Hydro Vortex™ easy to clean waterfall filters feature an internal vortex for heavy solids removal, a bio filter stage for metabolizing dissolved organics, and Hydro FilterSilk™ media for superior water polishing. The Dolphin Hydro Vortex™ waterfall filter lets you spend more time enjoying your pond or pondless waterfall and less time cleaning it! Patented design backwashes the bio media within the filter.
Lets you spend more time enjoying your pond or pondless waterfall and less time cleaning it!
Create beautiful water garden ponds, hybrid ponds, and crossover ponds with the easy to clean Dolphin Hydro™ Vortex large waterfall filter. You can also construct amazing pondless waterfalls and pondless streams with this superior large waterfall filter. No other large waterfall filter on the market can compare to the ease of cleaning, the high surface area bio reaction, and superior water polishing of the Dolphin Hydro Vortex™ large waterfall filter.
The patented Dolphin Hydro Vortex™ large waterfall filter is easy to clean and completely backflushable. Backflushing your large waterfall filter keeps it performing at peak efficiency all year round which results in a much cleaner pond and a healthier ecosystem. This backwashable large waterfall filter helps keep all types of ponds and pondless waterfalls clean and healthy. The Dolphin Hydro Vortex™ large waterfall filter features superior water polishing and has the highest SSA in its class.
The Dolphin Hydro Vortex™ large waterfall filter is the professional's choice for its superior strength and durability. It is the DIYer's choice for its ease of installation. It is the owner's choice for its ease of cleaning. The Dolphin Hydro Vortex™ large waterfall filter is the most efficient large waterfall filter in its class.
Hydro Vortex™ waterfall filters combine high surface area media, a vortex solids separator, settling cone with a bottom drain for complete and efficient backwashing. Hydro Vortex™ waterfall filters do not require blowers or air pumps for backwashing.
The Dolphin Hydro Vortex™ large waterfall filter is the largest version of the industry-leading Patented Hydro Vortex™ series of completely backwashable biological waterfall filters. Invented by John Russell, a Hydro Vortex™ large waterfall filter is cleaned simply by opening its included drain valve and reversing water flow through the filter. This can be done either manually or mechanically with our exclusive HydroFlush™ Backwash System.
The HydroFlush™ option uses your existing pump and the included 3-way valve to reverse water flow through the filter. Cleaning a Dolphin Hydro Vortex™ filter with the HydroFlush™ system is as easy as turning two valves!
The dirty water exiting the filter's drain pipe is loaded with nutrients! Use this backwash water to organically fertilize your landscape and gardens.
Hydro Vortex™ waterfall filters are designed for periodic gentle back-flushing of fish waste, mulm and detritus instead of the massive disruptive heavy annual pressure washer cleaning required for typical "Pad-&-Media-Bag" type box waterfall pond filters. Don't be misled by the claims that say biological filters only need "annual cleaning" – the health of your fish may be at stake. All large waterfall filters, no matter what type or brand, benefit from periodic rinsing of fish waste, mulm, and detritus.
Commonplace "Pad-&-Media-Bag" type waterfall filters are not designed with bottom clean out drains for ease of cleaning and routine gentle back-flushing. Soiled waterfall filters can cause poor water quality and can encourage algae growth and fish disease.
Biological waterfall filters – of any kind or brand – that are not periodically back-flushed, will eventually plug with fish waste, mulm and detritus (the build-up of fish and bacterial waste that looks like brown goop).
If the fish waste, mulm and detritus isn't periodically back-flushed it can clog the filter media – no matter what type. Clogged filter media can cause the water to start "channeling" around the filter media within the filter. This means that water is finding a path of least resistance around the clogged media.
Water that channels around the filter media doesn't get filtered. Water passing around the media through channels causes other areas within the filter to have stagnant, non-moving, oxygen-deprived water.
Areas within the filter that don't pass oxygenated water become anaerobic (oxygen deprived) and encourage pathogenic species of bacteria like Aeromonas and Pseudomonas to proliferate inside the filter and eventually in the pond. This can result in sick, diseased, and/or dying fish.
This is why fish disease is relatively high in typical water garden ponds compared to traditional koi ponds. Koi pond filters are back-flushable, typical "Pad-&-Media-Bag" style waterfall filters used in typical water garden ponds are not. All Hydro Vortex™ waterfall filters come standard with a bottom drain for backwashing and easy water changes.
Typical large waterfall filters use filter pads inside them. They also require you to purchase additional media such as lava rock to aid in filtration and to hold the filter pads in place. When researching large waterfall filters - take note of what type of media comes with it - and if you're required to purchase additional media.
Just look at how you will have to clean the filter pads! You will have to pull them out of the filter and use high pressure water to clean them. They will be heavy and very smelly! But first you will have to remove the even heavier dirty bags of lava rock!
Let You Build Beautiful Water Garden Ponds.
An Easy to Clean Dolphin Hydro Vortex™ large waterfall filter helps you build beautiful water garden ponds and waterfalls like this pond. This pond was built using a Dolphin Series Water Garden Pond Kit. The Dolphin is suitable for ponds up to 4,000 gallons in size.
An Easy to Clean Dolphin Hydro Vortex™ large waterfall filter helps you build beautiful hybrid ponds and crossover ponds like shown in this photo on the right. A crossover pond is a cross between a koi pond and a hybrid pond and can only be built with a backwashable waterfall filter. This crossover pond was built using a Dolphin Series Crossover Pond Kit.
An easy to clean Dolphin Hydro Vortex™ large waterfall filter lets you build amazing pondless waterfalls like shown in this photo on the left. This pondless waterfall was built using a Dolphin Series Pondless Waterfall Kit.
Anyone can build professional – and natural looking waterfalls with a Dolphin Hydro Vortex™ large waterfall filter.
Why is Keeping a Waterfall Filter Clean So Important?
A waterfall filter is just that …. a filter.
Do you routinely clean the lint trap in your clothes dryer? Why?
When you swim in a swimming pool - do you prefer the pool filter has been cleaned? Why?
Do you replace your car's oil filter when getting an oil change? Why?
What about the air filter in your home's HVAC system? Why?
Your drinking water filter? Why?
Here is a simple question for you: "How well do dirty filters perform?" We're sure you won't take long to answer that. Here's another question for you: "Why do conventional bio fall type waterfall filter manufacturers tell you their filters only need to be cleaned once per year?" Read on .... you'll understand "why" they tell you that!
Any type of filter, whether it be for liquids or gasses performs at its peak efficiency when kept clean – waterfall filters are no different. What would happen to your clothes if you didn't routinely clean the dryer's lint trap? What would happen to your engine if you didn't change the oil filter? What would the swimming pool look (or smell) like if you cleaned the pool filter once per year? How would your water or coffee taste if you used the same filter for an entire year without cleaning it?
Everyone knows that filters either need to be kept clean or replaced to work effectively – pure and simple. You should RUN – not walk – away from any conventional bio fall type waterfall filter that boasts it only requires "annual cleaning". Let us explain.
So what collects in a waterfall filter anyway? The answer is fish waste, mulm and detritus (waste produced by bacterial colonies), small organic particles, algae, dissolved organic matter, and whatever passes through the pond skimmer or other pre-filter. All this "stuff" is commonly referred to as "sludge".
Take a good look at the photo here on the left which shows the inside of a conventional bio fall type waterfall filter. This is sludge. The filter pads and media nets filled with lava rock are completely saturated with sludge.
When sludge is allowed to build up inside a conventional bio fall type waterfall filter, the filter media becomes clogged and water will channel around the media. Water channeling around the filter media is no longer being filtered. If a filter no longer filters …. then what good is it?
Once the pond filter media is saturated as seen in this photo, the sludge breaks off and finds its way to the bottom of your pond or pondless waterfall where it adversely affects water quality and dramatically promotes algae growth. Additionally, areas within a sludge filled waterfall filter that no longer have water passing through them become stagnant and oxygen-deprived.
Pathogenic species of bacteria such as Aeromonas and Pseudomonas proliferate in oxygen-deprived pond filter media and eventually pass into the pond. These pathogenic bacteria can attack your fish causing ulcers, open sores, mouth rot, fin rot, disease, and death.
Don't be misled by claims that the typical biological bio fall type waterfall filter only requires annual cleaning. The health of your fish may be at stake, as well as the appearance of your pond.
Think about "annually cleaning" a waterfall filter for a moment. Can it be done? Yes. Should it be done? Heck NO!!! You could mow your lawn once per year. Would you do it? Heck NO!!! Your neighbors wouldn't appreciate your unsightly lawn for 51 weeks per year. It will be a huge time consuming and difficult chore when you do decide to mow it!
What would happen if you "annually" flushed your toilet? The conventional bio fall type waterfall filter that boasts "annual cleaning" is not providing you with the most accurate information.
A saturated waterfall filter encourages excessive algae growth as well as Aeromonas and Pseudomonas pathogenic bacteria proliferation. The algae is extremely ugly, and the pathogenic bacteria are a real danger to your koi and pond fish.
With over 25 years' experience installing, servicing and seeing the problems with virtually every brand of waterfall filter, company CEO, John Russell invented and patented the Hydro Vortex™ professional backwashable waterfall filter.
His goal: to resolve these common problems with unique design features, efficient function, and ease of cleaning in mind. John studied every waterfall filter available and compared them to koi pond filters - where koi and fish health is the primary concern. He discovered that all koi pond filters have the ability to be periodically backwashed to remove the unwanted fish waste, detritus, and mulm. There wasn't a waterfall filter, or pondless waterfall filter that had this ability, and as a result, many pond and pondless waterfall owners were experiencing problems with fish health and excessive algae growth.
Media nets filled with lava rock or other bio media can only be cleaned by removing them from the filter by hand and rinsing them with high pressure water.
Filter pads can only be cleaned by removing them from the filter by hand and rinsing them with high pressure water.
High water pressure cleaning harms the beneficial bacteria that was living on the filter pads, thus requiring completely starting the bio filter ecosystem again from scratch after every cleaning. This is a big reason why the manufacturers of these types of the conventional bio fall waterfall filter state the their filters only require "annual cleaning". Cleaning the filter pads with high pressure water – the only way possible – destroys the ecosystem of the bio filter.
The conventional waterfall filter doesn't possess a vortex water motion or settlement chamber inside the filter body – there is no pre-bio stage solids separation as with the Hydro Vortex™. All the particulates that can get past a pond skimmer - fish waste, mulm, and detritus are forced to collect on the filter pads and media nets.
Once the bio media is saturated, the water flow channels around the filter media and is returned to the pond unfiltered. Additionally, the filter pads, lava rock, and other common types of filter media inside conventional waterfall filters are too dense to rinse with low pressure water. The filter pads, lava rock, or other bio media must be removed from the typical waterfall filter for hand cleaning.
This is why the ecosystem crashes after an annual pond cleaning. High pressure cleaning gets rid of all the good bacteria while you are trying to get rid of the bad. Look at the closeup photos on the left: how efficient do the filter pad and lava rock look to you? Does leaving this inside your filter for an entire year seem right to you? We didn't think so!
Another thing about leaving this inside your filter for an entire year: It's obvious that these filter pads and lava rock can't hold onto any more mulm. Where do you think it goes? Yup, you guessed it .... right back into your pond or pondless waterfall basin. Guess what it will then do. You're getting it now! Grow algae and cause fish disease!
There are many manufacturers of these types of conventional waterfall filters: Aquascape, Easy Pro, Atlantic, Pond Builder, Pro Line, Savio, and others. They are commonly referred to as bio falls, puri falls, aqua falls, fast falls, filter falls, cascade falls, elite falls, and many other names.
It doesn't matter the manufacturer – they may look different on the outside, but inside – where it really matters – they are all the same! Filter pads and media nets are not backwashable, and must be disassembled for cleaning.
This is a copy of an actual manufacturer's owner's manual - they are making our point for us.
As the old sayings go: "You Get What You Pay For" and "Buyer Beware!"
You can do an internet search and find a ton of information about how to clean a conventional bio fall type waterfall filter. They all talk about cleaning the filter pads and the lava rock contained in the media nets …. but what they don't show is …. what you're actually cleaning – or how you will be doing it!
Most likely the filter doesn't have a drain unless you paid extra for a drain kit - so you'll have to disconnect the pump and have the dirty filter water backflow into the pond skimmer and pond. Careful, it will be under pressure and can get all over you. Or purchase a second pump and hose to pump it out. Again, additional costs to the original purchase price!
These are usually filled with lava rock, but they can also be filled with bio balls or other forms of bio media. Lava rock is the most commonly used media in these nets because the lava rock is heavy and holds the filter pads down inside the conventional bio fall type waterfall filter.
These saturated media nets can be very heavy – so be careful lifting them out. Small conventional waterfall filters may have only one such media net, but the average size filter contain two or three. Larger waterfall filters contain six or more media nets.
This is what you'll be cleaning from the media nets. As stated earlier, this is "sludge" consisting of all sorts of smelly decaying things. Make sure to wear protective clothing and gloves when handling saturated bio media. Infections are common problems associated with cleaning a conventional bio fall type waterfall filter.
Look at this lava rock. This has been in this conventional bio fall type waterfall filter for an entire year! In the words of Howard Hughes: "Does that look clean to you?". The pores in the lava are completely filled with sludge. The only way to clean this is with high pressure washing. It is widely understood that using high pressure water to clean bio media destroys the beneficial bacteria living on it. This destroys the pond filter's ability to perform its primary job of bio reaction.
They too can be heavy. The typical conventional bio fall type waterfall filter contains two to three of these saturated filter pads. Again, it is recommended to use long sleeve rubber gloves and eye protection when handling sludge saturated filter pads.
These filter pads have been in this conventional bio fall type waterfall filter for an entire year! How effective do YOU think they can be when they're clearly saturated with sludge?
Filter pads saturated with sludge promote harmful pathogenic bacteria to proliferate and provide a huge food source for algae!
No "if's, and's, or but's"! We've been in this industry for a long time and know what we're talking about. How do you think we get all these photos? Our service crews are booked solid from people paying us their hard-earned money to clean their ponds and filters! We photograph the jobs. If only they had all this information BEFORE they bought one of these types of filters - or hired a contractor to install one!
This can get very messy! For your safety make sure to wear rubber rain gear, long sleeve rubber gloves, and protective eye-wear. Make sure to keep your mouth closed!
When high pressure rinsing the completely sludge-saturated filter pads - make sure you use enough water pressure to clean the pad, but not so much that you disintegrate it! Filter pads are expensive to replace!
The conventional bio fall type waterfall filter does not have a drain which makes this process very difficult. Wipe and rinse the sludge and muck from the walls of the filter and pump, or shop-vac out the slurry. If you paid extra for a drain, then rinse the sludge and muck out the drain, then shop-vac the remaining slurry that is below the drain (since the drain isn't really a drain but a reversed inlet on the side of the filter – and above the bottom).
This is the costliest part of the "annual clean-out" or "spring-cleaning". You'll need a net to catch the fish, a tank large enough to hold them all, a net large enough to cover the tank so your fish don't jump out, and an aeration system for the tank to provide oxygen to your fish.
You also need a dirty water trash pump and enough hose to discharge the dirty water somewhere – make sure to not flood a neighbor's yard! Also, in most communities it is unlawful to dump this dirty water into the storm drains. Check with your local Authorities first - or you could be subject to a large fine.
You'll be pumping out ALL the pond water, pressure washing the entire pond, waterfalls, stream (if you have one), and then re-filling the entire pond with fresh water. Depending on the size of your pond, the water bill can be quite high. Or, you can pay a professional who already owns the required equipment a lot of money to do it for you. You must factor in this large annual cost when you're contemplating which waterfall filter to purchase.
All the additional costs can run you several hundreds of dollars. Oh by the way, if you don't own a pressure washer - add the rental cost to the price of the conventional bio fall type waterfall filter. Add all these additional costs to the price of a conventional bio fall type waterfall filter. That cheap price for a waterfall filter isn't looking so cheap now is it? Again, "You get what you pay for!" Are you beginning to understand how and why a Hydro Vortex™ waterfall filter lowers your cost of ownership?
A conventional waterfall filter - be it bio falls, aqua falls, filter falls, or the many other terms used to describe these types of the hard to clean waterfall filters ALL state they only require "annual-cleaning". These waterfall filters get clogged with sludge and then pass sludge to the pond where it settles to the bottom. This requires the pond to be completely drained and cleaned every year at a large annual expense. Ponds with these types of filters experience excessive algae growth, become unsightly very quickly, and create less than ideal living conditions for koi, pond fish, and other aquatic life.
If "a picture is worth a thousand words", then how many words do all our photos tell you? You can CLEARLY see that these photos are NOT doctored in any way.
As mentioned earlier, our service division gets booked months in advance to clean ponds and pondless waterfalls that are filtered with these types of waterfall filters. This is also why we get booked for so many Ectomies!
What are People Doing with their "Annually Cleaned"
Conventional Bio Fall Type Waterfall Filter?
People are ripping them out in record numbers all across the country!
This process is known as a "Filter-Ectomy". A Filter-Ectomy is the replacement of the conventional non-backwashable bio fall type waterfall filter with a completely backflushable Hydro Vortex™ waterfall filter.
When people get tired of their hard to clean conventional bio fall type waterfall filter – the algae, sick fish, and headaches associated with them – they replace them with Hydro Vortex™. We get lots of plastic to recycle every year!
If you're considering purchasing a conventional bio fall type typical waterfall filter – no matter the brand – you have to add the cost of annual cleaning and the eventual filter-ectomy to the price of that filter.
If you purchase a waterfall filter solely on price alone, you will end up paying a lot more in the future. The conventional bio fall type waterfall filter has a much higher cost of ownership than Hydro Vortex™ backwashable waterfall filter.
So You Can SAVE Thousands of Dollars Over Time.
The solution to the conventional "annually cleaned" waterfall filter is the patented backwashable Hydro Vortex™. With the patented Hydro Vortex™ fully backwashable waterfall filter, you can routinely rinse the filter free of mulm and detritus before it can become sludge. Keeping the filter clean on a routine basis will prevent it from passing sludge to the pond so the pond will remain cleaner.
With a Hydro Vortex™ backwashable waterfall filter, you can routinely clean the pond bottom with a garden hose leaving the pond full of water and your fish swimming around in it. Simply use a garden hose to "fluff" any debris that has settled to the pond bottom. The water will temporarily cloud up. Your pump will pass the cloudy water to the Hydro Vortex™ filter where the filter's vortex and the Hydro FilterSilk™ media will clean the water. Then simply perform a backwash of the Hydro Vortex™ filter. You can have a clean pond all year round without having to catch and remove your fish, drain the pond, or disassemble the filter for cleaning.
A clean pond is a healthy pond for your koi, pond fish, turtles, and the wildlife that visit the pond. In addition, a clean pond has much less algae than a dirty pond. It is just common sense.
The TRUTH About "Annually" Cleaned Waterfall Filters?"


Sometimes, people consider car moving with a moving truck. Although, at first, this seems like it might be a good idea – the truck is big, your car should fit inside, and you'll be able to move both your belongings and your transportation with one moving truck, using a moving truck to move your car along with your possessions is NOT the best way to move your car safely.
First, there's the matter of whether the car will fit into the moving truck. Even if you're able to measure both car and truck ahead of time in order to determine whether the car will fit into the moving truck, you must make sure that your car moving company has insurance which will cover the value of your car should it be damaged during transit. Although professional auto transport companies are required to insure your vehicle for its full book value when car moving, regular moving companies, which specialize in moving households, typically do not have adequate insurance for this purpose.
The second concern you face when car moving with a moving truck is how you negotiate the auto transit with the car shippers. Car moving companies are likely charging you by weight, and not only will a car add several thousand pounds to the bill, but you must make absolutely certain that their truck is going to be able to support the weight of your car, as well! This might be OK if you drive a small car, but if your car is a larger size, you may have cause for concern.
Once you've determined that your car will fit into the moving truck, you'll have to decide the best way to pack your belongings and car into the same space in such a way that neither car nor objects will be able to move during transit. Anyone who has been on a bumpy road driving at fast speeds knows how easily small objects can be thrust from side to side, and boxes packed with possessions are not easy to secure if they aren't uniform in size and packed tightly. Adding your car to the mix is an almost guaranteed recipe for disaster.
Loading a car into a moving truck also requires preparation, and, in some cases, might require a loading dock just to make sure the car can drive into the back of the truck! Once inside the truck, the car will have to be carefully secured to make sure it doesn't move during transit, and you will have to hope for plenty of clearance on either side of the car (hopefully packed with protective gear) to keep your car from bouncing from side to side.
In all these cases, the money saved by using a moving truck rather than a professional car moving service is negligible, especially when one takes into account how much extra worry you'll have during your cars' journey to its destination. By filling out the short form above, you can obtain free, instant car shipping quotes from professional car moving companies in your area, and make sure that both your possessions and your vehicle arrive in great condition at their (and your) destination.


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In the Scriptures, God often combines His name Jehovah with another name. Why? Best-selling author and pastor Tony Evans explains the meaning behind God's names "Jehovah Jireh," "Jehovah Tsaba," and "Jehovah Nissi." Tony tells how God has "lived up to His name" by showing up in amazing ways in the life of his family.
Bob: As we head to the end of 2015, there's a great opportunity for you to give and make a big difference. We've had some friends of the ministry, who have come along and said that they will match every donation we receive between now and the end of the year—they'll match it two-to-one. So, you make a donation of $10 / they'll throw in $20; we've now got $30 going to FamilyLife.
We want to ask you to go to FamilyLifeToday.com—make a donation online. Or call 1-800-FL-TODAY—make your donation over the phone. Or mail a donation to us at FamilyLife Today at PO Box 7111, Little Rock, AR; our zip code is 72223. Again, keep in mind your donation is going to be matched two-to-one. That will make a big difference in the ministry of FamilyLife, going forward.
Dennis: And, Bob, I just want to say, "Thanks," to the listeners, again, who give. To those of you who have benefitted from FamilyLife Today, if there's ever been a time to stand with us, today is the day. This nation needs our voice on behalf of biblical families.
Bob: And, again, if you would like to make a donation, go online at FamilyLifeToday.com; or call us at 1-800-"F" as in family, "L" as in life, and then the word, "TODAY." We hope to hear from you.
Now, let's introduce our guest for today.
Dennis: Dr. Tony Evans, a good friend and a comrade in the Kingdom battle, joins us again today on FamilyLife Today. Welcome back.
Tony: Good to be with you always. Thank you again for the great work you're doing for the Kingdom of God.
Dennis: Well, we're grateful you're a family man and you preach on behalf of the family at your church, Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship, which you helped start over four decades ago.
So He will show you, through the compound, how a foundational name combines with a need. When He puts those two names together, He is addressing the need through the use of that name. That is the compounding process that God is using.
Bob: And most of the time, the foundational name He's using is the Jehovah name / the Yahweh name; right?
Tony: Well, yes. Most of them are Jehovah, but there are a number of El names in there as well.
And there are a couple of Adonai names.
Tony: And sometimes, He'll put them all in the same passage—like in Psalm 91, where He uses all three and throws in compound names—El-Elian and El-Shaddai. He wants to just pack you and overwhelm you with who He is!
Dennis: Okay, let's just apply this in your marriage and family. You and Lois have been married how many years now?
Tony: We've been married 44 years.
Dennis: —I'm thinking of some ways Barbara and I did, but I'd be interested in knowing how you two experienced it.
We prayed that day around the table and said, "Lord, we need a miracle if You want me to stay here." I went to school that day / finished my classes. They have mailboxes for the students. I went to my mailbox at the end of class, and in there was an envelope. Inside the envelope were five $100 bills.
Sometimes, He backs you up—just like He did Abraham—against the wall so that there is no question and it is inextricably clear: "This was a divine moment that He never wants you to forget." That's why I love the names of God—because these names come in the realities of life. When they come in the realities of life, and become your experience, then it attaches to your soul, and it is real.
Dennis: Well, let's talk about another one of the names / the compound names of God—the one that is the God who shows up when David and Goliath square off.
Tony: Ah, yes! That's Jehovah Tsaba. See, that's the warrior God—that's when you're in a battle / that's when you're in a war. Everybody has a Goliath in their life that is something bigger than you / that is something that dwarfs you and causes you to be afraid because you know that you don't have within your ability the wherewithal to defeat it. You are overwhelmed by it.
Bob: Kind of like Elijah and the prophets of Baal.
Bob: "My God / your god—let's see who wins this one"; right?
Tony: That's right—I'm glad you brought that up because that means you can't be halting between two opinions. You've got to say which god you're committed to, and that's exactly what David did but Saul didn't do.
Dennis: —every man / every woman has to face these moments, by faith, afresh every time.
Tony: I think of Job 23 [verses 8 and 9]—Job says: "I looked north and could not find you. I looked south and could not find you. I looked east and west, and I could not find you." God allows those times of silence—like in Habakkuk: "Where are you? I can't find you!"—where He goes silent / where He has nothing to say, seemingly; and where He wants you to trust Him in the dark.
He wants you to trust Him when solutions are not being found, when healing is not taking place, when the divorce is not reversed. He wants you to believe Him when you see nothing because, when you believe Him and He has not shown up yet, that means you are trusting a Person, not merely trusting a power or a solution.
You have some times that God lifts you out of a situation; but sometimes, He has to walk with you through the situation, and He's changing you before He ever touches what's wrong.
Bob: There are some purposes of God that we won't know what His plan was in this life. We may go to our grave, wondering, "What was God up to in the midst of that?" and "Why did I have to go through that valley?"—aren't there?
Tony: Absolutely. God will not answer everything in time. He will clarify everything in eternity, but He won't answer everything in time. We have to trust Him with the unknown.
Dennis: Okay; let's talk about one of those times in your life.
And I'm not saying this was exactly it, but let's say it was something like the $500 you and Lois went on the line for to trust Him at the beginning of the day—where you stepped out in faith—but in time, you didn't see the answer nearly as quickly as you had hoped. You had to kind of struggle in your faith to trust this God who hadn't showed up and provided yet.
Tony: My daughter, Chrystal, is kind of a strong-willed person.
Bob: Takes after her dad a little bit?
Tony: Well, well, look! That's not part of this broadcast. [Laughter] She got pregnant in college—this is something she talks about. She got pregnant in college; and that was a big disappointment, obviously—wondering why God didn't interrupt, block, keep it from happening, remove the guy, remove—I mean, it was disappointment—disappointment with her—but also disappointment that God didn't do something; you know? It was a frustration that we went through with our daughter and with God.
But God has a way of hitting the bullseye with a crooked stick.
Tony: And what He's done in the life of my daughter, spiritually, and the life of my granddaughter, who was born out of that—but we couldn't see any of that then. All we saw was the disappointment. You will have times where you feel like you need to forgive God.
Dennis: Sometimes, as human beings—and I'm speaking now, as a husband—God calls upon us to be His arms of love—to reach out and touch a child or a spouse—and to express the love of God, humanly-speaking. He is who He is; but He can use us, if we're available, to minister to those that He's given us responsibility for.
Tony: The whole responsibility of a parent or a Christian is to—you know, when the Bible says to present your body as a "living sacrifice," that means—when God needs some hands, He has access to yours; when He needs some heads, He has access to yours; when He needs to go somewhere, He can get your feet and move there.
We are the continuation of the incarnation so that God can continue expressing Himself through human flesh.
Bob: Yes, and I'm wondering—because I know "incarnation,"—one of the names of God that you talk about in the end of the book, is the incarnational name that is given to Jesus. His name is a set-apart name as well; isn't it?
Tony: —"God with us." This is what makes Jesus so extraordinary—one-of-a-kind / unique. Starting with the virgin birth—the Son who existed before the child that was born—I mean, it's God in flesh. Hebrews 4 [verse 15] wants you to understand that because he says, "I want you to understand…so that He could sympathize with our weaknesses." That goes back to the concept that God wants to experience what we experience and not just know about what we experience.
Tony: So, in Jesus Christ in flesh—the experience goes there.
When a woman is pregnant and has a baby, it's a difference of having a male obstetrician or a female obstetrician, who's also a mother. A male knows the facts about the birth / the female obstetrician, who is a mother, has the experience of the birth.
Tony: When we have Jesus Christ, we have somebody who knows about the birth—He knows what to do—but He also knows what labor pains feel like / in being tempted in every way such as we are. In Jesus Christ, you have somebody who can relate and who can do something about it because He's the God-man.
Bob: He is fully God and fully man. We were talking this morning—I think, sometimes, we have this idea that Jesus was mostly God and a little bit of man thrown in so that He could relate to us.
Tony: Ahhh, well this is quite extraordinary! You know, in the manger—you know, He's a baby needing to feed on His mother / yet, He made His mother. You know, He can say, "I thirst"; and yet, He can walk on water. You know, He can die; but He can get up out of the grave; you know? He's fully both—and He can maneuver both in sync and in harmony—100 percent of the time.
Bob: He weeps at the death of Lazarus and then He raises him from the dead.
Tony: He can do both in the same situation. That means He can relate and help.
Tony: And what makes that psalm so beautiful is that it puts you in the position of a sheep. Sheep are dumb! Let me tell you how dumb sheep are! Sheep are so dumb that one sheep will follow another sheep that's walking in a circle, and they all think they're going somewhere! [Laughter] I mean, they're just dumb!—alright? But a shepherd knows how to move sheep from one place to another and protect them in the process.
Tony: Absolutely, because a wayward sheep is going to be gobbled up by wolves.
Dennis: Okay. Out of all these names—and you said there are like 80 you could have sampled from the Scripture—what's your favorite? Do you have one that you haven't mentioned that's a favorite?
Tony: Boy! I like Jehovah-nissi because that's "the Lord is my banner." When Israel would go out to war, they would have this banner that let them know that God was going in front of them for the battle.
We're in a war—in our country, in our culture, in our families, in our society—everywhere you look, worldwide/nationwide, and every community.
Dennis: And we're in a war in our hearts too—with myself.
So we're in a war zone. I need to know that victory is possible. The Lord being my banner says that—even when I'm outnumbered / even when I don't think I can make it—if I put that banner in front of me, that means it ain't over. That means the final decision / the final bell has not rung yet and that I'm on the winning side. To be reminded that I'm on the winning side, even when I feel like I'm losing, is a good thing to have.
Dennis: But it's important to know that, as you look forward to the God, who has that banner, that you're in line and you're marching according to the General's directions.
Bob: That you're under the banner—that's right!
Dennis: Speak to that because some are struggling with the authority of the General. If they're going to have the victory, they've got to salute.
Tony: You cannot be going your own way / your own path, doing your own thing, and still claim the victory because, now, you are sleeping with the enemy / you're helping the enemy.
What you want to do is be under divine rule so that His banner and you are in the same location.
Dennis: —that God will show up, and that they will salute and follow Him because this is not just a broadcast to entertain people. It is a broadcast to, hopefully, deliver the Scriptures and the reality of who God is and who Christ is so that He will begin to transform human lives.
Father, right now, I pray for that person / those people, right now, who are in a battle—a battle with themselves, a battle in their homes, a battle in our society—wherever the battle that is being waged—that You will, in light of who You are and the names You bear, demonstrate—to them, in them, for them, and from them—the glory of Your name.
That they will experience Your intrusion into their lives and, even if it's not yet time for their circumstances to change, change them in the midst of their circumstances. Give them a peace that passes understanding—the shalom peace that you offer to everyone who comes to You through Christ. So I pray that the peace of God will rest as people wait on You for You to address their deepest needs. In Jesus' name. Amen.
Dennis: Amen. Tony, I want to thank you for making the journey up here—for being a Texan and crossing the border into Arkansas. They wouldn't let me into Texas the other day when I tried to get in.
Tony: So that's why I came to you.
Dennis: There you go. They wouldn't let me—my passport wasn't good enough. Thanks for being a champion for Christ, though, and for your faithfulness over the past—well, more than four-and-a-half decades—just for your life and the ministry you continue to have. I just appreciate you and pray that God's favor rests upon you.
Tony: Thank you, my friend.
Bob: —including this year's ornaments that are the names of Jesus in different languages—Spanish, Russian, Hebrew, Arabic, and Mandarin. They can be hung on your Christmas tree as well.
And then we've got this resource that we've created for children called "The Twelve Names of Christmas™—12 Christmas tree ornaments that children will appreciate with different names of Jesus: He is Immanuel, He's the Living Water, He's the Door, He's the Light of the world, the Lamb of God, the King of kings, the Lion of Judah. Along with the ornaments, there is a storybook so that you can read to the kids the stories about the names of Jesus.
And, quickly, let me remind our listeners about the matching-gift opportunity that we talked about earlier. When you make a donation to FamilyLife Today, your donation is, effectively, going to be tripled. That's up to a total of $2 million—all of this thanks to friends who have provided this matching-gift fund. So, if you can help with a donation today, we would appreciate it. Donate, online, at FamilyLifeToday.com; or call 1-800-FL-TODAY to make a donation over the phone.
Or you can mail your yearend contribution to FamilyLife Today at PO Box 7111, Little Rock, AR; and our zip code is 72223.
And we hope you can join us again tomorrow. Max Lucado is going to be here. We're going to look at the life of Joshua—the battle of Jericho and the taking of the Promised Land—and find out what that has to say to us during the Christmas season and in our own walk with Jesus today. I hope you can be here for that.


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This book shows how political argument in terms of rights and natural rights began in medieval Europe, and how the theory of natural rights was developed in the seventeenth century after a period of neglect in the Renaissance. Dr Tuck provides a new understanding of the importance of Jean Gerson in the formation of the theories, and of Hugo Grotius in their development; he also restores the Englishman John Selden's ideas to the prominence they once enjoyed, and shows how Thomas Hobbes's political theory can best be understood against this background. In general, the book enables us to understand more fully the characteristics of the natural rights theories available to the men of the Enlightenment, and thereby to appreciate the complexity and equivocal nature of modern right theories.
' ... Dr Tuck has provided philosophers with a mine of historical material with which they can enrich their discussions not only of Hobbes and Locke (say) but also of contemporary philosophers such as Nozick. He has also provided historians with an example of a history of ideas which is firmly rooted in documentary evidence.' R. S. Downie, The Times Higher Education Supplement
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Nothing's harder than selecting the best of these glamour shots for our Monday postings. For Carole Lombard, I wanted to include a few striking pre-code images along with the later stuff, so here she is in some early 30's publicity poses. That set grouping is for The Princess Comes Across, a 1936 comedy with Fred MacMurray, seen with her here. I assume that's director William K. Howard in the chair, although there's no caption to confirm it. I couldn't resist one of those gorgeous rotogravures (the one on the bed) from a typical Sunday newspaper section of the day. Each week, subscribers could depend on at least one beautiful color image of a favorite star. Fortunately, a lot of readers saved them. Finally, there's a color image from a Paramount exhibitor's annual heralding the 1934-35 season, wherein Carole was announced for another teaming with Gary Cooper in Twenty Hours By Air, an intriguing project for the two which was subsequently cancelled.
More Carol glamour shots please!!!
Paramount apparently downsized TWENTY HOURS BY AIR into THIRTEEN HOURS BY AIR in 1936, which starred Joan Bennett and Fred MacMurray.
Fascinating stuff about Lombard's crash site, though!


Upper Arkansas Recycling will be hosting their 10th annual Recycled Art Show, "RECLAIMED: The Art of Recycling." The show, held in November, is issuing a call for artists. Recycled art is all about how art and inspiration can "reclaim" trash.
If you are interested in submitting a piece of artwork for this open show, work must be original and produced by the artist. Artwork must be made from anything that was originally manufactured, but whose destination is a landfill. Pieces must contain a minimum of 75 percent recycled content. There is a youth division and an adult division. Over $1,000 in cash and prizes will be awarded.
The traditional gift of a 10th anniversary is tin or aluminum. There is a special category to celebrate the 10th Anniversary of the show. All works for this "Anniversary Gift" category must be made from tin or aluminum CANS. There is no entry fee for this category, but they will not be returned to the artists. Instead, the gifts will be placed in a silent auction that will run the duration of the event.
Organizers are once again partnering with the Fremont County Habitat for Humanity ReStore in the category, "ReStored." To enter this division, the artwork must be made from items purchased at the Fremont County ReStore. Pieces must contain 75 percent ReStore content and a receipt must accompany the entry. Residents from other counties may use their local ReStore. You can pick up entry form for the "ReStored" category at the ReStore, 727 S. 8th or anywhere entry forms are available. Deadline for work submittal is noon Oct. 30.
The exhibit will be displayed in the warehouse of the Solvista Health Administration Office, 701 S. Ninth St., from Nov. 2-18. Applications to submit artwork may be picked up at the UAACOG Offices, 3224 Independence Road, sending a request to Beth.Lenz@uaacog.com., or on the "Upper Arkansas Recycling" Facebook page. For more information, call Beth with Upper Arkansas Recycling at 719-275-1675.
The Blue Spruce Gallery is hosting the eighth annual "Miniature Paintings and Artwork," a show which will run through early November. Numerous artists from the area have entered work in an exciting variety of media: acrylics, oils, watercolors, pastels, fiber, glass and pencil. Some are sculptural, some are meant to hang on the wall, and all are exceptional. Limited to an image size of under 35 square inches, the show offers a unique challenge to the artists. These beautifully detailed works of art are sure to capture the fancy of viewers, just in time for holiday shopping. Voting will be "People's Choice," and cash awards will be given to the winners.
The opening reception for the show will be from 5-7 p.m. Saturday in the gallery's backyard garden area. Second Saturday features several art galleries in downtown Florence, all with light refreshments and good conversation. Gallery location is at 205 West Main St. in Florence. For more information, call 719-784-1339.
The Blue Spruce Gallery currently has one opening available in the long standing cooperative gallery. They now have a 3-D opening available for artists working in clay, wood, fiber or other media.
Jury for the gallery is at 5 p.m. Oct. 18. Representative work needs to be at the gallery one day prior to the jury meeting, labeled with artist information, and priced. The positions will remain open until filled, and the next jury date will be in November.
If interested, or to find out gallery and cooperative requirements, please contact the Blue Spruce at 719-784-1339 during regular business hours, or contact Lynn Lemmon-Oliver at 719-671-3581. Gallery is located at 205 West Main St. in Florence.


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Q: RSA encryption using modulus and exponent public key I need to encrypt my steam login password. Before sending the auth data, steam sends this: "publickey_mod":"c511d72db5ebbba01977983eec2...","publickey_exp":"010001".
The browser encrypts password with this script:
var pubKey = RSA.getPublicKey(results.publickey_mod, results.publickey_exp);
password = password.replace(/[^\x00-\x7F]/g, ''); // remove non-standard-ASCII characters
var encryptedPassword = RSA.encrypt(password, pubKey);

I can't write a working algorithm in c# which will encrypt the password using modulus and exponent.
Here is what i tried:
        static async Task Main()
        {

            var pubKey = SetPublicKey($"{response["publickey_mod"]}", $"{response["publickey_exp"]}");

            string password = "123456";
            byte[] password_byte = Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(password);

            byte[] encryptedPassword;
            using (RSACryptoServiceProvider RSA = new RSACryptoServiceProvider())
            {
                RSA.ImportParameters(pubKey);
                encryptedPassword = RSA.Encrypt(password_byte, false);
            }

            string encodingPassword = Convert.ToHexString(encryptedPassword);

            Console.WriteLine(encodingPassword);
        }
        public static RSAParameters SetPublicKey(string modulus, string exponent)
        {
            RSAParameters result = new RSAParameters();
            result.Modulus = Convert.FromHexString(modulus);
            result.Exponent = Convert.FromHexString(exponent);

            return result;
        }

A: working algorithm:

            byte[] encryptedPasswordBytes;
            using (var rsaEncryptor = new RSACryptoServiceProvider())
            {
                var passwordBytes = Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(password);
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                rsaParameters.Exponent = Convert.FromHexString($"{_response_getrsakey["publickey_exp"]}");
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                rsaEncryptor.ImportParameters(rsaParameters);
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Leader praise for volunteer effort
3 June 2014 ·	by Jonathan Williams ·	in Uncategorized
Leader of Somerset County Council, Cllr John Osman has praised the work of Somerset's army of willing flood relief volunteers.
This year marks the 30th anniversary of National Volunteers Week, which runs from 1 to 7 June and celebrates the fantastic contributions that volunteers make across the country.
Leader of Somerset County Council, Cllr John Osman said: "I would like to thank all of the volunteers across Somerset that do so much to help others and contribute in their own communities and beyond.
"Earlier in the year, parts of Somerset experienced major flooding when the value of our volunteers was there for the world to see. Communities pulling together to work along-side public services and other organisations in a time of crisis; they were, and still are, absolutely fantastic.
"I want to thank all of the volunteers who contribute so much to their communities and their county. Volunteers are unsung heroes who step-up to the mark on a daily basis across Somerset and truly are the heartbeat of our county."
Somerset Emergency Volunteers are also celebrating the 30th anniversary of National Volunteers Week with the support of Somerset County Council.
SEV has been set up with funding from Somerset County Council and is now coordinating the many volunteers who have made a priceless contribution throughout the floods and into the recovery.
The Volunteers have cleared flood damaged properties, cleared streams, cleaned flood damaged gardens, removed trees, cleared hedges and ditches.
Paula Blight, Chief Officer from Mendip Community Support said: "The volunteers have been a lifeline to the community here on The Levels – other parts of the country flooded but it was only Somerset where communities worked together, the volunteers are a brilliant example of the valuable contribution volunteers can make."
For more information on becoming a volunteer and to find out more about what's going on in your area during Volunteers' Week, please visit: www.scvolunteering.com.
Volunteering opportunities can also be found at: www.do-it.org.uk.
Somerset Emergency Volunteers are managed by Mendip Community Support and South Somerset Association for Voluntary Community Action (SSVCA)
A series of Somerset Celebrating Volunteers events and exhibitions will be hosted at Bridgwater Library, Frome Library, Minehead Library, Yeovil Library and Taunton Library during Volunteers' Week.
The events will be open during normal library opening times with opportunities to discuss volunteering, find out what activities are happening in your area, and how to recognise the work that Volunteers do by visiting www.scvolunteering.com
For more information on Volunteering please contact Bryan Mitchell from Somerset You can Do bryan.mitchell@somersetyoucando.org.
If you are interested in youth volunteering opportunities, visit the Volunteering Network website at www.volunteernetwork.org.uk or Tel: 01458 836130.
Volunteering for Somerset County Council Social Care Services or other opportunities in the community visit www.somersetyoucando.it or call 01278 664 180
For information about volunteering opportunities with Somerset County Council, visit: www.somerset.gov.uk/volunteering or phone: 0845 345 9166.
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The Warriors got some encouraging news on the DeMarcus Cousins' front on Monday. The big man, who exited Saturday night's win early with a sore right ankle, got a clean bill of health after undergoing an MRI.
"DeMarcus Cousins underwent an MRI on his sore right ankle today, the results of which came back clean. He will not play in tonight's game at San Antonio and will be listed as day-to-day."
With Cousins on the mend, Andrew Bogut, newly returned to the back-to-back champs, is the favorite to stand in for Boogie in the starting five. At least, that's what associate head coach Mike Brown hinted at during an interview with Matt Steinmetz and Daryle "The Guru" Johnson on Monday morning.
"Bogut's the prime candidate to step in and give us a few minutes to begin the game off with," Brown said on 95.7 The Game.


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MBTA resumes limited service
BOSTON — Boston area commuters reported long lines, crowded trains and buses, and lengthy commutes as the MBTA resumed rail service a day after shutting it down to clear tracks of ice and snow.
Area highways also clogged with traffic Wednesday as life in the city returned to normal the region's third significant snowstorm in just a couple of weeks.
The problems were not unanticipated, as the transit agency announced that there would be fewer cars and less frequent service on the Green and Blue lines and only about 70 percent of regularly-scheduled commuter rail trips will be made. A section of the Red Line remains closed and there are Orange Line restrictions.
Spokesman Joe Pesaturo says there have been no unexpected problems Wednesday and urged commuters to check the MBTA's website for updates.


After update ,when I race twice the game freezes when I come back to the room. I play on a Android tablet that isn't a cheapo. So it's not the tablet. I tried uninstalling and reinstalling . Please fix.
The same thing happens to me and I'm playing on a laptop. I race twice and then the game will crash.
That happens me too and I play on an iPad. But for me is enough one racing to this.
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Kenzo Takada - the passing of a true influencer, and my personal inspiration
In honour and memory of Kenzo Takada, a Japanese-French designer who passed away on October 4, 2020 due to covid-19.
In 1988, Kenzo introduced his women's perfume line beginning with Kenzo de Kenzo (now known as Ça Sent Beau), Parfum D'été, Le monde est beau and L'eau par Kenzo. Kenzo pour Homme was his first men's perfume (1991).
When I first smelled Parfum D'ete in 1988, I fell in love. It took me to a place of serenity and comfort that I've never known. A place I wanted to stay in forever in my mind. It was my signature scent for more than a decade, until they reformulated it; by a different nose and reintroduced it in a new flacon.
Again, in 1991, when he launched Kenzo pour homme, I was mind blown and in awe of his artistic expression through scents. To-date, no scent compositions I've smelled have given me the same awe and star-struck feeling. It was so unique and unconventional that I bought it as a gift for my partner at the time and it became his signature scent.
Flower by Kenzo, launched in 2000, was listed by Vogue's website as one of the best classic French perfumes of all time. It was just a coincidence that I created a floral composition and called it "Bunga" in 2017, as part of our Memories series, inspired of walks in a blooming garden. My love for flowers and Monet's garden in Giverny, France inspired the composition.
Kenzo Takada inspired me to embrace my heritage and to let the world influence me through the places that I have been, people that I have met and the experiences that have made me richer as a person. Memories of places, people and experiences have become my ongoing source of inspiration that I would translate into my creations.
He may not think that he influenced the world, in all his humility, but to me he played a major influence in my journey of becoming what I am - in always pushing me to create unique and memorable scents to represent the true essence of who I am, where I come from and where I have been. To me, he was a true influencer in every sense of the word.
Rest well, Kenzo-san and thank you for decades of never-ending inspiration you brought into our lives. ❤
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as long as I had even metal scraps from the enemy's Rest Camp.
Rest camp! Survival in a time of war.
houses - real brick houses with real asbestos roofs like in towns!
new houses were germinating, new roofs, new dreams.
where there was no Rest place for them.
let me talk about the war now - you talk too.
Thanks, Asa?, for attaching the picture of the donkey; it gives the poem more life: that's just too much weight on the poor creature, but I guess that's what survival is all about in some places (most of my poems deal with Zimbabwe themes).


For the final project in my non-fiction writing class in university we had to create a zine. I found the process of taking a subject I was passionate about and shrinking it down to meaningful, concise thoughts incredibly difficult, but also a really interesting process. I also found it surprising how many people don't actually know what a zine is.
A zine is a small, self-published work of text, images and/or art that is reproduced either by hand, by photocopier, or online (though print is still the most popular form). According to the website Remezcla, "Traditionally, zines were handmade booklets/DIY magazines made by people who didn't have access to high quality publishing. These were alternative methods for distributing new artists, ideas, contemporary influencers, political manifestos, illustrations – anything and everything outside of the mainstream publishing world."
They usually make little-to-no profit and often deal with topics that are too niche, personal, or controversial for mainstream media. The design is usually rough, unique, and unpolished, further supporting the unconventional topics they cover.
Anyone can create a zine, and there are usually no more than 100 of them distributed.
Ultimately, zines can be made of anything, be about anything, and be distributed just about anywhere. As long as the are communicating an idea, and someone out there is reading them, then they are doing what they were meant to.


You are free to download and use your photos for your personal enjoyment. Share them with your family or print them. Hover over a photo to see the file number as well as a download icon. It was a pleasure helping with this fundraising event, thank you for helping to keep Totoredaca great.
If you are interested in purchasing high quality prints please contact Marc LeBlanc directly.
Prints are done with long lasting Canon inks and printed on Pro Luster paper for amazing and vivid quality. If interested please Email the file numbers to marc@cathost.ca. Multiple payment options are available. Local pickup or delivery options. I live on Cobbinshaw Circle, near Battleford & Erin Mills.


In the United States, as many as 12 million Americans are victims of identity theft per year.
40-50% of identity theft victims are made aware of identity theft within 3 months of the illegal action. 10-20% of the victims; however, take 4 years or longer to discover the illegal infiltration of their personal and financial information.
Victims of identity theft spend from 3 to 5,840 hours repairing damages realized through identity theft. This wide range is due to the varying levels of severity present in the crime—a lost credit card, for example, will require less time repairing than a compromised social security number. The total average of time spent repairing the damages realized through identity theft is approximately 330 hours.
26-32% of victims will spend a period of 4 to 6 months dealing with their particular case, while 11-23% of victims will take over 7 months to repair and resolve the consequences of their particular case.
Nearly $250 billion a year is lost by businesses who are victims of identity theft. On average, a victim of identity theft will lose between $2,000 and $14,000; victims will subsequently spend an average of $851 to $1,400 in expenses related to their case.


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Banking superintendent says there's sticker shock over car loan rates
The state banking superintendent says consumers are experiencing a bit of sticker shock when they take out a conventional car loan.
State Banking Superintendent Tom Gronstal says consumers got used to the low-interest or no-interest rate loans from car manufacturers.
"A lot of the credit that consumers relied on to purchase cars and other durable goods that was provided by manufacturers captive finance companies has dried up," Gronstal says. "Those captive finance companies — like GMAC, Ford Motor Credit, those storts of entites — had loan rates that were, essentially financed by their parent company, in order to help sell the product."
Now, since car companies' loans aren't as readily available, many consumers are approaching a traditional bank for a loan to buy a car or a big-ticket appliance. "Banks…have to charge a more realistic interest rate and so I think people are kind of shocked that, perhaps, a one- or two-percent car loan isn't available to them anymore, so they think that credit isn't available," Gronstal says. "Credit is available, but the banks, they have to charge more."
Gronstal says there appears to be retraction on both sides of the ledger when it comes to loans. "We see both a shrinking in demand for loans and a more cautious approach to lending by the lenders," Gronstal says. "But the biggest decline in credit availability is not bank credit. It's credit from non-bank sources."
Gronstal testified before the Legislative Oversight Committee this past week, answering questions on a variety of issues. According to Gronstal, ag banks and farm borrowers are in "good condition" and he foresees no shortage of farm credit for the 2009 growing season.
And Gronstal said the few Iowa banks which receive federal bailout funds should have no problems adhering to the $500,000 limit on salaries for the top 15 executives. "I can tell you that for most Iowa state-chartered banks, the top 15 people in the bank don't collectively make a half a million dollars (today)," Gronstal told legislators.
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Man Spends Three Years Spray-Painting Penises Around Potholes
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A man in New Zealand has been highlighting dangerous local potholes by spray-painting the shape of a giant penis around them.
Geoff Upson, a handyman and road safety advocate, first started drawing the penises after becoming frustrated by the time it took to fix potholes near his home in Waitoki back in 2018.
Since then, he estimates he's scrawled more then 100 shapes onto the roads, and spends around NZ $400 (£208) on spray paint each year, according to the Metro.
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Upson told New Zealand Autocar that he's made numerous attempts to contact Auckland Transport about the potholes, but that most of his complaints have gone unanswered.
While Auckland Transport has said it intends to pursue the 'culprit', Upson told the outlet he was more than happy to come forward and have his identity published as the man behind the penises.
Upson said he's always cautious and careful when working on his creations, explaining: "The only spray painting I have done has been directly on unsafe areas of road surface which were overdue for repairs and all spray paint has been removed along with the damaged road as part of the repair when the Road Controlling Authority finally repairs the road.
"In this instance on Old North Road the spray painting has not been removed or the road repaired yet.
"When I undertake drawing on the road I am cautious to minimise the risk both to myself and other road users."
Saying Auckland Transport should be 'ashamed' of the local roads, Upson continued: "Auckland Transport should stop worrying about prosecuting me for highlighting their failures and be ashamed of themselves for allowing our road network to be in such a state of disrepair.
"Waka Kotahi and Auckland Transport should also offer additional clarification regarding the reason the road surfaces have become so dangerous and how the public can change this in the next election."
An Auckland Transport spokesperson told NZ Autocar that the council-controlled organisation intended to pursue whoever was behind the penises for the cost of their removal, saying they have put themselves at risk while also creating a distraction for motorists.
The spokesperson said: "The graffiti will be reported to the police and all costs to remove will be charged to whoever the culprits are.
"The person responsible has placed themselves at risk, as well as potentially causing a safety risk and a distraction for other drivers."
They added that the potholes on Old North Road were on Auckland Transport's 'list of repaired' and were 'programmed to be done soon'.
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Police investigating a stalker who targeted Lily Allen made her feel like a "nuisance rather than a victim", the singer has revealed.
Allen told The Observer detectives destroyed evidence supporting her case and refused to let her see and keep a photograph of the man harassing her.
Alex Gray, 30, from Perth, was convicted of burglary and harassment at Harrow Crown Court earlier in April.
A Metropolitan Police spokesman said stalking was taken "very seriously".
Allen said the long campaign had left her "a changed person" and that she had not looked for "special attention… [only] reassurance and validation".
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She said the abuse began in 2009 when Gray set up a Twitter account, @lilyallenRIP, and claimed to have written her number one hit, The Fear.
'I'm not safe'
He went on to send letters containing abusive rants, accusations and suicide threats to her flat, her sister's home, her record company and her management, all of which were handed to police.
She said police gave her a panic alarm after a banner that read "I wrote The Fear" was held up at one of her concerts, but took it back a few months later.
She said she was then not given chance to see a picture of Gray, adding that when they eventually did show her an image of him, she was not allowed to keep it.
Gray went on to bang on Allen's back door and spend nights in her garden, before breaking into her home in 2015 and "steaming" into her bedroom, swearing at her. He was forced from the house by one of Allen's friends, taking a handbag with him.
After the handbag was found, Gray was arrested, but Allen said she "hit a brick wall" when she tried to raise the issue of stalking, adding that she was told – with "no apology" – that the 2009 letters had been "destroyed 'according to police protocol'".
She added that she was not angry with Gray, who is due to be sentenced next month.
"He has a mental illness," she said. "The system has failed him, but until he gets the right treatment and the right help he needs, then I'm not safe".
The Metropolitan Police spokesman said the force would not comment on Allen's case.
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Districts beef up security in wake of Santa Fe shootings
Thursday was the last time Melissa Ansley's daughters will attend public school in the foreseeable future.
Law enforcement vehicles screamed past her home Friday morning along State Highway 6, about a mile east of Santa Fe High School. As she read details of the latest school massacre on her phone, Ansley decided not to allow her 11- and 13-year-old daughters to go back to their Santa Fe ISD campuses.
"I won't put my kids back in school," she said. "I'm going to homeschool them because this kind of stuff scares me."
As schools across the greater Houston area prepare to open for the first time since a 17-year-old gunman opened fire in Santa Fe High School, killing 10 and wounding 13 others, parents and students question if their schools have done enough to prevent a potential massacre.
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Texas Governor Greg Abbott speaks about the shooting at Santa Fe High School, during a press conference at the Santa Fe ISD Agricultural Center Friday, May 18, 2018, in Santa Fe.
All four schools in Santa Fe ISD will remain closed at least Monday and Tuesday, district officials said in a social media post.
A few districts near the shooting have already pledged to beef up security after the shooting. In Clear Creek ISD, which shares a border with Santa Fe ISD, Superintendent Greg Smith wrote there would be an increase in "police visibility" through the end of the school year. Dickinson ISD pledged additional officers would be stationed at its schools and staff would update the district's safety plans.
Angleton ISD Superintendent Pat Montgomery wrote more officers would patrol the district's eight regular campuses.
"We do not believe that there is anything to be concerned about or wrong," Montgomery wrote, "we just want to make sure you feel safe sending your child to school and that our students and staff feel safe coming to school."
Some parents do not.
On parent Facebook forums from Humble to Fort Bend, folks debated additional security measures and recalled their students' experiences with active-shooter drills.
Some parents in Fort Bend ISD worried portable classroom buildings, with thin metal siding, would be easily pierced by bullets. Parents in Dickinson and Galveston ISDs created petitions calling for metal detectors at all school entrances.
Carrie Whiten, whose 16-year-old daughter attends Kingwood High School in Humble ISD, proposed creating a volunteer sign-up so parents could greet and monitor students as they stream into school each morning. She said she is not worried about her daughter finishing out the school year in the northwest Houston suburb but wants to find more immediate solutions.
"I think those vulnerable soft spots are right as kids entering main big entrances, and that's something we as parents could do to help," Whiten said. "I just think right now, doing the status quo isn't going to work."
Mike Haynes spent part of Sunday wrestling with whether to allow his 13-year-old daughter to go to classes at her Texas City ISD middle school on Monday.
The operations manager for Exxon Mobil said there was too little time between the Santa Fe High School shooting and Monday for the campus to make meaningful security changes. Haynes is unsure what security measures would be most effective, but he said metal detectors, armed guards at all entrances and outfitting exits with one-way doors would be good places to start.
Those solutions could be pricey, Haynes said, but he challenged school districts to invest in more security infrastructure and spend less on multimillion-dollar football stadiums.
"As a parent it's a big concern," Haynes said. "This happened right in our back yard, and it was a matter of time. People are walking around blind, acting like it's not going to happen here. Well, why not? What was going to keep it from happening here? Nothing."
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Vijay Varma is an Indian actor who works predominantly in Hindi cinema. Varma rose to prominence with his role in Pink (2016) and has since acted in critically-acclaimed roles in MCA (2017), Gully Boy (2019), Baaghi 3 (2020), Darlings (2022), 2 web series Mirzapur (2020-present) and '
She (2020).

Early life and education
Varma was born on 29 March 1986 to a Marwari family settled in Hyderabad, Telangana. He studied at the FTII.

Career
Varma started his acting journey as a theatre artist in his hometown Hyderabad. He worked in numerous plays before he decided to move to Pune for two years to get a formal education in acting at FTII. After finishing his postgraduate course, he shifted his base to Mumbai in search of acting work. His first acting job was in Raj Nidimoru and Krishna DK's short film titled Shor which was highly acclaimed at festivals and won the Best Short Film at the MIAAC festival, in New York that year. He also worked in the critically acclaimed movie Pink.

Filmography

All films are in Hindi unless otherwise noted.

Films

Web series

Awards and nominations

References

External links

 Vijay Varma at wiki Dekho

Living people
Male actors from Hyderabad, India
Male actors in Hindi cinema
Male actors in Hindi television
Male actors in Telugu cinema
Marwari people
1986 births

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Virtual reality: virtually there
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With recent launches from all of the big players, 2017 could be the year that virtual reality finally lives up to its promise
If 2017 turns out to be the year that virtual-reality technology finally breaks through to the mainstream, we may not look back with much surprise. VR promises to liberate us from the constraints and compromises of the physical world: according to enthusiasts, you could soon transport yourself to a far-off land, the front row of a concert, or a fantasy world where the rules of science cease to exist, simply by donning a headset. With additional apparatus, you could experience flight or a credible simulation of sex.
The underlying implication (and perhaps the draw) is that it could allow us to escape into individual utopias that suit precisely our particular tastes, ambitions and ideologies – a natural progression, one might say, from today's tendency to ensconce ourselves in digital echo chambers surrounded only by the people and ideas we're comfortable with. Of course, the concept is not new – humans have long dreamed of creating plausible artificial environments, despite the enormous barriers to doing so. In
the 1830s, stereoscopic devices allowed people to view flat images and see them in three dimensions. In the 1950s, cinematographer Morton Heilig offered multisensory experiences via his Sensorama cabinet, complete with speakers, stereoscopic display, fans, smell generators and a vibrating chair. Flight simulators and head-mounted displays followed, as did the term 'virtual reality' itself in the 1980s, but the technology never advanced enough to reach the mass market. VR faded from public attention, and we satisfied ourselves with low-tech 'immersive' experiences devised by artists and set designers.
Now VR's time may finally have come. In March 2016, Oculus Rift (pictured) became the first consumer-oriented VR headset on the market, followed by launches by HTC, Samsung and Playstation. Forecasts predict that 2016 is set to be VR's first 'billion-dollar year' and that the sector could be worth $70bn by 2020. In 2014, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg revealed his faith in the technology by buying the company behind Oculus Rift for $2 billion, calling it the 'next computing platform'. This is significant, not least because he is trying to confront one of the main barriers to adoption – the idea that VR is inherently antisocial. In October, he showed how social networks might incorporate VR by allowing people to interact as avatars. He has even made casual references to its potential to enable telepathy (a headline-grabbing claim we may not need to worry about for a while, but which highlights the risk of leaving it to tech entrepreneurs alone to shape a system with such potential for abuse).
For now though, developers are still struggling with the basics: by and large, higher spec headsets still need to be tethered to computers, while the experience can cause nausea, headaches and blurred vision. The headsets themselves are still absurdly cumbersome – reminiscent of a time before we became accustomed to discreet, streamlined personal gadgets and were promised Google Glass and VR contact lenses. But these kinks are being ironed out rapidly. In October, Zuckerberg demonstrated a prototype of an untethered Oculus. VR is also riding the wave of other advances: the ground is being laid for the next generation of high-speed internet, which will be essential to connect users to each other. Developments in camera and tracking technologies and artificial intelligence mean headsets can respond better to surroundings. When combined with robotics, VR's industrial and technical potential becomes apparent.
As a result, there's enthusiasm among commercial and public organisations, who can see VR's applications beyond gaming. Consultant PwC this year named it as one of eight tech 'megatrends' that businesses should 'absolutely consider', while Goldman Sachs predicts it will be a more lucrative market than television within ten years. In China, work is underway to open thousands of 'VR cafes', with President Xi Jinping becoming the first world leader to cite VR as a core element of his country's growth plans: 'The combination of the virtual economy and the real economy will bring revolutionary changes to our way of work and way of life,' he said in September. Broadly, the hope is for more efficient use of time, space and money – training surgeons without cadavers or engineers without equipment; showing off architectural designs, real estate, retail stock or holiday destinations from afar; creating scenarios to coach athletes and soldiers; or controlling robots in hazardous areas. Another attraction is VR's potential to offer vivid, realistic experiences: virtual meetings could replace real ones in a way teleconferencing on a screen never could; schools and universities could impart knowledge in a more visceral way; and designers could easily visualise and collaborate on ideas.
From global companies such as Bosch and Jaguar Land Rover to public bodies such as Transport for London, money is being poured into VR, but it's clear that reaching a mass market will hinge on the production of a killer consumer product that captures the imagination of a public jaded by VR's repeated failure to launch. The technology is advancing apace, but the final push may need to come from the creative sector. Early adopters such as the BBC, British Museum and The Economist are already filling the gap of compelling 'content' – most strikingly, the latter's reconstruction of the Mosul museum, destroyed by ISIS. Alternatively, it might be the porn industry that cracks it first: its work on 'teledildonic' devices, which incorporate physical sensations into the VR experience, may expand the market and aid the development of haptic technology that could make VR more immersive. Either way, the final verdict will come from users – will the reality of VR live up to the fantasy?
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China is the first new great global power to emerge in over a century.
It was logical, therefore, that the Chinese should ask how the preceding emerging great powers got there. One result of the inquiries was a brilliant 2006 CCTV series, The Rise Of The Great Powers.
The series begins with Portugal in the 15th century, the first great global seaborne power with an empire stretching from Brazil, across the Atlantic, to both West and East Africa, through to the Indian Ocean with an outpost in Goa and, thence, to the Western Pacific in Macau. Following Portugal, the series describes the rise of the next eight great powers: Spain, the Netherlands, Britain, France, Germany, Russia, Japan and the United States.
One major conclusion is that not a single one of the nine could have been described as a responsible stakeholder in their rise to global power: In every case, conquest, destruction, enslavement, executions, looting and the like were the order of the day.
The rise of Mr Zoellick's own country, the US, entailed slavery, the genocide of native American Indians, wars and territorial acquisitions (notably from Mexico), the control of neighbouring countries in the Caribbean through the expulsion of other powers, the imposition of the Monroe Doctrine declaring Latin America a US sphere of influence, culminating in the Spanish-American war whereby Washington acquired Puerto Rico (as well as Guam and the Philippines) and Spain was expelled from Cuba.
In his compelling book, Asia's Cauldron: The South China Sea And The End Of A Stable Pacific, Robert Kaplan draws an intriguing parallel between US perspectives on the Caribbean in relation to its national security, and China's on the South China Sea.
Arguably, the most relevant chapter of the CCTV series is that on Britain. It was Britain that woke China from its slumber and forced it, screaming and kicking, into the modern age. Imperial China, which, just before the outbreak of the first Opium War corresponded to over 30 per cent of global gross domestic product (GDP), was almost certainly unsustainable.
The system was obsolete and violent peasant risings had been raging for decades. But it is the manner in which Britain behaved that remains for China and Britain - and for the rest of the planet - a deep moral quandary.
As the totally illicit opium trade caused economic and social ravages, the Chinese pleaded with Britain to be a responsible stakeholder.
In an impassioned letter to Queen Victoria just prior to the outbreak of hostilities, commissioner Lin Zexu appealed to her better moral self to intervene so the heinous trade could end. Lin pointed to the flagrant double standards (a recurrent theme among risen Western great powers) in noting: "I have heard that the smoking of opium is very strictly forbidden by your country; that is because the harm caused by opium is clearly understood. Since it is not permitted to do harm to your own country, then even less should you let it be passed on to the harm of other countries - how much less to China!"
Queen Victoria never replied to the letter, except in the form of gunships in the first Opium War, followed by a second offensive from 1856 to 1860, in which the French joined the British, culminating with the looting of the Old Summer Palace in Beijing - somewhat comparable to the Chinese looting the British Museum and the Louvre.
If the Portuguese seaborne empire is the first chapter in the rise of the great powers, the Opium War is the first chapter in China's century of humiliation. By the year of liberation (1949), its share of GDP had plummeted to 4 per cent, while in the process there were incessant foreign military invasions, as well as the moral injury of the treaty ports, the coolie trade and other forms of humiliation.
Though China, unlike India, was not colonised by a single imperial power, in the words of Sun Yat Sen, it was a "poly-colony" with multiple countries helping themselves to bits and pieces of Chinese territory in what were called "spheres of influence".
In looking back over the past 500 years, it is clear that the narrative of the peaceful rise of a great power has never been written. Every single rising power from Portugal to the US has been bellicose, brutal and at times barbaric. It was after they had caused disorder that they sought to impose order - their order. If China wants a model of a responsible stakeholder, the fact is that it does not exist.
The term "China's peaceful rise to great power status" was coined by Chinese thought leader Zheng Bijian in 2005. The future of humanity very much depends on whether, as it rises to become a great global power, China will behave with the same ruthless cynicism and cause as much misery and mayhem as its nine predecessors, or whether it will break the pattern and tear asunder the great-power-rising paradigm by rising peacefully.
It's a tough challenge, especially, I repeat, as there is no precedent, no guidebook one can take off the shelf, no historical mentor one can turn to.
Whether China ultimately succeeds or fails will, of course, greatly depend on China, but it will also depend on the attitudes and acts of the existing and erstwhile great powers. Western sermons are not helpful. To construct a better and more peaceful world, a collective constructive approach is quintessential. As is a degree of humility on the part of the Western powers (and Japan). They should recognise that they did not rise peacefully and, indeed, as they rose, China was abused. This might go some way in avoiding a Chinese syndrome of revenge.
A first concrete step in that direction might be for Queen Elizabeth, before she leaves the throne, to apologise to China on behalf of her great-great-grandmother, Queen Victoria, for her rudeness in never having properly replied to Lin Zexu's letter. A small act of this nature could have a huge impact.
•The writer is emeritus professor of international political economy at IMD, Switzerland and visiting professor at the University of Hong Kong. This article first appeared in the South China Morning Post.


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Adriano Paroli (born 30 March 1962) is an Italian politician and lawyer, former Mayor of Brescia from 2008 to 2013.

Biography
Graduated in Law at the University of Milan, Paroli joined Communion and Liberation when he was very young. He has been elected to the city council of Brescia with the Christian Democracy in 1991.

Paroli joined Silvio Berlusconi's Forza Italia in 1994 and ran for the office of president of the province of Brescia, without being elected. He was later elected in the Chamber of Deputies in the 1996, 2001, 2006 and 2008 general election.

In 2008 Paroli was elected Mayor of Brescia, defeating the centre-left candidate Emilio Del Bono. He ran for a second term in 2013 but he was defeated by Del Bono.

In the 2018 general election Paroli has been elected to the Senate.

Electoral history

References

External links
Files about his parliamentary activities (in Italian): XIII, XIV, XV, XVI, XVIII legislature

1962 births
Living people
Christian Democracy (Italy) politicians
Forza Italia politicians
The People of Freedom politicians
20th-century Italian politicians
21st-century Italian politicians
Mayors of Brescia
University of Milan alumni
Forza Italia (2013) senators


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