WELCOME MELISSA FROM MAHLICADESIGNS! MELISSA IS A FELLOW COLORADOAN WITH A GREAT EYE FOR DETAIL AND A LOVELY SENSE OF HUMOR. LET'S SEE HOW SHE INTERPRETED THE COFFEE AND COCKTAILS THEME!
Thank you Elizabeth for having me today for the Day and Night Dress Challenge; Coffee and Cocktails edition. I'm Melissa of mahlicadesigns.
Deciding on my Coffee Date dress was easy. I've been wanting to make another Shoreline Dress after loving the first one I made last summer. The dress is just so right for me in many ways. It's easy to sew, easy to wear, and has a great shape without being too fussy.
The Pattern: Shoreline Boatneck Dress from Blank Slate Patterns in size medium. Instead of shortening the dress for my height, I actually used the longest tunic length to take advantage of the narrower sweep at the hemline and then lengthened the tunic by about 1.5in at the waist.
The Fabric: Seaglass striped rayon/lycra from Boho Fabrics (now sold out). Perhaps I'm not very original, but I loved the striped version I made last year, so I'm sticking with stripes again. I chose the rayon to see how the drape would look compared to my cotton/lycra version.
I'm totally pleased with my Coffee Date dress. Now, who's up for a meetup to chit-chat about sewing?
Deciding on my cocktail dress was a struggle. I worried that my choice wouldn't be worthy of the fancy description I imagine when I think cocktail party and yet still work for my unfancy life.
After hemming and hawing, I finally just moved forward with making M7628, a pattern I'd been wanting to try for some time. I choose a Jade ponte from Stylish Fabrics to make it up. The Jade looked so rich and luxurious, that I just had to have it for my cocktail dress.
I was drawn to the pattern by the short raglan sleeves, the set in waistline, and the deep V in the back. After completing the dress though, I feel like I have a mullet dress. Fun party dress in the back and a vintagey office look in the front.
The Pattern: McCalls 7628 in size 12. I had to take in the bodice at the side seams significantly to get rid of the boxiness and help with the gaping underarm. In the end, I believe I have a size 8 bodice grading out to size 12 at the hips. I also needed to pinch out some extra fabric at the back sleeve seam to remove some gaping at the back.
The Fabric: Jade ponte from Stylish Fabrics*. The fabric is wonderful and I love sewing with ponte. Ponte is easy to sew with, is stable enough to work for a lot of projects, and has enough stretch to make those projects comfy to wear.
Overall, I just don't know what to think of my cocktail dress. I love the back, but I have no idea how to make the front more party worthy.
Have you ever made a mullet project? What did you do to even out the split personality?
*Many thanks to Stylish Fabrics for providing the Jade ponte for my cocktail dress.
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OUR NEW VOCABULARY
Even Orwell and Huxley would have a hard time understanding the vocabulary of this political season. 1984 is history and, in this brave new world - on the other side of some cosmic looking glass - it's hard to tell a mad hatter from a queen of hearts without a dictionary. So, with apologies to William Safire and Crispin Miller, here's my effort to meet that need.
Abu Ghraib. An evening of "Animal House" pranks carried out independently by a fun-loving gaggle of young soldiers and contractors. Not to be confused with or connected to similar goings-on at Bagram or Guantanamo.
Axis of Evil. Three bad countries, one of which did not possess WMD. Has spawned follow-on flippancies like "Honey, I think we attacked the wrong country."
Bush Hater. Anyone who disagrees with the President's policies. Someone with clear vision and capable of critical thinking.
Coalition of the Willing. That motley collection of mini-states (Sorry, Tony Blair.) like Micronesia who've lent us their names and flags for the duration. Unfortunately Spain and the Philippines are no longer willing. Their loss, however, has been more than compensated for by the continued growth of a private army of 20,000 of civilian "contractors" willing to do anything for a buck.
Cat Stevens. A dangerous alien and potential terrorist, who, according to Homeland Security spokesman Dennis Murphy, was "denied admission to the United States on national security grounds." Formerly Stephen Georgiou and now Yusuf Islam, Stevens has heretofore craftily hidden his terrorist-related work as an agent of "Fear Itself" behind a lifetime of peace activism.
Conflation. The lumping together of disparate unconnected parts to form a useful albeit intellectually unsustainable whole. Examples? Repeated use of "Iraq," "Al Qaeda," and "September 11" in the same sentence or statements like "All terrorists are the same."
Cross-dresser. Someone who regularly dons the clothes of someone he/she is not. Witness President Bush who has been caught cavorting in the uniform of a combat pilot on an aircraft carrier, wielding a chainsaw in blue jeans and cowboy boots, and falling off mountain bikes in Lance Armstrong look-alike lycra.
Dyslexia. A medical condition which causes one to see things backwards or sometimes, as in the case of President Bush, upside down.
Environmental Protection. Under this President's EPA, an oxymoron.
Fear Itself. A phrase first used by Franklin D. Roosevelt to buck up fearful Americans in a time of crisis…as in "We have nothing to fear but fear itself." As currently used by Karl Rove and his team, a phrase meant to instill fear among Americans in the "Land of the Brave," lest they make the "wrong choice" in November. Can also be used as a noun inter-changeable with, for example, Osama bin Laden, the Golem, and "Come Halloween, beware the 'Orange Alert!'"
Fiscal Conservative. A Republican species, once native to the Midwest, now extinct, having been killed by the tax cutting axe and buried under a record deficit.
Flip Flop. Formerly a noun used to describe ultra-casual footware. Now used as a verb to characterize the actions of someone smart enough to change his/her opinion in the face of overwhelming evidence that one's previously held opinion is no longer intellectually tenable. Antonym: To show steadfast resolve despite data that does not compute, a trait often interpreted as "leadership" when applied to our current commander-in-chief.
Get Over It! Shut up! We were duly appointed. We're running the show. We'll do whatever we want.
Iraq. Arabic for Vietnam (cf. quagmire). There are, of course, differences which detract from such a comparison. For example, South Vietnam had a government, army, and police force in place when we arrived, the Viet Cong never held any major cities to use as in-country sanctuaries, and Tet was a 48-hour spasm not an on-going daily event. Perhaps with such dissimilarities in mind, Karen Hughes, prefers to see Iraq as the "ultimate expression of compassionate conservatism," bringing, as Newsweek reports, freedom to a benighted land.
Journalism. A once proud profession now on the verge of extinction in the United States.
Manichean. A heretical tendency to see the world in black and white, good and evil. To be shunned by those who profess to be Christians.
Old Europe. A group of substantial, cultured, democratic, economically dynamic countries that stood beside us for half a century as friends and allies.
Pre-Emption. A euphemism for an un-American concept of striking first (cf. aggressive war, illegal war).
Responsibility. A character trait seldom found in today's Washington. Who me? WMD? Abu Ghraib?
Screed. A reasoned critique produced by someone who refuses to get over it.
Security Moms. Former soccer moms scared witless by Vice President Cheney who has convinced half of America that "Fear Itself" is at hand.
Stop Loss. Draft. Stop gap measure to see us through November 2.
Support Our Troops. Commendable patriotic sentiment usually displayed by large flags and yellow ribbons on yellow humvees driven by patriots whose priorities have kept them from volunteering or necessitated their checking the "Decline deployment to Iraq" box on their service preference cards.
Swift Boat Veterans for Truth. A typically-Texan oxymoron
Tax Cut. A tool useful in any electoral situation despite the real-world situation. Used liberally by conservatives, especially in wartime and times of fiscal crisis. Has replaced discredited notions like "Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country." Synonym: Generational warfare.
Turning the Corner. Going around in circles on the economy. No longer used by President Bush, since he learned that it was last used by Herbert Hoover in 1932.
Twisting in the Wind. Adjectival phrase used by President Bush to describe Senator Kerry. Used by others to describe American policy in Iraq.
Vietnam. A proper noun. A country not a war where a war that ended thirty years ago is being re-fought by those who can't get over it and who, in their blinding pain, are being used to detract attention from an even worse on-going war in Iraq. They and their Texas handlers would have you believe that it is Vietnam, not Iraq that is the central issue of election 2004.
War on Terror. Useful conflation. Produces security moms and obviates need to distinguish among myriad forms of terrorism – a tactic not an enemy – or to examine causes. Just kill 'em all!
Whining. Symptom of a failure to get over it.
OH, WHAT A STATE WE'RE IN!
Has it really been a month? Well, Salsa (my very mellow Benji look-alike) and I are back in California after a pleasant time in Oregon and Washington where we enjoyed the sunny mountains and cooling coastal fog. It's time to catch up on what's happening in the Golden State and our little corner of the Bay. A lot's been going on. Here's but a small sample for a hot weekend.
Talk About Traffic Jams!
Just last November Bay Area voters approved increasing area bridge tolls from $2 to $3. Solano voters, who have to pay two bridge tolls to drive to The City, voted "No." Be that as it may, we were all assured that a "Yes" vote would mean more money for local transportation improvements, including a new Vallejo ferry, the Vallejo Transit Center, and I-80 improvements in Solano.
But this summer we learned about an unbelievable $3.2 billion – yes, billion - cost overrun on Bay Area bridges generated by a terminally incompetent Caltrans and that hardy band of aestheticians in Oakland and San Francisco. Not only will all the money generated by the just approved toll hike be shoveled into the Caltrans sink hole, but, the Governator and his Southern California allies insist, Bay Area drivers will have to cough up another dollar per bridge crossing. That's $16 for each roundtrip to The City for Vallejoans. And, poof, the promised monies for local Vallejo transportation improvements are up in the Governator's cigar smoke.
Not content with even these outrages, we're now asked to go back to the well again to approve the half-cent Solano sales tax we turned down two years ago to pay for transportation "improvements" we thought were already paid for. And these guys really know how to rub salt in fresh wounds. Putting this Measure A on the ballot had to be approved by the county's cities. No problem, not in Vallejo. Unanimous! Go for it! Stick it to us again.
And then there's that road builders' friend, the Solano Transportation Authority (STIA), sending out multi-colored, glossy, four-page brochures at taxpayer expense urging us to vote for its Measure A. STIA says the brochures are "informational" and don't call explicitly for a "Yes" vote, and the eunuchs in the Fair Political Practices Commission agree. How dumb do they think we are? What does the Solano Grand Jury do?
What can you do? Join County Supervisor Barbara Kondylis and vote No on A.
Las Vegas on the Bay
The Governator's plan for balancing the state budget? Blanket the East Bay with Vegas-sized casinos and rake in a quarter of the take. The biggest such outrage is, of course, the monster casino Ahnuld would shove down our throats in San Pablo…astride our I-80 commute route…thus ensuring that Vallejoans' commutes will not only be more costly but more infuriatingly slow.
Then, there's Richmond's Point Molate, which had been scheduled to be a regional park. Just last week the Richmond City Council voted unanimously in the face of heated opposition to sell Point Molate to Emeryville's Upstream Development which would build a casino complex "recreat[ing] turn-of-the century San Francisco … Ghiradelli Square times ten." This Disneyland North, which would be accessible by ferry to other parts of the Bay Area (Marin?), would be operated by Harrah's ostensibly on behalf of the Guidiville Band of Pomo Indians. Strangely enough, the project is being opposed by Chevron which insists that the city must first offer to sell the land to a public agency for a park. It has obtained a temporary restraining order.
Here it gets even murkier…and more infuriating. Remember how Ahnuld made an issue during the recall campaign of Indian gaming contributions. Well, just after that election, as reported in the T-H, gambling king-pins Gavin and Joe Maloof organized a $1 million fund-raiser for the governator. And, - Surprise! - in mid-August, the Maloofs emerged as key players in the San Pablo venture…the same week Ahnuld announced his support for 5,000 slots in that tiny town. Now Ahnuld, using money funneled from the Maloof fund-raiser, is actively opposing Propositions 68 and 70 which would wildly expand gambling throughout the state. Why? Because he's anti-gambling? No, because they would undermine the Maloof's plans for San Pablo. If approved the San Pablo deal would allow the Maloof's to skim 20 percent of the profits from an operation projected to take in $540 million a year. Not a bad return on a $1 million investment.
What's an honest citizen to do? Vote "No" on 68 and 70. Then find other ways to express your outrage at what's going down in Contra Costa and to ensure that it doesn't happen in Solano. You might start by supporting Solano County Supervisor Duane Kromm (Fairfield) who's fighting to keep a casino out of Suisun Valley and asking Supervisors Barbara Kondylis (Vallejo) and John Silva (Benicia) where they stand on casinos in Solano.
And, above all, don't feel guilty about the Indians, at least on this issue. There are more dignified, honest ways to right the wrongs visited upon them by the United States government. This is not about helping the Indians. It's about helping the Maloofs of the world.
What's Good for Chevron, Is Good for California
Remember that old saw from the "I Like Ike" era "What's good for General Motors is good for the USA?" Well, Ahnuld's cribbed shamelessly from the concept, "re-inventing" California government to fit the needs of ChevronTexaco.
As AP has reported, he larded his California Performance Review board with a bevy of corporate lobbyists, chief among them a team from Chevron that "enjoyed immense success in influencing the report" of the board. The operative word in all such rip-offs is "streamlining." Included among the stuff being "streamlined" are the permit process for construction and expansion of refineries, the environmental oversight of San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission, and the regulatory process for siting new refineries, tank farms, and – Get this! – LNG facilities.
How much did Chevron have to pay for these goodies? A mere pittance for this giant which reaped windfall profits in the wake of the Iraq war - $200,000 to the Governator's committees, $500,000 to the state GOP, and another $100,000 to a Schwarzenegger-controlled political fund three weeks after the release of the report. Isn't there a section of the law that covers quid pro quos? Anybody out there good at connecting dots?
Mr. Schwarzenegger Goes to New York
So Ahnuld goes to New York, dusts off his oafish "girlie men" act, mangles the facts of Austrian history, and wows a crowd of Republicans and an ever-credulous national press corps now ready to amend the Constitution to prepare the path to the presidency for a third-rate actor. Oh, if they only knew his record of incompetence in California. That joke he cracked about being as good a politician as he is an actor is unfortunately all too true and – at least to Californians – no laughing matter
Neither is the fact that Chevron was one of some 20 companies that paid for the trip to New York for Ahnuld and his retinue. Quid pro quos? How about the closed door meeting last Wednesday at which Chevron executives and other corporate big wigs enjoyed Ahnuld's undivided attention?
What's Up with George Miller?
George Miller is an otherwise progressive representative in Congress for whom I urge you to vote. One has to wonder, however, why he supports that casino in San Pablo and the up-county commuter relief act otherwise known as Measure A. I look forward to his defining what a "modest" casino is, spelling out his "concerns about the new compact," and explaining to Vallejo voters how we got into our Bay Area-wide traffic jam and why they should subsidize the descent of more commuters to and through our town.
Earth to Wal-Mars: "Go Away!!!"
One has to wonder how much money Wal-Mart will toss about to ensure approval of its plans to pave over Contra Costa and Solano with big boxes and even bigger parking lots.
In Solano, they started by waving their big bucks in front of the city council of a tiny village of 12,000 – American Canyon. Talk about David and Goliath. But they misjudged. The citizens of American Canyon may be few in number, but they are smart, smarter than their city council, and, now, energized. That abortive Am Can Planning Commission meeting last week was indicative of the growing opposition to this ill-conceived project.
The Planning Commission meeting has been rescheduled for Thursday, September 9. I hope the place will be packed with Am Can residents and, yes, "outsiders" like Vallejoans concerned about the effect of the proposed big box on our traffic, wages, and business viability. Wal-Mart and its few supporters would have you believe that the only legitimate "outsiders" are the beneficent blue suits from Bentonville and that the only discussable issue at this point is the design of their monstrosity. Not so! It may come as a surprise to the Wal-Mart execs and the Am Can council, but votes can be changed and council members can be replaced. The only laws written in stone are the ones carried down a mountainside by Moses.
In the midst of all this, there is still humor to be found. Witness, Tony Nijem's letter to the T-H on Saturday. Tony waxes poetic about building a "central local gathering place," a "downtown" consisting of "a three-story hotel…a "beautiful 'town green' – and, of course, the Wal-Mart Supercenter." What a vision! What's the hotel for? The tourists who will flock to gaze in awe at the Supercenter? The "town green?" Would that be the Wal-Mart parking lot where kids can gather after hours…for God knows what? Emmanuel D'Herrera, leader of the opposition to Wal-Mart's plans for a Supercenter on the edge of Teotihuacan's Temple of the Moon in suburban Mexico City, has an idea what they might use it for. Mexican "teenagers," he reports, "want to go skateboarding in the parking lot, like in the United States." Ah, that American Way of Life Wal-Mart so ably represents overseas. It's enough to make one teary-eyed
You've Gotta Read the Small Print
Fortunately for us Joyce Scharf does. She spotted that August 20 notice in the T-H classifieds "City of Vallejo Notice of Public Scoping Session and Notice of Preparation (To Prepare an EIR)." Huh? The notice concerns a Planning Commission meeting at 7:00 p.m., Monday, September 20 application number SPL04-0001 on behalf of the City of Vallejo and Triad Communities, Inc. The purpose of said meeting is to "obtain public comments on the scope of study for preparing an Environmental Impact Report (EIR)" on the downtown area bounded by Capitol Street, Sonoma Boulevard, Napa Street, Curtola Parkway, Santa Clara Street and Mare Island Way and, in particular, Triad's plans for multi-story mixed use building on Virginia Street.
While Marina Towers sits smack dab in the middle of this area, I doubt that its many residents will have been individually notified of this meeting. I hope that they and all of you will read the appropriate documents at the Planning Division in City Hall and attend this important meeting.

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Too Hard On The Knicks??
There are some of my readers who think that I am, perhaps, a bit too hard on the Knicks. Well, with last night's loss to the Warriors the Knicks now have the worst start in franchise history. That is right, never in the history of the Knicks have they started out 1 and 9. Oh, and did I tell you that the Jazz will get the Knicks 2010 first round draft pick? Think about that, Isiah and company gave up the Knicks 2010 first round draft pick, among other things, for a guy who isn't even playing in the NBA anymore; the self-proclaimed "best point guard in the game," Mr. Starbury.
A small consolation is that Isiah Thomas is already getting booed at FIU and there were chants of "Fire Isiah!" after they lost their opener to Monmouth 99 to 70.
"I'm telling you what it is: I know I'm the best point guard in the NBA. I don't need anybody else to tell me that."
"Don't get me wrong -- I love Jason Kidd. He's a great point guard," Marbury said. "(But) how am I comparing myself to him when I think I'm the best point guard to play basketball? That doesn't make any sense. I mean, how can I sit here and compare myself to somebody if I already think I'm the best?"
Oh yeah, he made those comments in January, 2005 - that year the Knicks went 33 and 49. Still, that was better than the next year when they were an incredible 23 and 59. Imagine that, and with the best point guard in the game on the team. Oh, yeah, and after improving to a merely miserable 33 - 49 season we managed to have the same 23 and 59 record the next season. And all with the same self-proclaimed best point guard to play basketball.
Did I tell you that those two 23 - 59 seasons were the worst two seasons in Knick's history? At least up until this year.
Okay, I am over it now, really, I am.
According to Rex Ryan, head coach of the Jets, the fans need to wake up and cheer louder to help their team win. That's right, we need to be prideful because this the fan's football team. The fact that they are 1 and 4 over their last 5 games should have nothing to do with a certain lack of enthusiasm. Personal seating licenses and the promise of higher ticket prices should have nothing to do with fan loyalty.
Anyway, I decided to submit a Letter to the Editor of the New York Daily News which published several articles and a back page headline about Ryan's ravings. I thought I would share it with you.
Jets coach Ryan says fans must wake up in order to save the Jets season? Give me a break. I have been going to Jets games and cheering them on since back when they played at Shea Stadium. We had a regular tailgate group that went to all the games. Then the Jets limited the parking so our group could no longer tailgate together. Then they wanted to hit me with a $15,000 a seat PSL fee and said they would raise my ticket prices from $80 a game to $140 a game. Guess what, I no longer go to Jets games and am no longer a die-hard fan.
Funny how Jets management wants you to cheer the team when what you really want to do is scream in frustration, not only at their poor play, but also at their poor management decisions and total disregard for their fans. This is one fan who did wake up.
And don't even get me started on the Knicks. I used to have season tickets for them as well. Don't get me wrong, I don't abandon a team just because they have a bad year or two. But when teams seem to have a total disregard for their fans ($15,000 for the right to buy tickets) or their management seems to be totally imcompetent (the Jazz will get the Knicks first round draft pick this year, thank you Isiah, we really needed Starbury) then I will walk away.
Ah, it is a chilly, overcast, damp day so a good rant kind of heats up the blood. If the letter actually gets published, unlikely, I will be sure to let you know.
Monday, it being a nice sunny and fairly warm day, the Mysterious Chinese Woman and I decided to do somthing a little bit different. We went to the Chinatown in Queens. Usually we go to the one in Manhattan that we can walk to, if we are feeling ambitious. To get to the one in Queens is a bit more of a trip involving a couple of subways. First a train to Grand Central, then a switch to the train out to Flushing, Queens.
We were a bit disappointed, this being the first time either of us had been there. It is, supposedly, bigger than the one in Manhattan, but it is not nearly as picturesque. Much more of a commercial looking area with a heavy Asian influence. I guess that is because it is newer and doesn't have all of the neat little nooks and crannies like the older one in Manhattan.
Anyway, we didn't stay too long, just took a little walk around and stopped at kind of a neat place for lunch.
There is nothing very fancy about Chao Zhou Restaurant, kind of a cafeteria look to it. But it was doing a nice little business and, always a plus, almost everyone in there was Chinese. It looked like a place where a lot of the people who worked in the area stopped for lunch.
The prices were very reasonable, a lot of $5 lunch specials, things like bitter melon over rice with your choice of beef, chicken, shrimp or sliced pork and garlic leaf with preserved meat over rice. Things that the Mysterious Chinese Woman said were typical peasant food. They also had the usual stuff like sweet and sour pork and quite a few fried noodle and rice noodle dishes.
The Mysterious Chinese Woman had a healthy looking bowl of noodles with vegetables of some kind.
Needless to say, my attention was caught by a less healthy choice. I mean, How can you pass up a plate of pork parts that includes ears, snout, tongue, and intestines.
You know you ordered good when the waitress asks you if you are sure and then gives a glance at the Mysterious Chinese Woman to see if it really is okay.
I was thinking maybe I would get kind of a pork parts stew, but this was more like cold cuts. In fact I often get the ears like they serve here when I go to an Asian market in New Jersey. The ears from the market are prepared with a chili paste, though, so they are much hotter. They make for a nice chewy snack and go good with beer.
The pork parts were served with several slices of pickled carrots and some kind of a large white vegetable, a chinese radish, I think, also sliced and pickled. They were quite good and really went well with the pork parts. They did cover up the dish a bit, so here is a bit of better shot.
If you are a bit adventurous I would certainly recommend a visit to Chao Zhou. You could also order those pork parts sauteed with ginger and scallions. Or you could try the sauteed pig heart with peppers in a black bean sauce or, perhaps, the pig intestine with preserved vegetables in a noodle soup. And how could you not want to stop in for one of their breakfast specials, pork and jelly fish congee, only $3.95.
Actually, except for the congee, kind of a rice porridge, I like most of this stuff. If this place wasn't so far away I would go back fairly often. I will have to check for a place in Manhattan that serves similar fare. I am sure there are a few.
Every once in awhile, because Bar Man is, after all, considered quite the trend setter, I will receive word, or even a free sample, of a product so that I can pass along my comments about it. Needless to say, people hang on my words like they would hang on to, oh, a hot poker.
Anyway, the other day I received three bottles of Original Sin Pear Cider from someone representing Original Sin asking me my opinion. I have had the Original Sin Apple Cider before, and quite like it. The Pear Cider is something new that they are introducing.
I was going to share these with my brother-in-law, Jim, but he couldn't make it over. I had no alternative but to drink them all myself, before they went bad. I should have at least saved one for the Mysterious Chinese Woman. Bad Bar Man. But, I drank one, then another, and then I said "The hell with it," and drank the last one.
The Pear Cider was quite good. Not overly sweet and without an over-powering pear flavor. I have had pear ciders that were just too cloying to be enjoyed. I found the Original Sin to be quite refreshing. It would be great on a picnic on a warm spring day or at a tailgate party on a warm fall afternoon. Or out fishing on a hot summer day. Hell, it would be okay in an ice-house during the middle of winter, although I would probably prefer peppermint schnapps in the ice-house.
Now, I can't see myself Original Sin Pear Cider on a regular basis, and I sure wouldn't belly up to a bar and order one. Although I have a friend of mine, a bartender, who drinks nothing but hard apple cider. His local watering hole always keeps it on draft, mostly for him. But, I digress.
Anyway, I could see myself buying a six-pack of this every once in awhile. And I bet it would be good mixed with a sparkling wine. At only 4.5% alcohol it could stand to have a bit more of a bite, though. I suspect the primary market for this will be women.
Today is Sunday and I have decided to devote Sundays to my posting about, well, about things that bug me, perplex me, or otherwise interest me.
First off, for weeks there has been this controversy about offering Swine Flu vaccine to prisoners, both domestic and at military prisons such as Guantanamo Bay, while ordinary United States citizens cannot get their vaccine. A lot of baloney, if you ask me. Clinics in New York were prepared to vaccinate up to 4,500 people per day at each of seven different clinics. That would be a total of 31,500 people who could have been vaccinated. A total of 1,700 people showed up. Just who are these people who want to be vaccinated but cannot be due to a shortage caused by vaccinating prisoners? Oh, by the way, no prisoners have actually been vaccinated yet. A weeks worth of "news" coverage on a total non-issue, if you ask me.
Here is something else I found interesting and may explain why there are so many illegal and non-union workers in the building trades. Federal law requires that workers on stimulus-funded projects receive so-called prevailing wages, roughly equivalent to union pay. In New York that would be about $50 an hour for someone doing interior demolition. Now, and maybe I am out of touch, it seems as though $50 an hour is a tad high, and certainly explains why someone would be motivated to seek out cheaper labor.
Oh, they passed a health bill in the House last night. That is all well and good, I guess. The problem is that I turn 65 on December 4th and this bill seems to affect a lot of the Medicare and Drug supplement plans I have also applied for. Not that anyone could possible understand the bill, but it seems to cut Medicare Advantage programs and eliminates the donut hole in Medicare prescription drug coverage. Seeing as how I have applied for a Medicare Advantage Plan and a Medicare Prescription Drug Plan, what should I do now. It isn't like you can wait and see how it all shakes out. You have a limited time each year within which to make your decisions about these things. By the way, Medicare Advantage Plans are reasonable, but not cheap. I pay a bit over $100 month for Medicare Coverage and about another $300 a month for my Medicare Advantage Plan. Not complaining, but I do wonder how this new health bill, however it turns out, will affect all of this.
And the price of a Nathan's Hot Dog at Coney Island has now gone up to $3.15. One of the problems? Higher feed costs have driven up the price of beef. Let's hear it for ethanol. Food for fuel, what a concept. This is also affecting, among other things, the price of tequila as more and more agave fields are being converted to growing corn due to higher corn prices.
The New York Daily News sportswriter Frank Isola said in today's paper "The Knicks shattered the NBA record last night for the fastest team to hit rock bottom." And here I thought they had done that a couple of years ago. But only 234 more days until LeBron becomes a free agent.
Finally, don't you just love the commercial with the woman with the small children complaining about how the tax on beverages such as fruit drinks (not fruit juice) and sodas will break the family budget. I don't know about you, but I just want to shake that lady and say "Just give the kids a glass of water when they are thirsty. Water from the tap. It is free. It is better for them."
Well, there you go. My weekly rant. I feel much better now. I am sure that will change though, especially when I start getting hate mail from union members and mothers with fat kids.


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Francisca Aparicio Mérida (Ciudad de Guatemala, 2 de julio de 1858-Berna, 30 de enero de 1943) fue la esposa de Justo Rufino Barrios y primera dama de Guatemala durante su mandato, tras la muerte de Barrios en la batalla de Chalchuapa, se casó con José Martínez de Roda, en Nueva York, siendo Marquesa de Vistabella, trasladándose a Suiza hasta su muerte.

Biografía

Francisca Aparicio nació en Guatemala, hija de Juan José Aparicio y Limón, y Francisca Mérida Estrada. Estudió en el Colegio Belén, con las monjas ursulinas.

Matrimonio con Barrios y terremoto de 1874

Se casó con Justo Rufino Barrios —entonces presidente de Guatemala— el 24 de julio de 1874.  En agosto se iniciaron movimientos sísmicos en el área de Chimaltenango, pero nadie les puso atención pues la población estaba acostumbrada a que temblara con cierta frecuencia; es más, no impidieron que se celebrara una gran gala en honor al enlace matrimonial del presidente Barrios con su joven esposa.

Pero el 3 de septiembre de 1874 hubo un devastador terremoto que no solamente destruyó completamente el pueblo de Parramos,
 sino que bandas de forajidos armados con cuchillos y otras armas punzocortantes intentaron asaltar a los damnificados y robarles lo poco que les quedaba; afortunadamente, las bandas fueron capturadas por la policía del gobierno del general Justo Rufino Barrios y ejecutadas sumariamente.

Con el presidente Barrios procreó a Elena, María de la Luz, José Ignacio, María Josefa, Carlos, Rufino y Francisca.

Tras la muerte de Barrios

En 1885, a la muerte del Presidente Barrios, se radicó en Estados Unidos y, después, en España, donde el Ministro Liberal Antonio Cánovas del Castillo la presentó a la nobleza española.  Heredó una considerable fortuna, producto de ser la heredera universal de Justo Rufino Barrios, quien la acumuló durante los años que sirvió como presidente de Guatemala.

En su segunda boda, celebrada en Nueva York, en 1892, se casó a José Martínez de Roda, Marqués de Vistabella. Al no haber tenido descendencia, el marquesado pasó a los hijos que había procreado con Barrios.

Tras la muerte de Barrios, su familia abandonó el país casi inmediatamente tras los funerales y se marchó hacia Nueva York, donde residía parte de los Aparicio, quienes se dedicaban a la exportación de café desde Guatemala. Francisca Aparicio se instaló con sus hijos en una hermosa casa ubicada en la 5.a avenida número 855, frente al Parque Central de Nueva York; habiendo heredado más de 30 millones de pesos tras la muerte de Barrios, ofrecía bailes de sociedad que fueron siempre un acontecimiento y en los que ella se presentaba lujosamente vestida acompañada de sus hijas y de las señoritas Aparicio. Los salones estaban adornados con plantas raras, en un escenario decorado por un tramoyista de la Metropolitan Opera House. Esa misma orquesta amenizaba las fiestas en donde se servían cenas suculentas.

Los Barrios y Aparicio se trasladaron a España, en donde el ministro liberal Antonio Cánovas del Castillo fue su enlace con la nobleza española. En 1892, Francisca, que ya tenía 34 años, celebró sus segundas nupcias, en Nueva York, con José Martínez de Roda, Marqués de Vistabella y quien representaba a Granada en la cámara de diputados.

Sus hijos varones José Ignacio y Carlos estudiaron en el colegio de Jesuitas, pero fallecieron antes de cumplir los 20 años, por diversas causas. Francisca Aparicio volvió a enviudar y falleció en 1943, mientras que su hija mayor y compañera inseparable -Elena Barrios y Aparicio, III marquesa de Vistabella- falleció al año siguiente.

Notas y referencias

Referencias

Bibliografía

Enlaces externos

Primeras damas de Guatemala
Familia Barrios
Justo Rufino Barrios

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North America's oldest orangutan born in zoo dies in Seattle
The Seattle zoo says North America's oldest orangutan born in a zoo has died after struggling with respiratory problems
North America's oldest orangutan born in zoo dies in Seattle The Seattle zoo says North America's oldest orangutan born in a zoo has died after struggling with respiratory problems Check out this story on detroitnews.com: http://detne.ws/1MpVrdL
AP Published 12:57 p.m. ET March 25, 2016
This 2006 photo provided by the Woodland Park Zoo shows a orangutan named Towan at Seattle's Woodland Park Zoo. Towan, 48 years, died March 24, 2016, during a veterinary examination. He had been taking medication for respiratory issues, which zoo officials say hadn't improved his condition.(Photo: Ryan Hawk / AP)
Seattle — The Seattle zoo says North America's oldest orangutan born in a zoo has died after struggling with respiratory problems.
The 48-year-old primate named Towan died during a veterinary examination Thursday. Zoo officials say he had been taking medication that hadn't improved his condition.
The birth of Towan and his twin sister, Chinta, at Seattle's Woodland Park Zoo in 1968 received widespread attention because they were the first twin orangutans born in captivity.
Zoo officials described the 257-pound primate as an accomplished artist. He used paint pens and colored chalks to make art, which sold for up to $1,000.
A statement by the zoo's mammal curator, Martin Ramirez, says Towan's death is a "deep loss for our zoo family and those who came to love and admire him as we have."
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Nampa man sentenced in Idaho child pornography case. Images were on social media, phone
By: Idaho Statesman
This article was originally published by Jacob Scholl in the Idaho Statesman.
A Nampa man will spend the next several years in prison after he was sentenced Thursday for possessing child pornography.
Cameron Benjamin, 22, will spend a little over eight years — 97 months — in a federal prison after pleading guilty to one charge of possession of child pornography on Aug. 17. Benjamin also will serve 15 years of supervised release once his prison sentence is completed, according to a news release from the Idaho U.S. Attorney's Office.
He must pay $6,000 in restitution to the victims involved and pay a $5,100 special assessment. Benjamin will be required to register as a sex offender.
Benjamin was arrested in February after being under investigation for several months by state authorities. Members of the Idaho Attorney General's Internet Crimes Against Children task force started investigating in December 2019 after receiving tips that an account on Twitter had uploaded child porn to five accounts.
Investigators later found that the accounts belonged to Benjamin, and after obtaining a search warrant, they found roughly 70 images of sexually exploitative material on the accounts. Police later searched Benjamin's Nampa home, where they found more images on his cellphone.
Charges were brought forward with the help of the Nampa Police Department and the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, the release said.
If you or someone you know has information regarding the sexual exploitation of children, contact local police, the Attorney General's ICAC unit at 208-947-8700, or the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children at 1-800-843-5678.


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Q: Could pycuda and tensorflow work together? once tensorflow be active. it will make every cuda code crash even I use sess.close()...
the error msg is:

pycuda._driver.LogicError: cuFuncSetBlockShape failed: invalid
  resource handle

The following code it a simple example cuda code run by pycuda:
Once I add sess = tf.Session(). My cuda code crash. It work fine without sess = tf.Session().
import tensorflow as tf
import pycuda.autoinit
import pycuda.driver as drv
import numpy
from pycuda.compiler import SourceModule
mod = SourceModule("""
__global__ void multiply_them(float *dest, float *a, float *b)
{
  const int i = threadIdx.x;
  dest[i] = a[i] * b[i];
}
""")

## tensorflow will make any other cuda code crash............
sess = tf.Session()
sess.close()
## tensorflow will make any other cuda code crash............

multiply_them = mod.get_function("multiply_them")
a = numpy.random.randn(400).astype(numpy.float32)
b = numpy.random.randn(400).astype(numpy.float32)
dest = numpy.zeros_like(a)
multiply_them(drv.Out(dest), drv.In(a), drv.In(b), block=(400,1,1), grid=(1,1))
print (dest-a*b)
print("finish")

Any suggestion? Thanks~~~

A: I suspect same problem as here: Could pycuda and scikit-cuda work together?
Short answer: Do not use import pycuda.autoinit; this creates a new CUDA context that you would ave to manage (push and pop) manually.
Instead, use import pycuda.autoprimaryctx to retain the already existing primary CUDA context that most other CUDA applications use automatically.

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Q: Check to see if cell contains 2 spaces directly after each other Is there a way that I can check to see if my cell contains 2 spaces immediately after one another?
For example if my cell contained "The cat went meow" then my formula below will return "No" because there is only one space between each character. However, if there where 2 spaces like
"The cat  went meow"

then the formula would return "Yes".
I have tried the following formula but it picks up all the spaces instead of what I want it to do.
Can someone please show me how i could correct this?
=IF(ISNUMBER(SEARCH(" " & " ",B1)),"Yes","no")

A: Might be worth considering TRIM():
=LEN(B1)=LEN(TRIM(B1))

Test cases:
"The cat went meow"    TRUE    (single space)
"The cat  went meow"   FALSE   (double space)
" The cat went meow"   FALSE   (leading space)
"The cat went meow "   FALSE   (trailing space)

this works for your example, if allowance is made for returning T/F rather than Y/N (to keep the formula short - Y/N could be arranged).
A better (shorter) version was offered by @Rick Hitchcock (to whom thanks) in a Comment:
=B1=TRIM(B1)

However it would return FALSE not only for "double" spaces but any quantity of spaces that are not on their own (immediately next to characters on both sides)
and
it would return FALSE even for single spaces if at the start and/or end of your string.
So this is not exactly what you asked for, and no more, but in practice seems likely to be more useful in general.

A: Your code works for me as-is.  You could simplify it like this:
=IF(ISNUMBER(SEARCH("  ",B1)),"Yes","no")

To avoid error-checking, you could compare the string to a version with double-spaces converted to spaces, like this:
=IF(SUBSTITUTE(B1,"  "," ")<>B1,"Yes","no")

But I'm unsure what problem you're having with your existing code.

A: Try this
    =IF(ISERROR(FIND("  ",B1,1)),"No","Yes")

or
    =IF(ISERROR(SEARCH("  ",B1,1)),"No","Yes")


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Date of Web Publication 22-Jan-2018
Keywords: Compartment syndrome, floating knee, ipsilateral, long bones, multiple fractures
Agu TC. A case report of ipsilateral multiple long bone fractures with a floating knee complicated by compartment syndrome: A single-theater session, a panacea for early mobilization and rehabilitation. Niger J Gen Pract 2018;16:32-5
Agu TC. A case report of ipsilateral multiple long bone fractures with a floating knee complicated by compartment syndrome: A single-theater session, a panacea for early mobilization and rehabilitation. Niger J Gen Pract [serial online] 2018 [cited 2023 Jan 31];16:32-5. Available from: https://www.njgp.org/text.asp?2018/16/1/32/223811
Fall from height at home or workplace resulting in multiple long bones fractures is second to traffic accidents as cause of trauma-related burden of disease.[1] Any body system can be injured, and the dense bones are often fractured depending on the part that hits the ground and the forces acting during the fracturing moment. Following an intentional jump from a height, the jumper lands on the feet and the patho-mechanics result in the fracture of the calcaneum, tibial plateaus, or femoral condyles or even the hip and pelvis, especially if the jumper did not break the fall on landing, and depending on height of the fall. The fractures after a fall may involve the proximal metaphysis of the tibia and the distal metaphysis of the femur of the same limb resulting in a floating knee. Multiple long bone fractures in the same limb are not unusual following a high fall,[1] and when complicated by compartment syndrome in the presence of floating knee, they become enough reasons for operative treatment in an immature skeleton. Conventionally, conservative treatment of fractures is recommended in children and adolescents because their immature skeleton heals faster and remodels easily but some indications for operative treatment have also been described in the literature and more recently with the use of titanium elastic nailing system (TENS).[2]
This case report highlights the need for operative treatment of this complex injury in an adolescent patient and the importance of having a ready implant pack with assorted range from which the desirable hardware could be selected to manage the fractures in the same operative session as the emergency fasciotomy. This obviates delay in the fracture treatment and thus reduces the length of hospitalization.
A 15-year-old male who lives with his parents and his siblings in a convivial home fell from the balcony of the 5th floor of a five-storey building and landed on a concreted ground. There was a momentary loss of consciousness and pain and the inability to stand with the left leg. He presented to us 2 h after the fall. Resuscitation was commenced and Foley catheter drained 110 ml of clear urine. Examination showed a conscious patient with Glasgow consciousness score of 15/15, blood pressure of 90/62 mmHg, pulse of 98/min, and respiratory rate of 30/min. The left thigh and the left leg were swollen and there were no open wounds. The calf was tense and tender and passive dorsiflexion of the toes increased the pain. The dorsalis pedis and tibial arteries' pulsations were weak and the pulse oximetry showed oxygen saturation of 82% while the contralateral side was 98%. Urgent radiographs showed comminuted fractures of the distal metaphysis of the left femur and segmental fractures of the left tibia involving the mid shaft and proximal metaphysis [Figure 1]. Hemoglobin concentration was 9 g/dl and hemoglobin electrophoresis was AA. Serum electrolyte, urea, and creatinine as well as urinalysis were normal. He was transfused one unit of blood. During the period of workup, the limb was placed in a plaster of Paris back slab and wedged between pillows and elevated to the patient's heart level. The state of the compartment pressure was monitored and the pain was worsening despite adequate analgesia. The plan was emergency fasciotomy and plating of the fractures. These procedures were carried out within 5 h of admission under general anesthesia, adequate preoxygenation, and without a proximal tourniquet. Adequate care was taken to close the leg wound without tension. The postoperative radiographs showed satisfactory alignment [Figure 2]. The recovery was uneventful except for occasional complaints of headache without any feature that suggested raised intracranial pressure. He was discharged on the 10th postoperative day, nonweight bearing with crutches, and in a protective cast. Short-term follow-up at 6 months showed progressive union and ambulation without support [Figure 3] and [Figure 4].
Figure 1: Radiographs showing left ipsilateral femoral and tibial fractures
Figure 2: Immediate postoperative radiographs showing well-reduced fractures with internal fixations
Figure 3: Six-month postoperative radiographs showing union
Figure 4: Six-month postoperation (patient standing and ambulating without support)
Multiple long bone fractures could follow high-energy transfers, usually encountered in falls from storey buildings.[1] Other body systems may be injured as well and so these call for thorough assessment by following the advanced trauma life support protocol. Furthermore, the surgeon should have a high index of suspicion and conduct clinical and radiological assessments to rule out child abuse in young patients.[3] The high-energy transfer in addition to causing fractures sometimes damages the vascular structures either directly or indirectly resulting in bleeding into the tight osseofascial compartment of the limb and raises the intracompartmental pressure. In our patient, the combination of thin build and close segmental tibial fractures was the risks factor for the accumulation of blood in the tight unyielding osseofascial space of the leg, with an attendant rise in compartment pressure. The incidence of compartment syndrome ranges from 5% to 36% in some series of segmental tibial fractures and this risk is also increased by intramedullary reaming.[4] Early recognition of compartment syndrome is important to forestall a possible progression to gangrene.[5]
Healing of many fractures in children by conservative treatment is the standard practice, but our index case was managed surgically because of the multiple fractures with a floating knee. When all the conditions are met to enable the surgeons to fix the fractures internally, it would be expedient to combine it with fasciotomy in one theater session to ensure early mobilization and rehabilitation. However, if it is not possible to have a ready implant pack which is a very important condition, within the time frame for emergency fasciotomy, an alternative surgical option is a delayed internal fixation within a few days, provided there is no postfasciotomy wound infection.[5] Another option is to use external fixator and manage it as an open fracture having made an incision into the fracture hematoma. However, the external fixator is better used as a temporary splint when the patient's hemodynamic status is unstable.[6] These alternative options will invariably prolong the hospital stay.[5]
In a poor resource setting, the financial incapacity in procuring an assorted range of implants and the nonguarantee for their early use if procured as well as the poor sustenance of an implant-revolving fund are some of the banes of orthopedic trauma care.[5] Budgeting for such implants where there are other pressing needs becomes secondary. Therefore, a common scenario is to arrange for such implant from the company's vendors and this could take up to 2 days. Consequently, it would not be possible to fix the fractures at the same theater session as the fasciotomy leading to the overall delay in mobilization and rehabilitation. Therefore, it is important that centers which provide orthopedic trauma care should have a policy of ensuring the availability of basic resources, especially a ready-to-use implant pack, so that a one-time holistic treatment is provided to the patients with complex injuries like in this index patient. In addition, health insurance coverage for a wider range of orthopedic trauma care is advocated so that financial burden would not be a factor in the use of such implants when they are available. In situ ations where this coverage is not applicable, the health facility usually would ensure that the patient makes reasonable financial commitment for the procedure within the short time frame and often times, this may not be possible, therefore making the plan for single-session intervention unrealizable.
The adequate resuscitation as well as the early operative treatment of this patient in one theater session also ensured that his metabolic response to trauma was kept to a minimum and avoided the chances of second-hit phenomenon [7] which could be associated with more aggressive response and possibly tilted the patient into severe systemic inflammatory response and multiple organ dysfunction.[7] The immature skeleton has a high osteogenic potential and so union and remodeling are usually satisfactory.[6] However, malunion due to shortening and rotational deformities often complicates floating knee that is managed conservatively. For this reason, many authors prefer surgical treatment for floating knees in all age groups.[8] There is a current preference for TENS for the femur and the tibia through anterior knee incisions in childhood floating knees,[2] but reports of excellent results from dynamic compression plating are also abound in the literature.[9] The aim of surgical treatment is to obtain an early stable fixation of the fractures to enable early mobilization. However, this operative timing should be considered with respect to the stabilization of the patient, especially with regard to the injury severity score. Associated ligament or meniscal tear in the knee prolongs the healing process and rehabilitation,[10] and recovery is also determined by the extent of soft-tissue injury in the leg or thigh.[10] Furthermore, appropriate care should be taken like in our patient to avoid complication of infection, especially on the background of compartment pressure-induced local ischemia. The comminution of the fractures necessitated our choice for bridge plating and the union progressed as expected. However, a temporal protective cast was applied on the day of discharge when the compartment syndrome had resolved completely.
When multiple long bone fractures are associated with floating knee and compartment syndrome, the need for emergency surgical intervention cannot be overemphasized even in an immature skeleton. The internal fixations of the fractures at the time of emergency fasciotomy ensure early mobilization of the patient and early discharge from the hospital.
The patient and parents gave unconditional approval for this publication.
The authors certify that they have obtained all appropriate patient consent forms. In the form, the legal guardian has given his consent for images and other clinical information to be reported in the journal. The guardian understands that names and initials will not be published and due efforts will be made to conceal patient identity, but anonymity cannot be guaranteed.
Lozano R, Naghavi M, Foreman K, Lim S, Shibuya K, Aboyans V, et al. Global and regional mortality from 235 causes of death for 20 age groups in 1990 and 2010: A systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010. Lancet 2012;380:2095-128.
Flynn JM, Hresko T, Reynolds RA, Blasier RD, Davidson R, Kasser J, et al. Titanium elastic nails for pediatric femur fractures: A multicenter study of early results with analysis of complications. J Pediatr Orthop 2001;21:4-8.
Loder RT, Feinberg JR. Orthopaedic injuries in children with nonaccidental trauma: Demographics and incidence from the 2000 kids' inpatient database. J Pediatr Orthop 2007;27:421-6.
Bonnevialle P, Cariven P, Bonnevialle N, Mansat P, Martinel V, Verhaeghe L, et al. Segmental tibia fractures: A critical retrospective analysis of 49 cases. Rev Chir Orthop Reparatrice Appar Mot 2003;89:423-32.
Agu TC, Orjiaku ME. The prevalence and pattern of acute compartment syndrome of the limbs in a private orthopedic and trauma center, South East Nigeria: 8 years retrospective study. Afr J Trauma 2016;5:10-5.
Chalidis B, Metha SS, Tsiridis E, Giannoudis PV. Mini-symposium: Management of fractures around the knee joint, 'the floating knee' in adults and children. Curr Orthop 2006;20:405-10.
Lasanianos NG, Kanakaris NK, Dimitriou R, Pape HC, Giannoudis PV. Second hit phenomenon: Existing evidence of clinical implications. Injury 2011;42:617-29.
Ostrum RF. Treatment of floating knee injuries through a single percutaneous approach. Clin Orthop Relat Res 2000;375:43-50.
Fyodorov I, Sturm PF, Robertson WW Jr. Compression-plate fixation of femoral shaft fractures in children aged 8 to 12 years. J Pediatr Orthop 1999;19:578-81.
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This course unit offers an introduction to the latest, cutting-edge research outcomes in the area of database management systems (DBMSs). It starts with a brief overview of the internal architecture of traditional DBMSs, and proceeds to cover a range of advanced systems that extend that architecture to different execution environments than the classical, centralized one. The viewpoint adopted throughout is systems-oriented and research-oriented. Focus falls on the impacts on classical query processing functionality (i.e., impacts on other DBMS-provided services such as storage, concurrency and transaction management are largely ignored).
The delivery has aspects of a seminar module, i.e., the lectures, as well as the coursework, will centre around, and be driven by, research papers that will be assigned for advance reading.
There no labs with lab sheets for practicing skills on programming or design. Where available, pointers are given to implementations of the systems discussed, detailed use or exploration of tools is not an integral part of the unit as most of the technology studied only exists in the form of unstable research prototypes.
This course unit is about database management systems as systems. Therefore, it concerns itself much more with how DBMSs systems are built, and not as much with how they are used to support applications. It should appeal more to students who enjoy understanding how systems can be made to deliver advanced, challenging functionality. It is possibly less appealing to students who are more interested in how advanced technologies can be deployed, say, in businesses in response to business needs, although the course unit does attempt to explain the motivations behind the technological advances it covers.
The aim of this course unit is to survey the research landscape of advanced DBMS systems with a view to understanding how DBMS research is responding to challenges arising from new software architectures, new kinds of data resource and new computational fabrics.
Additional information, including details of assessed coursework can be found at the course unit webpage (http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~alvaro/teaching/DB).
There are four weekly tests, from Week 2 onwards, covering the material taught in the previous week, including assigned readings.
There is a final report, in which students are assigned readings and are asked to exercise their critical judgements based on the knowledge acquired through the course unit.
No special resources are required, but students should note the need for them to be proficient in the tools required to produce technical reports, as this skill contributes to the coursework mark.
Time devoted to coursework outside lectures amounts to 12 hours each week for five weeks, plus 20 hours for the final coursework.
A1 Have acquired knowledge of cutting-edge, research-led DBMS research.
A2 A3 Be able to compare and contrast the variety of approaches used in DBMS research to address the challenges raised by new software architectures, new kinds of data resource and new computational fabrics.
B1 Be able to identify, understand and articulate the shortcomings of current DBMS research and to suggest, in broad terms, possible strategies and approaches that might be used to overcome them.
COMP60731 does not have a specified reading list.


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PoetRAT targets SCADA sector and government officials in Azerbaijan.
An analysis of a critical VMware vulnerability.
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Spearphishing campaigns target oil & gas industry.
Bitdefender warns that two spearphishing campaigns recently targeted the oil & gas industry attempting to deliver the Agent Tesla information-stealing Trojan. The first campaign used emails that purported to come from Engineering for Petroleum and Process Industries (Enppi), an engineering subsidiary of Egypt's national oil company. The emails appear to be well-crafted and convincing RFQs related to the Rosetta Sharing Facilities Project, a real project aimed at expanding gas fields in the West Delta Deep Marine area. The emails also reference Burullus Gas Company, the half-state-owned Egyptian contractor that's working on the Rosetta project. Bitdefender notes that the targeted employees would likely be familiar with these references.
This first campaign began on March 31st, when more than one-hundred emails were sent out to organizations in at least twenty-four countries. The largest focus was on Malaysia, the United States, Iran, South Africa, Oman, Turkey, and Italy. In addition to oil & gas, the campaign targeted organizations that conduct "charcoal processing, hydraulic plants, manufacturers of raw materials, and transporters of large merchandise."
The second campaign, which began on April 12th, was much smaller in scope and "targeted only a handful of shipping companies based in the Philippines over the course of two days." As in the first campaign, this operation used industry-specific jargon and relevant requests that demonstrated the attackers' understanding of the targeted organizations and industry. One of the emails made reference to a real Indonesian ship that had set sail on April 12th.
The researchers don't guess at who might be behind the campaigns, but they note that the timing of the operation—occurring during a meeting between OPEC+ and the Group of 20 regarding oil production and pricing during the COVID-19 pandemic—"suggests motivation and interest in knowing how specific countries plan to address the issue."
Hundreds of malicious typosquatting Ruby gems identified.
Researchers at ReversingLabs found 761 malicious packages residing in RubyGems, the default package manager for the Ruby programming language. These packages, or "gems," had been collectively downloaded more than 95,000 times. All of the packages had been created by just two accounts, which the researchers believe are controlled by the same person. The purpose of the malicious packages was to redirect cryptocurrency payments to the attacker's Bitcoin address, although the attacker doesn't seem to have enjoyed much success.
The attacker relied on typosquatting to dupe developers into installing the malicious packages. Software developers generally install application packages manually by either clicking a button or typing in a command. Attackers take advantage of this by creating malicious packages with names that closely resemble popular, legitimate packages. In this case, for example, the threat actor's most successful package was named "atlas-client," mimicking the legitimate "atlas_client" package. The malicious package had 2,100 downloads, while the legitimate one had 6,496.
ReversingLabs's researchers discovered the malicious Ruby packages by flagging gems that potentially mimicked the most popular Ruby gems, and then unpacking the file types within those gems. All of the suspicious gems they identified contained an executable named "aaa.png," which the researchers concluded was likely malicious since it was posing as an image file. Once installed, the malware would monitor the victim's clipboard for Bitcoin wallet addresses and replace them with the attacker's address.
Despite the high number of downloads, the attacker's wallet hasn't received any payments to date. The researchers suspect this is due to the campaign's narrow target pool: the attack can only succeed if a malicious package is installed by "a Ruby developer whose environment of choice is a Windows system that's also periodically being used to make BitCoin transactions."
ReversingLabs also believes the same attacker was behind two previous campaigns within RubyGems, one discovered in August 2018 and the other in August 2019, both of which involved cryptomining.
The Register notes that, while this threat actor doesn't seem particularly sophisticated, the broader takeaway from the research is "how easy it is to get malware into one of the most widely used package managers."
PoetRAT targets SCADA sector in Azerbaijan.
Cisco Talos discovered a previously unobserved malware family that's being used by an unknown actor to target Azerbaijan's government and energy sector. The attacker is interested in "private companies in the SCADA sector," primarily those related to wind turbines. The threat actor also appeared to go after Azerbaijan government officials using a credential-stealing website that imitated the webmail login portal used by the Azerbaijan government. The researchers conclude that the attacker is "highly motivated and focused on the victims it targets," adding that "the quantity and diversification of tools available in its toolkit denote a carefully planned attack."
PoetRAT is a Python-based remote access Trojan the researchers have named "PoetRAT" due to references to William Shakespeare within its code. It's installed by being appended to a Microsoft Word document and then extracted by a macro. The researchers aren't sure how these documents are distributed, but they think phishing is a likely possibility. Most of the documents were COVID-19 themed and purported to come from government sources. PoetRAT uses FTP to exfiltrate data, which the researchers say "denotes an intention to transfer large amounts of data."
Analyzing a critical VMware vulnerability.
VMware released a patch last week for a "sensitive information disclosure vulnerability" in its VMware Directory Service (vmdir). Notably, the flaw (tracked as CVE-2020-3952) received a CVSS score of 10.0, which Decipher notes is unusually high for an information disclosure vulnerability. VMware explained that a "malicious actor with network access to port 389 on an affected vmdir deployment may be able to extract highly sensitive information such as administrative account credentials which could be used to compromise vCenter Server or other services which are dependent upon vmdir for authentication. Variant attack vectors such as creating new attacker-controlled administrative accounts are also possible."
Guardicore researchers took a closer look to find out why the flaw was so severe, and their analysis found that "with three simple unauthenticated LDAP commands, an attacker with nothing more than network access to the vCenter Directory Service can add an administrator account to the vCenter Directory." They explain that the vulnerability is a result of two bugs in the vmdir code. The first was in a function that mistakenly returned "access granted," even if the permissions check failed. The second was a design error that granted "root privileges to an LDAP session with no token, under the assumption that it is an internal operation."
Guardicore also published a proof-of-concept exploit for the vulnerability. Users are urged to implement VMware's patch, and Guardicore also recommends "blocking any access over the LDAP port (389) except for administrative use."
Imperva released a report on malicious bot activity at the application layer of the OSI model. These types of bots are used to exploit APIs, websites, and mobile apps for various reasons, including credential stuffing, credit card fraud, ticket scalping, data scraping, ad fraud, and propaganda distribution. Imperva found that malicious bots made up 24% of all internet traffic in 2019, up from 20.4% in 2018. Imperva describes 20% of these bots as "sophisticated," meaning they can imitate human behavior using "mouse movements and clicks that fool even sophisticated detection methods." The sectors most affected by malicious bots are financial, education, IT & services, marketplaces, and government, with each industry facing different types of automated threats.
Mining for malicious Ruby gems (ReversingLabs) Typosquatting barrage on RubyGems software repository users.
PoetRAT: Python RAT uses COVID-19 lures to target Azerbaijan public and private sectors (Cisco Talos) Cisco Talos has discovered a new malware campaign based on a previously unknown family we're calling "PoetRAT."
A Map of 0day Deaths (grugq's domain) Collection Bias This map does not show what FireEye claim it shows. Israel, 1 0day? 8200 be slacking not hacking Australia, 0 0days? ASD Aussie Slacker Directorate. This is a map of 0day deaths whe…
Oil & Gas Spearphishing Campaigns Drop Agent Tesla Spyware in Advance of Historic OPEC+ Deal (Bitdefender) Bitdefender researchers have recently found spearphishing campaigns, either impersonating a well-known Egyptian engineering contractor or a shipment company, dropping the Agent Tesla spyware Trojan.
NetWire RAT Targeting Taxpayers is Spreading via Legacy Microsoft Excel 4.0 Macro (Fortinet Blog) A few days ago, FortiGuard Labs harvested a fresh Excel sample and found that it was spreading a new NetWire RAT variant. In this post, we will look at how this Excel 4.0 Macro executes in an Exce…
Cymulate Discovers Hidden Malware Defense Evasion Technique (Cymulate) Cymulate, the only end-to-end SaaS-based Breach and Attack Simulation (BAS) platform, today announced it has discovered a method for attackers to run malicious code via Microsoft's Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) using a technique called DLL Side-Loading.
OneTone Vulnerability Leads to JavaScript Cookie Hijacking (Sucuri Blog) Our researcher describes a vulnerability in the OneTone plugin that allows attackers to hijack user sessions and create rogue admin accounts for backdoor access.
New AgentTesla variant steals WiFi credentials (Malwarebytes Labs) The popular infostealer AgentTesla recently added a new feature that can steal WiFi usernames and passwords, which can be used to spread malware.
New Mozi malware family quietly amasses IoT bots (Net Next) Mozi evolved from source codes of several malware families that form a P2P botnet capable of DDoS attacks, data exfiltration & command or payload execution.
What's a 10? Pwning vCenter with CVE-2020-3952 (Guardicore) Guardicore Labs provides a full, detailed technical analysis of the latest vulnerability from VMware - CVE-2020-3952. The bug, which hit the maximal score of CVSS 10.0, allows a malicious actor to take over the complete vSphere infrastructure, with all its machines and servers.
Gamaredon APT Group Use Covid-19 Lure in Campaigns - TrendLabs Security Intelligence Blog (Trend Micro) In March, we came across an email with a malware attachment that used the Gamaredon group's tactics. Some of the emails used the coronavirus pandemic as a topic to lure victims into opening emails and attachments.
Exposing Modular Adware: How DealPly, IsErIk, and ManageX Persist in Systems (Trend Micro) We have constantly observed suspicious activities caused by adware, with common behaviors that include access to seemingly random domains with alternating consonant and vowel names, scheduled tasks, and in-memory execution via WScript that has proven to be an effective method to hide their operations for at least four years.


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};

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Atul Agnihotri: News
Atul Agnihotri began his career in Bollywood in front of the camera but that's not where he found his success. Restricted to second-class roles, Agnihotri decided to try his hand in filmmaking. His directorial ventures did not reap success, but he found his calling as a producer. Born on July 8, 1970, in Delhi, Agnihotri's father was Rohit Agnihotri who was an actor himself. He developed an interest in Bollywood after his cousin Rati Agnihotri decided to try her luck in acting. He made his Bollywood debut as a child actor way back in 1983 in 'Pasand Apni Apni.' His stint as a senior actor began in 1993 after he was cast in Mahesh Bhatt's 'Sir.' The film's critical and commercial success meant that Agnihotri wasn't short of roles. Not satisfied with supporting roles, he decided to try his luck in direction. He made his directorial debut in 2004 with the film 'Dil Ne Jise Apna Kahaa' starring Salman Khan, Bhumika Chawla, and Preity Zinta. His next film was 'Hello' in 2008. Both films fared poorly at the box office which led to Agnihotri abandoning film direction. In 2011, he produced the Hindi remake of the Malayalam movie 'Bodyguard' with the same title. The film turned out to be one of the all-time blockbuster films in Bollywood.
Everything we know about Salman Khan's niece Alizeh Agnihotri's debut
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"Feels good": Salman resumes shooting 'Radhe' after six months
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Spoiler! Chulbul Pandey to fight shirtless in 'Dabangg 3' climax
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#BharatPoster: Salman sports grey look for first time, rocks it
After a long wait, Salman Khan finally released the first poster of his Eid release, Bharat.
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Salman Khan gets mired in land dispute with NRI couple
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Tabu joins Salman and Priyanka in period drama 'Bharat'
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After Priyanka Chopra, Sunil Grover joins Salman Khan's 'Bharat'
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Sunil Grover seems to have entered the best phase of his career. Just days ago, he was roped in by Vishal Bhardwaj to play the lead in his next directorial venture titled 'Chhuriyaan'.
'Bharat': Salman-Priyanka indulge in a playful banter on Twitter
After it was officially announced that Priyanka Chopra will play the female lead in 'Bharat', Salman Khan took to Twitter to welcome her on-board.
Salman begins 'Bharat' shooting; Priyanka Chopra confirmed as female lead
After a gap of over two years, actor Priyanka Chopra is all set to come back to the Indian film industry with Salman Khan's 'Bharat'.
Will Priyanka and Katrina come together for Salman's 'Bharat'?
In what will be a massive casting coup, Priyanka Chopra and Katrina Kaif are being considered to star opposite Salman Khan in 'Bharat'.
Salman Khan responds to ailing 'Veergati' co-star Pooja Dadwal's plea
Salman Khan has once again proved that he is as generous as one can get.
Salman's former co-star seeks his financial help for TB treatment
Actress Pooja Dadwal, who was seen in Salman Khan starrer 'Veergati', is suffering from Tuberculosis and trying to reach out to the superstar for help.
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Home > About SCC > News and Media > Ribbon cutting for new dorm in Beatrice
Ribbon cutting for new dorm in Beatrice
Representatives from SCC and the Beatrice community take part in the ribbon cutting.
Posted: Friday, August 23, 2019 at 11:55 AM
Construction is complete on the new on-campus housing unit, Homestead Hall, on Southeast Community College's Beatrice Campus. The 54,000 square-foot building will house nearly 150 students. Each room has a kitchenette area with a refrigerator, microwave oven and sink. A ribbon-cutting ceremony was held on Thursday, Aug. 22, at the site of the facility.
"Beyond my wildest dreams, I would not have envisioned this awesome new residence hall," said Bob Morgan, SCC's Beatrice Campus director. "This is a high-quality state-of-the-art housing unit. Homestead Hall has three floors, amazing views and study spaces and is a true example of student housing today. We are so thankful to have this as one of the building projects leading the transformation on our campus."
SCC President Dr. Paull Illich, Board Chairperson Nancy Seim and Morgan spoke at the ribbon cutting. Tours of the facility took place after the ceremony.
Last year, SCC's Board of Governors approved issuing up to $19.5 million in revenue bonds to finance new residence halls at the Beatrice and Milford campuses, as well as a dining facility at Beatrice.
Andrea Gallagher
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PTA alum is Lincoln Campus's 2022 Distinguished Alumnus Posted: 1/10/2023


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