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Trail Adventures by Bike or Boot on Florida's Adventure Coast
Explore the USA > Adventure
By Holly V. Kapherr
Winding through kilometers of Florida's most beautiful preserves, parks and wildlife areas, the hiking and biking trails of Hernando County are tops for birding, running and cycling. No matter which trail you follow, you're guaranteed gorgeous vistas of sawgrass meadows, swaying Spanish moss-draped live oak trees or dense pine forest. So, don a helmet or straighten your laces for some of the best hiking and biking trails on what's known as Florida's Adventure Coast, Brooksville-Weeki Wachee.
The Suncoast Trail
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Stretching 66 kilometres through three Florida counties, including Hernando, the Suncoast Trail is one of the longest paved paths in the state. It connects public lands, regional parkland, wide pastures and woodlands filled with wildlife. The scenic, award-winning trail attracts hikers, walkers and cyclists, as well as equestrian riders. Eventually, the Suncoast Trail will connect to Brooksville's Good Neighbor Trail, giving recreation enthusiasts access to historic downtown Brooksville.
Kimberly H. Poppke
While in Brooksville, dine in at Florida Cracker Kitchen for Southern favorites like shrimp and grits and fried green tomatoes, or enjoy a local craft beer from Coppertail Brewing Company in the taproom.
The Good Neighbor Trail's 16-kilometer greenway links the town with the Withlacoochee State Trail, a 74-kilometer trail that passes through six distinct wildlife habitats. Hikers and bikers will likely spot white-tailed deer, gopher tortoises, indigo snakes and a variety of birds depending on the season, so bring your guidebook along.
Weekiwachee Preserve
Weekiwachee Preserve | Florida's Adventure Coast Visitors Bureau
After visiting the mermaids at Weeki Wachee Springs State Park, hit the trail at Weekiwachee Preserve, a nine-hectare parcel with something for every type of adventurer, including hiking, biking, paddling and birdwatching. Visitors can enjoy pathways that trace the Mud and Weeki Wachee Rivers, while admiring native flora like cabbage palms, slash pine forests and rows of saw palmettos. The preserve has been recognized as one of the best birding areas by the National Audubon Society which listed it as an "Important Bird Area."
Great Florida Birding and Wildlife Trail
With 510 stops and eight different locations in Hernando County, the Great Florida Birding and Wildlife Trail is the perfect spot for animal- and bird-lovers alike. More than 500 species of birds live in the state of Florida, thanks mostly to the temperate year-round weather. Visitors can spot many of those birds throughout the trail, like the Florida scrub-jay, cardinals and tufted titmice. For a local birder's guide, contact Florida's Adventure Coast Visitors Bureau.
Chinsegut Wildlife and Environmental Area
Chinsegut Conservation Center | Florida's Adventure Coast Visitors Bureau
Florida's pine forests are some of the most unique habitats in the state, where some of the trees grow as tall as 30 metres and live more than 300 years. The Big Pine Tract in the Chinsegut Wildlife and Environmental Area is one of the best places to see these monster trees with extra-large pinecones. At the trailhead, pick up a guide to get a better understanding of the forest's history, the park's cultural significance and to view a listing of wildlife you're likely to see wandering among the pines. Along the way, keep an ear out for pine woods tree frogs which make a morse-code-like tapping noise in the canopy above.
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Abraham Bornstein Papers
This collection contains materials from the Boston Book and Art Shop (1962-1974), including financial records and an inventory, an inventory and sample of collection donated to YIVO, an inventory and sample of collection donated to the Jewish National and Hebrew University, correspondence, newspaper clippings, and the work of Chaim Grade, גראדע חיים. Also included in this collection are original photographs and certificates, among them original elementary and high school graduation certificates, and a confirmation certificate of Rachel Rosenstein Bornstein. Some of these are restricted because they are rolled and fragile.
Bornstein, Abraham (Person)
The collection is in English and Yiddish.
Abraham Bornstein was born in Russia, and immigrated to the United States as a child. He was a well known publisher and collector of art and art books.
In 1923, Bornstein founded the Boston Book and Art Shop, formerly located on Boylston Street between Dartmouth and Exeter Streets, which distributed art books from leading publishers of Europe, as well as published books, portfolios and monographs. Abraham and his wife, Rachel, used their publishing house to help encourage and promote many Jewish artists and writers in the United States, among them, Chaim Grade, a Yiddish poet.
The Bornsteins donated their collection to many well known institutions, including the Bezalel Library, the Israel Museum, the Jewish National and University Library and YIVO. According to the inventory of the collection donated to the Jewish National and University Library and YIVO, in addition to books on art, Bornstein also donated his personal collection of Japanese prints and ikons, and rare prints of Jewish books of the 16th-18th centuries.
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Abraham Bornstein was a well-known publisher and collector of art and art books. In 1923, Bornstein founded the Boston Book and Art Shop, which distributed art books from leading publishers of Europe, as well as published books, portfolios and monographs. Abraham and his wife, Rachel, used their publishing house to help encourage and promote many Jewish artists and writers in the United States, among them, Chaim Grade, a Yiddish poet. This collection contains materials from the Boston Book and Art Shop, including financial records and inventory, inventory and sample of collection donated to YIVO, inventory and sample of collection donated to the Jewish National and Hebrew University, correspondence, newspaper clippings, and work of Chaim Grade, גראדע חיים. Also included in this collection are original photographs and certificates.
Donated by Abraham Bornstein, per Sara Schlater, 1994.
Processed by Mary Chen, 2012
Art -- Collectors and collecting -- Israel
Art -- Collectors and collecting -- United States
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Bornstein, Rachel
Boston Book and Art Shop
Fliers (printed matter)
Grade, Chaim, 1910-1982
Jewish National and University Library (Jerusalem)
Publications (documents)
Publishers and publishing
YIVO Archives
YIVO Institute for Jewish Research
Yidisher ṿisnshafṭlekher insṭiṭuṭ
Guide to Abraham Bornstein Papers, P-937
Processed by Mary Chen
Published citations should take the following form: Identification of item, date (if known); Abraham Bornstein Papers, P-937, box number; folder number; Wyner Family Jewish Heritage Center at NEHGS, Boston, Mass. https://jewishheritagecenter.libraryhost.com/repositories/2/resources/149 Accessed January 15, 2021.

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I have a Server 2003 Ent 64bit with Exchange2007 SP3. This server have enable the OWA services, so during PCI compliance test appears the above indication.
We have communicate with Microsoft, in order to provide correct actions to pass PCI compliance test, but until now all actions have been fail, due to OWA service. (OWA of Exc2007 cannot work if we try to upgrade the .Net Framework to ver 4 -64 bit).
Also on other sections I have read comments for OWA, which is an application which don't have Cross-Site Scripting capabilities.
What proofs needed to provide in order to have a False Positive exception for our Exchange Server and OWA as Web Application?
Please see the following thread which discusses OWA as related to QID 90780.
thanks a lot for your fast response. I have already read those sections but not help us as we wanted. My IIS server are version 6.0 and have different web.config file from 7.0. A Microsoft specialist make some changes in our OWA site in order to mask the version of .NET, but the last scan have same results.
We need to know what program can be used in order to provide Penetration tests and Web Application Scanning from our Exchange.
Microsoft cannot provide solution for that, because OWA on Exchange2007 cannot works with .NET 4 Framework(have different libraries).
I would recommend using our Web Application Scan module (you can contact your Technical Account Manager if you do not have access to this module). This will allow you to scan the web application(s) on the target as needed.
Additionally, we have confirmed with Microsoft that because OWA cannot run with the Validate Request Filter in use, QID 90780 would not apply to an OWA only implementation: "The Microsoft Security Response Center has verified that OWA itself is not vulnerable to these CVE's. If you have any other ASP.NET applications on the system, you will need to implement defense-in-depth measures to address the vulnerabilities, but not for OWA." It's important to note that when submitting this as a False Positive Request to confirm that the Validate Request Filter is disabled, and that there are no other applications on the target device.


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Most of the house owners install blinds on the windows of their home. Cleaning the blinds on a regular basis is important, but it is true that most of the people forget this essential household chore. As a result, dirt and dust particles start accumulating on the surface of the blinds, which in turn make them look really untidy. But, it is vital to take very good care of them, as they certainly add a lot of charm as well as practicality to your living space.
Untidy blinds can definitely create a bad impression in the mind of your guests. Fortunately, it is really simple to clean the window blinds. Blinds are usually made from two materials, either plastic or wood. Before you proceed with blind cleaning, you need to keep a few tips in mind. Before we provide you the tips, let us talk about the tools that you need for the cleaning purpose.
You can easily purchase the duster and cloth from the online stores. Once you have the above mentioned items, you can follow the below mentioned steps.
It is important to keep in mind that one should never sprinkle water on an untidy blind. The blend of dust settled on the blind and water can make the things worse. Hence, it is better to follow the dry method of cleaning in the beginning.
Set the blinds to their open position; take the duster and run it along the blinds, starting from the top to the bottom. In this way, it would be easier to get rid of the accumulated dust particles through a simple method.
After you are done dusting the blinds, use the vacuum cleaning machine to clean up the dust particles that have fallen on the floor.
Now, set the blinds to their closed position, which in turn will expose the concave side of the blinds. Using the microfiber cloth to wipe away the dirt and dust particles; beginning from the top till bottom. Again, use the vacuum cleaner to collect the dust particles from the floor.
Using the tilt wand of the blind, close it and doing so would reveal the convex side of the blind towards you. Using the same microfiber cloth, dust the convex side and get rid of the dust particles.
Finally, clean up the floor using the vacuum cleaner.
In case the blinds are heavily soiled, you will have to take down the blinds from the windows and soak them in warm water for an hour or two. There is no need to use any cleaning agent. But, mild cleaning solutions can be used for this purpose. After an hour, take out the blinds from the water tub and wipe them with a microfiber cloth. You should dry them in shade, because placing them directly under the sun can lead to discolouring of the same.
So, that is all you need to know about blind cleaning. You can also search for professional blind cleaning services in this regard. There are professionals available who can take care of the cleaning process at reasonable rates. But, it is vital to hire a reputed and reliable cleaning agency, so that the physical condition of the blinds does not get affected. Special care should be taken when it comes to cleaning the wooden blinds. Keep the above mentioned aspects in mind and maintain the fresh look of your window's blinds.


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Dwindling Database? Here's How To Grow Your Client Base With Facebook
Paul Potratz Contributor
I teach biz owners how to become known and profitable with video.
In terms of fresh and sexy marketing strategies, Facebook may not seem all that shiny so to speak. The platform has featured advertising options since its inception in 2004, when it served solely as a digital meeting place for college students. Advertisers could target by campus and promote "flyers;" simply banner ads that appeared along the side of user's feeds; for around $20 a day.
Fast forward a decade and a half, and the marketing options available on the platform have evolved tenfold— as has the audience utilizing the site.
9 years ago Facebook recognized the revenue-raking power of the tool they created, and have been continuing to set the course for how social media marketing is done since. And chances are— they will continue to.
Despite recent rulings in regards to Facebook's data collection and distribution practices altering opinions and upsetting stock prices, it's remained the magnate of social media— seemingly too big to fail.
That's why in 2018, if you're not utilizing Facebook in your marketing strategies, you're not going to retain the rapid momentum with which the industry is evolving. Plus— the fact that Facebook can essentially double or mirror any audience you have currently (we'll get to how), should have made it irresistible long before today.
Why Facebook:
Facebook has over 2 billion active users daily, which is more than YouTube, Instagram or Twitter. And unlike those other platforms, which have a higher concentration of specific demographics, Facebook is like the even ground everyone seems comfortable standing.
Men and women like Facebook nearly equally, with the former retaining 75% of the population on the platform and 83% of the ladder regularly logging in. Even the location demographics available for who is on Facebook are high and close; with 81% urban, 77% suburban and 81% rural populations on the platform. And despite maintaining a reputation for being the social luddites, seniors love Facebook (if they had to choose, anyway); with 62% retaining active accounts.
So whether you're marketing towards the grandchild, all the way up to the grandparent— you can expect to reach them on Facebook. The best part is, they're not just there— they're seeking out brands.
A third of these 2 billion daily users engage with brands they're interested in, which means comments, likes and shares of your content— earning more eyes you didn't have to pay for.
With engagement being the driving force for dissemination of social content, Facebook is a space in which your odds for connecting with your audience are higher, which means your marketing efforts have more opportunity to earn you quality leads.
Misconceptions About Facebook Marketing:
The #1 misconception I hear when speaking with prospective clients or other entrepreneurs and business owners is that you need to have a million friends or a massive following in order to see success advertising on Facebook. This couldn't be more incorrect.
There's a big difference between paid and organic Facebook opportunities, which is where some get lost. Yes, having a large organic audience is always beneficial and should be something all aspire to curate, but it's by no means necessary.
Paid advertising on Facebook affords the opportunity to select your own audience from the demographics available on Facebook; no friends required. Advertisers pay money per click of their content, designating their objective to determine the distribution amongst their audience.
Whether you're looking to increase awareness, earn more engagement, get responses to your event, visits to your website or otherwise— you can make it happen through the objectives available during campaign creation on Facebook.
Or, instead of utilizing the targeting options provided on Facebook to curate an audience— why not meet the one you've already grown via your database— socially?
Facebook allows you to upload lists of contacts directly to your campaigns— so you can begin to reach your clients or email lists outside of where you're expected to be seen by them. This means you're meeting your audience across multiple channels; and now in a space where they're more apt to receive you.
Facebook takes it one step further when it comes to reaching your true audience— with Lookalike audiences.
Doubling Your Database (Sort Of):
Lookalike audiences allow you to take a current audience you already have and find a whole new similar audience based on the traits present in the first group.
Lookalike audiences can be made referencing a custom audience you created; such as an email list, viewers of a specific video or visitors of a certain page. And if you do so happen to have a large following on your Facebook page, you can make a lookalike audience based off those fans too!
That means the ideally thousands of contacts you've collected personally via your database or or CRM can essentially be duplicated by finding like contacts on Facebook. This audience, however, is only available for use on the platform and cannot be downloaded for other use.
The algorithm behind it all matches commonalities found between the source you select and everyone else on Facebook. This can skyrocket your marketing efforts, especially if you're not seeing the results you originally anticipated because it helps identify a truer audience— not just the one you assume is interested in your offerings.
How? Say you're targeting 18-28 year old females for your beauty products, but in reality— it's more often the parents or partners of those women who actually purchase the products.
A lookalike audience would recognize the interests and behaviors of your original group, but match them against all users— often resulting in a more honest representation of who you should be targeting. That, in theory and in my experience, means more units sold.
Facebook draws over 2 billion visitors daily.
Paul Potratz
While GDPR whoas and rumors of targeting limits have been sounding for some time, Facebook still offers more to marketers and business than most others— and delivers. Meet your current audience and grow it by investing in a Paid Facebook Advertising campaign. You'll see what I mean and more.
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I'm Paul Potratz, CEO and owner of Potratz (Google me for more). I've spent the last two decades building strong companies with non-traditional marketing strategies, whi...


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DDoS attacks grow as first DIY kits emerge
on July 25, 2014 |
DDoS Attack Specialist DDoS Protection Specialist DoS Attacks
Alongside the report, Trustwave is reporting the discovery of DIY DDoS kits for sale from just US$ 200 (£118) and which give users – apart from a high bandwidth connection – all they need to stage a wide-scale attack.
The analysis – from Prolexic Technologies, now part of Akamai – claims to show that distributed denial of service activity has surged by 22 percent over the last quarter, putting levels close to those seen in Q1 of this year, when existing DDoS volume and allied records were broken.
Delving into the report reveals there was a 72 percent increase in the average bandwidth of attacks during the second quarter, along with a shift to reflection-based attacks that undermine common web protocols, as well as the arrival of server-side botnets that exploit web vulnerabilities in Windows and Linux-based systems.
The analysis concludes that there have been shifts in the industry targets compared with last quarter's DDOS activity. The difference in these numbers, says the report, may be due to the different types of malicious actors on the Internet that may be active at any particular time.
"It is clear that the majority of malicious actors preferred to use of volumetric attacks in Q2 – this trend was seen across all verticals. A significant variant in attack vectors by industry was the use of a very sophisticated botnets against financial and media sites," notes the report, adding that these attacks do not seem to fit the previous patterns and motives of the DDoS criminal ecosystem.
According to Trustwave, meanwhile, its research has revealed that hackers are now selling the Neutrino Bot malware kit, which it can be used to infect a large number of computers, create a botnet, and launch DDoS attacks against websites and services at will.
For US$ 500 (£294), meanwhile, hackers will sell all comers BetaBot 1.6, which Trustwave says is a remote access Trojan that can run DDoS attacks, and steal sensitive data, passwords and files from infected systems.
Karl Sigler, Trustwave's threat intelligence manager, said he was unsurprised by the findings.
"Supply and demand affects malware markets like they do any market. Even though demand is high, there is an increasing amount of malware competing with each other and this helps drive down the cost. There is also a cost-benefit issue. Criminals look at how much they can make by selling stolen data acquired using the malware. Finally, age plays a role. The longer malware is on the market, the cheaper it tends to get," he said.
Rob Bamforth, a principal analyst with Quocirca, the business analysis and research house, said that the surge in volumes and incidences of DDoS attacks in the second quarter identified by Akamai suggests a larger number of servers being infected by cyber-criminals – coupled with the fact that that many systems `out there' are Windows XP-based, which has become a legacy operating system since it reached end-of-life with Microsoft back in April.
"It also suggests there is a degree of complacency in the business sector, with many managers saying they do not want to invest extra money in IT security, as they do not see a return. Many businesses are suffering an ongoing squeeze on costs, so a failure to invest in security is understandable, even if it is not the correct approach to take," he told SCMagazineUK.com.
Nick Mazitelli, a senior consultant with Context Information Security, meanwhile, said that Akamai's analysis that the widespread dissemination of increasingly capable attacker toolsets is a trend we see right across the threat landscape, from cyber-crime through to state-sponsored attacks and everything in between.
"On the one hand this trend is fuelled by the on-going professionalisation and commoditisation of criminal marketplaces, and on the other by increasing levels of interconnection between threat groups of all stripes. Not only does this mean that existing threat groups have access to improved capability, but it also lowers the barrier of entry for newcomers thereby increasing the number of malicious parties active in the landscape – both factors that unavoidably increase the tempo of what is effectively an arms race between attacker and defender," he said.
"With this increased tempo as background it is important to highlight the necessity of a flexible and adaptable approach to security based on a sound understanding of the threat landscape. In particular those aspects of security concerned with network security monitoring as well as incident response are areas that have often been overlooked in the past, but are critical components of effectively managing the risk and minimising the potential impact of these constantly evolving threats," he added.
Source: http://www.scmagazineuk.com/ddos-attacks-grow-as-first-diy-kits-emerge/article/362573/


Millville is a city in Cache County, Utah, United States. The population was 1,829 at the 2010 census, with an estimated population of 1,918 in 2014. It is included in the Logan, Utah-Idaho Metropolitan Statistical Area.
George White Pitkin built the first log home in Millville before the settlement was organized or named. He and his sons, Ammon Paul Pitkin and George Orrin Pitkin, built the home in 1859. The family moved into it in late spring, 1860. The present location of the home is 136 W. 100 South, in Millville. It became the Pitkin homestead. Church and school were held there. As George White Pitkin was an educated man, he taught until a "proper" church and school were built. Later, the Pitkins built a two-story rock home with walls 2 feet (0.61 m) thick. George died at the age of 72 on November 26, 1873, and is buried in the Millville Cemetery.
Millville City is dedicated to serving its residents in providing enjoyable parks for everyone.


The Society for the study of flies (Diptera) / Tipula confusa, but the wrong season.
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Tipula confusa, but the wrong season.
Am I confused, or is it the crane fly? I understand it is a late emerging, autumn species.
But it looks good for Tipula confusa. Seen on a wall 15th April 2013.
Several views uploaded, which will hopefully be sufficient to confirm.
Re: Tipula confusa, but the wrong season.
Ah, so there is a rational explanation!
Having looked at some trustworthy images, I would say definitely yes, it's the same dark stripe on mine as in the ones for T. rufina.
I shall log it as that, unless somebody says you can't do that.
Agreed. T. rufina, from the pleural stripe. NB for next photos !!


We offer a range of convenient IELTS test dates in eight locations across Uzbekistan: in Tashkent, Andijan, Namangan, Fergana, Samarkand, Bukhara, Karshi and Urgench.
The fee for an IELTS (Academic / General training) test is 1,398,600 UZS for any test session which takes place before 30 April 2019.
The fee for IELTS for UKVI and IELTS Life Skills is accepted in GBP.
-IELTS for UKVI (Academic / General training) 200 GBP.
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The tables below show the available upcoming written test dates for IELTS Academic and General Training only (not for UKVI) in all test locations. You will receive an email with full test details (timetable, venue information) approximately five days before the test.


The designer goes into details and everything is well considered.
Ahahaha, the cage locks the camera tight and leaves all buttons available. It comes with two cold shoes on the top, which could be mounted with magic arm for monitor. In addition, a HDMI lock is also included to protect HDMI cable port and ensure the transmission of signals during shooting. The designer goes into details and everything is well considered.


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Eastbank
Model Railway Club
Eastbank Model Railway Club consists of a small and informal group of widely dispersed friends who share an extremely diverse interest in railways, prototype and model, domestic and foreign.
The Club was originally based in Shettleston in Glasgow but due to the relocation of most of our member over the past years, the structure of the Club has had to be reformed and is now what could be best described as a virtual model railway club. We have no regular or formal meetings, we have no written constitution, we have no clubrooms, we have no tangible assets and we have no annual subscription. Our layouts are owned by our individual club members but we all collaborate with our own specialised skills and talents on the design, construction and the presenting of these layouts at exhibitions.
PLEASE NOTE All photographic images displayed on these pages are the property of the members of Eastbank Model Railway Club except where stated otherwise. After all, historical information and images are of no use unless they are freely shared among others with similar interests. The images may be reproduced for any non commercial purposes but it would be very much appreciated if reference is given as to the source of the information and the images.
Our Layouts and Displays.
BINNS A Hornby Dublo 2 rail Meccano commissioned demonstration train set dating from the 1960's.
MAGERSFONTEIN Depicting in H0 scale the operations on South African Railways in the 1980's.
PREVIOUS LAYOUTS Some of our layouts that we have exhibited over the past years.
EXHIBITIONS Listing of events where we have exhibited our layouts.
PRESENTATIONS Listing of some of our Illustrated Talks presented by our members.
Some of our model interests.
MODEL SHOPS Nostalgia concerning shops in the Glasgow area that sold model railways.
GENUINE FAKES Some Tri-ang Railways, Tri-ang Hornby, Hornby Dublo, Lima, Airfix & Jouef models that were never made - until now.
CHARTER The charter for not so fine scale railway modellers.
00 & H0 SCALES Comparing the difference between 00 scale and H0 scale.
BLUE PULLMAN MODELS Completing a 00 scale London Midland Region and Western Region Blue Pullman, Tri-ang Railways style.
CONTINENTAL SLEEPER The Tri-ang Railways CIWL Continental Sleeping and Dining Cars.
Mk.1 & Mk.2 COACHES Extending the original range of Tri-ang style Mk.1 and Mk.2 Passenger Coaches.
WHISKY GALORE The first series Tri-ang Hornby bulk grain (Whisky) wagons.
RIVAROSSI AHM GG1 Variations on the H0 scale GG1 by Rivarossi and AHM.
SHORT CIRCUITS Basic and simple model railway electrics. It's not the circuits that are short, it's the articles.
Some of our prototype railways interests.
NIGHT FERRY
The latter years of the Night Ferry, Britain's first international passenger train.
DEERSTALKER The Caledonian Sleeper overnight train, between Fort William and London Euston.
CITALIAN EXPRESS The Citalian Express overnight charter service that once operated between the UK and Italy.
ORIENT EXPRESS The early years of the Venice Simplon Orient Express.
BLUE TRAINS Clydeside's "Blue Trains", the Classes 303 and 311 units.
CLASS 320 Clydeside's Class 320 electric multiple units.
CLASS 21 & 29 The North British Type 2 Class 21 and 29 diesel electrics.
CLASS 74 Class 74 Electro Diesels, the end of the line.
WOODHEAD The latter years of the Manchester, Sheffield & Wath electric railway.
BELGIAN COAST TRAMS Scenes on the Belgian Coastal Tramway.
LUCCA-AULLA LINE The scenic Serchio Valley Lucca to Aulla railway in Tuscany, Italy.
GAS TURBINE TRAINS The RTG and RTL Gas Turbine trains in France and the United States of America.
FL9 LOCOMOTIVES The EMD FL9 Dual Mode Locomotives in the United States of America.
A4 FINALE Finale of the A4 in Scotland, the Bittern end.
UK STEAM FINALE The final days of British Railways mainline steam locomotives.
MERSEYRAIL Scenes on Merseyrail's Northern Line from Liverpool to Southport and Ormskirk.
LMR DC ELECTRICS British Railways London Midland Region third rail DC electric multiple units.
BR COACHING STOCK Some less common examples of British Railways coaching stock.
SWINDON DMU's The three types of Swindon built Diesel Multiple Units that operated in Scotland.
HIGHLAND MAIN LINE Some scenes on the Highland Main Line before the Sprinters came.
WEST HIGHLAND LINES Some scenes on the West Highland Lines before the Sprinters came.
FAR NORTH LINES Some scenes on the Far North Lines before the Sprinters came.
SHETTLESTON SCENES A few views in Shettleston in the 1960's, 1970's and 1980's.
GLASGOW RAIL SCENES Some railway related scenes around Glasgow.
The Eastbank Model Railway Club website is maintained by Allan Trotter. © Eastbank MRC. MMXVIII


Protecting your business is crucial to keep your employees and customers safe, but it is also important to keep valuable equipment or assets from being vandalized, tampered with, or stolen. Taking advantage of multiple security measures is the most reliable method to ensure your business is well-secured. Investing in a security lighting system with assistance from guard services in Atlanta can give you what you need.
When it comes to the lights that are most essential for business security, you have to look at the parking lot. Since intruders will generally have to come through the parking lot when entering and leaving, having an exceptional parking lot lighting system can deter people from committing a crime altogether.
For certain areas of your business, such as back doors and emergency exits, motion lighting is ideal. While this lighting will be convenient for your employees and customers, it will serve as an unpleasant surprise to potential intruders, especially when you have security cameras operating near the lights.
If your lights are positioned too low, it becomes easy for criminals to tamper with the lighting, which could render your protective lights useless for a certain period of time. Ideally, you want to prevent this from happening, and all you have to do is mount the lights well-above the floor level.
While you might want to take advantage of solar lighting for outdoor lights, you should avoid doing this for security-related lighting as these lights do not always get bright enough to provide optimal security.
It is fine to use them for extra lighting, but they should be avoided as a main source.
Although you can maintain all of these lights on your own, you will find that using guard services in Atlanta can give your business even more security, while also helping to maintain your lighting system.
Contact us if you would like to learn more about our security services.


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Software traffic cop directs burgeoning workflow in CT
Despite dire predictions regarding the flood of data coming from 16-slice CT scans, radiologists for the most part have kept pace. Routing these exams, however, can be maddening, particularly whole-body scans of trauma patients.
Scans covering two or more body parts may require multiple readings. Because CT and PACS typically assemble data under a single accession number, a whole-body image of head, neck, chest, abdomen, and pelvis usually is noted simply as a head scan, for the first body part examined. If several radiologists are to read these cases, support staff must manually split them into parts and route them. Further problems may be lurking down the road.
"Your PACS can have accession numbers (defined by studies read earlier) with no images associated with them," said Dr. Harold White, a radiologist with the Akron General Health System. "When that happens, you don't have anything to look at."
A software traffic cop can help. The dyseCT software developed by DeJarnette Research Systems automatically segments CT scans according to body parts, routes the segments to designated radiologists, and assigns specific accession numbers for each reading. It even assigns the codes for billing each study.
Radiologists using a multidisciplinary approach to reading trauma or oncology cases stand to benefit most from dyseCT, according to White. In these cases, several radiologists specializing in different body areas may be interested in the same scan.
"If you're at a small institution, handling the problem manually may work," White said. "But at a large institution, doing the work manually will probably cause a lot of problems."
Akron General Medical Center in Ohio serves as a level 1 trauma center. White and colleagues read from seven 16-slice CTs, which together generate a terabyte of data each month. It's just too much data for staff to split up manually, White said. The data volume will likely go up when the center adds a 64-slice scanner later this year.
Akron Medical is one of about a dozen institutions that have turned to dyseCT for help. Work-study analyses performed at five of these sites indicate that inefficiencies associated with typical multislice operations running in a PACS environment cost an institution $150 per day per CT, or $50,000 per CT per year. If so, dyseCT, priced at $23,000, is a bargain.
The product modifies the DICOM modality work list, using a group procedure to replace the multiple procedures. It analyzes the images and associates them with anatomic regions. Then it matches them to the appropriate orders.
The software relies on "bone moments" to split the body into segments, said Wayne DeJarnette, president and founder of DeJarnette Research Systems. These moments, based on measurements showing where bone density is greatest, provide profiles that match the different body segments. A body scan can be segmented into any number of parts to match the reading paradigm.
The flood of data coming from multislice scanners prompted DeJarnette to create dyseCT, but CT is no longer the only modality responsible for a surge in data. Improvements in MR have opened the door to whole-body scanning in that modality as well. In response, DeJarnette is developing an encore product, migrating the capabilities built into dyseCT to a version designed for MR.


As excited as I am, and many people are, about making major strides in improving the capabilities of diabetes technology, we have to keep in mind the limitations of technology. There is often a time and a place where innovations can improve the daily life and "workflow" of a person with diabetes, but there are situations where face-to-face human encounters will never be replaced. I had a recent reminder of this.
At one of the locations where I work, I do regular video-chat appointments with people with diabetes who live in remote areas. At one such visit recently, I spoke with a patient, Gloria, who was using hundreds of units of basal insulin a day and hundreds of units of bolus insulin a day. Gloria lamented the fact that this amount used to control her diabetes well but no longer was doing the trick and her hemoglobin A1c was now over 14%. There are many considerations in a situation like this, including ruling out an infection as the cause of her high insulin doses "no longer working," and after thinking this through, I was tempted to proclaim her situation due to worsening diabetes and insulin resistance. I was ready to switch Gloria over to U500 insulin (five times the concentration of "normal" U100 insulin… think about the new forms of laundry detergent where you need less fluid to do the job). This is a somewhat drastic step because of the risks of confusion on the part of the patient but especially the rest of the medical community over her insulin doses, since U500 is relatively infrequently used.
Before switching Gloria over to U500, I asked her to make the multi-hour drive to come see us in clinic, in person, face-to-face. I wanted to make sure she was actually using her insulin properly before ramping up her dose. She met with our excellent diabetes educator, who discovered that, in fact, Gloria was making several errors in how she was injecting her insulin. Over the next two weeks, without any changes in insulin dose, Gloria's blood sugars came down from 300s and 400s to 100s and 200s, and we avoided needing to switch to U500.
Sitting together with the patient and diabetes educator, watching the patient go through the end-to-end process of injecting her insulin was not something we could do over a video-chat from hundreds of miles away. There was nothing that could have replaced this in-person, and personal, interaction. Even as a technology proponent, I smile at that simple fact, because it is the human interaction that led me and many others to become physicians. When designing new technologies, or thinking about how to implement existing ones into practice, it is important to remember that human interaction cannot be replaced in every situation, nor should we strive to do so. Technology should serve to augment and enhance these interactions.


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Terror by Night...A Ventriloquial Nightmare
Throughout most of my career, I have had discussions with other performers about the horrors stories that can happen on the road. It seems to be a universal experience. Today we have missed flights, lost luggage, car accidents, breakdowns, weather related storms and a host of other situations that arise when traveling to and from shows. Curiously, performers, when under contract with a paycheck in sight will do most anything to make it to a show. Indeed, the paycheck is a strong motivator often times causing performers to put their lives on the line!
This has always been the case. John Schaibley, in his book, 'Memoirs of a Ventriloquist,'
spends a considerable amount of time speaking of the arduous journeys he and his wife took crisscrossing America at the turn of the last century. Likewise Fred Ketch, in many Vent-O-Gram articles told of horror stories on the road. Except in his day, travel was not by air or by car, but by train. Meaning, he was often on a train for days to get to an engagement.
So, let's go to another time. Let's go back about a hundred years ago and read an account by ventriloquist Fred Ketch (Vent-O-Gram 1965 Vol 3 No. 2) of one particular road adventure.
It was in August, 1920. Edie and I had spent our summer vacation with her folks in Missoula, Montana.
We were booked to open at the Pantages Theatre in Seattle, Washington in two days.
This was a night and day journey by train from Missoula. So we left on the Milwaukee Line at 11:00 that night. All the folks were down at the railway station to see us off.
Milwaukee Railroad Routes
As the train pulled out we prepared for bed. We had a lower berth.
There was a nationwide strike on at this time. All the lines attempted to keep the rolling stock going as best they could. But as the equipment wore out, it could only be replaced by whatever was available. In this case, it was a matter of pressing an old wooden Pullman car into service. It was the same car that we were in!
Old Pullman Car
We were soon fast asleep. We slept until the early morning, when we were awakened by what seemed to be a commotion in the aisle. There was a shuffling of feet, but not a vocal sound of any kind.
The train had been stopped for a considerable time. We looked out the window, it wasn't quite dawn…still dark but light enough to find that we were way out in the country along side of a big river and on grade.
I grabbed my wallet that I had under my pillow and looked out between the curtains into the aisle. It was pitch black. Then I ventured out to the forward end of the car, feeling my way. But as I progressed, I ran into a dense smoke. It became worse and worse as I proceeded. So I retreated back to the berth and told Edie of the dire situation we were in. We became panicky, I must admit. We found out later that the smoke came from an electrical short.
The only way of escape was through the window. So I made three jams with my right fist and broke the heavy windowpane. I got out first with the help of some people on the ground. Then we dragged Edie out.
There we stood. Edie in her nightgown and I in my shorts with a wallet clasped in my hand. But I noticed that Edie had blood spattered on the front of her nightgown and felt sure that the windowpane had cut her. Then, I looked at my right wrist and noticed the blood spurting out of my artery where it had been cut. A spurt came out with each beat of my heart. I had three gashes in my right forearm, but the one at the wrist was the most severe. But luckily enough the tendons were not cut. The blood was stopped and we were given blankets for protection from exposure. We all stood and watched the car slowly burn up with all our portable belongings except for the wallet I still clutched in my hand.
Our car was the next to last in the train. The last car was an express car. Both were lost.
These two last cars had been disconnected from the main train itself. When the porter noticed the smoke coming out of the men's smoking compartment, he had pulled the emergency cord to stop the train.
Train Coupler
He then rushed out and disconnected the two last cars from the main train. He had the presence of mind to set the brakes on the last two cars. Then he gave the signal to start the train until it was separated from the burning cars.
Had he not set the brakes it was very likely that our two cars would have run away on the grade which most likely would have ended in a derailment as well as the consuming fire. It might have ended up in the river.
Luckily I had all my keys in my wallet, so it was easy for me to go into the baggage car to our trunk that contained the remainder of our things.
There was no doctor on the train. But they did find a bottle of whisky to put on my wounds despite prohibition!
We arrived in Seattle that afternoon. There was an ambulance awaiting me; I was whisked off to the hospital. I had five stitches taken in my wrist for the gash. The other two gashes were not so deep.
I stayed in the hospital one night. It was two weeks before I was able to work again. We opened at the Pantages Theatre in San Francisco and continued with the circuit to the closing date, which was in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
This episode only demonstrates some of the hardships and dangerous experiences entertainers must go through. Also why the insurance companies wouldn't allow a double indemnity clause in my policy.
Let's look back at what transpired and what might have happened.
1. We were the last ones to leave the burning car.
2. No one aroused us or alerted us. If we hadn't awakened, it might have been a different story.
3. If the gash in my wrist had been just a little deeper, it would have cut the tendons of my right hand, which would have altered my future in the entertaining profession.
The amusement public little recognizes the hardships entertainers go through. But we choose this profession and are resigned to carry on, realizing that we live in an entirely different world; maybe a topsy-turvy world. We work while all others relax and enjoy themselves.
It was planned that way.
Fred Ketch. 1965
Moral of the story: Hold on to your wallet!
© 2018 Swampsong, LLC


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What Is The State Flower Of Michigan?
Apple blossom flowers in Traverse City.
The state flower of Michigan is the apple blossom. However, the dwarf lake iris is the state's official wildflower. An apple blossom is a flower that sprouts from apple trees. Michigan is popularly known for its apples and also its apple blossoms. The apple trees are common along the shores of Lake Michigan due to the weather influence from the lake. The flowers blossom on apple trees all over Michigan, especially between April and June. These flowers are fragrant and when they blossom, they fill Michigan with their fragrance. The sweet scent attracts bees which buzz around the flowers. The apple blossom was officially made the state flower of Michigan in 1897.
Description Of The Apple Blossom
Apple blossoms sprout from apple trees which are typically 20-40 feet tall. The branches of the apple tree are usually crooked and rigid. The bark of the tree is characterized by a rough texture and blackish color. The apple blossom is an angiosperm flower. The multiple stamens of the flower are surrounded by the petals. The stigmas are usually sticky to enhance the pollination process. After fertilization, the ovary of the flower, which is situated at the base of the petals, grows into the apple fruit. The flowers have white and cherry pink petals. In most cases when the flowers blossom the petals turn pink and later fade into white with minor traces of pink. The delicate petals may, however, come in other colors such as red and purple.
Why Was the Apple Blossom Selected As The State Flower Of Michigan?
Michigan has been ranked the third-highest producer of apples in the US after Washington and New York. For this reason, the state is often associated with apple trees and fruits. There are wide varieties of apple species planted in Michigan. However, the flower of the Pyrus coronaria, commonly known as the crabapple, is Michigan's state flower. The flower of this species was selected as the state flower because it is largely considered ornamental. The crabapple is native to Michigan. Other than growing in many places in Michigan, the apple blossom is a symbol of fertility, love, and hope.
Dwarf Lake Iris
Dwarf lake iris was designated the wildflower of Michigan in 1998. This unique flower is listed as endangered and found mainly along the northern shores of Lake Michigan. It is a deep blue flower measuring about one inch in width and 1.5 inches in height. Dwarf lake iris was one of the six flowers proposed by the Wildflower Association of Michigan as the wildflower of the state. Although it emerged second after the white trillium in a poll conducted in 1996, dwarf lake iris was declared the state wildflower by the Michigan House of Representative.
John Misachi November 6 2018 in World Facts
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John Parkin (9 June 1877 – 19 August 1951) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Geelong in the Victorian Football League (VFL).

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Q: List of elements in a model in .net core I am trying to understand how models work in .net core and I run into the following problem:
I have a model called blog:
public class Blog
{
    [Key]
    public int Id { get; set; }

    [Required(ErrorMessage = "Title is required")]
    [StringLength(40)]
    public string Title { get; set; }

    [Required(ErrorMessage = "Date is required")]
    [DisplayFormat(ApplyFormatInEditMode = true, DataFormatString = "{0:MM/dd/yyyy}")]
    public DateTime Date { get; set; }

    [Required(ErrorMessage = "Image is required")]
    public string Image { get; set; }

    [Required(ErrorMessage = "Description is required")]
    [StringLength(400)]
    public string Description { get; set; }

    public virtual IList<Paragraph> Paragraphs { get; set; } = new List<Paragraph>();

    [Required(ErrorMessage = "IsActive is required")]
    public bool IsActive { get; set; }

    [Required]
    public int? CompanyId { get; set; }
    public Company Company { get; set; }

    public Blog(){}
}

And the paragraph model:
    [Key]
    public int Id { get; set; }

    [Required(ErrorMessage = "Section is required")]
    public string Section { get; set;}

    [Required]
    public int? BlogId { get; set; }
    public Blog Blog { get; set; }

    public Paragraph()
    {
    }

And when executing the method that should bring me the data from this blog, it returns the list of empty paragraphs
    [HttpGet]
    [Route("api/[controller]/{id}")]
    public IActionResult GetById(int id)
    {
        var findBlog = _db.Blog.Find(id);
        if (findBlog == null)
        {
            return NotFound("Blog not found");
        }
        return new JsonResult(findBlog);
    }

The response:
{
"id": 6,
"title": "Test List",
"date": "2021-10-28T00:00:00",
"image": "https://images.pexels.com/photos/2489/street-building-construction-industry.jpg?auto=compress&cs=tinysrgb&dpr=2&w=500",
"description": "Desc",
"paragraphs": [],
"isActive": true,
"companyId": 1,
"company": null
}

A: I suppose you are using Entity Framework Core. Then you need to load related data using include function.
for an example
using (var context = new BloggingContext())
{
    var blogs = context.Blogs
        .Include(blog => blog.Posts)
        .Include(blog => blog.Owner)
        .ToList();
}

for your case
 await _dbContext.Blogs
 .Include(blog => blog.Paragraphs)
 .FirstOrDefaultAsync(blog => blog.Id == id);

And to achieve this, you need to have proper relationships between entities.
See the SchoolContext here

A: You can try to use .Inclue() to include the related data like below:
using Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore;

var findBlog = _db.Blog.Include(a => a.Paragraphs).First(a => a.Id == id);
// all these ways can work well
//var findBlog = _db.Blog.Include(a => a.Paragraphs).Where(a => a.Id == id).ToList();
//var findBlog = _db.Blog.Include(a => a.Paragraphs).FirstOrDefault(a => a.Id == id);

Reference:
Eager Loading of Related Data

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We have chicken herbal soup with Chinese dried mushrooms, button mushrooms, and mee sua (rice noodles). The noodles are cooked separately so that they won't become a lump of gooey mass. For more fiber, we have cucumbers, tomatoes, dragonfruit, and grapefruit.
Well, it takes forever to finish nom-nom due to the huge amount of fruits! Hahaha!


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Q: Need to use Root to do "gem update --system" Runnin 10.04 64bit Ubuntu.  I have a deploy user, and have no problems with "bundle install" but had to update gems and tried this:
deploy@pluto:/opt/ruby/bin$ gem update --system

error:
Updating rubygems-update
Fetching: rubygems-update-1.8.10.gem (100%)
ERROR:  While executing gem ... (Gem::FilePermissionError)
You don't have write permissions into the /opt/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8 directory.

Tried with sudo:
deploy@pluto:/opt/ruby/bin$ sudo gem update --system
[sudo] password for deploy:
sudo: gem: command not found

Then logged in as root, and no problem!?
root@pluto:/opt/ruby/bin# gem update --system
Updating rubygems-update
Fetching: rubygems-update-1.8.10.gem (100%)
Successfully installed rubygems-update-1.8.10
Installing RubyGems 1.8.10
RubyGems 1.8.10 installed

This is my $PATH variable with and without sudo, any ideas what's wrong?
deploy@pluto:~$ echo 'echo $PATH' | sudo sh
/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin

deploy@pluto:~$ echo $PATH
/opt/ruby/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games

A: You should not need sudo to install gems. Looks like when you first installed Ruby/Rails, you used sudo. This installs ruby/rails in folders that are siblings to the home folder. There are multiple resources that tell you how to set up Ruby/Rails on a Ubuntu box only resource that worked for me (i followed these instructions to install Rails on 4 Ubuntu boxes) was Toran Billups article here. Read it carefully and you should have a good environment set up.


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package br.com.wcorrea.transport.api.resource.veiculo;

import br.com.wcorrea.transport.api.hateoas.EventResourceCreated;
import br.com.wcorrea.transport.api.model.veiculo.VeiculoMarca;
import br.com.wcorrea.transport.api.repository.QueryFiltroPadrao;
import br.com.wcorrea.transport.api.service.VeiculoMarcaService;
import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired;
import org.springframework.context.ApplicationEventPublisher;
import org.springframework.data.domain.Pageable;
import org.springframework.http.HttpStatus;
import org.springframework.http.ResponseEntity;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.*;

import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse;
import javax.validation.Valid;
import java.util.List;

@RestController
@RequestMapping("/veiculosMarca")
public class VeiculoMarcaResource {

    @Autowired
    private ApplicationEventPublisher publisher;

    @Autowired
    private VeiculoMarcaService veiculoMarcaService;

    @GetMapping
//    @PreAuthorize("hasAuthority('ROLE_LISTAR_VEICULO') and #oauth2.hasScope('read')")
    public List<VeiculoMarca> findAll(QueryFiltroPadrao filtro) {
        return veiculoMarcaService.listar(filtro);
    }

    @GetMapping("/cmb")
//    @PreAuthorize("hasAuthority('ROLE_CMB-PADRAO') and #oauth2.hasScope('read')")
    public List<VeiculoMarca> listAllComboBox(QueryFiltroPadrao filtro, Pageable pageable) {
        return veiculoMarcaService.listarSomenteAtivo(filtro);
    }

    @GetMapping("/{key}")
//    @PreAuthorize("hasAuthority('ROLE_LISTAR_VEICULO') and #oauth2.hasScope('read')")
    public ResponseEntity<VeiculoMarca> findOne(@Valid @PathVariable String key) {
        return ResponseEntity.ok(veiculoMarcaService.buscarPorId(veiculoMarcaService.descriptografarKey(key)));
    }

    @PostMapping
//    @PreAuthorize("hasAuthority('ROLE_SALVAR_VEICULO') and #oauth2.hasScope('write')")
    public ResponseEntity<VeiculoMarca> save(@Valid @RequestBody VeiculoMarca veiculoMarca, HttpServletResponse response) {
        VeiculoMarca veiculoSalvo = veiculoMarcaService.salvar(veiculoMarca);
        publisher.publishEvent(new EventResourceCreated(this, response, veiculoSalvo.getKey()));
        return ResponseEntity.status(HttpStatus.CREATED).body(veiculoSalvo);
    }

    @PutMapping("/{key}")
//    @PreAuthorize("hasAuthority('ROLE_ATUALIZAR_VEICULO') and #oauth2.hasScope('write')")
    public ResponseEntity<VeiculoMarca> update(@Valid @PathVariable String key, @Valid @RequestBody VeiculoMarca veiculoMarca) {
        return ResponseEntity.status(HttpStatus.OK).body(veiculoMarcaService.atualizar(veiculoMarcaService.descriptografarKey(key), veiculoMarca));
    }

    @DeleteMapping("/{key}")
    @ResponseStatus(HttpStatus.NO_CONTENT)
//    @PreAuthorize("hasAuthority('ROLE_DELETAR_VEICULO') and #oauth2.hasScope('write')")
    public void delete(@PathVariable String key) {
        veiculoMarcaService.excluir(key);
    }
}


Thin-section transmission electron micrograph showing the ultrastructural appearance of a single virus particle of measles virus. Alberta Health Services is warning the public of possible exposure to measles after a Central Alberta person contracted the virus and two probable cases have been identified.
Alberta Health Services is warning the public of possible exposure to measles after a Central Alberta person contracted the virus and two probable cases have been identified.
Feb. 19, 2014 9:41 p.m.
AHS is asking individuals who were at several locations over one week earlier this month — in Red Deer, Stettler and Camrose— and who have not been vaccinated against the disease to watch for symptoms.
Dr. Digby Horne, Central Zone medical officer of health, said on Wednesday that there is no cure for measles but there is a vaccine (two doses) recommended to everyone born in 1970 or later. People born before then are considered to likely be immune. Measles is extremely contagious and spread through the air.
"Occasionally people who have had two doses could become infected but usually they would have less severe disease. But the highest risk is for people who have not received any doses or one dose of the vaccine," said Horne.
Horne said measles is not common in Alberta but there were cases in Southern Alberta before Christmas and most recently in Calgary. He said it came from the Philippines.
Horne said they are not aware of where the three people in Central Alberta contracted the disease.
Two cases have not been confirmed as measles at the National Microbiology Lab in Winnipeg but Horne said they are pretty sure they will be confirmed.
"There's no one in serious condition that we are aware of currently," said Horne.
He noted that vaccine will not protect those who may have already been exposed to measles.
Those with symptoms are asked to stay home initially and contact Health Link Alberta (1-866-408-5465) before visiting any health-care facility or to check on your immunization record. Horne said staff at Health Link Alberta will be able to assess the situation.
Symptoms include: a fever of 38.3C or higher, a cough, runny nose and/or red eyes and a red blotchy rash that appears three to seven days after the fever starts, and sensitive eyes.
Measles can cause certain complications in people under the age of five or over 20 and can lead to miscarriage, premature babies, pneumonia and one in 1,000 can develop inflammation of the brain and encephalitis.
Individuals who were at CrossRoads Church, Red Deer City Hall, the Red Deer south Walmart (at 2010 50th Ave.), Staples, Scott's Parables, Costco and Red Deer Key Hole on Feb. 3 may be at risk. No specific time frame was provided.
Individuals who were at the Bower Place Shopping Centre from Feb. 3 to Feb. 7 between 8:15 a.m. to 7 p.m. are also at risk for exposure.
In Stettler, individuals who were at Walmart and Sobeys on Feb. 2 are at risk.
In Camrose, people who were at the Tim Hortons, Subway and the Camrose Community Field House on Feb. 1 are at risk.


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Whispering willows is Night Light Interactive's 2D puzzle-adventure game with lots of fun puzzles to explore in the spooky mansion of Willows Estate. You are heroine Elena Elkhorn, a young girl who is looking for her missing father, who is employed as a caretaker on the estate. Elena has this cool ability to change herself into a ghost with the aid of tear-shaped family heirloom amulet. This allows her to speak to other ghosts, possess and manipulate objects, and reach areas that she can't get to in her regular body. Elena is Native American and this really adds some interesting elements into the Whispering Willows story line. Wortham Willows, is the person who owns the mansion and is credited for founding Elena's town, but as the puzzles unfold, may not be the nicest person after all.
As Elena explores the mansion she runs across numerous ghosts who are stuck in the Estate. She can communicate with them and they help her along the way to finding her father. Sometimes the ghosts have died pretty tragically. In typical adventure story fashion, you are required to get a love letter, key, note, or other similar item to help the ghost complete what is needed in this world, so that they can move on to better places. This will open the next locked door or inaccessible area, till you meet the next ghost. These puzzles are not overly complex but I find that doesn't take away from the game. The story telling is deep, fun and there is lots to learn about the Kwantako tribe that had first settled on the land. It feels like they kept the puzzles pretty simple so that you could fully stay immersed in the story. You can likely beat this game in a few hours of gameplay.
I really enjoyed the sounds used in Whispering Willows. They spent a lot of time designing unique spooky themes for each area. Creaking staircases, rustling leaves or whispering wind all help keep you in the mood. The cut scenes are done in a cartoony manner in lots of blues, greens and browns that keep with the spooky theme. Although there are spooky horror elements involved in the game, this is not a game that would put off squeamish or the easily frightened. It is a nice change from the horror genre of jump and constant anxiety scares. Instead you see Elena care for these spirits and learn about their plights.The game helps you to understand the brutal way that Native Americans were treated in the early days of America.
Overall Whispering Willows feels like you are playing a graphic novel or comic book that deals with some pretty serious issues.Whispering Willows main purpose is to connect with the characters and the story and feel immersed in the environment. Don't come expecting insane jump scares and constant heart pumping anxiety, but a unique occult filled story that still packs some serious punch. Whispering Willows is a great different type of game to add into your collection.
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1882. Foreign Firms to Capitalize on Cuba's Wealth of Scientific Expertise
By John Paul Rathbone, Financial Times, June 15, 2015
Skill mismatching represents the cost of misinvested human capital, and thus economic inefficiency. But the state and some foreign investors want to turn it into a boon, and the ground source of a future "knowledge economy".
"Cuba's knowledge economy is stronger than people often credit," says Faquiry Diaz Cala, a Cuban entrepreneur now living in the US. "It has one of the hemisphere's highest literacy rates, one of the highest college graduate rates, and PhDs in hard sciences . . . One should think of Cuba as a start-up nation, with some similarities to Israel."
Even if the comparison is a big stretch, Cuba's health sector holds immediate promise and other sectors, such as computing, have also drawn foreign interest.
The government has made medical services a money spinner: some 12,000 Cuban doctors work abroad in Africa, 30,000 in Venezuela and about 12,000 in Brazil and elsewhere in Latin America.
Their services are sold by Cuba, which pays the doctors a smaller fraction. This brings in billions of dollars a year — a system critics call a tacit form of indentured labour, although medics earn more abroad than at home and enjoy perks on their return. Some reportedly bribe officials to bump them up waiting lists to go.
Now, foreign health groups want to get in on Cuba's commercially untapped pharmaceutical expertise. In May, US research centre Roswell Park agreed to begin clinical trials on a Cuban-developed lung cancer vaccine, Cimavax.
"We know [the drug] is not an easy one to develop clinically," said Philippe Pouletty, chairman of French biotech company Abivax. "But it is good news that a US cancer institute evaluates it and that the FDA [US Food and Drug Administration] builds confidence in Cuban products."
Abivax has operated in Cuba for five years, building relationships with research institutes, using investments and agreements to trial and commercialise Cuban drugs — such as a vaccine to help chronic hepatitis B sufferers — and also to develop new drugs.
Mr Pouletty, a venture capitalist and qualified doctor, says that if Cuba's biotech capability was floated into a listed company, it might be worth $20bn. But he stresses: "We don't think it is the biggest cheque that persuades the Cubans. They are looking for sustainable growth; short-term, medium-term and particularly long-term solutions."
He says Cubans are slowly feeling their way into new language such as "spin-offs", and are still getting used to notions such as foreign joint ventures requiring them to surrender full control.
But he adds that he is "pathologically optimistic" and points to a new "SiliCuban" advisory board, designed to help Cubans develop their drug industry and "where all things can be said without censorship". Another positive sign is the separation three years ago of the three main research institutes into a holding group, BioCubaFarma, a move that freed them from the Ministry of Health's heavy bureaucratic hand.
Computer programming is also promising. Local computers are so old and slow that Cubans have become adept at writing lean software programs that require little memory to run —a skill ideal for writing mobile apps. The state has commercialised some of this expertise through Datis, which sells computing and internal security expertise to allies such as Venezuela that use it for administration, such as identity cards.
Privately harnessing such knowledge is another matter. Difficulties are compounded by poor internet availability, a barometer of Cuba's willingness to embrace the "knowledge economy".
The government says it wants half the population wired by 2020, to boost productivity. Yet it is reluctant to permit such a powerful tool as it would mean ceding control. There have been small trials of public WiFi, but most Cubans can only get online for $4.50 an hour at internet cafés in hotels, a quarter of the average monthly state wage.
On a recent visit to Miami, organised by the Cuba Study Group, a US organisation that promotes US-Cuban engagement, island entrepreneurs were agog at the possibilities of online retail and rued Cuba's poor connectivity. Airbnb's Cuban operations, for example, are often run by a relative abroad, who communicates internet bookings with the guesthouse operator via telephone or SMS.
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I'm here today to talk about sponges. I've gone from being a make-up brush lover through and through to having a bathroom full of these spongy little guys. I've tried out around 5-6 brands so far, and I wanted to share with you my top 3 and how they hold up against each other. It's the battle of the blenders.
Each sponge is used by running under warm water for a couple of seconds, which will cause the sponge to double in size - and also to stop your expensive foundation being soaked up by the sponge (Make sure you give it a good squeeze to dry it off a little before use) I like to add a little product straight onto my face, and then stipple/bounce the product into my skin, rather than rub. This gives a light and natural coverage which can be built up and layered easily. When used properly, it should really make the most out if your foundation and leave you with a flawless finish. Top tip: I wash all of my beauty sponges and brushes after use with baby shampoo - no need to buy the expensive cleansers!
I have to admit I did first turn my nose up at the beauty blender. The price at which they are effectively selling a peice of sponge is quite outrageous, or pretty genius depending on how you look at it. But after witnessing Kourtney Kardashians makeup artist bouncing this all over her perfect little face on an eppisode of KUWTK, I had to join the party... #sucker. This little guy is teardrop shaped, which is supposed to allow for blending foundation into the nooks and crannies of your face.
Thumbs up- The softest by far out of the 3. I'm not sure which type of sponge it uses (are there even different types of sponge?!) but I was blown away by how soft it was to touch. This made tapping the foundation into my skin V easy and also made it impossible to be too heavy handed. Super easy to clean too.
Thumbs down: The teardrop shape wasn't particularly easy to use under the eye area, or on the sides of the nose. Beauty blender do sell a mini version for this purpose, but it's expensive enough already so that's a bit of a rip off. The shape also makes it impossible to put down during use without it rolling around and getting dirty. Being the smallest of the three the surface area wasn't as large and so it took me the longest to apply a full face of slap. The softness of the sponge also meant it teared slightly after a few applications, but was still useable.
Nanshy are already a favourite of mine for amazing make-up tools, so it's well worth taking a look at their entire range. This little guy is an affordable £5.95, and offers you 4 in 1 usage - apply cream make-up, mineral based powders, cream blushes and even skincare. Claims to give a look that 'combines hand application detail with airbrush application smoothness'. Nanshy are also vegan and cruelty free which is a huge plus in my eyes. *I got my hands on this little guy early, but it will be launching in February so keep your eyes peeled.
Thumbs up: The price - This is more like it. I also loved the quality, it's really thick and feels much less flimsy than the other sponges, and the surface area is huge meaning that I could apply my foundation super quickly. I loved the sloped shape and the different angles and dimensions, and I had absolutely no trouble applying concealer under the eyes and around my nose. My skin was left glowing and flawless. Much more of an all-round complexion sponge. The no animal testing and the fact it is vegan also wins me over!
Thumbs down: After getting accustomed to using the softness of the beauty blender, this sponge felt a lot thicker and harder on my face. I felt I needed to apply more pressure to really work the product into the skin, and I felt like it may have soaked up a little more product because of this.
Thumbs up: The shape of this sponge - super easy to hold, to use and easy to wash. I like that the ridges make it easy to hold and the pointed edge is great to use on your skin, leaving the flat surface free to rest it down between uses - not having to put that surface area on your skin is much more hygienic. And no more rolling off your dressing table!
Summary: They all have their pro's and con's, and in an ideal world I'd probably have the beauty blenders softness and texture with the shape of the Nanshy Marvel. I think the beauty blender is a great investment, and I really enjoyed using mine but I'm not sure it's price is warranted. The Nanshy Marvel is much more affordable and does just as good a job.
I love my beautyblender! But the Real Techniques one is next on my list, I heard great things about it.


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Scandal: According To A German Newspaper, Africa Pays Approximately 400 Billion Euros Annually to France
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This economic slavery is important for the development of the French economy. Whenever this traffic is likely to fail, France is ready for anything to reconquer it. If a leader of the CFA zone no longer meets the requirements of France, Paris is blocking its foreign exchange reserves and more, France closes the banks in this country considered "rebel". This was the case of Côte d'Ivoire with Laurent Gbagbo.
A German newspaper accuses France of looting 440 billion euros each year to Africans through the CFA Franc.
"The French government collects from its former colonies each year 440 billion euros of taxes. France relies on the revenues coming from Africa, not to sink into economic insignificance, warns the former president Jacques Chirac.
In the 1950s and 60s, France decided the French colonies of Africa to become independent. Although the Paris government accepted formal declarations of independence, it called on African countries to sign a so-called "pact for the continuation of colonization." They agreed to introduce the French colonial currency FCFA ("Franc for the French colonies in Africa"), to maintain the French schools and military system, and to establish French as an official language.
The CFA franc is the denomination of the common currency of 14 African countries members of the Franc zone. This currency, which constitutes a brake on the emergence of these countries, was created in 1945, when France ratified the Bretton Woods agreements and proceeded to implement its first declaration of parity to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) . This was called "Franc of the French Colonies of Africa".
Under this law, 14 African countries are still obliged to store about 85 per cent of their foreign exchange reserves at the Banque de France in Paris. They are under the direct control of the French Treasury. The countries concerned do not have access to this part of their reserves. As the 15 per cent of reserves are insufficient for their needs, they must borrow additional funds from the French Treasury at market prices. Since 1961, Paris controls all foreign exchange reserves in Benin, Burkina Faso, Guinea-Bissau, Côte d'Ivoire, Mali, Niger, Senegal, Togo, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo, Equatorial Guinea and Gabon.
In addition, these countries must each year transfer their "colonial debt" for infrastructure built in France to Paris as Silicon Africa 3 reported in detail. France takes around 440 billion euros a year. The government in Paris also has a right of first refusal on all newly discovered natural resources in African countries. Finally, French companies must have priority in awarding contracts in former colonies. As a result, there is the most assets in the fields of supply, finance, transport, energy and agriculture in the hands of French companies.
The ruling elite in each African country must fulfill these compulsory claims without any other choice. African leaders who refuse are threatened with assassination or overthrow of their government. Over the past 50 years, there have been 67 coups d'état in 26 African countries. 16 of these 26 countries were former colonies of France.
An example is the first president of Togo West Africa, Sylvanus Olympio, overthrown by a coup. He had refused to sign the "Pact for the Continuation of Settlement". But France insisted that Togo pay the compensation for the infrastructures that had been built by the French during the colonial period. The sum is equivalent to about 40 per cent of households in Togo in 1963, requiring the fairly independent country to reach its economic limits quickly.
In addition, the new president of Togo decided to remove and print his own national currency, the French colonial currency FCFA. Three days after this decision, the new government was overthrown by a group of former foreign legionaries and the President killed. The head of the Legionaries, Gnassingbe Eyadema, received 550 euros from the French embassy for the attack, according to the British Telegraph. Four years later Eyadema was promoted with the support of Paris, the new president of Togo. He established a tyrannical dictatorship in this West African country and remained in power until his death in 2005.
In the following years, the Paris government kept the link with the former legionaries to overthrow unpopular governments in its former colonies. This was the case of the first president of the Central African Republic, David Dacko, overthrown by former members of the Foreign Legion in 1966.
The same thing happened to the President of Burkina Faso, Maurice Yaméogo, and with the President of Benin, Mathieu Kérékou, the author of a coup d'état. This was also the case of the first President of the Republic of Mali Modiba Keita, who was also the victim of a coup by former legionnaires in 1968.
The reason, a few years earlier, he had simply decided to part with the French colonial currency. "
As a proof to this accusations by the German Newspaper, South Africa's EFF leader, Julius Malema earlier in the year also attest to the fact that up until now, the French nation still getting Tax from African states and that everyone must accept that.
9. Julius Malema – "France is still getting colonial tax from African states and we must accept that. We want African to have control over their currency and their economy. Our struggle will inspire that." pic.twitter.com/Cmk3bAbnZr
— Superior Logic✊🏾 (@EFFexplained) April 2, 2018
Bloomberg also reported that a hoard of cash sits in the Bank of France: $20 billion in African money held in trust by the French government and earning just 0.75 percent interest. Now economists and politicians from 14 Central and West African countries say they want their funds returned and an arrangement dating back to the days of France's colonial empire ended.
France holds the money to guarantee that the CFA franc, the currency used in the 14 nations, stays convertible into euros at a fixed exchange rate of 655.957. The compulsory deposits started more than half a century ago, when the then-colonies had to place all their financial reserves in the French Treasury. The deposit requirement has dropped over the decades: Today the African members entrust 50 percent of their reserves to Paris.
France's Colonial Tax Still Enforced for Africa. "Bleeding Africa and Feeding France"
When Guinea demanded independence from French colonial rule in 1958, the French unleashed their fury with more than 3,000 leaving the country taking their enteire property. In addition, they destroyed anything that couldn't be taken – destroying schools, nurseries, public administration buildings, cars, books, medicine, research institute instruments, tractors were crushed and sabotaged, animals killed and food in warehouses were burned or poisoned. In effect they were sending a message to all other colonies that the consqueences for jrejecting France would be high.
Colonialism as an enduring stain in Africa's history, and economic oppression continue to exist. An article by Mawuna Remarque Koutonin, peace activist and editor of SiliconAfrica.com addressed this practice.
The article called attention to an ongoing practice by which former African countries are forced to pay a colonial tax to France – even today. In fact, France continues to thrive on the practice, which extracts approximately 500 billion dollars from African countries each year.
After the French destroyed Guinea who had sought independence, the alternative was to pay a tax. No African country could estimate the effect this had on 14 different countries.
As Koutonin notes, this outrageous tax deprives African economies of much needed funds, exacerbates debt, and strips their authority over their own natural reserves. But the detriments are more than just economic, as the ills of colonialism manifest in social ways that are equally devastating to the dignity and identity of the African people:
Sylvanus Olympio, the first president of the Republic of Togo, instead of signing the colonisation continuation pact with De Gaulle, instead agreed to pay an annual debt to France for the so called benefits of French colonisation. This prevented the French not destroying the country before they left however the amount estimated by France was so big that the reimbursement of the so called "colonial debt" was close to 40% of the country budget in 1963. Olympio's dream was to build an independent and self-sufficient and self-reliant country but the French had him killed by a seargeant who was given a $612 bounty by the French embassy.
History has shown that despite years of African fighting to liberate themselves, France repeatedly used many exForeign legionnaires to carry out coups against elected presidents. This included Jean-Bedel Bokassa who assassinated David Dacko, the first President of the Central African Republic. In the last 50 years, a total of 67 coups has occurred in 26 African countries, of which 16 are ex-French colonies. This indicates that France is desperate to hold on to whatever land it has in Africa.
In March 2008, former French President Jacques Chirac said:
"Without Africa, France will slide down into the rank of a third [world] power" and that Chirac's predecessor François Mitterand already prophesied in 1957 that:
"Without Africa, France will have no history in the 21st century".
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Ekarika Nanna Obot says:
In his book: "The Wretched of the Earth" Frantz Fanon prophesied: The fathers of independence would fill their pockets, and those of their cronies, becoming presidents not so much of their country, but as a company of profiteers out to milk it dry. My question is: How would Black African leaders feel: If they discover that the carrot hanged by their masters before them; is not for eating but for dazzling.
Adeyemi Alao says:
This is a very sad story. Remember that bestseller "How Europe underdeveloped Africa?" Some day, the secret pact of all other colonizers of Africa – Britain, Portugal – will come to light! The Chinese are picking the baton from where the Brits left us. How sad!!!!
Rose M Coveney says:
Perhaps what is now happening in France should be called Karma? The money they are stealing from Africa could and SHOULD be used to build Africa so that the people can rise above the conditions in which they now live. Every human being deserves that. They would be able to build schools, hospitals, and everything they need to earn a living. Oh yes, something as simple as clean water. This is what France has taken away from Africa.
Bethel Efekoro says:
AFRICANS HAVE NO CENTER OF PURPOSE, FOR IF OTHER COUNTRIES COULD DO IT, THEN WHY NOT AFRICANS? MY RECOMMENDATION TO EMANCIPATE AFRICA COUNTRIES FROM THESE FOREIGN DANGEROUS FLIRTATIONS WITH AFRICA, NEEDS ONE DEFINITION "WE ARE READY TO TAKE BACK AFRICA" AND TAKE NOTE THAT– ALL BLACKS ARE AFRICANS–WHEREVER YOU WERE BORN IN THE WORLD. UNITED STATES IS ONE, BRITISH IS ONE, CANADA IS ONE, GERMANY IS ONE, FRANCE IS ONE. THEN WHAT IS WRONG WITH AFRICA? IF ALL AFRICA COUNTRIES SAY NO TO FRANCE, THEY WOULD RESPOND WITH CONSEQUENTIAL ATTACHMENT DIRECTED TO END THEIR IMPERIALISM IN AFRICA.
Sarah Maingi says:
Such articles leave me saddened to no end… but there's hope Africa, just have to marshal every ounce of our rich spirits and march forward…
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