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How to find fixed points for DES weak keys
Can someone explain me this please I am a bit confused? It's from a texbook I am reading (block cipher companion) it says that:
each weak key has $2^{32}$ fixed points $m$ where $\operatorname{DES}_w(m) = m$ ( $w$ is a DES weak key). In other words encrypting a fixed point gives exactly the same point. To see this consider the $2^{32}$ ciphertexts after 8 rounds of encryption for which the two 32 bit halves are equal. For a weak DES key, the round keys of the eighth and ninth rounds are equal. Thus the intermediate texts after seven rounds and after nine rounds of encryption will be equal. Since the round keys of the 7th and the 10th rounds are equal, the intermediate texts after 6 rounds and after 10 rounds of encryption will be equal. Continuing like this it follows that the plaintext will be equal to the ciphertext.
Now did not quite get :
Why are there $2^{32}$ fixed points? And why after the eighth round of encryption the two halves must be equal?
What does the author mean by the intermediate texts exactly? And how are they being equal?
P.S.: This question is not asking for what the weak keys are. I am asking for "fixed points" not exactly weak keys. For this reason I think it is not a duplicate of any other question. There is one similar question to what I've asked for which I have checked and saw that no satisfactory answer has been given there either. Here is the similar question with no proper answers:
What is the fixed point attribute of DES with weak keys?
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$\begingroup$ @kelalaka it is very similar but not the same question. That post you' ve mentioned, did not have the answer to my question. I am not asking the same thing i.e. weak keys but "fixed points" $\endgroup$ – esra Oct 24 '18 at 19:29
$\begingroup$ @Maarten Bodewes I' ve just edited and linked the the question. Thanks $\endgroup$ – esra Oct 24 '18 at 20:23
I answer in hopefully didactic order.
What does the author mean by the intermediate texts exactly?
The intermediate texts after $n$ rounds are the 64-bit quantities $L_n\mathbin\|R_n$, numbering these per the specification of DES. $L_n$ and $R_n$ are the halves.
Why after the eighth round of encryption the two halves must be equal?
I do not know if the two halves must be equal. But we can prove that it is enough that the two halves are equal, which is what the quoted text does.
Ignoring $\mathsf{IP}$ and $\mathsf{IP}^{-1}$, the normal equations of DES encryption are, for $1\le n<16$: $$\begin{align} L_n&=R_{n-1}&&&R_n&=L_{n-1}\oplus f(R_{n-1},K_n)\\ L_{16}&=L_{15}\oplus f(R_{15},K_{16})&&&R_{16}&=R_{15} \end{align}$$ As a consequence of the values of the four weak keys $z$, all bits in register $C$ are identical. Therefore $C$ remains invariant as it rotates during encryption. The same applies for $D$. Hence $K_1=K_2=\ldots=K_{15}=K_{16}$. Thus for $1\le i\le16$ we can replace $f(R_i,K_i)$ by a function $f_z(R_i)$ identical in all the rounds, for fixed $w$. The above DES equations turn into $$\begin{align} L_n&=R_{n-1}&&&R_n&=L_{n-1}\oplus f_z(R_{n-1})\\ L_{16}&=L_{15}\oplus f_z(R_{15})&&&R_{16}&=R_{15} \end{align}$$ If $L_8=R_8$ (that is equals halves after round 8) then, by plugging this into the equations for $n=8$ and $n=9$, we get $$\begin{align} L_8&=R_7&&&L_8&=L_7\oplus f_z(R_7)\\ L_9&=L_8&&&R_9&=L_8\oplus f_z(L_8) \end{align}$$ We plug the top two equations into the bottom ones, and get $$\begin{align} L_9&=R_7&&&R_9&=\bigl(L_7\oplus f_z(L_8)\bigr)\oplus f_z(L_8)\\ &&&&&=L_7\oplus\bigl(f_z(L_8)\oplus f_z(L_8)\bigr)\\ &&&&&=L_7\oplus0^{32}\\ &&&&&=L_7 \end{align}$$ We used associativity of $\oplus$, that $f_z$ is a function (and identical in all rounds), that for all 32-bit $X$ it holds $X\oplus X=0^{32}$ (the bitstring of 32 zero bits), which is the neutral for $\oplus$.
Wrapping up, we get $L_7=R_9$ and $R_7=L_9$. Thus "the intermediate texts after seven rounds and after nine rounds of encryption will be equal" within an inversion of left and right that the quotation mistakenly sidesteps.
We plug these results into the equations for $n=7$ and $n=10$, and get $$\begin{align} R_9&=R_6&&&L_9&=L_6\oplus f_z(R_6)\\ L_{10}&=R_9&&&R_{10}&=L_9\oplus f_z(R_9)\\ \end{align}$$ After simplification as previously, we get $L_6=R_{10}$ and $R_6=L_{10}$. And so on, up to $L_1=R_{15}$ and $R_1=L_{15}$. For the next step we must take care that the the equations for the last round reverse $L_{16}$ and $R_{16}$ compared to others. We obtain $L_0=L_{16}$ and $R_0=R_{16}$.
The 64-bit plaintext $P$ is such that $\operatorname{IP}(P)=L_0\mathbin\|R_0$ and the 64-bit ciphertext block $C$ is such that $\operatorname{IP}^{-1}(L_{16}\mathbin\|R_{16})=C$. It follows that $P=C$. Call that quantity $m$ and we have $\operatorname{DES}_w(m)=m$, Q.E.D.
Why are there $2^{32}$ fixed points?
There are $2^{32}$ possible values for $L_8$, thus for intermediate text $L_8\mathbin\|R_8$ with $L_8=R_8$. By the above reasoning, each gives a value of $m$ with $\operatorname{DES}_w(m)=m$ for a given weak key $w$. And the values thus obtained must be distinct: DES encryption is deterministic for a given key $w$, thus the same input value can't give different intermediate texts after 8 rounds.
Hence there are at least $2^{32}$ fixed points $m$ for a given weak key $w$. I do not know how many more there might be, for each of the four $w$. However, we can tell that the counts are the same for the all-zero and all-one $w$ (ignoring parity bits); same for the two other weak keys. That follows from DES's complementation property.
One option is to modify some DES encryption code to start at round 8 with $L_8=R_8$. The ciphertext will be a fixed point for the weak key used. We can find $2^{32}$ of these for a given weak key $w$, by using a counter for $L_8$. When that's done for a weak key $w$, we can derive fixed points for the complement of $w$ by using DES's complementation property.
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Jay Zeballos a 1st Degree Black Belt under Jean Jacques not only views Jean Jacques as his teacher but also as someone to look up to because he is someone in whom you can find inspiration. "I am fond of telling people that he is not only my Jiu-Jitsu instructor, but my life coach as well. He sincerely believes in all his students, and you cannot ask for greater motivation to succeed than that," says Jay. The belief that he has in his students inspires them to become that much better. But he also reminds them that with becoming better and stronger, you must never forget to be humble, as you never know when you might end up being the one tapped.
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"In Whose Ruins could not be more timely. As our nation once again battles over the meanings and uses of history, Puglionesi shines a bright light on the role of myth in the construction of American empire. White Americans, she convincingly demonstrates, mapped specious stories onto Indigenous landscapes to bolster their claims to material and racial supremacy. In Whose Ruins is a triumph of excavation—not just of the histories that have been purposely buried, but of the power of narrative to shape our world."
— Blain Roberts and Ethan J. Kytle, coauthors of Denmark Vesey's Garden: Slavery and Memory in Cradle of the Confederacy
"Original, illuminating, and bristling with insight, In Whose Ruins is a thought-provoking exploration into the meaning of the American land. By focusing on some largely forgotten episodes of the quest for power in the nation's past—and the swindlers, scientists, and visionaries who populated them—Alicia Puglionesi has delivered a timely, deftly written, and convention-challenging book."
—Scott Ellsworth, author of The Ground Breaking: An American City and Its Search for Justice
"Puglionesi's In Whose Ruins is a masterful truth-telling of North American colonial history, shattering the contrived myths created to justify the oppression, abnegation and elimination of Indigenous people. This adept writer and historian reminds us how white settlers lied to each other and their children to justify their violence, and how those old stories still complicate our understanding of the United States' founding. Readers will learn how early immigrants turned Native American burial mounds into proof of an extinct white civilization, their medicinal salve into petroleum, their sacred places into hydroelectric power, and their mysterious rocks into nuclear weapons. In Whose Ruins resets the historical narrative, which is exactly what we need today for our society to move forward in peace and with justice."
—Chris Tomlinson, columnist and author of New York Times bestsellers Forget the Alamo and Tomlinson Hill
"Amid extreme weather, deadly pandemic, political discontent, and economic volatility, it is tempting to seek the origin, whether as comforting nostalgia or an always-already tale of damnation. As Puglionesi's book shows, however, origins are stories told in the present that acquire force by transforming brutal domination into neat narratives. Beneath them is messy history, bursting with competing claims and interests. Especially in a settler colonial society like the United States, conquest of people, land, and collective memory itself has been enabled and justified by layers upon layers of origin stories, producing a sediment so thick it can be hard to think otherwise. But this gracefully written book is a testament to thinking otherwise, to uncovering both the horror and the beautiful struggle for a different world hiding beneath the myths."
—Thea Riofrancos, author of A Planet to Win and Resource Radicals
"Through razor-sharp focus on select sites of its extraction, In Whose Ruins asks searing questions about this society's two-century-long quest for power—material and political, revealing the deep psychological scars, haunting dreams and cruel designs, and deathly consequences it has generated along the way. Alicia Puglionesi's brilliant study of energy's outsized hold on the soul of the nation is both poetic in its affective rendering of a hidden human-ecological past with consequence and prophetic in its urgent call for us to confront that tough history as a first step toward the imagining of a sustainable future."
—Darren Dochuk, author of Anointed With Oil: How Christianity and Crude Made Modern America
"In Whose Ruins is popular history at its engaging best. Centering formative events and key discourses many Americans would prefer to forget, Puglionesi examines the intertwined processes of Indigenous dispossession and environmental degradation at the foundations of US empire and contemporary racial capitalism. As important, she foregrounds vital perspectives typically marginalized or simply erased from dominant narratives. The myth of a "lost" race of prehistoric Mound Builders is met with knowledge of ongoing Indigenous engagements with ancient sites and the building of new Indigenous earthworks in the twenty-first century."
—Chadwick Allen, author of Earthworks Rising: Mound Building in Native Literature and Arts
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Publication Date: April 5th, 2022
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Born:	6 June 1918, Lansing, IA, USA
Died:	21 December 2009, Seattle, WA, USA
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Prize motivation: "for their discoveries concerning reversible protein phosphorylation as a biological regulatory mechanism."
The element phosphorus and phosphate groups, consisting of phosphorous and oxygen atoms, play an important role in several vital biochemical processes. In the mid-1950s Edwin Krebs and Edmond Fischer were able to describe how processes in which proteins emit and absorb phosphate groups can take place in both directions. They demonstrated how the process is governed by special enzymes - proteins that speed up the transformation of other proteins without being incorporated in the final products of the process. These processes are important in the regulation of metabolism in the body and other functions.
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Move To Assurance Releases New Video: (The Four Steps Of) How To Share Your Testimony
Move To Assurance's newest video—(The Four Steps Of) How To Share Your Testimony—was produced to help Christians learn how to use their testimony for sharing the good news about Jesus Christ.
Tualatin, OR – Move To Assurance (MTA) in Tualatin, announced the release of its newest video, (The Four Steps Of) How To Share Your Testimony today.
Our Christian testimony is one of our most effective tools for sharing the gospel, if we are properly prepared, and if we remember to include the gospel in our testimony.
"When we share our testimony the focus should be on connecting people with Jesus." said Steve Hudgik, Executive Director of MTA. "With a small amount of training in how to tell our story, and a few simple how-to tips, we can easily learn how to share our Christian testimony in away that helps others understand the gift Jesus has given us."
This new MTA video shows the four steps used to prepare for sharing your testimony:
1) Prayer
2) Write a long and short version of your testimony
3) Convert what your wrote into an outline
4) Practice sharing your testimony
These four steps are covered in this fast-moving 25 minute video. The video also goes into details such as tips to help you write your testimony, and a description of the three parts of a Christian testimony:
1) The way I was before
2) What happened (how you became a Christian)
3) The way you are now
The video also covers topics such as when you should share your testimony and the circumstances in which another way of sharing the gospel might be more appropriate. It even covers what to do if you forget part of your testimony.
"As Christians we've assumed that everyone will know how to share their Christian testimony." Steve explains. "But like everything else we do, having some guidance and training is very useful. We've made this the first in what will be a series of evangelism 'how-to' videos, because our story can be a key part in helping people understand the gospel of Jesus Christ."
(The Four Steps Of) How To Share Your Testimony is freely available online on the MTA web site at: http://tiny.cc/shareyour. DVD copies, which include two bonus videos showing testimonies, are available on the MTA web site for $5.00 (www.MoveToAssurance.org).
Translation of this video into Russian is planned for 2012.
Additional videos planned for this "how-to" series include:
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Located in Tualatin, Oregon, Move To Assurance (MTA) is a non-denominational evangelical ministry dedicated to going and doing Matthew 28:19&20. MTA has produced six previous videos, four about Genesis and creation, and two about true and false beliefs. All are freely available online on the MTA web site and YouTube. They are also available on DVD. Two of the videos are available in Russian. MTA's mission is to share the gospel and teach about the Bible; teach others to share the gospel; and provide opportunities for churches and individuals to be involved in sharing the gospel. The MTA web site is at: www.MoveToAssurance.org.
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An object does not magically appear out of nowhere. It takes years, centuries and even thousands of years of fine tuning before an object assumes its final form, whether invented or the result of chance, and there is always room for future improvement. The idea itself of the object may change in unpredictable ways over time as contexts, purpose, materials, production and channels for its circulation vary. The object's evolution, together with that of so many others, becomes an important aspect of History.
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We are familiar with the history of the briar pipe, but what is interesting is its forerunner in clay, which was fashioned in a continent that had just been discovered and which was brought back to Europe by merchants and adventurers. However, the concept of the pipe itself reaches much further back in time, when groups of people gathered round a fire of sacred herbs and inhaled the intoxicating smoke, when they first started to use small pipes to draw in the smoke more easily, and later, but still long before the arrival of Christopher Columbus, when they realized that the leaves of certain wild plants had some rather interesting properties.
These plants were originally from the Americas, today classified as Nicotiana belonging to the Solanaceae family, specifically from Central America and Southern Mexico. But they were also to be found in the Caribbean, Cuba and the Bahamas, where the Genoese explorer first landed in 1492 convinced he had found India.
The members of the expedition came across so many strange sights, in particular "certain large dried leaves" offered by the natives as precious gifts. Two sailors that were sent to investigate for a few days observed " many people, men and women, who were going to their villages, with a firebrand in their hand, and herbs to drink the smoke thereof, as they are accustomed". This is recorded by Columbus in his journal, who was baffled by this curious local custom. Then one of the sailors decided to try this "firebrand".
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From what is later reported we get a better idea of the phenomenon: "They wrapped dried herbs in a dried leaf, which formed a kind of tube…they lit it at one end, sucking in and inhaling the smoke at the other end… These tubes … they called tabaccos".
So the "tabaccos" referred to the tubes, not the plant, which was already called "petun" by the natives. The term may have been onomatopoeic, mimicking the sound of lips when smoking and then taken up by Europeans in scientific discourse. In any case, the word "tobacco" stuck and became synonymous of the plant itself. On the other hand, although the petunia is related to the tobacco plant and has wonderful flowers, its leaves have no particular properties.
The use of "tubes", and pipes that Europeans came across in other parts of the Americas suggests that it was similar to the more familiar modern concept of tobacco smoking, but there is no certainty here. The phenomenon of "smoking" has always existed in various forms, especially in the past, and attempting to explore this further has led to contradictory theories based on archaeological excavations, ancient texts, and the customs of populations that in modern times lived or still live in remote parts of the world.
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In the beginning there was fire, of course. Prometheus' gift was at the heart of the community and its rituals. The smoke that rose up and faded away held sacred properties, and if certain herbs or vegetable substances were burned so much the better for communication with another world, the people, priests or shaman achieving a state of total abandonment more easily. As for the myth of Prometheus, the story goes that his brother, Epimetheus, attracted by the smoke rising up from the fire that Prometheus was about to steal from the gods took a straw stalk and started to inhale it. In the 5th century BCE Herodotus described the Scythians inhaling cannabis smoke, most likely during funerary rites. They would throw cannabis seeds onto heated stones and inhale the smoke "so delighted that they shout for joy". Ancient populations, such as the Mayans, were familiar with smoking (probably tobacco) and at Palenque (Mexico) there is a bas-relief in a 6th century BCE temple depicting a priest in ceremonial attire smoking through a tube with smoke billowing out through the end.
In ancient times such customs were recorded throughout the world and above all played a social, magical, religious and also therapeutic role. In Europe, as well as in Africa and Asia, various plants were burnt and then inhaled, such as hemp, coltsfoot, lavender, henbane, oregano, thyme, mint, verbena and incense. Moreover, Roman "pipes" have been discovered in various parts of Europe (although there is some debate about dating here) and a fresco at Herculaneum depicts women smoking "pipes" . Here we should ask what purpose these objects really served, in what context, and what types of herbs were used. It is highly unlikely that tobacco was used, as it has never been found on archaeological sites, nor in written records. Moreover, it seems rather strange that such an important and widespread custom seems to have been forgotten in Europe until the 16th century and that the tobacco plant, if it really did exist before Columbus' discovery, became extinct. On the other hand, evidence of pollen from the tobacco plant has been found on sites in Yucatan, suggesting that it existed as early as 15,000 years ago in the Americas.
If it is true that tobacco and the devices for smoking it are closely related, the origins of the pipe should be sought in the Americas, without forgetting, however, that the development of the pipe as we know it today also occurred in other parts of the world.
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Q: How to Join two Custom fields values and save to third field i am trying to join two custom fields and save the combined value to the third custom field.
first custom field have some options like state abbreviation(meta key='state_found') drop down and second custom field is generating random numbers, following is the code for random number which is saved to Post random(Meta key='post_random')
function get_post_random_wpse( $post_id = 0, $meta_key =
'post_random',$meta_value = 0 )
{
if( ! ( $post_id > 0 && strlen( $meta_key ) > 0 ) )
return 0;
if( '' === ( $post_rand = get_post_meta( $post_id, $meta_key, true ) ) )
update_post_meta( $post_id, $meta_key, $post_rand = $meta_value);
return $post_rand;
}

i am trying to merge these two fields with this code
add_filter('save_post', 'combine_my_fields');
function combine_my_fields($post_id, $post) {
$sup = get_post_meta($post_id, 'state_found', true);
$sup = ', ' . get_post_meta($post_id, 'post_random', true);
update_post_meta($post_id, 'new_id', $sup);
}

the final value must be saved into New ID(meta key='new_id')
but i don't know why the thing is not working the random code is generating perfectly but the values don't get merged and one more thing i want to make sure all the random numbers must be unique.
Thanks

A: add_filter('save_post', 'combine_my_fields');

function combine_my_fields($post_id) {
    $sup = get_post_meta($post_id, 'state_found','test text added');
    $sup.= ', ' . get_post_meta($post_id, 'post_random', 'test text added');
    update_post_meta($post_id, 'new_id', $sup);
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Outstanding Drama Series - The nominees for Outstanding Drama Series are: 'The Americans,' 'The Crown,' 'Game of Thrones,' 'The Handmaid's Tale,' 'Stranger Things,' 'This Is Us,' and 'Westworld.'
Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Movie - The nominees for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Movie are: Antonio Banderas, 'Genius: Picasso,' Darren Criss, 'The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story,' Benedict Cumberbatch, 'Patrick Melrose,' Jeff Daniels, 'The Looming Tower,' John Legend, 'Jesus Christ Superstar,' and Jesse Plemons, 'Black Mirror.'
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Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series - The nominees for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series are: Anthony Anderson, 'Black-ish,', Ted Danson, 'The Good Place,' Larry David, 'Curb Your Enthusiasm,' Donald Glover, 'Atlanta', Bill Hader, 'Barry,' and William H. Macey, 'Shameless.'
Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series - The nominees for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series are: Pamela Adlon, 'Better Things,' Rachel Brosnahan, 'The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,' Allison Janney, 'Mom,' Issa Rae, 'Insecure,' Tracee Ellis Ross, 'Black-ish,' and Lily Tomlin, 'Grace and Frankie.'
Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series - The nominees for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series are: Jason Bateman, 'Ozark,' Matthew Rhys, 'The Americans,' Sterling K. Brown, 'This Is Us', Milo Ventimiglia, 'This Is Us', Ed Harris, 'Westworld,' and Jeffrey Wright, 'Westworld.'
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Outstanding Reality Show Program - The nominees for Outstanding Reality Show Program are: 'Amazing Race,' 'American Ninja Warrior,' 'Project Runway,' 'RuPaul's Drag Race,' 'Top Chef,' and 'The Voice.'
Outstanding Variety Sketch Series - The nominees for Outstanding Variety Sketch Series are: 'The Daily Show with Trevor Noah,' 'Full Frontal with Samantha Bee,' 'Jimmy Kimmel Live,' 'Last Week Tonight with John Oliver,' 'The Late Late Show with James Corden,' and 'The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.'
Outstanding Limited Series - The nominees for Outstanding Limited Series are: 'The Alienist', 'The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story,' 'Genius: Picasso,' 'Godless,' and 'Patrick Melrose.'
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The eminent French cellist Jean-Michel Fonteneau is one of the leading performers, chamber musicians, and teachers. He has served as a professor of cello and chamber music at the San Francisco Conservatory for the past two decades while continuing to maintain an active performing career around the world.
The eminent French cellist Jean-Michel Fonteneau has performed and taught around the world. As a soloist and chamber musician, he has appeared throughout Europe, Asia, Africa, and North and South America. He has served as a professor of cello and chamber music at the San Francisco Conservatory for the past two decades, in addition to performing and teaching annually at Yellow Barn.
Jean-Michel is a founding member of the Quatuor Ravel which received top prizes at the Evian International String Quartet Competition in 1989 and won the Victoire de la Musique Classique in 1994. The Quatuor Ravel performed annually at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, as well as regularly at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Salles Gaveau, and Suntory Hall. They also toured extensively throughout the United Kingdom, Germany, and North America. Jean-Michel created and led the first ever string quartet residency program in France.
Recent collaborations include performances with Leon Fleisher, Peter Frankl, Claude Frank, Nobuko Imai, Gilbert Kalish, Kim Kashkashian, Anthony Marwood, Menahem Pressler, and Mark Steinberg. Jean-Michel has also performed alongside the Amadeus, Escher, Fine Arts, Pro Arte, and Tokyo Quartets. He has recorded extensively for Albany Records, MSR Classics, Centaur Records, and Musidisc-France.
A passionate and dedicated teacher, Jean-Michel previously served on the faculty of the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique in Lyon, France before coming to San Francisco. His students have won international competitions — including the Bordeaux International String Quartet Competition — and gone on to major solo, chamber, and orchestral careers. His students have appeared at Carnegie Hall, The Kennedy Center, the Concertgebouw, the Wigmore Hall, the Verbier Festival, and on many more of the world's premier stages. In addition to his annual residence at Yellow Barn, he previously taught at Domaine Forget, the Casalmaggiore International Music Festival, and the Morges Summer Academy in Switzerland.
Jean-Michel is currently a member of the San Francisco Piano Trio together with violinist Axel Strauss and pianist Jeffrey Sykes. The Trio performs annually at the Bach Dancing and Dynamite Society, along with regular performances throughout North America. He also performs regularly with the Houston-based Music in Context ensemble dedicated to historically informed performance on period instruments.
Jean-Michel studied at the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Musique de Paris and plays cellos made by Francesco Goffriller in 1730 and Andrew Carruthers in 2016. He lives in Berkeley, CA together with his wife Dana.
This workshop will help you organize your practice routines efficiently and help you become self-reliant musicians in the ever-changing field of music.
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*Registration is limited to 12 attendees.
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Bach Dancing & Dynamite Society has always cultivated a playful attitude toward classical music, so it's fitting that they've chosen "Toy Stories" as a theme of their 27th chamber music festival.
Now running through June 24, the festival consists of six programs, each performed twice and each clustering music together under titles like Teddy Talks, Play-Doh and Transformers.
American Girls, part of weekend one, features music composed by women born in or residing in the U.S. (Plus a Haydn piano trio which was delightful, if only tangentially connected to the theme).
Yura Lee was joined by Jean-Michel Fonteneau (cello) and BDDS co-founder Jeffrey Sykes (piano) for two piano trios: Haydn's Piano Trio and C Major, and a 1921 one by Rebecca Clarke called, simply, Piano Trio. Composed over 120 years apart, the two obviously sounded quite different. And yet both were lovely reminders of chamber music as conversation: the exchange of musical materials between instruments and the pleasure of seeing how closely musicians watch and cue off of one another.
At the Conservatory on Monday, before the performance began, cellist Jean-Michel Fonteneau announced that the players were using gut strings that were typical in the 19th century. In addition, instead of the forceful modern bowing technique for projection, they would use an older bowing technique that produces lighter pressure on the strings.
From the first measure of the Mendelssohn quintet, the warmth and the depth of the sound, quite different from the modern timbre, were evident. With the strings under a great deal less tension than modern strings, instruments can vibrate more freely, Fonteneau explained later, producing a warmer, more resonant sound. In addition, colors of the five instruments on stage were more cohesive, blending those instruments and performers into a more uniform voice.
The cohesive sound was most evident in the first measure of the second movement, Intermezzo. It opens in unison, but it then blossoms into a beautiful harmony as each of the five instruments acquired its respective voice. It made for a magical moment.


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COOPER HEWITT ANNOUNCES LINEUP OF 2019 NATIONAL DESIGN WEEK EVENTS
FREE ADMISSION TO THE MUSEUM AND NATIONAL DESIGN WEEK PROGRAMS, OCT. 12–19 Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum today announced its National Design Week event lineup, which features action-packed programming for all ages from Saturday, Oct. 12, through Saturday, Oct. 19. In celebration of the 20th anniversary of the National Design Awards, Target will offer free admission to visitors of Cooper Hewitt Oct. 12–19 making design accessible to all. Target will also sponsor a series of Cooper Hewitt programming broadening access to the vision and work of the country's design leaders and inspiring people of all ages to engage with design…
COOPER HEWITT TO BRING ITS AWARD-WINNING "FACE VALUES" INSTALLATION TO NEW YORK
"Face Values: Exploring Artificial Intelligence" at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, explores the possibilities and limits of artificial intelligence through interactive works featuring technologies such as face detection, emotion recognition and eye-tracking. On view in the museum's Process Lab Sept. 20 through May 17, 2020, the immersive installation features commissioned work by R. Luke DuBois, Zachary Lieberman and Karen Palmer, and is accompanied by a visual essay on facial measurement by Jessica Helfand. First unveiled at the 2018 London Design Biennale, where it received a medal for the most inspiring interpretation of the Biennale's Emotional States theme, "Face Values" investigates…
Cooper Hewitt Exhibition to Feature American Textile Designer Suzie Zuzek
CELEBRATING THE DESIGNER BEHIND THE ICONIC PRINTS USED BY LILLY PULITZER, 1962-1985 Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum will present an exhibition celebrating the prolific textile designer Suzie Zuzek (Agnes Helen Zuzek de Poo, American, 1920–2011) in spring 2020. Her imaginative designs and playful prints played a key role in the success of the Lilly Pulitzer clothing line in the 1960s and 1970s. "Suzie Zuzek for Lilly Pulitzer: The Prints That Made the Fashion Brand" will be the first museum exhibition to reveal the nature and scope of Zuzek's artistic contribution to the iconic Pulitzer style. On view May 15…
Cooper Hewitt to Present "Willi Smith: Street Couture"
In March 2020, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum will present the first museum exhibition of American designer Willi Smith (1948–1987). "Willi Smith: Street Couture" will feature key works by this pioneer of streetwear fashion who founded the iconic brand WilliWear with partner Laurie Mallet in 1976 and leveraged innovative partnerships with artists, designers and performers to break down social, cultural and economic boundaries. On view March 13 through Oct. 25, 2020, the exhibition will include more than 200 works by Smith and collaborators such as Juan Downey, Dan Friedman, Keith Haring, Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company, Les Levine, Dianne…
WYSS INSTITUTE GUEST CURATES "SELECTS" EXHIBITION AT COOPER HEWITT
The next exhibition in Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum's "Selects" series will be guest curated by members of the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University. Organized by the Wyss Institute's founding director Don Ingber, in collaboration with his co-faculty, Joanna Aizenberg, Jennifer Lewis, Radhika Nagpal and Pam Silver, the exhibition examines the use of biologically inspired design principles to engineer a better world. On view from July 12 through March 8, 2020, in the Nancy and Edwin Marks Gallery, "Wyss Institute Selects" draws from Cooper Hewitt's expansive permanent collection and the Smithsonian's Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden…
COOPER HEWITT CELEBRATES 20TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE NATIONAL DESIGN AWARDS PROGRAM AND ANNOUNCES 2019 WINNERS
COOPER HEWITT CELEBRATES 20TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE NATIONAL DESIGN AWARDS PROGRAM AND ANNOUNCES 2019 WINNERS Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum today announced the 20th class of National Design Award winners, honored for design excellence and innovation in 11 categories, including the inaugural Emerging Designer Award. Established in 2000 as a project of the White House Millennium Council, the National Design Awards bring national recognition to the ways in which design enriches everyday life. In celebration of this milestone year, Target will offer free admission to all visitors of Cooper Hewitt during National Design Week, Oct. 12–19, to make design accessible…
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Lauryn Hill Announces North American Tour Dates & Performs "Mystery Of Iniquity" At ACL
Get those tix now.
Is Ms. Hill back for good?
It depends on who you ask, but it looks like Lauryn Hill is ready to get back on the road. With her full Austin City Limits concert set to air on PBS this Saturday, August 6, Lauryn Hill announced her North American tour dates for the fall.
In recent years, L-Boogie's track record regarding showing up to shows is pretty bad, but hopefully, Lauryn will get her second wind on this new journey. The 17-city tour will kick off on Saturday, August 27 in the "City of Brotherly Love," Philadelphia, and will wrap three months later on November 13 in Phoenix, Arizona.
Find out if Lauryn will be in a city near you below. Also, check out her intimate performance of "Mystery of Iniquity" up top.
Lauryn Hill North American Tour Dates
08/27 — Philadelphia, PA @ the Mann
09/01 — Highland Park, IL @ Ravinia
09/02 — Detroit, MI @ the Fillmore
09/04 — Minneapolis, MN @ First Avenue
09/10 — St. Louis, MO @ Loufest
09/13 — Louisville, KY @ Louisville Palace
09/16 — Toronto, ON @ Massey Hall
09/18 — Cleveland, OH @ Hard Rock Live Rocksino
09/22 — Indianapolis, IN @ Murat Theatre at Old National Centre
09/24 — Atlanta, GA @ Chastain Park
09/25 — Tuscaloosa, AL @ Tuscaloosa Amphitheatre
10/01 — Boston, MA @ Wang Theatre
11/01 — San Diego, CA @ Copley Symphony Hall
11/06 — Seattle, WA @ McCaw Hall
11/08 — Vancouver, BC @ Queen Elizabeth Theatre
11/12 — Las Vegas, NV @ the Foundry at SLS
11/13 — Phoenix, AZ @ Comerica Theatre
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Perry Sidelined With His Shoulder Injury > Cricket News, cricinfo, mobilecric, cricbuzz, livescore and more
Cricket news - Perry sidelined with shoulder injury
Perry picked up the injury while falling heavily on her shoulder in yesterday's loss against the Melbourne Renegades
Sydney Sixers all-rounder Ellyse Perry has suffered a low-grade AC injury to her right shoulder that's expected to keep her out of action for 1-3 weeks, the Sixers confirmed on Monday (November 18). She will miss the upcoming match against the Hobart Hurricanes and will undergo further assessment later in the week.
Perry picked up the injury while falling heavily on her shoulder in yesterday's loss against the Melbourne Renegades. While she didn't go off the field, she was in apparent discomfort for the rest of the chase.
However, the injury is not thought to be of a serious nature and Perry is set to be available for the WBBL finals in December, should the Sixers qualify. They are currently placed third on the points table with 12 points from nine matches.


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Latvia regularly reports hate crime data to ODIHR. Latvia's criminal code contains a general penalty enhancement. Data reported to ODIHR also include offences of incitement to hatred. Data are collected by the Ministry of Interior, law enforcement agencies, the Department of Analysis and Management of the Prosecutor General's Office, the Courts Administration unit of the Ministry of Justice and the Security Police of the Republic of Latvia. Data are not made publicly available.
There is no specific system for police to record hate crimes, so they are registered in the same way as any other offence.
While the Prosecution Office captures hate speech cases separately (these are crimes falling under Section 78 of the Criminal Law Triggering of National, Ethnic and Racial Hatred), no statistical information is compiled on hate crimes, which are defined as crimes committed due to racist, national, ethnic or religious motives in Section 48(1)14 of the Criminal Law.
The Court Administration compiles judicial crime statistics according to the relevant criminal law section. Data on hate crimes cannot be captured separately because Latvia's hate crime provision is not a substantive offence but a sentencing provision.
ODIHR observes that Latvia has not periodically reported reliable information and statistics on hate crimes to ODIHR.


I've noticed an interesting interpretation of the Open Bank Resolution going around New Zealand, and the world, where it is seen as a replacement for the lender of last resort function and deposit guarantees.
This has caused outrage among some – even I've received some emails and facebook messages from people on it. But the OBR and implicit/explicit deposit insurance are actually two incredibly different issues.
The OBR is a scheme that helps to ensure that, when a financial institution fails, it is wound down in an orderly fashion – it is like an addition to standard bankruptcy law specifically for financial institutions. The OBR takes the fact that, if debt has "gone bad" there are a range of creditors, and the loss needs to be attributed between them. This is great, it makes what is going on transparent, and helps reduce the interruptions associated with the collapse of a large financial institution!
But it doesn't say anything about the government's willingness to allow depositors to lose out from a failure. Any implicit government guarantee that existed still exists. In Table 1 of the RBNZ's recent bulletin article on the OBR this is made relatively clear – the idea of inherent insurance is not applicable to the scheme.
When it is clear how a bank will be shut down, it is more likely that the government will do so instead of bailing it out.
Therefore, by setting all this up, it is less likely depositors will be bailed out.
While this is true, I think that it inherently misses the point for extremely large financial institutions – such as the big banks in NZ. Governments have an incentive to bail out depositors, and there may well be a presumed "social preference" for a risk free place to save that doesn't lose value which is where this is coming from (given that the value of cash depreciates over time). If we really want the government to be able to commit to not bailing out deposit, and we want society to be comfortable with it, we need to face these issues – which are separate issues from the appropriate focus of the OBR.
Personally, I think the OBR is great – I just think people's view of its "purpose" has been stretched out of proportion.
winds down, OBR sure seems to be a substitute for deposit insurance. Whether it is or not de facto depends on credibility that some future government would not renege. That depends on what the actual haircut rate would wind up being I suppose.
There will be a set of financial institutions that would not have been shut down, but now will due to the organisation. However, there are a set of financial institutions that will not in either case, and a set that will be shut down in both cases.
Ok, I'm looking at that table and I'm totally not seeing what you're there seeing. Table 1 says that depositors are exposed to losses, that there is no depositor preference or insurance in New Zealand. There is a government guarantee for the initial unfrozen portion, and they need to make clear that that guarantee is only on the initial unfrozen portion for depositors who were there at the time so that funds don't rush to that bank from others post-freeze. But I'm not seeing any implicit insurance in there except in the case that they screw up by freezing too small a portion of the assets at the start.
My view was simply that this is saying the OBR is irrelevant when looking in the space of deposit protection – it does not tell us anything about the implicit guarantee given by government.
It is a scheme that makes the process of winding down institutions more transparent, it doesn't define the full government response – the OBR is part of the story, not the whole policy framework.
And this is key – if a large bank fails, the government will intervene. Unless they find some way to commit to not intervening, I want them to acknowledge this.
Maybe they intervene, but looks like it would be after they burn the assets of those who should have been monitoring. So odds of any bailout drop.
But I would welcome something going into the Reserve Bank Act saying the Bank can't bailout beyond what's in OBR and into Fiscal Responsibility Act saying the government can only bail out the banks if the Minister of Finance and Prime Minister are shot in the face as part of the process.
Indeed, it lowers the odds of a bailout by increasing transparency, which lowers the potential for spillover and meddling. But this is a side-effect, not the primary purpose of the OBR – the OBR is part of the management of failure in financial markets, not the entire policy.
I'd also note that, although the RBNZ helped to design the OBR, it is still the minister/government's responsibility to pull the trigger – and to determine what other policies are put in place. I don't believe the existence of an OBR is sufficient to avoid government bailouts when they are occurring overseas, or when it is one of the big 4 banks that are in trouble. If that is indeed that case, this is something that should be accounted for over and above OBR regulation.
Just to be clear, I wasn't criticising anything you've written – as I don't believe you put it as "one or the other". I just saw that Bernard was starting to do that, and had seen Cowen's post being interpreted on other blogs as suggesting an almost full replacement, and wanted to point out that this wasn't the case.
Well they really need to actually do something then – as people are forming expectations on the basis that they expect deposit insurance in the face of the failure of a bank. Even if they aren't going to bail it out – if expectations are not set by private agents in a way consistent with that we risk an extremely harmful situation, and further generalised overinvestment.


I bookmarked the discussion of this particular midrash this past Shabbat as I finished up If All the Seas Were Ink by Ilana Kurshan. It felt so powerful to me, the discussion of how all that we have is merely on loan from HaShem.
Even further is a discussion in the sixth chapter of Berachot over the blessings over foods. At once it attempts to reconcile the fact that "the heavens are the Lord's and the fullness thereof, the earth and its inhabitants" (Psalms 24:1) and that "the heavens belong to God and the earth was given to men" (Psalms 115:16). While later Rabbi Hanina bar Papa says, "All who benefit from this world without first staying blessing are as if they are stealing from the Holy One Blessed Be He" (35b).
The reconciliation for this, Rabbi Levi explains, is that everything in the world belongs to HaShem, but the moment we make a blessing, it's on loan to us.
This discussion was so powerful to me, so potent because I struggle intensely with making berachot. One of the things that drew me to Judaism was the level of 100-percent consciousness that is required of the Torah-observant Jew. So I marked this page, it made so real the idea that all that we have is on loan from HaShem, we only need make a bracha, a blessing, in order to take pleasure of it, to enjoy it, to truly be able to cherish something -- or someone.
And then, this morning, I awoke exhausted after going to bed around 1:30 a.m., turned on my phone, and started looking through my news feed. The first thing I saw? A distant friend, someone who helped me greatly when I made aliyah, someone who was a Lion of Zion, someone who would lay his life down for any person who was on the right side of history ... had been murdered, viciously, by a Palestinian terrorist at the very place I used to go to buy groceries or get a coffee many times every week. My immediate reaction was that I had to be mistaken. Ari, Ari who basically spends 24/7 -- or spent -- at that place in Gush Etzion speaking with soldiers and providing them with chizuk and food and other special gifts from his fundraising -- couldn't have been murdered. He was a soldier. He knew that place inside and out. And yet, there he was. There was the video. The video of him being stabbed by a vicious animal -- not a human, not anyone I would remotely call a human -- and then chasing after him, poised, shooting at the savage, and then collapsing backwards.
There's something about watching a friend, someone you know, someone who you watch regularly from a distance be murdered ... that just crushes every possible understanding and love you have for life. For Israel.
And then, as the day went on, and I fought between anger and tears and confusion and the question, "Could I ever take children back to that place?" And then I thought about what I'd bookmarked on Shabbat. About how this life is just on loan from HaShem, and we have to be grateful and send out as many blessings as we can every moment of every day to keep these lives and all that are part of them on loan. For it's all we have.


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Many years ago, the phrase 'open source' or 'Linux' conjured up images of earnest computer boffins sporting straggly beards, Grateful Dead T-shirts and a faint whiff of patchouli! But not anymore. Open source is now considered to be the most secure software on the market. And don't be mistaken by thinking that there's anything amateur about it. It is exposed to extreme scrutiny, with problems being found and fixed instead of being hidden until the wrong person discovers them. Technical giants such as Amazon, NASA, IBM, Microsoft and Google are now some of the keenest contributors, constantly improving and developing open source software. Open source has demonstrated a level of reliability and robustness under fast-changing conditions that, considered against the performance record of even the best closed commercial software, is nothing short of astonishing.
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Take the popularity of WordPress, for example. Born out of demand for elegant, well-constructed personal publishing, WordPress is one of the most acclaimed, widely adopted and customisable content management systems available. It's an open source platform that has thousands of plug-ins and developers. Then there's Libre Office. It's an open source replacement for MS Office that performs 90% of the same functions and fully supports doc and docx formats. Many prefer it over MS Office for its simplicity and speed.


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Skjellyfetti wrote: Pretty cool. His preaching style will be a shock for the royals. But, I guess he will tone it down some.
Shared a beer with him back when he was Bishop of NC.
Yes, but is he MAGA-ing?
Meant to post it in the "news stories that don't warrant their own thread" thread.
But, since you mention it - it is MAGA-ing. Just not in the Trumpian sense.
Pwns wrote: Somebody forgot to tell the Norks we aren't to be trusted because we reneged on the Iran deal.
They can't really trust us less than they already do...which is exactly 0%.
I don't know why (I should know better) but I'm amazed by the complete roll reversal since the 2016 elections. It's like the Donks and the Conks exchanged playbooks.
Do we want to be trusted by a country like North Korea?
Weren't we just talking about reductio ad absurdum?
But I'll play - there's nothing wrong with it depending on whose trust we're after.
Would we pride ourselves on being viewed as trustworthy by Russia? What about Japan or Germany in 1939?
So I'll ask again - to be trusted by North Korea, Russia or Iran - what would that look like? What would we need to do to earn the trust of fundamentally dishonest regimes?
Maybe we could sell Iran some weapons under the table - that would foster some trust, wouldn't it?
Reagan was a trust building genius? Welcome to the Reagan fanclub Kalm!
Did I say something about sacrificing principles or leverage in order to gain trust? Why wouldn't we want to be trusted by a country like North Korea? Trustworthiness is a virtue that only applies to individuals?
The US can be trusted to honor deals it makes.
The US can be trusted to follow through with threats.
The US can be trusted to not negotiate with terrorists.
The US can be trusted to never enter agreements with bad actors.
Sounds horrible and weak, Niccolo.
Exactly. It was a good thing when Saint Reagy did it.
Earning the trust of a country that sees enemies everywhere is at best unreasonable and at worst impossible.
It would be like trying to earn the trust of "overly attached girlfriend".
The best thing you can do is to just show them they've got no other choice than to go along.
Pwns wrote: Earning the trust of a country that sees enemies everywhere is at best unreasonable and at worst impossible.
Doesn't every country see enemies everywhere?
Figuratively speaking maybe. But with North Korea it's close to being literal. It's easily the most insular country on Earth.
Maybe they just need a hug?
UNI88 wrote: Reagan was a trust building genius? Welcome to the Reagan fanclub Kalm!
Iran Contra is a stain on Reagan's legacy. With that in mind, how should we view Obama's Iran deal?
UNI88 wrote: Iran Contra is a stain on Reagan's legacy. With that in mind, how should we view Obama's Iran deal?
Yeah not exactly the same.
So...we impose trade sanctions on China (ZTE) and now that they're failing, Trump is going to bail them out? Help them survive?
WTF? Are we Making China Great Again?
Ibanez wrote: So...we impose trade sanctions on China (ZTE) and now that they're failing, Trump is going to bail them out? Help them survive?
Not without something in return.............maybe?
But the optics aren't that good (at least to this independent person).
All throughout the campaign it was "America Good, China Bad","America First", etc... ZTE gets accused of espionage, we sanction it and now we're going to save it? Trump need to get off Twitter and present a clear message. Why this Chinese company? Because they procure American parts? Some more information is needed but something is rotten in the State of Shenzhen.
I'm sure the Chinese government pledging $500 million to a project in Indonesia with Trump branded hotel, golf course, and residences did not influence his decision in any way whatsoever.
The wolves are baying about the Emoluments Clause.
She looks like Wallis Currie-Wood.
or maybe a birthday cake and a Bible? I think that worked with Iran.
Pocket change. Dude makes $3 million every time he golfs.
The classified emails she passed through her personal, unsecured server?
Yeah - there isn't anything shady about that. Hell, who here HASN'T hired a company to do that instead of using the email infrastructure that their employer already provides. It's common place. I know I had a server in my bathroom managing all my emails and communications when I held a TS clearance with SAIC, Booz Allen and DHS.
Again - it wasn't the emails per se, it was the disregard for protocol and rules (rules that were in place) and the mishandling of information.


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