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Светлая Речка  — деревня в Афанасьевском районе Кировской области в составе Ичетовкинского сельского поселения.

География
Расположена на расстоянии примерно 7 км по прямой на юг-юго-запад от райцентра поселка  Афанасьево.

История
Известна с 1939 года, в 1950 11 хозяйств и 55 жителей, в 1989 году 13 жителей.

Население
Постоянное население составляло 4 человека (русские 100%) в 2002 году, 8 в 2010.

Примечания

Населённые пункты Афанасьевского района

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Buzz Blog: No, the Higgs Boson Won't Cure Cancer . . .
. . . but I kinda want a part of the LHC anyway.
Sorry, the Higgs Boson won't cure cancer or help you lose weight.
Snake oil salesmen are terrible, despicable scumbags who take advantage of sick people desperately in search of cures, often for painful and terminal ailments.
It's particularly bothersome to me when people use pseudo-scientific physics (pseudophysics?) to steal from the infirm and uninformed. Devices that protect you from harmless cell phone radiation, healing crystals, and magnets for your shoes are just a few of the scams that come to mind.
Now some shysters have gone the extra mile by selling what they claim to be scraps from the Large Hadron Collider that supposedly have acquired healing powers by being near the places where the Higgs Boson were detected.
The website where you can purchase a completely innocuous ball bearing ($199) or random bolt or nut ($149) is called GodParticle4u.
One thing that really bothers me, besides the false hope they're passing off on suffering victims, is that fact that some people (like me) would actually consider paying exorbitant prices to own a legitimate piece of the LHC. If it weren't for the pseudo-scientific gibberish the website is loaded with, and the fact that there's no way to know if the scrap their selling was ever even near the LHC, I would seriously consider saving my pennies to place an order.
I've sent inquiries to a few people who can tell me if it's possible that the con artists may have a few LHC bits to sell, but haven't gotten any word back yet.
I know none of our readers will fall for this garbage, but I hope they'll keep an eye out for anyone they know who might have gotten taken in and straighten them out.
On the other hand, I hope someday there's a way to own a certified piece of one to the most important scientific instruments ever built. I'd buy something like that in a heartbeat.
Why are the people who run the LHC evil?
Not surprising. Small scamsters often hang onto a giant scam. Falsehood breeds falsehood.
In this case I'd rather see a few hundreds going to the small fraudster than the billions and billions and billions going to the evil monsters who run LHC.


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Tag Archives: On Tour DVD
Mark Kozelek Interview
As part of the release of Mark Kozelek's documentary Tour DVD, Cameron sat down for a chat with Mark. Topics include the new DVD, writing songs, interacting with fans on stage, Red House Painters, Almost Famous and much more. You can read the entire interview over at the Sun Kil Moon official site, but here's a few choice snippets:
Cameron: Kris Kristofferson once said, "I write a sad song when I'm happy, because generally when I'm sad, I'm too sad to write a good song." Where do you stand on the subject?
Mark: I'm the opposite. When I'm happy, the last thing that I want to do is shut myself away in a room and write. I generally write when I'm feeling down in an attempt to find some peace and contentment.
Cameron: You chose to film in black-and-white — what was the attraction to that?
Mark: That was Josh's idea. We are both fans of black and white, and it helped a lot on the technical end of things.
Cameron: Are you finding that your older material feels fresh to you again when playing it in a classical style?
Mark: Yes. Nylon strings feel good on my fingers and sound better to my ears, so it makes me want to play the guitar longer and better. But yeah, something like 'Katy Song' or 'Like The River', I love playing them in the more formal, nylon string style.
Cameron: How do you go about selecting set lists for your shows? Does it depend on the city? The venue? How certain songs are feeling for you that day? Do the set lists change much from show to show, or do you have a similar set for most of a tour?
Mark: What usually happens is that I get on stage with a list of maybe thirty songs to choose from. But as the tour goes along, I add or subtract songs, depending on what I feel is working or not. Some songs are easy to remember, like 'Carry Me Ohio', but others, I have to sit down at sound check or in my hotel and re-learn. On one of those tours with Josh, that's how we got the 'Lucky Man' hotel performance. I had completely forgotten it and was re-learning it in my hotel room one day. But seated and standing rooms are different. Sometimes I gauge my sets a little differently depending on the vibe of the crowd, and sometimes I tune my guitar a little lower if my voice is tired.
Cameron: Okay, last last question . . . are you ever going to act in another one of our movies? All our work was in the last century. Can we do some modern dramatic acting sometime soon?
Mark: Yes! I would love to. Give me a role and I'll knock it out of the park. I promise.

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Captain Rhodes
Michael Cosgrove has been kind enough to share several interesting New Orleans photos with
us in the past and the pictures and info on this page are no exception. Michael's g-grandfather,
Captain Sebastian S. Rhodes, was a ferry boat captain who died in 1893, while on duty piloting
the Canal Street Ferry. Michael's grandmother was born two weeks after his death.
Those of you with ties to the city back to Capt. Rhodes' era will be especially interested in reading
the news articles linked at the bottom of the page, since they contain many names of New
Orleanians residing in the city at the time. I'm grateful to Michael for sharing this with us.
(Speaking of long-ago ties, Michael and I don't go back as far as 1893, but we do go back as
far as our elementary school days at Henry Allen School on Loyola Avenue!) Nancy
The ferry Thomas Pickles in New Orleans.
Michael's great-grandfather, Sebastian Smith Rhodes, was the pilot of the ferry Thomas Pickles,
built at Howard Shipyard in Jeffersonville, IN in 1893. In October of that year, Captain Rhodes,
who had piloted the Canal Street Ferry for fourteen years, died at the wheel of the Pickles.
The Pickles was in use well into the mid-1900's and sunk during Hurricane Betsy in 1965.
The wheel of the ferry used by Captain Rhodes was preserved in the Cabildo until the
1980's, when it was destroyed in the fire that occurred at that time.
Ferry Pickles sits in ice while under construction in Indiana.
Launch of the Pickles
The Pickles on her trials, prior to delivery to New Orleans.
Click here to read 4 items about Captain Rhodes that were
published in a New Orleans newspaper, 1893.
The link to this page is http://old-new-orleans.com/NO_Rhodes.html
Another page you might enjoy:
Crossing the River on the Ferry
Back to Old New Orleans
Whispers - Home
I went searching in "The Story of Algiers," published in 1896, to see if I
could find any further info on Capt. Rhodes or the Pickles and found the
photo above of Thomas Pickles, for whom the ferry boat was named.
Captain Pickles owned the Algiers Ferry Line and was the person who
hired Captain Rhodes. The picture is dated 1896. -- Nancy


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Tenant Isolation Microsoft Office 365
One of the primary benefits of cloud computing is concept of a shared, common infrastructure across numerous customers simultaneously, leading to economies of scale. This concept is called multitenancy. Microsoft works continuously to ensure that the multi-tenant architecture of Microsoft Office 365 supports enterprise-level security, confidentiality, privacy, integrity, and availability standards.
Based upon the significant investments and experience gathered from Trustworthy Computing and the Security Development Lifecycle, Microsoft cloud services, including Office 365, were designed with the assumption that all tenants are potentially hostile to all other tenants, and we have implemented security measures to prevent the actions of one tenant from affecting the security or service of another tenant, or accessing the content of another tenant.
The two primary goals of maintaining tenant isolation in a multi-tenant environment are:
Preventing leakage of, or unauthorized access to, customer content across tenants; and
Preventing the actions of one tenant from adversely affecting the service for another tenant
Multiple forms of protection have been implemented throughout Office 365 to prevent customers from compromising Office 365 services or applications or gaining unauthorized access to the information of other tenants or the Office 365 system itself, including:
Logical isolation of customer content within each tenant for Office 365 services is achieved through Azure Active Directory authorization and role-based access control.
SharePoint Online provides data isolation mechanisms at the storage level.
Microsoft uses rigorous physical security, background screening, and a multi-layered encryption strategy to protect the confidentiality and integrity of customer content. All Office 365 datacenters have biometric access controls, with most requiring palm prints to gain physical access. In addition, all U.S.-based Microsoft employees are required to successfully complete a standard background check as part of the hiring process. For more information on the controls used for administrative access in Office 365, see Office 365 Administrative Access Controls.
Office 365 uses service-side technologies that encrypt customer content at rest and in transit, including BitLocker, per-file encryption, Transport Layer Security (TLS) and Internet Protocol Security (IPsec). For specific details about encryption in Office 365, see Data Encryption Technologies in Office 365.
Together, the above-listed protections provide robust logical isolation controls that provide threat protection and mitigation equivalent to that provided by physical isolation alone.
Isolation and Access Control in Azure Active Directory
Azure Active Directory was designed to host multiple tenants in a highly secure way through logical data isolation. Access to Azure Active Directory is gated by an authorization layer. Azure Active Directory isolates customers using tenant containers as security boundaries to safeguard a customer's content so that the content cannot be accessed or compromised by co-tenants. Three checks are performed by Azure Active Directory's authorization layer:
Is the principal enabled for access to Azure Active Directory tenant?
Is the principal enabled for access to data in this tenant?
Is the principal's role in this tenant authorized for the type of data access requested?
No application, user, server, or service can access Azure Active Directory without the proper authentication and token or certificate. Requests are rejected if they are not accompanied by proper credentials.
Effectively, Azure Active Directory hosts each tenant in its own protected container, with policies and permissions to and within the container solely owned and managed by the tenant.
Figure 1 - Instance of Azure Active Directory for Contoso.com
The concept of tenant containers is deeply ingrained in the directory service at all layers, from portals all the way to persistent storage. Even when multiple Azure Active Directory tenant metadata is stored on the same physical disk, there is no relationship between the containers other than what is defined by the directory service, which in turn is dictated by the tenant administrator. There can be no direct connections to Azure Active Directory storage from any requesting application or service without first going through the authorization layer.
In the example below, Contoso and Fabrikam both have separate, dedicated containers, and even though those containers may share some of the same underlying infrastructure, such as servers and storage, they remain separate and isolated from each other, and gated by layers of authorization and access control.
Figure 2 – Separate isolated instances of Azure Active Directory for multiple tenants on shared storage
In addition, there are no application components that can execute from within Azure Active Directory, and it is not possible for one tenant to forcibly breach the integrity of another tenant, access encryption keys of another tenant, or read raw data from the server.
By default, Azure Active Directory disallows all operations issued by identities in other tenants. Each tenant is logically isolated within Azure Active Directory through claims-based access controls. Reads and writes of directory data are scoped to tenant containers, and gated by an internal abstraction layer and a role-based access control (RBAC) layer, which together enforce the tenant as the security boundary. Every directory data access request is processed by these layers and every access request in Office 365 is policed by the logic above.
Azure Active Directory has North America, U.S. Government, European Union, Germany, and World Wide partitions. A tenant exists in a single partition, and partitions can contain multiple tenants. Partition information is abstracted away from users. A given partition (including all the tenants within it) is replicated to multiple datacenters. The partition for a tenant is chosen based on properties of the tenant (e.g., the country code). Secrets and other sensitive information in each partition is encrypted with a dedicated key. The keys are generated automatically when a new partition is created.
Azure Active Directory system functionalities are a unique instance to each user session. In addition, Azure Active Directory uses encryption technologies to provide isolation of shared system resources at the network level to prevent unauthorized and unintended transfer of information.
Isolation and Access Control in Office 365
Azure Active Directory and Office 365 use a highly complex data model that includes tens of services, hundreds of entities, thousands of relationships, and tens of thousands of attributes (entities, relationships and attributes are often application-specific). At a high level, Azure Active Directory and the service directories are the containers of tenants and recipients, and they are kept in sync using state-based replication protocols. In addition to the directory information held within Azure Active Directory, each of the services also have their own directory services infrastructure (e.g., Exchange Online Directory Services, SharePoint Online Directory Services, etc.).
Figure 3 - Tenant data is synchronized from Azure Active Directory instance to separate Organizational Units within back-end service directories
Within this model, there is no single source of directory data. Every individual piece of data is owned by a specific system, but no single system holds all the data. Office 365 services cooperate with Azure Active Directory to realize the data model. Azure Active Directory is the "system of truth" for shared data, which is typically small and static data used often by every service. The federated model used within Office 365 and Azure Active Directory provides the shared view of the data.
Office 365 uses both physical storage and Azure cloud storage. Exchange Online (including Exchange Online Protection) and Skype for Business use their own storage for customer data. SharePoint Online leverages both its SQL Server storage and Azure storage, which necessitates the need for additional isolation of customer data at the storage level.
Exchange Online stores customer data within mailboxes that are hosted within Extensible Storage Engine (ESE) databases called mailbox databases. This includes user mailboxes, linked mailboxes, shared mailboxes and public folder mailboxes. User mailboxes may also include saved Skype for Business content, such as conversation histories. User mailbox content includes emails and email attachments, calendaring and free/busy information, contacts, tasks, notes, Groups, and inference data.
Each mailbox database within Exchange Online contains mailboxes from multiple tenants. All mailboxes are secured by authorization code, including within a tenancy. As with an on-premises deployment of Exchange, by default only the assigned user has access to a mailbox. The access control list (ACL) that secures a mailbox contains an identity that is authenticated by Azure Active Directory at the tenant level. The mailboxes for a given tenant are limited to identities authenticated against that tenant's authentication provider, which include only users from that tenant. Content belonging to TenantA cannot in any way be obtained by users in TenantB, unless explicitly approved by TenantA.
Skype for Business stores data in a variety of places:
User and account information, which includes connection endpoints, tenant IDs, dial plans, roaming settings, presence state, contact lists, etc., is stored in the Skype for Business Active Directory servers, as well as in various Skype for Business database servers. Contact lists are stored in the user's Exchange Online mailbox if the user is enabled for both products, or on Skype for Business servers if the user is not. Skype for Business database servers are not partitioned per-tenant, but multi-tenancy isolation of data is enforced through RBAC.
Meeting content, such as content users upload during Skype for Business meetings, is stored on Distributed File System shares. This content can also be archived in Exchange Online provided archiving is enabled. The DFS shares are not partitioned per-tenant but the content is secured with ACLs and multi-tenancy is enforced through RBAC.
Call detail records, which is the activity history, such as call history, IM sessions, application sharing, IM history, etc., can also be stored in Exchange Online, but most call detail records are temporarily stored on call detail record (CDR) servers. Content is not partitioned per tenant, but multi-tenancy is enforced through RBAC.
There are several independent mechanisms unique to SharePoint Online that provide data isolation. SharePoint Online stores objects as abstracted code within application databases. For example, when a user uploads a file to SharePoint Online, that file is disassembled and translated into application code and stored in multiple tables across multiple databases.
If a user could gain direct access to the storage containing the data, the content would not be interpretable to a human or any system other than SharePoint Online. These mechanisms include security access control and properties. As described above, all SharePoint Online resources are secured by the authorization code and RBAC policy, including within a tenancy. The access control list (ACL) that secures a resource contains an identity that is authenticated at the tenant level. As with Exchange Online, in SharePoint Online, data for a given tenant are limited to identities authenticated against that tenant's authentication provider, which include only users from that tenant.
In addition to the ACLs, a tenant level property that specifies the authentication provider (which is the tenant-specific Azure Active Directory), is written once and cannot be changed once set. Once the authentication provider tenant property has been set for a tenant, it cannot be changed using any APIs exposed to a tenant.
A unique SubscriptionId is also used for each tenant. All customer sites are owned by a tenant and are assigned a SubscriptionId unique to the tenant. The SubscriptionId property on a site is written once and cannot be changed. Once a site is assigned to a tenant, it cannot be moved to a different tenant later using the content store API. The SubscriptionId is also the key that is used to create the security scope for the authentication provider and is tied to the tenant.
SharePoint Online uses SQL Server and Azure storage for the storing of content. At the SQL level, the partition key for the content store is SiteId. When running a SQL query, SharePoint Online uses a SiteId that has been verified as part of a tenant-level SubscriptionId check.
SharePoint Online stores file binary blobs (e.g., the file streams) in Microsoft Azure. Each SharePoint Online farm has its own Microsoft Azure account and all the blobs saved in Azure are encrypted individually using a key that is stored in the SQL content store. The encryption key is not exposed directly to the end user, and is protected in code by the authorization layer. Finally, SharePoint Online has real-time monitoring in place to detect when an HTTP request reads or writes data for more than one tenant. It does this by tracking the SubscriptionId of the request identity against the SubscriptionId of the resource being accessed. A request accessing resources of more than one tenant should never happen by end-user. It can happen for service requests in a multi-tenant environment, though. For example, the search crawler pulls content changes for an entire database all at once. This usually involves querying sites of more than one tenant in a single service request, which is done for efficiency reasons.
Tenant Isolation in the Office Graph
The Office Graph models activity in Office 365 services, including Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, Yammer, Skype for Business, Azure Active Directory, and more, and in external services, such as other Microsoft services or third-party services. Office Graph components are used throughout Office 365. The Office Graph represents a collection of content and activity, and the relationships between them that happen across the entire Office suite. It uses sophisticated machine learning techniques to connect people to the relevant content, conversations and people around them. For example, the tenant index in SharePoint Online has an Office Graph index that is used to serve Delve queries, the Analytics Processing Engine in SharePoint Online is used to store signals and calculate insights, and Exchange Online calculates each user's recipient cache as input into tenant analytics.
The Office Graph contains information about enterprise objects, such as people and documents, as well as the relationships and interactions among these objects. The relationships and interactions are represented as edges. The Office Graph is segmented by tenant such that edges can only exist between nodes in the same tenancy. A node is an entity with a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI), node type, access control list, and a set of facets containing metadata and edges. Each node has associated metadata and edges, arranged into facets as in the Common Knowledge Model. Metadata are named properties stored on a node which can be used for searching, filtering, or analysis within the office graph. A facet is a logical collection of metadata and edges on a node. Each facet describes one aspect of a node.
The Office Graph does not bring all the data into a single repository; rather, it stores metadata and relationships about data that lives elsewhere. The Office Graph consists of several data stores and processing components:
The Tenant Graph Store provides bulk storage optimized for efficient analytics.
The Active Content Cache provides quick random access to active node and edges to drive user experiences.
The input router notifies components internal and external of changes to the tenant graph.
Analytics within each workload deduce insights relevant to the tenant-wide calculations and push them to the tenant graph. Tenant analytics reasons over all activity in a tenancy to produce insights into patterns of behavior. For example, Exchange Online calculates the recipient cache for each user with analytics that efficiently reason over each user's mailbox. These per-user analytics produce a set of RecipientCache Edges on each person, which are in turn pushed to the tenant graph. This keeps the as much of the analytics processing as close to the source data as possible.
Tenant Isolation in Delve
As mentioned previously, the Office Graph powers experiences that help people discover and collaborate on current activities in their enterprise, and provides an entity-centric platform for analytics to reason over content and activity across workloads and beyond Office 365. Delve is the first such experience powered by the Office Graph.
Delve is an Office 365 web experience that surfaces content from Office 365 and Yammer Enterprise to Office 365 users via the Office Graph. The web experience displays data as different boards, each with a certain topic, such as Trending around me or Modified by me. Each board consists of several document cards that display summary text and a picture from the document. The card lets users do things like open the document or a Yammer page for the document. There is a page for each person in an Office 365 tenant that displays the most relevant documents for this person, and icons that can invoke Exchange Online or Skype for Business for interacting with that person. Because Delve is based on the Office Graph API, it is bound by the tenant-based isolation of that API.
Tenant Isolation in Office 365 Search
SharePoint Online search uses a tenant separation model that balances the efficiency of shared data structures with protection against information leaking between tenants. With this model, we prevent the Search features from:
Returning query results that contain documents from other tenants
Exposing sufficient information in query results that a skilled user could infer information about other tenants
Showing schema or settings from another tenant
Mixing analytics processing information between tenants or store results in the wrong tenant • Using dictionary entries from another tenant
For each type of tenant data, we use one or more layers of protection in the code to prevent accidental leaking of information. The most critical data has the most layers of protection to make sure that a single defect doesn't result in actual or perceived information leakage.
Tenant separation for the search index
The search index is stored on disk in the servers hosting the index components and the tenants share the index files. A tenant's indexed documents are visible only for queries for that tenant. Three independent mechanisms prevent information leakage:
Tenant ID filtering
Tenant ID term prefixing
ACL checks
All three mechanisms would have to fail for Search to return documents to the wrong tenant.
Tenant ID filtering and Tenant ID term prefixing
Search prefixes every term that is indexed in the full-text index with the tenant ID. For example, when the term "foo" is indexed for a tenant with an ID of "123", the entry in the full-text index is "123foo."
Every query is converted to include the tenant ID using a process called tenant ID filtering. For example, the query "foo" is converted to "<guid>.foo AND tenantID:<guid>", where <guid> represents the tenant performing the query. This query conversion occurs within each index node and neither query nor content processing can influence it. Because the tenant ID is added to every query, the frequency of a term in other tenants can't be inferred by looking at best match ranking in one tenant.
Tenant ID term prefixing occurs only in the full-text index. Fielded searches, such as "title:foo", go to a synthetic search index where terms aren't prefixed by tenant ID. Instead, fielded searches are prefixed with the field name. For example, the query "title:foo" is converted to "fields.title:foo AND fields.tenantID:<guid>." Because the frequency of a term doesn't influence ranking of hits in the synthetic search index, there's no need for tenant separation by term prefixing. For a fielded search like "title:foo", tenant content separation depends on tenant ID filtering by query conversion.
Document Access Control List checks
Search controls access to documents through ACLs that are saved in the search index. Every item is indexed with a set of terms in a special ACL field. The ACL field contains one term per group or user that can view the document. Every query is augmented with a list of access control entry (ACE) terms, one for each group to which the authenticated user belongs.
For example, a query like "<guid>.foo AND tenantID:<guid>" becomes:
"<guid>.foo AND tenantID:<guid> AND (docACL:<ace1> OR docACL:<ace2> OR docACL:<ace3> …)"
Because user and group identifiers and hence ACEs are unique, this provides an extra level of security between tenants for documents that are only visible to some users. The same is the case for the special "Everyone except external users" ACE that grants access to regular users in the tenant. But since ACEs for "Everyone" are the same for all tenants, tenant separation for public documents depends on tenant ID filtering. Deny ACEs are also supported. The query augmentation adds a clause that removes a document from the result when there is a match with a deny ACE.
In Exchange Online search, the index is partitioned on mailbox ID for individual user's mailboxes instead of tenant ID (subscription ID) as in SharePoint Online. The partitioning mechanism is the same as SharePoint Online, but there is no ACL filtering.
Tenant Isolation in Azure Storage
Azure Storage is used to store data for multiple Office 365 services, including Office 365 Video and Sway. Azure Storage includes Blob storage, which is a highly-scalable, REST-based, cloud object store that is used for storing unstructured data. Azure Storage uses a simple access control model; each Azure subscription can create one or more Storage Accounts. Each Storage Account has a single secret key that is used to control access to all data in that Storage Account. This supports the typical scenario where storage is associated with applications and those applications have full control over their associated data; for example, Sway storing content in Azure Storage. All customer content for Sway is stored in shared Azure storage accounts. Each user's content is in a separate directory tree of blobs in Azure storage.
The systems managing access to customer environments (e.g., the Azure Portal, SMAPI, etc.) are isolated within an Azure application operated by Microsoft. This logically separates the customer access infrastructure from the customer applications and storage layer.
Tenant Isolation in Office 365 Video
Office 365 Video is an enterprise portal that provides organizations with a highly secure, organization-wide destination for posting, sharing, and discovering video content. In Office 365 Video, each tenant's videos are kept isolated and encrypted in all locations, and are only available to authenticated users that have access and permissions to the organization's videos. Office 365 Video uses a combination of technologies to accomplish this:
SharePoint Online is used for storing the video file and metadata (video title, description, etc.). It also provides the security and compliance layer (including authentication), and search features.
Azure Media Services provides transcoding, adaptive streaming, secure delivery (using AES encryption), and thumbnail features.
Azure Media Services is a platform-as-as-service offering for enabling end-to-end media workflows in the cloud. The platform provides a REST API for uploading, encoding, encrypting (with PlayReady), and delivery of media through Azure datacenters around the world.
All uploads for Office 365 Video occur via HTTPS. When a video file is uploaded, it is stored in SharePoint Online, and a copy of the file is sent via an encrypted channel to Azure Media Services. Azure Media Services transcodes the video into multiple formats that are optimized for viewing experience (e.g., mobile, low-bandwidth, high-bandwidth, etc.). These files, along with the original file acquired during upload, are stored in Azure Blob storage. The files are encrypted using AES 128 per the MPEG Common Encryption packaging algorithm (or an earlier PlayReady version) for playback, and encrypted using AES 256 storage encryption before being stored in Azure Blob storage. Azure Media Services also generates a thumbnail for the video, which it transmits along with thumbnail metadata to SharePoint Online via an encrypted channel.
Resource Limits
Resource limits are enforced using quotas (limits) and throttling. Azure Active Directory and the individual Office 365 services use both. Limits are service-specific and change over time as new capabilities are added. For details on the current limits for the various services, see the following topics:
Azure Active Directory service limits and restrictions
Exchange Online Limits
Exchange Online Protection Limits
SharePoint Online software boundaries and limits
Skype for Business Limits
Yammer REST API and Rate Limits
File Size Limits in Sway
In addition to these limits, several throttling mechanisms are used throughout Azure Active Directory and Office 365. Throttling within the service is especially important, given that network resources in Microsoft's datacenters are optimized for the broad set of customers that use the services. Throttling mechanisms include:
Azure Active Directory and Office 365 feature user-level throttling, which limit the number of transactions or concurrent calls (by script or code) that can be performed by a single user.
A default PowerShell throttling policy is assigned to each tenant at tenant creation. These settings affect other items, such as the maximum number of simultaneous PowerShell sessions that can be opened by a single administrator.
Each Exchange Online customer has a default Exchange Web Services (EWS) policy that is tuned for EWS client operations, and throttling that applies to all Outlook clients.
Monitoring and Testing
Microsoft continuously monitors and explicitly tests for weaknesses and vulnerabilities in tenant boundaries, including monitoring for intrusion, permission violation attempts, and resource starvation. We also use multiple internal systems to continuously monitor for inappropriate resource utilization, which if detected, triggers built-in throttling.
Office 365 has internal monitoring systems that continuously monitor for any failure and drive automated recovery when failure is detected. Office 365 systems analyze deviations in service behavior and initiate self-healing processes that are built into the system. Office 365 also uses outside-in monitoring in which monitoring is performed from multiple locations both from trusted third-party services (for independent SLA verification) and our own datacenters to raise alerts. For diagnostics, we have extensive logging, auditing, and tracing. Granular tracing and monitoring helps us isolate issues and perform fast and effective root cause analysis.
While Office 365 has automated recovery actions where possible, Microsoft on-call engineers are available 24x7 to investigate all Severity 1 security escalations, and post-mortem reviews of every service incident contributes to continuous learning and improvement. This team includes support engineers, product developers, program managers, product managers, and senior leadership. Our on-call professionals provide timely backup and often can automate recovery actions, so that next time an event occurs, it can be self-healed.
Microsoft performs a thorough post-incident review each time an Office 365 security incident occurs regardless of the magnitude of impact. A post-incident review consists of an analysis of what happened, how we responded and how we prevent similar incidents in the future. In the interest of transparency and accountability, we share post-incident review for any major service incidents with affected customers. For specific details, see Office 365 Security Incident Management.
Assume Breach Methodology
Based on detailed analysis of security trends, Microsoft advocates and highlights the need for additional investments in reactive security processes and technologies that focus on detection and response to emerging threats, rather than solely the prevention of those threats. Because of changes in the threat landscape and in-depth analysis, Microsoft refined its security strategy beyond just preventing security breaches to one better equipped to deal with breaches when they do occur – a strategy which considers major security events not as a matter of if, but when.
While Microsoft's Assume Breach practices have been in place for many years, many customers are unaware of the work being done behind the scenes to harden the Microsoft cloud. Assume Breach is a mindset that guides security investments, design decisions and operational security practices. Assume Breach limits the trust placed in applications, services, identities, and networks by treating them all—internal and external—as insecure and already compromised. Although the Assume Breach strategy was not borne from an actual breach of any Microsoft enterprise or cloud services, it was a recognition that many organizations, across the industry, were being breached despite all attempts to prevent it. While preventing breaches is a critical part of any organization's operations, those practices must be continuously tested and augmented to effectively address modern adversaries and advanced persistent threats. For any organization to prepare for a breach, they must first build and maintain robust, repeatable, and thoroughly-tested security response procedures.
While Prevent Breach security processes, such as threat modeling, code reviews, and security testing are very useful as part of the Security Development Lifecycle. Assume Breach provides numerous advantages that help account for overall security by exercising and measuring reactive capabilities in the event of a breach.
At Microsoft, we set out to accomplish this through ongoing war-games exercises and live site penetration testing of our security response plans with the goal of improving our detection and response capability. Microsoft regularly simulates real-world breaches, conducts continuous security monitoring, and practices security incident management to validate and improve the security of Office 365, Azure, and other Microsoft cloud services.
Microsoft executes its Assume Breach security strategy using two core groups:
Red Teams (attackers)
Blue Teams (defenders)
Both Microsoft Azure and Office 365 staff separate full-time red teams and blue teams.
Referred to as "Red Teaming", the approach is to test Azure and Office 365 systems and operations using the same tactics, techniques and procedures as real adversaries, against the live production infrastructure, without the foreknowledge of the Engineering or Operations teams. This tests Microsoft's security detection and response capabilities, and helps identify production vulnerabilities, configuration errors, invalid assumptions, and other security issues in a controlled manner. Every red team breach is followed by full disclosure between both teams to identify gaps, address findings, and improve breach response.
Note No customer data is deliberately targeted during Red Teaming or live site penetration testing. The tests are against Office 365 and Azure infrastructure and platforms, as well as Microsoft's own tenants, applications and data. Customer tenants, applications, and content hosted in Office 365 or Azure are never targeted.
Red Teams
The red team is a group of full-time staff within Microsoft that focuses on breaching Microsoft's infrastructure, platform and Microsoft's own tenants and applications. They are the dedicated adversary (a group of ethical hackers) performing targeted and persistent attacks against Online Services (Microsoft infrastructure, platforms and applications but not end-customers' applications or content).
Figure 4 - Breach Stages
Among other functions, red teams specifically attempt to breach tenant isolation boundaries to find bugs or gaps in our isolation design.
Blue Teams
The blue team is comprised of either a dedicated set of security responders or members from across the security incident response, Engineering, and Operations organizations. Regardless of their makeup, they are independent and operate separately from the red team. The blue team follows established security processes and uses the latest tools and technologies to detect and respond to attacks and penetration. Just like real-world attacks, the blue team does not know when or how the red team's attacks will occur or what methods may be used. Their job, whether it is a red team attack or an actual assault, is to detect and respond to all security incidents. For this reason, the blue team is continuously on-call and must react to red team breaches the same way they would for any other breach.
When an adversary, such as a red team, has breached an environment, the blue team must:
Gather evidence left by the adversary
Detect the evidence as an indication of compromise
Alert the appropriate Engineering and Operation team(s)
Triage the alerts to determine whether they warrant further investigation
Gather context from the environment to scope the breach
Form a remediation plan to contain or evict the adversary
Execute the remediation plan and recover from breach
These steps form the security incident response that runs parallel to the adversary's, as shown below:
Figure 5 - Breach Response Stages
Red team breaches allow for exercising the blue team's ability to detect and respond to real-world attacks end-to-end. Most importantly, it allows for practiced security incident response prior to a genuine breach. Additionally, because of red team breaches, the blue team enhances their situational awareness which can be valuable when dealing with future breaches (whether from the red team or another adversary). Throughout the detection and response process, the blue team produces actionable intelligence and gains visibility into the actual conditions of the environment(s) they are trying to defend. Frequently this is accomplished via data analysis and forensics, performed by the blue team, when responding to red team attacks and by establishing threat indicators, such as indicators of compromise. Much like how the red team identifies gaps in the security story, blue teams identify gaps in their ability to detect and respond. Furthermore, since the red teams model realworld attacks, the blue team can be accurately assessed on their ability, or inability, to deal with determined and persistent adversaries. Finally, red team breaches measure both readiness and impact of our breach response.
Microsoft continuously works to ensure that the multi-tenant architecture of Office 365 supports enterprise-level security, confidentiality, privacy, integrity, and availability standards. Multiple forms of protection have been implemented throughout Office 365 to prevent customers from compromising Office 365 services or applications or gaining unauthorized access to the information of other tenants or the Office 365 system itself. Together, these protections provide robust logical isolation controls that provides equivalent threat protection and mitigation to that provided by physical isolation alone.
All Office 365 services are built on top of Azure Active Directory and use the same authorization and RBAC model. All Office 365 requests are mediated through the authorization and access control features in Azure Active Directory. All Office 365 data sessions are either user-scoped or tenantscoped, and users can't see outside of their tenant scope. Access to Office 365 objects is controlled with user account permissions that are enforced by Azure Active Directory and operating system ACLs. The authorization stack prevents a user from accessing data for which they don't have the appropriate credentials. Finally, there is no service code that allows a user from one tenant to execute commands against another tenant.
Microsoft also uses Red Teaming to test Azure and Office 365 systems and operations using the same tactics, techniques and procedures as real adversaries, against the live production infrastructure, without the foreknowledge of the Engineering or Operations teams. This tests Microsoft's security detection and response capabilities, and helps identify production vulnerabilities, configuration errors, invalid assumptions, and other security issues in a controlled manner. In addition, it allows us to measure both the readiness and impact of our breach response.
Materials in this Library
Microsoft publishes a variety of content for customers, partners, auditors, and regulators around security, compliance, privacy, and related areas. Below are links to other content in the Office 365 CXP Risk Assurance Documentation library.
Name Abstract
Auditing and Reporting in Office 365 Describes the auditing and reporting features in Office 365 and Azure Active Directory and the various audit data that is available to customers via the Office 365 Security & Compliance Center, remote PowerShell, and the Management Activity API.
Controlling Access to Office 365 and Protecting Content on Devices Describes the Conditional Access features in Office 365 and Microsoft Enterprise Mobility + Security, and how they are designed with built-in data security and protection to keep company data safe, while empowering users to be productive on the devices they love.
Data Encryption Technologies in Office 365 Provides an overview of the various encryption technologies that are used throughout Office 365, including features deployed and managed by Microsoft and features managed by customers.
Data Resiliency in Office 365 Describes how Microsoft prevents customer data from becoming lost or corrupt in Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, and Skype for Business, and how Office 365 protects customer data from malware and ransomware.
Defending Office 365 Against Denial of Service Attacks Discusses different types of Denial of Service attacks and how Microsoft defends Office 365, Azure, and their networks against attacks.
Financial Services Compliance in Microsoft's Cloud Services Describes how the core contract amendments and the Microsoft Regulatory Compliance Program work together to support financial services customers in meeting their regulatory obligations as they relate to the use of cloud services.
Microsoft Response to New FISC (English ) (Japanese) Explains how Microsoft addresses the risks and requirements described in the FISC Revised Guidelines, and it describes features, controls, and contractual commitments that customers can use to meet the requirements in the Revised Guidelines.
Microsoft Threat, Vulnerability, and Risk Assessment of Datacenter Physical Security Provides an overview regarding the risk assessment of Microsoft datacenters, including potential threats, controls and processes to mitigate threats, and indicated residual risks.
Office 365 Administrative Access Controls Provides details on Microsoft's approach to administrative access and the controls that are in place to safeguard the services and processes in Office 365. For purposes of this document, Office 365 services include Exchange Online, Exchange Online Protection, SharePoint Online, and Skype for Business. Additional information about some Yammer Enterprise access controls is also included in this document.
Office 365 Customer Security Considerations Provides organizations with quick access to the security and compliance features in Office 365 and considerations for using them.
Office 365 End of Year Security Report 2014 Covers security and legal enhancements made to Office 365 in calendar year 2014 than enables customers and partners to meet legal requirements surrounding independent verification and audits of Office 365.
Office 365 End of Year Security Report and Pen Test Summary 2015 Office 365 End of Year Security Report and Pen Test Summary for CY 2015.
Office 365 Mapping of CSA Cloud Control Matrix 3.0.1 Provides a detailed overview of how Office 365 maps to the security, privacy, compliance, and risk management controls defined in version 3.0.1-11-24-2015 of the Cloud Security Alliance's Cloud Control Matrix.
Office 365 Risk Management Lifecycle Provides an overview of how Office 365 identifies, evaluates, and manages identified risks.
Office 365 Security Incident Management Describes how Microsoft handles security incidents in Microsoft Office 365.
Privacy in Office 365 Describes Microsoft's privacy principles and internal privacy standards that guide the collection and use of customer and partner information at Microsoft and give employees a clear framework to help ensure that we manage data responsibly.
Self-Service Handling of Data Spills in Office 365 (restricted to Federal customers) Reviews the spillage support provided by Office 365, the tools available to customers, and the configuration settings that should be reviewed in environments that are prone to data spills.


At the Reese News Lab, we train students to ask lots of questions: Who wants this media product? What value is it providing to customers? How might it make money?
But lately, we've started to get a lot of questions ourselves. Visitors, drawn to our door in Carroll Hall by the sounds of loud exclamations and laughter, wonder who the heck we are. Students want to know what we do and why they should get involved. And educators are curious about how we teach students to think entrepreneurially about the media industry.
Everyone has questions because we're working on the problem that everyone in our industry is worried about: how to help people get accurate information about their communities and hold leaders accountable in a time when the traditional revenue model for the media is broken.
To answer questions about the Lab, we've prepared a how-to guide. The guide answers questions about how we get students thinking like start-up founders, considering what their customers want, and generating revenue in new ways. It's told in the voices of the people who have gone through our process — the students — with additional thoughts from Reese News Lab Executive Director John Clark.
How do students get involved in the Reese News Lab?
Two ways: as interns or as students in a class. UNC-Chapel Hill students can apply to work as paid interns during the fall or spring semesters, and we also offer a full-time paid internship in the summer. The other option is to enroll in the Lab class for credit. Whether students participate in the class for for pay or for credit, the experience is similar.
How do you hire students?
We cast a wide net in our search for applicants, and then we interview the strongest candidates using behavioral interview techniques. Intern Sarah Whitmore wrote about what it's like as a student to go through a Reese News lab interview, and Associate Director Sara Peach wrote about what it's like to sit in the interviewer's chair.
How do you orient students to the Reese News Lab? How do you get them started?
We've tried it a couple of different ways. In the summer of 2015, we gave students a "sprint" to complete in 48 hours.
We also like to give students outrageous ice-breaker activities, like creating giant airplanes, building marshmallow-and-spaghetti towers and inventing new products from bags of random junk. We've also tried the plain old "overwhelm them with information" method.
How do you pick ideas to pursue? Do students come into the Lab with an idea?
Our students don't come in with ideas. Instead, we issue challenges.
In the first few days of the semester, we brainstorm ideas related to those challenges and come up with as many ideas as possible.
After several days of brainstorming, individual students pick one or two ideas to research on their own and then pitch back to the whole group in a "pitch party." After listening to all of the pitches, the whole group votes on a select number of ideas to pursue for the rest of the semester.
How do you form teams? Do the teams have leaders?
We've tried pretty much every variation: assigning students to teams at random, allowing them to self-select, assigning students to teams based on preference, and putting students on teams based on their class schedules (the last one seems to work the best). We've also tried teams with and without team captains. Our current preference is to have leaderless groups.
Once students are on teams, what do they do next?
They have to answer this question: Why hasn't your idea been done before?
Then they have to start talking to potential customers. The students must figure out what problem their product would solve, and for whom.
When do you start building your products? How many programmers do you have?
Actually, we tell students not to build their products. And we typically don't have many programmers on hand. Why? We find that our products turn out better if we prevent students from following their natural instincts to start building right away. Instead, we require them to begin by showing prototypes to potential customers.
How do you build prototypes if you don't have many programmers?
We build them out of paper. Or PowerPoint. Or Monopoly money. The way we build prototypes doesn't matter as much as building them quickly, getting customer feedback, and then rapidly building a new version based on that feedback.
We ask students to draw on their training as journalists to find potential customers (also known as sources) and gather feedback from them (a type of interviewing).
How do you teach students how to calculate revenue and costs for their businesses?
Students are often afraid of Excel spreadsheets. But they're not afraid of lemonade stands. So we start simple, walking them through a simple business like an eight-year-old's lemonade stand, and show them how to calculate revenue and costs on a spreadsheet.
How do students learn to pitch?
In a word: practice. We ask students to pitch their ideas starting in their first week in the Lab. As they research their ideas, they must regularly pitch what they've learned so far. Then, about three or four weeks before Pitch Day, they begin writing and practicing outlines for their final pitches. By the time they stand up before an audience on Pitch Day, they've practiced pitching dozens of times.
As students learn to pitch, they quickly learn that we don't care what they think, or hope or believe. Instead, we care about what they know from their research.
On Pitch Day, our audiences evaluate the students' ideas for desirability, feasibility and viability. Based in part on that feedback, in many cases, we decide that an idea is not worth any more time. But sometimes, students decide to pursue the idea — either with or without additional help from the Lab. That means they must begin the challenging new process of building a product, operating it and making sales.


We will be changing the existing 'zebra' crossing to a 'push-button' signalised crossing to improve access for pedestrians.
Work will start on Friday 15th February 2019 and continue for 6 weeks. Some weekend working may be required.
•	Installation of new signals columns.
•	Installation of new lighting columns on both approaches to the crossing to ensure lighting levels meet current standards.
•	Improve footway access to the kerbs and footway.
•	Reduce street furniture around crossing due to the introduction of dual infrastructure lighting columns.
•	Resurfacing at the crossing to improve the surface for vehicles stopping at the crossing.
There will also be a night road closure in place for 3 nights for carriageway resurfacing and antiskid. A suitable diversion route will be signed.


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It's unthinkable
Why start a blog to write about my fear of flying into a new realm?
I started listening to a new podcast this summer. Jay Acunzo started Unthinkable "to inspire and empower people just like you: craft-driven creators."
He dives deep into the creative process, asking us all what drives us to create and to share our creative babies. Episode 4, The Muse is an Excuse, is one of my favorites.
Jay interviews Elliott Bell from The Muse and Chase Jarvis, an award-winning photographer, to find out there's no such thing as a muse. Waiting for her to show up is merely a bullshit excuse for not getting around to doing what you're good at.
Then there's the episode with Sarah Cooper, a writer who dropped her high-falutin' gig with Google to pursue a career with comedy. Sarah spoke about the downside to following your passion, that feeling you get when you realize your passion is a job and an obligation. Let's dig more into that some other time.
Oh and SIDEBAR: Sarah runs The Cooper Review, a comedic look at office life. I read 10 Tricks to Appear Smart During Meetings one night and was able to laugh at my IT guy the next morning.
He drew a Venn diagram. No. 1 on the list.
Anyhow, I tweeted at Jay and told him how much I loved the podcast. He tweeted back. We followed each other.
I was as twitterpated as a newly wed could be.
Several weeks later, Jay tweeted a simple question and I responded:
@jayacunzo Struggling to find confidence to do anything w/my side project, photography. Maybe because I've been beaten so much as a writer?
— Angela Schneider (@that_angela) September 13, 2016
We chatted for a few minutes and learned we have a similar career path: smalltown sports writer who survived the newspaper world by landing in marketing communications.
Jay wants to make the leap into making his "side hustle" a full-time job. His podcast often explores that idea as he interviews people, like Sarah, who have done it.
He wants to make Unthinkable fly and doggone it if I don't think it's everything someone should be investing in.
For Jay, it's building the base community and being able to sell it.
For me, it's lacking the confidence.
You know that. That's why you're here.
And that's how Jay inspired this blog. Our brief chat turned into an interview at the end of September and I'll be the subject of one of Jay's podcasts, due to be published in November.
Without giving too much away because I want you to listen, I know my voice quavered a bit a few too many times. We talked about some seriously deep shit and, other than job interviews, it was weird for me to be the one answering the questions.
The whole thing got me thinking about a few things:
Me? Scared of anything? That's gotta surprise a few people
Can I get better at photography and how do I do that while maintaining a full-time job, a marriage and the responsibility of being a Maremma mama, and then take the leap?
Is that really what I want to do? Really really?
Maybe you'll help me figure it all out.
Jay Acunzo (@jayacunzo) says:
Hey Angela, this is such a great reflection piece! Thank you for writing it, and I'm so grateful we connected through the show. Excited to share your story with the world in our episode together 🙂
It's so great to hear you're going to be on Unthinkable! It's such a great show and it's nice to see it's having an impact!!!
Here's to trusting your gut!
Dear Angela, you suck
Just a dream


I am 32 years old, real estate investor, innovative, online marketing is very important to me.
We are a small real estate company in Georgia. We own several single and multi family homes. Our business is to buy, fix and rent. Our target audience will be individuals from 20-50 that are looking to rent or sell a home. I realize this is not very helpful because we market to just about everyone.
Our current design is nothing more than a tree and company name below. I would like to use the colors green, grey, blue and white. I really like the "new age" look. We need a design for our website, facebook, etc. I am looking for a simple, clean design and keep it broad. Broad meaning... Not specific to homes or houses.
Please no font that is difficult to read. Main colors should not be dark.


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Senomix Releases Desktop Software-as-a-Service for its Time and Expense Tracking Solution
Senomix Software, Inc. recently announced the introduction of the Desktop Software-as-a-Service (DSaaS) solution for the Senomix Timesheet, a time and expense tracking system. Senomix is one of the premier providers of time and expense tracking software for Mac OS X, Windows, Linux and mixed-environment offices.
By incorporating the capabilities of both desktop software and cloud-based Web apps, Senomix is able to offer stand-alone desktop programs designed to deliver Web app connectivity without the need for browser forms.
Running directly from the user's Mac, Windows, or Linux PC, Senomix Timesheets leverage desktop programs for time entry and project administration installed on an employee's computers via a simple Web page link.
The solution provides automatic connectively to the entire staff with the central cloud-based internet server, irrespective of their location within the building or even if they are working from remote locations across the globe.
Senomix Timesheets also uses Microsoft (News - Alert) Excel to enable the creation of reports by managers all within the comfort of their spreadsheet workspace. The tool effectively marries the critical connectivity capability of a Web application with the vital capabilities of traditional desktop software with respect to speed and responsiveness.
The combination of these capabilities makes the Senomix Timesheet solution an ideal packaged solution supporting an office's time and expense management.
The new DSaaS solution from Senomix can be deployed as a standalone time and expense tracking system, or alternatively as a front-end system supporting an office's QuickBooks or database billing and payroll package offering.
Senomix Timesheets, now available via the new hosted service, retails at $9.50 per-user per-month. Alternatively, the solution can be installed within the user's own office network as a standalone system with a one-time server licensing charge.
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Weekly Newsletter from the Transparency, Accountability & Participation (TAP)
Post-2015 Network
www.tapnetwork2015.org
@TAPNetwork2015
VOL. 4, ISSUE 4
Message from the TAP Coordinators: Another week of negotiations and heading into July
Dear TAP Friends,
Another week of Post-2015 negotiations have come and gone, with four jam-packed days of meetings here in New York. Thanks to all TAP members who were in New York that were able to join our meetings with Member States, as the demand for meetings has been very encouraging! We've had a very productive week with meetings, and with Paul Divakar, co-chair of the TAP Network Steering Committee delivering a statement on behalf of the TAP Network with our recommendations for the Post-2015 Zero Draft. You can find the full statement here, and a link to the UN webcast recording here.
You can find our full notes from the Post-2015 IGN this week, along with our notes from meetings with Member States, on the TAP Network website here.
Tom Wheeler has also returned from the first meeting of the Praia City Group on Governance Indicators, where he delivered TAP's work around Goal 16 and governance issues, which you can find here. You can find Tom's full notes from the meeting on the TAP Network website here as well.
Final negotiations on the FfD3 Conference outcome document will continue on into the weekend again, after last weekend's marathon sessions spanning all hours on Saturday and Sunday. You can find the latest version of the FfD3 outcome document here.
We'll have our next TAP Network conference call next week to debrief from this past week's negotiations, as well as to coordinate around the Financing for Development Conference in a few short weeks. Please fill out the doodle here to help us determine what day/time works best for most members.
Thanks again for all of your support in this critical month ahead, and we look forward to speaking with you all more next week!
TAP Coordinators
John & Liam
TAP NETWORK UPDATES
TAP Network Speakers during Post-2015 IGN next week and HLPF
Around the Post-2015 IGN, we've had several meetings with delegations and TAP Network members who are here for the IGN, with several more meetings tentatively scheduled next week as well.
On top of our bilateral advocacy, we also had an opportunity to deliver a statement during the IGN's Interactive Dialogue with the co-facilitators, where Paul Divakar, co-chair of the TAP Network Steering Committee spoke on behalf of the Network. The statement was prepared by a handful of TAP Network members who engaged in the thematic clusters work facilitated by UNDESA and NGLS over the past week, and also included contributions from a few other organizations and Major Groups outside of the Network.
You can find the full statement delivered by Paul Divakar here, and you can watch the statement on UN webcast here (1:55:21).
Meeting of Group Praia on Governance Statistics Praia, Cabo Verde, 17-19 June 2015
Thomas Wheeler, Saferworld the topline points to communicate are:
Wide variety of participants: different countries' NSOs, international organisations – but only one CSO. Need to widen participation as plenty of scope for mutual learning, partnerships, different set of perspectives between civil societies and NSOs. Also a need for developed countries to send their NSOs (rather than statistics people from aid departments).
See notes below on Cabo Verde presentation in Session One for an overview of plans for Praia Group (PG). The key next step is to create a roadmap and submit it to the UNSC by November 2015.
PG will, by the end of its mandate in 2020, develop and disseminate a handbook on governance indicators. While this will be the main focus of its work, it will try and do more than this.
Other key exercises ahead: formation of secretariat, mapping of existing governance indicator initiatives and progress made, mapping of demand for governance indicators, and work on Goal 16.
Identifying the boundaries of what is – and is not – included in conceptualisation of governance will be key (e.g. crime? Justice? Global governance?). Political issues re: overlap with UNODC/Mexico NSO process on crime.
Plenty of NSOs in PG are already measuring governance, but in different ways. For example, some focus on performance of government while others focus on state-society relations or accountability. See below a number of presentations from different NSOs. Interesting things to learn from and engage with.
PG has a clear mandate to wok on Goal 16. There are two main areas for engagement: 1. With IAEG members who are also PG members (7-8 NSOs). Efforts will be made to hold a pre-meeting before next IAEG of PG NSOs involved in that. 2. Handbook to guide setting of national, regional or thematic level indicators, including not only a list of possible complementary indicators but also methodology of how to use them.
UNDP and Saferworld gave a presentation on third party data providers. This went well, lots of interest in partnerships, though many NSOs remain insistent that official statistics are more reliable and, in a few cases, that they should have the final say on SDG reporting. Interesting questions over how far NSOs can go in measuring sensitive political issues. There is plenty of room for more discussion on this agenda as it remains undefined, Praia is a good grouping of NSOs to have it with.
A Steering Group will be created. So far it looks like it will include Cabo Verde, UNDP, OHCHR, African Development Bank. They may extend to include one NSO from each region. They also want one CSO to sit on the group. A secretariat of some sort will be established. Likely just one person based within INECV.
Desire to advocate on Praia's work and legitimacy through outreach with other NSOs and engagement in global initiatives such as OGP, FfD process, GPEDC, at UNGA, etc.
An outcome document will be shared.
Full briefing notes can be found here.
Meetings with Member States during the Post-2015 intergovernmental negotiations (Intergovernmental negotiations on the outcome document) 22-25 June 2015:
Key points from meetings with Member States
Need to balance being "overly prescriptive" in follow-up and review chapter, with many Member States speaking out this week on this very point.
Most were supportive of the recommendation of "people-centered" nature of the agenda, but mixed reactions on "reaching those furthest behind first," as a practical issue of Member States fearing commitments that are far too aspirational to be achieved, and being held accountable.
General support for the value of third-party data in the Post-2015 agenda, but mixed reactions on how this can practically be applied through these processes. Some concerns about "trusting" these sources and comparability of these data sources.
Broad support for participatory mechanisms for Post-2015 processes going forward.
Concerns broadly from Member States in negotiations on being "too prescriptive" for follow-up and review processes.
Meeting with France
Francois Gave and Laure Serra from Permanent Mission of France and Claire Vancauwemberge from French Ministry of Ecology, Sustainable Development and Energy (Paris)
Welcomed the efforts of TAP to produce a common output on behalf of all endorsing organizations. While they were supportive of the idea, they mentioned that there might be some political resistance to the concept of committing to "reaching those furthest behind first," as it is a massive challenge for Member States, including from the global south, and Member States might be hesitant to commit to be ambitious to that degree, for fear of not meeting these commitments.
Meeting with Japan
Meeting with Shinobu Yamaguchi, Deputy Director of Global Issues Division for Japan MOFA, (Tokyo)
Very new to the position – 1 or so months in to the work on Post-2015. Very open to "learning" from us and our experiences and perspectives when it comes to this Post-2015 work. They support our call for people-centered and participatory nature of the follow-up and review process and broader Post-2015 agenda. Also very supportive of idea of including third-party data sources to complement official data, and suggested that we think about what areas can third party data contribute towards specifically, and to compile and suggest best practices and examples of official processes that have harnessed third party data previously. He suggested that this would be a valuable resource for Member States and NSOs that are particularly skeptical of the role of third party data, to show them that it can be trusted and where it has been used in the past.
Meeting with Mexico
Meeting with Roberto Dondisch, Director-General for Global Issues, Mexico Secretaria De Relaciones Exteriores
Very elaborate meeting on a wide range of issues, and having worked in the civil society realm in large networks previously, he was very impressed by the efforts we have undertaken to identify key areas and recommendations as a Network. Particularly supportive of the need for increasing capacity of data generation and use, and for comparability. Suggested that the regional level discussions in particular needed to be strengthened in this sense, as it provides an opportunity for countries in similar situations to come together to identify solutions together. Very supportive of the participatory nature of the entirety of the Post-2015 processed, and pledged to be the first to speak up in negotiations if attempts were made to limit participation of civil society in next couple of months, or beyond. Was supportive enough of the role of third-party data that he suggested hosting an event in partnership with Mexican government on this very topic around July negotiations.
Meeting with Switzerland
Meeting with Maja Messmer from Permanent Mission of Switzerland to the UN and Lynne Calder from Swiss Agency for Development Cooperation (Bern)
Switzerland is very supportive of our positions, particularly regarding follow-up and review and role of stakeholders in Post-2015 processes and follow-up. Highlighted that our reference to leaving no one behind and reaching those furthest behind first has seen some hesitance on behalf of some Member States, as it raises concerns again about data capacity to measure against these ambitions, and issues with increased responsibility to implement these principles in practice. When discussing the indicators process, they had the view that arbitrarily selecting a number of indicators to measure SDGs was unproductive and unhelpful. Additionally, they feared that this work could not even take place through the IAEG-SDGs unless there was a sound framework for how these indicators will be selected. On follow-up and review, they indicated that there is a fear of overloading the agenda and negotiations with too much detail on the follow-up and review chapter, particularly since separate negotiations will have to take place on the operational elements of the HLPF, post-September.
Meeting with Canada
Meeting with Jonathan Arnold, Head – Post-2015 Task Force, Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development
Very encouraging meeting, where he expressed his appreciation for the work that has been undertaken by the Network. Very open and receptive to the ideas we presented, and indicated that some of the language from the TAP response had even been taken up by the Canadian delegation, including language on reaching those furthest behind first. However, he posed the question of how we actually implement this principle in practice, as it's a huge undertaking. Stressed that accountability is a high priority of their delegation, and that participation in the HLPF is also an issue they have explored extensively.
Meeting with Georgia
Meeting with Nino Shekriladze from Permanent Mission of Georgia to the UN
Encouraging meeting, in which they expressed their appreciation for our work around Goal 16 issues, as it is a priority for their government. Highlighted that measures and reforms have been undertaken by their national government on the issue of corruption in particular, and felt as if their national experience in measuring progress against these national targets could be used through our work going forward. Responses to the Zero Draft from various Georgian agencies will be complied and synthesized, with TAP's inputs being reflected here where applicable through the Mission's inputs. Expressed a desire to work together going forward, particularly around Goal 16 issues.
UPDATES/INTEL
Post-2015 intergovernmental negotiations (Intergovernmental negotiations on the outcome document) 22-25 June 2015:
Background programme/documents/statements can be found at:
https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/post2015/negotiationsoutcome1
Summary of key highlights:
There were numerous calls to change the title of the document, with some Member States proposing crowdsourcing it.
Issues raised included:
Concern about picking and choosing some goals to prioritize in the declaration and the preamble, such as the nine objectives proposed by the Co-Facilitators, and consequently, whether the preamble should remain or be removed in the document.
The relationship between the FfD3 outcome document and the MOI chapter of the post-2015 outcome document.
The need to strengthen the environmental dimension of sustainable development in the declaration.
Whether the entire OWG outcome document (including the preamble and reservations) should be included in the outcome document.
The need to reference a better and "fit for purpose" UN system to help countries respond to development challenges and support the implementation of the agenda.
The need to reference the positive aspects of migration for sustainable development in both countries of origin and recipient countries.
How to develop a common understanding of the principle of common but differentiated responsibilities (CBDR).
There was emerging consensus that the declaration should be short and accessible and highlight the transformative nature of the agenda.
In the discussion on goals and targets, the G77 called for including the report of the OWG in its entirety in the text, including the chapeau and the reservations.
They also warned against reopening the targets to technical "tweaking."
Developed countries asserted that: the Co-Facilitators' introduction to the goals and targets is largely sufficient; there is no need to include the chapeau or reservations; and the technical tweaking of the targets is necessary because Heads of State cannot agree on unfinished text or endorse targets that are not aligned with international conventions and the Rio+20 outcome document.
In the discussion on follow-up and review:
While many delegations appreciated the text, some said it was too prescriptive, and others questioned the references to the roles of and interlinkages between national, regional and global follow-up and review processes.
There was support for a process that is voluntary, country-led, multi-level, transparent, inclusive, and evidence-based.
There was overwhelming support for stakeholder participation in national-level follow-up and review.
India stated they are uncomfortable with the term "accountability" and called for the removal of the word "meaningful" from the Follow-up and Review section of paragraph 14 during the follow-up and review segment.
While support was voiced for the High-level Political Forum on sustainable development as the "apex" of the review framework, there were different interpretations of what the global-level review would look like and the nature of the Global Sustainable Development Report (GSDR).
There was also concern about the UN developing guidelines for national reports and review processes, as opposed to leaving this to governments.
In the discussion on MOI some Member States welcomed the zero draft's indication that the MOI targets are only included as a "placeholder" pending the FfD3 outcome, many others said the two processes are distinct and that the FfD3 agreement will not be sufficient to ensure implementation of all the SDGs and targets.
The Co-Facilitators noted that they would produce a "final zero draft" within the next couple of weeks, before the final, two-week negotiating session that begins on 20 July 2015.
Key highlights from Member States Interventions:
Costa Rica called for the participation of civil society, private sector and parliamentarians and add references to how citizens should be part of the process.
Egypt stressed to avoid new language in Goal 16 during the general statements and declaration segment.
Latvia stressed the principles of transparency, accountability and participation should be included in the zero draft during the general statements and declaration segment.
Republic of Korea stressed good governance, based on transparency, accountability and participation should be more highlighted in the zero draft during the general statements and declaration segment.
Germany stated the involvement of Major Groups and civil society, the private sector, the scientific community and the UN system at all levels of the review architecture will be crucial for us to be able to get the full picture and truly know whether we are on track towards achievement of the goals. Therefore they very much welcome that this is clearly stated in the zero draft during the follow-up and review segment
Palau called for the follow-up and review section should strengthen accountability between states and citizens, supported by environment that enables active and meaningful participation of all stakeholders.
Mexico stated for a transformative development agenda which should constitute the basis of the global review mechanism it should include transparency, accountability and participation of major groups.
Full briefing notes here.
2015 HLPF: General information on HLPF (26 June-8 July):
An information note on the logistical arrangements for the upcoming HLPF (26 June-8 July), including pass pick up for registered participants, meeting room arrangements, webcast etc. can be accessed at: http://tinyurl.com/HLPF-Info-Note
Background information on the HLPF including the latest programme, official documentation, list of side events and the SD-Learning Programme, is posted at: https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/hlpf/2015.
The theme of this year's HLPF is "Strengthening integration, implementation and review – the HLPF after 2015″. As per the programme, most of the HLPF meetings will be held as interactiveround tables related to the theme. Time permitting, representatives of major groups and other stakeholders can participate in the question and answer sessions that follow the presentations by the panellists and lead discussants in each round table.
Also, on Monday, 29 June, from 8:30-9:45 a.m., the President of ECOSOC will convene a meeting on with representatives of social and natural sciences on "How science and inform policy making", and on Tuesday, 30 June, from 8:30-9:45 a.m. the President will have a meeting with major groups and other stakeholders on " Reinforcing major groups and other stakeholders' participation".
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TAP Network Calender of Post-2015 Events
Upcoming United Nations Meetings/Events:
26 June - 8 July: Third High-level Political Forum
29 June: PGA High-level Event on Climate Change
1 July: TAP Network side-event during the HLPF "Transparency, Accountability and Participation: Building a Post-2015 Review Architecture that is Fit for Purpose"
13-16 July: Third International Conference on Financing for Development Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
13 July: FfD3 side-event organized by the UN Non-Governmental Liaison Service (UN-NGLS) and Transparency, Accountability & Participation (TAP) Network "Transparency, Accountability and Participation: Laying the Foundation for a Transformative FfD3 Agenda" Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
15 July: FfD3 side-event organized by the Open Society Foundation & Transparency, Accountability & Participation (TAP) Network "Stolen Asset Recovery and Resources for the Financing for Development and Post 2015 Development Agenda" Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
20-24 July: Post-2015 intergovernmental negotiations
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Anonymous asked in Family & RelationshipsSingles & Dating · 1 month ago
Should I go on a date with this guy or just block him? ?
So first question when going out on a first date with someone if they didn't have a ride because of other reasons would you pick them up? Okay so I've been talking to this guy for a while now and we met on Facebook dating but he lives in my town a little less than 10 minutes away from me anyway he's been wanting to meet me for a while but I haven't been able to meet him because my mom was sick and I work a lot anyway we were supposed to meet tomorrow and he had invited me to a K-pop event Saturday night yesterday and I told him that I couldn't go because my brother had my car and I probably expected him to say like don't worry about it I can give you a ride and we can just go together but he did not. Instead he's like okay well whatever I'm still going to go and then later he texted me while this event is so awesome too bad you're not here to experience it I mean if you wanted to meet me so bad why couldn't he just offered me a ride maybe it's not a big deal but also he said that in First Dates he doesn't like to go out to eat at any restaurants because he doesn't want to have to pay for a person he doesn't even know. And when we spoke on the phone Friday night we were talking about personal things in asking each other questions and he was like I just want to let you know that I slept with 13 people and I am a very sexually driven person and if we date I may need you to keep up with that.. so there is already a few things I'm seeing that I do not like so I just wanted to ask
Considering what I have said would you guys think I should even go on a date with this person or should I just block them? would you guys have offered the girl or boy you like a ride especially when you live in the same town and you guys don't even live like 10 minutes away from each other...
I don't know why it bothered me but it just did and I don't know if I am in the right place to even suggest that he should give me a ride I mean he doesn't have to give me a ride and I understand that but I was just thinking if he like to me like that then why wouldn't he just offer me since he know I wanted to go to this Kpop event really badly because I knew about it before he invited me and since we're so close to each other I just figured
So what would you guys do in a situation like this? Could you guys even consider the date or just block the person also I should mention that previously to this I did talk to someone else and we haven't spoken in a while but I did tell him I did have feelings for someone else who is long distance but that I would meet him and see if things could work out since the other person is very busy not even speaking to me at the moment so I was being honest with him from the start but I feel like
he is bothered by so many things and he wanted to meet at a park or at the mall for the first date and I didn't expect for him to pay for me anyway on a first date but people usually meet up for drinks or something to try and get to know each other and he just seems so bothered by this idea so I don't know anyway thank you so much for your advice I really appreciate it sorry for the long message
I think you should give this guy a miss. From the sounds of things he seems super selfish and inconsiderate. When I read your question, I initially thought that he may have been inexperienced when it comes to women and dating but given that he has supposedly slept with 13 women, you'd think he be experienced enough to know how to be chivalrous.
Basically, I think this guy is only after something physical with you. Thankfully he has had decency to let you know this when he mentioned that he is very sexually driven. Personally, if that is something you want then by all means go for him. However, if you are after something more meaningful then this guy would be making an effort to connect with you and getting to know you on an emotional level by making conversation. I really hope this helps :)
Source(s): Would you say that this guy has ever been respectful towards you? What is it about him that you find attractive?
It depends on his personal situation. If you guys are like 18 or 19 years old and his parents had just kicked him out or he's working to save up for his first car but he is otherwise intelligent and going places, whether it's starting his own biz or a good career after college, then absolutely you should go on a date with him.
But if he's older, and seems stupid/low IQ and obviously just going nowhere in life, then NO you should not go on a date with him just because he's cute. You need to prioritize intelligence otherwise you're never going to have a good family
Also, intelligence is genetic and the last thing you want is stupid children too
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