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Apple Mac and Viruses – Should you be worried?
For those of us used to working on personal computers running any of the windows operating systems, anti-virus software has been a normal part of our computing experience.
I'm a PC … I'm a MAC
A trip to PC World or similar to purchase a new PC will always involve the discussion about which antivirus software you are going to employ – be in Norton, Symantec or Kapersky.
Once you have the software installed, there are the regular updates to the software and routine scans to make sure all is as it should be and to protect you from the hundreds of thousands of potential viruses out there.
But for those of us who have made the switch to Macs, viruses for the last 10 years have seemed like a thing of the past, that are only relevant for windows users.
You may have seen the "I'm a PC", "I'm a Mac" television adverts where the PC is portrayed as suffering from a flu like virus, whilst the Mac is a picture of health – giving us the impression of invulnerability for Apple.
Why are there more viruses for PC than Mac?
There has been much debate regarding why there have been so few viruses for Macs whilst there have been so many for PC and these reasons can be grouped into three main areas.
The OSX Apple operating system is inherently much more efficient and has fewer weaknesses that can be exploited by computer viruses when compared to the windows operating systems.
However, the introduction of Windows 7 has resulted in a Microsoft operating system that is enormously improved from the previous versions and far harder to exploit.
The number of machines – It is only recently that Apple have gained approx. 10% of the market share for PC's and laptops.
In the past, this share has been much smaller.
For the writers of viruses, if you are writing a virus to attempt to make financial gain, then there is much more sense to write if for the machines that most people are using rather than that used by a minority..
Many of the most malicious computer hackers and authors of computer viruses have always carried on a vendetta against the big dominant companies in the computer world.
Number one in their list has always been Microsoft whilst Apple was the "cool" alternative company. Now that Apple has overtaken Microsoft to be the dominant computer and electronics manufacturer, they could be targeted equally.
You can get a virus on your Mac
In recent times, the first few successful viruses for Apple Macs have started to increase in scale and impact.
A vulnerability in Java was exploited in 2012 to infect 650,000 Apple Mac computers with a virus called "Trojan".
Apple were quick to plug the flaw in their OSX operating system but this was a wake up call to users of Apple computers.
The future looks like it will involve Apple Mac users requiring the use of anti-virus software in the same way as for PC.
To put this into perspective, the risk of virus infection for Apple Mac users is considerably less than that for PC users ( not running anti-virus software ), but the risk is not zero as many believe.
How can I protect my Mac?
If the contents of your Apple Mac is precious to you, or you store personal or sensitive business data on your Mac, then now may be the time to invest in anti-virus software for you Mac.
Transform Accounting recommend Kapersky for either PC or Mac. Here is the link to their Mac anti-virus software.
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The world of perfume
A fashion show is often accompanied by many nerves, some unpleasant comments and last minute urgencies. Nothing like that happened this morning behind the scenes, when Jesús Peiró team was dressing models before the fashion show.
Merche Segarra smiled all time, even there was a lot of people asking her for guidance or, simply, to be photographed with the real star of the day, her. Merche knew she had a winning collection under her arms.
Costumes with soft silhouettes based on different volumes, exaggerated evasés, majestic skirts and mermaid cut in ivory, tea, silver and ambar shades, that inspired the name of the collection: Perfume. The "off white" is fashion.
Also chantilly, which reinvents itself thanks to mix with other fabrics, and cropped tops dare to dress the most trendy brides.
All designs were inspired by the world of perfume and, more specifically, in the formula renowned perfumer Daniel Josier created for Jesús Peiró woman.
The sparkle in the eyes of Merche at the end of the fashion show, and her solemn salute to the audience, content and satisfied, gave the "I do!" that many girls whispered when they saw the dresses. But I've heard them.

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Ten prospects who are unranked but rising after spring session
At Rivals.com, we look at the Grassroots basketball system and break it down into three different legs. There is the first leg of the spring and summer where prospects spend most of April and May playing with their summer teams. The second leg is June which has traditionally been a month for individual and team camps. Things finish with the third and probably most important leg, the July live period.
Now that we are into the second leg of the Grassroots season, Rivals.com analysts Eric Bossi, Corey Evans and Dan McDonald have decided to take a look back at the first leg and hand out some awards. Today, we discuss 10 spring risers who aren't currently ranked in either 2019 or 2020 who are making major plays to be included when we update the rankings before the July live periods.
MORE: Ranked risers of spring session
RANKINGS: 2018 Rivals150 | 2019 Rivals150 | 2020 Rivals150 | 2018 Team | 2018 Position
Why he's on the rise: Baugh is a point guard with great size, a nice feel for the game and he's one of the top perimeter defenders in the country. He's quickly become a target of high-major programs and he's played to that level.
Who is involved? Baugh has become a major target in the Southeast with Miami, TCU, Florida, USF, LSU, Ole Miss and Georgia all offering in the last month.
Why he's on the rise: He has shown tremendous progressions on the ball as a capable playmaker that can create for others and himself. The definition of a competitor, Beard brings a blue-collared work ethic to the court along with a two-way approach that has him on the cusp of a national ranking in a few weeks. Known for his mid-range scoring, Beard can now facilitate a half-court offense, defend both guard spots, and finish in traffic.
Who is involved? DePaul and Iowa remain the lone power program offers.
Why he's on the rise: Dainja is one of the class of 2020's true matchup nightmares. He's a big dude who can really handle the ball and because of that bigs struggle to guard him in space. But, if he's got a wing guarding him he's too big and strong.
Who is involved? Minnesota, Kansas State, West Virginia, Iowa, Illinois, West Virginia have all offered since late April.
Why he's on the rise: A long and rangy forward that can defend multiple positions in the frontcourt, Disu can also extend the defense with the perimeter jumper. Based primarily off his upside and budding potential, there is a lot of Duke forward Javin DeLaurier in Disu, someone that could be a major breakout in college.
Who is involved? Stanford, Georgia Tech, Vanderbilt, SMU and Texas A&M.
Why he's on the rise: He has put up major numbers on the Nike EYBL circuit this spring. A 6-foot-4 wing with good size and length, Forbes can really put the ball through the basket. He is averaging 20 points and five rebounds. He scored 37 points off eight made perimeter jumpers in a game earlier this spring. He is a major scoring threat on the perimeter that can create for himself and has cemented his standing as one of the best wing prospects from the South.
Who is involved? Surprisingly, Forbes doesn't have high-major offers but Ole Miss, Mississippi State, UAB and Kansas State are among those watching.
Why he's on the rise: Gordon has managed to fly somewhat under the radar but he's a stud scorer on the adidas circuit with Team Rose. He's a good athlete, can get cooking from deep and keeps defenders on their heels with his ability to score off the dribble.
Who is involved? Ole Miss, Tulsa, Kent State, Murray State, Saint Louis, Loyola Chicago, DePaul, New Mexico, Cleveland State and many more have offered.
Why he's on the rise: Harwell doesn't play on a shoe circuit team but he impressed plenty of coaches with his play during the spring. He's a good-sized wing who plays with intelligence, can shoot from deep and has a frame that is built to play through contact.
Who is involved? Home-state Alabama and Auburn have both offered. Georgia and Kansas State have shown interest, to go along with mid-major offers.
Why he's on the rise: He has shown incremental improvement this spring on the Nike EYBL circuit, displaying the propensity to complete a variety of tasks on the wings of the floor. A sneaky athlete at the basket with the body to mold once he hits a college weight room, Hill has piqued many others' interest due to his scoring, rebounding and versatile defense. He is averaging over 17 points and seven rebounds off 54-percent shooting from the floor this spring.
Who is involved? UNLV, USC, Oregon, Arizona State and Illinois are his most recent offers.
Why he's on the rise: One of the top two-sport prospects in America, London began the spring with a bigger football reputation than basketball but that's changing. Pound for pound, he is one of the toughest players in the country. A dynamic wing defender that can score in traffic. He's another who proves you don't have to be on a shoe circuit to get acclaim.
Who is involved? Virginia and USC could be the standouts here with almost the entire Pac-12 willing to let him play both football and basketball.
Why he's on the rise: Watching Smith play in April, it was very clear that he's a high-major wing. He has ideal wing size, is a big-time athlete and he will compete. On top of that he has a well-rounded floor game and mixes drives and jump shooting.
Who is involved? Auburn, Xavier, LSU, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi State, Seton Hall, Cincinnati, Virginia Tech, USF, TCU, Miami and more have offered.


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Get tested on nationwide HIV testing day
This is a press release from LoveYourself, Inc.
MANILA, Philippines – LoveYourself, Incorporated and its 7 partner organizations have come together to provide the first-ever multi-site, community-led free and confidential HIV test on Saturday, May 26.
The free testing will be conducted from 11 am to 7 pm on May 29 in 10 sites in Metro Manila, Luzon and Mindanao.
Dubbed as "This Is Me: Brave and Free," LoveYourself invites individuals of various shapes and sizes to avail of the free and confidential HIV test by signing up at This Is Me, and to live their lives free from fear – fear of rejection, getting tested, and stigma.
In Metro Manila, LoveYourself will hold testing in these locations:
- LoveYourself Anglo clinic along Shaw Boulelvard, in Mandaluyong City
- LoveYourself Uni near Gil Puyat LRT
- Victoria by LoveYourself at 2/F Torres Bldg, 2442 Park Avenue, both in Pasay City
- Decent Image of South Signal Association (DIOSSA) at the 10thfloor of SM Aura in Taguig City
- HIV & AIDS Support House (HASH) at the National Council of Churches in the Philippines building along EDSA in Quezon City
In the greater Luzon area, testing will be held at these locations:
- The Cavite Positive Action Group (CPAG)-JCH Advocacy, Incorporated will provide free and confidential testing at 804 Gonzales St, Barangay 11 Sta. Cruz in Cavite City
- The Juan Posi+ive Movement at 104-B Roxas Street, Barangay Lakandula in Mabalacat City, Pampanga
- The GAYON at #32 Galang Compound, Sampaguita Street, Old Albay Legazpi City, Albay
- The Project H4 (Health, Help, Hope, Happiness) at Amos Tara Community Center, #41 Abad Santos St, Barangay Masipag, Puerto Princesa City, Palawan
In Mindanao, testing will be conducted at these locations:
- Kagay-an PLUS (Preserving Life, Uniting Society) will set up at Pearlmont Hotel, Limketkai Drive, Cagayan de Oro City
- The Olympus Society of Davao at #36 Loyola St, Barrio Obrero, Poblacion District, Davao City
Department of Health (DOH) records showed that 912 persons tested positive for HIV in March 2018 alone. Of this number, about 94% are males.
The DOH records also showed that 99% of the newly-diagnosed individuals got the virus through sexual contact. Of these cases, 86% were among men who have sex with men (MSMs), while 1% got infected through needle-sharing among drug users.
"With the increasing number of people acquiring human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), LoveYourself endeavors to gather fellow warriors in the advocacy for a stronger and resounding voice to promote self-empowerment in taking care of one's sexual health, as a prelude to curbing the HIV epidemic in the country," said LoveYourself Executive Director Ronivin G. Pagtakhan.
Apart from its primary goal of instilling awareness and action towards ending HIV, "This Is Me: Brave and Free" boosts one's self-worth and inspires unity in diversity, and brings the message of love, acceptance and finding strength and courage to overcome fear, which are often associated with HIV and AIDS.
The program is also supported by the DOH through the Research Institute for Tropical Medicine and its NCR-Office, Pilipinas Shell Foundation, Incorporated, Save the Children, AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) Philippines, Philippine NGO Council on Population Health and Welfare, Inc. (PNGOC), AusAID Australian Aid Program, and HIVOS Humanist Institute for Development Cooperation.
For more details on event, visit this web page.
LoveYourself is a non-governmental organization and widely volunteer-led organization that advocates for HIV awareness, testing, and treatment. It also provided the impetus for the first-ever Love Gala, a charity and awards event for HIV-AIDS awareness in Asia by gathering private and public institutions and youth-oriented organizations into the advocacy, and the creator of pioneer Ripple Awards that honors individuals who have had a significant impact in the HIV-AIDS landscape in Asia and the Philippines.
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"Like a Family," Republican Club Open to all Views
April 18, 2019
Bucks County Community College has a diverse group of clubs and organizations, one of which is the Republican Club.
This club is described on Bucks' list of clubs as a club which "provides an open forum for political discussion, promotes conservative ideas, and subscribes to the regulations and policies of this college."
Emmanuel Jones, treasurer and current member of the club, said that the group discusses a daily agenda, policy and political issues locally and in PA.
Jones also serves as the Co Chairman of the PA Federation of College Republicans and said, "This club is like a family with really diverse thought, and has moderate and conservative views."
President and Founder Zach Shoester, majoring in political science and attending his fourth semester, also functions as the group chairman.
He said, "We meet Tuesday afternoons, at 12:30-1:30 in Grupp room 253, currently." He also said the club his currently hosting two events.
The first event is a drug panel on the opium crisis in Bucks County. The second event coming up in May is the Women in Politics event with two elected officials set to speak.
The club encourages students to attend to hear State Representatives Wendi Thomas and Meghan Schroeder to speak on May 9th at 12:30 – 1:30p.m. in the Gallagher room at Bucks' Newtown Campus.
In response to why should students join the club Shoester explained the biggest goal is to get involved in discussions and to have younger, possibly undecided students whether they are actually undecided, democratic, or even libertarian to offer different views.
A club meeting has been described as a system basically like Robert's Rules of Order. This is essentially having a chairman call the meetings to order, then pledging allegiance to the flag, consisting of motions, passing or rejections of motions, and adjourning.
After and before the meetings and agendas the club discusses current issues, videos, policies, events, and has the possibility to offer members internships, or possibly jobs.
The club also has done a great deal of community work including a volunteer event called "homie-Clause" where they go to poor areas in Philadelphia like Kensington to give out food, water, and blankets to the homeless, mentally ill, and people with drug addictions that are in need of help.
Members can gain skills, leadership and the ability to delegate, work in an organization, and get board positions in the club. The club currently holds around 10 members, possibly more.
The club also tackles multiple political issues on campus. They would like for their future to include debates with the democratic club and urges students to join that club because they need people too!
Member Brian Toth, majoring in electrical engineering and in his fourth semester said, "I joined because a friend invited me. I had shared some similar ideas and beliefs, I was eager to join, and I made new friends and we do good work for the community and school."
When asked about the issues and tensions Pastor Aden has stirred up on campus the club president stated that they very much "Don't stand for a thing he says!", however it's his first amendment right to speak.
He advises students to not engage Pastor Aden and to not give him the audience he desires. "If you don't agree with the things he says walk away and just don't engage him."
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To All,
The blog has gone dark for some time but I am back to painting and working on the next revision/version of Gnome Wars.
wanted to share with you that I am painting a unit of Russians for the
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THEATRE REVIEW: The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Act II Theatre Company, South Holland Centre, Spalding
Act II Theatre Company's pair of brilliant minds, Charlotte and Karl Gernert, never play safe.
Anyone who has seen their productions of Bonnie and Clyde, Carrie: The Musical, Made in Dagenham and The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, all within the last three years, will now that on the edge stage works are the youth theatre group's speciality.
Which brings us to US Tony Award-winning The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, as close as Act II's Advanced Skills group have ever got to the same sort of adult humour that audiences can find at the annual, end-of-year Revue.
The musical centres around a strange mix of six complex characters all vying to win the spelling championship of a lifetime.
As the six contestants back stories, full of competitive parents, New Age converts and cruel-to-be-kind disciplinarians, a demanding set of well-known and suspiciously made-up words are set for them to spell.
To help them, contestants can ask for definitions, languages of origin, examples of its use and pronunciation, all the time fearing the sound of the bell which spells (pardon the pun) elimination from the competition.
What the unsuspecting audience who arrived at Spalding's South Holland Centre on Thursday night were unaware of was the chance of being called up as last minute contestants to take on the strange six, William Barfee (Alex Gilman), Leaf Coneybear (Ashleigh Mills), Olive Ostrovsky (Lia Feane), Marcy Park (Beth Robertson), Logainne Schwartzandgrubenniere (Lili Bergin) and Chip Tolentino (Richard Simpson).
As each contestant gets a spelling wrong, the bell sounds and Mitchell M. Mahoney (Theo Duddridge) arrives with a "juice box" to be presented to the losing candidate who is sent to their seat with the song "The First Goodbye" ringing in their ears.
Presiding over this "coalition of chaos", as Prime Minister Theresa May would call it, is a panel fronted by Mahoney, question master Doug Panch (Rory Prestt) and Rona Peretti (Eloise Wooding), the equivalent of Countdown's Dictionary Corner resident, Susie Dent.
Among the songs that were performed with pure relish by the cast were Pandomonium, Prayer of the Comfort Counsellor, I Speak Six Languages, My Friend, the Dictionary and I'm Not That Smart.
What made this particular Act II production so memorable was the sheer unpredictability of who would win, when a contestant would be "belled out" and the extra element of the four contestants from the audience.
In Thursday night's production, Charlotte Gernert's mum, Gill Graper, was an innocent victim of this enjoyable madness, although she should feel hard done by at having to spell two words back-to- back in what looked like a deliberate coup to get her eliminated.
In the end, the unlikeable swat Barfee lightened up enough to take the Spelling Bee prize after a tense, final spell-off with the eastern mystic finalist Ostrovsky.
The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee was a rip-roaring roller coaster ride of a riotous romp that only Act II Theatre Company could have pulled off.
However, anyone thinking of buying tickets for the theatre group's next production, Sweeney Todd: School Edition, might have to think carefully about the chances of ending up in the Demon Barber of Fleet Street's chair for a hair cut.
Review by Winston Brown
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Like Mediation, Collaborative Law is a voluntary process of dispute resolution and provides a clear alternative to traditional family law and litigation.
Like Mediation, parties are able to negotiate their own agreement rather than having a judge make a decision for them. But rather than have a neutral mediator, in Collaborative Law the clients retain their own lawyers who participate in the process and represent the parties. The lawyers represent the parties for the sole purpose of negotiating an agreement, and if the case does not settle, the lawyers do not serve as the parties' trial lawyers.
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DHC sponsor 5-a-side for The Stroke Association
On a fabulously sunny and hot day, Sunday 1 July, DHC plc sponsored the ISS Porter's inaugural indoor 5-a-side football tournament, in aid of The Stroke Association. In temperatures of up to 35C, the teams worked their way through the group stages and onwards towards the final, all in aid of the charity.
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As the rain sets in for the next week, my mind has been ticking over trying to think of the best comfort foods. This recipe is hands down my favourite thing that I have ever eaten,
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ZOO WARS ~ Get the Picture now?!?
The creation of laws to PROTECT animals has done little for their protection and more to hinder owners from protecting their animals. While this post is concern for animals considered endangered species; the same could be said for the intent of the animal cruelty laws which are being used to take animals from their rightful owners. These are bare topics that have been and will also be continually explored by this blog to expose the truth behind the creation of the laws and the reality of how them have been and will continue to be abused as long as those who are supposed to be properly enforcing these laws and don't and as long as the courts ignore their OBLIGATION to protect PROPERTY OWNERS from this form of 'color of law' animal seizures where abuse NEVER existed in the first place.
Private Property: The Real Endangered Species?
In 1973, Congress passed and President Nixon signed into law the Endangered Species Act (ESA) with the intent of protecting threatened species such as the bald eagle. Since then, close to 2,000 species and subspecies (1,400 of which are in the United States), have been added to the listing under the Endangered Species Act.
While the original Act was well intended, the Endangered Species Act has become the Trojan horse that sneaks in property-thieving regulations and a "sue and settle" lawsuit scheme while pretending to be beneficial to conservation. This threat to animal owners, animal based businesses, and private property has expanded significantly in recent years with animal rights groups hijacking the conservation aspect of the ESA to advance their radical agenda.
These groups make up a $400 Billion global coalition of organizations that raise money under the guise of promoting the welfare of animals, while using that money to buy lawyers and lobbyists to fund misleading, emotionally driven campaigns to pit the public against animal owners and breeders.
The Animal Legal Defense Fund (ALDF) is one such radical animal rights group based in San Francisco that files lawsuits against privately owned animal businesses with no intent of winning in court. Rather, the lawsuits are used to propagate a false narrative against their targets (typically animal based small business owners) in order to force them out of business. Instead of doing the work of raising, breeding, and caring for animals, the victims of these lawsuits must spend scarce resources on lawyers and public relations experts to clear their good name, and defend their livelihoods and their animals. Many cannot afford this burden and simply close up shop.
Recent reports from the House Committee on Natural Resources have uncovered that an entire cottage industry exists around filing lawsuits based on the ESA. As a result, funds that were once intended to be used to protect species in danger of extinction are now being diverted to fund frivolous lawsuits against animal owners who are the targets of extremist animal rights groups.
In addition, government bureaucrats often act unlawfully through a tactic called "sue and settle." They settle litigation with their allies in environmental and animal rights groups behind closed doors in a way that advances the activist's radical agenda, and in the process block out citizens, states, and local governments affected by their decisions and their subsequent rules and regulations.
This "sue and settle" tactic funnels millions of settlement dollars from the Federal Government to the animal rights and environmental activists to fund their continuing efforts to game the system and wrongfully attack animal enterprise ultimately. The result is the destruction private property, businesses and lives.
One such victim of these attacks is Pam and Tom Sellner, owners of Cricket Hollow Zoo in Iowa, are one of many faces of victims of these attacks. Pam and Tom have been bringing joy to families for years with their privately owned collection of tigers, lions, pumas, and other exotic animals. Their zoo provides learning opportunities for students in rural Iowa who may otherwise not have access or contact with these animals. However, that will never satisfy the animal rights extremists who believe that these animals don't belong in captivity.
Tom and Pam are now faced with mounting legal fees to fight this frivolous lawsuit from an animal rights activists group (ALDF) radically out of step with American values, but funded and well staffed with attorneys to do the dirty work. The Sellers are just one of the many faces of the victims of ESA-based lawsuits that have sprung up across the country.
While well intentioned when written over forty years go, the ESA has become a weapon for lawyers to beat small animal businesses over the head, all at the taxpayer expense.
Ultimately, the abuse of power under the ESA puts at risk the very animals it was intended to protect, as private property rights are trampled under the hooves of this Trojan Horse, and the system attacks the animals it was intended to protect.
Animal rights groups are using the ESA and our court system as a weapon to destroy those who aren't in line with their ideology. If this works on animal enterprise, what is next?
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Mindy Patterson is the President of The Cavalry Group, a member based company protecting and defending the Constitutional and private property rights of law abiding animal owners, animal-related business, hunters, and agriculture concerns legally and legislatively nationwide. Follow Mindy Patterson and The Cavalry Group on Twitter: @cowgirlathart and @TheCavalryGroup
This is what happened to Michael Sandlin, owner of The Tiger Truck Stop. And certainly what happened to us as there is no other explanation as to why courts are ignoring laws, case law and Supreme Court rulings. DENIED A JURY TRIAL!!! DENIED an interpreter for a deaf man!!! Warrant-less searches!!! Extortion…Conversion of Property!!! An endless list of crimes…They take an oath to protect civil liberties and obligated to report the abuse and arrest the abusers yet nothing is being done about it.
No agency that exists for the protection of citizen's PROTECTED rights investigates these cases…all swept under the rug except by the victims of color of law raids of animals. Those guilty of these crimes against PROTECTED Civil Liberties are not being punished for their crimes, allowed to walk free and continue to inflict more abuse against private animal owners and their animals.
Don't be fooled by the propaganda produced by the press and the end result of the loss of property-The Witch Hunts continue.
Time to take back the conversation-Expose the Animal Rights Extremists for what they are doing by abusing these laws to take property from their rightful owners!!! The animal in question were bred, born and raised by their owners if the United States-They do not belong in the wild or sent to a sub-standard 'SCAN-tuary' with conditions that are far less that the standard and certainly with less than what a private owner can and does provide for their most cherished position!!!
If anyone actually believes that a hurricane victim would go to the trouble of 2 relocations-one more than a 1,000 miles away and the expense of purchasing property, the transport and all new facility cages for their animals and owned many of those animals for more than 20 years would abuse those animals is nuts.
That's exactly what happened and the owner left with nothing except the burden of knowing and carrying around the truth for the rest of their lives.
Disclaimer connected to this blog…Things said are of my opinion and the opinions of others…Stay tuned -B
~ by topcatsroar on June 2, 2015.
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Some of the principal treatments carried out by Dr Zoe McLaren at Spire include:
I started training in Rheumatology in Merseyside in 2003 as part of my general medical training. I then completed my specialist registrar training in rheumatology as part of the Mersey rotation between 2005 and 2012. During this time I completed an Arthritis Research UK fellowship researching childhood SLE (Systemic Lupus Erythematosus) in the Institute of Child Health in The Royal Liverpool Children's Hospital
I was appointed as a consultant rheumatologist in the Wrexham Maelor Hospital, North Wales in January 2012. Since my appointment I have developed by clinical and research interest in Ankylosing Spondylitis.
Connective tissue disease
Inflammatory rheumatic disorders
Lumbar spine disorders
Rheumatoid arthritis
Soft tissue rheumatism
Spondyloarthropathies (Ankylosing Spondylitis Non-radiographic axial spondyloarthropathy and Psoriatic Arthritis), Early Inflammatory Arthritis, SLE(Systemic Lupus Erythematosus). Gout
Consultant Rheumatologist, Wrexham Maelor Hospital
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One of my new favorite bands is Peelander-Z. I saw their video (below) on ME Television. Mentioned the video to my friend Christina, went to get a beer and Beky Sabbath told me they were up next at the Whoopsy Magazine Party at Trophys. I just have to say shit out loud a few times and poof, it's happening in 30 Minutes!
Dress up, bring signs, run across the street in the middle of your set. The stage show does everything for me. Amen to Johnny Shoplifter and the Har Mar Superstars! I always love people to take their clothes off and multiple layers for this sort of display are the best! More photos soon! You'll have to come back. I can't whole hearted explain why, but Har Mar makes me feel like I can do anything I set my mind to.
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You've just spent hours creating a clever email with an enticing subject line to send your clients and prospects. As you prepare to push the button to send this email, you hope for a positive outcome of your campaign. Over the next 24 to 72 hours, you will log into your email marketing platform, such as Constant Contact or MailChimp, to check the performance of this email. But, which numbers really determine the success of an email marketing campaign? Let's take a look.Open Rate
The open rate is simple to understand but quite important. This is the percentage of the recipients that opened the email. Knowing how many people opened your email is significant because it will show you if your subject line drew enough attention to make opening it worth their time. Of course, the higher the open rate, the better.
Click-through Rate
Here's probably the most important metric that allows you to know how successful your email marketing campaign has been. The click-through rate lets you know who actually read your email and took action by clicking on the included link. Seeing who clicked on the email allows you to know who's interested in your content. This tells you who to target in the next stage of your marketing campaign. In other words, the more click- throughs, the more potential leads that have moved further into your marketing funnel.
Bounce Rate
The bounce rate tells you how many of the intended recipients did not receive the email at all. There are two types of bounces, a soft bounce and a hard bounce. A soft bounce happens when the recipient's mailbox is full, the server is down, or the email is too large for the inbox. On the other hand, a hard bounce means the message is permanently rejected because the email address is invalid or doesn't exist. Obviously, the more bounces, the less potential for exposure to the email content.
Like click-through rates, unsubscribes allow you to assess the quality of your content. If a person signs up to receive your emails and newsletters but unsubscribes, it is usually because the content is not what they expected. So, unsubscribes can show you how many recipients have determined that the content is not valuable or interesting.
Spam Reports
While unsubscribes are bad, being reported as spam is worse. This usually happens for one of two reasons. Either you send emails to people that never signed up to receive them or you send emails to people with irrelevant content. Email marketing platforms can and will suspend accounts that have a high spam rate. Therefore, not spamming is a priority in your email marketing campaign.
Refining Your Email Marketing Campaigns
Using A/B testing is a great way to improve your email marketing campaigns. This is a controlled experiment that compares two versions of the same content to determine which messaging improves your email marketing success rates. There can be a variation of the subject lines, the messaging in the email and the verbiage used in the call-to-action. Remember, in the end, the main goal is to get your email marketing campaign through to its intended audience and have it be well received. How you accomplish this is up to you.


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I'm not exactly procrastinating doing the things that must be done today, I'm just saving them till I'm REALLY READY so they'll be as good as they can be. So, while I eat this pizza, here's some stuff that's been cooking in the noggin…
First, let's get the political stuff out of the way, because it's always the least inspiring. Can we just talk about the fact that Elizabeth Warren wants to expand Social Security? And she has a two-pronged approach apparently, driven by the maths: tax the wealthy more, and bring more people into the system, which this piece (probably rightly) assesses as a nod to immigration reform. But here's the problem: this cabal of the "wealthy" is getting poorer every day in an economy that doesn't favor them and taxes and regulates them to the point that they may not make their remaining wealth available to be taxed in the various ways that can be done. And adding more people into a system like social security — where people have been paying their fair share for years in the hopes of getting something back in the end — just means those new people, very likely pretty low earners, are not going to be adding to the system as much as they will be burdening the system. But that extra tax on the still-maybe-kinda wealthy should make up the difference? This is an absurd notion. Think of it this way. Let's say you're a farmer and, for whatever reason, you lose one of the 5 people you sell to (maybe they went out of business because you overcharged them so much for your yield, and they were forced to pay because there was no other supplier of your product in town, that they ultimately couldn't pay their bills with what they were making selling your product) so that revenue is no longer coming to help you sustain the farm. So you decide to do two things: charge the remaining stores more for your yield (and they see from the example of the store that went out of business that your product doesn't give much back to them in terms of real dollars so that's not all that appealing for them) AND have a few more kids to help work the farm so that you can increase your crop size a little to produce more of your product (that's still not lucrative) that you can then sell more of to the stores at that same higher price to make up for the lost revenue of the out-of-business store. But guess what? Babies cant work just yet. They're just going to eat and consume for the first several years and maybe, given enough time, they'll give back to your farm system enough to grow the size of your crop, but some of that revenue you plan on bringing in will go to feeding them — and now their kids. And you still haven't made the purchase of your product all that appealing to the stores because you haven't lowered the price for them — because you want YOUR lost revenue, dammit! It's a wonky example, but all that is to point out that if you try to make people poorer by taxing and regulating them to death (or overcharging them for a product they can't recoup the cost of), it is logically inconsistent — and dare I say crazy? — to rely on them to be a source of revenue to you in the long run. For one, they're poorer. And for another, they're going to stop doing business with you if they can. And adding more people into a system to help grow it, unless they are immediately putting in enough to develop a one-to-one ratio of putting in what they will eventually use, you're going under pal. Collectivism, along with dehumanizing the individual, is also really bad business. And this is the lady that there's already rumbling might be a Presidential contender. Geesh.
Speaking of bad business, and not to sound like a traitor because this isn't terrible for me personally, but the bureaucracy doesn't produce anything…except more bureaucracy. So I'm not sure throwing the entire economy at it is the wisest investment. But this one's on you people of America…it's all about how you vote. We can talk more about that later.
Yeah, I'm not so harsh with Winfrey on this one because I (think) I know what she meant by this, but the racism thing is out of control. Everybody needs to watch this scene from the hilarious and underrated movie Boomerang:
And I'm leaving it there.
My friend/editor wrote a nice piece on the weird old guard conservative dislike of libertarians thing. It's a good piece and, I think, an important one, because if we keep on mean girl bitching about each other and not letting the Rand Pauls sit with us because he's wearing sweatpants, we don't have a chance conservatives. Especially when some of the complaints are, read the piece, not exactly true.
And we have to get on the same page people because it's really, really bad. This article made me really angry. And, progressive children who sang and danced behind all this pied piper nonsense, I'm trying really hard to forgive you. I have to watch this frequently and remind myself why that's a good thing.
This guy is set as a google reminder so I know never to read his trash. Was that what you were after Politico?
Okay, now the fun —
The black jaguar is my spirit animal:
So I nearly fell out when I saw this sweatshirt. Cheesy? Probably. But I would wear the hell out of to dance class and maybe even out because I can see it with a pair of dark jeans and a black blazer. I don't need you to like my style.
So y'all know I have a thing for magic shows, right? Well, David Blaine is a genius. I don't care what anyone says. Although he pushes up on that uncomfortable Prestige border and I worry about him…
Whoa. Thank God for centripetal force I guess.
As usual, something good for the Southerners. All about how we self-identify the way we do. And it is a weird thing — I'll be Southern till the day I die, no matter where I live or for how long, no matter what some old book — probably written by a Northerner — says.
Now this looks more like the Muppet movies I remember as a kid. Can ya picture that? (You win if you get that reference)
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Senior executives from ten of the auto industry's largest manufacturers will be meeting with President Donald Trump at the White House today to discuss the administration's plans to roll back federal fuel economy standards.
A draft proposal developed by the Environmental Protection Agency would freeze requirements at 2020 levels rather than continuing a phase-in established by the Obama White House that was set to reach 54.5 miles per gallon by 2025. The new target would come in somewhere in the low 40 mpg range and hold through 2026.
But the meeting could prove to be an anxious one. Consumer and environmental groups have been ramping up opposition and any announcement from the White House would come at a time when fuel prices are surging to levels not seen in years. Meanwhile, any rollback could pit the Trump Administration – and the auto industry – against California which is threatening to effectively stall the cuts by using authority given the state under the Clean Air Act of 1970.
"This is about health, it's about life and death," California Governor Jerry Brown said last week during a news conference announcing a lawsuit by 17 states and the District of Columbia aimed at blocking any rollback. Reducing the fuel economy target set as part of a rare industry/government/NGO compromise, he asserted, would be "profoundly dangerous."
(Panel of advocates pushes to retain 54.5 mpg target. Click Here for more.)
Despite such threats, the White House effort, led by embattled EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt, appears to be moving forward, though it is unclear precisely when a specific announcement of a new plan will be announced.
The president himself has shown no sign of wavering from a position he staked out in March 2017 during a visit to Michigan where he asserted, "The assault on the American auto industry is over." He subsequently held a White House meeting with a number of automotive leaders including former Ford CEO Mark Fields who warned that if the Corporate Average Fuel Economy, or CAFE, standard stood at 54.5 mpg a million American jobs could be lost.
His comments helped put Ford in the crosshairs as environmental and consumer groups geared up a campaign to retain the Obama mileage target. Earlier this week, groups including Greenpeace and the Sierra Club staged a series of rallies in Detroit to press their case, winding the day up by presenting petitions containing 250,000 pro-CAFE signatures at Ford World Headquarters in the Motor City suburb of Dearborn.
Ford officials now insist that Fields was not specifically calling for a relaxation of the mileage target. And, just yesterday, Ford Chairman Bill Ford told investors at the company's annual meeting that "We are not asking the administration for a rollback."
But Ford, the great-grandson of company founder Henry Ford, added that, "We want California at the table and we want one national standard."
(Ford shifts position as it comes under fire from enviro advocates. Click Here for more.)
Under a waiver included in the 1970 Clean Air Act, California can set its own emissions standards and has traditionally targeted numbers higher than what the EPA has set. While that traditionally covers pollutants like smog-causing oxides of nitrogen, California can also tighten limits on vehicle carbon dioxide emissions and, because CO2 is a direct byproduct of burning fossil fuels, the lower the mandated number the higher the required mileage.
California is the largest single market for motor vehicles in the U.S., giving it plenty of clout, and that's enhanced by the fact that 12 other states have adopted its standards, rather than the EPA's, collectively representing nearly a third of the new cars, trucks and crossovers sold in the U.S. each year.
California agreed to fall in line with the rest of the country on the Obama-era mileage standards and Mary Nichols, the head of the powerful California Air Resources Board, has expressed a willingness to listen to any plan cutting CAFE, but she also has made it clear she is skeptical and may not go along. If the state chose not to, using CO2 emissions numbers to retain the 54.5 mpg target, automakers would likely be forced to go along, analysts like Dave Cole, of the Center for Automotive Research, have said, no matter what the EPA does.
Administrator Pruitt has indicated he may push to have the California waiver eliminated, a threat that triggered the multi-state lawsuit. It has also chilled auto industry leaders who have been seeking a way to get the CAFE numbers cut while somehow not seeming to be pushing for a reduction – or at least a drastic one.
"We support standards that increase year over year that also are consistent with marketplace realities," Mitch Bainwol, chief executive of the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers, told a House committee during a meeting earlier this week.
Automakers also don't want to be seen as splitting with the president, some insiders suggest. Then-candidate Trump criticized a number of manufacturers, including General Motors and Toyota, and Ford particular hard, during the campaign. And it was seen as a quid-pro-quo that fuel economy standards would be reduced if more vehicles production – and jobs – were moved back to the States.
Automakers continue to warn that hitting 54.5 mpg would be a major challenge and likely raise the price of a new vehicle substantially. Complicating the effort has been the rapid and massive shift in the U.S. market from sedans, coupes and hatchbacks to SUVs, CUVs and pickups. That said, the mileage gap is far narrower than it used to be. Ford, for example, recently launched a diesel version of its full-size F-150 pickup getting over 30 mpg.
The automaker also announced last month that it is largely abandoning passenger cars in favor much higher-profit trucks, and other manufacturers are also shifting their model mixes. Anything that could force them to continue to produce cars that the public doesn't necessarily want – likely requiring a ramp-up of incentives – would hurt the collective industry bottom line.
(Rising demand, shrinking supply causing surge in fuel prices. Click Here for more.)
The debate over CAFE is further complicated by the sharp rise in fuel prices. According to tracking service GasBuddy.com, prices have risen an average of around 40 cents a gallon over the past two months and now stands near $2.90 for a gallon of unleaded nationwide. Many expect that to soon surge past $3 and possibly even approach the $4 record not seen since 2011.
Announcing a reduction in mileage standards with gas topping $3 could be a "PR disaster," one senior Detroit executive, asking not to be identified by name, said earlier this month. The White House might shrug it off as just one more controversy, but the fear in the industry is a backlash against automakers seen as supporting a rollback.