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Post Game Iowa State
Swoopes!
I think I'm in love. Yes, I think I'm in love but I'm afraid to fall. We haven't had a quarterback go out and win a game that was hanging in the balance around here since Colt McCoy was covering up a lot of Longhorn faults with his magnificent accuracy. Tyrone Swoopes not only went out and won the game, he won it twice, after more poor clock management by Strong and company, and a stunningly bad performance by the defense, forced him to come in with 22 seconds left and in a—"I guess I have to do everything moment"—threw two perfect passes to set up the game winning field goal. So here I am, swooning over Swoopes but fearing that he could turn back into the scared quarterback we saw a couple weeks ago against Baylor. Oh well, better to have love and lost, than never to have loved at all.
After Texas scored to go ahead 45-38 I got a text from a friend, "Good drive, glad we scored a TD but terrible clock management. This game should be over." He was right. Let me explain.
With 3:52 left to play in the game, Texas faced a third and two at the 50 yard line. Swoopes completed a nine yard pass giving Texas a first down at the Iowa State 41, with 3:45 left to play. At that point, Strong, Watson, and Wickline have to be thinking beyond just getting the go ahead points, but they weren't. On the Texas's next four plays they snapped the ball with 16, 18, 16, and 11 seconds left on the play clock. If Swoopes had waited until two seconds on the play clock before snapping the ball on those four plays, Texas would have burned an additional 53 seconds off the clock, before Iowa State called timeout with Texas facing third and eight at the Iowa State 26 yard line. Iowa State called the timeout with 1:52 left. If Texas had managed the clock more effectively, there would have been less than a minute left at that point. Or, Iowa State would have been forced to use two or all three of their timeouts on the Texas drive. Either way, Iowa State would have been in a much more difficult predicament, behind by seven points, with one or no timeouts left with about a minute left to score the tying touchdown, or with two timeouts and only about :30 left to play. Strong, Watson, and Wickline should never have allowed Iowa State the ball back with 1:22 left and two timeouts. I hope they know that now.
Give Credit
Having criticized Strong and his staff, now I'll praise them. What they have done with the offensive line and Tyrone Swoopes is first rate player development. That and Charlie Strong's decision to try and win the game with :22 left in regulation bode well for the future of the program. Although I was hoping the Horns would have a much easier time with Iowa State, my hats off to the coaching staff for getting a win when things weren't going according to plan.
The Westchester Wildcats are on a roll. Mark Adams edged out Greg Swan, Zach Frank, and first time player D.R. Flower in the tiebreaker to take home is first win of the season. They were tied in regulation with eight correct answers. Young Zach's performance this week comes on the heels of his victory in his rookie outing two weeks ago, and a tie for fourth last week.
Clayton Frink, David Frink, and Reed Ramlow tied for fourth with seven correct.
Pre Game Iowa State
Last Saturday afternoon and evening, the Longhorn fans I was around were pleased with the team's performance against Oklahoma and were generally optimistic about the rest of the season. Although it was pleasant to be around positive people, I was struck by the irony of the contrast between the attitude and mood of the fans after this loss compared to all the other losses to Oklahoma over the years.
I viewed the loss as another opportunity squandered by Charlie Strong and his coaching staff. The continued breakdowns in special teams play and the Keystone Cops clock management routine are becoming, well, all too routine. I'm told by one of Willie Earl's knowledgeable readers that Charlie Strong's Louisville teams had good special teams play. Maybe Strong isn't ready for prime time. Maybe the big stage in Austin adds a complication that is taking the edge off his job performance. For me, it's a real and a troubling thought.
I'm not yet optimistic about the rest of the season because if Strong and his staff don't get the special teams fixed and if they don't improve their game management Texas could lose to Iowa State and anybody else left on the schedule.
Walking it Back
I saw the same things in the Oklahoma game that so many of the Texas fans were excited about. Tyrone Swoopes played a very good game. Even with the pick six, he played more than well enough for Texas to win. Again, Charlie Strong squandered a wonderful effort by Swoopes and an evidently great coach-up by Sean Watson in not getting the W against Oklahoma. So as they say in politics, I'm walking back the harsh statements I made about Swoopes last week.
In all my years of watching football, I can't remember another assistant coach who has done as good a job as Joe Wickline has done with the offensive line. Wickline's performance is "as advertised." Maybe Strong should put him in charge of fixing special teams. Give your biggest challenges to your best people, right? Oh well, maybe it's not a good idea to distract Wickline from his offensive line coaching, but a big change in the approach to special teams is needed.
Charlie Strong's specialty is defense and the strength of his first Texas team is definitely defense. The unit has played very well in in every game except the third quarter of the BYU game and that can be partly blamed on the offense's ineffectual play. We haven't had to talk about tackling yet this year which is refreshing after the last four years of futility in that area. And I'm orange-blooded enough to take extra satisfaction in that Vance Bedford is the defensive coordinator. If you haven't heard Mr. Bedford talk defense and football yet you might get a kick out of his commentary if you can find it on YouTube or where ever.
Know it All Fan Ideas
1. While Strong and his staff are re-doubling their efforts to fix the special teams, why not just go ahead and turn a weakness into a strength? Is there must be some weakness in Iowa State's special teams that they can game-plan to exploit. Maybe the Iowa State punter is slow, and Texas could block a kick. Perhaps the punt and kick-off coverage teams don't stay at home, and the Horns could fake a punt or recover an onside kick. Instead of approaching the special teams from a defensive crouch, Texas should get aggressive.
2. Where are Texas' hot shot freshmen running backs, Donald Catalon and D'Onta Foreman? Foreman was last seen fielding a kick off that was about to roll out of bounds on the five yard line. Before that, in his one of his two carries against North Texas, he burst off the right side for 34 yards and looked faster than Jonathan Gray. He can't' be redshirted, so let's get him some work in the last six games.
I've read on a couple of the blogs that Donald Catalon is the best running back on the team but the coaches want to redshirt him. Don't get me started.
Mid-Season Prognosis
This team is a more talented than a most observers thought after the first two games of the season. With better coaching Texas could be 4-2 not 2-4, in my opinion. Texas will win the remaining games on the schedule in which they play a clean game on special teams and Charlie Strong runs a competent sideline operation. They could win all of them or they could lose all of them.
Note from Willie Earl
To enhance the pleasure of playing Over/Under, starting this week, we will report the results no later than Sunday night. Play well.
OU Over/Under Results
There was a three-way tie at the top in another exciting OU Over/Under Contest (see what I did there?) with Helen Frink, Steve Holstead and Helen Art Zeitz answering eight questions correctly. The guys, both proud Westchester Wildcats, picked the winners, Alabama and Oregon in the tiebreaker. In the closest finish that the staff here can recall, Steve edged Art by coming within 3 total points of predicting the actual points spreads for both games.
Clayton Frink, Zach Frank, Mark Adams, Wade Wallace, Dan Yoxall, Greg Swan, and David Frink tied for fourth with seven correct. Yes Mrs Bertoni, this contest was too easy.
Iowa State Over/Under Contest
As if we needed any more reasons to lose confidence in Tyrone Swoopes, this week, reflecting on his play in the Baylor game, said, "I had gotten hit a couple times. That kind of made me a little bit nervous". Somebody on the Texas sideline better have some handy wipes and an extra pair of football pants handy Saturday at the Cotton Bowl.
And then he said this: "Sometimes, defenses will give me the same looks over and over again, and I don't decipher it like I'm supposed to, and I do the wrong things. Simple things like that. Nothing major."
I'm glad it's nothing major.
Even with these comments by Swoopes, I know many if not most Texas fans would disagree with what I wrote on Monday, that his two fumbles on the goal line and his terrible numbers should cost him the starting quarterback role. I'm certain that Charlie Strong disagrees, and I believe I know why he does. It's fear. My observations over 50-plus years of watching football have convinced me that one of most important guiding principles for a vast majority of football coaches is fear. Fear of innovation and breaking with the past. They don't seem to fear getting fired for not innovating.
I know what the stated reasons are for not playing Jerrod Heard, at least in a relief role: the need to preserve his redshirt, and he's not ready. As I have written before, speculating on what may happen four years from now in football is akin to speculating in 2012 who the Republican nominee for President would be in 2016. It's purely academic if not folly. It's more likely that Heard would transfer, flunk out, suffer a career-ending injury, or get beat out by another quarterback than it is that he will still be playing for Texas in 2018. As far as Heard not being ready, ready compared to whom, Swoopes? At this point, that's not a credible argument, in my opinion.
Strong should consider how much goodwill he's burning through with the team, with the fan base, and with his employers for not pulling out all the stops to win football games this season. If Texas scores less than 20 points or so against Oklahoma and gets blown out on Saturday, look for a crowd of about 50,000 in Austin next week for the Iowa State game. That's something Charlie Strong should fear.
Perhaps lost in the demoralizing loss to Baylor were some solid performances by the Texas defense and offensive line. The defense limited Baylor to 21 points and Bryce Petty to only 7 pass completions for 111 yards. Petty said after the game that his head was still spinning from all the coverages Texas threw at him. Hats off to Defensive Coordinator (former Longhorn All Southwest Conference defensive back) Vance Bedford and his Texas defense. And I would be remiss if I didn't mention that Steve Edmond played a whale of a game. The offensive line, reconfigured with the insertion of Darius James as the starting right tackle and the move of Kent Perkins to starting right guard, played pretty darned well as Texas gained 190 rushing yards and gave Tyrone Swoopes time to throw down field. It would be nice if the next time the offensive line plays well, Texas could score more than seven points.
My Fears
My father and I had many interesting conversations. Some were pretty light like the time he told me about the pleasures of trying new things, such as when he switched from an olive to a lemon twist in his martinis. He was quite pleased with the lemon twist. Driving to the beach in the summer of 1968—just my father, mother and I—he compared and contrasted the running styles of Red Grange and Gayle Sayers. That really engaged my 12 year old sports obsessed mind. Also during that trip he told me that Babe Ruth was not a "high-type" guy and didn't wear underwear.
Other conversations were more serious. When my brother David was, ahem, struggling academically during his sophomore year at UT, my father read me the riot act about how I was going to conduct my studies in college starting with the first semester of my freshman year! At the time, I was in ninth grade and my grades were pretty good for crissakes.
The most memorable and perhaps the most valuable conversations I had with my father were intimate ones. When David and I were devastated by the assassination of Robert Kennedy, my father told us that we had to pick up where RFK left off by always doing our best in school, in work, and as citizens.
When I was in high school and my father and I were with a realtor looking at a house in Reston, Virginia my father wanted to buy, he started crying when he told me how much my mother deserved to have this house.
Though one of the biggest disappointments of my youth was getting cut from the junior varsity basketball team and never playing beyond my freshman year, my father knew I was secure enough that he could tell me about how proud he was of David. David was his letterman. When I was in my early-30s with a career and lofty ambitions of my own, my father let on to me that my brother Clayton was the highest achiever of anybody ever named Frink.
When my parents were in their mid-80s, during one of the last times they had dinner at my house with Helen and me, my father told us a remarkable story about when he met the Army lieutenant who accompanied his brother's body home after World War II at the train station in Norwich, New York, and took him out for a drink. It wasn't remarkable because anything particularly interesting or unusual happened when he met the lieutenant. It was remarkable in the casual way my father told us the story, the fact that I had never heard the story before, and for me the literally jaw-dropping contrast it drew between his life and experiences and mine.
There is a conversation with my father that I didn't have that I wished I had. I've been to 37 Texas-OU games. Since the first one I went to in 1974, until as recently as 2012, I couldn't imagine not being excited about going every year for the rest of my life. Suddenly last year, as OU Weekend approached, I felt ambivalent about going. On Monday of this week I had the same feelings. I fear that it's not just the Longhorns downturn since 2010 that's causing my ambivalence. I'm afraid it's because I'm getting old.
My father never talked to me about getting old. Oh, he made self-deprecating remarks about being old when he was in his 80s. But I'm talking about the aging I'm going through now. Though I'm quite fit—if I do say so myself—for a 59-year-old and I'm pretty sure I'll be around for at least another 20 years plus but die before I run out of money, I have fears about being old. I fear that I'm seen as old by my clients and business associates. I fear that late in the fourth quarter of my career, my ambitions outstrip the time and focus I have to fulfill them. And I'm a little sad that my running career is over, and because of a nagging hip condition, I'm afraid I won't ever be able to play golf as well as I did from 2000-2009. When my father was 59, I was 22, so of course it never crossed my mind at the time that he might be experiencing primal fears about aging. Over the past few years I've been wondering what my father would say to me if I could tell him about these fears. I bet it would be interesting. I bet it would be insightful and yet witty and there's a chance it could be jaw-dropping.
Though I can't have that conversation with my father, I'm often heartened when listening to a certain song on my iPod while I'm working out. If there was a theme song about my father's attitude about life and the way he lived it, it would be this song.
Fairy tales can come true, it can happen to you
If you're young at heart.
For it's hard, you will find, to be narrow of mind
You can go to extremes with impossible schemes.
You can laugh when your dreams fall apart at the seams.
And life gets more exciting with each passing day.
And love is either in your heart, or on it's way.
Don't you know that it's worth every treasure on earth
To be young at heart.
For as rich as you are, it's much better by far
And if you should survive to 105,
Look at all you'll derive out of being alive!
And here is the best part, you have a head start
If you are among the very young at heart.
–Johnny Richards, Carolyn Leigh
Hub Frink, age 57, Helen Frink, my date and me at the Sigma Phi Epsilon Red Garter Party in November 1975
I'm going to the OU game, leaving early, staying late.
Beat the Hell Outta OU!
OU Over/Under
Baylor Post-Game
Core Values and Cardinal Sins
Charlie Strong's core values have garnered him plenty of attention, kudos, and widespread support from the Texas fan base. Strong needs to add special team fundamental execution and competence to his coaching core values. Strong's special teams have committed cardinal sins in the last three games possibly costing Texas wins against UCLA and Baylor.
Special teams gave up a back breaking punt return given up to UCLA, had field goal attempts blocked against Kansas and Baylor, and they allowed the Baylor punter to run untouched for 19 yards on a fourth and five which lead to Baylor's second touchdown on Saturday. It's not unreasonable to speculate that Texas could be 4-1 if Strong's special teams had performed to just an average level of competency.
If I was in charge, the starting quarterback who has the second to the lowest quarterback rating in the Big 12, whose team is 104th in passing offense in the country, and who fumbled snaps on the goal line two weeks in a row, loses his job. Period. It's that arbitrary in my opinion.
Strong has two big messes he needs to clean up. It's not that complicated.
We'll talk more on Friday.
Beat OU
The Baylor Over/Under drew the largest field of entrants of the year so far and it was an exciting contest with a three way tie for first. Newcomer Zach Frank, Steve Holstead, and Mike Archuleta answered eight questions correctly. In the tiebreaker Zach and Steve both picked Baylor and Michigan State to win but Zach's predictions on the final scores were a tad closer to the actuals so Zach Frank, in his very first start, wins the Baylor Over/Under. Congratulations young fella.
Helen Frink and Clayton Frink tied for fourth with seven correct answers.
Baylor Pre-Game
Never is Heard an Encouraging Word
Over the past 20 years I've gone through several phases of daily media consumption. Starting in the early '90s though about 2006 I was a daily consumer of C-SPAN, Seinfeld and a lot of news/talk radio while I was driving around in Jon Voight's car. From 2006 to the present, my daily staples include PTI on ESPN with Tony Kornheiser and Michael Wilbon (Helen and I watch a recorded version around 7:30 pm), Colin Cowherd's daily sports talk show on ESPN radio, The Office, and Law & Order (the original) of which Helen and I have seen every episode from 1990 to its conclusion in 2010; I have seen every episode at least twice.
Starting last fall I added Longhorn Football blogs to my daily consumption. Some of the ones I read are: Barking Carnival almost every day, Orangebloods about once a week, and – occasionally — Horns Digest and an email-forwarded copy of Inside Texas.
Among all those publications, I have not read a single article or posted comment that said Texas has any chance at all to beat Baylor tomorrow. Right off the top of my head I can't think of a single post or comment that has predicted that the game will be competitive.
After my pre-season prediction that Texas would go 11-1 in the regular season, who am I to counter any of this abject pessimism? The last time I can remember Texas being a 16-point — or whatever the current line is – underdog was the 1996 Big 12 Championship game versus Nebraska. Could Texas pull off another shocking upset on Saturday? Tyrone Swoopes is no James Brown and Jonathan Gray is no Priest Holmes, so I don't see a Texas win in the cards. But I predict the game will be surprisingly competitive; perhaps competitive enough to get our hearts beating a little faster during the fourth quarter.
Panning for Hope
Here are some odds and ends if you want to find any reason to be hopeful.
1. In Baylor's last two games against highly ranked teams, they lost to Oklahoma State 49-17 and Central Florida 52-42. Okay, so the Horns aren't a highly ranked team . . . I'm just sayin'.
2. Although there's no absolute confirmation, it looks though Daje Johnson will play in his first game of 2014. Maybe he'll be more assignment-responsible and a little faster without THC coursing through his veins.
3. If there's a faster Longhorn than Daje it's Amanti Foreman, who flashed that speed on a reverse against Kansas that went for 29 yards. Texas offensive coordinator Sean Watson praised Foreman's practice performance and progress over the past few weeks. Perhaps Foreman, along with Daje, will transform Texas' offense into an explosive scoring machine.
4. It's not unreasonable to believe that Tyrone Swoopes, in his fourth game as a starter, will play his best game as a Longhorn.
Texas Football Brands
In addition to generally dismal expectations for the next two games, I'm also hearing a lot of angst from Texas fans about how Texas Football has been surpassed by in-state rivals Texas A&M and Baylor. Certainly the Aggies and Baylor have had better seasons the last three years or so, but so far as Texas being eclipsed by those programs, I don't see it that way. When the Longhorns are really good, they win Rose Bowls and win or appear in National Championship games.
Let's check out the bowl records of A&M and Baylor since 2010.
2010, Texas Bowl L
2011, Alamo W
2012, Holiday W
2013, Fiesta L
2010, Cotton L
2011, Meineke W
2012, Cotton, W
2013, Chick-fil-A W
Between the two of them there has been one BCS bowl appearance. Baylor lost to freaking Central Florida in last year's Fiesta Bowl.
Sure, I'm not happy with the Longhorns' seasons the last four years and this year may not end up all that pretty. But I'm not worried about keeping up with A&M and Baylor's trips to the Cotton and Alamo Bowls. Complain to me at the end of 2015 when Baylor wins a second conference championship and A&M wins their first conference championship and goes to a major bowl for the first time since 1998.
Deep Horn
Deep Horn is deeply depressed and disturbed about the current state of the Longhorns. However, he believes Charlie Strong is doing what needs to be done to rebuild the program.
Deep Thought of the Day
Perhaps the most cited long lyric of the past 50 years is Paul McCartney's the love you take is equal to the love you make. That's too obvious. My favorite McCartney lyric is, For well you know that it's a fool who plays it cool By making his world a little colder
Nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah
Be warm and by all means,
Over/Under Contest


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Lev Aleksandrovitj Bezymenskij (ryska: Лев Александрович Безыменский), född 30 december 1920 i Kazan, död 26 juni 2007 i Moskva, var en rysk författare, historiker och journalist. Han var även tolk och tjänstgjorde i Röda armén. Sedermera blev han utnämnd till professor vid Akademin för militärvetenskap i Moskva.

År 1968 publicerade Bezymenskij boken Der Tod des Adolf Hitler i Västtyskland. Han hade inte fått tillstånd att utge den i Sovjetunionen. En svensk utgåva kom samma år: Adolf Hitlers död, i översättning av Olof Hoffsten. Boken väckte sensation, då den bland annat innehöll fotografier på det som ansågs vara Adolf Hitlers och Eva Brauns förkolnade kvarlevor.

Bibliografi i urval
 Der Tod des Adolf Hitler (1968)
 Sonderakte Barbarossa. Dokumente, Darstellung, Deutung (1968)
 Die letzten Notizen von Martin Bormann. Ein Dokument und sein Verfasser (1974)
 Die Schlacht um Moskau 1941 (1981)
 Stalin und Hitler – Das Pokerspiel der Diktatoren (2002)

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You Decide? #133
In this episode, it's time for you decide what is best for your health. This episode is sponsored by WYSK Spark Radio, https://live365.com/station/Spark-Radio-a82219.
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ICD-6, issued in 1948, and ICD-7, issued in 1955, included "Prophylactic inoculation and vaccination" as a separate cause of death category with subcategories (codes Y40-Y49) for death due to "vaccination against smallpox" (code Y40), "inoculation against whooping cough" (code Y42), "inoculation against other infectious disease" (code Y49), etc. The ICD-8, issued in 1965, deleted the subcategories for death due to inoculation against individual diseases while maintaining "Prophylactic inoculation and vaccination" (code Y42) as a separate cause of death category. When the ICD-9 was issued in 1979, authorities removed all cause of death classifications associated with vaccination.
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The Greatest Gift of All #132
In this episode, we discuss the greatest gift of all in gift giving to each other and from God. This episode is sponsored by WYSK Spark Radio, https://live365.com/station/Spark-Radio-a82219.

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Another edition of the Portland Blog must mean its Saturday! It's so hard to believe Valentines Day is already upon us. Next thing we know, the cherry trees will be blossoming and spring (spring! spring! spring!) will be here. I'm finding it ever so challenging to be patient, especially with all the sun and clear skies we've had of late. Seems as though we've settled back into the sog and mush that is to be expected for this time of year and the Worst Day of the Year --tomorrow-- shall continue to be...the Worst Day of the Year. Go forth and ride, bog people!
Need Valentines Day Ideas? If you're looking for great Valentines Day ideas for...the best chocolates, flowers, restaurants or even most romantic places (and free places!) to wine and dine that sweetie of yours, we have it all on our Valentines Day list.
If you like to read about other cities then you no doubt have already discovered City-Data.Com, and if you enjoy reading others' perceptions regarding the cities in which they live, you've dipped into the forums there.
• Many people love, or at least like, the city in which they live.
• Some people hate the city in which they live.
• Some people hate the city in which you live, even when they've spent only a day in it.
I don't get the people dwelling to the right of that last bullet. Haterz do gotta hate, but why post eight paragraphs (if you're lucky and they've bothered to actually use paragraphs; this is the internet, after all) in a forum about a city in which they've barely warmed an airport chair cushion? It's not even amusing to read these rants after awhile, especially when said rantage pertains to my city.
More often than not, they mention the rain.
Here are some stats, for those of you who like them. According to this website, Portland doesn't even rank in the top 15 wettest cities in the U.S. Yes, we have more wet days than most, as evidenced by the second list of ten cities on that page, but here's the thing: most of those days it doesn't rain all day, and often you can barely feel the rain when it actually is in fact raining. Our rain is mostly of the misty "haunted woodland" variety. Compare that to a typical rain event in, say, Albuquerque (another city of which I'm fond, and which provides many more contrasts than this one), a town that boasts less than nine inches of rainfall per year but which comes down in rampaging sheets that obscure visibility to within an inch of one's nose. These are spectacular and I never grew tired of them while I lived there, but they are also more dangerous; only Albuquerque's arroyos save it from swirling into orbit around its own downtown area. Along with these maelstroms come lightning, also very dangerous. (And for my Portland readers: lightning is a phenomenon in which electricity seems to fall from the skies. Yes, really. I wouldn't make stuff like that up.) Mind you, I'm not dissing Albuquerque, I just offer it for perspective.
I used to dislike the rain at times, but now I embrace it. Here it comes, the thing all nature-loving die-hards here say, those people that risk being strung up by the straps of their Birkenstocks: the rain is the reason everything is so green! It's true! Rain is also the reason for mudslides and power outages, but those are just opportunities for community-bonding and reading by candle-light. I've hiked and camped and ridden my bicycle in the rain and have enjoyed it all. Even when not in the mood to venture out, there is nothing like tucking into a chair with a book and a beverage, sitting by a window so that I can see and hear the rain.
There's really only one aspect about rain that I dislike: I wear eye-glasses, and it's annoying to have to constantly wipe them off. So I cope.
It's turned into a kind of fetish. I'm running out of space.
The Portland Photo of the Week is by Rachel Carlson who shares what is probably the coolest photo of the St Johns we've ever seen. Amazing shot, Rachel!
Come and upload your Portland photos to the Photo Gallery for your chance to win each week. Rachel wins a gift certificate to McMenamins, a local Portland institution. Learn all about the wild and wacky McMenamins. We select one winner every week so make sure to check back to see if your photo was selected for the spotlight in the weekly Portland blog!
The Creston Kenilworth neighborhood is located about a mile east of the Willamette River, in inner southeast Portland adjacent to what is referred to as the the Brooklyn Yard. This is one of the oldest areas of Portland and is in a state of constant evolution. The neighborhood is primarily residential with some streetcar era commercial buildings holding strong and functional. To learn more, click here.
Are you keeping an eye on Creston Kenilworth or is it your neighborhood? Check out this link for a monthly updating real estate chart for this neighborhood.
In December 2011, there were 22 closed sales, 17 pending sales, and 71 homes on the market in the Creston Kenilworth Neighborhood.
In the past 15 months, the average price per square footage in the Creston Kenilworth neighborhood has been between $140 and $173/sq. ft. In December 2011, the average price per square foot in the Creston Kenilworth neighborhood was $155.
This chart is showing us two things. First, how many days on the market that a home is spending, on average, before being sold. In December 2011, the average time on market for a home in the Creston Kenilworth neighborhood was 66 days.
The second thing that this chart is showing you is what percentage of the listing price the owners actually are getting when the house is sold. This is a great indication of the pressure on prices. In December 2011, sellers in Creston Kenilworth received, on average, 96% of their original listing price.
This chart shows us that the average listing was and what the average sale was. In December 2011, the average price of a house on the market in Creston Kenilworth was $421,000. The average sale was $346,000.
Months of inventory gives a time line of how long it would take for all of the current listings to sell. Anything above 4 months is considered a buyers market. This figure is a good indicator of supply and demand. December 2011 in the Creston Kenilworth neighborhood had 3.2 months of inventory.
By the way, this does NOT mean that it will take 3.2 months for your home to sell. That figure was, on average in December, 66 days. Inventory is a figure that means that, if not another home were to come on the market in Creston Kenilworth from this point forward, in 3.2 months there would not be another home to sell. They would all be sold.
If you are looking to buy or sell in a particular neighborhood, the most crucial information that you need to know is what is going on in that neighborhood. In this situation, the overall Portland market report is less important and the national real estate report is just about useless. This posting is a real estate report for the Creston Kenilworth neighborhood of all homes in all price ranges. Feel free to request particular neighborhoods in which you are interested in buying or selling and I am be happy to do a report, just contact me on this forum or at http://www.propertiesofportland.com.
Each week, Ross shares some cool Portland real estate deals, and it is always fun to take a peek at what Portland home deals are available.
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Q: after Kubuntu 20.04 auto update all monitors not recognized correct (default) after Kubuntu auto update all monitors not recognized anymore.

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*if i boot from Linux Boot CD (on week older version) everything looks  very good (2 monitors and good resulution)

*then i start the recovery mode

*i got only 1 Monitor with 1024x768 and no name for it (second monitor is off)

In addition, I noticed that the configuration of the scceenshot tool was reset to the default values. I usually only take a photo of a selected area using the print button (this can be easily reconfigured, but it's strange and doesn't feel good).
question / anwers sound a bit simular:
After installing NVIDIA drivers, I boot into a black screen [13.10] (  7 years ago )
Third monitor not recognized on USB-c after latest updates on Ubuntu 20.04
my system:
Kubuntu 20.04
KDE-Plasma-Version: 5.18.5
KDE-Frameworks-Version: 5.68.0
Qt-Version: 5.12.8
Kernel-Version: 5.8.0-45-generic

A: i reused the good anser here from 2013 https://askubuntu.com/a/373573/1017209
with a very little update.
i could not answer what happens while this update was running last night, but this helps.
this did not solve the little other problem with the configuration of the scceenshot tool. My guess is that there might have been a brief power outage while the system was shutting down.

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*remove all nvidia bits

*install the correct drivers:

*reboot

sudo apt-get purge nvidia*
sudo apt install nvidia-driver-455
sudo reboot

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UCCLF - High School Civil Liberties Award Recipient Announced
For Immediate Release (Calgary, 22 September 2008) The Ukrainian Canadian Civil Liberties Foundation (UCCLF) is pleased to announce Antin Stowell of Winnipeg, Manitoba as the recipient of this year's inaugural High School Civil Liberties Award. This award was to be given to a high school student who submitted the highest-quality research essay based on a Holodomor theme, an initiative undertaken in recognition of the 75th anniversary of Ukraine's Famine Genocide. Antin's essay was among numerous submissions which were adjudicated by the award selection committee, which included Professor Ludmilla Voitkovska. It is deemed to have been superior in research, organization and presentation. The UCCLF would like to congratulate Antin and all the students who submitted an essay. Each participant in this writing competition will be awarded a copy of Into Auschwitz For Ukraine by Stefan Petelycky for their efforts. The UCCLF would also like to take the opportunity to remind high school and post-secondary students of the Civil Liberties Opinion-Editorial Award. Valued at $1000.00, this award is to be given to a student whose Holodomor-based opinion editorial appears in a major Canadian newspaper on or prior to the 1 October 2008 deadline.


Shakertown's simple and fresh design enhances any home. A design with a caramel honey finish that can look both traditional and modern, Shakertown can be used to achieve any look and endless possibilities. No matter what your vision is, these cabinets will create the perfect environment for all of your family's best memories. Our Shakertown kitchen cabinets feature 1/2" plywood box construction and a solid 3/4" Birch face frame for maximum strength and durability. Each cabinet comes with 3/4" grade A plywood shelving to hold all those heavy kitchen dishware and utensils. The cabinet doors feature adjustable 6 way concealed hinges. Each cabinet is finished with a Sherwin-Williams CARB-2 compliant finish. This environmentally friendly finish is safe and free of chemicals like formaldehyde, chromate, lead and other harmful chemicals.
All of our kitchen cabinets in the Shakertown style are shipped ready to assemble. We provide videos to help with the assembly process. Look no further than our affordable kitchen cabinets. Purchasing cabinets online can't come easier. Simply browse through the categories on each tab, add the cabinets and accessories to your cart and check-out right away without leaving the comfort of your own home! If you have any questions or need help ordering, be sure to contact us.


There are few topics more likely to arouse passion in parents than the education of their children. Parents throughout the world want the exact same things for their offspring. We all want them to be healthy, happy, and successful - although our definition of those things may vary. We expect our children's education to provide what they will need to achieve those goals – even though we approach that education in millions of different ways.
I think we can all agree there is no one right way to educate a child. Each child and each parent is a unique human being with our own strengths and weaknesses and interests and needs. We bring all of that to the table when we plan an educational program – each program is a one-of-a-kind program, even if that program happens in public school. Or on the road.
My husband and I opted to provide a very different kind of educational program for our twin sons – a radically out-of-the-box program. Our sons spent four years riding bicycles 27,000 miles throughout North, Central, and South America. Yep – it was THAT out of the box!
My husband and I – both long-time school teachers – made the decision to take our sons out of school in order to travel our country on two wheels. We spent the boys' third grade year cycling through nineteen US states and five Mexican states. We took advantage of our experiences to help our sons learn about their world.
By the time we returned home a year later, all four of us knew we weren't done exploring the world on bikes. After the boys finished Grade 4, we hopped on bikes again – this time to ride from Alaska to Argentina. It took us three years to ride 17,300 miles through fifteen countries – it was three years of magic. And learning.
The beauty of roadschooling is that learning is built into our lives so naturally. As we travel through various countries, we are constantly exposed to new traditions, foods, and cultures. Learning about those cultures comes naturally – it's not about doing research reports on Wikipedia.
It's about eating lomo saltado in a roadside restaurant in Peru and drinking mate through a straw from a gourd in Argentina. It's about spraying foam at passers-by during Carnival or hiking to a religious artifact for a pilgrimage in Ecuador. It's attending classes with school kids in Honduras and Peru and scuba diving with turtles in the Galapagos Islands.
While roadschooling, we naturally learned about the Olmecan, Mayan, and Incan peoples – and our sons naturally learned to compare and contrast the various ruins. They learned the differences between llamas, alpacas, guanaco, and vicuña when they cycled past them. They can tell you with certainty that the Andean Mountains are very different from the Rockies – they've pedaled up and over both chains.
Family of four cycled 17,300 miles through 15 countries from Alaska to Argentina!


Wikki Stix are a wonderful way to introduce young children to crafting and creativity, but for kids and adults with true artistic talent, Wikki Stix can be a wonderful medium for creating truly fine art. Many of these are 3-D creations, and several more are done on poster board. This is a fun and "mistake-free" way to express yourself since Wikkies are very forgiving and can be peeled up, taken apart and used again and again.


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The Archive Team Friendster Snapshot Collection
Founded in 2002 by Jonathan Abrams and Peter Chin, Friendster was one of the more popular social networking sites, predating later services like Facebook and MySpace. It provided a singular platform to share music, writings, photographs and profiles between a growing amount of users, which grew to roughly 112 million over 9 years. Unlike previous sites like Geocities, Angelfire and Tripod, Friendster allowed larger spaces for upload of data, resulting in exponential growth and a leading destinat...
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Friendster Social Network Dataset: Friends
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Before its relaunch as a gaming website, Friendster was a social networking website that allowed users to connect with their friends. The central element of the site was the 'friends list', showing the contacts of the user. This dataset contains the connections between all Friendster users. It is the result of an extensive crawl of Friendster.com at the end of June 2011. It was performed as part of the ArchiveTeam project to archive part of the Friendster data before the service relaunched. The...
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Friendster Social Network Dataset: Groups
Before its relaunch as a gaming website, Friendster was a social networking website that allowed users to connect with their friends. One of the elements of the site were the groups that members could join. This dataset contains the group memberships of all Friendster groups. It is the result of an extensive crawl of Friendster.com at the end of June 2011. It was performed as part of the ArchiveTeam project to archive part of the Friendster data before the service relaunched. The data files...
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Founded in 2002 by Jonathan Abrams and Peter Chin, Friendster was one of the more popular social networking sites, predating later services like Facebook and MySpace. It provided a singular platform to share music, writings, photographs and profiles between a growing amount of users, which grew to roughly 112 million over 9 years. Unlike previous sites like Geocities, Angelfire and Tripod, Friendster allowed larger spaces for upload of data, resulting in exponential growth and a leading destination for users on the web.
Friendster had resisted a $30 million offer in 2003 from Google to become a Google service, which they declined; Google then purchased and launched Orkut in 2004 to directly compete with Friendster. After some rounds of funding (roughly $12 million, $10 million, and $20 million), Friendster was sold for $26.4 million to MOL Global and rebuilt as a gaming site, primarily aimed at Asian markets. (By 2011, 90% of Friendster's activity by users were in Asian locations.) In making this transition, Friendster provided a few weak export tools and declared that all remaining user data would be deleted. This amount of data (by rough calculation) was in the 70-80 terabyte range.
Springing into action, Archive Team began mirroring Friendster accounts, downloading all relevant data and archiving it, focusing on the first 2-3 years of Friendster's existence (for historical purposes and study) as well as samples scattered throughout the site's history - in all, roughly 20 million of the 112 million accounts of Friendster were mirrored before the site rebooted.
For the purposes of later historical study, record, and consideration, Archive Team is placing this mirror of Friendster Data in this collection. The archive is huge: well over 10 terabytes. As it was downloaded using a variety of machines and approaches, some gaps exist and amounts of data in each archive are random. The items will be split into roughly 100gb chunks, wherever possible.
If you are completely stunned at where to begin, we suggest this 40 gigabyte file of the first 340,000 accounts of Friendster: http://www.archive.org/download/FRIENDSTER-000000000/friendster.000000000-000340000.tar.bz2
Thanks to all the members of Archive Team and other supporters for this project's completion.
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Guardians of Liberty: Freedom of the Press and the Nature of News
Guardians of Liberty: Freedom of the Press and the Nature of News Linda Barrett Osborne
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A riveting introduction to the crucial role of First Amendment rights and the media Guardians of Liberty explores the essential and basic American ideal of freedom of the press. Allowing the American press to publish--even if what they're reporting is contentious-- without previous censure or interference by the federal government was so important to the Founding Fathers that they placed a guarantee in the First Amendment to the Constitution. Citing numerous examples from America's past, from the American Revolution to the Vietnam War and the Civil Rights Movement to Obama's and Trump's presidencies, Linda Barrett Osborne shows how freedom of the press has played an essential role in the growth of this nation, allowing democracy to flourish. She further discusses how the freedoms of press and speech often work side by side, reveals the diversity of American news, and explores why freedom of the press is still imperative to uphold today. Includes endnotes, bibliography, and indexBinding Type: HardcoverAuthor: Linda Barrett OsbornePublisher: Abrams Books for Young ReadersPublished: 08/18/2020ISBN: 9781419736896Pages: 208Weight: 0.70lbsSize: 8.40h x 5.60w x 0.90d
A riveting introduction to the crucial role of First Amendment rights and the media
Guardians of Liberty explores the essential and basic American ideal of freedom of the press. Allowing the American press to publish--even if what they're reporting is contentious-- without previous censure or interference by the federal government was so important to the Founding Fathers that they placed a guarantee in the First Amendment to the Constitution. Citing numerous examples from America's past, from the American Revolution to the Vietnam War and the Civil Rights Movement to Obama's and Trump's presidencies, Linda Barrett Osborne shows how freedom of the press has played an essential role in the growth of this nation, allowing democracy to flourish. She further discusses how the freedoms of press and speech often work side by side, reveals the diversity of American news, and explores why freedom of the press is still imperative to uphold today. Includes endnotes, bibliography, and index
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A simple Caribbean girl, the colors and textures of Joëlle Fontaine's creations invoke no comparisons. Her fashion label- Kréyol - incorporates her love of costuming and ancient time periods in a comprehensive collection that represents sophistication at its best. Encompassing Fontaine's fascination of 1800's silhouettes, vintage, precise cuts, bold funkadelic patterns, discothèque sequence and classic femininity- Kréyol also utilizes old Haitian uniforms and dresses, made by her mother from Fontaine's childhood, as a basis and inspiration for design.
The company, where Joëlle Fontaine is the designer, has been in operation since 2004. Gaining some recognition very quickly, at 23 Fontaine moved to NY to kick off Kréyol, leaving her young son and husband in Boston during the weeks and commuting home on the weekends. During that year Kréyol was featured as an Avant Guarde winner of GenArt's design competition, won third place in the ISE Foundation Fashion Competition and had the garments exhibited at their museum in SoHo for a month, styled a Moet & Chandon campaign, and was featured in New York Fashion Week as well as Caribbean Fashion Week in Jamaica. The traction was promising, but the balancing act between family and fashion posed to be a major issue in Fontaine's life. She returned home to Boston to focus solely on her family.
In 2010, in the devastation after the earthquake in Haiti, Fontaine once again turned to her love of fashion to organize a fundraiser and raise over $10k to help organizations in her homeland. She hasn't stopped designing since. In 2013, Kréyol was re-introduced to the market with a new sense of purpose and fresh aesthetic that has been captivating the masses.
Kreyol's ultimate goal is to utilize fashion as a catalyst for change, beginning with job creation for poor and disenfranchised women in the U.S. and eventually in Haiti, a country where Fontaine has roots. They have created a movement focusing on women who love fashion and aim to stand out, with a goal to empower them to be their best self.
Kreyol is a partnership between Designer/CEO, Joelle Jean-Fontaine, Seamstress/ mother, Yolette Fontaine, and COO/brother, Stanley Rameau. A family affair, the three have been working together laying the groundwork for this fashion company. Since the launch in 2013, they have been featured in the Conde Nast Traveler, AfroPunk, New York Fashion week at the largest Macy's in the world in collaboration with 19th Amendment, and most recently, named as one of the top Haitian Designers by Teen Vogue.


Nothing is more relaxing than the soft glow of candlelight and this silver candle holder really accentuates this feeling with its fluid design.
Showing three spheres set on a billowing wave, this metal pillar candle holder evokes a gentle sense of calm, as if bobbing on the sea.
The candle cups have pins to hold 7cm diameter candles and the cool metallic design will amplify the glow in its undulating surface.
At over half a metre long, this stainless steel ball and wave candle holder will look stunning running along a table, and an even longer version is also available.


I took a walk around the world to ease my troubled mind. I left my body laying somewhere in the sands of time. I watched the world float to the dark side of the moon. I feel there is nothing I can do!But you… after all I knew it had to be something to do with you!
If I go crazy then will you still call me Superhuman? If I'm alive and well, will you be there holding my hand?
I'll keep you by my side with my superhuman might!
You called me strong, you called me weak but still, your secrets I will keep, you took for granted all the times I never let you down… you stumbled in and bumped your head, if not for me then you'd be dead, I picked you up and put you back on solid ground!
I really don't mind what happens now and then as long as you'll be my friend at the end!
The word Kryptonite is also used in modern speech as a synonym for Achilles' heel, the one weakness of an otherwise invulnerable hero.
lucky us with our feelings!
"i could never get drunk enough to get him off my mind.."
Iar el e trecut superman în Telefon. Poveste complicată și lungă.


Simple pleasures are always encouraged and we are told to focus on the things that really matter in life, not "stuff," but people and time well spent. There is, however, one "thing" I truly love and it represents some of the best time I spend. It is my green couch. I know it is not new and is tattered as a result of my dog sneaking up there to sleep in comfort when no one is home, and lately, even when we are home, the rascal!
The couch represents relaxation, time to myself and my favorite thing to do is to curl up under the plaid blanket with a good book and time. I can get up early, before the family awakes, and sneak on the green couch, get settled under the blanket and luxuriate in the escape of a story, someone else's adventure, problems or revelations.
As I gaze up occasionally, looking out at the trees swaying softly, the prayer flags we made last New Year's blowing our wishes into the breeze, I sigh and sink further into the soft couch pillows, pull the blanket up to my chin and return to reading. These are the times I treasure, when I can regenerate and rest my mind, the thinking turned in another direction and my life on temporary hold while I explore other possibilities.


No other cigar tastes like a Macanudo because no other cigar is made like a Macanudo. Only the makers of Macanudo spend the time and effort it takes to grow, cure and age their own Connecticut Shade wrappers. And only the makers of Macanudo age all of their tobaccos twice, just as it used to be done in Havana during the golden age of Cuban cigars.


"Promotions are gender biased. Bare minimum in terms of maternity leave and pay Stock awards favour men Very low diversity -%"
One thing Qlik can improve?
"company only does bare minimum required by law in country or state "
Would you recommend Qlik to other women?
"Qlik is a great company to work for. The only problem is vision for the future as they are a little behind the times and stuck in BI land"
"There is still a lot of misconception about women in business roles and there is a lack of women in leadership / business positions. Having said that, the employer is probably keen to attract more women into these roles. "


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import org.nutz.lang.Strings;

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    private String key;

    private Object reason;

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        return this;
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Head Bitch In Charge. Homecoming Apache Princess 4 years in a row.
"I don't do 'we.' I just do 'me.'"
Has a thing for nail guns.
Ali has recently landed the role of "Bianca" in The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1(2011).
Ali's much appreciated childhood in West Plains, Missouri provided no outlets for an early career in performance. Relocating to Dallas gave her the opportunity to explore her talents, while achieving her BA in Communications. Her professional career began with playing the leading role of "Yonah" at the lucrative "Theatre Three of Dallas" in the musical, "Children of Eden". Her stellar voice and riveting performance won her the excitement of the critics, lending her the eyes and ears of the film industry. Ali's progress has speedily reached past Texas into other regional markets, as well as Los Angeles.


This is the fourth post in the GDPR Fever series aimed at explaining whether and how DLP technologies could be used for achieving GDPR compliance.
Which existing IT security technologies fit to those key technical requirements derived from the GDPR's I&C principle that are essential for protecting personal data against leakage: automatic real-time content analysis and protective action enforcement for various types of data in all their states (in use, in motion, and at rest)?
An evaluation of several potential candidates conducted on the basis of these criteria has revealed that only one currently available technology fully satisfies them – it is content-aware data leak prevention (DLP).
DLP is a system of integrated technologies that detect and prevent unauthorized use, transmission, and storage of confidential, protected, or sensitive data by applying a combination of contextual and content analysis methods and enforcing centrally managed data protection policies.
In order to protect digital data in its three fundamental states, DLP solutions implement three DLP functional types: "Data In Use" (DIU) DLP, "Data In Motion" (DIM) DLP and "Data At Rest" (DAR) DLP.
"Data In Use" DLP controls data access and transfer operations in local channels, peripherals, and applications on endpoint computers including removable, fixed and redirected storage, clipboard, printing, screenshot captures, etc.
"Data In Motion" DLP prevents data leakage through network communications – for instance, email, webmail, Instant Messaging, social media, cloud-based and P2P file sharing, HTTP/HTTPS, FTP/FTPS, SSL/TLS protocols, etc.
"Data At Rest" DLP discovers exposed confidential content in data stored on corporate IT assets, such as file shares and Network Attached Storage (NAS), endpoint file systems, databases, document repositories and cloud-based storage. If unprotected data are located at a wrong place, DAR DLP can automatically initiate various remediation actions to prevent uncontrolled potential access, use, and transmission of these data.
Different DLP functional types use various types of enforcement agents. Only endpoint-resident agents can be used to enforce DIU DLP, while endpoint agents and network-resident hardware, software, or virtual appliances can complement each other to enforce DIM DLP. In its turn, DAR DLP uses (temporary or resident) endpoint agents to scan local file systems, and network-resident discovery servers can be used to perform remote scanning of file shares, NAS, databases, document repositories, and cloud storage.
Why DLP but Not Other Infosecurity Technologies?
The reason is that functional capabilities of other evaluated technologies on the edges of DLP, including information rights management (IRM) and pure data classification, do not fully fit to the specified criteria. It is important to note that neither IRM nor data classification technologies originally support automatic analysis of data content – both of them assign the task of content classification to either end users, as document authors, or to security administrators. And, few have access, etc. enforcement mechanisms. It is worth mentioning that although some modern data classification and IRM-based systems have recently started offering automated content analysis capabilities, these additional functions are actually implemented by integrating mainstream DLP technologies in system components.
On the other hand, DLP's own capabilities meet all the criteria. What are these defining DLP features and functions?
The first, and the most important, is the ability to automatically analyze and classify the informational content of transmitted, used, and stored data of many formats and types. These must include not only files and emails, but also instant messages, posts to social media, web forms and webmails, raw textual data and, in some scenarios, even metadata and binaries. In DLP, content analysis is used to detect data with "confidential", "classified", or similarly restricted content and prevent their uncontrolled use, release, or delivery to specific destinations or recipients, as well as their storage at prohibited locations. This functional fusion enables DLP to meet the key criterion of automatic content analysis of data in all their states – in use, in motion, and at rest.
Secondly, the criterion of real-time protective actions, again for all data states, is fulfilled by the DLP's ability to enforce real-time preventive security controls in a wide range of data leakage channels and scenarios. These must include practically all local channels on endpoint computers, most risky network communications, as well as various data storage devices, systems, and repositories. Specifically, DLP components can apply a whole set of protective actions, such as block, remediate, alert, log, shadow-copy, and more.
Another essential DLP capability is the control of data operations based on their context. Context is indispensable for preventing data leakage in a multitude of use cases when the detection of security policy violations does not require content analysis, which can be quite CPU-intensive and take considerable time to complete. Another substantial advantage of using contextual DLP controls whenever possible is the simplicity of relevant DLP policies, their configuration, and troubleshooting. To control data operations, top DLP systems support a comprehensive set of contextual parameters including users, computers and their groups, sender and recipient email addresses, user identifiers (IDs) for instant messaging, types of local ports and peripherals, device serial numbers in combination with vendor and product IDs, data transfer directions, time/day, network ports and addresses, etc. – there might be dozens of such parameters used in DLP policies.
The last defining DLP feature is that DLP policies are managed centrally by IT security administrators rather than by end users or local systems administrators.
Important is that in DLP systems, these defining functions and features are deeply integrated on both management and execution levels. This integration also uniquely differentiates DLP in comparison with other IT security technologies when it comes to protecting IT systems against data leaks.
Today, there is no real substitute for DLP for achieving GDPR compliance – in other words, no other existing information security technology has the same set of functional capabilities dedicated to and optimized for the mission of data leak prevention or personal data or other data as desired. A compelling evidence of this comes from the fact that many IT and IT security solutions use DLP as an add-on component to implement data leak prevention functions in their specific areas. Examples from the IT security industry include endpoint protection platforms (EPP), UTM appliances, email gateways, and even some modern IRM and data classification solutions. In the IT field, DLP functions are often integrated in advanced email and document management systems, cloud-based file sharing services, and software as a service (SaaS) platforms.
To summarize: as DLP technologies are indispensable for preventing leakage of personal data in IT systems, so DLP is necessary for implementing the GDPR's "integrity and confidentiality" principle and achieving compliance with the regulation.
Indeed, neither DLP nor any other particular technology alone can be a "silver bullet" for the GDPR. A whole puzzle of various complementary information security and privacy enhancing technologies should be put together to ensure full compliance with all provisions of the regulation. Yet, DLP is a critical piece of the GDPR compliance puzzle.


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AirTrunk raises AUD$850M for hyperscale data centers in Australia
Sunday, August 19, 2018 Australia
AirTrunk, a colocation data center operator based in Singapore, announced AUD $850 million (US$621 million) in new financing for a major expansion of its Australian data centers in Sydney and Melbourne, and across key Asia-Pacific markets.
AirTrunk said it is seeing strong customer demand for its hyperscale data center solutions.
The funding was led by Deutsche Bank, with investments from AirTrunk founder and CEO, Robin Khuda, as well as Goldman Sachs and TSSP.
Khuda commented, "We saw a substantial amount of global interest in AirTrunk throughout the process, and are delighted to complete this financing arrangement with Deutsche Bank. Together with the new capital recently contributed by our shareholders, the new funds put us in a strong position to meet the growing demand from large cloud, content and enterprise customers in the Asia-Pacific region.
AirTrunk Melbourne, which opened in November 2017, is designed for large cloud, content and enterprise customers. When fully completed, the data center will have a total capacity in excess of 50 megawatts of IT load across 20 data halls, making it the largest carrier neutral data center in Victoria.
AirTrunk Sydney, which opened in September 2017, promises a total capacity in excess of 80 megawatts of IT load when fully completed, covering 64,000 square metres of floor space.
BT backs Telecom Infra Project's start-up accelerator programme
Sunday, August 19, 2018 BT, Start-ups, TIP
For the second year in a row, BT will host a start-up competition at the TIP Ecosystem Acceleration Centre (TEAC) at the BT Innovation Labs in Martlesham, Suffolk and in London's Tech City.
The competition seeks start-ups in the Intent-Based Networking and Mobile fields. Entries will be judged by a panel of senior network and technology leaders from BT, Facebook, and TIP.Shortlisted companies will be invited to a final pitch event at BT Tower on Friday 12th October, where the winners will be chosen.
Last year's winners included Unmanned Life, Zeetta Networks and KETS Quantum Security.
Howard Watson, CTIO of BT, and a member of the TIP Board, said: "TIP was created to help tackle some of the big challenges in Telecoms, boosting global connectivity by supporting big ideas. We're particularly interested in start-ups with innovative ideas on how to deploy mobile networks cost-effectively in rural areas, as we look ahead to the roll-out of 5G services.
The Telecom Infra Project is a global community that includes more than 500 member companies, including operators, infrastructure providers, system integrators, and other technology companies working together to transform the traditional approach to building and deploying telecom network infrastructure.
Interested companies should apply by 24th September 2018 via the TEAC UK website: https://www.btplc.com/Innovation/TEAC/index.htm
Verizon and Nokia complete 5G NR mobility call
Sunday, August 19, 2018 Nokia, Verizon
Verizon and Nokia announced a5G milestone: the first successful transmission of a 3GPP New Radio (NR) 5G signal to a receiver situated in a moving vehicle, seamlessly handing off the signal from one radio sector to another.
The test, which took place at Nokia's campus in Murray Hill, NJ, used two 5G NR radios on a Nokia building and a third radio/receiver in a vehicle outfitted with equipment to measure transmission statistics. The transmission used 28 GHz spectrum. Seamless 5G NR Layer 3 3GPP-compliant mobility handoffs were achieved between the two sectors (intra-gNB and inter-DU).
"Unlike some of the incremental 5G technology announcements we've seen lately, tests like the one we conducted are significant advancements in the development of 5G technology," said Bill Stone, vice president, Technology Development and Planning for Verizon. "By taking these tests out of the lab and into the field, we're replicating the experience users will ultimately have in a 5G mobility environment."
"We are pleased to showcase the acceleration of the mobile capabilities in 5G," said Marc Rouanne, president, Mobile Networks, Nokia. "Enhanced mobile broadband is one of the first services being delivered on Nokia's end-to-end 5G Future X portfolio. As a result, we can help our customers meet their early 5G deployment schedules and initial coverage demands."
Verizon is preparing to launch a fixed 5G service in four U.S. markets to deliver broadband and video service. The company has not announced a launch date for a mobile 5G solution.
China Unicom sees growth following mixed ownership reform
Sunday, August 19, 2018 China, China Unicom
China Unicom reported 1H2018 service revenue of to RMB134.4 billion, representing an 8.3% year-on-year growth, topping rivals China Mobile and China Telecom.
EBITDA amounted to RMB45.7 billion, up by 4.9% year-on-year. The profit before income tax reached RMB7.8 billion and the profit attributable to equity shareholders of the company increased by 145% year-on-year to RMB5.9 billion.
China Unicom attributed its improving condition to the mixed ownership reforms undertaken one year ago at the behest of the central government. China Unicom has been increasing its level of collaboration with Tencent, Alibaba, Baidu, JD.com and DiDi, especially in outreach areas for the youth market.
Mr. Wang Xiaochu, Chairman and CEO of China Unicom said, "Looking ahead, by unleashing
the unique edges, the Company will persevere in the implementation of the Internet-oriented
operation, creating differentiated competitive advantages. Centred on return and efficiency, and
riding on Internet-oriented operation transformation, the Company strived to enhance total-factor
development efficiency. The Company will enhance its key capability in network, IT and
management on all fronts to provide a solid foundation for the healthy and sustainable
development of various businesses. We will step up investments appropriately for nurturing the
future growth engines. Seizing opportunities afforded by the mixed-ownership reform, we will
deepen strategic cooperation and further advance the system and mechanism reform, accelerating
the delivery of benefits from the reform and comprehensively enhancing the Company's overall
competitive strengths with a view to creating greater value for shareholders."
Some highlights:
Mobile service revenue reached RMB84.3 billion, representing a year-on-year growth of 9.7%
Mobile billing subscribers achieved a net increase of 17.86 million, reaching a total number of 302 million mobile billing subscribers.
Mobile ARPU amounted to RMB47.9, which was largely stable compared to the full year of 2017.
The 4G subscriber base saw a net increase of 28.23 million in 1H2018 to a total of 203 million.
The 4G subscriber market share was up by 3 percentage points year-on-year.
The proportion of 4G subscribers in total mobile billing subscribers increased by 16 percentage points year-on-year to
over 67%.
Fixed-line broadband access revenue amounted to RMB21.5 billion, which was largely stable compared to the same period last year.
The number of fixed-line broadband subscribers increased by 2.38 million on a net basis to 78.92 million.
Video service subscribers accounted for over 43% of the fixed-line broadband subscribers, up by 10 percentage points year-on-year.
4G BTS: 910K (up by 60K), focus on capacity expansion & experience enhancement
Actively deploy 10G PON & other new technologies in Northern China to progressively achieve 1,000Mbps access capability
China Unicom's US$11.7B strategic investment brings advantages
Tuesday, September 05, 2017 China Unicom, Commentary
China United Network Communications Group (China Unicom or 中国联通), the fourth largest mobile operator with over 270 million subscribers, recently closed a deal that will bring in US$11.68 billion in cash from top Chinese tech companies. Under the deal, the Shanghai-based holding company of China Unicom, will sell a 35.2% stake worth RMB 78 billion to 14 strategic investors, including the following. The deal is backed by the Chinese government, which...
Ericsson to build IP transport network for 5G in Denmark
Sunday, August 19, 2018 Denmark, Ericsson
Hi3G, which operates under the "3" brand in Denmark, has selected Ericsson to modernize its transport network with 5G-ready routers over the next three years. Deployment begins this autumn.
The new IP Mobile Backhaul transformation project will use Ericsson's Router 6000 platform. Hi3G is already using Ericsson's MINI-LINK product portfolio, which shares a common management system with Router 6000 series.
Arun Bansal, Senior Vice President and Head of Ericsson in Europe & Latin America, says: "Hi3G is establishing itself as one of the 5G leaders in the region and we are committed to helping them on this journey by building the highest quality network that provides an outstanding user experience. The network is at the heart of 5G and our portfolio – the most complete in the industry – will enable service providers today to evolve smoothly to the next generation of networks."
Ericsson introduced its Router 6000 platform at Mobile World Congress 2015, but has rarely mentioned it in press briefing since that time.
Ericsson Debuts Next Gen Radio System, Backhaul Routers
Ericsson introduced its next generation Radio System modular architecture, aiming to provide greater flexibility in how mobile networks are built and operated.
Ericsson Radio System features multi-standard, multi-band and multi-layer technology. It delivers three times the capacity density with 50 percent improvement in energy efficiency compared to current systems.
Ericsson also took the wraps off its new Router 6000 series advanced radio integrated transport for high-performance backhaul with precise synchronization required LTE Advanced, 5G and M2M.
The new Router 6000 series is a key element in Ericsson's next-generation portfolio, a comprehensive suite of platforms running one network operating system (IPOS), spanning from cell-site routers to edge, mobile core and data centers. The architecture will integrate SDN capabilities and, when matched with the new Ericsson Virtual Router, will enable distributed cloud applications. New Ericsson Network Manager capabilities will bring application aware traffic engineering with plug-and-play installation.
"The Ericsson Router 6000 series is a game changer since it responds directly to operators' challenges of dramatic increase in the number of connected devices, and the video explosion driving the demand for traffic scale and higher quality of experience," said Anders Lindblad, Senior Vice President, Head of Business Unit Cloud and IP at Ericsson.
Some highlights of the Ericsson Router 6000 series:
Integrated into the new Ericsson Radio System that supports a multi-standard, multi-band, multi-layer architecture
Series consists of the Router 6672 for access, the Router 6675 for pre-aggregation and the Router 6274 for metro aggregation.
First access router with 100GE interfaces in a single Rack Unit (RU) -- more capacity and higher density of 10GE/100GE interfaces in a compact form factor.
Support for Segment Routing provides an evolutionary migration from IP/MPLS to SDN, offering user-defined policy routing, faster roll out of revenue generating services and optimal usage of network resources.
MIT: Lincoln Lab looks to narrow-beam lasers for underwater comms
Sunday, August 19, 2018 MIT, Subsea
Researchers at Lincoln Laboratory are investigating laser technology for underwater communications. The work builds on the Lunar Laser Communication Demonstration (LLCD) project conducted with NASA, which successfully transmitted data from a satellite orbiting the moon to Earth at 622 Mbps.
Researchers are using narrow-beam optics to help overcome the significant absorption and scattering effects of water.
This technique contrasts with the more common undersea communication approach that sends the transmit beam over a wide angle but reduces the achievable range and data rate. "By demonstrating that we can successfully acquire and track narrow optical beams between two mobile vehicles, we have taken an important step toward proving the feasibility of the laboratory's approach to achieving undersea communication that is 10,000 times more efficient than other modern approaches," says Scott Hamilton, leader of the Optical Communications Technology Group, which is directing this R&D into undersea communication.
MIT News: https://www.ll.mit.edu/news/lincoln-laboratory-advances-undersea-optical-communications
Ericsson demos 5G at mall in Saudi Arabia with Mobily
Sunday, August 19, 2018 5G, Ericsson, Saudi Arabia
Ericsson and Saudi telecom operator Mobily and Ericsson are showcasing 5G at the Mall of Arabia in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
The demo features a standalone end-to-end 5G system, including a prototype 3.5GHz radio, baseband, and prototype UE device for the 5G demo, which showcased 5G throughput, targeting speeds of up to 1Gbps.
Mazid Al Harbi, CTO of Mobily, says: "We are wholly supportive of Saudi Vision 2030 and the push towards enhancing our digital economy. Our investment in 5G is demonstrative of our commitment to improving network performance and enhancing the customer experience across Saudi Arabia. Our partnership with Ericsson enables us to provide a state-of-the art scalable network to serve consumers and industries across Saudi Arabia now and in the 5G future."


 Local people launched a peaceful resistance "we will give our life but not our land"
Women displaced: democracy, development and identity in india- harcourt and escobar (ch 8) There is a continuing assumption among political and economic ruling elites that their interventions in the name of development and democracy are what communities and countries nee: that they are inevitable and just. Development interventions or political, economic and cultural developments have created the loss of meaning and connection to place. Voices, ideas and visions are consequently devalued based on the historical evolution of knowledge systems and the experiences of people located in place. There are significant differences between movements: historical, ideological, cultural. Social justice is not just the relative struggle for rights but also for the definition of what constitutes development, knowledge, democracy and dignity. Movements in india: constantly struggled to redefine democracy from the post-independence period, response of those in political power is to decentralize the state process to more and more localities/local elites.


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Plain cotton regular fit tee, featuring a classic v-neck and short double stitched sleeves.
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Wedding fever has hit high today with Megan & Prince Harry's royal wedding. It's hard not to be moved by two people in love, committing to each other and sharing their joy with friends and family.
Luckily they were blessed with some beautiful weather as it turns out Emily & Harry are quite an adventurous couple! During the reception we trekked all the way down to the river and poor Emily was wearing heels… she was barefoot all the way back though! I mustn't forget to mention the bluebells… I LOVE bluebells and there were splashes of them around the gardens and in the table flowers, adding beautifully to the soft spring colours of the day. Emily herself had a wildflower bouquet which went perfectly complimented her elegant fishtail wedding dress.