text:
export SASS_DIR=~/dev/sassafras
export ODK_COLLECT_DIR=${SASS_DIR}/tcc/collect
export NEMO_DIR=${SASS_DIR}/tcc/nemo
export HB_DIR=${SASS_DIR}/hollaback
export RR_DIR=${SASS_DIR}/rita/realrisks

export AWS_DEFAULT_PROFILE=tcc

alias sass='cd ${SASS_DIR}'
alias odkc='cd ${ODK_COLLECT_DIR}'
alias nemo='cd ${NEMO_DIR}'

alias nemos='nvm use && echo "\nCollect endpoint: http://YOURIP:8443/m/yourmission\n" && rails s -p 8443 -b 0.0.0.0'

# Connect, with reminder to disconnect
alias vpnc='open http://timer-tab.com && vpn connect'

# --- RealRisks

alias rr='cd ${RR_DIR}'

# --- Hollaback / HeartMob

alias hb='cd ${HB_DIR}/hb-web && nvm use'
alias hbs='hb && cd trellis && vagrant up && cd ../site/web/app/themes/hollaback-theme && npx gulp build && hb'

# --- Aggie

# addpath "$HOME/sdks/mongodb-2.6.12/bin"

# --- IntelliJ workspaces.

workspace-backup-collect() {
  cp ${ODK_COLLECT_DIR}/.idea/workspace{.xml,.xml.bak} && \
  echo "Saved backup at ${ODK_COLLECT_DIR}/.idea/workspace.xml.bak"
}
alias work-bak-odkc=workspace-backup-collect

workspace-restore-collect() {
  cp ${ODK_COLLECT_DIR}/.idea/workspace{.xml.bak,.xml} && \
  echo "Restored backup from ${ODK_COLLECT_DIR}/.idea/workspace.xml.bak"
}
alias work-restore-odkc=workspace-restore-collect


text:
St. Lucia government express concern about fake Prime Minister social media accounts
By CMC
Nicole Mc Donald
(CMC) – Several fake social media accounts have been set up in the name of Prime Minister, Allen Chastanet, prompting a warning from the authorities for members of the public to be on guard.
"We remain increasingly concerned about several reports we have been receiving about fake accounts on Instagram and on Facebook in the Prime Minister's name," Senior Communications Officer, Nicole Mc Donald, told reporters Monday.
She said the accounts have been sending direct messages to individuals who have responded by divulging information that has been requested.
"The Prime Minister would not be requesting financial information or any such information from anyone, so we are asking them to be vigilant and help us report some of those fake accounts that are set up to mislead people," Mc Donald explained, adding "we are aware of the fake accounts and we are trying our best to get them removed".
Mc Donald also urged the public not to respond to messages from the fake accounts.
"We get messages from the public quite often – maybe at least once every two weeks, in terms of another fake account being set up and messages coming to them from those accounts."
Mc Donald said that based on requests coming from the accounts, a lot of people recognise that the accounts are not genuine.
"We think that this has been happening way too often," she said, adding that attempts are being made to get to the bottom of the matter.
Mc Donald said some of the fake accounts end up attracting thousands of followers since people see the Prime Minister's photo and assume it is safe to follow the account pages.
When I look at some lucians, they really need prayers, but God is behind the scenes watching st.lucians.The good will pay for the bad,I can't believe a small country like st Lucia divided like that, for the sake of politics.
Stop the crying. It's all part of the game. it's an opportunity to demonstrate leadership.
Rickhole! A fake PM! What do you and your team expect?
ALP propaganda machine in full swing . Campaign eh done yet
That's unavoidable
That happens to almost everyone in the public eye. What he should do is just get the blue tick. That's all. Where are the I.T people in the government? Or the Social Media consultant lol. I am up for the position if there is not one lol
Government advises public: Beware of fake social media accounts (2)
Scammers using Allen Chastanet's name (12)
Chastanet claims he 'misspoke' about new border control authority (1)
We will not rest until we deliver promises: Chastanet (2)
Arsene James was like a second father, says Chastanet (0)

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text:
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using RMUD;

namespace StandardActionsModule
{
	internal class Say : CommandFactory
	{
		public override void Create(CommandParser Parser)
		{
			Parser.AddCommand(
                Or(
                    Sequence(
                        Or(
                            KeyWord("SAY"),
                            KeyWord("'")),
                        MustMatch("@say what", Rest("SPEECH"))),
                    Generic((pm, context) =>
                    {
                        var r = new List<PossibleMatch>();
                        if (pm.Next == null || pm.Next.Value.Length <= 1 || pm.Next.Value[0] != '\'')
                            return r;

                        pm.Next.Value = pm.Next.Value.Substring(1); //remove the leading '

                        var builder = new StringBuilder();
                        var node = pm.Next;
                        for (; node != null; node = node.Next)
                        {
                            builder.Append(node.Value);
                            builder.Append(" ");
                        }

                        builder.Remove(builder.Length - 1, 1);
                        r.Add(pm.EndWith("SPEECH", builder.ToString()));
                        return r;
                    }, "'[TEXT => SPEECH]")))
                .Manual("Speak within your locale.")
                .Perform("speak", "ACTOR", "SPEECH");

            Parser.AddCommand(
                Sequence(
                    Or(
                        KeyWord("EMOTE"),
                        KeyWord("\"")),
                    MustMatch("@emote what", Rest("SPEECH"))))
                .Manual("Perform an action, visible within your locale.")
                .Perform("emote", "ACTOR", "SPEECH");
		}

        public static void AtStartup(RuleEngine GlobalRules)
        {
            Core.StandardMessage("say what", "Say what?");
            Core.StandardMessage("emote what", "You exist. Actually this is an error message, but that's what you just told me to say.");
            Core.StandardMessage("speak", "^<the0> : \"<s1>\"");
            Core.StandardMessage("emote", "^<the0> <s1>");

            GlobalRules.DeclarePerformRuleBook<MudObject, String>("speak", "[Actor, Text] : Handle the actor speaking the text.", "actor", "text");

            GlobalRules.Perform<MudObject, String>("speak")
                .Do((actor, text) =>
                {
                    MudObject.SendLocaleMessage(actor, "@speak", actor, text);
                    return PerformResult.Continue;
                })
                .Name("Default motormouth rule.");

            GlobalRules.DeclarePerformRuleBook<MudObject, String>("emote", "[Actor, Text] : Handle the actor emoting the text.", "actor", "text");

            GlobalRules.Perform<MudObject, String>("emote")
                .Do((actor, text) =>
                {
                    MudObject.SendLocaleMessage(actor, "@emote", actor, text);
                    return PerformResult.Continue;
                })
                .Name("Default exhibitionist rule.");
        }
    }
}

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text:
A View from the CP (3) June 8th 1969
June 8th, 1969 - LZ Penny
The morning of June 8th, 1969, began like any other ordinary morning in the Central Highlands. After a night of not much sleep, Bravo Company had a normal Stand-to at about 45 minutes before daybreak which is known in the military as: Before morning nautical twilight (BMNT).
As part of the stand-to, Bravo Company manned their fighting positions which had been prepared the previous late afternoon when we set up our night laager. Those positions were manned until sunrise. When no enemy activity was detected, each Platoon send out a Sweep Patrol to clear their assigned sectors of any enemy who might have set up ambush positions to catch us by surprise as the Company moved out on the day's mission. The assigned mission for the day was a normal "Search and Clear" mission with no particular purpose in mind, other than re-establishing contact with NVA Main Force units which we had been searching for since the May 18th firefight. Today was a little unusual in that there seemed to be a lack of Intel on possible NVA concentrations which was unlike several operations in the past two -three weeks which identified potential, large unit enemy concentrations as the focus of the mission, so I was feeling somewhat at ease since I was not expecting the possibility of a hard fight that day.
We moved out in a column formation, with the 1st Platoon leading the way, followed by the CP group, then the Second Platoon, and the Third Platoon providing rear security as we maneuvered toward the first checkpoint assigned by Battalion S-3. Basically, a checkpoint was nothing other than a grid designation on a topographical map, which was usually some sort of distinctive terrain feature which we could easily recognize. Most of the Search and Clear missions involved traversing about 5 plus Kilometers of jungle which, upon reaching the final designated grid, we would set up another night laager position. Every night, we dug fighting positions, sent out Listening Posts (LP's), placed Trip Flares, and covered the perimeter with Claymore mines. This was the Standard Operating procedure and every Infantryman knew that after a long and tiring day of cutting through the jungle, they would end the day by digging a chest deep fighting position, providing overhead cover for those positions, and clearing away fields of fire around those positions, and the possibility of getting no sleep because of having to pull LP duty. Such was the lot of an Infantryman. Hard work, very little sleep, and the probability of enemy contact. I often heard the grunts complain of being tired and hungry, but, I never heard a complaint about the mission. The men of Bravo were of a higher state of discipline and motivation.
As we moved toward our first checkpoint, and had only travelled 500 meters or so, the First Platoon point element signaled for a halt in movement and motioned for everyone to drop down into prone positions. This was usually a sign that the day was going to get worse, since it usually meant that NVA had been sighted or were suspected of being in close proximity. I radioed 16, the First Platoon Leader, John Barbeau, and asked what was going on. He responded that 3-5 NVA were spotted in a bamboo clump immediately ahead. I asked if there was any indication that these NVA had detected our presence. He said that he didn't think so because they were still making coffee or rice and one of them was still lying in his hammock. On hearing the facts, I speculated that we had just stumbled upon an NVA outpost of some sort. Since it was about 0730hrs, I figured that it could be a Listening Post which hadn't been called back to the main body yet, or, since it was daylight, it could be an Observation Post (OP) that had just been posted. Either way, I told John Barbeau that I would start working my way forward, but, that he should open fire on the area if it appeared that the enemy was alerted to our presence.
As the CP group started to crawl forward, there were several bursts of M-16 fire and I knew that John had engaged the NVA. The need for stealth disappeared so I, and the rest of the CP group, led by Bill Delaney, began advancing rapidly toward John's position. I alerted the Second Platoon to advance with the CP group and to be ready to deploy on command once I had a plan of action in mind. At that point, everyone dropped their rucksacks and proceeded to maneuver with "fighting gear" only. Basically, "fighting gear" was nothing more than at least 3 bandoliers of M-16 ammunition, and M-26 Fragmentation Grenades. Since, I suspected that the NVA sighted, and engaged by the 1st Platoon in the Bamboo clump was an outpost, I needed to make sure that our attentions weren't focused on the outpost while a main force unit was somewhere in the immediate area, and presented a more serious threat. I hoped that I had assessed the situation correctly and that I could discover the main force unit more quickly than they could discover us. If, there was a main body close by, we needed to identify that location as quickly as possible and organize an assault before the NVA could adequately prepare for the coming fight. This needed to be done rapidly since small arms fire had already been exchanged and the NVA now knew that we were in their immediate presence. The element of surprise had now been lost completely, and we had to deal with this fact as rapidly as possible. I didn't want to give the NVA any more time than necessary to prepare their defensive positions. As I crawled up to John's position, he stated that he and his point element had killed at least one of the NVA in the bamboo clump to his immediate front. While visually scanning the area, I noticed that there was a much larger bamboo thicket about 80-100 meters beyond the clump in which the 1st Platoon had engaged the 3-5 NVA. I took a guess that this thicket was the most likely area for more NVA and had John bring his First Platoon on line and deployed the Second Platoon on line also and started to advance toward the larger Bamboo thicket.
As Bravo Company moved toward the thicket, we started to receive some small arms fire from the right flank. It was determined fire, but not from a large number of NVA and, I suspected that the NVA were hastily deployed to try and engage us in flanking fire. At least, I hoped that I made a correct assessment, since, if the main force was already on our flank, we were going to have a rough day ahead! One NVA in particular, must have spotted the THREE radio antennas in the CP group and emptied his 30 round magazine into the CP. The rounds began impacting where Bill Delaney was positioned and walked completely through the CP position. Front to back! Miraculously, no one was hit. I hollered out "Did anyone see where that came from" since there was no question that whoever fired the AK had us in visual sight. The rounds impacted so close to everyone that, if the NVA were given time to reload, the next time around, we may not be so fortunate as to have no casualties. Bill Delaney hollered back "I think I see him, he's in a tree". Bill, then flipped over from his prone position and emptied his magazine into some tree foliage. While I didn't see anyone drop from the tree, we never again took any fire from that direction, so, I believe, Bill eliminated whoever did the shooting. I was grateful since one of the rounds from the AK had impacted the ground between my index finger and web of my right thumb. Much too close for comfort. I didn't want to give the shooter another try.
Bravo Company then began an assault on the bamboo thicket ahead. We started receiving a significant volume of small arms fire from the thicket, and I suspected that I had made a correct guess as to where the NVA were grouped. From the volume of fire, I estimated that there was at least a Platoon of NVA in that thicket, but believed that there might be more, since the NVA were well trained and had good fire discipline and did not expose their positions until they had a target in sight. The volume of fire from the thicket began causing casualties in the First Platoon. SSgt Ayala, the First Platoon Sergeant was hit several times and, one of the AK rounds went practically straight up the barrel of his M-16. The Flash Hider was blown off and a portion of the barrel was shot away. I think we had five casualties from small arms fire on this first assault and needed to evacuate the casualties as quickly as possible since most, if not all, of the wounds were serious. We pulled back to the bamboo clump where the 3-5 NVA were first sighted and organized a Dust-Off of casualties. While in the bamboo clump, I saw one of the dead NVA still lying in the hammock he was occupying when first sighted by the First Platoon point element. I think John Barbeau, who had a habit of walking with the point element, was one of the men responsible for the NVA's demise. The NVA soldier had been hit by small arms fire multiple times, so there may have been more than one person shooting at him. We hadn't spent any time looking for the other four since time was of the essence and we needed to assault the main body of NVA as soon as possible. We had immediately deployed for an assault on the bamboo thicket beyond, so, it was never determined if any of the others were hit or not. It's possible that the fire we took from the right flank may have been from the NVA who were able to flee the outpost area, or was a deliberate flanking attempt from other elements of NVA of which we had no knowledge. Since we had just overrun the NVA outpost position and would soon be taking fire from a different NVA position, it was possible that there were many more NVA in the immediate area, and that some of those units were attempting to flank us. Either way, we kept up a high concentration of artillery fire on the surrounding jungle hoping to discourage any attempts at concentrating additional forces for deployment against Bravo Company.
After our casualties were dusted-off, we formed up for a second assault on the thicket. As we moved forward on-line, we began receiving a larger volume of fire than we received from the first attempt. This was indicative of NVA conduct of battle. They never played their entire hand until they were ready to throw all-in. This tendency always caused me to be very cautious about committing all of my available resources until I was reasonably certain that we weren't going to be drawn into any type of envelopments, and until reasonably certain that the NVA were mostly all committed to the action. At this point, with increased resistance from the thicket, I and the Forward Observer from the 2nd Battalion 9th Artillery, Bill Wallin decided that we needed to pound the thicket with artillery fire before proceeding any further since we were beginning to take a number of casualties. LT Wallin began adjusting artillery fire while Bravo Company temporarily halted in place. Bravo Company took this time to form up for a third assault on the thicket.
After effective artillery fire fell on the thicket, Bravo Company assaulted the position a third time. We still took small arms fire, but, this time we pushed into the thicket and overran the NVA position. Once the position was overrun by Bravo Company, we occupied the NVA fighting positions which were dug behind individual Bamboo clumps within the thicket area making them relatively unaffected by M-16 fire, which, because of the light weight of the bullet, wouldn't penetrate very much Bamboo. The M-60's were much more effective and provided our main small arms threat to the NVA. Upon Bravo Company seizing the thicket area, we occupied the NVA fighting positions in preparation for a possible counter-attack by the NVA. Based on the number of fighting positions in the thicket, it was apparent that Bravo Company had just overrun a Platoon sized NVA unit. While we found bloody bandages and other evidence of casualties within the thicket, no bodies were recovered. Undoubtedly, they were removed when the NVA evacuated the thicket. Upon occupying the NVA fighting positions, it was discovered that each position had freshly dug earth at the bottom of each. One of the Bravo Infantrymen started digging with his hands to determine what caused freshly dug earth to be in the bottom of the fighting positions and discovered that there were 82 mm Mortar rounds hastily buried in the bottom of the fighting positions. Not Booby-trapped, but buried in an attempt to hide these rounds from detection. Bravo Company began excavating each of the NVA fighting positions and removing the Mortar rounds buried in each while keeping alert for an NVA attempt to push us out of their former position.
As we were extracting the Mortar rounds, the NVA began to fire 82mm mortar rounds on the bamboo thicket. They had two or three tubes set up less than 400 meters from the thicket and had the thicket perfectly zeroed-in. I suspected that the NVA whom had retreated from the thicket we had just overrun, had fallen back to this location. The rounds began hitting by the two's and three's about every 25 seconds. All were within our perimeter position and we began taking heavy casualties from the Mortars. I decided that, since they had the thicket zeroed-in, we needed to move from the immediate area, so I ordered Bravo Company to perform an orderly withdrawal from the thicket. Since there were more NVA in front of us, as evidenced by the Mortar tubes, I chose to withdraw back out of the thicket and to deploy more loosely than when we were confined in the thicket area. As we moved from the thicket area, the Mortar rounds followed us out of the thicket, so it was evident that there was a NVA Forward Observer somewhere on the same flank that we had been taking fire from already, and was walking the rounds back with us as we withdrew from the immediate area. The rounds were still falling at the rate of two or three every 25 seconds or so and we were beginning to take substantial casualties as a result of those rounds. I ordered everyone to pull further back, but to do so only during the 25 or so seconds of flight time it took from the time we heard the tubes popping to the impact of the mortar rounds. After the rounds impacted, we performed the same procedure while starting to evacuate our casualties from the contact area. LT Wallin, the Artillery Forward Observer and I discussed our options as to what could be employed to silence the Mortar tubes which were causing such havoc. Since both of us had a compass direction to the Mortars from our current position, and were able to make an estimate as to the distance to the tubes, we concurred as to the approximate location of those tubes. LT Wallin then suggested employing an artillery technique called "3 Quad, 3 Deflections", or words to that effect. While I wasn't familiar with the term, LT Wallin quickly told me that each of the six 105mm artillery pieces would fire rounds at 3 different deflections and three different elevations which would blanket an area with 105mm artillery rounds exploding every 5 meters apart, and would saturate a specified area with at least 54 rounds of 105mm fire for each Fire Mission shot. I told him to get it done as quickly as possible since the NVA Mortar tubes were inflicting significant casualties on us. LT Wallin began the pattern fire on the suspected Mortar locations. The first several Fire Missions caused no slackening of fire from the Mortars, so LT Wallin continued to shift the coordinates of the target area until we detected a change in the pattern of the incoming rounds. As LT Wallin proceeded to shift the fires, it became apparent that we were either closing in on the NVA, or were already on target since the firing finally started to diminish. As the fire from the Mortars started to slacken, I decided to organize a casualty evacuation point to our rear. The 3rd Platoon was tasked with securing an evacuation point about 100 meters or so, to our rear. As the 3rd Platoon organized a perimeter, I heard one of the 3rd Platoon machine guns start firing with purpose. Delaney, I, and the rest of the CP immediately responded by moving rapidly to where the machine gun fire was originating. When I got into position next to the gunner, I asked him what was going on, and he responded that he took some flanking fire and detected multiple bodies moving in the wood line to his flank, so he decided to sweep the area with his M-60. His name was Kennibaum, and he had been a recent infusee from the 101st Airmobile. I told him to keep up his fire and to keep sweeping the wood line to suppress any possibility of a flanking move by the NVA. During this time, the 2/9th Arty was still firing the 3 Quad, 3 Deflection pattern on the Mortar locations, and must have been on target as we ceased taking any Mortar fire whatsoever, so I asked LT Wallin to shift some of the fire to our flank, so that it might cause the NVA problems, if, in fact, they were going to try and flank us. As this was done, I asked the CP Medic (Steve Eichsteadt) to stay at this location and be ready to treat the casualties from the 1st and 2nd Platoons as they were evacuated to the rear. I, and the rest of the CP then returned to where the 1st and 2nd Platoons were spread out on line. They were still taking small arms fire, but it was from a distance, and not that effective, however, the fact that the NVA were not willing to break off the engagement while we were pounding their positions with Artillery fire, was somewhat worrisome. I asked for a quick casualty report from both Platoons. The numbers reported back to me were kind of numbing. Both Platoons were reporting able body strength at less than 10 men per Platoon. The rest were casualties . Some more severely wounded than others. I, and the CP group were immediately behind the 1st Platoon position when I ordered a casualty evacuation back to the 3rd Platoon evacuation site. As the 1st Platoon began evacuating their casualties, it required every able bodied man that still remained in that Platoon to accomplish this task, so, I ordered them to continue the withdrawal past the CP and back to the main collection point 100 or so meters to the rear, leaving the CP group as the forward line of resistance should the NVA seize this opportunity for a counter-attack. The 2nd Platoon was also in about the same condition as was the 1st, so I ordered a general evacuation of the contact area while the CP group formed a final line of resistance, should it be necessary. As this was occurring, I remember SGT Toledo of the 1st Platoon hollering that Siaz, a Machine Gunner from the 1st Platoon was hit multiple times by mortar shrapnel and small arms fire, and since Siaz was larger in size than most grunts, his evacuation required multiple able bodied individuals. SGT Toledo held in position until others could respond to assist him with Siaz's evacuation. Siaz was placed on either a Poncho Liner, or Poncho, and several people, led by SGT Toledo evacuated Siaz directly through the CP location while under small arms fire. I'm convinced of the fact that SGT Toledo would have stayed with Siaz even if they were the only two left in the field. SGT Toledo cared deeply about Siaz and was intensely proud of Siaz. Siaz used to like to profile the fact that he was capable of humping the M-60, and 600 rounds of linked ammo wound around his body. SGT Toledo's loyalty and courage was apparent that day.
By this time, we had so many casualties from Mortar shrapnel that the Third Platoon "Casualty Evacuation" point, was overwhelmed with casualties. During this time, we were still taking some NVA fire from the right flank , and, Doug Kennibaum was still firing suppressive machine gun fire, along with several other members of the 3rd Platoon, on the jungle wood line to the right. This was the same general area from where we had taken flanking fire previously on all of our previous assaults, so it was getting to be a cause for concern. I didn't know if there was fresh movement of troops into the flank position, but the fire hadn't diminished during the entire firefight, and required some attention to insure that there wasn't a massing of NVA on that flank. LT Wallin proceeded to start two tubes of the 105mm artillery using the same 3Quads, 3 Deflections fire pattern on that flank, while the rest of the Battery was still involved in trying to silence, or eliminate the NVA Mortar tubes which had already caused us so much grief.
Eventually, the artillery fire had the desired effect of silencing the 82mm Mortars since we ceased receiving any more fire. The 82mm Mortars had been effectively used by the NVA and generated over 30 more casualties within the Company. Bravo Company received about 100 rounds of 82mm Mortar fire during the time we occupied the Bamboo thicket, and, during the time we were forced to withdraw our casualties back to the evacuation point. This time frame was perhaps 30-45 minutes or so, and, between the small arms casualties from the three assaults on the thicket, and the mortar fire, caused at least 36 casualties that day. The number of casualties from that day caused a tremendous loss in fighting ability of Bravo Company. Three assaults on the thicket, then enduring approximately 100 rounds of 82mm Mortar fire had taken its toll. While I can't remember with total accuracy what the final casualty count was that day, I do remember, calling TOC from the "casualty evacuation point" and requesting enough slick support to evacuate at least 32 wounded caused by the Mortar fire alone. It had been a trying day up to that point, but the grunts of Bravo showed no let up in their actions.
Bravo Company had succeeded in overrunning an NVA outpost defended by up to five NVA, also overran an NVA Platoon defensive position, recovered a number of 82mm Mortar rounds, and took a pounding from additional NVA units in the immediate area which had access to two or three 82mm Mortars and more ammunition than they were capable of using in that particular fight. Under the direction of LT Bill Wallin, the Artillery Forward Observer, more than 500 rounds of 105mm artillery had been fired in support of Bravo Company and may have been instrumental in keeping the NVA from massing enough force to hit our right flank. The 500 plus rounds fired in support of Bravo Company that day, was the greatest number of rounds the 2nd Battalion 9th Artillery fired in a single day the entire time they were on LZ Penny.
After our casualties were evacuated, which took 5 Slick ships, if I remember correctly and came courtesy of Delta Troop 1/10 Cav. In fact, I have a recollection of the fact that Delta sent all of the aircraft that were normally reserved for Delta Troop's own internal Aero Rifle Platoon for this mission. Once again, I was deeply indebted to the unit to which I had been previously assigned before becoming a Bravo Cacti Blue of the 2nd Bn 35th Inf. We withdrew back to our previous night laager and prepared for the possibility of an NVA counter-attack. At this time, TAC Air arrived on station, and Sider/Cider FAC came over the air to request spotting assistance. The Battalion Commander, LTC Price, took command, since he was in a C&C ship overseeing the general action, and said that he would coordinate the Air Strike. There were two Air Force F-4 Phantoms available, each armed with 500 pound bombs. They began their "hot run" on the target area, but Bravo Company had already been ordered to return to our previous night laager, so the impact area was not within Bravo's viewing ability. We wouldn't be able to gauge their effectiveness until the following morning when we were to swept back into the contact area to recover our rucksacks, and engage any remaining NVA in the area. I also believe that LTC Price's C&C Loach was hit multiple times by 12.7mm (.51 Cal) anti-aircraft fire while he was spotting for the TAC Air. My memory is a little vague as to whether his C&C ship took fire on the late afternoon of June 8th or during the action of June 10th. Either way, this was further evidence of the fact that we were in the middle of a significant sized NVA concentration which appeared to be spread out over a kilometer or so of jungle. LTC Price's helicopter was forced to return to LZ Penny because of a Transmission warning light alerting the pilot to serious damage sustained from the 12.7mm anti-aircraft hits. I also believe that the helicopter experienced total transmission failure just as it returned to LZ Penny. I also believe that LTC Price was slightly wounded by the anti-aircraft fire, but cannot be certain as to the details. I do know that LTC Price's name appears as a casualty in the informally re-constructed casualty figures for the 35th Inf. The record date is shown as 0300hrs on June 9th, so that affirms June 8th as the actual date, however, the only thing I can positively state from my own knowledge is that his C&C ship did take ground fire on either the 8th, 9th, or 10th of June while in support of Bravo Company. There were a lot of things happening on those three days, and some of my memories may have blended together.
Battalion notified the Recon Platoon to move to our location to provide temporary replacements for our wounded, and to help bolster our defensive abilities for the night. When they arrived, they were certainly a welcomed sight. They were destined to remain with Bravo Company until sometime during the afternoon of June 9th. All of Bravo Company's rucksacks had been abandoned in the contact area near the Bamboo thicket and needed to be recovered. Recon was to provide the main force necessary to recover the rucksacks, and to provide the offensive capabilities necessary should the NVA still be present in force around the contact area. Recon took the initiative by volunteering to go into the contact area as soon as they arrived at our location during the late afternoon of June 8th, and guided by SSGT Gregory (Tiny), the 2nd Platoon SGT from Bravo Company, who volunteered to lead Recon back into the contact area, attempted to recover as many rucksacks as possible before nightfall. The remainder of the rucksacks would be collected on the morning of June 9th when Bravo Company and the Recon Platoon swept back into the thicket to see if any NVA were left in the area. I do know that my rucksack wasn't recovered until the next morning, and that, when recovered, it had already been looted by the NVA. Our return to the thicket on the morning of June 9th is further explained in the prolog leading to the action of June 10th, 1969.
Bravo Company now had a total effective troop strength of 48 men, not counting the Recon Platoon.
Bravo Company 2nd Bn 35th Inf


An older chalet house is replaced with a contemporary dwelling. The site allows the main element – a timber clad building the size of a typical New Forest cottage – to be combined with a highly sustainable single storey grass roofed living area. The gardens are kept natural and very simple.
Design: Francis Wheal Architects. Photos: Chris Balcombe.
The house is set behind an established tracery of trees and has a modest gated entrance.
Timber features strongly and helps the dwelling and outbuildings merge with the woodland backdrop.
A composition of one and two storey buildings echo the rural courtyard character.
In contrast to the front timbered element, the glazed lounge and green roof are tucked to the rear.


Physician performed closed reduction of lesser toe with percutaneous pinning. I can only find a CPT code to report this in the great toe. We tried to authorize an unlisted procedure, but the carrier is telling me that there is a code for what we did. The only code I can find similar is for the closed reduction of a lesser toe, but the percutaneous pinning is not named in the description.
CPT 28525 states OPEN treatment of fracture, phalanx or phalanges, other than great toe, includes internal fixation. This was not OPEN treatment. Unless they consider breaking of the skin with a k-wire to be open treatment.
It is my understanding that 28496, percutaneous skeletal fixation of fracture of great toe, phalanx or phalanges, with manipulation, means proximal or distal end of great toe, not great toe, and all phalanges on foot. I would love to be wrong about that!
This CPT includes perc pinning of lesser toes.
Also, the lay description of CPT 28496 is specific to the big toe. So this code would not apply to lesser toes.


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Q: same function Multiple Names without Wrappers I am creating a small Linear Algebra Library for educational purposes.
I have a function called A . These function are doing mathematical operations , and they are given different names by different communities. One name for Machine Learning people(say A) , another name for Statistics people(say B).
I want both of them to be able to access the function using the different names that they use , ie both A(...) and B(...) should give the same result. The obvious way is to use a function wrapper.
B(...)
{
   return A(...)
}

This will get the job done. But is this the right way to do this ? Is there a better more "elegant" way to do this ?
-Thank you

A: You could use function pointers.
int f1(int a)
{
    return a * 2;
}

const auto f2 = f1;

int main()
{
    cout << f2(4) << endl;
}

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Girl is NOT a 4 Letter Word: Vert Attack 9 - The Girls KILLED it!
Vert Attack 9 - The Girls KILLED it!
WOW!! What a great way to spend a Saturday morning - just watched the womens event live from Vert Attack 9 and these girls KILLED it!
Here's a short re-cap: Alana Smith pulling off a flawless 540 McTwist, Lizzie Armanto and Allysha Bergado with inverts (frontside and backside) over the channel, Gaby Ponce going for those high airs she is known for, Julz Lynn pulling off a Smith Grind that looked impossible, and little Brighton Zeuner amazing the crowd and the judges with her tricks and height. We also saw an impressive showing by legend Mimi Knoop (although I wish the announcer would have pronounced her last name correctly) and we were introduced to some smooth riding by Valeria Bertaccini from Italy.


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2. Heat a large skillet to medium-high and saute onions, mushrooms, and spinach in olive oil until lightly browned and cooked through, about 5 minutes.
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AEAF Awards: Outpost VFX Awarded Special Merit
Our Domestos commercial has received a Special Merit mention at the AEAF Awards in Sydney
We're really pleased to announce that our Domestos commerical for MullenLowe has recieved a Special Merit award at the AEAF Awards.
Competing in the Animated Commercial category, our work was judged alongside some amazing advertising work from a number of other top studios including MPC and Passion Pictures.
Being recognised in this way is a real testament to the hard work of our amazing team, and it's especially exciting as it's the first time we've provided the full gamut of creative work for such a project.
As well as developing all of the CG elements in the commercial, we also directed it in house, graded it in house and produced all of the initial creature designs and storyboards. We even shot the live-action sequences!
You can check out the rest of the winners here. Thanks to MullenLowe for bringing such an enriching project our way!
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Hayley remains hopeful about chances - by Barbados Today July 3, 2017
LEICESTER, England – Teenaged opener Hayley Matthews says West Indies Women are still hopeful of making the final four of the ICC Women's World Cup, despite their nightmare start to the tournament.
The Caribbean are bottom of the eight-team standings without a point, having lost all three games by hefty margins and still with several tough assignments ahead in their remaining four games.
New Zealand Women, one of the tournament favourites, will present a stern challenge for West Indies on Thursday but Matthews said the team remained optimistic.
"We still have a possibility of qualifying, winning four games so I think we just need to go out there and fight as hard as possible for these last couple of games and hope that things go our way," the 19-year-old told a media conference.
"New Zealand have a very good squad but we do as well. We know that on our day we are capable of beating anyone and once we go out there and perform as well as we know we can and execute our skills as well as we know we can, we will go out there and beat them."
West Indies lost their two opening games of the tournament last week when they went down to reigning champions Australia Women by eight wickets and to India Women by seven wickets in Taunton.
However, they were at their worst on Sunday as they plunged to a heavy 10-wicket defeat after being bundled out for a shocking 48 – their second lowest-ever total in One-Day Internationals.
Matthews, one of the few in-form players, said the issue with the Windies side was one of lack of execution.
"We didn't do too well against them in the first game (warm-up) but we looked to come out in this game start fresh [but] I guess we just went out there and weren't able to execute our skills," she explained.
"I do think South Africa has a very strong bowling line-up. When you look through all the teams you do see they have a lot of strong players that are capable of taking wickets but I still think it is a matter of us needing to execute our skills a bit better."
The unflattering run by West Indies has been a big blow to their expectations, especially since entering the ongoing tournament as Twenty20 World champions and losing finalists of the last 50-over World Cup in India four years ago.
And with little to show for their month-long tour after having lost all five of their warm-up matches, Matthews said the Windies needed to also rescue some pride from their remaining fixtures.
"Obviously we didn't have a good start in our first couple of games and didn't bounce back very well [yesterday]," the Barbadian noted.
"I think it is a matter where we have to go back to the drawing boards and kind of look at ourselves, and even if we go into the next couple of games try to go into them as head on as possible.
"Even if we can't qualify, just be able to take something like respect and pride out of those next couple of games."
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Ports in Shanghai and Shenzhen rank above the SAR.
The international competitiveness of Hong Kong's port services is increasingly put to risk as the spillover growth that the industry enjoyed from close ties with the Mainland since the early 2000's is now the main anchor pulling it down, according to Fitch Solutions.
"Hong Kong's strong port position has been eroded over the past decade whilst tourism suffers from increased negative sentiment towards mainland Chinese," Fitch Solutions said in a report.
The SAR's ports already lost its position as the world's busiest container port in 2005 and continued to slip the rankings, coming in at fifth in 2017 as Mainland ports became more technologically advanced and offered lower terminal handling costs. In fact, ports in Shanghai, Shenzhen and Ningbo-Zhoushan ranked above the SAR, coming in at first, third and fourth respectively in the same year.
"We expect this to continue to erode Hong Kong's position as a key re-export centre to the mainland as Chinese importers directly tap overseas markets," Fitch Solutions added.


This cucumber face mask combines cucumber, lavender and yogurt to cool and sooth blemished skin.
This cucumber face mask will help cool and sooth your skin.
A combination of cucumber, lavender and yogurt cools and soothes blemished skin. Clay helps draw out impurities, and juniper essential oil is antibacterial.
1. Combine all ingredients in a small nonporous bowl and mix thoroughly with a metal spoon. Apply mask to clean skin, taking care to avoid eye area.
2. Leave the mask in place for 15 minutes. Remove with a warm, wet washcloth.
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Audio filters can range from devices that subtly shape the tonal characteristics of a sound to ones that dramatically remove whole portions of a sound spectrum to create new sounds. Csound includes several versions of each of the commonest types of filters and some more esoteric ones also. The full list of Csound's standard filters can be found here. A list of the more specialised filters can be found here.
The first type of filter encountered is normally the lowpass filter. As its name suggests it allows lower frequencies to pass through unimpeded and therefore filters higher frequencies. The crossover frequency is normally referred to as the 'cutoff' frequency. Filters of this type do not really cut frequencies off at the cutoff point like a brick wall but instead attenuate increasingly according to a cutoff slope. Different filters offer cutoff slopes of different of steepness. Another aspect of a lowpass filter that we may be concerned with is a ripple that might emerge at the cutoff point. If this is exaggerated intentionally it is referred to as resonance or 'Q'.
In the following example, three lowpass filters filters are demonstrated: tone, butlp and moogladder. tone offers a quite gentle cutoff slope and therefore is better suited to subtle spectral enhancement tasks. butlp is based on the Butterworth filter design and produces a much sharper cutoff slope at the expense of a slightly greater CPU overhead. moogladder is an interpretation of an analogue filter found in a moog synthesizer – it includes a resonance control.
In the example a sawtooth waveform is played in turn through each filter. Each time the cutoff frequency is modulated using an envelope, starting high and descending low so that more and more of the spectral content of the sound is removed as the note progresses. A sawtooth waveform has been chosen as it contains strong higher frequencies and therefore demonstrates the filters characteristics well; a sine wave would be a poor choice of source sound on account of its lack of spectral richness.
A highpass filter is the converse of a lowpass filter; frequencies higher than the cutoff point are allowed to pass whilst those lower are attenuated. atone and buthp are the analogues of tone and butlp. Resonant highpass filters are harder to find but Csound has one in bqrez. bqrez is actually a multi-mode filter and could also be used as a resonant lowpass filter amongst other things. We can choose which mode we want by setting one of its input arguments appropriately. Resonant highpass is mode 1. In this example a sawtooth waveform is again played through each of the filters in turn but this time the cutoff frequency moves from low to high. Spectral content is increasingly removed but from the opposite spectral direction.
A bandpass filter allows just a narrow band of sound to pass through unimpeded and as such is a little bit like a combination of a lowpass and highpass filter connected in series. We normally expect at least one additional parameter of control: control over the width of the band of frequencies allowed to pass through, or 'bandwidth'.
In the next example cutoff frequency and bandwidth are demonstrated independently for two different bandpass filters offered by Csound. First of all a sawtooth waveform is passed through a reson filter and a butbp filter in turn while the cutoff frequency rises (bandwidth remains static). Then pink noise is passed through reson and butbp in turn again but this time the cutoff frequency remains static at 5000Hz while the bandwidth expands from 8 to 5000Hz. In the latter two notes it will be heard how the resultant sound moves from almost a pure sine tone to unpitched noise. butbp is obviously the Butterworth based bandpass filter. reson can produce dramatic variations in amplitude depending on the bandwidth value and therefore some balancing of amplitude in the output signal may be necessary if out of range samples and distortion are to be avoided. Fortunately the opcode itself includes two modes of amplitude balancing built in but by default neither of these methods are active and in this case the use of the balance opcode may be required. Mode 1 seems to work well with spectrally sparse sounds like harmonic tones while mode 2 works well with spectrally dense sounds such as white or pink noise.
A comb filter is a special type of filter that creates a harmonically related stack of resonance peaks on an input sound file. A comb filter is really just a very short delay effect with feedback. Typically the delay times involved would be less than 0.05 seconds. Many of the comb filters documented in the Csound Manual term this delay time, 'loop time'. The fundamental of the harmonic stack of resonances produced will be 1/loop time. Loop time and the frequencies of the resonance peaks will be inversely proportional – as loop time gets smaller, the frequencies rise. For a loop time of 0.02 seconds, the fundamental resonance peak will be 50Hz, the next peak 100Hz, the next 150Hz and so on. Feedback is normally implemented as reverb time – the time taken for amplitude to drop to 1/1000 of its original level or by 60dB. This use of reverb time as opposed to feedback alludes to the use of comb filters in the design of reverb algorithms. Negative reverb times will result in only the odd numbered partials of the harmonic stack being present.
The following example demonstrates a comb filter using the vcomb opcode. This opcode allows for performance time modulation of the loop time parameter. For the first 5 seconds of the demonstration the reverb time increases from 0.1 seconds to 2 while the loop time remains constant at 0.005 seconds. Then the loop time decreases to 0.0005 seconds over 6 seconds (the resonant peaks rise in frequency), finally over the course of 10 seconds the loop time rises to 0.1 seconds (the resonant peaks fall in frequency). A repeating noise impulse is used as a source sound to best demonstrate the qualities of a comb filter.
In addition to a wealth of low and highpass filters, Csound offers several more unique filters. Multimode such as bqrez provide several different filter types within a single opcode. Filter type is normally chosen using an i-rate input argument that functions like a switch. Another multimode filter, clfilt, offers additional filter controls such as 'filter design' and 'number of poles' to create unusual sound filters. unfortunately some parts of this opcode are not implemented yet.
eqfil is essentially a parametric equaliser but multiple iterations could be used as modules in a graphic equaliser bank. In addition to the capabilities of eqfil, pareq adds the possibility of creating low and high shelving filtering which might prove useful in mastering or in spectral adjustment of more developed sounds.
statevar offers the outputs from four filter types - highpass, lowpass, bandpass and bandreject - simultaneously so that the user can morph between them smoothly. svfilter does a similar thing but with just highpass, lowpass and bandpass filter types.
phaser1 and phaser2 offer algorithms containing chains of first order and second order allpass filters respectively. These algorithms could conceivably be built from individual allpass filters, but these ready-made versions provide convenience and added efficiency.
hilbert is a specialist IIR filter that implements the Hilbert transformer.
For those wishing to devise their own filter using coefficients Csound offers filter2 and zfilter2.
The following example shows a nice comparision between a number of common used filters.


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The relief in Blues head coach Pat Lam's voice was palpable.
Lambasted by the press and many fans on www.theblues.co.nz last week following consecutive losses, Lam was held personally accountable for the Blues' particularly poor performance against the Chiefs last week.
But without a number of key players including Jerome Kaino, Rudi Wulf, Isaia Toeava and Tony Woodock, Lam's troops fronted up against the mighty Bulls and defeated them 29-23 at Loftus Versfeld in a character filled performance on Sunday.
It was a brilliant way for the Blues to answer their critics and Lam was thrilled with the way his players stepped up under pressure.
"The boys had to front up and perform and I'm really proud of the effort they put in, it was a big win for us and it gets us started," Lam said.
"It's round three, we should have won the first one against the Crusaders and last week were disappointing, we knew that.
"It was a big challenge for us because it's been nine years since the Blues have won their first game on tour in South Africa and only one team has beaten the Bulls here in three and a half years so we put a lot of work into it.
Making his run-on debut for the Blues, 20-year-old Gareth Anscombe had a superb game and collected all 29 of his team's points with two tries, two conversions and seven penalties.
Lam was full of praise for the promising youngster who overshadowed his more fancied opposite number Morne Steyn.
"I thought it was an outstanding effort, we've known he's had that talent but we wanted to nurture that a bit," he said.
"For (assistant coach) Bryce Woodward and myself we purposely waited for Ma'a to get here and Piri to start so to play in between those two was a big help for him.
Lam said the key to Sunday morning's victory was fronting up physically against a fearsome Bulls forward pack.
"The big one was around our defence and knocking them over, we knew that we were poor in contact last week and we needed to front up with the attitude. There was a mindset all week around our attitude and what we brought to the contact area and if we couldn't put in the big hits we at least needed to go around the legs and cut them down because they're big boys as everyone knows.
The Blues were eager to chance their arm and throw the ball around deep in their own 22, but it almost backfired on a number of occasions with players knocking the ball on and handing it back to the opposition in dangerous territory.
However Lam said part of the game plan was to hold onto the ball more, refusing to kick it into the hands of the lethal Bulls back three or putting it into touch and allowing their rolling maul to build up a head of steam.
"The Bulls like to sit back and wait for you to kick, and if you kick it down to them they'll come back at you, if you kick it out they'll get their lineout and maul going and if you kick it deep to them they'll come back and bomb you in your own 22 which they're used to.
"So for us it was about moving it to the wider channels and kicking it from out wider because when you move it their back three start to come up. We were just a couple of passes away from doing that but we'd sometimes lose it.
The Blues will certainly cherish a rare victory at Loftus Versfeld but they will need to quickly regroup against an undefeated Stormers side coming off the bye.
"We're pretty happy but it's a big week coming up," Lam said.
The Blues will be sweating on the availability of wing Rene Ranger for the clash after he was awarded a yellow and white card for flying into Bjorn Basson who was in the act of diving to score a try in the final play of the game.
Already low on backs with Isaia Toeava, Rudi Wulf, George Moala and Michael Hobbs back in New Zealand, it will be an anxious 24 hours for the Blues before Ranger finds out his fate.
Wider Training Group wing Ben Lam joined the squad in Africa late last week.
"We'll know when the new white card goes to the citing officer and we'll wait and see over the next 24 hours if anything is going to be made of it," Lam said.
The Blues face the Stormers at Newlands Stadium in Cape Town on Saturday morning (kick off 6.10am NZT).


Jill believes in a balanced approach to training where the key to success lies with consistency. She uses reward based methods which appeal to the dog,s psyche of "what's in it for me", but above all, training needs to be fun! She focuses on enhancing communication channels and building a stronger bond between dog and owner.
Our 4 year old working-bred German Shepherd has very strong instincts which gave us a lot of trouble - chasing cars, pulling with huge strength on the lead, jumping up on people. Generally very boisterous. It was very difficult taking her anywhere and walks on the lead were unpleasant for everyone!
Enter Jill, with her immense knowledge and very thorough approach. After an in-depth consultation, she taught Mitzi a few things, taught US a few things, and then sent a comprehensive report to follow up with details of exactly how we should proceed. It has all worked beautifully, and Jill is at the end of the phone should we run into difficulties. Being out with Mitzi is now a pleasure and we can go out in public with her with confidence.
I did a four month training programme with Jill last year. My cockapoo learnt quickly in the happy environment of Jill's class. She is friendly, knowledgeable, patient and encouraging. We received interesting information in the informal lecture before we brought the dogs in from the cars. We learned how to do a task e.g. loose lead walking and then we all had ample time to teach the task to the dog. Then Jill would give us the next task and so on.
There were six humans and six dogs in the class so we had plenty of tuition time each session. We also had homework which was important and then, in class, we could ask questions on any dog related matter. Plenty of interesting discussion!
I have another puppy and I shall be doing the puppy course with Jill in January. It takes me an hour to travel to the class. I think that says it all!
Jill is a very friendly, approachable and calm dog trainer. Both my dog and myself learnt a lot as regards to effective commands and how to achieve them. I even managed to persuade my husband to attend the training sessions, which he did willingly! I would heartily recommend Jill and her training methods which she was adept at adapting if required. Many thanks Jill!


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Federal Grade Secured Cloud Services with ORC and nCipher
ORC's PIVotal ID™, a federated identity solution used by the U.S. government, shows how cloud-based Identity-as-a-Service (IDaaS) backed by hardened cryptography delivers strong security and wide interoperability
For many companies thinking about moving sensitive data to the cloud, security issues remain a significant concern. But one company, Operational Research Consultants Inc. (ORC), is proving that the cloud really can be made as safe or even safer than onpremise deployments even for organizations as security-focused as the U.S. Federal Government.
ORC – A PIONEER IN FEDERAL IDENTITY MANAGEMENT
ORC has been a trusted partner of the U.S. government since the mid-'90s, when the company launched the Navy Acquisition Public Key Infrastructure to support secure interactions with contractors and suppliers. As the government's emphasis on information assurance expanded over the next two decades, ORC became a go-to partner for security solutions and one of the first companies authorized to provide government-compliant identity management solutions.
Today ORC manages more than three million identities and has issued more than 10 million federal-compliant digital certificates to a variety of employees, contractors, allies, veterans and citizens conducting business with the government.
THE NEED FOR SECURE AND INTEROPERABLE IDENTIFICATION AND AUTHENTICATION
In August 2004, the Bush administration issued a Homeland Security Presidential Directive (HSPD-12) to secure federal facilities and resources by establishing a government-wide standard for secure and reliable forms of identification. Going far beyond simply issuing ID badges to government employees, this initiative would focus on the processes needed to issue secure personal credentials, on methods to validate those issuance processes and credentials and on managing risk and quality throughout the lifecycle of the credentials.
The Personal Identity Verification (PIV) program implements these processes, and FIPS (Federal Information Processing Standard) 201 specifies interface and data elements of the PIV smart card. Among the data elements on a PIV card are one or more asymmetric private cryptographic keys. Departments and agencies must use a compliant public key infrastructure (PKI) to issue digital certificates to users. The PIV initiative has also spawned other high assurance credentials that support specific Business-to-Government, Citizen-toGovernment and Citizen-to-Business transactions while supporting federated interoperability between the issued credentials. These include various PIV-Interoperable (PIV-I) and PIV variants, such as: Transportation Worker Identification Credential (TWIC®), First Responder Authentication Credentials (FRAC), Commercial Identity Verification (CIV), and External Certificate Authority (ECA) PIV-I that address various regulatory requirements and are built to scale globally. The processes and policies for certificate issuance and the protections afforded to the critical root and issuing certificate authority keys in that PKI are critical factors in the overall assurance level of the system.
NCIPHER SECURITY HARDWARE SECURITY MODULES (HSMS) ENABLE COMPANIES TO:
Achieve unmatched operational flexibility, high availability and scalability in virtualized and cloud environments.
Reduce the cost of regulatory compliance and day-to-day key management tasks such as backup and remote management.
Achieve high assurance business continuity with simplified HSM enrollment, efficient key provisioning and fully resilient hardware features.
Enhance security for critical applications by protecting cryptographic keys and operations within tamper- resistant hardware.
Establish strong separation of duties and dual controls through robust administration policies including role-based multi-factor authentication and flexible quorum-based authorization.
THE CHALLENGES: CERTIFICATION, INTEROPERABILITY AND TRUST
Traditional on-premise identity management systems don't easily extend to the cloud. Recognizing that security was an important differentiator in order for cloud-based identity management to be trusted across the federal government, ORC knew that high assurance cryptography was the only way to meet NIST's security requirements. In the context of PKI, this meant that root and issuing certificate authority keys needed to be generated and protected in high assurance, FIPS-certified hardware. The reasons extended beyond simply strong security: the operational impact of compromise of one of these keys would be that all certificates issued under the PKI would need to be revoked and all credentials re-issued.
ORC also faced multiple certification and accreditation requirements including Federal Bridge, PIV/PIV-I, DoD, and FISMA and the need to support cross-certification at multiple levels, requiring a solution that could support a flexible range of assurance levels and policies. The solution also needed to be proven, and based on open systems standards to assure wide interoperability. Finally, ORC recognized the importance of providing high availability and reliability for cryptographic services in a cloud environment.
THE SOLUTION: ORC PIVOTAL ID™ AND NCIPHER
In order to provide high levels of assurance for federal cloud services, ORC offers a suite of solutions called PIVotal ID™. PIVotal ID™ includes certified and accredited managed services for issuing strong identity credentials that are trusted across the federal government and able to federate globally, including the issuance of digital certificates from PKIs underpinned by high assurance nCipher Hardware Security Modules (HSMs). ORC has issued and manages millions of compliant credentials enabling secure transactions for U.S. Federal Agencies (Civilian and Defense), their employees, the global contracting community, trading partners, Veterans and citizens who need to conduct business with any facet of the U.S. Government and regulated industries. PIVotal ID™ includes:
Personal Identification Verification (PIV)
Non-Federal Issuer PIV-Interoperable (NFI PIV-I)
External Certificate Authority (ECA)
Access Certificates for Electronic Services (ACES)
TWIC Certificate Manufacturing Authority
PIVotal Commercial™ (PIV-CIV)
PIVotal Validation™
ORC recognized that the nCipher nShield family of HSMs offered superior protection and cryptographic acceleration capabilities, as well as the flexibility and scalability to protect and manage root keys and all subordinate keys within its secure cloud service infrastructure.
COST-EFFECTIVE SOLUTIONS FOR ROBUST CRYPTOGRAPHY
nCipher nShield HSMs are built on a hardened, tamper-resistant platform that safeguards and manages sensitive keys used for encryption and digital signing to support virtually any application from identity management, web services and database encryption to tokenization, PKI services and strong authentication. nCipher nShield HSMs offer the most cost-effective way to establish the appropriate levels of physical and logical controls for systems where the security offered by software-based cryptography is considered to be inadequate.
ABOUT ORC
ORC, a WidePoint company and trusted partner to the U.S. Federal Government, delivers information security solutions to government and enterprise customers, thereby ensuring the fully compliant and trusted exchange and assurance of information. As an elite provider of information assurance and authentication services for business to government, government to government, and citizen to government, ORC's solutions are interoperable with legacy systems and integrate seamlessly with all leading software applications on the market. ORC leverages nCipher nShield HSMs to provide federal grade secured cloud identity management services.


All those who've been regularly visitors to CarblogWorld would probably know that we keep a keen eye on notable cars and bikes modifications happening across the country. Most of the modifications that we have featured here are tastefully crafted specimens that go on to enhance the visual appeal of their donor vehicle, but the vehicle you see in the images on this page is so good that it stands out amongst all other modifications we've ever featured here. This, here, is a modified Mahindra Thar that comes with, hold your breath, six wheels! Of course, there are many other visual additions that make this Thar far more attractive than the stock version.
This modified Mahindra Thar with six wheels that you see here is the work of Grizzly Customs, who created this custom vehicle for a customer. This custom Thar not only gains many visual additions but also looks a lot more macho than the already mean-looking regular version. If nothing else, the six-wheel setup alone makes this Thar an instant attraction on the road. It is said that this Thar can tow a camper weighing around 1 ton even on a rough terrain. As you can see, the custom vehicle here is a strict two-seater with a covered loading bay. The canvas top has been replaced with a hard top while the regular halogen headlamps make way for LED fixtures. Additionally, the bull-bar gets fog lamps. There's also a custom hood.
The front-end is further characterized by a custom front bumper and a Wrangler-like grille. This Thar also gets Wrangler-styled wing mirrors, custom rock sliders and high stop lamps along with stylish alloy wheels that are shod with 31" mud terrain tyres.
What do you think of this modified Mahindra Thar with six wheels? Isn't this one of the coolest Mahindra Thar modifications ever? Do share your views by penning them down in the comments section below. Stay tuned to CarBlogWorld to read about more such modifications.


How does the BA TESOL Course work?
Weekly Classes - Siam Technology College BA TESOL program's main in class semesters are every week during the months of March, April, and October. Each class during these semester months run for one week, from 9 a.m. until 4 p.m. By the end of that week the class is finished. If you have schedule a class for the following week, you would then go to that one.
Weekend Classes - In addition to weekly classes during the months of March, April, and October, Siam Technology College also has regular weekend courses available in May-September and November-February. These weekend courses are two full days, generally starting on a Saturday and running for 2.5 weekends, e.g. Saturday and Sunday of the first weekend, Saturday and Sunday of the second weekend, finishing on Saturday of the third weekend.
Is the degree internationally recognized?
It most certainly is! The degree will fulfill the requirements to obtain a full work permit in Thailand to work as an English teacher. We also contacted UCLA and Harvard University to enquire whether the Siam BA TESOL degree would be acceptable for admission to graduate school. Both schools confirmed to us that it would be accepted as a legitimate degree.
You will proudly be able to confirm to anybody who asks that you have earned a degree.
If you choose to teach English in other countries you should have no problems. The only exception to this so far is Saudi Arabia, which requires all applicants have a degree attained in their home country.
What is the minimum number of classes I need to take to qualify for an Education Visa?
You need to take a minimum of 15 credits (five classes or some other combination of 15 credits) per semester to qualify for an Education degree.You will be required to show that you have paid for, and are registered in at least five courses for the current semester when you are going to immigration to apply for a visa.
Where is Siam Technology College?
Guys - Collared shirt (tie recommended), slacks, leather shoes, all in good repair. No shorts, sweats, torn jeans, t-shirts, or tennis shoes.
What are the maximum number of classes I am able to take each semester?
The maximum number of credits you allowed to take per semester is 21. Generally each class is worth 3 credits, so by taking 7 of the usual in class face to face classes per semester you will reach 21 credits. If you take the maximum amount of credits each semester than in a given year it is possible to reach 42 credits, making it possible to finish your degree in 3 years.
Our classes are intensive; each class is one semester of course work condensed into a 5 day course. Therefore, if you miss a day, you will lose a letter grade. For example, if your final mark for all completed work is a B+ and you missed one day that week, your final grade will be a C+. More than one day absent results in failing the class and having to retake it at a future time (you will also have to pay for this retake).


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James Denman Middle School wins first place in sustainability competition
Students from Denman Middle School after winning
the Future Trailblazer Challenge at TrailheaDX on May 30.
Life below water, responsible consumption and achieving food security -- these are some of the topics that middle school students from seven San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD) and Oakland Unified School District (OUSD) schools presented at the first-ever Future Trailblazer Challenge, hosted by Salesforce.org, on May 30.
The students were brought on stage at TrailheaDX at the Moscone Center in a Shark Tank-style challenge, where the judges included Salesforce's co-founder Parker Harris and Chief Philanthropy Officer Ebony Frelix Beckwith.
The first-place winning team from Denman Middle School's presentation "Scare Net" focused on protecting life below water. The students presented their idea to have boats with nets on the bottom that scoop trash from the ocean. Students explained that the boats would be able to communicate with each other if one's net was full or if there was an emergency, like if the net got caught on a rock.
Student Brandon McKee added that the nets are decomposable, so if they get stuck or break off of the boat, they would decompose in under four years.
"We chose this as our goal because we went to the Marine Mammal Center and saw all these animals getting tangled in nets and eating trash thinking it was food," student Jasper Brooke said. "We thought that was sad, and we wanted to try to fix it."
Students winners from Denman Middle School.
For winning first place, the four students in Team Denman -- who prepared for the challenge in Ms. Gin's 6th Grade Coding Class -- received laptops and $5,000 for the school to go toward a Makerspace.
The Science, Technology, Math and Engineering (STEM) fields are some of the fastest-growing industries in the workforce today, and preparing students for STEM is a priority of SFUSD. SFUSD is the first large, urban school district in the U.S. to create a comprehensive pre-K to 12 computer science curriculum.
Student participants enjoying their time at TrailheaDX.
The inaugural Future Trailblazer Challenge marked the culmination of a weeks-long coding curriculum to build solutions that address sustainable development goals and solve the area's most pressing challenges.
Throughout the month of May, students gathered daily in the classroom to learn the curriculum and create their vision of a sustainable future using cutting edge technologies like 3D printing.
On May 14, more than 200 students in teams presented their ideas at Salesforce's global HQ in San Francisco and the seven winning teams moved on to the finals on May 30.
Francisco Middle School won the popular vote among conference attendees.
Watch a video of the presentations.


What word, if any, best completes the analogy?
Behavior was unbecoming of all participants in last night's prime-time [Presidential] debate.
Neither candidate appeared presidential, nor did the moderator appear ___.
The US election season will soon include Presidential debates (that might be describable by the sentences above). The English Language and Usage Stack Exchange is also holding an election for community moderators. If candidates in that election were to have a debate, it would not be a Presidential debate but a ____ debate.
Also, "governor" is to "gubernatorial" in the same way as the other pairs in this analogy.
It's moderatorial, but consider the usage note.
It's not a logical pair, but neutral or its synonym impartial fit nicely in your sentence.
Presidential is what you expect from a president, but from the moderator you expect him/her not to take sides.
Why not "moderate"? (I mean the adjective, not the verb.) It doesn't precisely fit the analogy, in the sense that "moderate" does not mean, "like a moderator". On the other hand, it completes the sentence in a very satisfying manner.
Lawrence's suggestion of moderatorial answers the fundamental question, but I'd like to suggest a more general approach: be more specific about the moderator's behavior.
I can gather that moderatorial means like a moderator, but what does that really tell me? What does like a moderator actually mean?
Was the moderator favoring one candidate over the other? Were they jumping in and offering their own opinions? Were they dressed up like a dinosaur? Did they fail to control the crowd? Something else entirely?
In any case, there are more specific words for any of the above. Consider using them instead.
This might not be very satisfying for your original question, but maybe it'll help somebody in a similar situation in the future.
The difficulty in this case is that the word "moderator" describes a person based on what they are doing, whereas the word "president" is used strictly as a role title. You can say "Elena moderated the debate" but you can't say "Elena presidented the country", or even "Elena presided the country".
For these words to be directly comparable, you'd have to be able to change the suffix, '-tor', to a suffix '-ent'. But the words 'moderatent' or 'moderatant' don't exist.
Therefore it is better to use a word that describes a skill, such as adept. In particular, while a moderator is expected to be moderate, impartial or fair, they are also expected to be clear, have insightful questions and keep the debate interesting. In this capacity they act to the debate as an engine regulator would to the combustion cycle: ensuring it is neither too fast nor too slow.
A moderator job is basically to be in control of the debate (the controller if you will). So in that case I think "nor did the moderator appear to be in control." Ultimately I think you should dig deeper to determine what the moderator wasn't doing that they should have been doing and that will uncover what you're really trying to say.
This is the closest I am able to conjure.
Medial: Situated in or pertaining to the middle; median; intermediate.
A moderator and a mediator are two similar forms of facilitator, and both tend to oversee at least two parties. Not to mention, the definition of moderator places it as a synonym to mediator.
Moderator: An arbitrator or mediator.
"Neither candidate appeared Presidential, nor did the moderator appear presidential".
Separate from President with a capital P, "the highest executive officer of a modern republic"
It sounds horrible, but it fits so well.
Neither candidate appeared Presidential, nor did the moderator appear to moderate.
With the candidates we are concerned with their appearance and presentation for a future Presidency, with the moderator we are concerned with their behaviour during the debate. did not appear to moderate , using a verb, speaks to their inaction and lack of control over the debate.
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Compelling accounts of refugee and migrant settlements in Australia - Rebecca Mayol.
A new Swinburne project funded by The Invergowrie Foundation aims to use entrepreneurship as a vehicle for developing an interest in STEM.
Professor Duncan Bentley says good teaching is good teaching — whether it's on-campus or online.
The partnership has seen a number of successful outcomes in the areas of research, education, equity and diversity.
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Announcements and Demos (0:00–7:00) • This is CS50. • 2 new handouts. • Final Project Pre-proposals were due earlier today. If you haven't gotten in touch with your TF about your ideas, please do so ASAP! If you're looking for ideas or a little help with a new topic, check out projects.cs50.net and the CS50 Seminars. • This Friday is the deadline for Problem Set 5's scavenger hunt. A special prize will be awarded to the section that finds all of the TFs on campus! • Be sure to get your hands on some CS50 apparel from the store. A CS50 sweatshirt is the perfect way to brag to your friends and family and to pick up the ladiez and the fellas. • If you're interested in becoming a TF or CA next year1 , apply by following the link on the course's homepage that will be up before long.
Overview of the Internet • In the past few weeks, we also looked at IP, the protocol responsible for the unique addresses assigned to every computer on the internet, as well as TCP, the protocol which ensures reliability by requiring dropped data to be resent. Another protocol called UDP is less reliable than TCP for transmitting messages because it doesn't require dropped data to be resent, but it has its own uses. For example, when watching streaming video, a few dropped frames might not be as important as keeping up with real time. Finally, we talked briefly about routers and switches which enable multiple computers to share the same IP address. All of these terms will be discussed in more depth in Warriors of the Net. • Information is sent between server and client in packets of a fixed size which contain the sender and receiver's IP addresses as well as what type of packet it is. Taking the client to be your home computer in this case, the packet will be sent out on the local area network (LAN) which encompasses all of the computers in your house. Your home router will direct packets toward the next router on the path toward their destination. If the client here were a corporate computer, it might be behind a proxy server which throttles and filters packets (e.g. blocking traffic to Facebook) as well as a firewall (which is generally built in to your home router) that prevents access from outside and leakage from inside. Once the packet reaches the next router, it will be bounced along to router after router (as we saw with traceroute) until it reaches its final destination. At its final destination, it will most likely encounter another firewall which only allows in packets destined for certain ports (e.g. 80 for web traffic and 25 for email). After getting past the firewall, the packet is read by the web server which passes the data to the actual application (e.g. the PHP interpreter) that generates a response. In turn, the response is bundled up into a packet which is transmitted back to the client in much the same way as the request was.
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The Norwayne softball team opened up league play with a 5-1 win at Dalton on Tuesday night. Allison Cherry, Abby Noyes and Kennedy Lonsbury all had 2 hits each for the Bobcats. Baylie Fortune lined a double and scored twice. Kennedy Kay picked up the win with 9 strikeouts in 3 2/3 innings of work.
Norwayne scored 4 runs in the top of the 4th inning to take control of this non-league game at Tuslaw to come away with the 9-1 victory. Wyatt Jarvis, Hunter Muller and Trent McCune led the Bobcats with 2 hits each. Muller picked up a double and 2 RBI's. McCune drove in 3 runs. J.T.
All baseball and softball games are cancelled at Norwayne for Saturday, April 20.


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Vietnamese FDI rises again in July
Foreign investors look at Vietnam's mining sector
Vietnamese PM urges US investment
Vietnam needs more investment
Vietnam urged to change investment policies
Foreign firms air concerns in Vietnam
Vietnam's FDI falls
Foreign direct investment rebounded in July, reaching US$1 billion for the month, the Ministry of Planning and Invest-ment's Foreign Investment Agency announced. The figure almost kept up with the highest monthly level since the beginning of this year, which was US$1.39 billion in March, the agency said.
It also broke the downward trend of FDI disbursement over past few months. Total FDI disbursement hit $6.3 billion for the first seven months, marking a 1.6 per cent decrease over the same period of last year.
This month also witnessed a significant change in new registered investment capital. Only 49 new foreign-invested projects received licences during the month, the lowest in six months but the total registered capital for these projects was up to $3.23 billion.
Meanwhile, 15 existing projects were allowed to increase their capital by $148 million this month. So far this year 147 projects have been approved to add $1.42 of registered capital. The new additions have brought the total FDI registered in the first seven months to $9.05 billion, down 24 per cent on the same period last year, the agency said.
During the period, Hong Kong overtook Singapore to become Viet Nam's largest source of foreign investment with 31 projects worth $2.89 billion.
Singapore ranked second with 54 projects capitalised at $1.41 billion, following by South Korea with 172 projects valued at $797 million and Japan with 119 projects worth $720 million.
The processing and manufacturing sector attracted the largest share of FDI, gobbling up $4.25 billion. Electricity, gas and water production and distribution sector contributed $2.52 billion while the construction industry made up $603 million.
With 21 projects, totally worth $2.49 billion, the northern province of Hai Duong was the country's biggest destination for foreign investors, followed by HCM City with $1.63 billion and southern Ba Ria-Vung Tau Province with $510 million.
The agency also reported foreign-invested firms fetched $27.82 billion from exports in the first seven months of the year, up 34 per cent over the same period last year. The firms also spent $25.4 billion for imports during the period, up 29.5 percent.
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