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Big fall in new cases of HIV in the UK
Official figures released last week show dramatic progress in preventing HIV and slowing down the HIV epidemic in the UK. The research suggests that if current trends continue, there will be almost no HIV transmission happening in the UK by the year 2030.
New HIV diagnoses have been going down for several years. In 2018, 4453 people were diagnosed with HIV in the UK, a fall of 29% since 2014.
One thing to bear in mind is that figures for HIV diagnosis (which are the numbers we hear most often) don't just reflect new cases of HIV transmission. Someone who is diagnosed this year may have had HIV for several years, so the numbers also reflect older infections. Changes in how frequently people are tested for HIV can affect the figures.
The true rate of new infections (which scientists call HIV incidence) is a more meaningful figure. It's an estimate of the number of people who became HIV positive in a specific year, whether or not they got tested. It's harder to calculate, which is why you don't hear these figures so often.
In their latest report, Public Health England estimates that the true rate of new HIV infections in gay and bisexual men fell by 71% between 2012 and 2018. Only around 800 gay men acquired HIV in 2018. The rate has also fallen by 55% in heterosexual men and by 22% in women.
This shows that having a combination of HIV prevention methods is working. This includes condom use, regular HIV testing, HIV-positive people taking treatment, and PrEP.
The UK is already beating a set of targets that guide HIV policy around the world. One target is for at least 90% of people who have HIV to be diagnosed (in the UK the figure is 93%) and the next is for at least 90% of people with HIV to be taking treatment (here it is 97%). The third target is for over 90% of people taking treatment to have an undetectable viral load, which means that they can't pass HIV on (our figure is 97%).
Experts believe these results are the key to the fall in HIV transmission in the UK. The prevention medication PrEP could make a big difference in the future, but not enough people are taking it yet.
Another impact of the scale-up of HIV treatment is even fewer HIV-related deaths. In fact, the official figures show that someone under the age of 60 who is diagnosed with HIV in good time is now less likely to die than other people in the general population of the same age, probably due to getting better medical care.
One in 840 people with HIV died in 2018, compared to one in 621 in the general population. This is a remarkable change from the worst years of AIDS when the annual death rate was more like one in five.
What did people mean when they said "I'm prepared to die to be cured of HIV"?
How willing are people to risk some kind of harm by taking part in research trials, if the positive outcome for them or other people might be a cure? An American survey published last year surprised many when it revealed that a sizeable minority of people said that if experts developed a promising treatment to cure HIV infection, they would take it even if its side effects meant a substantial risk of death. Some people – not many, but still some – said that they would take it if it meant a 100% risk of death.
All of which is counterintuitive and very puzzling. Why take a study drug that's aimed at curing HIV if you might die when you take it? To find out, we need to know the reasons people gave for agreeing to take the treatment – what exactly were they thinking? A follow-up study involving a smaller and different group of people was set up to explore this.
The follow-up took a qualitative approach (exploring the more 'human' reasons why people do things) rather than the quantitative approach (which looks at questions of 'how many', 'who' and 'what' rather than 'why') of the first study. Specifically regarding HIV cure studies, we need to understand potential participants' beliefs and values regarding the risks and benefits of potential HIV cure interventions.
Many interviewees expressed a profound longing for a cure. Sometimes this seemed to be driven by low expectations of HIV treatment continuing to work into the future or concerns about HIV stigma.
The study's participants challenge the view that willingness to accept such extreme risks necessarily means that people do not understand the risks or are not providing well-thought-out answers. Many people considered themselves willing to take substantial risk (even to risk death) for an HIV cure, and that their reasons for doing so went far beyond how a cure would improve their own health. The driving reason was altruism, or, more specifically, a desire to do good for their community of people with HIV.
One person said: "You're going to think I'm a nut. I would volunteer to be the one to die if 99 could be cured. Really…it's human compassion."
The study also shows that the question people hear is not always the question that researchers think they have asked. This is important because of its implications for giving informed consent to take part in a study – how can someone give informed consent to something they have not fully understood, perhaps because it was not asked clearly enough?
For more information, read NAM's pages 'The search for an HIV cure' and 'Thinking about joining a clinical trial'.
Cure or remission?
Another group of researchers warn that the language used to describe medical interventions may unduly influence people's choices. As there is some misunderstanding, they raise the question of whether researchers should use the term 'cure' at all.
Scientists speak of two different types of HIV 'cure' that they can imagine. The first would be a sterilising cure, meaning that HIV is eradicated from the body.
The second – which may be more achievable – would be a 'functional cure' or 'medication-free remission', meaning that HIV is not eliminated from the body but is kept under control by the immune system without the need for ongoing treatment. HIV could not replicate or be transmitted.
The researchers described three hypothetical medications to people with HIV. Unsurprisingly, a sterilising cure was more popular than a functional cure.
The language used to describe a functional cure also mattered. A medication with the same effects was described in one example as a 'cure' and in another as 'medicine-free remission'. It would be taken intravenously, required a hospital stay, might have side effects and had an 80% chance of success.
The researchers found that 81% of people wanted to take it if it was called a cure, reducing to 72% when it was called remission. But all the other details of the medication were the same.
For more information, read NAM's page 'Can HIV be cured?'
'Successful ageing' in women
A study has shown no differences in successful ageing between HIV-positive and HIV-negative older women. Generally, successful ageing is defined as having little or no disease, few physical or cognitive issues and active engagement with life.
The study was conducted in the US, comparing the experiences of 386 HIV-positive to 137 HIV-negative women. Different measures were used to enable the women (all aged 50 years or over) to self-rate their experiences of ageing. These measures gave a more individual and nuanced understanding of what it means to age well.
It was found that older women had more positive ageing experiences when they reported higher levels of social connections, positive outlook, spirituality and sense of self. Contrastingly, more negative experiences of ageing were linked to higher experiences of anxiety, depression, loneliness and having ever experienced discrimination.
An interesting fact about this study is that the similar ratings by HIV-positive and negative women were not expected. Also, the research focused on the experiences of older black women (74% were African American). It is thought that this is the first study of its kind, as previous studies have mainly involved male and white participants. Although there was no difference between HIV-positive and HIV-negative women, HIV-positive women generally fare less well than their HIV-positive male counterparts, in terms of health outcomes, access to care, adherence, viral suppression, quality of life, illness and death.
The number of older women with HIV in the US is steadily growing (due to new HIV diagnoses in older people and improved access to and options for anti-HIV medication), so it is important to gain a better understanding of their experiences.
"These are important findings suggesting that high levels of self-reported successful ageing are achievable in older women living with HIV," say the researchers.
For more information, read NAM's page 'HIV and the ageing process'.
Editors' picks from other sources
How HIV-positive LGBTQ2 people are criminalised in Canada
from Xtra
In Canada, those who do not disclose that they are HIV positive to a sexual partner can face sexual assault charges, and if prosecuted, are mandated to appear on sexual offender registries. Alexander McClelland spoke to 16 people across the country about their experience with Canada's legal system and HIV non-disclosure laws.
51 years ago, a black teen died of AIDS in St. Louis. Now, a museum and black women activists will honour his legacy
from TheBody
The Griot Museum of Black History in St. Louis is inviting residents to learn about Robert Rayford and explore the ongoing relationship between HIV and the St. Louis region's African-American community.
This man has become the first person with HIV to fly a commercial plane
from BuzzFeed
James Bushe overturned the rules banning HIV-positive pilots to fulfil his boyhood dream. "I feel incredibly proud," he told BuzzFeed News. "I didn't think it was going to be possible."
Five things you didn't know about HIV and ageing
from POZ
Ageing with HIV is not how you think it's going to be. In my experience it's very different. As a 70-something I'm not recognising the version of ageing I was quite expecting. Why? Because the ageing discourse so often involves 50-something people living with HIV and looking ahead; they're well-meaning folks who haven't been there.
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In a research note published on Friday, Deutsche Bank strategists, led by Dominic Konstam, say the Federal Reserve risks a "big policy error" if it hikes interest rates in September as the latest GDP numbers mark an imminent labor market-driven slowdown for the US economy.
The world's largest economy expanded by just 1.2% in the second quarter while first-quarter expansion was revised down to 0.8% from an initial 1.1% estimate. The second-quarter rate of expansion was less than half the advance forecast by economists in a Bloomberg survey.
"If the economy can only muster growth in the vicinity of 1% when the labor market is at full employment, one must take the secular stagnation thesis more seriously," the Deutsche Bank analysts write.
"In other words, perhaps the 2.1% average growth rate of the present cycle has been an over-performance. If productivity continues to underwhelm, we will likely see downward revisions to potential growth, telling us after the fact that we have been closing the output gap faster than we thought."
Secular stagnation is the contentious view that economic growth and the natural rate of interest for the US economy is structurally low or in negative territory, and promoting full employment—in the absence of sustainable final demand—risks financial stability.
The Deutsche strategists paint a negative picture on US productivity prospects, noting that the "non-consumer portion of the economy is shrinking not only in real terms but also in nominal terms".
Labor Market Slowdown
With real GDP growing at just 1.2% over the last four quarters, the strategists reckon a labor market slowdown—in which low productivity forces firms to defend profit margins by firing workers, who are also consumers—is near. This would depress aggregate demand, and further constrain margins for businesses, the analysts write.
The odds of a September rate hike, according to federal funds futures contracts, have dropped to 18% compared with 28% before the second-quarter read. A traditional driver for US monetary tightening economy—as the labor market tightens, wage inflation should eventually increase, Deutsche strategists write, forecasting no rate hikes this year.
Underscoring the divergence between Fed officials and market expectations for US growth and policy rates—with the 10-year US Treasury yield on a downtrend since mid-2015—Deutsche analysts conclude "there is little evidence that productivity is ready to do the heavy lifting in terms of stimulating faster growth", with labor-input growth now yielding diminishing returns on output growth.
"In the four quarters ending in the first quarter of 2016, productivity has grown at just 0.7%. Meanwhile, aggregate hours growth slowed from a cyclical peak of 2.8% in first quarter of 2015 to just 1.5% a year later."
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"Be Our Guest, featuring Historic Hotels and Resorts of the Key Peninsula," announces Judy Mills, Key Peninsula Historical Society president. "We will have tea and scones for our first visitors of the new year," she adds, when the museum holds the grand re-opening on Feb. 2, from 1 to 4 p.m.
Early Key Peninsula Hotels and Resorts will be the new exhibit for 2016.
According to Mills, the main focus is on the history of the Delano Hotel and Resort. Other hotels on the Key Peninsula were the Wauna Hotel and Lodge in Wauna, the Wyatt Hotel in Longbranch, Cooper's Hotel in Lakebay and the Glencove Hotel, still in operation today.
The Delano Hotel and Resort drew customers from all over the country.
"How Captain George Delano and his wife Edith arrived on the Key Peninsula and built this prominent hotel is a wonderful story that all began with a shipwreck off the Washington coast," said Cathy Williams, exhibit chair.
Musuem members want the community to learn about this resort that opened in 1891 and operated for some 30 years, and "The Austria" that Captain Delano piloted when it hit the rocks on Cape Alava and sank on a stormy January night in 1887.
There will be photos of the hotel with an 830-foot pier that greeted guests as they arrived on various boats of the Mosquito Fleet. A guest register with the names of prominent people from our state and beyond is also available.
New display cases in the VFW room are being filled to show off some of the many items the museum has collected over the years. The cases were purchased with a grant from the Ben Cheney Foundation.
Key Peninsula Traveling History Totes were developed with funding from the Angel Guild. Organizers say they are for third and fourth grade classes who visit the museum to gain a living history experience.
The museum is open Tuesday and Saturdays, 1 to 4 p.m. with free admission. Many books and other gift items are available for purchase.


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YANGON: Protesters in Myanmar's Rakhine State opposed to a census attacked offices and houses used by international aid groups after reports a European staff member from one group had removed a Buddhist flag used as a symbol to boycott the operation, witnesses said.
The violence broke out late on Wednesday and continued into Thursday. Witnesses said security personnel fired warning shots in Sittwe, the capital of the western state, to disperse the attackers, who were demanding that the aid worker be handed over to them.
"A female European staff member allegedly took off a religious flag put up near her office by local people as a gesture of boycotting the government-sponsored census," Aung Mra Kyaw, an official from the Rakhine National Party, told Reuters.
"She wrapped it over her buttocks and threw it away when some eyewitnesses saw her yesterday evening."
It was not clear which aid agency she worked for. The offices of some United Nations agencies were also attacked, Aung Mra Kyaw said.
A Myanmar citizen working for one aid group said all staff from international non-governmental organizations and UN agencies were preparing to evacuate to the commercial capital, Yangon.
The authorities have extended a nightly curfew already in place to between 6 p.m. and 6 a.m. from midnight to 4 a.m.
At least 237 have been killed in religious violence in Myanmar since June 2012 and more than 140,000 have been displaced, many of them Muslim Rohingya in Rakhine State.
The government is about to embark on its first national census in more than 30 years.
The Rohingya are regarded as immigrants from neighboring Bangladesh by many in Myanmar and are not recognized as one of the country's official ethnic groups, but some have said they will write in their ethnicity in a box on the census form.
That has stirred opposition to the whole census operation by some ethnic Rakhine people.


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Fulham – Derby County Championship Prediction
We close today's analysis with the meeting between Fulham – Derby County, valid for the return of the play-off semi-final in the English Championship. In the first leg, at the end of a very balanced and hard-fought match, it was a bit of a surprise for the Derby to have the best even if with a minimum 1-0 gap, a result that in any case forces Fulham to win for pass the turn.
In the regular phase of the season the landlords closed in third place with eighty-eight points (seventy-nine goals scored and forty-six taken), only two lengths late from Cardiff, gained with the defeat on the last day on the Birmingham field, while guests closed in fifth place with seventy-five points (seventy goals scored and forty eight suffered). The winner of this race will face in the final one between Aston Villa and Middlesbrough.
Prediction Fulham – Derby County
Qualifying in the balance, Fulham will try to assert the field factor to overturn the result of the first leg.
Prediction Today: 1-3 GOAL
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Lovett Auditorium
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Located in the heart of the campus of Murray State University, just off Olive Boulevard and 15th Street, historic Lovett Auditorium is one of the four original structures on campus, since 1926. World-renouned performers, artists and speakers have graced the stage of Lovett Auditorium. With a seating capacity of approximately 2,500, Lovett has hosted thousands of events, attended by millions of people.
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Dr. Akshat Aditya Rao
Dr. Akshat Aditya Rao
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Dr. Akshat Aditya Rao is a Faculty of Marketing with over 10 years of experience in corporate and academia. An Instrumentation engineer of 2006 batch he started his career with Godrej and completed his MBA in Marketing from Malaviya National Institute of Technology, Jaipur in 2009 and was working with organizations as HCL and Gravita India Limited specializing in the area of Business Development before moving to academia to follow his passion for teaching and training. A PhD in Management from Faculty of Management Studies, University of Rajasthan , Jaipur , he is also UGC-NET qualified in Management. His research interests are e-tail, service marketing and consumer behaviour. He has presented his research in various international/national conferences and has published research articles in various journals of repute.


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Business groups have welcomed Treasurer Joe Hockey's commitment to cutting personal income taxes, but say tax reform doesn't end there.
The treasurer used a speech on Monday to justify the need to cut tax rates to address the growing problem of bracket creep, which pushes workers into higher tax brackets merely though wage inflation.
Business Council of Australia chief executive Jennifer Westacott said the government must also look to lower company taxes to make Australia more competitive.
"Reform of the personal tax system is just one element of a comprehensive tax reform package that supports a growing economy and rising living standards," she said in a statement.
Australian Industry Group chief Innes Willox said reducing the corporate tax rate would provide an even "bigger bang for the buck" in terms of boosting employment, global competitiveness and national income.
Even so, Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry boss Kate Carnell said the treasurer was "spot on" in wanting to reduce personal taxes because many Australians are hard at work only to see a significant share of there income going to the tax collector.


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We don't know all too much about what the debut album from duo Rikroshi (formerly Bells and Parks) will be like outside of the info on their Indiegogo page (the campaign wrapped up in June), but if the one available single "Watercolor" is anything to go by, winter 2015 is gonna bring us one hell of a dark, beautifully sulky album. This track is a bit gothy/new wave gloom and a bit of a melody that sounds somewhat folk-Asian inspired, and yet it isn't afraid to really slam on some heavy-ass, big-chord guitar work. The high-pitched wandering voice of singer Tessa Bennecht and said slamming guitar noise complement each other very nicely in "Watercolors," which, as the season changes to something darker and more introspective, feels very apropos to this time of year. It even has a bit of the bittersweetness of the upcoming season that isn't all shadows and cold, but sometimes is bright and cheery as well, when at the end of the track it goes major for just a few fleeting seconds to fade out on a positive note. It's intriguing stuff from an artist pair in the midst of transition, and it feels just right as our world too transitions in these dusky months. Listen below, and get in the darkmonth mood.
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First Look at Tectonic Theater Project's Uncommon Sense
Andy Paris directs this multimedia production exploring the lives of people on the autism spectrum.
The Sheen Center's New York premiere of Tectonic Theater Project's production of Uncommon Sense, a new play about living on the autism spectrum, has released its first set of production photos. Written by Anushka Paris-Carter and Andy Paris and directed by Paris, Uncommon Sense will run for through November 26 at the Sheen Center's Loreto Theatre.
The production features Oberon K.A. Adjepong, Jessica Almasy, Michi Barall, Scott Barrow, Purva Bedi, Andrew Duff, Jill Frutkin, and Brian Hastert.
Inspired by true stories of people living on the spectrum, Uncommon Sense delves into the mysteries of the brain. The multimedia production weaves together the four personal journeys of Dan, Jess, Moose, and Lali — as well as their families and friends — as it reveals our universal challenges with "difference," our desire to connect, and the lengths to which we go for the people we love.
The shows on November 11 at 2pm and November 19 at 3pm will be "relaxed" performances, intended to attract and accommodate individuals who may not be able to comply with traditional theater etiquette. At these performances, all noises, movements, and behaviors are welcomed and supported.
Additionally, there are slight modifications to technical elements, such as light and sound, to make the performance more comfortable for individuals with sensory sensitivities. In advance of relaxed performances, preparatory materials such as an Uncommon Sense social narrative and character guide will be made available to those attending.


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Two alleged bomb-makers have been killed
The Interior Ministry, on Saturday 6, disclosed the killing of two suspected armed men alleged bomb makers, as the security forces in area north of Cairo had a gun shoot-out with them.
A statement disclosed the two men, aged 25 and 44, were "responsible for manufacturing and transporting explosives to armed groups affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood".
The brotherhood which is seen to be a peaceful organisation was banned by the government after President Mursi was overthrow as the Brotherhood candidate, in 2003. According to the ministry, they group were Hasm and Lewaa al-Thawra.
Even though Hasm was not widely known by the people, he killed three policemen in Cairo on Monday and has carried out other attacks for the last few years.
As Egypt is currently experiencing serious insurgency attacks around the country as they have bombed and killed more than 70 people since December.
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LPG Gas Cylinder Delivery Charges Rates GO 81 Dated 22.10.2018
- 1. G.O.Rt.No.11, CAF & CS (CS.I) Dept., dated: 10-02-2017.
- 2. From the Director of Civil Supplies & Chairman of the Committee, Vijayawada, CCS Ref No. E/35/2017, dt: 18.04.2018.
- Government constituted a committee to examine the requests of the A.P. State LPG Distributors Association, Vijayawada and the need of revised rates for supply of LPG refills beyond FDZ keeping in view of the present scenario of LPG Distributorships and the convenience of consumers vide reference 1st read above.
- 2. The Committee constituted has submitted its report vide reference 2nd read above. The recommendations of the committee have been examined in detailed and after careful examination, Government hereby revise the transport charges for supply of LPG refills beyond the operational area of the distributor and revised rates are as follows:
|Distance from Authorised Godown where LPG Cylinders are stored for delivery
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|From 5 KMs to 15 KMs
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One night, one stage, two fantastic singer-songwriters.
It all happens on Sunday when Saco native Catie Curtis and Californian Maia Sharp converge at One Longfellow Square for what promises to be a heck of a night of live music.
Both artists have a lot going on right now, and I'll start with Sharp. She's celebrating the 20-year anniversary of her debut album "Hardly Glamour," home to "I Need This To Be Love," one of my favorite songs of hers: "You get a thrill from causing trouble/Life has offered nothing more/So we kept it to the back roads, looking for an easy score/I need this to be love."
"The Apology" is another gem off that record with its funky vibe. Sharp told me that she's spruced up a few of the old tracks, added real drums and strings and re-sang, remixed and remastered it to give it a new life. She emailed me "I Need This To Be Love" version 2.0, and it's fantastic.
In 2002, Sharp released a self-titled album that's home to "Willing to Burn," which I think is the first song of hers I ever heard: "But I'm living in a powder keg/Hosing down the roof/It's raging all around me and I still refuse to move/There's a lesson I'm desperate to learn/I'm willing to burn." I still hear it from time to time on local station WCLZ.
Sharp's always had a knack for songwriting, and I'm far from the only person who thinks so. Her songs have been recorded by the likes of Bonnie Raitt, Cher and The Dixie Chicks among others. My favorite song will probably always be "Long Way Home," also from the 2002 album. It's a brutal tale of love turned sour, and Sharp nails it.
Here's "Long Way Home"
If you need further proof of Sharp's ability to rip your heart out with her wordsmithing, head to 2015's "Dash Between the Dates" and listen to "I Don't Want Anything to Change." Bonnie Raitt recorded it on her 2005 album "Souls Alike," and I'm so glad Sharp finally did too. Sharp's also an exceptional sax and keys player, and I've seen her live enough times to tell you that she always put on a sensational show. Sharp said that she and Curtis will sit in with each other on a few songs during each other's sets and will likely end the night with something together.
Here's Maia Sharp with Bonnie Raitt performing "I Don't Want Anything To Change" live together in 2013.
Speaking of Catie Curtis, her recording career dates back to her 1989 debut "Dandelion," and 14 have followed, including "While We're Here," released earlier this year. Along the way, she's had songs featured on TV shows "Dawson's Creek," "Chicago Hope" and "Felicity," along with a couple of films.
Now a Bostonian, Curtis made a big announcement in December, and it's all the more reason to make every effort to catch this Portland show. In a post on her website (catiecurtis.com), she wrote that she's embarking on her last tour and calling it "The Final Outing." She went on to say that "While We're Here" has themes about letting go, loss and joy-filled resilience that remind her of life's brevity and how precious it is.
"I am ready to create a new chapter in my life. I took a leap of faith 25 years ago and dropped my 'day job' to follow my passions of writing and singing for you. You came through for me with such love and support that I became one of the lucky ones — a touring folk singer making a living with the best fan base ever." But fear not, Curtis also said she's not done making music and will continue to write and record.
To recap, both of these artists are worthy of your time, and together, this will be a truly special night from two accomplished singer-songwriters who made an outstanding decision to hit the road together.
8 p.m. Sunday. One Longfellow Square, 181 State St., Portland, $25 in advance, $30 day of show. onelongfellowsquare.com


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PureVPN has been providing VPN services since 2007, so It's not surprising that it currently maintains a lengthy list of attributes: 2,000+ self-managed servers around 180+ locations, a wide choice of protocols, torrent support, DNS and IPv6 flow protection, a smart kill switch, five devices allowed and payment via Bitcoin if you require it. Purevpn Monitor Zip
Unusual Extras comprise'split tunneling' (you decide which traffic goes through the VPN, and which uses your ISP) and the capacity to produce an instantaneous Wi-Fi VPN hotspot in your notebook, and connect more devices through that.
The Company offers dedicated programs for Windows, Mac, iOS, Android and Linux, extensions for Chrome and Firefox, and much more tutorials and downloads to assist you set it up on routers, Kodi, Android TV, Amazon's Fire TV Stick and much more.
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PureVPN PureVPN subscription choices:
- 12 month plan – $5.75 per month ($69 total price )
The Monthly plan is average value at $11 (#8.40), however, the yearly program is merely a monthly $2.99 (#2.30), a excellent deal.
This Drops to a monthly $1.32 (#1) if you pay for 5 decades upfront, a total of $79 (#61). The price is so low, although we would recommend registering for this long, you might think that it's rewarding. Personal Internet Access delivers a decent two-year plan for $2.91 (#2.24) a month, for instance, but that is still $70 (#54) in total, not much less. Even if you use PureVPN for a couple of decades, you are getting decent price.
The By employing some advertising trickery this fantastic belief is spoilt by company a little. Each program has a'past sold' index that informs you when a person final signed up, and usually it's just a few minutes ago.
This is Presumably intended to explain to you the service is, but we're not sure the amounts are real. We visited in different browsers, and refreshed the page a few times, and also the'past sold' figures varied widely. They behave like they're chosen randomly, rather than corresponding to any actual world events.
PureVPN does not promote a trial on the website. We dug deep and found a page for something called a'3-day trial account', but that is somewhat misleading. It is really just a commercial program where you pay a non-refundable $2.50 (#2) for 3 days of support.
There's a 31-day money-back guarantee for your Regular commercial plans, which can be more generous than many. PureVPN's refund policy used to include some sneaky circumstances where you would not get your money back if you'd connected more than a hundred times, or used over 3GB of data transport, but we're happy to see these happen to be dropped. It's currently advertised as a'no questions asked, risk-free, stress-free' money-back guarantee, so if you're unhappy, just send an email and request a refund. Purevpn Monitor Zip
Handing Over your money to PureVPN is unusually simple, as the company supports just about every single payment format there's: credit card, PayPal, Bitcoin and several other cryptocurrencies (through CoinPayments), AliPay, various gift cards, and over 150 other payment procedures via the Paymentwall platform.
After Parting with your cash, download links point you to programs for Windows, Mac, iOS and Android, the browser extensions and more. We grabbed the Windows client, also there came a welcome email with login information as it downloaded.
Setup Was simple, and following a quick launch, the Windows customer prompted us to pick one of five modes: Stream, Internet Freedom, Security/Privacy, File Sharing and Dedicated IP. We guess most folks will wonder if to choose Internet Freedom or Security/Privacy, and there is no instant guidance to explain the difference.
The Support site told us that choosing a mode would optimize PureVPN's settings for this undertaking. Choosing Security/Privacy would prioritize security however, the Streaming and File Sharing manners would optimize for speed.
VPN This approach might be appreciated by novices as it means they do not have to know and tweak the settings. As there's no obvious indication of what each mode does but experts are likely to approve. There's nothing wrong with task-based style selection, but we would prefer a clear display of those low-level settings for each style, so that experienced users may understand the effects of their selection.
After Selecting a mode, you're able to pick locations. This has lots of performance, allowing you to browse locations by cities or countries, search by name, see ping times, or create favorites for quick recall later.
Alternatively, Choosing a Goal choice displays a list of tasks you may want to carry out — unblocking Netflix or other streaming sites, using VoIP, accessing social media sites or anything — and you can in theory select among these, and allow PureVPN to choose a host for you.
Connect To the client and a server displays your connection status. There's also an optional bandwidth chart showing your data transfers. You almost certainly won't need it, but it is good to see PureVPN making the effort.
The Customer makes clever of use of notifications to make sure you know what is happening. Decide on a location and as long as the Windows client is the foreground program, it won't waste your time with notifications. But if you switch to the client notices another program, and a pop-up window appears to allow you to know when it connects and disconnects.
A bonus Gravity characteristic blocks access. We would always like to buy this kind of feature from a professional security company, but Gravity is a lot smarter than most of the VPN-related contest. In addition to blocking harmful links, it can turn on Safe Search for the primary search engines, block entire categories of site, whitelist sites you always wish to get into, and blacklist sites you don't. Oh, and it can block ads, too. Purevpn Monitor Zip
The Settings Box is a highlight, especially for users, since it stuffed with odd and intriguing extras.
The Customer doesn't just have options to start as an example, auto-connect and system start. As soon as you're protected, it can automatically open your default browser.
Want a Different protocol? PureVPN allows you to choose from OpenVPN TCP/UDP, PPTP, L2TP, SSTP and IKEV. There is also an Automatic alternative that the client suggests offers the very best speed and security, but from what we can see, that is not true: it only cycles through another protocols till it finds one that works.
Split Tunneling allows you to send the traffic of specified apps by your VPN. That requires more time to install, and you need to be quite certain which apps you need to divert, but it can additionally optimize performance by restricting your data transfer needs.
The VPN Hotspot is an additional, configuring a wireless hotspot which turns the host computer to a limited VPN router. Once it's enabled, you will have the ability to use your phone, tablet or other devices to get online via the host's PureVPN connection.
Along with the List goes on, using IPv6 leak security, a remarkably configurable kill switch, along with a multi-port option which intelligently chooses the very best port, preventing any closed or throttled options. You may elect to use a non-NAT system to get a unique IP address, port forwarding is available should you need it, and a Support department does not simply link to the website: it eases creating a service ticket from within the client.
Even though There's lots of power , the interface is a mess that is inconsistent and awkward. You will find standard buttons, radio buttons, links, icons and sidebars, they don't always work as you'd expect, and although we figured out how to navigate across the system, it never felt natural or comfortable.
Still, The client did a decent job for us, blocking DNS and WebRTC leaks, with the kill switch successfully killing our internet access when the VPN connection fell. If you'll use a number of the customer's many features that are extra, it might appeal.
We took a Look at PureVPN's Android app, and it had been much the same story as the Windows version. After choosing a'Mode' (not sure why)we managed to pick countries, cities, or pick a Goal (optimized for China, unblock that streaming service, etc ). It's more awkward to use than the average VPN program, but you'll figure it out.
What is Maybe more interesting is the Android program does not drop most of choices and the desktop settings, which is what we generally see. It's a very similar feature set, including a selection of protocol (OpenVPN TCP/UDP or IKEv2), a kill button, split tunneling, port forwarding, Gravity URL filtering, and more. If you will utilize all that operation or some, it is worth a go. Purevpn Monitor Zip
Privacy and logging
In a Previous review, we pointed out that PureVPN made a big deal of its'zero log' policy. Nevertheless, the small print stated there was a session logging, which appeared to include the time you connect to a server, your incoming IP address as well as the entire bandwidth utilized.
This Isn't a minor detail. Back in October 2017 reports appeared of a guy being arrested on suspicion of running"a comprehensive cyberstalking effort", in part according to PureVPN records demonstrating its services were obtained from originating IPs such as the accused man's house and workplace. The'zero log' VPN retained some sort of logs, after all, and these were able to assist link internet actions to a specific account.
PureVPN sort of responded in a blog to the Post, where the firm pointed out that it didn't maintain full logs, such as your surfing history, and it hadn't done anything to violate its privacy policy, where the session logging was mentioned.
This Doesn't address the dilemma of the firm described itself as keeping'zero logs' in the main portion of the website, however, when this turned out to not be entirely true. That is also not a point. Logging policies are predicated almost entirely on trust, and a VPN isn't likely to be reliable if it is seen to mislead consumers or bury the fact of a scenario in the small print.
PureVPN has at least updated its privacy Policy, which now includes possibly the most explicit no-logging sentence we've ever observed:'We DO NOT retain any record of your browsing activities, connection logs, records of this VPN IPs assigned to youpersonally, your original IPs, your connection time, the background of your surfing, the sites you visited, your outgoing traffic, the information or data you've obtained, or the DNS queries generated by you.'
The Policy also clarifies the minimal connection information it will record –'We all know the day you connected to a particular VPN location and from that Internet Service Provider' — also covers lots of other vital issues in a clear and readable manner.
The Fantastic news, then, is that PureVPN's current Privacy policy says the right things and looks good. It is far better than the majority of the competition. However, the catch is that the prior story that is logging will lead some folks to wonder whether they can trust what the provider says. We can not tell you exactly what to think, but it's well worth checking out equally PureVPN's original site defense and also its present privacy policy before you make up your mind.
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PureVPN Creates more of an effort to support site unblocking than most of the contest. The company doesn't just make airy promises on the site and then forget about these afterwards, it features special support for streaming inside its programs, in theory letting you access Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime, BBC iPlayer and a plethora of different services from wherever you are on the planet. Purevpn Monitor Zip
We Double-clicked the BBC option, and viewed as the customer joined, our default browser opened, and exhibited an'err-network-changed' message. What? This looked like a serious difficulty, however, the browser had only discovered the change in our community settings as the customer connected, and after this was complete, the BBC iPlayer website opened and opened content as normal.
It had been Much the exact same story with Netflix. The client started our browser until the connection was complete, so we saw the same error message, but this disappeared mechanically, and we were free to browse and stream whatever Netflix articles we enjoyed.
You're Not limited to the professional services built to PureVPN's programs , naturally. YouTube wasn't contained on the listing, for example, but we were got by linking to a US server in the manner in.
Our Normal performance evaluations involve running custom software which links to servers, checking place time, download rates and more. Regrettably, we could not get this working with PureVPN, or determine why (whether that is our fault or theirs, we can't be convinced ).
But An warning from the small print explains that consumers aren't allowed to have over 200 sessions a day if we did. That will not concern most people, but it will become an issue when you're running VPN benchmarks. Purevpn Monitor Zip
We dropped Back on our old manual way of connecting via customers and checking the results from various speed checking websites, including SpeedTest.net, Fast.com and TestMy.net. This will not provide us to work with, but there's still enough to get a feel for what the service can deliver.
Our neighborhood UK servers diverse but nevertheless gave us acceptable rates of 75Mbps connection.
Near Rates were mildly under average. Here they have been typically 35-45Mbps, although netherlands connections can often deliver substantially the very same speeds for us as UK servers.
US Performance ranged from around 30Mbps to 50Mbps about the east. That's far from the fastest we've seen, but unless you are planning 24 hours of intensive torrenting, it's most likely not going to cause you any difficulties.
As usual, Speeds tailed off for the less typical or more distant locations. For example, New Zealand averaged 12Mbps, Vietnam had been 10Mbps, 1Mbps was hardly touched by Taiwan, and China ranged down to a pace the web benchmarking sites stalled mid-test. That places the magnitude of PureVPN's network into perspective (having heaps of servers does not matter if they're unusably slow), but if you are only planning to utilize the major locations, it won't matter very much.
On a few Occasions, our PureVPN Windows client wasn't able to connect to our test server. The issue here is that the connection did not time out for several minutes, and the Cancel button did not work, although that is not uncommon.
What You Want To Know About PureVPN
The Evaluation of Speed — Just How Quick is PureVPN?
Let us start off by making something clear, i.e. whatever VPN support you use, the online speed will take a hit. That strike is a result of the extra security measures employed to encrypt and protect your identity. The vast majority of VPN providers make every effort to make certain that the strike is as mild as it can be. Unlike what many folks will have you think that it's not going to be like utilizing dial-up.
PureVPN, compared to other comparable VPN services, appears to be much quicker. Thus, yes it does live up to the promise of being the quickest in the industry. Purevpn Monitor Zip
How we compared and tested the operation was by utilizing Ookala's nifty speed testing website and app. We then ran the speed test on both international and national servers. Then we compared the outcomes and that's how we discovered PureVPN to be faster.
PureVPN has a national latency of a mere 6.7percent percent. As a matter of fact, during our tests that were downloading, PureVPN improved speeds considerably which by our calculations is an percent. We discovered that competing VPN services were slower. Some individuals suspect were throttling download rates perhaps because they did not wish to worry their servers.
Once it comes to uploads, PureVPN didn't really boost it like it did with downloads, but it required a mere 4.5percent percent hit. If anything this is still among the best upload scores we've seen from a VPN provider.
Throughout our international speed tests, the latency increased by 200 percent. Though download rates have been still a whopping 403.8% percent better than any of the competing products I tested it against. The uploads were 22.7% percent slower which is second best compared to perhaps Hotspot Shield which improved the upload rate by 1.4% percent.
A Mind-Blowing Number of Servers
The map on the left lets you skip the software's default recommendation and decide on a server for yourself. Keep in mind that by default PureVPN chooses the fastest server which is the nearest one. When in China I discovered it kept picking up servers in Hong Kong by default that's not nearby but also the fact that Hong Kong's cyberspace is not as rigorously censored as mainland China.
PureVPN has over 2000 servers that are spread across 140 countries and 180 locations around the world. Servers are located in South America, Central America, Asia, North America, Europe, Asia, and Africa. Now you might believe that PureVPN only has servers in nations which block or maybe don't censor websites, but you would be wrong. Servers in Russia, Turkey, and China are there in case you wanted them.
It Does Not Slow Down Your Internet
Over the years VPN providers, generally speaking, have received bad press for notoriously slowing down net rates that users have never been pleased with clearly. Interestingly, there are still many VPN providers that slow down what might be already slow net. Luckily, with PureVPN that's not the case even if you use it to stream Netflix, YouTube, etc..
Along with not slowing down your internet, PureVPN supplies quite a few other attributes like robust servers which are located across the world and which scored exceptionally during our speed tests. Then there is also the simple fact that they use encryption, together with programs for Android and iOS apparatus. Even though there are more reasons to consider PureVPN as we'll examine in detail below. Purevpn Monitor Zip
Excellent Collection of Features and Easy to Understand
I've used dozens of VPN programs through time, also PureVPN is like a breath of fresh air. It is simple to use and compared to the last time that I used the app its geared towards individuals who are new to using VPNs. The moment PureVPN loads you're motivated to choose from five choices, i.e. Security, Internet Freedom, Stream, Remote/Dedi IP (this feature offers you a dedicated IP) and Document Sharing. The program then delivers an experience that is based on the option chosen.
Another thing I like about PureVPN is that every one of the attributes are to the stage. For instance, their Internet Freedom feature enables you to choose what area you need to access Netflix out of, such as from the UK, Australia, etc.. In which it's otherwise blocked, Netflix can be even accessed by you from China.
Compared to the last time I used PureVPN this time around it sensed zippier. The interface has been glowing, with pictures some of which may be hard to read on a screen. You are going to see the IP address, link status, and the length of your session When you are connected to a private server.
The visitors graph gives you a fantastic feel for how much bandwidth has been consumed, which is beneficial for anybody on a metered internet connection. But it's very important to mention here for all those worrying about information caps that PureVPN doesn't have any. Thus, you're only limited to what the ISP has in store for you!
Like most other competing VPN providers, you pick the server along with the nation it is based in. You may search for servers and then click on them to connect. Apparently, some servers based on where you're located are likely to be quicker than others because of reduced latency.
You can also select which protocols to use. Choose between OpenVPN, IKEv2, SSTP, PPTP, and L2TP. There is PureVPN's very own stealth protocol that according to the company ensures the ideal anonymity. Since people like me have PureVPN makes it simple by providing a rate and safety rating for every. The important point to note here is because the safety improves the rate slows down. Thus, you'll need to strike a compromise between the two based on what is needed. By default, a protocol is chosen by the software. Most people who don't work for the CIA (pun intended) will probably be OK using the default option. Purevpn Monitor Zip
Hands-on and First Impressions
We've admittedly used PureVPN before, but following a hiatus or perhaps two decades we pretty much forgot how things worked. Select a password and you'll have to put in your email As soon as you've decided to subscribe and download their applications. Perhaps confusingly and interestingly, this isn't what you'll use to the program to log-in, but rather it's used for billing purposes.
Once contributors have paid, they receive an email with the username and password in plain text. We have used other VPNs using the same system to distinguish payment identities out of user identities that ensures anonymity. Nevertheless we believe that it could be perplexing to users however its something you get used to. Plus, in our experience the email tends to property for some reason in your spam folder, so be certain before calling support that you check that too.
Customer Support
PureVPN has a large support Site with a huge number of troubleshooting manuals and tutorials. The opening page points you to categories like Getting Started, Setup Guide For Users in China and to see Netflix US, for example, and nearly all of these segments include more information than you'd expect.
The Setup Guide has subsections for Windows, Mac, Linux, Android Smart TV, Routers and Other Devices, as an instance, and some of those segments have more content than the support site of lesser VPNs.
Although it's an impressive amount of work, we're Unsure how successful and reliable it may be. We checked the manual OpenVPN setup guide and found it failed. OpenVPN wasn't installed there weren't any PureVPN settings files, and there was no troubleshooting information from the manual to help us figure that out.
If the Site can't help, you can send an email or raise a support ticket from inside the customer. We chose the service and the ticket route performed very well, with the support team sending us a helpful and friendly answer to our evaluation question .
Alternatively, Chat can be used by you . We found it could take a minute or two to get a reply, and even then, we weren't given the same degree of aid by the broker as we had received to our query. PureVPN could not get near the degree of chat service we'd received from leading opponents like ExpressVPN, then, but we're still glad the choice is available. And with quick service to hand, any live chat problems you may have aren't too significant. Purevpn Monitor Zip
Final verdict
PureVPN Comes bundled with a pile of strong features, which is surprising looking at the price. These don't always work as you may anticipate, however, and there are tons of usability problems with the apps — but demanding users who'll utilize this level of VPN power should give PureVPN an appearance.
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Today's NRA mentality is that guns/lethal weapons are toys to be played with… without any respect whatsoever as to what they were manufactured for… KILLING! What a sad story…
9-year-old girl accidentally shoots instructor with Uzi
USA TODAY NETWORK Associated Press and NBC News, news source 11:01 p.m. EDT August 26, 2014
DOLAN SPRINGS, Ariz. — A shooting range instructor in Arizona was accidentally shot and killed by a 9-year-old girl who was learning how to shoot an Uzi, authorities said on Tuesday.
Charles Vacca, 39, was teaching the girl how to use the automatic weapon on Monday morning at the Last Stop outdoor shooting range in White Hills, Arizona, when she pulled the trigger and the kickback caused the gun to lurch over her head, investigators said.
Vacca was hit by a stray bullet and airlifted to University Medical Center in Las Vegas, where he was pronounced dead late Monday. The girl was at the range with her parents at the time, but their names were not released.
Sam Scarmardo, the manager for the Last Stop's shooting range, told NBC News that "the establish practice at most shooting ranges is 8 years old and up with parental supervision."
He said Vacca was a "great guy, with a great sense of humor" and called him "very conscientious and very professional."
Scarmardo said that the range has never had a similar incident in over a decade of being open — "not even a scratch."
"I just ask everybody to pray for Charlie, and pray for the client, she's going to have a hard time," said Scarmardo.
The Arizona Department of Public Safety referred inquiries to the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms, which didn't return calls for comment.
Ronald Scott, a Phoenix-based firearms safety expert, said most instructors usually have their hands on guns when children are firing high-powered weapons. "You can't give a 9-year-old an Uzi and expect her to control it," Scott told the Associated Press.


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When you want to install or update Adobe Reader offline, you need to download the files. This is not an easy task as you don't see the links for downloading the installation files, when you are visiting the Adobe site. Here are the direct download links for Adobe Reader:
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Monarch Mountain
Monarch Mountain 2019
View this painting in person at Hot Chocolates, 368 5th St. downtown Courtenay – Summer 2019
This painting called "Monarch Mountain" is inspired by a hike with a friend in Atlin, B.C. (near Whitehorse) last summer. Due to this being a south facing slope in a northern latitude in June, I witnessed the most wildflowers I had ever seen in one spot. We were surrounded by colour! READ MORE…
Original: 36″ x 45″ acrylic on canvas $2225
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Youth Services will be having its 2nd Super Gift Card Raffle Bingo, Pizza Party, and Orientation for Incoming seventh graders for students who live in Orange or go to school in Orange, on Tuesday, August 25th, from 5:30 pm to7:45 pm in the High Plains Community Center Cafeteria. As last year, the event will be an introduction fun event for the new seventh grade students as well as an enjoyable kickoff to the new school year in regards to Youth Services programs and events. Raffle prizes will be gift cards from local vendors. The event was a huge success last year and parents are again welcomed to help chaperone. Parents are also asked, if possible, to mail their dance permission slips which were sent home during the school year, to Orange Community Services, attn: John Ulatowski, High Plains Community Center, 525 Orange Center Road, Orange, or by email to email@example.com. Parents who don't have the slips can email John as well. Parents should also indicate as to whether their child will be attending the Raffle Bingo event. There will also be dance permission slips at the Raffle Bingo.
Pictured above are some of last year's incoming seventh grade students who attended the Super Raffle Gift Card Bingo orientation event.


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A few thoughts on cooking, eating and the world of food from Mantia's International Foods, Memphis, Tennessee. Once a popular shop, now only a cherished memory!
Sunday, May 23, 2004
I'm off in Massachusetts, visiting the most adorable baby (and her parents, my son and daughter-in-law). We went the first night to a Mexican restaurant, Azteca in Attleboro, MA. Might be one of the most authentic I've ever eaten in. My son, the voracious eater, had the Azteca special, which appeared to be one of everything on the menu, and took two plates to serve. The other three of us had different combo dinners. Mine had an enchilada, and the unique sauce was almost creamy and quite yummy. Then there was a "guacatorta," a sort of flatbread topped with a bean filling, shredded spiced lettuce, thick red-ripe tomato slices and possibly the best guacamole dressing I've ever had! With three excellent margaritas and a beer, the entire check was a hair over $40. Wish they would open a place in Memphis! I would love to have a recipe for that enchilada sauce...more about MA eating experiences later.
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text: Enlisted soldiers who maintain their innocence are sometimes pressured by their commanders to accept an OTH discharge. While the Army provides a right to legal counsel, commanders have been known to pressure soldiers to waive this right. Part of the problem is that military regulations do not provide an absolute right to legal counsel. All military personnel being considered for an OTH discharge should have the non-waiver right of legal counsel.


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Taiping 2014 – The Food
Continues from here.
Taiping has some really good food, this trip, we went out hunting for food so often Zaria actually asked if that was an Eating Trip or a Holiday.
♥Larut Matang Food Court/Medan Makan Larut Matang♥ (Jalan Panggung Wayang)
Although the food court has lots to offer, we really only like the deep fried radish cake and the tong shui (dessert) there.
The deep fried radish cake or lo bak kou is very different from the ones in KL. This one is plain white and deep fried. Yums.
No 40 dessert stall at the Larut Matang Food Court should not be missed.
Our favourite, the red bean soup and the peanut soup.
♥Restoran Kakak 家家茶室♥ (111, Jalan Pasar, Taiping)
The place is famous for its noodle, where you can pick your own topping like pork ball, fish ball, fish cake, stuffed tofu etc.
But what we came here for was really the Kakak Ping 家家冰; which is a drink made with Nescafe added into barley water. A smooth and creamy drink. They sold off the 1st day we arrived at 10am, so we went back the 2nd day.
♥Restoran Kong Xing 港星粤膳楼♥ (150, Jalan Satu, Pokok Assam 34000 Taiping)
Our friend's husband brought us there for dinner the 1st night we arrived. It's a proper Cantonese style air-conditioned restaurant which serves pretty refined dishes. No photos taken during dinner, but the food was really good, especially the steamed whole chicken! Zaria and I had so many pieces of chicken that night!
♥Mee Udang Mak Jah♥ (Kampung Menteri, Kuala Sepetang)
The outdoor restaurant was packed when we arrived. But seriously, I don't know what's the hype about. For RM11 per bowl, the noodle came with a generous amount of big prawns; to me, that's all. Don't like the alkaline taste of the noodle, and the starchy sauce.
♥Kuala Sepetang Curry Mee♥ (Jalan Taiping, Kuala Sepetang)
The stall is infont of the curve as you go into the town and is opened only after 3pm.
I'm a fan of curry mee, and boy, this one is goood! The soup has not much santan in it, but has a very rich prawn flavour. The prawn topping was so flavourful!
Curry Mee over the Mee Udang anytime!
♥Light House Seafood Restaurant♥ (10, Jalan Cina, 34750 Matang, Taiping)
Again no photos as we were chomping up the food so quickly. The popular dish here is the seafood porridge, and deep fried fish (Cai Yu Zhai), which were so well fried, even the bones can be eaten.
♥Simpang Fried Kuey Teow 新板华顺烟花炒粿条♥ (13, Medan Pasar, Jalan Taiping-Kuala Sepetang, 34700 Simpang. Opposite Simpang Mc Donald's)
The Chinese name of the stall 新板华顺烟花炒粿条 is translated to Simpang Fireworks Fried Kuey Teow. The uncle who fried the kuey teow is like a performer, with each plate of kuey teow he fried, he was sending sparks flying.
See the sparks flying?
We waited for about 30mins for the first place to arrive; being with friends, we didn't even feel it. The kuey teow was served on a heart shape leave, how pleasing.
It was wetter than the Penang ones but taste wise it was different too, but equally good.
♥Taiping Aulong Kaya Puff/Kaya Kok♥ (1106D Jalan Permaisuri/Lorong 4 Aulong, 34000 Taiping. Tel :05-8074136/0125635919)
No shop, just operating from their house, this Kaya Puff or Kaya Kok can be so popular in Taiping. We had our friend ordered them for us earlier (in case they ran out), and then we went to collect in the afternoon.
It was not easy to find. It's actually a single story house, with the front gate closed and latched. We only realised later that the back door opens out to a lane, where regular usually picks their kaya puff from.
The Kaya Kok/Kaya Puff were nicely (and uniquely) packed, wrapped in paper glued with starch.
We find them quite nice, especially when freshly out of the oven; it doesn't have the lard taste that we find in some kaya puffs, and the kaya is rich and fragrant.


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mHealth growth continues at a fervent pace, exceeding estimates. Not only are consumers rapidly adopting for the ease and mobility, but so are healthcare providers. Although there has been mHealth growth of clinical applications focused on specific diseases or condition management, basic health and wellness remain the most popular applications. There have been 50 million downloads of weight loss apps, and over 26 million downloads of exercise applications. While many of these health and wellness applications are self-serve and consumer focused, more prescriptive programs that involve provider/patient interaction are on the way.
What does the average user look like? Not surprisingly mHealth growth continues to trend higher with younger individuals – the average age of a user is 35. Although 87% own a smartphone, only 33% own a iPhone. Developing for other mobile platforms like Android is necessary to reach a larger market of consumers beyond iOS.
Physicians and healthcare providers are beginning to see the benefits of mHealth growth as well. A study showed that 93% of doctors believe that mobile health applications can improve a patients health, and 80% of them are currently using smartphones and medical applications. Despite these high numbers, only around 25% of physicians are using mobile technology to provide patient care.
Consumers are apparently willing to give mHealth applications a shot – 61% have downloaded one. For mHealth growth to continue, healthcare providers need to take the next step of actually prescribing applications. Virtual health coaching applications like BettrLife can help increase user adoption, while providing data back to the healthcare provider on user engagement and goal progress. Getting both consumers and healthcare providers interacting via applications will not only ensure mHealth growth, but also its success in improving health and wellness outcomes.
Infographic source: www.greatcall.com.


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After the release of the audio to DJ Juls' "With You" which features Maleek Berry, StoneBwoy and Eugy, the official video is certainly out without much delay.
The captivating video also has some animations in it which was done by Poka Arts.
Enjoy below as directed by Nelson Tshisz.
Juls – "With You" ft. Maleek Berry, Stonebwoy & Eugy
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I heard something I still can´t believe: one of the most beloved miniaturists in Finland has unexpectedly passed away. I just want to express my condolences to her family and friends - the dollhouse people in Finland will never forget Wooper.
I run out of words.
Sunday, November 1, 2009
Wooper will be missed
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April 22nd Dublin - April 24th Belfast - April 25th Galway
What is Latin America Week?
Latin America Week is a range of conferences, meetings, workshops and cultural events around Ireland, focusing on different issues each year in April. An annual programme of educational, cultural and campaigning events on issues relating to human, social and economic rights in Latin America. LAW began as Central America Week in 1986 in order to increase the impact of many separate campaigns and events being organised by a variety of groups. It became Latin America Week after its tenth anniversary in 1996. The overall aim of LAW is to concentrate the attention of the public on Latin America for one week, so as to highlight the justice issues at stake in the region and thus to facilitate campaigning and solidarity actions between Ireland and Latin America.
This year the Latin America Week will focus on environmental defenders and the challenges of fighting big corporations. We are happy to have with us Ladio Veron, from Brazil to talk about his experiences in the struggle for environment protection and the threats his community is facing.
Building generations of environmental defenders
Voices of the activism: a lesson to learn
Dublin Conference: 22th April, School of Ecumenics in Trinity College, @10am
Belfast Talk: 24th April, Cultúrlann McAdam Ó Fiaich (Falls Road) @7pm
Galway talk: 25th April. Harbour Hotel, New Dock Road, @7pm
Limerick talk: 26th April. Caherdavin, Limerick city, @ 7pm
Other events:
Documentary screening Belo Monte: After the Flood: Dublin 23th April, 7pm @Beer House.
17th Latin American Film Festival: Focus on Peru: Dublin, 25th and 26th of April, Birr, 2nd and 3rd May
Resistencia Feminista, organised by Front Line Defenders, Amnesty International and ARC: Thursday 27th April, @6.30. Venue TBC. Talk by Honduran Human Rights Defender Regina Fonseca.
Cinco de Mayo Mexican Festival: 1st of May at Foodcoop
Ladio Veron, is chief of the Takuara community, leader of the ATY GUAÇU general assembly of the Guarani-Kaiowa and the spokesman of the Guarani-Kaiowa on this journey on European soil. He is a History professor, graduated from the Federal University of the Great Dourados, but he lives as a peasant in his community.
The Guarani are one of the first peoples met by the Europeans when they arrived to South America 500 years ago. There are currently around 51,000 Guarani living in Brazil, divided in three groups, of which the Guarani Kaiowa is the largest.
Guarani Kaiowa have been suffering threats and violence for many years. For fifty years they had been trying to recover a small piece of their ancestral land, after it was seized by a wealthy Brazilian and turned into a vast cattle ranch. Most of the forest that once covered the area had since been cleared. This was denounced by Marco Veron, Ladios father, in his visit to Ireland in 2000. In 2003, Marcos Veron was killed by a ranchers employees.
Ladio Veron now is coming to Ireland to denounce how the pressures to the Guarani Kaiowa havent changed. Ranchers are still invading their territory and almost all their land has been stolen.
In 2015, according to data from the Indian Missionary Council (CIMI), 137 indigenous people were murdered and 36 of these cases occurred in Mato Grosso do Sul, mostly Guarani Kaiowá.
With the approval of PEC 215 (Proposed Constitutional Amendment No. 215), the National Congress intends to drastically reduce indigenous territories in Brazil, which would decrease from the current 13% to 2.6%, leading to further deforestation, criminalization and murder of the natives communities.
This here is my life, my soul. If you take me away from this land, you take my life. Marcos Veron


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The first installment of the Crandall Interview was published
on Tuesday, October 22, 2019.
But first, a word about the purpose and the information obtained in the interview.
The Crandall Interview actually took place at Coeymans Town Hall, after hours, at 5:30 p.m. on October 16, 2019. Mr. Crandall immediately accepted the invitation to interview back in September, and waited for Smalbany to propose the dates. It should be noted that Mr. George McHugh received the same invitation three times between mid-September and mid-October; McHugh never responded. It should also be noted that Mr. McHugh declined three opportunities to participate in a debate with Mr. Crandall.
Read the Excerpts from Segments 1, 2, and 3 of the Crandall Interview:
Crandall Interview: Segment 1
Crandall Interview: Segment 2
Crandall Interview: Segment 3
Please do not vote until you have a chance to read the Crandall Interview!
Please do not use absentee ballots unless absolutely necessary. Never hand over an absentee ballot to someone you don't personally know well and trust. Never hand over your absentee ballot to a person working for a campaign or for the candidate. Absentee ballots are very easy to tamper with. That's why they're always the subject of recounts, throw-outs, and lawsuits. The Albany Times Union recently published an article voicing concern about absentee ballots in Coeymans!
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Your community, your clean air, your clean water, your clean soil, your kids' lungs are at stake here.
Both Mr. Crandall and Mr. McHugh were provided in advance with a list of possible questions that the interviewer would be asking but were advised in advance that the interviewer was not restricted to those questions, and may either ignore some or add others, depending on how the interview progressed.
In the final interview, Mr. Crandall was provided with an expanded final list of 25 questions. Mr. Crandall declined to answer only two (2) of those questions because they concerned the death of Riley Kern, [1] an investigation involving the operations of the Coeymans Police Department, which may result in a law suit. Mr. Crandall had to defer to the town attorney's advice to avoid answering any questions relating to that accident and the young man's death. We were not pleased with that decision, but we must admit that it was reasonable, almost expected. But we did try.
Both sides, Smalbany and Mr. Crandall, were allowed to have one observer present. Mr. Crandall had previously requested that we accept Mr. Tom Dolan as the Town's observer, and we agreed. Smalbany's interviewer was a non-partisan, uninterested, professional who does not reside in Coeymans. It was important that the interviewer not have any special interest in the political campaigns nor any interest in the outcomes. Smalbany's observer was a member selected from the Coeymans-Ravena community, who is not only a property owner, but a long-time resident of the region with personal knowledge of its political history.
It must be said from the outset that Mr. Crandall was incredibly open and candid in his answers, and did not hesitate to respond, even when the interviewer got a bit "prickly" and poked into some controversial areas. It must also be said that the interviewer is a no-nonsense professional, and would likely have not tolerated any double-talk or smoke-and-mirrors.
The interview lasted more than 2 hours. The interview was digitally recorded in three (3) segments. The three segments were then transcribed. The interview transcription consists of 50 double-spaced pages, a total of almost 13,000 words. Both the digital transcription and the unredacted transcriptions were provided to both Mr. Crandall and Mr. Dolan for review and for correction of any transcription errors, such as dates or names, etc.
Interview Questions for Supervisor Crandall: Crandall Interview Questions
The Smalbany blog publication of the content of the Crandall Interview will be published in a condensed form, discussing the main points of the interview. That being said, the full transcripts of the complete interview, together with any corrections sheets, will also be published and available for our readers to read in their entirety, if a reader should wish to do so.
The Crandall Interview was done for the information of the voting public and the People of the Town of Coeymans and beyond. There is nothing whatsoever that would be hidden from the public. At the end of the interview, Mr. Crandall was made aware of the fact that the interview would be published unedited. He did not object.
Mr Crandall was gracious enough to open himself up to what might have been the worst experience of his political career. He had the courage to step up and represent what he and his Board have done and what they plan to do. Smalbany didn't cut him any slack; just the facts and back them up. Mr Crandall cooperated completely. Bravo for Mr Crandall!
At this writing, we are waiting for corrections of several names in the first segment of the Interview. If those corrections are not received by close of business on Monday, October 21, 2019, we intend to publish the uncorrected Segment 1, reserving the right to correct the names once we receive the correction sheets from Mr. Crandall or Mr. Dolan.
We hope that the Coeymans community appreciate our time and effort put into this interview, its transcription, and its publication. Every effort has been made to assure quality, completeness, and honesty in the facts elicited during the interview.
We invite our readers' comments and any additional facts from the community. Please leave a comment.
As for Mr. George McHugh, we find it offensive and unethical that he should avoid answering questions about his background and his claims as a candidate for public office. We are shocked that Mr. McHugh avoided public debate with Mr. Crandall and his running mates.
If McHugh won't answer the public's questions now, what can you expect from him if he ever gets back into office.[2]
Read the Excerpts from Segments 1, 2, and 3 of the Crandall Interview:
Crandall Interview: Segment 1
Crandall Interview: Segment 2
Crandall Interview: Segment 3
[1] 19-year old Riley was killed in a pick-up truck-motorcycle accident last year just outside the Sycamore Country Club. Chris Hagen's brother, Travis Hagen, was the killer in the pick-up truck. Chris Hagen is one of the Friends of Coeymans bully group, along with Jeff LeQuire and Nate Boomer, the Coeymanazi Clowns. Coeymans Police did not comply with the law in their investigation. There are a number of critical questions associated with the tragedy.
[2] We will publish the results of our research on Mr. McHugh and his misinformation and outright lies in separate articles. Prepare to be very shocked that such a scoundrel would even set foot in public!


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Maxwell documents released in Epstein case
In this July 2, 2020 file photo, Audrey Strauss, Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, speaks during a news conference in New York, to announce charges against Ghislaine Maxwell for her alleged role in the sexual exploitation and abuse of multiple minor girls by Jeffrey Epstein. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)
Dozens of new documents related to Ghislaine Maxwell's dealings with Jeffrey Epstein have been publicly released as the British socialite defends herself against criminal charges that she aided the late financier's sexual abuse of girls.
US District Judge Loretta Preska in Manhattan had on July 23 ordered the release of large portions of more than 80 documents from a 2015 civil defamation lawsuit against Maxwell by Virginia Giuffre, who accused Epstein of having kept her as a "sex slave" with Maxwell's assistance.
On Thursday, Maxwell filed an emergency motion with the federal appeals court in Manhattan to block the release of two additional documents, including an April 2016 deposition related to her sex life and a deposition by an unnamed Epstein accuser.
Lawyers for Maxwell said making her deposition public could make it 'difficult if not impossible" to find an impartial jury for her criminal trial.
The two depositions, and materials that quote from or disclose information contained in them, were expected to remain sealed at least until Monday, depending on how the appeals court rules.
Materials covered by Preska's July 23 order included flight logs from Epstein's private jets; and police reports from Palm Beach, Florida, where Epstein had a home, among other documents.
Maxwell, 58, has pleaded not guilty to helping Epstein recruit and eventually abuse three girls from 1994 to 1997, and committing perjury by denying her involvement under oath.
She was arrested on July 2, and has been housed in a Brooklyn jail after a judge called her a flight risk. Maxwell's trial is scheduled for next July.
Epstein was found hanged at age 66 last August in a Manhattan jail, while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges for abusing women and girls in Manhattan and Florida from 2002 to 2005. He had pleaded not guilty.


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That size hole, assuming a load-bearing foundation wall (which almost all exterior walls would be), the cut out reinforcing should be replaced first, then the hole formed up and new concrete poured into the void, ensuring that during vibration all air is removed by having a vent tube coming out from the top of the hole. Normally the forming would be built so there is a "hopper" on it extending above the hole elevation so the wet concrete actually extends above the top of the hole on the outside of the form, so as it is vibrated and settles into place there is concrete there to replace the air and avoid a gap at the top of the repair.
The rebar replacement is done by drilling holes alongside the existing rebar that was cut off and into the concrete for the development length of the rebar (depends on diameter of bar). With larger rebar, commonly the number of bars would be doubled to void having to drill 2-3 feet into the concrete - commonly a 1 foot embedment is was is needed. The holes the rebar goes into are filled with mixed neat cement or epoxy grout (no aggregate - just cement) then the rebar shoved in to provide the bond.
By code in most areas the repair requires a structural engineer's design - and certainly should have if a structural wall that carries bending forces as opposed to just vertical wall loads. Most common place where that would occur is with elevated (not on-grade) concrete floors or where there is a structural concrete (as opposed to mass concrete) porch, deck, or balcony cantilevering off or supported off the wall, where continuity of the rebar that was cut to make the hole has to be reestablished and may require 2-4 foot holes for the new rebar.
Oh heck - darn it all - I misread that as a 3x3 foot hole - oh well, I will leave that response in case someone can use it in the future.
For a 3 INCH hole, just use a non-shrink patch mix concrete mix (available in 5# and sometimes smaller bags or boxes) - you will need to provide some sort of facing like duct taped on plywood scrap over the hole so the mix does not slump out, and rod it down in or use vibratory force on the form (tapping with a hammer, vibratory sander, etc) to be sure it settles down and makes good contact with the cleaned concrete surface all around the hole surface. Depending on how good a job you do with the compaction, you may have to go back and make an additional small batch to shove into a void with a pointer or trowel along the top edge of the repair as a second round - you can avoid that by doing the hopper thing above on the form on the "bad" side of the hole for better appearance - can be a hopper scabbed onto the form or a piece of large diameter PVC pipe poking through that you keep filled while vibrating the form wood so it has material to settle down and fill the void completely. After the repair, if you used a pipe pull it out and tape over the hole. If hopper scabbed onto the "form", after grout has set enough to "green set" - firm and won't sag but not yet hard - remove the hopper and form and trowel repair the surface to desired finish condition. Typically 15-30 minutes with epoxy cement grout, more like 2-3 hours if regular cement based grout. For smooth finish you can hand or power sand the surface smooth while green-set if desired.
For full cure be sure to keep the patch wet for specified curing time if epoxy grout, for at least a full day if cement grout - you can just tape a large rag over it and keep that wet in most cases.
Before grouting - read instructions on package, but normally - and certainly with all portland cement grouts - you want to have the existing cleaned concrete surface fully wetted for 5-10 mintues beforehand so it does not soak up the mix water out of the repair grout, then wipe off free water to a damp but not puddled surface before applying the grout.
If this hole has dirt on the outside so can't form up both sides (like below-ground foundation wall) then clean it out well full depth of the wall and just let the dirt be the back form - will leave an ugly plug of grout on the back side but if below ground who cares.
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This piece in ToI caught my eye:
A member of center government's Animal Welfare Board has alerted the Aurangabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) expressing concerns that some restaurants are using dog meat in their biryani.
Mehar Matharani has instructed the officials to remain vigilant in this regard. On Union minister for women and child development Maneka Gandhi's suggestion, Mehar visited the AMC. She also met AMC Commissioner D. M. Mungalikar and other senior officials regarding the issue.
Mehar then accompanied the AMC's dog squad to supervise the process of capturing dogs in the city.
She expressed her concern to the media saying that many dog heads were found in the city. Even their body parts were missing. She continued saying this is a dangerous issue. Some restaurants are serving biryani at cheap rates and most probaby they might be using dog meat to prepare it.
How have humans decided which animal's meat is suited to eat or not? Why is it that eating chicken, mutton, fish etc do not evoke negative reactions? But the dog's meat does? How have these meat eating behaviors shaped over the years?
Takes you to Al Roth's work on repugnant markets/goods where he talks about how eating horse meat has this serious repugnant feeling.


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Putting together a strong team for sports, work, or scholastic purposes can be a challenging task, but creating a fitting team logo can be even more daunting. A team logo is significant in representing the team's personality. It can inspire the team players and spectators while bringing a sense of unity to the team. Your team logo will also be printed on equipment, uniforms, sports equipment bags, memorabilia, and casual apparel. The quick tips below illustrate ways to make your team logo count.
Lettering Style for Your Team Logo
The first step in creating a team logo is to choose the proper lettering style, or font, for your team and/or school name. The letters should be clear and easy to read. They shouldn't be so fancy that one has to squint to read them. There are hundreds (if not thousands) of letter fonts to choose from today. Choose a simple font that isn't complicated with fancy notations and accents (save these for your actual logo drawing).
Create a sample of several fonts using your actual team name. You can easily experiment with a computer word processor or publishing program. Imagine what the letters would look like printed on sports equipment bags or team logo bags, uniforms, caps, shirts, and other items. Will the logo be easy to read? Will the letters stand out from a distance, even on wrinkled material?
Some font styles include gothic, elegant, formal, casual, corporate, and sci-fi, with font categories such as Arial, courier, serif, block, script, and outline. The font should be bold with a generous amount of space between letters for easy reading. Keep in mind that even the simplest of letter styles can be enhanced with graphic design techniques. Plain letters can easily be transformed into remarkable logos with just a click of the mouse!
The Logo Design
Once you choose the proper lettering for your team logo, it's time to decide on a graphical design. Though there are many types of designs you can use, narrow the design to what best illustrates your team's personality. Consider the team mascot and the school's overall theme and colors if these already exist. Ask team members to contribute their ideas and even their own drawings of logo possibilities. Do you want the logo to be simple, dramatic, sophisticated, dominant, or subtle? Will the logo be friendly to all, or will it be used to intimidate your opponents?
Consider these themes:
1. Animal themes such as lions, bears, panthers, tigers, horses, buffalo, vipers, sharks, and dolphins.
2. Cartoon themes of players in action.
3. Illustrations.
4. Sports-related drawings of balls, bats, hockey sticks, nets, goals, and so forth.
If you're unable to create your own logo, you might consider hiring a professional logo designer. It will be well worth the money and effort to get a logo that makes a lasting impression!
Put Your Logo to the Test
Draw up a few possible logo sketches and show them to people you know including team members and other students. Write down comments and suggestions to help create a final logo example. Create a final print-ready example of the logo that will be used for printing on team shirts and uniforms, caps, equipment, and team bags.
To get the logo printed on various items, you can shop locally or visit online stores that specialize in team sports equipment bags and other accessories with team logos. Order only top quality uniforms, products, and bags for sports teams so the players can depend on the items throughout the year. For example, high quality team player bags can be used for travel and should be made of durable materials to prevent wear and tear. Uniforms should be of top quality fabric to ensure flexibility and durability throughout the season.
With online resources, it's easy to create an amazing team logo and to get your logo noticed on all sorts of products. Use these ideas to start building team morale today with a spectacular logo!


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