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Eva Barasa is the founder of Valley Hub which enables retail businesses with a digital supply chain to manage and build their business brand easily by leveraging technology.
Eva is passionate about social and economic development. She had the honor to be among 25 African women selected for the Future is female PR mentorship program, leading to a significant mention in Forbes magazine and a six-month-long Business Development, PR and digital marketing training and execution program. Eva is also currently a fellow in the Jim leech MCF program for leadership. Her working experience has been precisely in Saas sales & Marketing, communication, partnerships management , fintech and digital platforms.
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My experience leading a team tremendously changed my perspective of working with stakeholders, teams, and partners. I developed my interpersonal communication and understanding of each stakeholder's role in accomplishing our roles. Additionally, I previously led and managed projects in the sales field. Such as an expansion plan to generate fresh leads, build the brand and create a new demographic of target partners. The project included planning and hosting webinars, networking events, and booking in-person meetings online, leading to over 70% of our target objectives being accomplished. I also built PR on publications like Built-in Africa, TechCrunch, tech cabal, disrupt Africa and Forbes
Valley Hub assessed the pain points related to process management in the retail and real estate industry. The company identified digital solutions to improve efficiency to lead to increased profitability and solidifying a business' value proposition to their customers.


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MLB's obsession with analytics is killing what's great about baseball
Feb 18, 2021, 6:40 PM
(AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)
A true confession you'll never hear from Major League Baseball:
The Steroid Era was less damaging than Big Data, the information superhighway that spawned the analytics movement currently sucking the joy out of baseball.
The proof is in the aesthetics.
The proof is in how much you care.
Or don't.
The Steroid Era was obviously reprehensible. It was also fun while it lasted. Our ignorance was bliss.
The home run chase between Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa resuscitated a sport bleeding out on the gurney.
At his drug-fueled worst, Barry Bonds was impossible to ignore, a can't-miss spectacle. He became an all-time villain, a breathtaking mass of muscle and malice.
A nation was captivated. The television ratings were tremendous. Like a piece of cheesecake, the guilt came later.
The Steroid Era was also a big reveal, an honest look inside the soulless universe of Major League Baseball, a warped dystopia full of jockstraps, adolescence, unwritten rules, clubhouse codes and rampant cheating.
The game's lack of moral backbone and utter disregard for fair play was laid bare for the world to examine.
It wasn't pretty.
But the righteous indignation surrounding the Steroid Era was also disingenuous. As our country gets older, we have begun to recognize our true nature, and how our self-aggrandizing is nothing but wild propaganda.
Same is true in baseball, and someday, we may even reconcile our blatant hypocrisies.
We are not always the shining light on the hill. Cheating to win is not always considered a sin.
It's often considered shrewd and ruthless strategy. You get yours. I'll get mine. That's the American way.
If we're being real.
We are also a nation committed to performance-enhancing drugs, from the drive-through line at Starbucks; to the little blue pills that are much cheaper in Mexico; to the prescriptions that'll help you focus or put you to sleep at night; to the recreational marijuana shops that were once reserved for those with a special card and medical needs.
Yeah, right.
In retrospect, the Steroid Era certainly taxed Major League Baseball.
Commissioner Bud Selig had to pay $20 million for the Mitchell Report, a prop to show just how much he cared.
The record book was desecrated, but a record book is nothing but paper and numbers.
Meanwhile, Hall of Fame voters inherited an ethical conundrum with candidates like Bonds and McGwire, but the Hall of Fame is but a museum, a building to house our most beloved entertainers.
The real damage from the Steroid Era occurred among young athletes who went searching for PED's as a means to emulate Bonds, McGwire and Sosa; frantically searching for ways to compete with unseen opponents who were breaking rules to shorten their path.
But in the long run, Major League Baseball hardly suffered from the scandal.
Otherwise, they would never have employed McGwire and Bonds after they retired.
Analytics are different.
This movement is about math, not PED's.
And it's boring us to tears.
It's killing the poetry, romance and action in baseball. Everything is now distilled, quantified and commodified.
Blue-blood Ivy Leaguers have taken over the sport, yielding a game full of shifts, strikeouts and long stretches where ABSOLUTELY NOTHING HAPPENS, where the content value of baseball is less than zero.
It's so bad that MLB must erect protective netting in stadiums across America to safeguard bored customers who are burying themselves in their cellphones.
Analytics seem like evolution.
It helps teams make better decisions on and off the field. It also makes the game look dramatically worse on television.
It's a bigger problem than the Steroid Era ever presented, and now MLB must deal with this existential threat to its very existence.
Namely, how "The Show" is no longer a show. Anything but.

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Pablo Lopez became the Pro-Sim class champion in the Brands Hatch finale of the Dallara F317-based British F4 iRacing Trophy as Alex Palou and Kai Askey took the race wins.
Chip Ganassi Racing's IndyCar driver Palou started the first 20-minute race from pole position and controlled the action from the front of the pack ahead of his Fordzilla team-mates Julian Moreno and Lopez.
The trio were just ahead of top Pro class driver Roman Bilinski – the Carlin driver the top British Formula 4 regular as champion Luke Browning was absent – and the quartet pulled away.
Bilinski, however, spun off and tapped the wall after passing Moreno, who had just been passed by Lopez, as the race approached the halfway point. His gap to team-mate Kai Askey, who started down the order but made up places despite being involved in an early collision, shrunk drastically.
From there, Palou pushed Lopez back into the clutches of Moreno. The Fordzilla trio held station though, and Lopez's second place behind Palou, who missed the previous round at Silverstone due to real-world testing at Laguna Seca, was enough to seal the Pro-Sim class title with a race to spare.
In the Pro class, Askey and Bilinski battled hard and went side-by-side through the Grand Prix loop. That scrap came to an abrupt conclusion in the closing stages when Bilinski got sideways coming out of Paddock Hill Bend and crashed into Askey.
Bilinski regardless was able to come through for the class win, but Askey's race ended in the pits. JHR Developments' Joseph Loake finished the depleted Pro class in second ahead of team-mate James Hedley. The remaining Pro drivers all got caught up in significant contact.
Askey started race two on the front row alongside NHR e-Sports/Fiercely Forward Jacco Van Plaat and got ahead at the start before the latter ran wide at Druids.
The top four in the early stages were all Pro class drivers, as the frontrunners of the Pro-Sim field came into contact into Druids on the second lap.
The Fordzilla trio went three-wide into the corner. Moreno had to use iRacing's fast repair as a result, along with Loake and former GP2 racer Roldan Rodriguez.
Palou was leading the Pro-Sim class when he made contact with Arden's Frederick Lubin, but the latter came off far worse while Palou only lost a spot to Lopez.
From there, Hedley spun off while running in second, leaving Askey to fight Bilinksi at the front.
Askey held off Bilinksi's attacks to take his first win, while Lopez rounded out the overall podium as Pro-Sim victory.
Palou finished second in class ahead of Fiercely Forward's Kevin Zwemstra for his first Pro-Sim podium of the season. JHR's Nathanael Hodgkiss held off team-mate Mckenzy Cresswell for the final Pro podium spot after Hedley hit further issues.


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by Claire Bonello
The picture which Immanuel Mifsud chose to grace the cover of his book is that of a prawn - a small, defenceless
creature curled up foetus-like on a white background.
This may have been an idiosyncratic choice but I find it quite apt as the characters described by Mifsud remind
me of prawns buffeted about by the tides of circumstances and emotions beyond their control. The 13 short
stories in this compilation all feature individuals trying to come to terms with their identity, their sexuality, or the
path which their lives are to take.
Sometimes the stories of the protagonists make for belak reading, but Mifsud's writing is always engaging and
not without those subtle traces of humour, which contrasts so vividly with the unfortunate circumstances of his
In 'Happy Weekend', for example, we find the aging single lecturer who lives a life of humdrum monotony with his
aunt, and lives for the blessed relief of Fridays. Mifsud manages to describe the unfailing sameness of the
lecturer's days in a way which is both amusing and poignant.
There is the unchanging weekly timetable of meals - fish soup on Fridays, a pasta with ricotta on Saturdays, and
timpana on Sundays - accompanied by the ritual of newspaper-reading on the weekly outing to Buskett.
These are the touches that give the reader a sense of the stultifying boredom of the lecturer's existence. His
brief escape from this uneventful life makes for the twist in the tale - an unexpected one but one which is still
totally believable.
Escape is also the theme of 'Il-Mara ta' Teo de Jong' , where the female protagonist starts out as a young girl,
loved and cosseted by all, but has to face a changed reality where she is no longer secure in te love of her
husband and where the choices she has made have closed off many avenues for her.
She plans her escape, sending out smoke signals, via posts on an internet forum, but does not receive the
response she longs for. Her getaway is sweet revenge, and is again, unexpected but entirely plausible.
Unlike many other writers, Mifsud feels totally at home using the digital world as another dimension into which his
protagonists escape, seeking refuge or like-minded sould with which to communicate.
In the powerful 'Anne u Sylvia', the scarred, chubby woman who immersed herself in the world of the poetry fo
Anne Sexton and Sylvia Plath, now sends out tentative feelers across the net, trying to find someone, anyone,
who shares her feelings.
In this story, Mifsud's descriptive skills excel as he juxtaposes the frumpiness and dowdiness of the protagonist
with the slender loveliness of her brother's girlfriend. He has this contrast to highlight the incredible pressure to
conform to society's pre-ordained ideals fo beauty. Those who do not measure up to this standard, are sidelined
and ridiculed.
This feeling of being sidelined by society, of being an outsider looking in, is also evident in 'Bieb Bieb', where we
follow the changing fortunes of a woman abandoned by her husband. That one event strips her of her access to
love and security, be it emotional or financial.
Her status in the community has changed, and everybody looks at her in a diferent light, "Indunat li kien hemm xi
ġirien li tawha bonġuy differenti minn tas-soltu."
The denouement of the story is as bitter-sweet as the ice-cold Kinnie which she drinks to counter the searing
heat of the Maltese sun.
Mfisud captures the eswence of Maltese village and family life very well in 'Efrem'. This story is narrated from the
point of view of a man who is returning to Malta and his relatives for the first time since childhood. So he views
the Maltese through the rather unforgiving eyes of a foreigner.
He seems to shy away from the pompous ceremoniousness of small-minded village folk ("Għala għandhom
moħħhom daqshekk żgħir?") and their penchant for exaggerating and lionising even the most mediocre works fo
their compatriots.
Their excessive emotionality is also viewed with some suspicion by the detached narrator of the piece. However,
even though he has been brought up within a culture which is totally alien to the loud and tactile one of the
Maltese, he still feels pangs of loss for a kinship and a relationship which he remembers only very dimly, if at all.
This longing for the feelings felt in times gone by, is echoed in "Ħars", which is a multi-view point piece which
delves into the effect that time has on relationships and people.
In the blurb I had written for the book, I had observed that these weren't sotires about heroes or heroines or epic
tales, but simply stories of everyday life. In this book, Mifsud has protrayed the myriad disappointments, personal
failings, the daily grind and the occasional flashes of hope that make up the human condition. He has done it in
a raw and uncompromising manner which contributes to the authenticity of the stories and which makes them
utterly compelling.
The Sunday Times (Malta), 7 March 2010
Copyright 2002-2024. Immanuel Mifsud. All rights reserved.


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The shortage of semiconductors – the computer chips that products such as smartphones, laptops, cars and even washing machines rely on – continues to impact industries around the world.
The current supply chain issues are motivating engineers to make the inspection of the silicon wafers that semiconductors are fabricated from more efficient. It is a goal that the industry would focus on even without the global shortage. To help accomplish that, University of Colorado mechanical engineering students have developed a device that improves the inspection process.
The Department of Mechanical Engineering seniors have built a silicon wafer center-finding improvement device for KLA, a semiconductor manufacturing company. The Senior Design team's prototype uses two cameras to capture the circular wafer's edge, plus computer software to calculate the radius and find the wafer's center.
"The reason this is important is that KLA has to inspect these wafers for defects, and when they find one, they need to know where on the wafer it is with a high-level of precision," said Marty LaRocque, the team's electro-mechanical engineer. "They have to establish a coordinate system on the wafer and the hardest part of that is finding the center."
Marty LaRocque looks over the team's silicon wafer center-finding improvement device.
The device uses two cameras to capture the wafer's edge.
Currently, KLA is detecting the wafer's center with ten different images around the edge. The team of students designed their device to find the center just as efficiently with only two images.
"On one of KLA's inspection tools, it currently takes them eight seconds to align one wafer, and we're trying to get that down to two seconds," said Project Manager Jack Carver. "A 75% reduction is going to get so much more throughput. With the global silicon wafer supply shortage, any improvements in that would be greatly beneficial for them."
The real-world impact that the students' device could have on the industry is part of the reason this project enticed them.
"It's interesting because KLA explained to us the real significance of our prototype," said Prem Griddalur, the systems engineer on the team. "About every two years, the size of the semiconductor becomes smaller, and at the same time, the scale they're manufacturing these at gets larger because of increased demand. KLA did a great job explaining why their equipment is important and how our project plays a role in the larger scheme of the industry."
The team captured their first position of the wafer's center in early March. They are now running statistical tests and taking measurements to check the device's accuracy. They need the coordinates to be within 10 microns of the true center, which is the width of a human red blood cell.
Since the team's device is a prototype, KLA's system may not end up looking exactly like the students' design. However, their prototype and tests will still provide the company with critical information to help guide decisions about future designs.
The students said that aspect is relatable to real-world scenarios. Typically, engineers are tasked with making current systems better, rather than creating new designs from scratch.
"That's what our prototype is – improving upon KLA's system," said CAD Engineer Hank Kussin-Bordo. "We were given the requirement that our design has to work with the company's current system, since they can't change their entire process. The challenge of being an engineer is finding ways to make systems better, while also being cost effective and not over-complicating things."
Designing, assembling and testing the device have also allowed the students to work at the intersection of engineering and electronics – a collaboration that the team agreed is the future of modern engineering.
"When the images from our two cameras show the tiny little patterns that are printed on the wafer that you can't see with the naked eye, we all feel a sense of wow, that's some real-life engineering right there," said Carver.
The Senior Design team will present their silicon wafer center-finding improvement device at the College of Engineering and Applied Science Engineering Projects Expo 2022 on April 22.


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Mobilize the Movement, Part I
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lentils and summer sausage is a pretty fine thing
when you have nothing in particular.
that January feeling—rain's fine
it really wouldn't matter
if it rained bacon fat
for a month
(my mom used to collect bacon
fat in a plastic tub
until a mouse died
in it)
basically though
when summer ends the poets say it dies
but winter flees
it doesn't ever die—
why not?
good things always die, for some reason
and evil's always hiding somewhere dark—
it's probably for the best.
January's lovely though.
like an old family friend
who visited once a year
when you were little—God
only knows why—but
that's the point isn't it?
expecting nothing and receiving nothing
January is an honest month
winter not so old and year still young
it's fantastic
but no one has probably
ever written about a dying January
good for them.


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re: salt and bufu frogs
Actually, salt CAN work. Sometimes yes and sometimes no. You have to chase them and keep pouring it over them until they're totally covered. They may survice, they may die later and still be "out there" dead and somewhat poisonous. It's definitely worth trying but again there's always more.
I was told that salt works on Buffos the same way it works on slugs. Since they are made up of mostly water the salt gets into the poors of the skin and dried up their skin and affects their nervous system.
(Delray Beach, FL)
Nice to hear such a humane and logical point of view, all good points and very well stated. Give yourself a pat on the back for being one of the very few to problemsolve the issue while still promoting decency by respecting the living things we share our environments with.
(Hobe Sound, Fl)
Dear Fellow Animal Lovers: The bofus in Florida are not natural creatures. They are an invasive species brought in from elsewhere and are a great danger to small animals. Killing them, in my mind is okay. They are strong, persistent, smart, and will not leave your yard even though they realize that you have become their new worst enemy. No bleeding hearts for these guys, they are an invasive danger. From another animal lover.
(Hialeah, Fl, Usa)
Regarding the use of salt for the Florida Marine Frog/Toad, yes there may be a more 'Humane" method if you are fast enough to catch the critter. First, you don't chase the frog/toad with a salt shaker. I have boxes of table and Kosher salt and take a handful and toss it on them. At this time in Miami Dade County the rain is at its worst and the critters are even out all day. My Dogs are my kids, since my children are grown. We lost one due to age a few months ago and it was terrible. I still when time to feed the dogs get one "extra" helping of food sometimes forgeting that she is gone. This morning my wife while escorting two dogs out to do there business one of them went after a toad, and might have gotten some poison. She immediately grabbed the dog and water hose and rinsed his mouth. She woke me up and by the time I had my clothes on since the episode occured 10 or 15 minutes had passed. We got the dog into the car and the Vet was not open yet but the overnight person who monitors the animals told us of another Animal Clinic several minutes away. We went there and they were not open yet? Now we are approaching the hour mark after the incident occured. Most Vets will agree that in most cases 15 minutes or so the animal will die. It has been two hours and the dog is calm, stopped drooling and with the Grace of God seems to be himself [somewhat] again. It is pouring rain again at about 09:00 A. M. here in Miami pouring rain and you can hear the Frogs/Toads making noise in the yard.
Our Vet on one ocassion came out to the waiting room and scolded everyone for not being more careful; regarding this issue, she just had to an animal "down".
In closing, , , , prayer helps, God Bless!
(New Port Richey, Fl)
Of course, it is so much more humane to allow a dog or cat to cook internally from the effects of the poison. These toads, by the way, are an invasive species and are destroying the ecosystem in Florida. Which part of that is humane to everything that dies because these toads aren't even supposed to be here?
Snake Deterrent
To deter bufo toads around the house and patio we've used a product called "snake a way", sold at Walmart and a similar product is sold at Home Depot with moth crystals. It doesn't keep all of them away but has deterred many. We live on a lake and have found them in the front yard, but have kept them out of the back.
Ted's Remedies
I don't let my dog out in my fenced backyard at night during the summer without escorting him because I've seen deadly poison bufo toads. I killed one, and it sprayed me with the milky secretions that would have killed my dog. Can you suggest anything that would keep bufos out of my yard? Thank you."
Ted from Bangkok, Thailand replies: "Dear Sarah: It takes only 15 minutes for a bufo toad poison to kill the dog, so you need to find a way to prevent that or at least give the dog some common home antidotes when a poisoning does occur that might help this problem.The method of poisoning that bufo toads employs is the secretion by which it shoots at the victim up to 2 meters of the white liquid secretions called bufotoxin which is used in much smaller amounts to as a medicine to treat hepatitis B and also in the making of poisonous darts. Fortunately, the toad is only found in U.S. in Florida area.
I often believe that bufo toads in general do not attack its victim, but because we are getting in its way or know it is being attacked. Dogs and cats are commonly poisoned, but mostly dogs because they tend to bite or provoke the toads. One way to prevent the dogs to bite is to put a muzzle over the dog's mouth to the prevent dog from biting when it sees a toad. So the worst that can happen is that it will get the liquids sprayed into the eye of the dog, which can be washed immediately. The dog won't be poisoned as much as orally when biting the toads.
The other thing is to control the toad population and set a trap. One trap is to dig a hole in the ground and put a large bucket so that the height of the bucket reaches ground level - so a minimum of 5 gallons up. It should be high enough that the toads cannot jump out of the bucket. You can also use a much larger area to dig, like a baby tub, only that you have to dig a hole large enough so that the toads can fall.
The second thing is you need to get a light bulb well protected from rainwater so that it doesn't blow up the lightbulb where the thin wood stick out to the center of the large bucket or baby's tub. When you do set up the tub, be sure to apply plenty of motor oil so it will be very slippery that there is no way the can climb out.
Also make sure that the baby tub is steep enough that the toad cannot climb up. Whenever it reaches the night, the bugs will be attracted to the lights, and the bufo toads will see the bugs and attempt to jump on to the baby tub or the 5 gallon bucket. Make sure the tub of the baby tub exceeds or equal to about 10 inches. A giant toad can jump to the height of up to 10 inches. If it is not tall enough you may need to either dig a little deeper so that it is below the ground level, making the escape more difficult.
If at all possible, usually not, but clearing water from the ground and making it dry will keep the toads away through improving drainage.
In case of poisoning of toads, by a dog or cats a one possible antidote is plenty of vinegar plus some hydrogen peroxide 1% which can help, but won't neutralize everything as some have some vasoconstrictor elements in the bufotoxin venom poisoning. However, the easiest access of common remedies I can think of in dire emergencies that is everywhere appears to be only vinegar. So bathing plenty of vinegar might help. Raw white eggs, uncooked if eaten, might help and can be poured on the dogs mouth to suck up the toxins. Bentonite clay or activated charcoal in powder form is another possibility to suck up the toxin from the surrounding area. Whatever you do, you still need to send the dog to a vet who can further do treatment.
It is not a perfect antidote, but it is better than not do anything."
(Orlando, Fl)
This article is BS !! Cane, Marine, or Bufo Toads CANNOT shoot or squirt toxin. Period. This is an old wifes tale. (Like porcupines being able to throw it's quills) Also these toads not only exist in South Florida but most of the Caribbean and South America.
Just don't eat one!
Dr J.H."
09/24/2009: Lita209 from Sanford, Fl replies: "I was born and raised in Puerto Rico (Caribbean) and the first time I have encountered a Bufo Toad has been here in Florida."
03/29/2011: Pd from Tampa, Fl replies: "These toads are all over florida. i live in tampa, in a residential area and do not have a pond or lake on property and they are all over our yard. we have six dachshunds and have had 2 of our dogs get the poisoning. lucky for us we were there to wash out mouths, etc immediately and they are ok. i do not like killing any animal and actually we work in dog rescue, but i can tell you 100% these are extremely dangerous to small dogs/cats and death is usually in 15-20 minutes if too much poison is ingested. we kill all bofu toads in our yard, typically by freezing them. at night and early morning, we have a small confined area where we let the dogs out and we walk the area first with a rake to try and make sure there are none there before letting the dogs out. but we have a frog gig handy just in case. this am, our female got one, we had to gig it, kill it and then rinse out the dogs mouth, luckily she was fine. i know it is not the frogs fault, natural defenses, etc. but i am not going to let them kill my pets... so i will do whatever it takes to kill any bofu that gets into my yard. just wish i could figure how to keep them out.
(Wahiawa, Hi)
Bufo Toads live in Australia and in Hawaii... Look it up... I know about Hawaii because I live there and I have a couple of Bufo Toads that hide out in our plants and yard... None have excreted any of us and I handled one for quite away before I looked up what it was.. No longer will I touch them nor will my child but as long as we leave them alone they seem to be fine... They are not only located in Florida.
(Naples, Florida)
You need to look it up! FLORIDA IS INFESTED WITH THEM. Now that summer is here its even worse. There are warnings all over. The LOCAL news, vets office. I just saw one bringing my trash cans back in garage. I just took my little dog out to go potty & was near where I took her. I have a large man made pond in back of my place & hear them nightly. Mating season. They were planted in the cane feilds & now are classified as a nuisance. They multiply more then rabbits & nothing eats them. GREAT!!!! I'm 25 min from nearest vet too.
(Jupiter, Fl, Usa)
(Naples, Florida)
I live in a senior citizens mobile home park and we have hundreds of these toads in the park, coming from a pond behind our homes. One elder lady was walking her small dog and it had contact with one and was dead within the hour. My daughter age (age 55) has been on a mission to eradicate these dangeous critters. She has trapped and eliminated over 50 of them in the past week. While on her "patrol" last night she stopped and rubbed her face with the gloves still on and this morning she woke up sick and is in bed with fever, aching muscles and nausea. We don't know if it's the reason but be very careful of letting the secretions on your flesh. We froze the carcasses for three days and then put them in a sealed plastic bag and put them in the trash containers. Just a word to the wise, be very careful!
(Fort Myers, United States, Dollar (usd))
Dr D. H. Sorry to burst your bubble but they sure can! I encountered 4 large ones in my driveway one night, not my first encounter so I'm equipped with nets, etc to catch them, and proceded to try to catch as many as I could. One of them was about 6' from my garage door and released his toxin which shot up and literally splattered about 2/3 of the way up my door. I wouldn't count on them not being able to spray as I think you'll be wildly surprised! What I want to know is how do we eradicate them??? Jo in Ft Myers
(Salome, Az)
We have Bufo Alverious in the Sonoran desert in Arizona. My very small Yorkie got hold of one that was road kill. Toad jerky. She chewed on it a bit before I knew she had it. She threw up all night long, but was better in the morning. I had washed her mouth out and gave her a dose of Carafate that I keep for my other old Yorkie that has stomach problems, but she was still very sick. It happened on a Saturday night and we live no where near a Vet or Vet clinic. She is fine now, but I REALLY watch her when we go for a walk.
(Homestead, Florida)
11/22/12 Up until 2 days ago I never gave any thought to these ugly creatures. I knew about them and had heard that they were lethal to dogs but never thought that I would EVER have a problem. To make a long story short , my 5lb Yorkie got hold of one 2 days ago , I flushed his mouth out and rushed him to the vet(20 mins in total) and now 2 days later he is dead. SO I now comb the yard at night and early morning before I let my other dogs out. Trust me until you have lost a beloved pet to one of these frogs you have no idea of the guilt that you feel.
(Sanford, Flordia)
I see this all the time most toads people run into are normal ground toads. There slightly toxic dont let your dog eat one. Talk to your vet on what you should do if he does. Stop killing them. Cane toads are very diffrent though. It is easy to tell what kind of toads you have if they are small they are not cane toads. If they are the size of a small cat well that you have a problem.
(North Miami Beach Florida)
My dashound was bitten by a Bufo toad. I almost lost him, he started crying and my son went outside and picked him up and I saw him foaming at the mouth. I wash his mouth with lots of water and took him to a vet he was crying in my lap of pain along with me we got to the vet he had a convulsion they gave him ivy and thank God he pulled. Through 650$ it cost me my son found a toad later and killed it but I got salt and put it in the yard. I'm going to get mulch. I hate these toads
Towel Off, Apply Apple Cider Vinegar
My senior pitbull hunts toads when he is let into my back yard in the summer and he has killed several. I used to live in great fear of him encountering toads and I constantly checked on him in the yard. Three times I have discovered him unresponsive, drooling, panting and glossy eyed while standing in the yard near a large dead toad (eeuw!) and he was apparently in great distress or going into shock. My first reaction was to grab the water hose and try to flush his tongue sideways but I quickly realized he was swallowing the poison, so I ran and grabbed a large bath towel and wet one end with water. I first used the dry end of the towel to wipe the dogs tongue from as far back of the throat possible, forward to absorb the poison. Next I soaked up saliva from both jowels with unused portions of the dry end of the towel.
I repeated this procedure but this time, with the dripping wet end of the towel.
Lastly, I turn the wet end of the towel over to the clean side and drenched it with Braggs Apple Cider Vinegar. I then slathered the tongue from the back forward and also jowels, turning the towel to unused portions for each mouth area. I repeated the procedure with an unused portion of the vinegar drenched towel but allowed some ACV to trickle down the dog's throat. By the time I finished this procedure, my dog was fully responsive each time and with no need for follow up. He is 14 years old now and he still has a high prey drive but I no longer worry as much since discovering this remedy.
Hope this helps!
My dog was sprayed by a Bufo Toad, had to rush her to a vet and they saved her. I called the pest control and they told me to spread some Sea Salt all over the yard, and I did. When I did that, 3 toads ran for the canal, so yes that stuff really worked.
Vinegar cured a dog poisoned by a bufo frog
We live in rural South Florida and have a lot of bufo frogs in the yard. Our small dog was outside in the evening after a rain, when it was prime weather for them to be out. When my wife called him in, he didn't come. She found this unusual, so went out to find him, and he was staggering around in circles under a bush. She came in to call for me to help, but by the time we were able to get to him he had fallen over and had lost all motor control. He had clearly been poisoned by a frog.
By the time we got him inside where we could see him in the light, he looked done for. We are a long way from an emergency vet and doubted we could get him there in time. Within the first couple of minutes he could not move a muscle and his eyes were rolling back in his head. Although we washed out his mouth as best we could with his jaw locked, he had ingested too much poison already. I also noticed his ears were sticky, which from what I read now after the fact sounds consistent with the poison.
In desperation I ran a quick search on the web for remedies and ran across your site. I tried vinegar as you recommended, and when I spilled it on the outside of his mouth or got some in with an eyedropper he licked his lips - his tongue must have been the last muscle he could use and I suppose it was an involuntary reaction. By then he had gone entirely stiff with all his muscles contracted, and only his tongue and eyes were moving. He probably drank (not including spillage) about 1/4 cup of vinegar - this for a 10 pound dog - before we started to slow it down, as that's a lot of vinegar. Relative to size, that's like an adult person drinking a quart or so. Ugh! We also kept petting him, talking to him, stretching his limbs, and stimulating his paws and tail to try to get back sensation - I have no idea if this was useful or not.
After about 15 minutes with no apparent change I was trying to get him to take some egg white, as I read elsewhere, but with little luck. We still doubted whether he was going to make it. However, he slowly started moving his head to follow my daughter around, then stretched his front paws, and shortly stood back up and started staggering around again. Within a few more minutes, he was walking more normally but in circles, and a few minutes later was running around the house with his tail back out. He isn't quite himself yet an hour later, but we're hoping the remaining effects will wear off. It was a remarkable recovery after we'd assumed that we had lost him.
It sure seemed like the vinegar did it, unless the effects were wearing off on their own. Thanks for the recommendation!
(Sebring, Florida)
My Yorkshire Terrier got a Bufo Toad this morning - I had trouble getting it from him. I had to give him a piece of baked chicken which he grabbed and I grabbed that awful toad. I tried to flush his mouth out with water but only got a little when he had locked his jaws. I got an empty vitamin bottle dropper and tried rinsing his mouth with the dropper, sticking it in his mouth and wiping off the slime. I immediately shoved 1/2 Benadryl in his mouth. He did swallow it. I had called my vet. By this time he had gone into convulsions, had had bowel movements and was in a seizure. I held him, and prayed. The vet asked if I had any seizure medication - I had some of my own. Topamax Sprinkle caps. She heard him making sounds and said, give him a little of it - it can't hurt and it may save his life. So I pried open his jaws and sprinkled a tiny bit of the sprinkles in from the capsule. I sat and calmed him, massaging him and praying. Then when the convulsions had subsided I had to drive 45 minutes to get to an animal hospital. He was stiff and his eyes were fixed but the pupils were darting. They immediately put him on IV's, and did tests. His heart was okay. I don't know what all they did but my little dog survived. He is still at the hospital overnight to watch for seizure activity but when I visited him this afternoon he was alert, kissing me, stood up and walked some. It is a miracle and I honestly believe It was the prayer that saved him. He was dying. I wished I had known about the vinegar because honestly, trying to rinse water out of a dog's mouth who has been in contact with one of those toads is almost impossible.
(Sanford, Fl)
I had no idea about these frogs until couple of years ago, when one Saturday I had some family visiting me and I let the dogs out in the backyard for a little while. Later I brought them inside and one of my nieces got my attention because she was laughing at Mitzy (my shiba Inu mix). When I looked at her she was trying to stay on a sitting position but couldn't. After seeing her facial expression (Yes my dog has facial expressions, don't ask me how but she does!) I knew something wasn't right. So I told everybody I was sorry but I had to leave to the vet ASAP. I put her on my car and by this time she is foaming on her mouth and her face was like she was drunk and finally got her to the vet (And all I could think of is that she ate poison, even though I don't use poison around the house). She was put on IV and then I took her home, the vet never knew what caused this (They even suggested that she was epileptic!). About 2 or 3 weeks after the incident I was watering my plants and I noticed her going from pot to pot and all of the sudden she stop and backed away from this pot and when I looked there was a beige with brown spots, round frog. Eureka!! This is how I found out about buffo frogs. I thank God that my reaction was to run with her right away to the vet. I also thank God for having found this website; now I know what to do if it happens again. Thank you EC and everyone that take their time to write.
(Lake Worth, Fl)
I have a two year old male terrier I heard a story about a woman losing two terriers to Bufo Frog poisoning, I am always cautious when walking my dog at night going as far as to carry a flash light to spot the frogs before he does. We were on the patio and suddenly I found him having seizures, I too rinsed his mouth and prayed and cried as my neighbor tried to do the same, she then took us to the emergency Vet, they had to give hom 10mg of Diazepam, propfol and kept him over night on an IV to flush with fluid.
I almost lost him. I look out for the frogs when walking. What I didn't expect was the frog to be on my patio. Today when moving a table several tiny frogs hopped about and 1 had been mangled and chewed up this in the very spot my dog went into seizures. I now know not to leave food out and plan to put aluminum panels along the 18" base where the screen is lose.
(West Palm Beach, Us/fl)
My yorkshire terrier went after a bufo today. Same exact thing happened to him, the foaming, he lost balance, random bowel movements, and then seizures. Luckily for me, my wife called me when he started foaming, she wanted to wait it out because we had never heard of the bufo before. Once he lost his balance she grabbed him and jumped into the car, luckily for us an animal hospital is right down the block.
By the time we made it there he was having seizures. They immediately put him on an IV and gave him seizure medicine, he was also given oxygen through an oral tube since he couldn't breathe on his own. They ran blood tests to make sure his organs were still fully functional. His heart rate had nearly doubled compared to normal. Even now that he's stable the Dr.still won't say he's certain he'll live. They will let him come home tomorrow morning if everything goes well tonight. Like everyone else I was hysterical and praying. I have 3 dogs and they are my children, I love them more than anything and would give up everything I have to make sure they are okay, that is the responsibility I agreed to take on when I got my dogs and I'd do it any day. My vet bill is outrageous but my dog is still alive so it's worth it. I appreciate all the useful information people have posted, and I'm against killing any living thing, but in this case I rather kill a frog than lose one of my dogs. I now know that I have to keep my eyes on them at all times, I'm a New Yorker and was very unaware of such things like the bufo frog until today. I thank god my little boy is still alive, and pray that he'll come home tomorrow fully recovered.
(Boca Raton, Florida)
My dog has caught maybe 4 of these toads in the past year. We have reacted quickly to wash his mouth every time. The last time was the worst. He started walking around in circles and was dazed. We just rinsed his mouth and prayed. The vet was so far away too. Luckily, we removed the toxin and what he did ingest was not fatal. Well, My yard was swarming with the Bofu Toads or at least it used to be. I have taken drastic measures to make sure they stay OUT! One of my neighbors has a pond and another has a fountain. They breed in these "pools" and they even breed and hang out in the condensation created by AC units. I have put tons of stones where my AC pipes are and this prevents water from collecting so to speak. I also fenced in my yard and not my AC unit, so if they are by my AC they will stay there. Of course, fencing was not enough. I had to dig up a trench around my fence and put up chicken wire/grating by Tenax with the smallest holes all along my fence and gates. This has worked, but was painful at first since I trapped in some toads unknowingly and had to catch them, some had to be killed since it would turn into long sagas of chasing between bushes. The humane way to euthanize them is to freeze them, but that's just not always possible since catching them can be endless. I also reduced my garage and porch lights to 25 watts each, to not attract so many bugs. I keep my trash bin outside our fenced in area since these toads will go after any food. As far as I know, this has worked. A humane way to keep them out. When we go on our nightly walk, I keep my dogs on a tight leash. These toads are certainly killer toads to our pets. Beware and protect your yards. Do not leave your pets unattented. Do not!
(Naples, Florida)
Killing toads -- yes, it is nice to humane so I will use my .45 cal pistol -- instant death! The toads are not common here in Naples, yet but we have seen at least 2 in our yard in recent weeks - there is a small pond. Mt automatic dog watering pan is elevated about 6 inches. I will either raise it or move it inside the screened porch.
Thnx to all the contibutors -- I learned a lot that they did not teach us in medical school, but that is sll right since there are no Bufos in Zurich.
Someone please summarize all the treatment in a simple list - print it and- put you own Vet's name on it.
(Jupiter, Florida)
Bufo toads-BLEACH. WORKS. Spraying vinegar or bleach or anything else on them does Not. To kill these deadly poisonous toads either shoot them or catch them and put them in a bucket with bleach. They die instantly. Running over them with a golf cart, or even my car, did not kill them! Online it says they lay 30,000 eggs every other day. Killing one toad a week is not helping. So far there is not a suitable pesticide to rid us of these venomous creatures that were imported from Australia to Hawaii and South Florida to help the sugar cane owners rid their cane fields of their own pests to protect their profits. Problem is the toads took over and have become a (VERY DEADLY) pest to All of us. The sugarcane owners should be held responsible for this scourge. They should be held responsible to financially support science to find a 'cure' that will rid us of this deadly toad. This toad has the potential to eventually be in all warm weather states killing our pets. Similiar to the Lyme tick. The 'new' tick that was thought to only infect animals until it was finally discovered it infected humans. Who knew about this poisonous debilitating tick 25 yrs ago. Now it is rampant in Every single state, not just Lyme, Connecticut where it started. To try to rid our areas of as many toads as I can, I went to Wal-Mart and was in line purchasing a BB air gun. In line next to me were 7 others. They all were purchasing various guns. We looked at each other and all said almost at the same time... "Toads. " All 7 of us were trying to protect our pets from horrific, painful and drawn out death because sugar cane owners brought in these deadly creatures. Snakes, birds of prey like hawks, normal animals that might eat frogs, do not touch these toads. They somehow know better. Our house pets do not. My golden retreiver has touched( not even eaten) a toad with his nose and been poisoned. All 4 times I was right there with him. Once he was even on a leash. In the yard the toads look like a leaf or piece of bark. All 4 times the toads were very small-2-3 inches. (I have killed them bigger than my entire hand including my fingers). I put the hose sideways in his mouth and stood straddling him so I could force his head down. You do Not want any water to get into his lungs and get pneumonia. I rinsed his mouth and rub his gums, insides of cheeks, tongue with a wet rag many times also. I hosed him 15 minutes minimum each time. Then rushed to vet. One time I thought I got it all, only to find him foaming again in the car. Luckily the nightime vet clinic is nearby.
One day, hopefully in the very near future, we will get some big-time help from one of the chemical companies that have the funds to research a cure for this problem. It is already an epidemic in Australia and will be one here in South Florida soon.
I think a concerted move should be made by concerned citizens to our legislators to lobby the chemical companies for help to protect our pets.
My friends call me the 'toad vigilante'. So be it. Toads or my dogs? Toads are winning now. Let's end this war.
(Tampa, Florida)
My little black and white guy (Bichon/Poo) was barking at my bookcase today. At first, I thought nothing was there, then I saw it - a REALLY big toad. It was a lot bigger than my fist. I tried to catch it, but could not. After reading your information, I guess I'm glad I couldn't. Trouble is, it is still in my house... I keep listening for rustling noises. I hope I can get it out. The advise to throw a wet towel over it sounded like it might work if I see it again. Then I could call someone to come take it away. Thanks for all the good info, I will be on high alert from now on.
(Qld, Australia)
I can't say if the toads were exported from Australia as you're claiming, but I can tell you that they're not native here. They were introduced in the 1930's to attack cane borer beetles and are a despised plague in this country.
We certainly wouldn't export a problem like this. It's more likely that similar misguided fools to the ones who introduced them to Australia have taken them to Hawaii and Florida.
May those people rot in hell for their impetuousness and shortsightedness!
These horrible creatures are destroying our beautiful country.
It's not uncommon for me to go out onto the porch and see hundreds of these things just outside the door...on 10 acres we have literally thousands of them.
My dog is sick tonight from chewing on a dried corpse of one he found in the garden.
I pray he makes it through the night.
Sorry your dog is sick. Don't you mean cane toad? If this was my dog, I would call the vet and I would give vit c and charcoal tabs. I can't give you dosages as I don't know size of your dog. Wish you luck
P.S. Just an after thought, Chris. Put your dog on forever vit c, it won't hurt him and will definitely help him if it ever happens again.
(Naples, Fl)
I live in Glen Eagle, in Naples off of Davis Blvd . I finally hired a gentleman to catch the toads. He caught 100 of them in two hours . He picks them up by hand, puts them in an empty 5 gallon paint bucket with lid, them takes them away and freezes them before disposal. He is licensed by the state. The next week he only caught 65 of them. I think he has helped keep the numbers down . He charged $60 per hour, worth every penny . The association has now hired him as well. I can tell you Lely resort and Lakewood has them as well.
make sure you wear a glove and don't touch your face.
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September 7th, 2010 · 4 min read
While brainstorming ideas for my next iOS app, I come across the need to accept large text input on the iPhone. Given the small size of the screen, it's hard to fit a whole lot of UI controls while keeping the simplicity of the app. In this post, I visit different implementations of iPhone text inputs found in some of my frequently-used apps.
Let's get started with something really simple. Like, the built-in Notes app with a basic text view set in Marker Felt.
The official Facebook app uses the same full-scale text view for basic status update. Tapping on the Lock icon at the bottom right corner reveals the permission setings for the post.
Creating Notes requires both the post body and a title, hence the screen is divided up into 2 different areas, with a thin line to separate them. Notice there's no "Post body" placeholder in the text view.
By contrast, Instapaper explicitly devotes some pixels to display the "Description (optional)" text on its Sharing screen. The rationale behind this, I think, is that the description text is meant to be pre-populated from the selected text in the current article; therefore, a placeholder might not be displayed to instruct the user of what to enter in the text input.
What if the optional field is only meant for advanced users? In case of Simplenote, the tag input is hidden by default and the user has to explicitly look for it by sliding down the text input. That way casual users with only a handful of notes don't need to waste their precious screen space for something they don't use. The existence of this feature is only hinted by a thin line near the top of the text input, which may prove to be unintuitive for many.
Now let's take that up one notch: For many apps, a single extra button/text input just doesn't cut it. Apps like Icebird (Twitter client), Reeder (Google Reader client), Momento (diary writing app) and Trunk Notes (personal wiki utility) display a toolbar right above the keyboard to give access to all their goodies. Their use is straight-forward and doesn't require much explanation.
A horizontal toolbar isn't the only solution. If needed, the screen can be divided vertically as well. The official Tumblr app, formerly known as Tumblrette, provides an example of this.
Slicing up the UI like this has its obvious disadvantage. The text input size is strictly limited and makes it more suitable for writing a short post rather than a full-length blog entry.
The official Twitter app, formerly called Tweetie, offers an interesting way to access its advanced functionalities. Tapping the small button at the bottom right corner of the text input slides down the software keyboard and gives way to geotagging, image uploading, URL shrinking, etc. Or, leave alone, and you will have a nice character count. Other UI controls (e.g. geotagging status, attachment list) will only appear next to that button when appropriate.
Note that the user can also tap the title bar to select the Twitter account from which he wants the tweet to be posted. In case he is replying to someone's tweet, he can slide down the text input to read this particular tweet. The only complaint is that it might be hard to find out about those offering. I had been using the app daily for months without ever knowing about the latter feature, and would have continued like that if I haven't came across one particular tweet sharing this tip.
Unlike mentioned examples, sometimes the developers need to customise not the text input area, but the keyboard one. Soulver uses its toolbar to deliver different choices of the keyboard:
As a bonus, the user can use the first button to hide/show the software keyboard at will. Nice touch.
On the other hand, Wolfram offers a way to extend the keyboard, and page through different character maps. As powerful and convenient as it might be, the result is rather horrendous.
That's an extreme example.
Complexity and flexibility don't always mean messy screen and TaskPaper proves that. Simply adding or removing a space can change the nature of a particular line from a task to a sub-task, and the ways you can manipulate them (double tap to edit, swipe from right to left to cut/copy/paste/delete, swipe from left to right to mark/unmark as done, hold down and drag to move it to another place, etc) are amazing given the fact that what you see all the time is just a screenful of text.
If you've got any inspirational UI implementations that I haven't mentioned, or just something to contribute, feel free to let me know.


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ITC are proud sponsors of the Climb 2015
Independent Trustee Company is delighted to support the MyIBA annual charity event for the sixth consecutive year. Join MyIBA and fellow brokers, Insurance Industry professionals and friends and family on the 18th of July in Westport and climb Croagh Patrick. All monies raised will go towards Pieta House services, to aid in the awareness and prevention of self-harm or suicide.
Details of accommodation, the online donation page and registry links are available here.
No entry fee, no minimum amount to be raised - just turn up, climb and raise as much as you can for Pieta House.
Unable to attend?
If you are unable to attend but would like to help raise money for Pieta house, here is an idea that is simple and can be done without a foot placed on Croagh Patrick!
Below is a link to the formal sponsorship card for the Climb 2015! If all broker offices in Ireland were to encourage all staff to donate a minimum of €1 we would have raised roughly €5000 from this effort alone.
Simply print off the below sponsorship card, share around the office and return to Hazel Rock, 87 Merrion Square Dublin 2. Cheque or Electronic Transfer payment can also be made just give Hazel a call on 01 6613067.
It is guaranteed to be a great weekend so if you are interested in taking part, or donating to the cause, please register here.
Thank you in advance for helping us in our efforts to continue raising funds for those in need. Your support is greatly appreciated.
About the MyIBA Charity of choice 2015
Pieta House, the centre for the prevention of self-harm or suicide opened over nine years ago with Lucan in County Dublin the centre of operations. In the intervening years we have seen and helped nearly 17,000 people in suicidal distress or engaging in self-harm, and opened up seven subsequent centres, three in the greater Dublin area - Ballyfermot, Tallaght and Finglas and further centres to cater for the rest of the Country - Cork, Kerry, Limerick, Galway and Tipperary.
As it has been from day one, everything is free of charge and our staff are fully qualified and provide a professional one-to-one therapeutic service for people who are experiencing suicidal ideation, people who have attempted suicide and people who are engaging in self-harm. A doctor's referral or a psychiatric report is not required.
Our vision is to have a centre within 100km of every person in Ireland and we're well on our way to achieving this with plans in place to open three further centres in Donegal, Waterford and Westmeath. We're passionate about our life-saving work. As 90% of our income comes from fundraising events, we rely heavily on the support and encouragement of our volunteers and friends of Pieta.
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"Hey, watch this!"
Spring 1976, and the four of us were parked in Phil's Firebird when he took a mouthful of lighter fluid from his trusty BIC, flicked the sparkwheel and blew. The ensuing flame singed the car's visor – and his eyebrows – resulting in much stoned laughing and coughing and slapping at sparks. It was the same trick we'd seen Gene Simmons do the previous December at the Nassau Coliseum, when Simmons' band Kiss had been presented with its first gold record (for "Alive!"). America had entered its bicentennial year, and a million teens in a million parked cars and basements had enlisted in the Kiss Army to throw off the shackles of convention and commonsense to revel in the newfound freedom of rock 'n' roll.
It was Kiss' showmanship more than its music that made the face paint and costume wearing quartet a cultural force.
On Tuesday, the iconic rock band Kiss plays Florida to kick off the summer American leg of its "End of the Road" farewell tour, supposedly packing up all its pomp and pageantry with it. "Supposedly" because the band already did a farewell tour in 2000-01, and two of the original members (drummer Peter Criss and lead guitarist Ace Frehley) abandoned ship years ago. But it seems likely that the band that changed the look — if not the sound — of hard rock is on its last eight-inch-high platform-booted legs.
Indeed, it was Kiss' showmanship more than its music that made the face paint and costume wearing quartet a cultural force. That showmanship not only melded hard rock with the flamboyant presentation of glam, albeit in an exaggerated style, but also paved the way for punk — in part because it pushed arena rock to an unsustainable, ridiculous extreme that created space for the more authentic and rawer punk experience. And that makes it worth paying our respects to the band on its final tour.
That Kiss was a phenomenon is undeniable. Founded in January 1973 out of the ashes of bassist Simmons' and guitarist Paul Stanley's earlier band, Wicked Lester, the quartet began playing around the New York area with some success. But that March, with the adoption of the iconic comic book characters — Simmons as the "Demon," Stanley as "Star Child," Frehley as "Spaceman," and Criss as "Catman" — the band assumed the larger-than-life persona that would appeal to an even larger (and younger) audience.
That December, Simmons first tried his fire-breathing trick — reportedly setting his heavily Aqua-Netted hair on fire — and their reputation as showmen was cemented. In 1977, the band would even star in its own Marvel comic, the members contributing their own blood to the ink.
Between these theatrics and such anthems as "Rock and Roll All Nite" and "Shout It Out Loud," the band would go on to sell more than 100 million albums worldwide. Purveying hard-driving bar-band blues-rock to the kids, via songs like "Black Diamond," "Love Gun," and "Cold Gin," Kiss earned 30 RIAA-certified gold records, 14 platinum albums and three that have gone multiplatinum.
This music was always, at best, derivative. (The band even had a token ballad, "Beth," as was standard for hard rockers back then.) What fans might not have known was that the stagecraft was, too. By the early '70s, glam rockers such as the New York Dolls and Slade were already playing with costumes and sexuality in the cause of free expression, extending the explorations of earlier art-rockers like the Velvet Underground. But while bands like the Dolls used drag and campy onstage personalities to express the ultimate freedom of rock 'n' roll — freedom to craft your own sexuality, as well as your own identity — they had more of a cult following than mass appeal.
Even heavy metal was already becoming more theatrical by Kiss' day; Alice Cooper, which had begun as a psychedelic band, released its first album in 1969. Twisted Sister, which began playing out on Long Island at roughly the same time as Kiss, was also working up a stage act that included costume changes, pyrotechnics and makeup to support the bombast.
Still, no one else took it quite as far as Kiss. Nobody else wore kabuki makeup. Nobody else had made-up superhero characters. Ozzy wasn't biting the heads off bats (OK, one bat) until 1982, and by then, Kiss' Simmons had already spit gallons of (presumably fake) blood onto the stage. By virtue of its sheer outrageousness combined with the basic musical thrust of hard rock, Kiss brought the newer ideas of glam rock – of an identity that one could choose – to its widest, and perhaps youngest, audience yet.
In doing so, they paved the way for American punk by reconnecting rock 'n' roll with its rebellious teenage roots. After a decade of rock being built up as artistic and, arguably by the mid-70s, incredibly self-important, Kiss was fun. Surely the Ramones' 1976 debut, with its tongue-in-cheek horror story songs, grew from the same irreverence, while subsequent albums, with covers drawn by cartoonist John Holstrom, built on a similar sense of bratty mischief.
Kiss took that rebellious fun as as far as it could go. By the end of the '70s, the platforms were as high as they could be, the stunts as outrageous. The band already, intentionally, a caricature. When Criss and Frehley left in the early '80s, the founding duo tried to prolong the magic with new members. The band even took off its makeup in 1983 for the MTV launch of "Lick It Up," a play at being serious that didn't last. Despite a reunion of the full original lineup in 1996, Kiss' moment had passed.
As Kiss takes its valedictory lap, nostalgia for our youth as much as for the band itself will likely fill the seats.
Simmons, in particular, has by now turned off many of his former fans. Relying heavily on sexual shtick, he clearly annoyed Terry Gross, of NPR's "Fresh Air," during a 2002 interview promoting his memoir, "Kiss and Make-Up." (Among other comments, he tells her that if she is going to welcome him "with open arms, you're also going to have to welcome me with open legs.")
He was banned from Fox News "for life" in 2017, again promoting a book ("On Power") after making jokes about pedophiles, and in 2018, he was sued for sexual battery by an employee of his restaurant chain. Former bandmate Frehley has called Simmons out for his behavior, labeling him an "a--hole and a sex addict," making the chance of his dropping in for an appearance on the current tour exceedingly unlikely.
Perhaps it no longer matters. The band, which was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2014, made its mark 40 years ago, pushing boundaries in ways that felt revelatory to those of us just coming of age and opening our minds to all the music that would come after. As Kiss takes its valedictory lap, nostalgia for our youth as much as for the band itself will likely fill the seats. And when the band breaks into "Rock and Roll All Nite" – a good bar band song, by any measure – you know the years will burn off in our memories, at least, and we'll all sing along. Older, like the band is, but marked forever by those flames. (Phil most of all – he became a firefighter.)


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The trinity of fear
Trump knows what our most basic emotion is, and was able to play on it
Without meaning to, Barack Obama put his finger on the key to Donald Trump's electoral triumph, identifying along the way why Brexit won in the UK referendum and why the "no" vote triumphed in the plebiscite on the Colombian peace accord. Politicians of the world, take note.
Speaking in July this year, President Obama accused the now President-Elect Trump of stirring "fears that don't have a basis in fact." If Obama thought he was going to persuade Trump to abandon his one and only electoral strategy, he was mistaken. Trump is no sophisticate, but if there's one thing he understands – as do former Colombian president Álvaro Uribe, the chief driver of Colombia's "no" to peace, and Nigel Farage, Mr Brexit – it is this: fear is the most primary of the human impulses and the easiest to stir up; spreading fear through lies and then declaring oneself to be the one leader capable of extinguishing that fear, is the winning electoral formula in these times in which we live.
Trump is no sophisticate, but if there's one thing he understands it is this: fear is the most primary of the human impulses and the easiest to stir up
The unspoken premise has inevitably to be a lack of respect for the political intelligence of the audience one aspires to win over. People are easily manipulated. You cry wolf and they start running – straight into the arms of the self-appointed redeemer who sounded the false alarm in the first place.
What matters is to have a finger on the popular pulse; to be able to identify which particular wolf happens at any given time to be perceived as the most fearful threat.
For Trump and Farage, it was immigrants, those who purportedly spread crime, take our jobs, and threaten our way of life. It doesn't matter if the facts show otherwise. Such arguments convince not because of their substance, but because they appeal in a visceral way to people's hatred or rejection of "the other," of the unknown. In this case we are talking fear in its classic, xenophobic, racist or tribal variations.
Colombia's former president Uribe turned to another classic: communism. A far more talented populist than either Trump or Farage, Uribe pulled off the feat of convincing a narrow majority of his compatriots that voting for the peace accord would mean handing the country over to the "Castro-Chavista" guerrillas of the FARC. Despite the fact that the FARC are rejected by 90% of Colombians or more, the plebiscite's winning idea was that if they were allowed to participate in national politics, as the accord contemplated, they would win the next elections and communism would rule the land.
Hitler understood all this very well. In his case the enemy were the Jews. In today's Europe many are gaining political support by inciting fear against Muslims. Be warned. This is only the beginning.


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Silent Hills' P.T. Demo Available on PC Now
The sad story of P.T. has pushed various amateur developers to try to recover the game through re-elaborations to be distributed on PC, but this proposal by Qimsar appears decidedly impressive, both as fidelity to the original and to the characteristics of the project and the author.
P.T., for those who do not know, stands for "playable teaser", and was the playable teaser of the Silent Hills project, the new horror video game of Hideo Kojima in collaboration with Guillermo del Toro which was then canceled by Konami. Following the complete breakdown of the relationship between the developer and the publisher, P.T. was permanently deleted and its recovery, for those who did not download it at the time, was impossible. Therefore, projects of this kind are welcome, in the hope of course that they do not run into copyright issues.
This P.T. for PC by Qimsar is particularly faithful to the original, as evidenced by the gameplay video that we have published below: despite the game being an alpha version, the results achieved are very similar to those of the original. This is even more impressive if you think that the developer is 17 years old and claims to have accumulated only 6 hours of work experience with Unreal Engine before dedicating himself to this project, which at the moment has asked him about 140 hours of work. You can download the demo for free at this address on GameJolt.
Qimsar seems very convinced of wanting to complete the project and rebuild P.T. on PC in a total manner. In the event that it should be removed for copyright reasons, the developer also claims to want to "upload" it to anyone who wants to try it.


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For one vertical indoor organic grower, this year's United Fresh LIVE! is a chance to potentially reach a broader audience.
"We want to be able to talk to a wider span of people with this show," says Don Helms of Rockingham, VA-based That's Tasty. "It's new territory so we're looking at interesting and unique ways to interact with people."
The show, taking place this year June 15-19, gives That's Tasty a chance to share with participants how it differs from others in the marketplace. "We call our facilities BioFarms because unlike other indoor growers, we are USDA Certified Organic and grow in a soil medium" says Helms. "It's vertically growing in soil and it's different in that regard. It makes the plants heartier with better flavors and colors and shelf life is also improved."
Leafy options
That's Tasty will be part of the Controlled Environment Pavilion where it hopes to display its line of culinary herbs that are living plants and fresh cut as well as its leafy greens including large-leaf lettuce filets, cut-leaf iceberg, a red and green lettuce mix and more. The show is timed well in that these leafy greens, which are in limited distribution currently and grown in That's Tasty's Elkwood, VA BioFarm, will be moving into the next phase of distribution.
Helms says that while demand recently for herbs and leafy greens had been erratic due to the pandemic-related shift in the way consumers were buying food, it's more recently levelled out. "Overall, business is back on a similar track to where we were," he says.
In fact, the recent spike in home cooking that North Americans have taken to during the pandemic may be something for That's Tasty to tap into. "We think a lot of those behaviours are going to continue as people are more into cooking at home and being more adventurous with culinary creations involving fresh herbs and greens," says Helms.
For more information:
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Sources claim that Ashton Kutcher will announce his engagement to Mila Kunis as early as next week, once his divorce from Demi Moore becomes official.
It's been reported that the 35-year-old has been desperate to propose to the dark haired beauty, but he hasn't been able to due to two years of legal wrangling with ex-wife Demi.
A source told The Sun: "They're all happy and the papers are signed and with the lawyers now, so Ashton's free to officially propose to Mila.
"Both of them want to marry and have children."
Demi and Ashton have been locked in bitter divorce and spousal negotiations since their split, but now things seem to be finally reaching a resolution.
Friends of Ashton say that once everything is done and dusted, the Two and a Half Men star will most definitely want to put a ring on 30-year-old Mila's finger as soon as possible.
Mila was reportedly feeling very frustrated of their two-year lengthy divorce proceedings, which were said to be due to Demi allegedly seeking a large settlement, despite claims that she is worth $94 million.
In order to finally end their legal battle, reportedly Ashton agreed to part with a large chunk of his own multi-million dollar fortune, as well as shares in his tech businesses.
Additionally Demi is said to have backed down slightly over her demands, after a soul-searching trip to India and taking up yoga and meditation.
An insider admitted: "Demi and Ashton's divorce has cast a cloud over his and Mila's relationship because it's dragged on for so long.
"Thankfully Demi's turned a corner. She's no longer bitter and she wants the divorce over and done with as soon as possible so she can get on with her life too.
"She's agreed to a settlement of several million and some shares in Ashton's various technology start-ups after he persuaded her to attend a tech conference with him to see for herself how much they'll eventually be worth."
Following her split with Ashton amid rumours of his infidelity, the 50-year-old Hollywood actress appeared to go off the rails and was even hospitalised and sent to rehab for undisclosed reasons.
Currently Ashton is filming in China, but sources say that he's planning to whisk the Black Swan star away to Hawaii to pop the question as soon as he is able.
Previously the pair's That '70s Show co-star Laura Prepon revealed this summer that she's going to be a bridesmaid, adding: "They're totally going to marry, we just don't know when."
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North Korea 6.3 Earthquake Caused by Hydrogen Bomb Test
SEOUL — A shallow magnitude 6.3 earthquake shook North Korea on Sunday, suggesting it had detonated its sixth and most powerful nuclear test device, hours after Pyongyang said it had developed an advanced hydrogen bomb that possesses "great destructive power."
The earthquake, which Japan said was a nuclear test, struck 45 miles (75 km) north northwest of Kimchaek, where previous tests have been conducted. Such a move would be a direct challenge to U.S. President Donald Trump, who hours earlier had talked by phone with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe about the "escalating" nuclear crisis in the region.
The 6.3 magnitude recorded by the U.S. Geological Survey would represent North Korea's most powerful detonation yet, which one expert said could support its claims to have developed a hydrogen bomb.
"The power is 10 or 20 times or even more than previous ones," Said Kune Y. Suh, a nuclear engineering professor at Seoul National University. "That scale is to the level where anyone can say a hydrogen bomb test."
A U.S. official who studies North Korea's military and politics said that seismic data on the tremors was being analyzed, although the location suggested another nuclear test.
The official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said it was too early to determine if a test, if there was one, supported the North's claim that has succeeded in developing a thermonuclear weapon, "much less one that could be mounted on an ICBM and re-enter Earth's atmosphere without burning up."
The hydrogen bomb report by North Korea's official KCNA news agency comes amid heightened regional tension following Pyongyang's two tests of intercontinental ballistic missiles in July that potentially could fly about 6,200 miles (10,000 km), putting many parts of the mainland United States within range.
Under third-generation leader Kim Jong Un, North Korea has been pursuing a nuclear device small and light enough to fit on a long-range ballistic missile, without affecting its range and making it capable of surviving re-entry into the Earth's atmosphere.
Witnesses in the Chinese city of Yanji, on the border with North Korea, said they felt a tremor that lasted roughly 10 seconds, followed by an aftershock. China said it had detected a second, 4.6 magnitude quake with near identical coordinates eight minutes later.
"I was eating brunch just over the border here in Yanji when we felt the whole building shake," Michael Spavor, director of the Paektu Cultural Exchange, which promotes business and cultural ties with North Korea. "It lasted for about five seconds. The city air raid sirens started going off."
South Korea's military said the first earthquake "appeared to be manmade". A meeting of Seoul's National Security Council has been convened, national news agency Yonhap reported.
Japan said it had concluded there was a nuclear test.
"North Korea's mission is quite clear when it comes to this latest atomic test: to develop a nuclear arsenal that can strike all of Asia and the U.S. homeland," Harry Kazianis, director of defense studies at the conservative Center for the National Interest in Washington, said.
"This test is just another step towards such a goal. None of us should be shocked by Pyongyang's latest actions."
Earthquakes triggered by North Korean nuclear tests have gradually increased in magnitude since Pyongyang's first test in 2006, indicating the isolated country is steadily improving the destructive power of its nuclear technology.
After the fifth nuclear test in September, the U.S. Geological Survey measured a magnitude of 5.3. while South Korean monitors said the blast caused a 5.0 magnitude earthquake.
North Korea, which carries out its nuclear and missile programs in defiance of UN Security Council resolutions and sanctions, "recently succeeded" in making a more advanced hydrogen bomb that will be loaded on to an ICBM, KCNA said.
"The H-bomb, the explosive power of which is adjustable from tens kiloton to hundreds kiloton, is a multi-functional thermonuclear nuke with great destructive power," KCNA said.
"All components of the H-bomb were homemade and all the processes ... were put on the Juche basis, thus enabling the country to produce powerful nuclear weapons as many as it wants," KCNA quoted Kim as saying.
Juche is North Korea's homegrown ideology of self-reliance that is a mix of Marxism and extreme nationalism preached by state founder Kim Il Sung, the current leader's grandfather. It says its weapons programs are needed to counter U.S. aggression.
North Korea offered no evidence for its latest claim, and Kim Dong-yub, a military expert at Kyungnam University's Institute of Far Eastern Studies in Seoul, was skeptical.
"Referring to tens to hundreds of kilotons, it doesn't appear to be talking about a fully fledged H-bomb. It's more likely a boosted nuclear device," Kim said, referring to an atomic bomb which uses some hydrogen isotopes to boost explosive yield.
A hydrogen bomb can achieve thousands of kilotons of explosive yield — massively more powerful than some 10 to 15 kilotons that North Korea's last nuclear test in September was estimated to have produced, similar to the bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, in 1945.
Kim Jong Un, who visited the country's nuclear weapons institute, "watched an H-bomb to be loaded into new ICBM" and "set forth tasks to be fulfilled in the research into nukes," KCNA said.
Pictures released by the agency showed Kim inspecting a silver-colored, hourglass-shaped warhead in the visit accompanied by nuclear scientists.
The shape shows a marked difference from pictures of the ball-shaped device North Korea released in March last year, and appears to indicate the appearance of a two-stage thermonuclear weapon, or a hydrogen bomb, said Lee Choon-geun, senior research fellow at state-run Science and Technology Policy Institute.
"The pictures show a more complete form of a possible hydrogen bomb, with a primary fission bomb and a secondary fusion stage connected together in an hourglass shape," Lee said.
Tensions on the Korean peninsula have been high since last month when North Korea threatened to launch missiles into the sea near the strategically located U.S. Pacific territory of Guam after Trump said Pyongyang would face "fire and fury" if it threatened the United States.
North Korea further raised regional tensions on Tuesday by launching an intermediate-range ballistic missile over Japan, drawing international condemnation.
Trump and Abe spoke by phone and said that in face of an "escalating" situation with North Korea that close cooperation between their countries and with South Korea was needed, Abe told reporters.
The United States has repeatedly urged China, the North's sole major ally, to do more to rein in its neighbor.
Impoverished North Korea and the rich, democratic South are technically still at war because their 1950–'53 conflict ended in a truce, not a peace treaty. The North regularly threatens to destroy the South and its main ally, the United States.
Additional reporting by Elaine Lies and Kiyoshi Takenaka in Tokyo, Jane Chung and Yuna Park in Seoul, Sue-Lin Wong in Yanji and Steve Holland in Washington; Writing by Nick Macfie and Alex Richardson; Editing by Will Dunham, Nick Macfie and Himani Sarkar


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Last Updated on September 16, 2022
So you are planning on flying with tools and unsure what you can pack and where. This is the post for you!
Hand tools can be packed in carry-on and checked luggage, but there are size limits for hand luggage and restrictions on anything with blades.
And if you want to travel with power tools you'll probably end up paying baggage fees.
Let's take a look at the rules about bringing tools on planes.
TSA Tools Regulations
The Transportation Security Administration is responsible for aviation safety. If you want to bring your tool on a plane you'll need to get it past their security checkpoint at the airport.
TSA prohibited tools are those items that the TSA views as a potential threat to passenger safety.
TSA approved tools are those items that the TSA doesn't see as a threat.
Here's what they say on their website.
Bringing Tools In Checked Luggage
You can pack almost all tools in checked bags. If you are bringing power tools any spare or loose lithium-ion batteries cannot be packed in checked baggage and much be packed in carry-on bags.
If a power tool has an installed lithium-ion battery you can pack that in checked luggage. It"s only uninstalled batteries that are prohibited.
If your tools have any sharp edges then make sure they are securely wrapped to avoid injury to baggage handlers.
Gas powered tools can be packed in checked bags too. However, if they contain any residue or vapors of gas/oil, they would be considered a hazardous material & prohibited from being transported on the airplane. Even brand new tools can have residues because they are tested before sale. Check with your airline about bringing any gas powered tool in hold luggage.
Bringing Tools In Carry-on Luggage
You cannot bring power tools in carry-on luggage. Fans of the horror movie genre will understand why. Power tools can be used as weapons and that's why they are not allowed in carry-on bags.
You also can't bring any sharp objects or blades into the airplane cabin.
Regular hand tools must be shorter than 7 inches. This is because longer heavier tools could be used to knock someone over the head. Hammers or knives of any size are not allowed in hand luggage.
The final decision of whether an item is allowed or not is always taken by the security screening officer at the checkpoint. Regardless of what the rules say.
Still Unsure? Ask The TSA
You can use the @AskTSA service on Twitter to ask questions about specific hand tools or power tools.
Send them a photo and they'll get back to you with packing instructions.
Sean wanted to bring a mallet and the TSA told him that hammers can only be packed in checked bags.
This passenger wanted to bring a wrench set in carry-on luggage. The TSA replied that any wrench that is longer than 7 inches can only be packed in checked baggage.
This traveler wanted to bring a multi tip screwdriver in checked luggage. The body was under 7 inches but when fully assembled it would be over 7 inches meaning that strictly speaking it shouldn't be packed in hand luggage.
You can only bring screwdrivers that are less than 7 inches in length when assembled.
This guy thought he'd be able to bring a 6.8 inch rechargable electric screwdriver in hand luggage. The TSA replied that because it's a power tool it's banned from the cabin. All power tools are prohibited regardless of size.
Even though they are a little bit dangerous the TSA allows small screwdrivers that are less than 7 inches long. However the final decision is always taken by the security officer that inspects your belongings.
When flying with cordless drills they must be packed in checked bags. You can check it with the battery installed, but any loose or spare batteries must be packed in carry on baggage.
Kevin wanted to bring fishing pliers that had a small knife blade in each handle.
Pliers that are less than 7 inches are permitted on planes and allowed in carry on baggage. But any tool with a knife is not permitted in hand luggage so Kevin would need to pack his fishing tool in checked luggage.
There's always a quirk to the rules somewhere. A tape measure is a tool and it's longer than 7 inches when fully extended. Thankfully the TSA are sensible enough to let you pack a tape measure in your carry on bag.
Dixie wanted to bring a large metal clamp on to the plane. The TSA said that the 7 inches rule applied. Large heavy clamps must be packed in your checked bags because you could use them as a bludgeon.
Sometimes you can't get a straight answer. Max asked about packing pruning shears, the TSA said that while they were not banned they recommended packing them in checked luggage because the final decision rests with the TSA officer on the ground.
Katy wanted to pack a nail gun in carry-on luggage. Nail guns must be packed in checked bags.
Also, as Alan discovered, you can't bring a shovel in carry-on baggage. If you want to find out why watch the film Psycho 2 🙂
Charles thought he might bring a friggin' chainsaw on a flight!
These types of power tools can only be packed in checked bags. They must be free of fuel or traces of fuel.
Shirley wanted to bring sewing tools in her hand luggage. Needles are good to go in carry-on bags. With scissors it's all about the length of the blade. The blade can't be longer than 4 inches from the pivot point.
You can bring an empty toolbox in hand luggage and hold luggage. The TSA doesn't see the tool box as the danger. Just sometimes specific tools inside. Make sure any large toolbox complies with your airine size limits.
The Verdict
When packing tools for travel it all comes down to whether the tool is a potential weapon or not.
Anything with a blade or anything heavy that you can swing won't be allowed to be brought on to the plane.
Power tools like a drill can't be packed in hand luggage too. This way passengers can't use an angle grinder to make extra legroom for themselves.
Most tools can be packed in checked bags but remember not to pack any spare batteries for power tools in checked bags because of the fire hazard.
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