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Efforts to end worm disease get British boost
Britain will back a final push to wipe out a debilitating parasitic worm disease that is on the verge of worldwide eradication.
Former President Jimmy Carter, World Health Organization's director-general Margaret Chan and British officials in London, announced Wednesday a new campaign to rid the world of the Guinea worm, making it the second disease to be eradicated.
The British government pledged about $30 million in eradication efforts. International Development Minister Stephen O'Brien and Carter emphasized the need for donors to match the funds to get rid of the guinea worm.
"The eradication of guinea worm is within our sights," O'Brien said. "But it does still remain unfinished business, mainly for the poorest people in remote regions of the remaining four endemic countries where the worm persists."
The first disease to be wiped off the earth was smallpox, which was eliminated through vaccines.
Unlike smallpox, the Guinea worm disease is not fatal. But there is no treatment for it and there's no vaccine to prevent infection either, according t to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. This disease can, however, cause permanent disabilities to people, crippling their livelihood and local economies.
The key to eradicating the disease is access to clean water and changes in people's behavior because the parasitic Guinea worm lives in stagnant water. When a person drinks the contaminated water, the worm grows inside its human host for a year until it emerges through the skin, causing great pain and in some cases, infections. The worm has been described in the Bible and Ancient Egyptian and Greek texts.
Graphic: How the guinea worm infects a person
Today, the worm is far less pervasive. Statistics from 2010 show that 1,797 cases remain in the world, in four countries: Ethiopia, Mali, Chad and mostly South Sudan.
"For most of the world, this is an invisible worm - out of sight, out of mind, because it affects the poorest of the poor, people living in remote, rural areas," said Chan from the WHO.
Carter commended the British government for "its willingness and staying power to help eradicate this debilitating disease," and called on donors to match their efforts. The goal is to stop the transmission of the guinea worm before 2015.
Unlike diseases like HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria, guinea worm is a little known disease. The Carter Center, based in Atlanta, Georgia, has led public health efforts tackling neglected diseases most Americans have never heard of.
"We have a policy at our center of undertaking difficult projects, quite often which no one else wants to adopt," Carter said during the press conference. "Perhaps one of the most vivid examples of this has been guinea worm."
Since 1986, the center's efforts have focused on health education, training of health workers and village volunteers who monitor and treat patients. The center has also supplied simple tools for clean drinking water and village-based education on avoiding the disease.
The greatest threat remains in the world's newest country, South Sudan, which has about 6,000 villages under surveillance by 12,000 health volunteers.
Calling the remaining cases "unfinished business," O'Brien said health officials had reason for cautious optimism. "We know the final mile can often be the longest part of the journey. "
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Get a clue, vaccination did not eradicate smallpox. In fact findings as published in the Ninth Edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica, strongly contradict the effectiveness of mass smallpox immunization programs. A few revealing excerpts follow: In Bavaria in 1871 of 30,742 of the smallpox cases 29,429 were in vaccinated persons, or 95.7 percent. Vaccine worked real good there.........Also the death-rate from smallpox in the German army, in which all recruits are vaccinated, was 60 percent more than among the civil population of the same age. Agian, looks like the vaccine worked real well.
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BillRubin
That is an excellent example from the early vaccination era of the 19th century. Those results were not consistent with the body of evidence collected over the next ~100 years, as vaccination became better understood.
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Chartreuxe
Vaccination has eradicated smallpox. The only places the smallpox virus still exists is in storage. The disease is only transmitted from primate to primate. How do you think the worldwide epidemics were stopped? With vitamins and enriched white bread? People were vaccinated in the early 20th Century at gunpoint. Those days may yet come again.
Cherry-picking statistics from two centuries ago to support your anti-vaccine crusade doesn't validate your point. No matter how clean the water and food supplies, disease will still be endemic and passed from one person to another. Ever read about Ebola or the Marburg virus?
It has been eradicated, except for storage. However, that means one day it will be out.
Someone with a Wider Perspective on the matter...
The 9th edition of The Encyclopedia Britannica was published 1875 and was current until 1889; moreover, during this period, the publisher underwent significant financial setbacks that resulted in a significant loss of talent. Further, while this particular edition has been termed "The Scholar's Edition" this was mostly a marketing ploy and it was considered outdated by the turn of the 20th century. Nevertheless, this author's argument will not proceed from the premise of an outdated source; however, it was felt that it was necessary to present the information as background information.
The poverty of analysis that is observed all too often in our society results not from a lack of data. Rather, it results from a lack of background information. Moreover, this would seem to be a self perpetuating construct in as much as biases and belief in misinformation promote the acceptance of information which supports the ideas that the individual has found comforting or satisfying. When combined with a fundamental misunderstanding of the manner in which vaccines -as well as the immune system- function, ignorance of the historical context can create the oddest of impressions.
While either a course in the pathogenesis, pathophysiology, and pathology of smallpox or a course in immunology is beyond the scope of even an extensive blog entry suffice it to say that it would not be until 1876 that a disease would be shown to proceed from infection with a microorganism; the microorganism that causes cholera would not be found until 1885. Indeed, at the time, the miasma theory of disease still carried considerable intellectual force; particularly, when the illness is transmitted via the respiratory passages. The fundamental mistake in Sarah's analysis is that the number of infections among the vaccinated is not the same as the number of vaccinated that fell ill. Further, the analysis begs the question "ill with what?" variola major or minor, hemoragic, or malignant. I hope these lines cause some thought in Sarah and others.
Very informative and well written, however, the term "begs the question" doesn't mean what you think it does and is almost NEVER used correctly. Just a little pet peeve of mine.
I saw a PBS show where parasites such as the Guinea worm were discussed, it is awful, like something out of a horror film. I truly hope they can eradicate the dreadful disease. I believe it is also called river blindness because the worms take up residence in the eyes and cause blindness. A truly horrid creature and disease. Many people who get it end up killing themselves because of the pain and distress of feeling the worms moving inside their bodies as it destroys from the inside out. Horrible!
Why dont we cure people diseases before we help worms?
Have you ever even seen a sick worm?
In all seriousness though,scary as hell.The last thing id want is worms
The decline in infectious diseases in developed countries had nothing to do with vaccinations, but with the decline in poverty and hunger and improvement of clean water and proper disposal of sewage."Dr Buchwald, M.D.
"Up to 90% of the total decline in the death rate of children between 1860-1965 because of whooping cough, scarlet fever, diptheria, and measles occurred before the introduction of immunizations and antibiotics."Dr Archie Kalokerinos, M.D
Vaccines have NEVER been proven to work. There has NEVER been one double blind study done on any vaccine. Also NO Where do vaccines claim they will cure, heal or prevent. The only thing a vaccine can do is create an antibody. There is no proof of anything beyond that..
Here is more proof vaccines don't work.....Again there has never been one double blind study done on vaccines to show they work..............................According to the CDC's own website they claim the flu vaccine saves lives, here is evidence to the contrary. Again this information can be verified on the CDC's own website.
In the history of flu vaccines, there were two years in which the formulated flu vaccine was a total mismatch to the widely-circulating influenza that made people sick. These years were 1968 and 1997. In both of these years, the vaccine was a completely mismatch for the circulating virus. In effect, nobody was vaccinated! [Knowing this, if the vaccine itself was effective at reducing death rates, then we should have once again seen a huge spike in the death rates during these two years, right? Seriously, if the vaccine reduces death rates by 50% as is claimed by vaccine manufacturers, then these two years in which the vaccine completely missed the mark should have seen huge spikes in the winter death rates, right? But what really happened was… nothing. Not a blip. Not a spike. Nothing. The death rates didn't rise at all. If vaccines really worked to save lives, then the more people you vaccinate, the lower death rates you should see, right? But that's not the case. Back in 1989, only 15 percent of over-65 people got vaccinated against the flu. But today, thanks to the big vaccine push, over 65 percent are vaccinated. And yet, amazingly, death rates among the elderly have not gone down during the flu season. In fact, they've gone up!
Vaccinations do not work!!!! What absurdity. Look around you, how many people do you know that have polio? When I was a kid, polio was not some abstract thing in a book. It was a real disease and it scared the hell out of most people. The President of the United States Franklin D. Roosevelt had it happen to him and it crippled him for the rest of his life. I personally know people who have had polio and it has affected their life to the present day. You can beleive what you want and forgo vaccines but that will not change what a disease can do to you.
Two things have led to a longer life for most people in this world:
1. Clean drinking water and sanitation treatment of sewage. Diseases like cholera are almost non-existent in modern countries due clean water and sewage plants.
2. Vaccines against diseases.
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the public has been fooled into believing vaccines work; vaccines coincidentally were implemented the same time that we had access to clean drinking water, knowledge to wash our hands, and public sewer systems. the govenment will not admit they are guilty of causing 1 out of 6 kids with learning disabilities, 1 in 100 with autism, an epidemic of food allergies, and the highest infant mortality rate. the government and pharma are insulting our intelligence and before long they will sell us on the idea that we have to accept this to prevent a few deaths from disease.
I had an experience just ysadertey. I'm pregnant and went in for a 3 1/2 mo check up. The Dr. asked if I had the H1N1 vaccine yet, and I said no . She matter of factly said that's ok, we'll get that for you then before you leave today. I replied that I would not get it. She GASPED, and said WHY! , in a very shocked tone. She wanted all my reasons. I told her this was not up for discussion as I did not want to argu the point. (I knew that if I gave her a reason, she'd probably have a good comeback.) She tried and tried, and then used guilt to tell me don't you realize that you are at more risk and you are putting yourself and your unborn infant at risk of dying if you contract the H1N1. !!! She made me feel like a terrible person and an irresponsible mother I still told her no', and she just couldn't understand why. While I am not an infant, my baby is and will also be affected by any immunizations I would receive. She made an interesting comment to me . she stated that when the baby is born, he/she cannot have the shot for the first 6 months of life, so if I get the shot now, it will protect the baby now and for the first several months of life so if even the Dr. will not give a new infant the shot, then WHY would I want to allow the immunization to get into my 3 1/2 mo old child still in the womb? I just want the truth, and as long as we are being used as guinea pigs, and they are trying to pump us full of experimental drugs, I will be cautious about what I allow to be put inside of me. We just don't know what side effects will come of this drug yet, and may not know for 10+ years, as we have seen of other drugs, or their ingredients thimerisol , etc I know I'm not a bad parent, I'm tring to make the best decision for me and my unborn child. I guess she said enough though that makes me think, did I do the right thing? I hope I don't get it (h1n1), and I hope it is not serious if I do BUT I drink my green smoothie every day. I am taking care of myself and I very rarely get sick, so I feel I made the right choice. If I ever have been to the Dr. for something, they always seem stunned when I say no to all the sicknesses, diseases on their list never had them I just can't believe they push SO hard and make you feel like a bad person if you don't follow the crowd. One thing I know is that people for the most part, feel VERY strongly about either side they are on but which one is right? For me and my family, good healthy habbits and good sanitation will take care of most anything that would/could be a potential problem.
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I'm not the biggest fan of EDM. In fact, my favorite techno song was written by Strongbad and so I wasn't initially stirred by the prospect of spending time in a DJ's studio - until producer Dylan Coburn told me the larger story of this song, Kernkraft 400. I remember being at hockey games and hearing this crazy, chanting song that everyone would sing along to - the best I can do in writing is: "whoo-Oh ooh Oh whoa, oo whoa ooh woa-oo oo-oh, oo-oh". Break that one down. The story of how Flo - the driving force behind the EDM duo Zombie Nation - found unintentional international (and unwanted?) success and the battles that he and his friend DJ Hell went through during the process was fascinating to me as more of a larger music business documentary and less of a DJ-profile. Florian and Helmut are great guys and (I'm told) EDM royalty and we had a lot of fun hanging out with them. Dylan also tempted me with the other way to my heart - gear.
the rig at YouTooCanWoo Studios
The nice part about music documentaries is that there's very little un-repeatable scene-work. Since we're driving the doc, the producer and I can ask a lot of the subjects and, since they've already appeared in tons of music videos, they're very media savvy. For this shoot, I elected to use only prime lenses on my Sony FS7. Due to the low light scenarios we'd be in, I elected to use an EF-mount Metabones Speedbooster to adapt the lenses which limited the different cine primes that were available. While I love and respect the Canon CNes and the Schneiders, I'm such a sucker for Zeiss. Not only that, both of these dudes are German so it's only fitting that we use German optics. I settled on a full range of Zeiss CP.2s. We decided to capture in Sony's slog3/sgamut3.cine on the FS7 to give maximum data for color in post.
A few months ago, I was wrestling with my desire to understand the best practices of gimbals vs. the limitations of using mirrorless cameras like the A7S. I don't like to shoot on small stills cameras that use SD media as I feel that I can see the image compression in the final pieces & they won't hold up to color correction. Aside from that, I rarely have a focus puller and the in-house gimbal is an M5 - which has a very low load limit. Through faith and trial, I managed to cram a C100mk2 on the M5 and, lo and behold, it flew. Using a light Canon lens like the 10-22, the C100mk2 has built-in Dual-Pixel Autofocus that's reasonably responsive. Combine that with a deeper stop and you've got a pretty good chance of pulling off some sick focus racks by messing around with framing. The M5 was unavailable for this shoot so Dylan graciously provided a MoVi Pro and we were off to the races. I also played around with some longer focal length Canon lenses on the C100mk2 to give the really soft, f1.8 textural b-roll. The C100 was set up with clog/rec709 color capturing MP4 files in primarily 60fps for 23.98 slow motion. All in all, I'm super happy with how this piece came out - I think its slick and coherent.
Doodeedootdoo. The system is down. And remember the lightswitch is not a toy.
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Sony FS7, Zeiss CP.2 Primes, Canon C100mk2, Canon 10-22 zoom, Canon 50mm f1.8 prime
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The lyncdiscover query returns a web services FQDN that ends with <Your SIP Domain Here> and succeeds, but then returns a SIP pool FQDN that doesn't end with <Your SIP Domain Here>.
So, how to work around this? You have a few options.
This option only works if you're deploying an Enterprise Edition pool, and only resolves the warnings for your primary SIP domain. Other SIP domains serviced by this pool will still get the certificate warning. While it's technically possible to modify the internal web services FQDN on a Standard Edition pool you can't change the pool FQDN, so there is no point.
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Q: Managing HTTP response in Angular 6 Context of my problem :
I am trying to create an array of the google maps Longitude and Latitudes to use in a heatmap. I am able to get data from my localhost and want to be able to reference an array that I create within the subscribe function outside of the function.
When I console.log a all of my data it comes out perfectly. When I try to reference the this.heatmapData outside of the subscribe function it is empty.
Here is the code
    this.result = this.examsApi.getExams()
        .subscribe(data => {
          this.examsList = data;
          this.i=0;
          var obj = JSON.parse(data);
          var val;
          this.heatmapData = [];
          for (val in obj["index"]) {
            console.log(this.heatmapData) // Fills perfectly
            this.heatmapData.push(new google.maps.LatLng(obj["Latitude"][val], obj["Longitude"][val])); // The parameters are filled with longitude and latitude values a http.get request in another file.
      }
        });
    console.log(this.heatmapData) // Becomes empty

A: It does not become empty but it is empty at the moment of logging, you log it into the console, and then you fetch the data - subscribe is async!
Order of execution:

*

*Create cold observable by this.examsApi.getExams()

*Heat it up by subscribing to it - AJAX request is STARTED

*console.log(this.heatmapData) // prints empty array because IT IS EMPTY NOW

*IO delay

*AJAX FINISHES - Response comes, subscription callback is called - you push data to this.heatmapData
I can only assume that you see no update on UI. This is because you are pushing to the array - Angular will not detect such change by itself. Either you have to invoce change detection run, or better, create new array, but data to it, and replace the array by assigning this.heatmapData=yourNewArrayOfData

and want to be able to reference an array that I create within the
  subscribe function outside of the function.

Looks like I got to the point here - build new array and assign it to this.heatmapData insteed of pushing. Angular will detect that change.
Since some people finds this answer "not an answer at all" i must include copy-pasted code I guess.
   this.result = this.examsApi.getExams()
            .subscribe(data => {
              this.examsList = data;
              this.i=0;
              var obj = JSON.parse(data);
              var val;
              const newData= [];
              for (val in obj["index"]) {
                newData.push(new google.maps.LatLng(obj["Latitude"][val], obj["Longitude"][val])); // The parameters are filled with longitude and latitude values a http.get request in another file.
          }
          this.heatmapData=newData; // this will do the trick
          console.log(this.heatmapData); // this will print just fine
            });

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Better Dividend Stock Buy: Procter & Gamble Co. or The Coca-Cola Co.?
Comparing two of the Dow's highest-yielding dividend payers.
If you're looking for exposure to a diverse consumer goods portfolio, you can't beat Procter & Gamble (NYSE:PG) or Coca Cola (NYSE:KO). P&G owns 23 brands that each pull in over $1 billion of sales per year. Those include household staples such as Crest toothpaste, Downy detergent, and Pantene shampoo.
Coca Cola boasts 20 of its own billion-dollar brands. They run the spectrum from carbonated drinks (e.g., Sprite and Diet Coke) to still beverages such as Dasani water and Minute Maid orange juice. The entire portfolio delivers 2 billion servings of Coke products to consumers around the world every day.
Thanks to some recent business stumbles, dividend investors can snap up either of these blue-chip stocks at relatively high yields of over 3%. But which would be the better purchase for income investors right now?
Sales growth represents 2014 volume growth for Coca Cola and 2014 organic sales growth for P&G. Source: Company financial filings and finviz.com.
What jumps out from the table above is that neither of these companies looks like a steal at the moment. Their tiny growth rates don't seem to justify the steep price-to-earnings multiples the market has assigned to them. To make matters worse, both Coca Cola's and P&G's dividend payout ratios seem dangerously high -- approaching 80% of earnings.
However, in Procter & Gamble's case both of those metrics are temporarily inflated for the same reason: foreign currency swings. Factor out that issue and earnings would have risen by 6% last quarter instead of suffering the 14% drop P&G actually reported. Likewise, the dividend is much safer than its payout ratio suggests. P&G produced $3.4 billion in cash flow last quarter, roughly twice the $1.8 billion it paid out in dividends.
That doesn't mean new investors shouldn't have concerns about the business. P&G's weak 2% sales growth last quarter came solely from price hikes, as opposed to volume growth, which doesn't bode well for future revenue gains. In fact, management believes fiscal 2015 will be another challenging year of "modest organic sales growth" and hardly any improvement in per-share earnings. Investors have to believe P&G can turn the tide with more product innovation and from the company's plan to shed underperforming brands from its portfolio.
Similarly, Coca Cola's P/E multiple and dividend payout ratio both look better when you ignore the effect of international currencies diving against the U.S. dollar. But there's still no question the selling environment is tougher than it used to be. Sparkling beverages, particularly Diet Coke, are becoming less popular. That was one reason why Coke in 2014 posted its first dip below 3% annual volume growth in almost a decade.
Sure, the waters, juices, and energy drinks in the portfolio can take up much of that slack. But Coca Cola's future depends on its sparkling brands reclaiming their volume growth.
That's one reason why I believe P&G has a better shot at beating the market over the next five years. The brand-shedding initiative should make the company more profitable and easier to manage. Coke is heading in the other direction with new investments in everything from at-home soda making to Monster energy drinks.
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Tiny Town Stalked By Serial Killer
This is a story about a little town called Chillicothe in the Midwest of the United States. They call this area the Rust Belt. It is a very unflattering term given to a region in America, which has experienced devastating economic decline, population loss and urban decay due to the collapse of its once powerful industrial sector. It is by no means an exception that Chillicothe would be afflicted by the usual problems of drugs, poverty and unemployment. A lot of towns in this part of the world carry that stigma. But Chillicothe could be said to have fallen a long way further than the rest. Two hundred years ago it was Ohio's first capital. It's a boast they still include on the city sign. This is a place rarely mentioned in a headline of any kind unless some Presidential or Congressional candidate blows in promising to do this, that and the other to make life better for the town's 21 thousand citizens, only to completely forget once election day came and went.
But lately Chillicothe is in the news for an entirely different reason. It is dark, sinister and extremely evil. It seems Chillicothe is also home to a serial killer who keeps murdering young women. In just over a year, at least six women have disappeared from the town. Four of their bodies were later discovered dumped in creeks or streams that flow out of the city. In every way it is a tragically, familiar story. Most of these women addicted to drugs or moonlighting as prostitutes to feed and fund their habit so local police say. Some of the missing women even knew each other. Understandably, the similarities between all of the victims, and the crime scenes has the residents of Chillicothe terrified. It is a murder mystery that local police, several county sheriff's offices and State investigators are doing their best to try to solve. Even the FBI's crime profilers are helping with the investigation trying to build a picture of who might be responsible.
"I don't want to come out and say 'yes, we have a serial killer' but it's a small community that we live in . . . and the number of females who have come up missing, and then the bodies that we've found, that's quite a bit for our community," Staff Lieutenant Mike Preston of the Ross County Sheriff's Department told The Washington Post. "The community is starting to get concerned. Everyone just wants answers."
In the absence of answers – and arrests – the citizens of Chillicothe are getting scared. Of course the most obvious conclusion is that a serial killer is stalking prostitutes and that fear is swirling around the town like the winds off the Great Lakes. Jessica Sayre's older sister, Tiffany, is the latest victim. Her body was found in a drainage pipe on Saturday after she had been missing for more than a month. Obviously there has to be something going on, Sayre says. "Apparently my sister was the next target."
Women began disappearing a year ago from Chillicothe, about an hour south of Columbus. "We are battling a problem with heroin in our community," says Mike Preston of the Ross County Sheriff's Department.
And of course that means prostitution is on the rise as well.
Charlotte Trego was the first woman to vanish. She was in her late 20s with wavy brown hair and glasses, a mother of two who had fallen on hard times. "She started taking pain pills and graduated to heroin," according to the Columbus Dispatch. In the spring of 2014, Trego told her mother that she was ready to get herself drug free. Her Mother found a rehab centre. But then Trego was evicted by her roommate and was last seen on May 3, 2014. As one scribe put it, her disappearance was as if Chillicothe's increasingly dangerous streets simply swallowed her whole. Police are certain she is dead but her body has not been found. That same day, a friend of Trego's, Tameka Lynch, also vanished. Like Trego, Lynch had drug problems. "She used and she kind of was struggling, especially after she was diagnosed with lupus,"
Lynch's cousin, Chasity Lett, told the Huffington Post. "Once that happened and she lost her place, it kind of triggered the whole drug thing." Lynch, a 30-year-old mother of three, financed her deepening addiction by selling her body. Lynch was the first of Chillicothe's missing women to be found. On May 24, three weeks after her disappearance, a kayaker spotted Lynch's body on a sandbar in Paint Creek outside of town. The Ross County coroner's office determined she died of a multiple-drug overdose. But Lynch was afraid of the water, her mother Angela Robinson told the Dispatch. "Somebody needs to pay for this," Robinson said, speculating her daughter was murdered. "She was already dead when she was put in the water."
In the year since, four more women vanished. On November 3, 2014, six months after Trego and Lynch disappeared another woman would go missing. She was Wanda Lemons a 37-year-old mother of five. "She just disappeared out of thin air," her daughter, Megan Hodges, told the Huffington Post. "I just want them to find out what happened to her."
Two months later, Shasta Himelrick was found dead, floating in the Scioto River outside of Chillicothe. In December, she had told friends she was "eating for two." But on Christmas Day, the pregnant 20-year-old blond received a text message while visiting her grandmother. Himelrick left, promising to return, but never did. A Chillicothe gas station recorded her on CCTV. Hours later, her abandoned car was found on a bridge south of town. The doors were open, the tank empty, and the battery dead. Himelrick's body was retrieved from the water eight days later. The coroner ruled her death was a suicide but Himelrick's friends are convinced it was murder.
Tiffany Sayre went missing under similar circumstances. It was around midnight on May 11 and Sayre and friend Jessie Sanford were working as prostitutes at a local motel. "She was doing business at the Chillicothe Inn," Sanford said. . "She left to run to her grandmother's house and was going to go back to the hotel to meet the same people so she could make some more money. I don't know what happened. I think somebody took her."
Kenneth Buell, who was Sayre's ex-boyfriend and the father of their two children, told The Washington Post that the couple took heroin and crack cocaine together. "For a couple of years we were both on drugs," he said. Buell said he got clean a year ago, but Sayre couldn't and the couple broke up. "She couldn't kick it," he said. "It just had a hold of her."
Jessica Sayre said her sister met another man and tried to go straight. But when her new boyfriend died in April rom a blood clot, Tiffany returned to drugs. "It hit my sister really hard. She really loved him," Jessica Sayre said. "They had planned on moving, going to this other place, actually getting married and having a life together. I think she did the drugs a little more to help with the pain. She didn't want to be in her right mind because she didn't feel like it was the right thing. "The night she apparently went missing, she talked about how she wanted to get her life straight and go clean," Sayre said. "My sister did these things that we did not approve of to get money for drugs, because we didn't want to be the source of money for those types of things. She did what she had to do." Sayre's family put out missing person flyers and held candlelight vigils, but heard nothing. While they were waiting, another woman, Timberly Clayton, was found dead: shot in the head three times and left in a ditch near another creek. Authorities have named a prime suspect in the killing but have not yet charged him with the crime.
Finally, last Saturday, Sayre became the last victim in the string of disappearances. A couple out for a Saturday evening walk through a nature preserve south of Chillicothe, spotted something white at the edge of a drainage pipe running underneath the road. Sayre's naked body had been wrapped in a bed sheet and hidden inside the culvert with duct tape wrapped around her strawberry blond hair. "She's wrapped up in a blanket and you can see her breasts, her stomach, duct tape, a white blanket," the female passerby told a 911 dispatcher. "We were hoping that she was still alive," Jessica Sayre said. "You're wishing and hoping and then all of a sudden you get a phone call saying that your loved one has been found, but not the way you wanted to find her." " She got murdered," Buell said. "Somebody took her away and it was intentional."
Authorities ruled Sayre's death a homicide. The grisly discovery helped launch the task force, which now includes more than a dozen members, including FBI analysts. The task force decided to investigate the cases of all six missing women, even those formerly considered suicides. And the investigation could expand to at least three other women who went missing from nearby Portsmouth and Columbus. Police admit a serial killer is a possibility with the apparent pattern of dumping the bodies along waterways outside the city.
"This wasn't just a simple overdose," Jessica Sayre said of her sister's death. "They could have called the police. We didn't have to find her like this."
The Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation is analysing the forensics found at the scene and the task force received more than 100 tips in just a few days, but is still searching for a witness. But as authorities investigate the growing number of deaths and disappearances, some locals say the police are part of the problem. "The day I reported her missing was very upsetting to me," Trego's mother, Yvonne Boggs, told the Huffington Post. "The cop said, 'Women like your daughter take off because they don't want to be bothered.' It was like they looked into it up to a certain point and then quit looking."
"The police didn't take it serious and just blew me off," Lynch's mother, Angela Robinson, told the same Web site. Sayre's family said they had also been kept in the dark. Kenneth Buell even blames the authorities. Both he and Jessica Sayre said police and authorities abandoned Chillicothe a long time ago. "It's not safe," he said. "The last five, six seven years it's gone to hell. You can't walk around by yourself, especially females."
"I feel like Chillicothe has turned for the worst," Jessica Sayre said. "Now they are going to start picking up the pieces, but this town has really gone down with drugs. It's got pretty bad." She says that despite the discovery of her sister's body, her family will continue to hold vigils for Trego and Lemons, the two other women who disappeared but haven't been found. "It's been a nightmare for us," she said of Tiffany's death. "Nothing is going to bring her back, but we are going to get justice. And we are going to pray for these other women who missing in Chillicothe."
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Sex Sells In Wild, Wild West Of Western Australia
Australia, you might be surprised to know, has a Wild, Wild West. Just like America did 200 years ago. We may not have Jesse James or Wild Bill Hickok, but our West has just as many tough guys, and cowboys. These rough and ready characters don't carry guns or rob banks. And they ride, horses of a different kind. Transportation, that's not on four legs, but on four wings, with the horsepower to fly across vast distances, to outback mining jobs. Our West, as in Western Australia, is currently riding the coat tails of a mineral boom. Although, to be perfectly honest, the good times aren't nearly as good as they used to be. Still, there's money to be made in them thar hills, vast quantities of cash for the mining companies, and workers prepared to do the dirty work, digging up minerals, working in a mine or driving monster, earth moving trucks. These are just a few of the jobs on offer. It's solitary and, at times, lonely and a long way from family and friends with nothing much to do in the down time. But never fear lonely men. The world's oldest profession has come to your rescue. Where's there's money and precious little in the form of entertainment you'll find prostitution doing a flourishing business. Boom-boom is booming.
Please note. I am taking extra care not to rush to judgment on prostitution but be warned that may have changed by the time I finish writing this. I admit I did see red, as in red light, when I read an article with the headline: 'They're selling part of their soul. Behind the scenes of Australia's Prostitution boom.'
Not exactly a ringing endorsement for working girls but I am going to park my prejudices for the time being.
The article begins by relaying a conversation between receptionist and client at one of the West's best known venues for working girls. "What kind of girl would you like? Narrow it down for me…..Yeah, I've got a nice blonde. Young, size 8, double D. You won't be disappointed."
It is 2am we are told on a Sunday in the back room of Langtrees. Lana, the receptionist, replaces the handset and puts on her spectacles to peer at her computer. There is more a look of the librarian about Lana, than spruiker of the amorous talents of Langtrees working girls. She points to a profile photograph showing only an enormous pair of breasts and reads out aloud the caption accompanying the photograph. "Bridgette Blue. She's 23. "
Lana pauses and raises her eyebrows and says "they're natural." Bridgette is soon at the door. She wears gold sparkly stilettos, red lipstick, and thick foundation. Her brown eyebrows are painted on, and her long, blond hair is curled and hangs on one side. For about $400 per hour, Bridgette will visit your home or hotel for sex. Outside, in the brothel lounge, about 17 other women — mostly Australian but also Asian, African, and European — wait to be summoned for house calls or clients who walk in off the street. They talk among themselves on plush sofas and munch on chocolate bars from the snack machine. The Beatles' song A Hard Day's Night is blaring on the sound system. The West has grown fat off the back of Australia's decade long mining boom. Residents are richer, and there are towering skyscrapers springing up in the business district of the main city of Perth, alongside hip cocktail bars and swanky restaurants.
That mineral boom has fuelled a massive demand for labour as contractors fly into Western Australia from all over the country for fast cash. They work for weeks at a time, offshore or in isolated mines. And humans, being as they are, and because there is little chance of finding a relationship if single, or far away from wives and families, if married, many turn to sex workers for intimacy. As one working girl says, "They're young, they're dumb, they've got lots of money, and there is no shame in going to a brothel."
Local newspapers are full of classifieds ads for sex workers. Some charge as little as $40 an hour, often using the back seats of cars (or stretch limos). Or they can visit Langtrees, one of the oldest and most expensive upmarket brothels. The perfect venue for cashed up FIFO (Fly in fly out) workers ready to splash some serious cash. Entrance is through a discreet door located down a dark side street, Out of the $400 hourly rate for a Langtrees' worker, half of the money goes to the brothel, and the other half is put in an envelope for the client to give directly to the woman. "Extras" cost more. Laminated menus placed on bar tables list the prices.
On this steamy summer night, a potential client loiters shyly near the reception. Seeing his resolve beginning to waver, the madam quickly whisks him away to introduce him to the women. Langtrees, prides itself on its lounge atmosphere. Women in skimpy clothes and sky-high, high heels parade before clients who take their pick. They all have online profiles listing age, bust size, hair colour, and height. We are told men come in with their mates, have a drink, play some pool, and chat with the women before heading upstairs. "It's the whole experience," Sue, the madam in charge, explains. "It's not just a 'wham bam thank you ma'am.' The bar and lounge gives the guys the opportunity to relax." Upstairs there are the private rooms with names such as Double Delight and Golden Dreams. Once the door is closed, the woman will ask the man to shower and only after she has inspected his equipment for signs of disease does the session begin.
In Western Australia, sex work operates in a grey zone: Prostitution is not illegal, but activities associated with it, such as brothels and pimping, are. But authorities have turned a blind eye to places like Langtrees. And, just like the mining contractors, sex workers have travelled from everywhere for the high demand and wages. They also spend long stretches living, working, and eating in the brothel. Many rent a bunk bed and locker for a small fee on top of paying the $50 per night to the brothel owner to work the floor. They are like private contractors who are renting the Langtrees brand. Working nine-hour shifts, the women can expect to earn more than $7,000 per week. The top women might earn double that. "There is no politics, no bitching. They are here to work, to do their job," Sue, the Madam says. "They are looking for that golden ticket."
One of those, is "Eliza Champagne," her working name. She is a brunette whose hair is tied back with a clip and whose girl next door looks seemingly are at odds with her tight leopard print skirt. She is sitting on the sofa drinking an instant coffee. Twenty-five-year old Eliza, divides her time between shifts at the hospital where she works as a nurse and escorting. We are told she is also an avid competitive horsewoman, who is about to start her own equestrian sportswear company. Eliza says she comes from a middle class family — her father has a senior government job — but she is not interested in any family handouts. "I can't stand people giving me money," she says. Even if she did Eliza has no need. On her first escort job at the age of 18, Eliza earned $4,500 and she's been earning big money ever since. She says she lives in Perth with her partner, who works in the mining industry, but keeps that side of her life hidden from him, as well as friends and family. I personally would be curious to know how she achieves such secrecy? They must wonder how she manages to earn all of that extra money working as a nurse. "No one knows that I do It," she says. "The job is taboo as such — it's not something to be proud of to say you sleep with X amount of men a day. That annoys me because it is purely just a job."
Sorry but can't let that one pass without comment. I guess that would be true if you saw yourself as a functioning machine rather than a human being.
Eliza says only 50 per cent of her bookings involve sex. " I'm more of a girlfriend experience. I'm not a porn star. I have a fake name when I work but I offer the real me —men appreciate the realness because real women turn them on."
Ok. So she has a fake name but she's a real woman. She has fake feelings but her clients appreciate her 'realness.' Come on Liza. None of this is real.
In the bunk room, Alina, the Russian, is on a break. She adjusts her ponytail and takes a bite out of her Big Mac. "The stigma that we are all alcoholics and drug addicts and we all have pimp boyfriends is not true," she says in a strong Russian accent. Alina used to work in retail, earning $20 an hour at the Christian Dior store. But when her partner abandoned her to bring up their small son alone, she struggled and was forced to go on the dole: "I felt like a beggar," she says. Not any more. Since working at Langtree, Alina goes on holiday, buys luxury goods, and, when she's not away working we are told, she spends quality family time at home in Sydney. "I'll grab that handbag. I deserve it," she says. "I have got a Louis Vuitton bag and I have Louboutin shoes. My baby can have everything."
But Alina has paid a high personal price for that lifestyle. Most would say way too high a price. A client high on drugs, and just out of jail, forced her to have sex without a condom. "It was rape," she says matter of fact. But it hasn't put her off. "You go home with a grand in your hand and you have a good night. Why not?"
I guess money isn't everything unless you don't have any.
Fortunately not everyone who works at Langtrees agrees with Alina. "The worst things are the secrecy and the late nights. You'll be here until 9 in the morning sometimes," says Laticia, 27, one of the two dominatrixes who work at Langtrees. "Older guys are more respectful. Younger guys just think that they shouldn't have to pay. They think they should just get it for free. One guy at a house call said, 'Can we be quick because my wife is coming back fromthe shops?' Some men have no boundaries." At times, when men have gotten too pushy, Laticia says has felt abandoned by the law. She shrugs: "The police, as soon as they find out you're a working girl, they don't care. They figure that it's your fault for getting into that industry." None of the women who featured in the story said they experienced violence at Langtrees. But rape, sex trafficking, and physical safety, especially regarding sexually transmitted diseases, are all concerns in the industry.
So if all of this is true, the question I ask is how can this in any way be described as just a job? It's the only job I have ever heard of where you must accept those risks simply for choosing to work in that industry.
Sue adjusts the security cameras to check that everything is in order, inhales her cigarette, and slumps into her chair at the desk in her office. We are told she is a middle aged madam — has four children —and wears black framed square glasses and a grey t-shirt. She is tough but kind. Sue calls the women "sweetheart" and listens to their problems. On this evening one of the women has to leave early to bathe in Epsom salts; too much sex has left her in pain. Sue understands: In her past life she too worked the floor at Langtrees. "My husband and I really wanted to get ahead," she says. What I find slightly disturbing about that comment on wanting to get ahead is that Sue's husband seemingly had nothing to offer as a means of jointly achieving that goal.
Sue sees sex, at $400 per hour, as an "art": She gives the women respect and in return expects them to perform. She insists the women have the last word: "I always say to the girls, the first time you say to the gentleman, 'Honey I don't like that. No.' The second time you sit up and say, 'I said no, if you do it again, end of booking.' Third time you put on a towel, walk out, and give them the envelope back. When a lady says 'no,' that's it. The men generally behave. Once guys are naked, they're vulnerable."
I don't care much for that last sweeping generalization about men being naked and vulnerable. For one thing it simply isn't true. In fact I would have thought the reverse was true.
"Langtrees is good," Sue says. "We see a lot of success but we also see a lot of failure. I lost a really good friend to suicide. It all was too much for her. She hanged herself in a Perth Park. Today a 36 year old woman came in to ask about work. Even though she was 36, we still sent her away to think about it. We always send them away. It's very important. Because, you know, each time they are sleeping with someone, they are selling part of their soul."
For me, that says it all really. But as I pointed out, at the start, I make no judgments on women and men choosing to become prostitutes. In any case whatever I might say will not make a jot of difference. Prostitution will flourish whether I approve or disapprove. To those who think there is nothing to worry about here, and a working girl is simply a working girl, I will say this: just do me a favour? Throw away the rose coloured glasses and don't ever describe it as a job just like any other job because it isn't and never will be.
January 11, 2015 September 15, 2017 Damien Comerford
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using testing::IsNull;
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// Check that Incognito language modeling is inherited from the user's profile.
TEST(LanguageModelManagerFactoryTest, SharedWithIncognito) {
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  TestingProfile profile;
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By Julie Weingarden-Dubin Published: Jun 10, 2008
I drove to Trader Joe's and loaded up on groceries, only to be followed home by a huge storm cloud. It was like a scene out of the film Twister (minus the tornado), the weather seemed to follow my minivan. As I pulled into our driveway, the sky turned dark and it started to pour. Branches and debris swirled around the yard in the quiet winds and seconds later the tornado sirens started blaring.
Bobby ran upstairs to get Ariana who was still napping. "Everyone to the basement," he yelled.
We grabbed one little pink piggy toy flashlight of Samantha's (that we almost donated to charity and I was now thankful we didn't) and books to read downstairs under the glow of the plastic hog's mouth.
Minutes later, the sirens went off and so did our power. We were already sticking to our seats because it was humid and in the 90s. The sky was still an eerie charcoal color from the fierce storm (a storm that would end up taking lives in Michigan and leaving hundreds of thousands without power), so we dined by candlelight. The upside: Bobby cooked macaroni for the kids (thankfully we have a gas cooktop). The downside: The cooking kicked up the temperature a good 30 degrees in the house.
As the temperature rose, Josh started to disrobe, until we suddenly heard a blast of thunder and both jumped.
"Quick—get dressed, Josh," I said. "If a tornado comes you don't want to get blown around town naked." Josh fell to the floor cracking up—literally cackling. At that moment I was the funniest mom who ever lived. So it's nice to know that we can find humor in a scary and serious weather situation. Instead of letting the stress get the best of us, we just stuck together in the heat of the night and laughed.—Julie Weingarden Dubin
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This is it. The last hurrah for O'Sheas. The bawdy, boisterous casino closes at noon April 30, 2012.
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Michael Conlan defeats David Berna with second round TKO
Belfast featherweight Michael Conlan scored a dominant victory over Hungary's David Berna at Madison Square Garden on St. Patrick's Day.
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Michael Conlan in the ring with David Berna at Madison Square Garden on St. Patrick's Day 2018. YouTube/IMO Sports
Belfast featherweight Michael Conlan scored a dominant victory over Hungary's David Berna at Madison Square Garden on Saturday night.
The 26-year-old boxer gave Irish fans celebrating St. Patrick's Day the perfect end to a great day for Irish sports, which also saw Ireland win the Grand Slam in the 2018 Six Nations Rugby Championship.
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Hoards of fans clad in green turned out to support Conlan, and the Olympic bronze medalist delivered a very sharp performance.
Fighting under the tutelage of trainer Adam Booth for the first time, Conlan was simply several levels above Berna — a disparity that was evident from the first bell.
A tremendous left hook to the body from Conlan put Berna on the canvas in the first round. The Hungarian looked in severe discomfort but managed to get up and continue. Conlan tried to end the fight, but Berna survived until the end of the round.
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In the second stanza, Conlan continued where he left off and dropped Berna with a left hook to the head. Berna survived the count, but after he suffered a few seconds of pummeling from Conlan again, the referee stopped the fight.
With the victory, Conlan moved to 6-0 as professional, while Berna dropped to 15-3.
Conlan is next expected to fight in Belfast in June.
H/T Irish Independent
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Honduran National Indicted for International Cocaine Trafficking Extradited from Honduras to the United States
An indictment was unsealed today charging Norlan Jose Carrasco Lopez, aka Catracho, a Honduran national, with international cocaine trafficking. He is scheduled to appear in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia on Oct. 17.
According to court documents, between September 2018 and June 2021, Carrasco Lopez, 54, was allegedly a member of an international drug trafficking organization responsible for importing large quantities of cocaine from Venezuela to Belize aboard U.S. registered aircraft. Foreign law enforcement seized a shipment of more than 1,000 kilograms of cocaine that had been transported on a U.S. registered aircraft allegedly coordinated by Carrasco Lopez and his co-conspirators.
A grand jury in the District of Columbia returned an indictment against Carrasco Lopez on June 28, 2021. In June 2022, Carrasco Lopez was arrested by Honduran authorities, pursuant to a provisional arrest requested by the United States, and he remained detained in Honduras pending his extradition. He was extradited from Honduras to the United States on Oct. 13.
Carrasco Lopez is charged with one count of conspiracy to possess five kilograms or more of cocaine on board an aircraft registered in the United States with intent to distribute and one count of distribution of a controlled substance on board an aircraft registered in the United States. If convicted of either count, the defendant faces a mandatory minimum sentence of 10 years in federal prison and a statutory maximum sentence of life imprisonment. A federal district court judge will determine any sentence after considering the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines and other statutory factors.
The Drug Enforcement Administration's (DEA) Orlando District Office is investigating with assistance from the DEA Honduras and Belize Country Offices, and Homeland Security Investigation's (HSI) Orlando District Office.
Trial Attorneys Douglas Meisel and Robert Sainvil of the Criminal Division's Narcotic and Dangerous Drug Section (NDDS) are prosecuting the case. Former NDDS Trial Attorney Michael Christin, now with the Criminal Division's Computer Crimes and Intellectual Property Section, assisted with the prosecution. The Justice Department's Office of International Affairs provided valuable assistance in securing the arrest and extradition of Carrasco Lopez. The Criminal Division's Office of Enforcement Operations and the Belize law enforcement also provided significant assistance.
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The draw for the second round of the IRN-BRU Cup will be made at Hampden Park on Thursday August 4 at 12.30pm.
It will be streamed live on Periscope via the @irnbrufootball Twitter account.
The 12 winners of Tuesday's ties will be joined in round two by Cumbernauld Colts or Hamilton Accies U20s, who play tonight, and Rangers U20s or Stirling University, who meet next week.
Also entering the draw at this stage are the 10 clubs who finished in positions 25 to 34 in the SPFL last season - Peterhead, Stranraer, Airdrieonians, Albion Rovers, Brechin City, Stenhousemuir, Cowdenbeath, Forfar Athletic, East Fife and Elgin City.
The draw will be regionalised, with the 12 ties due to be played on the midweek of August 16/17.


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I'm happy to report I survived my day of advanced driver's training and even managed to develop a little more confidence behind the wheel along the way. However, in a somewhat unexpected turn of events, I have another stomach-churning challenge to face this summer… this time one I did not choose.
The "nice" way of saying it is that I have a spot near the corner of my eye that has tested positive for basal cell carcinoma.
The not-so-nice, far more intimidating way of saying it is that I've been diagnosed with a form of skin cancer.
The good news, I'm told, is that this is a form of cancer so common they don't even track stats on how many people have it. (I'm not sure why that's "good" news… I guess I'm supposed to feel strength in numbers or something along those lines.) More reassuring is the fact the cure rate is particularly high, especially if caught early, which we believe is the case with mine.
However, the nerve-wracking part is that because of the location of my inflicted area (the spot is right next to the top of my nose less than a quarter inch from the corner of my left eye), I will be undergoing removal by a Moh's surgeon in a process that could take just a few hours or all day, depending upon what they find as they go along.
Sounds simple enough … it's an outpatient procedure in which the surgeon numbs up the area, removes a layer of cells, does some testing and scrutinizing under a microscope, and then determines if they got it all. If they did, congrats… they're done. If not, it's back under the knife for another layer. This process repeats for as long as necessary until they are sure they've gotten every last little cancerous bit. Once that point is reached, they either let the area heal on its own (the hope) or go forward with some sort of reconstructive work.
The stomach-churning, I'm-trying-not-to-think-about-it-too-much part is what happens if the nasty cells are lodged closer to my eye area than they first appear.
My surgery is scheduled for this Thursday starting at 9:30 a.m. in Billings. For the second time in less than a month… (please) wish me luck!


Olympic champions Helen Glover and Heather Stanning can now call themselves world champions after a day where Britain won four medals in Amsterdam including the regaining of the men's four title from 2011.
Glover and Stanning, who combined to win Britain's first gold at the London 2012 Olympics, took the women's pair title at the World Rowing Championships in the Netherlands in a global best time of 6:50.61 minutes.
It marked Glover's second successive world title in the women pair after victory with Polly Swann last year while Stanning was serving in the army and she admitted to an altogether differing feeling in Amsterdam.
"This feels different to last year. Because of the history that Heather and I have, this win was more expected. Last year, with Polly, it was all very new," said Glover.
The men's four of Alex Gregory, Mohamed Sbihi, George Nash and Andrew Triggs Hodge followed suit with an imperious victory ahead of the USA in silver and Australia in bronze.
Sandwiched in between the British men's pair of James Foad and Matthew Langridge took silver after just six weeks in the boat together – and led New Zealand defending champions Eric Murray and Hamish Bond early on.
They were eventually overtaken though while the British men's quadruple of Graeme Thomas, Sam Townsend, Charles Cousins and Peter Lambert missed out on gold to European champions Ukraine by just 0.09 seconds.
The quartet of success adds to the silver and bronze won in the men's coxed pair and lightweight men's pair respectively the day before and men's four gold medallist Gregory was pleased to have delivered in Amsterdam.
"We were all pretty nervous before that one. We were unbeaten this season and we all knew we had to go out and perform," said Gregory.
"We raced the USA in the semi-final and they did exactly the same thing. For us, it was all about keeping cool and calm and then to pull could away when we needed to.


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This was supposed to be a hard one. My first Thanksgiving after… you know. But in fact, it was one of the nicest days I've spent in a very long time. I am so incredibly blessed.
I had prepared for this. I had prayed in my "healing light prayer box" for this day (see previous posts). I had talked to my counselor about it. She gave me lots of good tips: have no expectations; it's all meant to be; have fun; B R E A T H E.
My stepdaughters could not be with me. Each, for their own reasons. The pain was too deep. They missed their father too much. This was their first holiday with both of their parents gone. I understand. Those are sad times and sometimes the work of creating a holiday is just too much work, and one must do it differently in order to survive. Initially, I was hurt. Yes, it stung, but I do understand. It's OK. And in fact, with the day unfolding so differently from years past, I was able to relax and enjoy the unexpected.
One of my daughters came and she brought her dad because she did not want him to be alone. He had come to our home in years past, when my husband was alive, so it wasn't as completely weird as that might sound.
We spent the entire day cooking together. We remembered our own parents and grandparents – and their traditions. We laughed at memories of the good old days. We argued over old recipes and promised that we would sit down and write them all down before they were lost forever. We didn't. We ate. A lot. We made toasts to all of our family, those here and those in heaven. My daughter back east called from West Virginia and emailed a picture of the Thanksgiving Cow that showed up in their yard! We shared hugs and butterfly kisses via the Internet — high-tech blessings, all!
Thank you, God, for this wonderful day.
Yes, I miss him so much and I will for a long time to come. God, please watch over my stepdaughters and help them to find their way. Thank you for my daughters and for their unfailing love. Thank you for letting me see that life does, in fact, go on.
The sky is so clear and blue. The trees are bright red. There is leftover pie. The air smells like burning wood. A cow is lost but will soon be found. Christmas is coming.
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Well turns out the cows escaped from a farm across the river and if we see them again we are supposed to call.
LOL! What's so funny about this, and I forgot til now, is that one year, when we were little, a cow escaped from somewhere and we all looked up from the dining table to see a "real cow" staring at us through the window! I love your pic of that cow! It's a beautiful photo!
FANTASTIC !!!!!! I'm thinking about you , Sue, and our SPARKY !!!!!
Sounds like a beautiful day with lots to be thankful for.
Yes, Jan, thanks. It was! Hope your day was good too!
Great pic. Great insights. Glad it was a good day.


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Love Island invaded by army of goats who 'trashed' the villa and caused chaos
The Love Island villa is packed to the brim with bikini-clad beauties and muscle men – but they had some surprise guests recently: a herd of naughty goats.
According to the show's location manager, a group of 14 goats invaded the set and wreaked havoc.
Speaking on tonight's Aftersun, they said it was the biggest drama in the villa this year as the goats almost trashed the set.
They said: "There were about 14 goats that came from the mountains. They ate some of the plants and they broke some of the walls."
Unfortunately all the goat drama wasn't seen on screen.
Anton Danyluk and Belle Hassan's first official date saw them head to a farm and make goats cheese.
The pair had to milk the animals before they got their hands dirty to produce their own cheese.
The Scot seized the moment and attempted to create the pottery scene from Ghost, standing behind Belle as she mixed the ingredients.
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But Belle wasn't impressed, saying: ""There is nothing sexy about this at all."
In tonight's Love Island one couple will be dumped from the villa after a public vote.
The dumped couple are already back home in the UK and have filmed their segment for tonight's Aftersun spin-off show with Caroline Flack.
As the group gathers around the firepit tonight, they are told three couples are at risk of packing their bags.
The three pairs voted bottom in the public vote must stand in front of the other Islanders and it's up to them to save one pairing.
The dumped Islanders won't be unveiled until shortly before the end of tonight's episode, and then will immediately appear on Aftersun straight after the show.
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When fire strikes, lives are suddenly turned around. Often, the hardest part is, knowing what to do first, and who to contact.
Next, after any fire damage situation, your primary focus should be safety first.
Are there any electrical problems that my pose an issue?
Are there things I could be doing to safely a?
Is my home completely wet?
Check with the Fire Department to determine if it is safe to enter.
Check to see what services are affected, especially electrical and plumbing.
Place clean towels on items of value such as old linens, rugs, upholstery or art so as to not further damage.
Soot and dirty water left behind may contain things that could make you sick. Check to see if testing is warranted.
Contact your insurance company or agent right away.
Try to find your valuable documents and records to determine what must be immediately replaced.
Consult a professional before attempting to wash or clean anything. Many times this service is covered.
Be especially careful of all electrical appliances or fixtures that may have been close to heat , fire or water.
Any food product that may have been close to the heat fire or water should be notated and disposed of.
Be careful to prevent movement that would cause you to track soot and ashes into upholstery and carpets.
Do not walk on any floors or under ceilings that were directly apart of the fire.
Don't send any cloths or linens to an ordinary dry clears as it may set a permanent odor of smoke.


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Niagara All American Wine Tour (11 people max)
Don't waste time waiting on large tour groups during this Niagara County wine tour which lets you see beyond the famous falls. Visit more wineries in one day than you could alone and feel free to sample as much wine as you want because your transportation is taken care of. Plus, choose from the day and start time that suits your schedule for added flexibility.
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Free tasting wine is included at each winery. Sit back, relax and enjoy your day! As a wine lover visit to Niagara's finest wineries and taste of exclusive wines will give you a memorable experience of all time.
Niagara Falls American-Side Tour with Maid of the Mist Boat Ride
Get as close as possible to Niagara Falls on this escape to one of the world's most incredible natural wonders. Feel the powerful rush of the falls from the Prospect Point Observation Tower, overlooking the American falls. Take a journey to the edge of the rushing water — by boat on the Maid of the Mist and by land on the Cave of the Winds walking adventure.
Best of Niagara Falls, USA, Cave of the Winds
Discover Niagara Falls' best side on this 4-hour comprehensive tour from Niagara Falls, New York. Avoid the crowds on a small-group tour of seven people or fewer that lets you explore the falls in four popular and distinct ways: view from the walkways of Cave of the Winds, ride aboard the Maid of the Mist, travel to Goat Island, and see the falls from the American Observation Tower.
Cave of the Winds Express Pass and Adventure Tour
Get an insider's look around Niagara Falls State Park during a 1-hour guided tour. Set at a leisurely pace, the short but immersive tour is the perfect option for all ages and attention spans. Skip the line and enjoy included admission to the Cave of the Winds. Learn about the history of the area and stop for photos of Horseshoe Falls, Bridal Veil Falls, and more.
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See the highlights of Niagara Falls State Park—and leave the planning to your guide—with this convenient package deal. Meet in the morning, and hop aboard the Maid of the Mist—skip-the-line tickets and guided narration make this a premium experience. Tickets to the park's hop-on hop-off and Cave of the Winds are also included, so you can save time and soak up the scenery at your own pace.
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Take a half-day tour of Niagara Falls with a guide who covers all the highlights of New York's famous natural attraction. Get closer views of the falls with your included admission ticket to Maid of the Mist and Cave of the Winds. You'll travel with a small group limited to seven people for a more personalized experience.
Niagara Falls Winter Wonderland USA Tour (small groups)
Enjoy unparalleled views of snowy, ice-covered Niagara Falls during this special small-group, wintertime tour. Approach the falls from multiple angles and viewpoints over the course of five stops. Highlights include misty Goat Island, the raging rapids of Whirlpool State Park, and stunning close-up scenery from the Cave of the Winds, with rain gear provided.
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Get as close as possible to Niagara Falls on this guided escape to one of the world's most incredible natural wonders and the surrounding Niagara Falls, USA region. Feel the powerful rush of 150,000 gallons of water per second from the Prospect Point Observation Tower, overlooking the American falls. Take a journey to the edge of the rushing water—by boat on the Maid of the Mist and by land on the Cave of the Winds tours—plus much more. Local hotel pickup and drop-off is included.
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We work directly with you to create a unique and customized itinerary for your group. We know where the good wines are and will make your Niagara Wine Country dreams come true. "It's all about you", go where you wish, taste what you like, visit as many or as few venues as you please. Mix wineries, breweries, small batch distilleries and/or cider makers into your package. Add a lunch or dinner stop (your cost). We pick you up and drop you off anywhere you ask, whenever you wish. Your guide will take professional photos to have memories of your day. We will make all the reservations and bookings arrangements for you, just sit back and enjoy the fantastic scenery and wines. This is a private tour/activity. Only your group will participate. • IMPORTANT NOTE: This tour takes place in CANADA. You must have a current passport and visitors visa to enter the country or we will not pick you up. • Food, Beverage, Tastings and Attraction Admissions are extra
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Q: Is there an upper bound to BigInteger?
Possible Duplicate:
What does BigInteger having no limit mean?

The Javadoc for BigInteger does not define any maximum or minimum.  However, it does say:
(emphasis added)

Immutable arbitrary-precision integers

Is there such a maximum, even in theory?  Or is the way BigInteger operates fundamentally different, such that there is in reality no maximum except for the amount of memory available on the computer?

A:
BigInteger would only be used if you know it will not be a decimal and
  there is a possibility of the long data type not being large enough.
  BigInteger has no cap on its max size (as large as the RAM on the
  computer can hold).

From here.
It is implemented using an int[]:
  110       /**
  111        * The magnitude of this BigInteger, in <i>big-endian</i> order: the
  112        * zeroth element of this array is the most-significant int of the
  113        * magnitude.  The magnitude must be "minimal" in that the most-significant
  114        * int ({@code mag[0]}) must be non-zero.  This is necessary to
  115        * ensure that there is exactly one representation for each BigInteger
  116        * value.  Note that this implies that the BigInteger zero has a
  117        * zero-length mag array.
  118        */
  119       final int[] mag;

From the source
From the Wikipedia article Arbitrary-precision arithmetic:

Several modern programming languages have built-in support for
  bignums, and others have libraries available for arbitrary-precision
  integer and floating-point math. Rather than store values as a fixed
  number of binary bits related to the size of the processor register,
  these implementations typically use variable-length arrays of digits.

A: The first maximum you would hit is the length of a String which is 231-1 digits.  It's much smaller than the maximum of a BigInteger but IMHO it loses much of its value if it can't be printed.

A: The number is held in an int[] - the maximum size of an array is Integer.MAX_VALUE. So the maximum BigInteger probably is (2 ^ 32) ^ Integer.MAX_VALUE.
Admittedly, this is implementation dependent, not part of the specification.

In Java 8, some information was added to the BigInteger javadoc, giving a minimum supported range and the actual limit of the current implementation:

BigInteger must support values in the range -2Integer.MAX_VALUE (exclusive) to +2Integer.MAX_VALUE (exclusive) and may support values outside of that range.
Implementation note: BigInteger constructors and operations throw ArithmeticException when the result is out of the supported range of -2Integer.MAX_VALUE (exclusive) to +2Integer.MAX_VALUE (exclusive).