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Carson, CA. – Legendary NFL coach Mike Martz seeks to defend his 2016 National Team title against former NFL player and coach Jim Zorn's American Team at StubHub Center on the campus of California State University Dominguez Hills Saturday, January 21st. Martz a seasoned coach in the NFL as an offensive coordinator and head coach of the Rams from 2000-2005, will lead Team National players and offer his wisdom from a successful career in organizations such as the Rams, Redskins, Detroit Lions, San Francisco 49ers and Chicago Bears.
Taking the reins of Team American is Jim Zorn who has played and coached in the NFL. Zorn brings experience from both on the field and the sideline. A second team All-Pro honor as quarterback of the Seattle Seahawks, the California native went on to serve as an assistant coach for the Seahawks before coaching the Redskins in 2008 and 2009. Zorn also coached with the Detroit Lions, Baltimore Ravens, Kansas City Chiefs, and in college at Boise State, Utah State and Minnesota.
Founded in 2012, the annual NFLPA Collegiate Bowl gives prospective players the best opportunity to showcase their talents to potential employers and fans. Nearly 200 scouts, player personnel staff, general managers and head coaches from all 32 NFL teams are expected be in attendance to watch live practices, conduct player interviews and review tape. Participants in the NFLPA Collegiate Bowl have the unique opportunity to network with and learn from current and former NFL players. These veterans provide players with first-hand insight on what it takes to win on and off the field. Since its inception, many players have gone on to begin careers in professional football, with notable Collegiate Bowl alumni including Seattle Seahawks quarterback Trevone Boykin (2016 alum), San Diego Chargers linebacker Jatavis Brown (2016), Kansas City Chiefs wide receiver Chris Conley (2015) and Oakland Raiders punter Marquette King (2012).
University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) will have two players represented in the game. Nate Iese TE and Eli Ankou DT will both play for Team National.
Team Nation and Team American will hold practices on Wednesday January 18th and Thursday January 19th at the StubHub Center in Carson, CA. The Jan. 21 game will be broadcast by Fox Sports on FS1 with kickoff slated for 1:15 p.m. PST/4:15 p.m. EST.
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Carrie Lorig is the author of The Pulp vs. The Throne (Artifice Books). Her chapbooks include The Book of Repulsive Women, which was selected by Lily Hoang for the Essay Press Chapbook Contest, Reading as Wildflower Activist (H_NGM_N), and NODS (Magic Helicopter Press). She is the curator for the Literature is Alive @ Emory reading series at Emory University.
Tom Savage is the author of eleven books of poetry including, most recently, Sonnets Mostly, 135 collaborations with Bill Kushner; Afghanistan: From Herat to Balkh and Back Again from Fly By Night Press, and Brainlifts from Strawgate Books. He has taught twice at the Poetry Project and given readings there and elsewhere for the past forty years.
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Ed Coletti is a poet, fiction writer, painter and former counselor. He has published several books of poetry and He is internet publisher of the popular "No Money In Poetry." More recent poetry collections have included When Hearts Outlive Minds, released during June 2011, Germs, Viruses, and Catechisms during December 2013 by Civil Defense Publications (San Francisco), and The Problem With Breathing from Edwin E. Smith Publications (Little Rock) in 2015.


Walsall police are appealing for help to trace a jogger who chased off a robber after he stole a phone from a teenage girl.
The robber followed the 15-year-old girl from the Butts area of the town to Hatherton Street at the back of the Civic Centre.
He tried to grab her phone from her pocket but the girl fought back and the pair became involved in a struggle.
The man managed to grab the phone and started to run off ? but a passing jogger saw what happened and gave chase.
He quickly caught up with the attacker in Whittimere Street and managed to retrieve the phone ? but the thief escaped.
The suspect is described as Asian, 5ft 7ins tall and of medium build. He was wearing a dark grey hooded top when the robbery happened at around 7.45am on Tuesday, December 3.
The offence was later reported to police but officers have so far been unable to track down the jogger.
He was white, had blond hair and was wearing a black t-shirt and black shorts.
Det Con Ross Somerfield, from Walsall CID , said: "This Good Samaritan was extremely brave to chase after the robber and get the phone back.
"We have been following a number of lines of enquiry but so far have been unable to identify the offender and we know that the jogger could have vital information.
"We would ask him to come forward and contact us as soon as he can to let us know exactly what happened.
"If you were in the area at the time or have any information that could help our investigation please contact us as soon as possible."
Anyone with information should contact Walsall CID on 101 or call the independent charity Crimestoppers, anonymously, on 0800 555 111.


The Beatles were an English rock band formed in Liverpool in 1960 and came to the U.S. for the first time this date in 1964. With members John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr, they became widely regarded as the foremost and most influential act of the rock era. Rooted in 1950s rock and roll, the Beatles later experimented with several musical styles, ranging from pop ballads and Indian music to psychedelia and hard rock, often incorporating classical elements and unconventional recording techniques in innovative ways. In the early 60s, their enormous popularity first emerged as "Beatlemania," but they came to be perceived as an embodiment of the ideals shared by the counterculture of the 60s.
Manager Brian Epstein molded the Beatles into a professional act and producer George Martin guided and developed their recordings, greatly expanding their popularity. They acquired the nickname "the Fab Four" as Beatlemania grew and by early 1964 became international stars, leading the "British Invasion" of the US pop market. From 1965 onward, the Beatles produced increasingly innovative recordings, including Revolver, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, and Abbey Road.
After their break-up in 1970, they each enjoyed successful musical careers of varying lengths. McCartney and Starr, the surviving members, remain musically active. Lennon was shot and killed in December, 1980 and Harrison died of lung cancer in November, 2001.


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Helen E. Hoffman
September 18, 1925 - April 9, 2020
Helen Hoffman Age 94, of Blawnox, passed away on Thursday, April 9, 2020. Beloved wife, married on V-E Day 1945 and together for 61 years, of the late H. Joseph Hoffman; mother of Linda Backhaus (Ralph), Joseph Hoffman (Barbara) and Kathleen Mullen; grandmother of Matthew Backhaus (Kimberly), Gwen Kilic, Christopher Hoffman (Anna), Emily Mullen and Andrea Calka (Robert); great-grandmother of Tylan Kilic, Evren Kilic, Andrew Backhaus, Joseph Backhaus, Alexandra Hoffman, Mason Calka, Brynlee Calka and Cassius Fyke; sister of the late Sarah Harris, Ruth Filmore, Magdalene Beam and John Eck; and daughter of the late Magdalene Eck Gray, Raymond Eck and Arthur Gray (step-father). Helen was Assistant Director of Food Services at Fox Chapel High School for many years. She was a life-long active member of St. Edward Roman Catholic Church. Helen resided at Hampton Fields Village for 12 years where she participated in playing cards and board games and called bingo several times per week. She was a friend to all who lived there. A funeral mass and celebration of Helen's life will be held at a future date. In lieu of flowers Helen's family suggests donations be made to, Vincentian Charitable Foundation: Attn Joyce Andrews, 8250 Babcock Blvd., Pittsburgh, PA 15237. Special thanks to Hampton Fields Village, Cumberland Crossing Manor and Vincentian Home who provided Helen a caring environment while a resident.
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January 11, 2020. Each year, Cloudtango honors MSPs who are leading the sector by offering premium IT and Cloud services that will help their customers drive innovation. Now in its sixth year, the Cloudtango awards serve as an important industry reference by providing a fully-independent ranking of the top performing Managed Service Providers across the globe. For the 2020 MSP awards, the entire selection process has been redesigned in order to better spotlight those MSPs who excel over several critical areas, such as support services, customer satisfaction, market growth, certifications, and innovation. As part of the new selection process, a brand-new index has been developed in order to set the highest inclusion criteria, accounting for up to 12 different performance indicators.
After completing a comprehensive screening process among thousands of MSPs, Key Information Systems Inc. was pre-selected and ultimately named to Cloudtango's MSP100 US list for 2020. Their track record of successfully delivering premium IT services, and their willingness to put service at the heart of their offerings, helped Key Information Systems Inc. to stand out from the crowd and become one of the winners of this year's award.
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Q: Rails Temporarily Create Record (Hold for a reservation app) I am writing a reservation API and I want to create temporary holds on assets while a user goes through the booking app.  So basically, I need a way to create temporary records in my DB that expire after a certain time period has passed.  Any ideas on how I should do that?

A: class Reservation < ActiveRecord::Base
  def reservation_has_ended
    Time.now > reservation_datetime
  end
  # or...
  def reservation_is_open
    Time.now < reservation_datetime
  end
  # similarly...
  scope is_open where(Time.now > reservation_datetime)
  scope has_ended where(Time.now < reservation_datetime)
  # ... but remember scopes are going away in rails 4.1...
end

I would then have a cron job that, say hour or daily,
cleans up all records > 1 hour (or other period) old.
You could also make it a manual job, trigger from a view link with an update action in the controller and model, say,
# Reservation View
<%= link_to("Purge records", Reservation.purge) %>

# Reservation Controller
def remove_old_reservations
  Reservation.remove_old_reservations
end

# Reservation Model:
def remove_old_reservations
  self.delete_all.where((Time.now - 1.hour) > reservation_datetime)
end

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Pridvorci (en serbe cyrillique : ) est un village de Bosnie-Herzégovine. Il est situé sur le territoire de la Ville de Trebinje et dans la République serbe de Bosnie. Selon les premiers résultats du recensement bosnien de 2013, il compte 745 habitants.

Géographie
Le village est situé au sud-ouest de Trebinje, au bord de la Trebišnjica, un cours d'eau qui débouche pour une part dans la mer Adriatique et se jette pour une autre part dans la Neretva.

Le village est entouré par les localités suivantes :

Histoire

Sur le territoire du village, deux sites sont inscrits sur la liste provisoire des monuments nationaux de Bosnie-Herzégovine : des vestiges de fortifications préhistoriques avec des tumuli et l'église Saint-Constantin-et-Sainte-Hélène.

Démographie

Évolution historique de la population dans la localité

Répartition de la population par nationalités (1991)

Communauté locale
En 1991, la communauté locale de Pridvorci comptait 540 habitants, répartis de la manière suivante :

Notes et références

Voir aussi

Articles connexes
 Villes de Bosnie-Herzégovine
 Municipalités de Bosnie-Herzégovine
 Monuments nationaux de Trebinje
 Monument national (Bosnie-Herzégovine)

Liens externes

Localité de Trebinje

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Category: FAMILY MOVIES Genre: DRAMA Audience: TWEENS
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Children's Programing7 Family Movie Night61
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Belle (Vivien Cardone), an animal loving 12-year-old, becomes sullen and withdrawn after her mother's death in an automobile accident. Rebelling against her father (Jason London), she is sent to live at the horse farm of her gruff maternal grandfather (Peter Coyote). With the help of the animals, Belle's work on the farm transforms the entire family. Life and death take on new meaning as the family makes some tough choices involving compassion, trust, and letting go of the past in order to find hope in the future.
Amazing Racer
The death of a teenager's father leaves her orphaned until she discovers the mother she never knew. When she travels to meet her, she befriends a horse trainer. Together they win races and form new bonds that lead her back to happiness.
Angel Dog
Angel Dog is an uplifting drama with sorrow, sincerity, hope, and humor...a journey of recovery for Jake Bryant, a man who has to learn to love, how to smile, how to live again after he loses everything that matters to him. His inspiration to get off the sofa and go on living comes from somewhere Jake never would have expected a lovable stray named Cooper.
Angel in the House
After a toy factory owner and his wife get an unexpected visit from a precocious 7-year-old boy, their world will be turned upside-down! Deciding to take him in as a foster child, they begin a miraculous adventure that showcases the joy of family.
Appalachian Trial
Disobedience turns a pleasant hike into an ordeal. A pleasant hike turns into an ordeal when Jeremy Crandall tempts his brother Brendan, along with Kayla and Zack Hart, to disobey their parents and go past the end of the marked trail. When the kids try to retrace their steps, tempers flare and hardships reveal important needs in both Kayla's and Jeremy's lives. As the dads look for the children, Mr. Crandall gains a new understanding of what it means to walk by faith. Join the Hart and Crandall families as they experience an Appalachian Trial.
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A pleasant hike turns into an ordeal when Jeremy Crandall tempts his brother Brendan, along with Kayla and Zack Hart, to disobey their parents and go past the end of the marked trail. When the kids try to retrace their steps, tempers flare and hardships reveal important needs in both lives.
Lost in the wilderness, 11-year-old Emily (Kaitlyn Burke) is reunited with the orphaned bear her family raised before releasing her back into the wild. Michael Ontkeen, Alan Thicke, and Helen Shaver costar.
Christmas Angel
Ashley takes a job as an assistant to Nick, a sort of "Secret Santa" who helps others anonymously, and agrees to keep it a secret. But then she meets Will, a magazine writer who uncovers what she is doing. As Ashley and Nick help people in need, Ashley tries to protect Nick's secret, and her own heart. This Dove-approved holiday film is sure to be a Christmas classic cherished for generations. Starring Bruce Davison, KC Clyde, and Kari Hawker. Widescreen.
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This Christmas, Olivia Mead has one wish: that her single mom would find someone that she can call "Dad". She and her classmates soon discover that the answer to all their wishes lies inside a mysterious abandoned house. Within the house they discover Elsie Waybright, the Christmas Angel. Elsie tries to teach Olivia that some requests must be left to God. As Christmas day approaches, Olivia receives an unwelcomed answer, the suspicious Dr. Nathan Davis. This Christmas, will Elsie be able to teach Olivia and her friends to trust in God? Starring Teri Polo, Della Reese, and Kevin Sorbo.
Christmas Blessing
The sequel to hit TV movie and DVD The Christmas Shoes, based on the New York Times best-selling book by Donna VanLiere and Christian album by NewSong.
Christmas For a Dollar
America is in the midst of the Great Depression, and the Kamp family is struggling to get by. The older children do their best to take care of the family, but it's the younger children who struggle most. Now, the Kamp siblings fully expect a Christmas without presents. But when William scrapes together a dollar in coins to use for Christmas gifts, everything begins to change.
When lives intertwine during Christmas, hope is the only unifying gift. Family comes in many forms. It's through the love of one little girl that the lives of many are brought together during what turns out to be a most joyful time of the year.
Christmas Oranges
Christmas is a time of miracles. Share a slice of Christmas sweetened with friendship in this poignant Christmas story based on a classic holiday tale.
Christmas Shoes
In this heartwarming drama, a workaholic attorney (Rob Lowe) crosses paths with a young boy on Christmas Eve and rediscovers the true meaning of love, life and the holiday season.
Christmas Story Lady
Grace McQueen (Jessica Tandy) has a gift for storytelling that brings a troubled family together during Christmastime and envelops them in a world of imagination. When Grace is offered her own TV show she must decide between becoming a celebrity or staying true to herself. The Christmas Story Lady is a heart-warming tale about the importance of being true to yourself and spending time with your family much in the spirit of the classic film Miracle on 34th Street.
Christmas with a Capital C
Dan Reed (Ted McGinley), mayor of Trapper Falls, Alaska, looks forward to Christmas each year with enthusiasm for all the events, friends, and family that fill the special season. Together with his brother Greg (Brad Stine) they dedicate time away from their adventure tour company to drape the town in Christmas cheer. When Dan's old high school rival Mitch Bright (Daniel Baldwin) returns home after 20 years, Dan is immediately suspicious. Mitch is a highly successful big city lawyer who has never wanted anything to do with Trapper Falls or its people, so why now?
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Daniel Boone is one of the most heroic figures in early American history. Staying faithful to the character and the times, this 1936 production from Radio Pictures stars George O'Brien in the title role. He leads thirty settlers and their families from North Carolina to Kentucky where they face menacing Indians and renegade whites.
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Follow Daniel Boone as he leads thirty settlers and their families from North Carolina to Kentucky where they face menacing Indians and renegade bandits. This 1936 production stars George O'Brien as Daniel Boone.
When high school history teacher Grace Wesley (Melissa Joan Hart) is asked a question about Jesus in class, her reasoned response lands her in deep trouble. The ensuing epic court case could expel God from the classroom—and the public square—once and for all! GOD'S NOT DEAD 2 is a powerful call to action: Where will you stand?
The made-for-television version of Johanna Spyri's family classic. Heidi (Jennifer Edwards), a young orphan girl, is sent to live with her grandfather (Michael Redgrave) in the beautiful Swiss Alps. The gruff and bitter old man views Heidi at first as an ill-mannered child and an unwanted responsibility, but he soon becomes quite attached to her.
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The made-for-television version of Johanna Spyri's family classic Heidi (Jennifer Edwards), a young orphan girl, is sent to live with her grandfather (Michael Redgrave) in the beautiful Swiss Alps. The gruff and bitter old man views Heidi at first as an ill-mannered child and an unwanted responsibility, but he soon becomes quite attached to her.
Hoovey
HOOVEY is the true and inspiring story of the Elliott family, who refused to surrender, instead turning to one another and their faith in the worst of circumstances, to rebuild their lives, their boy, and their dreams... together. Step by grueling step, with faith, love, and the tireless work of a mother and father to save their family, their farm, their dream, Hoovey learns to walk again. To read again. To dribble and shoot a basketball again. And yes, to dream again himself.
Huckleberry Finn / The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
This 4-movie pack includes these classic films: Huckleberry Finn, Lassie: The Painted Hills, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, and Where the Red Fern Grows.
Jacob's Ladder - Set Of Six
Running Time: 6 hrs. 30 mins.
The entire set of the exciting Jacob's Ladder series: Jacob's Ladder: Episodes 1 - 2: Gideon Jacob's Ladder: Episodes 3 - 4: Naomi, Ruth And Boaz Jacob's Ladder: Episodes 5 - 7: Samuel Jacob's Ladder: Episodes 8 And 9: Saul Jacob's Ladder: Episodes 10 And 11: Saul And David - Jacob's Ladder: Episodes 12 And 13: David


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No Safe Harbour for data in European eyes
The European Court of Justice ruled this week that the Safe Harbour agreement, in place since 2000, is now invalid. This story was originally covered in our blog in March 2015.
This is likely to create a sea change in where and how organisations hold their data. With clear guidance yet to follow in what could be a confused few months of local and conflicting regulation, there may yet be a scramble to create urgent interim measures both within Europe and US businesses (of which about 5,000 US businesses make use of the arrangement), relying on Safe Harbour for the freeflow of information between the territories.
Designed to be a "streamlined and cost effective" way for US firms to get data from Europe without breaking the rules, the Safe Harbour agreement allowed US firms to collect data on their European users and store them in US data centres as long as certain principles around storage and security were upheld (eg. Giving notice to users and advising them on how the data can be accessed and by whom). With the security agencies exerting surveillance pressure revealed in the Snowden leaks, the safeguards were viewed as not being carried out.
It is not just about Facebook (who through a lawsuit brought a privacy campaigner Max Schrrems challenged their use of private data), though the news will have a big impact for the tech giants such as Facebook, Google and Twitter who may have to build new data centres in Europe to counter this decision. It reflects the differences between the two cultures: in the EU, data privacy is treated as a fundamental right, whilst in the US, other concerns which might conflict are sometimes given priority.
The patchy interim to authorise the "export" of the data will require for the two bodies involved to draw up new "model contract clauses" setting out the US organisation's privacy obligations.
For Data Controllers, this will be something of an administrative nightmare and will likely push up costs and cause delays. Managed Service Providers had better be thinking about their customer's data with a sharper eye this week.
Author Lindsay BurdenPosted on October 9, 2015 Categories IT Business News, MSP, SecurityTags data privacy, data protection, EU data laws, European Court of Justice, Safe Harbour Agreement, US privacy lawLeave a comment on No Safe Harbour for data in European eyes
IBM and Apple monitor our health
We first reported IBM and Apple's JV partnership in our blog of 18th July 2014 with AppleCare for enterprises.
The boom in fitness trackers and health apps has prompted the tech giants to make commercial inroads on the opportunities arising from analytic technologies. IBM has set up a new health unit to create "a secure, cloud-based data sharing hub" as part of their "employee health and wellness management solutions" with the aim that it will provide diagnoses or health alerts for GPs, carers and insurers in future, with the user's permission.
IBM aspires to offer greater individual insights into people's health and to advance this strategy, has bought Explorys (which owns one of the largest healthcare databases in the world) and healthcare specialist Phytel (which works with digital medical record systems to reduce hospital readmissions and automate communications). Added to this, Apple iPhones provide ResearchKit, free software for gathering health data, which Apple states has already been used to develop apps to study asthma, breast cancer, cardiovascular disease, diabetes and Parkinson's disease.
US consumer technology and wearables supplier Jawbone is trying to engage businesses with its fitness trackers as a way to monitor the health of a company's workforce. How does this leave the end user/employee? For a start, if a company sought to monitor the health of an employee, consent has to be given freely, with the ability to withdraw that consent at any time.
Insurers are also keen to get in on the act, with companies like UK's Vitality offering rewards to policy holders for undergoing certain activities whilst wearing their devices. Are we reaching the point though where data analytics lead ultimately to cover being withheld, other than premiums going up or down.
The latest UK Government stats show that 61.9% of adults and 28% of children aged between 2 and 15 are overweight with a higher risk of developing Type 2 diabetes, heart disease and certain cancers. The cost of health problems associated with being overweight and obese is estimated to cost the NHS more than £5billion every year.
For GPs, gathering data which gives a broader and more accurate picture of exercise undertaken and calories consumed, could alter health directives on the amount of sleep we need, or which exercises are most effective.
Gazing into the NHS' future, a carrot and stick approach accompanied by bold education messaging for health reform of UK citizens may be the tough approach needed by the next Government. However, to succeed, with an NHS in crisis on funding and struggling to hold onto its GPs through which the future frontline is directed, many parts of its processes and systems will have to go digital. This comes back to having data shared securely with privacy maintained and strict governance on who it is share by – and that is a big promise to keep.
Author amicusitsPosted on April 17, 2015 Categories MobilityTags Apple, Applecare, data privacy, digital healthcare, Explorys, ibm, Jawbone, NHS, PhytelLeave a comment on IBM and Apple monitor our health
This week's technology news – 27th March 2015
Are you really YOU online?
Cifas have published Fraudscape, their annual survey of 277,000 fraud cases from 245 members spanning a range of UK sectors. With cyber security issues topping the chart of risks for business in 2014/15, ID fraud is becoming the largest emerging threat as cyber criminals turn their attention to using other people's identifies or creating new false identities, as increased vigilance by business and consumers has begun a decline in accounts being hacked or taken over. It is estimated that there are 758 frauds occurring every day at a rate of 31 per hour in the UK (Cifas members alone) and the Department of Health estimates there were an eye watering 30 million cases of prescription fraud in 2014.
The survey findings report:
• 41% of all frauds recorded in 2014 involved criminal abuse of personal data or ID details to impersonate someone or create fictitious ID to steal money.
• 113,839 cases of ID fraud were recorded in 2014, up by 5% on 2013.
• Average victim's age was 46
• Men are twice as likely as women to have their ID stolen.
• Emerging trend for young adults (21-30) being targeted (up 51% since 2011 to 14,850), reflecting this group's increased use of financial products.
• The 55+ age group has witnessed a 15% rise in ID fraud victims from 2013 reaching 25,346 in 2014.
Read the full survey at: https://www.cifas.org.uk/fraudscape_latest
Cifas CEO Simon Dukes described ID fraud as being on an industrial scale, "The frauds we are recording point to increasingly sophisticated, predatory and organised criminals". Cifas acknowledge that the stats may be the tip of the iceberg as this is only what has been reported by their members and is on public record.
The true extent is expected to be far greater, as the UK stats which create the starting point for data gathering, are understandably challenging and much goes unreported. The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills figures records the following baselines:
• There were 5.2 million private sector businesses in the UK at the start of 2014.
• 180,000 charities (England and Wales)
• 560 central government bodies
• 400 local authorities
• 150 NHS Trusts
Then there are the individuals who have suffered fraud. Collating reports therefore from across 5.4 million organisations and identifying how many out of 60 million people have suffered fraud requires some degree of estimation (and the figures do not include SMEs in the private sector which according to the Federation for Small Businesses accounts for over 99% of all private sector business in the UK and almost 50% of private sector employment).
But the warning bells are there for us all. The last recorded stats from the now disbanded National Fraud Authority (NFA) put the cost of fraud to the UK economy at £15.5 billion in 2013. The Cifas fraud cases route to the City of London Police. But few of Cifas' members know the point at which an ID has been compromised which would help target prevention efforts.
WHAT TO DO? Any organisation which has not taken steps to increase resilience by improving its firewalls, beefing up id authentication, encyption and having sound antivirus and malware software in place could be placing it and its customers at unnecessary risk. Reporting ID fraud and data breaches as standard has the potential to strengthen national security learning if government and industry can work closer together. Added to this, education and awareness training amongst employees and consumers is a must as we find ourselves in an ever more cynical world surrounded by criminal intent.
Threat to Safe Harbour Agreement in Euro court
Europe's highest court, the European Court of Justice's (ECJ) will shortly be reviewing how European's data is shared with US companies in a landmark case which questions the effectiveness of the US Safe Harbour Agreement.
Brought by activist Max Schrems off the back of Edward Snowden's whistleblowing, the lawyer's complaint is that companies such as Facebook (by being complicit in Prism, an NSA surveillance system), are ignoring privacy practices and that the Safe Harbour Agreement should be scrapped in favour of local regulators acting to protect European's data.
The Safe Harbour agreement (in place since 2000), allows US firms to collect data on their European users and store them in US data centres as long as certain principles around storage and security are upheld (eg. Giving notice to users and advising them on how the data can be accessed and by whom).
UK data regulator Ofcom are reported to have said at the hearing that scrapping Safe Harbour would "risk disrupting trade that carries significant benefit for the EU and its citizens".
If upheld, the decision would have severe repercussions for any US firm dealing with Europeans' data, including giants such as Twitter, Google, Microsoft and Yahoo. Twitter commented they would be forced to build datacentres in Europe to hold separated info. Facebook has not responded formally, although the BBC has quoted that the social media behemoth would welcome an update of the Safe Harbour rules post Snowden.
For UK organisations where the issue of sovereignty is important, let alone the level of data protection required, the issue is likely to drive them to seek to preserve and protect their customers data by having it only reside in various UK datacentres to avoid the risk of losing control of the data at any time and having to deal with local regulators and data laws.
Microsoft's future career as a carrier
Microsoft has been delivering text, voice and video services for many years to both consumers and businesses across phones, tablets and PCs. Their current offerings are Skype and Lync, with the latter soon to be rebranded Skype for Business. Currently over 100 million people now use Lync to communicate at work. This week Microsoft announced that Skype for Business would include an enterprise-grade PSTN connection to Office 365 Skype for Business.
Microsoft's strategic partners (including AT&T, BT, Colt, Equinix, Level 3 Communications, Orange Business Services, TAT Communications, Telstra, Verizon and Vodafone) will be working together with Microsoft to deliver secure and direct connections to Office 365 Skype for Business customers through Azure ExpressRoute for Office 365. Azure ExpressRoute leverages partners' networks to provide a private, dedicated and high bandwidth connection that bypasses the internet – essentially making Office 365 an extension of your on-premise environment whether you're on site or not.
Skype for Business can handle all an organisations' communications and with Azure ExpressRoute and their partners providing a direct connection rivalling traditional communication companies, Microsoft is essentially placing themselves into the carrier business.
This will offer businesses a one-stop-shop for a secure communication package, which is where Microsoft is aiming this offering – for now. In principle this technology could be used on a commercial device. The user, instead of buying a phone, minutes and texts from a high-street carrier, could order a Windows 10 phone with a subscription to Office 365 that includes minutes and texts through Skype direct from Microsoft.
Whether Microsoft does or doesn't tie these devices and services together in such an offering, its potential does highlight the importance of Microsoft's strategic partnerships which benefits all – not just Microsoft going forward.
Troublesome domains
When browsing the internet – or even securing your own website, you will likely only worry about a few TLDs (top level domains), with the most common being .com, .net and .org. In recent years there has been an explosion of new TLDs with the number now available rising to over 650.
One of the most recent TLD's ".sucks" has been stirring up trouble. It's easy to see how this new domain could be a serious nuisance as all it takes is for someone to take your company's name and register the new ".sucks" domain and they have the perfect, virtual home in an ideal location to poke mischief and maliciousness at your brand, with the potential of you losing big business.
The initial answer for most will be simple; to buy the domain before anyone else can and cause trouble, but this is where it gets ugly. The group who purchased the rights to sell ".sucks" called Momentous is charging astronomical fees of $2,500 for ".sucks" domains. To major organisation, this could be small change and amount to no more than regular IT admin housekeeping, however for SMEs or professional individuals, the cost is extortionate – and every business will need to calculate the risk of a 3rd party taking over this domain and the potential cost of damages to its brand in doing so.
ICANN, the international body that supervisors all things internet, including the creation and approval of new TLDs clearly decided that ".sucks" was fit for purpose. Whether ICANN is fit for purpose itself in thinking that such a domain name could be positive in any way for business is risible.
Organisations are now left with a wholly unnecessary headache and unwanted financial outlay if they are to insure against potential negative outcomes. Hopefully a sharp backlash from disapproving businesses will make ICANN recognise their folly – and in future only permit the release of sensible domain names that add value to the internet.
Author amicusitsPosted on March 27, 2015 April 10, 2015 Categories MSP weekly newsTags Cifas, data privacy, Edward Snowden, European Court of Justice, Facebook, google, ICANN, ID fraud, Max Schrems, microsoft, Ofcom, prism, Safe Harbour Agreement, twitter, YahooLeave a comment on This week's technology news – 27th March 2015
This weeks cyber security news – Friday 16th January 2015
Three different tales of terrorism mark the end of 2014 and the start of 2015 and make cyber security the hot topic for 2015:
Picture this – don't let it happen to you
In December 2014 we witnessed the fallout from the attacks on Sony Pictures which destroyed data and hardware and proved very costly with the leak of a slate of films due for release. Whether or not North Korea were behind it, the events and initial capitulation by the studio damaged the studio's brand inexorably. Cyber attacks are highly challenging and pose a serious threat to a company's economic stability and security, as well as wider reputations.
Exploited by foreign governments, hackers, criminals and the disaffected who all probe computer networks daily, this New Year marks a timely opportunity for organisations to prevent their own "Sony situation", by assessing and identifying any potential infrastructure weaknesses, updating processes, staff education and awareness – and implementing new, tighter measures and governance procedures to assure customers.
Securing communications data – an acceptable price for us Charlies?
On Friday 9th January 2015 two tragic terrorist attacks concluded in Paris, with the perpetrators treated as criminals and shot.
Incidents like this are frightening and a prompt for sombre reflection. Behind the Paris attacks is the multifarious use of the internet, social media, email, telephone and mobile communications connecting individuals and groups, to inform global audiences on extreme topics and ideologies. This has accelerated so fast in the last 15 years, that it makes control of such communications and intelligence gathering, challenging but highly essential if nations are to have any chance of preventing the next atrocity.
Both the UK and the US are responding by seeking to toughen up their legislative processes to track communications. In the UK, the Government wishes to collect data in bulk from all sources including social media, irrespective of citizen (from child to grandparent). This effort they believe, by intercepting communications would help identify new perpetrators and build up a body of evidence to be used in court.
Defenders of civil liberties with privacy concerns are correctly identifying the wider impact this would have on individuals and companies. However, when set against the motive of defending the public and infrastructures to keep the lights on, it is an increasingly hard position to argue against. Only time will tell, but it will be interesting to see if a bi-product becomes the further movement of information to sovereign controlled data centres to ensure improved access and regulation.
Cyber threats – an urgent and growing danger
Finally, Tuesday 13th January 2015, saw a CyberCaliphate attack breaching US Central Command's Twitter feed Centcom and YouTube feed. With several thousand social media accounts, social media is seen as a fast and effective way for the US military to communicate globally with its staff and families – on anything from on-base events to power outtages. The 'cyber vandalism' as it is being described, only showed information widely available online – there was not believed to be any theft or disclosure of classified information.
The timing was embarrassing though and created a PR disaster for the President, given that he was outlining plans to strengthen cyber security when it happened. This was unlike the 2008 foreign intelligence breach via malware into the Pentagon mainframe computer system. This latest public hack is believed to have been caused by password disclosure (inadvertently or not) from an individual. US officials have duly updated passwords and issued tip sheets to staff to bolster online security advice and are reviewing processes. In social media, both Twitter and Google now recommend two-factor authentication, so anyone logging on to the account from a new computer has to enter a code sent to their mobile phone.
Whilst the Centcom attack did not have the impact that the perpetrators hoped for, lessons are there and must be learned and applied by all organisations using the internet. Financial systems, powergrids, pipelines, healthcare systems and wholescale society infrastructures run on networks connected to the internet. Safeguarding these are the crux to public safety and public health.
As we go to press today, David Cameron on a visit to Washington confirmed that MI5 and the FBI will be playing cyber wargames targeting the Bank of England, commercial banks, the City of London and Wall Street and be followed by "further exercises to test critical national infrastructure".
As a healthcheck, businesses and organisations should do the following:
ensure good password hygiene is maintained
review and update processes regularly
ensure internet security is up to date
limit the number of administrators who can access accounts
ensure accounts are regularly monitored
In this case, a sense of proportion needs to be maintained. Yes, it was embarrassing, but nobody died.
Author amicusitsPosted on January 16, 2015 Categories SecurityTags Centcom, civil liberties, communications tracking, Cyber Security, cyber vandalism, cyber wargames, cyber-attack, CyberCaliphate, data privacy, extremism, intelligence gathering, password disclosure, Sony Pictures Entertainment, two factor authentication, US Central CommandLeave a comment on This weeks cyber security news – Friday 16th January 2015
The Week's Technology News – 28th November 2014
Coldfinger not goldfinger, as smartphone biometrics not a panacea
Former GCHQ boss, Sir John Adye, has just given evidence about his concerns regarding the unsupervised use of biometrics on smartphones to an audience of British MPs in the Commons Science and Technology Committee.
Adoption of fingerprint technology has taken off most notably with smartphone giant Apple's iPhone6 and users can now make payments and access services using a fingerprint. However, as the GCHQ security expert who runs his own biometrics company commented: "I don't know what happens to my personal data when I use it on a smartphone… there's no physical supervision of the system (unlike an ATM which a bank oversees)". "You need to design security methods… which are going to be strong to protect the interests of the individual who is using the phone and the relying party at the other end… the bank or whoever it is, who is providing a service to them." Apple says it uses the most technologically advanced fingerprint security and puts security and privacy at the core of the "Apple Pay" system. But Adye also wants more transparency in the way personal information is passed to third parties. He does not believe users fully read through the notices in the tick box procedures layering complacency, when in the background, the criminal community get ever more clever about seeking ways in.
Another biometrics engineer presenting to the Committee, Ben Fairhead, advised there were various anti-spoofing and other methods to work out whether the finger was real, but acknowledged spurious results got thrown up if for example blood flow to the finger was low, which would reject the verification. In a twist to the old tales of criminals smuggling a file into prison now we have criminals adding iron filings to fake fingers to mirror the conductivity of human skin. From the Government's point of view there will come increasing pressure to demonstrate they have weighed up the increased approval of biometrics in border controls and public services with sufficient measures to safeguard against the risks and possible flaws.
With the 'right to be forgotten' now in situ, the European Commission has finally published guidelines to tell search providers how to handle individuals take down requests (first discussed in our blog of 16 May 2014).
Mostly requests synch with what Google has already been doing – and the balance is successfully struck between an individual's search for privacy against the public's rights to know something. One area that has created consternation though in the EU is Google's tendency to warn both users and site operators when it takes a notice down. This lacks legal basis according to the Commission, when they could be contravening data protection laws.
This was recently experienced by US singer Barbara Streisand, who sought to have some online information taken down, but the ensuing actions actually drew attention to the very issue she was trying to keep secret.
The Commission also wants a level playing field so it applies to all web domains, not just removing them on country centric ones (ie. '.co.uk' or '.fr') and leaving uncensored results on a '.com' page. This comes at a time when Microsoft's 'Forget.me' has just started reviewing requests through its Bing search engine and using the EU advice as a template, but it remains to be seen if the guidelines can please both sides AND the regulators.
Author amicusitsPosted on December 1, 2014 December 22, 2014 Categories MSP weekly newsTags 'right to be forgotten', Apple Pay, Barbara Streisand, Ben Fairhead, biometrics, Commons Science & Technology Committee, data privacy, data protection laws, European Commission, fingerprint technology, Forget Me, GCHQ, google, iPhone6, Sir John Adye, smart phonesLeave a comment on The Week's Technology News – 28th November 2014
This Week's Technology News – 24h November 2014
3D Printing – refreshing the parts other printers cannot reach
The 3D printing sector has seen interesting advances over 2014 with this growing technology in use on earth and in space. The International Space Station (ISS) has installed its first 3D printer. Before the installation, start up company Made in Space tested the printer in zero-gravity on an airplane. With the printer on-board, astronauts will be able to print physical parts themselves without needing to commission them from earth and get rocketed into space (both costly and time consuming). Printed parts in theory will be able to replace faulty parts or maintain certain equipment in the ISS.
In parallel, researchers from the University of Oslo have designed bots that can already adapt to unforeseen problems and 3D-print new parts for themselves (ie. self healing manufacture) and apply intelligent best adaptation to its environment. The options are limitless the scientists believe, based on a few limited instructions ie. what to do, how fast to go, its size and energy consumption. The ingenuity for an autonomous computer being able to consider thousands of options simultaneously and 3D-print parts to create a new model, creates an intriguing possibility perhaps for '3-D Printing as a Service' for MSPs?
Is business ready to accept 'Facebook at Work'?
Although not formally announced, 'Facebook at Work' has been heavily rumoured to be used internally at the company, with a worldwide launch for business imminent. Apparently, it is distinct from its current consumer model by barring personal details and helping overcome being blacklisted by organisations which disallow social media engagement at work. With the rise of social networking and collaboration, Facebook is cleverly poised through its dominant position with over one billion Facebook accounts, to try to take on the likes of LinkedIn and other corporate-focused social networks like Microsoft's Lync and Skype. The diversification opportunities deepen, as collaboration leads to online storage where users upload and collaborate on documents with other users of the service.
The real question is whether, despite all their canny commercial plans, and even accounting for proper security and governance procedures, will the sheer name of 'Facebook' simply scare off a lot of companies? Ultimately, the scale and impact of social networking cannot be ignored, but overcoming assumptions about the brand and how it will advocate its handling of public and private information will be the largest hurdle facing Facebook as it stares out from this mirror of opportunity.
Dictat to go digital in healthcare – or warning NHS funding will be pulled
NHS England's National Director for Patients & Information, Tim Kelsey, has announced the publication of its 'Personalised Health and Care 2020 Strategy'. This paper confirms NHS England's intention to go paperless by 2018-20, or face having its funding pulled.
At its heart, patient care records must be available across urgent care services by 2018 and throughout all NHS organisations by 2020 to create joined up practice amongst professionals, speed and efficiencies and avoidance of errors (ie. in prescriptions). Only 4% of records are currently accessible online.
The technical challenge around IT remains that many of the NHS's PCs are still running the soon to be defunct Windows XP. If as stated, financial resources will be made available to assist healthcare organisations, this will come as good news for IT teams and MSPs to help support any such migration to make the NHS fit for digital. However, it must remain an integrated and secure approach. The BMA's GP Committee Chair Chaand Nagpaul concluded that "..the most critical aspects to get right beforehand are the safeguards, confidence and trust of patients". Added to this, should be the strict management of patient data to prevent it being sold unknowingly to third party commercial organisations for private profit.
Following errors on the Care.data scheme debacle earlier in 2014 which failed to have appropriate data privacy safeguards in place, this is a very valid point, but should not stop future rollout if armed with correct good practice and security and governance policies. Hopefully, with National Data Guardian Dame Fiona Caldicott now on board, this will no longer be an issue. The key obstacle instead will be how much money healthcare organisations can secure to cover the necessary IT 'fit for future' upgrade investments.
NHS kitemarks for apps
In a separate move, with the rapid increase in health-related apps for mobile phones and other personal devices available in the market, NHS chiefs are backing a "kitemark" for health-related smartphone apps to validate those deemed as safe to use by patients to help them manage health conditions. It also includes an e-version of the red book recording baby's immunisations and development to be online from 2016, to counter the loss of key info if the actual book goes missing and the child requires vaccination, review or emergency treatment.
Author amicusitsPosted on November 24, 2014 December 22, 2014 Categories MSP weekly newsTags 3D printing, BMA, BSI Kitemark, Care.Data Scheme, Chaand Nagpaul, data privacy, dictat, Facebook, facebook at work, Fiona Caldicott, GP Committee, International Space Station, ISS, LinkedIn, Lync, Made In Space, microsoft, NHS, NHS England, NHS kitemarks, Personalised Health and Care 2020 Strategy, Skype, Tim Kelsey, University of OsloLeave a comment on This Week's Technology News – 24h November 2014
This week's technology news – 27th June 2014
Supreme Court ruling for mobile phone privacy does not answer Cloud issue
Forrester report an emphatic decision by the Supreme Court in the US this week, which has endorsed the fundamental right of the individual to safeguard the privacy of data held on a mobile phone and that the only way for 3rd party agencies to access this, would be to seek a warrant.
The sheer variety of applications now available on mobile phones (cameras, video players, Rolodexes, calendars, tape recorders, libraries, diaries, albums, televisions, maps, newspapers, forums etc.) reveal much about its owner as well as what can be shown through the browsing history. Consequently it was felt this would give 3rd parties too personal an insight about things we would prefer to keep private, even from our partners. The crossover impact for this in business is in BYOD where corporate employers may not yet have taken steps to assess and implement data security policies to safeguard corporate privacy.
With the increase of devices and wearable technology, much of the content will inevitably be stored in the Cloud and what is not revealed through the phone as its conduit, will be accessible once it hits storage sites like Dropbox, Evernote etc. So as soon as you have connected, you are no longer able to control that privacy, or that right. This ruling is insufficient therefore in the wider context of cloud content and management of personal (and customer data), so expect more rulings in future as the further legal ramifications are reviewed. As an MSP, it is your responsibility to be a privacy advocate.
Stop thief – you are turning me off!
Research by Glasgow Caledonian University into the way we hold and use smartphones, is leading to a new form of security being developed, to identify abnormal patterns which could trigger a "kill switch". The software logs, monitors and profiles "normal" behaviour, carriage mannerisms, application access and timing, plus geolocation and browsing. Subtle changes to this information could indicate unauthorised use and prompt a shut down. The profiles take a few days of average use to build up a coherent picture and current versions of logging software are detecting illegal use within a couple of minutes which will no doubt get far quicker.
Lead scientist, Professor Lynn Baille notes that a further development of this software could be in authenticating identity. Research indicates users wiping or tapping in their pin up to 100 times a day to unlock their handset, which for some users is putting them off using security measures, if they have that choice. This new software could sanction access simply because the device is "in the right hands" and keeps a phone unlocked in normal use, except where a user needed to purchase something, or log in to a corporate network. Yet again, there are implications about privacy for such monitoring and whether this is managed centrally, or locally on the device.
Author amicusitsPosted on June 30, 2014 Format AsideCategories Mobility, MSP, SecurityTags byod, cloud, data privacy, data protection, Forrester, mobile phones, mspLeave a comment on This week's technology news – 27th June 2014


Today, in Columbus, Missouri, President Clinton, joined by Governor Mel Carnahan, highlighted a new legal analysis which shows that the Senate Republican "Patients� Bill of Rights" passed last week would actually undermine state-based accountability provisions already available under current law. The analysis concludes that enactment of the Senate Republican bill would be far worse than if Congress enacted no measure at all. The President pointed out that this flawed legislation would fail to provide full protections to more than 135 million Americans; allow health plans to assess financial penalties on patients accessing emergency care; fail to guarantee real access to specialists; and fail to establish a strong enforcement mechanism that would hold plans accountable when they make harmful decisions. Reiterating his refusal to enact legislation that does not provide strong patient protections for all Americans in all health plans, the President urged Congress to pass legislation with real patient protections, and praise Governor Carnahan for his leadership in passing a strong state version of the Patients� Bill of Rights.
DEBUNKING SCARE TACTICS OF PATIENT PROTECTION OPPONENTS. The President praised Governor Carnahan for leading the way in enacting strong patient protections in his state, and highlighted Missouri�s legislation as an example of how meaningful patient protections can be enacted into law without any negative impact on premiums or on the number of uninsured.
Contain meaningful enforcement mechanisms that guarantee recourse for patients who have been harmed as a result of a health plan�s actions.


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Q: How to get Google Apps Script to tell Google Docs to bold, italic, strikethrough and underline from a JSON representation? I have written a function, setParagraphToRichText which accepts a GoogleAppsScript.Document.Paragraph and a string. The string is a stringified JSON blob that defines the text and attributes of a given paragraph.
/**
 *
 *
 * @param {GoogleAppsScript.Document.Paragraph} paragraph
 * @param {string} jsonString
 */
function setParagraphToRichText(paragraph, jsonString) {
  const text = paragraph.editAsText();
  const json = JSON.parse(jsonString);
  const texts = json.runs.reduce((accumulator, current) => {
                                 return accumulator + current.text;
                                 }, "");
  text.setText(texts);
  for (let i = 0; i < json.runs.length; i++) {
    const run = json.runs[i];
    if (run.endIndex >= texts.length) run.endIndex--;
    text.setLinkUrl(run.startIndex, run.endIndex, run.linkUrl)
    .setBold(run.startIndex, run.endIndex, run.isBold)
    .setItalic(run.startIndex, run.endIndex, run.isItalic)
    .setStrikethrough(run.startIndex, run.endIndex, run.isStrikethrough)
    .setUnderline(run.startIndex, run.endIndex, run.isUnderline)
    .setFontFamily(run.startIndex, run.endIndex, run.textStyle.fontFamily)
    .setFontSize(run.startIndex, run.endIndex, run.textStyle.fontSize)
    .setForegroundColor(run.startIndex, run.endIndex, run.textStyle.foregroundColour);
  }
}

That's how it looks in Google Apps Script itself. The original is in Typescript.
I test that code with the following:
function myFunction() {
  const body = DocumentApp.getActiveDocument().getBody();
  const paragraphs = body.getParagraphs();
  const obj = {
    "runs": [{
            "endIndex": 4,
            "startIndex": 0,
            "text": "dog ",
            "textStyle": {
                "fontFamily": "Arial",
                "fontSize": 10,
                "foregroundColour": "#1155cc",
                "foregroundColor": "#1155cc",
                "isBold": false,
                "isItalic": false,
                "isStrikethrough": false,
                "isUnderline": true
            },
            "linkUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog"
        }, {
            "endIndex": 8,
            "startIndex": 4,
            "text": "cat ",
            "textStyle": {
                "fontFamily": "Arial",
                "fontSize": 10,
                "foregroundColour": "#000000",
                "foregroundColor": "#000000",
                "isBold": true,
                "isItalic": false,
                "isStrikethrough": false,
                "isUnderline": false
            },
            "linkUrl": null
        }, {
            "endIndex": 12,
            "startIndex": 8,
            "text": "cow ",
            "textStyle": {
                "fontFamily": "Arial",
                "fontSize": 10,
                "foregroundColour": "#000000",
                "foregroundColor": "#000000",
                "isBold": false,
                "isItalic": true,
                "isStrikethrough": false,
                "isUnderline": false
            },
            "linkUrl": null
        }, {
            "endIndex": 16,
            "startIndex": 12,
            "text": "bat ",
            "textStyle": {
                "fontFamily": "Arial",
                "fontSize": 10,
                "foregroundColour": "#000000",
                "foregroundColor": "#000000",
                "isBold": false,
                "isItalic": false,
                "isStrikethrough": true,
                "isUnderline": false
            },
            "linkUrl": null
        }, {
            "endIndex": 20,
            "startIndex": 16,
            "text": "fox ",
            "textStyle": {
                "fontFamily": "Arial",
                "fontSize": 10,
                "foregroundColour": "#fbbc04",
                "foregroundColor": "#fbbc04",
                "isBold": false,
                "isItalic": false,
                "isStrikethrough": false,
                "isUnderline": false
            },
            "linkUrl": null
        }, {
            "endIndex": 24,
            "startIndex": 20,
            "text": "jay ",
            "textStyle": {
                "fontFamily": "Impact",
                "fontSize": 10,
                "foregroundColour": "#000000",
                "foregroundColor": "#000000",
                "isBold": false,
                "isItalic": false,
                "isStrikethrough": false,
                "isUnderline": false
            },
            "linkUrl": null
        }, {
            "endIndex": 27,
            "startIndex": 24,
            "text": "kit",
            "textStyle": {
                "fontFamily": "Arial",
                "fontSize": 36,
                "foregroundColour": "#000000",
                "foregroundColor": "#000000",
                "isBold": false,
                "isItalic": false,
                "isStrikethrough": false,
                "isUnderline": false
            },
            "linkUrl": null
        }
    ]
};

  setParagraphToRichText(paragraphs[0], JSON.stringify(obj))
}

By rights, I should get dog cat cow bat fox jay kit where dog has a linkUrl, cat is bold, cow is italic, bat is strikethrough-ed, fox is in ACCENT3-colour, jay is in Impact-font and kit is in 36-point.
However, what I get is everything right EXCEPT cat, cow and bat which are not in the aforementioned styles.
Where have I gone wrong? The documentation for bold seems pretty self-explanatory and I'm fairly sure I'm following it.
(And yes, I speak a minority dialect of English that puts u into words where other dialects don't.)
NEXT DAY
Thanks to Oleg Valter for pointing out my typo. So, very embarrassingly, the issue turns out not to be with Google but with me.


I'm still getting used to what I can do with this website. In a lot of ways, it's still (and will probably always remain) a work in progress. I'm trying to keep the layout relatively simple, and I don't want to clutter the homepage with useless widgets and whatnot.
Anyway, after exploring the gadgets available I've gone with two new additions to the site, both of which can be found on the right hand margin of the homepage: an RSS feed providing the latest basketball related news courtesy of RealGM, probably my favourite source of NBA news; and a collection of links to some of my favourite NBA blogs... the list will grow with time.
Suggestions for blogs to add to the blog roll are welcome. Enjoy!


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Matthew Glenton of Boroughbridge
Born in Boroughbridge in Yorkshire at some point in the mid 1700s, Matthew Glenton married Mary Wilson at Aldborough, Boroughbridge on 19 August 1762.He was a coal proprietor, with coalfields near Harrogate and Boroughbridge, and possible elsewhere (Bradford).
Matthew and Mary had at least five surviving children: Jonas Wilson Glenton (1763 1844) Mary Glenton (1776 - ), who married George Sykes Margaret Glenton (1769 - ) Harriet Glenton (1772 1808) Matthew Glenton (1777 - )
Matthew died, in Boroughbridge, in 1808. In his will, he left 2 guineas to the church in Boroughbridge, to be converted to coal and given to the poor of the parish at Christmas. He gave his wife all his plate china, household goods and furniture, all his personal effects and profits from his real estate in Boroughbridge, so long as she kept it in good repair. To his son, Matthew, he gave an annual sum of £100, and to Mary his daughter an annual sum of £50, paid in two six monthly increments on 25 December and 24 June. After is wife's death, his personal estate passed to Matthew, and £1500 was split equally among his four surviving children, with £2000 to be shared equally among their children. His estate in Bradford was passed to his son Jonas Wilson Glenton,. His daughter Mary's children each received £1500 upon reaching 21, with the other three sharing another £1500.
The grave at St Andrews Church, Aldborough states
Matthew Glenton, son of the late Matthew and Elizabeth Glenton, of Borough-
bridge, died the 26th day of April, 1844, aged 22 years. | The above Elizabeth
Glenton, died the 25tli day of June, 1855, aged 76 years. | Matthew Glenton, of
Boroughbridge, died January the 3rd, 1810, in the 80 year of his age. | Mary Wilson,
of Boroughbridge, widow, who was buried May the 30th, 1796, aged 88 years. |
Mart, the wife of the above-named [Matthew] Glenton, who died October 80th
. . . .] | Matthew Glenton, late of Boroughbridge, died December 23rd, 1832, aged 56 years. | Also Mart, daughter of Matthew and Elizabeth Glenton, died July
8th, 1833, aged 13 years.


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'I knock Tony Ferguson out cold': Justin Gaethje predicts violent conclusion to UFC 249
Justin Gaethje is in confident form ahead of this weekend's UFC 249 clash with Tony Ferguson.
By John Balfe - 4 May 2020
Justin Gaethje plans to revert to type for this weekend's UFC 249 headliner against Tony Ferguson.
Known as one of the sport's most aggressive fighters, Gaethje says that he will be bringing his typical forward pressure to the cage in Florida on Saturday — and he doesn't think that Tony Ferguson will be capable of maintaining his pace.
"Tony Ferguson is a great competitor, 12 wins in a row – but I knock him out cold," Gaethje said to UFC PR. "I'm gonna fight until I'm finished, or I'm gonna fight until Tony's finished. That's what I've always done. I possess the power to turn his lights off, and I believe I will."
I really felt a surge of energy and support as this fight was building up from so many ppl across the world, it was very humbling. I am thankful to represent Safford, AZ and my great friends and family. I'm going to be working hard to be ready next time the opportunity arises. Let's get through this fight we are all facing right now by having a positive impact on our immediate surroundings (family, neighbor, community) Thank you!! 🙏 The boss @danawhite is someone I am proud to do business with. #ufc249
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Since his UFC debut, Gaethje has been involved in nothing but entertaining fights, but in almost all of them he seems to be in trouble for at least a brief moment. However, he has developed a reputation for fighting through these incident and often in dramatic fashion — to the tune of seven UFC bonuses in six fight.
"My work ethic comes through my genetics," he said. "Three generations working in the copper mines in Arizona, both sides of my family. You know, hard work was instilled in me. I give max effort and outside that I don't care what happens, that's what makes me so dangerous."
Gaethje's coach, Trevor Wittman, says that this mindset allows his fighter to be at his best inside the cage.
"Justin's got such a unique mental state to him that he's just like, 'Oh, who cares?' That allows him not to hesitate," Wittman said. "He goes out there and he tries things and he puts on exciting fights. So if you got a guy who can go out there and finish people and has been consistent, you've got a great shot."
Justin Gaethje takes on Tony Ferguson in the UFC 249 headliner with the interim UFC lightweight championship up for grabs. You can check out the latest odds for that fight and all of the others via our official betting partner Parimatch.
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