Jaina Proudmoore is everything you'd expect from a frost mage coming from the Warcraft universe. She's a ranged assassin with tons of damage, devastating spell combos, and she excels at crowd control and AoE damage. What Jaina lacks in escape and defense she more than makes up for with burst damage, critical strikes, and the ability to chase and finish off her enemies.
Check out my Janna spells and talents guide below, and find out the best way to build her.
(Trait) Frostbite: All abilities Chill targets, slowing Movement Speed by 25% and amplifying damage from your abilities by 50%. Lasts 4 seconds.
(Q) Frostbolt: Skillshot dealing damage to a single enemy and applying chill effect.
(W) Blizzard: Bombard an area with 2 waves of ice, dealing damage and chilling enemies.
(E) Cone of Cold: cone-shaped area of effect spell dealing damage and slowing targets.
(R) Ring of Frost: creates a Ring of Frost in an area dealing damage and rooting enemies. The ring persists for 3 seconds afterwards, Chilling any enemies who touch it.
(R) Summon Water Elemental: Summons a Water Elemental for 20 seconds at a targeted location, dealing damage and Chilling nearby enemies. Water Elemental's attacks do 25% splash damage and apply chill to targets.
Winter's Reach – Increases the range of Frostbolt by 30%.
Lingering Chill – Increases the duration of Chill from 4 seconds to 6 seconds.
Deep Chill – Increases the slow of chill from 25% to 35%.
Conjurer's Pursuit – Increases Mana Regeneration by 0.5 per second, increasing by 0.25 per second for every 3 Regeneration Globes you gather.
Lingering Chill: your abilities deal extra damage if your target is chilled, the 6 second duration allows you to constantly have extra damage on all subsequent abilities and easily chase enemies.
Frost Shards – Frostbolt (Q) pierces the first enemy struck and damages an additional target behind them.
Snowstorm – Increases the radius of Blizzard (W) by 30%.
Arcane Intellect – Dealing damage to a Chilled target returns Mana to Jaina. Basic attacks return 5 Mana and abilities return 25.
Envenom – Active ability with a 60-second cooldown dealing damage to a single target over 5 seconds.
Depends on your playstyle, and sometimes your team's composition. I usually prefer Arcane Intellect to make sure I have as little mana problems as possible. Increased radius from Snowstorm talent also allows you to easily hit enemies with both waves of Blizzard, which is especially important if you later on intend to take other Blizzard talents.
Ice Floes – Doubles the width of Cone of Cold and causes each target hit to reduce its cooldown by 0.5 seconds.
Frostbitten – Increases the damage bonus of Frostbite (passive) from 50% to 65%.
Frost Armor – Enemy Heroes that attack you are Chilled. Additionally, once every 8 seconds you can block the next basic attack from an enemy Hero reducing its damage by 75%.
Ice Lance – The cooldown of Frostbolt (Q) is reduced by 2 seconds if it hits a Chilled target.
Ice Floes if you want extra fast wave clear, Ice Lance if you want to chase and pick off targets, or Frost Armor for all-around good synergy with other spells. I often prefer Frost Armor since it automatically slows anyone who attacks me possibly giving me some breathing room when trying to get away from them, and since it also applies Chill it means your abilities deal extra damage immediately.
I always prefer Ring of Frost. It deals immense area damage and is capable of annihilating entire teams if used correctly, especially around map objectives like Tributes. Comboing this ultimate with your other spells can be truly devastating.
Storm Front – Increases cast range of your Blizzard (W) by 100%.
Improved Ice Block – Active ability giving you invulnerability for 3 seconds, and Chilling any nearby enemies once the effect ends.
Icy Veins – Active ability making your basic (non-heroic) ability cooldowns recharge three times as fast, and cost 50% less mana for 5 seconds.
Sprint – Active ability giving you 75% extra movement speed for 3 seconds.
Lots of tough choices here, as all of these talents give you so much potential. Players often take Ice Block, though I prefer either Icy Veins for even more burst damage, or Storm Front just because you can practically cast it from a screen away.
Sprint is also a viable choice if you're looking for more defensive and kiting utility.
Snow Crash – Increases the number of waves in Blizzard (W) from 2 to 3.
Northern Exposure – Enemies damaged by Cone of Cold (E) are also afflicted with Vulnerable effect, increasing the damage they take by 25% for 2 seconds.
Numbing Blast – Cone of Cold also roots Chilled targets for 1 second.
Ice Barrier – 25% of increased damage dealt from Frostbite (passive) is given to Jaina as a shield, lasting for 3 seconds.
Once again a tough choice. I typically go for Northern Exposure or Numbing Blast. Snow Crash can be good, particularly if you took the Level 4 talent increasing Blizzard's radius.
Cold Snap -Gives your Frost Ring heroic ability an additional frost explosion in the center of it.
Wintermute – Increased cast range on Water Elemental, and he mimics your basic abilities (casting your QWE spells for 50% damage).
Arcane Power – Active ability instantly restoring 400 Mana and giving you 15% increased Ability Power for 5 seconds.
Bolt of the Storm – Active spell teleporting you to a nearby location on a 40-second cooldown.
Bolt of the Storm is a wonderful escape escape ability giving you some much needed breathing room from enemies, or when necessary you can even use it to chase other players and finish them off.
This is by no means the best build you can go for, as it's always my advice you should adapt to the game you're playing: take a look at your team's composition and heroes and see what everyone brings to the table. Enemy team hero picks are very important as well, as certain team compositions may not require you to pick many defensive talents.
Once you get a good graps of Jaina's play style I'm sure you'll be able to understand her talent builds better and find the best choices which suit a given situation, but if you're ever in doubt my recommended talents should work well in most games.
Need more specific Jaina talent builds, tips, strategies, and more guides? Click here to read how players manage an 80% and above win rate with this amazing hero!
I hope you found my Heroes of the Storm Jaina build and guide helpful. If you have any recommendations or other ways to build your favorite frost mage be sure to cast your thoughts in the comments below.


Treatment-resistance compound can destroy bacteria from within, the researchers found in a new study. Gallium, an iron-like compound kills the microbes. The researchers used the compound in their latest study in order to treat lung infections in mice and humans.
The antibiotic resistance is one of the biggest public health challenges, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
The estimates revealed that a treatment-resistant infection is responsible to affect more than 2 million people and kill 23,000 people every year in the United States.
Looking at these figures, the scientists have started applying mathematical analysis with an effort to study all of the drug combinations that can kill treatment-resistant bacteria. Some investigators have studied the antimicrobial potential of compounds, for example, an onion extract.
In their research, which was led by Pradeep Singh, a professor of microbiology and medicine at the University of Washington School of Medicine in Seattle, the team studied a molecule that can destroy bacteria from within. They conducted their test in both mice and humans. Their findings are published in the journalScience Translational Medicine.
"Systemic gallium treatment improved lung function in people with [cystic fibrosis] and chronic P. aeruginosalung infection," study co-author Bradley Britigan, a professor of internal medicine at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha explained.
"Our preliminary study in a small group of people with [cystic fibrosis] suggests that gallium is safe and improves patients' lung function. These are exciting results, but we need to do more studies to determine if gallium can be developed into a routine, safe treatment," says first study author Prof. Christopher Goss.


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I'm a New Yorker. And no, I'm not from the place you think I am. I'm from upstate where there are more cows than people, and a lot of hidden beauty nobody even knows about. Let me show you what a year looks like where I'm from.
First, you need to rethink that stereotypical image of New Yorkers getting stuck in bumper-to-bumper traffic. Now let's replace it with a New Yorker who is driving a boat.
Where I'm from there are more bodies of water than highways, from rivers to finger lakes and great lakes that'll lead you all the way to Canada. I grew up on one of those finger lakes, I learned to pilot a boat years before I considered driving a car. My favorite summer sight is when the sunlight creates 'diamonds' on the water around me. There's something so peaceful about it, something that makes even our least spectacular season remarkable.
Now, fall is a bit more limited. You don't have to wait long to see it, but, for us, fall is more than it being slightly less hot. The temperatures drop dramatically, leaving behind yellow, red and orange spots in the trees, painting the entire world around you in vibrant colors for an entire month. Even the cloudiest days are bright this time of year, and with every step you take outside, you make a little crunching sound on a leafy red carpet. You know winter is coming, but you choose to ignore it, focusing instead on the fresh pressed cider in your hand and the abundance of cinnamon flavored items. Here, we drop the "pumpkin" from pumpkin spice.
Until I came to Texas, I didn't think of snow as something people would hope to see in the winter. In New York, snow is a way of life for about six months out of the year. It's the only thing I don't miss about New York.
But, during my first semester at Baylor, it snowed. It only lasted 15 minutes and left maybe a quarter of a centimeter of actual snow, but it was as if the world had ended. Professors were canceling classes to let their students see the snow, and I must've talked to about 20 people that day who had never seen snow before in their lives. To them, I'd say you haven't seen real snow.
Where I come from anything less than half a foot of snow is considered a light dusting. In New York, snow doesn't form a light, transparent layer over the grass; it buries everything under a perfect, white blanket. Here, you spend weekends freezing as you sled down hills until you come inside and grab a cup of hot cocoa. I highly recommend experiencing a New York winter at least once in your life — even if you'll need a whole new wardrobe to do it.
Spring is where my home really shines. Warm, sunny and, in some places, truly show-stopping. Something I've discovered since moving to Texas is that it's surprisingly difficult to really describe a flower that literally has the capacity to shut down parts of your home city. It had never even occurred to me that lilacs were rare.
Until I met people who had never heard of a lilac, I had taken comfort in the idea that they were like roses, beautiful and common enough that everyone gets to experience their beauty. I've never got better at describing their scent, even after four years. There are hundreds of varieties, each with slightly different scents. The furthest I've ever gotten in my attempts at describing a lilac is "beautiful and somehow like home".
If you imagine a park over an acre in size, full of hills and valleys, filled with purple, you can see my home in the spring. Bush after bush of purple, each plant is a slightly different shade, and a vague floral sweetness fills the air before you even lean in to smell any blossoms. This is the lilac festival. If there's one thing about my home that I wish everyone in the world could experience, it's lilacs. I've never seen someone smell a lilac without smiling ear to ear like they are holding onto some sort of magic.
My New York is not exactly the city skyline many expect. But I wouldn't trade the lilacs, leaves and lakes for all the skyscrapers in the world. Now, the snow is a different story, but I guess if it's a package deal, it's still a pretty great one.
Laura Sliker is a senior journalism advertising major from Hewitt, Texas.


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'''Scheduled for May 23-25, 2019'''
'''Scheduled for Thursday and Friday, May 23-24, 2019'''
In the premodern past, weather was never just weather. Storms expressed the rage of gods, drought punished human sinfulness, and fires provided revelations straight from divine mouths. To suffer in hostile environments meant encountering more-than-human forces with merely human flesh. The inhuman power Shakespeare calls "great creating Nature" touches and sustains human bodies, but opaquely, and sometimes painfully. Nature is creator and created, force and object, destroyer and home.
This conference will bring together premodern environmental humanities scholars to explore the long and varied history of how humans have conceptualized their environment. Its invited speakers will explore historical and cultural forms in which humans have come to terms with their love for, dependence on, and need to manipulate the nonhuman world.
Fourteen distinguished speakers will cluster their conversations around four environmental keywords: "storms," "sustenance," "shelter," and "spirits and science." Together with the conference-goers welcomed into conversation, "Creating Nature" will provide insights into premodern ideas about human entanglement with the nature they knew themselves to be creating and the nature that created them.
The distinguished speakers will cluster their conversations around four environmental keywords: "storms," "sustenance," "shelter," and "spirits and science." Together with the conference-goers welcomed into conversation, "Creating Nature" will provide insights into premodern ideas about human entanglement with the nature they knew themselves to be creating and the nature that created them.
'''Organizers''': '''Steven Mentz''' (St. John's University, NY), with '''Owen Williams''' (Folger Institute)
'''Invited Speakers''': '''Jeffrey Jerome Cohen''' (George Washington University) and '''Lindy Elkins-Tanton''' (Arizona State University) will open the conference with a public dialogue on Thursday evening. On Friday and Saturday, the following scholars will present their original thoughts on the topic: '''Liza Blake''' (University of Toronto), '''Dagomar Degroot''' (Georgetown University), '''Michael Dove''' (Yale University Forestry and Environmental Sciences), '''Chris Pastore''' (SUNY Albany), '''Jedediah Purdy''' (Duke University), '''Kellie Robertson''' (University of Maryland), '''Debapriya Sarkar''' (University of Connecticut), '''Mick Smith''' (Queen's University Canada), '''Valerie Trouet''' (University of Arizona), '''Henry Turner''' (Rutgers University), '''Philip Usher''' (New York University), and '''Julian Yates''' (University of Delaware). '''Joseph Campana '''(Rice University), '''Anne Harris''' (Depauw University), '''Rebecca Laroche '''(University of Colorado), '''Jennifer Munroe '''(University of North Carolina), and '''Karen Raber''' (University of Mississippi) will act as "conversation stewards," who will chair the sessions, introduce the speakers, and guide the dialogue.
'''Invited Speakers''': '''Jeffrey Jerome Cohen''' and '''Lindy Elkins-Tanton''' (both Arizona State University) will present a public dialogue on Thursday evening open the conference with a public dialogue on Thursday evening. On Thursday and Friday, the following scholars will present their original thoughts on the topic: '''Liza Blake''' (University of Toronto), '''Dagomar Degroot''' (Georgetown University), '''Michael Dove''' (Yale University Forestry and Environmental Sciences), '''Chris Pastore''' (SUNY Albany), '''Jedediah Purdy''' (Duke University), '''Kellie Robertson''' (University of Maryland), '''Debapriya Sarkar''' (University of Connecticut), '''Mick Smith''' (Queen's University Canada), '''Valerie Trouet''' (University of Arizona), '''Henry Turner''' (Rutgers University), '''Philip Usher''' (New York University), and '''Julian Yates''' (University of Delaware). '''Joseph Campana '''(Rice University), '''Anne Harris''' (Depauw University), '''Rebecca Laroche '''(University of Colorado), '''Jennifer Munroe '''(University of North Carolina), and '''Karen Raber''' (University of Mississippi) will act as "conversation stewards," who will chair the sessions, introduce the speakers, and guide the dialogue.
Provisional Schedule
Thursday, 23 May
All sessions will take place in the Folger Board Room unless otherwise noted.
'''Session One: Storms'''
Chair: Joseph Campana (Rice University)
'''''Shipwrecks, Tree Rings, and Hurricanes'''''
Valerie Trouet (University of Arizona)
Storm Time
Kellie Robertson (University of Maryland)
Storm, Complexity, Chaos: Nature and the Limits of Experience in Shakespeare's Theater
Henry Turner (Rutgers University)
Lunch (on your own)
1:45- 3:00
Session Two: Sustenance
Chair: Karen Raber (University of Mississippi)
Macbeth's Bubbles and Shakespeare's Cosmopolitics
Julian Yates (University of Delaware)
The Frigid Golden Age
Dagomar Degroot (Georgetown University)
Anthropocene Democracy
Jedediah Purdy (Duke University)
Opening Reception (Founders' Room)
Public Plenary (Paster Reading Room)
Jeffrey Jerome Cohen and Lindy Elkins-Tanton (both Arizona State University)
Friday, 24 May
Session Three: Shelter
Chair: Rebecca Laroche (University of Colorado) and Jennifer Munroe (University of North Carolina)
Shelter in the Volcano
Michael Dove (Yale University)
Shore as Shelter
Debapriya Sarkar (University of Connecticut)
No Globes Please: Moles not Astronauts!
Philip Usher (New York University)
Session Four: Science & Spirits
Chair: Anne Harris (Depauw University)
Atmosphere: On being in touch with the (in)difference of the world
Mick Smith (Queens University)
Enter Heavens: Meteorology and Irregular Causation in Early Modern Drama and Science
Liza Blake (University of Toronto)
Dead Reckoning: Myth, Mystery, and the Poetics of Marine Natural Knowledge
Christopher Pastore (SUNY Albany)
Session Five: Roundtable
Chair: Steve Mentz (St. John's University)
Closing Reception (Founders Room)
Scheduled for Thursday and Friday, May 23-24, 2019
Organizers: Steven Mentz (St. John's University, NY), with Owen Williams (Folger Institute)
Invited Speakers: Jeffrey Jerome Cohen and Lindy Elkins-Tanton (both Arizona State University) will present a public dialogue on Thursday evening open the conference with a public dialogue on Thursday evening. On Thursday and Friday, the following scholars will present their original thoughts on the topic: Liza Blake (University of Toronto), Dagomar Degroot (Georgetown University), Michael Dove (Yale University Forestry and Environmental Sciences), Chris Pastore (SUNY Albany), Jedediah Purdy (Duke University), Kellie Robertson (University of Maryland), Debapriya Sarkar (University of Connecticut), Mick Smith (Queen's University Canada), Valerie Trouet (University of Arizona), Henry Turner (Rutgers University), Philip Usher (New York University), and Julian Yates (University of Delaware). Joseph Campana (Rice University), Anne Harris (Depauw University), Rebecca Laroche (University of Colorado), Jennifer Munroe (University of North Carolina), and Karen Raber (University of Mississippi) will act as "conversation stewards," who will chair the sessions, introduce the speakers, and guide the dialogue.
9:00-10:15 Session One: Storms Chair: Joseph Campana (Rice University)
Shipwrecks, Tree Rings, and Hurricanes Valerie Trouet (University of Arizona)
Storm Time Kellie Robertson (University of Maryland)
Storm, Complexity, Chaos: Nature and the Limits of Experience in Shakespeare's Theater Henry Turner (Rutgers University)
10:45-11:45 Moderated Discussion
11:45-1:45 Lunch (on your own)
1:45- 3:00 Session Two: Sustenance Chair: Karen Raber (University of Mississippi)
Macbeth's Bubbles and Shakespeare's Cosmopolitics Julian Yates (University of Delaware)
The Frigid Golden Age Dagomar Degroot (Georgetown University)
Anthropocene Democracy Jedediah Purdy (Duke University)
3:00-3:30 Tea Break
3:30-4:30 Moderated Discussion
5:30-6:30 Opening Reception (Founders' Room)
6:30-7:30 Public Plenary (Paster Reading Room) Jeffrey Jerome Cohen and Lindy Elkins-Tanton (both Arizona State University)
9:00-10:15 Session Three: Shelter Chair: Rebecca Laroche (University of Colorado) and Jennifer Munroe (University of North Carolina)
Shelter in the Volcano Michael Dove (Yale University)
Shore as Shelter Debapriya Sarkar (University of Connecticut)
No Globes Please: Moles not Astronauts! Philip Usher (New York University)
1:15-2:30 Session Four: Science & Spirits Chair: Anne Harris (Depauw University)
Atmosphere: On being in touch with the (in)difference of the world Mick Smith (Queens University)
Enter Heavens: Meteorology and Irregular Causation in Early Modern Drama and Science Liza Blake (University of Toronto)
Dead Reckoning: Myth, Mystery, and the Poetics of Marine Natural Knowledge Christopher Pastore (SUNY Albany)
2:30-3:00 Break
4:10-5:30 Session Five: Roundtable Chair: Steve Mentz (St. John's University)
5:30-7:00 Closing Reception (Founders Room)

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Ready to get started, Jimmy started calling local contractors, including building supply companies, plumbers, and electricians and they all said they would be honored to help and provide services and supplies. He asked Service Experts of Raleigh for the HVAC (heating, ventilation, and air conditioning) portion of Kyla's new apartment. A couple of Service Experts team members went to Kyla's home to learn more about the project and were amazed by how bright and kind Kyla was and they knew they had to be involved.
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Letters to Susan Pascoe, Australian Charities and Not for Profit Commission
From Nina Pierpont and Maria Alves-Pereira
regarding wind turbine syndrome and vibroacoustic disease
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Dear Commissioner Pascoe,
I'm told that a senior member of your organization, Assistant Commissioner David Locke, has declared there is no such disease as Wind Turbine Syndrome, nor is there any "rigorous independent scientific evidence that finds that the ill health complained of is caused by the physiological effects from wind turbines." All this to justify his decision to refuse to allow the Waubra Foundation to retain its Health Promotion Charity status.
I am the author of the clinical and epidemiological research being dismissed by Locke — research that was peer-reviewed by a range of medical colleagues from the disciplines of neurology, pediatrics, epidemiology and neuro-otology among others. My research established Wind Turbine Syndrome (K-Selected Books 2009) as a bona fide clinical pathology, with statistically significant risk factors.
Wind Turbine Syndrome is now being diagnosed by medical colleagues around the world, including Steven D. Rauch, MD, Director of the Vestibular Division, Harvard Medical School, and Medical Director of the Mass. Eye & Ear Balance and Vestibular Center. Rauch is basically the gold standard.
Also note that Irish Deputy Chief Medical Officer, Dr Colette Bonner, has publicly confirmed the existence of Wind Turbine Syndrome, and mentioned the risk factors for developing Wind Turbine Syndrome — factors I identified (and demonstrated to be statistically significant) in my 300-page report.
I am unaware of Mr. Locke having done any research or investigation in this area of public health and acoustics himself. I understand that he is not qualified as either a medical graduate or noise engineer or acoustician. Absent these skills and knowledge, Locke is more dependent on the opinions of others, some of whom may be influenced by undisclosed financial or political or ideological agendas.
I understand that Locke has relied in part upon the Australian National Health and Medical Research Council's 2014 Literature review, which did not include my study because the reviewers claimed erroneously that it "did not contain comparative data." Clearly these "experts" had not read my study, or perhaps worse, didn't understand it, because it's loaded with comparative data. Sixty-five pages of it (see the section, "Case Histories" in Wind Turbine Syndrome: A Report on a Natural Experiment).
I used a powerful epidemiological tool called a case cross-over series, comparing individual study participant exposures (exposed vs. non-exposed) and clinical responses to wind turbine noise which changed when forced to leave their homes because of ill health — after which symptoms consistently improved or disappeared. My study also compared differences in reactions between family members, in order to establish risk (susceptibility) factors.
The failure of Australian experts to grasp the most basic features of my study must be alarming for epidemiology educators in Australia. Or perhaps ignorance is not the reason for the apparent lack of understanding? (Incidentally, my PhD is from Princeton University in Population Biology, of which epidemiological principles are a subset.)
I understand that issues of (undisclosed) conflicts of interest of some "experts" employed by the NHMRC have been publicly identified in Australia's Federal Parliament by Senators Back and Madigan, as an issue with both literature reviews sponsored by the Australian National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC). This, of course, casts doubt on the integrity of both documents.
The global wind industry has worked hard to make it difficult for the truth to emerge about the adverse health effects they knew thirty years ago were directly caused by impulsive infrasound and low frequency noise. Commercial expansion of this industry depends on denying these health impacts. The same health effects I documented were likewise documented by US scientist Dr Neil Kelley and colleagues at NASA in the 1980's, and indeed presented at global wind energy and acoustics conferences. It's clear from evidence given in various court hearings by British wind industry acousticians Dr Malcolm Swinbanks and Professor Geoffrey Leventhall that knowledge of the 198o's NASA-sponsored research was not confined to United States acousticians and noise engineers, but had crossed the pond to the UK.
Even Leventhall, who consults for the global wind industry, seems to agree that the constellation of symptoms I identified as Wind Turbine Syndrome have been known to him to be caused by exposure to sound energy in frequencies below 200 Hz, specifically infrasound (0–20 Hz) and low frequency noise (20–200 Hz). I am told that he has also publicly acknowledged that the susceptibility factors I identified in my 2009 report were a useful contribution to the field of environmental noise and its harmful impacts on health — but, again, this is hearsay.
Where Leventhall and I differ is on the precise sound frequencies causing WTS symptoms and in the language we use to describe symptoms being reported by those whose health is impaired. Engineers and physicists (Leventhall is the latter) are not trained physicians, and legally cannot diagnose the symptoms being reported as a disease. Nor can noise engineers be expected to understand the wide ranging clinical and research findings required to establish the data base for a new disease.
I am aware of Steven Cooper's just-published work in Australia, confirming that my hypothesis was indeed correct: that infrasonic pressure pulses are involved in directly causing the reported symptoms of Wind Turbine Syndrome, or what Leventhall and his non-clinical colleagues call "noise annoyance."
Let me repeat, this direct causation was established by Dr Neil Kelley and co-researchers in the 1980's. Cooper's report adds further evidence that modern upwind-bladed wind turbines can indeed generate the same frequencies at health damaging levels inside homes.
Let's get our terminology straight. A "syndrome" is defined by the Oxford English Dictionary as "a group of symptoms which consistently occur together, or a condition characterized by a set of associated symptoms." The OED defines a "condition" as "an illness or other medical problem," and "illness" as "a disease or period of sickness affecting the body or mind."
In sum, the Waubra Foundation is without question a Health Promotion Charity whose chief activity is the prevention of diseases in humans. No amount of semantic sleight-of-hand or bald-faced assertion by Locke, or anyone else, can change this fact.
In closing, the Foundation's work is broader than focusing exclusively on wind turbine noise. Some years ago at a conference in Ontario (Canada) at which I was the keynote speaker, after hearing from American noise engineer Rick James about the research done in preceding years into the adverse health impacts of infrasound and low frequency noise by Leventhall and others, I suggested that perhaps the illness I had christened "Wind Turbine Syndrome" should more accurately be called "Infrasound and Low Frequency Noise Syndrome."
I suggest the ACNC should carefully review Mr. Locke's decision.
Nina Pierpont MD, PhD
Malone, New York
Dear Madam,
It has come to my attention that the ACNC has written the following statement in support of the decision to exclude the Waubra Foundation from being considered a Health Promotion Charity:
To date there has been no rigorous independent scientific evidence that finds that the ill health complained of is caused by the physiological effects from wind turbines nor that there are human diseases called "wind turbine syndrome" or "vibroacoustic disease."
As a lead researcher into the biological effects of infrasound and low frequency noise exposure (ILFN), I find nomenclature to be pertinent only after the underlying scientific principles are grasped. ILFN-induced pathology in humans and animals has been systematically studied since the 1940's, with a hiatus in the 1960's during the Soviet and U.S. space race. The outcome of ILFN exposure on human health, however, was not assessed exclusively through subjective parameters (such as annoyance, for example), rather, physiological responses and pathological changes to organs and tissues were also studied and documented.
Subsequent to the studies of numerous other authors worldwide, ILFN-induced pathology was brought to light by our research group in the early 1980's, based on objective diagnostic tests, such as echocardiograms, lung function, and brain potentials; on electron microscopy studies of ultra-structural aspects of ILFN- damaged tissue; and on the systematic study of symptomatic complaints made by ILFN-exposed individuals. The existence of this documented pathology and the underlying research, however, has often been denied with evidence obtained through Google searches and annoyance evaluations. It would seem, therefore, that your decision is acting as reinforcement for this type of non-scientific arguments.
It is not my place to discuss the economic, political or legal background against which your decision, and this letter are being produced. I represent a group of scientists who procures knowledge for the sake of knowledge, particularly when it advances the wellbeing of societies through the prevention or control of diseases. Wind turbines, for example, are but one of many problematic sources of ILFN that we have investigated over the past 30 years.
Our research group's extensive body of work has had only limited recognition in the Anglo-Saxon literature, and there are many valid reasons for this, albeit only a few legitimately based on scientific principles. Nevertheless, several scientific societies have recognized our work with the following awards:
1984: Ricardo Jorge National Institute for Public Health (Portugal) – Vibration disease: Auditory brain potentials
1996: Ross McFarland Award, Aerospace Medical Association – Morphofunctional study of rat pleural mesothelial cells exposed to LFN
1998: Portuguese Society for Electron Microscopy and Cellular Biology – Morphological changes of tracheal epithelia in wistar rats exposed to low frequency noise
2002: Portuguese Society for the Medical Sciences – National Occupational Medicine Award – The respiratory system in noise exposed workers
2002: Ricardo Jorge National Institute for Public Health (Portugal) – Sister chromatid exchanges in rats exposed to low frequency noise & whole-body vibration
2004: Portuguese Lung Society – Boehringer Ingelheim Scientific Award: Involvement of central airways in vibroacoustic disease patients
2006: National Institute of Safety and Health in the Workplace (Portugal) – Diagnosis of vibroacoustic disease for forensic purposes
It is my hope that the titles of our awarded work will clarify for you the foundational knowledge on which we base our scientific papers. To date, none of these studies has been disputed with opposing scientific evidence. This type of medical and biological evidence requires teams of individuals specialized in bio-clinical medicine, such as our own. Evaluating the level of annoyance amongst ILFN-exposed populations, and then concluding that no ILFN-induced pathology exists is ludicrous in terms of the axioms of scientific methodology. Clinical diagnosis and investigation of a disease is never based solely on subjective evaluations, such as annoyance.
"What you can't hear won't hurt you," is an assertion, and not a scientific truth. Nevertheless, old ideas take a long time to die out, even when repeatedly confronted with the scientific evidence proving them to be outdated. In the meantime, however, where can families turn when confronted with a ILFN problem in their homes or in their workplaces? Small organizations that have taken the form of residents' associations or workers' union sections, as well as private citizens intent on informing and educating the public are the only "safe haven" that ILFN-exposed individuals currently possess. By their medical health providers, who check for routine measures, such as cholesterol and blood pressure levels, and find nothing, it is concluded that they should be referred to psychiatric care. By the acousticians brought to the ILFN-contaminated sites, these individuals are told: "What you can't hear won't hurt you." International legislation regarding noise measurements is based on this erroneous assumption, and excludes the very frequencies known to damage health and cause disease. These individuals and families, who are increasing worldwide in astounding numbers, require some form of assistance, at least while the scientific community catches up with their undeniable ailment.
The work of the Waubra Foundation in the area of ILFN-induced diseases in humans is known and respected internationally by the individuals and families who are affected, and by the scientists and acousticians conducting research in this area.
Commissions, such as the ACNC must have a special outlook on cases such as these, where the disease and symptoms are real but existing scientific research is not widely understood or accepted, where more research is required, and where powerful vested interests may prevent credible scientific research from being accepted.
I kindly and strongly suggest that the decision of the ACNC be reconsidered, as a favour to ILFN-exposed individuals and families, as a small token of recognition of their suffering, and to enable the Waubra Foundation to continue its important work in helping to prevent and minimize the pathology known to be directly caused by excessive exposure to ILFN.
Mariana Alves-Pereira, Ph.D.
Lusofona University
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Dine Savannah: Starland Yard, a bright new constellation, opens to the delight of the masses
By N.W. Gabbey For Do Savannah
Calling Starland Yard a food truck park is like calling The Cathedral of St. John the Baptist just a church: justice not remotely done.
That unoriginal modern moniker for food-on-wheels sounds like an otherwise empty parking lot and limits the scope, ingenuity, and downright beauty of the creation developed by Guy Davidson, Niko Ormond, and their team, who opened the eponymous Starland Yard two weeks ago.
Even without the participating food trucks, the space itself is a visual feast, 23,000 colorful square feet that has quickly become the home of the city's best food-and-bevvie block party. For the last several years, that piece of real estate was barely a rubble-filled half-block, not even used as a parking lot, and in less than nine months it has been magically transformed into a unique destination that may well economically anchor the entire transitional neighborhood.
Architect-designer Kevin Rose of Lominack Kolman Smith and Billy McIntosh of JTVS Builders helped Davidson and Ormond realize their collaborative vision, inspired in part by visits to Oklahoma City's Bleu Garten and Dallas's Food Truck Park, and turned 2411 DeSoto Avenue into an art-and-engineering showpiece where we all can buy pizza and a Cuban sandwich.
More exterior than interior but with plenty of open shipping containers-cum-dining rooms, Starland Yard contains so many nooks and covered crannies as well loosely defined open spaces flanked with mature palms and deciduous tulip poplars that will soon provide shade to the center of the property in the summer months but will then drop their leaves to allow winter sunlight in. Even the steel container walls have become works of art with murals painted by Gina Berchin, Jimmy Butcher, Juliana Lupacchino, and Kyle Millsap.
All at once, this project-and-product is artistic, singular, modern, industrial, environmental, and impressive.
Anyone who might complain about Starland Yard can have a heaping helping of something beats nothing and is welcome to go hang out in the erstwhile Shoney's-Johnny Harris wasteland on Victory.
Just go and enjoy that it is now part of Savannah.
Saturday nights, way more than alright
It is difficult not to invoke the excruciatingly trite and overused line from "Field of Dreams" after spending a Saturday evening at Starland Yard, so I offer this abridged appropriation: they built it, and the people have come.
Thunderheads that blackened the sky and a dozen raindrops did nothing to scatter the happy and garrulous crowd. According to General Manager Ava Pandiani, Starland Yard tallied more than 500 tickets throughout that one day, which means that more than a thousand folks visited between 11 a.m. and closing time.
Granted, the still-90-degree temps at 8 p.m. and threatening clouds might have kept some folks away, but the longest line of the night extended out of the welcome container only to the curb—and the longest wait time to check in ranged between seven and 10 minutes.
Speaking of check-in, building an indoor-outdoor protean dining room with repurposed shipping containers is only part of the innovation the Starland Yard team has introduced to Savannah. This city loves its scuttlebutt, and the most widespread gripes you might overhear in these early days will be about waiting to get in and the centralized POS system.
When you arrive, you enter through a main shipping container and are greeted at a check-in station. You show your license—if you are of age and plan to have an adult beverage—and your credit card is run. Those drinking alcohol are given one wristband, and anyone authorized to buy food and drink on your card is given another wristband. If you are going to pay with cash, you leave your ID. Done. Go eat and drink.
For the rest of your Starland Yard stay, you never take out your wallet. You do not pay the individual food trucks. You do not hand a bartender any cash or your plastic money. Instead, you simply show your wristband and give your name, which immediately comes up on every point of sale (POS) system within the park, including those Pandiani hooks up in each truck. While you eat and drink whatever you like wherever you like, your orders are tallied and totaled.
When you leave, you head back to the welcome container to checkout. On Saturday night, that took all of ten seconds.
The process, if you will, at Starland Yard has merely taken the waiting portion of the dining experience and inverted it, as the same amount of time you would wait at a sit-down restaurant for the bill and then for the server to run your card occurs at the start of your al fresco drink-and-dine.
To the gripers: lighten up. You are just rankled over something new and different. Grab a beer and let your kids run around on the AstroTurf.
This is a superb and practical concept that is purposefully designed to expedite the food service itself. Think about it: the food trucks do not have to waste time running credit cards and making change, which means shorter lines. Bartenders never have to card anyone individually. From a purely sanitary stance, this is brilliant because no one is touching everyone else's cash before then touching my food.
One caveat, I suppose, is that it might be easy to lose track of how much you have spent over the course of a few hours. My wife and I drank water and split a pizza. We were done and dusted for $14. Friends of ours were thrilled that a few beers and a pizza rang up to 29 bucks.
Then again, if you and your mate each toss back three Atlanta-priced cocktails and buy separate entrées from the food trucks, most of whom are pricing main menu items above $10, you are going to be on the high side of $60 for the night, easy.
A truckload of options
By 10:30 a.m. the next Sunday morning, the sun was back out in full force, and Starland Yard was spotless. Pandiani was helping Bowtie and Chazito's get online for lunch service, and bar manager Joe McLean and his team prepped for another thirsty crowd. Within a half-hour, at least two dozen people were strolling around the yard, cool drinks in hand as they considered their food options for the day.
Chazito's Latin Cuisine's food truck was parked in Starland Yard every day during its first week and doing doubles—serving lunch from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. and dinner from 5 p.m. to close—on Saturday and Sunday.
"Collectively, this is such a great thing," said Chazito's Nicole Meléndez-Rodríguez that Sunday morning as the lunch queue steadily grew in front of their truck. "I love it."
She said that the centralized POS system was a technology already very familiar to Chazito's, so she sees the universal advantages of not having to handle credit cards or cash.
"We can focus on customer service and the quality of our food," she said.
Brannon Heath and Austin Dudley of Bowtie Barbecue Co. echoed these sentiments as the latter served me a pulled pork sandwich and a side of fries, this past Sunday marking the second time the Bowtie truck was on the marquee.
"We had a blast," Heath said about their first attendance. "The POS makes it so easy for us."
All told, Pandiani and food and beverage coordinators John Benhase and Pila Sunderland have invited and secured participation from eight different food trucks—The Big Cheese, Bowtie, Chazito's, Dark Shark, Pie Society, Prowl, Renowned Food, and Yoshi's Kitchen—so the cooperating cuisines include everything from grilled cheese to tacos to burgers to loaded yucca fries to fish-n-chips, depending on who is parked in the yard that day.
"It's 'choose your own adventure'," Pandiani said with a smile and a nod to those books we loved in the '80s. "You can have a lovely dinner with a bottle of wine and full service, or you can eat nachos off of your lap next to the bocce court. You can make it whatever you want it to be."
She added that they are already talking to other food truck owner-operators, but even with the present lineup, a person could go to Starland Yard every weekend for months and not eat the same food once. She said that the yard can accommodate four trucks but that three will be the ideal maximum, considering the space needed for visiting guests to gather and to walk around.
Most trucks are scheduled to stay for either the 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. lunch service or the 5 p.m. to 11 p.m. dinner service, though some will stick it out for both, as Chazito's, Dark Shark, and Pie Society have done.
While the hallmark of Starland Yard is the variety of options offered by the rotation of more than a half-dozen food trucks, the benchmarks are its permanent fixtures: the huge bar, featuring 18 taps and a mod menu of somewhat pricey cocktails, and Pizzeria Vittoria.
Peerless pizza
Chef Kyle Jacovino could not be happier in his new double-high shipping container pizzeria, whose cozy interior he designed to be Savannah's little dollop of Brooklyn: 16 seats, most on wooden banquettes that store cords of split oak underneath, all with a view of the non-stop pizza show.
"We wanted this to feel like you're sitting ringside, you're watching the action," he said of Vittoria's intimate confines. "This is our version of the chef's table for pizza."
The fire glowing in the stately Forza Forni oven is reflected in Jacovino's eyes and smile, a phoenix chef at home in his new restaurant.
"Everything about it is what I've always wanted: the size of it, the casualness," he said, sipping a coffee on Sunday morning. "This is just me."
Jacovino plainly admitted that even when he was helming the kitchens at The Florence and 1540 Room he wanted to open a small pizzeria as his own personal side venture.
"The Florence was what I wanted from a food standpoint, for sure," he said before conceding that he was never really that comfortable with the "beast" of its space. In terms of sheer size, Vittoria is the antipodes to Jacovino's two previous Savannah restaurants, though his new Starland Yard home has heralded the return of what was lost when The Florence closed: the best pizza in Savannah—if not in the state or the entire Southeast.
In reality, he and his team do have a grand dining room, albeit one that is mostly outside, including 20-plus seats available for Vittoria-only table service. On the Saturday I attended, every other picnic table and patio four-top around the yard had at least one pizza, and Jacovino estimated that their oven cranked out more than 260 total pizzas between lunch and dinner hours.
Like the best pizza in the world, Vittoria serves no ordinary crust. This dough is proper bread, one that is naturally leavened over a twelve-hour double-fed fermentation and that, in just 90 seconds, bakes into a bubbly, black-spotted, truly Neapolitan master pie.
Natalie Freihon, who opened Savannah's branch of The Fat Radish back in June, has been to Starland Yard four times already, treating herself to a Vittoria pizza three times and saying, in her book, it is tied with Anthony Mangieri's Una Pizza Napoletana (Manhattan's Lower East Side) for the best pizza she has ever had in her life.
"He [Mangieri] was the first to get this Neapolitan style going," said Jacovino. "Just to be mentioned with him is awesome."
At half past six on Saturday, our pizza was ready in only five minutes; our friends got their texts from the Vittoria window in 10 and 20 minutes, respectively, which Jacovino said is more representative for a busy weekend evening. At one point, he said that they fired more than 60 pies in about 15 minutes to fill the tickets stacked up for inside and outside service plus those at the take-away window.
"Honestly, the last couple weeks have been a blur—an excited, happy, exhausted blur," he said, doing his best to tally in his head how many pizzas Vittoria had sold in the last week, as many as 80 for a Saturday lunch service and another 200 more that night.
"After hour 14, we lose count."
Vittoria's biggest days have been Saturdays, due to the double service, which Jacovino said actually makes it a little easier in that they sell 80-some pizzas for lunch and another 190 or so for dinner. Fridays have been the toughest: around 200 pies but the vast majority of them made between 5 p.m. and 8:30 p.m.
"If you go to any other Neapolitan pizza joint in the world that's good and busy, you're going to wait," Jacovino added with an easy-going shrug. "Have some wine, have some drinks, just chill out."
Play it smart: order before the usual dinner-hour rush, and you may well have your pizza within a few minutes. If you place an order at seven o'clock, analogize your wait time with an attempt to get a table at Collins Quarter at ten on a Saturday morning. A casual wait is more than worth it.
Savannah's moveable feast
I was meandering around the yard last Saturday night, just taking it all in, when I overheard a young guy on his cell saying to a friend, "This place is so cool."
Damn straight: it is so cool.
As we walked over to the checkout window, one of my friends said that we should get together at Starland Yard once a month to eat, drink, and enjoy each other's company and the special atmosphere.
Because my wife and I can ride our bikes, because the food truck options offer such variety, and because Kyle Jacovino's pizza is a constant, we will be there far more than once a month.
More like every week. See you there.
Someday, Neil and his wife will be living in a tiny town in the south of France, eating, doing crosswords, and playing Scrabble. For now, when he is not grading papers, baking bread, or watching EPL soccer, he builds furniture and writes.


Thus the role runs with root privileges at this point and doesn't require become.
My deployment actually failed because of this problem, and was only successful after I added the become: lines to those tasks. Other tasks *in that same playbook* have become: lines, suggesting that it is in fact necessary.
It's not really necessary if you use the roles with quickstart.sh + the basic quickstart.yml playbook, because of how the virthost definition changes (explained in comment #1).
So I think you ran with --retain-inventory and used an older generated inventory or executed the playbook/roles with an existing inventory file that defined the virthost user as something else than root.
All this being said "sudo" will succeed when root is used, so there's no harm in adding it. Change coming right up.
Moved from tripleo-quickstart launchpad (Moving in progress).
This issue was fixed in the openstack/tripleo-quickstart 2.1.0 release.


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Ella Baker Center Continues the Fight for "Books Not Bars"
By WITNESS
By John Sapida
Happy Throwback Thursday! In this new blog series, WITNESS #TBT, we catch up with some of our past partner organizations to find out how their campaigns are going and what they are currently working on. For our first post we reconnected with our friends at The Ella Baker Center for Human Rights. Based in Oakland, CA, the center is named after Ella Baker, a leader of the civil rights movement in the United States. The mission of the organization is to focus on fighting mass incarceration while simultaneously working to move funding used for prions to other areas including education and health care. One of the Ella Baker Center's main campaigns, Books Not Bars, centered around closing California's youth prisons and attempting to shift future policy making towards investing in people (especially youth) instead of in prisons.
Photo Credit: Ella Baker Center for Human Rights
In 2001, WITNESS partnered with the Ella Baker Center and Columbia University's Human Rights Institute to produce an advocacy video, also titled Books Not Bars, to accompany the campaign. Books Not Bars documents the youth movement fighting to end the juvenile prison system in California. The video also explores the criminalization of youth, the movement to decrease the amount of money that goes to prisons and advocate to place those funds towards education, and the need to hold politicians and decision-makers accountable for their actions. Books Not Bars was originally used to advocate against a proposal to build a "super-jail for kids" in California. This facility would have been one of biggest per capita youth jails in the United States. The target audience of Books Not Bars were youth, and policy makers, with a secondary audience of the general public more broadly. In 2004, WITNESS and the Ella Baker Center also co-produced a follow up to Books Not Bars entitled Systems Failure, a video that talks about the human rights violations committed by the California Youth Authority (CYA), known today as the California Department of Juvenile Justice (DJJ).
By showing facts about the prison system and testimonies from formerly incarcerated youth, youth activists, and organizers, Books Not Bars challenges its audience to think about possible alternatives to juvenile incarceration and the current prison system.The video also pays special attention to youth of color as they are disproportionately affected by human rights abuses and are more likely to be incarcerated. The video also utilizes testimonies and interviews with academics, youth of color, activists and leaders. The video also discusses problems with the system, the prison industrial complex, and conditions inside these institutions. These testimonies are accompanied by supporting facts and statistics.
Campaign Successes
Since its launch, the Books Not Bars video and campaign have experienced many successes. First and foremost, it helped stop the building of the super-jail. The Ella Baker Center's campaign has also contributed to the reduction of youth prisons in California from eight prisons down to three. as well as the youth prison population by more than 85 percent to date in the state of California. The Ella Baker Center has also been successful in organizing and mobilizing family members of incarcerated youth across the state of California to spread awareness through training them to work as a powerful team of campaigners, organizers, spokespeople, and lobbyists for change in the prison system.
Because of the great success brought by the Books Not Bars campaign, the Ella Baker Center has recently started a campaign called "50% for Jobs Not Jail, Books Not Bars, and Healthcare Not Handcuffs" which urges the Alameda County Board of Supervisors to move funds away from the sheriff's department and towards community-based reentry services. Community members gathered at a vigil to support this campaign in December.
The Ella Baker Center for Human Rights is now also working on a campaign to limit the use of solitary confinement of youth in juvenile facilities in California. The center supports legislation that involves the creation of a uniform definition and usage regulations for solitary confinement. This legislation also requires statewide reporting on the use of solitary confinement in juvenile facilities.
The center is also working to find ways to help incarcerated youth after they are released. They are currently a co-sponsor for a legislation that would create parole credits to reduce parole terms and reinvest the savings in re-entry services during an incarcerated individual's first year out of prison. In addition, they are working on a research project that explores the impact of mass incarceration on formerly incarcerated people and their families, including youth.
To catch up with the current campaigns and successes of the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, please visit their website at www.ellabakercenter.org.
Throwback Thursday Series
In this new blog series, WITNESS #TBT, we catch up with some of these organizations to find out how their campaigns are going, what they are currently working on, and how they are using video to fight for change. As WITNESS continues to explore new ways to strengthen video advocacy around the world, we wanted to take the opportunity to check in with some of our past partner organizations.In tandem with these posts, we are also re-releasing the advocacy video each group made with WITNESS on our YouTube channel.
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As photographers our selves we are big believers in capturing life moments in photos and we help our guests with their "tour memories" by providing photos during our tours. This means we take and store lots of pictures throughout the year. But what's the point of taking a photo if you only ever look at it once?
As we get ready to ring in 2018 we went through all our photos taken and shared in 2017 and reflected over this past year with our Top 17 from Twenty-17.
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Fake Android update app infects thousands of smartphones
A recent investigation details the detection of a new method of infection for Android devices based on the use of malware that threat actors disguise as a critical update on the system. Successful infections would allow hackers to take full control of the affected device and even steal sensitive information.
Reports indicate that the malware was detected in the code of an app called "System Update", which requested its download and installation outside of Google's official platforms, including the Play Store. If users fell into the trap and installed this update, the malicious code would hide its icon and start extracting information from the device to send it to the attacking servers inadvertently.
The report, prepared by security firm Zimperium mentions that at the end of the installation, the malware establishes communication with the hackers' Firebase server, used to remotely control the compromised smartphone.
Among the capabilities of this malware are messages and contact lists theft, collection of details about the infected device, browser preferences and search history, phone call recording and screenshot stealing. This malware could also extract the user's location details and copy documents in various formats. To make it difficult to uninstall, the malware hides its processes by reducing the amount of network data consumed, as well as hiding its icon on the victim's screen.
According to Shridhar Mittal, director of Zimperium, this malware could be part of a malicious campaign targeting specific users, as well as pointing out the complexity of the attack: "It's one of the most sophisticated attacks we've found; operators devoted significant resources to this operation and it is highly possible that they have created other similar applications that we should detect as soon as possible."
Moreover, Zimperium mentions that it is relatively easy to trick a user into installing the malicious app on their device, as it is enough to redirect potential victims to websites of dubious reputation but attractive to the eye. The main recommendation to prevent these cases of infection is not to install apps hosted on non-Google platforms, in addition to keeping their apps always up to date to the latest version, which ensures the user is protected against the latest trends in mobile hacking.
A subsequent Google report also confirmed that this app was never available on its official platforms, so infected users had to download it from some illegitimate platform. It should be remembered that in the past other malicious apps have managed to sneak into Google Play Store, so it is necessary to take all necessary precautions before installing a new app on our devices.
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Tagged: Android, cybersecurity, data theft, Google, Hacking, malware, mobile hacking, Mobile Security, Play Store, Zimperium


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When the scan is completed, you will be free to go home. We encourage you to eat and drink extra fluids after the scan. You may eat or drink whatever you wish.
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The PET-CT scan will provide your physician with information that is not available with any other type of study. The PET-CT scan can help better diagnose and stage many different diseases. The study can often help your physician plan the best treatment and monitor how well the chosen treatment is working.
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Анто́н Никола́евич Рогочи́й (23 января 1982, Ростов-на-Дону, СССР) — российский футболист, защитник, футбольный тренер.

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В ФК «Ростов» (до 2003 г. «Ростсельмаш») — с 1998 года, первый матч за основную команду провёл 28 сентября 1999 года в домашнем матче чемпионата высшего дивизиона против «Алании» (4:2), в том сезоне трижды выходил на замену на последних минутах матчей (дважды — в чемпионате России, один раз — в Кубке). Всего в период с 2009 по 2008 годы провёл 105 матчей за клуб в высшей российской лиге и 6 матчей в Первом дивизионе. Также выступал за этот клуб в Кубке России (10 матчей в 7 розыгрышах), в Кубке Интертото (4 матча в 2 розыгрышах) и в Кубке Премьер-Лиги (1 матч); голов в официальных матчах за основную команду этого клуба не забивал. В 1998—2000 гг. играл в зоне «Юг» Второго дивизиона за фарм-клуб «Ростсельмаша», «Ростсельмаш-2», проведя 29 игр и забив 3 гола. В 2001—2007 гг. провёл, наряду с играми за основную команду, 40 игр за дубль «Ростова», голов в них не забивал. В 2009 году выступал в первом дивизионе за подольский «Витязь». 30 июля 2010 года было сообщено, что Антон пополнил ряды «Кубани», с которой подписал контракт до конца сезона. Дебютировал в составе «Кубани» 13 августа в домашнем матче 24-го тура первенства против хабаровского клуба «СКА-Энергия». Всего в том сезоне провёл за «Кубань» 9 матчей и стал, вместе с командой, победителем Первого дивизиона. 24 ноября появилась информация, что тренерский штаб «Кубани» решил расстаться с Антоном. 6 декабря было подтверждено, что контракт решено не продлевать и Рогочий покинул клуб, однако 10 января было сообщено, что Антон отправился с «Кубанью» на предсезонный сбор в Турцию, а затем заключил новый контракт сроком на один год с возможностью продления ещё на один.  После ухода из «Кубани» выступал за команды ФНЛ — «Химки» и «Спартак-Нальчик». 24 января 2014 года подписал контракт на 1,5 года с «Сибирью», выступающей также в ФНЛ.

Зимой 2016 года был на просмотре в «Солярисе».

Достижения
 «Ростов»
 Победитель Первого дивизиона России (1): 2008
 Финалист Кубка России (1): 2002/03

 «Кубань»
 Победитель Первого дивизиона России (1): 2010

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Футболисты России
Игроки ФК «Ростсельмаш-2»
Игроки ФК «Ростов»
Игроки ФК «Витязь» Подольск
Игроки ФК «Балтика»
Игроки ФК «Кубань»
Игроки ФК «Химки»
Игроки ФК «Спартак-Нальчик»
Игроки ФК «Сибирь»
Игроки ФК «Чайка» Песчанокопское

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By Allen Field
The Richmond Neighborhood Association held its monthly meeting on May 15, 2018 at Waverly Heights Church at SE 33rd and Woodward St. RNA meetings are held in the basement; enter from the east-side door. The RNA's website is www.richmondpdx.org.
The Bylaws amendment vote was cancelled due to problems with the ballot. In the April RNA meeting, the Board voted to present to the general membership to vote on whether to adopt proposed changes to Article IX (whether to remove the majority vote standard to elect Directors to the Board) and Article XVII (whether to specify that the Robert's Rules catchall provision does not apply to Board of Director elections, since the RNA has Election Standing Rules (ESR)). The ballot only had one Yes/No option and did not allow members to vote independently on each amendment proposal, to which ¾ of people at the meeting objected. The Chair cancelled the vote in order to consult with SE Uplift.
The RNA Board elections are Monday June 11, the next RNA meeting. Voting will take place from 8 pm Sunday June 10, to 8pm Monday June 11. Voting times and locations will be announced via the RNA listserve and RNA website, and allow for several voting opportunities Sunday and Monday, including at the RNA June 11 meeting, starting at 6pm. May 28 is the deadline to announce candidacy and submit candidate statements.
Although not allowed by the ESR (which state they cannot be revised less than two months before the election) the Board voted to move the deadlines to announce candidacy and to submit candidate statements to May 28, 14 days before the election. The reason, stated during the meeting, was due to only three candidates having announced their candidacy to fill eight open seats. However, soon after the meeting, it was learned that eight candidates had announced their candidacy.
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For years I've been living in apartments with no room for a proper studio. I've been creating on kitchen tables, balconies, beds and even floors. All my art & craft supplies had to fit in two drawers. I tried to make the best of what I had.
This changed in the autumn of 2012 when I finally moved into an apartment that was big enough to fit a huge work desk, and that had enough closets so that I could dedicate one of them entirely to my art supplies.
It was a dream come true for me!
I got used to this luxury, so when my boyfriend and I started talking about moving in together, I made one thing clear: I wanted to have a separate room for my creative work.
We agreed that me leaving my stuff around the apartment would not be a good solution for any of us, so we decided to pay higher rent in order to get that extra room.
After a few weeks of searching, we found the perfect apartment. It had everything we wanted, and when I walked into the "children's room" (still with a bed in it) that had a balcony facing south-east, I fell in love with it and decided on the spot that we will take it.
Now I have a wonderful room dedicated to my creative work. It's an office and an art studio in one. I have plenty of room for creating, and enough storage space for all the art supplies and tools I own. I absolutely love spending my days here.
Here's the first thing you see when you come in. I have two large desks extending along the entire length of the wall. In the middle you can see my computer set up: two monitors, speakers and a large Wacom Intuos3 tablet.
The wall is full my big plans and inspirational art. I remove and add things from the wall based on what I'm working on and how I feel.
Currently you can see a mind map for a project I'm working on, my big yearly calendar, some exercises from the Right Brain Business Plan, a framed drawing my friend gave me, and some of my art planted with intentions.
The wall is so hard that I couldn't add any new nails on it, so I can only stick things to the wall with white-tack.
On the left is my drawing corner. I have a tilted drawing board that my dad had made for me a few years ago. (Back then I used it to draw on my bed). Actually these are two boards, a thick one with 2 legs and a thin board that I can remove put up on my easel.
On the desk is my usual morning sketching setup: a Canson sketchbook and a Sakura Koi watercolor field sketch set that I absolutely adore.
Here's a view of the right side of the room. On the second desk I keep my lovely Epson Perfection V330 scanner and some paper racks, and under it is my printer (not plugging it because I hate it), some storage boxes and a handmade paper bin.
That's where I keep my easel too. Right now I don't have a painting in progress, so I put up Nourishing Heart on it so that it's not empty. On the far right there is a closet where I keep my art supplies.
I keep my canvases, papers, paints, palettes, brushes, and everything else in this closet. In the red polkadot boxes you can see at the bottom is where I keep my various tools: SLR camera & tripod, sewing machine and fabrics, all the tools for home repair... I'm so happy it all fits in this closet.
Lastly, here's a view of my windows and a small balcony. There's just enough room for a small table and a pair of chairs, and that's where I often do my morning sketching and brainstorming before it gets too hot.
I prefer to keep my windows curtain-free because I want to let as much light in, and I like to look out every now and then. The view ain't half bad, I can even see the sea and my home island from inside.
I have to make one thing clear: my studio is not always this neat! Usually I manage to keep it orderly for about 2 days, and then I get involved in a project and soon enough the place turns into a creative mess.
Also, you may have noticed there's no chair in view. I'm actually sitting on a pilates ball.
So, that's it for today, I hope you enjoyed my little studio tour!
P.S. Do you have some photos of your home-office or your work corner? Share it in the comments, I'd love to see it!
Are you frustrated when your fans ignore your best work?
How lovely to have a room like that - I can understand how it can be a dream come true. I certainly wish I could have a room like yours, and the balcony! Thank you for sharing your work space - I really like the art around too.
Here's how I did it when I lived a small apartment where my living room and bedroom and work room were one and the same.
Once I bought a few my room started looking less messy. I would stack them up so they didn't even take too much space.
My art supplies are sorted into shoe boxes by medium, and I'd simply put these boxes into the large ones so I could quickly find what I needed.
I love your working space and how much light and space you have. It's great to have both the working space and the studion in the same room, with the balcony as a bonus.Thank you for sharing this with us.
Lovely little glimpse into your space. Seeing the little patio where you can allow the world to speak to you each morning made me smile. And aspire.
Hope the space continues to fuel your creativity. And makes another appearance.
I will share more photos as I create new artworks, for sure.
I'm holding my fingers crossed for you to have your own sunny home office as soon as possible!


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Art director Antonio Alcalá designed the stamp art
In celebration of the 50th anniversary of the first moon landing on July 20, 1969, the U.S. Postal Service is pleased to reveal two stamp designs commemorating that historic milestone. (USPS image)
BREVARD COUNTY, FLORIDA – In celebration of the 50th anniversary of the first moon landing on July 20, 1969, the U.S. Postal Service is pleased to reveal two stamp designs commemorating that historic milestone.
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Can you be a stay-at-home mom and still work while making decent money as a freelance writer?
The short answer: Yes, you can.
The slightly longer answer: Yes, you can, but oh my dear Lord is it difficult!
Because I speak from experience.
My son is coming up on 3 and he is about as boyish and energetic as a 2 1/2-year-old boy could be. At this point in his life, everything is about Spiderman, jumping off the sofa 15 times a minute and playing any game that involves a ball.
I love it, I love his personality, and I love playing with him.
However, it's very difficult to keep a toddler entertained while trying to write an in-depth 2,000-word article.
"Hold on, bud." I say as I'm sitting at my desk.
"No, you can't play with my phone, but you can do your puzzles for right now." I say as I stand up and rustle through his toy chest and pull out his favorite puzzle.
Then I spend another couple of minutes getting him excited about doing his puzzle before heading back over to my computer to try and remember what my line of thought was on five minutes ago.
As you can imagine, the interruptions don't stop there.
As you can imagine, the interruptions don't stop there. What have I learned in the course of my being dubbed a "working mom"?
You can't be a productive writer when you're in mom-mode.
Now, please don't take that offensively.
My point in stating that point is simply to tell you that trying to be in work-mode while you're also in mom-mode is very difficult — in fact, I'd say it's closer to impossible.
My kids will always take precedence over whatever I'm doing when I'm the only one home to take care of them, and I think most people would say the same thing.
So how then does a stay-at-home mom like myself manage to work from home while taking care of a little one too?
Here are some tips that I use to increase my productivity without ignoring my son and family life.
Being able to work whenever you'd like as a freelance writer may sound nice, but if you're a mom, it doesn't always work like that.
I'd love to be able to work from 6-11 every morning without interruption, but I hardly have that luxury.
As that is that case, I have to break up my work schedule into certain times during the day and week in order to get work done in a timely fashion.
I try to start my day off before anyone else in the house is awake. Five minutes after I get up, I have a cup of coffee in one hand and my laptop in the other.
After I've taken at least a couple sips of my cup-o-joe, I have Evernote open and I'm working on the outline for the article I have to work on for the day.
After the outline is done and I've organized the flow of the article, then I get started on the actual writing part of things.
I get as much of this done as I can before my son wakes up, which is always changing.
Sometimes I have a solid 3 hours of distraction-free work that I can do in the morning, and other times, I only get an hour to myself before he's up and running.
Even if I don't have that much time to do things, at least I got started, which is better than nothing.
The other time I have some quiet time to work is when my little one is down for his nap.
This gives me a good couple of hours to get some work done, however, he is getting to that age where he won't be needing his naps like he did when he was a baby.
For the time being though, this does give me some nice quiet time for writing.
My husband also works for himself so he gets to set his own schedule.
After my income from writing started to become substantial and steady, we worked out that he could work a little less and stay home a day or two a week and that I could work on the days he had off.
Though his work is always in high-demand and he doesn't always get to take as much time off as he would like, when he does have the chance to be home, I still like to get up early and get as much work done in the morning to make a family day out of it.
But I'll tell you what — those extra couple hours to get work done are invaluable and I love having my hubby home the whole day!
Working nights and weekends isn't exactly what I would call an ideal situation, but sometimes I have to.
Life as a working mom and wife is hectic.
When I don't get all the work done that I need to early in the day or in the week, then nights and weekends are all I have left.
Do I wish that wasn't the case? Absolutely.
But, sometimes you gotta do whatcha gotta do.
I should state that this is pretty rare, but thankfully, working as a writer does offer me a large amount of flexibility that most other jobs wouldn't.
Every mom will have a different schedule that works for them, but the important thing is to not pack your days too tight or you'll wear yourself out.
Being a working mom was never meant to be easy; being a stay-at-home mom who works is just as difficult, if not more so. But just because something is hard doesn't mean that it's impossible.
Even with my busy schedule as a mom, I still manage to do part-time work every week and make close to $2,000 every month in doing so.
If I had more time to work, that amount could easily triple.
If you're struggling to balance work and life, don't worry — you're not alone in that, I promise.
Take the time to work out a schedule that is best for you and don't over do yourself at first.
Spend the little time you have now to learn the trade and start small.
When your kids are older, you will have started something that you can expand as your free time does.
If you're a mom (or dad) looking to break into the freelance blogging world, please don't hesitate to reach out to me with questions.
I'd love to do what I can to help you in your freelancing endeavors.


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