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The Agency for Hydrometeorology of the Comity of environment protection under the Government of the Republic of Tajikistan provides following information:
The weather:
• The temperature and air humidity
• Direction and speed of the wind
• Pressure
• Soil temperature at the surface and depths
• Number and shape of clouds
• Visibility, precipitation , atmospheric phenomena
• Snow cover
Reference information (Design characteristics)
1. Air and soil temperature
• Average monthly and annual
• Average maximum and minimum
• Absolute maximum and minimum
• Dates of first and last frosts
• Average decade temperature
• Soil temperature at depth
2. The wind
• Repeatability of wind direction and calm
• Average monthly speed
• Repeatability of different speeds
• Maximum
3. Air humidity
• The average monthly value of the partial pressure of water vapor, relative humidity, saturation deficiency
4. Precipitation
• Monthly rainfall
• Monthly amount of liquid, solid and mixed precipitation
• Maximum daily rainfall
• The average number of days with different precipitation
5. Snow cover
• The average decade, maximum and minimum snow cover height
• The average number of days with snow cover, dates of occurrence and descent
• Of the snow cover
• Stock of water and snow
6. Cloudiness
• Average monthly number of total and lower clouds
• Repeatability of clear and cloudy sky conditions
7. Atmospheric phenomena
• Average and maximum number of days with the different phenomena
• Frosty phenomena
Weather forecast and forecast products
• Weather forecasts by points, areas , from 24 hours to 5 days
• About the weather at first hand , forecast on the site
• Monthly weather forecast
• Decade weather forecast
• Forecast advise for the season
• Daily hydro meteorological bulletin
• Monthly review of hydro meteorological conditions on the territory of the Republic
Storm warnings about dangerous and natural hydro meteorological phenomena
• A sharp drop in temperature and a change in the weather conditions
• Frosty
• Heavy rain, thunderstorms and wind
• Duration of the blizzard
• Sat down
• Avalanches
• thunderstorms
• Hail
• A sharp rise in the water level on the rivers
• Levels, water flow
• Water temperature
Forecast products
• Consultation- advise on the accumulation of moisture reserves in the basins of the rivers of Tajikistan and expected water availability in the period of high water, according to data from February 1 to March 1
• Forecast of water content of main rivers per month, vegetation period
• Forecast - advise for the season
Pollution of the environment
• The level of atmospheric air pollution in Dushanbe and Kurgan- tube cities
• Characteristics of surface water quality by hydro chemical indicators
• Radioactive contamination levels of the natural environment
• Data of background concentrations of pollutants in ambient air and surface waters
Reference information
• Annual data on surface water and air pollution
• Survey of quality of surface water and atmospheric air in the territory of the activity of Tajik hydrometeor center
• Ecological bulletin
Expedition work
• Inspection of glaciers and breakthrough lakes
• Survey of avalanches, mudflows
• Aero visual observation of snow cover
• Description of the river, its food, pool glaciation, degradation of glaciation due to global warming, the impact of this process on the river flow
• Description of the mudflow regime, formation time of mudflows
• Description of the snow regime of a separate administrative or mountainous area or river basin
• Description of the avalanche regime of this or that administrative or mountainous region of the republic or the river basin
• Brief geographic and climatic characteristics of the lake, its dimensions, thermal and ice regime, chemical composition of water. On lakes where limn logical investigations were carried out (Sarez, Qaraqul, Zorqul, Durumqul and etc.)
The list of tajikhydromet products that can be purchased by contacting the hydro meteorological center by telephone: 223-17-72, E – mail___________
We draw attention to and remind you that the authorized body for providing all interested parties with hydro meteorological products in the territory of Tajikistan is Tajik hydro meteorological center.


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National report says child poverty worsened in SC
COLUMBIA — South Carolina still ranks better than only five states in the overall well-being of its children, according to the release of a national report.
The latest Kids Count survey, released Tuesday by the Annie E. Casey Foundation, shows that South Carolina's children rank 45th in the nation overall in the ability of children to succeed. That's the same as last year's report.
The annual findings use a variety of indicators to come up with a state's ranking, like economics, education and health.
The report also shows that poverty among South Carolina's children has gotten worse, rising from 23 percent in 2005 to 27 percent in 2012. That's about 288,000 children, according to the most recent data available.
Thirty-six percent of the state's children lived in homes where the parents lacked secure employment, an increase from 30 percent in 2008.
Nationally, the report shows that 23 percent, or 16.4 million U.S. children, are living in poverty. That's up from about 19 percent in 2005.
South Carolina children improved in some education-related areas, although officials said the growth wasn't enough. Seventy-two percent of the state's children were not proficient in reading last year, a drop from 74 percent in 2005. Sixty-nine percent of South Carolina eighth-graders weren't proficient in math, down slightly from 70 percent in 2005.
"Most alarming are the education and poverty measures," said Sue Williams of the Children's Trust of South Carolina. "With education, families can lift themselves out of poverty and greatly reduce the stressors that can lead to child abuse and neglect."

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Rihanna who?
Chris Brown may have a new love interest.
Brown, who recently tested positive for marijuana during the probation hearing for his infamous 2009 assault on then-girlfriend Rihanna, was photographed cozying up to Pussycat Dolls lead singer Nicole Scherzinger at Hollywood hotspot Supperclub.
A witness told X17Online the two even locked lips.
"They were dancing close for a while and being all touchy-feely and finally Chris leaned into her," a source inside the club told the Web site. "She put her head on his shoulder and they started kissing! I couldn't believe Chris was being so obvious about it!"
Shortly after reports of their alleged make-out surfaced, Scherzinger's rep insisted to TMZ that the pop star was simply talking (albeit very closely) to her friend.
"There is absolutely no truth to the ridiculous story … The photos that have surfaced are old friends who were trying to talk at a very loud club."
The rep adds, "I guarantee there will be no photos of them kissing."
Brown was romantically linked to Karrueche Tran but they reportedly split in July with Tran tweeting "the end" last week. Scherzinger allegedly called it quits with longtime love Formula One racer Lewis Hamilton but has been spotted with him multiple times since. The singer was linked to her "Dancing With The Stars" partner Derek Hough, as well as former "X Factor" host Steve Jones. And, it gets juicier—she's reportedly hooked up with Brown's arch enemy, Drake.


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Hm, the Mac build of 1.0.2 won't open. I just get a "this application is damaged and should be moved to the trash" error.
A downloadable game for Windows, macOS, and Linux
Elevate is a simple and very short puzzle-platformer where you can't jump. You have to navigate the levels by changing the landscape.
Arrows - navigate
A - action
Developed in GameMaker: Studio for GBJam 5.
art / code / design
kamil bazydlo | @beechbone
sfx / music
fluffy | @fluffy
daniel linssen | @managore
CC0 1.0 universal license
Update v188.8.131.52: Minor bug fix
Known issues: [Mac] There is unintentional music desync when using switching action.
Update v184.108.40.206: [Mac] Fixed music desync in macOS version
|Windows, macOS, Linux
|Kamil Bazydlo
|Made with
|GameMaker: Studio
|Game Boy, GameMaker, GBJam, Puzzle-Platformer
|Average session
|A few minutes
Install instructions
macOS: Please use itch.io desktop app to install the game.
- Press CMD + Space, type Terminal and press Return
- Type cd Downloads/ and press Return
- Type xattr -d com.apple.quarantine Elevate.app and press Return
The above will remove the game from quarantine and you will be able to run it. If you moved the file into other directory, please change Downloads/ from second step to the appropriate location.
Sorry for inconvenience.
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Thanks for pointing that out. The game gets corrupted upon download, for some reason. Probably has to do with security, but I'm guessing. I need to research that. In the time being, could you try installing the game via itch.io desktop app. This seems to work just okay. I added the note to install instructions.
Huh, yeah, it works fine from the itch app, and also the .app that it downloads launches fine on its own as well. Weird!
It's Mac's quarantine. This is kind of a bug/limitation of current versions of GameMaker, unfortunately. I revised install instructions to reflect how to get past the quarantine.
But it's not doing what quarantine normally does; quarantine says that the app cannot be opened because it was an unidentified developer, and you can work around that by ctrl-clicking the package and selecting "open." This was a completely different error message, about the app being damaged.
The really weird thing is that when I download it through the app vs the web and do a byte-for-byte comparison between the resulting .app bundles, though, it finds no differences.
Yeah, that's what I'd usually expect of quarantine. This is a different outcome so it was confusing, but it looks like the attribute quarantine sets on the app is breaking it if it's compiled with newer versions of GameMaker, than the one I previously used. The Terminal command restores it.
Hey, I just noticed a Mac version exists! Woo! A shame about the music desync though. I wonder if it's just not starting the music until it has a non-zero volume... maybe loading the B track at like 1% volume at startup would help.
Yeah, for some reason the bug occurs only on Mac version. Temporarily I don't have access to a Mac so can't try fixing it, but I'll try do something about it in the future. Maybe I'll recompilethe project in GameMaker 2 once I switch to that version. Not really sure if it's a bug in my code or GM is just handling the functionality differently under Mac module.
Long, long overdue but I moved the game over to GameMaker: Studio 2, and that pretty much fixed the issue with music desync. Due to low complexity of the project I didn't even had to edit much in the game, but previously I wasn't able to test it.


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When a grassroots group won their bid to keep the AB-Backus complex open this week, members of the Fort Frances arts community breathed a sigh of relief.
They say "Citizens for Backus-AB" and the proposed arts/community centre to be housed in the AB-Backus complex will only boost the arts community on both sides of the border.
"It's been seven years of trying to get to save those buildings, years of work and now it is just great," said Kay Arnold, spokesperson for "Citizens for Backus-AB" after the International Falls School Board awarded the group control of the buildings last Wednesday.
Arnold said the school board has been looking to close these buildings for several years. They closed the buildings to school use June 30 in order to save an estimated $100,000 annually in operation costs.
The board is still ironing out a purchase agreement with the citizens group and hopes to pass it at their next school board meeting Aug. 19.
"This is great news but it is just the start of all the work," said local arts enthusiast Carole Macintosh.
Macintosh said the fate of Backus would have made a big impact on the Fort Frances Arts community since it hosts everything from the Border Concert Association to concerts from arts groups on both sides of the border.
"We are all relieved to know that it will be open. We were looking at other places and it was getting so desperate," she said.
Macintosh has watched developments on Backus front for the past three months.
She thinks the grassroots groups plan to turn the complex into an arts community centre complete with space to rent for local artists, inclusion of Koochiching Museum and other businesses can only benefit the economy on both sides of the border.
"It will be a vibrant arts centre for the entire district and it is as important for both countries," she said.
The director of the Borderland Community Orchestra was also relieved "Citizens for Backus-AB" was able to keep the complex open.
"It opens up a lot of doors for us," Katherine Williams said. "It's the biggest facility in the whole district."
Williams said the possibility of Backus' closure had many in the orchestra worried.
"It had a lot of them on pin pricks. It's because the orchestra has grown so large that we are growing out of buildings," she explained.
Currently churches where they used to perform are no longer suitable for the expanding group. They are also beginning to feel cramped in the Townshend theatre, leaving only Backus as a suitable site for larger concerts.
She added that productions such as last years "Messiah," which brought together hundreds of local musicians and singers, would require the expansive space of the Backus stage.
"We were confident something was going to happen. There was a lot of support to keep it open," Williams said.
But the fight to keep Backus open is far from over.
"We felt great now it's fundraising, fundraising, fundraising," Arnold noted.
The group has already raised at least $60,000 (U.S.) from private pledges and a benefit concert to put towards keeping the building open, but with an annual operating cost of $100,000 (U.S.) and repairs required on the complex the group has their work cut out for them.
They are already looking at holding another benefit concert at the end of the month or the beginning of September to continue generating funds and are working with Allied Concert Series who supply the Border Concert Association's productions to plan the event.
Arts community relieved Backus to remain open
When a grassroots group won their bid to keep the AB-Backus complex open this week, members of the Fort Frances arts community breathed a sigh of relief.


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Oconto police officer rescued woman from fire just before explosion
An Oconto Police officer who rushed a woman out of a burning home before an explosion is being credited with saving her life.
Erek Belongia – who had previously served as an Oconto firefighter – was the first to arrive at 109 Huron Ave. shortly after midnight on April 8.
"I believe officer Belongia, with his training, understood the urgency, because less than a minute after he dragged her out, the house had an explosion," said Oconto Police Chief Mike Rehberg. "I don't think if he understood what was going on, I think we would have lost an officer and a civilian that night."
The woman had gotten her two children out of the house but went back inside to get her dog.
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Belongia said it was clear when he arrived there was looming problem based on the heavy dark smoke he saw coming from the house.
He said he had to keep his head down out of the smoke as he made his way inside, and could only see a few feet away.
Belongia said he was only inside for a matter of seconds before getting the woman out.
"He knew it was deteriorating quickly," said Oconto fire chief John Reed.
"It was less than a minute, and the front of the house blew out," he added.
The explosion was very loud, said Belongia. Reed said that he saw a video of the fire on Facebook that showed flames shooting to the edge of the street.
Reed said Belongia's training as a firefighter made all the difference that night.
"If it hadn't been for officer Belongia, a young woman would be gone," Reed said. "There is not a doubt in my mind that that young man is a hero."
Belongia was a paid on-call member of the fire department for seven years until taking a leave of absence last year to focus on his law enforcement work.
"I hope he returns," Reed said. "He is an awesome firefighter."
Rehberg said he's asked Reed to provide training for all the department's officers so they can better recognize dangerous and potentially explosive situations.
Reed said he believes the blast was caused by a flashover, in which super-heated gases ignite.
When the woman went back inside, that let in more oxygen that likely contributed to the explosion, he explained.
The blast occurred three to five minutes before Oconto firefighters arrived. There was smaller explosion on the porch of a small LP canister about a minute after the department got on scene. There was a firefighter about 15 feet away, but he and others were not injured.
The cause of the fire has not been determined.
"Unless further information reveals itself, we don't have an explanation," said Capt. Josh Bostedt.
The fire started in a bedroom, where a 2-year-old child was in a portable playpen.
The woman heard the child crying, and she saw the fire on the other side of the playpen, Bostedt said.
It wasn't clear if the playpen itself was on fire, or something just beyond it, Reed said. It also wasn't clear where the other child was at the time.
What was clear though, was that there were no smoke or carbon monoxide detectors in the house, Reed noted.
Further, no one was supposed to be at the house, as occupancy had been barred by the city as of Feb. 22 because of a broken water line, the result of frigid weather in preceding weeks.
On April 6, building inspector Joe Last and police officers checked on the home after the city received a report there was a dog inside.
"The individual that was there stated that they were stopping every day to water the dog and give it food for the other resident but were not living at the residence," Last said by email.
Nobody was found, but the woman and two children were there the night of April 8. It is not clear whether they were the tenants of the home prior to occupancy being barred.
"They can be there all day if they want to," Reed said. "The only way you can assure that nobody's there is if we sit there 24 hours (a day), which we simply can't do."
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You can't say it often enough.May 27, 2009
Did they shut down the thieves as well?May 26, 2009
Nope, just the people that stopped them.
45 burglaries in a week? Hell thats like one for each shop in a place that size.
Notice to crims: the police are advising you may resume your activities.
Bad weather and bang sticks birthday weekend.May 25, 2009
Some of the Wellington Rifles chaps going bang… also twang and sometimes pop.
For the last time, it's not my fault. I was born when I was born and my signature event the WMD happens on the weekend closest to that day. You want to blame someone take it up with my father.
So anyway a weekend of severe weather warnings, gale force winds and a water table that was evidently about 2 inches ABOVE ground level meant nothing to the harder elements of the New Zealand re-enactment community. Which is basically me and the Wellington Rifles and to be entirely technical having served in 7WnHB I AM a Wellington Rifle so, thurrrrpt to everyone else who stayed in bed that weekend.
And the prize for tough tentage goes to 22AD with their rendition of the Roman army campaigning in winter. Or: Ancient Stupidty I Have Done. I spent three days and two nights in Camp Marius and the tent never showed any sign of moving while the last two very expensive medieval tentsd left in the field got airborne. My academic observation at this point would be that if the Romans had invented gumboots they'd still be masters of the world.
But I'm not sure that the world is ready for an Emperor Marius Dagg.
Comment of the week.May 25, 2009
This from Dave Mann in the comments at Kiwiblog.
This bloody Hikoi thing makes me sick.
Why is it that the only race in this country that seem to have continual problems adjusting to life on any plane at all is the fucking Maori race? Why is it that they think that democracy has to be continually adjusted to cater for their bloody demands? Why does New Zealand put up with ongoing and unceasing race-based agitation from these pricks?
Do we see Polynesians marching up and down the country demanding additional influence over the democratic process? What about The Indians? The Chinese? Would we tolerate this as a country if it was continually happening?
Why do we put up with this shit?
(Of course, this opinion of mine that all people should be treated equally in a democracy will probably mean I am branded as a 'racist'! ha-fucking-ha…)
Thats what I'm talkn bout.
The horror… the horror…May 15, 2009
the little pink an purple hooves… the sparkly wings… the horror.
My birthdays coming up soon!May 14, 2009
Fun For The Whole Family!
Most cruises offer a mini-bar
We offer a mounted Mini-Gun
Mmmm minigun!
Damn!May 13, 2009
On yer ColinMay 13, 2009
First celebrity swine flu fatality.May 13, 2009
A sad day for the entertainment industry.
Cryptic movie ReviewMay 11, 2009
In the category of best portrayal of an old TV series character, the winner is…
Karl Urban!
The rest were adequate and I have seldom laughted so frequently in a single movie.


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Just because fashion weeks in New York, Milan and Paris are through doesn't mean there isn't plenty of street style inspiration still to be found. At Seoul Fashion Week, there was everything from recognizable brands and designers to customized pumps. Here, FN rounds up three things to know about street style in Seoul.
1. Sneakers can't be boring
If you're going to wear sneakers in Seoul, they'd better be exciting. That means lots of color and prints, courtesy of brands such as Vans, BBC Ice Cream, Vetements, Golden Goose and Adidas.
2. Your platforms should look almost unwearable
Platform shoes in Seoul are sky-high. In fact, they should look almost impossible to walk in, like this pair with a wood platform.
3. Interesting embellishments are key
A shoe isn't complete without a little embellishment in Seoul. We spotted allover flowers, ruffles, fringe, studs and even a heel wrapped in yellow cord.
Click through the gallery to see more street style at Seoul Fashion Week.
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Obama and McChrystal Haven't Spoken
News outlets are reporting that Gen. Stanley McChrystal has reached out to senior administration officials and apologized for the remarks by him and his subordinates in the now-infamous Rolling Stone profile, but McChrystal hasn't called President Obama, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said today at his daily briefing.
"General McChrystal has not called the president, the president has not called General McChrystal. The president asked that General McChrystal come, and they'll get an opportunity to talk about this article face to face sometime tomorrow," Gibbs said when a reported asked whether McChrystal had called Obama.
McChrystal has reportedly apologized to Defense Secretary Robert Gates, who said McChrystal had made a "significant mistake," and to Joint Chiefs Chairman Adm. Mike Mullen.
The general is currently traveling to DC to meet with the president, Gibbs said.
McChrystal's fate is still not clear. Asked repeatedly whether the general would be fired, Gibbs said, "We'll have more to say after that meeting."


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A chocolate heaven -- 17 square meters of living space with walls, furniture and all interior design from candlesticks and paintings to books, all made of chocolate goes on display at a Vilnius supermarket to mark St Valentine's day.VILNIUS, LITHUANIA (FEBRUARY 14, 2011) REUTERS - A chocolate room has been assembled in a Vilnius supermarket. Chocolate flowers, glasses, chairs, walls and even a white chocolate cat go on display in Vilnius and has been presented as the sweetest room in Lithuania on St. Valentine's Day.
"I create this room from chocolate, because for me chocolate is associating with sweet senses and for this room I did such design for this room that festive dinner can be very sweetly for the couple during nice and sweet St.Valentine's day", says sculptor Mindaugas Tendziagolskis.
Tendziagolskis and his team created from 300kg of chocolate the 17 square meters of chocolate room, where everything from walls and furniture and interior finishing materials - candlesticks, paintings, books.
The chocolate room was not short of admiring onlookers, "I like this, because is looking romantic, as you know, sweet chocolate on St.Valentine's day is fine," says Agniezka Sharipa.
Another onlooker Paulius Salna is also like the idea, "I like (chocolate room), because here is a lot of chocolate and that is very good for the St.Valentine's day. I just miss one item here, a huge heart from the chocolate", he says.
The first chocolate room in Vilnius is planned to exhibit till March,8.
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I had just done bodywork on my car and picked it up from the painter last Saturday. My first job on Monday was to pick up a client from the mainland to Abeokuta by 7am. Because of the peculiar traffic situation in Lagos, I left my house very early and drove to the client's pickup location. I got to his neighbourhood by 6am,and stayed in my car to rest a bit while I waited.
A few minutes after I had parked my car, I heard a loud bang and my car jolted forward. One Uber driver had rammed his car into mine from the back as he was rushing to pick up his passenger in the early morning rush.
I ran out of my car to inspect the damage and I saw my bumper dented with one of the rear lights cracked. I didn't know when tears dropped from my eyes. The driver started begging profusely and said he didn't have any money on him as he had just finished paying his weekly rental to the owner of the car. I told him there was no way I could let him go because the damage on my car was much and he needed to bring part of the money for the fixing.
After haggling back and forth, this guy insisted he had no money on him and wasn't going to take responsibility that after all, his car is full of scratches and dents done by other drivers and he never for once demanded that they fixed his car. He told me to take his phone number and call him by 9am when his panel beater will be available to fix my car. He refused dropping his spare tyre saying I should trust him to call me. How?
I knew I was heading nowhere with this guy and a thought came to my mind. Since he wasn't willing to take responsibility, I was also going to destroy his car. I went straight to my booth, picked up my wheel spanner and decided to break his rear lights and side mirror, then drive away because I was running out of time.
As I walked towards his car, I didn't have the heart to do that. I just drove off and left him for God to judge and deal with him. When I got to my passenger, I explained things to him. He was kind enough to dash me 10k extra to take care of the car when we got to Abeokuta. At the end of the day, I was glad I didn't go that route of destroying that guy's car. Who knows?


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The used car dealership known as CIA never seemed like an ordinary car dealership, with inventory, staff and expenses.
On its Facebook page, CIA's "staff" were fake personalities such as "James Falls O'Brien," whose photo was taken from a hairstyle model catalog, and "Jade Julia," whose image came from a web page called "Beautiful Girls Wallpaper."
If a customer showed up looking to buy a car from Cars International A, often referred to as CIA, Abid Awan — who was managing partner of the dealership while also earning $160,000 handling IT for House Democrats — would frequently simply go across the street to another dealership called AAA Motors and get one.
"If AAA borrows a car to Cars International and they have a customer, it was simply take the car across the street and sell it, and then later on give the profit back or not," Nasir Khattak, who ran the longstanding AAA dealership, testified in a lawsuit. "There was no documentation… If you go and try to dissect, you will not be able to make any sense out of them because there were many, dozens and dozens, of cars transferred between the two dealerships and between other people."
Khattak did not explain why he would ruin his existing business to help the Awans. "All of those transactions was to support Cars International A from AAA Motors," he testified. "That's why I did not make any money from my dealership because my resources were supporting Cars International A."
He said only Imran Awan knew what became of the money. "It was Imram, [Abid] Awan's brother, who was running the business in full control," he said.
Imran Awan and his family members were congressional IT aides who investigators said made unauthorized access to the House Democratic Caucus server thousands of times. At the same time as they worked for and could read all the emails of congressmen who sat on committees like Intelligence, Homeland Security and Foreign Affairs, they also ran a car dealership that took money from a Hezbollah-linked fugitive and whose financial books were indecipherable and business patterns bizarre, according to testimony in court records.
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"We should not wait for the next rotten meat scandal to act," said Bavaria's Agriculture Minister Gerd Muller.
The rejected bill called for fines to increase from €20,000 to €50,000 as well as obligating producers to inform the public where the rotten meat was sold. But the upper house, which represents German's 16 federal states, argued the authorities must also be able to name producers who put spoiled meat onto the market.
Currently, warnings are only issued after the danger to consumers and producers are taken into consideration. The Bundesrat also rejected plans for an emergency alert system.
"We want to be able to name the 'Black Sheep'," said Baden-Württemberg's Minister for Consumer Affairs Peter Hauk.
Further, the Bundesrat requested that the mediation committee with the lower house of parliament regulate what would happen in case of animal epidemics. The states fear that the financial obligations associated with warning consumers about such epidemics, like the swine flu or mad cow disease, and are pushing to make that a federal responsibility.


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John LaBorde is a Managing Director at Moss Adams LLP. With over 30 years of experience in taxation, John has worked in industry and public accounting, focused on assisting clients in the energy industry. His energy industry experience covers a broad range including exploration & production, energy services, downstream energy, midstream and interstate pipelines, power generation including renewable energy, electricity distribution and energy trading.
John's experience in taxation includes:
Researching and providing resolutions for a wide range of state and local tax issues
Identifying and implementing state and local tax minimization strategies, including credits & incentives, sales/use taxes, state income/franchise taxes and property taxes
Obtaining state tax refunds for clients based on industry specific issues
Obtaining private letter rulings for sales/use taxes and state income/franchise taxes
Assisting clients with mergers and acquisitions
Before joining Moss Adams LLP, John was the managing director at Andersen Tax. Prior to joining Andersen Tax John was a Partner in the State and Local Tax practice at Grant Thornton where he led the energy industry segment of the overall tax practice. Prior to Grant Thornton, John worked for two other international accounting firms and three publicly traded companies.
John has been a speaker for various organizations including the Tax Executives Institute (TEI), the Texas Society of CPAs, Council on State Taxation (COST) and The Greater Houston Partnership. He is also the co-author of the CCH, Inc. publication Practice Guide to the Texas Margin Tax.


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Use this Creamy Cheese Sauce on anything from appetizers to pasta. Creamy Cheese Sauce is great with nachos and your favorite salsa. Try mixing a generous helping of this sauce with your favorite pasta shapes for easy and delicious kid-friendly macaroni and cheese. Drizzle over your baked potatoes or French fries for restaurant style appetizers in the comfort of your own home.
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This guide provides the steps required to configure Single Sign-On (SSO) using Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML 2.0) for Udemy Business.
Existing Azure AD and Udemy Business customers who wish to enable SCIM Provisioning in Azure AD should use this configuration guide.
Udemy Business SAML Metadata for Azure AD is linked here.
- Learn how to configure advanced SSO settings on an organizational level.
- Cohort learning: Review how to configure SSO for our cohort learning platform, Corp U.
- Single sign-on and provisioning are available to Udemy Business Enterprise Plan customers.
- Users provisioned through Azure AD will not take up a license until they log into the Udemy Business application for the first time.
- SCIM provisioning changes can only be synced from Azure AD to Udemy Business, not the other way round.
- Users and Groups managed by SCIM in Azure AD cannot be changed within the Udemy Business app - SCIM is the single source of truth for user and group data.
- You can still create groups manually in Udemy Business if you have users that you don't need or want to push from Azure AD, eg. contractors or temporary staff.
1. Configure Single Sign-On (SSO) with Azure
Log in to your Azure portal and click Azure Active Directory.
Next, select Enterprise applications.
Now click + New application in the top bar.
Select Non-gallery application.
Enter a name for the new application and click Add at the end of the window.
Then select Set up single sign on.
For Single Sign-on mode, select SAML based Sign-on.
Follow the 4 steps on the SSO with SAML screen. Azure AD has also provided a detailed configuration guide at the top of the page for further guidance.
For Step 1, Basic SAML Configuration:
- In the Identifier (Entity ID) field, enter PingConnect.
- In Reply URL field, enter this value: https://sso.connect.pingidentity.com/sso/sp/ACS.saml2
- In Sign on URL field, enter your Udemy Business account URL: https://{yoursubdomain}.udemy.com
- Replace the {yoursubdomain} with your organization's unique, Udemy Business subdomain.
For Step 2, User Attributes and Claims:
In the User Identifier field, enter user.mail.
Udemy Business supports the following SAML attributes
Please note: all attributes are space and case sensitive and do not include the colon.
Required attributes
email : the unique email of the user
Optional attributes
- firstName : the first name of the user
- middleName : the middle name (if any) of the user
- lastName : the last name of the user
- displayName : the fully formatted name of the user
- Name ID : an identifier that can be used in cases where a name is duplicated
- groups : the list of groups to which the user belongs
- externalID : a unique user ID specified by the customer
To change each attribute, click on the respective row.
Enter the attribute name as specified in the table above, select the corresponding value and remove Namespace value (leave it blank) and click OK.
To add more attributes to your SAML assertion, click Add attribute and repeat the process.
Once you're done adding the attributes, click Save to complete the configuration.
For Step 3, in the SAML Signing Certificate section, copy the App Federation Metadata URL or click Download Federation Metadata XML, which will export the Metadata file.
Access the Single Sign-On (SSO) tab of your Udemy Business account. Click Start setup and choose your Identity Provider. On the configuration page, choose the appropriate metadata configuration method and follow the instructions to create the SSO connection with your Identity Provider and Udemy Business.
Click on Azure Active Directory.
Select Enterprise applications.
Select your newly created application from the list.
Click Users and groups.
Click on Add User -> Users and Groups
Select all users you want to add to the application and click Select.
You have now completed configuring SSO for Udemy Business with Azure AD.


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Seeing the world in Black and White can be a difficult thing, especially for an admitted "Color Addict" like myself. Let's have a look at a few recent photos I made as I spent a little time practicing Black and White photography a couple weekends ago.
A mental shift.
As many of you probably know, I love color photography. Color can add so much to a scene in terms of mood and emotion, bringing the feeling of a cold winter sunrise or a warm summer evening back to the front of your mind.
I do love exploring black and white photography, or I should clarify, exploring other peoples black and white photography. In my own work, I really struggle with finding a black and white look that I'm happy with. I usually give up and opt to stick with colors.
In order to shake things up, and quite frankly, attempt to strengthen a weakness in my photography, I've been spending a fair amount of time trying to discover how to inject a little black and white photography into my way of seeing. It's a big mental shift to leave color behind and look at the world of absolutes that is black and white photography. Learning to see the subtle tonal changes in a scene that will translate well to a monochromatic image, ignoring the beautifully seasoned colors from life all around us is like going on a trip and packing no bags. Maybe that's a little dramatic, but it's how it feels to me!
I'm making a choice, and I choose fun.
In the most recent episode of Shuttertime with Sid and Mac they had a fantastic conversation with photographer Ian MacDonald. While there was literally a ton of great discussion in that episode, the one thing he talked about was choosing or finding the fun or the joy in your photography. It's something I've been talking about here a bit as well. Hear me out.
If you been following me for a while you will no doubt remember how I have talked about this awakening I had where I realized that I wasn't shooting for ME all the time. Unknowingly I had been sucked into the trap of comparing myself to all the other great photographers I admire on social media. I found myself making work in the hopes some of them would like it or notice me. The whole time I was slowly losing my sense of curiosity and fun with my own work. I'd find myself more and more frustrated with my work and feeling like I was stuck in a white out blizzard with no sense of direction.
I'm getting back to doing whatever makes me happy with my photography. Who knows what that looks like going forward, besides more of me being an open book with all of you as I write and share here. I'm not making any bold statements of new projects, new directions or specific styles I'm going to shoot, no grand revelations about an "All New Me". The process of regaining my visual curiosity is on, care to join me?
So black and white photography is my new thing?
Most likely not.
I'm enjoying exploring it in the short term, but I know that I love exploring color and light together so I won't be abandoning my regular type of work anytime soon. Like I said, I'm having fun exploring the world around me in black and white, trying to figure out how to make black and white work with MY eye as I continue to chase shadows and light all over Northern Minnesota. The ultimate goal would be to become comfortable exploring both black and white photography and color photography and seeing how those two combine to create new work going forward.
Have a look at what I came up with rec I'm pretty excited to share these recent visual wanderings with you!
Let's not forget, color plays a key role in B&W photography.
Because I'm not shooting black and white film (I know, total *GASP* moment, right?!) I'm shooting color RAW(.RAF) files on my Fuji X-T1 and then processing my black and white images in Adobe Lightroom. I'm well aware of all the great options for B&W photo processing, from Photoshop to Nik Silver Efex and more. I've chosen to keep my workflow right in Lightroom at the moment and have been using the new black and white presets in the Rebecca Lily Pro Set V set as a base. From there making adjustments and adding my own seasoning to find a flavor I'm happy with.
Since everything is buried in a sea of green right now (which of course includes a bunch of yellow tones) the primary challenge is to bring down the luminosity of the greens and yellows to help keep a nice blend of exposure, contrast, and mood. I like my monochrome images to feel simple, clean, and a bit moody. Strange combination huh?
Quiet, still, and solitary but not necessarily lonely or sad.
I don't know why, but black and white photos always give me a feeling of stillness, a very isolated and solitary mood. Maybe that is just the type of photo that I'm drawn to I'm a pretty big introvert. Yeah I know, you'll laugh because I do the podcast and write here, play in a band, etc. But honestly, while I LOVE doing all of those things, if I do them too much my gas tank of extroverted fuel runs empty and I need to retreat to a quiet place and recharge. Those quiet moments really shape how I see and feel black and white photography, small moments in time where I can step away from everything and really appreciate things around me. Color photographs let you control the mood and emotion in your work, playing guide for the viewer, leading them down the path of what you are trying to visually communicate.
Black and white photographs seem to speak a different language. There is more of yourself as a photographer shown in the photo and less of the guide trying to steer the viewer down whatever path you'd like them to see. I don't know if that makes sense, but if you get what I'm trying to say and want to add more hit that contact me button above, I'd love to hear from you. This is a relatively new realization about the way I think about black and white photography. In fact it's only occurring to me now as I write this. But it feels right so I'm going with it.
Enjoy what I do? Want to help me out?
If you are thinking of making a purchase on Amazon it's a huge help to me if you use my Amazon Affiliate links here on my site. The shopping experience is the same Amazon you know and love, but I get a little kickback in return for the referral. It's a great way to help out here on the site and allow me to do some new reviews and other things going forward.
If you would like to support me and you enjoy what you are seeing here, there is another simple way to help! Hit those SHARE/TWEET buttons down below and let people know about it!
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A Voice Saved
When Abby was diagnosed with thyroid cancer at age 15, she worried that surgery to remove her thyroid gland may destroy her greatest gift — her singing voice.
A Medical Mystery Solved at Mass. Eye and Ear
Maryjane Behforouz spent years trying to ignore clicking sounds in her head.
She had seen three ear, nose and throat specialists, and none of them seemed to know why she heard nearly constant clicking (or sometimes crunching) sounds that were so loud she'd wake up in the middle of the night.
All three diagnosed her with sensorineural hearing loss, or a loss of sensory cells in the ear. Unfortunately, there was little they could do to bring Maryjane's hearing back — or to stop the terrible crunching sounds.
That is, until she found Konstantina Stankovic, MD, PhD, FACS, Chief of Otology and Neurotology at Mass. Eye and Ear, who listened very carefully to her story.
Dr. Stankovic discovered that Maryjane had, in fact, broken a tiny bone in her ear. She did not have sensorineural hearing loss. She had a conductive hearing loss, which is often treatable with surgery.
Dr. Stankovic was able to quiet the clicking noises through a surgery that repaired the fracture using bone cement. She explained that the clicking was caused by two fragments of bone vibrating out of sync in response to sound.
"The important thing is you really have to listen to your patient," Dr. Stankovic said.
Read the full story in The Washington Post.
I was diagnosed with tinnitus at MEEI about 5 years or so ago. Are there any new treatments for this that work. Also, I see supplements all over the place, online and at the local pharmacies, but not sure if they really are a help. Your thoughts please. Thank You
The question is: are there any treatments that work for tinnitus?
Hello, the article on Maryjane Behferouz does not state how she broke a small ear bone unless I only read the short version of the story. How did this happen to her ? If I missed it please let me know. Thank you, Kim
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Travel Wise
20-minutes. Travel Wise introduces the learner to the main health, security and travel risks that they are likely to face and equips them with the tools to mitigate them. The introduction covers why compliance with their organisation's policies and procedures is important and also why travellers become targets for criminals. The course then covers preparation, key risks and preventative measures and culminates in the basic survival mechanisms for extreme events. The course finishes with a quick fire compliance quiz. The course is summarised in a convenient handout with checklists for future reference.
This is our most popular course that clients adapt to communicate specific policies & procedures as well as other bespoke content. For example adding Women & LGBT+ Traveller videos.
- Topics include: introduction, preparation, awareness of risks and how to respond to an incident
- For all travellers to all destinations
- Concise learning with rich use of animation to bring training to life
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Ah, Mighty Morphin power Rangers. By now, I'm sure everybody reading this knows that the footage was cobbled together from a bunch of Japanese shows, then combined with re-filmed scenes at Angel Valley, and then mutated a little more into the show that nineties kids grew up with. But the important thing is: Monsters. Whether it's a Kaiju series like Ultraman or a sentai series like any of the dozen or so used for Power Rangers, the shows will feature a new rubber suit every week! In times long past, the Power Rangers toy lines included plenty of such awesome beasties, but for the last decade or so… nada. That has changed this year. We've got monsters! FINALLY! And one of the most striking ones is Puzzler.
Puzzler was an enemy in Power Rangers Dino…Charge…Thunder…Ninja…Turbo…Storm… one of those shows (ed. Dino Charge). His original Japanese name was Debo Kokokendo, and he fought with mazes, chess games, and by smacking people with a flag. So he's not even a super-current bad guy, but he's clearly memorable enough to warrant a toy. Yay!
This is a bright, garish creature, and until you realize the maze aesthetic, he almost looks like a weird electric tribal mashup. Although the paint is one of his big drawing points, it isn't perfect. He's practically unpainted in the back, as well as on his legs – it's sadly lazy, because you can see so many details just left out!
Sculpturally, Puzzler has a lot going for him. It isn't ust a general maze design, you can actually spot the "START" and "END" points on his body, as well as a "DEAD END" in one leg (unpainted). Notably, he has an extra face on his torso – is that his true face? It's hard to tell.
The thing is, even in spite of the unpaitned parts, his sculpt is quite detailed. The maze can even be solved, if you feel like spending your time that way.
The articulation, however, is criminal. It's so bad that I couldn't realistically get the usual twenty photos of this figure. He has swivel arms (which barely move, and have frozen elbows), ball-jointed hips, and hinged knees, but everything feels stiff and constricted. Puzzler can stand, or he can stand at kind of a crouch. He can hold his flag up, or down.
The flag is a nice accessory. It reads "GOAL" on both sides of the banner, which makes sense since the exit to his maze is in his wrist. It's also show-accurate.
Overall, despite the lacking paint and cheap articulation, this figure's visual design is good enough to make hi worth it. I can't think of any other toys on the market that look like this, though his face is somewhat reminiscent of those Tiki toys from about a decade ago, maybe.


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How An SEO Audit Can Transform Your Business Model
If you notice that your SEO marketing doesn't seem to be bringing in the results you hoped, you don't necessarily have to scrap the whole thing and start from scratch. Instead, reach out to a skilled SEO company that can perform a digital audit and identifies key areas to improve. SEO companies look at all the telltale markers of what is effective and what is failing in your digital marketing plan, allowing you to streamline and refocus your business model.
Improving User Experience
One of the key components of an SEO audit is the opportunity to look at the web experience that your business offers from a user's perspective. This is especially important because no matter how advanced your eCommerce platform and website are, you as the developer are at a disadvantage when it comes to predicting the user experience. There is simply no way to know what a user who has never visited your site and is unfamiliar with your industry interprets your offering. An SEO audit is targeted specifically at improving the end-user experience. This helps clear up common misconceptions, reduce confusing terminology, and make your platform easier to access from a multitude of different devices.
Streamlining Social Media
While most people think of SEO in terms of what it adds to a website or blog, the same strategies that place your site at the top of Google rankings can apply to your social media channels as well. An SEO audit takes a number of things about your social media presence into account, including the use of keywords in posts, the effectiveness of your links, and engagement with your target audience. The audit also examines ways in which your social media channels are integrated into your website and eCommerce platforms. Ideally, this opens up new ways that your customers can talk about your products and services, giving them a chance to tell their friends after each successful sale.
Identifying New Audiences
Your digital marketing plan is likely designed to capture a few specific audiences, but you may not realize how wide a net you can really spread. An audit looks at how effective you are in engaging your primary audiences, then looks at related audiences that might be interested in your products or services. By making sure that you know exactly how popular your brand can be among other areas of the population, you have a chance to expand your customer base with very little investment on your part. Because the audit allows you to view these audiences in a targeted manner, the chance of wasting your resources on leads that don't convert is very small.
An SEO audit gives you an opportunity to know exactly what sort of content you are producing and who is consuming it. It gives you a snapshot that you can use to gauge your overall effectiveness and provides a road map to make sure that you can avoid potential problems and succeed with your target audience well into the future.


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Finished: Pepperland by Mark Delaney, 2004, 9781561453177.
This was supposed to be a committee book. There is a 2013 title but when I checked the catalog I reserved the first Pepperland I saw. Oh well. I enjoyed this YA one anyway.
Star is in therapy after her mother's recent cancer death in 1980. Star lives with her step-dad Sykes - who is a good dad - has a best male friend names Dooley, and plays guitar a lot. Star's mom loved the Beatles so Star loves the Beatles.
Star is having some grief issues so it's good she has a therapist. Throughout the book she gets better. Dooley is accused of being gay and gets his locker graffitied with "fag". Star finds her mother's old acoustic guitar which withered and split in the warm LA air. Star takes the guitar to a shop and strikes a deal with shop owner to help in the shop in lieu of the $300 repair bill. Dooley proclaims himself straight and tries to prove it by impulsively swapping spit with Star. Star looks though her mom's old stuff and finds an unmailed letter to John Lennon written in 1964. Star is intent on hand delivering the letter when Lennon appears in concert with Elton John in LA.
1. A decent story and Star's first person narrative was entertaining.
2. Delaney's afterword mentions how he took liberties in creating a Lennon/John concert for the story.
3. I wonder how would Star have reacted to Lennon's murder. I think the girl would have been devastated. Not just because of her own love for Lennon but for her deceased mom's.
4. I think the Dooley kid is gayer than gay and is faking it because of anti-gay pressure from others and by himself. But, these are teenagers and awkwardness is normal so why shouldn't he be a teeth colliding kisser and unable to turn from pal to boyfriend? If Dooley is gay I wonder how that character would fair as a young guy in the AIDS disasters of the 1980s. Reminds me of the Karen Finley book I read where almost all her friends and colleagues died within just a couple years. What a freaking health disaster that was.
5. Kid lit cliche of helping out in exchange for services. How the kid character and storekeeper bond and learn and grow through their problems. Bleagh.
Wednesday, June 18, 2014
Finished: "Pepperland" by Mark Delaney
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Welcome to Payson ...
The town of Payson is located in Gila County<1>.
From the Census Estimates for 2019, Payson has a population of 15,825 people<2> (see below for details).
We don't have a date for the establishment of Payson.
Payson is 5,000 feet [1,524 m] above sea level.<3> In other words, the elevation of Payson is about 1 mile [or ~1½ km] above sea level.
Time Zone: Payson lies in the Mountain Standard Time Zone (MST) and does not observe daylight saving time
Payson is within the (928) area code.
The ZIP codes for Payson: 85541, 85547<4>
Websites for Payson ...
Official Website: www.ci.payson.az.us/
Chamber of Commerce: www.rimcountrychamber.com/
Population Details ...
Taken from the 2019 Census Estimates, Payson had an population of 15,825 people. This is an increase of 3.42% since the 2010 Census (or an increase of 16.19% since the 2000 Census).
At the time of the 2010 Census, Payson had a population of 15,301 people (or 28.55% of the total population of Gila County). This makes Payson the county's most populous community.
The population of Payson represents 0.24% of the total population of Arizona (which has 6,392,017 people), making it the state's 36th most populous community.
With a 2010 count of 15,301 people, the population of Payson increased 12.34% from the 2000 Census (with a count of 13,620 people).
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As we reflect upon the life and legacy of Bob Simms, we are reminded that he was a role model to the black men of his time. Bob is best described as a Warrior.
The term "Warrior" is often associated with images of power, confidence, accomplishment, integrity, chivalry, honor and integrity.
Beginning when he was Athletic Director at all-black Carver High School in Coconut Grove, and continuing through his extraordinary service as a pioneering leader and unwavering paragon of power and respect in Miami, Bob made it clear that high principles and courage do prevail against weapons of indifference and intimidation.
Bob earned his leadership credentials by the force of his character and presence.
When he was called upon by a desperate cadre of downtown business and civic leaders to help quell the disturbance following the acquittal of police officers in the McDuffie killing in 1980, Bob quickly and quietly convened forums within the black community where people felt comfortable venting their feelings, while nevertheless committing themselves to obtain peace in the streets of Miami.
Bob Simms succeeded because he taught us to bargain, not beg; to discuss remedies, not just dialog and whine; to stand upright, and not bow to risk or threats of injustice; to trust only those who were trustworthy, and to understand the beauty of our Afrocentric heritage.
True to his noble heritage, when Bob finished his work in Miami, he returned to his native roots in Tuskegee Alabama, the spiritual home of such African-American giants as George Washington Carver and Booker T. Washington, as his final resting place.
May Bob Simms rest in peace. We are grateful that he passed our way. He touched the lives of many black men, and he made us better.
George Knox practiced law in Miami-Dade for 40 years, and served as Miami's City Attorney from 1976-1982


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FBI Director James Comey has reportedly asked the Justice Department to publicly deny there is any truth to President Donald Trump's claims that former President Barack Obama ordered his phones be tapped, the New York Times reports. According to the paper's sources, Comey has called on the Justice Department to contradict the commander in chief, because his explosive accusation makes it look like the FBI broke the law. Needless to say, the Justice Department has not issued any kind of statement on the allegations.
The lack of a statement isn't that surprising considering all that it implies. The Times explains:
A statement by the Justice Department or Mr. Comey refuting Mr. Trump's allegations would be a remarkable rebuke of a sitting president, putting the nation's top law enforcement officials in the position of questioning the truthfulness of the government's top leader. The situation underscores the high stakes of what the president and his aides have unleashed by accusing the former president of a conspiracy to undermine Mr. Trump's young administration.
Democrats will surely compare what seems to be Comey's careful deliberations now with the way the FBI chief spoke publicly about Hillary Clinton's emails even though the Justice Department asked him to stay quiet.
Without citing any evidence, Trump took to Twitter on Saturday morning and laid out his accusations in a series of bizarre tweets. At one point, Trump wondered whether it was "legal for a president to be 'wire tapping' a race for president prior to an election." He equated his accusations to "Nixon/Watergate." Again without providing any evidence, the White House backed the president on Sunday, and press secretary Sean Spicer called on Congress to "investigate whether executive branch investigation powers were abused in 2016."
Obama already denied the allegations through a spokesman. "A cardinal rule of the Obama Administration was that no White House official ever interfered with any independent investigation led by the Department of Justice," spokesman Kevin Lewis said in a statement. "As part of that practice, neither President Obama nor any White House official ever ordered surveillance on any U.S. citizen. Any suggestion otherwise is simply false." Obama's director of national intelligence, James Clapper, also denied it, saying that as far as he was concerned there had been no wiretapping of Trump Tower.
On Sunday, Democrats criticized the president for his claims, and even some Republican lawmakers called on Trump to release evidence. "Suffice it to say I don't have any basis; I've never heard that allegation made before by anybody," Florida Sen. Marco Rubio said. "I've never seen anything about that anywhere before. But again, the president put that out there, and now the White House will have to answer as to exactly what he was referring to." But Rep. Devin Nunes of California, the Republican chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, said his committee would look into the accusations as part of a broader probe on Russian influence.
Although this type of over-the-top accusations seem to be part of Trump's way of operating, the Washington Post's Karen Tumulty explains why it could end up backfiring:
The audacious tactic was a familiar one for Trump, who has little regard for norms and conventions. When he wants to change a subject, he often does it by touching a match to the dry tinder of a sketchy conspiracy theory.
But the stakes have gotten higher, and the consequences more real and serious, as questions mount over Moscow's reported attempts to interfere with last year's presidential election.
Trump's response also has deepened doubts about his own judgment, not just in the face of the first crisis to confront his young presidency but in dealing with the challenges that lie ahead for the chief executive of the world's most powerful nation.
His tweets may have been an effort to distract from revelations that his aides and associates had contact with Russian officials during the election and transition, as well as to deflect criticism onto Obama.
But instead, the president has invited more scrutiny to the larger controversy over Russian interference. The issue shows no signs of fading.


text: Just the one change for second home match in four days Manager Paul Cox has made one change to his starting line-up for tonight's match with Newport County at One Call Stadium.Burly forward Matt Rhead, back and available following a four-match suspension, replaces Sam Clucas in attack.John Dempster will once again skipper the team.Our team is as follows: Studer, Dempster (c), Sutton, Tafazolli, Beevers, Taylor, Clements, McGuire, Heslop, Rhead, Fisher. Subs: Jones, Bell, Clucas, Palmer, Marsden, Murray, Evtimov.Kick-Off tonight is at 7.45pm. However, if you can't make it to One Call Stadium, both Nigel Pinnick and Martin Shaw will be providing full-match commentary on Stags Player from 7.40pm. Club News


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Microbiologist Adam Roberts went digging through men's beards in search of poop.
Instead, he found a tantalizing suggestion of a breakthrough in the global fight against drug-resistant infections. Which, for a researcher working fervently to help avert the antibiotic apocalypse that the World Health Organization, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Roberts himself believe may be looming, is not a bad trade off.
The research began, as very few good things do, with a fake viral story from the Internet.
If you have a beard or you're currently kissing someone with a beard, or you simply have an affinity for gross stories about personal hygiene, you may remember the period in the spring when a slew of articles were published with headlines like, "Some beards contain more poo than a toilet shocking study reveals."
The "study" these stories cited was actually a project carried out by a TV journalist in Albuquerque, N.M., in which she swabbed a handful of men's beards and then had a microbiologist examine the cultures, explained the Guardian's Nick Evershed. Among other things, the scientist found "enterics," bacteria that are often found in the intestine. As bacteria are not the same thing as fecal matter, and it's not all that uncommon for specific types of bacteria to be present in both the gut and on the skin, this wasn't really news - but try telling that to someone who's finally persuaded her editor to let her use the word "poo" in a headline.
Regardless of its scientific merits, the story did pique the interest of Roberts, a microbiologist at University College London who is part of a team of researchers there searching for new antibiotics that could help stave off the growing drug-resistance crisis.
For almost a year now, he has been running a program called "Swab and Send," which invites ordinary people to submit swab samples from the world around them to be tested for antimicrobial properties. He's gotten samples from computer keyboards, Egyptian bank notes, the floor of the London Undergound's Circle Line train, the inside of a toilet in a public bathroom - "That's real dedication to go anywhere near that," Roberts joked - and has so far isolated 20 promising strains capable of killing bacteria and yeast.
This is important, Roberts said in a phone interview Wednesday, because the overuse and misuse of antibiotics has spurred disease-causing bacteria, such as Staphylococcus and E. coli, to evolve resistance to most of the drugs we prescribe to treat them.
"Humans have used antibiotics pretty indiscriminately since we first discovered them, and we haven't really found that many," he said. "We're relying on the few we have found over and over again, and that's introduced a massive selection for resistant bacteria."
Until researchers can find not just a few new types of antibiotic, but dozens or even hundreds, "we'll just be playing leapfrog" with multi-drug resistant, increasingly deadly strains, he said. In the United States, these "superbugs" are responsible for 2 million infections and 23,000 deaths every year, according to the CDC.
All of this was at the back of Roberts's mind when he was asked by the BBC to conduct a small study on the "poop in facial hair" theory for its "Trust Me, I'm a Doctor" series. Taking swab samples from 20 men's beards, he set about sorting through the 100 or so types of bacteria he found.
Fellows with facial hair - and their fans - can breathe a sigh of relief now: Roberts didn't find any evidence of fecal bacteria in beards.
He wasn't expecting to find anything more from the study, but since Roberts's lab is focused on antibiotic resistance, he and his colleagues ran tests on all of the isolates as a matter of course. Each one was placed in a growth medium that had been pre-inoculated with another type of bacteria to see how the two strains interacted.
Amazingly, about 25 percent of beard isolates started killing off the indicator strains.
"They were producing their own antibiotics," Roberts said.
Granted, the indicator bacteria used to test the samples were relatively weak. He and his colleagues will need to conduct more tests to figure out how exactly the antimicrobial isolates work and whether they're effective against more-serious multi-drug-resistant strains such as E. coli, MRSA and Candida albicans, which causes yeast infections.
The hope is that the beard bacteria and other isolates from Roberts's "Swab and Send" project might aid in the development of new antibiotics, an area of science that has stalled since the "golden age" of antibiotic discovery in the 1950s and 1960s. But it's a long and expensive process. Even if Roberts discovered an entirely new type of antimicrobial tomorrow, it would take at least 10 years and millions of dollars before the drug ended up on the market.
But new antimicrobials would allow doctors to cycle drugs in and out of use over the course of years, removing them from the health system before bacteria became fully resistant and keeping us out of a situation in which every antibiotic available was ineffective against common kinds of infections.
That's the "serious message behind the bit of fun" Roberts has had with the beard study, he said.
"It's been dubbed a slow-onset disaster," he said, comparing antibiotic resistance to global warming. "You can kind of tell it's happening, but nobody thinks they can do anything about it."
That's not true, he insisted. The so-called "antibiotic apocalypse" can be averted if governments, clinicians, drug companies and other stakeholders take action, and if individuals about to pop a pill stop to think twice before they do.
"Every user of antibiotics in the whole world slowly increases the selective pressure [for resistance]," he said. "But every user also has the power to reduce that."


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Carriers Spend Billions on Networks and Millions to Dress Them Up
As consumers increasingly pick up smartphones rather than feature phones, carriers are investing more cash in startups in the hopes of making such devices more useful — and their networks more profitable. The uptick in carrier investments has been particularly pronounced over the last few months, as wireless operators try to boost data revenue and differentiate their services by getting access to new technology first.
Just this week Eventful, a location-based calendar service, announced a $10 million round that included money from Telefonica. In September, two firms announced deals with carrier participation: social calendaring service Zvents, which raised $24 million, some of it from AT&T, and femtocell systems maker Percello, which raised $12 million, including money from T-Mobile.
"In my opinion the operators are becoming a little more aggressive and the equipment folks are less aggressive, with less to spend on R&D," said Matthew Fix, a principal at Vodafone Ventures, the investment arm of the UK network operator. "Carriers are more aggressive because there's a lot of uncertainty around their business models."
Operators spent the last decade focused on growing their business through building out new 3G networks and gaining subscribers, but as markets become saturated the only way to boost revenue is to get people to use the network for data. In some countries the only way to gain market share is to steal customers, rendering the differences among the services being offered by carriers — and exclusive access to those services — more consequential. As Fix observes, operators don't want to become dumb pipes for data, delivering services that only enrich others. They want to own their destiny. And they want to charge for it.
Driven by flat-rate plans, more widespread 3G coverage and the iPhone, data spending in the U.S. reached $8.2 billion in the second quarter of 2008, or about 21 percent of the total wireless services revenue. This compares to spending of $5.85 billion, or 17 percent of total services for the same period in 2007. The boost in wireless services increased average revenue per user by 5 percent to 50 cents, offsetting a 5-cent decline in voice ARPU, according to data released in August by Chetan Sharma Consulting. So to avoid becoming the dreaded dumb pipes, carriers are funding startups to get exclusive access to services and possibly technology.
But as one venture investor at a large European carrier noted to me, buying exclusivity from established vendors isn't cheap. Still, the carrier he works for, which doesn't allow him to talk to the press, has ramped up its investments to about a dozen from just one or two in prior years. His increased investment also puts him in the path of many fund raising companies, meaning he and his employer get a first look at new technology — and interesting startups — even if they don't want to fund them. Russ Shaw, global innovation manager for Telefonica said the Spanish telecommunications firm created a venture fund a year ago for similar reasons. The fund had 20 million euros to spend last year, and another 20 million euros authorized for the coming year.
Aside from gaining access to exclusive features or getting in early on the innovation curve, Eric Zimits, a general partner at Granite Venture Capital, predicts that carrier investments in hardware might become more common as carriers seek to exert added control over the component side of their business. He points to investments in femtocells as well as NTT DoCoMo's recent decision to invest in Quantance, which offers a handset component to increase battery life. Zimits is an investor in Quantance and Percello, the T-Mobile-backed femtocell company.
"It just seems to me that as carriers — especially wireless operators — look for a competitive advantage in the market, they should try to get proprietary access to key technologies instead of waiting for Nokia to take two to three years to figure it out and then sell it to all comers," Zimits said. "The big change for the startup is they have to sell to the operators from day one. They are hard organizations to navigate but the payoff can be enormous if you get them to specify your technology."
Back during the telecom bubble in the late 90s, carriers made investments in some of their suppliers, too. But for the most part, that turned out badly as the industry was soon beset by a glut of capacity and too many me-too startups selling gear. This time around, carriers appear to be investing in silicon and software that can differentiate their services in a way they can market to the end user. Maybe it's access to a cool calendar feature or a longer battery life, but the efforts to fund startups this time around are all about making each carrier unique.
This article also appeared on Businessweek.com.


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Did you watch the Super Bowl this year? We certainly did. Oh yes, we were more than ready for the kickoff at 11:30 pm, and stayed up right through the end around 3:30am. Was it worth it? Yeah, it probably was. But then again, this is coming from a guy who watched pirated streams of the lowly Lions on Sundays this fall, and paid enough attention to the NFL to win one league of dorks fantasy league and almost win another. So yes, sleep was probably going to go right out the window for the last football game of the year, the American institution that is the Super Bowl.
Luckily for us, the BBC partnered with FOX to bring us the game live on BBC ONE, which meant that I could get it with my freeview receiver that plugs into my computer, or just watch the high quality stream online. Done and done. It turns out with the nasty weather that the online stream was the more reliable option, and the quality was pretty good too.
I know you probably can't appreciate the quality based on this picture, but everything was crisp, clean and didn't skip a beat. THANK YOU BBC. I find it amazing that not only does the internet make it easy to be in communication with everyone back home, but it really makes it so I don't miss much of anything. Did they have a streaming version for people that don't have digital cable back in the USA?
Well, I almost didn't miss anything. During the game, whenever they would switch to a commercial break, we would get the following:
That would be former NFL star Tiki Barber, some American journalist that I don't know, and a British guy that I am convinced was mispronouncing the players names on purpose and may have been drinking. These guys would talk about he previous couple of plays for however long the commercials ran for. So yes, we missed the very commercials that cost upwards of $3 Million per 30 seconds that every non-football fan tunes in for. Except, we didn't really miss those either.
Again, thanks to the internet, Twitter, and YouTube, I could actually see most of the best commercials almost minutes after they aired live. Like this chilling ad from Chrysler for example:
All of my Facebook friends liked it, it became a trending topic on Twitter, and then Eminem passed on a link – all within a few minutes.
So thanks to the power of the internet we were able to watch the game, and I was able to chat with friends and check the nation's pulse on the game/commercials in real-time (Chels had fallen asleep by then). The entire process was not anything like what I anticipated, and turned out to be a lot of fun for me being stuck alone at 3am in a foreign country. AND the game turned out to be pretty entertaining. So yeah, it definitely lived up to its name.


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Dovetail Cedar Stool - Hand Tools
I built a cedar stool for my 2 year old nephew for Christmas. I only used hand tools so it took a long time but I learned a lot in the process.
I built a cedar stool for my 2 year old nephew for Christmas. I only used hand tools so it took a long time but I learned a lot in the process.
Jointing the pieces. The cedar was leftover from a previous project so I had to plane off the stained areas as well.
The laminations. I needed 3 pieces over 10" wide as I wanted to do 10" wide for the tops and 8" tall for the legs. The legs were to have a taper in them as well so they needed to be closer to 14" wide.
Using a knife wall to cut the pieces to length.
Planing the cut down to the knife wall for a perfect endgrain.
I used a scrap piece of cardboard to freehand the arc for the legs and transferred that to the piece.
After a very rough cut with a crappy coping saw, I used the spokeshave to get a clean, smooth edge on the arc.
First dovetail cut and fitted. This is my first non-practice dovetail and cedar is a soft wood so these are a little rough.
Both dovetails done and fitted. Time to glue up!
I used way more clamps than I ever thought possible. The weird angled ones were to work the legs back into square.
The stool got sanded, the gaps in the joints got filled with glue and sawdust, and it got several coats of boiled linseed oil.
My man Titus with his stool
Danish oil is a general purpose natural finish for wood. It adds depth and richness to any wood species and protects and seals at the same time.


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A Unique Office Space Requires Unique Cubicles
Oct 20th 2017
Versare is a big advocate of community involvement and the arts. We are also experts at improving office arrangements and acoustics. So combining all of those passions into one project is always a treat for us. When Steve Mittelholtz, Facility Manager from the Minnesota Opera, came to us for help during their office remodel, we knew just what to do. Mittelholtz came to Versare's corporate headquarters in Minneapolis to look at our office dividers in person. He wanted to create private cubicles for the employees at Minnesota Opera, without doing a large install or taking away from the aesthetics of the interior. His goal was to create an open office feel while maintaining the charm and architecture of the office building, which is part of the National Register of Historic Places. The obstacles were the large, original timber pillars within the building, which proved only a welcome challenge for our team of experts. The office space's unique interior and floor plan required a unique solution. We helped Mittelholtz choose the Hush Panel Configurable Cubicle System, which offers a plethora of panel sizes that, combined with our unique post-and-panel system, can create virtually infinite configurations. Each post and panel slides together, giving you complete control over how to shape your cubicle arrangement. It only took a small team and a couple hours to create attractive cubicles that worked in unison with the unique interior. Mittelholtz chose our sound-dampening acoustical fabric panels to ensure each workstation felt private. The 0.65 NRC-rated panels also helped to minimize the large space's echo and unwieldy acoustics. He also added optional translucent polycarbonate glass windows, providing some visibility and allowing light flow. The cubicles thus work in simpatico with the environment, allowing light to transfer, balancing noise, and adhering to the unique architecture. "Versare was the right company for the Minnesota Opera to work with," Mittelholtz raved. "We really enjoyed the fact that our partitions are made right here in our home city and state. The design and execution really exceeded our expectations." [gallery ids="1547,1545,1546,1559,1558,1557,1555,1554,1553,1549,1552,1548,1551,1550,1556"]


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