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New Product Release: SnackGuard WireX Communications, Inc., 1 Apr 2002 [This arrived too late for the April Fool's Issue, but better late than never? (Or better never than later?) PGN] WireX is pleased to announce the latest addition to the Immunix family of security tools: SnackGuard. SnackGuard effectively guards your favorite snacks in the break room from "snack smashing" attacks: the predations of other hungry engineers. This protection is especially vital in these trying times of unemployment, when nomadic tribes of hunter/gatherer geeks roam the halls of once mighty dot.com's in search of food and caffeine. Following on StackGuard's "canary" defense, SnackGuard employs WireX's patent-pending "turkey" defense: when SnackGuard detects the "gobbling" noise of some turkey scarfing down your favorite pop tarts and heavily caffeinated beverages, it issues a pink slip, halting the gobbler. While SnackGuard is effective in defending your snacks, it is not without costs. SnackGuard increases run time when you are running to catch the bus or the elevator, in that successful defense of your snacks tends to increase "programmer's butt". Excessive consumption of caffeinated beverages without intervening bathroom breaks may also induce personal "buffer overflows". While SnackGuard is "free speech", it is not "free beer": you may modify and distribute this gag as you wish, but go buy your own brewskis. Crispin Cowan, Ph.D., Chief Scientist, WireX Communications, Inc. http://wirex.com Security Hardened Linux Distribution http://immunix.org
In this year's April Fool edition, RISKS-22.01, our fearless moderator reprinted that old item that purports to be from the auto industry: if we made cars like computers, we'd always be crashing, rebooting, upgrading, ... In particular, item 10 stated: 10. You'd have to press the "Start" button to turn the engine off. Just because it's funny doesn't mean it's not real. The automobile industry is copying all the worst features of the computer industry, ignoring all the advances in user-interface design, and all the lessons about safety. I fear that someone in the industry a few years ago missed the significance of the date "April 1" in the United states. They took it seriously. I point your attention to the new BMW Series 7 automobile. The key is simply a personal identifier that instructs the car to adjust the seat, mirrors, steering column, etc. to the key owner's preferences. To start the engine, push the "Start" button. To turn the engine off? Push the same "Start" button. That takes care of Pont number 10 in the "joke." (To be fair, the button is actually labeled START STOP, but then again, so too should the MS Windows button.) But it gets worse. The New 7 series BMW no longer has all those knobs and buttons that clutter up the dashboard - you know, where each knob does one thing that you can count on. Instead, it has a single controller located on the center console that "functions similarly to a computer mouse." It drives a display in the center of the dashboard. It is called the iDrive: i for "intuitive") (Don't get me started on intuitive. You know what's intuitive? Fear of heights. Everything else we call intuitive, such as walking or using a pencil took years of practice. Is that what we want? A control that takes years of practice?) The iDrive plus display, says the sales brochure, is a "user-friendly interface (that) offers quick access to over 700 settings, plus navigations system maps, phone book listings, and more" One control, one display — 700 settings? What were they thinking? As USA Today put it: "it manages to complicate simple functions beyond belief." Auto review said "iDrive is not simple, no matter how clean it looks to the naked eye. ... Our advice ... Is to ... retain basic manual controls for functions that are used every day.") I work in the field of usability and safely. I am appalled. I do, however, have to keep an open mind. After all, I have not tested it. I did sit in the front seat in a showroom, but with everything turned off. I should drive it down the highway — or better, a crowded city street - and test the iDrive. Set a new radio station, check the directions to my destination, see how much fuel I have left, adjust the temperature of the interior — things I might actually do while driving. Only then can I pass judgment. Until then, I'm simply delighted that I am not planning to buy one. Alas, BMW promises that the features will migrate downward to all their autos. Beware of April Fool jokes: they may come back to haunt you. Don Norman, Computer Science, Northwestern University Nielsen Norman Group email@example.com http://www.jnd.org
>6. The oil, water temperature, and alternator warning lights would all be >replaced by a single "General Protection Fault" warning light. It's labeled "Check Engine". But opening the engine compartment and checking ("Yup, still there.") accomplishes little; instead you need to read some diagnostic code by plugging in a debugger that was not furnished when you bought the car.
Quite a few people have apparently gone to Amazon.com to order "Hacking For Dummies" — a bogus (i.e., nonexistent) book reviewed by Rob Slade in RISKS-22.01. Perhaps, not surprisingly, the ISBN bears a strange resemblance to the ISBN for "S*x for Dummies". We have to call a Slade a Slade. Perhaps his review was too subtle? Perhaps your fearless moderator needs to be more obvious in highlighting April Fools' items, besides putting it up front in the issue rather than buried in its usual end-of-the-issue position? Aw, come on! April Fool's Day is seemingly a worldwide tradition, and that's part of the fun.
As reported on 1 Apr 2002, http://news.com.com/2100-1023-873181.html Brilliant Digital has been distributing 2 programs with KaZaA [1], one of which allows 3D, animated banner adds (ala Flash for 3D), and the second being the framework for what can only be described as a "leech" peer to peer network: using unused bandwidth, storage, and processor cycles on client machines to do tasks like banner advertisement serving, distributed computation, and distributed storage. The second program is not complete, but is basically a Trojan which can be woken up to create this network. Being on April 1st, it smelled like an April Fool's prank, just far enough out to be believable, but not quite right. Unfortunately, this isn't a hoax, but is 100% true. Firstly, an e-mail with the reporter confirms that this was based on an interview with the CEO (possibly a point of fraud) and the SEC filings (annual report, form 10KSB). One could believe that the reporter was hoaxed by the CEO, but the SEC filings are presumed to be accurate in such matters. Reading the SEC filings http://biz.yahoo.com/e/020401/bde.html confirms that this is what they are doing and HAVE been doing: the Trojan has been and continues to be distributed as part of KaZaA "third party" software, and they plan on creating a distributed, secure, network for distributed storage, bandwidth, and computation using this Trojan. And by installing the 3rd party software, KaZaA users have already agreed to these terms and conditions. What are the RISKS, let me count the ways: 1) Serious news being released on 1 Apr. This is actually a pretty BIG deal: this story should have real legs, the implications are pretty astounding. But apart from being posted on slashdot (and being largely dismissed as April 1st), and being mirrored on MSN, it doesn't seem to have spread beyond that. 2) Trojans being "legitimately" installed as part of various applications. And if this forms a distributed network upon activation, this is another huge security risk. [2] 3) That some company thinks it can do "secure" content delivery using untrusted clients (not just untrusted, but rater hostilly acquired). Secure storage is reasonable (encrypt everything, distributed copies) but still hard. Secure distributed computation is very hard (an open research area, outside some very select problems), and secure distribution of bandwidth (say, for add serving) is a total crack-pipe dream. 4) The unwavering acceptance of license agreements on the part of users (who are so conditioned to click "OK"). [1] KaZaA's business model is "we give the program free, but charge people to bundle mandatory/voluntary programs with our download". [2] Peer To Peer networks are hideously vulnerable to both active worms (which can spread quickly using the inherent topology) and contagion worms (which masquerade as "normal" traffic). Be Afraid. Be Very Afraid. Nicholas C. Weaver <email@example.com>
Subject: IRS Form W-9095" — that is NOT ISSUED by the Gov't Given the source of who sent this to me this is almost certainly legit. Just be aware. Adam. - --------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 17:52:30 -0500 Subject: "IRS Form W-9095" - that is NOT ISSUED by the Gov't FYI.... I personally know the person who posted this information and she does work for the USSS. I have not seen the document yet so if you have any questions direct them to Jean Dugger directly. -----Original Message----- Sent: Thursday, March 28, 2002 3:57 PM To: firstname.lastname@example.com Subject: "IRS Form W-9095" - that is NOT ISSUED by the Gov't To - ALL METRO TECH MEMBERS (PARTICULAR INTEREST - BANK SECURITY) Fm - Jean Dugger, U S Secret Service SUBJ - IRS Form - not from the Government.... Just when you think you've heard it all....you find out you haven't!! Today, we were notified by a bank security good friend of the USSS that a form "W-9095" is circulating - which was accompanied by a letter, looking much like an official letterhead of the bank, requesting their customer to complete the form and fax it back to phone #914-470-9245. I'm sure you'll be surprised to learn that the form requested all kinds of personal identifier information - ie, name, DOB, SSN, address, phone, parents' names and mother's maiden name - just about everything you would need to set up shop doing identity fraud!! Luckily, a customer of the bank brought the form into a branch, to turn it in, and bank security was alerted. The form, called an "Application Form For Certificate Status/Ownership For Withholding Tax", is quite a work of art - and I feel sure that it has been widely distributed - my concern is that it could be VERY widespread - perhaps by some former employee(s) who could gain access to bank customer records base - and send out such a thing! The form, official looking as it is, claims to be a "Department of the Treasury Internal Revenue Service" form - which it is NOT. I have forwarded this info to IRS Internal investigations to see if they would take a look at it. I will bring copies to share at MetroPol Fraud next week! My thought is that someone worked way too hard on this form to limit it's distribution to even one bank's customers! BE AWARE! The bank letter is signed "Monique Meeuws" - and smells a lot like a "419" letter scam!! Please notify the U S Secret Service - me or Chad Laub, 404-331-6111, if you identify these forms circulating to your customers!! For the info of credit union organizations - please feel free to post this message on your systems as well. We are looking into this and trying to develop more information. Please call me if you have info. More details to follow! Jean, USSS
Authorities are trying to restore order at a maximum security jail after an electrical storm led to the failure of cell locks. <http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/-/hi/english/uk/scotland/newsid_1910000/1910131.stm> A lightning strike destroyed an electricity sub-station supplying power to Shotts prison in Central Scotland, and the cell locks defaulted to what should be the fail-safe for electronic door locks - open. However should that be the case in a prison? Luckily for us who live close by the main prison security is still mechanical. The risks - fail-safe modes must be carefully designed for the system application: don't rely on the component default fail-safe mode.
Barclays BACS payment system failed last week, and a large number of people did not get their pay check in their bank account. Normally this would not be a huge problem, but because it is Easter and so has two bank holidays leading up to the last day of the month it is a huge disaster. I don't know the details of the software problem at all, but arrangements were made with banks to extend credit and Barclay's said they would pay any bank charges that anyone incurred because of not being paid. I am astonished that Pete Mellor hasn't sent you details. If you have a look on any of the UK newspapre sites for last week you will find something about it.
Razor burn: Runaway popularity of Gillette's Mach3 creates a sales bonanza for thieves Gillette is taking steps to stem the flow of stolen Mach3 products. Perhaps the most important, Szynal said, is a pioneering antitheft technology consortium at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology sponsored by Gillette, Procter and Gamble, and other large consumer-products companies. The MIT scientists are developing a microchip that, once embedded in the packaging of the Mach3 and other products, would allow the product to be tracked from factory to warehouse to retailer and everywhere in between. The chip, which began a one-year field test in Oklahoma in October, will allow Gillette security officials to scan products for sale at a flea market and determine where they came from. [Excerpt] http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/089/business/Razor_burn+.shtml
Yahoo has apparently made a sneaky change to the "Marketing Preferences" of all subscribers to mailing lists on yahoogroups.com, changing all their "No's" to "Yes". The result will be not only a load of spam, but also junk mail and even junk phone calls if your address or phone number are on file with Yahoo. To change them back: Go to Yahoo Groups (http://groups.yahoo.com) and sign in. Go to My Groups and click on Account Info, verify your password if it asks you to, and your Yahoo ID card comes up. Click on 'Edit your Marketing Preferences' and change all those Yes's back to No's. Click Save Changes.
Yahoo users fume over "spam" switch, By Jim Hu, CNET News.com, 29 Mar 2002 Some Yahoo members on Friday reacted angrily to changes in the Web portal's e-mail marketing practices, comparing the company's revised policy to an open invitation to spam. "I never received any notification about this from Yahoo," one annoyed reader wrote in an e-mail to CNET News.com. "I was merely lucky enough to have a friend warn me about it." The ire stems from changes in Yahoo's "marketing preferences" page, which the company uses to secure permission to send service promotions. Along with other changes to the page, Yahoo said it had reset the default preferences for all members in a way that would require them to manually request that the company block the messages in the future--even if they had declined to accept such e-mail in the past. ... http://news.com.com/2100-1023-871730.html
> ... this computer was not connected with the computers at... Swanwick ATC > ["connected with" is of course ambiguous in this context. PGN-ed] The failing system was the National Airspace System, NAS, according to press reports. This provides Flight Data Processing for Swanwick. "Connected to", rather than "connected with"? Martyn Thomas, Holly Lawn, Prospect Place, Bath BA2 4QP 01225 335649
(Mellor, RISKS-21.98) And since then they have announced that they weren't calculating it correctly (an algorithm error, as opposed to a software glitch) and that it is in fact salmon. I think its safe to say that these guys really have no idea what color the universe is. Looks mostly black to me, maybe I'm looking in the wrong direction :) Douglas Siebert email@example.com
The current discussion on Spelling/Grammar prompts me to add some comments from my personal, first-hand perspective on the issue. I was the original developer of one of the first successful commercial grammar checkers - Grammatik. The major development of grammar checkers was at its peak in the late 1980's and early 1990's. One of the most distressing things to me is the fact that the quality of both spelling and grammar checking software available today is no better than it was almost 10 years ago. How did this happen? It may be hard to remember, but as recently as 1993 or 1994, you still had a real choice of what word processor you used. Today, Microsoft has a virtual monopoly with Word. In 1992, Microsoft decided that the state of grammar checking had gotten both good and essential enough that one should be integrated with Word. This decision has had many effects on the state of grammar checking. In 1992, there were at least four grammar checkers available that could be considered state of the art, or nearly so. Microsoft chose one, and WordPerfect followed their lead by acquiring my company. The other companies faded into oblivion, with the ultimate result that, after a couple of years, there was no major new R&D going on with English grammar checking (to the best of my knowledge). Because of this chain of events, the grammar checker you get today in Word is not significantly better than the grammar checker you might have used almost 10 years ago. This is really sad because we were making great improvements in the quality and accuracy of the software, and had the development continued, there is little doubt that many of deficiencies of grammar checking would have been overcome. Unfortunately, as long as Microsoft considers the current grammar checking good enough, and as long as Word remains the dominant word processor, there will be little or no incentive for anyone to independently develop better grammar checkers. The RISK in this? Monopoly and complacency. (This note has been spell checked, but not grammar checked. No grammar checking available for my e-mail software...) Bruce E. Wampler, Ph.D., Author of the V C++ GUI Framework email@example.com http://www.objectcentral.com
> Does this not have direct precedence with snail mail? I am imagining CD > clubs here. You can't be legally obligated by anything that you receive in > the mail and just throw away. However, at least in the US it took legislation to establish the principle that receipt of unsolicited merchandise incurs no obligation on the recipient. I think this occurred roughly 40 years ago, but I don't have a reference and a quick search on "unsolicited merchandise" makes it apparent that there are now many relevant laws. Before such legislation was enacted, some merchants sent merchandise unsolicited and then dunned the unwilling recipients for payment unless they paid for return shipping. I don't know whether such merchants could actually collect in the face of determined opposition, but in most cases the individual recipient simply didn't have the resources to contest the bill. If there's a lesson to be learned from the parallel between snail mail and e-mail, it's that individuals often need to be empowered by legislation to effectively resist commercial abuse.
BKCMPFRN.RVW 20020221 "Computer Forensics", Warren G. Kruse II/Jay G. Heiser, 2001, 0-201-70719-5, U$39.99/C$59.95 %A Warren G. Kruse II email@example.com %A Jay G. Heiser %C P.O. Box 520, 26 Prince Andrew Place, Don Mills, Ontario M3C 2T8 %D 2002 %G 0-201-70719-5 %I Addison-Wesley Publishing Co. %O U$39.99/C$59.95 416-447-5101 fax: 416-443-0948 email@example.com %P 392 p. %T "Computer Forensics: Incident Response Essentials" I'm still disappointed that authors seem to think computer forensics is limited to data recovery, but this work at least has utility value going for it. Chapter one is a rough outline of data recovery, with an emphasis on documentation and the chain of evidence. Basic information about IP addressing, for the purpose of tracing intruders, is given in chapter two: it is useful and does not drown the reader in inconsequential details. (There is an oddly vitriolic dismissal of the story of the origin of the term for Packet INternet Groper.) A valuable discussion of e-mail headers, and a very terse outline of intrusion detection systems (IDS) are also included. Hard drive basics and concepts are given in chapter three. The material is generally good, but some points on imaging and connecting are passed over rather quickly. Chapter four has a reasonable high-level overview of encryption abstractions, but it is difficult to see the immediate relevance of the material to forensics. "Data Hiding," chapter five, contains some meandering topics that range from password cracking to NTFS (NT File System) streams to steganography. A few tools for dealing with these problems are listed. The description of hostile code, in chapter six, matches that of weeds in gardening: anything you don't want. It is, therefore, unsurprising to find that the content, while basically sound, is not particularly structured or helpful. A list of software (and some hardware) tools are described in chapter seven. Chapter eight explains a number of points about the Windows operating system that might affect data recovery and forensics. (The material discussed is not, unfortunately, exhaustive, although it is very useful as far as it goes.) The introduction to UNIX, in chapter nine, is more structured and detailed, although it examines fewer specific tools. Chapter ten's general overview of an attack on a UNIX system is fairly standard, although there is a useful table of commonly compromised system utilities. A wide variety of tools and commands for collecting information from and about UNIX systems is given briefly in chapter eleven. Chapter twelve is a short introduction to general concepts in the (US) law enforcement system. The last chapter is a rather abrupt finish to the book. There are seven appendices, the most useful of which is a handy point form overview of incident response activities. Computer forensics books are starting to come out of the woodwork, and most offer such sage advice as "gather evidence" and "don't mess up the chain of custody." This book does tend to follow the same style and tone, but also has very valuable tips for practical work. It won't help you much in analysis, but it will help you become better at collecting data that will stand up in court. copyright Robert M. Slade, 2002 BKCMPFRN.RVW 20020221 email@example.com email@example.com email@example.com email@example.com http://victoria.tc.ca/techrev or http://sun.soci.niu.edu/~rslade
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Every guy in Bangkok needs to know these shoeshine specialists
For guys who wear real leather, there are still a few spots around town where you can get a good shoeshine.
1/F, Emporium, 622 Sukhumvit Rd., 061-1624-663. BTS Phrom Phong. Open daily 10am-10pm
4/F, Central Embassy, 1031 Phloen Chit Rd., 02-160-5755. BTS Phloen Chit. Open daily 10am-10pm
Founded in 2009, this Thai brand came about as way of picking up the slack in Thai menswear and has become much of an icon ever since. Besides a large range of classic gentleman-style shoes, they offer 15-minute quick shines (B200) and 45-60 minute premium shines (B400) which incorporate French brand Saphir cleaning products use alongside horsehair brushes. Services are available at J Avenue (Thonglor) and Siam Square branches only.
J Avenue, Thonglor Soi 15, 02-712-5529. Open daily 12pm-9pm. BTS Thonglor
Siam Square Soi 2, 02-252-5945. Open daily 12pm-9pm. BTS Siam
Cuts, perms and hair colouring aren't the only things on offer at the well-hidden Smile Club barber. Here, there's a choice of express, express premium or premium shines for your sneakers (from B250), loafers (from B350) and wingtips (from B450). Boots sit at B850 and are only applicable for the premium shine, which uses high-quality Saphir polish.
3/F, Siam Square One (inside Plearnwan Panich), Rama 1 Rd., 085-999-6615. Open daily 11:30am-7pm. BTS Siam
Selektiv offers a 1-2 day drop-off and pick-up shoe service at both of their branches. On the menu are oil tan, calfskin/water buffalo and chromexcel and horsehide shines, all of which are available in the standard service at B350 or premium service at B550. The more high-end cordovan shine costs B650, while shell cordovan premium, exotic and textured leather (skin) and suede/nubuck premium services are all B850.
Siam Square Soi 2, 02-251-0239. Open daily 11am-9pm. BTS Siam
1/Fl Gateway Ekkamai, Sukhumvit Rd., 02-108-2789. Open daily 11am-9pm. BTS Ekkamai

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Electronic Flora of South Australia Species Fact Sheet
Phylum Rhodophyta – Class Florideophyceae – Order Gigartinales – Family Gigartinaceae
G. congesta Zanardini 1874: 502. J. Agardh 1876: 205. Setchell & Gardner 1934: 135. [NON G. congesta (Turner) Greville 1830: lviii = Areschougia congesta (Turner) J. Agardh.]
?G. pumila Zanardini 1874: 502 (nomen dubium).
Thallus (Fig. 95A) dark red, fading to yellow-brown, erect and rigid, 2–6 (–10) cm high, cartilaginous, with clumped axes densely branched above. Fronds with a terete to compressed percurrent axis 1.5–2 (–3) mm in diameter, with a few subdichotomous to lateral main branches, usually becoming naked below but with crowded pinnate (when well developed) to radial branches, usually with densely clustered branch ends; upper laterals and branchlets terete to slightly compressed, 0.5–1 mm broad, with acute apices. Holdfast discoid, 2–4 (–6) mm across; epilithic or on mussels. Structure of a dense cortex of slender, anticlinal, subdichotomous filaments, end cells 1–2 µm in diameter and L/D 2–3, and a medulla of anastomosing filaments 5–9 (–12) µm in diameter; the central filaments tend to be mainly longitudinal and broader.
Reproduction: Sexual thalli monoecious. Carpogonial branches 3-celled, situated on an inner cortical (supporting) cell. Cystocarps (Fig. 96E, F) 1–1.5 mm across, occurring laterally and subapically on slender, simple branchlets usually with a spinous apex, without involucral ramuli; carposporophyte (Fig. 95B) consisting of a filamentous matrix of scattered larger cells, with pit-connections scarcely enlarged, and numerous clusters of ovoid carposporangia 11–14 ilIT1 in diameter, surrounded by enveloping tissue, with the inner cells connected to gonimoblast cells but without transverse filaments, with the cortex forming a distinct depression outside the cystocarp. Spermatangial son inconspicuous, forming pale patches near young cystocarps, with elongate cortical cells each cutting off obliquely an elongate spermatangium which produces apically a single ovoid spermatium 1–2 µm in diameter.
Tetrasporangial sori (Fig. 96G) forming irregular patches on the surface and margins of branchlets, often as incomplete annuli; tetrasporangia (Fig. 95C) transformed from inner cortical and outer medullary cells, and also cut off laterally from these cells, ovoid, 15–25 µm in diameter, cruciately divided.
Type from Robe, S. Aust., uppermost sublittoral on reef edge W of jetty (Womersley, 7.xii.1991); holotype in AD, A61538 - Isotypes in "Marine Algae of southern Australia" No. 361.
Selected specimens: Belinda Beach, Middle I., Recherche Arch., W. Aust., uppermost sublittoral (Trudgen 838, 23.xi.1973; AD, A51697). Head of the Great Australian Bight, S. Aust., in shaded pool (Womersley, 4.ii.1954; AD, A19322). Point Sinclair, S. Aust., in crevice, upper sublittoral (Womersley, 8.ii.1954; AD, A19616). Elliston, S. Aust., low eulittoral in bay, shaded (Womersley, 15.i.1951; AD, A13699). Wanna, S. Aust., lower eulittoral (Womersley, 9.i.1984; AD, A55225). Pennington Bay, Kangaroo I., S. Aust., sublittoral fringe (Womersley, 22.viii.1954; AD, A19772). Cape Lannes, S. Aust., just below low tide level (Edyvane, 28.iv.1984; AD, A55435 and 21.vii.1984; AD, A56941). Blackfellows Caves, S. Aust., 1–2 m deep (Edyvane, 3.ii.1984; AD, A55440 and 18.ii.1985; AD, A56942). Lawrence Rock, Portland, Vic., in low pool (Beauglehole, 15.i.1960; AD, A24010). Bicheno, Tas., lower eulittoral (Wollaston, 21.ii.1986; AD, A57032).
Distribution: Recherche Arch., W. Aust., to Lawrence Rock, Portland, Vic., and the east coast of Tasmania, growing as small, dense, rigid tufts in the uppermost sublittoral on rough-water coasts.
Taxonomic notes: This species was first described as G. congesta Zanardini 1874, from Tasmania, but this name is pre-dated by Gigartina congesta (Turner) Greville 1830. It is now newly described as G. densa, referring to the very dense upper branching on the axes. The type of G. pumila Zanardini, from Port Phillip, Vic., in Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Venice, has not been available but from the description is a small fragment and probably inadequate. It is therefore regarded as a nomen dubium.
G. densa is a distinctive, small but rigid, species found near low tide level on rough-water coasts. It is most closely related to G. brachiata, differing in its erect habit from a single holdfast, usually with clustered upper branches, the more external, protruding cystocarps, and tetrasporangia formed more from outer medullary cells together with ones formed laterally.
AGARDH, J.G. (1876). Species Genera et Ordines Algarum. Vol. 3, Part 1 - Epicrisis systematis Floridearum, pp. i-vii, 1–724. (Weigel: Leipzig.)
GREVILLE, R.K. (1830). Algae Britannicae. (Maclachlan & Stewart: Edinburgh.)
SETCHELL, W.A. & GARDNER, N.L. (1934). De Gigartinis. Rev. Algol. 7, 131–138.
ZANARDINI, J. (1874). Phyceae Australicae novae vel minus cognitae. Flora (Regensburg) 57, 486–490, 497–505.
The Marine Benthic Flora of Southern Australia Part IIIA complete list of references.
Womersley, H.B.S. (14 January, 1994)
The Marine Benthic Flora of Southern Australia
Rhodophyta. Part IIIA, Bangiophyceae and Florideophyceae (to Gigartinales)
Reproduced with permission from The Marine Benthic Flora of Southern Australia Part IIIA 1994, by H.B.S. Womersley. Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra. Copyright Commonwealth of Australia.
Illustrations in Womersley Part IIIA, 1994: FIGS 95 A–C, 96 E–G.
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Fig. 95. A–C. Gigartina densa (AD, A61538, type). A. Habit. B. Section of cystocarp with a cortical depression (on right). C. Section of a sorus with tetrasporangia mostly transformed from medullary cells. D–G. Gigartina recurva (D–F, AD, A56320, type; G, AD, A41483). D. Habit. E. Section of young cystocarp with slight enveloping tissue. F. Section of mature cystocarp with very slight enveloping tissue. G. Section of medullary tetrasporangial sorus.
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Fig. 96. A–D. Gigartina brachiata (A, AD, A6105; B, C, AD, A57131; D, AD, A27903). A. Cortical filaments with a supporting cell and a 3-celled carpogonial branch. B. Cystocarps on a female plant. C. Sori on a tetrasporophyte. D. Section of cortex with inner cortical cells transformed into tetrasporangia. E–G. Gigartina densa (E, AD, A55440; F, AD, A55225; G, AD, A56941). E. Branches of a cystocarpic plant. F. Ditto, more densely branched. G. Sori on a tetrasporophyte. H–J. Gigartina recurva (H, AD, A53118; I, AD, A56320; J, AD, A41483). H. Branch with unilateral and recurved branchlets. I. Branch with cystocarps. J. Recurved branchlet with tetrasporangial sori.
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As 2023 unfolds, it brings about several new possibilities in the investment arena, breathing new life into promising growth stocks. After tech stocks were punished in 2022, many of the top tech growth stocks are showing signs of a vibrant comeback. However, sectors previously flourishing, such as energy stocks and regional banks, are now facing major headwinds. With investors contemplating the effects of a potential recession and financial system instability, there has been a strategic rotation back into the most enticing growth stocks to buy.
However, there is a note of caution during this shift. The rosy growth scenario of 2021 may not replicate itself during this market resurgence. The remnants of speculative excess during the stock market rally of 2021, but the market has evolved. Now the market harbors a deeper appreciation for profitability and sustainability, along with durable business models, that will guide the selection of future growth stocks.
AAPL | Apple | $175.16 |
GOOG GOOGL | Alphabet | $123.25 |
DDOG | Datadog | $92.09 |
U | Unity Software | $29.10 |
SOFI | SoFi Technologies | $4.93 |
SNOW | Snowflake | $176.82 |
BROS | Dutch Bros | $28.52 |
Growth Stocks To Buy: Apple (AAPL)
Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) has a potent brand image, with it boasting superior pricing power, a strength that has historically turned investor portfolios into massive treasure chests. Moreover, its financials have been consistently rising, representing steadfast growth. Additionally, it has made bold strides with aggressive share repurchases and dividends, underpinning its impressive $97 billion annual free cash flow balance.
Let's turn our attention toward the iPhone, a story of triumph amidst turbulence. Despite the U.S. economic downturn casting a shadow over iPhone sales, Apple's superior brand prowess has acted as a robust shield. IPhone sales increased substantially during the first quarter, despite the slowdown in its underlying market. The spotlight, however, rightfully belongs to Apple's Services unit, which has delivered an astounding 463% sales growth over the past decade.
Alphabet (GOOG, GOOGL)
When the AI wave swept in earlier this year, many felt that Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOG, NASDAQ:GOOGL) missed a step. However, Alphabet's recent I/O developer conference turned the tables, pointing to the tech giant's retreat. Google unveiled a suite of generative AI tools positioned to dethrone ChatGPT from its perch. Moreover, it's clear that Google won't be letting Bing off the hook in establishing its dominance in the search engine battleground.
Alphabet and Microsoft stand on promising ground in the grand scheme of things, with AI presenting a golden growth opportunity. Google's lackluster earnings report is essentially just a blip on the radar. With flattening interest rates and the firm's AI aspirations soaring, GOOG stock's value seems to have hitched a ride on a rocket. Alphabet is charting an exciting course in the ever-evolving tech cosmos as we advance.
Datadog (DDOG)
Datadog (NASDAQ:DDOG) has established a robust presence in the world of cloud monitoring and security, becoming a juggernaut software-as-a-service solutions provider in its niche. The enterprise's one-stop-shop platform delivers a masterstroke of convenience, enabling firms to watch over and secure their data easily.
Nailing the art of growth, Datadog offers an awe-inspiring trajectory. Revenues have skyrocketed from a humble $101 million in 2017 to an eye-catching $1.7 billion in 2022. Year-over-year growth stands over 50%, roughly 318% higher than the sector median. What's more impressive is that forward revenue estimates point to more than 37% top-line growth ahead. DDOG stock is up over 24% year-to-date, and with its stock down substantially from historical metrics, there is massive potential value to tap into in the firm.
Unity Software (U)
Unity Software (NYSE:U) dazzles as a leader in the graphics engine space, forming the digital backbone of the video game sphere. Over the years, it has evolved from being a pure-play game developer effectively branching out into the vibrant worlds of video architecture, animation, and eCommerce.
Over the years, it's operated a financially resilient business, with average revenue growth of 40% over the past five years. Moreover, forward revenue growth is estimated at over 32%. Additionally, profitability concerns are dissipating as it has significantly expanded its profitability situation in the past year. Also, its belt-tightening measures have borne fruit, with analysts expecting an anticipated swing from a 39-cent loss to a 35-cent profit per share. Furthermore, Tipranks analysts forecast a 26.8% upside from current prices, positioning it for powerful long-term gains ahead.
SoFi Technologies (SOFI)
Within a few years of its stock market listing, SoFi Technologies (NASDAQ:SOFI) has already made major waves in the lending, technology platform, and financial services domains. It was awarded a bank charter designation, further bolstering its comprehensive range of financial service offerings and solidifying its position in the fintech arena.
Furthermore, unfazed by market headwinds, SoFi Technologies has effectively emerged as a leading contender in personal finance. Its recent earnings release showed remarkable revenue and adjusted profitability beat, besting market projections by a mile. Sales from its lending segment were at $325 million, up 33% from last year's first quarter. Financial services sales tripled yearly to a whopping $81 million, while technology sales increased by 28% YOY to $78 million. The firm remains on course to achieving quarterly GAAP net income profitability by the fourth quarter of 2023, a testament to its confidence in its future performance. Based on Tipranks analyst estimates, SOFI stock trades at over a 50% upside from current price levels.
Snowflake (SNOW)
Snowflake (NYSE:SNOW) has established its presence as a cloud data warehousing prodigy, effectively charting a breathtaking course in the cloud realm. Its services enable firms to ingest massive amounts of data, crafting valuable analytics from data sources.
However, its journey isn't just a flash in the pan; its status tells a compelling story. While the pace at which it grows may be moderating from its lofty triple-digit growth rates, its anticipated 40% revenue surge to $2.88 billion this year indicates an undeniably robust trajectory.
In its most recent quarter, it delivered a whopping 54% fourth-quarter product revenue growth and an enviable net revenue retention rate of 158%. This implies an average growth rate of 58% per customer. Hence, as we advance, Snowflake, no doubt, continues carving out an impressive path in the cloud cosmos.
Dutch Bros (BROS)
Dutch Bros (NYSE:BROS) has been zipping ahead of its competition with a fresh take on the traditional coffee-shop concept, winning the hearts of the Gen Z demographic with its nimble locations and selfie-ready drinks ideal for its vibrant customer base.
Despite recently unveiling relatively strong first-quarter results, the company is in a spot of bother. Its 30% YOY revenue growth missed the mark, causing its stock to wobble in the process. However, these growing pains are par for the course for young up-and-coming businesses such as Dutch Bros that are sprinting towards success. It added a whopping 45 new stores already in the first quarter and a revenue growth forecast of around 30% for this year and the next. The potential to brew thousands of new stores over the next few years is a perk that's just too good to pass up.
On the date of publication, Muslim Farooque did not have (either directly or indirectly) any positions in the securities mentioned in this article. The opinions expressed in this article are those of the writer, subject to the InvestorPlace.com Publishing Guidelines.


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Kruger National Park South Africa
The first time Annette and I visited Kruger National park it was in September. We booked into a Safari tent at Lower Sabie rest camp, with two of our lady friends, Debbie Seegers, and the late Helena De Lange. Debbie grew up in the Kruger National Park, and still visits it quite often. It was a privilege and very much to our advantage to have someone like Debbie with us in the Park, as she is an excellent guide. We have learned great deal from her.
The second time that we visited the Kruger, we booked into the safari tents at Lower Sabie again for about 4 nights. Then we moved to Satara camp, where we booked into one of the bungalows, for 3 nights. It is fully equipped with everything one needs in the bush and very comfortable. There is a wide variety of accommodation to choose from, from camping sites to the Luxury Lodges where luxury is the order of the day.
Safari Tent
We were lucky to see all of the Big Five all during our first trip which was only a mid weak trip of 4 days, and that really impressed me. I have never taken pictures of so many different species of animals and birds in just 4 days.Below is a picture of a young warthog that looks like it has escaped the claws of some of the many predators in the park.
Baby Warthog
On our first day, we were very lucky to stumble upon a beautiful Leopard walking down the road, and then came to a stand still on a ant hill. Of course the camera's clicked away and after a few seconds hundreds of photos were already taken between the four of us. What a great sighting! I think it is one of the most beautiful cats of Africa. It is said that a Leopard can drag its prey high up into the trees that is more than twice its own weight.
We saw a big herd of Buffalo. Buffalo are said to have killed more hunters in Africa than any other animal. Apparently they have such great strength,that it is 4 times the strength of an Ox. They looked so calm and harmless when chewing on the grass. I have seen many videos where the buffalo herd stands together to attack a group of lions, when their young is facing danger from the lions.
Rhinoceros are very shy, because they being hunted down and declared as an endangered species. We were very fortunate to see two of them grazing. before they disappeared in the bush. We are very privileged to see this beautiful creation of God. It is just a pity that mankind wants to destroy everything for his own gain. How can one kill this majestic animal just for it's horn, which is by the way made of the same substance as hair or nails and a horses' hooves'.
Elephants in the Kruger Park are also in abundance. We had some wonderful sightings and took some lovely photos. They differ from the elephants in the ADDO National Park as their tusks are much bigger. The elephants in the Kruger are also more aggressive than the much tamer ones of the Addo. They do not like vehicles to be very close to them, and to be safe, rather keep your distance, especially when there is a mother and her calf in the vicinity. Do not get between them with your vehicle.
Don't forget the Lions, the main attraction for most people go to the Kruger. Thanks to Debbie's watchful and trained eye, she let us have our first lion sighting in the Kruger. One could only see the paw of a lion against a tree where dozens of cars passed. They did not see the lion's paw at all and to our amusement, we were the only people there , spend a while , waiting for it to wake up. The Kruger is well known for its predators.
What is a drive through the Park without seeing the baboons? The baby riding on the back of its mothers back were very cute, just next to the road. They are very photogenic and one can sit for hours with them and you will get some interesting and acrobatic photos. This little one looks like it is driving a Harley Davidson.
The next day we spend some time at Lower Sabie dam. WOW! and double WOW!! again. I will be able to sit at the Lower Sabie dam for the whole day. There are so much life in this dam, it is unbelievable. The Lower Sabie dam was full of fish and that attracted a lot of water birds. There were hippo's and crocodiles sunbathing on the far side banks of the dam.
Yellow Billed Stork
Kingfishers were everywhere. Giant Kingfisher, Malachite Kingfisher, Pied Kingfisher, They all were quite busy catching fish and left, only to return a few minutes later. That was an indication that there were babies in the nests. Here is a Giant Kingfisher with its catch. It then hits the fish against the wall until it is dead before swallowing it.
Giant Kingfisher
There were various species of Herons' as well. We saw Grey Heron, Green backed Heron, Squacco Heron and the Goliath Heron.
Green backed Heron
When the birds fly low over the water the fish jumped out of the water. Grey Heron where flying low over the water and catching fish in flight. On the photo below one can see that the Grey heron has a fish in its beak and then one can see another little fish jumping out of the water. I also have a beautiful photo of a Hamerkop flying low over the water, where one can see dozens of fish trying to get away in front of it.
Other water birds that we saw included the Three-banded Plover, White crowned Lapwing, Spotted Thick Knee, Hammerkop, Yellow Billed Stork, African Jacana, Black Winged Stilt, Grey Plover, Great Egret. I believe there were a lot more. But since it was our first trip to the Kruger and with only 4 days, Debbie had so many still to show us.
Three-banded Plover
The bird that stole the lime light, could only be one bird, and that is the African Fish Eagle. It's calls will give you goose bumps for sure. What a majestic bird. It would swoop down from high up a tree and with its fierce claws grab onto its meal. Just look at that claws, no fish are going to escape that claws.
African Fish Eagle
The Eagle definitely also had some chicks to feed, as each time that he caught a fish he would fly away to return only a few minutes later to catch another.
There were various other animals that visited the dam during the day to drink some water. Like I mentioned previously, one can sit at this dam the whole day and you would definitely get some good pictures. Well, I did.
Another two Kingfishers that are quite easily spotted in the Kruger, is the Woodland Kingfisher and the Brown Woodland Kingfisher. Your chances to see tem are better in the bush where they hunt insects.
Woodland Kingfisher
No wildlife park with predators, are without its scavengers. Blacked back Jackal, Painted dogs and Hyena were frequently spotted. This Hyena with one blind eye was my favourite. With blood all over its face and the blue-blind eye, it really is a scary little fellow. But they got a purpose in the wild, and they are good at it.
Painted dogs or African Wild Dogs, is one of my favorite animals. They kept us entertained for a few kilometers, running on the tar road in the early morning rain with a few dozen cars following then. They were definitely on the hunt out. It was our last day and we had several hundred kilos' back to home and had no choice but to leave the pack behind.
African Wild Dogs
There are a lot of other animals and birds, especially the mammals – antelope, that I did not mention, which would make this post too long to read. Is it worthwhile to visit the Kruger National Park? Definitely yes, even as far as from oversees, I would say it is worthwhile. There is something to see for everybody's liking, from insects, flowers, birds, to animals and the big five, A photographers dream….
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Myanmar Timber Enterprise
Export Marketing & Milling Department
Invitation for Open Tender
1. Myanmar timber enterprise will sell teak ,hardwood round logs and sawn
Timbers by open tenders in us dollars. Particulars of the open tender sales
Are as follows:
(a) Date & Time – (19-12-2019) (09:00)a.m.
(ex-site/Yangon) hardwood log only
(20-12-2019) (09:00)a.m.
Yangon; ex-site teak/hardwood (log and conversion)
(23-12-2019) (12:00)noon
Yangon teak log only
(b) Commodities & Volume – teak logs about (1496) tons
– third quality & up teak conversion about (134) tons
(export marketing & milling department)
– Pynkado, in, Kanyin, Sagawa, Thadi about (20025) tons
– hardwood logs (including 2018-2019 extraction year)
(c) Place – Taw Win Hall, Gyogone , Insein Township, Yangon.
2. For further detailed information please contact Myanmar timber enterprise
Head office and also visit Myanmar timber enterprise web-site (www.mte.com.mm)
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SmartTOP rooftop modules by the company, Mods4cars, simplify everyday convertible life with clever comfort and functional enhancements. The retrofit SmartTOP allows owners of BMW 3 Series Cabriolets E46 and E93 rooftop control while driving with just one touch of a button. Thanks to One-Touch, the convertible top opens and closes automatically after a brief tap on the interior button. The impractical continuous pressing down of the button is thereby omitted.
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In addition to these two main functions, SmartTOP modules also have individual additional functions: For example, the windows of the BMW 3 Series models can be opened and closed via the remote control. Position of the windows after the tops movement can be programmed to personal preferences. When engaging the reverse gear, the passenger mirror can be set to automatically be folded.
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Next steps for the former Hunstanton Infant School building
- By Elaine Bird
- 25 January 2021
- Hunstanton
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Proposals for the conversion of Hunstanton Infant School to residential use to be presented by developers on 27th January.
In his column in Town and Around's December issue, County Councillor Andrew Jamieson said: "The Infant School in Valentine Road has a strong pull on the heartstrings of many Hunstanton residents.
"I have always wanted to make sure that if NCC were to sell the site, it would do so to a group that would have an understanding both of the need for local housing as well as to retain the character of the building. Therefore, I am very pleased to say that it will be Repton Properties, NCC's own property company, that will be the developer and that I will therefore be able to retain input and keep residents informed along the way."
Repton works with developers including Torrington Properties to obtain planning permission and provide housing on council land.
The Town Clerk informed Town and Around this evening that those involved in the project, Torrington Properties, Lanpro Services and Gary Johns Architects, will be making a presentation on 27th January at 6pm.
Mark Nevitt, Founding Director of Torrington Properties, Beccy Rejzek, Associate Director of Lanpro Services and Senior Architect Sam Robinson from Gary Johns Architects will be providing the presentation.
It will be a virtual meeting and members of the public are welcome to attend along with residents from the surrounding area of the old infant school who have received letters from Lanpro inviting them.
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The authors promise an explainable question answering system. The explanation aspect was supposed to be explained in section 5.1.3, which is nowhere to be found. Moreover, my previous feedback was not addressed.
Regarding the response letter, I think it is not completely aligned with the current version of the article. For example, the authors mention that "In evaluation section we added 'Links are established between words in Wikipedia sentences and DBpedia knowledge base entities using SMART and REL[1]'", however that text and references does not appear in the article. It is also stated that "This operation is called PE for short (See Figure 3)", but that figure does not contain that information, it seems to refer to Figure 5, but in that figure PI is mentioned, not PE. I would appreciate the authors to check the status of the article before writing the response letter.
Regarding the content, the paper now facilitates reproducibility since it publishes the source code of the methods. The description of their proposal has also been improved, mainly the expansion of the graph, and it is in line with the results of the evaluation. In this regard, it is necessary to specify, either in the title or in the abstract, that this method requires not only the natural language question, but also the entities previously identified in the knowledge base. Minor errors have also been corrected.
I really appreciated the authors effort in addressing the reviewers comments. However, now the paper is really verbose and descriptive on technical parts. Many parts are more tailored for a technical paper than for a scientific paper. Another concern is on the contribution of this paper. This has been answered in the answers to my previous questions:
"The theory section discusses the theoretical issues that led to the proposed method for solving the challenges. The first challenge is the inability of hybrid systems to answer questions whose answers do not exist in the knowledge base and must be extracted from the text. To solve this problem, an information retrieval based system was used. The next major challenge is the inability of the existing hybrid systems to explain, which was made possible by the probabilistic method. In addition, query decomposition is not performed in existing hybrid systems. The results showed that by performing this operation, which is based on the function of the human mind, the efficiency of the system increases."
This sentence clearly expresses one of the main paper contributions. I would write it in the paper. In addition, the second finding provides an useful insight on the contribution of this paper, it would be useful to read it summarized at the beginning of the paper. I suggest to make the paper less technical by selecting in Section 5 only the scientific important points and leaving the technicalities in a separate section/appendix. In addition, I would pair Fig. 2 with a running example. Such a running example could be use even in Section 5 to better explain the single modules of the system. In addition, a single running example going along the whole paper would better help the reader than many single examples.
Minors: - page 3, the sentence "Efforts have been made to" is repeated; - Section 5, "The motivation for using these 3 axes is given in Section 7.3" I would summarize such a motivation here. - Section 5, last paragraph, triples and facts are used interchangeably. - Section 5, last paragraph, the sentence "In addition, ... a single sentence" is not clear. - Section 5.1, second sentence, correct in "This architecture is shown in Figure3. Figure 4 illustrates ..."


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A workplace is more than a place. Where we work profoundly affects how we work, with whom we work, and when we work. Decisions about the workplace have a direct impact on team culture, how people work together and how the work actually happens.
Reopening a workspace isn't something that happens all at once. Employees, leaders, work processes, team culture, and programming will all need significant time to adjust to this complex and interlocking set of changes. Instead of thinking only about "Reopening Day," leaders need to think about the longer process, and returning and adjusting to the workplace after time away.
The "fresh start effect". Major milestones and changes—geographical moves, the New Year on January 1, the beginning or completion of a major project, significant anniversaries, and more—can help people put past habits behind them and achieve new growth and change in ways they find more difficult in the absence of these milestone moments. While some organizations may rightly decide that their past ways of operating are exactly what this moment needs, and return to an unchanged set of strategies and tactics, this playbook encourages every organization to ask the question: Should we resume what we were doing, or should we re-dream it?
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Hoboken's e-scooter rental program kicked off on Monday after the state legalized the use of the electric vehicles.
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Against Ireland, the pressure was on Pakistan to win: Misbah-ul-haq
Pakistan took down a spirited Irish outfit to qualify for the quarter-finals of the World Cup 2015. (Source: AP)
Pakistan captain Misbah-ul-Haq admitted being under tremendous pressure to qualify for the World Cup quarter-finals but felt the burden now shifts to their last-eight opponents and tournament co-hosts Australia. (Full Coverage| Points table| Fixtures)
Beaten by arch-rivals India in their tournament opener, the 1992 champions stared at an early exit from the tournament before winning their final Pool B game against Ireland on Sunday to set up a quarter-final clash with Australia.
Scorecard: Pakistan vs Ireland
"It's always difficult when you are playing against a team which is having no pressure. Ireland were playing without pressure. Everybody expected us to win," Misbah told a news conference after the seven-wicket win over Ireland.
"All the pressure is on the test playing nations. This was a much bigger game for us in terms of pressure.
PHOTOS: Pakistan seal last quarter-final berth at World Cup 2015
"It will be less against Australia because they are the favourites, they are playing at their own ground. So we have nothing to lose."
Pakistan lost their second pool match against West Indies as well before four successive wins revived their knockout stage campaign.
Misbah acknowledged Australia, who lost only one of their six pool matches, would prove a difficult opposition but was confident of beating them.
"Of course, why not? On any day, whichever team plays better, they will win. In one-day game, you never know. One good spell, one good innings can change the whole course of the game. We got those sort of players who can do it for Pakistan. Every team is beatable," he said.
Reverse swing, a traditional Pakistan strength, has been negated to a large extent by the two new-ball rule but Misbah said there are other ways his bowlers could trouble Australia.
"In Australian conditions, you get pace and bounce. So if your bowlers have that ability to bowl around 150(kph) and they could have a little bit of extra bounce…
"It's not a matter of just swinging the ball. It could really hurry down to the batsmen and you could get wickets even with the short balls.
"If you are bowling in the right areas, you could really create pressure. That's what these pacers have been doing. If you get reserve swing, that's a plus."
Pakistan missed towering left-arm paceman Mohammad Irfan through injury on Sunday but Misbah was hopeful the bowler would be available against Australia.
"Let's see about Irfan. He is having a problem in his quad while bowling. We are hoping he will be okay by our quarter-final."
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Juul pod flavors like creme brulee, menthol and mint blamed for getting teens hooked on vaping raise risks for lung injuries and cancer by damaging DNA, study suggests
- Sweet e-cigarette liquid flavors have been blamed for getting teenagers addicted to vaping
- But little is known about how the chemicals in these flavors may affect the lungs
- Juul has cornered 70 percent of the e-cigarette market and is the favorite brand of middle and high schoolers
- Researchers at the University of Rochester found that Juul's seven flavors contain more than 40 different chemicals
- Human lung tissue samples exposed to these vapors showe signs of inflammation and DNA damage that can eventually lead to cancer
Vaping flavored Juul pods may raise the risks of lung disease and cancer by altering DNA, a new study suggests.
Researchers at Rochester University in New York broke down the individual chemicals that compose various companies' e-cigarette liquids.
They found that chemicals in seven different Juul flavors triggered inflammation, broke down the cells that compose lung tissue in ways that could over time cause serious damage and illness.
They also found that the flavored e-liquids damage DNA – a warning sign of eventual cancer – and that Juul's best-selling menthol flavor wreaked no less havoc than did its other sweeter flavors.
Juul's sweet-flavored pods – including mango, berry medley and it's blockbuster, mint, can trigger inflammation and DNA damage linked to lung disease and cancer, a new study found
Vaping is largely being treated as two separate but related crises in the US: life-threatening lung illnesses largely caused by vitamin E acetate in THC e-cigarettes and the 'epidemic' of US teenagers addicted to vaping.
Just as THC vapes are the primary suspect in the 2,500 lung illnesses, US officials have blamed sweet-flavored e-cigarette liquids lowering the barrier to entry to vaping for teenagers.
A recent Food and Drug Administration (FDA) study found that 72 percent of high school students and nearly 60 percent of middle school students who vape, but don't smoke, use flavored e-cigarettes.
Mint and menthol flavors were among the most popular among the students.
And Juul, specifically, was cited as the most popular vaping brand among young people.
Even before the study's findings, the FDA had warned the company that its sweet flavors and marketing campaigns were suspected of enticing underage users to try vaping.
States, cities, individuals, schools and groups have all sued Juul, blaming the company for getting teenagers hooked on its potent dose of nicotine – often specifically through its sweet flavored pods.
Very early research into and warnings bout vaping, when it was first gaining popularity, suggested that ingredients used to give e-cigarette liquids flavored might be carcinogenic.
But that line of investigation became overshadowed by the acute illnesses, hospitalizations and deaths from what's now known as 'EVALI.'
As of Friday, vaping had killed 54 people in 27 states (red) officials said. Another 2,506 Americans have been hospitalized after using e-cigarettes
New research brings flavored vapes back into the fore.
Researchers at the University of Rochester analyzed seven Juul flavors and broke them down into some 40 compounds.
Juul's labeling only discloses that nicotine, vegetable glycerine and propylene – the common bases for e-cig liquids.
But the Rochester team found a number of other compounds, including substances called volatile organic compounds.
These are commonly found in industrial settings – and are among the reasons that workers on these sites wear protective masks.
In containers, researchers exposed samples of human lung tissue to vapor produced by heating the Juul liquids.
The vapor triggered inflammation and weakened cells that line the lungs and allow for them to take in oxygen as well as degrading immune cells.
DNA analysis of the cells showed that the genetic information had been damaged too – changes that can eventually lead to cancer.
These effects have the potential to eventually cause the kinds of acute harm that has left 52 e-cigarette users dead, as well as long-term problems from damage that accumulate's over time.
'While names like mango, cucumber, and mint give the impression that the flavors in e-juices are benign, the reality is that these sensations are derived from chemicals,' said lead author Dr Irfan Rahman, a professor in the department of environmental medicine at the University of Rochester Medical Center.
'Vaping technology has only existed for a short period of time and its use, particularly among younger people, has only recently exploded.
'This study gives further evidence that vaping – while less harmful than combustible tobacco in the short run – is placing chronic users on the path to significant health problems later in life.'


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Tittererer's Digest |84| feat. The Middle Finger
Sorry. I'm so sorry. It's been so long. I won't bore you with why it's been so long but know that I'm sorry. To get us back into the swing of things, this week's Digest is mostly about two big things that have happened in the world of Irish comedy recently, Seamus Hanly's The Middle Finger and Mark Baldwin's End's Meet. Let's go!
1. The Middle Finger
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The Middle Finger is a low budget comedy superhero film written and directed by Séamus Hanly. It's about a teen who gets superhero powers and also a Middle Finger head. As you can see from the trailer all your Irish comedy faves like Conor O'Toole and Alison Spittle pop up alongside Séamus but the big news about The Middle Finger is that it's being distributed by Troma. THE Troma films. It's amazing news and as a casual bystander to Irish comedy I'm incredibly delighted for everyone involved. We'll have an interview with Seamus coming up soon but for now go to Troma and watch The Middle Finger.
2. Ends Meet
Ends Meet is a short animated series on the RTÉ Player by Mark Baldwin of Silly Beggar Films. It's about three generations of a working class Dublin family, a young boy, his single dad, and his grandfather. It's funny and sweet and it's being made into a half hour show which will be on RTÉ 2 in the autumn. You can watch all seven episodes here and we'll have an interview with Mark Baldwin here on the ol HeadStuff very soon.
3. Portraits – Michael Redmond
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Portraits is a new series of documentary films about interesting, creative people by Waking Hour Films. The first episode is about Michael Redmond, famously Fr. Stone in Father Ted, but also one of the best Irish standups ever. He has a bit about Ryan Tubridy that I want to tell you about but I can't so you'll just have to go see him sometime and hope he tells it. Anyway, this is very interesting and beautifully shot and I'm looking forward to the rest of the series.
4. How To Be A Good Male Feminist
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Men, Peter McGann has an important message for you and maybe the ladies could even learn something from it too? Who knows?
5. You Are What You Drink
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Our friends the Aunties are back with a thesis to prove.
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STUPID IDIOTS is written, directed, and edited by Stephanie Koenig. Koenig and Brian Jordan Alvarez star as two stupid idiots. That's it. It's fucking amazing. Tell your friends. Watch all four and then thank me.
7. Jeff Park
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It's Jeff Park baby. By Conor Smith
Ok bye now.


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Brockhole Jetty – Landside Facility
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This is the first purpose-built jetty in over 70 years, and forms a significant enhancement to the Lake District visitor experience and the facilities at Brockhole
To support the construction of a new floating jetty, a series of land-side structures sit above the Ancient Woodland – keeping its fabric and frail ecology intact, enabling spectacular views across Windermere, access for all, resilience to flooding and the ability (if ever required) to dismantle and take away..
Locating the ticket kiosk ('The Drum') was key - strategically it needs to serve as a control point for the operator and for planning it needed to be out of view from the arts and crafts house and its Listed gardens. The circular form was an effective solution.
Kiosk and canopy are Green Oak clad, a lacquered steel roof with a liquid copper underside and lacquered steel uprights. An existing drystone wall has been rebuilt and extends providing a comforting arm around the drum's shoulder holding it securely in place. The unifying deck is composed of monumental Oak beams, crafted around the retained trees of the Ancient Woodland.
- Begun: Jan 2011
- Completed: Apr 2011
- Floor area: 270m2
- Sectors: Sports and leisure, Public realm, Transport
- Total cost: £239,000
- Funding: North West Development Agency/ ERDF
- Tender date: Dec 2010
- Procurement: JCT Minor Works
- Address: Brockhole, The Lake District Visitor Centre, Windermere, Cumbria , LA23 1LJ , United Kingdom
Professional Team
- Architect: Planit i.e.
- Client: Lake District National Park Authority
- Project manager: Turner & Townsend
- Structural engineer: Halcrow Yolles
- CDM coordinator: Innov8
- Masterplanner and landscape architect : Planit i.e.
- Structural engineer: Hough Tullett
- Main contractor: Chris Brammall


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If you like your muscle cars to be technically straight forward with none of that turbo or supercharged carry on, then you will love the Aston Martin Vanquish S. But, make the most of it, because this will be the last of the normally aspirated V12s from Aston. From now on, you'll be getting engines with a turbo, or two, bolted on.
At first glance, the Vanquish S is actually a bit odd in many respects because its main competitor is, well, another Aston – the new DB11 to be precise. However, once you've driven both cars you realise that they're very different. The DB11 is ultra-modern in every respect while the Vanquish S harkens back to the previous generation Astons.
In our eyes, that's no bad thing. The Vanquish is a stunning-looking car. This latest model has been given a few styling tweaks, which make it even more aggressive yet actually improves the aerodynamic features of the car. The suspension has been revised to not only sharpen handling but also improve the ride. Bearing in mind that this is a 200mph, 0-60 in 3.5 seconds, super car, the ride is uncannily smooth. Even at town speeds you're not at risk of losing any fillings. You can adjust the dampers to 'sport mode' which tightens the handling but, unless you are either heading for a racetrack or aiming for a bit of fun on the twisty stuff, the car is extremely refined in normal mode.
As with all Aston Martins, the soundtrack from the engine and exhaust is an absolute joy. This latest V12 595bhp has the most glorious burble at tickover. Suddenly, waiting at traffic lights becomes something to look forward to. Firing-up the Vanquish S is not subtle. You'll waken the slumbering residents in a neighbouring county. Press D on the centre console (no levers for the eight-speed auto, just buttons), drop the handbrake (yes, it's a manual parking brake) and head off for an adventure.
When you get onto the open road, the Vanquish settles into a relaxed cruise – it is the ideal Grand Tourer. However, floor the throttle and the car hurls itself at the horizon. The noise and acceleration are outstanding. Roadholding levels are staggering. Put it this way, your courage will run out long before the car's ability to hang on does. You'll need to be doing something incredibly stupid to get into trouble. (That's not a challenge, by the way.)
The interior is a work of art. It has spider's web stitching all over the place. OK, some of the electronics – like the sat nav screen – look a bit dated, but everything else is utterly gorgeous.
With a 6.0-litre V12 engine earning its keep under the bonnet, it will suck juice at a rate of knots. Aston Martin reckons the Vanquish S will do a shade over 21mpg. Hmmm… you'll be lucky – or, at least, very restrained. However, with a starting price of £199,950, we suspect that you might be able to stretch to filling the tank.
The Vanquish S may be the end of the line for 'traditional' Astons, but it is still a remarkable, wonderful piece of machinery and art. The Vanquish S is arguably one of the most handsome Astons every built – and is certainly one of the most accomplished. For more information, see astonmartin.com


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Simona Cozzupoli
An accomplished artist with a background in Art Criticism, Milan-based Simona Cozzupoli draws from the likes of Cornell, De Chirico and Magritte to create awe-inspiring shadow boxes where the mundane and the magical collide and merge.
A master in the art of assemblage, Simona Cozzupoli takes everyday and found objects to make glass-fronted display cases where the magical and the familiar rub shoulders. Imbued with symbolic meaning, her shadow boxes incorporating discarded artefacts are gateways to the fantastic and the wondrous that reveal the intimately poetic nature of the mundane.
Born and raised in Milan, Simona divides her time between visiting art galleries and hunting for inspiration in flea markets and vintage shops. A graduate in History of Art and Art Criticism, she sites René Magritte, Giorgio De Chirico and Joseph Cornell – one of the most celebrated and inventive exponents of the assemblage – among her favourite artists.
We caught up with Simona Cozzupoli to find out all about her work.
Simona Cozzupoli, Natura morta contemplativa con idolo, sfere e farfalla – 2020
Hello Simona, thank you for finding time for 1883.
When did your interest in art first develop? And when did you realise art was something that you wanted to devote your career to?
Hi Jacopo, thank you for having me. As a child, besides drawing, I loved to make three-dimensional objects using paper, cardboard, glue, waste materials, and pretty much anything I could find at home really. I have always had a thing for cutting and pasting different things together to create new, unexpected objects, and I have always found poetry in the ordinary.
What was a childhood pastime has now turned into my practice: I take found and everyday objects and rework them into works of art giving them a new life and potency. My shadow boxes are filled with fragments of everyday life: cut-out playing cards, vintage dolls, butterflies and parrots, tokens, twigs as fairy trees, miniature furnishings displayed to create what I like to call "object-rebuses".
My interest in shadow boxes has been with me since I was very young: as a child I would collect tiny, poetic and evocative objects, put them in a box and use it to evade reality. Boxes remind me of tiny doll houses, and also have a special, symbolic meaning to me: you store objects into boxes, and the memories objects carry with them.
Did you receive any formal training?
I did not attend any Art school so I did not receive any formal training. I graduated in Humanities with a specialisation in History of Art and Art Criticism from the University of Milan; my dissertation focused on Francesco Lo Savio (Rome, 28 February 1935 – Marseille, 21 September 1963), a little-known Italian artist from the late 50s, and the brother of the better-known Tano Festa. Although I consider myself a self-taught artist, I also believe my university education has been critical in the development of my career. When I started university, I also began to frequently go to exhibitions and museums.
Simona Cozzupoli, Wunderkammer postmoderna – 2011
Which artists are you most drawn to for inspiration?
The first name that comes to my mind is that of Joseph Cornell. It is not so much the similarities between our works, rather the creative and compositional process behind them that makes me feel close to him artistically.
Cornell believed you could find interesting objects, objects worth being used to make art, everywhere. From his perspective, the artist is a "scavenger": nothing is to be deemed insignificant or ordinary, everything has an inner artistic potential that is often revealed through the eyes of the beholder. Like Joseph Cornell, in order to make my shadow boxes, I do wander around and scavenge a lot; looking for stories to tell, I go to vintage shops and flea markets, where my imagination soars unfettered, triggered by the endless possibilities the art of assemblage can offer.
An artist I draw inspiration from – one Cornell also admired – is Giorgio De Chirico, whose metaphysical paintings convey the enticing sense of estrangement mundane objects can evoke. In his work we often see low ceiling rooms – which remind me of shadow boxes – framing the compositions.
René Magritte – who, like Cornell, was familiar with the work of De Chirico – is an artist I am certainly fond of. I am particularly interested in Magritte's reflection on the complicated relationships between images, words and reality, which anticipated the conceptual art movement. D'après Magritte, a work of mine of which two versions exist, is dedicated to the Belgian artist. D'après Magritte consists of a timber box as a three-dimensional frame, and a pipe, suspended against the typical Magritte's blue sky, dotted with white clouds. At the bottom, an inscription reads: "Ceci n'est pas un ciel nuageux" (this is not a cloudy sky), a reference to the famous Magritte's "Ceci n'est pas une pipe". In my work, in fact, the pipe is real, while the cloudy sky was made using blue enamel paint and white wadding.
Finally, another artist who inspires me is Czech director Jan Svankmajer, whose stop-motion films animate all sorts of objects. Among my favourite movies is Alice, whose original title translates as Something from Alice, it's Svankmajer's very personal take on Lewis Carroll's novel. The film opens with a sentence that sounds like a paradox, a sentence Alice says while addressing the viewers: you must close your eyes otherwise you won't see anything. The film was the inspiration for two shadow boxes featuring a little blonde doll: Alice and the White Rabbit and Alice in the Cabinet of Wonder (2016).
What themes do you find yourself coming back to in your work?
There is a common thread that runs through all my works, that is, the aesthetics of the Wunderkammer, of the cabinet of wonders – a room where bizarre, curious objects are exhibited. My shadow boxes aim to be awe-inspiring "solicitors of memory, that is, supports to contemplation", to quote Indian art historian Ananda Coomaraswamy. The themes behind my work are, in a way, all linked to the concept of wonder as the emotion aroused by something awe-inspiring, that induces a contemplative mood.
Recurring themes in my work are: childhood (children are constantly amazed by the ceaseless novelty of the world) and play; the dreamlike, fairy universe that is inhabited by all sorts of symbols and archetypes, which in my work are often represented by playing cards; the relationship between words and images. Souvenirs and Barbie dolls, playing cards, chess pieces, miniature origami and toys, are some of the elements more frequently featured in my works. In some of my early boxes, dolls are seen folding and cutting sheets to shape three-dimensional figures that serve as gateways to imaginary worlds, while reminding the viewer that wonder is in fact a tool for knowledge. You see, I interpret the world as a dense net of correspondences, a web we can only untangle when we rely on poetry and clairvoyance.
The theme of play is central to my object-rebuses: the viewer is asked to solve a puzzle, a riddle, which is a hermeneutic, interpretative, process, if you like. The theme is also central to my fake-butterflies and fish-tank boxes, where the optical illusion prompts a reflection on the deceptive nature of perception – incidentally, the word "illusion" comes from Latin "illudere", which, in turn, comes from the word "ludus", meaning "play". Some of my object-rebus boxes come with what we may want to call an embedded "visual solution"; other boxes represent a sentence, often an idiomatic or metaphorical expression – I'll give you an example: to represent a "sea of tears", I have depicted tears as rippling waves with tiny origami boats.
Simona Cozzupoli, Amor de Morbo infodemiae temporibus – April 2020
Nature plays a big part in some of your most recent works; would you say the recent pandemic has affected you on a professional level, and perhaps changed the way you look at and represent nature in your artworks?
Yes, that is right, nature has always had a special place in my work.
Between March and April 2020, I made some collages where nature is the main focus. The first I made was a three-dimensional collage titled Mediolanum Morbi temporibus (Latin for Milan at the time of the disease). In this work, the Milan Cathedral – the most famous landmark of the city that was the epicentre of the pandemic in Italy – is seen covered and almost hidden by a lush vegetation to represent the sense of wonder and disorientation we were all experiencing during the lockdown, when time had frozen, and all human activities, including the maintenance of green areas, had been suspended. While we were all locked in our houses, the vegetation was growing undisturbed, almost giving the city a fairy-tale feel.
In other works, which I called Hyppodoptera, I used miniature horses with butterfly wings to represent the microcosm that hides in a meadow. The Hyppodoptera series was also inspired by my lockdown experience, when the vision of unmaintained patches of vegetation made me fantasise about fantastic animals hiding in the greenery.
Out of curiosity, what do you make of the current art scene in Milan?
With its museums, public and commercial galleries, its art and design week, and affordable art fair, Milan is certainly a thriving hotspot for the arts.
Among the Milanese artists I like there is Vanni Cuoghi, whose dreamy paintings are rich in references to the old Masters, and Luigi Serafini, the author of the mysterious and bizarre Codex Seraphinianus, who once called my shadow boxes "beautiful portable poems".
Another artist I like is Elisa Bollazzi, who, since the early 90s, has been collecting tiny fragments of original artworks – saving them from oblivion – and then mounting them on microscope slides to create her Micro-collections. Since 2008, for her Semine D'Arte (Art Sowings), Bollazzi has been displaying her collections directly on the ground.
What does the future hold in store for you?
Last year, I met Sergio Curtacci, a curator and the editor of Frattura Scomposta Contemporary Art Magazine – a digital art magazine that focuses on the best emerging Italian artists – who offered me a feature in the August 2020 issue. Sergio, who calls himself a "contemporary art storyteller", is an ardent enthusiast of my work, of which he, in particular, appreciates the conceptual component. When we met in person at Dynamiche Infinite – an exhibition of works by photographer Maurizio Gabbana – we instantly hit it off, and decided to team up to organise an exhibition in Milan, with the support of Frattura Scomposta. Originally scheduled for Spring 2021, the show has now been postponed until Covid restrictions ease.
The exhibition will be held in the smallest deconsecrated church in Milan: it is a very evocative place, and in my opinion, we couldn't find a more suitable venue to showcase my micro-worlds. The exhibition will include a performance by no other than Janet Park – arguably one of the most important dance performers in the world – who will perform choreography inspired by my very own work. At present, the organisation of this show is my number one priority: I'm letting my imagination run free, and try to visualise the setting up of the exhibition while we wait for the restrictions to be lifted.
Simona Cozzupoli wearing one of her Contemplative Hats
Words and interview by Jacopo Nuvolari


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Help mom unwind this Mother's Day
If you know a mom, have a mom, are a mom, you probably know that the past year has been a little … challenging. To say the least.
Moms have been the real heroes during this pandemic, cooking, cleaning, schooling, working and basically doing it all without much of a break. At New Standard, we know that taking time for a break – and unwinding with cannabis – can be a transformative experience.
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Album review: Imploding the Mirage by The Killers
The Killers
Island Records
Score: A
After five chart-topping albums from The Killers, Brandon Flowers and the team have satisfied listeners as their sixth studio record, Imploding the Mirage, debuted at #1 on the U.S. album charts this summer.
The indie-rock, alternative LP takes off with the explosive track "My Own Soul's Warning," immediately taking you on an emotional and booming lyrical journey of trusting your gut.
With this being the band's first album since the departure of member Dave Keuning, who left the band following the release of their 2017 album, Wonderful Wonderful, bassist Mark Stoermer also took on the role of playing guitar for The Killers. But, Stoermer did not go without help, with the band featuring former Fleetwood Mac guitarist, Lindsey Buckingham, on the electrifying single "Caution."
Something fans haven't seen before from The Killers is this kind of collaboration between artists, and that is in abundance on Imploding the Mirage, featuring talented artists like k.d. Lang on "Lightning Fields" and Weyes Blood on "My God."
At this point in his career with The Killers, Flowers has mastered the art of songwriting, reeling you into his fairytales of love and hope. Listening to a Killers album truly feels like a spiritual journey of self-discovery and acceptance, with Imploding the Mirage tackling topics such as repentance and being true to yourself in such a transcendent way.
Even such, some critique the album for its lack of subtlety and contrast. But when you're talking about The Killers, subtlety isn't in the cards.
Screaming guitar riffs and vibrating synth mix perfectly with the ups and downs of Flowers' delicate yet thunderous voice to create what is and always will be known as "The Killers."
– Mackenzie Mason