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South Korea's national defense ministry has begun blocking access to online cryptocurrency trading platforms in military bases.
As Korean financial officials ponder a wider clampdown on domestic cryptocurrency trading markets, the country's military is already weighing up and enforcing its own measures to keep soldiers from trading cryptocurrencies like bitcoin, the Korea Times reports.
Since Monday, the Ministry of National Defense has been busy putting up firewalls to block soldiers' access to cryptocurrency exchanges at internet cafes at various military bases.
In a notice, the ministry said:
"According to internal rules, we will gradually shut down internet access to websites on encrypted currency starting Monday."
The cited 'internal rules' categorize cryptocurrency exchanges alongside online gambling and pornographic website which are also blocked under Korean military regulations. Further, the defense ministry is also working toward developing and introducing regulatory curbs against crypto trading, beyond blocking access to trading platforms.
"We are going to announce specific countermeasures for cryptocurrency transactions made in military units," a South Korean ministry official reportedly added. "The ministry is in internal talks to confirm whether it is against military regulations."
The developments come at a time of increased scrutiny into local cryptocurrency markets – among the largest in the world – by Korea's government and regulators. Last week, the country's justice ministry proposed a complete shuttering of all cryptocurrency exchanges in a draft law. The backlash was immediate and compelled the country's Presidential Office to issue a statement cooling such fears. The Justice Ministry, having seen its proposal receive no support from other government agencies including the Ministry of Finance, eventually softened its stance.
Meanwhile, the military, which presumably operates under its own code of laws, told soldiers in a notice this week:
"We urge soldiers to refrain from visiting digital token exchanges to avoid disappointment from our decision to block access to relevant sites."
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Wednesday, March 4, 2009
Again, and again, and again
I swear, every time we finally think we're starting to make some progress, we get knocked right back down again. Monday, Dan got laid off. We're already behind on stuff from me being low on work for the past year. Of course, my work finally started to pick up, and I was going to call all of the "wonderful" people who call me 15 times a day that I could finally start paying them at the end of the month. (yes, because when you have no money, if someone calls you 14 more times, you just might have some *rolls eyes*) And, for a double whammy, my good hospital is going to voice recognition. I got trained to edit it, but the editing is less pay per line. It's supposed to even out because I'm reading and editing, not transcribing, but we'll see. Yesterday was my day off, so I've just barely gotten my feet wet with it. Hey, maybe now they'll finally think we're broke enough to get the kids some freakin' Healthy Start insurance! nah, I'm sure there'll be something that will keep us from getting it. That would be too much luck for us.
2 comments:
- Jennifer said...
That stinks! I'm sorry... And voice recognition software, yuck. That doesn't even eliminate the mumbling problem. (I've done transcription for mushmouthed Southern men...I feel your pain.) I hope things look up soon.
- March 5, 2009 at 11:54 AM
- Michelle said...
I will say, so far so good on the editing. They're only doing it on the good doctors, though. (which sucks, because of course, I liked them the best! ;0) I am getting pretty decent line counts, though. Oh, I used to type for a hospital in Louisiana. My poor Northern self was just mind blown. I didn't make it very long. The thing that got me the most was the ESL docs WITH a Southern accent on top of it.
- March 8, 2009 at 12:59 PM
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Thailand has granted citizenship to the coach and three members of a football team dramatically rescued from a flooded cave last month.
During their ordeal, it emerged that the boys and their coach were among around 480,000 stateless people living in the south-east Asian country.
It prompted calls to fast-track their citizenship applications.
The four were part of a 13-strong team, known as the Wild Boars, who became trapped deep in a cave on 23 June.
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They were found by two British divers nine days later, but it took another six days to rescue the first team members.
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A close up look at how human rights abuser Scientology is touting human rights as a front - 2017-12-10
Rod Keller gives us a detailed look at how one Scientology front is having its sneaky ways exposed by a determined activist.
Scientology maintains several front groups - organizations that pretend to be independent from Scientology, but are really under the direct control of the Office of Special Affairs (OSA), which is the public relations, investigations and dirty tricks department. Youth for Human Rights is one of these, and their mission is to educate the public on the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights. When there are not enough youth involved, they sometimes go by the name United for Human Rights. Scientology orgs sponsor events to bring in non-Scientologists under a policy by L. Ron Hubbard known as "safepointing."
Mark Lawson (not his real name) is part of a growing movement in Ontario, Canada to protest the deceptions and abuses of Scientology. Organizers come together on the Facebook group Ontario Against Scientology to share information. Protests have recently been held at the new Continental Liaison Office in Guelph, the Cambridge Ideal Org, and a Drug-Free Marshals event featuring a number of Toronto police officers. Lawson recently spotted a poster for a Youth for Human Rights event at the Ontario Science Center in Toronto and decided to investigate.
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Elia Zurbriggen
Elia Zurbriggen is a Swiss ski racer.His father Pirmin Zurbriggen and his aunt Heidi Zurbriggen were also ski racers.
Elia started the World Cup for the first time on 12 January 2013 without making any qualification but about three weeks later, the first top 5 placings took place in the European Cup. On 24th February 2013 he drove to the 26th place at the Riesenslalom of Garmisch-Partenkirchen and he made his first World Cup points. Finally, on March 2, 2013, he won the first victory in a European Cup giant slalom.
In the 2016/17 season. In 2016/2017 European Cup season he scored four podium places which gave him the victory in Giant Slalom and giving him the place for the next World Cup Season. On March 4, 2017, he finished in the giant slalom of Kranjska Gora at 8th place and therefore pushed for the first time in a world cup race in the top 10.
- Geburtsdatum
- 09.08.1990
- Heimatberg
- Matterhorn
- Disziplinen
- Giant Slalom
- Hobbies
- Golf, Tennis, Hockey, Music
17th Giant Slalom FIS World Cup Kranjska Gora SLO
19th Giant Slalom FIS World Cup Abelboden SUI
12th Super G National Junior Championships Veysonnaz SUI
21st Giant Slalom FIS World Cup Vald'Isere FRANCE
WC 8. Kranjska Gora,
EC 1. Overall Giant Slalom,
EC 1. GS Jasna,
EC 1. & 2. GS Obejoch, EC-Finals EC 1. GS Innichen
- 1. Bevorzugter Dalbello-Schuh
- DRS World Cup
- 2. In welchem Bereich setzt Du den Schuh ein?
- everytime im skiing
- 3. Was gefällt Dir an dem Schuh?
- i can feel that every move im doing goes direkt to the skis and i love that
- 4. Wann hast Du mit dem Skifahren angefangen?
- when i was 2 years old
- 5. Der größte Durchbruch in Deiner Skikarriere?
- 8. Place in Kranjska Gora
- 6. Dein Lieblings-Spot?
- Zermatt
- 7. Was machst Du, wenn Du nicht skifährst?
- in summer i like playing golf or tennis, in winter i go play hockey and if the weather wont let do that i like playing music with my friends
- 8. Wie trainierst Du, um fit zu bleiben?
- allways training hard but also making some breaks to let the body regenrate
- 9. Ohne was kannst Du nicht leben?
- family and sport
- 10. Was war Dein bestens Rennen, dass Du gefahren bist, unabhängig von der Platzierung?
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They're there every evening of every day for a year now peddling their contraband hoon kee.
So how is it that the cops still haven't managed to catch this suspected foreign syndicate dabbling in the illegal cigarette trade?
Deception, disguise and discreet communication, it seems.
An anonymous eyewitness has reported the incidence of young men selling contraband smokes at the Aljunied area in Geylang.
The men are said to be in their 20s, and appear to be Vietnamese.
They have set up base at a shophouse stairwell, which is concealed by a well-positioned lamp post.
The rogue seller will stand at the stairwell with red plastic bags containing the contraband cigarettes.
He'll shout out names of cigarette brands (not too loudly lah) while holding several packs of cigarettes in his hands.
Customers then rummage through the plastic bags, fish out the cigarettes they want, and pay the seller.
It's a good deal for them – S$5.50 a pack compared to S$10 to S$13 for a pack of legal cigarettes (the ones that allow the government to earn tax money from you).
And it looks like business is booming as reports say a customer makes a purchase every few minutes (of course lah, half price hoon kee who don't want right?).
A new young man reportedly replaces the previous one every week to sell the cigarettes.
It's not as though our mata don't patrol the area, so how the hell do these crooks evade the cops?
Rather, the rogue sellers manage to slip away minutes before the cops arrive, only to return to the same spot earlier when the coast is clear.
They've several kua zhui people – spotters armed with handphones and hands-free headsets to warn them when a cop is approaching.
We're not going to tell you the exact location where the contraband hoon kee sellers ply their trade (you know, because we're law-abiding citizens who rather cow beh cow bu about cigarette prices than go to jail).
But the next time you pass by the Geylang area and see someone with a red plastic bag and standing at a shophouse stairwell holding packs of cigarettes, you can choose to buy, or be a man and do the right thing (which is bao mata).
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Mainstream pundits and media commentators see the crisis in US-Turkey relations and the collapse of the Turkish currency as a result of Turkey's refusal to hand over to the US an American Evangelical priest. The analysis here shows that the roots of the conflict in times of crisis, uncertainty and hegemonic instability, go far beyond political epiphenomena. The US, a declining superpower, is trying to use the power of the dollar as a weapon to punish Turkey and other disobedient actors in the international system.
Turkey was thrust into a full-blown currency crisis when Donald Trump hoisted tariffs on Turkeys steel and aluminium exports to the USA, the countrys most serious crisis since Erdogans AKP came to power 16 years ago. The Lira lost more than 40 percent of its value, albeit its most recent humble recovery. The pretext for Trumps punishing attack on Turkey is the continued detention of the evangelical American Presbyterian missionary Andrew Brunson, described by Trump as a fine gentleman and Christian leader, who was arrested in October 2016 on charges of espionage accused of involvement in the attempted coup of July the same year.
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CHARLOTTE, NC—Pastor Patrick Hamrick was moved when he saw an envelope left in his church's offering plate written with the words, "Please don't be mad. I don't have much. I'm homeless. God Bless." There were just a few coins inside, but that tiny amount has touched the hearts of his whole congregation... and ours!
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Being an interior designer I have found myself sitting on my couch watching hours of shows by Sarah Richardson. In fact, I should say that Sarah Richardson has been one of the most influential designers in my life. I have always felt inspired by her and her team and this one is no different.
When an old lake cottage became available on the market where one of the homeowners used to spend his childhood at, the couple couldn't resist buying it. But instead of renovating the old cottage, the new homeowners decided to build their dream cottage from the ground up. Top help them, they asked for Sarah Richardson's decorating expertise.
The designer promptly enlisted her senior designers, Natalie Hodgins and Kate Stuart, to design this beautiful coastal cottage on Lake Erie. The result is a cottage that embraces coastal decor, mixed with vintage pieces in a very summery environment.
Expect to fall in love…
Sarah Richardson's Coastal Cottage
This open and airy living room features unadorned windows and transoms to maximize natural light. A 3-foot by 3-foot iron chandelier measures up to the space's large dimensions while a summery color palette seems to invite you in.
Dining Room
What I always love about Sarah Richardson's designs is the fact that she never complicate things. A clean yet warm design is always your best bet! This dining room, for example, embraces nature and the lake views in a very serene color scheme. Warmth comes from the stunning reclaimed plank floors.
There's nothing lacking in this white country kitchen, including character! The designer mixed once again new and old with a classic twist! The reclaimed plank floors add warmth while the painted ceiling brings some unexpected color. Yes, we're forgoing the traditional blue ceiling to a soft shade of green! Isn't it interesting?
The designer added 100-year-old antique corbels (from a Victorian front porch) to the open shelves in the kitchen. Recycling never looked so good!
Breakfast Nook
I quite often recommend my clients to use comfortable chairs in breakfast rooms. I love the feeling of comfort that always invites you to stay a little longer to enjoy your meals and your time with your family. Comfort and family life are fundamental in any of my designs.
The fabric on the wing chairs is by Lee Jofa.
Would you be tempted to paint this pine spindle dresser? For the designer, this piece adds to the existent color palette and complements the hardwood flooring. I couldn't agree more!
Powder Room
Sarah Richardson does it again! The designer loves bird wallpapers and this one is perfect for this bathroom. Also, notice the antique dresser being transformed into a bathroom vanity. Stunning!
Guest Bedroom
You should always be creative when designing your home and that, in fact, can save you lots of money! When not finding the right side table for this guest bedroom, the designer opted for a tea cart instead. A coat of fresh paint makes the piece feel simply perfect for this room.
Turquoise & Green
Everything is inspiring in this turquoise and green girls' bedroom, from the pair of turquoise Jenny Lind Beds to the hung quilt. Isn't it an adorable idea?
Boys' Bedroom
Gray and red always look great together! Take a look at this bedroom and soon you'll see. In fact, take a good look at this bedroom… did you notice the beds aren't an exact match? Similarity is reinforced with glossy red paint. Vintage tennis rackets are used as mirrors while a Dash & Albert plaid rug anchors the room.
Sarah Richardson's Bird Wallpaper
Sarah Richardson became even more popular when she used this bird wallpaper in a bathroom on her "Sarah's House" show. Do you guys remember that? In case you're wondering about the name of the wallpaper, take note; the wallpaper is F Schumacher Wallpaper. Pattern: A-Twitter.
How are you doing today? Did you enjoy your Labor Day? I tried to get some work done around the house with the kids today. They're being so helpful lately and I feel so proud of them! I am working a lot this year and to help me, they became in charge of folding the laundry during this summer. They're learning to earn their allowance and I feel they're also learning to take on certain responsibilities, which is so important in life. I remember helping my mother cooking dinner by the age of ten and by the age of twelve I knew how to do everything around the house. I want my kids to know the same things, to know how to take care of themselves and of what's around them.
Trust me, it is not an easy task to make your kids feel interested on learning certain errands, but I feel it's part of growing up. I want them to start to learn to own themselves, to see what's around them and realize how life works. We can't expect our kids to grow if we continue to do everything for them and resolve all of their problems. Part of growing up is learn to own your life and unfold your own story. In fact, I feel that, the more we grow (not always literally, I must say), the more we own ourselves. I'm trying to pass that to my kids.
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Hi Luciane, As I was relaxing with pinterest and looking through some home décor I came across a familar picture, so I clicked on it. And it led to you.
This is an amazing house that my husband built and I have spent time walking through, studying every inch of Sarah Richardson's designs. She is so talented. I had to send you a quick note since we have similar tastes. Thanks for sharing.
Hello Jill!
It's so wonderful to hear this! I adore Sarah's work and I am happy to know your husband was the builder for this home. Do you mind sharing his name/website? I would love to link it to him as well.
Thank you!
Any hints how I might locate a product source list for this house. Specifically the rug in the dining room?


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How much should foundations have to give to charity? More than they do.
Who could oppose a piece of legislation called the Charitable Giving Act of 2003? The nation's largest charitable givers, that's who. The House bill would require foundations to spend more on charity, and they're irate about it. Currently, to maintain their (largely) tax-exempt status, foundations must distribute 5 percent of their assets per year. But they're allowed to count administrative costs—executive salaries, rent, catered lunches, retreats at corporate conference centers, etc.—in that total. The bill would make the $400-billion-plus foundation sector devote the full 5 percent to charitable giving and pay administrative costs separately.
This isn't just another effort to de-fund the left. The bill, introduced in early May, has bi-partisan backing: The sponsors are Rep. Roy Blunt of Missouri, a Republican, and Rep. Harold Ford of Tennessee, a centrist Democrat. And the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy, which sounds like a rightish group but has a leftish board, also supports the measure. It says that foundations counted $2 billion of their administrative costs toward the 5 percent spending requirement 1999, and that such funds could be better used in the field—especially now. House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Bill Thomas doesn't seem particularly eager to take up work on the Charitable Giving Act, but since it also contains crucial elements of President Bush's compassionate conservative agenda—like allowing non-itemizing taxpayers to take deductions for charitable donations—supporters expect the White House to push for passage.
The Council on Foundations is highly concerned, viewing the legislation as an unwarranted intrusion on its turf and as a change in a regime that has worked well for decades.
But the 5 percent solution doesn't stem from any tried-and-tested rule of portfolio management or philanthropic best practice. It's largely arbitrary, and it has changed several times over the past few decades. Congress in 1969 set the contribution floor at 6 percent, including administrative expenses, and then changed it to 5 percent in 1981. This paper by Peter Frumkin and Akash Deep of Harvard's Kennedy School of Government argues convincingly that the floor—whether it was 6 percent or 5 percent—functions more like a ceiling. The 5 percent solution, they note, "has had the effect of repressing foundation giving."
Most foundations don't spend profligately on overhead. Sure, there are bad apples. (The New York Times last fall embarrassed the Markle Foundation by reporting on the spending habits of top executives.) But most foundations husband resources wisely and pay modestly compared to the for-profit sector. The bill's sponsors suggest that expenses should eat up about 0.4 percent of assets annually, meaning foundations would henceforth have to part with about 5.4 percent of assets each year. That doesn't seem onerous, especially when you consider the bill's sponsors are offering a carrot to the foundations in the form of a tax break.
And 5.4 percent certainly seems manageable, given foundations' historic returns. Frumkin and Deep found that between 1972 and 1996, "as a group, the foundations in our sample have returned 7.62 percent annually on their assets, while paying out an average of 4.97 percent." That's pretty good. A 1999 study by DeMarche Associates, which was commissioned by the Council of Foundations, concluded that foundations could have paid out 6.5 percent each year between 1950 and 1998, and their assets still would have grown by about a quarter.
For their part, foundations argue that what outsiders may view as administrative costs—conducting research, assisting grantees, finding new beneficiaries, soliciting new grants—are an essential component of the charitable work. In light of the recent and significant economic decline, the historic return of 7.62 percent may be difficult to replicate. Interest rates on government bonds yield significantly less than 5 percent, and the stock market has declined recently. The Council of Foundations argues that when you consider investment management costs and inflation, "a foundation must earn an average return of 9.5 percent return on its investments to sustain the purchasing power of its corpus, pay its investment management costs, and distribute 5 percent of its assets annually for charitable purposes."
There is a more compelling financial argument to be made on behalf of lower pay-out levels. Less spending in the short term means more spending in the long term. The DeMarche study found that over the time period it examined, a foundation spending 5.5 percent of net assets annually would wind up giving more than it would have if it had been spending 6.5 percent annually.
At root, the bill exposes the conflict over whether foundations exist to make an impact quickly and divest themselves of assets, or whether they exist to perpetuate themselves—and enrich the executives who run them.
There's something to be said for foundations that live on borrowed time. In the early 1980s, Aaron and Irene Diamond (he was a real estate developer, she a former Hollywood script-reviewer who purchased the play that later became Casablanca) created the Aaron Diamond Foundation, and vowed to pay out some $200 million in assets in 10 years. Aaron Diamond died in 1984. Over the next several years, his wife gave generously, providing tens of millions of dollars to support the research of Dr. David Ho, who helped develop the protease inhibitors that have extended the lives of millions of AIDS patients. She also made huge donations to Jazz at Lincoln Center, the Juilliard School, and Human Rights Watch. Irene Diamond died earlier this year, a sainted philanthropist. It may be that her foundation could have ultimately given away more money over the long term by sticking to the 5 percent solution. But mankind has arguably reaped far greater returns from her get-poor-quick scheme.
Daniel Gross writes the "Moneybox" column for slate.
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Local filmmaker reports progress
It takes a lot of diehard, hometown pride to stand by east coast waves sometimes, and not many surf movies feature this stretch of Atlantic coast — but there are some filmmakers here.
Bethany Beach resident Dan Herlihy has been shooting surf footage since the 1960s. Through the 1970s, he worked for various companies, selling stock footage, and, living in Hawaii, promoting surf films from California and Australia.
Originally from Ocean City, Md., he started surfing as a teenager (early 1960s). The search for waves took him out to the west coast in short order, out to Hawaii by 1965 and down to Puerto Rico by the late 1960s.
Herlihy remembered setting lines into unknown territory — invited down to P.R. for competition, he discovered Tres Palmes on a side trip. "I ran into a guy from California who'd started a surfboard company down there, and we went looking for spots," he recalled. "The whole north coast was still unexplored at that time."
They spotted the big waves out in the distance, a mile offshore — according to Herlihy, it doesn't start breaking there until there's at least a 15-foot swell. He claims fame as the first surfer to ever ride Tres Palmes.
Herlihy lived here and there, always near great breaks, until 1973, when he returned to the east coast (Bethany). He continued to travel, though, before and after the arrival of his son, Colin, in 1980.
"We've been traveling together for a long time," he recalled. "I started taking Colin back to Puerto Rico when he was 6 —– he kind of grew up between the two places."
Colin's had his own successes along the way (he's a former East Coast bodyboarding champ, and Hawaiian World Invitational finalist), and found himself cast as leading man in his father's "Time Has Come" film (2003).
The film has been well received — as Herlihy reported, a Bodyboarding Magazine reviewer had deemed it "'The Endless Summer' of Bodyboarding," referring to the seminal 1966 surf flick — high praise indeed.
"We did good work on that," he stated matter-of-factly.
Through the big gap, Herlihy shifted toward more of a 9-to-5 lifestyle and made furniture for a number of years — and developed some waterproof, breathable fabrics for the surfing industry, of all things. "I felt it was something that was needed, so I did a lot of homework, and wound up with two patents," he said. "But film was always a passion."
He got back to his roots in 1998, and established A Better Life production company. Herlihy seems to be making up for lost time, because since wrapping up "Time Has Come," he's thrown himself into not one, but two surfing documentaries.
The first is about evolution in surfboard design. Back in the 1930s, boards had some shape to them, but functionally, they still weren't much more than flat planks.
Herlihy managed to hook up with pioneers John Kelly and Wally Froiseth. Apparently, these early surfers were getting fed up with the basically straight-in ride they were getting on what Herlihy recognized as "ancient boards."
"They came in, took an adze to the board, and put a 'V' in the bottom of the tail," he explained. Thus appeared the "Hot Curl" boards, so named because they kept surfers in the curl — with the ability to set a rail, they could take a diagonal line across, rather than just straight down the wave.
Fins appeared on the scene not long thereafter, and innovations continue to refine surfboard performance today, but Herlihy's documentary focuses on those first few critical modifications.
With Froiseth (and his son and grandson), photographer Bernie Baker (Hawaii) fellow Bethany resident Ed Timmons (editing) and Peter Interland (writer), Herlihy has the workings of a major production in hand.
The project group reproduced the 1930s era with utmost integrity, even going so far as to procure vintage bathing Jantzen swimsuits (found in New York, with the tags still on them) for the surfers.
And legendary board shaper Jim Phillips signed on to carve out nine redwood balsa surfboards — exact replicas from that time period.
According to Herlihy, they weigh between 40 and 50 pounds, and are varnished, rather than fiberglassed. They're hard to steer, compared with modern boards, and the surfers won't be wearing leashes, either (there weren't any in the 1930s). They had Phillips carve nine because they anticipated a couple of them would end up in the rocks.
Herlihy shot a good deal of footage last year, and anticipated his son will make a cameo appearance in the film. However, he said Colin wouldn't be around for a second shoot this fall — he'd be working toward a marine technician degree down in North Carolina.
They've signed up Bonga Perkins for center stage, though, and Herlihy applauded his ability as a surfer, but also generally, as a waterman.
So, that's one project. He's working with surfing great/history professor Tom Stone (University of Hawaii) on the second. It's to be another documentary, this one detailing the ancient rituals associated with surfing in Hawaii.
"There's an incredible amount of ritual involved," Herlihy pointed out. Every stage has its reverence — the selection of the tree, the offering of redfish, buried in front of the tree, then actually chopping the tree down, then storing the wood in a shed for a certain period before actually carving the board.
Herlihy said they'd been granted access to one of the more remote areas, normally off-limits to outsiders, and the villagers had allowed them to film the harvest of a mango tree.
For both projects, he said he hoped to steer away from the traditional surf odyssey film, and appeal to an audience beyond the surfing community. But there's a lot behind shooting video for television, as he explained. First, the audio and exposure had to be right on the money — in the "legal zone," as Herlihy called it. "We want to avoid the phrase, 'we'll take care of that in post-production,' because that's really expensive," he pointed out.
He said the newer cameras didn't even use videotape — everything went right onto a hard drive — and it was now possible to set up a computer, right on the beach, to make sure they were meeting those production standards.
"We try to shoot during the golden hours, early morning and later afternoon," he continued. "And to get one hour's worth of footage, we probably shoot 30 hours.
He said they had a lot of footage, but were still probably a year away on both the Hot Curl and ancient ritual projects.
In the meantime, editing continues apace, and he said he was generating some commercial footage (surfing apparel) to stay busy. For more information about projects underway at A
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That's quite extreme pessimism. Schaffer's songwriting may let you down, but IE has been writing some really catchy, heavy stuff recently. And Schaffer moved into a new place entirely for a few years with his lyrical direction going into the realms of social awareness and the forms of oppression and real suffering we face. That's more awesome to me than the demons and palaces stuff of older metal.Rokubota wrote:I'm glad they're still alive.
Schaffer hasn't written a killer and fresh riff in decades, he is done as a songwriter IMO and there's nothing really inspired in his music anymore. ATITM had some good songs but terrible production, ATEOT had Wheel Of Time and a better production but that's it.
I want a killer album but it's very unlikely this late in their career. Those iconic songs are very hard to do. Fiddler was the last time Hansi was truly inspired IMO.
And I know it's your opinion, so you aren't wrong when you say ATEOT has "only" got WOT, but I don't know how you can't recognise how much good music is there. It's an incredible album and is a sign to me the band is still capable of amazing things. They've been exploring a new direction since ATITM, but I still don't feel they've fully realised what it is yet. My feeling is that with this new album, they'll have cracked it open.


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December 27, 1984-September 8, 2018
DURANT - Travis John Kraklio, 33, of Durant, Iowa, passed away Saturday, September 8, 2018, at University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City, due to a head injury sustained from a fall.
Travis was born in Davenport on December 27, 1984, to Steven and Glenda (Overton) Kraklio.
He graduated from Durant High School in 2003. He proudly served his country in the United States Navy.
He was a tradesman as an electrician.
Travis married Brooke Basye on March 30, 2013.
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He enjoyed fishing and John Deere tractors. Above all he loved his son, Liam with all his heart.
Visitation will be held on Tuesday, September 11, 2018, from 4-7 p.m. at the Bentley Funeral Home in Durant.
Funeral services will be held on Wednesday at 10:30 a.m. at the funeral home.
Interment will be in the Durant Cemetery.
Travis is survived by his son, Liam, his parents: Steven and Glenda Kraklio of Moscow, Iowa, sister Mandy (Chad) Hunter of Muscatine, brother BJ (Kat) Kraklio of Johnston, Iowa, nieces and nephews, and his grandmother Joan Kraklio of Durant.
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In 2004 Peggy set up Monkstown Laser Skin Clinic. She loves working with skins and gets a great sense of pride and achievement when seeking good results and happy clients.
Being a long time sufferer of Rosacea herself, Peggy has a particular interest in Celtic Skin. As a child growing up in Donegal people used to say 'doesn't she have grand rosy cheeks'. Thankfully that is now a thing of the past!
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Popular actress, Yvonne Jegede who has been in the news more often that not has slammed men who report their wives to family members.
The beautiful actress said men who do this should start wearing pampers.
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Following the crash of her barely two-year-old marriage to Olakunle Fawole aka Abounce a few months ago, Nollywood actress, Yvonne Jegede has picked up the broken pieces of her life and moved on.
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SkinTE Clinical Data to be Presented, PolarityTE to Host Booth and SkinTE Event at Symposium on Advanced Wound Care (SAWC) Spring, Wound Healing Society Meeting
SALT LAKE CITY, April 24, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- PolarityTE, Inc. (Nasdaq: PTE), a biotechnology company developing and commercializing regenerative tissue products and biomaterials, announced today that new clinical data on the use of its SkinTE™ product will be presented at the Symposium on Advanced Wound Care (SAWC) Spring, Wound Healing Society meeting in San Antonio, TX from May 7 – 11, 2019. In addition, PolarityTE will host a booth and an interactive event featuring patients treated with SkinTE and a presentation from Dr. Gerhard S. Mundinger, MD, Division of Plastic Surgery, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, an early adopter of SkinTE, on his clinical experience with the product.
The data presented at the SAWC Spring, Wound Healing Society meeting will include:
- results from four patients who had contracted split-thickness skin grafts removed and replaced with SkinTE
- results from a series of patients with diabetic foot ulcers and venous stasis ulcers treated with SkinTE
- bench-to-bedside overview of the use of SkinTE in pre-clinical and clinical applications, highlighting the SkinTE technology
The three accepted abstracts will be available to view in the Poster Hall on Thursday, May 9 and Friday, May 10 from 7:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. Posters will be presented on Thursday, May 9, from 6-7 p.m.
A complete listing of the abstracts to be presented includes:
Poster Title
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Closure of Refractory Complex Lower Extremity Wounds Using a Single Application of a Novel Autologous Homologous Skin Construct in the Clinical Setting; A Clinical Case Series
David Armstrong, DPM, MD, PhD, Southwestern Academic Limb Salvage Alliance (SALSA) and Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California
Novel Therapy for Complete Regeneration of Functional Skin in Burn Reconstruction: Observations of the Efficacy and Clinical Utility of Autologous Homologous Skin Construct
Michael A. Marano, MD, Saint Barnabas Medical Center Burn Center, Department of Surgery
Neogenesis of Full-thickness Skin and Concomitant Dermal Appendages in Acute Wounds Using Novel Autologous Homologous Skin Construct Therapy in Preclinical and Clinical Settings
Nikolai Sopko, MD, PhD, PolarityTE, Inc.
Nikolai Sopko, MD, PhD, Chief Scientific Officer of PolarityTE, said "We are honored to present additional pre-clinical and clinical data on the use of SkinTE at this important conference. The clinical data presented from the early adopters of SkinTE is vital to expand available information about SkinTE and to allow providers to understand its efficacy for patients in need of a full-thickness, functional skin replacement. With patients at the heart of everything we do, we are eager for patients to speak directly to clinicians during the SkinTE symposium on May 8."
On May 8, PolarityTE will host an evening symposium on SkinTE, featuring a burn survivor treated with SkinTE who will present her experiences, as well as presentations from Dr. Gerhard S. Mundinger, MD, Division of Plastic Surgery, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, an early adopter of SkinTE and a PolarityTE clinical advisor, and Dr. Nikolai Sopko, MD, PhD, Chief Scientific Officer of PolarityTE. Additional patients treated with SkinTE will be in attendance as well.
The SkinTE Symposium is Wednesday, May 8 at 7 p.m. at Biga on the Banks, 203 South St. Mary's Street, San Antonio, TX. Please visit https://rsvp.polarityte.com to RSVP.
PolarityTE will be exhibiting during the conference at booth #643. For more information on the SAWC Spring, Wound Healing Society conference please visit www.sawcspring.com.
About PolarityTE®
PolarityTE is focused on transforming the lives of patients by discovering, designing and developing a range of regenerative tissue products and biomaterials for the fields of medicine, biomedical engineering and material sciences. Rather than manufacturing with synthetic and foreign materials within artificially engineered environments, PolarityTE manufactures products from the patient's own tissue and uses the patient's own body to support the regenerative process. From a small piece of healthy autologous tissue, the company creates an easily deployable, dynamic and self-propagating product designed to regenerate the target tissues. PolarityTE's innovative method is intended to promote and accelerate growth of the patient's tissues to undergo a form of effective regenerative healing. Learn more at www.PolarityTE.com – Welcome to the Shift®.
About SkinTE™
SkinTE is a human cellular and tissue-based product derived from a patient's own skin intended for the repair, reconstruction, and replacement of skin tissue.
SkinTE is intended to be used by physicians or other appropriate healthcare providers for homologous uses of skin tissues/integument. Patients who have suffered from an event, disease, process or acquired deficit that results in the functional loss or void of skin/integument systems can receive SkinTE as an adjunct and/or in place of split-thickness skin grafting, full-thickness grafting, temporizing skin coverage and/or skin substitute products. SkinTE is for autologous use only. Aseptic technique during harvest and deployment of SkinTE is mandatory. SkinTE is marketed as an HCT/P regulated by the FDA solely under Section 361 of the Public Health Service Act and 21 CFR 1271.
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Silvestri received her doctoral training in Environmental System Modelling at the University of Padova, with a focus on remote sensing and the interdependence of salt marsh morphology and halophytic vegetation. She received her Laurea in Environmental Sciences from the University Ca' Foscari in Venice. Silvestri joined the Nicholas School (Duke University) in 2011, where she teaches "Introduction to Satellite Remote Sensing" and "Remote Sensing of Coastal Environments". Moreover Silvestri is the director of a Duke summer program at the Venice International University "Environmental Management in a Changing World: coping with Sea Level Rise". Her research focuses on: - Remote Sensing applied to vegetation mapping, soil studies, hydrology, tidal morphology – Remote sensing of coastal water quality - Hyperspectral imagery analysis - Salt marsh evolution modelling - Relationship between wetlands morphology and vegetation - Large-scale multi-criteria analysis (GIS) - Remote sensing and GIS applied to the identification of illegal landfills and contaminated sites – Mosquitoes population dynamic. The Venice lagoon and its watershed have been her principal research sites in the last 15 years. In particular she is expert in the use of satellite remote sensing to monitor the Venice lagoon water quality (turbidity, phytoplankton, water temperature, etc.) and tracing the dynamic of the submerged vegetation. She has been extensively working on the Venice lagoon salt marshes and specifically on using data from a variety of sensors to study the halophytic vegetation and its interaction with the morphology.
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Topic Page: Kingfishers
Astab of electric blue contrasted with the warm chestnut orange of the underparts – such is the image Europe's Common kingfisher most often presents. And then it is gone, leaving behind the fleeting impression of a living cobalt and azure jewel. If legend is to be believed, the Common kingfisher was once a dull gray bird that acquired its fantastic colors when it left Noah's Ark.
Similar small, brilliant-blue kingfishers live on the other side of the world too, but in addition Australia and New Guinea boast the kookaburras. Large, noisy and much-loved birds of gardens and dry woodlands, kookaburras are quite gregarious in their habits, they live in trees, from which they pounce to the ground for their animal food. New Guinea and adjacent archipelagos have the greatest number of kingfisher species in the greatest diversity of forms, although Africa and south Asia are rich in species too. Other species, nearly all of them colorful and attractive, are to be found in the Americas and on hundreds of islands scattered througout the Pacific Ocean.
Kingfishers are bright-plumaged, monogamous, more or less solitary birds of forests, savannas, and watersides. The great majority of species are tropical, but one or two species from each subfamily have extended as migrant breeders into temperate latitudes. Primitive species are forest-dwelling predators feeding mainly on forest-floor insects. More specialized types plunge into shallow water for small animals, flycatch for airborne insects, forage in leaf-litter for earthworms, prey on birds and reptiles, and deep-dive for fish from a perch or (particularly the Pied kingfisher) from hovering flight.
Like other birds of their order, kingfishers are large-headed, short-necked, stout-bodied, and short-legged, with weak, fleshy feet on which the second and third toes are partly joined. The bill is straight, strong, and long, flattened from top to bottom in insectivorous species and from side to side in fish-eaters. The extraordinary Shovel-billed or Earthworm-eating kingfisher of New Guinea has a short, wide, conical bill. Other forms have the bill sharp-pointed and daggerlike, but in the adult African dwarf kingfisher it is blunt-tipped (sharp in the juvenile). For no obvious reason, several not-closely-related lineages of kingfishers are three-toed, having lost the fourth toe. Plumage and other characters show that three-toed species are very closely allied with some four-toed species in the genera Ceyx and Alcedo, and that the three-toed kingfishers do not comprise a single natural assemblage, as they were formerly held to do.
Although kingfishers are colorful, the colors are in general muted, with shades of blue and red predominating. Shoulders and rump are usually a shining azure blue, and a dark cap and back are commonly separated by a white or pale collar. Juveniles of paradise kingfishers are dusky, differing markedly from the adults, but in other species juveniles are bright in plumage, although duller than adults. There is little geographic variation within a species, and evolutionary color conservatism has led to allied species looking much alike. Notable exceptions are the Variable dwarf kingfisher, whose subspecies on islands from the Philippines to the Solomons vary from red to blue or yellow, Africa's Gray-headed kingfisher, and the much larger Black-capped kingfisher of China. Although the last two differ in appearance, biochemical and biological characteristics, as well as the geographical relationship of their ranges, suggest strongly that they are of immediate descent from a common ancestor.
Kingfishers living on dry land are sit-and-wait predators of small animals on the surface of the ground. Those living by water are true fishers. All have very good eyesight, but the fishers have particular problems to overcome, because of light refraction, which makes prey appear to be nearer to the surface of water than they really are, and because of light reflection from rippling or choppy surfaces. Kingfishers have a limited degree of movement of the eyes in their sockets, and make up for it by moving the whole head, fast and flexibly, in order to track rapidly-moving prey. Sacred kingfishers are thought to be able to spot a small prey animal up to 90m (300ft) away. Belted kingfishers are sensitive to near-ultraviolet light, which may also assist in prey detection.
All kingfishers have two foveae in each eye – depressions on the retina with very numerous light-detecting cone cells. Fields of vision overlap to the front, giving binocular vision there, and one of the foveae in each eye looks out into the binocular field; the other looks into the monocular field at each side of the head. Experiments show that the hunting kingfisher instantly detects prey as its image crosses the monocular fovea; then, when the head is angled in the usual manner with the bill pointing down at an angle of about 60°, a slight rotation of the head transfers the image to the binocular fovea in one or both eyes, allowing the prey's distance away to be precisely evaluated. Pied kingfishers can catch a fish 2m (6.5ft) below the surface, the bird achieving that depth by diving vertically from a height of 2–3m (6.5–10ft) above the water. In the split second when a Common kingfisher enters the water surface, it turns its wings backward at the shoulder joint, and a cover of translucent skin, the nictitating membrane, passes over the eye from front to back, protecting it. Shooting down like an arrow, the bird uses its wings as brakes and in the same instant seizes its prey in the ends of its mandibles, retracts its neck, turns its body, and flies up through the water and then the air, often nearly along the same course as its dive.
The evolutionary history of other groups of kingfisher species is better understood than for most groups of birds. The family almost certainly arose in tropical rain forest, partly in the northern Australasian region (in the case of the insectivorous woodland kingfishers of the subfamily Daceloninae) and partly in adjacent Indonesia, Borneo, and southeast Asia (forest insectivores, evolving into waterside fishers of the subfamily Alcedininae). Both subfamilies extended into Asia and repeatedly invaded Africa, on as many as 12 separate occasions; the Alcedininae invaded the New World to give rise to the Green and Giant kingfishers there (in addition to the Cerylinae).
The several Pacific archipelago species of woodland (Halcyon and Todiramphus) kingfishers have clearly evolved from the wideranging complex formed by the Collared and Beach kingfishers and the more southerly Sacred kingfisher. Mangrove, Woodland, and Blue-breasted kingfishers are similarly of recent descent from a single ancestor; their habitats keep them apart, although they are acquiring sufficient ecological differences to permit some degree of geographical overlap. Belted, Ringed, Giant, and Crested kingfishers, respectively in North America, tropical America, Africa, and southern Asia, are all very closely allied, and it is thought that the Giant and Crested descended from small populations of the first two that crossed the Atlantic (Belted kingfishers occasionally still arrive in Europe as vagrants).
Species multiplication is also demonstrated by the four green kingfishers of the neotropics. Long ago, their common ancestor there separated into two geographically distinct populations that duly happened to evolve differences of size, enabling them to overlap as distinct species. Later, each of the two species repeated the separating process, and the result today is four species all occupying much the same range, having body-weights close to the proportions 1:2:4:8, with the smallest and second-largest (the American Pygmy kingfisher and the Green-and-rufous kingfisher) being almost alike in appearance, and the largest and second-smallest (Amazon and Green kingfishers) also being remarkably similar.
The end result of all of these ancient and recent historical movements within and between continents and across the oceans is a wealth of diverse kinds in many regions. Temperate zones in the northern tropics do not do so well, and only single species reach as far north as the Gulf of Finland and the western shores of the Sea of Okhotsk (Common kingfisher) and Alaska and Newfoundland (Belted kingfisher). Central and South America possess five, the huge Ringed kingfisher and the four small or medium-sized green kingfishers. Africa and Madagascar have 18 species. From India to Japan and Cambodia 12 species reside, more passing through on migration. The Philippines have 11 species, six of them occurring nowhere else; Malaysia and Indonesia boast another 11 species; and Sulawesi possesses 11 also, of which five are found there alone.
In New Guinea, the Bismarck Archipelago, and Australia's tropical Cape York Peninsula there are 16 woodland kingfishers and kookaburras and three fishing ones. The rest of Australia has six; and Oceania, from the Solomon Islands and New Zealand to Tahiti and the Tuamotu Archipelago, hosts 11 species, seven of them endemic. To single out the smallest of these areas, Sulawesi is home to a variety of kingfishers representing two of the three main groups or subfamilies (families, according to some researchers). Unique to the forests of that island are the Lilac-cheeked, Green-backed, Scaly-breasted, and Sulawesi dwarf kingfishers. Common paradise, Ruddy, Black-capped, Collared, Sacred, Blue-eared, and Common kingfishers inhabit Sulawesi too, each as part of a much more extensive range.
All fishing kingfishers take a certain amount of invertebrate prey in addition to fish; insects, for example, make up about 21 percent of the Common kingfisher's diet; most are aquatic, but some are caught on dry land. Pied kingfishers, fishing from hovering flight more than from a perch, are in that sense at the peak of the family's evolution; in Africa they live entirely upon fish (but in India take insects and crabs too, and can even "hawk" for flying termites). Not having to rely on a perch means that they can fish far from shore: on Lake Kariba they fish up to 3km (2mi) offshore at dawn and dusk, catching sardines, deep-sea fish that rise to the surface at those times. In Natal, 80 percent of their fish food consists of Sarotherodon mossambicus, mainly in the 1–2g (0.035–0.07oz) weight class, and on Lake Victoria they prey almost exclusively on fish from the genera Haplochromis and Engraulicypris. When foraging close to the shore in windy conditions, they dive from hovering flight, as ruffled water seems to make fishing from a perch unrewarding; only when the surface is calm do they fish from perches to a greater extent than from hovering. A Pied kingfisher flies low over the water to a desired hunting station, then rises 10m (33ft) above the surface and hovers on rapidly beating wings. With the body held almost vertically and the bill pointing acutely down, the bird keeps station for 5–10 seconds, then dives steeply to penetrate possibly 2m (6.5ft) underwater, occasionally catching more than one fish at a time. The Belted kingfisher of North America behaves in a similar way.
The divide between preying on dry-land animals and aquatic ones is not precise. Sacred kingfishers live in woodland but often hunt from shrubs along ditches and lakeshores. They take a wide range of prey, including insects, spiders, earthworms, mollusks, cructaceans, centipedes, fish, frogs, tadpoles, reptiles, and even small birds or mammals. A study in a single region of the food and foraging relations of South America's five fishing kingfishers showed that fish-eating was proportional to the abundance of fish at the surface near the shoreline, with all types being taken as available; the larger kingfishers perched higher, and presumably dived deeper, and the average prey sizes were in proportion to the birds' different body sizes and bill lengths.
Most kingfishers are monogamous and territorial, a pair defending an area of woodland on a stretch of river against incursion by other birds of the same species. Several species are migratory, both in the temperate zone and within the tropics; others are sedentary. What little is known of their breeding habits suggests that most species breed at the end of their first year, and are quite long-lived. Woodland kingfishers (Halcyon species) have a territorial advertising display, singing loudly and repeatedly from a conspicuous treetop perch, spreading the wings widely with the patterned undersides facing forward and rotating the body about the vertical axis. Other species have little by way of any courtship display. Both sexes dig the nest tunnel, and the male takes a minor role in incubation. The eggs hatch at about daily intervals, in the same sequence as they were laid, so nestlings vary considerably in size. They are fed by both parents equally.
Laughing kookaburras in Australia and Pied kingfishers in Africa have a more complex social system. Each has adult helpers at the nest, and in Pied kingfishers these are of two kinds: primary helpers (those helping their own parents) and secondary helpers (those helping an unrelated pair). A pair seldom has more than one primary helper but, particularly in places where the food resources are not so good, they usually have several secondary helpers. "Helping" includes defending territory and feeding the young in the nest and after fledging. This species breeds in loose colonies, the only kingfisher to do so.
Kingfishers have not, in general, come into direct conflict with man. As fish-eaters, a few species have sometimes been viewed as pests on fishing streams and persecuted; but usually they are treated with respect and often with admiration. Formerly, great numbers of Common kingfishers were shot or netted to make fishing "flies" from their feathers, and in earlier times (in Britain at least) superstition caused the destruction of many, for a dried kingfisher corpse in the house was supposed to avert thunderstorms and keep out moths! Today, the harmful effects of humans on kingfishers are more accidental than deliberate, in the pollution of fresh waters and the modification of habitats, especially rain forest. Bird-catchers destroy many; at Jatinga in Assam great numbers of migrating Common, Stork-billed, Ruddy, and Oriental dwarf kingfishers are killed (and presumably eaten) when they are attracted to light beacons around the villages at night. In some Mediterranean countries, many kingfishers are killed by netting, shooting, and liming, although they are not target species.
Few populations of kingfisher are at great risk. However, so many species are confined to tropical rain forests, or to small Pacific islands or archipelagos, that their fate depends largely on the preservation of their habitats. The distinctive race of the Tuamotu kingfisher that lived until about 1922 on the island of Mangareva in the central Pacific is almost certainly extinct; the other race, only found on Niau Island in the Tuamotus, numbers only a few hundred birds and is classed as Vulnerable. The very poorly-known Mustached kingfisher is another endangered bird. It is restricted to hill forest on the islands of Bougainville and Guadalcanal in the Solomons; the total population is estimated at less than 1,000 individuals in all, and perhaps as few as 250.
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