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Co-operators General Insurance Co. sent letters to all its pension and life insurance clients this week, warning that IBM Information Systems Management lost the personal computer hard drive housing customer account records. The Regina-based subsidiary of (IBM: news, chart, profile) is under contract with Co-operators to provide computer services.
The insurer said the missing hard drive contains client names, addresses, bank account details, beneficiaries, social insurance numbers, pension fund values, pre-authorized checking information, and mothers' maiden names.
"The Co-operators organization takes this very seriously," said Dominique O'Rourke, company spokeswoman, in a conference call. "We are all working very closely with police and other stakeholders to minimize potential risk."
The drive's disappearance is being treated as a theft, said Anne Mowat, IBM Canada spokeswoman. She said that IBM Canada is cooperating with an ongoing police investigation.
Mowat said that Co-operators still has access to insurance customers' records, since the 315-person facility regularly backed up data. The missing hard drive has records for Co-operators' pension and life insurance customers only -- not its automobile, home, farm and commercial insurance clients. She added that the drive contained client information from several other government and private-sector organizations.
The insurer said that the hard drive, located within a secure area of the IBM subsidiary's facility, was the only hardware that was reported missing.
"At this point, we don't know what happened," O'Rourke said. "But I can assure you that we will get to the bottom of what happened and why it happened. We will protect our client data."
So far, O'Rourke said, no one has used the insured's personal information fraudulently. But she urged customers to watch their financial statements for unauthorized activity, and to contact credit agencies Equifax and TransUnion to make sure their credit reports are being watched closely. O'Rourke also said that Co-operators is reviewing its own security procedures, and reassessing its relationship with the IBM subsidiary.
IBM stock fell $2.02, or more than 2 percent, to close at $78.30, as 7.29 million shares changed hands on the New York Stock Exchange.
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After a very good nights sleep, we woke up ready to go on our first excursion, to the Bronze Age settlement of Akrotiri. Akrotiri was destroyed in a volcanic explosion around 1627 BC, which buried the town completely in volcanic ash, preserving the town almost completely (think, Greek Pompeii, but much older).
Our local guide, Harrah, walked us through the settlement of Akrotiri, who let us know that under the city, there are 3 other cities, making the entire site only 20% excavated. Since the settlement was made so long ago, Akrotiri is actually 200 years OLDER than Mycenae (to learn more, check out my blog on what to do and see in Mycenae).
Although the city was preserved in the same way that Pompeii was, the volcanic eruption on Santorini was 10x larger than the one in Pompeii, and it completely changed the landscape and habitat of the island. Where Santorini used to be a tropical island full of lush greenery, it is now a desert. Also unlike Pompeii, the residents of Santorini felt the tremors prior to the eruption, so everyone (as far as we know) left before the explosion. This is also why the town does not have a lot of "stuff" in it; the residents of Akrotiri took the majority of what they needed to survive with them, therefore, what remains is mostly structures, pots, and beds.
A former bedroom, now full of found pots
The Minoans who settled Akrotiri were a very advanced civilization, as they had two story buildings, a subterranean waste system, paved streets, and even flushing toilets. Akrotiri was a port city who's main export was saffron, and in the murals on the walls of the remaining structures, there are many depictions of saffron.
Their murals are extremely lifelike, especially for the time, since the portraits looked like individuals instead of all the same person (like in Egypt). The women in the paintings have fancy dress and accessories, while the men are depicted without much detail at all and are always working. This shows that perhaps the civilization had a matriarchal structure where women had a more important role than men. They also do not have any paintings depicting war or violence; their only paintings are of nice, happy people and beautiful birds and plants. This suggests that they may not have participated in many (or any) wars or battles at the time, which would further prove that they were a civilization led by women. If this is the case, then it is one of the few places in history where women were in charge and men had a more subservient role. Sounds like a paradise to me.
Our guide, Harrah, showing us one of the murals. This was a depiction of (possibly) two antelopes, which they may have seen in their trade with North African settlements.
After everyone fled, the island lay untouched for 500 years. In 1100 BC, people from Lebanon inhabited the island until the Spartans took over, led by King Thira. Since then, the Greeks lived on the island, and began growing grapes for wine, until the Venetians took over in 1400 (they, of course, continued the production of wine). The first church that the Venetians built was for Saint Irene, which is where the name Santorini comes from. The Greek name for the island, however, is Thira, which comes from the Spartan king's name. Today, the names are used interchangeably, but if you want to sound cool, calling Santorini "Thira" is the way to go.
After walking through the streets of Akrotiri, we headed to Pyrgos, a small town of 800 people and 60 churches, for lunch. Pyrgos is dedicated to keeping their city as authentic as possible, and do not allow any new buildings that do not adhere to the white walls, blue accent rule. Our guide described the town as having "more churches than houses, more wine than water, and more donkeys than men".
To prove her statement, we saw a fancy donkey hanging out in someone's yard
We had a quick but delicious lunch at μπρουσκο, aka Brusco, where I had something called Bouyiourdi, to which I asked, "like the chef?" Our server did not know what I was talking about. The dish is a huge chunk of feta cheese with tomatoes, onions, and herbs baked in a small bowl. It was delicious and my mouth is watering just thinking about it (I really miss authentic feta cheese, guys).
After this, my mom went on an excursion with the rest of the group to sail around the island while I went back to our hotel, El Greco, and got some in some much needed tanning. The next day, we were headed to Oia, so we got some much deserved sleep (after some Black Donkey beer which is delicious and I wish I could find in the states) to get ready for our big day. More on that in the next post. Stay tuned!

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"Bird brained" "Don't have a bird" "Dumb as a turkey" "Ugly as a crow" "You're chicken" "What a duck" "Damned Vulture," these and all other pejorative bird expressions got it totally wrong. Birds have far more going on for them than airborne poop and the taunting and teasing of birders. For the whole world behind the feathers and beak/bill, read Tim Birkhead's Bird Sense: What It's Like to be a Bird.
In separate chapters, the author traces the historical research and current understanding of the various senses birds possess, as in seeing, hearing, touch, taste, smell, magnetic sense, and emotions. Since we do not have the equipment and body of birds, he readily admits scientific research can only tell us some of what we want to know and that for the rest we must rely upon cautious speculation.
Fair enough, but science is able to tell us a lot of startling, fascinating details. Every chapter will give the reader something new to think about. After reading this book, you can say of your day of birding, you saw 40 species while probably 40 species successfully and perhaps purposely avoided you; and you are pleased with both numbers. You may even be able to explain some of the why-and-wherefore of the numbers. If you don't talk and talk and talk, your friends will enjoy your sharing of information.
On a personal note, at a gin joint I occasionally visit I met an old friend of the author of Bird Sense, and the friend gave me a photograph of the author in the early years of his long scientific career, at the time he was studying the competence in high school algebra of a large, cage free rooster. Despite the carefully written thirty pages of his study, he has never been able to get it published in any scientific journal in any language, with some editors writing caustic remarks such as, "One rooster does not a scientific study make."
So I state, here and now, if Tim Birkhead will submit his A Big Rooster's Competence In High School Algebra" to clarionfriends.wordpress.com I will publish it; however, to fit our format, we can only use three or four fairly short paragraphs rather than the original thirty pages. I hope he understands our constraint. Charles Marlin


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Aloo Gobi Masala Dry
Aloo gobi is a traditional North Indian Recipe. This is a stir fried main course dish with potato & cauliflower as main ingredients and along with that it has flavours of aromatic spices.
This curry is made in both dry and with gravy. Both are prepared with a little variation. However I like this in both the forms. I will post my gobi aloo masala with gravy also on blog. These are quick, easy, healthy everyday dishes. I love this sukha aloo gobi dish. Honestly saying we make this dish once or twice a week.
This is an easy lunchbox recipe too. Well I have made another dish (Cheesy Cauliflower Fritters) from this aloo gobi (leftover curry). I have added rice flour and cheese to the left over curry and mashed completely forming balls. There are crisp because of rice flour added. And this makes a perfect finger food for your kids and toddlers as well. You can make these cheese balls from freshly made sabzi.
When I have a fussy eating kid, I'm happy when he eats vegetables in any ways. Read other kids friendly recipes here: potato cheese sandwich, spinach corn sandwich, aloo kachori, aloo paratha, gobi paratha, paneer paratha, potato lollipop, potato bites, bread roll, veg seekh kabab, paneer corn kabab, shammi kabab.
Read other potato recipes here: Aloo Methi, Aloo Baingan, Aloo Capsicum, Aloo Jeera, Aloo tomato, Mixed Vegetable Fry, Dum Aloo.
Dry aaloo gobi masala tastes yummy with dal, rice and roti, paratha. This is one easy to make recipe and hardly takes less than 30 minutes to prepare.
Lets cook this easy and yummy dish.
Aaloo Gobi
- Potato:2 –3 cup peeled and diced
- • Cauliflower–1 cup
- • Salt as per taste
- • Refined oil: 2-3 tbsp
- • Cumin seed: 1tsp
- • Green Chilli- 1-2
- • Garlic – 4 – 5 crushed
- • Ginger – 1inch finely chopped
- • Onion – 1 Diced
- • Coriander Powder 1 tbsp
- • Cumin Powder – ½ tbsp
- • Red Chilli Powder ½ tsp
- • Turmeric Powder- ½ tsp
- • Sabji Masala/ Garam Masala – ¼ tsp
- • Aamchur Masala – 1 tsp
- • Coriander leaves – 1 tbspfinely chopped
- • Tomato – 1 diced Optional
- Take a frying pan and keep on high flame. Add 3-4 tbsp refined oil. For taste add 1/4th tbsp ghee/ butter to it.
- Add a bay leaf (optional), 1 tsp cumin seeds and let it crackle. After that add finely chopped ginger garlic and stir till it leaves the pungent raw smell.
- Add diced onion, green chillies and fry till onion changes color and turns light brown. Then add chopped tomatoes and stir and sauté till tomatoes are soft. If you don't like to add tomatoes leave this step and after the onions turn color add diced vegetables.
- Add medium diced potatoes, cauliflower. Mix it well. Add salt as per taste.
- Add coriander powder, red chilli powder and turmeric powder and add them. Sauté for another 1-2 mins. You may add few tbsp of water to avoid burning of masala.
- Cook in medium flame for 2- min without covering with lid. Then add ½ glass of water and keep on low flame and let it simmer and boil for 15-20 minutes till vegetables are cooked. Cover the pan with lid for quick cooking.
- Make sure there is no water left in pan and cook till its dry and keep stirring to avoid burning of curry. But don't over boil as well because you may find cauliflower may get over cooked and get mashed. Be careful while adding water for cooking.
- Add a pinch of garam masala. (Optional) if you don't like the taste of garam masala you may skip. Add ¼ teaspoon of sabji masala instead and stir well.
- Garnish with freshly chopped coriander leaves and add ½ tsp of amchur powder/ dry mango powder. This will add a tangy flavour to the preparation. Serve hot with poori, chapatti, rice etc.


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Where: Oracle Arena, Oakland
Attendance: 19,596
OAKLAND – San Antonio Spurs coach Gregg Popovich expected more from his ballclub Tuesday night in Game 2 of the Western Conference finals. Golden State Warriors acting coach Mike Brown was happy to see his team stroll to a blowout victory, but he was prepared to head to San Antonio fully convinced it wouldn't occur again.
The Warriors took full advantage of Kawhi Leonard's absence, bombing the uninspired Spurs with 18 3-pointers en route to a 136-100 trouncing that gave Golden State a 2-0 lead in the best-of-seven series. Stephen Curry scored 15 of his game-high 29 points in a 33-16 first-quarter run-away, allowing the Warriors to hold the serve at home that they earned by running up the NBA's best regular-season record.
"Steve (Kerr) told our guys we've got to come out and play with a sense of urgency from the beginning. We can't ease into the game," Brown said of his ailing boss' address to the team in the locker room before the game. "Give all of our guys credit.
"And that was the message to the team afterward, too, going into Game 3. Think Game 1 was tough? Oh, down in San Antonio, it's going to be more than a dogfight. Game 3's going to be tough for us."
The Spurs get three days off to lick their wounds and hope Leonard, who sprained a previously injured left ankle in Game 1, can be ready for Game 3 on Saturday.
Leonard or no Leonard, Popovich insisted the series is over if his team doesn't get an attitude adjustment.
"I don't think we believed," he said. "I'm disappointed. The only way I can process this is I think it's not about the O's and X's or rebounds or turnovers or anything like that.
"You have to believe. I don't think as a group they really did, which means probably a little bit feeling sorry for themselves psychologically. It showed in the lack of edge, intensity … That was disappointing."
Two days after falling behind by 25 points in the first half to a Leonard-led team, the Warriors had a 25-point lead of their own in the 16th minute of the rematch en route to a 72-44 halftime advantage.
The Spurs were never appreciably closer in the second half.
"We felt sorry for ourselves," Popovich said. "We need to get slapped and come back and play Game 3 and see who we are.
"All I care about is the next game, and we'll see how they come out. Whether they win or they lose, I want to see how they play. If they do the right things and play the game and obey the basketball gods, they'll have a great chance to win."
Curry used 6-for-9 shooting on 3-pointers to lead seven Warriors scorers in double figures. He also found time for seven rebounds, a game-high seven assists and three steals in 31 minutes.
Five other Warriors connected on multiple 3-pointers in an 18-for-37 barrage that dwarfed the Spurs' 8-for-23 success from beyond the arc.
"It's fun to watch. (Curry) gets everybody else open once he gets it going like that," said Kevin Durant, who added 16 points to the Warriors' cause. "If he's got it going, give him the ball."
Draymond Green contributed 13 points, a team-high nine rebounds, six assists, two steals and two blocked shots to Golden State's 10th consecutive postseason win this season.
Only eight other NBA teams have ever opened a postseason 10-0.
Warriors reserve Patrick McCaw took advantage of 27 minutes of playing time to chip in with 18 points.
"When the game starts, it's whoever wants to grab that momentum early and set the tone for the game, and I think we did that a little bit better tonight. So that was huge," Curry said of the Warriors, who had 39 assists on their 50 field goals, and shot 56.2 percent from the field. "You don't want to give them any reason and any life."
Jonathon Simmons, starting in place of Leonard, had a team-high 22 points for the Spurs, who fell behind 2-0 in a playoff series for the first time since being swept by the Phoenix Suns in the Western semifinals in 2010.
Davis Bertans dropped in 13 points, and Dewayne Dedmon had nine points to go with a team-high nine rebounds off the bench for the Spurs, whose reserves outscored their starters 53-47.
"We can't necessarily play any worse than we did tonight," point guard Patty Mills said of the Spurs, who made only 37 percent of their shots. "We'll just lay it out there Game 3 on our home floor."
NOTES: The Warriors have won the last nine playoff series in which they took a 2-0 lead. The last time they lost a series when up 2-0 was against the Los Angeles Lakers in the 1969 Western semifinals. … The Spurs haven't rebounded from a 2-0 deficit to win a series since overcoming the New Orleans Hornets in seven games in the Western semifinals in 2008. … Before the game, Spurs coach Gregg Popovich labeled SF Kawhi Leonard (sprained left ankle) "questionable" for Game 3 on Saturday. … The Warriors played without SF Andre Iguodala (sore left knee), then lost C Zaza Pachulia to a heel injury in the first quarter. X-rays on Pachulia's heel were negative, but he was scheduled for an MRI exam on Wednesday nonetheless. … Warriors coach Mike Brown had a run-in with the police escorting the Spurs team bus while entering the Oracle Arena parking lot, an incident witnessed by Popovich. "Somebody's got to tell him," Popovich noted in a rare light moment, "if the California Highway Patrol tells you to move over, you move over."


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Don't (Strategically) Throw Out Your Vote, Alberta
I'm seeing several left-leaning Albertans considering a vote for the right-wing Progressive Conservative Party just to stop the insane but popular, ultra-right-wing Wild Rose Party from winning the upcoming Alberta provincial election.
There's even a video made by some young folks (or PC supporters if you're a conspiracy theorist) urging left-minded voters to use this strategy.
Even though I'm not technically an Albertan anymore, the consequences of this flawed logic scare the shit out of me. Alberta's influence on the country is only getting stronger.
On the surface, the idea seems sound. Block the racist, homophobic, religious fundamentalist nut bags from getting any power by voting for the lesser of two evils. Too bad this is a complete fallacy. Here's why:
Disclaimer: I am a graphic designer, not a political scientist. The actual political landscape is far more complicated and contains too many variables for me to make any kind of accurate prediction. But hear me out.
The PC and WR parties are very similar. Don't believe me? Here's a taste.
Let's run though some basic numbers. This is what the 2008 Alberta election looked like:
Notice that while Alberta is clearly a conservative province, 26.43% of the popular vote went to the Liberal party. Also notice that the Liberal party has nine seats, and the NDP party has two out of a total of 83.
I'm going to run a couple unscientific scenarios:
Liberal voters vote PC to block WR.
At this time, according to the CBC, polls are suggesting:
- WR at 43%
- PC at 36%
- Liberals at 11%
- NDP at 9%
- 24% undecided
The poll article also suggests that this type of strategic voting would make it a virtual tie between the Tories and the Wild Rosers. But what does that really look like?
Presumably, we get a province split down the middle. Half crazy, and half ultra-crazy with the little power the left did have, completely obliterated.
Liberal voters vote with the strongest left-party in their riding.
Yes Wild Rose is in 'power', but look at that left opposition. I have no idea what the seats would look like, but I'd be willing to bet they could push out a few extra from the close ridings where PCs and Wild Rosers are now split. Even if the Liberals and NDPs kept the same seats, Conservative leadership would be divided.
In the following graphs, I'm taking the results from the 2008 election and simply splitting the PC numbers with Wild Rose numbers according to the latest polls. This is far from accurate, but still illustrates my point.
People who want to block the Wild Rose party by voting PC are forgetting that the government isn't binary. It's about proportional influence. A 50/50 PC/WR government isn't "blocking" the Wild Rose government from any power, it just nulls all of the left's.
Wild Rose is getting all up in Alberta whether you like it or not. Don't destroy what little power we have by throwing your vote away on a false chance of hope.
Again. I'm a graphic designer, not a political scientist. These cute charts have very little to do with reality, and are more about illustrating my point that voting PC just to block Wild Rose is a mistake that will likely do more harm than good.
I would love to hear your opinion, especially if you think this line of thinking is off. We don't have comments over here, so please Tweet me, Facebook me, write a response on your blog, write me a letter, whatever. I'd love to hear it.
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What is business management you may ask?
Generally speaking, it means someone who has broad, overall responsibility for a business or business unit. The role is particularly common in larger organisations, but we are seeing an increase in smaller and mid-sized firms. Quite often they are organised along service lines or client groups.
The Business Manager may typically be responsible for strategy, structure, budgets, people, financial outcomes and overseeing daily operations. Quite often they will focus on one area, for example, Finance, HR, Marketing, Communication, and so on. Overall, they will be responsible for the day-to-day management of the group or business unit.
In our experience, business management encompasses many job titles and varies from business to business. But we would include within the term business management (BM) titles such as Practice Manager, Sector Business Manager and Operations Manager. The duties of a law BM will depend upon the specific role and its purpose. No one size fits all and this can make it more difficult for a candidate to find the perfect fit.
Becoming a Business Manager
An individual in a BM role is a generalist who is familiar with all areas of the business and can coordinate processes and operations across the organisation – from business planning, operational delivery, process improvement, communication, compliance and more.
A BM may need to speak the languages of finance and accounting, operations, sales, marketing and human resources. If they do not specialise in one of these areas they will certainly need to have an understanding of each and how they work together. They are responsible for much of the day-to-day management of the group they work within, ensuring the correct systems and support are in place for the efficient and effective running of the group.
Your suitability
In a nutshell, what kind of people would be perfect for these roles?
Someone who has:
- Significant experience in multi-disciplinary operational management
- Exceptional commercial acumen
- Strategic skills in structural and cultural management
- Strong influencer skills
- The ability to drive innovation, create or introduce new ideas, working methods or processes
- The willingness to roll up their sleeves, get stuck in with first class co-ordination and communication skills, to support clients and strategise with senior partners.
As well as ….
- A professional services background, although this is not a must. Increasingly law firms are looking outside their sector for good candidates.
The opportunity
Why would you be interested in these types of role?
- Good level of autonomy within your business and the wider firm
- Ability to impact the strategy of the business
- No need to specialise – no chance of being bored!
- Ability to gain far-reaching industry knowledge
- Ability to multi-task
If you would be interested in having a chat about any aspect of your career going forwards, please get in touch with Roisin Ashmore.


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If you can't be flexible, don't be a writer.
Deadlines. Emergency phone calls. And you're on the road again!
Sometimes there is just no choice. Family needs you. Deadlines won't budge. So you do what you have to do. It may not be ideal, but writing in the car can be do-able.
Writing in a Car
Life just happens, and you have to adjust. You CAN write on the road if you're really determined.
Did I like working on a laptop in the front seat of a compact car? No. I don't like typing with my elbows close to my waist or trying to find angles where the sun won't glint off the screen. Happily, we were driving in the dark a good bit of the time, so the sun wasn't a huge problem. Did I like writing with the radio blaring? No–I like total quiet to write.
Despite the less-than-ideal writing conditions, I was able to write a whole chapter on the way there and half a chapter on the way home. That was about 4,200 new words of a rough draft. If I hadn't written, what would I have done otherwise? Daydreamed. Napped. Stared out the window. Read more–although I still managed to read a lot.
Keep the Pump Primed
Besides getting the words down, the writing done in the car will be very helpful to me later today. When I sit down to write, I won't have to go back and see what I wrote three days ago and try to remember the emotions of that scene or where I was headed with it. It's still fresh in my mind from writing in the car last night. I can pick up where I left off with little trouble. (By the way, I readily admit that writing with no small children in the car is MUCH easier! When my children were little and I didn't own a laptop, my writing in the car was done with pencil and notebook, using a flashlight after dark. Where there's a will, there's a way!)
All our best laid plans for setting up a writing schedule can go out the window in a moment. We don't live on islands, but instead in families that require our flexibility. So learn to build that flexibility into your writing life.
By all means, have a set schedule and a favorite place that is most conducive for your writing. But learn to go with the flow too–and fit the writing in whenever and wherever you can. Later, you'll be glad you did!


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We believe childhood obesity and emerging health inequalities between children are key issues that need to be addressed.
We also need Government collaboration to help tackle our national obesity levels, manipulative marketing, food and drinks that are high in fat, sugar and salt.
The disparity between higher and lower income communities is highlighted in various research, such as the Growing Up in Ireland study. This study shows that among nine-year-olds 19% of boys and 18% of girls from professional households are overweight or obese, whereas the rate soars to 29% of boys and 38% of girls from semi-skilled and low-income households.
Ireland is on its way to being Europe's most obese nation by 2030, with one in four schoolchildren currently overweight and obese. Overweight and obesity levels have doubled in the past two decades – yet there is good news as this is largely preventable.
The Irish Heart Foundation is advocating for measures to halt increasing levels of obesity by addressing the marketing of unhealthy foods to children; traffic light labelling for food products that identify products high in fat, sugar, salt; increasing levels of physical activity; and removing unhealthy foods and drinks from schools.
The National Obesity Plan
In September 2016 the Government launched its National Obesity Plan A Healthy Weight for Ireland. The Irish Heart Foundation welcomed the Government's endorsement in tackling obesity noting crucial initiatives in the policy, such as the development of guidelines for planners around 'no fry zones', a national nutrition policy, the appointment of a clinical lead for obesity and a special focus on disadvantaged areas for health promotion programmes.
The Irish Heart Foundation publicly noted our concern about the significant role given to the food and beverage industry in the strategy. This includes a forum for engagement with industry and a voluntary code on marketing of unhealthy products to children, which has been proven not to work.
We were disappointed at the lack of dedicated funding and lack of named responsible officials for the strategy. We have also warned of the 'implementation paralysis' that has accompanied previous policies.
The time to introduce the Sugar Sweetened Drinks (SSD) levy has arrived. The Government has committed to implementing the tax in line with the UK in 2018 as one part of the wider programme of initiatives aimed at reducing child obesity.
In 2015 and 2016 we called for a 20% sugar sweetened drinks tax, with revenue estimated at €44.5 million being earmarked to establish a Children's Future Health Fund to finance various schemes such as fruit and vegetable subsidies and community food programmes. The Irish Heart Foundation's pre-Budget submission to government can be accessed here.
The widespread marketing of unhealthy foods (food and non-alcoholic drinks high in fat, sugar and salt) plays a causal role in unhealthy eating and obesity. Ireland restricts broadcast advertising to under-18s, of food high in fat, sugar and salt, on TV and radio up to 6pm, but has not yet tackled regulation of digital marketing. Children in Ireland are increasingly active on digital media, with most 9 to 16 year olds now going online via a smartphone.
In 2016 the Irish Heart Foundation commissioned a study to look at relevant digital trends, marketing strategies and parents' awareness and views. The report shows how children are being emotionally manipulated by companies selling high-fat and high-sugar foods, targeting children through Facebook and other mediums through the use of sports stars, celebrities and games.
You can download a copy of the Who's Feeding the Kids Online report here.
The Irish Heart Foundation is seeking the introduction of 'no fry zones' within one kilometre of schools in order to tackle childhood obesity. At present, 75% of Irish schools have at least one and 30% have at least five fast food outlets within 1km.
A co-ordinated, national approach to protect the health of children and young people across the country is required, with a national level guidance in place for all local authorities on the introduction of no-fry zones adjacent to schools. Such guidance could be provided through a specific Department of Environment guideline addressing fast food outlets, such as a 'Guideline for Planning Authorities – Fast Food outlets'.
The Irish Heart Foundation has strongly backed a number of county council's proposed amendments to development plans on implementing a 'no-fry zone' near schools. You can read the Irish Heart Foundation's submission to Wicklow County Council here.
The in-depth review of evidence on obesity and food poverty in Ireland carried out by the Irish Heart Foundation and Social Justice Ireland revealed that the annual cost burden of obesity could rise from €1.3 billion by €5.4 billion by 2030.
The two organisations reveal that by targeting a 5% reduction in the population's body mass index through a package of measures funded by revenue from a sugar sweetened drinks tax, the annual cost of obesity could actually be reduced by as much as €394 million by 2020.
Read the full Irish Heart Foundation / Social Justice Ireland report.
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When was the last time you looked for arts-and-crafts products using reviews? Chances are you couldn't make head or tail from the experience. Chances are you got bombarded with so much information that you really could not digest in any reasonable amount of time.
In fact, it may have proved to be such a nasty case of data overload that you fell back to your old shopping patterns. As the old saying goes "Why try something new and improved when you can stick to the devil you know?"
This is precisely the kind of problem many consumers have. They're not exactly happy with the product or service provider that they have always gone with. They know that they deserve more for their money.
However, they feel that by systematically and methodically checking out new options is simply too much bother. Either they don't have the time or they don't have the patience and attention to detail to make it happen.
Whatever the case may be they are stuck in a situation where they're trying to put a round peg in a square hole. That gets old quickly. Eventually, you need something better. Eventually, you need something that will deliver the kind of benefits that you want right when you need it and just how you want it. Do you see how this works?
This is why it's really a good idea to get into the habit of reading as many product reviews as you can. The good news is that the Internet is filled with this kind of stuff. You don't even have to look for the specific type of product or service you're in the market for. Just type in "review" or when you're reading the online newspaper that you normally check out, look for the review section.
The more reviews you read, the more your mind tunes into how to process and consumer information so you end up making the right decision. You see a review forces you to slice and dice everything and anything related to a product into a form that you could later use to buy products in a responsible and effective way. This is not one of those things that you simply stumble upon. This is not one of those skills that just falls into your lap.
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An Ontario, Canada, man appeared in court Monday facing charges of running a website that collected personal and password data from three billion accounts, which he then turned around and sold.
Jordan Evan Bloom, 27, of Thornhill earned some $247,000 Canadian by selling the data for a "small fee" via leakedsource.com, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police said.
Malware, Spyware Creator Indicted
NSA Contractor Guilty in Data Leak
2 Charged in Capital Police Camera Hack
Global Bust for ATM Skimming, Fraud
The information was stolen during massive hacks of websites including LinkedIn and the Ashley Madison online dating service.
"If I was able to determine your password, I'd have your password associated to your email and then, knowing that we, as humans, use passwords across other sites, I'd be potentially able to go to any site … and have access to those websites," said RCMP Staff Sgt. Maurizio Rosa. "We want Canadians to be aware there are criminals out there trying to monetize the use of their information to achieve nefarious results."
Bloom was charged in December as part of a criminal probe dubbed "Project Adoration" focusing on trafficking in personal data, unauthorized use of computers, and possession of illicitly obtained property.
The probe lasted more than a year.
Authorities shut down Bloom's website, but another with the same domain name hosted by servers in Russia is still operating.
"The RCMP will continue to work diligently with our domestic and international law enforcement partners to prosecute online criminality," said inspector Rafael Alvarado.
Police said assistance from the Dutch National Police and the FBI were "essential" to the investigation.


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ATel #10069; Melania Del Santo (INAF/IASF-Palermo, Italy), Lorenzo Ducci (IAAT, Germany; ISDC, Switzerland), James Miller-Jones (ICRAR-Curtin, Australia), Carlo Ferrigno (ISDC, Switzerland), Antonino D'Ai' (INAF/IASF-Palermo, Italy), Tiziana Bassi (INAF/IASF-Palermo, Universita' di Palermo, Italy), Simone Migliari (ESA Madrid, Spain), John Tomsick (SSL/UCB, USA), Piergiorgio Casella (INAF/OAR, Italy), Tomaso Belloni (INAF/OAB, Italy), Greg Sivakoff (University of Alberta, Canada) on 11 Feb 2017; 13:41 UTCredential Certification: Melania Del Santo (firstname.lastname@example.com)
Subjects: Black Hole, Transient
Referred to by ATel #: 10196, 10236, 10371
INTEGRAL performed a target of opportunity observation of the black-hole X-ray transient
GRS 1716-249 during the on-going outburst (ATel #9876, #9895).
The 90 ks observation started on 2017 February 8th at 22:37:54
and ended on February 10th at 00:52:56 (UTC).
The source flux was more than 0.5 Crab in the 20-80 keV band covered by the
IBIS/ISGRI detector and 0.3 Crab in the 3-20 keV, as determined using JEM-X.
The source emission extends significantly up to 300 keV.
Preliminary spectral analysis shows a hard spectrum
well modelled with a cutoff power-law (CUTOFFPL in XSPEC)
with gamma=1.66+/-0.05 and a roll-over at very high energy, i.e. about 240 keV.
We also fit the broad-band spectrum with NTHCOMP obtaining a power-law slope of 1.73+/-0.03
and the Comptonising electron temperature kTe=165+124/-48 keV.
The 0.1-500 keV flux, which is 2.8E-8 erg/cm^2/s is consistent with
the Swift flux observed at the end of January (ATel #10036).
A combined radio observation was performed on 2017 February 9th
from 19:00 to 21:00 UT with the Australia Telescope Compact Array
under NAPA program C2538, for a total of 80 min of on-source exposure time.
A radio source is clearly detected at the target position.
Preliminary analysis shows that an elliptical Gaussian fit to the source
in the image plane gives a 5.5-GHz flux density of 3.28+/-0.05 mJy/beam.
We note that the X-ray spectral slope and radio detection are consistent with a hard
spectral state, although the high-energy cutoff, as well as the electron temperature, are quite high.
Further simultaneous observations with REM and Swift have been
performed and the analysis is on-going.
We would like to thank the INTEGRAL Project Scientist and
the science planners and the ATCA schedulers for making these observations possible.


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Partnering with U.S. Soldiers Assists Djiboutian Sailors in Fixing Patrol Boats
Djiboutian Sailors and American Soldiers gathered at the Djibouti Naval Base to share knowledge, best practices, and lessons learned in a session the Djiboutians planned to use to repair electrical systems for two Sea Ark, 55-foot patrol boats.
While the vessels add to the Djiboutian fleet, the American-based, 120-volt electrical systems differ from the 220-volt standard in Djibouti. Since receiving the boats, the Djiboutian Sailors have undertaken much work to make the boats operational.
"The [Sailors] were used to European standards and not U.S. standards," said U.S. Army Master Sgt. Leslie Martin, 448th Civil Affairs Battalion lead instructor. "My experience is U.S. standard so they were able to teach us European standards also."
As a way to help the Djiboutians get the boats up and running after the vessels had been dormant for a period, 448th CA BN Soldiers facilitated a four-day exchange that included interpreting wire color coding and talking about the differences between 120- and 220-volt electrical systems.
"They didn't understand what the wires were telling them because our color-coding system, in their knowledge, means something different," Martin said. "We were able to obtain schematics from the boat manufacturers and partner to show what those colors do."
The two Reserve Soldiers used skills they've developed in their civilian careers to help share best practices.
U.S. Army Capt. Travis Perry, 448th CA BN assistant instructor, works as a civilian electronic medical equipment repairs assistant instructor, and Martin works as an electrician for aquatic parks in Florida.
According to Martin, corrosion is a major concern there, and is also a constant concern for Djiboutian Sailors here.
"Working in that environment, I'm able to pass along how we control corrosion as best we can and the products we use," Martin said. "When you battle corrosion well, your maintenance standards are elevated."
While partnering during the class, the Soldiers and Sailors had to circumvent an additional barrier.
"Most Djiboutians speak French, but of the American team only Captain Perry can 'parle frannnnÃais,' Martin said. "Add to that, one Djiboutian spoke Somali, so a French/Somali translator was brought in. This meant instruction had to first be presented in English, then translated to French and finally Somali."
But this small barrier didn't stop the group from achieving mission success.
Restoring the boats to working order will help the Djiboutian Navy patrol their shores, improve the overall safety of their people, and exchange has also strengthened the Djibouti-U.S. relationship, according to Perry.


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"New Yorkers are constantly exposed to rats and the pathogens they carry, perhaps more than any other animal," explains Cadhla Firth, who conducted the study. "Despite this, we know very little about the impact they have on human health."
In research appearing in the journal mBio, scientists trapped 133 Norway rats at five New York City cites, focusing on rats in residential buildings. In the lab, targeted molecular assays confirmed the presence of 15 bacterial and protozoan pathogens. One virus, Seoul hantavirus, was present in eight rats—the first time the virus has been documented in New York City—with genetic clues suggesting that it may be a recent arrival. Human infection has been associated with multiple cases of hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome, as well as chronic renal disease in Maryland and Los Angeles.
It is unknown how often humans become sick from rats and what viruses cross over, but according to first author Firth, transmission could happen in any number of ways. Rats leave behind quantities of the pathogens in saliva, urine, or feces that people or their pets come in contact with.
Animal Model for Hepatitis C
Screening methods developed by the Center for Infection and Immunity identified 18 novel viruses, including two rat hepaciviruses dubbed NrHV-1 and NrHV-2. Although these are not the closest relatives to human hepatitis C discovered, their presence in animals commonly used in medical research is noteworthy given limits on animal subjects. The two viruses replicate naturally in the animal's liver, which suggests that their lifecycle is similar to human hepatitis C virus.
"With the loss of the chimpanzee model for hepatitis C, the availability of an animal model that has fidelity to the human model is extremely important to efforts to develop drugs and vaccines," says senior author Ian Lipkin, director of the Center for Infection and Immunity. An estimated 3.2 million Americans and 130-150 million people worldwide have a chronic hepatitis C virus infection, which can lead to liver cancer and cirrhosis.
Rats as Sentinels for Human Disease
The study developed out of conversations between Lipkin and the late Joshua Lederberg, a molecular biologist and Nobel laureate. The two scientists wanted to study rats in New York City to have a point of comparison in case a pathogen crossed over and caused a human outbreak.
"Rats are sentinels for human disease," says Lipkin. "They're all over the city—uptown, downtown, underground. Everywhere they go, they collect microbes and amplify them. And because these animals live close to people, there is ample opportunity for exchange."
Lipkin, who has discovered more than 600 viruses over the course of his career, argues in favor of continual monitoring of the rat population along with studies in people to understand how the animals and the microbes they carry make us sick. With modern disease surveillance methods, a repeat of the rat-borne Black Death, which killed as much as 60 percent of the population of 14th century Europe, can remain a dystopic nightmare.
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Tarra's Grief, Rajan's Style &
Stuff That Elephants Go Through
As most species around us, elephants predate mankind by several million years. Yet, even as they've survived a gruesome evolutionary process and a few planetary catastrophes to boot, from the moment of our arrival, their demise became ever more likely. Apparently, we can't help it. It's on our DNA, and perhaps our destiny, to be the ones who'll finally switch off all life on earth.
But we're still discovering wonderful things about these animals, lest us not depress the hell out of you before you even hear about them. There's Tarra, who showed more compassion over the loss of her best friend, a dog, than many humans would. There's Rajan, and his swimming skills. And there are those who love and care so much for them, to even develop a bionic leg for two landmine victims.
That's because there's enough people in the world who prove everyday that our genetic code is not only about the slash and burn of a warrior, but also about the humble approach of an apprentice. Elephants certainly have a lot to teach us, if only we give ourselves the chance to find out more about them.
In fact, in the past three decades, as human settlements have advanced into their natural habitats in Southeast Asia and Africa, we have been forced to learn more, and faster, about elephants than in all previous centuries. From the old 'elephant's memory' cliche, scientific research has come a long way understanding the spirit of these proverbial gentle giants.
We know now that they communicate in a subsonic level with each other, over vast distances, and that their intelligence is comparable to that of dolphins and apes. Elephants also coexist in a well-established and harmonic matriarch order, with precise rules of living in society and collaborating with each other. Above all, there's the heartbreaking way they grieve their dead.
When Tarra met Bella almost 10 years ago, at the Nashville's Elephant Sanctuary, they had considerable differences. But while other residents sought partnerships among themselves, that was never an issue for these two. Not even the fact that Tarra outweighted Bella, a stray mutt who'd wondered into the 22 acres of land along with other dogs, by almost two thousand pounds.
They became inseparable and even when Bella got injured, Tarra mounted guard outside the medical offices of the compound waiting on her recovery. After spending all this time together, is no anthropomorphic stretch to imagine how Tarra reacted when Bella's lifeless body was found last November. She had apparently been attacked by coyotes.
Even more amazing was that, at close inspection, the sanctuary's director of elephant husbandry, Steve Smith, realized that Bella had not been killed at the site where she was found. Which may indicate that, at some point, Tarra found her and brought her home. The last we heard is that Tarra still shows signs of being in mourning, after all these months, and still hasn't picked a new friend.
Another hazard to animals living in impoverished Southeast Asian and African countries, along with the natural spread of farmland and urban settlements, is of course, war. A documentary, The Eyes of Thailand, which had its premiere in the U.S. last month, is about Motala and Mosha, two elephants that stepped on landmines and lost each one of their front legs, and the efforts to get them new ones.
As the technology to build functional, bionic limbs for such a massive animal is not just expensive, but is not even quite there, the fact that they succeed is beyond anyone's expectation. Without the unusual procedure none of the animals would have survived, as they wouldn't be able to stand and feed for themselves.
The Windy Borman's doc centers on the challenges that Soraida Salwala, founder of the Friends of the Asian Elephant Hospital in Lampang, faced in her quest to get the prosthetic legs built. Naturally, there are those who think that such effort shouldn't be diverted from the many humans who also routinely step on those lethal devices, but we'd rather not even get into that.
A few months ago, we told you about how elephants have become a symbol for the movement advocating an end for all zoos and animal enclosures. As more is become known about the psychological impact of captivity on wildlife, pachyderms seem to signal a new era of our relationship with animals, one that does not imply transporting them out of their natural habitat.
A strong argument in favor of such radical idea came unwittingly from an investigative report on caretakers at the Marghazar Zoo, in Islamabad, India. For years, the zoo had declared increasing purchases of alcohol, under the claim that it calmed 'down elephants during their mating season.' That, somehow didn't raise any red flags.
Until it was revealed that, in fact, not just the elephants never consumed any of the alcohol purchased but that veterinarians consulted were completely against administering it to the animals. The final straw was when the same caretakers were connected with the death of an elephant earlier this month, that had been given to the zoo by the government of Sri Lanka.
Saheli, a young 22 years old female (elephants can live from 90 to over 100 years of age), had been brought over to mate with another elephant, Kaavan. But she injured a leg in relatively obscure circumstances, and seemed to be in a lot of distress. The zoo administration ordered an investigation into her death and has suspended the caretakers.
India, by the way, has an estimated herd of between 20 to 30 thousand elephants, and next week, will hold a three-day census, its most comprehensive in years. Unlike similar countings, restricted to reserve forests, the synchronized census will include forest, non-forest, reserve and non-reserve forest areas, according to Ajay Mishra, Chief Conservator of Forests, Project Elephant, Karnataka.
In India, the second most populous country in the world, the animal is also identified with a deity of Hinduism, and clashes between animals and humans are inevitable. Just last Sunday, the last day of a 10-day festival, three elephants broke loose and ran through Kerala's Koodalmanikyam temple, killing a 2-year old boy and injuring 25 people.
It also belongs to India some of the islands in the Andaman Archipelago, in the Bay of Bengal, where American photographer Jody MacDonald took some of the pictures that illustrate this post, published on Islands Magazine. It's a paradisaical group of forest-covered lands, administered by both India and Burma-Myanmar, with a small, non-native population of elephants.
Many environmentalists claim that their presence have been harming the place's ecology and delicate natural balance for years. Be as it may, MacDonald's managed to follow and photograph Rajan, a young elephant with an astounding talent for swimming in the crystalline blue waters surrounding the islands.
And finally, not to end this post on sour notes about abuses suffered along the years by these majestic and still mysterious creatures that never cease to amaze us, let's include a piece of news we've been saving for just such a moment for some time now. We only wish that the initiative remains as fresh and original as it did when it was first announced.
A few years back, the Topeka Zoo, needing funds for some preservation project, came up with a novel idea: to turn elephant poop into toys and sell them at the concession store. As a fundraiser, it was a success and the dolls and trinkets were being sold almost as fast as they were being painted.
As some of you may know, after dried up, elephant dung does no stink. A coat of bright, acrylic paint and a few touches and voilá, a Kansas City Chief or a Jayhawk from the University of Kansas, or even a Green Bay Packer Cheesehead is ready for er, if not consumption, to be displayed on your home. And everybody's happy.
As many zoos, such as the Bronx Zoo, have closed their elephant enclosures for good, as it's becoming clear that the animals do not adapt to captivity as once thought, who knows? Maybe the future is pointing to a new era of recycling waste and preserving the memory. Above all, more hope for those who have been fighting animal abuse for generations. We certainly won't forget.


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- March 7, 2010 at 10:22 pm #8164skayMember
I'm using a paid edition of EmEditor Pro v9.11.
Today, I wrote a very quick essay, and before
saving the file, I ran "SpellCheck" from the plugins
menu, and it caused EmEditor to totally freeze up.
I now see that it seems to work if I select
something first. But still, I don't think it
should crash the whole program if nothing
is selected.
For me, though, I will just stick with the
"US Spelling" checker listed at the bottom of the
menu. (For some reason, I could not find it before.
After downloading and installing a US spellcheck
plugin, I found it again on the menu. Maybe it was
there all along though….)March 8, 2010 at 12:44 am #8165Yutaka EmuraKeymaster
I am sorry that EmEditor froze. I will try to reproduce this issue.
When you install Spelling (U.S. English) plug-in, instead of double-clicking the installer in Explorer, please make sure to click the right mouse button on the file, and select "Run as Administrator" in the context menu.
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This blog post has moved to https://matthewvaneerde.wordpress.com/2008/12/10/sample-playing-silence-via-wasapi-event-driven-pull-mode/
Useful article, but I suppose there is a bug in source code, look for correct version below:
hr = pAudioRenderClient->GetBuffer(nFramesInBuffer-nFramesOfPadding, &pData);
if (FAILED(hr)) {
hr = pAudioRenderClient->ReleaseBuffer(nFramesInBuffer-nFramesOfPadding, AUDCLNT_BUFFERFLAGS_SILENT);
if (FAILED(hr)) {
Yup, thanks, now works! Your articles helped me a lot.
Could it play sin wave ,and hit key to stop?
I'm working on loopback capture, to handle silent I want to try solution with playing silence all the time, but when I run it, silence is being played for a short moment and then is showing error
"Got "feed me" event but IAudioClient::GetCurrentPadding reports buffer is full – glitch?n"
What could be the cause?
I make a report as You wish. Report is from Windows 7. I follow all steps You mention in Your comment.
Here are the results:
I hope You can help to get me an idea why this is happening. I want to write DirectShow source filter with audio from speakers as source. But I need good way of starting recording from speakers when nothing is playing. I need record silence as a part of my recording.
I found also an issue in Your blog. Always when I post a comment first attempt is failed, I don't get any confirmation and comment is not showing in comments list, and I have to write again. In contact form I also found this issue.
I had a question — to check how the silence flag works, I put your silence.exe and a loopback capture executable that checks the flags returned in GetBuffer, and when I would start silence directed towards an endpoint and then did the loopback capture on that endpoint, the flags returned from GetBuffer did not have the silence bit set. I tried the same thing with Windows Media player, and when I would pause it my loopback capture did indicate that the silence flag was set. What am I missing in regards to the silence flag and loopback capture? Thanks!
Another question, related similar to the "Playback" vs "Audio" issue from a previous response — I have another playback application that even when registering as "Pro Audio" will every so often indicate that GetCurrentPadding indicates a full buffer (using the same manner of detection as silence.exe). You mentioned previously that in the other user's case something was taking up a lot of audiodg.exe's time. How can I check for that (and see what it is that is taking up all the time if that is the case)?
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1/2 lb sliced crimini mushrooms
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2 large cloves garlic minced
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1/4 cup flour
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon fresh ground pepper
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The Tower of Winds is a level that appears in Four Swords Adventures.[1]
The Tower is the last part of Frozen Hyrule and is accessed by gathering the four Royal Jewels that are guarded by Big Dark Stalfos. Unlike all other levels in the game, the tower is played almost entirely in a side-scrolling perspective, with the only top down perspective areas appearing on the Game Boy Advance screen. At the top, Frostare awaits, guarding Princess Zelda. After defeating Vaati, Ganon causes the tower to collapse, and the Links must guide Zelda safely to the exit.
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