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My latest fashion obsession is the street style fashion of Seoul, Korea. After reading fashion blogs dedicated to Seoul style featuring fashion obsessed Korean youth, I must say that individual hype beast style is far more interesting than the American counterpart. My curiosity of their keen sense of fashion was further piqued after watching the video "Counterfeit Culture – Seoul: A look inside Korea's Fake Fashion World" on "Highsnobiety.com".
The narrator, Alec Leach, editor of online trend publication Highsnobiety.com, explains how an underground subculture of street wear became a uniform for young people all over the world. Particularly in South Korea, the brand obsessed youth culture has seen an explosion of street style. The fashion quotient is so high that Seoul has joined the rarefied ranks of fashion destinations. Street wear is booming but herein lies the twist- the appetite for the latest trend and brand is fed by counterfeit street wear. And this counterfeit industry was born out of necessity and elevated.
Korean youth culture avidly follows street style trends popular in the West, however, the brands of the moment are not sold in the country. For example, brands such as Supreme are not available in Korea, and obtaining them from third parties in Japan is cost prohibitive. So a vigorous business in counterfeit goods sprung up to fill the void. Wearing counterfeit brands became as acceptable as wearing the actual brand.
Korea's culture is homogenous in contrast to multicultural societies in the West. The overwhelming Korean-ness of the population further instills the societal norms of hierarchy, conformity and submission to elders and authority. How does that translate to fashion? Pop culture figures hold massive influence in setting fashion trends. Plastic surgery is pervasive with a singular beauty model to attain. When a trend is introduced, it takes hold and is followed by everyone.
One trend that I absolutely adore and wish Americans would embrace is face masks–the kind you see surgeons wear in the ER. Throughout Asia, these masks are worn to protect from pollution, sand storms and colds. Contrast this to the US workplace, where stressed-out employees have no qualms about going to work with colds, coughing and hacking, spreading bacteria to clueless co-workers.
In Seoul, trendy youth have given the mundane face mask a new life and purpose by refashioning it as a fashion accessory.
TADA! I took a crack at customizing my own DIY version of a facemask.
Many current street style trends are not affordable in Korea or even America. Brands such as Balenciaga, Thom Browne, Vetements and Off-White are out of reach for the average consumer. Hence, the acceptance and promotion of counterfeit apparel while lending a blind eye towards patent and intellectual property.
Up and coming Korean street style brands echo these Western brands feeding the appetite for trend-right street style. Labels such as Blindness, Juun.J, Ader Error and Kanghyuk are some of the on-the-rise brands garnering attention among the cognoscenti.
A development of the knock-off, counterfeit culture which I have been obsessively following, is DIY customized fake fashion. In fact, the influence of this DIY movement is so widespread, that a CARDBOARD BOX ON A SHOULDER STRAP with "Balenciaga" emblazoned in marker was spotted outside runway shows in Oslo, Norway. Whaaaaaa? Street stylers are creating blatant knock-offs of recognizable brands on clothing and cardboard boxes using markers and crayons! And they pose, snap, style and parade their customized designer art with the same self-assurance as if they were wearing the real McCoy. This is SO HILARIOUS! With everyday implements like pen, paper, glue and boxes, the imitations glorify their sought-after brands while parodying trademarked brand identities. These brand identities are the cornerstones of successful business models and taken seriously by those who grow and cultivate their brands.
HERE IS MY DIY TAKE, inspired by one of the most popular, recognizable street style brand, NY's SUPREME.
What drives me insane about high end brand merchandise geared towards millennials and generation Xers is that the majority can't afford to part with $900 on a big droopy sweatshirt with blatant branding. Brands and their world-wide brand pimping have unwittingly prodded the masses to support the counterfeit markets. There's a part of me that wants to admonish counterfeiters of intellectual property violations, but then there's the other side which proclaims, "screw your $900 absurdly priced hoodie! I'd rather spend green on Comme Des Garcons or Sacai!" When I grew up in the 80s, we salivated over brands we couldn't afford. So we used our imagination to define our unique sartorial style, which in turn inspired designers to interpret our style and then slap on a huge price tag.
My hope for today's youth is to follow smaller, under-the-radar brands since fashion magazines and media rarely recognize these talents. The biggest designer brands have the resources to advertise while lesser known designers merely get 2 seconds of read-play. Currently, the world of fashion is in flux. Perhaps name brands should embrace how youth culture interprets their designs and produce affordable versions. They could take a lesson from the counterfeiters and supply markets with the real deal. But then again, inaccessibility of these coveted brands has spurred incredible creativity, resourcefulness and ingenuity which further feeds the fashion cycle. This is what makes horses race and makes fashion so exciting!


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What is Identity Theft?
Who are you? What aspects of yourself do you identify with? Your morals and values, your interests, the way you grew up? These things make you who you are. However, though these aspects are important to you, a criminal does not care about how good of a person you are. A criminal just wants your identity as it is on your official documents. Once a criminal gets ahold of your identity, all you'll have is your dignity. Soon to be lost, your good name.
What is identity theft? Identity theft occurs when a criminal gains access to your personal information and will use it to commit a crime or fraud in your name. There are numerous types of identity theft, such as mail identity theft, credit card fraud, even online shopping fraud. There are up to 20 different types of identity theft.
What kind of personal information do thieves look for? Exposing any of the following information in the wrong place can leave you at risk for identity theft:
- Name
- Address (Both physical and e-mail)
- Telephone number
- Drivers license/passport number
- Online passwords
- Any banking information (card number, account number, pin code)
- Date of birth
- Social Security
How do thieves gain access to my information? Thieves can access your information in many ways, such as a corporate data breach, stealing your mail, a "phishing" scam, unsecured websites, debit/credit card skimmers, stealing your mail, wallet, or purse, even "dumpster diving" through discarded mail, and more.
How will thieves use my information? Experian Information Services lists a few ways thieves could use information.
- Make purchases using financial information
- To sell to other criminals on the dark web to commit fraud
- Open a credit card account to commit fraud
- File taxes in your name/steal your tax return
- Buy a home in your name
- There are other possible ways for a thief to use personal information
How will I know if my identity has been stolen? Here are just a few signs to watch out for: receiving tax information you didn't request, unauthorized transactions on your bank account, receiving a bill for a purchase you didn't make, being denied credit. Watch out for any other confusing occurrence as well.
Now that you know more about identity theft, come back tomorrow to read more about protecting your identity.

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N2 by Les Nereides tandem bicycle necklace, £35 (was £72), ASOS |
STAR BUY! Did you miss out on winning our amazing Alex Monroe bicycle necklace yesterday? Stop crying and look at this. Feel better now? I thought you would. Isn't it beautiful? A tandem necklace! In the perfect shade of green! And with £37 knocked off! It also comes in white, or you can buy yourself a bicycle built for one in pale blue or pink.
Kenneth Jay Lane hedgehog ring, £42.49 (was £85), The Outnet |
BEST OF THE REST: We are in agreement, yes, that it is finally the hedgehog's time to shine? I'm not taking all the credit here, but it started with my prophetic roasted baby hedgehog dream, and before we knew it, hedgehogs had pretty much ousted senior management over at People Tree. Expect it to be renamed Hedgehog Tree any day now. Kenneth Jay Lane has clearly succumbed to their prickly charms, too, crafting as he has this splendid hedgehog ring. Luckily, the hedgehog has had a professional blowdry, meaning you won't blind yourself when you flick your fringe out of your eyes.
Vera Meat rings, £22-35 (was £35-72), ASOS |
So, last week I introduced you to The Meat Spine. This week, I've found all manner of (Vera) Meat jewellery. Meat rings, no less. Uh-huh. Meat Cat. Meat Heart. Meat Rabbits. Meat Bone. Meat Feather. Another Meat Rabbit. I could run and run with this. Don't worry, I won't. This is (probably) the last you will hear of my hilarious meat misunderstanding. Mainly because I've given myself the dry boak now. I love the meat rings, though. I think they're pretty... meat.
(Even I groaned. No need to apologise.)
Ink jewel dress, £25 (was £39.50), Dorothy Perkins |
STAR BUY! Hey! Dorothy Perkins! The Queen called. She wants the crown jewels back off yer pretty dress, stat.
Can anyone else see the face of a sea lion? Look for the two massive dark sapphires surrounded by diamonds. Around the ladybits area. Yes, those ones that look a bit like Lady Di/D of C's engagement ring. So they are his sad, sad sea lion eyes. Down a bit... there's his little nose. And down further still, to those two huge pale blue rocks - they're his puffy whiskery bits. And there's his chin. Told you. I'm finding the idea of a sea lion staring out of my crotch a little creepy now. I'll get over it eventually.
Merry Go dress, £35 (was £52), Sugarhill Boutique |
BEST OF THE REST: Do I want carousel horses on my dress? Do you even have to ask? Have you learned nothing in the time we have spent together? The old you wouldn't have acted like this. You've CHANGED.
Stop asking silly questions and go and buy the dress.
Max C scallop collar dress in navy/cream, £30 (was £48), ASOS |
Sofia Coppola would wear this Max C dress, wouldn't she? Probably while simultaneously being nominated for an Oscar, marrying some kind of Frenchman, hanging about on Dad's vineyard, visiting cousin Nic (sidenote: I've just remembered about the Nic Cage sofa), and shooting a close-up of Scarlett Johansson's beknickered bottom. Probably. Get that life courtesy of ASOS.
Stripe pleated skirt, £22.50 (was £45), ASOS |
STAR BUY! ASOS has taken all the best bits of Mexican bus upholstery and pleated it. I approve wholeheartedly, of course. Just don't sit on a Mexican bus wearing it. (Remind me one day to tell you the story of the sofa and the Sarah Jessica Parker coat.)
Olivia skirt, £49 (was £69), Monsoon |
BEST OF THE REST: Basketweave just got glamorous! And it's putting me in the mood for a Club biscuit! Looking at this skirt makes me make a noise like this:
Put it on and stick yourself on top of the Christmas tree.
NW3 Ash tweed skirt, £66 (was £110), Hobbs |
Oh, yes. TWEED. Tweed is what your winter needs. I'm not the biggest fan of the model's tucked-in ecru sweater - in fact, I loathe it - but I have faith in you lot to style this up properly. May I suggest some colour? Perhaps a pretty blouse? A chunky cardi? ANYTHING BUT AN ECRU SWEATER.
Burger n Fries heels, £39.50 (was £119), Irregular Choice Outlet |
STAR BUY! We've discussed my love affair with Irregular Choice shoes before, right? Yeah, so these beauties aren't doing anything to make my passion fade. If you're going to have a big ol' blowsy bow on your shoes, it might as well be a ridiculously humongous one, yes? YES. And I can't not love a shoe that's named Burger n Fries. Make mine a Happy Meal.
Kandi courts in black and leopard print suede, £45 (was £70), Office |
BEST OF THE REST: We're smitten with little bits of leopard print right now. These Kandi courts from the Office sale (I know! Still!) have the added bonus of looking like they'd make your point very, very clear if you were to, say, kick a mugger in the gangly-goolies. Wear responsibly, ladies - self-defence only.
Aurora 2 mary janes in red, £39 (was £90), KG by Kurt Geiger |
Could these KG by Kurt Geiger mary janes be the shoes of my childhood dreams? Well, let's analyse them. Candy apple red? Check. Patent? Check? Cutesy strap? Check? Big fuck off buckle? Check? Some sort of crude artisan stitching in what looks like household string? Check. (I had very particular design tastes as a 9-year-old. Hey - if a girl wants crude artisan stitching, a girl wants crude artisan stitching.)
Have you ever thought about putting flashing lights in the soles of your shoes?


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Mantra to Become as Rich as Kubera
Today I will share a Mantra Sadhana through which any person can become rich like Kubera himself along with becoming one of the dearest of him. The Mantra can be chanted by anyone and this Sadhana does not require Deeksha. - Ashok Mehta
Procedure of Kuber Mantra Sadhana:
1. Start this Kuber Mantra Sadhana from Dhanteras or Diwali.
2. Start this Sadhana at dusk facing north. Sit on a Red Velvet Aasan in Padmaasan/Kamal Aasan.
3. Bring a yellow or red Chowki in front of you and spread a yellow cloth on it. Keep 3 Yantras in front of you on mounts of rice - Shri Yantra, Shiv Yantra and Kuber Yantra. Also keep a Ganesh idol or Yantra whatever you prefer.
4. Then establish a copper Kalash full of water on a mount of rice.
5. Light 2 pure Ghee Diya and 2 Sesame Oil Diyas. Use Earthen Diyas only.
6. Then, worship your Guru, then Ganesha, then Lakshmi . i.e the Shri Yantra, then worship Shiv Yantra and finally Kuber Yantra.
5. First Do Panchopchar Puja of Ganesha. I am sharing the procedure of Panchopchar Puja ahead. After doing Ganesha Puja, recite his mantra "ॐ गं गणपतये नमः " 1 rosary using Rudraksh Mala.
6. Then do Panchopchar Puja of Shri Yantra, Shiv and finally Kuber.
Panchopchar Puja Vidhi -
Deep- Pure ghee Diyas should be offered to Shiv and Shri Yantra. Oil Diyas should be offered to Ganesh and Kuber
Dhoop – offer a Dhoop of Guggul or whatever you prefer.
Naivedya – offer Naivedya of bananas to each of them.
Pushp- offer Champa flowers to all
Gandh – offer a paste of Kesar or Chandan to the 4 corners of the Yantra.
7. After doing Panchopchar Puja, recite 1 rosary of Lakshmi Gayatri Mantra and Shiv Gayatri Mantra. Then, recite Amogh Shiv Kavach.
8. Then take a Sankalp by mentioning the respective Vedic year, Vedic month, Paksh, etc and that you are doing this Purashcharan for fulfilling your so and so wishes.
9. Recite this Mantra 50 rosaries daily for 20 days using Rudraksh Rosary.
The Mantra Sadhana is specially for Dhanteras and Diwali. If this Sadhana is started on some other day, chances of success will be lesser. One will getting astonishing results if this Sadhana is done in a Shivalay.
Other guidelines for the Kuber Mantra Sadhana:
1) Make a Tilak of Chandan or Kesar and only then do the Japa.
2. Make sure the oil and Pure Ghee does not end during the Japa.
3. Even though this Mantra does not require Deeksha, During the Sadhana days certain conduct and discipline needs to be followed other wise your Sadhana will go in vain.
I have specified various rules like Bhumi Shayyiyaa, Brahmacharya, daily Daan, complete surrender to god, etc.
You can refer to those articles for more information.
4. Everyday Sakha must go to Shivalay in the morning and offer Be Petra, Chandan, rice, milk, etc to Shilling. Pleasing Lord Shiv is equally important as pleasing Lord Kuber in this Sadhana.
5. Do not forget to recite Amogh Shiv Kavach because Lord Kuber is said to be king of Yakshas and it is said that this Mantra is also used for attracting Yakshas.
6. Mantra can be chanted by men and women but keep in mind that the chanting requirement of 1 lac. If you cannot do so much Japa then don't begin the Sadhana. If you break the Sadhana, your wealth conditions will deteriorate. This is a personally experienced fact.
For Sadhana rules, please refer to my posts on Sadhanas shared in the past.
Also, one must perform Sandhya daily early in the morning and then at dusk. Sandhya is nothing but doing Achaman; Pranayam (Rechak, Kumbhak) 10-15 times and chanting your God's Gayatri Mantra 1-5 rosaries.
In some parts of India, 30th November is also considered as Dev Dipawali. Hence, the Mantra Sadhana can also be started be today.


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David Letterman: Why I Don't Care About His Affair
Judging from the media coverage, it looks like David Letterman had an affair with Stephanie Birkitt, a young woman who is well known to anyone who's seen the show in the past several years. She started out as an intern at "Late Show," then moved on to become an associate producer at "48 Hours," where alleged extortionist Robert Joe Halderman still worked until his suspension by CBS yesterday. Birkitt returned to "Late Show" and became a popular on-air personality, known for her phone calls with Dave, appearances during viewer participation segments, and remotes from the Winter Olympic Games.
Some viewers are angry that Dave might have cheated on Regina Lasko, his partner of 20+ years. But here's why I'm not feeling the outrage -- we don't know what went on in Letterman and Lasko's relationship. Both of them are extremely private people. They may have chosen to not be exclusive or monogamous. Plus, it's not like Dave was extolling "family values," like John Edwards or Gov. Mark Sanford. Sure, he made jokes about those men, but he never held himself up as a paragon of moral virtue. Quite the contrary. This is someone who called himself "the last of the real gunslingers" for managing to avoid marrying Lasko for so long, and has admitted that he "behaved badly" during his first marriage to Michelle Cook.
The only thing that would raise my ire would be if Letterman had somehow used his position as Birkitt's boss to threaten her into having a sexual relationship with him. Granted, some people may feel that any workplace relationship between a boss and an underling is inappropriate, as the balance of power is skewed. Some companies have rules in place to forbid such relationships. We can probably assume that no such stricture existed at Worldwide Pants. I'm willing to give Letterman the benefit of the doubt that the relationship was consensual.
Dave is a man who inspires fierce loyalty among his staffers -- look at the amazing number of people who have been with him since virtually the beginning of his TV talk show career, from Biff Henderson to Jude Brennan and Barbara Gaines. Letterman is obviously a complex, difficult, prickly person, but all evidence indicates that he's also a straight-up guy. It's interesting to note that the person threatening Dave with extortion was not Birkitt, but her ex-boyfriend. Stephanie herself is still working at "Late Show" -- and, according to RadarOnline.com, is "mortified" that Halderman would try to use her affair with Letterman as blackmail fodder.


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360 Billion Locusts & Growing – Plague Of 'Biblical Proportions' Destroying Crops Across Middle East & Africa
What we are witnessing in East Africa and across much of the Middle East right now is hard to believe. 360 billion locusts are eating everything in sight, and UN officials are warning that this plague of "Biblical proportions" could get many times worse over the next several months. Desert locusts can travel up to 93 miles a day, and each adult can consume the equivalent of its own weight in food every 24 hours. These voracious little creatures are traveling in absolutely colossal swarms that are up to 40 miles wide, and they continue to push into new areas. If urgent action is not taken on a massive scale, millions upon millions of people could soon have next to nothing to eat.
I have previously written about the horrors that this plague is causing in east Africa, but many people don't realize that this plague is devastating crops throughout the Middle East as well.
In fact, the government of Pakistan just declared a national emergency because of these locusts…
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A locust plague is wreaking havoc in Pakistan as 'unprecedented and alarming' swarms ravage crops as shocking video shows millions of the insects sweeping through Saudi Arabia.
Pakistan's government declared a national emergency at the weekend after an infestation of desert locusts arrived in eastern Pakistan.
In Saudi Arabia, the swarms have been so thick at times that they have completely blocked out the sun, and video footage coming out of that country is getting attention all over the world…
Meanwhile swarms of locusts have been milling the skies in Saudi Arabia, with one video circulating online showing the sky saturated with the insects.
Another shows a tree in Saudi Arabia crawling with desert locusts, which consume their own bodyweight in food each day.
But of course, east Africa remains the hardest hit region, and UN officials are warning that a horrible famine could rapidly develop as a result of this plague. The following comes from Scientific American…
Locust swarms of biblical proportions are threatening crops across a wide swath of Africa and southwest Asia—spurring alarm among top international officials.
A major concern is famine. The United Nations is warning that mass swarms of desert locusts are endangering food supplies in eastern Africa. In response, officials in Rome mobilized an emergency briefing yesterday in a bid to raise money—noting the situation has a high potential to devolve into a full-blown crisis.
It would be incredibly difficult for me to overstate the scale of this crisis.
According to the Daily Mail, the number of locusts has now reached 360 billion…
A locust plague decimating crops and livestock pastureland in east Africa, including swarms 40 miles wide, threatens to trigger a humanitarian crisis, the UN has warned.
The horde of 360 billion insects has laid waste to farmland across Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia, caused damage in Dijibouti and Eritrea, posing an unprecedented threat to food security.
There are less than 8 billion people living on the entire planet.
So this swarm of locusts outnumbers us by a margin of more than 45 to 1.
And what these locusts want more than anything else is food. If you doubt the destructive power of these swarms, please consider what the FAO's senior agriculture officer recently had to say…
"It's certainly the most dangerous migratory pest in the world, desert locust," said Keith Cressman, FAO's senior agriculture officer. "A swarm the size of Rome can eat enough food in one day as everybody in Kenya."
And some of these swarms are actually bigger than the city of Rome.
I know that may be difficult to believe, but it is true.
In Somalia, officials are calling this crisis "a national emergency" as the locusts consume "huge amounts of crops"…
Somalia's agriculture ministry on Sunday called the outbreak a national emergency and major threat to the country's fragile food security, saying the "uncommonly large" locust swarms are consuming huge amounts of crops.
Over in Kenya, things are even worse. At this point, the only viable way to combat these swarms is to spray them, and the UN is desperately asking for financial help to aid in that effort…
Just five planes are currently spraying as Kenyan and other authorities try to stop the locusts from spreading to neighboring Uganda and South Sudan. The United Nations has said $76 million is needed immediately to widen such efforts across East Africa.
A fast response is crucial. Experts warn that if left unchecked, the number of locusts could grow by 500 times by June, when drier weather will help bring the outbreak under control.
UN officials keep claiming that the number of locusts could get 500 times larger over the next few months, but I am having a really hard time believing that this plague could possibly get much worse than it is now.
Unfortunately, conditions are very favorable for breeding, and these locusts are constantly searching for new sources of food. They will continue to migrate in new directions, and they will eat crops everywhere they go.
According to Scientific American, the breeding cycles over the next couple of months could push the locust swarms as far as India…
Cyclones that struck the driest parts of the Arabian Peninsula last year triggered the current crisis, creating ideal conditions for the desert locust species to multiply. Left to breed in isolated corners of Saudi Arabia and Yemen, the locust swarms crossed to the Horn of Africa where they were given further support by another cyclone.
More breeding cycles are expected. The swarms increase in size twentyfold with each successive generation and could reach India by June.
When I first told my wife about this locust plague she was absolutely horrified.
She wondered what all those people would eat if all their crops were gone. Of course, the truth is that they aren't going to have much of anything to eat.
These locusts are going to create a famine, and the more they eat the worse the famine will become.
We have never seen anything like this before, and this is yet another "unprecedented crisis" that we can add to all the others that we are currently facing.
Our planet is changing, global weather patterns are going absolutely nuts, and worldwide events are really starting to spiral out of control.
And at this point, we are just a little over one month into 2020. If you think that things are bad so far, just wait until you see what is coming over the course of the rest of the year.
Article posted with permission from Michael Snyder


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Ordering things online or over the phone can be a lot easier and may provide you with increased choice, however these methods of ordering become less appealing when your goods do not arrive with you. The seller of the product has a legal responsibility to make sure that your purchases arrive with you, so they must take action if you do not receive your items. Read more
Consumer advice on problems with purchases.
Handling stolen goods is considered to be a crime, but if you are unknowingly sold stolen goods then you should not get into trouble for it. If you believe that you have bought something which has previously been stolen from its rightful owner then you should take action. Read more
If an item that you have purchased has caused damage to you or your property and you were not responsible for the damage, then you might be able to make a claim for compensation. If the damage was to property then you can "claim damages", whereas if the product caused you to be injured then you may be able to make a "personal injury claim". Read more
If you have unknowingly bought an item which was fake or counterfeit, then you have a right to claim a refund, even if the seller did not know that the item which they were selling was not the genuine article. You should also report the seller to Trading Standards to prevent them from selling counterfeit goods again in future. Read more
When a shop, company or trader goes out of business and ceases trading, it can adversely affect all of the people who have used that business. If you have not received goods, services or money that you are owed because of this, then you still have some legal rights. However, it can be much harder to sort these issues out, and there is no guarantee that you will receive the goods or services that you paid for, or money that you might be owed.


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Boise Cascade adds Karen Gowland to board
Boise Cascade Company has appointed Karen Gowland to its board of directors.
"I am delighted that Karen is joining our board. She brings a unique mix of skills given her knowledge of our company and experience in the industry, and understanding of securities laws and corporate governance," said chairman Duane McDougall.
Gowland had served as SVP general counsel and corporate secretary for Boise until it was acquired by PCA last year. She has approximately 30 years of experience in the forest products industry, as well as 15 years of experience as a corporate secretary in the industry.
Currently, she chairs the Professional Conduct Board for the Idaho State Bar Association, as well as a director on the board of the University of Idaho Foundation. In the past, she was a chair of the Law Advisory Council for the University of Idaho College of Law.


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Theoretically host IP and gateway should be on the same IP subnet. but there are some situations where host IP and gateway subnet are on different subnets. like my situation today. I was assigned two additional IPs for my server by my Data-center, but IPs were from a different subnet compared to server main IP. these IPs will work if you set them as additional IPs. but I needed them to create two new VPS's on my server with bridged network interface. in this situation additional IPs should serve as main IP address and there is no gateway on same subnet available.
So here are the assumptions :
a.b.c.d is the host IP
e.f.g.h is the gateway IP
a.b.c.d & e.f.g.h are on different subnets.
by default if you try to set gateway by following command :
route add default gw e.f.g.h
you will get this error :
SIOCADDRT: No such process
the trick is simple , first add a route to default gateway itself and then set the default gateway , like this :
route add e.f.g.h/32 dev eth0 route add default gw e.f.g.h
remember you may need to change eth0 to your device name , it may be eth1 or wlan0 or anything.
How to make these route changes persistent ?
For Debian/Ubuntu :
Add the following lines to /etc/network/interfaces :
post-up route add e.f.g.h/32 dev eth0 post-up route add default gw e.f.g.h


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I'm going to tell you a story. No, not fiction, this is a true story. Mostly. Relax, I've got this. It's what I do.
When I first started reading fiction for pleasure, voraciously, I was hooked on spy novels. Before that, the fiction I'd read was mostly for school. So my experience was that most writers were either dead or men. Usually both. Not that I'd really thought about it, but I wouldn't have said "writer" was something a person could be, or that writing fiction was an actual career choice. I was . . . so young.
Then I discovered romance novels. Oh, all that delicious emotion. I couldn't get enough of those either -- what can I say, I love to read -- and eventually decided to try to write one. A historical romance novel. With pirates! I mentioned this to a journalist friend and, being a professional writer, instead of laughing she gave me a list of resources that included Romance Writers of America (RWA). She'd penciled in a note, "I don't know much about them."
I was busy with typical demands: job, husband, two kids, relocation, new job. Dog, cat, laundry, hamsters. An iguana. And I sort of abandoned the novel when I realized I was going to have to do some actual research. Pirate research, but still.
Years passed. I started a different novel (no pirates!), a contemporary novel (no history!), but suspected I needed . . . guidance. So I dug out my old notes and looked up RWA and discovered there was a chapter in my city, called Heart of Carolina Romance Writers (HCRW). I decided to attend a meeting.
I've never told anyone this, but I sort of expected it would be a handful of women who liked to read novels and got together once a month to talk about maybe writing one, someday. You know, women like me. I had very low expectations. Of them and of myself.
I was surprised there were so many people at the meeting, maybe 25 or 30. They were wearing nametags, which I thought was very organized of them. I'm horrible with names, but I read them anyway. One of them said: Sabrina Jeffries. I about passed out from shock.
Maybe some of you don't know who Sabrina Jeffries is. And that's okay, because maybe you don't read romance. She's a NYT bestselling author of historical romance and has been, consistently, for years. I'd read all of her books. I was awestruck.
Apparently there were a few other first time attendees because, as we sat down in chairs arranged in a big circle, the person in charge suggested we take turns introducing ourselves, telling what we were writing.
One after the other, these women (they were all women that day, although there are men in the chapter) told us what subgenre of romance they wrote and, if applicable, for which publisher. Roughly half of them were published and every single one of them was serious about writing as a career.
When it was my turn, I stammered something about being so new at it that I had no idea what genre I was writing. They all smiled and someone said, "Don't worry, we'll help you figure it out." Clearly, they didn't realize what a chore that would turn out to be.
It's a vast understatement to say my preconceptions about RWA in general, and HCRW in particular, went through a bit of a transformation that day. Attending that meeting changed everything for me as a writer. Everything.
Now, I'm a long time reader over here so I know Joe is a proponent of just doing it, of putting your work out there, no hesitation, and taking a chance. And I agree. To a point. Because I'm also a proponent of learning a few basics about how to write before you inflict your stories on others. The writer I was then? Oh dear god.
I was so clueless, I knew nothing about plot or story structure or character arcs. Certainly knew nothing about goal, motivation and conflict. I'd never heard those terms used in the context of writing. I didn't even know that a manuscript should be double-spaced.
But I learned. I continued to write, thousands and thousands of words in various formats, and I paid attention.
I learned about point-of-view and the evils of head hopping from Virginia Kantra. I got tips from Emilie Rose about how to evoke emotion in a scene. I learned more about language and its usage from Sarah Winn than I ever learned in any classroom.
I first heard about character charts and enneagrams from Sabrina Jeffries (even though I don't use them), and when I carpooled with her to RWA National in Atlanta several years ago, during the drive I got what amounted to a master class on the ins-and-outs of traditional publishing.
I also learned how to kidnap a RITA statuette on that trip, but that's a whole other story.
I first learned about blogs from Sonja Foust, who mentioned the Crusie/Mayer "He Wrote, She Wrote" blog, which led to . . . all sorts of nonsense, but also learning. As well as some lasting friendships. When Alex Sokoloff lived here and was a chapter member, she told me about Murderati -- damn, I miss Murderati -- and from there I discovered Konrath's blog. Where I learned even more.
I'm still learning.
In fact, I recently took a fantastic online class from Sarra Cannon (HCRW offers online classes every month, everyone is welcome) and learned things about self-publishing I hadn't even realized I didn't know. And I've done it twice now. No, not that. Geez. Self-published a book. Twice.
And then there's Bob Mayer, who was a chapter member when he lived in NC, briefly. But I've been paying attention to his writing and publishing advice for . . . well, seems like forever. I think the most important thing I've learned from Bob is that, no matter what the disaster, whether natural or man-made, I will undoubtedly be the first to die. Preparation is key. I've updated my Will.
I could list many more examples, but I promised brevity--- wait, you all didn't actually believe that, did you? Over here?
Mostly what I learned is that HCRW is comprised of the most supportive, intelligent, funny, wise and unstintingly generous group of professionals I've ever known. They're remarkably talented teachers, as well as gifted writers. Of course, what I've done with all that knowledge is totally not their fault. But they have influenced, directly or indirectly, every single aspect of my writing career. They taught me that not only was writing something one could do as a career, but that I could do it.
So when the chapter asked for contributions to an anthology of writing advice, to be published with all proceeds benefiting the chapter, I didn't hesitate. Okay fine, that's not true. I not only hesitated, I deleted the email. Who am I to give anyone writing advice?
But Mari Freeman was in charge and, even though she's one of the nicest people you'll ever meet, that woman is persistent as hell. She said they wanted perspective from writers at all stages of the process. There might have been threats of torture. Maybe even actual torture. We might need a clearer definition.
So I scrounged up a couple posts from my blog that I thought wouldn't do too much damage if anyone took them seriously and asked whether she wanted to use one of them. She said, "We'll use both. But could you make the second one longer?"
Mari has the distinction of being the only person, ever, to ask me to add words. To anything.
So, fair warning. I have two pieces of writing "advice" in the anthology. But, you know, that's the great thing about advice--- if it doesn't work for you, you can just ignore it.
Perhaps you, too, want to learn something from the writers I mentioned. They're among the many who contributed to this anthology. There are 40 articles altogether, all generously donated, by people who know a lot more about writing and have far more experience than I do. Mari did a great job compiling and organizing and not killing anyone, and the anthology is titled Heart of the Matter. Which, as Barry might attest, is a great title. Ahem.
It took me a while to get around to it, but I have now read the entire thing and can recommend it without hesitation. It begins with some pretty basic stuff and gets more advanced as it goes along. Promoting this anthology is a pleasure as there really is sound advice for every stage of a writing career, regardless of publishing preference, whether that career is writing romance or some other genre.
Good writing is good writing, and good advice is invaluable. Or, in this case, it's $2.99. You can buy it here:
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I wasn't going to tout my own work, because it just feels weird. Plus, I'm not sure the people who like Joe's books and read this blog are the right audience for a short contemporary trapped-in-a-mountain-cabin-during-a-snowstorm type of romance novella. But then I figured, what the hell, I read this blog and I like that kind of story.
Maybe some of you will too:
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By the way, if you haven't donated to Alzheimer's research, contributions of any amount will continue to make a difference until they find a cure. Sadly, for too many people, they haven't. Yet. Please help if you are able to do so.
Thanks for sharing your blog-space, Joe. You owe me a fisking.
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In two cases, there is a particular need to provide lighting and sound-absorbing materials in the same location. And in both cases, light and acoustics can advantageously be combined as acoustic lamps.
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Beth Hart is on fire. Right now, the Grammy-nominated singer/songwriter is riding a creative tidal wave, firing out acclaimed albums, hooking up with the biggest names in m
Beth Hart is on fire. Right now, the Grammy-nominated singer/songwriter is riding a creative tidal wave, firing out acclaimed albums, hooking up with the biggest names in music and rocking the house each night with that celebrated burnt-honey voice. In 2016, the headline news is Beth's latest album, Fire On The Floor, a release that even this fiercely self-critical artist describes as "pretty frickin' good." But let's not forget the backstory that brought her here…
The Blues Magazine once dubbed Beth Hart "the ultimate female rock star", and there's no doubt that her two-decade career is the ultimate thrill-ride. Born in Los Angeles, she released a fistful of hit albums through the '90s, then reignited in the post-millennium as both a solo artist and the head-turning vocalist for guitar heroes like Joe Bonamassa, Jeff Beck and Slash. "Extraordinary," wrote The Times of her once-a-generation voice box, while The Guardian praised her "daring, brooding and angry" performances.
But it's in recent times that Beth has truly blossomed. In April 2015, she released Better Than Home, a critical and commercial smash that topped the iTunes Blues Chart and was crowned #4 Best Blues Album Of The Year by Mojo magazine. The release also reached #1 in the Dutch charts and helped Beth to fill Amsterdam's Heineken Music Hall with 5,500 fans (her largest club show to date). "Oh, that was so good, man," she reflects. "I love Holland. They've been really good to me."
The US market has embraced her, too, with Beth packing ever-larger venues in major cities on the Better Than Home tour – including Nashville's iconic Ryman Auditorium – and receiving a nomination from the American Blues Foundation in the category of Contemporary Blues Female Artist. "It's unbelievable," she admits. "This last tour, we were playing much bigger houses than I'd ever played in the States – and they were sold-out."
Meanwhile, on the other side of the pond, Beth's rocketing UK profile has never been higher. Recent years have seen auspicious headline sets at the Royal Albert Hall and the Barbican (not to mention the historic Hampton Court Palace with Joe Bonamassa), and in December 2015, she chalked up another first with a spot on Jools Holland's legendary annual Hootenanny.
Bringing in the New Year with a soulful take on Tell Her You Belong To Me and Nutbush City Limits alongside long-time collaborator Jeff Beck, it spoke volumes that the pair's performance rapidly became the Hootenanny's most-watched clip on the BBC's official YouTube channel (even overtaking heavyweights like Tom Jones and Paul Weller). "Every time Jeff performs, he just kills it," gushes Beth, who also joins the veteran guitarist for her first-ever appearance at the Hollywood Bowl this year. "To me, he's the greatest ever."
Just as memorable, also last December, was Beth's first solo gig at London's Union Chapel (subsequently voted by fans as the venue's gig of the year). "It was the most terrifying experience of my entire life," she admits. "I got up there and I was so frickin' scared. But then, halfway through the show, I just started to enjoy it. By the end, I felt so connected to the audience, and I really felt like they did that show with me. It was like we were all the band."
A highlight of that Union Chapel show was a heartfelt rendition of Mama This One's For You (included on Better Than Home as a bonus track). The audience's reaction lit a lightbulb, and in early 2016, the singer announced a contest inviting fans to submit footage of themselves with their mothers, for inclusion in a special Mama video released for Mother's Day. "I cried when I saw the edited version for the first time," Beth recalls. "I love my own mom more than anything in the world, and I found it so touching and beautiful."
Beth's passion for collaboration also continues apace in 2016. On the heels of 2011's Don't Explain and 2013's Grammy-nominated Seesaw, there'll be another studio hook-up between the singer and blues titan Joe Bonamassa, with sessions set for August. "I'm really interested in us doing stuff from the '40s and '50s," she reveals. "Rock 'n' roll, torch songs and jazz songs…"
For now, though, Beth's focus is Fire On The Floor: a new studio album sure to build on her breakneck momentum. As the singer explains, this latest record gave her an emotional release following the bitter-sweet sessions for Better Than Home. If there's a theme that ties these twelve songs together, it's a sense of escapism following the hardest of times. "We were still in the mixing stages for that album and I knew I had to make another record. Making Better Than Home was so painful, because one of the producers, Michael Stevens, was dying of cancer. It was a very emotional record to write and to make. I wanted the songs for Fire On The Floor to get born real quick."
Beth's first call was to the acclaimed producer Oliver Leiber, who called a session at his home studio in Toluca Lake and drafted a crack studio band that included Michael Landau (guitar), Waddy Wachtel (guitar), Brian Allen (bass), Rick Marotta (drums), Jim Cox (piano), Dean Parks (acoustic guitar) and Ivan Neville (B3 and organ). "Oliver rounded up some amazing musicians," nods Beth. "Michael Landau and Waddy Wachtel are legends, so when I found out we had them, I just couldn't believe it. If you don't have great musicians, you're not gonna have a very good record, are you?
"We recorded sixteen songs in three days," continues Beth of the quick fire LA sessions, "but then we spent a long time mixing. Oliver is a brutally hard-working person, but he's also incredibly sensitive and that combination works so great. He's strong and focused, but still so vulnerable, and his heart is wide open. I'm so proud of what he did on this record."
Take a spin of Fire On The Floor and you'll see exactly why. These twelve new songs run the gamut of genre, reflecting Beth's eclectic teenage influences, which took in everything from gospel, soul and classical to the seismic rock of Soundgarden. "As a writer," she nods, "I feel really stifled if I'm trying to write in the same style. I just can't do that. Growing up as a kid, I was raised all over the place stylistically, loving so many different genres."
As such, you'll find everything from the spring-heeled soul of Let's Get Together to the brittle rock of Fat Man. "I love that song," she says of the latter. "That's actually a co-write with a wonderful songwriter named Glen Burtnik, who I started writing with when I was about 24. We wrote that seven years ago – just a basic skeleton – but then I got super-inspired and wrote out the lyric. It feels good to sing it. That's what's so great about rock 'n' roll. It's just such a fantastic way to let out your angst."
Likewise, the title track: "I love Fire On The Floor. It's just smoldering. I think it's gonna be a fantastic piece to perform live. It's filled with passion. It's about when someone you know is so bad for you, but you can't help it. Then there's No Place Like Home. I love that song. It's about how, like, you spend a lot of time on the road, and you start to realize all the great things about being home. Kinda the opposite to the song Better Than Home."
Other upbeat highlights include the salsa-tinged Baby Shot Me Down and the jazz-inflected Coca Cola, with a vocal that reminds you why Beth was recently voted as the 20th best blues singer of all-time in The Blues. "Vocally, that one takes me back to a Billie Holiday kinda singing," she reflects. "I love that kind of vibe, like a light, fun sexiness."
By contrast, there are some songs that Beth had to wrench from the emotional depths. "Picture In A Frame is a big one for me," she says. "When I started writing it, I was thinking about being in love with my husband. But when I was done, I could see that I really connected it with Michael Stevens, and it was my way of saying to him, y'know, 'I just want you to be better'."
Despite all the emotionally bare moments, for Beth, this record represents a catharsis. "I think Better Than Home is one of the best records I've ever done," she says, "but it was a brutal experience. Fire On The Floor has more energy and I think, overall, it's just got more balls. And I think I really needed that, just to balance out that heavier mood on Better Than Home."
Fire On The Floor is the album that Beth Hart needed to make. Likewise, it's a record that you need to hear. "I'm so pleased with it," she concludes. "I recently had to organize the sequence of the record, and while I was doing that, I was thinking to myself, 'Y'know, this is pretty frickin' good…!'"
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On a conventional mortgage, when your down payment is less than 20% of the purchase price of the home mortgage lenders usually require you get Private Mortgage Insurance (PMI) to protect them in case you default on your mortgage. Sometimes you may need to pay up to 1-year's worth of PMI premiums at closing which can cost several hundred dollars. The best way to avoid this extra expense is to make a 20% down payment, or ask about other loan program options.
PMI companies write insurance policies to protect approximately the top 20% of the mortgage against default. This depends on the lender's and investor's requirements, the loan-to-value ratio, and the type of loan program involved. Should a default occur the lender will sell the property to liquidate the debt, and is reimbursed by the PMI company for any remaining amount up to the policy value.
Yes, it will help you obtain a larger loan, here's why. Let's say that you are a family with $42,000 Annual Gross Income and monthly revolving debts of $800 for car payment and credit cards, and you have $10,000 for your down payment and closing costs on a 7%-interest mortgage. Without PMI the maximum price you can afford is $44,600, but with PMI covering the lender's risk you now can buy a $62,300 house. PMI has afforded you 39% more house.
PMI costs vary from insurer to insurer, and from plan to plan. Example: A highly leveraged adjustable-rate mortgage requires the borrower to pay a higher premium to get coverage. Buyers with a 5% down payment can expect to pay a premium of approximately 0.78% times the annual loan amount, $92.67 monthly for a $150,000 purchase price. But, the PMI premium would drop to 0.52% times the annual amount, $58.50 monthly if a 10% down payment was made.
PMI fees can be paid in many ways depending on the company used:
Typically the buyer covers the cost of PMI, but the lender is the PMI company's client and shops for insurance on behalf of the borrower. Lenders usually deal with only a few PMI companies because they know the guidelines for those insurers. This can be a problem when one of the lender's prime companies turns down a loan because the borrower doesn't fit its risk parameters. A lender might follow suit and deny the loan application without consulting a second PMI company which could leave all parties in an undesirable position. The lender has the difficult task of being fair to the borrower while shopping for the most effective way to lessen liability.
The Private Mortgage Insurance industry originated in the 1950's with the first large carrier, Mortgage Guaranty Insurance Corporation (MGIC). They were referred to as "magic" as these early PMI methods were deemed to "magically" assist in getting lender approval on otherwise unacceptable loan packages. Today there are 8 PMI underwriting companies in the United States.
The Homeowners Protection Act of 1998 established rules for automatic termination and borrower cancellation of Private Mortgage Insurance (PMI) for home mortgages. These protections apply to certain home mortgages signed on or after July 29, 1999 for the home purchase, initial construction, or refinance of a single-family home. It does not apply to government-insured FHA or VA loans, or to loans with lender-paid PMI.
With certain exceptions (home mortgages signed on or after July 29, 1999) your PMI must be terminated automatically when 22% of the equity of your home is reached, based on the original property value and if your mortgage payments are current. It can also be canceled at your request with certain exceptions, when you reach 20% equity, again based on the original property value, if your mortgage payments are current.
Ask your lender or mortgage servicer for information about these requirements. If you signed your mortgage before July 29, 1999 you can request to have the PMI canceled once you exceed 20% home equity. But, federal law does not require your lender or mortgage servicer to cancel the insurance.
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When Charlie's longed-for brother is born with a serious heart condition, Charlie's world is turned upside down. Upset and afraid, Charlie flees the hospital and makes for the ancient forest on the edge of town. There Charlie finds a boy floating face-down in the stream, injured, but alive. But when Charlie sets off back to the hospital to fetch help, it seems the forest has changed. It's become a place as strange and wild as the boy dressed in deerskins. For Charlie has unwittingly fled into the Stone Age, with no way to help the boy or return to the present day. Or is there?
What follows is a wild, big-hearted adventure as Charlie and the Stone Age boy set out together to find what they have lost – their courage, their hope, their family and their way home.
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Report Name | Medical Filter Market Size Report 2023 |
Market Size in 2023 | USD 12.90 billion |
Market Forecast in 2032 | USD 23.85 Billion |
Compound Annual Growth Rate | CAGR of 8.00% |
Number of Pages | 310 |
Forecast Units | Value (USD Billion), and Volume (Units) |
Key Companies Covered | 3M, Design Filtration Microzone, AmeriWater, A.M. Bickford, Dagatronics Corporation, Airinspace, Felcon, Buffalo Filter, BC Group, Dürr Dental, i2m LLC, Thempson Surgical, GBUK Group, Sunset Healthcare Solutions, Medela, HUM, Unimicro Medical Systems, Sejong Medical, MG Electric, GVS Group, Systemair |
Segments Covered | By Type(Gas Filter, Liquid Filter, Other) ,By Applications (Hospital, Clinic, Other) |
Regions Covered | North America, Europe, Asia Pacific (APAC), Latin America, Middle East and Africa (MEA) |
Countries Covered | North America: U.S and Canada Europe: Germany, Italy, Russia, U.K, Spain, France, Rest of Europe APAC: China, Australia, Japan, India, South Korea, South East Asia, Rest of Asia Pacific Latin America: Brazil, Argentina, Chile The Middle East And Africa: South Africa, GCC, Rest of MEA |
Base Year | 2022 |
Historical Year | 2016 to 2022 |
Forecast Year | 2023 – 2032 |
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Proceeding further, the business intelligence report of Market incorporates segmentation studies including product and application categories, and Regional-level analysis of the top geographies. Moving to the market competitive scenario, product and service offering of the prominent organizations along with business strategies employed by them to maintain a strong hold in this marketplace are reviewed thoroughly.
The statistical information presented in this report is predicated on the Medical Filter in Government marketplace primary, secondary investigation and study, and media release. This comprises data via a global group of expertise from Medical Filter in Government notable players to provide the latest information on the international Medical Filter in Government marketplace. Moving forward, segmentation analysis is obviously explained considering all the significant probabilities pertinent to Market in Government market conditions.
PESTLE Analysis of Medical Filter Market
• Political (Political policy and stability as well as trade, fiscal and taxation
• Economical (Interest rates, employment or unemployment rates, raw material
costs and foreign exchange rates)
• Social (Changing family demographics, education levels, cultural trends,
attitude changes and changes in lifestyles)
• Technological (Changes in digital or mobile technology, automation, research
and development)
• Legal (Employment legislation, consumer law, health and safety, international
as well as trade regulation and restrictions)
• Environmental (Climate, recycling procedures, carbon footprint, waste
disposal and sustainability)
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On the basis of product, the Medical Filter market research displays the revenue, price, market share and growth rate of each type, primarily split into,
Gas Filter, Liquid Filter, Other.
On the basis of the end users, the Medical Filter market research focuses on the status and outlook for major applications, consumption (sales), market share and growth rate for each application, including
Hospital, Clinic, Other
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This Medical Filter market report studies the top producers and consumers, focuses on product capacity, value, consumption, market share and growth opportunity in these key regions, covering
North America (United States, Canada and Mexico)
Europe (Germany, France, UK, Russia and Italy)
Asia-Pacific (China, Japan, Korea, India and Southeast Asia)
South America (Brazil, Argentina, Colombia etc.)
Middle East and Africa (Saudi Arabia, UAE, Egypt, Nigeria and South Africa)
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A biological diagnosis can be confirmed by can be confirmed by amplification of the bacterium genome during the first week after the onset of high fever, or by serology (antibody search) from the second week of the disease onwards.
This is a disease seen throughout the world, mainly in tropical regions. In mainland France it affects around 600 people annually, which indicates an annual incidence of 1 per 100,000 inhabitants. The incidence is from 50 to 100 times higher in tropical regions, such as the French overseas collectivities or many Latin American and Southeast Asian countries. The number of serious cases of leptospirosis seen annually throughout the world is estimated at over one million, with a case fatality rate above 10%. The disease has a clear seasonal pattern, with peaks during the rainy season in tropical regions or during summer to autumn in temperate countries (fresh water bathing).
Certain occupations (farmers, livestock breeders, sewage workers, refuse collectors, etc.) and people who take part in water sports (swimming, canoeing, kayaking, fishing, hunting, canyoneering, etc.) are particularly at risk. In humans, the bacterium enters the body mainly through damaged skin or the mucous membranes. The animal reservoir is highly diversified and, in addition to rodents and insectivores, includes livestock such as cattle, horses or pigs – in which infection is a frequent occurrence and results in significant financial losses – and domestic animals such as dogs. All these animals transmit leptospirosis via their urine. Entire flocks and herds become contaminated from just a few carrier individuals. Epidemiology varies between geographical regions, depending on the ecosystem and living conditions.
Treatment and prevention
The serious forms require hospitalization. Treatment is based on intensive care. Early administration of antibiotics (amoxicillin, cephalosporin and cyclins) reduces the risk of complications, shortens disease progression, relieves symptoms and limits renal damage. In terms of prevention, collective measures to control rat populations and effluents from factory farming systems and to drain flooded areas might be effective but are difficult to implement. A monovalent human vaccine is available in France, solely to workers with a high level of exposure (sewage workers and refuse collectors). Personal protection (gloves, glasses, boots) is recommended during risky activities. A multivalent vaccine for dogs is widely used in France.
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Sharp Objects: A Novel (Paperback)
On Our Shelves Now
Fresh from a brief stay at a psych hospital, reporter Camille Preaker faces a troubling assignment: she must return to her tiny hometown to cover the murders of two preteen girls. For years, Camille has hardly spoken to her neurotic, hypochondriac mother or to the half-sister she barely knows: a beautiful thirteen-year-old with an eerie grip on the town. Now, installed in her old bedroom in her family's Victorian mansion, Camille finds herself identifying with the young victims—a bit too strongly. Dogged by her own demons, she must unravel the psychological puzzle of her own past if she wants to get the story—and survive this homecoming.
Praise for Sharp Objects
"Nasty, addictive reading."—Chicago Tribune
"Skillful and disturbing."—Washington Post
"Darkly original . . . [a] riveting tale."—People
About the Author
Gillian Flynn is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Gone Girl, for which she wrote the Golden Globe–nominated screenplay; the New York Times bestsellers Dark Places and Sharp Objects; and a novella, The Grownup. A former critic for Entertainment Weekly, she lives in Chicago with her husband and children.
Praise For…
"A first novel that reads like the accomplished work of a long-time pro, the book draws you in and keeps you reading with the force of a pure but nasty addiction...Flynn's book goes deeper than your average thriller. It has all the narrative drive of a serious pop novel and much of the psychological complexity of a mainstream character study. All in all, a terrific debut."
—Alan Cheuse, The Chicago Tribune
"A compulsively readable psychological thriller that marks [a] dazzling debut...[Flynn] has written a clever crime story with astonishing twists and turns, and enough suspense for the most demanding fans of the genre. But it is the sensitive yet disturbing depiction of her heroine that makes this an especially engrossing story...Flynn's empathic understanding of her major characters leads to storytelling that is sure and true, and it marks her a write to watch."
—Chicago Sun-Times
"To say this is a terrific debut novel is really too mild. I haven't read such a relentlessly creepy family saga since John Farris's All Heads Turn as the Hunt Goes By, and that was thirty years ago, give or take. Sharp Objects isn't one of those scare-and-retreat books; its effect is cumulative. I found myself dreading the last thirty pages or so but was helpless to stop turning them. Then, after the lights were out, the story just stayed there in my head, coiled and hissing, like a snake in a cave. An admirably nasty piece of work, elevated by sharp writing and sharper insights."
—Stephen King
"Not often enough, I come across a first novel so superb that it seems to have been written by an experienced author, perhaps with 20 earlier books to his or her credit. I'm extremely excited to discover my first debut blowout this year, a sad, horrifying book called Sharp Objects...[Flynn] is the real deal. Her story, writing and the characters will worm their way uncomfortably beneath your skin...But this is more literary novel than simple mystery, written with anguish and lyricism. It will be short-listed for one or more important awards at the end of the year...Sharp Objects is a 2006 favorite so far. I doubt I'll ever forget it."
—Cleveland Plain Dealer
"A deeply creepy exploration of small-town Midwestern values and boasts one of the most deliciously dysfunctional families to come along in a while...[Flynn] handles the narrative with confidence and a surprisingly high level of skill...Wind Gap ends up the sort of place you'd never want to visit. But with Sharp Objects, you're in no hurry to leave."
—San Francisco Chronicle
"Brilliant...Powerful, mesmerizing...A stunning, powerful debut from someone who truly has something to say."
—San Jose Mercury News
"One of the best and most disturbing books I have read in a long time...Flynn never stoops to the gratuitous, and the torment produces haunting characters that hung around my imagination long after I had finished the book. Her skillful blending of old tragedies with new culminated in an 'oh-my-gosh' moment that I never saw coming. This book simply blew me away."
—Kansas City Star
"Don't look here for the unrelenting self-deprecation and the moping over men common chick lit...I promise you'll be thoroughly unnerved at the end."
"First-time novelist Flynn is a natural-born thriller."
—People Style Watch
"A witty, stylish, and compelling debut. A real winner."
—Harlan Coben
"Flynn delivers a great whodunit, replete with hinting details, telling dialogue, dissembling clues. Better yet, she offers appalling, heartbreaking insight into the darkness of her women's lives: the Stepford polish of desperate housewives, the backstabbing viciousness of drug-gobbling, sex-for-favors Mean Girls, the simmering rage bound to boil over. Piercingly effective and genuinely terrifying."
—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
"Fans of psychological thrillers will welcome narrator/Chicago Daily Post reporter Camille Preaker with open arms...As first-time novelist Flynn expertly divulges in this tale reminiscent of the works of Shirley Jackson, there is much more to discover about Wind Gap and, most of all, about Camille."
—Library Journal
"This impressive debut novel is fueled by stylish writing and compelling portraits...In a particularly seductive narrative style, Flynn adopts the cynical, knowing patter of a weary reporter, but it is her portraits of the town's backstabbing, social-climbing, bored, and bitchy females that provoke her sharpest and most entertaining writing. A stylish turn on dark crimes and even darker psyches."
"[A] chilling debut thriller...[Flynn] writes fluidly of smalltown America."
—Publishers Weekly
"[Flynn]] offers up a literary thriller that's a doozy...and she does it with wit and grit, a sort of Hitchcock visits Stephen King, with plenty of the former's offstage and often only implied violence, and the latter's sense of pacing and facility with dialogue...This is not a comfortable novel of touchy-feely family fun. Rather, it is a tough tale told with remarkable clarity and dexterity, particularly for a first-time author."
—Denver Post
"A tense, irresistable thriller...Flynn's first-person narration is pitch-perfect, but even more impressive is the way she orchestrates the slim novel's onrushing tension toward a heart-stopping climax."
—Seattle Post-Intelligencer
"Darkly original...Flynn expertly ratchets up the suspense...A disturbing yet riveting tale."
"Skillful and disturbing...Flynn writes so well. Sometimes she dips her pen in acid, sometimes she is lyrical, but always she chooses her words deftly...She has an unsparing eye for human imperfection and for the evil that moves among us."
—Washington Post
"Using understated, almost stark prose, Flynn paints a jagged, unflinching portrait of the vise-like psychological bonds between women, and how their demons lead to the perpetuation of cruelties upon themselves and others. The end result is an unsettling portrait of how long emotional wounds can last- and how deeply they hurt."
—Baltimore Sun
"More in the tradition of Joyce Carol Oates than Agatha Christie, this one will leave readers profoundly disturbed. But from the first line...you know you're in the hands of a talented and accomplished writer."
—The Boston Globe
"[A] breathtaking debut...Written with multiple twists and turns, Sharp Objects is a work of psychological prowess and page-turning thrills."
—Richmond Times
"As suspenseful as the V.C. Andrews books you shared in high school, but much smarter."
"Sharp Objects is one of the freshest debut thrillers to come around in a long while. It's a gripping, substantive story, stripped of cliche, and crafted with great style. The characters are refreshingly real, burdened with psychological issues that enrich the story. And the ending, which I was positive I could predict, is unpredictable. Sharp Objects is, indeed, quite sharp."
—Augusten Burroughs
"Sharp, clean, exciting writing that grabs you from the first page. A real pleasure."
—Kate Atkinson, author of Case Histories and One Good Turn


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Early followers of my blog will remember my South Beach Diet days, and if you've been following for the last few years, my Whole30 phase. Yes, I've been dieting my entire life, I can write a book on it (oh wait, I did!).
Since I had my last baby, over two years ago, it's been about food freedom for me – and for a few reasons. Firstly, I decided I didn't want to live my life on a diet anymore, and I wanted to be able to enjoy food and be OK with it. I did put on some weight, which is what will happen if you're in my industry and you just let yourself go – but I accepted it and decided that I would learn to love my body at any size.
From a recipe testing perspective, because I was working on my cookbook, I didn't want my palate to be off, which is what will happen if you're on a diet that restricts sugars or carbs. After a few rounds of Whole30, everything tasted cloyingly sweet to me and if you're developing recipes for a cookbook, that can be a problem. I remember testing this recipe during my Whole30 (tasting it and spitting it out!) and when I made it several months later for a Shavuot cooking class, I found that it really needed more sweetener (recipe has been adjusted!). If you're testing recipes for a living, you need to appeal to the average palette, so a diet can really throw things off. That's another reason I decided to let myself go and not be restrictive.
I started following a lot of body-positive Instagram accounts and really tried to work on being comfortable in my larger size, but if I'm being honest, I just didn't feel like myself. I was self conscious, uncomfortable behind the camera, and going shopping left me feeling totally depressed. Physically, I felt tired, lacked energy and just wasn't motivated to make a change.
This year, on my 38th birthday, I looked in the mirror and decided it was time to make a change. Either accept and love myself at any size, or change that size to one that would make me more comfortable in my skin. I was done with the yo yo eating, and I just wanted to gain back control. For me personally, I don't do well with intuitive eating or mindfulness, I need a strict regimen otherwise I don't keep to it. So the day after Chanukah, I took the diet plunge and went keto. No excuses, no back and forth on which diet to choose, just jumping right in without thinking, and it's the best thing I could have done. I shared it on Instagram so that I would hold myself accountable, and I've been going strong for two weeks (although it already feels like months!). It's amazing how long a day can feel when you're watching everything you put in your mouth!!
It scary to put yourself out there today. Someone recently told me that we live in the "offended" generation and it's so true. It's like we're all tiptoeing around each other because we might say the wrong thing. Well to all the diet-shamers out there who aren't OK with people going on a diet, here's what I believe and I'm sticking to it: I reserve the right to feel comfortable in my own skin, and it's no one elses right to tell me if I should lose weight, or if I should accept my body the way it is. It is MY body and it is MY right to make that choice. Yes, I've gone keto – because I want to feel healthy again and be healthy again and I want to be able to like what I see in the mirror, and there's no shame in that. This, to me, is true food freedom. The freedom to make your own choices about the foods you eat, and weighing those choices in a conscious way.
I'm so excited to share this delicious recipe that I came up with last week for my keto-approved lunch. I went a little overboard with the tomatoes, but I'll get there!
Tunisian-Style Tuna Nicoise Salad
1 pkg arugula
3 hard-boiled eggs, halved
1-2 cups grape tomatoes, halved
2 Persian cucumbers, sliced
1 red onion, thinly sliced
1/2 cup sliced black olives
1/4 cup capers, optional
harissa tuna, recipe follows
preserved lemon dressing, recipe follows
Spread the arugula out on a platter. Add eggs, tomatoes, cucumbers, red onion, olives and capers. Top with scoops of harissa tuna and drizzle with preserved lemon dressing before serving.
VARIATION: if you're not watching your carbs, feel free to cook up some red-skinned potatoes, slice and add to the salad.
Harissa Tuna:
1 can tuna packed in water, drained
3 tbsp mayo
2 tsp harissa
1 tsp dried parsley
Juice of 1/2 lemon
salt, to taste
Add all ingredients to a bowl and stir to combine.
Preserved Lemon Dressing:
1/2 c olive oil
2 tsp minced preserved lemon peel
1 clove garlic, minced
Juice 1/2 Lemon
1/2 tsp cumin
1 tbsp honey, optional
salt and pepper, to taste
Add all ingredients to a container and shake vigorously until creamy.
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harissa roasted chicken
harissa whipped feta with za'atar eggplant chips
cauliflower nachos with harissa cheddar sauce
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You may have figured out by now that I have a bit of a sweet tooth. And after the Hot Chocolate Layer Cake with Homemade Marshmallows, I thought I would take it easy on you (and my family, of course). You might be asking yourself, "frozen dessert in winter?" Yes, absolutely! Ice cream, sorbets, sherbets, and frozen yogurt are year 'round treats for me. This frozen yogurt is one that I prepare all year long and is a nice departure from the store bought/chain operation frozen yogurts out there. For a low fat and rather plain dessert, the taste and texture are anything but ordinary. In the winter, I use Greek yogurt for a rich, tangy flavor. In the summer, I use plain yogurt for a lighter and tasty spoonful. The key ingredient for the creamy, cloud-like texture is beaten egg whites and yes, they are raw. Just make sure your eggs have clean, unbroken shells and crack them on a flat surface rather than on the edge of a bowl to prevent any possible bacterial contamination. If you are still concerned about the use of raw eggs, you can use powdered egg whites instead. Just beat them according to the manufacturer's instructions.
One beautiful thing about this yogurt is that it is good any time of the day. Top a scoop with a drizzle of honey and granola for breakfast. A bowl in the afternoon with some fresh fruit is great way to keep you going. My favorite way is a big spoonful after dinner to cleanse the palate and satisfy that sweet tooth of mine without any guilt.
Printable Recipe
Frozen Vanilla Yogurt
makes about 1 1/2 quarts
3 extra large egg whites
1 cup granulated sugar
3 cups plain or Greek yogurt, whole fat or low fat
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
In a clean and dry medium bowl, beat the egg whites until frothy with a wire whisk or hand-held mixer. Gradually add the sugar; increase the speed to high and beat until glossy, stiff peaks form, about 4-5 minutes.
In a separate bowl, whisk together the yogurt and vanilla until smooth. Gently fold in the egg whites. Cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate until cold, about 1 hour. Transfer the mixture to an ice cream maker and freeze according to the manufacturer's instructions. Enjoy!
Source: Adapted from Food & Wine, January 2001, and The Perfect Scoop, by David Lebovitz