These are "The Sisters" – that's what my Katie's hubby, Scott, has dubbed us. We're not biologically related, and we weren't even great friends six months ago. But now, we are "The Sisters," and we are tight.
How can three ladies, who all revolved around one person (my Katie) become close and sister-like in less than six months? Actually, I think it took less than forty-eight hours. It only takes one thing. It takes a tragedy. It takes a monumental event that pulls you out of the orbiting that you've been doing and straight into the heat of battle.
Before Katie passed, we all knew each other. We were all Katie's friends. We were at some of the same gatherings. We'd made small talk and compared kid stats. But we didn't have a strong relationship with one another.
Then, Katie went into hospice on Valentine's Day. Yes, it was Valentine's Day. And everything changed.
I was there as the chief BFF. (That's what I always called myself. Katie called me sister by another mother.) I stood in the room and rushed to the nurse when needed and made sure Scott drank water and Katie's mom had a coke. That was my role. To be there, bedside.
Angela was chief logistics coordinator. She and her husband had already started talking to the church about the Celebration Service. She was at the ready with funeral home and graveside service information. She was the connection to their current small group and the church. She was a vault of phone numbers. She is AMAZING in "go" mode.
Melanie was chief of childcare. She was and still is the one Katie's kids turn to first for hugs and kisses. Katie's kids had spent lots of time with her and her family. They felt safe and loved by them. It was Melanie who drove the kids to the hospice so they could say goodbye to their mother. It was Melanie who took their exhausted selves home to bed that night. She is a "baby angel" as Katie once called her.
Our Katie went to dance with Jesus the next morning….
The next forty-eight hours found the three of us in the thick of caring for the family, disseminating information, organizing services, planning meals, and mourning ourselves. It was a whirlwind, but at the center was the family and us.
I love these ladies. I've become extremely intentional about nurturing my relationship with them and their families. They've suffered the same loss I have. They know what I'm feeling. They love Katies' babies and her hubby as much as I do. They get me. For that, I am truly blessed.
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The House of Hills LOVES some Disney World. We go EVERY year. Seriously, every year. We honeymooned there. We took the Princess when she was just three months old, and she's been every fall since. We've even been on a Disney cruise. We LOVE Disney.
The COOLEST part of this trip is that the Princess doesn't know we're going. She has NO IDEA. We are totally going to surprise her! Isn't that AWESOME?! We typically go at the same time each year, so this is probably the ONLY time we'll ever be able to surprise her with a trip to see the Mouse. So shhhhh… don't tell!
And don't worry. I plan to take TONS of pictures and tell you all about it when I get back.
Do you have anything you would like me to investigate while I'm down with the Mouse? I've got some ideas for posts, but would love to know what you want to know about!
Disclosure: I paid a small fee for the conference which includes hotel accommodations and park tickets. All opinions are my own.
I. LOVE. MY. CHURCH. Yes, I do! I will say it again and again. They work SO HARD to make church GREAT for the entire family. The adult service is top notch, but where they EXCEL is in their programming for children.
We are blessed to have a once a month program called KidStuf, where kids take their parents to church. It's the first Sunday of the month and parents are introduced to what their kids are learning through an exciting and interactive family experience. One of the best parts of KidStuf is our Take-Out. Each month, we receive something to encourage us to spend time together as a family. It might be a game. It might be a family night plan. In December, it was a shoebox to fill for Operation Christmas Child.
Whatever the Take-Out is, it's always a fun and interactive way for our family to create discussion around the monthly Big Idea. That's what I love about it the most. It facilitates AMAZING conversation with the Princess, and she ALWAYS wants to do it.
This month's Take-Out was "Foto Finish." We competed as a family against other families around the metro-Atlanta area in a "Cooperation" (Cooperation is this month's big idea) challenge. It was HYSTERICAL! The KidStuf website was set up to log in a certain time and register your family. It then gave us a series of challenges to complete and kept track of the time it took us to perform them by having us click when we finished each challenge. There were also trivia questions that we had to answer correctly or time was added on.
I had to run to the restroom, and the Princess and My Sweetie kept playing. I LOVE this one….
I told you… It was HYSTERICAL..
We then had to do an obstacle course with the kitchen chairs and spoons and balls all the while peeling off layers of clothes because we were burning up. My Sweetie took one for the team when he drank a blended concoction of milk, water, chocolate syrup and celery.
What a trooper!! We also had to make a structure out of toothpicks and marshmallows. The Princess and I made the bottom while My Sweetie worked on the top. Then we "Cooperated" (that would be the Big Idea this month) and put them together. What a masterpiece.
We finished the competition at #53 out of over 100 families. We were pretty proud of that. However, where we landed in the competition didn't really matter. What mattered was how much fun we had together while "Cooperating" (Big Idea again there) as a family.
Oh, and rumor has it, they're going to run the competition again this coming Monday at 7pm at Kidstuf.com. Just sayin'.
Do you have that one recipe that people ask you to bring to EVERY gathering? Mine is deviled eggs. I take them to gatherings of friends and family year after year, especially in the summer.
Mash the egg yolks in a medium bowl. Add Miracle Whip, dry mustard, Worcestershire and salt and pepper. Mix well. Place mixture in a Ziploc bag and force into the corner. Snip the corner of the bag and fill the egg whites with the mixture. Sprinkle with Paprika.
So friends…you now have the secret to my deviled eggs. They really are yummy. Feel free to play with the amount of Worcestershire you put in them. That really changes the flavor. We like them a bit tangy, and I've increased the amount from the original recipe.
Do you have a favorite recipe that people ask you to bring to EVERY gathering?
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This is on my counter right now. It's making dinner for me. I love that it makes dinner for me. It makes dinner for me often.
Oh, and I don't have just one slow cooker. Nope, I have THREE! And yes, they have all been going at one time.
I thought I'd share a family favorite that I am asked to make every year for Thanksgiving.
Put half the beans into a 4.5 quart slow cooker. Sprinkle with salt and half the ham. Add the remaining beans, another sprinkle of salt and remaining ham. If I am preparing ahead of time, I put the dish in the fridge at this point until the next morning. Add enough water to cover beans (about 3 to 4 cups). Cook for 10 to 12 hours on low.
That's right, you cook them for 10 to 12 hours. They really taste best after 12 hours. Now, that takes some planning. For Thanksgiving, I prepare the beans the night before and set the alarm for 5am. At 5, I stumble into the kitchen, add the water, turn on the slow cooker and stumble back to bed for another few hours. It's worth the few minutes of interrupted sleep. Believe me.
What is your favorite thing to cook in your slow cooker?
I love my slow cooker! Do you?
Tuesday morning I took my mom out to breakfast. It was an AMAZING way to start the day. My mom and I have had the typical mother-daughter ups and downs over the years. We couldn't stand each other when I was a young teen, but as I matured and realized that my mom was pretty much right about MOST (NOT ALL) things, our relationship has gotten stronger. When the Princess was born, I talked to my mom daily. Well, to be truthful, more than once a day. I needed reassurance from my mommy that I was doing it right.
I consider my mom one of my heroes. She taught me right from wrong. She taught me to treat others with respect and kindness. She taught me how to do laundry and make mac & cheese. She taught me almost everything I needed to get a good start in this world. For that I am extremely grateful.
Mom and I don't get to talk as much as we used to. I don't have a long commute anymore. I always used to talk to her on my way home. She's busy with all my nieces and nephews. One of the cousins is almost always at Grandma's house. So, the opportunity to sit down and have a meal and a conversation with just her and no kids running around was wonderful.
I'm calling it my give to her 'cause I paid for breakfast. However, she's given me more than I can ever repay. Thanks mom. I love you.
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It's fall ya'll!! Well, the calendar says it's fall. The temperatures in the ATL currently are not supporting that fact. However, we must move on. It is time for pumpkin. We must enjoy the pumpkin in the fall!
One of my favorite ways to enjoy the pumpkin – PUMPKIN DIP. That's right. I said PUMPKIN DIP. Now, maybe you've heard of pumpkin dip. If you have, you are in the minority. I am always amazed by how many people are shocked and amazed by the delectable treat. And, a TREAT it is. I've been known to just stand by the bowl and just dip, dip, dip.
You need some pumpkin (duh!), an 8oz cool whip, ginger, cinnamon, and powdered sugar.
Dump it all in a bowl and whisk away until it's all combined.
That's it. You're done. Seriously, could it be any easier?
Pumpkin dip is best if it is made at least twelve hours before it's served. Twenty-four hours is even better. The longer it sits, the better the flavors blend. Mmmmm… so yummy.
I serve my pumpkin dip with ginger snap cookies. I've also seen it served with tart apples. I plan to offer both at my next gathering.
Whisk all the ingredients together in a medium bowl. Chill until time to serve.
Pumpkin Dip – I LOVE IT!


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Intelligence agencies say SolarWinds cyber compromise perpetrator 'likely Russian'
·National Security and Investigations Reporter
WASHINGTON — U.S. intelligence and national security agencies on Tuesday afternoon pointed to Russian hackers as the culprit behind an unprecedented digital breach of thousands of public and private sector networks.
A sophisticated hacking group that is "likely Russian in origin" is "responsible for most or all of the recently discovered, ongoing cyber compromises of both government and non-governmental networks," according to a joint statement issued by the newly organized Cyber Unified Coordination Group. The members of the new group include the FBI, the Department of Homeland Security's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, or CISA, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, and the National Security Agency.
The announcement comes just weeks before President-elect Joe Biden's inauguration, and at a time when the outgoing Trump administration has been focused on its claims of electoral fraud, which have been rejected repeatedly by election officials and the courts.
SolarWinds headquarters in Austin, Texas. (Sergio Flores/Reuters)
In early December, private cybersecurity company FireEye, the first to notice something awry in its systems, announced it had been breached. FireEye passed what it knew on to government investigators, determining that hackers had inserted malicious code into security updates for widely used IT monitoring software made by software company SolarWinds.
SolarWinds disclosed the intrusion on Dec. 13 to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, noting that "fewer than 18,000 customers" had installed the specific dangerous update. The scope of the intrusion has exploded in the intervening weeks, leading both government and private sector workers to scramble to determine the damage, a process that may take months or years.
The new statement confirms earlier news reports as well as a public statement from Secretary of State Mike Pompeo putting responsibility for the intrusion on the Kremlin. However, President Trump has consistently resisted publicly blaming or pressuring Russia for either this breach or previous covert and overt Russian operations against American and allied interests.
Trump previously downplayed the seriousness of the breach, announcing that it was "under control." He also alleged in a series of tweets that the "Fake News Media" wanted to blame Russia, claimed China could be behind the breach, and resurfaced conspiracy theories about compromised voting machines that could have led to his loss in the presidential election.
Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow on Dec. 7. (Alexei Nikolsky, Sputnik, Kremlin/Pool/AP)
In the meantime, the Trump administration has continued to oust public servants who have helped fact-check those claims, starting with former CISA Director Chris Krebs and, most recently, earlier on Tuesday, CISA Director of Public Affairs Sara Sendek.
It's unclear whether Trump will push back on the new statement blaming Russia, though the new task force was formed "on behalf of President Trump," the agencies wrote in a joint press release.
In addition to offering a tentative attribution for the compromise, the intelligence agencies also concluded that the Russian effort amounted to an "intelligence gathering effort" rather than a targeted attack aimed at destruction or subterfuge — an assessment that will likely affect the government's potential response.
President-elect Biden in mid-December condemned the intrusion and pressured the Trump administration to name and shame Russia, promising to do "all that needs to be done" to investigate and address the compromise once in office. He said he will "probably respond in kind," though experts have pointed out the NSA and other U.S. intelligence agencies are constantly looking for opportunities to infiltrate Russian networks the same way U.S. networks were exposed.
While the investigation into the breach is ongoing, the intelligence agencies wrote, there is reason to be cautiously optimistic. According to the investigation so far, the government has only learned of fewer than 10 U.S. government agencies that "have been compromised by follow-on activity on their systems." The statement did not elaborate, however, on what exactly that follow-on activity might be, including additional indicators of further compromise or evidence that data was exfiltrated from those agencies.
The group also promised to release further details on the compromise "as they become available."
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There are so many benefits to studying abroad in Prague, including the beautiful besides architecture, convenient public transportation, fun cultural scene, and exciting history, but one of the best aspects has to be how incredibly cheap it is. Because it's so cheap — a multi-course "splurge" meal could set you back a whole $8 USD — you'll find plenty of opportunity to dine out in Prague without breaking the bank. Here is a definitive list of the ten Czech food and drink experiences you will inevitably have as a student in Prague.
For some reason, Kentucky Fried Chicken is everywhere in Prague. You'll stubbornly avoid it for a while, determined to not be that American who buys unhealthy American fast food despite being in a foreign country with a plethora of amazing options, but you'll crack. Eventually, a little bit of homesickness will hit and you will find yourself in the middle of a KFC, attempting to place your whole order in Czech so they won't know you're American. But there's no shame in missing home, and once you taste the greasy deliciousness you'll have #noregrets.
This will likely be one of the first things you try when you get to Prague, and it's not a meal for the faint of heart. Guláš is one of the most well known dishes in Czech cuisine. It's essentially a beef stew served in a rich sauce of tomato, garlic, caraway, paprika, and other spices, and it is very filling. So filling, in fact, that you will wonder how there could possibly be so many thin Czech people around when all they eat are heavy dishes like guláš with extra bread, dumplings, and beer on the side. It's a conspiracy.
Don't let the fact that they're sold just a couple shelves away from shampoo and beer scare you off; everyone knows the incredibly cheap (around $1 USD or less) Czech minimarket pastries are a lifesaver. While most of the pastries are good, the rohlík, which is somewhere in between a pretzel than a croissant, is unique to the region and the perfect morning pick-me-up.
Beer may be the star of the show in the Czech Republic, but you'll quickly discover that Czech people are pretty serious about their wine, too. Whether you try their summer wines at a wine festival, taste a cup of spiced wine at a Christmas market or a café, or experience burčak straight from the barrel on an AIFS Fall trip to Moravia —a wine that is fermented for such a short time, it almost tastes like juice — you will be surprised by how delicious Czech wine can be.
When you first lay eyes on a plate of knedlíky, you will be convinced that the translation you looked up is wrong, because what you are looking at is most certainly sliced bread, not dumplings. Its spongey consistency, typically made of bread and other ingredients that are boiled or steamed, might seem strange, but once you see how perfectly it soaks up the sauce from your guláš (a match made in heaven, really) you will come to appreciate this classic Czech side for the singular charm it holds.
Affectionately referred to as a tram dog, this Czech street food is a go-to choice for when you're hungry in between classes, waiting for the night tram after a night of dancing at Lucerna, or just enjoying the sights and shops at the historic hub, Wenceslas Square. It might look like a hot dog, but Czech sausage has its own unique, amazing flavor (even the packs of Klatovská Klobása from Tesco are incredible) that you will start craving regularly. The stand is right next to the spot where Vaclav Havel gave a famous balcony speech in 1989, so be sure to take in the history while you're loading up on kečup.
Everyone knows the potato is one of the world's most versatile foods, but did you know it could taste good as a pancake? Czech people sure do. The potato pancake (look for it on the menu as bramborák) is another staple in Prague and can frankly range a lot in flavor/quality, but when you find the right potato pancake, your life will be changed.
Enjoying a Czech beer with my dad when he visited!
Or Staropramen, or Branik—when it comes to Czech beer, you can't lose. It's possible that initially you'll only order this because it's cheaper than getting water with your dinner (Yes. Genuinely. Google it.), but you'll have to admit it goes perfectly with Czech food, and by the end of the meal you're wondering whether you should order another.
You might not think of the Czech Republic as a place where you can get quality Mexican-style food, but think again: Burrito Loco will satisfy all of your fast food burrito needs so well that you won't even miss your American Mexican-style fast food spots. Chipotle, who? And in a city that hasn't standardized food delivery yet, Burrito Loco and its nearly 24/7 hours will satisfy all of your late night college student cravings.
Whether on a sandwich or with a fork and knife, there is no wrong way to go when it comes to eating smažený sýr. Easily the best (and most wildly unhealthy) Czech food, smažený sýr is a large rectangle of cheese that's breaded and fried to perfection. You will wonder how you've gone your whole life eating only the lowly mozzarella stick, and how the rest of the world hasn't caught on to this pioneer of the culinary arts.
You truly can't go wrong when it comes to the food in Prague. Whether you're in Prague for a semester or visiting for a weekend, trying Czech food is a fun and important way to discover more about its people's culture. Be sure to check out the Instagram account @tasteofprague for more ideas about where to go and what to eat in Prague!
This post was contributed by Rachel Blanco, an AIFS Study Abroad Alumni Ambassador who spent a semester studying abroad in Prague, Czech Republic.


We have several ways that you can give to God's work through your tithes and offerings. You can give by check or cash during our weekend services, or right here online by clicking on the GIVE ONLINE button. We use LifeWay e-giving which is PCI level 1 secure.
We believe that we are to follow God's command regarding tithing. "Tithe" means "tenth" or 10 percent. Leviticus 27:30 says, "A tithe of everything from the land, whether grain from the soil or fruit from the trees, belongs to the LORD; it is holy to the LORD." In Malachi 3:8-10 God speaks to His people, "Will a man rob God? Yet you rob me. But you ask, 'How do we rob you?' In tithes and offerings. You are under a curse—the whole nation of you—because you are robbing me. Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. Test me in this," says the LORD Almighty, "and see if I will not throw open the floodgates of heaven and pour out so much blessing that you will not have room enough for it."
We also recognize that Jesus talked more about giving than the subjects of heaven, hell, or prayer. In Matthew 6:21 and 24 Jesus says, "For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also…No one can serve two masters. Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and Money." In Luke 6:38 He says, "Give, and it will be given to you. A good measure, pressed down, shaken together and running over, will be poured into your lap. For with the measure you use, it will be measured to you."
CrossPointe believes that we are mere stewards of what God has given us. Therefore, we see tithing as giving back what is God's to God (and He lets us keep the other 90% to use appropriately). Any amount above 10% is considered an offering to God. This type of giving is over and above and should also be done with cheerfulness.
Giving is a privilege. By partnering our monies together, God's work is done more effectively. Even Paul recognized this in the newly formed churches of the New Testament. He tells the Corinthians in 2 Corinthians 8:13-15, "Our desire is not that others might be relieved while you are hard pressed, but that there might be equality. At the present time your plenty will supply what they need, so that in turn their plenty will supply what you need. Then there will be equality, as it is written: "He who gathered much did not have too much, and he who gathered little did not have too little."


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Development of a specialized topographic map of environmental protection using the example of bog massifs
Tamara V. Vereshchaka1, Irina E. Kurbatova1,2, Anna A. Ivanova1, and Alexey L. Stepanchenko1 Tamara V. Vereshchaka et al. Tamara V. Vereshchaka1, Irina E. Kurbatova1,2, Anna A. Ivanova1, and Alexey L. Stepanchenko1
1Moscow State University of Geodesy and Cartography, Moscow, Russia
2Water Problems Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
Keywords: bogs, peat extraction lands, disturbed ecosystem, satellite imagery, specialized topographic map
How to cite. Vereshchaka, T. V., Kurbatova, I. E., Ivanova, A. A., and Stepanchenko, A. L.: Development of a specialized topographic map of environmental protection using the example of bog massifs, Abstr. Int. Cartogr. Assoc., 3, 303, https://doi.org/10.5194/ica-abs-3-303-2021, 2021.


This article was published in The Post Millennial on March 26, 2019 under the title "We can address climate change without fear mongering".
I suggest a new rule for any discussion we have about climate change. The rule is simple: from now on, every article we write on the subject for a broad audience must include some variation of the phrase "we can solve global warming". It has the virtue of not only being true, but also helpful.
While serious policymakers and scientists correctly identify global warming as a grave danger to humanity, it's a mistake to rely solely on fear to motivate people. Research in behavioral psychology has shown that most people tune out when threats appear overwhelming  or unresolvable. It's no wonder, then, that the infamously dour New York Times  article  on the new IPCC findings last year quickly faded into the background.
However, pessimism about our chances of addressing global warming isn't just bad strategy, it's also wrong. Avoiding the worst effects of global warming requires decarbonization, which means severing the connection between economic growth and greenhouse gas emissions. This is a very achievable goal. In fact, it's been done before. As Joshua Goldstein and Staffan Qvist write in their recent book , A Bright Future, Sweden decarbonized their electricity sector in the latter half of the 20th Century by investing heavily in nuclear energy and hydroelectric power. Both technologies are extremely low-carbon, with the only significant greenhouse gas emissions coming from their construction and decommissioning.
Sweden's clean energy transition is one of the greatest technological feats of our time. In 2015, fossil fuels generated only 2% of the country's electrical supply , while hydroelectric power and nuclear energy accounted for over 80%. Some of the credit for this rapid change also goes to the tax on greenhouse gas emissions  that the government enacted 1991, which currently stands at €114/metric ton of carbon. The Swedes are famous for being among the happiest people in the world , which belies idea that tackling climate change involves pain. Decarbonization on a global scale won't be as simple, of course, as the shift to clean energy in a relatively small country. Yet France – a much larger country – also managed to decarbonize its electricity sector  by switching to nuclear power following the 1970s oil shocks.
We would be wise to follow the blueprint laid out by both countries. The United States government can lead the way in developing efficient, low-carbon electricity generation through a public-private partnership to manufacture the next generation of nuclear power plants, creating a standardized design that brings down the cost of production  for private firms. It doesn't have to be expensive. According to the International Atomic Energy Agency, doubling the world's present nuclear capacity by 2040 would cost $80 billion dollars annually . It's a drop in the bucket compared to total global economic output  every year, which in 2016 was $75.4 trillion dollars.
The expense of building new plants in the United States could decline significantly if we transition to small modular reactors (SMRs) instead of conventional technology. These reactors can be prefabricated on an assembly line and shipped to location. NuScale Power, a private energy company, has already designed a power plant that uses SMRs and are projected to cost around $3 billion dollars to construct . Such an SMR plant would generate 730 megawatts electric . The total capacity of all nuclear power in the United States is currently 99 gigawatts electric , which is 20% of our country's electrical generation , and around 60% of the carbon free electricity. For an average yearly price tag of roughly $37 billion dollars, or 0.93% of the total federal budget in fiscal year 2017 , we could construct 136 new plants using SMRs and double America's nuclear capacity  by 2030. If we don't prematurely retire any more nuclear plants and the share of wind and solar grows at the currently projected rate , clean sources of electricity could make up over half of the country's energy sector within eleven years. Even this upbeat projection might be overstating the costs of the energy transition, however. NuScale believes it can place their reactors in the footprint of  retiring coal plants  around the country and produce zero-carbon electricity.
The greenest countries in Europe use nuclear and/or hydroelectric power (electricityMap.org ).
State governments can also expand their renewable portfolio standards to include nuclear power and make their emission reduction targets even more ambitious. The federal government can help by expanding the renewable energy standard for the Tennessee Valley Authority , a public utility company and a legacy of Franklin Roosevelt's anti-poverty crusade. Federal funding for the expansion of electrified public transit, research and development for low-carbon steel production, and energy efficient buildings should also be part of the package. After all, technological innovation and infrastructure spending are as American as apple pie .
To make clean sources of energy even more competitive with fossil fuels, we also need to make pollution expensive. The case for putting a price on greenhouse gas emissions is basic economics. Increase the cost of an item, and firms and consumers will want less of it. Most economists, irrespective of their political affiliation , support pricing emissions.
Think of taxes as moral instruments. An emissions tax informs you of the value that society loses  when it burns fossil fuels. Again, the clearest success story here is Sweden, which reduced its emissions by 26% in less than 30 years after imposing its tax. But why stop there when we can go even bigger? One recent bipartisan proposal in Congress  would reduce emissions by 40% in twelve years and return all the revenue to the people as a universal dividend. If law, it could create 2.1 million new jobs over the same timeframe. It's a win for both social justice and the environment. Another, equally ambitious bipartisan bill  introduced last July would spend most of the revenue on repairing infrastructure.
Roosevelt signed the TVA Act into law on May 18th, 1933 (the Tennessean).
Any effective strategy to save the planet from the worst effects of global warming will require all of us to rethink some of our political beliefs. Conservatives and libertarians in the United States, for example, need to accept that government sometimes plays an important role in developing new technology  beyond funding basic science . This hostility to government intervention of any kind is one of the reasons why some powerful actors on the political right still deny, or downplay, the findings of most climate scientists. As a libertarian myself, I share many of my friends' concerns the government interfering with the free market. Before deciding upon any course of action, however, we should look at the alternatives. The costs of business as usual, which range from mass extinction of wildlife  to severe shocks to the economy , are simply too high. Unlike the outcome of bad tax or drug policies, this kind of damage is not reversable. But it is avoidable.
At the same time, liberals and democratic socialists need to make their peace with nuclear power. Opposition to atomic energy on much of the left overlaps with fear of nuclear weapons, even though the fuel for weapons is far more complicated to produce than the enriched uranium we use in plants. Anti-nuclear activists also frequently cite the danger of radioactive material. However, 2007 study in The Lancet concluded that nuclear energy is one of the safest forms of energy generation  that we know of. In 2013, NASA climatologists James Hanson and Pushker Kharecha estimated that nuclear power had already saved up to 1.84 million people  worldwide from premature death by reducing air pollution. This isn't a surprise, given that a nuclear power plant generates 6% of the emissions of a coal plant  over its entire lifecycle for the same amount of electricity. There are risks, as with any other form of electricity generation. But most of the hazard comes from mining uranium, and not the operation of the plants themselves or waste disposal.
Perhaps you're still uneasy about nuclear energy and want utilities to power society with 100% renewable sources of electricity. Unfortunately, this strategy is a dead end. Wind and solar by themselves can't generate reliable electricity around the clock like nuclear energy does, and in the U.S. we've already hit the ceiling on hydroelectric power . The Massachusetts Institute of Technology released a report last year  that explored multiple pathways to decarbonization with a clear verdict: the only clean energy portfolios that do not create obvious supply shocks involve nuclear power. This isn't just theoretical. When the Vermont Yankee Power Plant shut down prematurely in 2014 after pressure from an anti-nuclear governor and competition from natural gas, both energy prices and greenhouse gas emissions increased , reversing a long trend of falling emissions in New England. Our overblown fear of radiation poisoning  is more dangerous to the planet than nuclear energy itself. In contrast to the fiasco in Vermont, the Democratic governor of Connecticut recently displayed true leadership  when he saved the Millstone plant from retiring. It's imperative that we follow his example and protect existing nuclear plants  from being prematurely shut down.
Strictly on their own, carbon pricing and nuclear power won't be enough to avert the worst effects of global warming, nor can the United States alone solve the climate crisis. We need a broad portfolio of measures to finish the job, including policies to reduce pollution from farming and transportation, as well as new ways to produce steel without coal. But these problems are speed bumps, not roadblocks. By adopting a can-do attitude and relying upon strategies that work, we can turn the decade that humanity met the challenge of global warming into its proudest moment. We can rise to the occasion while lifting vulnerable communities out of poverty and avoiding unnecessary sacrifices. The future of our planet can still be a bright one if we act quickly enough.
I would like to thank Brian Carpenter, a nuclear engineer, for fact-checking this article, as well as Eric Meyer, David Watson, River Bennett, Jonathan Tweet, Jim Hopf, David Cornell, and Alan Medsker from Generation Atomic  for helping me correct the many blind spots in the original draft.


A theme carried over from last weeks Torah Portion to the festival of Chanukah highlights the significance of the little things. The Gemorah in Shabbos asks what is (Mai) Chanukah? Concluding that the reason the Rabbis established the festival of Chanukah was to commemorate the miracle of the flask of oil that only had enough oil for one day but lasted eight days. The question is asked why of all the miracles that transpired during the Chanukah period was the miracle of the lights chosen. When measuring miracles this would pale in comparison to the victory on the battlefield where the weak overcame the strong the few overcame the many etc.?
A similar question is found on the Torah's narrative about the sale of Yosef to a group of Arab nomads. The Torah tells us his new masters were transporting spices instead of the usual animal hides or paraffin fuel that was more common for Arab nomads to be carrying. The Medrash on the Possuk tells us HKB"H arranged it to show how much He cares about his righteous ones. He wanted to make sure that Yosef had was sweet smelling produce to counteract the usual foul smell found on these nomads. What is difficult to understand is Yosef, at this point was traumatized, he had been thrown in a pit with scorpions then he was sold to Arabs why would he care what the caravan transporting him smelt like?
The answer to both these question is that HKB"H wants us to know that even though we are going through difficult times he is sharing those difficult times with us. This is conveyed and demonstrated by the little things that normally should not be there and are there only through a miracle of Hashem. As parents we have that ability to show our love even when our child is struggling and may not be in the frame of mind to appreciate it. This can be done with a little note, a pat on the back or a word of encouragement. While the little note etc. is not glamorous nor is it able to alleviate the difficulty it can sometimes make the difference in helping our child get through their hardship.
It is about the little things – We are moving towards the end of the semester and with it comes finals time. This time is very stressful for most students. Somehow in a matter of a week students are expected to review and know all they learned in the last four months plus. This includes all their Torah and secular studies classes. This amounts to an average of eight subjects. When you combine all that information together it can be extremely overwhelming. I would venture to say that a student in a dual curriculum program such as Valley Torah is expected to know and is being tested on more information than the average student in one of the UC colleges. While we cannot do the learning for our children nor can we take their tests we can be mindful of what they are going through. It is the little things that we can do to help that will show them how much we care and give them the strength and will to persevere and do well.


Silverstone's ML03 home theatre PC chassis looks very tempting for two reasons. Firstly, its minimalist styling is seductively attractive. Secondly, and perhaps more importantly, it's also pretty damn cheap.
Silverstone has achieved the low cost by constructing the case from steel and plastic; there's no aluminium here. However, it's worth remembering that this case is only ever going to sit under the TV, largely untouched. You're unlikely need to lug it to LAN events, or regularly open it up to tinker with its innards, so these materials are fine.
The interior will accommodate micro-ATX and mini-ITX motherboards, which is a happy medium between size and power, as there are now plenty of choices of both motherboard-types for home theatre PCs. AMD E350-based mini-ITX motherboards, AMD 880G-based micro-ATX boards and both Intel H55 and H67-based micro-ATX/mini-ITX motherboards are already very capable, yet not overly expensive, choices for HTPCs. The only downside of the ML03's design is that it can only use half-height expansion cards, so additional upgrades such as sound cards, TV tuners and graphics cards are limited, though not impossible.
For example, you could add a Powercolor HD 5750, or the slightly better Palit GeForce GTS 450 Low Profile and get an HD-Ready (well, 720p) gaming machine, albeit a somewhat noisy one.
The ML03 can also house a full-size ATX PSU, and includes its own own fan filter underneath, although the maximum supported length is strictly 140mm, and modular units are highly advised given the space constraints. Similarly, the EPS 12V power plug needs to be at least 400mm long, the ATX cable 250-300mm (depending on your routing), and the SATA cables have to be anywhere between 50mm and 250mm, depending on where you install the hardware. It goes without saying then that you really need to plan before you buy, but again these aren't impossible demands, as the PSU market offers plenty of choice.
Addendum 31st December 2010: Silverstone contacted us to say that they recommend non-modular PSUs, because of varying plug sizes. While we understand the logic behind this, it's upset by the fact there is very little spare space to put all the unused cables.


In this episode of Talk Nerdy, Cara speaks with Wright State University professor of philosophy Dr. William Irvine about his new book, "You: A Natural History." They discuss the various identities that make you, well, you, including perspectives from evolutionary biology, genetics, and physics. Then the conversation turns to classical philosophy and the perspective of the stoics.
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Are you a true South Park fan? Well these questions will determine that.
1 Lets start out simple. Who does Cartman hate the most?
2 What is Kyle's religion?
3 When was the most recent episode made (this quiz originally posted July 2018)?
4 Who was the Youtuber who had a cameo?
5 What celebrity attempted suicide?
6 What is South Park's most hated show?
7 Who was the girl who had a crush on Kyle?
8 Who was Token's first girlfriend?
10 Who are the creators of South Park?
11 Who was Cartman's first kiss?
12 Who is South Park's most hated celebrity?
13 What name did Cartman's eye doctor call him?
14 What do the aliens say?
15 How long does it take for an episode to be made?
16 When did season 7 premiere ?
17 Now for the last question. What is the creators' favorite movie franchise?


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Q: Custom attributes and colors in D3 circle pack I can't do the following:
1: Change the colors of the circles to the color attribute in the json object.
2: On clicking of the a circle get the custom attribute named id from the json object.
I've got the click handler working in the circle node (hello world) but can't get the id attribute.
Here's my code:
$(document).ready(function () {
    var json = {
        "name": "flare",
        "children": [
            { "name": "test1", "size": 20, "color": "#ff0000" , "id": 1},
            { "name": "test2", "size": 40, "color": "#ffff00", "id": 2},
            { "name": "test3", "size": 60, "color": "#ff0000", "id": 3},
            { "name": "test4", "size": 80, "color": "#ff00ff", "id": 4 },
            { "name": "test5", "size": 100, "color": "#0000ff", "id": 5}
        ]
    };

    var r = 960,
        format = d3.format(",d"),
        fill = d3.scale.category20c();

    var bubble = d3.layout.pack()
        .sort(null)
        .size([r, r])
        .padding(1.5);

    var vis = d3.select("#chart")
        .append("svg")
        .attr("width", r)
        .attr("height", r)
        .attr("class", "bubble");

    var node = vis.selectAll("g.node")
        .data(bubble.nodes(classes(json))
        .filter(function (d) { return !d.children; }))
       .enter()
        .append("g")
        .attr("class", "node")
        .attr("transform", function (d) {
            return "translate(" + d.x + "," + d.y + ")";
        });

    node.append("title")
        .text(function (d) { return d.className + ": " + format(d.value); });

    node.append("circle")
        .attr("r", function (d) { return d.r; })
        .on("click", function (d, i) { alert("hello world"); })
        .style("fill", function (d) { return fill(d.packageName); });

    node.append("text")
        .attr("text-anchor", "middle")
        .attr("dy", ".3em")
        .text(function (d) { return d.className.substring(0, d.r / 3); });

    function classes(root) {
        var classes = [];

        function recurse(name, node) {
            if (node.children)
                node.children.forEach(function (child) {
                    recurse(node.name, child);
                });
            else
                classes.push({
                    packageName: name,
                    className: node.name,
                    value: node.size
                });
         }

         recurse(null, root);
         return { children: classes };
     }

 });

A: The nodes need to contain the color and id from the json object if you want to access them later:
if (node.children) node.children.forEach(function (child) { recurse(node.name, child); });
else classes.push({ packageName: name,
                    className: node.name,
                    value: node.size,
                    color: node.color,
                    id: node.id});

Once that data is there, you can use it to alter the actual circles on the screen:
node.append("circle")
    .attr("r", function (d) { return d.r; })
    .style("fill", function (d) { return d.color; })
    .on("click", function (d) { alert("id: " + d.id); });

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I'm freshly back from Agent Reboot Phoenix (Diverse Solutions is proudly badge sponsors for the show) and I thought I'd share some tips (more like "Action Steps") for things you might do to get the most out of the show. I think it was Jay Thompson who said "most of you probably won't implement the techniques and tools that we're showing you here today". This is largely true! Very often, people fail to implement the things they've learned at a conference (myself included at times). But today, that's not going to be the case… Right?!
Pick one or two tools or techniques and master them (hat tip to @Nik_Nik who said this). Don't just say "oh, yeah, I need to start my WordPress blog soon." Instead, do it. Set it up today. Ask for help if you need it, but DO IT today. Then, get your content calendar in order. If writing isn't your thing, @DarinPersinger had some good tips on video! The point is, pick one or two things you learned from the show, and execute.
What's working for you RIGHT now? And what can you do better?
Attend a few more meetups. Check for upcoming events (meetup.com, Facebook, etc.) and attend a few. Like Sherry Chris said, if you want to be a successful agent, you need to get out from behind your desk and meet people! You can't do this by hiding behind your desk, laptop and blackberry. Judging by how things went yesterday, you're all pretty darn social. Start getting more social locally! You'll gain more visibility and grow your database that way (which is the goal after all).
What would YOU add? What was your biggest takeaway yesterday? What are you going to work on and what can you implement TODAY to get the most out of your Agent Reboot experience?
It was great to connect with people like Michael and Cheron Lange (clients of ours at Diverse Solutions) – we got to spend some quality time at lunch together and I really go to learn about what they were doing with their marketing strategy to build their business in the Phoenix area. I finally got to meet Tiffany Herrmann (also a client) with United Broker's Group who's just as passionate and a joy to be around as she is on the phone (we've spent countless hours on the phone prior to meeting for the first time yesterday). And I got to connect with folks like Brian D. Culhane, President of exp Realty in Phoenix – they're a client of ours in the Seattle area and they have plans of taking over Phoenix (and I think we can help).
We'll be at the upcoming events in Orange County (3/30/2011), Dallas (4/13/2011), and Chicago (4/20/2011) and we're happy to announce that we have two tickets available for each show that we're giving away… Just head on over and fill out our Agent Reboot Contest Form and consider yourself in the drawing – we look forward to connecting with you!


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Divergent book summary& chapter summaries of Divergent novel. The super super short, Tweetable plot summary is: " Young woman in weird future leaves her family for exciting life, learns it's hard, and ruins villain's plan to destroy government. " The theme of Divergent is that people aren't split up into different groups, like the city in the books. People have lots of different traits, and some are more promenant than others, but they are all still there.
Corey Theme Essay The novel Divergent by Veronica Roth has many different themes and messages throughout it that the author is trying to show the reader. One of the main themes that this novel reveals is the theme of identity and finding out who you really are. divergent essay. What the Utopian World Created Divergent by Veronica Roth and Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut Jr, are stories of a dystopian world that take away peoples power and control.
One major theme that Veronica Roth appaears to be focusing on is that being yourself takes courage. She created this world where people THESIS: In the novel Divergent Veronica Roth examines how the theme of choice leads to bravery, betrayal, and greed.
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Divergent is the first book of a trilogy written by Veronica Roth, an American writer. It tells the story of a postapocalyptic dystopia; the plot unfolds in postwar Chicago, where all of the people, after reaching 16 years old, must join one of the five strata in order to find their life niche for the rest of their lives.


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Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.
Related Characters: Ralph Touchett, Lord Warburton, Mr. Touchett
"Oh no; she has not adopted me. I'm not a candidate for adoption."
"I beg a thousand pardons," Ralph murmured. "I meant—I meant—" he hardly knew what he meant.
"You meant she has taken me up. Yes; she likes to take people up. She has been very kind to me; but," she added with a certain visible eagerness of desire to be explicit, "I'm very fond of my liberty."
Related Characters: Isabel Archer (speaker), Ralph Touchett (speaker), Mrs. Touchett
"I don't see what you've against her except that she's so original."
"Well, I don't like originals; I like translations," Mr Ludlow had more than once replied. "Isabel's written in a foreign tongue. I cant make her out. She ought to marry an Armenian or a Portugese."
"That's just what I'm afraid she'll do!" cried Lilian, who thought Isabel capable of anything.
Related Characters: Lilian Ludlow (speaker), Edmund Ludlow (speaker), Isabel Archer
Isabel Archer was a young person of many theories; her imagination was remarkably active. It had been her fortune to possess a finer mind than most of the persons among whom her lot was cast; to have a larger perception of surrounding facts and to care for knowledge that was tinged with the unfamiliar. […] It may be affirmed without delay that Isabel was probably very liable to the sin of self-esteem; she often surveyed with complacency the field of her own nature; she was in the habit of taking for granted, on scanty evidence, that she was right; she treated herself to occasions of homage. Meanwhile her errors and delusions were frequently such as a biographer interested in preserving the dignity of his subject must shrink from specifying.
Related Characters: Isabel Archer
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"I like the great country stretching away beyond the rivers and across the prairies, blooming and smiling, and spreading till it stops at the green Pacific! A strong, sweet, fresh odour seems to rise from it, and Henrietta—pardon my simile—has something of that odour in her garments."
"I'm not sure the Pacific's so green as that," he said; "but you're a young woman of imagination. Henrietta, however, does smell of the Future—it almost knocks one down!"
Related Characters: Isabel Archer (speaker), Ralph Touchett (speaker), Caspar Goodwood, Henrietta Stackpole
In so far as the indefinable had an influence upon Isabel's behaviour at this juncture, it was not the conception, even unformulated, of a union with Caspar Goodwood; for however she might have resisted conquest at her English suitor's large quiet hands she was at least as far removed from the disposition to let the young man from Boston take positive possession of her. […] The idea of a diminished liberty was particularly disagreeable to her at present.
Related Characters: Isabel Archer, Lord Warburton, Caspar Goodwood, Mr. Touchett
"If there's a thing in the world I'm fond of," she went on with a slight recurrence of grandeur, "it's my personal independence."
Isabel's words, if they meant to shock him, failed of the mark and only made him smile with the sense that here was common ground. "Who would wish less to curtail your liberty than I? What can give me greater pleasure than to see you perfectly independent—doing whatever you like? It's to make you independent that I want to marry you. […] An unmarried woman—a girl of your age—isn't independent. There are all sorts of things she can't do. She's hampered at every step."
Related Characters: Isabel Archer (speaker), Caspar Goodwood (speaker), Lord Warburton
"I'm not in my first youth—I can do whatever I choose—I belong quite to the independent class. I've neither father nor mother; I'm poor and of a serious disposition; I'm not pretty. I therefore am not bound to be timid and conventional; indeed I can't afford such luxuries. Besides, I try to judge things for myself; to judge wrong, I think, is more honourable to not to judge at all. I don't wish to be a mere sheep in the flock; I wish to choose my own fate and know something of human affairs beyond what other people think it compatible with propriety to tell me."
Related Characters: Isabel Archer (speaker), Caspar Goodwood, Mrs. Touchett, Mr. Touchett
"Do you know where you're drifting?" Henrietta pursued, holding out her bonnet delicately.
"No, I haven't the least idea, and I find it very pleasant not to know. A swift carriage, on a dark night, rattling with four horses over roads that one cant see—that's my idea of happiness."
"You're a creature of risks—you make me shudder!" cried Henrietta.
Related Characters: Isabel Archer (speaker), Henrietta Stackpole (speaker)
"Even the hardest iron pots have a little bruise, a little hole somewhere. I flatter myself that I'm rather stout, but I must if I must tell you the truth I've been shockingly chipped and cracked. I do very well for service yet, because I've been cleverly mended."
Related Characters: Madame Merle (speaker), Isabel Archer
"You should live in your own land; whatever it may be you have your natural place there. If we're not good Americans we're certainly poor Europeans; we've no natural place here. We're mere parasites, crawling over the surface; we haven't our feet in the soil. At least one can know it and not have illusions. A woman perhaps can get on; a woman, it seems to me, has no natural place anywhere; wherever she finds herself she has to remain on the surface and, more or less, to crawl."
"The peril for you is that you live too much in the world of your own dreams. You're not enough in contact with reality—with the toiling, striving, suffering, I may even say sinning, world that surrounds you. You're too fastidious; you've too many graceful illusions. Your newly-acquired thousands will shut you up more and more to the society of a few selfish and heartless people who will be interested in keeping them up."
Related Characters: Henrietta Stackpole (speaker), Isabel Archer
The villa was a long, rather blank-looking structure […] [It's] antique, solid, weather-worn, yet imposing front had a somewhat incommunicative character. It was the mask, not the face of the house. It had heavy lids, but no eyes; the house in reality looked another way—looked off behind, into splendid openness and the range of the afternoon light. […] The windows of the ground-floor, as you saw them from the piazza, were, in their noble proportions, extremely architectural; but their function seemed less to offer communication with the world than to defy the world to look in.
Related Characters: Isabel Archer, Gilbert Osmond
Related Symbols: Architecture
We know that he was fond of originals, of rarities, of the superior and the exquisite; and now that he had seen Lord Warburton, whom he thought a very fine example of his race and order, he perceived a new attraction of taking to himself a young lady who had qualified herself to figure in his collection of choice objects by declining so noble a hand. […] It would be proper that the woman he might marry should have done something of that sort.
Related Characters: Isabel Archer, Gilbert Osmond, Lord Warburton
"Is it a marriage your friends won't like?" he demanded.
"I really haven't an idea. As I say, I don't marry for my friends."
He went on, making no exclamation, no comment, only asking questions, doing it quite without delicacy. "Who and what then is Mr Gilbert Osmond?"
"Who and what? Nobody and nothing but a very good and very honourable man. He's not in business," said Isabel. "He's not rich; he's not known for anything in particular."
Related Characters: Isabel Archer (speaker), Caspar Goodwood (speaker), Gilbert Osmond
Ralph was shocked and humiliated; his calculations had been false and the person in the world in whom he was most interested was lost. He drifted about the house like a rudderless vessel in a rocky stream, or sat in the garden of the palace on a great cane chair, his long legs extended, his head thrown back and his hat pulled over his eyes. He felt cold about the heart; he had never liked anything less. What could he do, what could he say? If the girl was irreclaimable could he pretend to like it? To attempt to reclaim her was permissible only if the attempt should succeed. To try to persuade her of anything sordid or sinister in the man to whose deep art she had succumbed would be decently discreet only in the event of her being persuaded.
Related Characters: Isabel Archer, Ralph Touchett, Gilbert Osmond
"Pray, would you wish me to make a mercenary marriage—what they call a marriage of ambition? I've only one ambition—to be free to follow out a good feeling. I had others once, but they've passed away. Do you complain of Mr Osmond because he's not rich? That's just what I like him for. I've fortunately money enough; I've never felt so thankful for it as to-day. There have been moments when I should like to go and kneel down by your father's grave: he did perhaps a better thing than he knew when he put it into my power to marry a poor man—a man who has born his poverty with such dignity, with such indifference. […] Mr. Osmond makes no mistakes! He knows everything, he understands everything, he has the kindest, gentlest, highest spirit."
Related Characters: Isabel Archer (speaker), Ralph Touchett, Gilbert Osmond
The elation of success, which surely now flamed high in Osmond, emitted meanwhile very little smoke for so brilliant a blaze. […] He was immensely pleased with his young lady; Madame Merle had made him a present of incalculable value. […] What could be a happier gift in a companion than a quick, fanciful mind which saved one repetitions and reflected one's thought on a polished, elegant surface? […] this lady's intelligence was to be a silver plate, not an earthen one—a plate that he might heap up with ripe fruits, to which it would give a decorative value, so that talk might become for him a sort of served dessert.
Related Characters: Isabel Archer, Gilbert Osmond, Madame Merle
The object of Mr. Rosier's well-regulated affection dwelt in a high house in the very heart of Rome; a dark and massive structure overlooking a sunny piazzetta in the neighbourhood of the Farnese Palace. In a palace, too, little Pansy lived—a palace by Roman measure, but a dungeon to poor Rosier's apprehensive mind. It seemed to him of evil omen that the young lady he wished to marry, and whose fastidious father he doubted of his ability to conciliate, should be immured in a kind of domestic fortress […] he could see that the proportions of the windows and even the details of the cornice had quite the grand air.
Related Characters: Isabel Archer, Gilbert Osmond, Edward Rosier, Pansy Osmond
He took his course to the adjoining room and met Mrs. Osmond coming out of the deep doorway. She was dressed in black velvet; she looked high and splendid, as he had said, and yet oh so radiantly gentle! […] She had lost something of that quick eagerness to which her husband had privately taken exception—she had more the air of being able to wait. Now, at all events, framed in the gilded doorway, she struck our young man as the picture of a gracious lady.
Related Characters: Isabel Archer, Edward Rosier
Related Symbols: Doorways
"If she should marry Lord Warburton I should be very glad," Isabel went on frankly. "He's an excellent man. You say, however, that she only to sit perfectly still. Perhaps she won't sit perfectly still. If she loses Mr. Rosier she may jump up!"
Osmond appeared to give no heed to this; he sat gazing at the fire. "Pansy would like to be a great lady," he remarked in a moment with a certain tenderness of tone. "She wishes above all to please," he added.
Related Characters: Isabel Archer (speaker), Gilbert Osmond (speaker), Edward Rosier, Pansy Osmond
The real offence, as she ultimately perceived, was her having a mind of her own at all. Her mind was to be his—attached to his own like a small garden-plot to a deer-park. He would take the soil gently and water the flowers; he would weed the best and gather an occasional nosegay. It would be a pretty piece of property for a proprietor already far-reaching.
Related Characters: Isabel Archer, Gilbert Osmond, Pansy Osmond
"One's daughter should be fresh and fair; she should be innocent and gentle. With the manners of the present time she is liable to become so dusty and crumpled. Pansy's a little dusty, a little dishevelled; she has knocked about too much. This bustling, pushing rabble that calls itself society—one should take her out of it occasionally. Convents are very quiet, very convenient, very salutary. I like to think of her there, in the old garden, under the arcade, among those tranquil virtuous women. Many of them are gentlewomen born; several of them are noble. She will have her books and her drawing, she will have her piano. I've made the most liberal arrangements."
Related Characters: Gilbert Osmond (speaker), Isabel Archer, Edward Rosier, Pansy Osmond, Countess Gemini
Isabel saw it all as distinctly as if it had been reflected in a large clear glass. It might have been a great moment for her, for it might have been a moment of triumph. That Madame Merle has lost her pluck and saw before her the phantom of exposure—this in itself was a revenge, this in itself was almost the promise of a brighter day.
Related Characters: Isabel Archer, Gilbert Osmond, Madame Merle, Pansy Osmond
"She made a convenience of me."
"Ah," cried Mrs. Touchett, "so she did of me! She does of every one."
Related Characters: Isabel Archer (speaker), Mrs. Touchett (speaker), Gilbert Osmond, Madame Merle
"Why shouldn't we be happy—when it's here before us, when it's so easy? I'm yours for ever—for ever and ever. Here I stand; I'm as firm as a rock. What have you to care about? You've no children; that perhaps would be an obstacle. As it is you've nothing to consider. You must save what you can of your life; you mustn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part. It would be an insult to you to assume that you care for the look of the thing, for what people will say, for the bottomless idiocy of the world. We've nothing to do with all that; we're quite out of it; we look at things as they are. You took the great step in coming away; the next is nothing; it's the natural one."
Related Characters: Caspar Goodwood (speaker), Isabel Archer, Gilbert Osmond


While investigating the vulnerability that causes Foreshadow, which Intel refers to as "L1 Terminal Fault", Intel identified two related attacks, which we call Foreshadow-NG. These attacks can potentially be used to read any information residing in the L1 cache, including information belonging to the System Management Mode (SMM), the Operating System's Kernel, or Hypervisor. Perhaps most devastating, Foreshadow-NG might also be used to read information stored in other virtual machines running on the same third-party cloud, presenting a risk to cloud infrastructure. Finally, in some cases, Foreshadow-NG might bypass previous mitigations against speculative execution attacks, including countermeasures for Meltdown and Spectre.
Jo Van Bulck, Frank Piessens, Raoul Strackx (imec-DistriNet, KU Leuven).
Marina Minkin, Mark Silberstein (Technion), Ofir Weisse, Daniel Genkin, Baris Kasikci, Thomas F. Wenisch (University of Michigan), Yuval Yarom (University of Adelaide and CSIRO's Data61).
The KU Leuven authors discovered the vulnerability, independently developed the attack, and first notified Intel on January 3, 2018. Their work was done independently from and concurrently to other recent x86 speculative execution vulnerabilities, notably Meltdown and Spectre.
The authors from Technion, University of Michigan, the University of Adelaide and CSIRO's Data61 independently discovered and reported the vulnerability and associated attack to Intel during the embargo period on January 23, 2018.
Following our discovery of Foreshadow (CVE-2018-3615), Intel identified two closely related variants, potentially affecting additional microprocessors, SMM code, Operating system and Hypervisor software. We collectively refer to these Intel-discovered variants as Foreshadow-NG (Next Generation, CVE-2018-3620 and CVE-2018-3646), whereas Intel refers to this entire class of speculative execution side channel vulnerabilities as "L1 Terminal Fault" (L1TF). More information on L1TF can be found here.
What technologies are affected by Foreshadow?
The researchers who discovered Foreshadow demonstrated the vulnerability on SGX enclaves, extracting any data protected via SGX secure memory.
What technologies are affected by Foreshadow-NG?
A user processes can potentially read kernel memory belonging to the OS.
A malicious guest VM (running on the cloud) can potentially read memory belonging to the VM's hypervisor or memory belonging to another guest VM running on the cloud.
A malicious OS to read memory protected by the SMM.
Where can I find more information about Foreshadow and Foreshadow-NG?
CVE-2018-3620 for attacking the OS Kernel and SMM mode.
CVE-2018-3646 for attacking virtual machines.
A Virtual Machine is a software emulator of a physical computer. Virtual machines are often used in compute clouds (such as Amazon's AWS or Microsoft's Azure) where, instead of maintaining their own infrastructure, customers can pay for the time the cloud infrastructure spends on running the customer's machine (and the computations within it). As clouds typically run more than one virtual machine on the same physical hardware, it is important that the cloud's Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) or hypervisor prevents information leakage across VM boundaries by ensuring complete isolation between two virtual machines and between the virtual machines and the hypervisor.
So how does Foreshadow-NG affect VMs?
Foreshadow-NG breaks the above mentioned isolation. Thus, a malicious virtual machine running inside the cloud can potentially read data belonging to other virtual machines as well as data belonging to the cloud's hypervisor.
The operating system kernel is the core of the operating system, and is responsible for managing most of the operations that a computer performs. In particular, the kernel manages the computer's memory and CPU time as well as ensures isolation between two programs running on the same computer. Given its important role, the kernel has access to all the data stored in the computer's memory, including data belonging to other programs.
So how does Foreshadow-NG affect the kernel?
Using Foreshadow-NG, a malicious program running on the computer might be able to read some parts of the kernel's data. As the kernel has access to data stored by other programs, a malicious program might be able to exploit Foreshadow-NG to access data belonging to other programs.
Intel Software Guard eXtensions (SGX) is a Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) that enables secure program execution in untrusted environments. The program and the data it operates on, are placed inside a secure enclave. There they are protected from modification or inspection, even in the presence of a highly-privileged adversary corrupting the operating system, hypervisor, or firmware (BIOS). SGX also provides a remote attestation protocol that allows software to prove to a remote party that it is running on a genuine SGX-enabled Intel processor, as opposed to a (potentially malicious) simulator.
Was the confidentiality of SGX enclaves affected by Foreshadow?
Yes. Foreshadow enables an attacker to read the entire SGX enclave's memory contents. This includes architectural enclaves provided by Intel such as the Quoting and Launch Enclaves.
Was the remote attestation protocol affected by Foreshadow?
Yes. Using Foreshadow we have successfully extracted the attestation keys, used by the Intel Quoting Enclave to vouch for the authenticity of enclaves. As a result, we were able to generate "valid" attestation quotes. Using these counterfeit quotes, successfully "proved" to a remote party that a "genuine" enclave was running while, in fact, the code was running outside of SGX, under our complete control.
Is SGX long-term storage affected by Foreshadow?
Yes. As Foreshadow enables an attacker to extract SGX sealing keys, previously sealed data can be modified and re-sealed. With the extracted sealing key, an attacker can trivially calculate a valid Message Authentication Code (MAC), thus depriving the data owner from the ability to detect the modification.
Can I detect if someone has exploited Foreshadow to read my data?
Not likely. Foreshadow does not leave traces in typical log files. While installing a new (malicious) driver may leave traces in the system log, the attacker can probably alter the log buffer, since she has root privileges.
A kernel-level attacker using a Foreshadow attack may apply tricks to significantly increase her chances of success. While installing a new (malicious) driver may leave traces in the system log, such a privileged attacker can probably alter the log afterwards.
Did you release the source code of your exploits?
For educational purposes, we integrated basic support for Foreshadow-type transient execution attacks into the open-source SGX-Step enclave side-channel attack framework available on GitHub.
Have you evaluated any software or microcode updates?
We are currently still evaluating microcode and software patches but have not discovered any vulnerabilities. For technical experts, our technical report discusses our view on these mitigations in more detail.
Why is it called Foreshadow?
In literature, "foreshadowing" is used to indicate a trick where a writer provides a subtle hint of what is to come later in the story. Analogous to how a good story teller tries to keep the outcome of the story (mostly) secret, the speculative execution mechanisms found in modern processors, do not directly leak secrets. In the storytelling analogy, the Foreshadow attack shows, however, that clever adversaries can abuse subtle hints in the present to reconstruct secrets from future instructions.
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This research was partially supported by the Research Fund KU Leuven, the Technion Hiroshi Fujiwara cyber security research center, the Israel cyber bureau, by NSF awards #1514261 and #1652259, the financial assistance award 70NANB15H328 from the U.S. Department of Commerce, National Institute of Standards and Technology, the 2017-2018 Rothschild Postdoctoral Fellowship, and the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA) under Contract #FA8650-16-C-7622. Jo Van Bulck and Raoul Strackx are supported by a grant of the Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO).


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