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HISTORY OF BARIATRIC SURGERY
The original bariatric surgical procedure was the jejunocolic bypass, followed shortly thereafter by the jejunoileal bypass. This approach was introduced in 1954 and consisted of 14 inches (35.6 cm) of jejunum connected to 4 inches (10.2 cm) of ileum as either an end-to-end or an end-to-side anastomosis, which bypassed most of the small intestine. This procedure resulted in substantial weight loss but with an unacceptably high risk of unanticipated early and late complications, including life-threatening hepatic failure and cirrhosis, renal failure, oxalate nephropathy, immune complex disease, and multiple nutritional deficiencies. Because of these complications, the jejunoileal bypass procedure is no longer performed. The original bariatric surgical procedure was the jejunocolic bypass, followed shortly thereafter by the jejunoileal bypass. This approach was introduced in 1954 and consisted of 14 inches (35.6 cm) of jejunum connected to 4 inches (10.2 cm) of ileum as either an end-to-end or an end-to-side anastomosis, which bypassed most of the small intestine. This procedure resulted in substantial weight loss but with an unacceptably high risk of unanticipated early and late complications, including life-threatening hepatic failure and cirrhosis, renal failure, oxalate nephropathy, immune complex disease, and multiple nutritional deficiencies. Because of these complications, the jejunoileal bypass procedure is no longer performed
In the late 1970s, the gastric bypass was developed on them basis of information gathered from gastrectomy procedures and then modified to a Roux-en-Y anastomosis. This procedure was found to have equivalent weight loss to the jejunoileal bypass but with a much lower risk of complications.
At present, there are three broad categories of bariatric procedures:
Purely gastric restriction,
Gastric restriction with some malabsorption, as represented by the Roux-en-Y
gastric bypass (RYGB), and
Gastric restriction with significant intestinal malabsorption.
Currently, RYGB procedures account for >80% of bariatric operations, although the proportion is changing with the advent of the laparoscopic Sleeve gastrectomy procedure. The majority of patients (80%) are female, from a higher socioeconomic class, privately insured, and between 40 and 64 years of age
INDICATIONS FOR BARIATRIC SURGERY
Patients with BMI>40
Patient with less severeobesity (BMI >35 kg/m2) could be considered if they had high risk
comorbid conditions such as life-threatening cardiopulmonary problems (for example, severe sleep apnea, pickwickian syndrome, or obesity-related cardiomyopathy) or uncontrolled.
type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM)
Other indications for patients with BMIs between 35 and 40 kg/m2 include obesity induced physical problems interfering with lifestyle (for example, joint disease treatable but for the obesity, or body size problems precluding or severely interfering with employment, family function, and ambulation).
UNSUITABLE PATIENTS FOR BARIATRIC SURGERY
Extremely high operative risk (such as severe congestive heart failure or unstable angina)
Active substance abuser, or
Patient with a major psychopathologic condition
TYPES OF BARIATRIC SURGERY
Operative mo rtality risk is 0.1-0.3% upto 1 month. The 30 day readmission rate is 4%.
BENEFITS OF BARIATRIC SURGERY
The purpose of bariatric surgery is to induce substantial, clinically important weight loss that is sufficient to reduce obesity related medical complications to acceptable levels.
Effects of bariatric surgery on obesity-related Comorbidities
Comorbidity Preoperative incidence (%) Remission >2 years postoperatively (%) Reference
T2DM, IFG, or IGT 34 85 103
Hypertension 26 66 104
Hypertriglyceridemia
and low HDL
cholesterol 40 85 105
Sleep apnea 22 (in men) 40 106
01 (in women)
Obesity hypoventilation
Syndrome 12 76 107
HDL, high-density lipoprotein; IFG, impaired fasting glucose; IGT, impaired glucose tolerance; T2DM, type 2 diabetes mellitus.
Adapted from Greenway
Foregut bypass leads to improvement in the physiologic responses of gut hormones involved in glucose regulation and appetite control, including ghrelin, glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1), and peptide YY.
Mechanical improvements include less weight bearing on joints, enhanced lung compliance, and decreased fatty tissue around the neck, which relieves obstruction to breathing and sleep apnea.
Fluid and hemodynamic changes that lower the blood pressure after bariatric surgery include diuresis, natriuresis, and decreases in total body water, blood volume, and indices of sympathetic activity.
Other clinical benefits include improvements in T2DM, obesity-related cardiomyopathy, cardiac function, lipid
Profile, respiratory function, disordered sleep, degenerative joint disease, obesity-related infections, mobility, venous stasis, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), asthma, polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS), infertility, and complications of pregnancy.
Most bariatric surgery patients also experience considerable improvements in psychosocial status and quality of life postoperatively.


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        {
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About/Blog
Major Milestones for Walker Sands – Reaching 100 Employees and Ranking on the Inc. 5000 for 6th Consecutive Year
Mike Santoro
This week we celebrated two exciting milestones at Walker Sands: our 100th employee and our listing on the Inc. 5000 Fastest Growing Companies in America for the 6th consecutive year. Even as I type these words, it's hard to believe how far we've come.
Six years ago, we were a twenty-person boutique agency just beginning to establish our identity in integrated B2B tech marketing. In that time, we've not only formulated a strong foundation in our offerings but also built an award-winning team and incredible client partners who have taken risks, challenged the status quo and trusted us to take them to new heights.
And we're still growing. From expanding our office locations to San Francisco and Seattle to building on our service offerings for clients, we continue to take on the marketing landscape with new perspectives. For example, our demand generation services have grown rapidly, with revenues increasing by more than 147 percent in the past year alone. Our trusting clients and integrated approach have allowed us to take on big opportunities resulting in high impact, multi-year campaigns for clients like CloudCraze and G2 Crowd. I wake up everyday thinking "how cool is it that our team got to work on stuff like that?" It still amazes me.
Beyond client work, it is truly our people who enable us to make strides and impact in the industry. Over the past 17 years, we have worked to create a collaborative environment where our employees are able to produce not only great client work but a great culture. But why don't I let my fellow Walkersandsians speak for themselves? Watch the video below for a few reasons why we're excited to come to work every day:
Looking around the office, the benefits of keeping culture a top priority are clear. We could not have reached these milestones without our incredible team, and it shows. So far this year, Walker Sands has been named the No.13 Best Place to Work in Chicago by Crain's, as well as the Best Agency (71-120 Employees) to Work For by The Holmes Report.
We also recognize the hard work and dedication that our employees bring to the office every day, and we make time to celebrate our accomplishments together. To commemorate our 100th employee and latest Inc. 5000 listing, we had a fun afternoon filled with champagne, empanadas and a Walker Sands-style game of Family Feud.
We are humbled to have our growth recognized by the Inc. 5000 list for the sixth consecutive year and would like to send our congratulations to our friends and clients who also made the 2018 list!
From the beginning we have been a team, and our combined efforts have afforded us achievements in growth and recognition. I still consider myself lucky to work here, and I'm looking forward to all the great things we will accomplish in the future. Here's to those who have gotten us here and to the next 100 employees!
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Built In Names Walker Sands a Best Place to Work in Chicago and Seattle
Strategic Marketing Budget and Business Goal Alignment for 2022
Walker Sands San Francisco Earns 2021 PRSA Foggies Award for PR Campaign of the Year
Walker Sands Takes Home 2021 MarCom Awards for Branding, Research and Social
Walker Sands Celebrates 20 Years of Impact With $20,000 in Donations

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JOHN SOUTTAR knows all about the demands that are placed on the Hearts players. So he can only imagine the pressure and scrutiny that Ann Budge and Craig Levein are under at Tynecastle.
The outpouring of emotion at Hampden was therefore completely understandable as Hearts booked their place in the Scottish Cup final.
After Uche Ikpeazu put the Jambos in front, Souttar all-but secured the win minutes later. A Sean Clare penalty ensured the celebrations could begin long before the whistle.
Those scenes would continue after it and it was evident how much the victory meant to everyone in maroon.
"Ann came in at the end," Souttar said. "How much she has done for the club, and the gaffer, too. There are a lot of demands on this club.
"It's not easy to play for and I'm sure it's not easy to manage or own. I was delighted for both of them.
"Ann said she was delighted and you could see it. Where this club has been - to now get to a cup final, it's sort of a fairytale story.
"It's happened so quick and it's great for everyone involved. Everyone knows that hearts need to be in cup finals and finishing high up the league. We have got to the cup final and that's now something for the fans to look forward to.
Hearts may have been sluggish in the first half but when they started the second brightly, the outcome was never in doubt.
The longer the game went on, the more comfortable Hearts looked.
"It wasn't like me," Souttar said of his goal. "I haven't scored in a wee while to score on an occasion like that was brilliant, especially as we were under pressure at the time. It was good to get a goal.
"As long as we kept our composure. that's what we said at half-time - don't panic. If we kept moving the ball we thought it would come.


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I speculate that it is going to turn out that Snowden was an electronic intruder on the government payroll. Profiles describe him as secretive, fascinated with computers, and with knowledge of things like Tor (a peer-to-peer network for maintaining anonymity for computer communications). His last job was working at an NSA network threat detection center, suggesting knowledge of computer security. He had previously worked for the CIA, including overseas, suggesting a cyber-offense role. And if it's true that he was making $200k (or even $122k) as a 29 year old IT guy with no formal qualifications in anything, I struggle to think of any explanation other than that he was technically very adept.
This would also explain how he was able to access a wide range of documents that were supposedly compartmented. He's described as having been concerned about abuses of power before 2008, and then hoping things would change under Obama, only to realize that the Obama administration is if anything even more secretive and weaker in its commitments to civil-rights than its predecessors. So Snowden was perhaps gathering his cache of documents for years before finally deciding to act. I speculate that he turned his offensive cyber-attack skills on the intelligence community's own networks to gather these documents. He may have had a lot of access - it's very common for people working in computer threat detection to have access to platforms that see everything going on in the networks in order to look for potential threats. I've personally had access on a number of occasions to all the network traffic of some very large organizations, for example, so I can imagine that someone working for the NSA doing threat detection would have a lot of access to intelligence networks.
It would also explain his comment about being able to disable the surveillance system "in an afternoon". That's the kind of stuff that computer security folks would tend to know how to do, that the average employee wouldn't.
I think this situation illustrates some fundamental downsides of the Internet.
It's always the case that important new technologies have major downsides that aren't evident at first. To take just one example, the automobile in the early years promised freedom, speed, and mobility (as well as much less horse manure in the streets). It only gradually became clear that the automobile also meant suburban sprawl, lengthy commutes in heavy traffic, major contributions to obesity, climate change, and dependence of the world economy on unstable Islamic countries in the Middle East (and thus Islamic terrorism).
Similarly, the Internet on first acquaintance promised instant access to all the world's information, opinion, and indeed people. Wikipedia is much better than the Encyclopedia Brittanica. Google is much better than a public library catalogue. Amazon has a much larger selection of books than any brick-and-mortar store. Facebook is a vastly better way to keep in touch with friends and family than occasional letters with duplicate photos. What's not to love?
Part of the problem lies with the very seductiveness of the Internet. Pretty much the entire planetary middle class is now on the Internet regularly, and the poor are not too far behind with mobile devices. We have been tempted to put an enormous amount of data on there; this has proven incredibly attractive for advertisers, to the point where commercial entities can know basically everything we do if they are determined enough. Still, the worst that advertisers can do to us is send us targeted ads and direct mail, which can be creepy but is basically harmless since we never have to follow up on the ads unless we choose to.
The government is another matter altogether. Since the government maintains the monopoly on the use of force, it always has the ability to destroy any of our lives totally, and therefore the checks on its power are extremely important. We must be assured that it carries out its duties with reasonable integrity and fairness. This is why the Bill of Rights really matters, and why the increasing encroachment on it is alarming.
The immediate genesis of these encroachments is the threat of terrorism - primarily of the Islamic flavor. However, I don't think that's the deepest issue long term.
One of the deep issues is that the Internet is built out of software, and software is inherently fragile. A software program is a complex piece of logic which takes some inputs, performs some algorithm, and then creates some outputs. It's created by fallible human beings, usually working under time pressure. They invariably fail to think of all the possible inputs, and since the computer itself implements the program instructions mechanically, anything that the programmer forgets to explicitly handle is apt to cause a catastrophic failure of the program under the right conditions (which can be created by malicious input). Frequently (not always) such failures include the possibility of of taking over the program and causing it to do whatever the supplier of input wants it to do - ie exploiting it. So all software has numerous vulnerabilities in. It's possible, by spending a lot more money and engineering time, to ship software with somewhat fewer vulnerabilities in. But no software is vulnerability free - even Microsoft, which has lots of resources and has been making a reasonable effort for at least a decade, is still constantly having to fix newly discovered vulnerabilities in mature applications.
And yet, we now have a situation where all large organizations are critically dependent on their networks and software. Whenever I've sat down with the information security staff of a large organization and asked the question "Could we take out your organization with network attacks?" The answer is invariably yes. Often, they've known for years how to do it. Other times, a half hour of brainstorming is enough to make it clear. And invariably, large networks are compromised. I've seen endless surveys of malware infections on corporate networks, and there's always some. It might be random criminals, it might be foreign intelligence, but it's never the case that a large network is 100% under the control of it's legal owners. Somebody else always has a foothold in there, and thus at least the potential to cause great harm.
In particular, Bradley Manning and Edward Snowden have both demonstrated that it's possible for a single individual with access to classified networks to cause enormous and lasting embarrassment to the US government. Neither of them were trying to destroy it, but both were able to access and release an enormous amount of classified material. One now has to assume that foreign intelligence agencies have been able to do as much.
This illustrates a larger dynamic of modern society - as a highly-optimized, just-in-time, economy that is run on software riddled with vulnerabilities, it's inherently rather fragile; much more so than it looks to a casual glance. This gives individuals and small groups a great deal of power to cause disruption, potentially. Not to mention that it gives a mutually assured destruction character to any future conflicts between sufficiently advanced nation states.
And, as the trend of automation and globalization continue, as we move toward the singularity, we will create both more vulnerability, and more people marginal to society, and thereby alienated from it. This is a recipe for more damaging incidents.
So, one partial solution to this, inevitably, will involve more and more surveillance. We will need to keep a closer and closer eye on everybody, to make sure no-one is getting out of line. We never know who will be the next Boston bomber, the next leaker, the next foreign agent sending reams of zip files back to China.
And technology and algorithms will enable this. As algorithms get smarter and smarter, they will inevitably be turned on us to make sure we aren't getting too malcontented and upsetting the system. Bruce Schneier had an excellent essay a while back pointing out that the Internet is a surveillance state. It's only going to get worse - flying drones, cameras everywhere on phones, content all in the cloud where the government can get at it.
We aren't going to go back - we will no more give up the Internet than we've given up the car in order to undo urban sprawl and obesity (though that is changing a little).
But the downsides are going to be very severe, and they are only just starting to come into view.
Excellent. One of the frequent reasons I rate your blog.
There is some old saying that if you don't know who the patsy is when you are playing Poker, then it is you.
I guess we can change things for the internet a little, if you don't know who is wearing the tinfoil hat, then it is you?
Does the dirctor of the CIA/NSA have a little icon on his computer that launches an app that pulls up a search box you can put names into? Then you can pick one from the list that pops up, or narrow the search.
If you pick a name, it gives you all the usual data. Then something where you can get a list of recent phone conversations. A recording if it is a cell phone, who he called, how long the conversation lasted, where the cellphone is at this current moment.
Another feature is google searches. Another is recent sightings of the face in question from various cameras (this is the weakest portion, but it is coming along nicely).
If the individual stores files online with cloud storage you can get that content if you want. Emails of course. Let your mind wander with the possibilities.
We are shaped with by the experiences we go through in life. And mine have not left me high minded. I think it is done trivially, whenever they feel like it, and for whatever reason.
When I was in college, I had a fellow student who was in an intelligence unit in the military reserver. Nothing special about it really. But he once told me a story about how they had to classify paper plates as "Secret," so they could throw them in the documents to be shredded bag.
And no one ever has, or ever will get in trouble for it unless some other branch of the government makes it an issue for some reason.
And I think Google and Facebook pretty much let the government do what they want. The less they they about it the better, for a number of reasons.
But I'd wager a guess that a number of guys at the NSA can log into google or Facebook with admin privileges as powerful as they get.
Of course I think every country in the world pretty much runs their IT services the same way.
The Internet is not inherently a surveillance state. There are also technological trends working in the opposite direction. As you mentioned, Tor for example, makes spying on people substantially more expensive. As does Bitcoin, at least when combined with distributed mixing like Zerocoin overlaid on top of it.
Much of the ability of advertisers to see everything we do, is because we are so darned predictable. Coming in from the same, linkable to physical address IP address, carrying the same browser cookies, and paying for things with funds linkable to offline persons. Onion routing, if used pervasively, gets rid of the first. Stripping identifying information out of browser requests is trivial. And provably mixed, anonymous currencies gets around the last of the three.
As more and more people realize that they are being spied on (and they will; since whatever the NSA sees today, the IRS, DHS trial lawyers and blackmailers/extortionists will see tomorrow), they will have an incentive to utilize available counter spy technologies. Even if that does involve some inevitable inconvenience up front.
No doubt those who see themselves as justified in spying on others, will fight tooth and nail, with threats of jailing Tor edge server owners and Bitcoin operators for aiding and abetting childporn peddlers, drug dealers and terrorists; but one would hope that even the most successfully well indoctrinated sheeple would eventually figure out that the real threats they face in their daily lives come from those insisting on spying on everything they do, not from all the imaginary boogeymen those guys invoke to justify their spying.
You need to come over to the darkside young Jedi.
Just do a quick wiki search on the history of Tor. Look who developed it.
Now ask yourself who will out of the goodness of their heart run a Tor server? How do they pay for the bandwidth for one thing?
I could be wrong, but I'd sure ike for someone to explain to me how even the limited Tor network finances itself.
Now ask yourself this question: There is a bunch of data out there. A lot. How do you know what to look at anyway?
Hey I know, let's build this thing that lets people do things anonymously. Stuff they don't want other people or governments to know about. It's a selected audience after all, people trying to conceal something, or just be discreet on general principle.
Most of it is going to be junk. People getting around sporting event blackouts and the like.
But some of it will be useful. Plus you get a list of IP numbers of people who a) can figure out how to use a proxy server, or install a Tor app, and b) know enough to be concerned.
Useful people to know about if nothing else.
I also think if I were a spook, I'd start up this service, one like adultfriendfinder, or ashleymadison. Never hurts to know about that kind of thing.
Wanna bet about whether they have tracked every bit torrent that existed for the past 5 or 6 years? I'd say it is a safe bet.
I also wouldn't put too much credence into how well cookie cutters and the like work. Browsers are pretty distinctive even if you turn off tracking.
Do some googling and read all about it.
Something else I wanted to add. It used to be you had to have jailers if you had the jailed.
If you had a totalitarian state, you had to have a lot of people to keep an eye on everyone.
Things have changed. Computers have changed everything obviously, but they have changed this dynamic as well.
I imagine a world, if it doesn't exist already, where mentioning the word "allah" or "revolution," or "tea party" can alert someone that something interesting may be going on. Whatever trigger you want really.
And if you store everything, and can always get at it, you can just look at someone's complete history.
This would have been clunky and unworkable in the old Soviet Union or East Germany.
Good piece, Dr. S. I was waiting for your considered response to this deal.
Stuki, we're predictable because we're lazy creatures of habit, and we should have the simultaneously exercisable rights of both laziness and privacy.
Great, Stuart. I was curious what you've been thinking about all this. Thanks for putting it down on paper.
I don't completely agree with your analysis. Although surely security breaches would not be possible without software vulnerabilities (as a necessary cause) it isn't sufficient by itself. I can easily secure any network with vulnerable nodes. The problems is that to do so would require extremely strict access control lists - which would undermine the primary purpose of the network which is communication. The problem, as I see it, with security is the tension or balance between permissive and restricted communication. The same is true in society at large in striking a balance of trust and distrust with our fellow citizens. Most of the time I can trust most of the people - which allows me to conduct useful transactions and have meaningful relationships. But sometimes I can't trust some small portion of people - so I have to invest some time and energy in defensive strategies (firearms, martial arts, locks on my doors, etc). I could have complete security by holing up in my basement with a shotgun - or by having highly restricted ACLs at the edge of the network. But I'd have a pretty meager lifestyle and a pretty meager network.
Anyhoo, as a IT security analyst I had a question regarding the Snowden leaks. My current theory is the NSA is mirroring the servers of Google, Yahoo, et al and issuing FISA-approved searches when needed - which gives the NSA what they want and allows the companies a way to save face. However, I've been contemplating a far darker possibility - that the NSA has comprised some of the root CAs. If this is the case I can't imagine what the consequences would be if it ever came to light. How likely/possible do you think this would be?
For sunbeam, only an exit relay can see the traffic on a Tor circuit but it cannot determine the origin - that's the whole point of onion routing. There is some speculation that a confederacy of Tor exit relays could begin to profile an origin point through traffic flow analysis - but it would be tricky and probably not worth anyone's time. Tor provides anonymity - not secrecy.
I predict tools like Tor and PGP will come into greater use in response to the NSA.
- two parties could communicate in tunnel mode and nothing could be surveilled except that encrypted traffic had passed between two ISPs. Additional layers of anonymity could be provided by onion routing. IPv6 means secure end-to-end communication that is potentially anonymous. And it's already here.
"- two parties could communicate in tunnel mode and nothing could be surveilled except that encrypted traffic had passed between two ISPs"
"For sunbeam, only an exit relay can see the traffic on a Tor circuit but it cannot determine the origin - that's the whole point of onion routing. There is some speculation that a confederacy of Tor exit relays could begin to profile an origin point through traffic flow analysis - but it would be tricky and probably not worth anyone's time. Tor provides anonymity - not secrecy."
Yeah, but what if it is a colossal scam? Do you know of anyone who helps run any of this? I mean someone involved with actually implementing it?
Originally sponsored by the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (which had been instrumental in the early development of onion routing under the aegis of DARPA), Tor was financially supported by the Electronic Frontier Foundation from 2004 to 2005. Tor software is now developed by the Tor Project, which has been a 501(c)(3) research-education nonprofit organization  based in the United States of America  since December 2006. It has a diverse base of financial support; the U.S. State Department, the Broadcasting Board of Governors, and the National Science Foundation are major contributors. As of 2012, 80% of the Tor Project's $2M annual budget comes from the United States government, with the Swedish government and other organizations providing the rest, including NGOs and thousands of individual sponsors."
1) Even as small as TOR is presently, 2 million seems a little light to run even a small thing.
2) Why exactly are these organizations involved?
3) If TOR doesn't do exactly what you think it does, can you tell from the outside?
I'll defer to your knowledge if you say otherwise. But do you know anyone running this?
Personally, if I have things I want secret I'm not using something that has the words "US Navy, DARPA, State Department, US Government, and National Science Foundation" so prominently.
So I'll ask again: If this thing is totally compromised, and was cynically designed from the beginning to ensnare the would-be-clever, how could you tell?
(sunbeam) "Yeah, but what if it is a colossal scam? Do you know of anyone who helps run any of this? I mean someone involved with actually implementing it?"
I have watched some presentations by lead developers on youtube. They seem like decent guys. I also monitored tor-relays for a while but never ended up starting a relay (mailing list located at https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays/). I do run a "entry point" node which is a less legally risky way to contribute to the network.
The development discussion is on https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-dev/ (that's where you would meet the people who "implement" the software).
Given the number of developers who have looked at Tor over the years it seems pretty unlikely that it is a colossal scam. However, let's assume you don't trust these people. Unfortunately, in order to trust software without trusting the people who wrote it or reviewed it, your only option is to reverse engineer it yourself or to pay someone you trust to do that. This is obviously highly impractical. Unfortunately this is a fundamental problem in computing and affects everyone who uses software they didn't write.
Even if Tor works exactly as advertised there are still certain major problems with it. The most obvious one is that use of Tor can easily be detected if someone is sniffing the wire, and such use probably makes you a target of interest for intelligence agencies.
Overall I appreciate your skepticism about Tor and certainly wouldn't ask anyone to trust it without looking into it deeply.
(sunbeam) "Even as small as TOR is presently, 2 million seems a little light to run even a small thing."
Here it's important to point out that the Tor Project, Inc as an organization is not the sole entity responsible for Tor. The code is open source and most probably many people contribute, not just employees of the Tor Project. Also, note that the Tor Project does not actually run the network; that's mostly done by volunteers who contribute the bandwidth and run the servers. These costs (the bandwidth, the CPU time, and the sysadmin time to maintain the servers) are quite significant and are not captured in that 2 million number.
Sorry I don't have time for a more detailed reply at the moment, but hopefully this info is useful for some readers.
Tor is open-source - that means anyone can look at the code and determine if it's doing something other than what it claims to do. I'm not qualified to assess personally - I work in IT but it's been a long time since I wrote any code. But personally I do trust those who do look at the code and analyze it - if it were malicious someone would notice and speak up.
If you don't want to use something created by DARPA, don't use the internet! :) Ultimately, Tor is a protocol - an agreed upon way of doing something. There is any number of possible softwares that could successfully implement the protocol (the same is true of the two protocols TCP and IP invented by DARPA and used by the internet) - but as it stands there is one standard software in wide use which is available for download at the tor project website. In general, you should trust open-source software (code that can be analyzed to determine its actual behavior) and be wary of closed-source or proprietary software which cannot be analyzed.
And I don't know anyone working on the project or really know much about it except a basic understanding of how the protocol functions. So I don't know the history of the project or why any particular organization is involved. But I don't find $2million to be a small number. Most people who work on developing open-source software are doing it in their free time as volunteers - they aren't paid. Which is why open-source software is generally underdeveloped relative to proprietary closed-source software.
I recommend checking out Linux Tails - at least reading the documentation and explanation. I think it's a pretty good intro written in layman's terms on the how and why of encryption and anonymity. And it's a useful tool that anyone can use.
We all have a choice - will you end up on a "watch list" for using anonymizing or encrypting tools? I have no idea. But I do know we have a choice - we can go to protests or we can stay home because we know that the police will have a camera filming everyone participating (at least that's been my experience). We can wear a t-shirt with Arabic script when we board a plane or not (haven't tried this one myself since I'm not fond of cavity searches - lol). We can dissent or we can lose our rights through passive acquiescence. I'm reminded of the movie Spartacus when all the slaves stand up and claim to be Spartacus. If we all are on a watch-list, the watch-list becomes meaningless. Our choices mean the difference between freedom and fear.
Just my opinion, but I consider using privacy tools to be something that every responsible citizen needs to do. Just like voting or owning a firearm, if you do not exercise your rights, you will lose them. History has shown that our species has a nasty habit of taking away reasonable human rights whenever the opportunity presents itself.
Working for Blackwater in Japan ( not a dangerous place mind you ) as basically a security guard, my brother was earning almost 100k. Top Secret Clearance is a valuable union card.
Also, the willingness to move where ever you are in demand is very valuable too. If you are willing to move just anywhere in the US, and work as a programming contractor you'll find it difficult not to break 100k even with modest skill level. I've seen people doing what I was doing for 60k sitting ten feet from me earn 250k merely because they moved there to do it filling the demand for additional labor.
There are many many big dumb companies with billions that spend this kind of money for those willing to move ( in the case of programming which can be done from Timbuktu, this is silly ). Of course the government is the biggest dumbest corporation out there.
Still Snowden probably could command that kind of money because he had clearance and had been able to sell his being in Hawaii as having moved there to satisfy the NSA's need.


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Red States Across The Country Are Rethinking Medicaid Expansion, But Will Texas?
"There is absolutely an opportunity to do some kind of coverage program that would incorporate pieces that would probably never have been approved under the Obama administration."
By Ashley LopezMarch 31, 2017 9:30 amGovernment & Politics, Health & Science, KUT, Texas Newsroom
Illustration via Todd Wiseman/Texas Tribune
From KUT:
After the failure of the GOP's plan to replace the Affordable Care Act, there's a new political landscape, and states across the country with Republican-led legislatures are weighing their options when it comes to Medicaid expansion.
Conservative states – most recently Kansas — see an opening to extend health care to more low-income adults. But it's unclear whether Texas – a state that has more uninsured people than any other state in the country – is willing to hop on the bandwagon.
Though, even under the Affordable Care Act, some Texans still haven't been able to get insurance. Amber Keith, who lives in Texarkana, is one of those Texans.
Keith's family earns a little over $47,000 a year, and they can't afford private health insurance. She qualifies for a subsidy to help pay for her premiums, if she buys a plan through the federal marketplace, but she says the coverage isn't enough.
Keith has a large family with seven people and she just can't make that work. While they would qualify for Medicaid, Texas hasn't expanded the program.
"I live in the northeast part of Texas, which is on the border with Arkansas," Keith says. "If I lived just two miles from my current location and I lived in Arkansas, we would have qualified for Medicaid under Arkansas' expansion."
The number of states joining Arkansas – and other conservative states neighboring Texas – has been slowly growing.
That's due, in part, to that new political landscape: There's a Republican in the White House now, and attempts to repeal and replace Obamacare proved harder than congressional Republicans previously thought. That's why a few more Republican states are toying with the idea of expanding their Medicaid programs to low-income adults like Keith. Anne Dunkelberg with the left-leaning Center for Public Policy Priorities argues Texas should be one of those states.
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I am using Axios to fetch data from API but I am not getting response. I have tried some of the suggestions available in Stack Overflow and from web searches, but nothing helped me. I am getting error like "invalid parameters".
I also tried in Postman with the same parameter and I am getting response. What mistake am I making?
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UFO Sightings by Astronauts
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There are few witnesses more credible than astronauts. Often, they are scientists, with excellent powers of observation and objectivity.
When an astronaut reports seeing a UFO, people will take note. In a live broadcast on NBC in 1963, Major Gordon Cooper, the last astronaut to orbit the earth solo, was completing his 22 orbit when he said he could see a glowing green object approaching fast. NASA had Major Cooper's visual sighting and Muchea's tracking station radar confirmation of this fast moving green glowing object, before it made a sharp turn and shot away. (This was not Major Cooper's first UFO sighting. In 1951, he had sighted a UFO while piloting an F-86 Sabrejet over Western Germany.)
Upon his return to Earth, Major Cooper was not permitted to discuss his sighting with the media. Reporters were instructed not to question him about the UFO sighting.
Major Cooper testified before the United Nations: "I believe that these extra-terrestrial vehicles and their crews are visiting this planet from other planets… Most astronauts were reluctant to discuss UFOs." He added, "I did have occasion in 1951 to have two days of observation of many flights of them, of different sizes, flying in fighter formation, generally from east to west over Europe."
In a taped interview by J. L. Ferrando, Major Cooper said: "For many years I have lived with a secret, in a secrecy imposed on all specialists in astronautics. I can now reveal that every day, in the USA, our radar instruments capture objects of form and composition unknown to us. And there are thousands of witness reports and a quantity of documents to prove this, but nobody wants to make them public. Why? Because authority is afraid that people may think of God knows what kind of horrible invaders. So the password still is: We have to avoid panic by all means."
Major Cooper is not the only astronaut/NASA pilot to have witnessed UFOs.
Donald Slayton, a Mercury astronaut, in an interview asserted he had seen UFOs in 1951: "I was testing a P-51 fighter in Minneapolis when I spotted this object. I was at about 10,000 feet on a nice, bright, sunny afternoon. I thought the object was a kite, then I realized that no kite is gonna fly that high. As I got closer it looked like a weather balloon, grey and about three feet in diameter. But as soon as I got behind the darn thing it didn't look like a balloon anymore. It looked like a saucer, a disk. About the same time, I realized that it was suddenly going away from me – and there I was, running at about 300 miles per hour. I tracked it for a little way, and then all of a sudden the damn thing just took off. It pulled about a 45 degree climbing turn and accelerated and just flat disappeared."
On July 17, 1962, Major Robert White reported a UFO during his fifty-eight-mile high flight on an X-15, "I have no idea what it could be. It was grayish in color and about thrity to forty feet away."
On May 11, 1962, NASA pilot Joseph Walker admitted that one of his tasks was to detect UFOs during his X-15 flights. He had filmed five or six UFOs during his previous record breaking fifty-mile-high flight in April, 1962. During a lecture at the Second National Conference on the Peaceful Uses of Space Research in Seattle, Washington, Walker said: "I don't feel like speculating about them. All I know is what appeared on the film which was developed after the flight." None of those films have been released for public viewing.
Apollo 17 commander, Eugene Cernan, was quoted by the Los Angeles Times in 1973, "…I've been asked (about UFOs) and I've said publicly I thought they (UFOs) were somebody else, some other civilization."
There have been other sightings of UFOs by astronauts, but they are not as well documented as the ones above. Therefore, I have omitted them.
This article leaves little doubt that UFOs have been reported by credible witnesses and even recorded on radar. The evidence also suggests that those in authority are intentionally keeping such reports from the public to whatever extent they are able to do so.
"Top 10 Mysteries of Outer Space" http://listverse.com/2009/12/31/top-10-mysteries-of-outer-space/
"UFO Sighting by Astronauts" http://www.syti.net/UFOSightings.html
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David Cañada Gracia (Saragossa, 11 de març de 1975 - El Ru, Castilló de Sos, 28 de maig de 2016) va ser un ciclista espanyol professional de 1996 a 2009.

Va debutar com a professional l'any 1996 amb l'equip ONCE, amb el qual va tenir la seva millor temporada el 2000, guanyant la classificació general i diverses etapes de la Volta a Múrcia i el Circuit de la Sarthe. Això li permeté aconseguir un bon contracte amb l'equip belga Mapei. Tanmateix, el seu rendiment posterior no fou gens bo a causa de múltiples lesions, com ara trencaments de clavícula, problemes al tendó d'Aquil·les i fins i tot problemes cardíacs, dels quals ha estat operat dues vegades.

L'any 2004 tornà a un equip espanyol amb el Saunier Duval-Prodir, on només va aconseguir una victòria, però una de prestigi: la Volta a Catalunya 2006, en què superà el colombià Santiago Botero per dos segons de diferència.

El 2009 un càncer de pell, que acabà superant, l'obligà a abandonar la pràctica del ciclisme. Morí el 28 de maig de 2016 mentre disputava la Marxa cicloturista TowCar Puertos Ribagorza.

Palmarès
 2000
 1r a la Volta a Múrcia i vencedor de 2 etapes
 1r del Circuit de la Sarthe i vencedor d'una etapa
 2006
  1r a la Volta a Catalunya

Resultats al Tour de França
 2000. 33è de la classificació general
 2003. 56è de la classificació general
 2005. 63è de la classificació general
 2006. Abandona (14a etapa)
 2007. 103è de la classificació general

Resultats al Giro d'Itàlia
 1999. 89è de la classificació general
 2004. 18è de la classificació general
 2007. 59è de la classificació general
 2008. 58è de la classificació general

Resultats a la Volta a Espanya
 2002. 50è de la classificació general
 2003. 53è de la classificació general
 2004. 47è de la classificació general
 2005. Abandona (19a etapa)
 2006. 88è de la classificació general

Referències

Enllaços externs
 Fitxa de David Cañada a www.sitiodeciclismo.net

Ciclistes saragossans
Guanyadors de la Volta a Catalunya
Morts a l'Aragó

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Teresa L. McCarty is an educational anthropologist and applied linguist who has worked in the field of Indigenous education for more than 30 years. She is currently the G.F. Kneller Chair in Education and Anthropology, and Faculty in American Indian Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles, and the A.W. Snell Professor of Education Policy Studies Emerita at Arizona State University. She began her work as an educational liaison for the Fort McDowell Yavapai Nation, and subsequently worked as a bilingual-bicultural curriculum developer on the Navajo Nation. As a faculty member at the University of Arizona, she co-directed the American Indian Language Development Institute, an international program for teachers, school administrators, Native community members, and university students in Indigenous language- and culture-based education and American Indian linguistics. A member of the National Academy of Education and a Fellow of the American Educational Research Association and the International Centre for Language Revitalisation, she is the former editor of the American Educational Research Journal and the current coeditor of the Journal of American Indian Education. Her books include A Place To Be Navajo—Rough Rock and the Struggle for Self-Determination in Indigenous Schooling, "To Remain an Indian"—Lessons in Democracy from a Century of Native American Education (with K.T. Lomawaima), Language Planning and Policy in Native America, Indigenous Youth and Multilingualism (with L.T. Wyman and S.E. Nicholas), Indigenous Language Revitalization in the Americas (with S.M. Coronel-Molina), and A World of Indigenous Languages: Politics, Pedagogies, and Prospects for Language Reclamation (with S.E. Nicholas and G. Wigglesworth). She is currently Principal Investigator on a national study of Indigenous-language immersion schooling funded by the Spencer Foundation.


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State of Georgia to consider creating a city named Amazon
Forget Apple Park; Georgia wants Amazon City
By Cal Jeffrey	 on October 3, 2017, 17:44 9 comments
Earlier this month Amazon began looking for a location to build a second headquarters it is calling "HQ2." The project is estimated to cost $5 billion but would create around 50,000 "high-paying" jobs in the area where it is built. The project would be a boon to whichever community is selected as the location, which has created something of a bidding frenzy to get the company's attention.
"We want to encourage states and communities to think creatively for viable real estate options, while not negatively affecting our preferred timeline," said Amazon in a list of preferences that it is looking for in a location.
Just outside Atlanta, the city of Stonecrest, Georgia, has taken the creativity challenge to heart. On Monday, the city council decided to de-annex 345 acres of land if they are chosen for the project site. This exceeds the 175 acres that Amazon requires, but for a good reason. In the motion, which passed with a 4-2 vote, council members will request that the Georgia General Assembly incorporate the section of land into a new city and name it Amazon.
"There are several major U.S. cities that want Amazon, but none has the branding opportunity we are now offering this visionary company," Stonecrest Mayor Jason Lary told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. "How could you not want your 21st-century headquarters to be located in a city named Amazon?"
In the bid, Stonecrest would be providing city services. However, the deal might hinge on whether MARTA, Atlanta's commuter bus and rail service, decides to expand out to Stonecrest. One of the requirements that Amazon requested was access to public transit. Stonecrest is currently just outside of MARTA's reach.
City officials are getting the final plans together and will be submitting the proposal to Amazon before its deadline of October 19.
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By CLIFF BRUNT - Oct. 22, 2021 03:16 AM EDT
Oklahoma coach Porter Moser speaks to the media during Big 12 NCAA college basketball media day Wednesday, Oct. 20, 2021, in Kansas City, Mo. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)
So much has changed with the Oklahoma program.
Porter Moser has come in from Loyola-Chicago to replace retired coach Lon Kruger. And last year's top three scorers have moved on. Austin Reaves is now with the Los Angeles Lakers. Brady Manek has transferred to North Carolina and De'Vion Harmon transferred to Oregon.
The Sooners brought in several transfers to make up for the talent lost from a squad that went 16-11 and reached the second round of the NCAA Tournament.
Moser said there's only one way to move forward.
"The only answer to that is time. It takes time," he said. "We were able to work with them in the summer, which is great, but limited hours. That's why you're going to continue to learn and come together once these games start. Once you go through adversity, celebrations -- you learn and you grow throughout that process."
Tanner Groves, a 6-9 forward, was the 2021 Big Sky Conference Player of the Year for Eastern Washington last year. He averaged 17.2 points and 8.0 rebounds while shooting 56.0% from the field as a junior last season.
"He's got an energy about him," Moser said. "He's one of our loudest guys in practice every day. He's communicating, he's talking. He's been a sponge to learn, watching tape, comes up, watches a ton of extra tape. He wants to be good."
His brother, Jacob Groves, is a 6-7 forward who averaged 9.3 points and 4.2 rebounds for Eastern Washington last season while shooting 55.2% from the field as a sophomore.
Another key newcomer is Jordan Goldwire, a graduate transfer from Duke. The member of the All-ACC defensive team averaged 5.8 points and 4.0 assists last season. His 2.25 steals per game last season rank ninth in Duke history, and he led the ACC in assist/turnover ratio.
"I think the guys respect where he's been," Moser said. "They're looking to him for leadership for where we're going. So am I."
Ethan Chargois, a 6-9 forward, is a super senior who transferred from SMU. He started 86 of his 108 career games for the Mustangs and averaged 9.5 points, 4.9 rebounds and 1.7 assists.
The top returning scorers are Umoja Gibson and Elijah Harkless. Gibson averaged 9.1 points last season and Harkless averaged 8.1.
The key will be putting it all together.
"For me, being the first year, there's a lot of unknowns," Moser said. "You think you know based on practice and what they're doing, but once the games get going, you really start learning a lot about your team."
SEC MOVE
Oklahoma plans to move to the Southeastern Conference in 2025, and the Sooners expect to hear about it when they visit Big 12 venues.
"You probably got to anticipate it," Moser said. "You just control what you can control. Even watching on TV, all those places are hostile anyways. It's not easy to go into any of these arenas anyways. If it's an additional, it is what it is. It's still going to be the same hard atmospheres to play and win in."
FOLLOWING A LEGEND
Kruger led the Sooners to a 195-128 record in 10 years and reached seven NCAA tournaments in his final eight seasons.
"It's an honor to follow a guy like that," Moser said. "Did an unbelievable job in the 10 years he was there, not only winning, but he did a phenomenal job in the community."
Moser had a sterling resume over the past four seasons at Loyola-Chicago, where he went 99-36 and saw his teams win three Missouri Valley Conference season titles, reach the Sweet 16 twice and go all the way to the Final Four in 2018.
COACHING TESTS
Moser mentioned facing great coaches as a draw to the job.
"Truly, it's an unbelievably coached league," he said. "This is my first year in it, but watching from the outside, knowing these guys, you can just watch on TV and see the success they've had, how hard every team defends."
FRESHMAN GUARDS
The Sooners have four freshman guards.
Alston Mason is from Blue Valley Northwest High School in Overland Park, Kansas. Bijan Cortes is from Kingfisher, Oklahoma. C.J. Noland is from Waxahachie, Texas. Jake Moser — coach Moser's son — helped Loyola (Ill.) Academy to a 30-4 record two seasons ago and a conference championship last season.
The Sooners open Nov. 9 vs. Northwestern State, then they will play in the Myrtle Beach Invitational Nov. 18-21. They will host Florida on Dec. 1 and Butler on Dec. 7, then will play No. 16 Arkansas on Dec. 11 in Tulsa.
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More AP college basketball: https://apnews.com/hub/college-basketball and https://twitter.com/AP_Top25.


Today we were to ride with Bike Break Girona, with Dave Walsh and whoever else rocked up. After the previous days effort I was probably better off either staying in bed or simply cruising around, which what the ride was meant to be. However as is with all group rides, the fresh people get carried away and the slower and less fresh of us get dropped.
I struggled up the first small hill. My leg muscles were still recovering and getting stronger. Apparently we were to cruise to a cafe and then decide if we wanted to go on.
I chatted to Neil Martin for a while in the bunch and then he and Dave decided to do a 9km climb. I was dropped pretty quickly and rode a slow steady pace to the top. Once there we turned around quickly and the boys descended like demons and one of them coming a cropper. Much sand and small stones on the corners.
Coffee at the cafe and chatting bikes was fun, and then the long slow grovel back to Girona. 90km 'rest' day.


We have issued a voluntary recall on the Ideal-Air 748 Five Ton Mega Split (Model# 700499, UPC 849969020663). If you believe you are in possession of this item, please access the CONTACT page on this website and give us your information. We will reach back out to you shortly to address this recall. Thank you.


The 1998 Hillside Rollers and SVG Broadcasting Corporation Catalans played to a two all draw in yesterday's opening match of the Hairoun Belfongo Football League at the Belair Playing Field.
Zeddy Millington scored both goals for 1998 Hillside Rollers.
The goals for SVG Broadcasting Corporation Catalans were scored by brothers Errol and Jabari Cunningham.
At four thirty this afternoon, Fresh will meet Conquering Lions also at the Belair Playing Field.
LLB Street Kickers are the duty team.


Is Customer Service Declining or is it Higher Expectations?
I read this post on Jonathan Farrington's blog entitled " Are Standards of Customer Service Declining Rapidly? I Think They Probably Are!" and I was in complete disagreement with it before reading the article.
After reading it over, I understood what he was meaning by the article that customer service is important and should be important to everyone at the team. I think it is now even further important when dealing with Customer 2.0. Customer 2.0 expectations and sense of entitlement is at an all-time high.
Think about your experiences dealing with customer service ten years ago. How did you reach them,? Typically, it was thru complaint to a phone line, a letter to the company, maybe e-mail or a BBB complaint. This usually involved you and the company having to work thru the issue. Normally, few besides the people that heard from you or saw the interaction recognized it happened. You would work thru the issue and few outside that group heard about it.
Now if you have an issue numerous ways exist to voice displeasure. Today, the original channels plus the internet and social networks such as Twitter, Facebook, Yelp, etc. as just few ways that people can reach out to businesses. The Internet is available on a large amount of people's phones making it easy for them to immediately send out a hostile tweet if you service isn't up to par. The amount of social sharing that goes on and the ability of the search engines to link these reviews to your product or service make it easy. It does not take long for a complaint to be seen by many more than just your small group. The past example of only a few people hearing about the issue is now a thing of the past.
Large Companies such as Comcast, who previously were notoriously poor in dealing with customers, have attempted to use these channels to quickly assist. However, how fast does a small mistake turn into something much larger when its seen by someone's 500 followers. Comcast and the Comcast Cares team attempt to really fix issues and I have used them with success on numerous occasions.
Small companies can set up alerts using social media tools to be aware of service issues and be able to follow-up timely with customers. These are moments that you can really shine and make your business look like a star. Following up to fix issues that customers have by monitoring these channels is the future.
The Bad exists only if you decide to not listen to this issues. Responding to customer reviews and complaints should be part of your internal processes. If you cannot handle you should look to outside companies that can assist you. Remember that not every customer can be won back but your response can win you other customers that saw you response.
Business that react in a terrible manner to reviews often don't suceed in lasting very long. They need to be aware of fixing the issue in the business and take the critisim in a constructive fashion. You dont want to end up sounding like this recent Local Chicago example, The Black Sheep Restaurant and James Toland.
Later this week, we will write about the importance of Reputation Management and how to respond to complaints that occur on social networks.


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which has the possibility of destroying civilization as we know it." Indeed, AIDS has taken hundreds of thousands of lives already, and infection rates are still on the rise.But we believe that AIDS demands special attention for a number of reasons.You may be wondering why we have chosen to focus on HIV/AIDS when so many diseases affect our community.In fact, most of the material in this packet can be applied to addressing other illnesses.
The enclosed material is intended to serve as an introduction to Jewish involvement in AIDS work.
It includes Jewish source material, programming ideas, and a list of resources.


Ever since development studies have been added as a separate subject in the academic curriculum, several studies and chapters have been written on it. Many noted authors and academicians have penned down some really good theses and papers on the subject. If you want to make your mark right up there, you will have to consider writing a really good paper on the subject. And for that you will have to start with a really good topic.
The relevance of topic is particularly significant n development studies since the scope of development studies is very large and you cannot hope to include everything in a single paper. That is why you will have to select a topic that is both objective and allows you to have a helicopter vision on the larger perspective as well.
Based on the topic you select, you can work on the outline and fix a trial for the rest of the dissertation as well.
How the village doctor is an important element of national healthcare?
A new world order or a new world disorder: which is more likely and why?
Foreign investment in the East: Is India beating China now?
Can rehabilitation based on community an effective approach?
How does society matter in land reform bills of governments?
Price subsidies: what should be the exact mode of setting the values?
Argentine segmentation of the labor market: what is the wage penalty for motherhood?


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I've attended HARD Summer festival in 2014 and 2016 and this year has to be my favorite hands down. Now that the festival is produced by Insomniac Events, the production and infrastructure compared to previous years was a huge improvement. Once again, HARD continued to bring top of the line headliners from rap to electronic music.
The heat was at an all time high this year however, attendees were greeted by plenty of shade structures, cooling fans, and 5,000 feet of misting lines inside "Shady Lane" – the pathway going across the Speedway that kept people under the shade and cool.
Compared to the last time I attended HARD, kandi, LED flow toys, totems were not allowed so it was a totally different feel and vibe this year with all those things present this time around. It definitely felt like more of a rave than a regular festival this year. It even had a couple attractions including a ferris wheel and bumper cars.
My favorite sets of Day 1 has to be Sullivan King, Fisher, and Zeds Dead b2b Jauz. All in all fans were pleased with all the sounds emitting from the five stages as you walked from one stage to the next. The Corona Electric Beach stage was also a personal favorite of mine. Great vibes all around while dancing in the sand.
Day 2 was another hot day. Fortunately, for those who had VIP this weekend they had a huge pool where people were able to dance and stay cool while listening to beats from the stage. From what I heard this year, VIP was totally worth it.
I stopped by to check out The Purple Tent and it was in full force with rap and hip-hop with a crossover of electronic music taking the stage as well.
The Pink Tent threw down and was popular this day with DIRTYBIRD artists taking the stage including Sacha Robotti, Will Clarke, and the debut of ESCAPADE (Walker & Royce and Ardalan).
I ended the night with Diplo b2b Dillon Francis and quickly walked over to the other side of the Speedway to catch the SoCal debut of Virtual Self. Both sets drew in large crowds and were a personal favorite of mine for the whole weekend.
HARD Summer 2018 consisted of top notch stage production, misting structures and "Shady Lane", free water refill stations, and more. The vibes, creativity in outfits and totems, and a little bit of PLUR made HARD a memorable event. Can't wait to see what HARD has in store for 2019!


Flashback Friday: When spanking meets the green-eyed monster | Spank Me Hard! ... Please?
This is a very powerful piece!
Thanks. This was the last story I wrote for over six years. Our poly life was just starting and for two years, kept me very busy. After that ended, didn't have the motivation to write.
I'm sorry to hear that! If it is not too impertinent of me for asking, what is your current relationship status?
Not impertinent at all. If you read my About Page, I state that I've been married for 30 years. I don't blog about personal details here, although an upcoming event may change that stance.


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Q: Reading in CSV columns as categorical variables using pandas Can pandas recognise which columns in the dataframe are categorical without us specifying the columns explicitly while reading a csv file.
Something similar to StringAsFactor in R.
I tried searching but what I get is either we creating the column as Categorical or specifying which column to consider as categorical while reading a file. I need pandas to identify.
Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks in advance !!

A: Yes. You can specify what columns are of categorical type when loading them using read_*. For example, consider a sample CSV -
Col
a
b
c
a
b
b
c

Now, read this in with read_csv, specifying a dtype argument -
df = pd.read_csv('file.csv', dtype={'Col' : 'category'})

df['Col']

0    a
1    b
2    c
3    a
4    b
5    b
6    c
Name: Col, dtype: category
Categories (3, object): [a, b, c]

If you have an unknown number of categorical columns, you can read them in and then convert them one by one -
df = pd.read_csv('file.csv')

for c in df.columns[df.dtypes == object]: # df.dtypes == 'object'
    df[c] = df[c].astype('category')


Our measuring guide below is how we measure our clothing for bottoms and tops. The best way to ensure the correct size is to measure one of your current pairs of bottoms/tops that fit you well, and compare to the sizing charts on each product page. If you have additional sizing questions, feel free to e-mail us or reach out to us on Instagram and we will help you out. Click on "Bottoms" or "Tops" to view our measuring guide for each article of clothing.
We provide most of the traditional measurements you typically see, but we include two thigh measurements-one measurement from the crotch seam and a second measurement from two inches down. We tend to find the majority of sizing issues-when the waist is sized correctly-arises from the thigh area being too tight. Using two measurements, we think you will have a better idea of how the pants will fit compared to your current best fitting pair.
Note: Unless you want a very skinny fit, we recommend the thigh measurement of the pants be at least 0.1" larger than the circumference of your actual thigh circumference.
To measure the waist, pull the denim tight at the waist band to align the front and rear as much as possible (the front waistband usually sags below the rear, as seen in the photo below; pull it tighter!). Place the measuring tape at one edge and measure to the opposite edge. Multiply this number by two.
To measure the front rise, place the measuring tape at the crotch seam and measure straight up towards the middle of the front waistband.
To measure the back rise, place the measuring tape at the crotch seam and measure straight up to the center of the back waistband. You may need to hold the back waistband and pull the crotch seam down and out to more easily measure from the crotch seam.
To measure the thigh (from the crotch), place the measuring tape at the crotch seam and measure directly across the leg such that the tape is perpendicular to the outseam.
To measure the thigh (2" down), first measure two inches down from the crotch and make note of this point.
Place the measuring tape at the point 2" down from the crotch and measure directly across the leg such that the tape is perpendicular to the outseam.
To measure the knee, first measure 13" down from the crotch and make note of this point.
Place the measuring tape at the point 13" down from the crotch and measure directly across the leg such that the tape is perpendicular to the outseam.
To measure the hem, place the measuring tape on one edge at the leg opening and measure across.
To measure the inseam, make sure the leg is pulled out straight and place the measuring tape at the croth and measure along the contour of the legs down to the opening.
Sizing for tops can vary widely between various brands and even within the same brand for different styles. We tend to find that the best fitting shirts are ones where the shoulder measurement is equal or slightly larger than your actual shoulder measurement. The second most important is usually the chest measurement. Based on these two measurements compared to your actual body measurement, as well as comparisons to your best fitting shirt, you should be able to identify your correct size.
To measure the chest, pull the shirt tight across the chest and measure from pit to pit. It may be helpful to raise the arms out of the way.
To measure the bottom (hem), pull the shirt tight across the bottom and measure from one bottom edge to the other.
To measure the shoulders, ensure the top section of the shirt is flat and pulled tight, and measure from one shoulder seam to the other.
To measure the sleeves, pull the arm straight out and measure from the shoulder seam down to the end of the cuff.
Ensure you measure from the shoulder seam.
The measure the [vertical] length of the shirt, lay the shirt flat on its front with the backside facing you. Measure from the center of the collar seam to the bottom of the shirt.
Ensure you measure from the collar seam.
We currently carry Viberg boots as our only footwear brand, with their 1035 Last as our primary last we offer. The 1035 Last is a tweener between Viberg's 2030 and 2040 lasts. It takes the sleekness of the 2030 and combines it with the additional room in the toe box of the 2040. The result is what we consider the perfect combination of looks and fit for many folks, especially those who just don't know that their toes appreciate the extra width. Vibergs generally run one size larger than your normal sneaker sizes and your Brannock size. As such, most people size down one from their Brannock, +/- 0.5 depending on your feet width, as well as the specific last of the boot.
General: Size down one from your Brannock if you are D width or smaller. However, if you are E width or larger, or prefer a roomier fit, size down 1/2 from your Brannock.
Additional Considerations: Take into account whether you would like to wear thinner socks, or prefer a slightly snug fit (then you may want to go with one size down rather than 1/2); versus, primarily wearing thicker socks or prefer slightly roomier fit (then go with 1/2 size down). From our experience, only about 15-20% of our customers go with 1/2 size down, versus a full size down, so it is not as common.
General: Similar advice as the 1035 Last Service Boot, however more folks may want to size down one from your Brannock, rather than just 1/2 (even if you size down 1/2 for the service boot).
Additional Considerations: The 145 Oxford may feel like they have a tad more room and heel slip as you don't have the shaft of the boot extending up and around your ankles to make your feet feel more secure. Additionally, given that it is an oxford, you may entertain the idea of wearing it with thin socks or no-show socks, which would benefit from a tighter fit. However, if you maintain wearing thick socks, size the same as the service boot. In almost all cases, we do not recommend sizing down 1.5 from Brannock.


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I won't bore you with some banal chat today. Not when I've belter pictures to be showing you from Foster The People's headline gig at the Olympia from this week.
As always, click to see them larger over at Flickr.
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State's Love:Live Music – Special Guest: Kyp Malone
I adore Tv on the Radio, (along with every other bearded music-lover) so it was nothing more than phenomenal that I got to witness this bearded crooner/guitarist live in the small setting on the Mercantile Bar. Stranded on the last night of the tour because of a volcano in Iceland, Kyp decided to tag along to State's first Love:Live Music session, which also played host to Take the Money and Run, The Cast of Cheers and headliners, Super Extra Bonus Party. (click here for full photo set)
But as fantastically impressive as they each were, Kyp was my highlight. Grumpy and alone, he twanged at his guitar, plecless through four numbers from his current side-project, Rain Machine. Opener 'Give Blood' was a durty groove, stripped of it's backing vocals, drum-beats and bassline, it was almost unrecognisable from the original. 'Smiling Black Faces' was also briefly aired and mumbled through and 'New Last Name' was probably the most true to the original. But to be honest he could have played 'Netti Fritti' on his own and I still would have lapped it up.
Christ, with a beard like that he could've just stood there. Isn't that right, y'happy bastard?
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Reflecting on my first year as Head of Cloudflare Asia
Aliza Knox
March 13, 2019 4:45PM
One year into my role as Head of Asia for Cloudflare, I wanted to reflect on what we've achieved, as well as where we are going next.
When I started, I spoke about growing our brand recognition in Asia and optimizing our reach to clients by building up teams and channel partners. I also mentioned a key reason behind my joining was Cloudflare's mission to help build a better Internet and focus on democratizing Internet tools that were once only available to large companies. I'm delighted to share that we've made great progress and are in a strong position to continue our rapid growth. It's been a wonderful year, and I'm thrilled that I joined the company.
There has been a lot going on in our business, as well as in the region. Let's start with Cloudflare Asia.
Cloudflare Asia
Our Singapore team has swelled from 40 people from 11 countries to almost 100 people from 19 nations. Our team is as diverse as our client base and keeps the office lively and innovative.
The Cloudflare Singapore Team
The number of Asian businesses choosing to work with us has more than doubled. You can check out what we've been doing with companies like Carousell, Vicroads, and 9GAG. Our relationships span all across the region, from India to Japan, from small business to large organizations, from startups to governments, and a wide variety of verticals from e-commerce to financial services.
To further expand our reach, we signed eight new partners representing seven markets and are in discussion with select others. We even held our first partner enablement bootcamp recently which was a big success.
Our First Partner Bootcamp in Asia
We moved into a larger and wonderful office in Singapore. Customers can come to Frasers Tower to see our Network Operations Center and stunning view of the city. We celebrated this new office and Asian Headquarters opening with two events where our co-founder and COO, Michelle Zatlyn presided. Dignitaries from the Singapore Economic Development Board, Singapore Cyber Security Association and the American Embassy cut the ribbon, and hundreds of customers, partners and friends joined us to kick off the Lunar New Year.
Celebrating our new office opening in Feb 2019
We have a wonderful community space that we are sharing for meet-ups. Developers, interest groups, and others from the community are welcome to use it. The first group to take advantage of this was IndoTech, a community of Indonesian professionals living in Singapore, who work in tech.
IndoTech meetup at the Cloudflare events space
Going Down Under
Asia is a large region and we are thrilled to expand to Australia. We have many local customers like AfterpayTouch, Fitness and Lifestyle Group, and the NIB group. We have run Worker focused meetups in Sydney and Melbourne as part of our Real World Serverless roadshow and shared what we learned about Noise on the Internet with 1.1.1.1 at AusNOG and NZNog. Today, we are announcing our expanded Australia presence. Incorporating into a new country is a big step and we've taken it. This is a good time to mention that we are hiring. If you want to join Cloudflare in Sydney, please get in touch.
Cloudflare has 165 data centers around the world. Since I've joined a year ago, we've added 46 cities globally, including 15 in APAC. We now have data centers in Pakistan and Vietnam. Around 20% of Cloudflare's globally distributed network is in Asia.
We've added a number of great products, which can be found on our blog. Some additions that are especially pertinent to the region include adding UDP capability to Spectrum. Gaming clients typically use custom protocols based on UDP, which legacy systems don't effectively protect. So our expansion of Spectrum has been eagerly received by the many mobile game developers across the region. Indeed, gamers have been using Spectrum even prior to this launch. One example is a mobile game producer where we protect their login/authentication servers that are TCP-based to mitigate DDoS attacks for the purpose of keeping their servers online for players to be able to log in and play.
The world is moving to serverless computing and Cloudflare is leading the way. Many of the companies in APAC are on the forefront of this trend and are leveraging Cloudflare to improve their infrastructure. One client is using Cloudflare Workers to speed up and improve capture rates of their analytics engine.
From a regional perspective, many countries in Asia are encouraging businesses to be digital-ready. Governments around the region are spearheading programs to help SMEs (small and medium-sized enterprises), corporations and government departments take advantage of technology and innovation to capture economic gains. For example, Singapore announced SMEsGoDigital as part of the 2017 budget and Thailand recently launched the Thailand 4.0 initiative.
In addition, one interesting aspect of the Asian market is that a higher percentage of companies are using multi-cloud architecture. Whether it's because these companies need to cover different countries where one of the large cloud providers (eg AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, Alicloud or IBM) is stronger than others, or because companies want to avoid "vendor lock-in", many companies end up using several cloud compute partners.
Needless to say, it has been an exciting year. I am proud of what we have accomplished and looking forward to what we have left to do.
Given all this opportunity for growth, our team in Singapore is hiring! We have roles in Systems Reliability Engineering, Network Engineering, Technical Support Engineering, Solutions Engineering, Customer Success Engineering, Recruiting, Account Executives, Business Development Representatives, Sales Operations, Business Operations, and beyond. Check out our careers page.
Life @ Cloudflare Careers APAC Asia Australia
There are over 50 languages spoken at Cloudflare, as we have natives from many countries on our team, with different backgrounds, religions, gender and cultures. And it is this diversity that makes us a great team....
Val Vesa
Life @ Cloudflare
A Letter from Matthew Prince and Michelle Zatlyn
Cloudflare launched on September 27, 2010. Many great startups pivot over time. We have not. We had a plan and have been purposeful in executing it since our earliest days. While we are still in its early innings, that plan remains clear: we are helping to build a better Internet....
Matthew Prince
, Michelle Zatlyn
When I Knew Cloudflare Was the Right Place For Me
Let's be honest, interviewing for a new job can be a long, difficult process. Not only is it emotionally draining to handle multiple rejections, slow responses, and prolonged processes, it can be physically exhausting to sit through hours of stale interviews....
Ellie Jamison
Life @ Cloudflare , Fun
Employee resource groups aren't the answer, but they're a first step
Diversity and inclusion is a process. To achieve diversity and inclusion, it's not enough to hire diverse candidates. Once hired, we must be welcomed by a safe and belonging culture, and our diverse perspectives must be honored by our coworkers....
Shanea Leven
Life @ Cloudflare , Afroflare , Diversity