. She leaned far back, arching her back, bracing herself with her hands against my shins. I gave her a wicked smile and made of show of licking my thumb before sliding it down to the wet junction of our bodies. I stroked once up her clit and her back convulsed. I set my hips rocking gently as I continued to finger her clit, making her shout at first, and then crying as she was wracked by another climax. As soon as she peaked, she leaned forward and started grinding against me with vigor. Her tight little pussy spasmed against my cock, milking me as promised. We started thrusting in concert, racing towards my own orgasm. I held her hips firmly and battered against her, selfishly chasing my own release until my balls tightened and I fired my load inside her. My hips bucked upwards and held her off the bed for several seconds until my throbbing subsided and I could unclench again.


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Created attachment 194342 [details]
Reconstruct rt_kif in pfsync_state_import
I use FreeBSD and pf on routers and hardware loadbalancers. Routers do normal routing and have firewalls with only block or pass rules. Loadbalancers use route-to rules with tables of target hosts. On routers pfsync works just fine while on loadbalancers it fails because states are synced without target interface.
There are 2 ways to fix it:
1. Modify struct pfsync_state to include target interface, but that would be breaking compatibility.
2. Reconstruct missing interface using rules on the second loadbalancer.
Please find attached patch solving the issue using the 2nd method. There is still the issue of source_nodes not being synced, they probably can be reconstructed in a similar fashion. I might provide a patch for that later on. This the 1st version of the patch, I am not totally sure of its stability and it is designed only to solve the issue in my particular case, that is for rules with the following syntax: "route-to (internal4027 <pool_154571_4>) round-robin"
I came across an issue preventing this from working correctly when rebooting hardware: pfsync is started before pf (or in my case before my custom service populating pf rules. That's a problem, because for route-to interface to be correctly rebuilt, pf rules must be already present. I'm unsure if changing this order is a good idea, maybe it is like this for a good reason?
While looking on possibility of recreating src_nodes I found that the way src nodes are created is rather sketchy. For example when a new state is created with new src_node, first a node is searched for, if none is found then it is created and inserted, each of those operation with its own locking and unlocking src_node hash. Operations within pf_map_addr operate on unlocked src_node which probably explain crashes I had when flushing nodes on heavily loaded system. Then there is the issue that each locking and unlocking operation requires computing the hash again, why not compute it once and store it within the node, this way unlocking could be a bit faster. Creation of node could return it locked as now it needs to be re-locked for any further operations. Then there is the issue that pf_state->rt_kif is copied from pf_rule->rpool.cur which might not be the same as during pf_map_addr() (there is no locking inside that function so it might be inconsistent anyway). And last but not the least is that it seems to me that pf_src_node->*kif is not used at all. And src_node itself never stores information about interface choosen for route-to targets, it is only copied to state instead.
I will prepare a patch addressing those issues first and then work on recreating redirection interface as originally this issue was about.
The proof of concept patch seems generally working, I configured my firewall service to start before pfsync and I could reboot my load balancers as I pleased and traffic was correctly forwarded.
I found another bug: states synced during initial bulk update are considered to come from incompatible ruleset, even if ruleset *is* compatible. I also must raise a question why the initial sync is "update" and not "insert".
--- a/sys/netpfil/pf/if_pfsync.c
+++ b/sys/netpfil/pf/if_pfsync.c
@@ -874,21 +874,21 @@ pfsync_in_upd(struct pfsync_pkt *pkt, struct mbuf *m, int offset, int count)
printf("pfsync_input: PFSYNC_ACT_UPD: "
"invalid value\n");
st = pf_find_state_byid(sp->id, sp->creatorid);
if (st == NULL) {
/* insert the update */
- if (pfsync_state_import(sp, 0))
+ if (pfsync_state_import(sp, pkt->flags))
if (st->state_flags & PFSTATE_ACK) {
pfsync_undefer_state(st, 1);
This bug is fixed in OpenBSD some time ago: https://github.com/openbsd/src/commit/ddb7828bc6708358e6c08caaf09e3524e8cab7b4
A commit references this bug:
Author: kp
Date: Sat Jun 30 12:51:08 UTC 2018
New revision: 335816
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/335816
pfsync: Fix state sync during initial bulk update
States learned via pfsync from a peer with the same ruleset checksum were not
getting assigned to rules like they should because pfsync_in_upd() wasn't
passing the PFSYNC_SI_CKSUM flag along to pfsync_state_import.
Submitted by: Kajetan Staszkiewicz <vegeta tuxpowered.net>
Obtained from: OpenBSD
MFC after: 1 week
Sponsored by: InnoGames GmbH
Thanks for that patch. I've not yet had the opportunity to look at the other patch (or remarks in any detail). I'll try to do so as soon as possible, but it may be some time.
A commit references this bug:
Author: kp
Date: Sat Jul 7 14:46:02 UTC 2018
New revision: 336064
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/336064
MFC r335816:
pfsync: Fix state sync during initial bulk update
States learned via pfsync from a peer with the same ruleset checksum were not
getting assigned to rules like they should because pfsync_in_upd() wasn't
passing the PFSYNC_SI_CKSUM flag along to pfsync_state_import.
Submitted by: Kajetan Staszkiewicz <vegeta tuxpowered.net>
Obtained from: OpenBSD
Sponsored by: InnoGames GmbH
_U stable/11/
Do we consider breaking pfsync protocol compatibility? If we could just modify the protocol to sync redirection interface, there would be no need for reconstrucing it and for identical ruleset with identical table contents.
(In reply to Kajetan Staszkiewicz from comment #7)
I'd be very very hesitant to break compatibility. A common pattern with pfsync is that one gateway is upgraded while the other takes over. That'll need to keep working.
That said, it might be possible to extend the protocol by using one of the _pad fields. It'd have to work (minus newly supported/improved cases) when syncing with older code, but that might be possible.
I see only those fields free to be used:
struct pfsync_state {
u_int8_t __spare[2];
struct pfsync_state_peer {
u_int8_t pad[6];
None of them is enough to carry char ifname[IFNAMSIZ] information. I thought interfaces maybe have some increasing ID which would fit into those bytes but I can't find such thing. We could add such increasing ID to pfi_kif but that would still be an opportunistic solution, working correctly only if two routers have identical interfaces which were added in the same order. That might in some situations be even harder to achieve than having identical ruleset as required by the patch I proposed.
Good point. I don't see an immediate straightforward way of handling this.
I was going to suggest a new action type, but pfsync_input() stops handling the entire packet when it encounters an unknown action type.
We'd either have to make sure the new type is always at the end of the packet, or we'd have to teach pfsync to ignore unknown action types first, and only later (once we hope everyone has upgraded) add the new one.
Created attachment 201346 [details]
Reconstruct interface route by standard fib lookup
I found another issue. Even if we can somehow reconstruct route interface, there is still a requirement for having identical ruleset on both routers because it is rule->rt which makes Route-to, Duplicate-to and Reply-to targets work. This information is never kept in state.
Attached patch solves this issue by copying rule->rt to state->rt (new field). Pfsync struct got this field too. Route interface is reconstructed by normal lookup in routing table in fib 0.
Warning: for "no state" rules stil rule->rt must be used and I have coded it but not tested. For stateful ruleset all seems fine for route-to target.
(In reply to Kajetan Staszkiewicz from comment #11)
Wouldn't the pfcksum protect us from having different rules in the first place?
(In reply to Kristof Provost from comment #12)
pfcksum only checks if loaded rules are the same, it does not ensure rules are the same on 2 routers. There are a few ways to have different rulesets, let me give you a little list I came across while trying to make pfsync work:
- Any rule using interface IP addresses in unnamed table {} will end up being different on 2 routers unless named <table> {} is used.
- Same thing for SNAT rules, although I'm unsure if those are included in pfchecksum.
- If ruleset is dynamically generated by a script, data structure might not have explicit ordering and produce different result on each run: for me it was Python and its dictionaries and sets.
- In a dynamical environment it might happen that the ruleset is different for short periods of time when new configuration is applied as it will never be applied at exactly the same time on both routers. For me on some loadbalancers new configuration is applied tens of times a day.
To sum it up: I don't think it is feasible to have any functionality depending on ruleset being identical. It is really hard to achieve it and it might not be worth the effort.
(In reply to Kajetan Staszkiewicz from comment #13)
> - Any rule using interface IP addresses in unnamed table {} will end up being different on 2 routers unless named <table> {} is used.
Ah, because pf generates a random id for the table? I'd argue that that's something the rules sync script (if there is one) should account for, but I'd be happy to take patches to make that 'random id' predictable (and consistent across hosts).
> - Same thing for SNAT rules, although I'm unsure if those are included in pfchecksum.
I'm not sure what you mean by SNAT rules. The pf_setup_pfsync_matching() function checksums all rules, other than the scrub rules.
> - If ruleset is dynamically generated by a script, data structure might not have explicit ordering and produce different result on each run: for me it was Python and its dictionaries and sets.
I don't understand this one. It shouldn't matter how rules are generated, the kernel will calculate a checksum. Or do you mean to say pf should compensate for bugs in synchronisation scripts?
I don't really see a way around the requirement for the ruleset to be identical on all pfsync synced hosts.
(In reply to Kristof Provost from comment #15)
> (In reply to Kajetan Staszkiewicz from comment #13)
>> - Any rule using interface IP addresses in unnamed table {} will end up
>> being different on 2 routers unless named <table> {} is used.
> Ah, because pf generates a random id for the table?
I think so.
> I'd argue that that's
> something the rules sync script (if there is one)
I don't "sync" rules. I "generate" on central database and upload to
loadbalancers. Generated files look identical, line by line. (+/- Python
issue, I will comment on it later).
> should account for, but I'd
Taking that into account is exactly what was needed in my case. Consider
such two rules:
1. allow in on $IFACE from { $HOST1 $HOST2 }
Table used here is unnamed, anonymous, dynamic or however it is called
in the world of pf. There is no guarantee of its name and thus even if
configuration is generated centrally, it will result in ruleset having
different checksum on each loadbalancer.
But is there even any real table used at all? I remember something about
dynamically generated table names but what I see is expansion of ruleset
during loading into separate rules. e.g. rule:
rdr on $if_public inet6 proto ipv6-icmp from any to $if_public -> <own_addrs_pub>
got expanded to 2 rules:
rdr on public inet6 proto ipv6-icmp from any tofe80::6a05:caff:fe0b:dd02 -> <own_addrs_pub> round-robin
rdr on public inet6 proto ipv6-icmp from any to 2a00:XXXXXX -> <own_addrs_pub> round-robin
(BTW, expansion to link-local addresses seems a bug to me, I will report
it separately).
2. table <table> { $HOST1 $HOST2 }
pass in on $IFACE from <table>
Here table is named. Ruleset is now consitent between loadbalancers no
matter the contents of table.
> be happy to take patches to make that 'random id' predictable (and consistent
> across hosts).
Maybe one day but for now I already forced usage of named tables everywhere.
>> - Same thing for SNAT rules, although I'm unsure if those are included in pfchecksum.
> I'm not sure what you mean by SNAT rules.
Sorry, of course I meant NAT rules in pf. I very much prefer nftables
terminology of SNAT and DNAT, they just make way more sense.
> The pf_setup_pfsync_matching()
> function checksums all rules, other than the scrub rules.
That just adds one more type of rules that can screw up checksum, as I
>> - If ruleset is dynamically generated by a script, data structure might not
>> have explicit ordering and produce different result on each run: for me it
>> was Python and its dictionaries and sets.
> I don't understand this one.
Data structures like sets and hashes have no explicit ordering, at least
in Python. I think I was getting consistent results with Python 2.7 but
totally random when moved to 3.5 Things put to them will be retrieved in
some random order. One database of rules will produce functionally
identical (at least as long as they are "quick" rules) firewall but with
rules in different order. Of course pf can't do anything about it and
this is expeced, see next paragraph.
> It shouldn't matter how rules are generated, the
> kernel will calculate a checksum. Or do you mean to say pf should compensate
> for bugs
That is not a bug.
> in synchronisation scripts?
No, it definitely should not. All I'm saying that it is another trap
I've encountered while fighting with this topic and that it is very hard
to make the ruleset identical from point of view of pf and we should not
expect identical rulesets.
> I don't really see a way around the requirement for the ruleset to be identical
> on all pfsync synced hosts.
But is there really such requirement with current status of pf?
I think the whole discussion wandered away from the main topic. Let's
get back on track.
Current situation:
1. Identical pf.conf will result in different checksum in many cases due
to interface addresses, dynamic table names and/or rule expansion from
unnamed tables.
2. pfsync of normal firewall states which only pass or nat traffic don't
need identical ruleset at all.
3. pfsync of states from route/dup/reply-to rules is *fully broken*.
Let me repeat once again: none of *working* functionalities of pf seems
to require identical ruleset. Maaaaybeee label counters?
I want to focus on fixing issue 3. There are multiple aproaches:
1. Old patch which depends on ruleset being identical and reconstructing
missing information from rules.
2. New patch which sends part of missing information (state->rt) over
pfsync and discovers interface to use from normal route lookup.
3. Modify pfsync structure to io include both state->rt and state->rt_kif.
I would *love* to have 3. implemmented but for now I work with 2.
because 1. was way too unrealiable.
How should we progress?
Right, for 3. we come back to the compatibility issue. pfsync has to remain able to run with different versions, so while we could potentially extend the protocol to include this information we *have* to make sure doing so won't break a host that doesn't understand the new fields. And vice versa: a host which doesn't include the information must be able to send state to a host which expects the extra information.
That's probably possible, but it'll need some special care.
My 2nd patch stores missing state->rt information in currently unused part of struct pfsync_state. That should make it compatible. A router running non-patched kernel will simply not transmit any data there when sending states and ignore all data when receiving them from a patched router. So that part should be safe.
What looks potentially unsafe is guessing of target interface. Although it is already badly broken, as packets are leaving router via route matching destination on unpatched kerel.
Is guessing of target interface done correctly? Can I use fib lookup functions just like this? No locking needed?
There's a typo in the KASSERT (r_dir = PF_IN).
I wonder if 'rt' can't be a flag. That'd give us more room for other extensions later.
'rt' contains values from enum { PF_NOPFROUTE, PF_FASTROUTE, PF_ROUTETO, PF_DUPTO, PF_REPLYTO }. I don't see how those could be squashed into a single flag, as they dictate differenct actions to be taken against packet.
(In reply to Kajetan Staszkiewicz from comment #20)
You are of course correct here.
I'd like to try to write a test case for this. Do you have any suggestions on how to best reproduce (as simple a version as possible of) the problematic behaviour?
vnet lets us create arbitrary numbers of pf/pfsync instances, so it should be possible to reproduce this. See /usr/src/tests/sys/netpfil/pf/pfsync.sh if you're interested in examples.


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What is mono (mononucleosis)?
Mono, short for mononucleosis, is an infectious disease most commonly caused by the Epstein-Barr virus (EBV). It is frequently spread through saliva, which is why it's often called the "kissing disease." However, kissing isn't the only way you can catch the virus. It can be spread by sharing food, drink or utensils, through coughing or sneezing, from the spread of mucus from the nose or throat, through contact with blood or semen, or sometimes even through tears.
Mononucleosis Diagnosis and Treatment
Mononucleosis is usually a mild illness, but some cases include more severe symptoms or serious complications. Fortunately, if you are experiencing mono symptoms, diagnosis is typically quick, and there are things you can do to manage the symptoms and help prevent the spread of the illness.
What are the symptoms of mono?
The most common signs of mono are high fever, a sore throat, swollen lymph nodes and tonsils, weakness and fatigue. Mononucleosis symptoms usually start 4 to 6 weeks after you are exposed to the virus.
While the symptoms of mono are usually not severe, serious complications can occur, especially in those with compromised immune systems. One potential complication is the swelling and enlargement of the spleen. Pain in the upper left area of the abdomen may indicate that the spleen has ruptured. If this happens, seek medical attention immediately, as emergency surgery may be needed.
Other complications can affect the liver, resulting in conditions like hepatitis or jaundice. The heart and nervous system may also be affected, and anemia may develop. A rash of many tiny red spots can occur, which could indicate a low platelet count or another serious condition. Medical attention should be sought if any of these symptoms arise.
How is mono diagnosed?
During the appointment, the physician will conduct a full physical exam and ask about the patient's medical history. If symptoms are consistent with mononucleosis, a quick test can be conducted to check for evidence of the virus. The results are typically ready in under 10 minutes. Mononucleosis can only be detected by this test if you've had the virus for at least 7 days, but symptoms rarely develop that quickly. If the patient has had mono before, the virus will likely cause a "false positive" result, even if the virus is inactive and not causing symptoms. In these instances, a blood test may be done to determine a current infection.
Because other illnesses can present similar symptoms, the physician may order additional testing. This may include a test for the flu, strep throat, or other illnesses depending on symptoms and medical history.
How is mono treated?
Mono itself does not have a medical cure. The medical team will assist the patient with strategies to lessen symptoms and speed resolution. A mononucleosis treatment plan will include plenty of rest. For most people, symptoms dissipate in 2-4 weeks. Some symptoms, like fatigue, can take longer to resolve. As the symptoms improve, the patient can gradually return to normal activities.
Medications are sometimes used to help manage the symptoms of the illness. It is often advised to take ibuprofen or acetaminophen to alleviate fever, sore throat, or other discomfort. A steroid called prednisone may be prescribed if there is trouble breathing or eating due to a severely sore throat.
Because of the risk for a ruptured spleen in people with active mono, patients should avoid contact sports until the physician advises you that it's safe to resume those activities.
How long is mono contagious?
Even after symptoms resolve, the virus that causes mononucleosis remains in the body for life. The virus remains inactive and no longer causes symptoms, but is still able to spread to others, who can get sick. Medical researchers aren't sure how long mono stays contagious, but some studies show that it can still be transmitted up to 18 months after symptoms have disappeared.
It's difficult to prevent the spread of mononucleosis, but the chance of catching it or passing it on can be reduced by avoiding sharing food, drinks or cutlery with others.
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The California Nurses Association is spending little time mourning last month's loss of a state ballot initiative campaign to reform HMOs.
Instead, the 45,000-member labor union is spearheading a new coalition that's challenging the merger of University of California San Francisco Medical Center and Stanford (Calif.) Health Services.
The University of California Board of Regents and Stanford University trustees voted Nov. 15 to approve the merger. A deal is expected to be completed by July 1997. The facilities include UCSF and Mount Zion medical centers in San Francisco, Stanford University Hospital in Stanford and Lucile Salter Packard Children's Hospital in Palo Alto, Calif.
They would be operated by UCSF Stanford Health Care, owned jointly by the University of California and Stanford University. The entity, to be governed by a 17-member board that includes six University of California regents, is expected to save tens of millions of dollars a year through cost cutting and the securing of more managed-care contracts while still financially supporting the academic missions of the hospitals.
The CNA is working in concert with several other unions that represent employees at the two hospitals, including the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees; the University Interns and Residents Association; the Communication Workers of America; and University Professional and Technical Employees.
Calling themselves the Coalition to Stop the Sale of the UC Med Centers, the unions have taken out full-page ads in the Western edition of the New York Times and the San Francisco Bay Guardian, accusing the regents of "giving away" UCSF Medical Center and insinuating HMOs will be calling the shots on care delivery. The ads are anchored by photos and quotes of UCSF professors critical of the deal.
Both UCSF and Stanford officials declined comment on the matter.
"An acceptable alternative is to put this deal on hold. The alternatives have not been presented or discussed, and the viable alternative for the state is not to privatize because UCSF is not in trouble financially," said Carl Bloice, spokesman for the coalition. "For those reasons it's not acceptable to give away public assets."
However, California Gov. Pete Wilson is a UC regent and voted to approve the deal. Therefore, observers, who include Stanford and UCSF officials, agree it's unlikely that California Attorney General Dan Lungren, a fellow Republican, would shoot it down after review.
Others say the CNA's concern over protecting public assets masks its true intent: protecting jobs.
"The unions are beside themselves and are using the occasion to act out their worst fantasies," said Wanda Jones, president of the New Century Healthcare Institute, a San Francisco-based hospital management consulting firm. "This is just a smoke screen for their concern as to how their jobs will be affected."
Jones is not involved in the merger.
Although both Stanford and UCSF have promised to offer 95% of current employees jobs at the onset of the merger, Jones noted that there was a large disparity between the number of Stanford and UCSF nonphysician employees: 6,100 vs. 4,900.
"Both of them are overemployed, and a very obvious, unstated situation is that jobs are being artificially protected," she said. "Inevitably, there are going to be jobs lost."
However, literature distributed by UCSF Medical Center asserts that more jobs would be created in the long term after the merger is completed.
Nonetheless, UCSF and Stanford have been criticized for leaving labor out of discussions surrounding the yearlong courtship.
"This is a union town, and you can't ignore them," said Steve Cera, president of International Medical Management, another San Francisco-based consulting firm. "I think that's why it would have been a good idea to have had a broader dialogue on the front end."
Indeed, UCSF and Stanford have already lost a couple of initial legal skirmishes with the unions.
On Nov. 14-one day before the regents approved the merger-San Francisco County Superior Court Judge William Cahill demanded that Stanford and UCSF turn over proprietary documents such as business plans and financial projections, so he can determine whether they should be made public.
In September, California's Public Employment Relations Board ruled that the regents intentionally withheld information regarding the merger. That ruling could eventually block the merger, assuming it survives review by administrative law and Superior Court judges.
Meanwhile, the CNA and its fellow unions vow they will file a lawsuit to block the merger, but there are doubts as to whether they can match the hospitals' deep pockets.
"It seems that the hospitals would have a lot more money," Jones said.
"We've about run out of money," the CNA's Bloice confirmed.


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An onlooker was amazed at their hard work, but couldn't understand what they were doing. So he asked the hole digger, "I'm impressed by the effort you two are putting in to your work, but I don't get it . Why do you dig a hole, only to have your partner follow behind and fill it up again?"
The hole digger wiped his brow and sighed, "Well, I suppose it probably looks odd because we're normally a three-person team, but the lad who plants the trees called in sick today."
John Wooden once said, "Never mistake activity with achievement."
Sometimes, it's easy to be like the two gentlemen in this story. We can fall into the habit of looking as though we're working diligently, but in the end we're either doing stuff that doesn't matter, doesn't get us closer to our goals or that is a waste of time.
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HISTORY's new UFO drama series Project Blue Book makes its series debut on Tuesday, January 8, 2019 at 10 PM ET/PT. From A+E Studios and executive produced by Academy Award and Golden Globe winner Robert Zemeckis (Forrest Gump, Back to the Future, Contact), the 10-episode drama series is based on the true, Top Secret investigations into Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs) and related phenomena conducted by the United States Air Force from 1952-1969 and stars Aidan Gillen (Game of Thrones) and Michael Malarkey (The Vampire Diaries).
Project Blue Book is inspired by the personal experiences of Dr. J. Allen Hynek (Gillen), a brilliant college professor recruited by the U.S. Air Force to spearhead this clandestine operation (Project Blue Book) that researched thousands of cases, over 700 of which remain unsolved to this day. Each episode will draw from the actual case files blending UFO theories with authentic historical events from one of the most mysterious eras in United States history. Throughout the season, true to life, documented occurrences will be explored such as the Flatwoods Monster incident that took place in West Virginia, the Gorman Dogfight of Fargo, North Dakota, the Lubbock Lights of Lubbock, Texas and the Chiles-Whitted UFO Incident of Montgomery, Alabama among many others. Delving into themes such as trust, instinct, real news vs. fake news and government cover-up, Project Blue Book straddles the world of science and the exploration of the unknown.
The drama series also stars Neal McDonough (Arrow, DC's Legends of Tomorrow) as General James Harding, a confident and perceptive general responsible for heading the Air Force's new division – Project Blue Book, Michael Harney (Orange is the New Black, Soy Nero) as General Hugh Valentine, a sometimes cryptic yet powerful USAF General both overseeing and keeping a close eye on General Harding's new division, Laura Mennell (Watchmen, The Man in the High Castle) as Mimi Hynek, Dr. J. Allen Hynek's wife and loyal partner in life, and Ksenia Solo (Black Swan, Lost Girl) as Susie Miller, a stylish, eye-catching woman with a confidence to be envious of and whose stealthy charm goes deeper than what meets the eye.
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By Steve Noe
Starting with my May 18 trip to Grand Rapids, Mich., to witness the grand reopening of the headquarters of Kawasaki Engines, I'm highly encouraged by the noticeable spike in investment in this industry. I don't want to steal my own thunder by going into too much detail here about the newly renovated digs for Kawasaki Engines (see my story on pages 12-13), but the highlight is a new state-of-the-art research and development lab.
Shortly upon my return from that trip, I learned that another major small-engine manufacturer, Briggs & Stratton Corporation, recently opened its own state-of-the-art lab — the Noise, Vibration and Harshness (NVH) lab (see the story on pages 14-15).
American LandMaster, a Fort Wayne, Ind.-headquartered manufacturer, designer and distributor of off-road utility vehicles, recently announced plans to invest more than $4 million to lease and equip a new facility in the Hoosier state that will result in the creation of up to 67 new jobs by 2020 (see story on page 15).
On June 8, Walbro LLC celebrated the opening of a new aluminum die casting facility in Los Mochis, Sinaloa, Mexico, with a ribbon-cutting ceremony (see story on page 50). The new facility, which is co-located with Walbro's Engine Management plant in Los Mochis, will share management, supply chain and administrative services with the existing plant. Initially, the plant will manufacture flywheels for small engines in the first two installed die casting centers, but plans are already in place to add six additional die casting machines due to strong customer interest. The facility will employ 60-70 additional workers at full capacity.
And similar positive news continued to pour in at a rapid rate this month, with me running out of both time and space to include it in the "Industry News" section, so I'll touch on some more of it here.
Ariens Company recently celebrated the grand opening of its new concept store, Brillion Power Equipment, with an official ribbon-cutting ceremony. As you may recall reading about in April 2017 OPE, Ariens Company announced in February the purchase of a vacant building across the street from its headquarters in Brillion, Wis., and converted it into a fully operational concept store. The store will be independently operated by Mike Buboltz, an Ariens and Gravely dealer who owns Hardware Plus in downtown Brillion, and it will serve many purposes.
"The store will be used to demonstrate best-in-class dealership practices, test merchandising concepts that might be offered to our network of dealers, and learn more about overall customer experience," said Dan Ariens, chairman and CEO of the Ariens Company.
On June 2, Doosan Bobcat North America announced the completion of an impressive $9.5-million expansion of its company headquarters in West Fargo, N.D. The expansion doubles the square footage and employee capacity of the original building, which was built in 2000.
"Doosan Bobcat is a growing company that continues to make investments in its people," said Rich Goldsbury, president of Doosan Bobcat North America. "Creating an innovative environment helps us attract and retain team members who are focused on bringing new ideas and solutions to the marketplace faster."
As you can see, a lot of ribbon cutting is taking place in the industry, which is encouraging news for all of us.
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