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You must have heard about the latest 5G technology and how it will revolutionize how we use the internet and how we live. The 5G updates will lunch us into the IoT era, where almost everything from the automated car, alarm system, and most daily activities will be automated online.
However, the technology is at its infant stage, but we need to understand and prepare for it. You should contact reliable internet services companies from Britianreviews.co.uk, where you can get customer reviews and learn more about their services. To be precise, you should see for software development services reviews where you find companies that will help you manage your devices' connectivity.
Furthermore, there are certain things you will need to know about 5G updates and how they will impact you and your living. Here are five things you will need to know about 5G updates as we come closer to the full internet of things.
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1. What is 5G?
People have been using the term 5G without actually knowing what it stands for and its meaning. The 5G network was not named arbitrarily, but it is the fifth generation of the network standard. The first generation was the 1G network which is the slowest and outdated network. It had been developed to the fifth generation, which is the fastest. It is simply a wireless networking standard developed over time, and the 5G is the latest wireless network.
2. Why 5G network?
You may wonder why we need a 5G network and what is the use of the network? The usability of the 5G network depends on the purpose. While some may translate it to faster download and device connection, others see it as the possibilities of developing self-driving cars, flying cars, the improvement of Artificial intelligence AI and much more. As you can see, the 5G network promises will take the world to another new stage of development. Read reviews about the usefulness of the 5G technology from places available to learn more about it.
3. How does the 5G works?
You may have been wondering how the 5G work does differently from other available networks. To avoid all the technical jargons that will further confuse you, let's keep it simple and direct by explaining it will work at a higher frequency, superseding the limitation the previous network was operating on.
4. Who is making the 5G network?
Forget all the conspiracy theory that is going on, but anyone can develop the 5G technology. All the big telecommunication industry is actually in the game of producing their 5G technology. This will help to improve their product or services, thus big players like AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile, and much more. With this understanding, you will know that it is only a matter of time before the 5G technology will be everywhere, and you have to use it.
5. When will the technology be available?
There is much work to get the technology available globally, and the different organizations are in their race to get it to their customers. Getting the technology will depend on your providers, location, and closeness to urban areas. However, some other factors will affect the availability of 3G technology in your locality, such as acceptance. Some places will start using the technology, while others are not ready to accept it.
There is no disputing that the 5G technology will impact our lives in many ways. However, people are still unaware of the basis of technology and its positive impact. Get to read customer reviews about online internet services as they anticipate the technology to get prepared.


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Although the Microsoft Office 15 Technical Preview is a desktop app at heart, it's got Metro running through its veins.
That's the main takeaway from Paul Thurrott's extensive overview of the Microsoft Office 15 Technical Preview. The preview is in private beta, with its users bound to a non-disclosure agreement, but Thurrott managed to get a copy of the software and posted lots of screenshots.
To be clear, the version of Office 15 that Thurrott examined is a desktop app. It runs in a window on the desktop and has traditional desktop icons when viewed through Windows 8's Metro Start screen. (In fact, it has 19 icons, one for each of Office's individual programs and utilities, though Thurrott thinks they'll get cleaned up for the final product.)
Still, Office 15 has plenty of Metro flavor, through the use of minimal colors, sharp edges and the same font that runs through the touch-optimized side of Windows 8. The "Ribbon," a strip of commands first introduced in Office 2007, returns in Office 15, but it's hidden by default, adding to the software's minimalist vibe.
The addition of Metro concepts isn't just about aesthetics; Office 15 also tries to introduce some ideas from Windows 8, such as the ability to connect web services such Microsoft's SkyDrive and Yahoo's Flickr. Office 2010 has cloud integration as well, but in Office 15, these web services take more of a central role, with icons for SkyDrive and other Web locations appearing alongside those for the local machine when saving and loading files.
Microsoft also tries to accommodate tablet users in the desktop version of Office 15 with a "touch mode" that increases the size of buttons and other elements. Users can also edit Word documents in full screen mode, which should prove helpful when a software keyboard is covering part of the screen.
Thurrott didn't drill too deeply into features, but has lots of screengrabs of the full Office suite, which you can check out at his blog.
Officially, Microsoft has said little about Office 15. The company has hinted that it will be a major overhaul, with PJ Hough, vice president of development for Office, calling it "the most ambitious undertaking yet for the Office Division." Still unknown is whether Microsoft will release a proper Metro-style app as part of Office 15.
Microsoft also hasn't announced a release date for the final version of Office 15. ZDNet's Mary Jo Foley has reported that the company is trying to finish Office 15 by year end, but the software could slip to 2013. In any case, expect a public beta–and the answers to many more questions revealed–during the summer.
Follow Jared on Twitter, Facebook or Google+ for even more tech news and commentary.

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Sovereign 1973 / Esoteric 2019
Traveling the days of freedom, English art-folk ensemble open up their dreams and find a new way to shine.
1973 was pivotal to this collective's creative development: having opened their scope to epic panoramas on "Prologue" a year earlier, after the original line-up's illusory dissolution, the quintet would define a different sort of grandeur on that record's follow-up and refine their sound once the classic quintet clicked into place. Intimate yet limitless, "Ashes Are Burning" sees the band embrace symphonic core of simple songs which convey natural wonders in every note – a logical progression from the instrumental palette where, in the absence of electric guitar, piano and bass bear the onus of a tune and pass it to vocals for melodies to fly while remaining tethered to earth in the most organic manner. Not for nothing the album begins with the prosaic notion of money and ends with poetic flame pointing to the future.
Beauty wraps around the listener's ears once the ripple and rumble of John Tout's ivories and Jon Camp's Rickenbacker, that Terry Sullivan's gong ushered in, bring to life the words and music by Betty Thatcher and Michael Dunford (the composer still transitioning from behind the scenes to the stage and, thus, not included in the cover photo) even before Annie Haslam's soprano soars out of silence to the skies on "Can You Understand" only to reach dramatic climax on the organ-elevated titular number, is seared with a highly charged solo courtesy of, rather appropriately in this context, WISHBONE ASH's Andy Powell. Such a span must require a lot of light and shade, and though "Carpet Of The Sun" will provide it in pop-colored spades, there's acoustic strum and sparse drums to keep up the momentum throughout, whereas synthesizers marry cosmic consciousness to baroque elegance. The ensemble's elegy is enhanced with strings and woodwind to stress serenity and thunder on the understated, if solemn, "Let It Grow" or the deeply spectral "At The Harbour" which mirrors "On The Frontier": a transparent piece that Jim McCarty, RENAISSANCE founder, had placed on the sole LP of his SHOOT project, enlivened here in the perfect blend of Haslam and Camp's voices.
As each composition taps into the heart of an entire day spent with the elements, "Ashes Are Burning" is as passionate and exquisite today as it was forty-odd years ago. The group presented fully fledged takes on five of the album's six tracks at De Lane Lea Studios, where they were laying it down, and would play three of those as late as 2017, yet all the songs became live favorites almost immediately, as suggested by this reissues' bonuses, a document of the band's BBC concert of 1974 – stripped of orchestra but ever stupendous, and revealing previously unheard details of the record's rich tapestry. That's the destiny of a masterpiece.


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There are several possible configurations of the event agent, controlled by the environmental variables:
When you install the Event agent, you have 2 options:
With the first option, you will install the 'lightweight' or 'dumb' agent, which forwards ALL the messages passing through it to an Event Manager.
Check "Get policies from a local DSB" then all messages from that agent will be sent to the manager, even after an 'opreload'. The message traffic will be high.
In that configuration, the following variables will be set:
CA_OPERA_NODE - <remote manager> CA_OPR_PROXY - unset CA_OPR_USEDB - <N>
With the second option, you will install the 'full' or 'smart' agent, that is able to process messages, execute actions on them and selectively forwards them to one or several event managers.
Uncheck "Get policies from a local DSB" then the local 'caoprdmn' will process local messages and selectively send some to the manager. Message traffic will be low.
In that configuration, the following variables will be set:
CA_OPERA_NODE - <local server> CA_OPR_PROXY - <remote manager>
When performing 'opreload', the agent will extract records from the database on the manager and build its own DSB.
Depending on the value of CA_OPR_USEDB, 'opreload' will or will not be called when starting the agent.
So, if CA_OPR_USEDB - string length 1, value <Y> the local DSB will be rebuilt from the remote database when the agent is (re)started.
If CA_OPR_USEDB - string length 1, value <N> the local existing DSB will just be read and loaded when the agent is (re)started.
Reloading the local DSB from either the remote DSB or the database is quite fast, generates little traffic, unless you do it very frequently, which is meaningless in production.
The 'smart agent' configuration will generate less network traffic than the 'dumb agent' configuration.


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Boatneck Wedge Dress - Punch
Regular price $81.50 Sale price
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Our new cotton slub jersey fabric is perfect for a t-shirt-style dress. It's slightly heavier, making this stretchy fabric soft - yet sturdy. This Boatneck Wedge Dress has extended shoulders, creating a relaxed fit throughout the body. The bottom hem has a ribbed trim and draws in slightly to create a wedge shape. This style is meant to be slightly oversized.
- 100% Cotton
- Length: 34.5" (size medium)
- Stretchy, medium-weight fabric
- Slightly oversized, easy fit
- Model wears size small
- Machine Wash Cold


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Sat, 28 March 2020
We wrap up our coverage of STAR TREK: Picard. PLUS: A PSA From Michael Rappaport!
Direct download: Picard_finale.mp3
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Wed, 25 March 2020
J&A review everything you should watch before streaming the entire season of STAR TREK Picard for FREE on CBS All Access. NO SPOILERS!
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Fri, 20 March 2020
Borg! Romulans! Plot holes! Picard faces challenges in PART 1 of his season finale! PLUS: Space Incest, Coronavirus, Masks, and more! Listen to TREKOFF!
Direct download: Penultimate_Picard.mp3
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Fri, 13 March 2020
We catch up on the last few eps of STAR TREK: Picard, including, Riker, Troi, Hugh, and Seven of Nine! PLUS: Discovery wraps S3 and Facebook feedback!
Direct download: Rikers_Pizza.mp3
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The Blood of the Lamb
The wages of sin is death. It's that serious to God.
For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
- Romans 6:23 (KJV)
From Leviticus we learn that the life of the flesh is in the blood (which is medically correct).
For the life of the flesh is in the blood: and I have given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls: for it is the blood that maketh an atonement for the soul.
- Leviticus 17:11 (KJV)
In other words, your blood is required for sinning.
And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission [of sin].
- Hebrews 9:22 (KJV)
God has also indicated that it is possible for someone else to shed their blood for our sins (die in our place that is).
For example, in the Old Covenant it was possible to transfer a person's sins onto an animal (say a sacrificial lamb), and then the sacrifice was slaughtered, and then the sins would be forgiven. However, God made it quite clear that the sacrifice had to be without spot (faultless in other words).
Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year: ye shall take it out from the sheep, or from the goats.
- Exodus 12:5 (KJV)
Animals weren't enough to forgive all our sins, and because every person on Earth has their own sins (faults), they couldn't be a sacrifice for someone else. The fallen state of mankind was so severe that even angels couldn't be a sacrifice for the sins of man. So God decided to do it Himself.
Jesus (the Son of God, but also fully human) then became the sacrifical Lamb of God that would take away our sin.
The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.
- John 1:29 (KJV)
Jesus never sinned and was truly without spot.
But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot.
- 1 Peter 1:19 (KJV)
If we believe that Jesus did this for us, that His Love reaches that far, then we are forgiven!!
Wherefore I say unto you, All manner of sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven unto men: but the blasphemy against the Holy Ghost shall not be forgiven unto men.
- Matthew 12:31 (KJV)
And our sins are forgotten.
I, even I, am he that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake, and will not remember thy sins.
- Isaiah 43:25 (KJV)
No more wrath from God on us.
Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him.
- Romans 5:9 (KJV)
We are truly redeemed.
In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace.
- Ephesians 1:7 (KJV)
By the blood of the Lamb.
But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.
- 1 John 1:7 (KJV)
However, if we do not believe that Jesus died for our sins (or if we don't think of ourselves as sinners to begin with), then the penalty of sin remains on us.
So it's either our blood, or the blood of Jesus that pays for the price of our sins. Your choice!
All you need to do is confess your sins, ask for forgiveness, and know that you are forgiven.
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
- 1 John 1:9 (KJV)


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Following the successful launch exhibitions last year, Manufacturing and Engineering North East is returning for more exhibitions on the 6th and 7th of July 2016 at the Metro Radio Arena in Newcastle.
More than 1,300 delegates turned out in force in 2015 for the two day event that was created by MA Exhibitions to allow people to review the diverse range of products, technology and processes available to Manufacturing and Engineering professionals.
This time around the agenda is set to be lead by the Secretary of State for urban agglomeration project Northern Powerhouse, James Wharton MP, who will be closing the conference on the 7th July from 2:15pm to 3pm.
So what can you be expecting to see this year? Well, the M&E North East website has confirmed that the workshops are set to include integrating manufacturing systems, new engineering design creativity techniques and a guide to getting the most out of your electric motors.
There will also be a chance to view Sunderland University's formula student 2016 entry ready for the IMechE Formula Student Competition held at Silverstone between the 13th and 17th of July later this year.
As well as this, the events main sponsor Japanese manufacturing giants FANUC will be bringing along the FANUC CR-35iA, the worlds first heavy lifting collaborative robot, who will be working in the foyer and will be sure to grab the visitors attention.
Chris Sumner, who is part of the robotics division at FANUC UK LTD, has described the North East as the Home to some of the world's leading manufacturers. FANUC already has an extensive customer base helping the region to maintain its manufacturing heritage.
You can also expect to see some new products from Electro Mechanical Systems LTD (EMS), and Stewart Goulding of EMS has said, EMS are looking forward to participating in the Manufacturing and Engineering North East show. After several successful Design shows at the Ricoh Arena we have been looking for the right opportunity to be able to present our range of high quality precision motors and drives to the Northern region of the UK and this show gives us just that opportunity.
So with plenty of exciting things on offer to view at the Manufacturing and Engineering North East exhibitions it seems like Newcastle will be set for an impressive couple of days in early July, with registration now open for people who are interested in the shows.


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Loan Originator Specializing in FHA Multifamily & Healthcare Lending
Angela Folkers is a Director of Mortgage Banking for FHA/HUD out of the Jupiter, FL office. With 16 years' FHA underwriting experience, Angela brings a unique background to loan originations, offering her expertise throughout the entire FHA loan process from engagement to closing. She specializes in both market rate and affordable transactions. Angela has developed and maintains strong relationships with HUD offices across the country.
Prior to joining Berkadia, she served as the Chief Underwriter at Love Funding for nearly six years overseeing both multifamily and healthcare underwriting. Angela's vast knowledge of HUD's standards, rules and regulations have assisted clients in closing over $1 billion in loan volume. She serves on two industry boards as the Vice President of the Healthcare Mortgagee Advisory Council and Secretary of the Southeastern Mortgagee Advisory Council.
Education & Certifications
- University of Georgia, BBA, Real Estate
- MAP Licensed
- CCIM Coursework
Affiliations & Memberships
- Vice President – HMAC
- Secretary – SMAC
- Member of Mortgage Banking Association


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You can use the standalone VMRC application to connect to client devices.
With VMRC, you can access the mouse and keyboard connected to remote virtual machines. To perform administrative tasks, you must log in to the VMRC as an administrator.
Verify that VMRC is installed on your local system. You can download the VMRC installer from the VMware website at http://www.vmware.com/go/download-vmrc.
- In the vSphere Web Client, navigate to a virtual machine in the inventory.
- On the Summary tab, click the gear icon and select Launch Remote Console.
A dialog box opens that requires you to confirm that you want to open the remote console
- In the Open VMware Remote Console dialog box, confirm that you want to open VMRC.
The VMRC opens as a standalone application for the selected virtual machine. You can also run more than one console to access remotely several virtual machines at the same time.


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Your privacy is important to us. Kamakura Foods Ltd. (referred to as "Wada Bento", "we", "us" or "our") is concerned to ensure that all data collected by Wada Bento is handled in strict compliance with the relevant provisions of the Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance (Cap. 486).
This Privacy Policy is designed to assist users in understanding how we collect, use, disclose and/or process the personal data users have provided us through our website and through our vending machines, as well as to help users make an informed decision before providing us with personal data.
Provision of Personal Data
Personal Data means any data relating directly or indirectly to a living individual from which it is practicable for the identity of the individual to be directly or indirectly ascertained and in a form in which access to or processing of the data is practicable.
Wada Bento collects personal data provided by user to Wada Bento such as during account creation.
- Personal data supplied by customers may be used for any of the following purposes and/or for other purposes as may be agreed between our customer and us and/or as required by law:
- registering, operating or maintaining customer account with us;
- purchasing goods and/or subscribing for services rendered by us;
- facilitating and following up customer transactions with us, including but not limited to processing of any payment instructions, and customer enquiries to us;
- marketing of goods and/or services and/or upcoming events of us, our parent company and/or its respective subsidiaries and/or affiliated companies and/or our business partner;
- conducting data analysis and research to improve our products, services, advertising and customer communications;
- enabling us to comply with our obligations, to communicate with customers or to comply with industry practices; and/or
- serving any purposes relating to any of the foregoing.
- We will not store any personal details related to customers bank or credit or debit card or Octopus details used when purchasing goods through Wada Bento services. Payments for purchases will be completed through third-party payment platforms. Customer banking details will not be shared with Wada Bento.
- For purchases made through Octopus or credit or debit card, we store the card number used for the purchase to assess how often one customer purchases from Wada Bento services.
- We promise to implement appropriate technical and organisational measures for ensuring that only personal data which are necessary for each specific purpose of the processing are processed. We shall implement data protection impact assessment which include:
- consideration of how personal data will be processed and for what purposes;
- assessment of whether the proposed processing of personal data is both necessary and proportionate to the purpose(s);
- assessment of the risks to individuals in processing the personal data;
- use of techniques such as data minimisation and pseudonymisation will be considered where applicable and appropriate.
- We will not release personal data supplied by customers to third parties except in accordance with the Ordinance or in the event of such release is requested by:
- governmental and/or regulatory and/or statutory authorities and/or court orders in compliance with applicable laws; or
- third party service providers which provide supporting services to us; who (i) are under duty of confidentiality to us with respect to the use, hold, process, retain and/or transfer of personal data supplied by customers; and (ii) have the need to know or handle such personal data; or
- third party buyers or assignees in the event of a reorganisation, merger, or sale of us.
- Personal data supplied by customers may be provided to third parties for direct marketing activities (i.e. cross-marketing) only in accordance with the requirements set out under the Ordinance.
Non-personal Data
- We collect non-personal data when users visit and use our website, such data is entirely anonymous, and it is not practicable to identify the individual from the data. We use an independent third-party company to measure and analyse usage across our website.
The data is aggregated for statistical analysis to collect information on the usage of our website.
- We collect non-personal data when users visit and use our vending machines; such data is entirely anonymous and is not practicable to identify individual customers from the data. We use that data to measure and analyse customer purchasing behaviour.
We analyse customer behaviour visiting or using our vending machines by using non-facial recognition-based video analysis.
- The technology we use extracts the information on customer behaviour from the video image in real-time.
- The attributes about customers extracted from the non-facial-based video is limited to perceived age group.
- The video is at no point stored by Wada Bento, and the information collected is anonymous and does not enable us to identify individual customers.
- The information only provides us with anonymous information on customer purchasing behaviour.


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Hi all!
For this week's homework, I decided to rig up the temperature sensor circuit (Exercise 10) found in our Ardunio handbook.
Since all it did at first was read the ambient room temperature, I had to make sure it actually worked. Thus, I busted out the heat gun to do battle.
As you can see below, my code won.
I'm really excited to see how this sensor could be used to add functionality to our next round of objects/products!


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State Representative Theresa Conroy (D-Seymour) is vying to renew her seat in the 105th Assembly District in the November elections and will be opposed by Leonard Greene Jr., the son of the man she succeeded.
Conroy and Greene Jr. don't see eye to eye on many issues, and they, like their parties, could not differ more about the past two years in the district, which includes Beacon Falls.
Greene cited Conroy's representation of the district in her first term and the votes she has cast—particularly those influencing the state budget—as his major reasons for wanting to oppose her in the coming election.
"I really think she hasn't been as effective as she could have been," Greene said. "I've been very disappointed in her voting, and she really didn't do much in her time in Hartford."
Conroy defended her position, acknowledging that she was just a "freshman" in her first season in Hartford but has put forth a very strong effort.
"I think there is no substance to put behind those words," Conroy said regarding Greene's remarks. "Lenny is young; I don't feel he has a lot in leadership experience. He's more of a political person coming from a political machine background. I'm very proud of the record that I can stand on. I am not a perfect politician; this is my first time out in politics, but I give my heart and soul and I don't think that many other politicians would be able to say and prove what I've done in their first term."
Beacon Falls Republican Town Committee Chairman John Blesse was equally critical of Conroy's purported accomplishments.
"One thing you try to measure is, 'What have we done since you took office from a business perspective,'" Blesse said. "If we look in the 105th, there's a solid argument that not only have we not brought jobs into the area, but I would bet when the report comes out we've lost quite a lot of jobs in the past few years. So I really can't point to a lot of accomplishments that I think were stellar in her first term."
As one might expect, the Democrats in Beacon Falls reiterated Conroy's stance and reputed Republicans' charges that she has been an ineffective leader.
"Honestly, they don't know what they're talking about," Democratic Town Committee Chairman Katherine Grace said. "She has accomplished so many things that I'm flabbergasted that they would say such a thing. To say something like that is really and truly ridiculous. She got much more accomplished than I could imagine, and I think that's because she's has been working at it full time and not holding another job like many of the others do."
As much as either party might seek to inflate or deflate Conroy's record over the past few years, some things cannot be overlooked. In her time as a state representative she has helped save money for the Beacon Falls town library and removed the responsibility to evict residents and store their belongings from the town to the state, saving the town money.
She is also on the health care and veteran committees in Hartford, and has increased funding for elderly and veterans. She has chaired a task force for victims of domestic violence, which has developed a rule saying there now must be 24-hour coverage at shelters to protect victims against their abusers.
Greene may not posses the experience Conroy can boast, but he does have a political pedigree.
Greene's father Leonard Greene, Sr. served as the 105th district state representative for 12 years, until Conroy was elected in 2008. The younger Greene was constantly exposed to politics, and some feel his political upbringing will work in his favor.
"I think at the end of the day he grew up in an environment where he understood how government works and was around it for 12 years, said Blesse. "I would certainly think that what his father was able to accomplish in those twelve years, and Len's ability to hear his father and know what his father was doing in that period would be a benefit to anyone."
The elder Greene has been a big influence on his son's life and his campaign, but Greene the candidate feels people will look past his father's career and judge him on the body of work that he has put forward.
"Dad is the biggest influence in my life," Greene, Jr. said. "He has been guiding me through this process and has been very active in the campaign. I think it helps me, but I would like to think that the people of the 105th will have the opportunity to choose who they want to vote for based on the issues and based on what they think of myself and the opponent rather than what they thought of my father."
Greene Jr.'s hope that people will look past his father's record may very well be beneficial to him, as some believe Greene, Sr. did very little for the 105th Assembly District in his tenure as state representative.
"When talking with people they would say, 'I like Lenny, Sr., but he really didn't do much,'" Conroy said. "There was always that caveat, 'I like Lenny, but. …' At least now they can say they like me and can see I'm doing work."
Grace echoed Conroy's opinion, adding, "Lenny Greene, Sr. is a very nice person but in all honesty we never had anything even close to Theresa when he was representing us," said Grace. "We didn't have him calling us back, he didn't come to any of our functions, and it was almost like he was representing us in name only. I don't think his father being in office gives him any kind of an edge at all."
It is clear to both candidates that spending must be slashed significantly at every level, and that those cuts will affect the people of Beacon Falls, Seymour and Ansonia. Drastic cuts to the state budget were made over the past several years, but are anticipated to cut deeper still in coming years.
"The major things we will need address are budget process and the economy," Conroy said. "The next two years are not going to be easy. We're going to have to make some serious, serious cuts. We cut over $3 billion out of the budget last time; this time though it's going to hurt even more when we have to do it. There's no way around it, though."
Greene feels the budget can be addressed by reducing the size of government and looking at what it's doing in a more sensible manner.
"We need to approach state government with common sense and responsibility and try to make sure that we stay out of people's pockets as much as we can," Greene said.


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@article {1770, title = {Smart Control of Operational Threats in Control Substations}, journal = {Computers \& Security}, volume = {38}, year = {2013}, month = {OCT 2013}, pages = {14-27}, publisher = {Elsevier}, abstract = {
Any deliberate or unsuitable operational action in control tasks of critical infrastructures, such as energy generation, transmission and distribution systems that comprise sub-domains of a Smart Grid, could have a significant impact on the digital economy: without energy, the digital economy cannot live. In addition, the vast majority of these types of critical systems are configured in isolated locations where their control depends on the ability of a few, supposedly trustworthy, human operators. However, this assumption of reliabilty is not always true. Malicious human operators (criminal insiders) might take advantage of these situations to intentionally manipulate the critical nature of the underlying infrastructure. These criminal actions could be not attending to emergency events, inadequately responding to incidents or trying to alter the normal behaviour of the system with malicious actions. For this reason, in\ this paper we propose a smart response mechanism that controls human operators{\textquoteright} operational threats at all times. Moreover, the design of this mechanism allows the system to be able to not only evaluate by itself, the situation of a particular scenario but also to take control when areas are totally unprotected and/or isolated. The response mechanism, which is based on Industrial Wireless Sensor Networks (IWSNs) for the constant monitoring of observed critical\ infrastructures, on reputation for controlling human operators{\textquoteright} actions, and on the ISA100.11a standard for alarm management, has been implemented and simulated to evaluate its feasibility for critical contexts.}, keywords = {Digital Economy, Energy Control Systems, Reputation, security, Smart grids, wireless sensor networks}, issn = {0167-4048}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cose.2013.03.013}, url = {http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167404813000588}, author = {Javier Lopez and Cristina Alcaraz and Rodrigo Roman} }


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About Wood|Species
With its distinct fruit, the acorn, and spiraling leaf pattern, the Oak tree is easily identified. However these similarities are only a few, in a diverse species whose terrain spans from cool to tropical latitudes. A member of the Beech Family and the genus Quercus, the oaks comprise a vast group, with approximately 450 cataloged species throughout the world. There is dispute as to the exact number recognized by horticulturalist trades as there is a high rate of hybridization. They are characterized by alternating, simple, deciduous or evergreen leaves with lobed, toothed, or entire margins, and are primarily trees, however there are some shrubs, mostly dependent upon habitat and growing conditions. Most, but not all, prefer deep, moist, well-drained soils, which are often fairly acidic and nutrient-deficient.
Primarily plants of the Northern Hemisphere, oaks are found in the temperate and tropical regions of southeastern Asia, Central and South America. Between 75 and 80 of these species are native to North America, with about half as trees. The flowers are called catkins, a narrow cluster with inconspicuous petals, which blooms in mid-spring. Interestingly it is this wind-pollination that allows the oaks to interbreed fairly freely where their canopies overlap, the offspring of which generally displaying traits of both parents. From the borders of swamps to dry uplands, the oak tree can be found in a variety of shapes and habitats.
The oaks of North America are distinguished into two groups by easily identifiable characteristics in bark, leaf, and acorn. The primary difference between these groups is the length of time for an acorn to mature, one season or two. The annual-fruiting trees have leaves with rounded lobes and generally pale bark. These are the White Oaks. The Black Oaks are biennial fruiting, whose leaves have lobes that end in angles and bristly tips. Their bark is also darker, as name suggests, although this should not be used as the only determining characteristic.
Quercus alba, White Oak
An important economic tree since colonial times, this species of oak was once extensively used in shipbuilding and is currently the major source of wood for cooperage. It is also highly valued in the construction of furniture, flooring, and caskets. Slow-growing and difficult to transplant, this long-lived tree reaches an average height of 100 ft (30 m) during its 600 year life span. This species tends to establish itself after disturbances, such as fire, however it is slowly being replaced as seedlings cannot persist in the shade of the canopy. With a wide, straight trunk, this tree grows well in both forested and open conditions. A dominant tree in many hardwood plant communities it can be found from southeastern Quebec to Maine, down into northwestern Florida and west into Texas, anywhere from sea level to 5,900 ft (1,800 m). It grows best on deep, well-drained and moist loams, but can be found on a variety of soils, including gravelly and rocky terrain provided they are also well-drained where roots can grow deep. The pale brown wood distinctly shows narrow annual rings comprised of two bands. A coarse and porous "spring wood," followed by a narrower band of find, close-grained summer growth.
Quercus rubra, Northern Red Oak
Important for timber production in the United States, the Northern Red Oak is the only member of the Red Oak-Black Oak subgenus to be used commercially. This oak tree with bristly lobed leaves which turn red in the fall is often found in pure strands and common in many forested habitats. This is tree is native to the northern part of the US and ranges from Oklahoma to Georgia. While this tree grows best on deep, fertile, well-drained but moist, and fine-textured soils, it can be found in a variety of other conditions. One of the fastest growing oaks, this tree usually attains heights of 90 ft (27 m), although it may reach 160 ft (49 m) depending. Under optimal growing conditions, a 10-year-old tree can be 15-20 ft tall. This characteristic is a boon for the lumber industry as its wood is highly prized. Red oaks are a generally long-lived species, up to 500 years, as such they persist in well-established forests despite being only moderately shade-tolerant.
Quercus macrocarpa, Bur Oak
Though slightly darker, this wood is classified with the White Oak and contains the same desirable qualities that are pleasing to the eye. A rugged and ragged tree comparatively, the wood is tough and strong, durable wherever needed. This tenacious species has a range from Nova Scotia to Montana, growing in long tracks, and thrives in the arid soil of Nebraska and Dakota. Often found near waterways and an integral part of the eastern prairie ecology, this tree typically grows away from the forest canopy. One of the most massive oaks with a trunk diameter of up to 10 ft (3 m), this deciduous tree quite easily grows to 100 ft (30 m). It is one of the slowest growing oaks, with a rate of 1 ft (30 cm) when young and commonly lives to be between 200 and 300 years old. The leaves are 3-6 in long and about as broad, with a lobed margin. The acorns produced by the Bur Oak are the largest of any North American oak. Suited to urban conditions, this tree is one of the most fire-tolerant of the species.
Quercus prinus, Chestnut Oak
Unlike other White Oaks, the bark of this tree is dark in colour and deeply fissured. This richness is caused by a store of tannin in the bark and is often used to tan leather. Heavy and durable in soil, this close-grained wood is adaptable and well suited for outdoor applications. The leaves of this oak are 5 to 9 in long, coarsely toothed and appear in outline and size like those of the Chestnut tree. Native to the eastern United States, this is an important ridge-top tree, from southern Maine to central Mississippi. In the appropriate growing conditions that allow for a long straight trunk, the wood of this tree can be very valuable. However as a consequence of its generally dry habitat and ridge-top exposure these trees typically reach a height of 60-70 ft (18-22 m).
Quercus platanoides, Swamp White Oak
One of the more important White Oaks for lumber production, this lowland tree is most common in western New York and northern Ohio, where it reaches its largest size. It can also be found from Quebec to Kansas and thrives in a variety of temperatures and habitats. It prefers to stand in wet ground, and is often found in swamps, although not where flooding is permanent. Typically growing 65-80 ft (20-25 cm) tall, with a trunk diameter of 2-4 ft, this tree can reach 300 years in age. The leaves are broad and shallowly lobed, with five to seven lobes on each side. In autumn they turn yellow-brown and sometimes reddish. Lumber from this oak is light to medium brown, with some variation in colour. This hard, durable species has a fairly coarse grain and has a high resistance to decay.
Quercus garryana, Pacific Post Oak
The only native oak in British Columbia, this trees terrain follows the valleys of the Coast Range into the Santa Cruz Mountains. Drought tolerant and fire resistant, this variety grows nearly 100 ft (30 m) high with a broad, compact crown, or as a shrub depending on conditions. The leaves are dark green and coarsely lobed turning the occasional bright scarlet in autumn. Employed in the manufacture of wagons and furniture, from ship-building to cooperage, this wood is hard, strong, tough, and close-grained.
Quercus agrifolia, California Oak
Also called the Coast Live Oak, this Evergreen Oak (highly variable and often shrubby), is native to the California Floristic Province. It grows west of the Sierra Nevada from Mendocino County, California and south to northern Baja California in Mexico. It is classified in the red oak section (Quercus sect. Lobatae). This species is commonly sympatric with Canyon Live Oak, and the two may be hard to distinguish because their spinose leaves are superficially similar. Coast Live Oak is the only California native oak that actually thrives in the coastal environment, although it is rare on the immediate shore; it enjoys the mild winter and summer climate afforded by ocean proximity, and it is somewhat tolerant of aerosol-borne sea salt. The coastal fog supplies relief from the rainless California summer heat.
Quercus robur, Pedunculate Oak, French Common Oak
One of two predominant species in the region, this tree can be found in long stands across Europe, from Ireland through France to the Caucasus and north to Scandinavia. Even 500 years ago, one third of Great Britain was still covered in oak forests. Flowering takes place in mid spring and its acorns, grown on long stalks amidst small and bunched leaf clusters, ripen by the following autumn. It is reference to these stalks that give this oak its unique common name. Reaching heights of 50 ft (15 m), these trees grow long and straight with trunk diameters up to 6 ft. When grown in the open they have broad and spreading, angular branches that form the crown. They are fairly hearty and do well transplanted, given appropriate care and conditions, and thrive in any fertile, well-drained soil, with sun or partial shade. A popular tree for English parks and often-romanticized in literature, these trees can easily exceed 500 years of age. The English Oak is planted for forestry, and produces a long-lasting and durable heartwood, which is highly prized for interior and furniture work.
English Brown Oak
From the coronation throne of the English monarchy to American courthouses, English Brown Oak is as durable as it is beautiful. While location and mineral content often affect not only a trees growth but also its appearance, the fungus Fistulina hepatica causes this unique colouration in European species of oak. Commonly known as beefsteak fungus, it attacks susceptible trees of both Q. robur and Q. patraea, eventually turning the heartwood a rich butternut brown with distinctive markings. This affects approximately 1 in every 500 oaks across Europe, and despite what the common name suggests, the best examples often come from forests in Germany. The drying process can be a bit tedious, however once it is finished the fungus is completely dead, leaving the desirable heartwood sturdy and intact. High in tannins, which can corrode some metal fasteners, this wood is moderately decay resistant when used in outdoor projects. Its fine grain is also easy to work, with both hand and power tools.
Quercus petraea, Sessile Oak, French White Oak, Durmast Oak, Spessart Oak
A large, deciduous tree, the Sessile Oak grows from 65-130 ft and is similar to Q. robur in growth habits, with which it overlaps extensively in range, although extending further into France. There are however, significant botanical differences, larger stalked leaves, which are dispersed evenly throughout the branches and the stalkless (sessile) acorns, from which one of its common names is derived. This tree also tends to occur more abundantly in upland locations, nearly 1000 ft (300 m) above sea level, with higher rainfall and comparatively shallow, acidic, and sandy soils. In France these trees grow primarily in the forests of Allier, Limousin, Nevers, Troncais and Vosges and in Belgium.
These trees often exceed a couple of centuries in age. The wood, traditionally used for shipbuilding, is important for a number of applications, particularly timber framing and oak barrels.
Spessart Oak
The finest "French Oak" actually comes from the Spessart forest in Germany, where conditions are favorable for the growth of magnificent white oak trees. This forest has been tended for over 150 years, meticulously allowing for oak protection and growth as it takes a minimum of 300 years before a Spessart Oak is mature enough to harvest. The average growth of these trees is 20 to 30 growth rings per inch, creating a very fine tight-grained texture. The soil in Spessart is predominately red sandstone, with no minerals to stain the wood, and is well drained. Only three cubic meters from each hectare are harvested a year to prevent from degrading the resource. It is this long range view of forestry that allows Spessart to continue to provide a high quality, albeit limited resource for lumber.
Quercus mongolica, Mongolian Oak, Japanese Oak
This species of oak is native to most of eastern Asia and spans a vast region including both of its namesakes, most of northern and central China, and other small islands of the region. As its terrain suggests, this species of oak can withstand temperatures down to 5�F (-15�C) and prefers fertile, moist, well-drained soil, and like most oaks, is only partially shade tolerant. The dark-green leaves are 8 in (20 cm) or more and are borne in dense clusters at the ends of branches, which can grow to a span of 50 ft (15 m). The rounded crown of branches adorns sturdy trunks that can reach 70 ft (20 m) in forest conditions. Japanese Oak is a moderately light fine-grained wood and used in a number of applications.
The usefulness of the oak is well known and its praises have been sung as far back as the mid-400s B.C.E . As Heroditus, the father of ancient history recorded, "oak trees...have within their boughs, the gift of prophecy." Purportedly, at least, or perhaps it is their versatility and breadth, not only of terrain but subtlety of species, that lends itself to the majesty of the oak. The oak is a common symbol of strength and endurance and is the national tree of many countries and many coat-of-arms. The oldest of these trees are around 1500 years old, found in both Europe and the Americas. One such example, nicknamed Kongeegen (King Oak), in Denmark is estimated to be between 1500 and 2000 years. Even the Latin name Quercus is in reference to its usefulness. From the word," to eat", we are reminded not only of its importance to small woodland creatures, but also of the indigenous foragers who included acorns as a staple of their diet.


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Barcelona have reportedly made Ousmane Dembele a new offer after meeting with the forward's agent on Monday at the club.
Moussa Sissoko was spotted at Barcelona earlier in the day and was presumably at the club to talk about Dembele given the Frenchman's contract expires in a matter of days.
It's now being reported that Dembele has a "new offer" from Barcelona that is "lower" than the club's previous proposal made back in December. However, the Catalans are "confident" he will accept the renewal because his priority is to stay, according to RAC1.
There's a similar update from Cope who report "Dembelé has nothing signed with another team" and his "first wish" has always been to stay at Barcelona. Cope also reckon we are now heading for some "key hours" in this long-running saga.
Perhaps most fun of all is a little update from Gerard Romero too. He reckons the new offer does not include a renewal bonus for Dembele's agent either.
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Workouts for at home: Tips for beginners & exercises without equipment
Especially in times when we are all more at home and work from home, the question arises how we can best keep ourselves physically fit. Of course, this requires discipline and ambition, but with the right exercises, sport at home is really fun. In addition, you save a lot of money and the pressure – having to drive to the gym – is eliminated. Instead, you can flexibly choose when you want to train. It is important to note the necessary motivation that you need to have in order to consistently stay on the ball and pull yourself together. Here we have the perfect exercises for you, which you can easily do at home without equipment. Whether you are a beginner, beginner or advanced: We have the perfect training for everyone free of charge, if you want to lose weight or simply get fitter. Questions about the right nutrition and correspondingly good cookbooks we have clarified one of our further articles. Feel free to stop by there as well.
The best, free workouts without equipment for home: From beginners to professionals
There are a lot of advantages to a workout at home. You can flexibly decide when you and what you want to train. So you are not bound to opening hours that you have to follow your daily schedule. So if it's not jumping workouts where you might disturb your fellow men from below, you can do your fitness program at any time of the day or night. And you don't have to wait at any machines because people are already using them.
Train your entire body: Here it depends on the inner bastard
The most important thing you need is discipline. You need to keep at it and motivate yourself every day. Even if it is hard, you should always have your goal in mind. If you want to train your whole body, here is a total body workout in 30 minutes. Sascha Huber will train the whole body with you step by step, so that you feel every part of your body after 30 minutes. As motivation you can see the relatively short time span in which you can very productively exhaust your whole body.
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Training sessions: What productive workouts are there for at home that are easy to do without equipment?
Sixpack Workout: Reach your goal without equipment
If you want to focus more on training your abdominal muscles, you can follow this eight-minute abdominal workout. It shows how you can quickly and efficiently train the region of the abdomen without the need for any additional equipment. Join in and hold out. If you think about how fast eight minutes can be done, this should be motivation and incentive enough.
Back training: An accentuated back can be delightful
A good musculature in the back is decisive for a very good overall fitness. So if you want to focus on your back in one day, you can do so easily and, above all, quickly. Again, you don't need anything except a portion of discipline and motivation. The back training shows you how to train the upper back, the latissimus (large back muscle), the back shoulder and the trapezius muscle (muscles on both sides of the spine) with six exercises and again without any equipment. Targeted back training not only strengthens the back, but has a positive effect on the entire body. Always remember that the body is a coherent organism, whose elements should be trained immediately.
Exercises for strong legs: Anyone can do it!
The legs are still missing at the end of the exercise. After all, they are part of our body too, right? They carry us wherever we want, so we should train them too to make them even stronger. Sometimes you only need a pole to lean on or a chair to support. So you have no reason not to go through this workout with four exercises.
This is how the stars train: Henry Cavill, Chris Hemsworth & Co.
How do the stars actually train? Do they have other workouts than we do? Have a look at what we found. From Henry Cavill, Chris Hemsworth to Tom Ellis.
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He doesn't cut a bad figure in the movie "Witcher". You can see what workout he's doing in this video.
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His personal trainer explains in the video which exercises Chris has to do for certain film roles.
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He explains to us in this video himself which workout plan he follows to get such a well-trained body like he has one.


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March 27, 2018 – A Letter of Acceptance, Waiver and Consent (AWC) was issued in which Ketner was fined $5,000, suspended from association with any FINRA member in all capacities for two months and ordered to pay $1,054.33, plus interest, in restitution to a customer. Without admitting or denying the findings, Ketner consented to the sanctions and to the entry of findings that he engaged in an unsuitable pattern of short-term trading of unit investment trusts (UITs) in connection with the accounts of customers. The findings stated that Ketner repeatedly recommended that these customers sell these products well before their maturity dates. The majority of the UITs that Ketner recommended had maturity dates of at least 24 months and carried sales charges ranging from 1.95 percent to 3.95 percent. Nevertheless, Ketner repeatedly recommended that his customers sell their UIT positions less than a year after purchase. The average holding period for the UITs recommended by Ketner was 195 days. In addition, Ketner recommended on multiple occasions that a customer use the proceeds from the short-term sale of a UIT to purchase another UIT with identical investment objectives. The suspension is in effect from April 16, 2018, through June 15, 2018. (FINRA Case #2016050823601). If you or someone you know has lost money investing with Mark Ketner, call the experienced attorneys at Epperson & Greenidge at 877-445-9261 for a free consultation. You may be eligible to recoup your losses. Epperson & Greenidge accepts all cases on a contingency basis: we only get paid if and when you collect money. Time to file your claim may be limited, so we encourage you to avoid delay. Call 877-445-9261 now to speak to an attorney for free.


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South Africa Arrests And Deports Zimbabweans Amid Riots
The South African government has intensified a crackdown on Zimbabweans living in that country without proper documentation.
On Tuesday the South African police vans offloaded over a hundred Zimbabwean deportees at the Beitbridge Quarantine Center. The deportees were rounded up in the Limpopo Province as the neighbouring country insists this is a move to decongest its prisons and migrants holding facilities to minimize Covid-19 infections. It is estimated that every week, SA is deporting, on average, 100 Zimbabweans through the Beitbridge border crossing.
But since last Thursday, a record 220 individuals comprising several alleged criminals, overstayers and undocumented individuals — were dispatched from the Lindela Detention Centre in Johannesburg.
This was revealed by Zimbabwe's consul-general in Johannesburg, Melody Chaurura.
Between March and June this year, 18,000 Zimbabweans have been deported from SA, Eswatini and Lesotho through the Beitbridge border. There are fears that in the midst of the Riots, Zimbabweans, Mozambiquans and other foreign nationals are being unfairly blamed for most of the looting as an excuse to trigger xenophopic attacks.
Botswana is carrying out a similar exercise. Border control officials between Botswana and Zimbabwe at Ramokgwebana say they receive large numbers of illegal immigrants from Zimbabwe daily.
Meanwhile, Rioting and looting in South Africa continued yesterday, raising the death toll to at least 75 as protesters clash with police. In the country's worst unrest in years, looters vandalised shopping malls, other retail outlets and businesses in the province of Gauteng, which includes the country's largest city of Johannesburg. Security forces seemed unable to prevent the looting and attacks, which also occurred in Zuma's home province, KwaZulu-Natal and in Soweto.
Police Minister Bheki Cele said at a news conference that 757 people had been arrested and warned that people would not be allowed "to make a mockery of our democratic state."
Major General Mathapelo Peters form the South African Defence Forces said many of the deaths were caused by stampedes of people when shops were being looted. He added that
27 deaths are being investigated in KwaZulu-Natal province and 45 in Gauteng province as the military struggles to quell the rioting despite using stun grenades and rubber bullets.
Ten people were crushed to death in a stampede during a mass looting at Ndofaya shopping centre in Gauteng, South Africa's most populous province which includes the largest city, Johannesburg.
Major Peters said officers were investigating fatalities from crushing, as well as deaths caused by explosions when people tried to break into cashpoints, and other fatalities caused by shootings.
Thousands of people have stolen food, electric appliances, alcohol and clothing from retail centres, vehicles have been burned, businesses vandalised and debris left strewn across roads.
Troops could be seen moving in to flashpoints on Wednesday morning as outnumbered police seemed helpless to prevent attacks and looting on businesses in Zuma's home province KwaZulu-Natal and in Gauteng province, where the country's biggest city, Johannesburg, is located. Columns of armoured personnel carriers rolled down highways. In some areas of the coastal city of Durban where shops were being looted, there was no police visibility.
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We have recently compared a number of macrophage functions in newborn and adult mice. In the adult, the most efficient resistance against Listeria infection requires a number of macrophage-T lymphocyte interactions which ultimately result in activated macrophages which eliminate the bacteria. A subpopulation of adult macrophages are distinguished by the presence of cell-surface, immune-response-gene-associated (Ia) antigens. These macrophages ingest and then 'present' antigen to and thus activate T lymphocytes. Extensive in vitro experiments have shown that T lymphocyte activation requires both antigen and Ia-bearing macrophages. Ia-negative macrophages are not involved in this process. The T lymphocyte thus stimulated secretes lymphokines which then activate macrophages to acquire bactericidal and tumoricidal activity. In contrast to the adult mouse, essentially no Ia-bearing antigen presenting macrophages can be found in the neonatal spleen and peritoneal cavity. Neonatal and adult macrophages were similar in all other examined aspects - phagocytic activity, cytocidal function after lymphokine stimulation, and interleukin-1 secretion after exposure to endotoxin. The absence of Ia-bearing macrophages in neonates would be expected to contribute to their increased susceptibility to Listeria. The absence of Ia-bearing macrophages in the neonate is not the result of any intrinsic defects in these cells, as they can be made to express Ia in vitro. Nor is the deficit in Ia-bearing macrophages due to the hyporeactivity of neonatal helper T lymphocytes as adult athymic mice have significant numbers of Ia-bearing macrophages. Neonatal splenocytes or their conditioned media inhibit macrophage Ia expression when transferred into adult mice. The suppressor cell appears to be an immature phagocyte. Its inhibitory activity was abolished by indomethacin, suggesting it exerted its inhibitory influence via arachidonic acid metabolites. In fact, PGE2 inhibits macrophage Ia expression in vitro.
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This is a McCormick Care Group – COVID-19 Update for Tuesday, September 7, 2021.
A reminder to all families that residents in Memory Lane and Evergreen Walk as well any staff members who worked in those home areas between August 29 and September 1, 2021, will have a second PCR test completed on Wednesday, September 8, 2021.
Pending no new cases, the outbreak will be over for these two remaining home areas on Saturday, September 11, 2021.
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It's no secret that I have been on a bit of a fitness journey for the last few months. I am delighted with how much better I feel about myself – I look more like the 'old' me and I feel fitter and stronger than ever before.
However, we're currently in the depths of half term and I have four kids to entertain at home as well as all the usual household jobs that still need doing. Somedays I can feel that shouty, hormonal, postpartum mum coming back to haunt me. Small problems seem like massive issues and I get angry at the drop of a hat. I have been thinking about my mental health more and how to improve and protect it.
I make so much effort to stay fit and healthy and yet I let my brain turn into a pile of mush daily. My mental health gets placed at the bottom of the pile and I hope I don't completely lose it before bedtime. So, with this in mind, it made me think about ways I can be more mindful.
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I've always quite enjoyed my own company but I am rarely alone these days and it makes me feel quite mentally jumbled. My thoughts are always interrupted by someone or something. To sit in peace and quiet would be a welcome break. Obviously spa days are amazing and a great way to shut off from the world but it could be as simple as sitting in the car and reading.
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My blog and my You Tube channel are how I like to express myself creatively. I have always been a bit creative and enjoyed subjects such as art, English and music at school. I don't have as much time for it as I'd like at the moment and sometimes that frustrates me more than I realise. However, with the smallest children soon starting pre-school and nursery I am hoping I can pour a little more of myself into something I love.
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I know it's a cliché but being outside really does do wonders for your mental health. As the weather has turned a little warmer recently I have been doing some of my runs outside and it's my favourite part of the day. I can pop my headphones in, I have no-one needing my attention and I can think about everything and anything. When the girls were smaller I used to just enjoy a walk with the pram. However, since they can now talk the hind legs off a donkey and run as fast as Mo Farah it's not quite the relaxing experience it used to be.


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Topographic information improves simulated patterns of post-fire conifer regeneration in the southwest United States. Global Change Biology . 2023.
An ecological perspective on living with fire in ponderosa pine forests of Oregon and Washington: Resistance, gone but not forgotten. Trees, Forests and People. 2021;4. An ecological perspective on living with fire in ponderosa pine forests of Oregon and Washington.pdf (9.05 MB)
High-severity wildfire reduces richness and alters composition of ectomycorrhizal fungi in low-severity adapted ponderosa pine forests. Forest Ecology and Management. 2021;485. pnw_2021_pulido-chavez001.pdf (1.77 MB).
Repeated fall prescribed fire in previously thinned Pinus ponderosa increases growth and resistance to other disturbances. Forest Ecology and Management. 2021;480. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2020.118645..
Repeated fall prescribed fire in previously thinned Pinus ponderosa increases growth and resistance to other disturbances. Forest Ecology and Management. 2021;480. pnw_2021_westlind001.pdf (4.39 MB).
Fire deficits have increased drought‐sensitivity in dry conifer forests; fire frequency and tree‐ring carbon isotope evidence from Central Oregon Global Change Biology. 2019..
Historical patterns of fire severity and forest structure and composition in a landscape structured by frequent large fires: Pumice Plateau ecoregion, Oregon, USA Landscape Ecology. 2019..
Prescribed fire regimes subtly alter ponderosa pine forest plant community structure Ecosphere. 2019;Open access..
Prescribed fire regimes subtly alter ponderosa pine forest plant community structure Ecosphere. 2018;9(12)..
Did the 2002 Hayman Fire, Colorado, USA, Burn with Uncharacteristic Severity? Fire Ecology. 2016;12(3)..
Evaluating Prescribed Fire Effectiveness Using Permanent Monitoring Plot Data: A Case Study Fire Ecology. 2016;12(3)..
Recovering lost ground: Effects of soil burn intensity on nutrients and ectomycorrhiza communities of ponderosa pine seedlings Forest Ecology and Management. 2016;378..
Restoring forest structure and process stabilizes forest carbon in wildfire-prone southwestern ponderosa pine forests Ecological Applications. 2016;26(2). Available at: http://www.treesearch.fs.fed.us/pubs/52476..
Pre-wildfire fuel reduction treatments result in more resilient forest structure a decade after wildfire. International Journal of Wildland Fire. 2013;On-line early..
Mastication and Prescribed Fire Influences on Tree Mortality and Predicted Fire Behavior in Ponderosa Pine. Western Journal of Applied Forestry. 2012;27(1):6. Available at: http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/saf/wjaf/2012/00000027/00000001/art00006..
Photo Series for Quantifying Natural Fuels Volume XI : Eastern Oregon Sagebrush - Steppe and Spotted Owl Nesting Habitat in the Pacific Northwest. Portland, OR: USFS Pacific Northwest Research Station; 2012:85. Available at: http://www.fs.fed.us/pnw/pubs/pnw_gtr878.pdf?utm_source=Northwest+Fire+Science+Consortium&utm_campaign=a68afc7c28-Weekly_digest_10_1_copy_02_9_28_2012&utm_medium=email..
Spatially extensive reconstructions show variable-severity fire and heterogeneous structure in historical western United States dry forests. Global Ecology & Biogeography. 2012;21:11. Available at: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1466-8238.2011.00750.x/abstract..


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GALESBURG, Ill. — After weeks of investigating, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) say Galesburg Cottage Hospital is severely understaffed and mismanaged, creating an environment that's unsafe for employees or patients.
The hospital was found to be not in compliance with the protocols of the Medicare program. A CMS report now showing CMS investigators concluded the services provided at Cottage pose, "an immediate risk of serious injury, impairment or death."
Consequently, CMS announced in December that the government would no longer fund Medicare or Medicaid services at Cottage after Jan. 14. Patients receiving follow-up care that began before that termination date can continue to utilize the payments for up to 30 days.
CMS conducted four surveys at the hospital from Nov. 19 through Dec. 23.
News 8 was able to obtain half of the reported findings from investigators, which detail a disorganized and chaotic scene within Cottage.
According to the report, on June 2, 2021, a patient was unable to receive sustained CPR, due to to a lack of staff. That same patient eventually died. Just a few weeks later, in July, another patient had been admitted for Covid-19. As the individual got sicker, staff rolled in a crash cart, only to find no resuscitation bags on the cart.
CMS investigators would also discover more issues with the carts. During a tour of Cottage on Nov. 16, 2021, the report notes 8 out of 30 twice-a-day crash cart checks had not been completed. Additionally, 4 out of 15 daily cleanings of crash carts and defibrillators had been missed.
But the overarching issue that the reports repeatedly mentioned was a staffing issue.
From Mar. 1, 2021 to Nov. 17, Cottage laid off 128 employees. A "Hospital Termination List" kept track of how many nurses were let go from each department, reading:
- 12 ICU Registered Nurses plus 1
- 12 Emergency Department Nurses (5 full time nurses and 8 prn nurses employed as of 11/16/21)
- 5 Medical Surgical Unit Nurses plus 7 quit (6 full time nurses and 4 prn nurses employed as of 11/16/21)
Consequently, Cottage's ICU had to be temporarily shut down in July, 2021, to allow those nurses to help out in the equally-understaffed Emergency Room.
Then in September, a Cottage Board of Trustees meeting was marked with letters of resignation from the chairman, vice chairman, and another unidentified member.
By October, minutes from one of the hospital's Medical Executive Committee read, "ICU staff are filling vacancies in the ED. Must go on trauma bypass if one nurse staffed in ED."
And it's not just nurses that were missing at the facility. Key leadership positions, across multiple departments, were becoming - and staying - vacant.
Investigators noted there was no chief operating officer, as well as directors for the emergency department, surgical services, nutrition services, materials management, accounting, informational technology, imaging, health information management, case management or an exercise physiologist in the rehabilitation unit.
Interviews from unidentified employees show any managers who were left were tasked with doubling as managers and directors, while also helping out understaffed teams on the floor.
CMS interviewed one Cottage employee who said, "They (new owners) are cutting key staff that provide patient safety. They fill holes with unqualified people. The Director of Nursing works shifts all the time because there is no coverage. We have a decreased (volume of patients) because we have no staff. We are capped at 6 patients right now. They are just cutting all of our resources."
That same employee went on to say, "The managers are acting as directors and working the floor and are tasked so heavily."
There are also details of nurses being pulled from orientations to help cover open shifts, or made to work without proper documentation of their training and required certifications, all because the hospital was so short-staffed.
Over and over again, throughout the report, employees interviewed by CMS allege the root of the problem stems from Cottage's new owner and CEO, Dr. Sanjay Sharma.
Sharma took over ownership of Cottage in the summer of 2020. He also obtained ownership of Knox Clinic Corporation, a separate business that runs the clinics associated with Cottage. Sharma is also known to own and operate Pontiac General Hospital in Michigan.
After Sharma took over at Cottage, staff say he implemented a new electronic health record system (EHR). Throughout CMS's report, staff note that system as unreliable and glitchy, saying data could not be properly stored and records were often lost or never filed. All of that, they say, contributed to improper billing.
In an interview with CMS, one employee said, "This new electronic health record does not allow us to capture data. We can get a few raw numbers like the number of admissions but nothing else. We couldn't even bill because the electronic health record couldn't pull codes for billing. Oh yeah and they fired all the coders."
A spokesperson for CMS told News 8 that all of these findings placed Cottage into immediate jeopardy, and ultimately led to the decision to terminate Medicare and Medicaid funding.
In response, Cottage Spokesperson, Courtney Bibo, told News 8:
"Cottage does not agree with these findings as stated and is currently exploring all options to work with regulators and attorneys to remove and/or appeal the decision."


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A horror that very much keeps with an entertaining 80s vibe Jakob's Wife has its bloody cake and eats it. Successfully toeing the line of keeping true to its core story while having a blast. Barbara Crampton takes the film by the neck and makes the film her own. As entertaining as you can imagine it would be.
Anne (Barbara Crampton) is in her late 50s. She feels like her life and marriage with minister Jakob (Larry Fessenden) have been shrinking over the past thirty years. Then, through a chance encounter with a stranger, she discovers a new sense of power and an appetite to live bigger and bolder than before. However, these changes come with a toll on her marriage and a heavy body count.
There is a telling sincerity about the story it is trying to tell for all of the schlock and campiness throughout Jakob's Wife. While this is very much a vampire flick, just under the surface is a discussion about the importance of women who feel repressed in relationships to find their voice as it is vital that they do. However, when that gore and dark humour enters the scene, the film can branch out that bit more. At times the film does feel like a throwback horror, and it embraces that wholeheartedly. This is the confidence in Steven's as a director, he knows exactly what he is going for, and he makes sure he achieves his vision. For that, Jakob's Wife becomes a great success of a picture.
Great moments are rife throughout Jakob's Wife, be it the unfortunate dentist scene or the moment where Anne realises the capability of her powers once she has been nourished with a great end to that scene. But, the absolute joy throughout is seeing the dynamic of Anne and Jakob see-saw; at the beginning, Jakob has all of the power, the confidence in the relationship, dominating conversations and rarely letting Anne get a word in. However, after her business rendezvous and subsequent incident, Anne begins to grow in confidence with simple things such as haircuts and dress attire. An air of power begins to resonate. As she shows that to Jakob, he becomes unsure of his place in the relationship and the community until he decides he wants the old Anne back. But even if her transformation can be reversed, why should she let it happen.
Instead of just giving us these moments and moving on, the tremendous work from Crampton and Fessenden allows the small moments to hit you hard. Jakob is ignorant to Anne, expectant of meals, and happy to control Fessenden almost plays an antagonist. We almost root against him as the film moves on. Then we have Crampton, who utilises all of her skills in her performance as the underappreciated Anne. We see the fire and anger within her as she is practically brushed aside by her husband. She needs an excuse to break out of these chains, and we see that struggle in her facials in those opening scenes.
So when she gains that confidence, you cheer for her, her contempt for her husband has gone and in its place is an assuredness in herself and who cares about anyone else. Crampton plays up the transformation and has a riot with it; she is so strong that it always mystifies why she isn't in everything. A strong performance from an actress who never falters.
Jakob's Wife struggles with that script; thanks to the story and visuals, we see the repression of Anne and her release to be who she was born to be. So when we get several monologues from characters about how women need to be free, it feels redundant. Also, as we venture towards the end, the film takes a slight turn into the slapstick that honestly just about works. But, in the end, none of that matters as we see how much fun everyone is having here, from acting it up to the random buckets of gore thrown at us. This is an entertaining horror that has something to say, and it does it well.
Jakob's Wife will be released on Shudder from Thursday 19th August.
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His beginnings a metal-carving designer add a unique sensibility to his techniques. His works harmoniously balance the warmth of traditional ceramics and the cool, novel textures of metal. In his pieces, you'll find bold colorings of silver, red, and gray along with exquisitely controlled glazing.
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