A photo of CBD oil. (KXAN Photo).
AUSTIN (KXAN) — A bill was filed Tuesday in the Texas House of Representatives that would expand the use of medical marijuana for Texans with "debilitating medical conditions."
House Bill 1365 was filed by Texas State Representative Eddie Lucio III (D-Bronwsville).
The bill allows patients to use certain amounts of medical cannabis for conditions like cancer, autism, epilepsy, and post-traumatic stress disorder. Under this bill, patients could use cannabis products through vaporization, oils, salves, or lotions, but not through smoking.
"Currently, 33 states allow some form of medical cannabis," Lucio said in a release. "States that do allow the use of medical cannabis collect both state and local taxes. Collecting these taxes would have a vital impact on our economy."
In a post about this bill, Lucio said this bill builds on his previous effort to pass marijuana legislation in 2017 (HB2107, which ultimately did not become law). Lucio explained this new bill is more inclusive for people with a wide range of conditions.
Under the "compassionate use" law passed in Texas in 2015, only Texans with intractable epilepsy are allowed to use small amounts of low THC CBD oil. THC is the main psychoactive chemical in marijuana.
Texans like Mike Thompson say they've been waiting for change like this, Thompson is a four-time cancer survivor who still experiences chronic pain as a result of the surgeries and treatments he went through.
"I endured over 75 surgeries, had two bone marrow transplants and a twelve-and-a-half hour facial reconstruction," Thompson explained.
Photos of Mike Thompson, during his cancer treatment, and years later. (Photos courtesy Mike Thompson).
When the cancer treatments ended, Thompson was prescribed traditional painkillers and became dependent on them.
"I feel like cancer took five to six years of my life and being on pain meds took an additional five to six years of my life," Thompson said.
He began researching other ways to cope with chronic pain, Thompson estimates he has spent hundreds of hours reading about cannabis products like CBD oil. He'd like to use CBD oil to see if it makes a difference with his symptoms post-cancer, and he thinks it might be helpful to other Texans as they fight cancer.
"The way I see it, there's no moral, ethical or scientific reason why our state lawmakers-- our elected political heroes — should not come together in a bipartisan way to expand the compassionate use act," Thompson said. "To not only continue to help people with intractable epilepsy but with cancer, Crohn's disease, and any spastic related illnesses so that we can ensure that the highest possible amount of Texans can be helped by this medicine."
Since his cancer remission, Thompson has become an advocate in helping others navigate the disease.
"I don't see this as a partisan issue," he said. "It's very black and white. People need help and elected officials have the means to do it."
Some marijuana policy advocates are particularly excited about Representative Lucio's bill.
Heather Fazio, director of Texans for Responsible Marijuana Policy, said she's heard from people around the state like Thompson who are looking for alternatives to potentially addictive painkillers.
"If a patient has a debilitating medical condition, they should have the freedom to try cannabis if it can help them," she said.
She noted that this year there are already 27 marijuana-related pieces of legislation filed in Texas -- a record-setting amount for the state. Some of that legislation would help to regulate hemp products like CBD oil in Texas, she said.
Fazio also believes ideas like the ones in this bill are receiving more and more bipartisan support in Texas.
"What we're seeing is lawmakers understanding because of the personal stories being told from the constituents in their district," she said.
"I think some of our biggest hurdles are still a lot of the fear people have in talking about this, whether it's talking about Crohn's disease or a loved one who is illegally using cannabis to treat the symptoms of cancer," Fazio added.
To be clear, Fazio said this bill would not legalize adult use of marijuana, but rather would only legalize the use of medical cannabis for people with certain conditions.
Fazio explained that for someone to access medical cannabis under this law, "a patient would have to have a debilitating medical condition and a doctor who certifies them through the state registry."
KXAN called multiple Republican lawmakers about this bill to get their thoughts and most said because it was so new they hadn't formed an opinion on it yet.
Krause noted that back in 2015, he thought he would be opposed to the compassionate use law, but ultimately wound up voting for it after doing his own research.
"I look forward to talking to Representative Lucio about it," Krause said. "He's always very well-prepared he always knows his material, that goes a long way. I have no doubt he's gonna put on a hard full-court press to try and get this done."
To date, the Food and Drug Administration has not approved marijuana for medical uses, though the agency says it is willing to work with companies interested in bringing "safe, effective and quality products to market" as well as research on medicinal uses for it. The Farm Bill at the end of last year legalized hemp for industrial purposes.
AUSTIN (KXAN) – The 22nd annual Heart Ball of Austin, presented by St. David's HealthCare, will be held on Saturday, May 11 at the JW Marriott Austin.
The Heart Ball brings together Austin's most influential business, medical and philanthropic leaders to raise funds and promote the lifesaving work of the American Heart Association in Austin.
Join us for an exciting evening with a hosted cocktail reception, dinner, live auction, Open Your Heart moment, and a special musical performance by Easton Corbin while you dance the night away.
AUSTIN (KXAN) — Tickets will go on sale Tuesday morning for the Formula 1 United States Grand Prix at the Circuit of the Americas in November.
The three-day event will be on Nov. 1 to 3 with practices on Friday, Nov. 1. The race will wrap up the event on Sunday.
Earlier this month it was announced that 20-time Grammy nominated singer, P!nk and Imagine Dragons will headline the event. In the past, superstars like Sir. Elton John, Taylor Swift, Justin Timberlake, Bruno Mars and Britney Spears were headliners on race day.
Austin (KXAN) — The Austin Independent School District is hosting a conversation Tuesday night to teach parents how to talk to their kids about mental health.
One in five teens experiences mental health issues, with depression and anxiety being the most common, according to the National Alliance on Mental Health. More than 40% of teens do not receive the right treatment, often because they're too embarrassed to talk about mental health or don't know how to ask for help.
The one-hour presentation with NAMI Austin will provide tools for parents and teens to proactively addressing mental health. The conversation is from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. Tuesday at Crockett High School, 5601 Manchaca Road, Room 19.


Kr is a gas and is not commonly found in XPS spectra.
Kr may be observed as implanted atoms, if a material has been subjected to Kr ion bombardment using Kr gas instead of the more usual Ar gas.
Krypton, named after the Greek word kryptos, meaning "hidden", was discovered in 1898. The element was found in residue of the evaporated components of liquid air by W. Ramsay and M. Travers. The vibrant green and orange spectral- signatured element is considered a noble gas due to its low chemical reactivity. The element's gas concentration in earth's atmosphere is about 1 ppm and is isolated by fractioning liquid air. Krypton is most often combined with other rare gases to make fluorescent lamps. Historically, krypton was widely considered to be chemically inert; however, since the 1960's, studies have found several compounds of krypton – including krypton diflouride and an oxyacid salt containing krypton.


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by Juliana Rohrmoser | Staff Writer February 8, 2017
written by Juliana Rohrmoser | Staff Writer Published: February 8, 2017 Last Updated on February 7, 2017
Last week, the University of Indianapolis men's basketball team split the week with a win against Truman University on Feb. 2, and a loss later in the week to Quincy University.
On Saturday, the Hounds traveled to battle the Hawks, falling 89-82. The Hawks quickly started the game, hitting their first 3-pointer on the first possession. They maintained the lead until junior guard Alex Etherington hit two free throws to take the lead. Both teams struggled to maintain the lead, but Quincy ended the first half with a five point run, going into halftime with a 43-46 lead.
The Hounds scored the first point of the second half, which the Hawks quickly answered back to. The second half proved to be much like the first with multiple changes in the lead, with the score ending in the Hawks favor.
Junior Eric Davidson attempts to add two points on the board while fighting through two Bellarmine defenders.
Junior guard Eric Davidson lead the team in scoring with 22 points, while Jimmy King and Etherington followed closely with 18 and 14 points.
Prior to the loss, the team took on the Bulldogs in Kirksville, Mo. who were previously tied atop the Great Lakes Valley Conference West Division and took home a 94-86 victory.
Davidson scored a 3-pointer just seconds into the game, which set the pace for the rest of the first half. UIndy went into halftime with a 10 point lead over the Bulldogs. The Hounds maintained this lead until early in the second half, when the Bulldogs had a 14 point run which brought the score to 60-53.
The Hounds quickly evened out the score with consecutive scoring from King, junior forward Roderick Davis and Davidson. Scoring went back and forth between the teams until the Hounds ended with an 11 point run to take home the win.
Redshirt junior guard Ajay Lawton and Davidson totaled 24 points each, which was a personal best for Lawton. King also set a personal record with eight assists, as well as adding 9 points.
Before the match-up, Davidson said that the team has a chance to be very successful once they put a few key skills together.
Previously, the Hounds also defeated the University of Southern Indiana Screaming Eagles on Jan. 28.
During the first minutes of the game, the Hounds kept the Screaming Eagles' score in single digits. It was not until the 10 minute that USI hit a 3-pointer to take the lead and brought the score to 19-18. The Greyhounds came back, and managed a three point lead at the half with a score of 38-35.
Beginning the second half, the Hounds stretched their lead to 11 points. The Screaming Eagles struggled to find a dent in their opponents' defense as the minutes drained on the clock. During the final minutes, the Screaming Eagles worked on a come-back, adding four unanswered points but came short, and the Hounds took home the win 81-66.
King scored a career-high 19 points during the game, going 7-11 in field goal attempts and 3-4 from the 3-point line. Sophomore forward Jesse Kempson, Davidson, Etherington and Davis also scored in double digits. The team finished with a shooting percentage of 61 percent from the field and 47 percent from the 3-point line.
The Hounds lost their seven-game winning streak on Jan. 26, after a loss to 10th-ranked Bellarmine University Knights. During the first minutes of the game, the Knights kept a steady lead until a 3-point field goal from freshman guard Tate Hall tied the score 11-11.
The Hounds and Knights kept up their offense and neither team stretched the lead beyond four points for the rest of the first half. Leading into the half the Knights were ahead by four, until two successful free throws from Etherington, which brought the score to 30-32.
In the second half, the Knights kept the Hounds' offense from scoring and maintained the lead. When the game clock hit 1:15, the Hounds sparked and scored 14 points in what looked to be a last-minute comeback. After a free throw attempt from Davidson, the score was 72-75 with 30 seconds of game time remaining.
The Knights stretched their lead with six free throws that the Hounds could not answer. The game ended with a defeat for the Hounds, 75-81.
Head Men's Basketball Coach Stan Gouard said that he noticed what clicked with the team and noted that a performance like that would have won the game if the Hounds had not started playing too late.
"We started defending, we got our hands on some basketballs, got some deflections, got layups and ignited the crowd," Gouard said. "We just waited too late to start playing. I feel like had we played that way for at least 10 or 15 minutes, we'd have had a chance to win that ball game."
Davidson led the Hounds, scoring 18 points, but had a season-low 3-10 from the 3-point line. Davidson said he is confident his work during practice will bring back his usually good performance.
"[I need to] just keep shooting," Davidson said. "Keep shooting, keep practicing and I know the shots will fall in the next game."
Also in double digits were Etherington with 17, Kempson with 13 and Lawton with 14 points.
The Hounds started the year with an impressive 7-game winning streak that Gouard credits to their tough schedule in the first semester.
"Well, we made a tough schedule for as reason, to prepare ourselves for the GLVC league play," Gouard said. "I think a hard schedule has made us tougher this second semester. Our guys [did] a good job of not hanging their head when the chips were down. We came together especially after second semester. We went back and reevaluated the entirety of the team, as coaches, and found the things we were not doing so great in and fixed those things to get to where we are today."
Winter break practices gave the team time alone together to work on their skills as well as their team compatibility, according to Davidson.
"I think really after winter break, we had a lot of time together," Davidson said "We had a lot of practices, and I feel like we really bonded over winter break. I feel like that time really helped us come together as a team."
Gouard affirmed that the team is already looking forward to this week's games to put the Hounds back on the hunt for the conference title coming up in a few weeks.
"Our goal is post-season at this point,but you know our primary goal is winning GLVC," he said. "We still have a chance, it's going to be a long shot. There are some things happening we need to take care of on our end, but it's right there. Outside of that winning the conference title and then making use of our determination and being national champs [is] always our goal, that won't change."
The men will be at home for their next four games, the first being on Feb 9. Tipoff will be at 7:45 p.m. in Nicoson Hall.
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Washington, DC—Former Speaker, former GOP nominee and former human being, Newt Gingrich, has revealed his ambitious countrywide concession tour extravaganza. Mr. Gingrich's handlers, now down to his wife and his wife's boyfriend, claim the donations are pouring in for this important slice of American history.
With continued donations, Gingrich hopes to upgrade his tour vehicle from his own 'creeper van' to a large RV. "Maybe something with an American flag on it and a catchy saying like Freedom's Fizzle," said Gingrich.


Please give your feedback on the draft Environmental Sustainability Strategy before 15 September 2017. Have your say using the submission form below or visit a Shire office to view a hardcopy.
The Shire of Augusta Margaret River has a strong commitment to protecting the environmental values on which the region's lifestyle, tourism and economy are based.
The purpose of the Environmental Sustainability Strategy is to provide a strategic framework for planning projects, improving business structures and allocating resources towards environmental management and sustainability. The Issues Report explores important environmental sustainability issues in the Shire, which informed conversation and development for the strategy.
Please have your say on the draft strategy.
After community consultation, the strategy will then be developed and proposed to Council before the draft is available for community comment.
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Why Meghan Markle Will Never Be Able To Forgive Her Father
The tea was piping hot during Meghan Markle's tell-all interview with Oprah Winfrey on March 7, 2021 — and the pot might boil over with what dished out in additional footage from the sit-down. While her highly-anticipated interview alongside Prince Harry mainly focused of their tattered relationship with "The Firm," additional footage from the interview addressed the many rumors about the expectant mother's family.
As you may recall, Meghan's father, Thomas Markle, reportedly staged paparazzi photos prior to Meghan and Harry's wedding, as per Insider. Revealing the British tabloids did all they could to lure in her father, Meghan said her hurt lies with his dishonesty. "We called my dad and I asked him [about his involvement with the press] he said, 'No, absolutely not,'" Meghan said in the CBS This Morning clip. "I said, 'The institution has never intervened [on] anything for us, but they can try to go in and kill this story. But if they do this once, we're not gonna be able to use that same leverage to protect our own kids one day.'"
"I said, 'I just need you to tell me and if you tell me the truth, we can help,' and he wasn't able to do that," Meghan continued. "And that, for me, has really resonated, especially now as a mother." Keep scrolling for more details.
Meghan Markle struggles to 'reconcile' with the pain her dad caused her
Although Meghan Markle appeared to have compassion for her father, Thomas Markle, who was seemingly manipulated by the British tabloids — she was really upset about him discussing her in the news at all. "I look at Archie, I think about this child and I genuinely can't imagine doing anything to intentionally cause pain to my child," the former actor said in a clip for part two of her tell-all interview with Oprah Winfrey. "I can't imagine it, so it's hard for me to reconcile that."
But when it comes to her estranged half-sister, Samantha Markle, who appeared to thrust herself into the rhetoric, Meghan has less to say, mainly because she claims their relationship was non-existent. (Samantha seemingly went on a smear campaign with her 2021 memoir, The Diary of Princess Pushy's Sister.)
"I think it'd be very hard to tell all when you don't know me," Meghan said, about Samantha's memoir. Revealing the pair haven't seen each other in "at least 18, 19 years" she said she "grew up as an only child," despite sharing a bloodline with Samantha, adding, "I wished I had siblings."
Shedding some light of her half-sister's motives, Meghan explained, "She changed her last name back to Markle, I think she was in her early 50s at that time, only when I started dating Harry, so I think that says enough."
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Some interesting quotes from Ars Technica's summary of Microsoft's latest Security Intelligence Report (linked below). The first one talks about spam volumes. We're talking about billions of messages a month here, which is mind-boggling if you try to imagine this.
Microsoft … attributes the drop [in spam volumes] primarily to the "takedowns of two major botnets: Cutwail, which was shut down in August 2010, and Rustock, which was shut down in March 2011 following a period of dormancy that began in January." Consequently, the biggest drops in e-mails blocked occurred in September 2010, when spam dropped to about 65 billion messages, and in January 2011, when it fell under 40 billion. The low point was in May 2011, with about 22 billion, but it ticked up again in June.
The most commonly observed exploits target vulnerabilities in Java, specifically the Java Runtime Environment, Java Virtual Machine, and Java SE in the Java Development Kit. "Java exploits were responsible for between one-third and one-half of all exploits observed in each of the four most recent quarters," Microsoft said.
For more details and some interesting graphs, visit the link below.


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Expected symptoms: Possible minor upset stomach and limited vomiting or loose stool.
What to do: Give your child a drink of water to wash the soap down into the stomach.
Note: If your child has gotten soap into their eyes, call the Missouri Poison Center now for help on how to rinse the eyes.
This information includes hand & body soaps, shampoos, hand dishwashing soaps, toy bubble solution, antibacterial soap, and shampoo-conditioner. Soaps are generally of low toxicity. They do not taste good which limits the amount ingested. Small bites from bar soap or licks of a liquid soap will cause a bad taste in the mouth and possible upset stomach and vomiting or diarrhea. Symptoms will occur soon after the ingestion and are only expected to last a limited amount of time.
If you find your child eating soap, do not panic. Take the soap away from them, wipe out the mouth with a soft, wet cloth and give them some water to drink. If problems start or if you have questions, call the Missouri Poison Center right away at 1-800-222-1222. The poison center is open all day, every day for poisoning emergencies and questions.
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If you're in Melbourne and looking for a richly satisfying experience do visit the National Gallery of Victoria's Making the Australian Quilt: 1800–1950 exhibition on until 6 November 2016. There are plenty of great stories, beautiful, intriguing, often very moving works and many, many, many stitches. There are witty tales told in embroidery and applique and much love and care embodied in each of the works. If you're a lover of fabric you will be delighted, every conceivable kind is there in squares, hexagons, stripes, free form flowers, stars and crazy quilting too. Velvet, taffeta, cotton, crepe de chine, suiting, wool, petticoat flannel, often reused, reworked, salvaged and saved, made useful, made beautiful, made to last.
"Many of the pieces were created within an intimate, private setting, yet have the ability to convey much more of their broader social and historical significance. The exhibition encompasses quilts made by men and women, those made within the context of leisure and accomplishment, created as expressions of love and family connection and those stitched out of necessity in an environment of constraint and hardship."– About the exhibition.
The Rajah Quilt is worth the price of admission alone but there is plenty to delight, inspire and be awed by. The more you look, the more you'll see details to be fascinated by, a jewel, a cheeky character, tininess, grandness, pathos, love – it's all there in the fabric. I came away with my eyes full. Allow yourself a couple of hours, there are more than eighty works, and you'll want to stare at each!
Making the Australian Quilt: 1800–1950 is on display at The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia Fed Square, from 22 July – 6 November 2016. Open daily, 10am–5pm.


In a week we will be in Barcelona for an eZ Partner Meeting. January 25 & 26 are reserved for two days of hands-on sessions on eZ Platform and its features, projects done on eZ Platform by others in the eZ community, and a closer look at V2 and eZ Platform Cloud.
Also, if you happen to be in Dornbirn for Agent Conf, a winter counterpart to our #websc, on those same dates, January 25 & 26, stick around – there will be a raffle for a Web Summer Camp ticket!
Our backend dev team will be in Antwerp for PHPBenelux 2018 on January 26 & 27. Meet them at the conference to discuss all topics PHP, Symfony, and eZ Platform CMS.
On January 31 we will be at J. Boye Software Product Management Group in London, discussing future industry developments and building on the experience from peers.
After a successful Netgen Business Day in Amsterdam in 2016, we are organizing another event in Copenhagen on Friday, March 16th. The main purpose is to meet with the Netgen Layouts early adopters and those who want to become one.


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Danjuma to address UK Parliament in January over killings in Nigeria
The former Minister of Defence, General Theophilus Danjuma (rtd), will in January 2019 address the United Kingdom Parliament over the incessant killings in North-central part of Nigeria, especially between herdsmen and farmers.
Danjuma was earlier scheduled to speak to select leaders of the British House of Lords on September 5, 2018 at the instance of two high ranking members of the parliament; David Alton and Caroline Cox, both life peers from Liverpool and Queensbury.
A source close to the former army general told THISDAY last night that the earlier invitation rattled the Nigerian government that it hired foreign lobbyists to scuttle the meeting, but that Danjuma, with the help of some international organisations and former President Olusegun Obasanjo reignited their lobby, and would now be speaking to the entire members of the House of Lords next January.
The source said the scope of Danjuma's address will no longer be limited to the herdsmen and farmers clashes, but has now been expanded to include issues of gross human rights violations and targeted attacks of Christian minorities in the Northern region of the country.
The sources said the Danjuma group, the Westminster Institute, Open Doors USA and other prominent leaders from North-central Nigeria have increased their lobby for action on the situation in the country.
Also billed to speak alongside the former Nigerian army chief was the Anglican Archbishop of Jos, Ben Kwashi.
The pressure on the House of Lords may have finally led to the rescheduling of the hearing on the insecurity in Africa's largest democracy.
A spokesperson for Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW), which coordinated the event and circulated invitations for the postponed event had told a newspaper that the "event was postponed, which is why there have been no reports about it and no record of the event appears on the UK Parliament website."
Killings along communal and religious fault lines have become recurring decimal in Plateau and Benue states.
In March 24, Danjuma said during the maiden convocation of the Taraba State University in Jalingo, that the Nigerian Army and the police are complicit in the deadly violence.
"The armed forces are not neutral. They collude with the armed bandits to kill people, kill Nigerians," the retired General said. The military, however, denied the allegations but set up an investigative panel to look into the claims.
After nearly a month of investigations, the military said there was no truth in the allegations.
Some Nigerians had criticised the retired general for making such weighty allegations against the military without providing any shred of evidence.
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King of the West Saxons and Bretwalda
Ceawlin was the son of Cynric and grandson of Cerdic, founder of the kingdom of the West Saxons. In the year of our Lord 556, he fought alongside his father Cynric who was King of Wessex against the Britons at Beranbury and succeeded in his turn as king when his father died but four years afterwards.
With his brother Cutha in the year 568 he fought King Æthelberht of Kent, but with what result is uncertain. His moment of glory was at the Battle of Deorham in 577, when he fought the Britons and slew three of their kings named Commail, Condida, and Farinmail and took the cities of Gloucester, Cirencester, and Bath and thus expanded the kingdom westwards into the valley of the Severn. Seven years later he and Cutha fought the Britons once more at Fretherne, when Cutha was killed, but Ceawlin returned to his territory with much booty and wealth.
But in the year 591 he was alas driven from his kingdom by his nephew Ceolric who replaced him as king. Two years later the Great Chronicle records his death but not the cause. Perhaps he endeavoured to regain his kingdom and died in the attempt?
He was the second to be named by the great Bede as Bretwalda.
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MARK A. MACDONALD of Williamstown, Orange County, Democrat, was born in Middletown, Connecticut, on December 18, 1942. He has spent summers in Vermont since 1947 and became a permanent resident in September, 1974. Occupation: teacher/farmer. He was educated in elementary schools in New Jersey and Washington, D.C.; Clark University, Worcester, Massachusetts (BA, 1972); attended Norwich University, Northfield, Vermont, 1975-76 to attain teacher's certification. Member of: Williamstown Planning Commission, 1984-1994; Vermont Beef Producers Association; Chelsea Fish and Game Club; Orange County Farm Bureau; American Legion; Orange Southwest Teachers Association; Vietnam Veterans of America. He served in the U.S. Army, 1968-1970, with eighteen months of service in Vietnam in 1969 and 1970. Member of the House: 1983-84 (seated July 19, 1983), 1985-86, 1987-88, 1989-90, 1991-92, 1993-94. Member of the Senate: 1996-97, 1997-98, 2003-2004, 2005-2006, 2007-2008, 2009-2010, 2011-2012, 2013-2014, 2015-2016. Home phone: 433-5867. Post Office Address: 404 MacDonald Road, Williamstown, VT 05679.


Back Support is in fact quite simple. Something I'm sure you are pleased to hear because you suffer with back pain. But if back pain relief is so simple, why is it that you still have pain?
You first must understand the distinction between alleviating back pain and also a back pain treatment.
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The pressure relief is just as easy and just as quickly. In terms of fitness, as if your pain eases, you will find you naturally become more active and your physical fitness levels will increase.
If you would like to alleviate back pain then you can use the technique below. If you'd like a long term plan to heal back pain, then you have to address all the variables causing the pain.
The following is a simple stretch you can try that will help to ease some of your pain.
Then gradually twist in one direction as far as possible until you feel a pulling sensation. This feeling may be anywhere in your spine.
Hold the posture for a second or 2 and then slowly twist in the opposite direction.
Keep twisting each side for a minute or two and you will notice you are able to twist further and further around. This will relieve some muscle strain and assist your joints move better also.
If you would like short term pain relief then use the procedure above. Back relief is an easy process, to heal back pain is just as simple and just as quick.


A quick review of the document prepared by Working Group led by Bank Indonesia on proposed core principles for zakat management raises certain important questions that should be addressed before setting out the principles.
A zakat institution is NOT a bank though it may be seen to engaged in a unique type of financial intermediation. It does not buy money. Nor does it sell money. It does not owe money. Nor does it lend money (there could be exceptions, e.g. zakat-funded credit pool in case of Akhuwat).
Unlike a bank that operates in an environment of interdependence, a zakat institution can stand on its own. (e.g. Edhi Foundation Pakistan collecting over one-third of total zakat in an environment of acute trust-deficit with government zakat body and other zakat institutions). The issue of "contagion effect" is of minimial significance unlike a bank.
Unlike a bank, a ZI has unique risk factors. Even if some factors appear to be common between a ZI and a bank, there significance may vary greatly. For example, "country and transfer risk" and "disbursement risk" are of far less significance for a ZI as compared to a bank. Given that most ZIs operate on a local or at best national basis, the nature of the risks need to be better appreciated.
The suggested framework is unduly biased towards a system where zakat payment is voluntary and private institutional zakat management is allowed. As rightly pointed out in the background paper there are major zakat systems (Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Pakistan etc.) where zakat payment is compulsory. The rules of the game become completely different for obvious reasons.
Where zakat is compulsory, it is a kind of alternative tax on wealth and income. Compliance is a major issue. In such a scenario, the difference between zakat institution and a bank is stark in terms of raising funds. The former "imposes" zakat and the latter "attracts" deposits and other forms of profit-seeking capital. However, when zakat is voluntary, a ZI will also "attract" contributions.
Further, whether zakat is compulsory or voluntary is not just one of the many features of a zakat system. Rather the features of a zakat system are dependent on this key principle. (I therefore, recommend a hierarchy of principles rather than a mere description of them in the Basle style presentation). Indeed, the framework for core principles for zakat simply cannot be developed from "common minimum" Basle norms for banks.
In countries like India and South Africa, zakat is voluntary, but so is the unbridled freedom to individual and institutional players to manage zakat unlike Indonesia. The latter may require self-regulation (in line with core principles) and not left to secular charity laws as suggested in the document.
Unlike Islamic banking and insurance (for which AAOIFI and IFSB norms were developed assuming a zero base), zakat and awqaf system development cannot assume a zero base. Zakat laws already exist in various forms. Where laws are non-existent, zakat flows take place nevertheless, given that zakat is seen as a religious duty. One can assume that the system exists in diverse forms.
Any suggested framework therefore, must be mapped unto existing systems to assess the practicality of its implementation. (Example: wide divergence between zakat and awqaf systems in Malaysia as compared to Indonesia) One needs to examine "in how many countries out of 56 OIC countries, the framework can be implemented?" In the face of wide diversity, the suggested framework must contain features that ensure required flexibility and adaptibility. This requires serious and systematic research into components of alternative zakat systems.
The core principles may refrain from making specific recommendations. For example, the Disbursement-Collection Ratio presented in the document appears to be a very useful tool for avoiding "zakat holding". But this may make little sense in the context of the Nigerain zakat system where zakat is mostly collected as food grains and are distributed at the point of collection itself. Principles should not and need not specify the tools and be expressed in terms of the tools, howsoever elegant they may appear to be. A broader statement of the "core principle" – avoid zakat holding – would be simple and clear.
Indeed if certain country-specific norms/principles/features are identified and suggested as the recommended ones, the background document needs to clearly specify this (e.g. a vote for voluntary and against compulsory zakat).
There are other specific observations regarding individual Zakat Core Principles to which I will revert later. However, these would be trivial as compared to the above issues that are more fundamental in nature.


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Q: PhP script that pushes messages to Android using Onesignal returns false I`m trying to send push notifications to android users using the following script:

<?PHP
function sendMessage(){
    $content = array(
        "en" => 'Testing Message'
        );

    $fields = array(
        'app_id' => ".....",
        'included_segments' => array('All'),
        'data' => array("foo" => "bar"),
        'large_icon' =>"ic_launcher_round.png",
        'contents' => $content
    );

    $fields = json_encode($fields);
    print("\nJSON sent:\n");
    print($fields);

    $ch = curl_init();
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "https://onesignal.com/api/v1/notifications");
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array('Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8',
                                               'Authorization: Basic .....'));
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, TRUE);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, FALSE);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, TRUE);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $fields);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, FALSE);

    $response = curl_exec($ch);
    curl_close($ch);

    return $response;
}

$response = sendMessage();
$return["allresponses"] = $response;
$return = json_encode( $return);
print("\n\nJSON received:\n");
print($return);
print("\n");
?>

However json responds "false" when running it:
JSON sent
{
    "app_id":".....",
    "included_segments":["All"],
    "data":{"foo":"bar"},
    "large_icon":"ic_launcher_round.png",
    "contents":{"en":"Testing Message"}
}

JSON received
{
    "allresponses":false
}

What does that message mean? APP ID and REST API KEy are correct.


The Sifford Sojournal: Providence's Perpetuation Provisions: New Calf "Manolito"
Providence's Perpetuation Provisions: New Calf "Manolito"
I believe it was the same day Adelina and new heifer calf Graciana walked up to us during feeding time that our cow, Rosa, showed up with her new little bull calf! When they walked up, it was still quite wet; and so we figured it couldn't have been more than a few hours old.
A cold front was just coming in too at the time. After dropping some range cubes, I was walking around trying to get a good look at Rosa's calf, and it started to wander off, slowly, toward the pond. I thought, please don't keep going or you're going to.....and yes, fall in. I ran up, in case it was in trouble, but it bounced out with no problem, although now its whole front end was really soaked. And with a cold front coming in.
We are again grateful to God for the provision of this new bull calf, Him bringing him through the cold front, the Longhorns' continued health, and the fields the Lord has granted us to be able to graze them on.


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Chicago to return to Las Vegas for February 2022 engagement
Chicago will return to The Venetian Resort Las Vegas next year for a limited run of shows.
The Rock & Roll Hall of Famers will perform six shows at the hotel's Venetian Theatre: February 16, 18, 19, 23, 35 and 26. Tickets go on sale to the general public this Monday, October 18, at 10 a.m. PT via Ticketmaster, VenetianLasVegas.com, or by calling 866-641-7469. It'll be Chicago's fifth consecutive year playing at the venue.
In fact, Chicago just wrapped a three-night stint at the Venetian Theatre last month. The Vegas venue was also the last place that Chicago played in 2020 before they had to cancel their tour plans due to the pandemic. The legendary group also has a variety of concerts scheduled in other U.S. cities through December 17.
The Venetian shows in September featured pretty much every song you'd want to hear from Chicago, from early material like "Make Me Smile," "Saturday in the Park" and "Beginnings," to mid-period hits like "Call On Me" and "If You Leave Me Now," to the 1980s-era hits "You're the Inspiration," "Hard Habit to Break" and "Hard to Say I'm Sorry."
2022 will mark Chicago's 55th consecutive year of touring.
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More lawyers turning to LegalFuel
Oct 15, 2020 By Gary Blankenship Senior Editor Top Stories
Technology Committee offering info on online conferencing and blockchain
Online visits to the Bar's LegalFuel website have soared in the past year, according to figures provided to the Bar's Committee on Technology.
The committee, at its October 8 meeting at the Bar's Fall Meeting, also was updated on its ongoing projects to provide — through LegalFuel — resources for lawyers for video conferencing and to help with blockchain technology. Both those were assigned to the committee by the Board of Governors' Technology Committee.
LegalFuel Director Jonathon Israel told the committee, "We're getting a lot more traffic from people coming to LegalFuel looking for our content and resources."
For the 2018-19 Bar year, there were 564,101 pageviews on LegalFuel, with 422,996 unique pageviews and 96,282 users. For 2019-20, that rose to 702,158 total pageviews, 538,844 unique pageviews, and 118,639 users. Numbers continued strong for the first quarter of 2020-21 (July, August, and September) with 30,830 users, the highest quarter except for the preceding three months.
Free CLE courses are the most utilized part of the site, Israel said, accounting for 24.5% of all visits for the 2019-20 year. Next was the documents library, which offers forms for running the administrative side of a law firm. Individual CLE courses, particularly relating to meeting the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic, were also highly used, with the percentage rising markedly for the first quarter of 2020-21.
The courses included conducting online depositions, protecting documents kept on mobile devices, and reducing stress while dealing with pandemic effects.
"Bar members are definitely aware that we're out here during this time and we are here to help and they're coming to us for resources," Israel told the committee.
He noted the CLE courses are linked to other resources offered through LegalFuel.
LegalFuel now has 118 CLE courses offering 151 hours of general CLE credit, 21 hours of ethics credit, and at least 83 hours of technology credit, Israel said.
"This is great news that more and more people are using the site," said committee Chair Christine Senne.
Senne and Committee Vice Chair Beau Blumberg, who heads up the project to help lawyers with video conferencing, said work is ongoing to provide materials to help those working remotely. (See Bar News article here.)
"We've been doing a rolling production on all the materials. As we get them, we try to put them up. Not everything is on the website yet," Blumberg said. "There's still more articles and videos to be put up."
He welcomed future contributions and ideas to expand the page.
The Video Conferencing Toolkit has programs on using Zoom, conducting online client conferences, basics for video conferences, managing webinars and large video conferences, recording online meetings, and more.
Committee member Anessa Santos, who co-chairs the subcommittee on blockchain, said there are three subgroups examining blockchain issues: evidence; data security and privacy; and lawyers accepting payment using cryptocurrencies.
Blockchain is a system of creating and protecting computer records developed with the rise of cryptocurrencies, such as Bitcoin, and that securely records the transactions and protects and prevents modification of records. Businesses have increasingly picked up blockchain technology because of the security and protection it offers for information, communications, and records.
Santos said the committee has made good progress on the first two issues and is beginning to study lawyers using cryptocurrency. She said plans are to have substantial information posted on LegalFuel by the end of the year.
"It will not be a static thing," said committee Vice Chair Josh Marks, the other co-chair of the subcommittee. "It's something this committee can contribute to and develop over time because it's going to be an area that's going to keep developing over time."


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Srabani Biswas is a writer at Netflix Junkie. She is a sociology graduate from Lady Brabourne College. Previously, she has contributed to Sports India Show and The Sports Room as a sports writer, and interned at Ripples Learning. A daydreamer, a dancer, and a lover of dogs, she enjoys quiet evenings with her laptop and a cozy blanket. With so much to do and so little time, she is constantly worried about her growing pile of unread books and unwatched shows on Netflix. Her favourites include Stranger, Vincenzo, Hello! My twenties, Emily in Paris, Never Have I Ever, Peaky Blinders, Stranger Things, Reply 1997 and Sex Education.
The Gray Man and The Umbrella Academy Crossover That You Failed to Notice
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Netflix's big-budget $200 million movie, The Gray Man has already made fans chuckle with the Barbie reference in the movie. But the streamer has found yet another reference, which is definitely going to make The Umbrella Academy fans snicker. The dysfunctional family
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Here's a photographic tutorial about light painting. This is a technique that involves using a long-exposure time to photograph a moving light source. Before I go on, it wasn't my intention to create an image like this. It came about by accident and I wasn't even sure about keeping this shot until my eldest daughter told me she thought it looked "cool".
A photograph I took using light painting techniques…although I was meant to be taking a completely different image!
I hadn't intended to produce a photo using light painting techniques. I was supposed to be taking images with a 10-stop filter. This is a filter that restricts the amount of light that gets into the camera and you'd usually use it to photograph clouds on a sunny day or crashing waves on a beach.
In the absence of a sunny day and having only recently returned from a photographic escapade on the coast, I set up a light that my youngest daughter, Izzy, has in her bedroom. It projects revolving star patterns on to the walls and I wondered what would happen if I tried to photograph the patterns with the 10-stop filter on my camera.
As I said at the start, my intention had been to experiment with my 10-stop filter. When reviewing the images, this one shone out as the most colourful and eye catching.
It turns out the filter wasn't on the lens at the time. This is just one of the shots I took while setting my equipment up!
The advice I'd give to any photographer is not to get too downhearted in these situations. Many a time I've set off with a very clear idea of what I wanted to photograph but returned with something totally different.
Here's how I had my camera and the light set up for this image.
Firstly, I purposefully set the light up in the corner of a room. That's why the colours seem to be going around a corner. I felt that added a different aspect to the image.
I took the image in manual mode. The exposure time was set to 3.5 seconds. For an exposure time of this length, the camera must be mounted on a tripod or else you experience camera shake.
I also set a timer so the picture was taken 10 seconds after I pressed the shutter release. Again, this was to avoid camera shake.
The aperture was set to f5.6 and ISO 100. During the editing process, I ramped the black colours right up to 100% creating more contrast between the colours and the background of the wall.
I'd encourage you to give this a go yourself. Most DSLR or good quality bridge cameras will enable you to use similar settings and you could use any number of light sources.
Light painting is a technique I've used many times in the past using all manner of light sources. This is an image I took last year using Christmas tree lights and, once upon a time, I set up a My Little Pony fibre-optic lamp and photographed it through a prism. I placed that image on my Unsplash page and it's proven to be very popular.
One further bit of advice I'd give is to listen to get a second opinion. I really wasn't sure about this image until Helen, my daughter, told me what she thought of it. I appreciate it is abstract, but I was prepared to delete it and it's grown on me a lot.
Do you like this shot? Have you attempted pictures using light painting techniques yourself? If so, please leave a comment below.


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Even before the controversy that surrounded the publication of A Million Little Pieces, the question of truth has been at the heart of memoir. From Elie Wiesel to Benjamin Wilkomirski to David Sedaris, the veracity of writers' claims has been suspect. In this fascinating and timely collection of essays, leading writers meditate on the subject of truth in literary nonfiction. As David Lazar writes in his introduction, "How do we verify? Do we care to? (Do we dare to eat the apple of knowledge and say it's true? Or is it a peach?) Do we choose to? Is it a subcategory of faith? How do you respond when someone says, 'This is really true'? Why do they choose to say it then?"
The past and the truth are slippery things, and the art of non-fiction writing requires the writer to shape as well as explore. In personal essays, meditations on the nature of memory, considerations of the genres of memoir, prose poetry, essay, fiction, and film, the contributors to this provocative collection attempt to find answers to the question of what truth in nonfiction means.
John D'Agata, Mark Doty, Su Friedrich, Joanna Frueh, Ray González, Vivian Gornick, Barbara Hammer, Kathryn Harrison, Marianne Hirsch, Wayne Koestenbaum, Leonard Kriegel, David Lazar, Alphonso Lingis, Paul Lisicky, Nancy Mairs, Nancy K. Miller, Judith Ortiz Cofer, Phyllis Rose, Oliver Sacks, David Shields, and Leo Spitzer.
David Lazar is the director of the nonfiction writing program at Columbia College Chicago, a professor in the Department of English, and the editor of Hotel Amerika. He is the author of Truth in Nonfiction (Iowa, 2008), Michael Powell: Interviews, Conversations with M. F. K. Fisher, and a book of prose poems, Powder Town. Four of his essays have been named Notable Essays of the Year by Best American Essays.
"Appears at an opportune time to help readers take stock of the hall-of-mirrors of literary veracity."—Time Out Chicago
"At last, as engrossing and intellectually sophisticated and varied a discussion of these sticky topical issues as one could ever hope to find. What makes the book even better is that so many of these pieces are stunning essays in their own right."—Phillip Lopate, author, Getting Personal: Selected Writings
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White Car / i
Melon Man / 9
Grottoes: Memories of Christaphobia / 16
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Distant Voice / 62
Further Father: Remembering John Waterman / 66
Movies Are a Mother to Me / 86
On Three Fraternal Aphorisms / 98
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2013 was a big year for ruffle cakes. This cake has a yellow ombre theme to it, with a pretty awesome custom cake topper to make it even more unique! I truly love it when brides make it their own and do something different!


Societies are not static. One focus of anthropology is on the changes that have taken place and are taking place at increasingly rapid rates as colonialism, economic transformations such as neo-liberalism, the media and other factors impinge on communities throughout the world. Our historical archaeologists look primarily at the changes connected to colonialism while socio-cultural faculty look at changes related to new patterns of education, the role of television and film on local cultures, and the massive effects related to what is termed globalization. Whether in Boliva or northern India or on the Navajo reservation, changes are taking place in art, in literatures, in everyday rituals, in gender roles, in medicine, and more.
At Syracuse, courses looking at culture change and globalization tend to be focused on specific regions of the world, as the complex factors of change are also very context-driven and require the in-depth understandings provided by an area focus.
Both undergraduate and graduate students often pursue minors or certificate of advanced standing in the world region on which they are focusing or with certificates such as that in Women and Gender Studies.


Great to see a roll-up for all hotfixes for 7.1 to date, it was very painful figuring out what patches to apply and what not to in their various orders and reboots previously.
Very surprised to see Citrix supporting the OS for 10 years - that'd be a lot of backporting of patches etc... to make it work in the year 2027!
Great to see a roll-up for all hotfixes for 7.1 to date, it was very painful figuring out what patches to apply and what not to in their various orders and reboots previously. Very surprised to see Citrix supporting the OS for 10 years - that'd be a lot of backporting of patches etc... to make it work in the year 2027!


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Only Happens with Marketing
The important and intimate relationship between marketing and engineering is finally getting the attention that it rightly deserves.
Or, to be more specific, more and more people (especially technical folks) understand that they need marketing to ensure that the very thing that they've spent years building can be ultimately appreciated by waiting customers.
via Dilbert
And I know this better than most because I've spent my career building technical products, sometimes really big and sometimes really small.
All sizes of products require consistent marketing efforts and I've gone as far as suggesting that early-stage companies (and especially indie, side projects) need 50% of their time dedicated to engineering and the other 50% of time spent communicating out the story, the narrative, and building relationships with (future) customers.
Two things: The first is that the 50/50 rule, which I've liberally borrowed from Marc Andreessen, does, in fact work. The second thing is that it's incredibly-difficult to see in the moment and while you're doing it, especially in the beginning.
But something that's been very satisfying to experience over the last year while building a much bigger product (and company) is that our commitment and decision to start marketing from Day #1 has really paid off as well, but in different ways.
For starters, we don't have a public product for anyone to purchase quite yet so marketing has been more of an effort to build awareness, create some light branding, share with our future customers our progress, and to build excitement and gain critical feedback via early customer surveys, polls, and more.
Another net-positive outcome has been the fact that folks from all places are reading our content, including venture capitalists and potential financial partners. Many have referenced our work and blog posts during the due diligence phase and it's been a huge part of our ever-growing go-to-market initiatives that we'll deploy this year.
So this "marketing thing" can "bring home the bacon" in many more ways that just customers. That's been a really neat outcause and a new invaluable, empirical learning.
Thus marketing forms an intimate relationship between engineering and customers (of all shapes and sizes, including capital partners) that can't be a last resort strategy. We must execute just as much in this area as we do in all the other areas as well.
I'd even go as far as suggesting that a founder of a new venture and especially an early staffer or employee have this tightly designed into their DNA. A great product isn't anything without customers and that only happens with marketing.
So get to it.
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The next episode in the saga of Snow Brand Milk Products, the Japanese company hit by food safety scandals, unfurled yesterday when the company announced that it is to tie up with two agricultural co-operatives and request a capital injection from trading company Itochu Corp to rebuild itself, local media said on Thursday, Reuters reports.
The Nihon Keizai Shimbun said the scandal-smeared dairy products maker would join hands with the National Federation of Agricultural Co-operative Associations (Zen-noh) and the National Federation of Dairy Co-operative Associations (Zenrakuren).
The business daily said the three plan to launch a joint venture as early as this year combining their milk businesses, with each taking an equal stake in the new firm.
The joint venture could market its products under a unified brand, the paper added.
A Snow Brand spokeswoman said the three sides were in talks and a three-way tie-up was under consideration, but nothing final had been decided.
The Snow Brand spokeswoman declined to confirm the report in the Asahi Shimbun newspaper about the capital injection request to Itochu, but said Snow Brand aimed to obtain a capital injection by the end of this month as part of a revival plan. Itochu declined to comment on the Asahi report.
Snow Brand has been struggling to rebuild its image ever since a tainted milk scandal in 2000 sent its sales plunging.Its sales and reputation have taken a further beating since the revelation in January of a beef mislabelling scam at its 65 per cent owned subsidiary, Snow Brand Food, which said last month it would close shop by late April.
Snow Brand Milk shares rose as much as seven per cent in morning trade on the reports and ended Thursday up 5.13 per cent at 164 yen (€1.44).
Scandal stricken Snow Brand on the up?


Friends of Charlie Hill would like everyone to know that Charlie is back home and recovering from the recent surgery to his right femur that we spoke of in the previous post.
Charlie's wife Debbie says the doctors are encouraged on Charlie's progress to date and how well the surgery went. They were able to remove all of the old hardware in Charlie's femur from the fracture he incurred back in '06 while colt starting a neighbor's colt.
Debbie wants everyone to know that Charlie's spirits are high, but he will be unable to work or ride for the next several weeks. The doctors' recovery orders were mainly to rest to let the femur heal while performing some minor at home physical therapy exercises.
Charlie would however like everyone to know that as he heals he will have much more free time on his hands. He hopes this will allow him to possibly give some private lessons to anyone interested. Although he won't be able to ride Warrior or any other horse, Charlie would be happy to draw upon his years of experience as a horseman to enhance your experience with any particular needs you and your horse may need.
If you're interested in seeing Charlie, feel free to contact Debbie or leave a message via the Contact page.


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Nar continues LTE network expansion
Azerfon (Nar), Azerbaijan's third largest mobile network operator (MNO) by subscribers, has announced that it has extended its LTE network to Ismailly, bringing its number of 2G, 3G and 4G base stations in the town to 68. Nar now covers 37 regions of the country with its 4G network and currently has 1,326 LTE base stations and 2,645 3G base stations nationwide.


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Phallus rubicundus is a species of fungus in the stinkhorn family. First described in 1811, it has a wide distribution in tropical regions. It has the typical stinkhorn structure consisting of a spongy stalk up to  tall arising from a gelatinous "egg" up to  in diameter. Atop the stalk is a pitted, conical cap that has a foul-smelling, gelatinous, green spore mass spread over it.

Taxonomy
The species was first described under the name Satyrus rubicundus by French botanist Louis Augustin Guillaume Bosc in 1811, from collections made in South Carolina. It was later transferred to the genus Phallus in 1823 by Elias Fries. Synonyms include binomials resulting from the transfer to Ithyphallus by Eduard Fischer in 1888, and to Leiophallus by Émile-Victor Mussat in 1900.

Description

Immature (unopened) specimens of Phallus rubicundus are spherical to egg-shaped, whitish, and measure  long by  wide. They occur singly or in groups of two to six eggs that are formed from a common mycelium. They are attached to the substrate by a cordlike rhizomorph. After expanding, the fruit bodies are up to  tall, and consist of a hollow cylindrical stalk supporting a conical to bell-shaped cap. The orange to scarlet stalk tapers towards to top, and has a pitted surface. The wrinkled cap is scarlet red, and measures  high by  wide. It is initially covered with a foetid, slimy grayish-olive gleba. The egg case remains at the base of the stalk as a volva. The spores are smooth, elliptical, and measure 3.6–4.2 by 1.6–2.0 μm.

Phallus rubicundus is often confused with the similar Mutinus elegans, but the latter species does not have a clearly separated cap, and instead bears its gleba on the apex of its pointed stalk.

Uses
In the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh, where it is known locally as , it is used by two primitive forest tribes, the Bharia and the Baiga, as a treatment against typhoid, and also by the Baiga to treat labour pain. The fungus is prepared by grinding and mixing with sugar-cake, and one teaspoon is administered three times daily. The fungus has been reported to have been used by Aboriginal Australians as an aphrodisiac.

One study noted that mosquitoes, attracted to the smell of the gleba, perish after consuming it, and so the fungus may be suitable for further investigating as a biocontrol agent.

Ecology and distribution
The fungus is saprobic, and grows in sandy soils, lawns, gardens, and yards, especially those that are well-manured or use wood mulch. It is widely distributed in southern and eastern United States (including Hawaii), having possibly been spread through the use of imported wood mulch in landscaping. In Australia it grows mainly in the tropics and subtropics, in areas where rotten wood and/or mulch are present. In Asia, it has been recorded from China, Japan, Korea, India, and Thailand. African locales include Ghana, Nigeria, Congo, Kenya, and South Africa. It is also known from South America (Argentina and Brazil) and the Caribbean. The fungus was featured on a Sierra Leonean postage stamp in 1993.

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Phallales
Fungi of Africa
Fungi of Asia
Fungi of Australia
Fungi of North America
Fungi of South America
Medicinal fungi
Fungi described in 1811
Taxa named by Louis Augustin Guillaume Bosc
Fungi of Hawaii
Fungi without expected TNC conservation status

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