Superfoods are called that because they usually contain an array of vitamins and nutrients that do the whole body good. They detox, they fight bad stuff, they heal and they nourish. Most of these superfoods fit into the categories of fruits and vegetables. However, you may be surprised to learn about a few other superfoods that don't quite fit in these categories, but are more of a herb, spice, or something else.
Get ready to be amazed at what you can eat that will nourish your palate with vitamins and minerals that will help you feel great.
Green Tea has long been known as a superfood. It is rich in antioxidants. It basically has no calories. It's soothing and relaxing. It also has a knack for suppressing appetite, which makes it a great diet drink. However, green tea has a little competition now.
White tea has the same antioxidant as green, but in higher quantity. Black tea is also in the ring now. Black tea contains theaflavins, which are antioxidants that could help muscle recovery after fitness and may help heart health.
Many cultures eat bugs as a basic staple to their diet, while some cultures think that eating bugs is disgusting. You may think differently when you learn how good some bugs can be for you. Crickets and ants are a couple of those bugs that actually have some really great health benefits for the human body.
While it may take a gag treat dipped in chocolate to get you to try crickets or ants, they are both nutritious. Crickets pack a lot of protein, in fact, they contain all 9 of the amino-acids. That's amazing. Ants no longer have to be chewed up to be eaten, you can find them in extract form. Ants contain 8 of the amino-acids in protein.
Pollen allergy sufferers may want to talk to their doctor before taking pollen, superfood status aside. But it is interesting to learn that pine pollen has health benefits. Pine pollen is rich in amino acids, contains healthy carbohydrates, is home to trace minerals, has essential fatty acids and even many vitamins, plus more. If you need a supplement this seems like the right choice.
However, it isn't the only pollen health option. Tea pollen is rich in many of the same things as pine pollen. Tea pollen comes from the same plant and black and green tea leaves, Camellia Sinensis.
Tea may seem like the only normal choice on this list, especially by those that sneeze at pine pollen. However, this just shows that there is a lot out there that you don't know about it the world of healthy living and healthy eating. Why not try something new, it could do your body good.


This is a photo of the ladies from Petticoat Junction in its first season (1963-64). Bea Benaderet, of course, played the mother, Kate Bradley. At the back are daughters Jeannine Riley (Billie Jo), Pat Woddell (Bobbie Jo), and Linda Kaye Henning (Betty Jo).
The three Bradley daughters from Petticoat Junction are together in this photo. (I have no idea when it was taken; I'm guessing it was within the last 10 years.) From left to right: Lori Saunders (who played Bobbie-Jo from 1965 to 1970, Linda Kaye-Henning (who played Betty-Jo for the show's duration; 1964 to 1970); and Gunilla Hutton (who played Billie-Jo in the 1965-66 season only).


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The case for separate (but combined) finances
written by Angela Rozmyn — published 17 December 2018 (updated 29 May 2019 ) 26 Comments
In the world of personal finance, the subject of how couples share (or don't share) their money comes up time and time again. It's no surprise. After all, money problems are a leading cause of divorce.
But for some reason, the concept that "personal finance is personal" doesn't always factor into people's opinions about combining finances — especially within a marriage.
Often, people argue that in order to be a team, couples must combine finances fully. Or that separate accounts mean there's some lack of trust within the relationship. Or that you aren't truly committed to each other. Or that you must not be on the same page about long-term hopes and dreams.
None of these things are true. Plenty of committed couples keep separate finances. These couples are teams. They trust each other. They share the same hopes and dreams. But for a variety of reasons, separate finances work well for them.
Today, I want to share an alternative to these two dominant modes of money management. I want to share how couples can both keep their finances separate — and combine them. Confused? Let me explain. [Read more…]
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How couples can manage money together
written by J.D. Roth — published 01 February 2018 (updated 31 January 2018 ) 25 Comments
As January fades and February blooms, we're going to turn our attention from basic money management to something much more complicated: how money affects our relationships.
In December 2016, Bloomberg published a piece that profiled seven different couples from around the United States. The article — which was essentially a series of short interviews — offered a quick glimpse at how other people handle money in their relationships.
Here, for example, are Rebecca and Ari discussing what it was like to move in together:
Rebecca: So I moved here to be with him, was broke, and was accepting this big loan. But you were like, "I'd rather you owe me the money than owe the credit card company." I was really impressed by that but also scared, because it was like, "What if we break up?" It definitely felt fraught. But I did accept the loan.
Ari: I mean, I loved Rebecca, and I just really hate credit card companies.
Rebecca: We had totally different relationships to money. Ari had been saving for retirement since he was, like, 17. He had this whole system of personal finance, and I had: Money comes in, money goes out. I think I felt embarrassed that Ari was this unbelievably responsible person.
Some of the highlighted couples have high incomes — over $100,000 per year. Others are barely scraping by. (One couple makes $24,000 per year; both partners work at Wal-Mart.) Some struggle with debt. Others are saving to pursue entrepreneurial dreams. But they're all discovering how to navigate the murkiness that can come when two people decide to join households.
Here's the couple that works at Wal-Mart:
Renée: I get a little frustrated at him. Sometimes I get a little bit surprised that he did that when I told him, "Not right now." I've got anxiety over money. I do.
Matt: I do want to go back to school or get a second job. But what it does to you to work that much, I'm afraid I'd be gone all day. My wife would not see me. By the time I got home, it would be too late at night. I'd be way too tired. Not being able to come home, sit down, and say, "Hey, how was your day?" and all that?
Money management is tough enough when you're on your own. Throw a romantic partner into the mix and things get more complicated! The best way to balance love and money is to maintain clear lines of communication.
Talking About Money
Reading through these conversations reminded me of a 2009 New York Times article in which Ron Lieber argued that couples need to talk about money early and often. Lieber says that couples should discuss the following four subjects before marriage (or before entering into a long-term commitment):
Ancestry. What does you money blueprint look like? What did your parents teach you about the meaning and value of money? How your family handled money has a huge influence on your own relationship with the stuff. If you and your partner have drastically different approaches to personal finance, that can cause friction.
Credit. It doesn't sound very romantic, I know, but partners in a committed relationship ought to pull up their credit reports and credit scores together and discuss the results. This isn't a competition. It's a way to be open and honest, and to see where your team has strengths and weaknesses.
Control. Before marriage, decide the household financial structure. Who's responsible for which bills and which accounts? Will you have joint or separate finances? Will one person operate as the Family CFO, or will you share the duties?
Affluence. Finally, be sure to discuss your financial plans and goals. As a couple, how wealthy do you want to be? Are you interested in early retirement? What are you willing to sacrifice to get there?
As you have these discussions, don't get emotional. Stay calm and collected. Remember that your goal is to manage your household finances like a business. If you, as a couple, don't like how your business is running, then agree to make changes. But make the decisions together, as a team. [Read more…]
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Bandera Roja, o simplement Bandera, fou una organització política comunista catalana i espanyola de tendència marxista-leninista fundada a Barcelona el 1968, i ampliada el 1973 a l'àmbit estatal.

Ideologia
El comunisme de Bandera Roja militava dins de l'esfera marxista-leninista. Pel que fa a l'agenda espanyola, es mostrava favorable a acceptar temporalment una república democràtica de tipus federal que respectés els diversos pobles. Però aquest només havia de ser un pas previ al veritable objectiu: l'establiment d'un règim socialista, seguint l'exemple dels estats existents.

Història
Els esdeveniments parisencs del Maig del 68 van suposar un poderós exemple pels estudiants universitaris de tot Europa. Envalentits per aquesta mobilització, un grup d'universitaris catalans que provenien majoritàriament del PSUC van fundar lOrganització Comunista - Bandera Roja, també molt influïda per la visió distorsionada que es tenia llavors de la revolució cultural xinesa.

El 1973 es va refundar com a Organització Comunista d'Espanya - Bandera Roja, integrant militants de la resta de l'estat espanyol. En canvi, l'any següent els més moderats l'abandonaren per incorporar-se al PSUC. Després d'aquesta escissió l'organització s'afermà en l'ideari maoista i en la denúncia de la reforma post-franquista.

El 1977 es va inscriure com a partit legal i els principals dirigents foren Ignasi Faura Ventosa, Ferran Fullá Sala, Santiago Medina Morales, Pep V. Martínez Barceló, Ángel Panyella Amil, José A. González Caraballo, José A. Casasola Guerrero, Paquita Montes Marmolejo, M. Fuencisla García García, Carlos A. Lucio Fernández, José J. Pérez Fernández, F. Xavier Corominas Mainegre, Lola Irún Ruiz, Eduardo Fernández Sánchez, Luis Lamiel Trallero, Eduard Zafra Galán, Emilio Vega Rodríguez, J. Manuel Sáez García i Julio Velasco Benayón. El 1980 l'anomenat Col·lectiu Comunista Català, sector nacionalista que se n'havia separat al juny de 1979, dins el qual hi havia Joan Oms Llohís, es va incorporar a Nacionalistes d'Esquerra. La majoria dels militants restants, aproximadament una quarta part, es van reincorporar al PSUC i al PCE el març de 1989.

Publicacions
Es va imprimir més d'una revista des de diversos punts:
 Bandera Roja, publicació principal (Catalunya)
 Estrella Roja (Catalunya)
 El Comunista (País Valencià)
 Unidad Roja (Andalusía)
 Unidad Popular (Asturias)
 Adelante (Madrid)
 Ardatzak (Euskadi)
 Jóvenes Comunistas (JCE (BR))
 Rebelión (JBR)

Llista de militants coneguts

Alguns polítics i persones amb una activitat pública rellevant en el camp de la cultura, el periodisme, l'economia, la docència, la recerca o l'associacionisme van ser en algun moment militants de l'OCR - BR.
 Alfons Carles Comín, fundador de Cristians pel socialisme
 Francesc Obrador Moratinos, fundador de Cristians pel socialisme, exmembre del Consell Insular de Mallorca i exbatle de Calvià pel PSIB-PSOE.
 Jordi Solé Tura, un dels "pares" de la Constitució Espanyola de 1978 en ser membre de la Comissió constituent del Congrés; entre 1991 i 1993 va ser ministre de cultura en el govern del PSOE
 Ignasi Faura i Ventosa, secretari general de Hispacoop (Confederación Española de Cooperativas de Consumidores). Neix a Barcelona el 21 d'octubre de 1945. Passa la seva infantesa entre Barcelona, Vallvidrera i la Serra de l'Ubach, on la família hi tenia una masia. Nascut en el si d'una família catòlica practicant, des de molt jove s'implica en moviments socials catòlics, que l'aboquen a qüestionar les desigualtats socials i la manca de llibertats de l'època, passant a militar activament en diverses organitzacions d'esquerra, i va ser secretari general de 1975 a 1983 de l'Organització Comunista Bandera Roja (1975 - 1983), reelegit al 1r, 2n i 3r Congrés de l'OCBR (1975, 1976 i 1979, respectivament).
 Emilio Pérez Touriño, expresident de la Xunta de Galicia (2005-2009) pel PSG-PSOE, del qual va ser secretari general (1998-2009)
 Manuel Delgado Ruiz, antropòleg
 Pilar del Castillo Vera, exministra d'Educació (2000-2004) amb el PP i diputada per aquest partit al Parlament Europeu
 Guillermo Gortázar Echevarría, secretari de la Fundació Hispano Cubana
 Manuel Ludevid, ambientalista i autor de "La respuesta ambiental"
 Salvador Milà i Solsona, ex conseller Medi ambient (2003-2006) de la Generalitat Catalunya per ICV-EUiA
 Antoni Castells, ex conseller Economia de la Generalitat Catalunya pel PSC-PSOE
 Francesc Baltasar, ex conseller Medi Ambient de la Generalitat de Catalunya per ICV-EUiA
 Miguel Barroso Ayats, director Casa d'America
 Jordi Borja Sebastià, urbanista
 Joan García-Nieto, jesuïta
 Carlos Trías Sagnier, escriptor
 Domènec Font i Blanch, cineasta
 Joan Barril, periodista
 Carles Hac Mor, poeta
 Jaume Melendres, director d'escena
 Toni Ferrer, secretari d'acció sindical UGT
 Joan Sifre, exsecretari general CCOO País Valencià
 Carlos Lucio, dirigent obrer, mort el 1980 en enfrontament armat sent militant d'ETA
 Luis Rebullida Rius, empresari a Corea del Sud
 Rafael Rivera, arquitecte
 Xavier Vidal-Folch, periodista
 Santiago de Torres, ex delegat a Madrid de la Generalitat de Catalunya
 Pere Vilanova, professor de política internacional
 Borja de Riquer, historiador
 Ricard Vinyes, escriptor
 Manuel Castells Oliván, sociòleg
 Josep Ramoneda, exdirector del CCCB
 Manuel Campo Vidal, periodista de TVE
 Ricard Domingo, agent literari
 Federico Jiménez Losantos, periodista
 Ferran Mascarell Canalda, Conseller de Cultura de la Generalitat de Catalunya en els governs de Pasqual Maragall i Artur Mas (des de 2011)
 Enric Canals i Cussó, ex director de Televisió de Catalunya
 Assumpta Roura, periodista
 Maravillas Rojo Torrecilla, ex secretària general de Treball
 Jordi López Camps, exdirector general d'Afers Religiosos de la Generalitat de Catalunya,
 Lolo Ibern, exseleccionador waterpolo
 Carles Suqué, fotògraf
 Josep Miquel Abad Silvestre, conseller delegat del Comitè Organitzador de les Olimpíades de Barcelona
 Antoni Poveda, alcalde de Sant Joan Despí
 Agustí Colomines, historiador
 Antoni Tarabini-Castellani Cabot, sociòleg.
 Octavi Martí, escriptor
 Piti Español, guionista cinematogràfic
 Jaume Carbonell Sebarroja, sociòleg
 Eulàlia Vintró Castells, filòloga
 Georgina Cisquella, presentadora de TVE
 Anna Rosa Cisquella, actriu
 Francesc Valls, periodista
 Carmen Alborch, exministra de Cultura
 Oriol Comas, creador de jocs
 Regina Farré, periodista
 Carles Navales i Turmos, periodista
 Marina Subirats i Martori, sociòloga
 Carlos Martínez Shaw, historiador
 Miguel Rodríguez Domínguez, empresari dels rellotges Festina
 Joan Oms Llohís (militant fins a 1979), exdiputat dels Verds
 Maria Olivares i Usac (militant fins a 1979), feminista, exdiputada dels Verds
 Josep M. Pijuan, educador
 Assumpta Escarp, extercera tinent d'Alcalde de l'Ajuntament de Barcelona
 Celia Villalobos, exministra, diputada, i exvicepresidenta primera del Congrés dels Diputats.
 F.Xavier Corominas Mainegre. Alcalde Salt, 1991/1999.

Notes

Referències

Obres referenciades:

Entitats d'Espanya
Organitzacions comunistes

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Q: get select option attribute value reactive form Hi I`m using Angular 6 reactive.
This is select control
<select _ngcontent-c2="" class="floating-select ng-untouched ng-pristine ng-invalid" formcontrolname="user" value="" ng-reflect-name="user">
   <option _ngcontent-c2="" value="adduser" ng-reflect-value="adduser">--Add User--</option>
   <!--bindings={
      "ng-reflect-ng-for-of": "[object Object],[object Object"
      }-->
   <option _ngcontent-c2="" value="1: gokulanathan.s" ng-reflect-ng-value="gokulanathan.s" usrstatus="ACTIVE">gokulanathan.s</option>
   <option _ngcontent-c2="" value="2: subin.abraham.ext" ng-reflect-ng-value="subin.abraham.ext" usrstatus="ACTIVE">subin.abraham.ext</option>
   <option _ngcontent-c2="" value="3: subin.abraham.ext" ng-reflect-ng-value="subin.abraham.ext" usrstatus="INACTIVE">subin.abraham.ext</option>
   <option _ngcontent-c2="" value="4: manoj.g.ext" ng-reflect-ng-value="manoj.g.ext" usrstatus="ACTIVE">manoj.g.ext</option>
   <option _ngcontent-c2="" value="5: rajesh.augustine" ng-reflect-ng-value="rajesh.augustine" usrstatus="ACTIVE">rajesh.augustine</option>
</select>

Is it possible to get "usrstatus" attribute value with formcontrol
This is my formBuilder code
  this.form = this.formBuilder.group({
      clientid: ['', Validators.required],
      user: ['', Validators.required],
      username: ['', Validators.required],
      status: ['', Validators.required]
  });

I`m looking for something like this..."this.form.controls["user"].usrstatus". please help..

A: I am not sure about the this.form.controls["user"].usrstatus and I don't think it's possible to get attribute value like this (correct me if I am wrong)
but you can have the change event on select
<select _ngcontent-c2="" class="floating-select ng-untouched ng-pristine ng-invalid"
formcontrolname="user" value="" ng-reflect-name="user" (change)="getAttributeValue($event)">

and in you component
getAttributeValue(event) {
    const selectEl = event.target;
    const attrVal = selectEl.options[selectEl.selectedIndex].getAttribute('usrstatus');
    console.log(attrVal)
}

A: I am not sure but i think it impossible to get second value from select option like this.
first please change formcontrolname to formControlName.
than in your option value set
value='{"user": "1: gokulanathan.s", "status": "ACTIVE"}'
you can create new class or interface to receive those 2 values or you can use JSON.parse method and access your values like this:
JSON.parse(this.form.get("user").value).user;
JSON.parse(this.form.get("user").value).status;
you can read more about formControlName here:
https://angular.io/api/forms/FormControlName

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The image I had of my cousins as babies have now changed as they are almost in high school. My own perspective has changed. I now recognize things that I have never seen before. But my Spanish skills are still those of an 11 year old, my father still looks the same and my grandma's house still smells familiar. Here are my impressions of three weeks Guatemala.
Driving home from the airport I notice how charming Guatemala city is. I can appreciate the beauty of the cracks in the houses, the peeling paint and patched concrete streets. From under every bridge and from every little improvised home, wires come and connect in enormous knotted bundles that hang at the top of electricity poles.
The volcano 'Pacaya' erupted on our third day In town only 40km from my grandmother's home where we were staying. The city was covered in black volcanic sand and the streets looked like black sand beaches. At the same time tropical storm Agatha crossed over the country causing mud streams, overfilling rivers and destroying bridges. Despite the little facilities, people rapidly started to clean their streets, rooftops and gardens from all the fallen ashes. Impressive.
Something that was just as impressive and shocking as the hazards that were occurring was to see the contrast of poverty next to decadence. American lifestyle and commerce dominates and has changed Guatemala. Huge advertisements and lighted billboards are new face of Guatemala-city. Fast food chains have invaded the country and every imaginable luxury product thinkable is available in shopping malls on every other block. Humongous deep fried or sugarcoated food portions are the norm. Everything American is automatically seen as good and is not questioned whatsoever. What people don't realize is that what they see of the US is brought to them by companies whose only interest is money. People trade in their own culture, lifestyle and customs for what is dictated to them by big American companies.
The ways that companies advertise their products in Guatemala is forcing it upon everybody. And it is done in a shameless and aggressive way. For Example, they approach people living in improvised unpainted (due to their economic position) homes and offer them to paint it for them; with their logo's, company names and advertising images all over it off course. The result is that the poorest houses become advertisement places. Most of them are already 'taken' by an advertiser. Sometimes we'd drive through entire red/white/blue 'Pepsi' villages or entire navy/white 'Tigo' slum.
Being back in The Netherlands I notice that the opposite of what I just described is what I missed the most. Not having the feeling that someone constantly wants to make me buy something. To compensate my (yet another)rant about how evil I think commerce can be, I've chosen not to upload any pictures with a company name in it. Just unexpected impressions of beautiful Guatemala.
That ring is spectacular and the broken concrete is pretty awesome.
Beautiful pictures and beautiful words, I really enjoyed reading this post.
It must have been very interesting visit with all that culture and nature forces! Beautiful pictures as well!
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That first shot is devine!
Ik heb het hier wel over winkelkraampjes - ik heb nooit het interieur van mensen binnen gezien, maar er hangen dus giga veel posters van cola/pepsi. Wat vreemd dat ik daar nooit bij stil gestaan heb, dat mensen het doen voor het geld. Geeft de globalisering de schuld(?). Uit jouw tekst lijkt het alsof de cultuur moet onderdoen voor de welstand, wat jammer is. Ik vind het zo spijtig dat je altijd één van de twee moet kiezen. Of je kiest voor de natuur, of voor werkgelegenheid en industrialisering.
Mooie foto's heb je wel getrokken en fijn dat je je familie terug hebt gezien.
your pictures are so so so beautiful and yet devastating!
I have to say that I adore your blog. I started reading it just a few days ago thanks to having found you through Chantall of CocoRosa. This post is amazing at it hit home because similar things are happening in my country and it enfuriates me.
Looking at your blog I was quite shocked when I read about my own country on your site, you describe it perfectly, but let me tell you I'm really glad to know that there is people like you somehow involved with Guatemala. Your creativity and beauty are inspiring.
I have been scrolling down and reading / looking at all your posts - a lot of hours here without moving- you are so inspiring and I really mean it.
Im from Guatemala , I have been living in Spain for almost two years now.. unfortunately our beautiful country is needing so much help in so many ways.


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LA County beefs up Devil's Gate,…
LA County beefs up Devil's Gate, Pasadena prepares for 'Godzilla' El Nino
This Dec. 30, 2004 photo shows the spillway at Devil's Gate Dam in the Hahamongna Watershed Park in Pasadena flowing with water from the most recent storms.
This Sept. 14, 2009 staff file photo shows the Devil's Gate reservoir basin including the Devil's Gate Dam and Hahamonga Watershed Natural Park in Pasadena.
PUBLISHED: December 2, 2015 at 11:06 p.m. | UPDATED: August 29, 2017 at 4:57 a.m.
The churning flood waters from the last El Niño filled his back house and sent rivers of mud into his swimming pool. Motivated by reports of the next El Niño measuring even bigger than the one that pulverized Southern California in February 1998, Jim Bridges is doing everything he can to outsmart Mother Nature.
"We are trying to prevent that this year," said Bridges, who has already hauled in sandbags, trimmed overhanging trees and cleaned out the gutters of his home in the San Rafael neighborhood of Pasadena near the Arroyo Seco. "Now, we are going to get the (emergency) food, water and supplies."
Bridges may be the poster child for what cities across Southern California are preaching: Get prepared. At an El Niño forum Tuesday night, city department heads and NASA/JPL climatologist Bill Patzert spoke of the pending weather change from dry conditions to saturating storms and what they and others are doing about it.
"We are going to whiplash here in the next two months from this super drought to what I call the Godzilla El Niño," Patzert told the audience of about 200 people gathered at the Pasadena Convention Center.
An El Niño, or warming of equatorial Pacific waters, is huge and still growing, he reported, most likely signaling lots of rain similar to the 31 inches (twice the average) that fell in downtown Los Angeles during the other, Godzilla El Niño of 1997-98.
The key to channeling storm water away from Pasadena hillside homes depends on the 96-year-old Devil's Gate, located in the hills of Pasadena in the Arroyo Seco, a tributary to the L.A. River. The dam, recently upgraded to withstand a 7.5-magnitude earthquake, has received other improvements as part of a 10-year, $160 million effort to rehabilitate numerous county dams, said Keith Lilley, principal engineer for the county's Department of Public Works.
Earlier this year, the county removed 1,900 cubic yards of sediment from behind Devil's Gate, he said. The heavy lifting begins next year when the county will remove 2.4 million cubic yards of debris from steep slopes denuded by the 2009 Station Fire and loosened by Pineapple Express storms of December 2010.
Expect runoff to flow through the dam's spillway during El Niño storms, he said. However, a worst-case scenario as laid out in the Arroyo Seco Flood Hazard Warning Plan written by the county labels some properties along the Lower Arroyo Seco as potential flood marks. Lilley said those properties are located near the Casting Pond and possibly along the lower part of the Busch Gardens neighborhood.
"We would warn them (homeowners) if some event looked imminent," he told the audience.
City Engineer Steve Wright added: "That is a worst-case scenario and indicative of where there is debris flow. It is something we should take a look at, those parcels adjacent to the Arroyo Seco."
Mary Vanis, who lives in the neighborhood where the gardens, developed by Adolphous Busch, the founder of Budweiser beer once stood, said she has lived there 17 years and has not experienced flooding. During the 2010 rains, drainage systems put in place by Busch himself worked impeccably, she said.
Condominium boards should ensure sump pumps are working, officials said. They are used to drain underground parking garages of standing water. "We have backup pumps that are available," said Erik Klinkner, interim general manager of Pasadena Water and Power.
Counciliman Steve Madison and Klinkner hoped the city and residents will be better prepared for the effects of El Niño than they were for a freak windstorm exactly four years ago that toppled trees, caused massive power outages and damaged property throughout the San Gabriel Valley.
"Pasadena Water and Power was woefully unprepared to handle the volume of phone calls (from the windstorm), so we have invested in an automated system that can handle multiple calls simultaneously," Klinkner said.
Residents can sign up for reverse 9-1-1 calls by calling 626-744-4005 or going to www.cityofpasadena.net.
Lisa Derderian, Pasadena emergency management coordinator, said residents should have enough food and water for seven days and may buy emergency kits for themselves and family members. "They make perfect holiday gifts," she said.


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Kong Khong-chang, also known as Kong Kee, does not have the ability to define comedy and tragedy, and has always made people feel like both crying and laughing. As a Hong Kong comic artist, his publications include: Imperfect Shoes, Ricegas, Hijacking - Comic Hong Kong Literature (co-authored by Chihoi), Pandaman, Ding Ding Penguin, etc. In 2015, Kong cooperated with the renowned band Blur to launch the comic work Travel To Hong Kong With Blur. In 2009, he co-founded Penguin Lab together with Lawman for multi-media development and product creation. His animation Howl the Mobile Fatty won the Silver Award of Best Digital Entertainment (Animation) in the Hong Kong ICT Awards 2013; his latest animation Saveur Tèrèbenthine was selected as the finalist in the animation category of the 20th ifva Awards 2015 and the 16th DigiCon6 Awards in Japan.


Make the most of your time in class. Be intentional about how you spend your time at school. If you are given time in class to work on assignments, use it! It will make the biggest difference in allowing you to stay on top of things and will give you more time to spend doing the things you want to do at home. I used to spend all of my free time in class watching Netflix and YouTube, and still do from time to time, but am always grateful to myself when I use my class-time wisely.
Be intentional about how you spend your time outside of school, too. Maintaining a social life is important, but make sure to also keep some time for yourself to relax, work on assignments, or other things to keep on top of your busy schedule. Naps will be your best friend, or at least they have been mine, so make time for them so they don't cut into the time you should be using to do homework. Also, get out of the house and go hang out with friends, go to dinner, or to a movie and make the memories you'll actually want to remember from your time in high school.
Do what is best for you. When it comes time to choose classes, choose ones you are actually interested in or really need to take, rather than only the classes your friends are taking. While having friends in your classes is super fun, it's also good to get out of your comfort zone! You will probably end up getting more work done anyways and making some new friends in the process.
Organization is key. Keeping track of upcoming due dates and assignments is super helpful by letting you can plan exactly what you need to get done and when. Find a system that works best for you, whether it be using sticky notes for to-do lists, a calendar with major assignment deadlines and tests, or a planner, and keep it updated. A little bit of planning goes a long way in terms of time management and you will be thankful later on.
Keep your eye on the prize. Hard work is important and it will pay off when it comes senior year and you're applying for college, scholarships, or even if you are looking to go directly into your career. While grades are not everything, they are still something! The grades you get in your early years of high school don't go away, so put in the work now so you can relax a bit more when you get into tougher classes your junior and senior years. Don't give up!


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We met in grad school (Exercise & Sport Sciences) in 1983. We were running buddies throughout grad school; a number of us would run the Saguaro East loop road during the full moon.
When Marie entered med school, running was put on hold for awhile, so we would get together for dinner and a movie every couple of months.
In fact, before one movie, she explained to me why we would never date! Anyhow, on July 14,1988, we went to dinner at Char Thai on 5th St and then saw "Bull Durham." As we were walking to my truck afterwards, I put my hand on her back to guide her around a puddle. She put her hand around my waist, and something happened!
This coming October we will celebrate our 25th anniversary by backpacking the Grand Canyon, which is where we spent our honeymoon.


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While you don't want to get trapped into people thinking that cyclical concerns are liberal concerns … I don't think it actually helps to offer middle ground.
The problem is that too much of the debate is manufactured. That is, it is debate for debate's sake. There is no underlying reasoning going on. So, if you move the debate towards a compromise the parameters will simply change because people want to continue having some form of a debate.
This is the fundamental question facing political economy, isn't it?
And I think you're wrong.
The inter-temporal or "Long Run" impact of monetary and fiscal policy does in fact exacerbate booms and busts, misallocate human capital, and destroy incentives necessary for the maintenance of the polity precisely because it serves the interests of the left(short) right(long) divide . You argue that 'there will be problems either way', but you can't support that argument, and you deny the existence of the opposing argument. The opposition (conservative political economy in contrast to liberal monetary economy) disagrees. Because conservatives are rightly concerned with the maintenance of unique western norms.
Monetary policy can be used constantly. Fiscal policy can be used in the short term. But they are both dependent upon the use of Trade, Industrial, Education and Social policy, which express the remainder of the temporal spectrum. Monetary and Fiscal policy are BOUNDED BY the longer term constraints, aren't' they?
Surely you wouldn't make the argument that trade, industrial, education and social policy are irrelevant? So if they are relevant, then why so? Surely you wouldn't make the argument that we could simply 'print' money without consequences. WHy not embrace MMT or 'Social Credit' then? Would you argue that inflation was the only consequence? But not fragility? Isn't that Greece's problem?
How do we coordinate policy across the "production cycle" of an economy? We can't. Because we have no institutional means of coordinating this inter temporal production cycle as we do with interest rates to coordinate production in the private sector. Or are you arguing that there is no production cycle present in a body politic? If so, then why does education policy matter? Why is social policy meaningful other than as a means of emotional self-gratification?
You're wrong. It is a left right divide.
It's a left right divide because the short and the long term are tools of the left and right. While it may not be a THEORETICAL NECESSITY that these tools be biased left and right, it is a PRACTICAL NECESSITY that these tools are biased left and right, because we lack the institutions to prevent inter temporal transfer in government the way that we have institutions for the construction of inter temporal cooperation in the private sector, and therefore these tools are in fact tools of left and right.
It surprises me how the left cannot grasp this, but then, the left is by definition a short term ideology. We cannot expect the color blind to see differences in hue, and we cannot expect the temporally blind to see the production cycle. And we cannot tell the difference between those who are time blind and those who are simply thieves.
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Is Bernie Electable? A Nonpartisan Glance at Vermont's Recent Electoral History
By Jared Stone February 2, 2020 Updated: February 17, 2020 No Comments5 Mins Read
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Following a grueling year of Democratic presidential debates, campaign suspensions, and occasional gaffes, the Iowa Caucuses have nearly arrived. As of this moment, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders holds a narrow lead in the polls, having clawed his way to top past former-Vice President Joe Biden and small-town-mayor Pete Buttigieg, both of whom appeal widely to moderate white voters needed to secure the state. In most recent presidential elections, winners of the Iowa Caucus have gone on to secure their party's nomination and, often, the presidency a few months later.
With Bernie's successes heading into Monday and his likelihood of clinching close-to-home New Hampshire as well during its primary, his "electability," his ability to sway those in all corners left of the aisle and secure a broad, successful coalition coming into November, certainly warrants discussion. Bernie's brand as an idealistic democratic socialist, at first glance, does not seem to enhance those chances. But defenders of his movement like to reference his successes as a far-left mayor of the most populous town in (then) ruby-red Vermont. Clearly, by continuously bucking the ideological bent of his state and ascending to one of its Senate seats, he can easily turn other Republican strongholds throughout the nation blue, right?
Well, not so fast. While it is undeniably true that Bernie's mayoral reputation was not the most conducive to the state's Republican nature, his successes in Vermont politics make a lot more sense when observed through two main factors: Vermont's changing political demography, concurrent national trends, and Sanders' fiercely libertarian attitudes.
First, Vermont's transformative political changes in the mid-to-late twentieth century. Despite the fact that Donald Trump couldn't even secure 30% of the state's vote in 2016, when considering every presidential election since the founding of the GOP in 1854, Vermont is actually the reddest state in the nation, having consistently voted for the Republican presidential contender throughout the Gilded Age, Progressive Era, and New Deal Era. One reason for this political consistency was Vermonters' unrelenting isolationism, strongly objecting to Democratic Presidents Wilson and Roosevelt's interventionist stances in both world wars. With the exception of Lyndon Johnson's landslide victory of 1964, this trend continued with ease in light of the Vietnam War and the tribulations of the Nixon administration.
Yet something changed in 1980, as America, suffering from stagflation and the Iran Hostage Crisis, prepared to usher in a new chief executive. What the country saw in former California Governor Ronald Reagan – charisma, piety, and conservatism – Vermonters saw a new, more dangerous face to the Republican Party they had cherished for so long. And so in that year's presidential race, every state shifted right in comparison to 1976 – except Vermont. An 11-point victory for Gerald Ford turned into a meager 6-point plurality win for Reagan in Vermont (many liberal Republicans here cast their ballot for independent John B. Anderson instead). The Reagan administration's hawkish conservatism only further antagonized Vermonters, and in 1988, they voted for pragmatist VP George H.W. Bush by a disappointing 4 percent. When Clinton won the state four years later by a resounding 16-point margin, the state never turned back, and today stands as one of the bluest states in the nation.
It's important to understand that by this point, the national GOP looked quite different than in previous decades. Historically dominated by liberal northern Protestants, southern religious conservatives now held power over the party, with the likes of Pat Buchanan and Jerry Falwell Sr. dominating the party platform by the time of the 1992 GOP convention. Having voted Democratic in presidential elections as recently as 1976 and with the Democratic Party seeming to move left on social issues, these evangelicals saw an opportunity to transform the GOP into a movement far more suitable for them, a more socially-conservative party fighting back against the liberal social initiatives that had taken root in the previous decades, including Roe v. Wade and the second-wave feminist movement (empowered by Betty Friedan's revolutionary work The Feminine Mystique). This diversion away from economic pragmatism and social libertarianism proved anathema to Vermont, helping to push its political identity strongly into the blue column in the years to come.
With this in mind, Bernie Sanders' political career begins to seem more plausible in late-20th century. Among liberal Vermonters of both parties, his libertarian stances on recreational drug usage, gay marriage, and gun rights strongly resonated. He was unwilling to kowtow to the political establishment of either party, remaining firm in his convictions. After a failed attempt in 1988, Sanders finally defeated Republican Peter Plympton Smith for Vermont's at-large congressional district, largely because of popular resentment at and subsequent NRA funding against the congressman for voting in favor of sweeping gun-control measures. In similar vein, when Republican-turned-Independent Senator Jim Jeffords retired in 2006, it was the prime time for Sanders to fill that seat, which now constitutes his platform for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination.
What does this mean for Sanders' prospects? One one hand, Sanders has received significant crossover support in all his federal campaigns, even as an ardent democratic socialist. But today's national Republican Party is not even remotely similar to the traditional Vermont GOP (or the traditional GOP in general). The national GOP continues to lurch to the social right, so his likelihood of receiving millions of crossover votes in 2020 is unlikely at best. To achieve overarching success and popularity on the national level with support from both parties, to render himself the Democrats' most "electable" candidate, Bernie's game will have to change – big time.
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Jared Stone
Jared Stone is a sophomore at Princeton University studying Politics, Ancient Greek, and Judaic Studies. A native of Las Vegas, Nevada, he is an avid bassoonist, Eagle Scout, and tennis player who has a passion for election twitter and analysis. His twitter is @JStonePolitics and he can be contacted at [email protected]


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McConnell is an Establishment Facilitator
From: GemStatePatriot.com November 25, 2017 by Rich Loudenback
TAKE HIM TO THE DOOR!
If you saw the movie "Oh Brother, Where Art Thou," you will remember the scene in this photo where the character Homer Stokes (an underhanded scheming gubernatorial candidate) after accidentally revealing he actually belonged to a secret society (the KKK), so sickened town hall attendees that a group of men came into the hall with a pole on their shoulders that others hoisted Stokes onto and he was taken to the door and dispatched in humiliation outdoors.
If the Senate version of the tax bill becomes irreconcilable with the house version I figuratively see, and realistically wish to see, such a scene as described above as fitting for Senate Leader Mitch McConnell followed up with a severe drubbing by voters in the next election removing the many spurious members that are dyed in the wool RINOs who are also Never Trumpers being replaced with serious Republicans who follow their great Republican Party Platform and their oaths to our extremely successful Constitution.
MITCH'S DEEP DITCH RESULTS
McConnell may as well have had a deep moat type ditch dug around the Senate or something like a huge firewall created that stops any prospective worthwhile and lasting house bills from entering the Senate. He is an establishment obstructionist from the get-go as is obvious from the fact that he has not brought to the floor over 300 bills the House has passed this last year.
Wikipedia states there are 1,212 presidential appointments which require confirmation by the U.S. Senate and 353 presidential appointments which do not require confirmation. The Washington Post [ahem] has identified 609 key positions requiring U.S. Senate confirmation. As of November 19, 2017, 203 of Trump's nominees have been confirmed for those key positions, 148 are awaiting confirmation, and 5 have been announced but not yet formally nominated.
"Not only have fewer than half of President Trump's judicial nominees been confirmed by the Senate (the lowest number in the last four administrations), but cloture has been invoked an astonishing 51 times even to get those to the Senate floor for a vote. There were no cloture votes under Bush I and just six during the Clinton administration. Under Obama there were five over eight years.
"At the moment there are 175 pending nominees waiting for action from Senate committees while another 101 are waiting for a confirmation vote by the full Senate. And the logjam isn't created by just the Democrats, either. Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer has been fighting to slow down the confirmation by requiring that the Senate invoke "cloture" — i.e., the "nuclear option" whereby just 51 senators can shut off filibusters — which then sets in motion the "30-hour" rule. That rule limits debate on any nominee to 30 hours, with no senator being allowed to speak for more than one hour.
"This has been successful in slowing the confirmation process to a virtual crawl: only two or three nominees are being confirmed every week. For example, it took two months for the nomination of a non-controversial judge, David Nye, to reach the Senate floor for a vote. When it finally got there, the Senate voted for his confirmation to the U.S. District Court for the District of Idaho, 100-0. If that pace is maintained it will take years for the Senate to complete the task.
"The other reason for the delay in getting Trump's nominees vetted and confirmed is, as noted above, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.). He is limiting the Senate from considering them by cutting its hours. This has so outraged conservative leaders that 133 of them wrote McConnell directly complaining that "the slow pace of Senate confirmations is exacerbated by the Senate's continued insistence on working no more than 2½ days a week: arriving on Monday evening for a handful of votes, and departing, on average, by 2:30 pm each Thursday afternoon."
"The opportunity to transform the American judiciary toward freedom and away from tyranny won't last forever. It's hard enough for the president to fight intransigent Democrats who are opposing him every step of the way. He now finds that he must fight Republican Senator Mitch McConnell as well." – Bob Adelmann, TheNewAmerican.com
If all that isn't bad enough, recently McConnell's efforts to effectively kill President Trump's leading campaign promise of reducing our corporate tax from 35% to 15%, was to create the postponement of his new 20% rate till the year 2019!
Three new analyses of the Senate's Tax Cuts and Jobs Act all delivered bad news for Republican leaders. See: 'The GOP tax plan got a triple whammy of brutal reviews,' by Bob Bryan at businessinsider.com.
And it's amazing isn't it, that after so many bills made it to Obama's desk for repealing ObamaCare that not one of those bills has appeared on President Trump's desk in over a year. However, a meager last-minute offer to repeal the ObamaCare mandate appeared in Mitch's recent version of his Senate tax bill, which is obviously not to be taken seriously coming from him. It is probably to be a bargaining chip to be sacrificed for getting his way on something more important to the establishment. After all the blocking of anything ObamaCarish (my word) do you really think he is going to just out of nowhere offer this pearl up? Give us a break.
RYAN, McCONNELL – GOOD COP, BAD COP: STRATEGY OF CFR?
Paul Ryan's House bill appears to be good enough for President Trump's approval, understanding that it is probably just entirely too much to expect a house full of so many extremely progressive democrats and GOP RINOs, many of whom are Never Trumpers, to create the bill we would prefer. But McConnell's Senate version is not only diametrically unreasonable but with so few votes to be had (51) thanks to the greed of, former senator GOP leader Harry Reid, he only needs a couple of his pet few to oppose the Senate bill for various sundry reasons, i.e. John McCain and Jeff Flake AZ, Susan Collins MN, Bob Corker TN, Todd Young IN, James Lankford OK, Lindsay Graham SC and Lisa Murkowski AK.
Both Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell are seasoned professionals who knowledgeably command their domains and have developed into masters of obfuscation at the behest of the establishment AKA, The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR).
Mitch McConnell's wife, Elaine Chao, President Trump's Secretary of Transportation actually is a member of the CFR.
WHO THE CFR IS:
"The Council on Foreign Relations controls our government. Through the years its members have infiltrated the entire executive branch, State Department, Justice Department, CIA, and top ranks of the military. Every director of the Central Intelligence Agency has been a member of the CFR. Most U.S. Presidents since Roosevelt have been members. The members of the CFR dominate ownership of the press and most, if not all, of America's top journalists are members. The CFR does not conform to government policy. The government conforms to CFR policy." — Bill Cooper in "Behold A Pale Horse"
"In short, the "house of world order" will have to be built from the bottom up…. An end run around national sovereignty, eroding it piece by piece, will accomplish much more than the old-fashioned frontal assault.
"As for the programmed decline of the American economy, CFR member Samuel Huntington argues that, if higher education is considered to be desirable for the general population, "a program is then necessary to lower the job expectations of those who receive a college education." CFR member Paul Volcker, former Chairman of the Federal Reserve, says: "The standard of living of the average American has to decline… I don't think you can escape that."
"It is through this front group, called the Council on Foreign Relations, and its influence over the media, tax-exempt foundations, universities, and government agencies that the international financiers have been able to dominate the domestic and foreign policies of the United States ever since." — G. Edward Griffin /The Creature From Jekyll Island
A biting critique of McConnell's 'establishment' politics is reported on a website named DC Whispers.com in an article titled 'REPORT: Mitch McConnell Camp Planted Roy Moore Story to Help Clear Path for Trump Impeachment Attempt In 2018.
That article states: "What a disgusting cesspool of self-serving corruption is the nation's capital and no better example of that can be found today than Senate Majority Leader, Mitch McConnell who, according to longtime political activist, Ned Ryun, was a primary source of the anti-Roy Moore stories that are now attempting to sway the upcoming Alabama special election and help clear the path for a Trump impeachment attempt in 2018.
'…I strongly suspect it's a very short list of people, all who are associated with Mitch McConnell – whether it's Josh Holmes, whether it's Karl Rove, might even be Steven Law – I don't know, but I strongly, strongly suspect somebody out of the McConnell camp planted the story. It was planted. This came with the blessing of Mitch McConnell at some point, that [sic] he was going to take a political shot at Roy Moore.'
"According to whispers, it wasn't just taking "political shot" at Moore that motivating [sic] the McConnell camp. They want Roy Moore out of the way and replaced with someone of McConnell's choosing, or even Moore's Democrat opponent, Doug Jones, a man whose career is linked to the Bill Clinton administration. Moore would be a vehement defender of POTUS Trump and his policies. If McConnell is to succeed in laying the groundwork for an impeachment trial and vote in the Senate, he will need fewer senators like Roy Moore to contend with.
"McConnell is said to know actual impeachment proceedings remain a distant possibility, (the Paul Ryan-led House would first have to vote to impeach) but he is more determined than ever to be ready should that opportunity present itself. For those who might scoff at the notion of a Republican Congress actually pursuing articles of impeachment against Donald Trump, simply recall the failed votes to repeal and replace Obamacare, the ongoing troubles to pass tax cuts, and the number of Republican senators who continue to openly speak out against the President.
"The motivation to go after Trump is there. What is left is a simple matter of numbers. Getting rid of a Roy Moore and replacing him with an anti-Trump senator would give McConnell that much more leverage to make his desire to eliminate Trump and restore Establishment control a reality." — Unquote DC Whispers.com
Drew Messer, a senior adviser to the Moore campaign, estimated that $30 millionhad been spent by Strange and McConnell's allies against Moore.
After a year of non-performance in Congress on President Trump's major campaign promises of repealing ObamaCare and major tax reductions, Mitch McConnell's establishment obstructionism can truly turn the tide in the next election back in timewhere the GOP is rendered toothless in the world of total control by the establishment's swamp, i.e. the GOP RINO's and the socialist Dimms. Then away we go.
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Phoren Near India
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A book that takes you on a tour of the land and sea borders of India
Veeresh Malik
May 08 , 2017
The concept of land border towns as dusty, desolate outposts has long been glorified in literature and movies. Sea-facing ports, on the other hand, have been melting pots for civilisations going back aeons. The advent and growth of air travel, now the favoured international travel option, has made airports the new funnels. Inter-modal movements rapidly take people and commerce along pre-defined paths, into and out of their comfort zones, without much interaction with the real new worlds that borders used to provide.
This book takes you to the land and sea borders of India, which millions of "ordinary people" use. Pradeep Damodaran in Borderlands takes great care to almost totally avoid air travel. This book, in a way, also tells you how simple it is to "go abroad" without a passport or visa. By land or across water. As an army brat who turned seafarer, this is something which one learnt by exposure. And this aspect of paperless human beings continuously migrating in search of whatever it is that drives them, is also brought out well.
But then, this book is way beyond the payscale of a travel book, in as much as it also becomes a very readable sociological experiment on why land and sea border outposts in India are what they are. Detailed chapters on defined land borders with Pakistan, China, Tibet, Bhutan, Nepal, Myanmar and Bangladesh are supplemented with observations on the undefined sea borders with Sri Lanka and other countries along the Indian Ocean. (Technically, if one drops a straight line of longitude from India, then even the continent of Antarctica deserves mention. And new information on how the aborigines of Australia trace their ancestry back to India confirms that the antipodes are, literally, in the same boat of borders, too.)
The book is made up of bite sized chapters, to be consumed in any order by the attention-deficit reader. Some chapters stand out because they have seldom been done before—India's borders with China in Arunachal, for example, and the effect that the 1962 incursion had on the people there. One line says so much—aspects of which I had heard from Brigadier Dalvi's men in 1962—"By this time, the Chinese soldiers had left. Khandu and his fellow villagers found their homes and property intact, with no traces of damage or desecration".
The other chapter that does it for me is the one on Moreh, a town on the border between Manipur and Myanmar. After the 1962 churn in that country, Indians of different communities were forced out but some returned to the border to resume life and trade. The Moreh chapter includes interaction with people who originate from Nepal, Tamil Nadu, Punjab, Pakistan, Bihar, Bengal, and also the locals—not counting soldiers from all over.
Pakistan and Bangladesh get a lion's share of the dialogue in our lives. They are well covered in this book. If maritime matters interest you, then the chapters on Campbell Bay (Andamans) and Minicoy (Lakshwadweep) are essential reading. I have passed through these islands dozens of times, but never visited these places.
I found the book difficult to put down, and have a gut feeling that for a certain kind of traveller, this may become a cult reference manual. Go to phoren near India. Don't take your passport; take photos and return. With memories.
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Q: Need help figuring out why my dice game counter isn't accurate Below is the code that I have built for the dice game i made. I need it to display the number of wins and the number of losses once i quit the game. Everything is running smoothly, but it is only counting the last result currently. any ideas why?
import random

   def roll_dice():
      winner = 0
      loser = 0
      roll = (random.randint(1,6))
      roll2 = (random.randint(1,6))
      print(roll,"  "roll2)
      if roll == roll2:
        print("Winner!")
        winner += 1
      else:
        print("Loser!")
        loser += 1
      play_again = input("Would you like to play again?")

      if play_again == "yes":
        roll_dice()

      else:
        print("You won " , winner , "times")
        print("You lost ", loser , "times")
        quit

   def main():

     game_start = input("Would you like to roll the dice?")
     if game_start == 'yes':
        roll_dice()

     else:
        print("too bad")

   if __name__ == '__main__':
   main()

A: This is happening because you are variables winner and loser are local variables and are re-initialized to zero every time roll_dice() is called. You can either have winner and loser as global variables or pass them as arguments to your function. See below with global variable
import random

winner = 0
loser = 0

def roll_dice():
  global winner, loser
  roll = (random.randint(1,6))
  roll2 = (random.randint(1,6))
  print(roll,"  ",roll2)
  if roll == roll2:
    print("Winner!")
    winner += 1
  else:
    print("Loser!")
    loser += 1
  play_again = input("Would you like to play again?")

  if play_again == "yes":
    roll_dice()

  else:
    print("You won " , winner , "times")
    print("You lost ", loser , "times")
    quit

def main():

 game_start = input("Would you like to roll the dice?")
 if game_start == 'yes':
    roll_dice()

 else:
    print("too bad")

if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()

Also I would like to point out that you should not use recursion here as it can cause a stack overflow error. looping would be a better option.

A: This is because winner and loser are local variables scoped to a call of roll_dice.
Each call would instantiate a new variable loser and winner and the instance goes away with the return of the function.
More here Short description of the scoping rules?
One dirty fix to your problem would be to make winner and loser variables in global scope.
A cleaner solution would be to restructure your code to make roll_dice return the count of winner and loser as a tuple.

A: Every time you call your function (because you made it as recursion), the variable of winner and loser become zero. I think you need to change your function in def roll_dice(). It's better to use looping as stated by @ashutoshy.and01.
Also, you make the player as a winner if only the number on both dices equal, otherwise a loser even the player's dice number is greater than the computer's.
def roll_dice():
    winner = 0
    loser = 0
    play_again = "yes"
    while play_again == "yes":
        roll = (random.randint(1,6))
        roll2 = (random.randint(1,6))
        print(str(roll),"  ",end=str(roll2))
        if roll >= roll2:
            print(" Winner!")
            winner += 1
        else:
            print(" Loser!")
            loser += 1
        play_again = input("Would you like to play again?")
    print("You won " , winner , "times")
    print("You lost ", loser , "times")
    quit


THE MATCHUP: Mount Holyoke opens up its spring home slate against the Bobcats of Bates College for the 21st matchup in program history. The series dates back to 1995 where the Lyons defeated the Bobcats, 8-1, but Bates currently owns a 4-16 all-time advantage.
THE LYONS: Mount Holyoke (3-3) comes into the match with the momentum of a two game win streak after the Seven Sisters Championship tournament last Saturday. The Lyons defeated both Bryn Mawr College and Smith College, 4-1 to lock down a third place finish. In the match against the Owls, juniors Madison Rosen and Joy Maran earned the match-winning victory with an 8-0 victory in doubles, while senior captain Ishita Tibrewal and sophomore Ching-Ching Huang secured the match win against Smith College in 8-0 fashion. Earning All-Seven Sisters honors was senior Clara Wang and sophomore Catherine Peabody.
THE BOBCATS: Bates (2-1) visits South Hadley after an 8-1 victory over Cal Lutheran on Saturday. The Bobcats got out to a 3-0 lead with convincing wins in doubles action before senior captain Maisie Silverman secured the victory at the top of the singles lineup with a 6-2, 6-2 win. Prior to the match against MHC on Saturday, Bates will compete against Smith College on Friday.
NEXT UP: Mount Holyoke will have almost two weeks off before heading to Orlando for a trio of matches against Colby-Sawyer College (3/13), Texas-Tyler (3/14), and Haverford College (3/15). Bates will head to the DMV during spring break to face Case Western Reserve (3/16), Swarthmore (3/17), and Washington and Lee (3/18).


LHD Volkswagen Golf Estate 1.4 manual.
Silver with black cloth upholstery.
The vehicle is registered in my name on UK plates.
Electric windows and air conditioning.
The car does look really good for its age.
alternator belt, and an oil service.
Front discs and brake pads.
2 New front tyres. Other 3 are almost new.


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City of Hope presents new cancer research at American Society of Clinical Oncology meeting
Letisia Marquez
Denise Heady
Findings on blood, breast, lung and bladder cancers will be presented at ASCO's annual conference
DUARTE, Calif. — City of Hope doctors and researchers will present their latest research on immunotherapy, precision medicine and other topics during the American Society of Clinical Oncology's Annual Meeting June 3 to 7 in Chicago. An estimated 30,000 oncology professionals attend the conference to learn about the latest scientific research on cancer treatment, detection and prevention.
Significant City of Hope presentations at this year's meeting include:
Preliminary results of a phase I/II study supporting use of ixazomib, pomalidomide and dexamethasone for relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma
Pembrolizumab for patients with relapsed/refractory classical Hodgkin lymphoma
Biomarker is linked to survival and treatment response for BRCA-positive breast cancer patients
New and emerging targets for advanced bladder cancers: BGJ398
Veliparib used in combination with chemotherapy and radiation for patients with unresectable Stage 3 nonsmall cell lung cancer
"The cancer death rate has declined in the last 50 years — due in large part to early cancer detection, more prevention efforts and better treatments — but more work remains to be done," said Steven T. Rosen, M.D., City of Hope's provost and chief scientific officer. "The ASCO annual meeting brings together leading cancer researchers and clinicians, inspiring collaboration and renewing our commitment to finding the most effective cancer treatments so we can achieve a meaningful, tangible impact against the disease."
Abstract # 8008
"A phase I/II study of ixazomib (lx), pomalidomide (POM), dexamethasone (DEX) in relapsed/refractory (R/R) multiple myeloma: Initial results."
Friday, June 3, 3 to 6 p.m.
McCormick Place, Room E354b
City of Hope researchers have found encouraging responses to a novel oral combination treatment for patients with multiple myeloma that has returned or no longer responds to other standard treatments.
Amrita Krishnan, M.D., director of the Judy and Bernard Briskin Center for Multiple Myeloma Research, and colleagues at three other multiple myeloma research foundation centers (Sarah Cannon, Mayo Clinic, Emory Healthcare) studied 32 patients with relapsed or refractory multiple myeloma who took an oral regimen as part of a phase I/II clinical trial. The treatment combines ixazomib, the first oral proteasome inhibitor approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in late 2015; pomalidomide, an immunomodulatory agent, and dexamethasone, a steroid that can augment the effects of ixazomib and pomalidomide.
Patients were able to take the three drug combination with only mild side effects, and did not experience significant nausea or increased nerve damage. More than 70 percent of the patients had a clinical benefit after taking the drugs. While the results reported are still preliminary — many patients just finished one cycle of therapy — Krishnan said investigators are encouraged by the response rate.
"There's a lot of hope for new treatments for patients whose multiple myeloma has returned or who no longer respond to other treatments because of the recent approval of several new drugs for relapsed myeloma," said Krishan, also a professor in City of Hope's Department of Hematology and Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation. "Our regimen is particularly attractive as it is entirely oral, thereby allowing patients much more freedom to maintain their lifestyle."
Based on these findings, Krishnan said the team will continue to study patient response rates for a longer period of time and why some patients respond better to the treatment than others.
"Pembrolizumab for relapsed/refractory classical Hodgkin lymphoma (R/R cHL): phase 2 KEYNOTE-087 study."
Monday, June 6, 8 to 11:30 a.m.
McCormick Place, Hall A
Robert Chen, M.D., assistant professor with City of Hope's Department of Hematology & Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation, and colleagues conducted a multicenter phase II trial that examined the efficacy and safety of pembrolizumab in 180 patients with relapsed/refractory Hodgkin lymphoma. Pembrolizumab is an immunomodulatory drug that bolsters the body's immune system to fight cancer cells. The trial is a pivotal study that could lead to the FDA's approval of the drug for use by patients with Hodgkin lymphoma.
The study included three groups of patients: 1) patients whose disease relapsed after stem cell transplant and didn't respond to brentuximab vedotin, an antibody-drug conjugate, 2) patients who were ineligible for a stem cell transplant and didn't respond to brentuximab vedotin; and 3) patients whose disease relapsed after stem cell transplant and have not taken brentuximab vedotin.
Patients tolerated the drug well, and side effects were minimal. In addition, the tumors of between 70 to 80 percent of the patients in each group shrank by at least 50 percent. Up to 30 percent of patients in each group went into remission after taking pembrolizumab.
The drug works by targeting a protein known as PD1 on the surface of T cells.
"Normally, when the body's immune system sees a cancer cell, it's supposed to say this is a bad cell and kill it," Chen said. "But PDL1, which is expressed on the tumor cells, binds to PD1 on the T cells, fools the immune system into thinking the tumor cell is a good one and doesn't kill it."
Pembrolizumab prevents PD1 from attaching itself to PDL1, thus enabling the immune system to continue to attack tumor cells.
A phase III, randomized trial of the drug is being planned that will compare pembrolizumab and brentuximab vedotin in treating Hodgkin lymphoma patients.
"Immunotherapy agents have opened a lot of doors for patients, and they are generally well-tolerated," Chen said. "They hold a lot of promise."
"Suppression of poly-ADP ribose (PAR) levels in PBMCs by veliparib (vel) as a pharmacodynamic (PD) marker associated with survival among women with BRCA1- or BRCA2- (BRCA)-associated metastatic breast cancer (MBC)."
Sunday, June 5, 8 to 11:30 a.m.
A study led by Jeffrey Weitzel, M.D., director of City of Hope's Division of Clinical Cancer Genetics, found that for breast cancer patients with BRCA gene mutations, compounds called poly ADP ribose (PAR) can help determine treatment response and clinical outcomes.
PAR is produced by enzymes called PARP, which are also involved in DNA repair and programmed cell death. Cancer cells can also exploit PARP to repair themselves after DNA damage from radiation or chemotherapy. To address this, a new class of drugs called PARP inhibitors have been developed to thwart this self-repair process, which can enhance current cancer therapies or kill the cancer cells outright.
For the study, 72 patients with BRCA-associated metastatic breast cancer were treated with either veliparib, a PARP inhibitor, on its own or with carboplatin, a chemotherapy drug. The patients also had their PAR levels measured before treatment, three hours after treatment and at additional times later on.
After capturing and analyzing these measurements, Weitzel and his team found that patients who survived longer or had better treatment responses either have higher PAR levels before treatment or a greater drop in PAR levels after the initial veliparib therapy.
Weitzel said the findings can be used to determine which breast cancer patients are most likely to benefit from PARP inhibitor therapy, and is currently studying whether this therapy will be beneficial as a first-line treatment or in BRCA-associated breast cancer in earlier stages.
"Efficacy of BGJ398, a fibroblast growth factor receptor (FGFR) 1-3 inhibitor, in patients (pts) with previously treated advanced/metastatic urothelial carcinoma (mUC) with FGFR3 alterations."
Monday, June 6, 4:45 to 6 p.m. for discussion
McCormick Place, Arie Crown Theater
To improve bladder cancer treatment, scientists need to have a better understanding of the molecular profile of the disease. City of Hope's Sumanta K. Pal, M.D., assistant clinical professor in the Department of Medical Oncology & Therapeutics Research, has made it a focus in his clinic.
By molecularly profiling his patients with advanced bladder cancer, Pal has found that many of them — about 20 percent — have alterations in a gene called FGRF3. Patients with this specific alteration were treated with a drug called BGJ398 in a City of Hope-led clinical trial have shown impressive efficacy with this particular therapeutic agent.
"In one case, we actually observed a complete response to the therapy, which is rarely encountered in the setting of advanced bladder cancer," Pal said.
The results from the clinical trial represents a significant change in the treatment of bladder cancer, which for over three decades has had very little progress in treatment advances.
"SWOG S1206: A dose-finding study of veliparib (ABT-888) added to chemoradiotherapy (CRT) with carboplatin (C) and paclitaxel (P) for unresectable stage III non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC)."
Saturday, June 4, 8 to 11:30 a.m.
A phase I study funded by the National Cancer Institute and conducted by Southwest Oncology Group (SWOG) in patients with unresectable stage 3 nonsmall cell lung cancer evaluated the use of the PARP enzyme inhibitor veliparib in combination with standard chemotherapy and radiation. Limited treatment options are available for patients with this type of cancer.
This multicenter study found patients can tolerate oral veliparib during chemotherapy and radiation, and also established a safe dose amount, said Mihaela Cristea, M.D., an associate clinical professor in City of Hope's Department of Medical Oncology & Therapeutics Research and the study's principal co-investigator. A phase II study is being planned and will test the drug's effectiveness.
Veliparib works by inhibiting the PARP enzyme, thereby preventing the repair of DNA in cancer cells. Preclinical studies demonstrated that veliparib can augment the effects of radiation and certain chemotherapy drugs, including carboplatin, which was used in the study.
Other City of Hope clinical trials
In addition, City of Hope also participated in a randomized phase III trial of cabozantinib versus everolimus in patients with previously treated advanced renal cell carcinoma (the FDA has approved the use of cabozantinib for this type of cancer in April) and a trial that studied the use of pembrolizumab versus ipilimumab for advanced melanoma patients.
City of Hope is an independent research and treatment center for cancer, diabetes and other life-threatening diseases. Designated as one of only 45 comprehensive cancer centers, the highest recognition bestowed by the National Cancer Institute, City of Hope is also a founding member of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network, with research and treatment protocols that advance care throughout the world. City of Hope is located in Duarte, California, just northeast of Los Angeles, with community clinics throughout Southern California. It is ranked as one of "America's Best Hospitals" in cancer by U.S. News & World Report. Founded in 1913, City of Hope is a pioneer in the fields of bone marrow transplantation,diabetes and numerous breakthrough cancer drugs based on technology developed at the institution. For more information about City of Hope, follow us on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube or Instagram.


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Loud Booing, Bridge of Lies & South African Fix
What to do if you're a Canadian soccer fan.
It is very simple.
Cheer the players: Boo the soccer officials.
Anytime a FIFA official walks on the pitch or addresses the crowd: boo and jeer them.
For good measure, make signs that denounce them.
At these international events, FIFA officials' usual trick is to make sure they are only seen on the pitches accompanied by fashion models or small children in costumes. Ignore the models, respect the children, but jeer the FIFA officials.
Remember, this is an organization that now has to consider which executives it can send to Canada, in case they get extradited to the Untied States to face criminal charges. This is not what sport is supposed to be about.
Remember this is an organization whose second-in-command Jerome Valcke said in Brazil in 2013, "Less democracy is sometimes better for organizing a World Cup."
Show FIFA officials what people in a democracy think of their values.
The world is watching.
Your booing will send a signal around the world.
Keep jeering, booing, chanting for a long time. This way the television broadcasts around the world cannot delay their signal until the protests stop.
The Bridge of Lies?
Over at Sport Accord, the controversial Russian president Marius L. Vizer has resigned.
Vizer always was a whirling tempest. He tried to directly challenge the power of the IOC and establish an alternate sporting calendar. He failed after a dramatic meeting in Sochi (Dramatic by sports conference terms. Meaning Vizer actually said what he meant. This is highly unusual in those snooze festivals).
His actual resignation letter is bizarre. At one point, he goes on about the 'Bridge of Lies' – the romantic bridge in Paris where couples seal their love with a kiss and padlock.
Not sure what it says about Vizer's love-life but it is up there with Blatter's rambling speech at the end of the FIFA conference (my favorite bit was where he was going on about "FIFA is offshore at the moment". There was a gasp in the audience as some of the delegates seemed to think, "Yes, we are offshore. That is where most of our money is kept!") However, it was the usual Blatter nonsense that continued along the lines of FIFA needed to be directed back into a safe harbour.
The Real Reason Why the South Africans Stopped the Investigation?
Some points about the FBI indictment.
It was extraordinary thorough. There were twenty-five covert sources (co-conspirators) mentioned in the documents. Several of them had already pleaded guilty – Chuck Blazer, etc. There are numbered accounts, bank details, etc. This is robust stuff.
It also showed the existence of an entire, parallel system within the marketing, television rights of FIFA. There is the public face and then there seems to a real, system where the decisions are actually made. Fascinating stuff, as the document takes it out of conjecture and allegations and into a clear, traceable system.
Now I understand why the South Africans were so keen to shut down the match-fixing investigation.
To recap.
Last year, I did a story for the New York Times about fixing just before the 2010 World Cup. FIFA had investigated the issue for two-days then handed the file to the South Africans. In that brief time they had discovered that someone inside the South Africa Football Association (SAFA) had been working with the fixers.
The South African President directly ordered the investigation shut down. I could never understand why they had done that. It seemed a huge over-reach to protect an official in SAFA.
The South African government had also sent their sports minister to Zurich, to meet with FIFA and tell them that the only thing that would be investigated would be the match-fixing scandal in 2010. Nothing else was to be on the table.
Now comes this extraordinary paragraph from the FBI indictment:
At one point, [Jack] WARNER also directed Co-Conspirator #14 to fly to Paris, France and accept a briefcase containing bundles of U.S. currency in $10,000 stacks in a hotel room from Co-Conspirator #15, a high- ranking South African bid committee official.
Hours after arriving in Paris, Co-Conspirator #14 boarded a return flight and carried the briefcase back to Trinidad and Tobago, where Co- Conspirator #14 provided it to WARNER.
The FBI has not only the person who accepted the money, but also the South African bid official who paid the money, talking to them.
This is bad. This is really bad for the South Africans. If true, it means that Africa's first world cup was gained by corruption and marred by serious match-fixing in the preparation.


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Q: Behat tests not running on CircleCI I'm having come trouble getting my tests to run within CircleCI. Locally the tests run fine, as shown on the right side of the screenshot. But in CircleCI, it will load the SuiteContext file and run the Before/AfterSuite methods, but nothing else. What would cause this sort of behavior? Thanks

default:
  autoload: Test/Context
  suites:
    default:
      paths:
        features: Test/Features
      contexts:
        - SettingContext: ~
        - LanguageContext: ~
        - ActionContext: ~
        - FrontendContext: ~
        - FileTypeContext: ~
        - FieldContext: ~
        - ChannelContext: ~
        - BrowserContext: ~
        - SuiteContext: ~
        - RequestContext: ~
        - UrlContext: ~
        - TemplateContext: ~
        - PhraseContext: ~
        - CategoryContext: ~
        - EntryContext: ~
  extensions:
    Behat\MinkExtension:
      base_url: http://ee300-clean.dev
      selenium2: ~

Paths to files in Circle instance:
/home
  /ubuntu
    /project
      /app
        /bin
          /behat
        /behat.yml
        /Test
          /Context
          /Features

circle.yml
test:
  override:
    - cd /home/ubuntu/project/app && bin/behat

I've changed that override command several times to explicitly set the path to the Features directory, but nothing I've tried works.

A: This ended up being a case sensitivity issue. Long ago I had renamed my features folder to Features, and locally on my Mac it still appeared as Features, however, it was committed to Git as features. Mac seemed to be more forgiving and still ran the tests even though the config file had "Features" in it, but Ubuntu server on Circle wasn't as forgiving.


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Moen has been on the market for a very long time marketing a unique and excellent line of faucets and other fixtures for bathroom, kitchen, and outdoor purposes. The Moen 7594ESRS is one of the best and expensive hands-free kitchen faucet available on the market today.
In the beginning, kitchen faucets were all about the color, design, and the style they came in, but with technology advancing these days people are more eager to get themselves the latest technology. This kitchen faucet is one such fixture that might worth laying your hands on. With a stainless and fingerprint resistant body, the Moen kitchen faucets have already acquired a reputation for marketing the best kitchen faucets.
The Moen 7594ESRS holds the record as one of the high-tech kitchen faucet systems that requires only less than an hour to unpack, install, and put into use. The product comes with an active reflex system in its spray head that will provide the user full control over its flow. One of the most attractive things about this product is that it comes incorporated with the latest MotionSense hands-free operation feature that comes with enhanced senses that allows it to function seamlessly. The MotionSense system incorporated into this kitchen makes the faucet efficient enough to activate the flow in just simple and smooth hand gestures.
When it comes to automatic kitchen faucets: there are plenty of models on the market today, but the Moen 7594ESRS is not like something most of the brands market. This product comes in a unique design that allows it to be installed through one or three holes. One of the notable things about the Moen 7594ESRS kitchen faucet is that it is completely spot resistant and rust resistant. The product comes in different color and finishing variants, chrome, matte black, oil rubbed bronze, and stainless steel.
Now, the biggest highlight that we really love is that the Moen 7594ESRS is that it comes in three variants, single sensor, dual sensor, and standard no sensor model. Therefore, there goes one of the unique variants provided by one of the top brands on the market today. However, this is not the only feature that we liked the most; the main feature that we liked was that this product comes with two sensing zones that allow the user to activate the faucet flow in two ways. One of the sensors is placed at the base of the faucet and the other placed at the top of the faucet. So, all you have to do is simply wave the hands near to the top of the faucet or near the base of the faucet. Move the hands away and water flow stops.
Yet another feature that makes this kitchen faucet is unique is that it comes with a pull out feature. Yes, a spray head that could be pulled out of the faucet set up, this sprayer head is attached to a 68-inch long hose, which, in turn, allows the user to clean sides of the sink and even outside the sink. The kitchen faucet is equipped with the option to select from two types of flow, stream flow and spray mode. Another important thing about this kitchen faucet is that the variant with sensors incorporated come with 5-year warranty on its digital components and on the hand, for the standard without sensor incorporated variant the manufacturer offers a lifetime warranty on the product. This automatic kitchen faucet also comes with a power clean spray technology incorporated that enhances the spray power of the faucet up to 50 percentages high.
When it comes to automatic kitchen faucets, there are confusions about the temperature control. To know this you will have to know that there are two types of control boxes. A gray box or a black box, the gray box allows the user to change the temperature for the sensor through the box itself. However, the gray box is considered old and is no longer in use, but the Moen 7594ESRS comes with a black box that demands the user to use the handle if he/she needs to change the temperature of the water flow.
Sensors work on electricity if you find the faucet draining the batteries frequently, then consider switching off any one of the sensors and then use the faucet.
Unlike most of the automatic kitchen faucets out there, this faucet comes with some new gestures that turn on the water flow and turns of the flow. Place the hands in front of the sensor and move it to turn on the flow and if you need to turn off the flow, just move the hands away or stop moving your hands in front of the sensor. Unless and until the sensor finds you hands moving it will not turn on the flow.
You would be surprised to know that, the Moen 7594ESRS automatic kitchen faucet does not have any real competitor on the market today. Yes, for the price, the quality, and the design no other brand or model of kitchen faucet can match this product. Surprised right, we have compared almost every automatic kitchen faucet out there, none of them are close to what this faucet delivers. However, we found one competitor to its model that comes without the sensors (Moen 7594ESRS standard). The KOHLER K 99261 CP model comes at the same price and similar looks, however, in terms of the quality these two products are neck to neck. If you are not looking for a sensor incorporated product and if you want some good features in your kitchen faucet, then KOHLER K 99261 CP could be a good option for you as it comes with a braided hose that is easy to use and spray functions designed specifically for cleaning fruits and vegetables.
When it comes down to the price of this product, we find it quite reasonable for the features and quality it delivers. However, if you are waiting to get this product while there is a price drop, we do not think that something like that will happen with the sensor-incorporated models. The price of the motion sensor incorporated model has been steady since its launch; on the other hand, the price of the standard model has dropped more than once.
If you ask us why this product is recommended, then our answer is simple. Hands free kitchen faucets are the future and there is nothing better than the technology and style today. Yet another reason is the warranty, the faucet requires six AAA batteries that could power the product for a comparatively longer time than other models, and the sensors incorporated into this product is excellent. Yes, the sensors incorporated, as of now, we have heard no grievances from the customers.
With the product coming with an expensive price tag if you are opting to purchase the standard version, we quote that you would be cheating yourself. If you think the product is complicated, we would like to tell you the product comes with a manual that could troubleshoot you.


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How to build a trusted IoT Device Ecosystem?
Co-authored By: Harsha Vachher
With the coming of IoT, billions of sensors and devices are rapidly gaining connectivity. However, in spite of creating huge business opportunities and offering several consumer benefits, IoT introduces serious security threats into the digital ecosystem. Securing an individual device has its own unique challenges – such as limited hardware and software resources, as well as the associated bandwidth requirements.
Here are some of the questions associated with IoT device security:
A trusted platform, built via Secure Boot offers the most feasible solution for IoT device security today
Secure Boot, or device tamper detection, uses digital signatures to validate and authenticate the device software each time it is turned on. This prevents unknown or malicious software from running on the device.
Similar to the way a person signs a legal document or check – a digital signature is linked to the device image to verify that only the software image approved for execution, and digitally signed by an authorized entity, is loaded on the device.
This establishes a "Root of Trust"— a key element for IoT device security.
A Bottom-up Approach: Booting into a secure state
A ground-up approach builds a Root of Trust from platform layer to application layer – creating a secure ecosystem. The first step is to ensure that when a device starts from reset, it is in the 'expected' state, its firmware is unscathed, and that there has been no tampering. Using code signing, the device runs self-test processes to check the authenticity and integrity of firmware – prior to further execution. Once the test is passed at one layer, it can move to the next layer to validate additional device subsystems code.
After 'power-up', the device starts executing the Root of Trust code from a secure location – like ROM or internal flash. The primary task of this code is successfully verifying the signature, before software execution. The verification process is carried out using a public key – previously loaded on the device via multiple certification methods.
Figure 1: Root of Trust
The Secure Boot process is vital to implementing a Root of Trust.
Secure Boot improves security and reduces boot time by leveraging the platform's hardware capabilities – including hardware cryptographic accelerator, secure signature storage, and secure key storage. It helps create a trusted module – the first step to validating the integrity and authenticity of other device components. The stage-one bootloader becomes part of the trusted platform module, and serves as Root. Next, the device OS, applications on the execution queue, and other systems are validated in succession – creating a chain of secure entities that originates at Root.
Why is it better to build security into IoT devices from the beginning?
Role of HCLTech in enabling Device Security
HCLTech is recognized as a global Internet of Things (IoT) leader – we believe security is an integral part of IoT adoption. HCLTech offers a comprehensive range of security services and solutions for embedded IoT devices across multiple industry verticals – defining and implementing an end-to-end security blueprint while integrating COTS and open source security components.
In-built device protection is a critical security layer – the device becomes autonomous, working independent of the network firewall or infrastructure security. It also allows customization based on individual device requirements.
Since many embedded devices are deployed outside the standard enterprise perimeter, it is critical that security be integrated into the device core itself. However, implementing secure boot requires specific hardware capabilities – device security, therefore, must be a critical factor in the design phase itself.
The bottom line is - Secure Boot is a key technology for creating the Internet of Secure Things.
http://www.synopsys.com/COMPANY/PUBLICATIONS/DWTB/Pages/dwtb-secure-iot-system-boot-2016q1.aspx
https://software.intel.com/en-us/SetupGateway-UEFI
Mayank Babu Rastogi General Manager
Security, Risk and Compliance