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Prosecution formally offers evidence
'We will punch holes through Corona's defense'
Carmela Fonbuena
@carmelafonbuena
Published 9:00 PM, March 02, 2012
Updated 9:04 PM, March 02, 2012
MANILA, Philippines - The prosecution submitted on Friday, March 2, its Formal Offer of Documentary Evidence, which formally closes its presentation of evidence against Chief Justice Renato Corona.
The 169-page document lists the prosecution's evidence for Articles 2, 3 and 7 of the impeachment complaint. The prosecution panel decided to drop the rest of the 5 articles in the complaint, and it has filed a separate motion on this.
The documents include Corona's Statement of Assets, Liabilities, and Net Worth (SALN); Income Tax Returns (ITRs); titles of his properties; his bank deposits in the Philippine Savings Bank (PSBank) and the Bank of the Philippine Islands (BPI); the SC rulings in the case of the Philippine Airlines (PAL) flight attendants; the PAL Platinum Card that grants the Chief Justice "unlimited courtesy travel;" and the dissenting opinion of Supreme Court Associate Justice Ma Lourdes Sereno on the SC ruling cancelling the travel ban on former President and now Pampanga Rep Gloria Arroyo.
Impeachment manager Joseph Emilio Abaya
The House of Representatives has accused Corona of betrayal of public trust, culpable violation of the Constitution, and graft and corruption.
"Except for our reservations on the Chief Justice's dollar accounts, that formally closes our presentation of evidence. If the TRO is lifted, we will start presenting evidence again," impeachment manager Rep Joseph Emilio Abaya told Rappler.
On March 12, it will be the defense panel's turn to convince the court of Corona's innocence.
"We will be prepared," said Abaya. "We're studying how we will do cross examination. We will study what their defenses are and how to punch holes through them. Kami naman ang mangba-bakbak," he added.
"We will follow the same groupings, but there will be reinforcements," Abaya added.
The prosecution rested its case this week without the testimony of Sereno. Prosecutor Neri Colmenares earlier expressed disappointment with lead prosecutor Rep Niel Tupas Jr. for failing to insist on Sereno's testimony.
"There is no rift within between me and Cong. Niel Tupas. Nanghihinayang lang ako sa opportunity. The prosecution panel must now prepare for the defense presentation of witnesses," Colmenares said.
There's a storyline behind the prosecution's decision to just present Articles 2, 3, and 7.
Article 2 refers to the alleged failure of the Chief Justice to declare his assets in his SALN.
Article 3 refers to his alleged incompetence and lack of independence by, among others, accepting gifts such as PAL's Platinum Card.
Finally, Article 7 accuses Corona of using his powers as chief justice to influence the High Tribunal into deciding in favor of Ms Arroyo's request to travel.- Rappler.com
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Many families will spend today by the pool.
Locals are being warned to stay indoors and keep pets safe with revised forecasts predicting temperatures to reach a scorching 43 degrees in Penrith later today.
It will top the 41 degrees reached in the area earlier this week.
There's only a small chance of rain ahead of only slightly cooler conditions tomorrow, where temperatures are likely to peak at 35 degrees.
A total fire ban has been issued for the Penrith area.
Ashley Fruno, Associate Director at People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) Australia, said it's important to remember our furry friends on days like today.
"As temperatures soar and reach new records all over the country, please remember that dogs should never be left in parked vehicles — which can become death traps in a matter of minutes," she said.
"Even on a mild, 25-degree day, the temperature inside a car parked in the shade can soar to between 37 and 50 degrees in minutes, and on a 30-degree day, the temperature can reach 70 degrees in less than 10 minutes. Leaving the windows cracked (or even halfway down) and/or leaving water in the vehicle will not keep animals comfortable or safe.
Elderly residents are also being advised to stay indoors to avoid the scorching heat.
At 9.30am it was 26.5 degrees in Penrith.
While today will be hot, it won't break Penrith's all-time hottest day record, which sits at 46.5 degrees in January 2013.


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Data collection: When should (or shouldn't) we exclude questions from the Hot Network Questions list?
The SE team has made several promising changes to the "Hot Network Questions" system. If you have previously found HNQs to be problematic, you are invited to participate in the discussion over there.
The purpose of this discussion is a new moderator superpower:
Moderators have the ability to remove questions from the HNQ List.
There are times when the hotness formula selects a question that a site would rather not have featured. Up until now, the only recourse that was available was to close the question (which may be appropriate anyway but isn't ideal when done purely to manage traffic), or to do nothing. We're putting the power in the hands of our moderators to remove questions that don't set a good example for their sites. I recommend each site have a meta discussion with guidance for moderators about when - if ever - a question should be removed.
I'd like to propose that we not invent a new policy on these questions de novo. I would prefer instead that we think as a community about the kinds of standards that we already have in place and communicate via voting, close-voting, and flagging, and how this new tool fits into our kit.
I'm imagining a process like this:
Over the next few weeks you will, like usual, notice some unusually active questions and think "well, that shouldn't be HNQ."
When you notice this, raise a custom moderator flag on the question and try to articulate what your reasoning is.
The moderation team will deal with your flag promptly --- that's the point of flags. But we'll also save your reasoning someplace, and as we start to get enough flags to divine a pattern, we'll try to summarize it either here or in a new post.
You could also link to posts in answers to this question, and explain how you think that the Hot Network Questions list has affected them. Those kinds of answers shouldn't be limited to bad posts that should be un-HNQ-ed: part of deciding what our policy should be will be deciding what we do want to keep. I'm especially interested in articulating, as a community, what types of posts get better responses after exposure via HNQ.
I also suggest flagging (or linking) current questions, because there will be some temptation to base any policy we develop on remembered examples from the past. For deciding how we think the site ought to work, it's usually better to notice how we are responding when we are using the site organically. I would hate for us to have a contentious discussion about a problematic question from the past and lock ourselves into some "policy" based on behaviors that don't really occur on the site any more. That's why I've titled this post "data collection": I'm proposing that we spend a reasonable amount of time just looking for patterns, and try to come to a conclusion around May-ish.
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rob♦rob
$\begingroup$ What does point 3 mean exactly? If I flag something and say "Well, that shouldn't be there!" does that imply it could be removed if a mod agrees? Or is this just purely data-collection until something is decided and "deal with your flag" just means dismiss it? $\endgroup$ – tpg2114♦ Mar 12 at 22:03
$\begingroup$ I don't fully understand your last paragraph. What happens if there is a class of questions where we get one on HNQ every 6 months, say, with that rate constant over the past 3-5 years and ongoing, but with an outsized effect compared to other 'that shouldn't be there' questions? Is 'the next few weeks' a sufficient timespan to adequately sample a representative cross-section of the relevant question types? $\endgroup$ – Emilio Pisanty Mar 12 at 23:29
$\begingroup$ Does anybody have any nice ideas about how we can implement something related to the number of close votes and downvotes on a question? SE hasn't changed the algorithm for 'hotness' to consider these factors, but I'm sure that we could put together our own makeshift version. $\endgroup$ – user191954 Mar 13 at 4:11
$\begingroup$ If you "look for patterns" in a fairly small dataset, with no predefined criteria, you will find them, because that's what human brains do. It doesn't mean they have any significance, or that you would find the same patterns in the next time-slice of data. For example (to state the obvious!) if you look at the tags, or number of votes, or whatever, you are guaranteed to find that some questions score highest and other score lowest on whatever criterion you pick - but so what? $\endgroup$ – alephzero Mar 13 at 10:20
$\begingroup$ As a note: Users can now keep track of the Physics HNQs (day-wise) from the Backup Room transcript. $\endgroup$ – Blue Mar 13 at 20:49
$\begingroup$ @tpg2114 You're right, that was vague. What I meant was that, in response to a flag, the moderation team will have a conversation and use our collective judgement to decide whether to act using our new tool out of a sense of urgency, or whether instead to watch patiently, or whether instead to take some more traditional action (like closing or improving the question). We will be cautious about using this new tool before we have a good community consensus, but I don't want to tie our hands with a "we would never"-style promise. $\endgroup$ – rob♦ Mar 14 at 20:52
$\begingroup$ @EmilioPisanty You make a good point, and the classes of questions in your first two posts below are good examples. $\endgroup$ – rob♦ Mar 14 at 20:55
$\begingroup$ Relevant context: the equivalent thread on Meta MathOverflow. $\endgroup$ – Emilio Pisanty Jun 27 at 23:48
Questions about perpetual-motion machines should meet a stricter-than-usual bar in terms of clarity and prior research to get on HNQ.
Questions about perpetual-motion seem to have a particularly easy time hitching a ride on the HNQ list (this is one recent example), and it's easy to see why: they are instantly appealing to a lot of people, they are generally easy to understand, and they often serve as ways to either make fun of OP (for being "dumb enough" to ask such a question in the first place) or to rail at the physics "establishment" for insisting on trivial such things as having a consistent physical theory of nature.
However, they get very tiring, very fast. Basically, the only questions on the subject that make the bar for being on-topic are variations on the theme of
I came up with this device and I analyzed it in (insert flawed analysis that concludes with perpetual motion). Where did I make a mistake?
and after seeing two or three of those on the HNQ as Representative Questions of the site, they start to grate very fast. (And, as with the physics-in-fiction vein, they very quickly become a skewed presentation of this site's subject matter.) Frankly, I think we could do with a heck of a lot fewer of those.
I'm not quite sure I'd go as far as proposing that perpetual-motion machines should be completely off-limits for this site's HNQ output, but I would say that for such questions to remain on the list they should be asked in exceptionally clear way, they should have a very clear physics through-line, and they should clearly demarcate themselves from previous iterations of the subject on this site.
Emilio PisantyEmilio Pisanty
$\begingroup$ I agree here, but I think a more direct route is to simply be stricter with closing these questions as duplicates. For example, nobody was voting to close the question you linked, so I initiated a duplicate close for another magnetic perpetual motion machine, the point being that though they aren't the exact same setup, they come from the same misconception. $\endgroup$ – knzhou Mar 13 at 14:11
$\begingroup$ If we are inclusive in closing these things as duplicates, then almost all of the low-effort questions will be duplicates. The remaining ones often have some neat physics to teach, I recall one got a great answer explaining Johnson noise. $\endgroup$ – knzhou Mar 13 at 14:12
$\begingroup$ The Johnson-noise question would be this one? $\endgroup$ – Emilio Pisanty Mar 13 at 14:54
$\begingroup$ Frankly, I rather disagree with that closure. I was OK with it until it cooled down, but I was pondering whether to de-dupe-hammer it. I don't see why we need to penalize the askers of these questions by denying them the chance of getting an answer that is specific to the configuration they have in mind. "They come from a similar misconception" is not a closure reason broadly speaking. The only concern is HNQ, which can now be addressed separately, so it should. $\endgroup$ – Emilio Pisanty Mar 13 at 14:58
$\begingroup$ @EmilioPisanty Yeah, I also agree with that logic. I see no reason to punish someone asking about perpetual motion in good faith. The people who will argue against the physics until the heat death of the universe, I could care less about leaving the question open. But if it's an honest attempt to understand conceptually why a perpetual motion setup doesn't work as they expect, that's not inherently off topic at all. I do agree that keeping them off of HNQ is for the best though. As amusing as the answers can sometimes be... they're amusing for the wrong reasons here. $\endgroup$ – JMac Mar 13 at 19:26
OK, I'll start.
Questions about physics in works of fiction shouldn't be on HNQ.
This has been a point of contention for quite some time, and it has a strong track record of leaving people confused and upset, even several years after the question has had its heyday (example, example, example). I'm referring, in particular, to questions like "Could Sam have pierced Shelob's carapace?" or "Could Legolas actually see that far?", particularly when the titles are that explicit in their mentions of the fictional context.
To be clear, this is independent of the decision on whether such a question is on- or off-topic here, which can have both positive and negative answers. As examples, "how does the warp drive in Star Wars work?" is clearly off-topic, while something like "is orbital mechanics being portrayed correctly in (insert sci-fi story)?" has a much better chance of being a legitimate question about physics, for which the fictional context is relevant and worth mentioning but not overwhelming. The decision of whether a given question along that vein is on- or off-topic is (in a nutshell) "is it about physics or not".
However, I think we need to be significantly more strict when it comes to allowing that type of question on the HNQ list. The reason is simple: upvotes on those threads, on both the question and its answers, are of extremely low quality. The Q&A engine does a (reasonably) good job at vetting the quality of content, both questions and answers, and for regular questions it does an OK job (though with plenty of room for improvement) at vetting the quality of votes. However, for questions about works of fiction, that completely breaks down.
For the question, upvotes rarely seem to come from a position of "this question is carefully researched, well-posed and well thought through, and it is a useful framework that allows the physics to shine through" and seem to be more along the lines of "this question is about a work of fiction that I like".
For answers, upvotes have a much stronger bias to favour truthiness rather than actual quality in the ways that it is recognized elsewhere on the site.
Moreover, those problems compound themselves, as the wider-than-usual opening on the upvote tap further reinforces the positive feedback loop that keeps these questions in the list, to the detriment of real physics questions that could be getting that spot on the spotlight. And while the three-day cap definitely helps, the feedback-loop problems remain, so I don't see how this class of questions will behave differently in the currently-live scheme.
Furthermore, the fact that questions like these are so likely to explode in popularity means that they present a very skewed vision of this site's scope on that SE-network-facing window. We get maybe one on-topic question about physics-in-works-of-fiction for every 5-10,000 questions, at best? Then, until the mechanisms are tempered such that the natural rate of these questions appearing on the list is one such question per 10,000 Physics SE questions on the HNQ list, they should be prevented from appearing there.
$\begingroup$ This is an excellent starting point. Here's an even easier reason why I think we don't want those to be HNQs: they aren't representative of the site's content. If the HNQ system is supposed to aid discovery and it brings people here for LotR, it's certainly doing a bad job (I guess your last paragraph is about something similar, but I'd like to emphasize that bit.). $\endgroup$ – user191954 Mar 13 at 12:48
$\begingroup$ I agree with the idea of this; but I'm not sure if I would take it to quite the extent that you do. Questions with titles that obviously reference a work of fiction should definitely be removed from HNQ, because clearly a lot of potentially undeserved attention will quickly come to it. If the question title only references the physical concept that they have a question about, and the body clarifies that some fictional work inspired them to question it, I don't think we should necessarily remove that from HNQ. If you take it away from the title it should be no worse than any pop-sci HNQ. $\endgroup$ – JMac Mar 13 at 13:08
$\begingroup$ I agree here, but I've always thought such questions should instead just be migrated to Worldbuilding.SE or Scifi.SE. A big fraction of all of their questions are along these lines. Last time I proposed this I got downvoted to hell, though. $\endgroup$ – knzhou Mar 13 at 14:15
$\begingroup$ I need to disagree a bit with the second example (Legolas; full disclosure: I wrote the highest voted answer). The question is drawn less from the Tolkien fantasy setting and more from a reasonably well-known outreach channel that discussed it. Nearly all the upvoted answers took this as an excuse to share some (often very technical) expertise on imaging hardware and/or techniques in a way that made it accessible to non-experts. Perhaps others disagree, but if a question like this can give someone on (random other site) EL&U an accessible intro to diffraction limits or interferometry, why not? $\endgroup$ – Kyle Oman Mar 13 at 14:43
$\begingroup$ [con't] I still agree it's clickbait, and can sometimes (often?) go wrong, but if good answers are written, why not? $\endgroup$ – Kyle Oman Mar 13 at 14:44
$\begingroup$ @Kyle Maybe you're right - maybe these questions do deserve a chance to keep that status until they start veering off-topic? If that's the route we take, though, I would argue that they'd need a strict single-strike-and-you're-out policy, with even a single off-topic answer being cause for knocking the question out of HNQ. (That's the beginning of avalanche, particularly since the number of answers counts multiplicatively in the hotness score. Wait any later and you risk a serious degradation in quality.) $\endgroup$ – Emilio Pisanty Mar 13 at 15:05
$\begingroup$ @EmilioPisanty fair enough. The line for a given question may be a bit fuzzy, but I'm often pleasantly surprised by the spin an answerer can put on an otherwise mediocre question. So I agree giving it at least that one chance is worthwhile (sometimes). $\endgroup$ – Kyle Oman Mar 13 at 18:11
Let's talk specifics.
And by that, I mean, "let me be the first to shoot my own self-interest in the foot", and argue that this question, which I answered, was rightly kicked off the HNQ list.
What's the deal? Well, the question starts off with the title
Is the Born rule indeed wrong?
and it is basically a request to verify the correctness of an unpublished arXiv eprint. As pointed out in the comments, the consensus view on peer-review questions leans towards classing this question as Too Broad, but I answered it because the literature it was referring to was complex enough for an outsider to puzzle out on their own (in short: a second preprint commented on the paper to point out flaws in the argument, and the authors responded by adding an appendix) but still containable enough that an answer in our format can explain what the deal is. And, also, the paper is awful enough that its flaws can be explained reasonably quickly.
With that in mind, I think that question is on-topic and should remain open, but I do not think it's a good fit for the type of questions we want representing our site on HNQ.
For one (though I didn't realize it before posting), the title is clickbait, pure and simple. It can be improved, sure, but I'm not sure I see how far up the slope from "terrible" back towards "vaguely reasonable" it can be brought.
Moreover, the contentiousness of the title (which cannot really be removed, even if it is softened to something more accurate like "Is this paper, which claims the Born rule is incorrect, right?") simply isn't backed up by a particularly well-thought-through question.
More to the point, keeping it on HNQ is just giving free advertisement to a truly awful paper, which really doesn't deserve it.
Though then again, those are pretty squishy reasons; I wish I could firm it down more but that's the best I've got. (For full disclosure: it got on HNQ and then kicked off before I had time to react - but my first reaction to finding out about the former was that I needed to flag it so it got off.) I'm not sure how much of this can be distilled into a clear policy going forward, and I'm looking forward for people's reaction to this to see how wild off the bat it is, and whether a more clear fingerprint of what made this a bad fit (which can then be used as a benchmark to compare against in future cases) can be hammered out.
Still, though, I think the core point is pretty strong: this was not a question that we want to represent the site, if nothing else because "yeah, we'll fact-check your shallow questions about fifteen-year-old abandoned preprints" isn't really the kind of message I think we should be sending.
$\begingroup$ When I removed the question from HNQ, I did so because physics.SE should not serve as PR for otherwise undistinguished arXiv preprints, particularly not if they are contentious as the rebuttal, also on arXiv, shows. I'm not even sure this paper clears the "non-mainstream" bar we set elsewhere - it is just an arXiv preprint, with no attached journal publication, and the authors don't seem to be otherwise known as established physicists. It is also, I might add, from 2005, so the "recently published" in the question is at best misinformed and at worst deceptive. $\endgroup$ – ACuriousMind♦ Apr 22 at 21:22
$\begingroup$ As for that last bit - it's definitely misinformed rather than deceptive (there's a legitimate issue with how arXiv compiles dates), and it's worth removing (i.e., I've removed it already). I'm not sure how much that affects the issue (the form of the question at the time is still relevant), but it's ultimately only a very minor part of the discussion there. $\endgroup$ – Emilio Pisanty Apr 22 at 21:44
This initiative appears to have petered out, but this question is an excellent example of a bad HNQ question, for a wide variety of reasons.
The question was characterized, in answers, comments, and chat, as a "John Rennie vs. safesphere" wrestling match, or even a battle of relativity vs. crackpots, when it was really about a much more boring technical point where both users were technically right. For example, we have this appealing exchange in the comments:
I dont get the answer yes or no?
So there are currently 36 votes for Yes, 0 votes for No (because there was no answer daring to argue that point of view, other than an answer, not by safesphere, that got deleted after receiving -11 votes), and 0 votes for "what does 'bend spacetime' even mean?". Yes has won.
This seems to imply that basic facts of general relativity need defending, even though neither JR nor safesphere said anything in contradiction with them, and that the "winner" is decided by random coders that come over from StackOverflow and can't even write a complete sentence. This does not give a good impression to practicing physicists; it tells them that posting here is a waste of time.
Even more unappealing is that, in the process, many non-mainstream commentators did come out of the woodwork, filling the comments with nonsense. About half were regulars here, and half were random coders. At the same time, I got a pile of downvotes, presumably from users who thought that I was siding "against" John Rennie.
The quality of the discussion is just quite low, and brought lower by the HNQ list, and a good indicator of why we have so many fewer practicing physicists than MathOverflow has practicing mathematicians. It shouldn't deserve so much attention, but instead it's on track to being the most viewed question this week.
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$\begingroup$ I would argue that this answer is missing a set of (proposed) actionable criteria that mods should use to decide that a given question falls in this class and should be removed from the list. $\endgroup$ – Emilio Pisanty May 24 at 21:39
$\begingroup$ @EmilioPisanty I wish I knew a good objective-sounding criterion to pick out such questions! $\endgroup$ – knzhou May 24 at 21:45
$\begingroup$ Yeah, it's a tricky business. I agree with you that the heightened attention doesn't seem to have done that thread any good, but it'd be better to have a sense as to what it was about the question that sent it careening downhill like that. $\endgroup$ – Emilio Pisanty May 24 at 22:50
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By Jared Newman Sept. 20, 2013
While Microsoft dallies on bringing a standalone version of Office to phones and tablets, Google's firing back by slashing the price of its QuickOffice apps to zero.
The free app, which was previously restricted to Google Apps business users, is now available to all users on iOS and Android. Google had offered a $15 version to all users before, called QuickOffice Pro, but that version will be discontinued according to Android Police.
Until now, Google Drive was the search giant's answer to Office for non-enterprise users. But Drive has one big drawback: It cannot directly deal with Office formats such as .doc and .xls, so it has to convert them to Google Docs files first. That's a hassle, and it can introduce compatibility problems. QuickOffice lets you open and edit those Office documents without converting them. (Strangely, the opposite drawback applies for Google Drive files: You can view them within QuickOffice, but you can't edit them.)
Google acquired QuickOffice in June of last year, and it's reasonable to imagine that the program will merge with Drive over time. In fact, QuickOffice already lets you save and load document files directly to your Drive storage. But for now, you've got one program for Drive documents, and another for Office documents.
Microsoft, meanwhile, is just gingerly dipping its toes into iOS and Android with its Office software. Its apps are only designed for phones, not tablets, and their editing capabilities are basic.
That's not to say QuickOffice is robust by comparison. It lacks its fair share of standard Office features, such as link insertion, table creation and line spacing. But unlike the mobile version of Office, which requires a $99 per year Office 365 subscription, you can use QuickOffice on phones and tablets for free. It's worth checking out if you need a basic Office file editor. If you hook it up to your Google Drive account by September 26, you'll also get an extra 10 GB of free storage for two years.


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Q: list exception out of bound I am getting error as List index out of bound when i try to delete the record from pageblock table.
Sometimes the record gets deleted but sometimes it doesnt. It doesnt perform same everytime.
Following is the code
Page:
<apex:pageBlock >
<apex:pageBlockTable id="pbttest"
    value="{!lsttestwrapper}" var="testwrapper">
    <apex:facet name="caption">Test

    </apex:facet>

<apex:column value="{!testwrapper.test.First_Name__c}" headerValue="First Name"/>
    <apex:column value="{!testwrapper.test.Surname__c}" headerValue="Last Name"/>
    <apex:column value="{!testwrapper.ident}"
                 rendered="false" />
    <apex:column >
        <apex:commandButton value="Remove"
                            action="{!RemoveTest}"
                            rerender="pbttest ">
            <apex:param name="identity"
                        value="{!testwrapper.ident}"
                        assignTo="{!toDelIdent}" />
        </apex:commandButton>
    </apex:column>
</apex:pageBlockTable>
<apex:pageBlock>

Class:
public List<signatoryWrapper> lsttestWrapper{get; set;}
    In constructor

    lsttestWrapper= new List<testWrapper>();
    test1=new test__c();
public class testWrapper

      {
        public Integer ident {get; private set;}
        public test__c signtry {get; set;}

        public signatoryWrapper(Integer inIdent,test__c test)
        {
            signtry=test;
            ident=inIdent;
        }
      }
    public PageReference RemoveTest (){
        PageReference Pageref= null;

        if (lsttestwrapper != null && lsttestwrapper..size() > 0){
            for(testWrapper signw : lsttestwrapper){
                if(signw.ident == toDelIdent){
                    test__c test = [    SELECT  Id
                                        FROM    Test__c
                                        WHERE   Id =:signw.signtry.id limit 1];
                    delete test;
                }
            }
            // Deletion successful?
            if(lsttestwrapper.size()>0){
                lsttestwrapper.remove(toDelIdent);
            }
         }
        return Pageref;
    }

System.ListException: List index out of bounds: 2

A: Ok, I make a guess here:
I assume lsttestwrapper is a List (Otherwise the for loop wouldn't make sense). If the list contains two entries, e.g. with Ids 2 and 3, and toDelInt is 2 it will happily delete the record with Id 2 and subsequently try to remove the entry #2 from the two-element list - which  only has entries #0 and #1.
You're mixing record Ids with list entry indexes.
Also, why is the "Deletion successful?" part not within the innermost if branch? Would make more sense if you ask me.

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This book is in essence concerned with the quest for rationality in decision-making, and is founded on the premise that improvements in the machinery of decision-making can actually lead to better decisions. The numerous initiatives of the 1960s and 1970s established specifically to foster greater policy coordination (notably the Central Policy Review Staff or 'Think Tank') had, by the beginning of the 1980s, fallen foul of an altogether changed political climate, in which policy formation was increasingly determined by the pressures of the marketplace, rather than by the pursuit of rationally-determined consensual goals. Paradoxically, however, this process has led, in turn, to renewed interest in the possibilities of interdepartmental policy coordination, at both centre and periphery, and in Joint Approaches to Social Policy the authors seek to provide a clear understanding of what the reality, rather than the rhetoric, of policy coordination actually entails. They endeavour to familiarise policy-makers at all levels with the basic conceptual tools necessary for successful policy coordination. A research project which began almost as an elegy for a vanished world of consensual, rational decision-making, has thus become, albeit in very different circumstances, a manual for effective policy coordination in the 1980s.


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on different types of "racism" and discrimination
Kudos to Van Jones for saying something outside the box and trying to get to something more nuanced. But in the end, his ideas don't satisfy for other reasons.
I suspect the underlying problem is a.) using the same word (racism) to describe two dissimilar things: the universal, generally helpful, but potentially damaging/mistaken practice of stereotyping (in this case, by race) and a preference for/against people of a certain race (bigotry/animus or favoritism); or b.) assuming that bigotry toward someone who happens to be in group X is simply and mostly/completely explained by bigotry toward group X.
The possibility of "animus" against someone in my own group simply for being in my group is self-contradictory. Seeing it in five people at once is incoherent. (So, the five cops also hate each other?) And even if it's somehow true, then it ends up explaining everything and nothing. Instead, I gotta go with a more "nuanced" theory as per Jones: the list you provided above, stereotyping, or maybe closest to what Jones is trying to get at-- a more-focused bigotry toward miscreants who represent groups to which I belong (a cousin of the 3rd Commandment!), etc.
For those who are interested, links to my two most recent essays on stereotyping here and here...
categories of selective perspectives on government as an ethical and practical means to various ends
I recently read a piece connecting the War in Iraq to the mRNA vaccines. It reminded me of the common inconsistencies we see in the average layperson's "political philosophy"-- as people think govt is unethical and impractical in one or more areas, but then they imagine it must be different in other realms (or it's ok as long as they control the power). Broadly speaking...
A Statist is one who through ignorance or religion imagines that the State is usually really good at wielding power.
A Conservative is one who thinks the State is generally terrible at wielding power, except in terms of social matters and probably foreign policy.
A Liberal is one who thinks the State is generally bad at wielding power in military and social matters, but fond of their efforts in the economy.
A Libertarian who thinks the state is generally bad on ethical and practical grounds in all of these areas, preferring a minimal state that lets people do what they want, as long as they don't do direct and significant harm to others.
There aren't many people in any of the above categories. Most folks are mere partisans, a moderate mush of policy positions, or apathetic-- since it's quite rational to spend so little time on public policy and a coherent political philosophy.
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violence, lies and their interdependence
Violence and lies. Dragon/lion and serpent. State power and cultural seduction. All key biblical themes that work their way throughout world history and everyday life-- independently but mostly together.
As Solzhenitsyn notes, violence is an attractive means to various (mostly ungodly) ends. But "violence ages swiftly, a few years pass—and it is no longer sure of itself. To prop itself up, to appear decent, it will without fail call forth its ally—Lies. For violence has nothing to cover itself with but lies, and lies can only persist through violence. And it is not every day and not on every shoulder that violence brings down its heavy hand: It demands of us only a submission to lies, a daily participation in deceit—and this suffices as our fealty.
And therein we find, neglected by us, the simplest, the most accessible key to our liberation: a personal nonparticipation in lies! Even if all is covered by lies, even if all is under their rule, let us resist in the smallest way: Let their rule hold not through me! And this is the way to break out of the imaginary encirclement of our inertness, the easiest way for us and the most devastating for the lies. For when people renounce lies, lies simply cease to exist. Like parasites, they can only survive when attached to a person."
MLK and flawed heroes
On MLK Jr. Day, I'm reflecting on "cancel culture" and its impact on interpreting our nation's heroes. We celebrate them not for the sins they've committed, but the great things they have done.
On the Right, it doesn't matter (enough) to cancel MLK for his philandering or ignorance on economics and political economy. For those on the Left, do you really want to cancel past heroes because of (big) mistakes? If so, have you jettisoned Darwin, Sanger, Wilson, etc.-- and are you willing to part with MLK or others in the future?
Related: it's fascinating that the Bible portrays its heroes with warts. Aside from Daniel and Joshua/Caleb (and of course, the God-Man Jesus), all of the significant players have significant flaws. Why? Ultimately, Judaism and Christianity are not about our flaws, but God's grace and redemption-- and our decision to repent and embrace the gift and to become involved with His works of redemption.
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MAYTAG is terrible
I plan to remind you daily how terrible MAYTAG is (and thus, WHIRLPOOL) until our Washer gets fixed. (And I look forward to working them into my textbook revision and using them as a classroom example for years to come.)
We bought a turd at LOWE's in February and I'd hope they could do better, but their hands seem mostly tied. Increasing trouble until useless in December. Contacted Maytag on 12/27, repair attempted by pros on 1/3; basic part ordered 1/5; now told that it may be 21 business days (early February). Along the way, long waits, incompetence and hassle from MAYTAG's customer service.
Feel free to share stories or wisdom below.
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Father Stu, Sandman (Season 1, Episode 6), Stranger Things (S4, E4), and the Gospel
Father Stu is definitely a film to see, at least for believers. A compelling story in three acts, with solid acting of quirky characters by Mark Wahlberg, Mel Gibson, and Jacki Weaver. Provocative on redemption, forgiveness, concerns about reputation vs. character, and the role of suffering in our walk with Christ. Wow.
I tried The Sandman, but it was somewhere between creepy and too-far-off-for-me-to-watch. (I forget exactly why it bugged me.) But I read a review that said Episode 6 was golden-- that it "ranks among the single most profound episodes of television produced in the streaming era". So, I gave that a shot-- and it was deeply moving (in the first half) and provocative (in the second half).
Bottom line: I agree with the reviewer and strongly recommend it. (You don't need to know the series to follow along. But in case it helps: Morpheus' sister is, quite obviously, Death. And then there's a cameo by Desire at the end.)
Finally working through Season 4 of Stranger Things. It's been good so far, but not nearly as good as I remember Seasons 1-3. Not sure if it's diminishing marginal returns or it's just not as good. BUT... Episode 4's focus on Max is golden. Staggering on what unrepentant sin does to us and how it distances us from others-- and the power of honesty/candor, repentance, and community.
The lyrics of ST's theme song used in the climactic scene point to Christ: "If I only could, I'd make a deal with God. And I'd get him to swap our places." He has offered to swap places with us! With recognition of sin and repentance, the offer of grace is there to take. If you're not already in the goodness of God's Kingdom, accept the swap of grace today and join robust biblical community (Acts 2:37-47). If you're in the Kingdom and fooling around with Vecna or wasting your time on distractions, join me in a fervent pursuit of discipleship with Jesus, understanding and living out God's word, through the Spirit.
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Posts published in July 2013
Year In Review 2012-2013
By The Fifth Estate on July 26, 2013
T5E briefly reviews some of the year's memorable events and activities, as we raise our glass to the year that was.
The Organs of CФ
By Sachin Nayak on July 24, 2013
There are eight CFI clubs, which work on diverse projects and cater to the varying interests of students at IIT Madras.
On Room Allocation For Freshers and Decision-Making in IITM
I acknowledge that a variety of interpretations, arguments, questions, etc. ranging from the serious to the silly, will exist on this issue. Issues like this could have many solutions and also many approaches to solutions.
Cultural Clubs 2013-2014
By Navyata Sanghvi on July 21, 2013
These clubs are the heart of the cultural scene at the Institute. Throughout the year, they conduct many inter-hostel Literary and Social events (together known as LitSoc, which sees hostels vying for the overall trophy) and organise meetings and activities for their members. Most clubs also conduct (or plan to conduct, for the first time this year) their own flagship events, which seek to draw the best talent from IITM and outside. This article is an introduction to the various clubs on campus.
The Hitchhiker's Guide To Insti
By Aravindabharathi R on July 19, 2013
Read on for a brief introduction to campus life.
Chennai Weather: Its Malignance and Magnificence
By Poorna on July 19, 2013
I got out of the car, putting one foot firmly on the ground, and then another. I waited for a sign. For a moment, nothing happened. The heavens and earth stayed just where they were, and a leaf twirled its way to the ground from a tree above.
And then a Malignance struck me, full in the face, throwing me completely off guard. This Malignance had been absent in all of my fanciful imaginings about college life, and as if to chastise me for forgetting to factor it in, it was relentless in its attack. There was no thwarting this determined Malignance. More charitable people than me have called this Malignance 'the Chennai weather'.
Insti Wildlife for Dummies
By Isha Bhallamudi on July 18, 2013
Isha Bhallamudi writes about her experiences with the wild side of campus.
Wildlife in insti. How do I begin? Well, I'm certainly not going to yammer about the wonderful biodiversity we have with all those hundreds of species, like the palm civets (which kept mysteriously popping up, dead, outside the Elec department), golden jackals (I don't think anybody in insti has seen them yet), gerbils, chitals and Indian Star tortoises, not to mention the insects and reptiles and birds. There have been enough lectures and books and signboards already.
Raftar Formula Racing: Fast and Furious
By Neha Ashok on July 14, 2013
Neha Ashoks reports on the Auto Club at CFI, as they prepare for Formula Student Germany, to be held at the famous Hockenheimring Formula One Circuit at the end of July 2013.
Sowing the Seeds Elsewhere: The Room Allotment Controversy
By Aroon Narayanan on July 12, 2013
The month of July is usually an exciting time for students at IIT Madras - freshers eagerly await the dawn of their college lives, and senior students look forward to welcoming in a new set of thoughts, ideas and perspectives. Over the last few days, however, the social media has been abuzz with indignation at the administration's decision to house undergraduate freshers and undergraduate seniors in different hostels this year.
What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Stronger: Messes and Changes to the System
By Raghavi Rao Kodati on July 10, 2013
The recently concluded mess and cafeteria tendering process has resulted in a number of changes to the existing dining facilities.


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I wasn't too excited about the eggs theme for The Studio Online this week and felt pretty uninspired- until I cracked eggs for my scrambled eggs breakfast yesterday. Aha! A cracked egg in the composition- I haven't done that before. And this would be a challenge for the Edge 80 optic on my Lensbaby (the optic I can never get off once I put it on- but that's another story. . .). The weather was warm, with no cold wind knocking over my props in my garage studio. For once, things went smoothly with the set-up AND, most importantly, with the focus. In fact, I will have more eggs photos to show you- probably tomorrow.
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Coming Soon caught up with Bill Murray at a press day for his latest indie flick Get Low and managed to get some information concerning the long-gestating Ghostbusters 3 sequel from the man who's long been rumored to be the main culprit responsible for holding up development on the project.
Murray - along with Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis, and director Ivan Reitman - has to sign-off on any potential Ghostbusters 3 scripts before production can get underway. So far it seems that Murray is the one member of the original Ghostbusters team whose approval for the sequel has not yet been attained by Columbia Pictures - something that Aykroyd in particular is reportedly a bit peeved about.
But how much of the halabaloo surrounding Ghostbusters 3 - whether it's the rumors about Reitman being too old or the fate of Murray's character Peter Venkman - is real?
"You know, it's really the studio starts this stuff. They start saying 'Ghostbusters.' They want to do [it] and it's really the world of sequels and bringing these things back again, and then some wiseacre said, 'Hey, we got a couple of new writers who are gonna write something.' And I thought, 'Oh, well, maybe there'll be some writers' and there was always this joke, sort of a half-true, half-joke thing like, 'Well, I'll do it if you kill me off in the first reel.' That was my joke, you know?"
Well, according to Murray, there was actually a draft of the Ghostbusters 3 screenplay written up that killed his character off early - a move that he admits was "kind of clever anyway." However, he made no mention of whether that is still the case with the script in its current form.
But what light does Murray have to shed on the state of the project now?
" So it's just a kind of a dreamy thing. They want to create a new generation of Ghostbusters, you know? They'd just like us to pass the torch."
But would making Ghostbusters 3 be the "nightmare" that Murray referred to it as on his Letterman appearance a few months back?
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So yeah - Murray sounds less like a curmudgeonly old-timer and more like someone who wonders if making a return to the Ghostbusters franchise is indeed worth it in the end.
What do you think? Should Murray give his approval for Ghostbusters 3 - assuming everything looks good, that is? Or should he just say no and let the project be laid to rest at long last?
As always, we'll keep you posted on any Ghostbusters 3 related news as it comes in.


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Pat Tillman gave up his professional football career to join the U.S. Army Rangers after 9/11. In 2004, Pat was shot and killed in Afghanistan in a friendly fire gun battle. Yet the story told by the government was quite different. Mary Tillman, Pat's mother, documents her family's crusade to uncover the truth and expose the cover-up of Pat's death orchestrated by senior military officials.
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UNB and SHAD are working to bring new opportunities to students from the Grand Falls region through a grant from the Dr. Oetker Community Fund.
Exceptional high school students from Victoria County are encouraged to participate in the SHAD program, and once they graduate, to attend UNB as undergraduate students.
Made possible by a financial commitment from the Dr. Oetker Community Fund, successful applicants to the SHAD program will receive support toward their program fees, travel and incidental costs, thanks to a new awards program.
Tim Jackson, President and CEO at SHAD, said that SHAD is undertaking extensive outreach in Victoria County this fall.
"By reaching out to high schools and community partners, we are identifying young people of exceptional ability, who are at risk of not reaching their full potential because of family situation, lack of social and financial resources, or lack of awareness of their options," said Mr. Jackson.
Since the early 1980s, UNB has been pleased to host SHAD, a STEAM-based (science, technology, engineering, arts and math) month-long in-residence summer program that empowers exceptional high school students.
Marco LeBlanc, a resource teacher at John Caldwell School in Grand Falls applauded the partnership and what it will mean to high school students from Victoria County.
Once they complete the SHAD program, high school graduates from Victoria County will also be eligible for a scholarship when they apply for an undergraduate degree at UNB. Each scholarship will be valued up to tuition and will be renewable for a second year of study.
UNB President and Vice-Chancellor Dr. Eddy Campbell said that part of the university's mandate is to make education accessible to all.


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The 1995 constitution of the Republic of Uganda has various articles that support the attainment of the gender equality goal. Article 33 spells out the right s of women including being accorded full dignity with men, the right to equal treatment and the right to affirmative action and stresses that the state shall provide facilities and opportunities for the welfare of women. Further Article 78 (1) (b) provides for " one woman representative per district" while article 180 (b) provides that "one third of membership of a local government council shall be reserved for women" At the local government level, the local government Act 1997 aims to "establish a democratic, political and gender sensitive set up in local governments" (Objective 2).
Gender is conceptualised as socially constructed roles between men, women, girls and boys. These differences change over time across culture and levels of development. According to 2002 Uganda Population and Housing Census, Budaka district had a total population of 136,475 of which 65,806 were males and 70,669 were females. Budaka is one of the rural districts in Uganda whose main livelihood activity is subsistence agriculture where annual crops are grown and animals reared. However, it is important to note that it is mostly women who participate greatly in subsistence farming. Majority of the men in Budaka district participate in petty business activities. The petty business activities are basically agricultural out related. Therefore, women's participation in economic activities in Budaka district is often in the informal sector and is largely invisible. For example, they contribute over 70 percent to the total agricultural labour force and perform many of the domestic tasks of family caring and maintenance.
The workload of women in the District ranges typically from 12 to 18 hours per day. The food women produce is basically for household consumption and therefore generates no income, none of these are remunerated; hence the contribution of women is not recognised in economic terms. Moreover, despite these contributions, they have little control over and ownership of productive resources. Land ownership in the District is a male domain. The shortage of fuel wood and its effect on women's time-usage is a concern which needs to be addressed.
The Patriarchal tendencies are very strong in Budaka district. This phenomenon puts men in a superior position in society in terms of decision making, although women shoulder most reproductive, productive and community management responsibilities. Most activities carried out by women in Budaka district are not remunerated or reflected in the District's statistics. Women's productivity is further hampered by inadequate access to credit and general lack of skills and appropriate technology due to high levels of illiteracy, poverty and inadequate flow of access to information.
Fewer women get loans from the traditional financial institutions because they do not have collateral security. The lower status of women in the District in comparison to men is due to gender imbalances that arise from the unequal opportunities and access to and control over productive resources and benefits.
There is therefore need for gender responsive development where gender concerns are routinely addressed in all planning activities as well as in the implementation, monitoring and evaluation of programme performance. The relationship between men and women, boys and girls are to be examined during planning, programming, monitoring and evaluation. The specific focus is to be on the most vulnerable members of the community to ensure that neither gender is being marginalised nor being disproportionately marginalised.
Socially, women are being sensitized on their rights, on gender inequality and communities are being encouraged to involve women in decision making in matters concerning them. A number of initiative in the District have in the last two decades taken advantage of the favourable national and global gender policy framework to pursue a gender equality agenda.
A persistent problem relates to the extent, to which policies and laws are known and understood, especially those newly formulated. Other relevant laws and policies are not translated into local languages, and efforts to disseminate information and provide education on laws and policies is inadequate. In addition, resources available to monitor compliance with conventions are still wanting in the case on Budaka District.
Particular problems are evident at the district and sub-county levels with inadequate staffing to realise all gender focused functions, with many local governments not having gender focal point officers for the various gender mainstreaming function. The extent to which gender focal point officers are involved in local government planning varies, but is generally minimal and funds allocated to gender mainstreaming activities by district are very limited.
Overall, it is acknowledged that there are several actors in the sector but there is limited inter and intra-sectoral linkages, thus making it difficult to ascertain the scale of activities and impact. Such shortcomings are to be addressed through the Development Plan and there are plans to undertake a sector audit to map stakeholders, a sector public expenditure review to assess performance and continuing gender mainstreaming and budgeting in all the development process of the District.
The District Community Based Services will continue receiving grants to support the vulnerable groups relating to women, elderly, youths, children, FAL and PWDs. However, the major activities for the department are attributed to the following: Operation of the community based office including payment of staff salaries. Conduct probation and welfare support services. Support to community development services for extension staff. Support adult Learning (FAL) services. Carry out gender mainstreaming activities in all sub-county and District annual work plans. Support to Youths, disability and elderly council activities. Representation of Women Councils and community development services to LLGs. Facilitation and motivation of FAL instructors. Conduct FAL performance review meetings at SC level. Conduct monitoring and support supervision in LLGs. conduct trainings and refreshers for FAL instructors on existing and modified curriculum and instructional materials including procurement of teaching/learning materials (chalk, chalk boards, dusters, primers). Carry out quarterly review and advocacy meetings. Conduct coordination meetings.
Carry out consultations and follow ups with Line Ministry and other government agencies. Participate in the commemoration of International Literacy Day. Operation of community based development at Ush 41,551,000 including salaries of 40,051,000 per annum for five years . Probation and welfare support at Ush 44,960,000 per annum including support to OVC under USAID-SDS funding for five years. Community development services at Ush 1,140,000 per annum for five years. Support to adult learning at Ush 14,555,000 per annum for five years. Support to gender main streaming activities for District sector and sub-county work plans and budgets at Ush 800,000 per annum for five years. Support to youth councils 4,100,000 epr annum for five years. Support to the Disabled and elderly at Ush 31,430,000 per annum. Support to women councils representation at Ush 5,466,000 per annum for five years. Support to community development service for LLG's at Ush 56,806,000 per annum for five years.


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Losing jewellery around the house can be the biggest inconvenience and once you drop a single earring, delicate bracelet or small brooch, it can be near impossible to find them again. However, a genius new hack claims to solve the problem for good.
A video posted on Facebook by 5-Minute Crafts, a page full of helpful hints, suggests a number of easy ways to clean your house using everyday items you'd find in your cupboard. And one of the page's latest hacks has gone viral, after claiming to help find any lost gems or precious items with nothing but a stocking, a vacuum cleaner and a rubber band.
As the video suggests, simply remove the head from your vacuum cleaner and cover the opening with a medium sized piece of stocking. Secure the stocking around the top of the tube by tightly tying a rubber band around it. Then simply turn on the vacuum cleaner and run the stocking-covered opening over the floor, under couches and in small crevices.
The suction of the vacuum will attract whatever it is you're missing, but the stocking will act as a barrier so the pieces of jewellery don't get completely sucked in.
This smart, out-of-the-box cleaning hack will work wonders for those who easily misplace or drop items, those with bad eye sight who find it hard to spot missing things, and those who can't get on the ground or reach all the way under the couch to investigate.
This was just one quick hack among a video full of different, unconventional ways to clean your house.
Another hack suggested creating a self-soaping sponge for people to do their dishes with. All people have to do is cut an insert in the side of the sponge, slip a small round of soap inside and run it under water. The video also suggested unclogging your shower head by tying a bag of vinegar over it so the head can soak for up to 30 minutes before removing and rinsing off.
Rubbing a tennis ball on a wall to remove scuff marks, spraying your dustpan with water before using it to collect dust better and sucking up a pile of cinnamon to make your vacuum cleaner smell better were all also among some of the better quick and easy cleaning solutions.
Have you tried this hack for lost jewellery? What's your favourite cleaning hack?


FreeCharge has forayed into online utility bill payments with the launch of electricity bill payment option on its website. With the availability of this facility, users can now pay their electricity bills from the confines of their home or office without the need to visit the payment centers of electricity companies. They can make payment with a range of payment options such as credit / debit card, net banking or ATM / Cash card. More utility e-payment facilities would be available to the consumer in the coming months.
According to FreeCharge, they have made a conscious effort to encourage the adoption of electronic payments, while incentivizing it for consumers. According to a recent report, over the next five years the share of e-bill payments in total bill payment is expected to rise from 0.5% in 2014 to 2.7% in 2019. Utility bill payments has been synonymous to standing in queue for payments, wasting time and extra money. It is one of the most stressful tasks occupying a large portion of our lives. This space was lacking a technological innovation. FreeCharge, identified the gap and helped consumers to better manage their mundane tasks of bill payments by making these transactions quick and painless.
This service started by FreeCharge will also send bill pay reminders helping consumers prevent late payments and the possibility of incurring late fees.
FreeCharge has associated with 8 major electricity boards, covering most of the major Metro markets. The company is planning to expand this number to 30 in the next four weeks. Consumers across districts can pay their electricity bill with just the customer account number. For the first time users, the site fetches their due bills instantly, allowing them to pay and automatically registers the new users with the biller. Thus, whenever the next bill is generated, a reminder is prompted. FreeCharge will provide an instant confirmation of bill payment and follow up with the biller to make sure everything is smooth at the backend.
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A while back I was having a conversation with a bodybuilder. He was, in line with many people in fitness, strictly focussed on his passion, and how it was superior to other strength training.
"Powerlifters" he said to me, "they eat all wrong and they're too fat, they've got no discipline see."
He said this, gesticulating with his fork, as he ate his usual meal of chicken breast with cold rice and broccoli.
As a powerlifter I thanked him for sharing his perspective and went on with my day!
Reflecting upon this from a coach's perspective, I started to look past his assumption that an individual's choice not to be as lean as they can and to eat in a way of their choosing could only be a lack of commitment. I started to consider the nature of "discipline" and how this works.
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Windows Defender is the well-known security tool from Microsoft that protects your system and your data against spyware and other malicious applications. Formerly named "Microsoft Anti Spyware", Windows Defender is included by default in the latest 3 Windows editions (Vista, 7 and 8) and can be downloaded and installed separately on Windows XP and Windows 2003.
In my opinion, Windows Defender is one of the best things offered by the latest Windows editions. Though it is neat, lightweight and easy-to-use, it is also really handy and reliable. I like a lot the fact that it maintains a history of detected suspicious system activities and potentially malicious software, letting you review what actions have been taken regarding these detection. Furthermore, it provides 3 types of scanning (quick, full and custom) which can be scheduled to be automatically performed whenever you want. It also allows you to choose what actions you want Windows Defender to perform, by default, when it detects suspicious software (remove them, quarantine them, ignore and allow them).
The scan reports are comprehensive and thorough, providing loads of info about the detected items. Another handy feature is the fact that you can choose to exclude certain file types and locations from your computer from being scanned for malware by Windows Defender.
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Microsoft added built-in security software to Windows for the first time. Since then, it's appeared under various names, but currently it's known as Windows Defender Security Center (WDSC). What started out as a basic antivirus detection feature has slowly grown into something that resembles a security suite. It doesn't have anything close to the features you'd see in a third-party suite, but it does a fair job at antivirus and malware scanning.
The crucial section is Virus & threat protection. This is where you can manually start a full scan, enable real-time protection, or carry out an offline scan for removing particularly nasty bits of malware.
Device performance & health, meanwhile, just gives your PC a general health report card including Windows Update status, driver status, and so on. It does not report on any potential security weaknesses, short of lagging updates.
You can dive a little deeper into WDSC beyond this, but not by much. If I had to guess, Microsoft plans to expand its functionality over time, and right now we're just seeing the basic scaffolding being built. That's just speculation, however.
Windows Defender stacks up alright in anti-virus detection. A-V Test gave Defender a 99 percent detection rate for real-world testing against 0-day, web, and email threats. For run-of-the-mill malware, meanwhile, Defender scored very highly against more than 10,000 samples at 99.7 percent detection.
A-V Comparatives found a similarly high performance level for real-world protection, with about 9 false positives out of 329 test samples. SE Labs, for its part, gave Defender a AA overall rating in the period of April through June. (The highest that an antivirus can score with SE Labs is a AAA rating.) During its testing, Defender failed to protect against six targeted attacks and four web-based attacks.
As for the drain on your PC's resources, that's a little harder to measure than with third-party software. WDC is built right into the operating system and starts up automatically. To counteract that, we turned off the entirety of Windows Defender (both the scanning tool and the overall program) using the registry. Then we fired up our first benchmark: PC Mark 8's Work Conventional benchmark, which simulates everyday tasks like video chatting, web browsing, and word processing, and recorded the score. Afterward, we switched back on and started a full system scan before running PC Mark 8 again.
The results fell in line with the best third-party options: Windows Defender had no real effect on performance. Running Windows 10 with Defender off garnered a Park score of 2498. Once it was back on, the score went up to 2516—right within the margin of error for Park 8 results.
That story also held true in our mandrake performance benchmark, which puts far more strain on system resources. With Windows Defender turned off, we were able to transpose a 3.8 GB M K V file on the Android Tablet preset in one hour, 14 minutes, and 21 seconds. With Windows Defender turned on, it took one hour, 15 minutes, and 30 seconds. That difference is so small that it's insignificant.
Windows Defender is a fine basic security solution. For advanced users who are hyper-aware about all the various threats out there, this free option might be enough if they also periodically scan their systems with something like the free version of Malware bytes. The average user, however, should look for a more feature-rich third-party solution.
It always seemed strange to me that Microsoft let third-party software companies corner the market for protecting Windows from malware. I was personally excited when Microsoft acquired Sybarites Software's antivirus products back in 2005 and remanded them as the Microsoft Forefront Security family of products. Then around 2012 Microsoft began releasing a series of announcements indicating they were ending further development of several Forefront products including Forefront Threat Management Gateway (which was a rebounding of Microsoft I SA Server, which was itself a reworking of the earlier Microsoft Proxy Server) and Microsoft Unified Access Gateway (which was based on a product originally acquired from Whale Communications). The only Forefront product that's apparently still being developed is Forefront Identity Manager, but even that hasn't seen a refresh since 2012.
Then the antivirus products Forefront Endpoint Protection and Forefront Client Security were moved from the Forefront Family to Microsoft's System Center family of products and renamed as System Center Endpoint Protection, and this is still around, although now it's under the System Center Configuration Manager umbrella. Then as if all that naming confusion wasn't enough, Microsoft did an even better job of confusing the end-user market with their Windows Defender anti-malware product, which was initially released in 2006, then superseded in 2009 by Microsoft Security Essentials, then integrated into Windows 8 as Windows Defender, and then renamed as Windows Defender Security Center in Windows 10 Creators Update. I've actually lost track whether or not Windows Defender Security Center now uses the same anti-malware engine as System Center Endpoint Protection. But who cares as long as it does its job, right
Well, that's the question we need to ask, and to try and answer it I've invited Raymond share some thoughts on the subject. Raymond is an independent IT architect and trainer from the Netherlands. He has been active in the IT industry for more than 30 years, of which 24-plus years have been focused on Microsoft infrastructure products for both government and financial institutes. Raymond is the author of multiple books on Windows and security. As an architect, he supports organizations in IT strategy and realization of their next-generation workplace infrastructure. Raymond is actively involved with the national and international IT community and was a speaker at multiple international Microsoft events. You can find out more about Raymond on his website or by following him on Twitter. Let's hear from Raymond now.
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Until not so long ago, Microsoft didn't really show a lot of interest to get Windows Defender on the market as a competitive offer to technically compete with competing products from other vendors. The only valid reason for a company to choose Windows Defender Windows and that it provides integration with its update mechanisms. Tests regarding system security products showed time and time again how the product was no better than mediocre in detection and prevention of malware infections. It always bugged me as a Windows expert that Microsoft didn't seem to bother and use its knowledge of the platform to come up with the best protection possible and expand on the feature set in a way that only Microsoft can do on the platform.
This all seems to have changed over the past year. Finally, Microsoft showed some care about the malware detection tests and optimized Windows Defender AV to also detect the stuff that other vendors are detecting during those tests. At the same time, Defender seems to become a brand to protect Windows as Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection (W DA T P) hit the market. W D ATP is the cloud-based intrusion detection platform that Microsoft offers as a part of the Windows E 5 offering. The platform uses machine learning algorithms to detect behavior caused by hacks and malware. Especially when a hack is not based on malware, this is a brilliant way to detect that things are going wrong.
With the release of Windows 10 Fall Creators Update, or version 1709, Microsoft seems to really have gotten on target when it comes to making Windows Defender a serious contender for its competitors. The timing appears extremely well-staged at a moment because Kaspersky, one of the market leaders, is in a heavy storm of accusations that its software has been hacked and misused by state intelligence organizations, and more companies are looking at replacing Windows 7 for Windows 10.
To me, it was quite a surprise to find that probably the biggest changes in Windows 10 is a suite of Host Intrusion Prevention features that are tightly related to Windows Defender. These new features come under the Windows Defender label and provide new capabilities to prevent havoc from happening on your systems. The Host Intrusion Prevention suite is named Windows Defender Exploit Guard and it consists of the following.
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One surprising fact is that most Exploit Guard features don't come enabled by default. Even though that appears to contradict the "Secure by Default" slogan, the main reason appears to be compatibility. As we all remember what happened the last time when Microsoft tried to force a new security feature enabled by default when it introduced User Account Control with Windows Vista.
Another surprise is that the whole Windows Defender Exploit Guard suite is available in all versions of Windows 10. This looks as if Microsoft is now using a different approach introducing new security features in Windows 10, as all these features are available in all Windows 10 SK Us.
Windows Defender can be referred to as the new E MET built-in Windows 10. EMET is a solution that enables you to configure a number of the built-in process mitigations on applications when the developer did not do so. This prevents many potential zero-day exploits from happening. The reality is that EMETs exploit protections have increased from five in EMET to 18 in Windows 10 RS3. People who have implemented EMET before know it is hard to test and find the exploit protections that work and do not break specific applications. Microsoft managed to find a way to relieve you from most of the burden when implementing WDEP. The answer is Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection (WDATP). If your system is licensed and configured to use WDATP, WDATP will automatically configure the Microsoft-recommended process mitigations on the system, covering most publicly available applications and providing maximum protection against zero-day exploits. As it does not require Windows Defender AV, even those who opt for a different AV solution can make use of this feature.
Now Windows Defender Attack Surface Reduction is a set of aimed at disarming some of the most-used malware tactics. The measures in Attack Surface reduction can, for instance, block the execution of obfuscated scripts or stop Office applications from creating child processes.
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Block executable content from email client and web mail
Office applications from creating child processes
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And the beauty of all this is it works with a single requirement: Do not disable Windows Defender AV
Now Windows Defender Network Protection is an example of simple effectiveness. The feature uses Smart Screen technology to block any executable from connecting to potentially malicious HTTP-based sources on the Internet. Once again Windows Defender AV is a requirement for enabling Windows Defender Network.
Controlled Folder Access is Microsoft's answer to the ever-increasing number of ransomware infections. Controlled Folder Access allows only a list of known applications to write in user folders like Documents, Pictures, or alike.
My first experience with the feature showed that the default configuration is pretty strict. The feature mode for a while logs to create a white list that will not annoy the users away from this really nice feature. The single option Controlled Folder Access is an easy way to create a white list from the event logs. You probably already guessed there is one requirement for using Controlled Folder Access. That is (of course) Windows Defender AV.
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