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Giants announce Coaching Staff Changes
Tom Coughlin's game plan for filling an opening on his coaching staff was as thorough as any his team produces for an opponent during the NFL season.
"I spent a lot of time, talked to a lot of coaches, talked to a lot of people, some personnel people about some of the candidates that were out there," Coughlin said.
In the end, Coughlin's search led him back home. The Giants announced today that Sean Ryan, who had coached the team's wide receivers the previous two seasons, will now coach the quarterbacks. He replaces Mike Sullivan, who left soon after the Giants won Super Bowl XLVI to become the Tampa Bay Buccaneers' offensive coordinator. Kevin M. Gilbride is the new wide receivers coach. He spent the last two years as the offensive quality control coach.
Gilbride follows the same path taken by Ryan, who switched from quality control to wide receivers in 2010.
"Continuity is important," Coughlin said. "It's not that I don't think there are some talented people out there. But I do think that these two are very talented and the best approach we could possibly take would be to continue to support our players at those positions with people who are products of the system.
"You would like to take people that are in the system, that understand the system, understand how we work, are very comfortable with the organizational scheme that we use in preparation. What we have here in Sean Ryan and Kevin Gilbride were two young coaches, one being Sean, who had started out as a quality control coach, was very impressive in that role, and then was elevated to the wide receiver position, in which he did an outstanding job. Young Kevin Gilbride came in here as a quality control offensive assistant and his energy level, his enthusiasm, his overall optimism, the positive way that he attacks every job, and the importance of how well he performed his job – which makes everybody else's job easier on offense – because the information that he puts forth is accurate. I really came to the conclusion that this was best for us."
Both Ryan and Gilbride – the son of offensive coordinator Kevin Gilbride – believe the assignment changes will be seamless, largely because of their familiarity with each other.
"The two things that I think will make this a good working relationship are, obviously, I've been in that chair, moving from his job to the wide receivers," Ryan said. "I know what challenges he'll face and I can at least give him advice as to what I did and he'll have to decide how he wants to go about his job. He'll do things his way. But also he was in the wide receiver meeting room for the last two years. He was working with the wide receivers. They know him, they're comfortable with him. I know him, I worked with him on a daily basis. The wide receiver job and the quality control job are pretty closely related. So I've been working with Kevin on a daily basis for two years. We have a good working relationship, so I think it's really going to help the change."
"I think that's a big advantage for us," Gilbride said. "That's what happened last time – Sean moved from quality control to receivers and Sully trained him in what his responsibilities would be at the wide receiver position. Sean trained me at the quality control position. It's the same transition. When the new quality control coach comes in I'll train him. Sean will train me on the receivers position and we'll go from there."
Ryan and Gilbride were coaches for an offense that ranked eighth in the NFL in 2011, including fifth in passing yards. The Giants scored 394 points, the ninth-highest total in the NFL.
"Our coaches do a great job of communicating among themselves," Coughlin said. "Kevin (the offensive coordinator) has demonstrated great patience with these young guys. That's been important for me. They're constantly checking with him to be sure the terminology is right and how it's being explained is correct. And that is something that must be continued, that kind of an open communication policy from each position through the coordinators so everyone speaks with the same language. That was very critical to me."
Ryan, of course, will now take a significant role in the continued development of Eli Manning, who led the Giants to their second Super Bowl victory in five seasons while setting franchise records with 589 passes, 359 completions and 4,933 yards.
"I'm excited about Sean Ryan being the quarterback coach," Manning said. "He's a guy that's been in this system, worked his way from the ground up and spent two years with the receivers. He's a young guy (Ryan turns 40 on May 1) who is energetic. He's driven to continue to learn. I know he's going to get prepared for drills. I got a chance to talk to him yesterday and will continue to talk to him when we get back for the offseason program on what I want to work on, what I need to improve on and how we can get on the same page. Coach Sullivan and I did a great job communicating. That's something that's very important with a quarterback coach and I know we'll have great communication and a great work ethic. Coach Ryan and I have worked closely together since he was with the receivers. I'm excited about him and I know we'll have a great relationship. We shouldn't miss a beat."
Manning is entering his ninth Giants season and Ryan will be his fourth position coach, following Gilbride (who held the position before becoming coordinator), Chris Palmer and Sullivan. Coughlin said the changes haven't adversely affected Manning because the offensive system has remained intact.
"The system stays the same, but the people that we have provided as the direct teacher/coach of the quarterback position have been people that have been in the system," Coughlin said. "Even when Chris Palmer came here (in 2007), he was a product of the system, too. The first quarterback coach was Kevin Gilbride, so when Palmer left Sullivan made that move and he did an outstanding job. The communication between he and Eli was outstanding. And, of course, the quarterbacks coach and the quarterback work tirelessly with the receivers. So there has been great communication between Mike Sullivan and Sean Ryan and Eli."
Ryan, who joined the Giants' staff in 2007, coached quarterbacks in college and is excited to work with Manning.
"It's a tremendous opportunity," Ryan said. "He's obviously one of the better quarterbacks in the NFL and to have that experience to work with him – but even beyond his talent, the things that excite me the most are his professionalism and his work ethic and what he brings on a daily basis. I think it's special to have a player like that and be able to work with a player like that that you know is going to give above and beyond what is expected. I think somebody who is that eager and wants to be that good and wants to get better like that, as a coach there is nothing more you can ask for than to work with a player who is that committed to getting himself better."
Gilbride is similarly energized about working with a group of receivers that includes Hakeem Nicks and Victor Cruz.
"They're incredibly talented and the great thing about those guys is they have such different skill sets, but they can be incredibly dynamic in what they do," Gilbride said. "If they continue to develop, they can be dominant receivers in this league for a long time and that's what's exciting – good, young, talented wide receivers who bring very specific and different skill sets to the table. It helps our offense to function."
And that really is what Coughlin focused on most when considering these moves – how best to keep the offense producing at a high level.
"You're always researching and studying and looking to add things to your package," Coughlin said. "But whatever we do come up with is going to come from the same background in terms of the eyes that the coaches see things with and how it applies to us. We will continue to analyze things from the standpoint of knowing our system and what's needed to help us."
Coughlin said he continues to interview candidates for the two remaining openings on his staff – the offensive quality control position vacated by Gilbride and assistant offensive line coach, which was held by Jack Bicknell, Jr. before he was hired as the Kansas City Chiefs' new line coach.
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How often has someone told you, "You get what you pay for"? It's true – quality goods generally last longer and serve us better. Although quality doesn't always require a high price tag, investing in quality goods can contribute to a good quality of life. What else improves our quality of life? How we spend our time. Everyone appreciates time well spent, whether it's with our friends, kids or families. And so when we instead spend time at work, it's good to spend it effectively.
I assume, since you are reading this post, that you're a researcher and spend a lot time in the lab, running experiments, doing research, analyzing results and writing up your results. What is important to you while you are there?
I think the things that count most at home are also important in the lab: quality and time. Why? Quality represents the reproducibility of our experiments, and it helps us prove that our results are reliable and should not be doubted. The amount of time we spend on these experiments is proportional to the time it takes to publish our discoveries. So maybe if we focus more on these aspects, we can improve our quality of research.
Imagine you are performing genotyping or some other DNA analysis using PCR or NGS, and you need a certain amount of high-quality genomic DNA for the experiment. Your usual purification protocol begins with a long and tedious tissue lysis and sometimes gives poor yields and quality. Maybe there's a better way? What if, instead of following that same procedure, you use a quality kit with technology proven to shorten your overall time to result?
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If you participated in "Dry January" and gave up alcohol for the month, congratulations! For those who are not sure whether their drinking habits are healthy, Dry January–the annual movement through which people abstain for the first month of the new year–can help "reset your relationship with alcohol." But for healthy drinkers, in particular wine lovers, I think there is the potential to do as much harm as good. By casting all forms of drinking in the same critical light, the relationship of alcohol and health can be oversimplified and potentially significant benefits ignored.
• Amazing sense of achievement!
These claims are supported by surveys of past participants, lending statistical support and an air of scientific credibility. Clearly, if you are a problem drinker, this is a good thing, and it appears to be helpful in the longer term. Indeed, the "ditch the hangover" pitch for participation seems aimed squarely at problem drinkers.
But what of moderate drinkers? If you are in the habit of wine with dinner, science shows you are already in a healthy place, as I have long argued here. Binge drinking, even at the same overall level of consumption, is not healthy; if hangovers are part of your drinking experience, then definitely go dry and try to reset. Let's just not lose track of the fact that all of the health benefits listed on the Dry January site apply to moderate drinkers, in some cases more so than for nondrinkers. Both are better off than heavy imbibers. Instead of going dry one month a year, and soggy the rest, a bit moist all year might be a better strategy. That would be an achievement worth celebrating.


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Microsoft BASIC (Майкрософт Бейсик) — діалект мови Бейсик, розроблений Microsoft 1975 року (як програмний продукт Altair BASIC для аматорського комп'ютера Altair 8800). Від кінця 1970-х до середини 1980-х Microsoft BASIC ліцензували багато виробників комп'ютерів і його портовано практично на всі платформи домашніх комп'ютерів (від Apple II до японських NEC PC-9800).

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Altair BASIC розробили засновники Microsoft Пол Аллен та Білл Гейтс за допомогою саморобного емулятора мікропроцесора Intel 8080, написаного для мейнфрейма PDP-10. Діалект нагадував BASIC-PLUS для PDP-11 від DEC, з яким Гейтс був знайомим. Перша версія підтримувала тільки цілочисельні операції, пізніше найнятий Microsoft Монте Давідофф реалізував бібліотеку для роботи з числами з рухомою комою. Оригінальний Altair BASIC поширювався на перфострічках і займав 4 КБ оперативної пам'яті. Пізніше компанія випустила версії інтерпретатора, обсягом 8 і 12 КБайт, що мали багатший функціонал, наприклад, можливість роботи з рядками, підтримку 64-бітових змінних, функцій користувача і розширену обробку помилок.

Розширена версія для 8 Кбайт стала основою для BASIC-80 для архітектур 8080/85 та Zilog Z80, після чого її портовано для BASIC-68 (Motorola 6800), BASIC-69 (Motorola 6809) та 6502-BASIC (MOS Technology 6502). Останній у розширеній версії займав уже 9 КБайт і міг використовуати проміжний 40-бітовий формат подання чисел із рухомою комою, поширений для процесорів 6502. Ця версія стала основою для 16-бітового BASIC-86 (Intel 8086/88).

Базовий набір команд і синтаксис був єдиним для всіх реалізацій Microsoft BASIC, і, строго кажучи, програма, написана без використання можливостей, специфічних для платформи, могла запускатися на будь-якій версії інтерпретатора для будь-якої платформи.

Після успіху Altair BASIC, Microsoft зробила цей продукт основою для ліцензування виробникам комп'ютерів, які бажають надати підтримку Бейсика своїм користувачам. У порівнянні з Altair 8800, який міг продаватися окремо від комп'ютера, діалект, що постачався для платформи, вбудовувався зразу в ПЗП, частково виконуючи роль рудиментарної операційної системи. Популярність Бейсика була настільки великою, що спонукала багатьох ІТ-гігантів, як IBM та Atari Inc., ліцензувати продукт та випускати його під власним ім'ям. Ліцензування не було ексклюзивним для кожної платформи: наприклад, ліцензувавши IBM код для інтерпретатора IBM Advanced BASIC, Microsoft також надавала ліцензії сумісного GW-BASIC для виробників клонів IBM PC, а також продавала продукт безпосередньо користувачам. Так само, компанія ліцензувала сумісний з Applesoft BASIC інтерпретатор для VTech для клону Apple II.

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Q: OptaPlanner: Is there any intrinsic performance benefit in using Bi-/Tri-/QuadConstraintStream over UniConstraintStream with a home grown tuple? Is there any intrinsic performance benefit in using Bi-/Tri-/QuadConstraintStream over UniConstraintStream with a home grown tuple?
Is there for example any caching or hashing that OptaPlanner can perform behind the scenes if I use a BiConstraintStream and "OptaPlanner tuples" instead of a UniConstraintStream with my own tuple?

A: That is hard to say with confidence; performance questions in Java are best answered with benchmarks. In the absence of a specific problem to benchmark, I'm going to use some common sense to perhaps approximate the correct answer.
There are really only two cases I can think of where stream cardinality can be reduced:

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*map(...) building block

*or groupBy(...).

There are also two cases where stream cardinality can be increased:

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*join(...),

*and groupBy(...).

(Side note: In the future, map(...) will probably be overloaded to also allow cardinality increases.)
Assuming you only ever decrease cardinality after you've done your joins, I don't think there would be a performance penalty for a one-time cardinality decrease at the end of the stream. If, on the other hand, you had a mix of cardinality decreasing and increasing operations, the perpetual creation and destruction of your custom tuple instances could considerably increase GC pressure and therefore give a performance penalty.
But even in the most simple case of no cardinality increases at all, I think that re-mapping to a single tuple still is a bad idea for several reasons:

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*The GC pressure argument doesn't really go away. Your tuple instances are still created and then thrown away, as they seem to be nothing but carrier objects.

*Custom tuple instances also bring indirection. What used to be accessed as variable x will now be accessed as instance field tuple.x or via a method call tuple.getX(). This overhead is very small, but it is measurable if the operation is performed often enough.

*I think that this indirection would also result in a code that is worse to read. But that may be just my personal preference.

Finally, and perhaps most importantly, what would even be the point of introducing this middleman data carrier? map(...) only exists so that a theoretical use case for penta-streams can be enabled via these carrier objects; other than that, this pattern should be entirely unnecessary. (And we have not yet seen anyone actually requiring penta streams.)

A: Everything Lukas said. Benchmarks with JFC/JMC allocation profiles for a trustworthy answer. My guesstimate:
No, currently, there probably is no intrinsic benefit performance wise over a home grown tuple. And if there is any, it's probably a rounding error. That might or might not change in future versions.
In fact, if your using records for your home grown tuples, those might be even faster (OptaPlanner can't do that until it's minimum java 17).
It's ok to use a home grown tuple with a UniStream if you prefer that over BiStream without it.
But you might loose ease-of-use, I suspect. That's one of the reasons Bi, Tri, Quad streams etc were designed: easier expressiveness, so easier to read, so easier for maintenance (especially when the business requirements change).


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Paris Airshow: Airbus faces cabin comfort dilemma as it launches A321XLR jet
Published: June 17, 2019 12:51:38 PM
Airline bosses on the long-haul low-cost panel at the Paris Air Forum on Friday differed over whether extended-range narrow-body jets or wider twin-aisles were best suited for their growing industry.
For the business jet version, Airbus was able to lower the cabin altitude below 6,400 feet. (Reuters photo)
Airbus is poised to break records by launching the longest-range narrow-body jetliner at the Paris Airshow this week, but jetmakers are having to rethink their mantra on comfort as they squeeze ever more miles out of jets designed for shorter trips. Airbus and Boeing have been promoting new carbon-fibre long-haul aircraft such as the 787 Dreamliner and A350, which offer roomier cabins and help passengers avoid jet lag by providing a cabin pressure closer to that felt on the ground.
But they have also been adding more range and capacity to older and narrower models such as the A320neo family and the 737 MAX as airlines demand more flexibility with the advantages of highly efficient single-aisle planes, supporting low fares.
Airbus is about to push that further by adding a longer stride to the A321neo with its new A321XLR, whose range of 4,500 nautical miles leapfrogs the out-of-production Boeing 757 and nudges it into the long-jump category enjoyed by wide-body jets. It also eats into a range category targeted by a possible new mid-market twin-aisle jet, the NMA, under review by Boeing. But there is a debate over whether passengers will enjoy flying longer distances in medium-haul planes, or at what price.
Airline bosses on the long-haul low-cost panel at the Paris Air Forum on Friday differed over whether extended-range narrow-body jets or wider twin-aisles were best suited for their growing industry. In particular, the rise of the single-aisle long-distance jet involves revisiting years of industry marketing about the benefit of escaping jet lag and fatigue on long trips.
Aircraft cabins are pumped to a higher pressure than the ultra-thin outside air at cruising altitude. But the pressure is still lower than at sea level due to structural limitations. That's not a problem for shorter trips but travel experts say the higher altitude setting on older planes can contribute to jet lag on long flights, worsening the effect of time zones.
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Although Airbus stresses the 1980s-designed A320 fuselage is wider than the competing 737 MAX and therefore has roomier seats, it also has a lower cabin pressure than modern long-haul alternatives like the Boeing 787 Dreamliner or Airbus A350. On those airplanes the cabin is pressurised at a level equivalent to 6,000 feet compared with 8,000 feet for the A320 and most other metal-built jets of all sizes.
For the Airbus A330neo wide-body jet the cabin altitude is above 7,000 feet but still below 8,000 feet. "XLR cabin pressure could be an issue," said an airline executive who has studied the plane, asking not to be named. The company itself set out the disadvantages of flying with a high cabin altitude on long journeys when it launched the business-jet version of the A320neo family in 2015. "A lower cabin altitude makes most sense on long flights, especially towards their end, when an aircraft is able to reach its highest cruising altitude," Airbus said then on its website.
For the business jet version, Airbus was able to lower the cabin altitude below 6,400 feet. But it could only do so by reducing the maximum number of trips, which matters relatively little to luxury operators but is less attractive to airlines. Airbus faces a dilemma whether to lower the cabin altitude on the A321XLR and meet its published goal for long flights, or leave it tuned for shorter flights and increase durability. Airbus declined to comment. The A321XLR is expected to be able to fly around eight hours in most cases, linking U.S. eastern cities deep into Europe.
The head of International Airlines Group's low-cost long-haul carrier Level, Vincent Hodder, told the Paris Air Forum the XLR could be configured to fly as long as 10 hours. Level and others are studying it, he said. Airbus is chasing potential customers including American Airlines and JetBlue for the launch, where it aims to grab up to 200 orders also including U.S. airline investor Indigo Partners.

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With the weather getting warmer in NJ I've seen the EV range climb up steadily to 57 currently on a full charge (every morning for me).
A full tank (6.5 to 6.8 gallons for me to fill up from almost empty without topping off) scored 358 miles after this morning's fill-up.
400+ miles on a full load is nice - and expected to climb up a bit more in the next couple of spring months.
Getting 300 on full tank of gas and 40 on EV. I've never seen gas range as high as most people report.
Couple things that really jumped at me (besides the climate/temperatures) is the "led foot effect" and frequency of stop and goes. Is logical I think, but I tried one stretch of about 3miles with 4 stop lights... one day I hit all green but one of them, and it "cost" me 2 EV miles. The time I hit all of them it cost me 5 EV miles, so I've been trying to minimize severe slowdowns/stops and heavy accelerations as much as possible. I'use the segments on the main dash circle as a RPM-like guide, and try to stay under the "2000rpm" mark as much as I can (without causing traffic jams and major road rage).
With regards to HV, I try to stay under 70mph on highway, and never use HV Charge.
Seen 365 Gas and 59.8 ev range. The number doesn't mean anything, the ev range skrinks to about 50 after less than 3 miles, and my actually gas mpg is a little less than 48, could get higher but I choose to drive fast on the highways.
Shhh. My unicorn sitting in the passenger seat will be heartbroken to hear that and always cries when somebody calls it the Guess-o-Meter.
I can't run out of gas and charge. I started with higher numbers on the display than the distance to my destination!
What do you mean I'm broke? I've still got plenty of checks in my check book!
the numbers don't lie- they assume you will be driving like you have the last few times out. so if you change (i.e. go on the highway in EV- the actually EV milage will shrink).
The numbers are a bit on the optimistic side. You can only get the ev range in heavy traffic or gas range when you drive at 5x speed on highways.
As long as your drive and driving habits are repeatable, the computer should automatically factor that in. I get estimates that are very similar to actual results if I drive the same route each day, which is what I would expect given that is what the algorithm uses as its input.
My estimates have actually been conservative lately as the warmer weather has increased my actual range. It takes the computer a couple days to catch up. It climbed to 63 last week during a warm spell after sitting in the low to mid 50s during the winter months. My round trip to work is almost exactly 60 miles and the morning that I had the 63 mile estimate I had 3.0 miles left when I pulled into the driveway!
The numbers simply lie. Particularly on the HV side. Yes EV floats around based on history. But HV is 100% exaggeration. Much like the mpg meter. If you Compare it to actual usage, it is always overly optimistic...it uses more gas than the dash says it did. And HV range drops miles faster than the odometer builds them. Proven over long road trips. Every single time.
I find my HV mileage to be spot on - again I drive the same roads, the same time, similar traffic, similar driving style etc etc. The EV has been fluctuating - temp ofcourse... in winter I could barely cranc 30 real miles out of my full charge. But even now that things have thawed and trees budded, i shard to get the stated EV mileage to convert in actual distance. Price you pay for a 4.5ton car and the "joy" of stop and go traffic most mornings.
I thought it was pretty clear that I was referring to EV estimates, but I should have qualified my statement, this being the internet and all. I have found that the EV mileage does not lie. My actual EV mileage is always close to what I would expect based on the estimate and any differences from my typical drive (e.g., I know I should expect fewer EV miles than estimated if I'm using the HVAC more or doing more interstate driving than usual).
DISCLAIMER: These statements are based solely on my EV mileage. They can be used without my expressed written consent as long as they are not applied to HV mileage. I did a couple of long trips and didn't bother with the guestimator. I based my decision to refuel based on the fuel gauge and not the estimate. Now, if that was reporting non-conservatively, then I'd have an actual issue.
FWIW, my EV actual milage (in similar conditions) is consistently ~5% less than the EV estimate. That small variance is well within the tolerance I can live with.
My HV range matches my fuel consumption remarkably well, all things considered. On a full tank, it predicts right around 300 miles, correlating to 43 mpg. On my last three tanks, I have gotten 42.8, 42.6, and 42.2 mpg. I believe there was an HV range software update some time before I purchased my car.
The Trip MPG meter, however, is very inaccurate, and can wildly overstate or understate mileage. I believe this is due to the fuel level sensor; when hooked up to an OBD2 reader, the fuel level readout is constantly fluctuating.
For many local drives, my actual EV range exceeds the estimated range.
I can watch it change - I set the trip meter back to zero, then mentally keep adding the EV range remaining to miles traveled. For instance, I may start my drive with 50 EV miles showing. Into the drive, I may at some point see 30 miles driven with 22 EV miles remaining, showing I'm on track for 52 actual EV mile range. It's actually fun to see how much "geriatric mode" can help those numbers in real time!
I prefaced this with "local drives", since if I jump on the Interstate, the actual EV range can be less than estimated. So it goes.
"geriatric mode" can help those numbers in real time!"
I have kept our Claire on surface streets for the last couple of days (50°F-60°F) with a maximum speed of 45mph with slowish starts and coasting to stops (with no one behind me to avoid road rage), relatively flat terrain, and staying in EV mode all of the time.
Since I have my A and B trip odometer set to reset at each fillup and last charge session I can safely say that I broke my record of 54 miles of EV range (measured). My trip odometer said I have driven 52 miles since my last charge with 12.2 miles (5 bars) of EV range remaining.
So. . . driving in geriatric mode does get you real time big EV range. Imagine if the temps were in the 70'sF.
The car only knows how you've driven, not how you are going to drive. When I had it all to myself for a week last September (so essentially perfect conditions), and was figuring out how to drive it efficiently the EV range consistently crept up through the 60's as I continued to beat it. Finally plateaued at 73 after a round trip to the airport (so real every day driving in the Boston area) when I drove an actual 68 miles and had 5 or so to spare on the display. As for the HV range, it usually reads somewhere between 300 and 1000 since we haven't bothered with the update yet and just watch the regular gauge like every other car I've ever owned.
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Outputs server control content and stores tracing information about the control if tracing is enabled.
The following example overrides the RenderChildren method in a custom server control. It determines whether the current control has any child controls in its ControlCollection object. If it does, it uses the Count property to iterate through the collection. As it encounters each child control, it uses the RenderControl method to render the child control, and all of its child controls, to the containing page. The XhtmlTextWriter object that is passed to this method is instantiated by the Render method.
// Override default implementation to Render children according to needs.
// Render Children in reverse order.
' Override default implementation to Render children according to needs.
' Render Children in reverse order.
If a server control's Visible property is set to true, this method determines whether tracing is enabled for the page. If so, it stores trace information associated with the control, and renders the server control content to the page.
This method is automatically called by the page during the rendering, but can be overridden by custom control developers.
The HtmlTextWriter that receives the control content.
The ControlAdapter that defines the rendering.
ASP.NET Web pages are usable across a wide range of devices and browsers that can request information from the Web. The Adapter property returns the ControlAdapter object that renders the control on the requesting device or browser's screen.
For more information about adapters, see Architectural Overview of Adaptive Control Behavior.
If a server control's Visible property is set to true and tracing is enabled for the page, then trace information associated with the control is captured.
When overriding the RenderControl(HtmlTextWriter, ControlAdapter) method in custom controls, call the base class method to ensure trace information is correctly captured.


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Porcupine Literary
A journal by and for teachers.
By the Spoonful
By Sarah Bigham
It was the cereal bowl that pushed her past the brink, with its bloated remnants of bran flakes clinging to the rim and the spoon, mocking her.
Why the hell do you want to be a teacher? You'll never make any money.
Business. That's the ticket. Change your major, kid.
You're really smart. Won't you be bored?
Alana, due at school in well under seven hours, scrunched her face and counted back to when she would have to set the alarm.
Morning walk? Ditch it.
Shower? Definitely, but use time-saving dry shampoo.
News scan while slamming back the first mug of coffee for the day? Skip the news. Keep the coffee, but pour it in a travel mug.
Breakfast? Yes. Starting the day with a healthy meal was this year's start-of-school resolution. Organic cereal topped with blueberries would take a few minutes to assemble and inhale. Toss the bowl in the sink while running out the door. No time for the mindful eating a teacher across the hall told Alana had led to her "effortless" 30 pound weight loss.
Teachers have so much time off. I wish I did. You're so lucky.
How hard can it be? Seems like a sweet deal to me.
When I retire, I'm going into teaching. My career is way too stressful.
The migraine twinge began before lunch.
After the gate to the employee parking lot malfunctioned, again, and Alana wedged her 14-year-old car into a semi-legal slot on a neighborhood side street.
And the copiers went down, making the earliest hope for handouts the end of the week. Unless she paid to make them at the office supply place across town. Which she would do that night. Thank god most everything else she needed for teaching this week was available electronically. But how much time staring at screens was really good for a person, let alone a child? Ponderings for another time.
And the drenching started. September was highlighting global warming with a series of scorchers. Not ideal in a building constructed decades ago without central air. Alana and colleagues purchased and lugged in industrial fans to move sauna-like air within their rooms, but by 8 a.m. Alana could feel the sweat soaking her bra. Each class period brought a new group of students, all with a sheen, growing riper by the hour, especially those hoofing it in from the portables.
And Caesar missing the bus. Again.
And Toni also coming in late, the pinched look of hunger on her face. Alana quietly tapped her fingertips on the supply cabinet. The second drawer held breakfast bars and other food. Alana's students knew that anyone was welcome to partake. Sometimes, you just needed something to eat. And the need was high this year with stock already running low. Time for another unfunded Costco run.
And Antoine having trouble focusing today. His usual classroom aide was out sick, so there was sub, a well-meaning but ineffectual grandmotherly sort who was unprepared for large, sweaty teenagers with reading comprehension so low it could make you cry.
And Michelle's anxiety, palpable across the room, reflecting what her classmates felt, as they prepared for yet another day of their K-12 existence spent in mandatory standardized testing.
And Darius, whose multiple concussions left him susceptible to mood swings, breaking down in homeroom. With an arm around the sobbing, heaving student, Alana called for the school counselor. It would not be her last call that day.
You can't possibly be referring to my son. He wouldn't do that. I'm calling the principal.
My taxes pay your salary! I'm outraged and posting this online now.
You clearly don't know what you're doing. I'm texting the school board.
The emails, voicemails, texts, notes, and messages from parents, students, colleagues, and administrators had all been answered. The grading was done. The lessons for tomorrow were finalized, aligned with the core learning objectives du jour. The mandatory online employee assessment of school shooter preparedness had been completed. The prep work for tomorrow's team meeting on supporting students with special needs was finished. And the rent had been paid, along with this month's student loan installments.
Someday, she hoped for a home of her own with a yard for a hypothetical dog.
Someday, she might look into that Japanese folding system to organize her life.
Someday, she would not stay awake through the early morning hours assembling small gifts for her students, carting them in to give out before the winter break. But that wouldn't happen any time soon. Not since Lonny Peach wandered into her classroom his senior year and told her, earnestly, that it was the best gift anyone had ever given him.
Someday, she would not be staring at a dirty cereal bowl at 12:43 a.m., in tears because she just could not bear to wash it, to take care of one more thing, to face the realization that her years of education and training had somehow turned into this.
Because someday she would not be a teacher.
Sarah Bigham is the author of Kind Chemist Wife: Musings at 3 a.m. She lives in Maryland with her wife, three independent cats, an unwieldy herb garden, several chronic pain conditions, and near-constant outrage at the general state of the world tempered with love for those doing their best to make a difference. Find her at www.sgbigham.com.
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Overdrive's Most Beautiful finalist: Libby Clayton
Meet Libby Clayton, finalist for Overdrive's Most Beautiful Contest, who will be appearing at the Great American Trucking Show along with finalists Tina Comer and Maggie Stone. Overdrive launched the contest to highlight women drivers who reflect beauty inside and out, and who represent the profession well. The finalists more than meet those criteria, yet they are by no means dainty creatures cruising in trucking's easy lane: One hauls logs, one hauls hogs and one pulls doubles.
"I think women should be in whatever career field they want to be in as long as they can do the job."—Libby Clayton
Some of Libby Clayton's earliest memories are riding with her grandfather in his big rig. "He's the reason why trucking is in my blood," she says.
Those memories stayed with her while she raised her two children as a military spouse. Once they had grown, she decided to ditch her desk job and pursue what she always had wanted to do: drive.
Libby ClaytonDrives for: Fort Worth Carrier Corp., as company driver
Years in trucking: 7
Hauls: Dry van freight for Dillard's
Truck: 2006 Kenworth T600
Home: Jacksonville, Ark.
Now that she's been doing it, what she loves the most is the scenery. From the desert roads in Arizona to the valleys and hills in the Southeast, "It's a beautiful country."
What made you decide to enter the contest?
Show trucks have always caught my eye, and I've always wanted to be photographed with one. I think it'd be a neat thing to pull out years down the road and show my grandkids and tell them, "Hey, this is what your grandma looked like in her trucking days."
How do you feel about the role of women truckers?
I think women should be in whatever career field they want to be in as long as they can do the job. A workplace is a workplace, whether it's behind a desk or the wheel of a big rig.
Is there anything you wish you knew before you started driving?
My first week on the road, I remember asking myself what I had gotten myself into. The first year was the hardest to get used to. I enjoy being at home and seeing my cats and planting flowers, but the longer I'm out here, the more I like it.
How would you define beauty in relation to trucking?
I believe beauty radiates from within. You can see it in a person's eyes and their smile, the way they light up. They enjoy life. That's where you see true beauty. Enjoying life is everyone's best cosmetic. I think that when I smile, I make other people smile.
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A working truck at the show booth
What makes a trucker a hero?


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Q: VS 2019 VB.net Winform trying to modify an existing .rdlc but it wants to upgrade the format and then i get a definition of report invalid I have a vb.net winform application.  It has been around for years.  I'm using VS 2019 community edition.  When i try to open the rdlc file it tells me that I need to upgrade the format.  I do that and then when i run the application i get an error that the definition of the report is invalid.  I've read where i need to install the extension  Microsoft.RdlcDesigner.  I have done that and i can go in see my report in the designer but it still won't run.
The exact error is

An Error occurred during local processing.  The definition of hte report " is invalid.  The definition of this report is not valid or supported by this version of Reporting Services.  The report definition may have been created wih a later version of Reporting Services, or contain contet that is not well-formed or not valid based on Reporting Services schemas.  Details:  the report definition has invalid target namespace 'http://schemas.microsoft.com/sqlserver/reporting/2015/01/reportdefinition' which cannot be upgraded.

i'm using an rdlc file so the vb app is using reportviewer to hit a local database.. no reporting service server is involved.
anyone have any ideas
thanks

A: I figured out a poor workaround.  If i open the rdlc file in visual studio 2013 and let it upgrade the format.. then i can modify the report in the designer.  Save the rdlc and close vs2013.  then open the VS 2019 project and it will compile and run the report.  Not great.. but at least its working


Srinagar, Oct 19: Union Minister of state for Home Affairs Hansraj Ahir Friday said the situation in Kashmir was under control and the security forces were capable of dealing with terrorists both within the valley and infiltrating from across the Line of Control.
"There is no rise (in militancy). We have been foiling the infiltration attempts and we will continue to do so. The soldiers are fighting the infiltrators and militants," Ahir told reporters after taking part in Dussehra celebrations at BSF's Humhama camp here.
In response to a question, Ahir said the Centre does not trust the government of Pakistan or the terrorist groups.
"We have doubts on sincerity of both what the Pakistan government and the militant outfits say. We don't trust either of them. Our charge against Pakistan government stands even today," he added.
He said the election is a way to peace which will lead to increase in development. "The funds can be put to better use".


Abstract Steroid hormones are essential for normal sexual development, accommodation to stress, and regulation of fluid and electrolyte balance. Biosynthesis of these different classes of steroids and its appropriate regulation requires the precisely controlled expression of six different cytochrome P-450 enzymes and two hydroxysteroid dehydrogenases in different tissues. The molecular mechanism of the tissue-specific and pituitary hormone-regulated expression of the genes encoding P-450 enzymes in the steroidogenic tissues is the central problem of long-term regulation of steroidogenesis. Orphan members of the nuclear receptor superfamily play an important role in mediating transcriptional regulation of several steroid hydroxylase genes. Two of these transcription factors, steroidogenic factor-1 (SF-1) and DAX-1, will be reviewed here in detail.


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87.006. Firefighters, certain diseases presumed incurred in line of duty — persons covered — disability from cancer, presumption suffered in line of duty, when — infectious disease defined. — 1. Notwithstanding the provisions of any law to the contrary, and only for the purpose of computing retirement benefits provided by an established retirement plan, after five years' service, any condition of impairment of health caused by any infectious disease, disease of the lungs or respiratory tract, hypotension, hypertension, or disease of the heart resulting in total or partial disability or death to a uniformed member of a paid fire department, who successfully passed a physical examination within five years prior to the time a claim is made for such disability or death, which examination failed to reveal any evidence of such condition, shall be presumed to have been suffered in the line of duty, unless the contrary be shown by competent evidence. In order to receive the presumption that an infectious disease was contracted in the line of duty, the member shall submit to an annual physical examination, at which a blood test is administered.
2. Any condition of cancer affecting the skin or the central nervous, lymphatic, digestive, hematological, urinary, skeletal, oral, breast, testicular, genitourinary, liver or prostate systems, as well as any condition of cancer which may result from exposure to heat or radiation or to a known or suspected carcinogen as determined by the International Agency for Research on Cancer, which results in the total or partial disability or death to a uniformed member of a paid fire department who successfully passed a physical examination within five years prior to the time a claim is made for disability or death, which examination failed to reveal any evidence of such condition, shall be presumed to have been suffered in the line of duty unless the contrary be shown by competent evidence and it can be proven to a reasonable degree of medical certainty that the condition did not result nor was contributed to by the voluntary use of tobacco.
3. This section shall apply to paid members of all fire departments of all counties, cities, towns, fire districts, and other governmental units.
4. As used in this section, the term "infectious disease" means the human immunodeficiency virus, acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, tuberculosis, hepatitis A, hepatitis B, hepatitis C, hepatitis D, diphtheria, meningococcal meningitis, methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus, hemorrhagic fever, plague, rabies, and severe acute respiratory syndrome.
(L. 1969 p. 157 § 1, A.L. 2007 S.B. 22 merged with S.B. 406, A.L. 2011 H.B. 664 merged with S.B. 238)


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Xen: denial of service via the grant tables
A local attacker, who is administrator in a guest system, can modify the version of the tables that store permissions for shared memory pages, in order to make the hypervisor halt.
Impacted products: XenServer, Debian, Fedora, openSUSE, SLES, Unix (platform) ~ not comprehensive.
Identifiers: BID-56794, CERTA-2012-AVI-703, CTX135777, CVE-2012-5510, DSA-2582-1, FEDORA-2012-19717, FEDORA-2012-19828, openSUSE-SU-2012:1685-1, openSUSE-SU-2012:1687-1, openSUSE-SU-2013:0133-1, openSUSE-SU-2013:0636-1, openSUSE-SU-2013:0637-1, SUSE-SU-2012:1615-1, SUSE-SU-2014:0446-1, VIGILANCE-VUL-12200, XSA-26.
computer vulnerability bulletin CVE-2012-5611 CVE-2012-5612 CVE-2012-5613
MySQL: five vulnerabilities
Several vulnerabilities of MySQL can be used by a remote attacker to create a denial of service, raise its privileges, or execute some code.
Impacted products: Debian, Fedora, Mandriva Linux, MySQL Community, MySQL Enterprise, openSUSE, Solaris, Percona Server, RHEL, Slackware, SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop, SLES, Ubuntu.
Consequences: privileged access/rights, denial of service on service.
Identifiers: 881064, 882600, 882606, 882607, 882608, BID-56766, BID-56768, BID-56769, BID-56771, BID-56776, bulletinoct2015, CERTA-2012-ALE-007, CERTA-2012-ALE-007-001, CERTA-2012-AVI-701, cpuapr2013, cpujan2013, CVE-2012-5579-REJECT, CVE-2012-5611, CVE-2012-5612, CVE-2012-5613, CVE-2012-5614, CVE-2012-5615, DSA-2581-1, DSA-3054-1, FEDORA-2012-19823, FEDORA-2012-19833, FEDORA-2014-14791, MDVSA-2012:178, MDVSA-2013:008, MDVSA-2013:102, MDVSA-2015:091, openSUSE-SU-2013:0011-1, openSUSE-SU-2013:0013-1, openSUSE-SU-2013:0014-1, openSUSE-SU-2013:0135-1, openSUSE-SU-2013:0156-1, openSUSE-SU-2013:1412-1, RHSA-2012:1551-01, RHSA-2013:0180-01, RHSA-2014:1937-01, RHSA-2014:1940-01, SSA:2013-022-01, SUSE-SU-2013:0262-1, SUSE-SU-2015:0620-1, SUSE-SU-2015:0743-1, USN-2384-1, VIGILANCE-VUL-12198.
Five vulnerabilities have been announced in MySQL.
When the server checks the access rights of the logged user, a buffer overflow related to the handling of the targeted database name occurs. [severity:3/4; 881064, BID-56769, CERTA-2012-ALE-007, CERTA-2012-ALE-007-001, CERTA-2012-AVI-701, CVE-2012-5579-REJECT, CVE-2012-5611]
An attacker can cause a buffer overflow in the heap, in order to execute code. [severity:3/4; 882600, BID-56768, CVE-2012-5612]
An attacker that have the privilege FILE, may use special requests, in order to create or change file with the database administrator rights. [severity:1/4; 882606, BID-56771, CVE-2012-5613]
An attacker can make the server stop. [severity:2/4; 882607, BID-56776, CVE-2012-5614]
An attacker can use the authentication mechanisms from MySQL 4 against MySQL 5,n in order to check validity of a given username. [severity:1/4; 882608, BID-56766, CVE-2012-5615]
libxml2: buffer overflow via entities references
An attacker can create an XML file containing malicious entities references, in order to execute code.
Impacted products: Debian, Juniper J-Series, Junos OS, libxml, Mandriva Linux, openSUSE, Solaris, RHEL, Slackware, SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop, SLES, ESX, ESXi, VMware vSphere, VMware vSphere Hypervisor.
Consequences: client access/rights, denial of service on client.
Identifiers: CERTA-2013-AVI-208, CERTA-2013-AVI-337, CERTA-2013-AVI-387, CERTFR-2014-AVI-112, CERTFR-2015-AVI-023, CVE-2012-5134, DSA-2580-1, ESX400-201305001, ESX400-201305402-SG, ESX400-201305404-SG, ESX410-201304001, ESX410-201304401-SG, ESXi400-201305001, ESXi400-201305401-SG, ESXi410-201304001, ESXi410-201304401-SG, ESXi500-201303001, ESXi500-201303101-SG, ESXi500-201303102-SG, ESXi510-201304101-SG, JSA10669, MDVSA-2012:176, MDVSA-2013:056, openSUSE-SU-2012:1637-1, openSUSE-SU-2012:1647-1, openSUSE-SU-2013:0178-1, RHSA-2012:1512-01, RHSA-2013:0217-01, SSA:2012-341-03, SUSE-SU-2012:1636-1, SUSE-SU-2013:1625-1, SUSE-SU-2013:1627-1, VIGILANCE-VUL-12197, VMSA-2012-0018.2, VMSA-2013-0001.3, VMSA-2013-0001.5, VMSA-2013-0004, VMSA-2013-0004.1, VMSA-2013-0004.2, VMSA-2013-0004.3, VMSA-2013-0007.
In an XML document, attributes values may contain entity references.
The parsing of such entities references is incorrect. Technicals details are unknown. Notably, upstream changes referenced in the information source do not match the most often used description of the error.
An attacker can therefore create an XML file containing malicious entities references, in order to execute code.
computer vulnerability alert 12196
McAfee Email Gateway: two vulnerabilities
Two vulnerabilities have been announced in McAfee Email Gateway.
Impacted products: McAfee Email Gateway.
Consequences: client access/rights, data creation/edition, denial of service on service.
Identifiers: BID-56751, CERTA-2012-AVI-700, SB10037, VIGILANCE-VUL-12196.
The filename of attached files in an email is recorded in a message header. However, the product Secure Web Delivery Client does not rightly validate this header. An attacker can therefore send messages that contains JavaScript code in this field, in order to make the recipient host run it in the context of the "web mail" site. [severity:2/4; SB10037]
Secure Web Mail Client does not rightly check the access rights to composition functions. An attacker can therefore create messages that will be marked as originating from the appliance, in order to, for instance fulfill the disk space, or even send spam. [severity:3/4; SB10037]
Apache httpd: denial of service via mod_proxy_ajp
When a Web server is made of Apache httpd with mod_proxy_ajp and a Tomcat server, an attacker can send a request requiring much processing time, in oder to make httpd disconnect the Tomcat server.
Impacted products: Debian, HP-UX, openSUSE, RHEL.
Identifiers: 871685, BID-56753, c03734195, c03820647, CVE-2012-4557, DSA-2579-1, HPSBUX02866, openSUSE-SU-2013:0243-1, openSUSE-SU-2013:0248-1, RHSA-2013:0512-02, SSRT101139, VIGILANCE-VUL-12194.
The mod_proxy module provides a generic proxy service for Apache httpd. The mod_proxy_ajp module adds the AJP13 (Apache JServe Protocol version 1.3) support, which is used with Tomcat.
The mod_proxy_ajp module manage a list of Tomcat servers that it forwards requests to, with their state (working or not). When a Tomcat server does not reply at all or send an invalid response, the module marks it as not working. However, the fonction ajp_ilink_receive() in the file modules/proxy/ajp_link.c does not distinguish between time out (error code APR_TIMEUP) and faultly responses (error code AJP_ENO_HEADER). So, a time-out makes the httpd module considers that the Tomcat process is faultly.
When a Web server is made of Apache httpd with mod_proxy_ajp and a Tomcat server, an attacker can therefore send a request requiring much processing time, in oder to make httpd disconnect the Tomcat server.
Wireshark: eleven vulnerabilities
Several vulnerabilities of Wireshark can be used by a remote attacker to create a denial of service.
Impacted products: Debian, openSUSE, Solaris, RHEL, Wireshark.
Identifiers: CERTA-2012-AVI-692, CERTA-2013-AVI-173, CERTA-2013-AVI-387, CERTFR-2014-AVI-112, CVE-2012-5592-REJECT, CVE-2012-5593-REJECT, CVE-2012-5594-REJECT, CVE-2012-5595-REJECT, CVE-2012-5596-REJECT, CVE-2012-5597-REJECT, CVE-2012-5598-REJECT, CVE-2012-5599-REJECT, CVE-2012-5600-REJECT, CVE-2012-5601-REJECT, CVE-2012-5602-REJECT, CVE-2012-6052, CVE-2012-6053, CVE-2012-6054, CVE-2012-6055, CVE-2012-6056, CVE-2012-6057, CVE-2012-6058, CVE-2012-6059, CVE-2012-6060, CVE-2012-6061, CVE-2012-6062, DLA-497-1, MDVSA-2013:055, openSUSE-SU-2012:1633-1, openSUSE-SU-2013:0151-1, RHSA-2013:1569-02, RHSA-2014:0341-01, VIGILANCE-VUL-12192, wnpa-sec-2012-30, wnpa-sec-2012-31, wnpa-sec-2012-32, wnpa-sec-2012-33, wnpa-sec-2012-34, wnpa-sec-2012-35, wnpa-sec-2012-36, wnpa-sec-2012-37, wnpa-sec-2012-38, wnpa-sec-2012-39, wnpa-sec-2012-40.
The Wireshark program captures and displays network packets. Protocols are decoded by dissectors. They are impacted by several vulnerabilities.
An attacker can get private information via host name resolution. [severity:1/4; CVE-2012-5592-REJECT, CVE-2012-6052, wnpa-sec-2012-30]
An attacker can generate an infinite loop in the USB dissector. [severity:1/4; CVE-2012-5593-REJECT, CVE-2012-6053, wnpa-sec-2012-31]
An attacker can generate an infinite loop in the sFlow dissector. [severity:1/4; CVE-2012-5594-REJECT, CVE-2012-6054, wnpa-sec-2012-32]
An attacker can generate an infinite loop in the SCTP dissector. [severity:1/4; CVE-2012-5595-REJECT, CVE-2012-6056, wnpa-sec-2012-33]
An attacker can generate an infinite loop in the EIGRP dissector. [severity:1/4; CVE-2012-5596-REJECT, CVE-2012-6057, wnpa-sec-2012-34]
An attacker can halt Wireshark via the ISAKMP dissector. [severity:2/4; CVE-2012-5597-REJECT, CVE-2012-6059, wnpa-sec-2012-35]
An attacker can generate an infinite loop in the iSCSI dissector. [severity:1/4; CVE-2012-5598-REJECT, CVE-2012-6060, wnpa-sec-2012-36]
An attacker can generate an infinite loop in the WTP dissector. [severity:1/4; CVE-2012-5599-REJECT, CVE-2012-6061, wnpa-sec-2012-37]
An attacker can generate an infinite loop in the RTCP dissector. [severity:1/4; CVE-2012-5600-REJECT, CVE-2012-6062, wnpa-sec-2012-38]
An attacker can generate an infinite loop in the 3GPP2 A11 dissector. [severity:1/4; CVE-2012-5601-REJECT, CVE-2012-6055, wnpa-sec-2012-39]
An attacker can generate an infinite loop in the ICMPv6 dissector. [severity:1/4; CVE-2012-5602-REJECT, CVE-2012-6058, wnpa-sec-2012-40]
vulnerability alert CVE-2012-5581
libtiff: buffer overflow via the tags DOTRANGE
An attacker can build a TIFF file containing a malicious tag DOTRANGE, in order to execute some code.
Impacted products: Debian, Fedora, LibTIFF, Mandriva Linux, openSUSE, Solaris, RHEL.
Identifiers: 867235, BID-56715, CERTA-2013-AVI-543, CVE-2012-5581, DSA-2589-1, FEDORA-2012-20404, MDVSA-2012:184, MDVSA-2013:046, openSUSE-SU-2013:0187-1, RHSA-2012:1590-01, VIGILANCE-VUL-12191.
The image file format TIFF is partially based on a sequence of blocs <tag, data>.
One of the defined tags is named DOTRANGE and its value is expected to be a pair of integer. However, during the packing of a tag sequence, the routine _TIFFVSetField() from the source file libtiff/tif_dir.c uses an integer variable as it was an array of size two, which leads to overwrite neighbor variables.
An attacker can therefore build a TIFF file containing a malicious tag DOTRANGE, in order to execute some code.
libproxy: invalid format string
An attacker who controls a configuration file used by libproxy can make it use a malicious format string, in order to execute some code.
Impacted products: Fedora, Unix (platform) ~ not comprehensive.
Identifiers: 791086, BID-56712, CVE-2012-5580, FEDORA-2012-20092, VIGILANCE-VUL-12190.
The libproxy library is used to encapsulate details of proxy configuration in proxy clients programs.
In soma cases, the parsed configuration is displayed with the help of formating routines of the standard C library, in the routine print_proxies(). However, the configuraiton file content is directly used as a format string for printf(), which allows the attacker to inject code.
An attacker who controls a configuration file used by libproxy can therefore make it use a malicious format string, in order to execute some code.
computer vulnerability note 12189
AIX: kernel data leakage via UDP packets processing
An attacker can send specially chosen UDP packets, in order to get information from the kernel memory.
Provenance: LAN.
Identifiers: IV31961, IV31962, VIGILANCE-VUL-12189.
When the AIX kernel receives a special kind of UDP packets, it forwards to the listening user process, some data from the kernel memory instead of only the exact packet content.
An attacker can therefore send specially chosen UDP packets, in order to get information from the kernel memory.
computer vulnerability bulletin 12188
OpenBSD 5: denial of service of portmap
An attacker can open several connections on the portmap port of OpenBSD 5.1 and 5.2, in order to stop the service.
Impacted products: OpenBSD.
Identifiers: BID-56671, VIGILANCE-VUL-12188.
The portmap service listens on port 111, and indicates clients where to connect in order to access to a requested RPC service.
The src/lib/libc/rpc/svc_tcp.c file of OpenBSD implements RPC. Since December 2003, it uses poll() instead of select(), and implements an optimization ("pack svc_pollfd") when there are too many connections. However, this optimization is incompatible with the poll() function of the libc from recent OpenBSD versions. Accurate technical details are unknown.
An attacker can therefore open several connections on the portmap port of OpenBSD 5.1 and 5.2, in order to stop the service.
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Jordan Ambassador: Visa Policy on Moroccan Women Has Been in Place for Many Years
[1/26/2019 6:47:21 AM]
AMMONNEWS - It is official: young Moroccan women cannot visit Jordan without a male guardian, called a mahram, unless they have a Jordanian invitation.
The Jordanian ambassador to Rabat, Hazem Al Khateb Attamimi, acknowledged that Moroccan women aged 18 to 35 are subject to stricter rules when applying for visas to visit Jordan.
Quoted by Maghreb Arab Press (MAP), the ambassador said the visa regulations "have been applied for many years and have not been modified."
Attamimi said the policy only "restricts and limits the entry of certain age groups, and does not prohibit them."
Earlier this month, a group of Moroccan human rights activists condemned the discriminatory policy after their visa requests were rejected by the Jordanian embassy in Rabat.
The women, who spoke with Morocco World News, intended to represent the international human rights organization Oxfam in workshops in Jordan.
Mounia Semlali, one of the Moroccan women whose visa request was rejected, said that the embassy verbally told her that she could not visit the country without a mahram.
"Why must Moroccans between 18 and 35 years old be accompanied by a mahram to have the right of entry in Jordan? Why Moroccans in particular?" she asked.
She added that not all Moroccans are "prostitutes" and that the policy should be applied to all nationalities world instead of just singling out Moroccan women.
Read Also: Moroccans Can Travel to 67 Countries Visa-Free
The ambassador argued that Jordan does not "prevent Moroccan citizens from entering its territory, provided they submit to regulatory measures to specify the workplace or to indicate the reason for the visit."
He noted that "our Moroccan brothers are welcome, as has always been the case, in their second country, Jordan. "
Attamimi gave no explanation for why Jordan applies the rule only to Moroccan and Tunisian women.
After his response, Semlali wrote a letter to the ambassador.
In her message, which she shared with Morocco World News, Semlali sarcastically thanked the ambassador for his indirect response.
She also mentioned she was unable to meet the ambassador directly because she did not get an answer to her request.
"First, I would like to apologize for this response on my Facebook page, but as you know, you have not responded to my invitation to meet you."
She noted the ambassador's strong "will in facilitating the visa application process for the citizens of both countries" and for his "respect" for both genders.
"I tried to believe you because Her Majesty Queen Rania is one of the greatest figures in the world who supports the cause of women.
I tried to believe you, and to deny my story with your esteemed embassy, I tried hard to believe you, and to deny the hundreds of letters you have received that confirm this qualitative discrimination and verbal insults against my country's women," she wrote.
Questioning his side of the story, the activist asked: "Is it reasonable, Ambassador, that all this exists, and you are not aware of it ?????"
Asmaa Fakhoury, another Oxfam employee who faced the same issue, talked about the stereotypes that some Jordanians hold against Moroccan women.
*Morocco World News


Copper sulphate is a poison often used to discourage tree roots from growing into vulnerable areas such as sewer lines. It can, however, kill a whole tree if it is properly applied. Although you may be able to kill a tree by putting copper sulphate on the ground around it, the sulphate is toxic to the water supply and the ground, so this technique should be avoided. Instead, use the copper sulphate to poison the tree more directly.
Peel back an inch or two of bark near the base of the tree. If the bark is too thick to peel, cut three sides of a square with a knife, opening up a small tab of bark.
Drill a hole in the tree at a downward angle under the bark. The longer and wider the hole, the more copper sulphate you will be able to pour in and the quicker you will be able to poison the tree.
Stick a funnel in the hole. Pour in copper sulphate until the hole is almost filled.
Remove the funnel and push the bark back into place to prevent the copper sulphate from being washed out by rain.
You can kill a tree easily and without toxins by girdling it. Cut straight through the bark and the layer immediately under the bark with a knife, saw or other cutting instrument. Move the knife around the tree all the way around. This action will destroy the tree's circulatory system, preventing water from flowing up from the roots to the leaves and sugar from flowing down to the roots.
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Twisted paedo who filmed himself raping his pal's daughter just months after release is caged again
Truro Crown Court jailed vile David Carroll for 19 years after he admitted a string of sex offences
A CONVICTED paedophile who filmed himself raping his friend's young daughter just months after being released from prison has been caged for 19 years.
Pervert David Carroll, 28, shot a sick 18-minute video of himself assaulting the child in her bedroom as well as taking ten vile snaps.
Paedo David Carroll has been jailed againCredit: SWNS:South West News Service
Convicted paedophile Carroll was jailed for two years in March 2016 for possessing indecent images.
Upon his release from prison, he got back in touch with the woman he used to know, after discovering she had a young daughter.
When the mum asked Carroll why he had been in prison, he told her it was "for computers and hacking" and he persuaded her to let him stay at her home overnight last February, before preying on her little girl as she slept.
On Friday, Carroll, of Camborne in Cornwall, was jailed for 19 years at Truro Crown Court after admitting a string of sex offences, including rape.
Judge Simon Carr told him: "On March 11, 2016 you were sentenced to a term of prison for possession of child abuse images and extreme pornography.
This case is a clear reminder that behind indecent images of children are human victims of child sexual abuse.
NSPCC spokeswoman
"As a result there were restrictions on your behaviour and access to the internet.
"People checked your phone on a regular basis and on one occasion an officer was, I'm sure, horrified at the images he observed.
"You flagrantly breached your notification requirements by staying in this woman's house with her children.
"It is perfectly clear you have an entrenched sexual interest in children and this explains your befriending of the mother and the filming of the abuse you carried out."
Carroll admitted three counts of failing to comply with his notification requirements as a relevant offender.
He also pleaded guilty to causing or inciting a child under 13 to engage in sexual activity, two counts of taking an indecent photograph of a child, rape of a child, and three counts of making indecent images.
Prosecutor Philip Lee said Carroll was cautioned in 2011 for making indecent images of children and possessing prohibited images of children.
A victim personal statement from the mother detailed how she was "physically sick" when she learned what Carroll had done to her child.
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After sentencing, an NSPCC spokeswoman for the South West of England said: "Carroll betrayed the trust his friend placed in him, abusing her daughter for his own sordid sexual gratification.
"Calculated and predatory behaviour like his can ruin childhoods.
"Carroll's perverted sexual interest in children is evident and he belongs behind bars, prevented from targeting another innocent child.
"This case is a clear reminder that behind indecent images of children are human victims of child sexual abuse."


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Тонга взяла участь у літніх Олімпійських іграх 2020 року в Токіо. Спочатку планувалося проведення з 24 липня до 9 серпня 2020 року, Ігри були перенесені на 23 липня до 8 серпня 2021 року через пандемію COVID-19.  Це десятий поспіль виступ країни на літніх Олімпійських іграх.

Спортсмени
Далі наводиться список кількості учасників Ігор.

Легка атлетика

Тонга отримала слоти універсальності від IAAF для відправлення двох спортсменів (одного чоловіка та однієї жінки) на Олімпійські ігри.

 Трек і дорожні дисципліни

Плавання

Тонга кваліфікувала двох плавців у двох змаганнях.

Тхеквондо

Тонга представлена у змаганнях з тхеквондо на Іграх двома спортсменами. Олімпієць Ріо-2016 Піта Тауфатофуа (чоловіки, понад 80 кг) і Малія Пасека (жінки, до 67 кг) забезпечили собі місця перемогою у своїх відповідних вагових категоріях на кваліфікаційному турнірі Океанії-2020 у Голд-Кості, штат Квінсленд, Австралія.

Важка атлетика

Тонга отримала одну тристоронню квоту запрошень від Міжнародної федерації важкої атлетики.

Примітки

Посилання
 Тонга на офіційному сайті Олімпійського руху
 Спортивна асоціація та національний олімпійський комітет Тонга

Країни на літніх Олімпійських іграх 2020
Тонга на літніх Олімпійських іграх
2021 на Тонга


After a long winter, bring some bright, refreshing flavors to the table with this Lemony Mint Pesto Pasta Salad.
I am so ready for Spring guys. These last few months have been long and cold and harsh here in Nebraska and I'm OVER it. I'm also ready for some grass in our yard so we don't have to end up covered in dirt and dodge holes and hills as we play outside. It's time for sunshine, t-shirts and chirping birds.
Speaking of birds, we saw the coolest and funniest little birds in the pond behind our house this weekend and we were completely enthralled by their crazy, active behavior. We'd never seen them before so of course Wikipedia to the rescue and they were bufflehead ducks. They usually live on the east or west coast by the sea so these dudes must have been super confused and lost but we got a kick out of them. Maybe they were looking for a little cool weather while us Midwesterners are begging to go home with them. Maybe it's a sign Spring is to come.
Either way, Spring has officially arrived in my kitchen and it's coming in hot with this Lemony Mint Pesto Pasta Salad. Mint and lemon two of my favorite flavors ever. They are both so bright, verdant and refreshing so I just had to do something with them after all the heavy dishes of winter.
This fun spin on a traditional sauce is perfect tossed with farfalle (or bow tie pasta), halved grape tomatoes and shredded chicken. The addition of the chicken makes it really filling and turns it into a full meal all in itself. I used some rotisserie chicken because it's delicious and keeps it simple but you can use leftover chicken from a previous meal or grill some up quick to throw in. It's all good.
I just adore pesto but don't make it often since the husband is completely grossed out by it, #weirdo. It's usually something I make in the summertime for lunches for the kids and me because they surprisingly like this green food. My previous favorite was always this pistachio pesto but it may have been dethroned with this one. It's just so Springy and light and happy guys.
I'm facing a dilemma now though, I have a ton of mint leftover so tell me what to make with it. All my brain goes to is mint chocolate chip ice cream, because it's the best duh. Let me know how you love to use mint in the comments.
Place basil, mint, lemon zest, lemon juice, walnuts, parmesan cheese and salt in a food processor. Process until fine. Turn on and slowly drizzle in olive oil until it comes together.
In a large bowl, gently toss together the pasta, tomatoes and chicken. Drizzle in the pesto and toss gently until completely coated. Enjoy cold, at room temperature or hot.


A composite image is the merging of two or more images together in order to create a single image that contains elements of the original set. This is not a new concept, this was being done back in the 1800's and continued into the age of film. With today's technology, composite images are easier to create, can be quickly done, and you have the ability to develop complex concepts.
The catch is you will need to purchase and learn editing software such as Photoshop. This blog will give you hints, tips, and secrets on how to create composite images and get you started but it's going to be up to you to put in the sweat and time to take your online stock career to the next level. The easy days of stock are long gone. Making money from stop signs and pictures of handshakes doesn't happen any more. These days you have to work harder for less but the difference between failure and success is your ability to rise above the competition and create images no one else can create.
First of all, you need to think of composite images as a set of layers. Individual images can be stacked one upon another in order to create a new, unique picture. Each layer can be edited individually and one of the secrets to doing this is to remove the background from a particular layer and merge them together.
Everyone has seen pictures like this where the different elements look very fake because the different layers do not blend together very well. Let's take a look at the image below. Here you have a young girl in a surreal scene where she is standing on a rock with a flowing wisp of fabric blowing in the wind from her dress. The image is a composite from four different pictures: (1) The background (2) the rock (3) the blowing fabric and (4) the young girl. However, there really are two additional layers, the vignette and the beam of light come from above.
The girl was photographed and the background was removed using Photoshop. You can find many online tutorials on how to isolated an element from a photograph. The mountains in the background was generated with 3D software but you can use a real photograph of mountains and later in this blog I will tell you how to get background images for free. The rock and blowing fabric were also created with 3D software.
The vignette was created by duplicating the background and turning down the lightness. The middle was erased with an eraser tool in Photoshop. All the elements were then placed into a single Photoshop file, resized and re-positioned as needed. Another layer was created for the beam of light from above and generated with a single click from a Photoshop brush. There are hundreds of Photoshop brushes "out there" that you can purchase for various affects. There are free brushes too but you have to be careful with those, the terms and conditions of free brushes may not allow you to create images for commercial resale.
The bottom of the white dress was slowly darkened with the Burn Tool in Photoshop. The Burn Tool was used again underneath the girl and applied on the rock to create a shadow. Using the Burn Tool is a special technique for creating affects where the different layers will appear to be merged together.
When you remove the background of an element in order to isolate an object, you may have a rough edge or a fringe of pixels that contain portions of the background. You may need to go around the image with the Eraser Tool to clean the edge. This can be tedious but once you are used to the workflow you will find yourself being more efficient in completing the task.
Yes, it may be a bit of work isolating an object, but here's a stock photography secret: Once you have an object ready for a composite image, you can use the same object over and over for other concepts! Here you see the girl standing on a rock but in another image she could be standing on a cliff. She could be standing in the woods. Standing in a desert. Other objects can be merged into the scene. So the effort for isolating an object can pay off by using the element for other images. As you build your library of elements you will find it takes less time to create multiple images and concepts because the hard work has already been done. And you will be creating concepts no one else can do which means you will have virtually no competition!
In this girl-standing-on-rock image the bottom of the dress was also worked with the Eraser and Smudge Tools in order to give the edge of softer and more natural look.
It will take some time to learn how to work these elements together for this type of image but I wanted you to understand the steps that are involved for creating such an image. So how about creating a concept that is very easy to do and is yet still a unique image that most others are unable to duplicate? Let's look at the image below where we have a surreal door in a mysterious forest.
This image was created from two other pictures. The forest background was photographed at a local park. That layer was duplicated, darkened, and then the middle was removed with the Eraser Tool. This was done to make the forest look more ominous. The door was another photograph where the background was removed. The door was dropped into the scene, resized and re-positioned as necessary. Then the Burn Tool was used to darken the bottom of the door and the same was done to the background in order to place a shadow on the ground.
So as you can see, the same workflows and techniques apply to each composite image. It may take time to learn how to use the tools effectively but the fundamental steps are simple to do. The concepts you can do are limitless. You can photograph a business office, public spaces, scenes in nature and create a multitude of concepts. You can have a businessman standing on a mountain in order to create mainstream stock concepts or a child standing inside a storybook, just to name a few traditional stock photography concepts. These kinds of images stand out from the mundane child-reading-book and business-handshake images you normally see. And this is how you beat your competition. Having a library of elements is also how you increase your output for creating images.
Now, before you start to run out photographing mountains and spaceships, why waste your time when you can get all kinds of background images for free and no copyrights?
There is a current trend of newbie photographers who are foolishly throwing their work out into the public domain. Many of these photographers are extremely talented and put out quality work but for whatever reason, they think the way to be "discovered" is to give their work away for free, and worse, give up all rights to their work. I would hope that YOU will never put your images into the public domain because that is the worst thing a photographer could ever do. However, since a great number of photographers are doing as such, you might as well benefit from their lack of judgement.
Pixabay.com is one of many web sites out there where you can download images without purchase and use them for unlimited commercial use. You can find many images that are great for using as backgrounds and there are even images where the background has already been removed and the image was uploaded as a PNG file. PNG files will have a transparent background so the work was already done in isolating the element.
A word of warning, though: You should avoid using images with people because you will not have a model release. There is also one more thing to realize, people who put their images in the public domain may do fantastic work but they are undisciplined for producing print-ready images. They may be lazy about removing noise, dust, and specks. But reworking an image of the Colosseum is a lot easier than flying to Rome!
One last thing to know before we wrap this up: You will find that working with composite images will be a lot easier if you invest in a graphical tablet and pen. If you're dodging and burning or reworking a hard edge, it's a lot easier using a tablet pen than a mouse.
So that's it when it comes to composite images. The potential is unlimited and once you have mastered your workflow you will be able to produce images that have no competition and will have stronger concepts than standard stock photography. Remove the background from an element and then work on techniques that will blend the various layers together into a more natural look and feel. Build yourself a library of backgrounds and elements so you can assembly-line images and increase your output. Utilize images from the public domain to save yourself time and obtain images your normally wouldn't be able photograph on your own.
You still will need to learn Photoshop but after reading the above, you should realize that there are only a handful of fundamental Photoshop tools and functions that you need to master in order to create composite images. If you have the passion to create high-end stock images and digital art, you will find yourself having fun with the time you invest.
Thanks for reading and I hope this blog takes your photography career to a new level. Please click on the USEFUL button if this has been helpful! Have fun and the next step is up to you!
Hi Ted,I'm using Photoshop CC. If you earn enough income the software cost is tax deductible which helps.
Interesting article and probably the only way to produce truly unique images. I wonder what version of Photoshop you are using ? I have attempted to isolate parts of images in Elements 15 to produce collages with little success !!
Absolutely great article and it has given me lots of ideas for which I want to thank you.
Sounds funny and creative work, so I will give it a try! Thank you for the idea!
This is a fabulous article!
Well, you are right about the advantage of composite images while creating a concept that is otherwise very hard to create in real life. (please excuse me for the poor English :)) I just gave a thumbs up for this article. You gave me lots of ideas..