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FireEye acquires cyber incident response firm Mandiant for $1bn
Mandiant has been been a partner of FireEye's since April 2012
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Cyber security company FireEye has acquired privately-held cyber incident response firm Mandiant in a deal that could be worth about $1bn (£608m). The transaction closed on December 30, 2013. US...
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I bought this for my 2 1/2 year old and 1 1/2 year old to play with at the park. With a light wind, I can laucnh it with my hand no need to play out lots of line, run, or anything just hold it over my head and let go. I have flown it up to the limit of the provided string I think it's about 300 , but it's most fun to fly it lower where the kids can see it better. At really low altitudes it can drop quickly when the wind changes, but you can pull on the string or run to keep it up. If I fly it up to about 80 or more where it's more stable, my 2 1/2 year old can hold it. If I pull it in to about 10 , I can run around the park with it flying just overhead, buzzing the toddlers with the tail. It doesn't handle violent wind and gusts well, but it's not intended for that. It's so easy it might get boring for someone capable of handling multi-string stunt kites, but for any Charlie Brown, this is the right kite. There are other kites that fly easily, but these Easy Flyers are also supposed to have lighter line pull, making it less likely to pull or jerk the string out of a child's hand. Still, for under 5 year olds I do most of the flying. Therefore I'm going to try some helium balloons on the kite string instead. I'm also keen to try a KongMing lantern. Our area is popular for hot air ballooning and maybe when the kids are older we could build an RC balloon. A kite like this can get a lot of things started. Enjoy.
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Sloanea garckeana, também conhecido como urucurana-brava, é uma espécie de planta do gênero Sloanea e da família Elaeocarpaceae.

Taxonomia
A espécie foi descrita em 1886 por Karl Moritz Schumann e Karl Moritz Schumann.

Forma de vida
É uma espécie terrícola e arbórea.

Descrição
Árvore de 2 - 13 metros de altura com ramos jovens estriados, lenticelados, glabros a tomentosos; gema apical coberta por numerosos catáfilos, tomentosa; gema axilar tomentosa. Ela tem folhas alternas a subopostas, concentradas no ápice dos ramos; estípulas persistentes nos ramos jovens, 4 - 8 milímetros de comprimento, com cerca de 1 milímetros de largura, lanceoladas ou estreito lanceoladas, pubescentes; pecíolos 5 - 35 milímetros de comprimento, estriados, pubescentes a tomentosos na porção superior, raro glabros; limbo obovado a oblanceolado, 5,2 - 17 centímetros de comprimento, 2,3 - 5,4 milímetros de largura, base aguda ou cuneada, ápice acuminado ou agudo, raro apiculado, margem inteira, ondulada ou raro serreada no primeiro terço superior do limbo, glabro na face adaxial, exceto pelas nervuras, glabro a esparsamente pubescente na face abaxial; venação broquidódroma no primeiro terço inferior do limbo, semicraspedódroma ou craspedódroma na porção superior do limbo, raramente nervuras secundárias formam apículos pubescentes na margem, nervura principal sulcada, raro plana na face adaxial, saliente na face abaxial; ausência de domácias.

A inflorescência é axilar ou terminal; do tipo tríade; pedúnculo 1 - 7 centímetros de comprimento, estriado, esparsamente lenticelado ou não, achatado ou cilíndrico, pubérulo a tomentoso; brácteas cedo caducas, longo-lanceoladas, inteiras, pubescentes, com cerca de 2 milímetros de comprimento, menor do que 0,5 milímetros larg.; bractéolas persistentes, longo-lanceoladas, inteiras, 3 - 5 milímetros de comprimento, 0,5 - 1 milímetros larg., densamente pubescentes; pedicelo 9 - 24 milímetros de comprimento, estriado, pubérulo a tomentoso. Ela tem flores com 4 sépalas, unisseriadas, iguais, inteiras, 5 - 12 milímetros de comprimento, 3 - 7 milímetros larg., ovadas, ápice acuminado, margem revoluta e curto tomentosa na face interna, pubescente em ambas as faces, cobrindo os órgãos reprodutivos no botão floral, próximo à antese; filete 1 - 2 milímetros de comprimento, pubescente; anteras de 2 - 3 milímetros de comprimento, elípticas ou lanceoladas, pubescentes; prolongamento do conectivo aristado, 2 - 4 milímetros de comprimento, glabro a pubescente; ovário 3 - 4 milímetros de comprimento, globoso, longo-velutino, com tricomas ramificados, séssil; estilete 3 - 5 milímetros de comprimento, contorcido, ápice inteiro, glabro ou pubescente na porção basal, glabro na porção apical; receptáculo floral tomentoso a velutino. Frutos elipsóides ou orbiculares, 4-valvares, 1,5 - 2,8 centímetros de comprimento, 0,5 - 1,3 centímetros larg.; densamente pubescente a tomentoso, externamente coberto por cerdas pubescentes com ápice setuloso, 3 - 5 milímetros de comprimento. Tem sementes elípticas com 13 - 18 milímetros de comprimento, 6 - 10 milímetros de largura, cobertas por arilo vermelho.

Conservação
A espécie faz parte da Lista Vermelha das espécies ameaçadas do estado do Espírito Santo, no sudeste do Brasil. A lista foi publicada em 13 de junho de 2005 por intermédio do decreto estadual nº 1.499-R.

Distribuição
A espécie é encontrada nos estados brasileiros de Acre, Alagoas, Amazonas, Amapá, Bahia, Distrito Federal, Espírito Santo, Goiás, Maranhão, Minas Gerais, Mato Grosso, Pará, Paraíba , Pernambuco, Paraná, Rio de Janeiro, Roraima, Santa Catarina, Sergipe e São Paulo.
A espécie é encontrada nos  domínios fitogeográficos de Floresta Amazônica, Cerrado e Mata Atlântica, em regiões com vegetação de mata ciliar, floresta de terra firme e floresta ombrófila pluvial.

Notas
Contém texto em CC-BY-SA 4.0 de Sampaio, D. Elaeocarpaceae  in Flora e Funga do Brasil.

Ligações externas
 Sloanea garckeana no projeto Flora e Funga do Brasil
 Sloanea garckeana no portal do Centro Nacional de Conservação da Flora (Brasil)

Sloanea
Plantas descritas em 1886
Flora do Espírito Santo (estado)
Espécies citadas na Lista Vermelha de Ameaça da Flora Brasileira
Espécies citadas na Lista de Espécies da Flora Ameaçadas do Espírito Santo

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Earthquake Davao Occidental: 4.5 Magnitude Quake Rocks Balut Island
December 1, 2022 by Sandy Ghaz in Categories News
EARTHQUAKE DAVAO OCCIDENTAL – Phivolcs released a bulletin stating that a 4.5 magnitude quake jolted Balut Island today, December 1, 2022.
Several strong earthquakes have jolted different areas in the country today, December 1, 2022. Phivolcs continuously releases updates regarding the quakes. Recently, an earthquake with 4.5 magnitude was recorded in Davao Occidental.
Earthquake Today: 4.5 Magnitude Quake Hits Davao Occidental
Phivolcs Releases Bulletin about Earthquake Today December 1, 2022 in Davao Occidental
EARTHQUAKE TODAY DECEMBER 1, 2022 – The Phivolcs recorded a 4.5 magnitude earthquake in Davao Occidental today.
Most of the time, quakes hit with no prior signs. Recently, several places in and out of the Philippines were shaken by quakes of different magnitudes.
One of the strong quakes recorded by Phivolcs was the 7.1 magnitude quake in Davao Oriental. There were expected aftershocks due to the said quake and a tsunami advisory was released.
Previously, Phivolcs also recorded a quake in a part of Zambales. It had a magnitude of 6.1. Strong shaking was felt leaving people fearing about the so-called "Big One". But the agency advised the people to wait for factual information and not to panic.
READ ALSO: Earthquake Facts & Trivia: 7 Things You May Not Know About Quakes
Recently, a quake hit a part of Davao Occidental, December 1, 2022. Balut Island was hit by an earthquake with a magnitude of 4.5 at 11:53 a.m.
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According to Phivolcs, the earthquake today December 1, 2022 that hit a part of 03.54°North, 126.90°East – 264 km South 38° East of Balut Island with a depth of origin of 032 kilometers.
Phivolcs stated in its bulletin that damages are not expected from the said quake as well as aftershocks. According to the agency, no intensity was recorded at the epicenter of the quake as well as the nearby areas. No instrumental intensity was recorded as well.
Keep safe everyone. Rest assured we will keep you posted for official updates from Phivolcs and other weather agencies.
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Bon Iver | True Endeavors Presents: music, tours, tickets, mp3 downloads, concert pictures, videos, Madison WI.
Tickets available through our Music Calendar on Friday, May 31 at 10am.
If you fell in love with Polica (along with the rest of Madison!) at the very first FRZN Fest 2 years ago, you'll be pleased to find that they have just released a new single, featuring another midwestern favorite, Justin Vernon. The artists shared the stage at Coachella last week and performed the haunting track from their upcoming album for the masses. So lovely.
Have a listen to "Tiff" here, and tell us what you think in the comments below.
We were first introduced to British songstress and fashion plate Lianne La Havas when she opened for Bon Iver on his most recent swing through Madison last December. We were more than a little impressed with her performance, and have been eagerly awaiting her debut album. The wait is finally over, and NPR was good enough to host the new record in its entirety on their site. Check it out, and let us know what you think! Would you want to see Lianne back in Madison again soon?
Search For The Last Pair Of Bon Iver Tickets Tomorrow With Our Good Winter Scavenger Hunt!
Just a friendly reminder that the last pair of tickets to the sold out Bon Iver concert this Saturday night (December 10, 2011) are still out there! We've joined up with our pals at the A.V. Club to put together a fun scavenger hunt around Madison so that fans can collect points and earn their way into the Orpheum's seats this weekend.
We've been announcing sneak peek challenges all week, but the full list of our Good Winter Scavenger Hunt tasks will be revealed tomorrow afternoon (Saturday, December 10, 2011) at 3pm through our Facebook Page.
Collect as many points as you can, and then join us at The Frequency from 5-7pm for our Pre-Concert Scavenger Party. We'll tally your points and put you in the running for a bunch of fabulous prizes including a pair of tickets to the show! Please bring one or more canned food items along with you for donation to the River Food Pantry.
• Concert tickets to John Waters, The Fray, NeedToBreathe, Yonder Mountain String Band, Electric Six, The Lemonheads, G-Side, Camper Van Beethoven, Tea Leaf Green, Charles Bradley & His Extraordinaires, Sage Francis, and Heartless Bastards.
Read more about the Good Winter Scavenger Hunt here.
Tickets to see Bon Iver live in Madison at the Orpheum are now SOLD OUT. We hope everyone who wanted to snag tickets was able to do so. This is going to be another incredible, packed homecoming show for Justin Vernon and Co!


American Chambers Life Insurance Company was a life and health insurance company based in Cleveland, Ohio, with its main office in Illinois. The company sold primarily association and small-group health insurance, with a small amount of life insurance and annuity business as well. The company was placed in receivership in March 2000 and was declared insolvent and ordered liquidated in May of the same year. State life and health insurance guaranty associations helped arrange for the transfer of some of the company's policies to assuming insurers thereafter, with the remainder of the business serviced on behalf of the associations.
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Body and brackets made in anodized light alloy. Push and pull version.
To protect the motor from dripping water in an exposed location the smaller section must be the lower.
Space-saving struts, if compared with the stroke, therefore suitable for complex installations.
Allows the set-up of electronic end of stroke and to insert up to a maximum of 4 intermediate arrest points.
Can be used to synchronize a pair or for groups made of a maximum of 6 struts.
It's possible to install a 3 positions switch to replace the keyboard for routine operations.
Our expertise built in 15 years of prduction of electric struts for the nautical sector, has enabled us to introduce a range of telescopic, two stages, push and pull struts , outstanding for the reduced length/stroke ratio.
Made with a body in anticorodal anodized aluminum and stainless steel worms, to provide the maximum resistance to corrosion, grant a push and pull power of 150 Kg.
Made without and with encoder, the latest allows to handle electronically the end of stroke and the Automatic Translation Points.
The encoded versions can be installed as one synchronized pair or as more pairs to be handled in a concatenated chain, all that operated from a simple keyboard.


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St Louis County experiencing problems with Frontier Communications
Posted on November 27, 2017 by Ann Treacy
The TimberJay published a long article on the problems local residents and businesses are having with Frontier Communications. Internet access to not reliable, billing is unpredictable and hard to understand, there are high surcharges to drop their service and often few options when you look for alternatives.
There are a couple of stories here. One is the frustration of the customers…
While most Frontier customers can't recite the full litany of woe experienced by Wilson, for many residents of Frontier's service territory here in northeastern Minnesota it sounds all too familiar.
"This has been the worst service experience of my life," said Melissa Holmes, of Embarrass, who responded to a recent story in the Timberjay asking readers to send in their concerns about Frontier. That story prompted dozens of responses, all with similar stories of overcharges, long waits on hold for billing or technical assistance, and regular outages, some lasting for days.
Holmes said her phone service regularly goes out, particularly when conditions are wet. "My whole neighborhood here on Wahlsten Road in Embarrass has had service issues with Frontier for decades," she said. "Repeated calls to the company go nowhere."
It's a story of a company that is having trouble keeping up with technology…
Prospects for an improvement in Frontier's service quality appear unlikely given the increasingly tenuous financial condition of the company. Frontier went deeply in debt in early 2016, when it completed an $11 billion purchase of landline infrastructure formerly owned by Verizon in California, Texas, and Florida. The acquisition more than doubled the size of the company, but also prompted a major restructuring, which included significant layoffs.
Frontier officials had touted the acquisition at the time, arguing that the company knew how to make money from traditional landline infrastructure even as the industry is rapidly transitioning to wireless. But the company has yet to demonstrate it is up to the challenge and as complaints over poor service have mounted, the company has hemorrhaged customers, particularly in more populated regions, where customers often have viable alternatives.
According to the Los Angeles Times, Frontier lost 102,000 landline dependent customers in just the first quarter of 2017. The company lost $373 million last year and a whopping $737 million through the first half of 2017, much of it as the company writes off overdue bills from the customers it acquired in the Verizon acquisition. Earlier this year, the company announced that it was cutting its dividend by more than 60 percent and would engineer a 1-for-15 reverse stock split (exchanging one share for every 15 shares outstanding) in a move to boost its sagging stock price. It hasn't helped, as the company's share price has slid from a high of $56 at the beginning of the year, to just over $11 this week. The company's slide prompted the S&P 500 to recently drop the company from its index.
Finally it's a story that is held captive by their broadband provider…
Brenda Winkelaar, who operates SuLu's Espresso Café in Tower with her sister Linda, can attest to that personally. She said the majority of their customers rely on credit or debit cards for the coffee and treats they buy. But completing those transactions is only possible when the Internet is working— and outages are all too frequent, said Winkelaar. "We lose significant business because of it," she said, since more and more people don't carry cash. Rather than turn away customers, they routinely just give things away or ask regular customers to pay next time.
While that might not be a disaster if the Internet outage is a matter of minutes, operations at SuLu's were thrown into chaos in late September when their Internet disappeared for three full days.
And the service impacts many…
State Rep. Rob Ecklund said he hears concerns about Frontier all the time. "Funny you should ask," said Ecklund when he was contacted by the Timberjay earlier this month. "I just checked my voicemails from yesterday afternoon, and two of them were about problems with Frontier," he said.
Ecklund contacted both state and company officials in the wake of the calls, and issued a press release (See sidebar) earlier this month informing residents of District 3A how to file a complaint with the Public Utilities Commission against the company.
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The input selection process for data-driven rainfall-runoff models is critical because input vectors determine the structure of the model and, hence, can influence model results. Here, hydro-geomorphic and biophysical time series inputs, including Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) and Index of Connectivity (IC; a type of hydrological connectivity index), in addition to climatic and hydrologic inputs were assessed. Selected inputs were used to develop Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) in the Haughton River catchment and the Calliope River catchment, Queensland, Australia. Results show that incorporating IC as a hydro-geomorphic parameter and remote sensing NDVI as a biophysical parameter, together with rainfall and runoff as hydro-climatic parameters, can improve ANN model performance compared to ANN models using only hydro-climatic parameters. Comparisons amongst different input patterns showed that IC inputs can contribute to further improvement in model performance, than NDVI inputs. Overall, ANN model simulations showed that using IC along with hydro-climatic inputs noticeably improved model performance in both catchments, especially in the Calliope catchment. This improvement is indicated by a slight increase (9.77% and 11.25%) in the Nash-Sutcliffe efficiency and noticeable decrease (24.43% and 37.89%) in the root mean squared error of monthly runoff from Haughton River and Calliope River, respectively. Here, we demonstrate the significant effect of hydro-geomorphic and biophysical time series inputs for estimating monthly runoff using ANN data-driven models, which are valuable for water resources planning and management.


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Development of a distinctive "Upland culture" café/creative space offering increased visitor dwell time, appeal to overseas visitors, generating income to support the wider business objectives to offer a very unique Lake District experience. Visitors will be immersed in Lakeland history with 150 years of visual representation on display, with a new contemporary exhibition space within the café. The café will offer a unique selection of Lakeland food sourced locally with a fusion of Scandinavian influence. This will highlight the connection that the Heaton Cooper Artists have with Norway, as Alfred Heaton Cooper (1863-1929) was married to a Norwegian called Mathilde. The new space will also be used to offer artists workshops.


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Today I have been working with a new database, it is an upgrade from a RAC database but now it is single instance. The problem (maybe not, you can work in this way without issues) is thread 2 is not active. I like to keep clean all I can. Here I show you how to drop this thread.
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Skoda Auto will launch its new midsize sedan in India on the 16th of this month. As the launch date comes closer, there Skoda Rapid's microsite goes live. However you will not get many details about the car as of now.
Skoda Rapid is based on Volkswagen Vento platform and shares the same engines with the later. The Skoda Rapid will come in 3 variants - Active, Ambition and Elegance. Since there is sharing of platform, Skoda might have saved much of the cost which is expected to be passed on to the customer. The Rapid is likely to be priced between Rs. 7-9 lakh.
The Rapid in the front reminds us of the Fabia hatch with its prominent Skoda grill. The rest of the car is Vento, as we have said earlier that Rapid shares its platform with the Vento. Only in the rear, the crease on the sides of number plate gives some differentiation with the Vento.
The strategy between Skoda and Volkswagen is not still understood. They both have a same car with different names and of course will come with different price tags. How will Skoda and Volkswagen convince the customer to buy their own product? Let us see how this strategy works in India.


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Congolese authorities question radio journalist over broadcast on new tax
August 29, 2017 4:17 PM EDT
National intelligence services and police issued summonses to Israel Ntumba, a reporter for the Congolese broadcaster, Kasai Horizontal Radio et Television (KHRT), over an August 5, 2017 broadcast on a new motorcycle tax in Kananga, a city in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the station's program director, Honi Tshibola and Ntumba, told CPJ.
Ntumba told CPJ that when he responded to the national intelligence agency summons on August 15, 2017, agents detained him for four hours and questioned him about broadcasting "sensitive information." The following day, Kananga police summoned him over the same report, Ntumba said.
"When I asked [the police] who had filed a complaint against me, the police told me that it was the Kananga mayor [Jean Mwamba]," Ntumba told CPJ.
Mwamba told CPJ he denied any involvement in either summonses. Kananga police deputy Major Zeus Nzengu told CPJ that he did not want to comment on Ntumba's case.
Ntumba told CPJ that since being questioned, he has received several threatening phones calls and text messages from unidentified callers, warning him to leave the city.
The summonses for KHRT were issued the same month that Kananga police raided the offices of Radio Télévision Chrétienne, a community station based in the same city. Police seized equipment from the station on August 5, 2017, about an hour after its broadcast on the motorcycle tax, Sosphète Kambidi, the station's director, told CPJ at the time.
As of August 29, 2017, the equipment had not been returned, Kamdibi told CPJ. Jose Mbuyi, the Radio Télévision Chrétienne journalist who reported on the tax, told CPJ that he received death threats from unidentified callers after the raid.
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Celebrating Innovation in Charlottesville as ArcheMedX Named a Leading Tech Innovator by the Charlottesville Business Innovation Council (CBIC)
ArcheMedX is honored to be named a leading tech innovator by the Charlottesville Business Innovation Council (CBIC) and will be recognized later today at the 18th Annual CBIC Awards Gala hosted at the esteemed Boar's Head Inn. This year's Awards Gala is designed as an evening of inspiration celebrating #CVilleTech innovation and ArcheMedX joins a long list of notable past CBIC Gala Awards Finalists and Recipients such as Psikick, WillowTree, Maternity Neighborhood, Hotelicopter, Silverchair, MusicToday, and VividCortex to name just a few.
This year ArcheMedX was recognized by CBIC for its collaboration with the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) for developing an innovative educational program to address the unique training needs of 11,000+ Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH) practices across the country. The program employs a blended approach of clinician-led regional workshops and an innovative team-based online learning experience, powered by ArcheMedX. To support this initiative and other collaborative training programs, ArcheMedX developed a new product, ArcheTeam, which NCQA is utilizing to dynamically create 11,000+ private and secure "learning communities of practice" that enable each PCMH to bring its clinical and administrative staff together to participate in training activities as a team.
The themes of "team work" and "collaboration" that led to this recognition are also the driving force behind bringing Charlottesville's tech and innovation community together for this year's Awards Gala. While Charlottesville has been known for nearly two hundred years as the home of Thomas Jefferson, Monticello, and the University of Virginia, in more recent years the region's pristine natural beauty, burgeoning wine country, and acclaimed quality of life have gained widespread attention.
However, Charlottesville is also home to a thriving tech and innovation community and was recently named the fastest growing venture ecosystem in the United States by the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA). According to data published by NVCA and PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (PwC) Charlottesville experienced the greatest rate of growth as measured by venture investment dollars with a 156.5 percent increase since 2010.
Those of us fortunate enough to live and work here over the past few years have seen Charlottesville's evolution as an innovation hub accelerating, thanks in large part to the collaboration and continued team work across the University of Virginia, Darden's iLab, UVA's Licensing and Ventures Group (LVG), the Tom Tom Festival, HackCville, and of course the Charlottesville Business Innovation Council. Together, the community has forged an ever-strengthening bond around a common mission to encourage, promote, and support a vibrant ecosystem for entrepreneurs, innovators, and technologists to thrive in.
Please join us in celebrating the region's continued success at the Gala tonight and making Charlottesville a vibrant home for ArcheMedX and all our fellow innovators.
Joel Selzer
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Joel is a digital innovation leader who has spent the past 15 years improving access to information and data across the life science and healthcare industries as an entrepreneur, board member, and advisor. He co-founded and currently leads ArcheMedX, which applies behavioral science to transform learning and generate actionable insights for Healthcare and Life Science organizations.


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Richard Riffitt
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Aug. 3, 1949–Aug. 27, 2021
Richard Charles Riffitt, 72, of Ironton, passed away Friday, Aug. 27, 2021, at KDMC in Ashland, Kentucky.
Richard was born Aug. 3, 1949, in Ironton, to the late Ernest Richard Riffitt and Almeda Farmer Riffitt.
Richard worked as a machinist for CSX and he was a member of Zoar Baptist Coal Grove.
In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by a son, Richard "RC" Charles Riffitt Jr.; and a grandson, Mason C Willoughby.
Richard is survived by his wife, Paula Carey Riffitt, whom he married Dec. 2, 1967 in Ironton.
He is also survived by a son, Jamie (Stephanie) Riffitt; two daughters, Michelle (Eugene) Willoughby and Melanie (Scott) Bailey; two brothers, Jack (Rhonda) Riffitt and Todd (Stacey) Riffitt; five grandchildren; and two great grandchildren.
The family wishes to extend special thanks to the staff and nurses at KDMC 4J floor. Thank you to Dr. Hassan Abul-Khondoud and Jo Brewer for all the support given to our family and to nurses Shelly and Micah for treating our dad so well. Thank you to Dr. Inoshita and staff for helping our dad.
Services are pending at the convenience of the family.
Harrison-Pyles Funeral Home in Wheelersburg has been entrusted with the arrangements.
Condolences to the family may be made at www.harrison-pyles.com.
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James (Jimmy) R. Kimble, 69, of Ironton, died on Friday, Aug. 27, 2021, at the KDMC Emergency Room.
Funeral services will be 1 p.m. Thursday at Woodland Chapel FWB Church, 116 Township Road 108, Ironton, with Pastor Dave Schug officiating. Burial will follow in Haverhill Cemetery, Haverhill.
Visitation will be 6–8 p.m. Wednesday at the Tracy Brammer-Monroe Funeral Home, 518 S. Sixth St., Ironton.
In lieu of flowers, please make donations to Phillips Funeral Home to assist family with arrangements.


A journey to Niger, where traditional Tuareg blacksmiths and luxe French company Hermès forge a common purpose.
In 1992, Jean-Yves Brizot, not yet 30, went to Niger to create a guild of blacksmiths. He had spent most of his 20s guiding young adventurers in rugged environments all over the planet, but the place that captured his imagination was the Sahara. There, he'd encountered Tuareg blacksmiths creating exquisite silver jewelry using a trembling hand technique. The work was not merely beautiful: It also was an archive of Tuareg values, beliefs and culture. No piece could be replicated.
For the Tuaregs, numbering 1.2 million in Niger and Mali and thousands more in Algeria, Libya and Burkina Faso, modernization was creeping like desert sands into cities on the fringe of the Sahara, and these ferociously self-reliant people known for their shimmering indigo veils and long swords in leather scabbards were in transition. After a string of devastating droughts in the '60s, '70s and '80s, and growing influence from outside, including aid groups, missionaries and even tourists, they now faced the reality–humdrum yet difficult–of making a living. The blacksmiths, among the custodians of Tuareg culture, had difficulty getting their wares to market. Exploitative merchants were paying terrible prices for them to knock out cheap pieces for quick sales to tourists.
Fourteen years hence, the collaboration between a global company and traditional smiths continues, moving between 6,000 and 8,000 pieces most years, with a high of 13,000–a good living for those associated with the guild, economically insignificant for Hermès. The endeavor has had its challenges, especially after September 11, when orders slowed to a wheeze, leading Brizot to increase his guiding to earn money. That's what he was doing when I met him last year in Libya, where he told me about the guild.
So it is that on a balmy January evening, accompanied by Jean Jonot, a 71-year-old retired alpine guide from Brizot's hometown of Grenoble, I spend an eternal day hopscotching across continents aboard charter planes, and arrive ahead of my luggage.
"It will come on the next plane," an airline representative says.
Ah, Niger, land of opportunity. In any case, the country, a land almost twice the size of Texas, is a fascinating prospect. Landlocked south of Algeria, north of Nigeria, it last made international news for its bread (lack of, see also famine) and cake (so-called, of uranium; see Iraq War; also, Plame Affair).
Getting oriented doesn't take long.
Agadez is an ancient city along the Trans-Sahara Trade Route, an area where merchants and wayfarers have carried salt and slaves since the advent of camel caravans. Its mud architecture gives the entire city a reddish hue that, when the sun slants, radiates an orange glow against the intense blue sky. The Grand Mosque, marked by its 89-foot-high pyramidal minaret, has stood since 1844; the previous mud minaret had been there since 1515. There is some electricity; but at night, unlit chambers fade into a dark oblivion. Two Internet cafés, a fast one and a slow one, opened last year. In one, I look over the shoulder of a Tuareg in a violet tagelmoust reading a story on Yahoo : "10 Best Places to Live!" Taxis are low-octane motorbikes; you get on and hold on, and all rides, whatever the distance, cost about 40 cents.
The population is a mix of Tuaregs, Hausas, Tubus and mixed-race "Agadezians." A small population of mostly French expats–Niger was a French colony until its 1960 independence–greet one another with stiff courtesies at places such as Le Pilier, the town's best European restaurant, whose Tuareg chef was trained well by its Italian owner. Rich Saudis come to Agadez to hunt gazelle and other wild game.
Brizot's place is a two-story affair near the Grand Mosque containing warriors' spears, mats, tablets covered in Arabic script, a giant bowl, drums and books stacked on a black table with elephantine legs. His bedroom opens onto the roof, where he prefers to sleep in the open air.
"You're like a rock star around here," I say.
What he's most proud of is the guild. The name in French, A L'Atelier, means "to the studio"; in Arabic, A'Allah te leir means "to get linked to God." The space includes a garden with citrus, quinine and neem trees; an office; and the artisans' workspace, where 18 or so blacksmiths each sit on the ground on a clearly defined rectangle, beating, cutting, scratching and polishing silver that was smelted just across the compound.
Over the following days, the blacksmiths greet me warmly, though communication is no simple matter, requir- ing English to French, then French to Tamashek translation. On the traditional ladder of their society, they're above domestics and slaves, below the nobles and teachers at the top. They are born and marry into smith families–marriage to a nonsmith is regarded as intermarriage–and go through years-long apprenticeships. They take on many roles: creators, salesmen, entertainers, magicians, intercessors with jinn–a type of spirit in Islam. In the modern world, the hierarchy has often been turned on its head. Nobles whose livestock were killed by the famines are poor, while the smiths, who have learned to earn, are better off.
Tuareg Islam incorporates animist beliefs and mysticism: The universe is inhabited by jinn, and the blacksmiths are imbued with mystery even while polluting themselves by their dealings with the spirits. The blacksmiths encourage the mystique. One man, I'm told, lifts molten objects with his bare hands but is never burned.
Pieces include 21 designs of Tuareg crosses–cruciform pieces, though not crucifixes, that can identify the wearer's place of origin. Tcherots, or amulets, are a traditional form; they contain verses of the Koran inscribed by clerics, not unlike Jewish mezuzahs. The imagery is geometric, compositions of lines arranged at angles to give the pieces movement. In recent years, the smiths have started working with gold, a mineral that was traditionally believed to have negative powers–the price and quality of silver became volatile, gold was stable, and there was a predictable market for gold jewelry.
Hermès's "Tuareg Collection," which is all silver, includes bangles, necklaces, buckles and locks that incorporate tradition with other motifs. The objects' shape and weight and the quality of silver meet certain Hermès-set parameters. Their engravings, though, are drawn from the Tuareg lexicon.
My own emotional state gets knocked somewhat off-balance the next day, the holiday of Tabaske, which commemorates Abraham's willingness to sacrifice his son for God. After gathering in the cemetery, the community whets knives and appetites for a mass slaughter of lambs, who bleat, bleed and expire all over town, which clouds with cooking fires and the smells of barbecue.
The sultan, an important political figure in the city, invites us to visit. Brizot has attained a noble's status, and as his visitors, we share that lofty perch. Thanks to a friend, donated clothes arrived in a World Food Program duffel bag. I might have worn a tie instead of this vow-of-poverty look, but Brizot assures me the Sultan won't be offended.
The palace compound is a large house in a big square of dirt enclosed by mud walls with covered bays for the Sultan's various vehicles. His bodyguard is turned out in a brilliant red tagelmoust and a luminous red, green and white robe.
"Is there anything I need to know before we go in?" I ask Brizot.
We're shown through a side entrance to an anteroom, where we sit on chairs backed against a wall–Brizot, Jean Jonot, myself and another fellow who is dressed like a goatherd and who is, I have no doubt, using the opportunity of the holiday to solicit charity. Beggary is not unknown in Agadez, and on a holy day like Tabaske, one is expected to give, so an industrious mendicant can really clean up. After we sit for a few minutes, we're invited back out the door we entered. The bodyguard shakes our hands and gives a hale salaam aleikum as a send-off.
Jean Jonot shrugs. "I also thought he was a goatherd," he says.
The next day, we pile into his modified 1988 Toyota Land Cruiser. Brizot puts on a pair of beaten-up '70s-style shades he bought from the Sultan, and we set off on a 600-mile loop through the Aïr Massif, a mountain range that slopes into the Ténéré, the expanse of dunes rolling into Niger's northeastern flank.
The landscape starts to change about 30 miles out of Agadez as we rumble on a rutted road. Like the jewelry, the scenery is all about shapes, textures, reflections and angles of light, with alternations of color–pale yellow brush, burnished orange sand, rows of pale green foliage on desert trees. Brown mountains fade to black, all of it framed by a deep blue sky that loses its intensity as it dissolves into a pale haze. After this fertile area the vista opens up onto fields of black rock, with boulders and craters and formations of rock. Deep shadows and haze form over the massif.
There are signs of life: wells, trees, donkeys and arrangements of rocks that indicate burial sites or mosques. Most Tuaregs we see are on motorcycles, up to three on a ride; deeper into the dunes and soft sands of the Ténéré, camels are, I'm told, still preferred. People materialize in the most unlikely places, as if suddenly formed out of dust and sand.
Now and again we arrive in a village or a farm where groups of Tuareg men pull their tagelmousts below their chins to talk about the challenges of getting their sweet, pink onions to markets in Europe.
We drop our pads and sleeping bags on the sand near an ancient rock painting by a Muslim holy place. The wind in the trees incongruously sounds like the ocean.
The next day we go to Tîmia, an oasis with a hilltop auberge of mud cottages above the sandy valley floor, a green orchard of date palms and a village with a boulangerie that sells fresh rolls. Women and girls turn big wheels to draw water from the wells.
From there, we cross the remnants of prehistoric forest, now acres of petrified wood, and follow the seam stitching the massif to the dunes of the Ténéré. Scalloped waves of sand extend just short of forever. It's an extraordinary place that delights the soul with awe and elation–feelings we get to indulge longer than planned after a mechanical breakdown.
A couple of days later we roll at the speed of donkeys into a village called Iferouâne. The blacksmiths descend to peddle their wares. Their single-mindedness brings to mind the word "pushy." "Tell them I'm not buying!" I say.
A blacksmith named Tonka appears in a billowing black robe and tagelmoust laden in silver bangles, talismans, hoops and loops. He clangs and jingles when he walks, and has made his stylized presence heard even in France and Germany.
"In those clothes?" I ask.
"Of course!" he says. "They love it." He sings. He dances. He sells. Veni, vidi, vici.
I want to know about the meanings in Tonka's work, but conversation with him is like making small talk in a bordello. He hints at deeper mysteries he can't reveal, then mumbles something in French.
Tonka's magic, though, is his salesmanship; somehow we're in a negotiation, and before he goes I have acquired another Tuareg cross.
I ask if he feels intruded upon by my questions.
Two days later, just before I leave, he presents me with a heavy swatch of shimmering silver. Its detailed imagery recalls the earlier conversation about wind and metaphor. Mountains and wells refer to our desert journey. A ladder runs up the left side, symbolizing the sadness of my impending departure. It is signed in Tifinar, the Tuareg alphabet. The piece is a poem about friendship.
It has one notable weakness. The necklace, a leather cord that's used to loop a camel's nostril, is not worthy of it. Brizot suggests replacing it later.
"Will it hold?" I ask him.
I'm delighted. Abda and I stand in the courtyard saying long good-byes. After you shake hands, you put your fingers to your chest as a way of saying you've received the person into your heart. I do, and my fingers land on the talisman. Then Brizot takes me to the airport, where the plane, alas, is delayed, so we go back to town for lamb couscous and Cokes.
it's gone. We look everywhere. I'm bereft, worse than when I learned that I had no clothes. Brizot lights a cigarette and philosophizes Frenchly on the meaning of what's happened.


You've picked out a destination that it seems everyone in the family will enjoy. You've planned the trip - how long you'll be gone, where to stay, what to see while you're there and maybe some neat places to check out on the way to your intended destination. Oh, the anticipation! Everyone is so excited! Thirty minutes (maybe an hour) into the trip you hear "Are we there yet?" If you didn't plan on ways to keep the kids occupied, as in not bored to tears (literally), this trip is going to be very, very long. As with anything in life, planning is the key to success. Remember that a child's world can be pretty small by adult standards. Two hours can seem like an eternity and anything outside the car is of little interest to young children.
Watching the trees go by or the traffic on an interstate highway isn't going to cut it for very long. There just aren't enough cows, horses, and giraffes to look at. Take a few minutes to consider your child's personality as well as his age. Does he play well alone? Or does he require some interaction? Will he sleep during a lot of the drive? Is this really a good thing, or does it mean he will be fully charged when you're trying to get some needed rest at night. Do you want him on a "sugar high" from snacking on junk food the whole trip, or even worse, with an upset tummy? So what are your options? Take a look at what interests your child at home.
Obviously, simulating the swing set in the backyard may be a little out of reach, but what does he do when he's indoors? Really young children can generally play with the same toys they would play with at home. You know, all that brightly colored plastic you pick up every day and still manage to trip over when you get up at night. When they're a little older, it gets more challenging. Some children will play with crayons and paper as long as the paper doesn't run out. If your child's not a budding artist what about video games? These are great for the more energetic kids. You know, the ones who think silence is some form of torture created by adults to make their lives as miserable as possible. Then there are the children with vivid imaginations that can take a single toy and create an entire world in the space surrounding a booster seat. And last but certainly not least, what about the kids who prefer to stay glued to the TV? With today's portable DVD players, even if you don't have this nifty feature already built into the family vehicle, these children can watch their favorite videos and forget that they will soon be visiting Yellowstone, Disney World, or Uncle Bob and Aunt Louise's ranchette in Arizona. Have a great vacation and Drive Friendly!.


Download Festival have now completed their day-by-day announcements of this year headline acts and what a trio it is. After the announcement on Monday that Iron Maiden will headline Sunday the BBC report that Black Sabbath will headline Saturday.
Friday nights main-stage headliner will be german industrial rockers Rammstein who join Black Sabbath [Saturday] and Iron Maiden [Sunday] to complete a headline trio that will treat Donington crowds to the heaviest of heavy rock across what is shaping up to be an epic weekend.
With a superb new album just released and Bruce Dickinson recently recovered from throat cancer Iron Maiden also seemed a surefire bet for next years Download.
All three acts have headlined at Donington on a number of occasions in the past and some people have complained that the headline line-up was predictable. That may well be the case but it should be borne in mind that Download curator Andy Copping is keen to keep Download true to its roots. As a result he has to draw an a dwindling supply of major name talent who have the pulling power to attract sufficient number to Donington.
Fans should bear in mind that Copping is something of a master at uncovering lesser known talent to fill the other stages and to keep everyone happy across what will be an amazing and nostalgic weekend of the best rock music has to offer.
Tickets for Download 2016 go on sale at 9 A.M. on Friday October 23. Make sure you grab yours. See you there.
This entry was posted in Download Festival and tagged Black Sabbath, Castle Donington, Download, Iron Maiden, Music, Rammstein, Rock on October 21, 2015 by The Sound of Summer.


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Q: Invoking flask server from within pytest test import sys
import os
import logging
import requests
import json
import pytest
from multiprocessing import Process
from flask_file import main

@pytest.fixture
def endpoint():
   return "http://127.0.0.1:8888/"

def test_send_request(endpoint: str):
    server = Process(target=main)
    server.start()
    time.sleep(30)

    # check that the service is up and running
    service_up = requests.get(f"{endpoint}")

    server.terminate()
    server.join()

I wanted to spin up and spin down a server locally from within a test to test some requests. I know the server itself works because I can run main() from the flask_file itself using python flask_file and it will spin up the server...and I can ping it just fine. When I use the above method, the test does seem to do the full 30s sleep without failing, but in those 30s I cannot open the endpoint on my browser and see the expected "hello world".

A: When you run the Flask builtin development server (e.g. flask run or app.run(), only one connection is possible. So when your test accesses the app, you cannot access it via browser.
Anyway, you should rewrite your test and fixture to use the test_client, see the official documentation
https://flask.palletsprojects.com/en/1.1.x/testing/

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Height adjustable Adhesive Screw for up to 1kg. Perfect for mounting decorative objects on textured and sensitive surfaces like wallpaper or plaster.
tesa® Adjustable Adhesive Screw for Wallpaper & Plaster together with the corresponding Adhesive Strips included, give a secure hold on textured and sensitive surfaces up to 1 kg per screw. The height adjustability makes it especially suitable for the vertical alignment of pictures or the use of two Adhesive Nails for one picture. Powerstrips® Technology makes it tracelessly removable. Nothing is left but a clean and intact surface. The Adhesive Screw is reusable with a new tesa® Adhesive Strip. Easy and secure mounting without damaging the surface or the hassle of using a hammer or drill.
tesa® Adjustable Adhesive Screws for Wallpaper & Plaster 1 kg are ideal when you want to hang pictures or decorative objects in line (or you can use two Adjustable Adhesive Screws for one object). All without drills or hammers and with no damage to your surface. Each screw securely holds up to 1 kg with ease, and two of them can hold double that weight. Wall mounting on sensitive and textured surfaces has never been so simple.
1. Get the best out of each Adhesive Strip by cleaning the surface of dirt and dust with a dust-free cloth.
2. Apply the Adhesive Strip to the rougher surface, so in case of wallpaper or plaster always first apply it to the wall, with the blue tab facing the wall. Before application, make sure that your surface is strong enough to take the weight of the object you want to attach.
3. Press down evenly over the entire strip for at least 5 seconds and only then remove the protective foil. Pressing down like this means that the flexible polymer chains are activated to form U-shaped links with the surface. It's these links that give such a secure and reliable bond, so the harder and more evenly you press, the better the bond.
4. Now apply the tesa® Adjustable Adhesive Screw by aligning it on the top edge of the strip, then folding it down. Press down evenly all over the entire nail for at least 5 seconds.
5. The tab should be left accessible behind your object or below the screw for easy removal.
6. Push the red toggle up to unlock the nail head and adjust it to the desired position, then lock the head by pushing the red toggle back down until it clicks into place.
The tesa® Adjustable Adhesive Screw for Wallpaper & Plaster 1 kg provides a secure hold on textured and delicate surfaces. And you won't even need any tools, because everything you need to hang your object is inside the pack. Adjustable Adhesive Screws provide you with a smart, safe and easy way to hang pictures or decorative items. You can hang several pictures next to each other or use two screws for one picture to double the holding power, and because they're adjustable, you can be sure that everything you're hanging is going to be perfectly aligned.
Mounting your object using a tesa® Adjustable Adhesive Screw takes just a few moments. When you want to move your object or change it for something new, just grab the exposed tab at the end of each strip and stretch it down up to 35 cm, slowly and parallel to the wall. The stretch will elongate the polymer chains and release the bond. Be sure not to press the Adhesive Screw against the wall while stretching the strip as this may cause it to tear. The Adhesive Strip is removed leaving nothing but a clean and intact surface.
This Adjustable Adhesive Screw can be used again and again. Just pick up the relevant refill pack of tesa® Adhesive Strips for Wallpaper & Plaster from your tesa® Smart Mounting System retailer.
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Will recover Rs 59,000 cr lost to illegal mining: Odisha govt
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The Odisha government has committed to recover Rs 59,203 crore, which the MB Shah Commission said it had lost to unlawful extraction of iron and manganese in the state during 2008-2011.
In the action taken report tabled in Parliament on Monday along with the commission's report on illegal mining, the state government said efforts were being made to recover the amount by finalizing the proceeding on the basis of the reply furnished by the lessees.
The commission had pegged the value of the unlawful extraction of the two ores in the state in the said period at Rs 59,203 crore and said the state should recover this amount from the (illegal) miners and use the same for development of Keonjhar and Sundargarh districts mired in poverty.
The state government, however, said no to the commission's proposal for a CBI probe into the mining scam, saying the matter is sub-judice and action is being taken to recover the amounts and punish the guilty. The state is also against fixing a cap on production of these minerals.
The state government's ATR said: "Wherever production has been made in excess of the quantity permitted under various statutory clearances, demand has been raised against the lessee under section 21(5) of MMDR Act, 1957 to pay the price for the excess ore so raised. These cases will be finalized as early as possible. These cases cover the period between 2001-10 for the mines where extraction was observed to be in excess of the limit approved in the mining plan, environment clearances and consent to operate. Some of the lessees have obtained stay orders from the revision authority against the recovery."
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RAVAS has introduced the RAVAS-SafeLoad: an aftermarket product for forklift trucks that provides both weight and stability information in a single combined display. The RAVAS-SafeLoad acts as an active load diagram: it calculates with weight, load center point and mast tilt, in order to decide whether a load is lifted safely in the current situation. When the lifting is unsafe, the RAVAS-SafeLoad cabin display alerts the driver with both audio and visual signals.
Across Europe, every year several hundred people die in forklift related accidents, many more are injured. Forklifts tipping over drop their load, damaging or toppling warehouse racking, causing serious material damage. A forklift driver is supposed to use the load diagram on his truck to judge whether a load can be lifted safely or not. In practice of course he lacks the necessary information to do so. RAVAS-SafeLoad acts as an active load diagram for forklift trucks: it assists the driver in preventing accidents, injuries and damages from tipping forklifts and breaking forks.
The RAVAS-SafeLoad uses information from a hydraulic sensor and a set of sensors that measures the moment forces from load center position and mast tilt, to present stability information in the display. A led bar below the weight display goes from green (safe lifting), via yellow, to red (unsafe lifting: risk of tipping over). The led bar stability indication is enhanced by the color of the weight display (green backlight in safe situations, red backlight in unsafe situations), and by a fork in the weight display that is divided in three segments, one of them blinking to indicate the load center position on the forks.
An example: on a 2.5 Ton lift truck a load of 1.823 kg picked up close to the carriage plate might result in a weight indication of 1.820 kg in the display, against a green background, with the middle fork segment blinking for a load center point at 500-600mm, and four green LEDs lit up on the LED bar.
However, the same load picked up at the fork tips will result in the same 1.820 kg in the display, but against a red background for unsafe lifting, with the right side fork segment blinking (LCP at 800 – 1.000 mm), the red segments on the LED bar lit up, and a warning buzzer going off.
The indicator of the RAVAS-SafeLoad has a built-in data logging function. It automatically records every single lifting event over time. The data can be downloaded via Bluetooth connection, and provides information on safety and efficiency of the truck's use, for fleet management.
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I write simple code for *ngIf="visible" as
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The rankings show a pattern of insurance industry avarice amongst 10 companies that refuse to pay just claims, reward executives with extravagant salaries, employ hardball tactics against their own customers, and unjustly raise premiums while hoarding tremendous profits. Ranked number one as the worst was Allstate. For example, in the 1990's Allstate contracted with McKinsey & Co. to force consumers to accept low-ball claims or face litigation. Allstate told agents to lie and blame fires on arson, and in turn, were rewarded with gifts and cash rewards.
Number two on the list was Unum. Unum, a disability insurance company purposefully denied just claims in order to maximize profits. In one instance a woman who had multiple sclerosis was forced to wait three years before she was given benefits to which she was entitled.
Number three on the list was AIG, the world's largest insurer. According to commentators, AIG has engaged in massive fraud and claims abuses.
Number four on the list was State Farm. State Farm's true motives became apparent during Hurricane Katrina where State Farm consistently denied valid claims of policy holders.
Number five on the list was Conseco. Well known in the industry for a policy to make it so hard on claimants that they either died or gave up.
Number six on the list was Wellpoint. Wellpoint was exposed to have an internal procedure for canceling policies of pregnant women and chronically ill patients.
Number seven on the list was Farmers. Farmers offered pizza parties for adjusters who met low claims payment goals.
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The insurance industry takes in over $1 trillion in premiums every year. It has $ 3.8 Trillion in assets, more than the GDP of every country in the world except for the United States and Japan. The insurance industry is regulated, but obviously more needs to be done to reign in abuses. If nothing is done, the rights of consumers will continue to play second fiddle to insurance company profits.
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I chopped onions yesterday and I didn't cry.
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you'll find yourself crying wondering why this happened to you, because this happens in movies, this doesn't happen to you.
½ a garlic clove and a few drops of lemon juice.
you'll find yourself crying because all you can think about is how it's been six months without her but everyone around you is happy and the day still continues on.
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you'll cry at old pictures of you two because it felt like any other moment when it was taken.
and ¼ of this onion.
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because everything reminds you of her.
because the memories of her fade as time grows.
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because your brain is slowly forgetting her voice.
because you'll never take a graduation photo with her.
because you'll never see her follow the dreams she used to talk about.
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because you'll never see her at your high school reunion.
because you'll never say goodbye to your best friend.
I chopped onions yesterday and I didn't cry. But I still sat in tear-filled guacamole.


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Q: XML column performance in TSQL I'm finding very limited reading on how a large xml column affects table performance in sql server 2014/6.  For reference, it is a 36gig table and minus one xml column, it is 36megs.  Some queries call for the column (usually single row requests), most do not.  Is there a significant performance benefit to breaking that xml column out to its own linked table?

A: The database engine is pretty smart about this and does not read LOB pages unless it has to as far as I can tell, but I created a test-rig to double-check.
Test Rig
USE master
GO

SET NOCOUNT ON
GO

CREATE DATABASE bigXMLTest
GO
ALTER DATABASE bigXMLTest SET RECOVERY SIMPLE
GO
ALTER DATABASE bigXMLTest MODIFY FILE ( NAME = N'bigXMLTest', SIZE = 20GB , FILEGROWTH = 128MB )
GO
ALTER DATABASE bigXMLTest MODIFY FILE ( NAME = N'bigXMLTest_log', SIZE = 512MB )
GO

USE bigXMLTest
GO

IF OBJECT_ID('dbo.largeTable') IS NOT NULL DROP TABLE dbo.largeTable
GO

CREATE TABLE dbo.largeTable (

    rowId INT IDENTITY PRIMARY KEY,

    someDate    DATETIME DEFAULT GETDATE(),
    someData    UNIQUEIDENTIFIER DEFAULT NEWID(),
    someXML     XML NOT NULL
)
GO

-- Add dummy data
;WITH cte AS (
SELECT TOP 100000 ROW_NUMBER() OVER ( ORDER BY ( SELECT 1 ) ) rn
FROM master.sys.columns c1
    CROSS JOIN master.sys.columns c2
    CROSS JOIN master.sys.columns c3
)
INSERT INTO dbo.largeTable ( someDate, someData, someXML )
SELECT
    DATEADD( day, rn % 333, '1 Jan 2016' ),
    NEWID(),
    ( SELECT TOP 100 * FROM sys.messages WHERE language_id = 1033 FOR XML PATH, ROOT('root'), TYPE )    -- creates 24k size piece of XML on my machine
FROM cte

CHECKPOINT
GO 10

EXEC sp_spaceused 'dbo.largeTable'
GO

This creates a test table with 1 million rows, the non-XML data around 36MB and the XML data about 23GB.
Test Queries
--DROP INDEX _udx ON dbo.largeTable

DBCC FREEPROCCACHE
DBCC DROPCLEANBUFFERS

SELECT *
FROM dbo.largeTable

DBCC FREEPROCCACHE
DBCC DROPCLEANBUFFERS

SELECT rowId, someDate, someData    --, someXML
FROM dbo.largeTable

-- Add covering index for the query
CREATE UNIQUE INDEX _udx ON dbo.largeTable ( rowId ) INCLUDE ( someDate, someData )

DBCC FREEPROCCACHE
DBCC DROPCLEANBUFFERS

SELECT *
FROM dbo.largeTable

DBCC FREEPROCCACHE
DBCC DROPCLEANBUFFERS

SELECT rowId, someDate, someData    --, someXML
FROM dbo.largeTable

Test Results

Analysis
Query 1: A select *... causes a full table scan, so the database engine does a high number of LOB reads to read the XML which is stored out of row in LOB pages.  XML can be stored in-row if it's small enough, but the default is out-of-row.  This query takes 5 minutes, ie if you are reading LOB pages on a table like this, you will know about it.
Query 2 A select with column list not including the XML column, has the same number of logical reads in the top window (11,154), but no LOB reads.  The query takes less than a second.
Query 3:  After the non-clustered index has been added, a select * still causes a full table scan as expected.  This query behaves the same as Query 1.
Query 4:  After the non-clustered index has been added, it covers the select with column list query so there is a non-clustered index scan with no LOB reads and lower logical reads overall.
The LOB Reads looks like a broad categorisation as the XML storage pages are classed as TEXT_MIX_PAGE in the sys.dm_db_database_page_allocations DMV:

In summary, it looks like there would be little benefit to splitting the same as the database engine can differentiate when and when not to perform LOB reads in this admittedly simple test rig.  See here for some further details.

A: The context of this question is strikingly similar to this question: LOB_DATA, slow table scans, and some I/O questions. But the direction is a bit different.
In order to answer whether or not there would be much benefit in moving the XML column into its own table requires answering the following questions first (and I will explain why in a moment):

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*How many rows are in this table?

*Are there any indexes on this table?

*If there are indexes, does the 36 GB value represent the Reserved space, the Data space, or Data and Indexes?

*How (exactly) did you determine that the table is only 36 MB without the XML column?

*What is the exact DDL for the table, including any indexes?

Why does that information mater? Well, let's assume that there are 1 million rows, and that the XML and non-XML data is distributed fairly evenly. That means that each row is approximately 36 bytes of non-XML data and 36,000 bytes of XML data. However, there is more going on here than is apparently obvious.
The way that XML / LOB data works is that:

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*if the size is <= 8000 bytes, and there is room on the data page, then it will be stored in-row,

*if the size is <= 8000 bytes but there isn't room on the data page, OR if the size is between 8001 and 42,000 bytes, then the data will be stored in 1 - 5 LOB pages while the pointers to those LOB pages are stored in row (hence no additional hop to a separate mapping page). This is important because the pointers have a minimum size of 24 bytes for the first one, and then 12 additional bytes each for pointers 2 - 5.

*for LOB / XML data over 42,000 bytes, or when there isn't room in row to store the 36 - 72 extra bytes for the pointers, then there will be a single 24 byte pointer in row pointing to a mapping page (called the TEXT_TREE) that has the pointers to the actual LOB pages (hence the additional hop to find the LOB pointer in the TEXT_TREE page(s)).

In your scenario there is 36,000 bytes per row of XML data. That is under the 42,000 byte limit where the data is forced to go through the TEXT_TREE mapping page leaving only a 24 byte pointer in row. In your case, it will allocate either 4 or 5 LOB pages and add the pointers to the in-row data (because it is faster read access than going through the extra hop to the TEXT_TREE mapping page(s)). This means that the in-row cost of having the XML data off-row is either 60 or 72 bytes. And with only 36 other bytes in the row, there is plenty of space for that 60 or 72 bytes.
And so this is why getting those questions above answered is important: it could very well be that having the XML column in this table is doubling the size of each row. Assuming a 100% FILLFACTOR and an 8060 byte data page, that equates to approx 111 data pages for the non-XML data, but 223 data pages when including the pointers for the XML data.
What the precise benefit of reducing 223 data pages down to 111 pages can only be determined by testing on your system to see the actual effect. It might be too minimal to be worth the effort of breaking the XML field out. But maybe it is worth it, especially if your system experiences memory pressure often enough, in which case data pages get evicted from the Buffer Pool. Taking up half as much space in memory could mean a longer Page Life Expectancy for these pages, and probably other data pages.
But if memory isn't an issue, and if saving only 112 pages provides no increase in performance, then at least you know how the underlying mechanisms work so that you know how to make the decision. Especially if / when the assumptions change (or for other readers who have slightly different setups, such as XML data that is over 42,000 bytes and hence only 24 bytes in row and/or much more than 36 bytes of in-row data).
I have some test scripts on PasteBin, if you want to walk through how LOBs are handled:

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*T-SQL script to test LOB allocations and reads

*T-SQL script to test various scenarios for LOB reads