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project innovation May 21, 2021
Press Release: NBC Bay Area, Telemundo 48 and Comcast NBCUuniversal Foundation Award $315,000 in Project Innovation Grants to Local Nonprofits in The Bay Area
SAN JOSE, CA – (May 20, 2021) – NBC Bay Area / KNTV, Telemundo 48 Area de la Bahia / KSTS and the Comcast NBCUniversal Foundation today announced that 12 local nonprofits will receive a total of $315,000 in Project Innovation's 2021 grants. The winning organizations feature programs that are addressing local issues through innovative solutions in the areas of community…
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Project Innovation Grant Challenge Winner: Oakland Promise
In 2020, NBC Bay Area, Telemundo 48, and the NBCUniversal Foundation announced that eight local non-profit organizations received a total of $225,000 in grants as part of the annual Project Innovation grant challenge. The stations selected Oakland Promise as one of the eight grant winners for their outstanding programs dedicated to ensuring Oakland students are equipped with the tools necessary…
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Project Innovation Winner Reflects on Grant's Impact
NBC Bay Area's Anoushah Rasta spoke to one of last year's Project Innovation winners about the impact the grant had on their efforts to ensure no family in Silicon Valley goes hungry.
Project Innovation Grant Challenge Winner: Asian Health Services
In 2020, NBC Bay Area, Telemundo 48, and the NBCUniversal Foundation announced that eight local non-profit organizations received a total of $225,000 in grants as part of the annual Project Innovation grant challenge. The stations selected Asian Health Services as one of the eight grant winners for their outstanding programs that leverage technology to solve everyday problems in the Culture of…
Hunger at Home on Asian Pacific America
Asian Pacific America: Hunger At Home partners with local venues and businesses to collect excess food and goods and provide it to families and community members in need.
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Project Innovation Grant Challenge Winner: Hunger at Home
In 2020, NBC Bay Area, Telemundo 48, and the NBCUniversal Foundation announced that eight local non-profit organizations received a total of $225,000 in grants as part of the annual Project Innovation grant challenge. The stations selected Hunger at Home as one of the eight grant winners for their outstanding programs that provide individuals and families in need with food and…
Pacific Community Ventures on Asian Pacific America
Asian Pacific America: President and CEO Bulbul Gupta tells us how a Project Innovation grant assisted Pacific Community Ventures in providing resources to small businesses during the economic crisis.
Project Innovation Grant Challenge Winner: Pacific Community Ventures
In 2020, NBC Bay Area, Telemundo 48, and the NBCUniversal Foundation announced that eight local non-profit organizations received a total of $225,000 in grants as part of the annual Project Innovation grant challenge. The stations selected Pacific Community Ventures as one of the eight grant winners for their outstanding programs that leverage technology to solve everyday problems in the Culture…
Project Innovation 2021
NBC Bay Area / KNTV and Telemundo 48 Area de la Bahia / KSTS along with the Comcast NBCUniversal Foundation will present their Project Innovation grant challenge in the Bay Area for a fourth consecutive year when grant applications open on January 8, 2021. To learn more about the program and application process, watch an informational webinar here. Local nonprofits that...
Project Innovation 2021 Applications Have Closed
Please note: Applications for Project Innovation 2021 have now closed. Winners will be announced in Spring 2021. Learn more about Project Innovation below. Is your non-profit working to create positive change in your local community? Presented by the Comcast NBCUniversal Foundation in partnership with NBC and Telemundo stations in 11 markets, Project Innovation is strengthening our communities by providing funding to…
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Project Innovation 2021 Eligibility Requirements
2021 Eligibility Requirements Organization must be a tax exempt 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. Fiscally sponsored organizations are eligible. If you have any questions about applying through a fiscal sponsor, please submit a question by clicking the "Contact Us" button on the application portal. The 501(c)(3) non-profit organization must have an annual operating budget of more than $100,000 (defined by the organization's…
Project Innovation 2021 Frequently Asked Questions
Eligibility Q. My organization has yet to file a 990, are we eligible? A 990 form is required to apply for a Project Innovation grant. Q. My organization's revenue fell short of $100,000, is there any way we can still apply? The organization must have had an annual operating budget of more than $100,000 (defined by the organization's most recent…
Music Education Nonprofit Provides Instruments for Students Stuck at Home
A San Diego-based music education nonprofit is providing instruments for students stuck at home during the pandemic without their usual classroom instruments.
NBC Bay Area Visits 2019 Project Innovation Recipient
Every year, NBC Bay Area and Telemundo 48 give out thousands of dollars in grant money to Bay Area agencies that are going above and beyond in their service to the community. This is part of NBC's Project Innovation program. NBC Bay Area's Damian Trujillo visited one of last year's recipients, the Lighthouse Center for the Blind, to see how...
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BAYCAT on Asian Pacific America
Asian Pacific America: Villy Wang's desire to tell her story sparked a passion to use digital media to capture untold stories and create social change. Through the education and employment of low-income youth and young people of color in the Bay Area, BAYCAT is changing the stories that are shared with the world.
LightHouse for the Blind on Asian Pacific America
Asian Pacific America: LightHouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired is a San Francisco organization that is shining light through the darkness by helping the blind and visually impaired, providing them with education, training, advocacy and a community since 1902.
Discovery Youth Program Helps San Jose Students Learn Video Production
Some middle school kids from low-income families are on their way to perhaps becoming the next Stephen Spielberg. The students are working on video production via the Children's Discovery Museum in San Jose. And thanks to a grant from NBC Bay Area's Project Innovation, the kids are able to have a mobile video lab brought to their school. Christopher...
Discovery Youth Program Helps SJ Students Learn Video Production
Some middle school kids from low-income families are on their way to perhaps becoming the next Stephen Spielberg. Damian Trujillo reports.
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2019 Project Innovation Grant Winners
In 2019, NBC Bay Area, Telemundo 48, and the NBCUniversal Foundation announced that eight local non-profit organizations received a total of $225,000 in grants as part of the annual Project Innovation grant challenge. The winning organizations were selected by the stations for their outstanding programs that leverage technology to solve everyday problems in four categories: Next Generation Storytellers: Programs that…
NBC Bay Area / KNTV and Telemundo 48 Area de la Bahia / KSTS along with the Comcast NBCUniversal Foundation will present their Project Innovation grant challenge in the Bay Area for a third consecutive year when grant applications open on January 10, 2020. Applications can be previewed online at nbcuprojectinnovation.com. Local non-profit organizations that are fostering the next generation…


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LIAM FOX ADMITS GOVERNMENT MIGHT PULL THIRD VOTE ON THERESA MAY'S DEAL
Theresa May has asked MPs to make an "honourable compromise" as she seeks to persuade them to back her Brexit deal at the third time of asking.
Writing in the Sunday Telegraph, the prime minister said failure to support the deal would mean "we will not leave the EU for many months, if ever".
The Prime Minister wants to try for third time lucky this week before flying to a crunch Brussels summit on Thursday.
Chancellor Philip Hammond admitted it was now "physically impossible" for the UK to Leave on March 29 as promised.
Mrs May will ask EU chiefs to delay our departure until June, if MPs back her deal.
But Britain could have to stay for much longer unless the Commons supports her pact, she claimed.
Admitting MPs would "not definitely" get a vote this week, Mr Hammond said: "We will only bring the deal back if we are confident that enough of our colleagues and the DUP are prepared to support it so that we can get it through Parliament.
"We're not just going to keep presenting it if we haven't moved the dial."
International Trade Secretary Liam Fox agreed saying whether a vote was staged "would be determined by whether we can succeed in getting that vote through the House of Commons"
It would be "difficult to justify having a vote if you knew we were going to lose it", he added.
Mr Hammond also denied "blackmailing" MPs by threatening to release £15billion for extra spending or tax cuts only if they backed the deal.
"If we were to leave without a deal we would undoubtedly need that fiscal headroom and some more to support the economy through what would be a very difficult period," he said.
"It's not economic blackmail, it's common sense."
But he signalled he was ready to shovel more cash into Northern Ireland if the DUP supports the pact.
"We are coming up to a Spending Review and we will have to look at all budgets, including devolved, block grant budgets," he told BBC1's The Andrew Marr Show.
Earlier, the PM claimed it would be a "potent symbol of Parliament's collective political failure" if a delay to Brexit meant the UK was forced to take part in May's European elections almost three years after voting to Leave.
She warned that if MPs did not back her deal before Thursday's European Council summit "we will not leave the EU for many months, if ever".
There was a boost for the PM as former Vote Leave chief executive Matthew Elliott called Mrs May's pact "far from perfect", but added: "I would rather opt for the risk of a customs union later – a risk that has diminished in recent weeks – than the very real risk of a permanent customs union now.
"The choice isn't enviable, but the safer option is clear."
Dr Fox also hit out at Cabinet rebels who defied the PM to help rule out a no-deal departure.
He said: "It's not appropriate for Cabinet Ministers to threaten the Prime Minister with what they would do if they didn't get what they wanted."
Mr Hammond added: "I believe that loyalty – discipline – is an important part of what we are as Conservatives."
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Are you ready to try bifocal contact lenses, but don't know what your options are? Here are some common lens designs and fitting strategies, with information on who is a good candidate for each one.
In aspheric multifocal contact lenses, both distance and near prescriptions are placed in the central visual area, on or close to the pupil. When gazing at something far away, your eyes learn to ignore near objects; when focusing near, your eyes learn to ignore far-off objects.
Another example is the concentric lens (also called annular lens), in which the near and far prescriptions are arrayed in a bulls-eye pattern. The near prescription may be in the middle, with distance correction in the outer ring, or vice-versa. The placement of the prescriptions depends on your particular lifestyle and activities. It also depends on your pupil size — large pupils work better with near vision in the center, while small pupils benefit from having far vision in the center.
If you need an intermediate prescription for viewing 18 to 24 inches away (such as when you work at a computer), an extra ring for this may be placed between the other two, creating a multifocal contact lens. The widths of the rings may vary, to emphasize a particular vision need. Often the intermediate and far prescriptions are blended together at their edges, for a smooth transition from one to the next that is similar to wearing progressive eyeglass lenses.
These designs work well for people who are just beginning to experience presbyopia, since their near prescriptions are usually not very strong (there are exceptions, however). They are also better if you have small to medium diameter pupils, if your lower lids are positioned low, or if you have drooping eyelids (ptosis), though the latter may be corrected with surgery. These lenses can be made very thin, for excellent comfort and breathability.
In translating lenses, the near, far, and sometimes intermediate prescription zones are distinct, and your pupil moves from one to the other depending on the visual need of the moment.
Your eye care practitioner can help you choose the right bifocal contact lens design for your lifestyle.
The near prescription is usually placed at the bottom of the lens, with the distance prescription at the top — similar to bifocal eyeglasses. But this can be reversed if your work or hobby requires a near prescription at the top instead of the bottom.
Contact lenses sometimes rotate a little when you blink, which may shift the near vision area to the wrong place. To solve this problem, translating bifocal contact lens designs may be ballasted. The lenses may also be flattened (or "truncated") at the bottom, so the lower lid will support and shift the lens upward when the pupil needs to access the near vision zone.
Translating designs provide good vision and work well whether you need a weak or a strong near prescription. If your upper eyelids have begun to droop (this is caused by a weakening of the muscle and occurs as we age), they may interact with translating lenses too much, and a different design may work better.
Translating lenses must be able to move freely on the eye in order to re-center after a blink; if your eyes are habitually dry, this could interfere with movement and create blurriness. Translating lenses can accommodate large pupils, though not as easily as smaller pupils.
In a monovision fit, usually one contact lens has a distance correction and the other has a near correction. Your eyes learn to choose the particular lens needed for a given situation. Modified monovision may include a single vision lens in one eye and a bifocal lens in the other eye. Or there can be two bifocal lenses, but with different near vision powers.
Finally, a hybrid bifocal fit involves one contact lens with a distance zone in the center and the other with a near zone in the center; both lenses have an intermediate zone in the surrounding area. This is often a good choice for people with strong presbyopia.


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Politics|Trump's National Address Escalates Border Wall Fight
Trump's National Address Escalates Border Wall Fight
As the government shutdown grinds on, President Trump laid out his case for the border wall. Top Democrats Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer were not convinced.CreditCreditDoug Mills/The New York Times
By Peter Baker
WASHINGTON — President Trump doubled down on one of the biggest gambles of his presidency on Tuesday night with a televised appeal to pressure Congress into paying for his long-promised border wall, even at the cost of leaving the government partly closed until lawmakers give in.
Embarking on a strategy that he himself privately disparaged as unlikely to work, Mr. Trump devoted the first prime-time Oval Office address of his presidency to his proposed barrier in hopes of enlisting public support in an ideological and political conflict that has shut the doors of many federal agencies for 18 days.
In a nine-minute speech that made no new arguments but included multiple misleading assertions, the president sought to recast the situation at the Mexican border as a "humanitarian crisis" and opted against declaring a national emergency to bypass Congress, which he had threatened to do, at least for now. But he excoriated Democrats for blocking the wall, accusing them of hypocrisy and exposing the country to criminal immigrants.
[Read our fact checks of Mr. Trump's speech.]
"How much more American blood must we shed before Congress does its job?" Mr. Trump asked, citing a litany of grisly crimes said to be committed by illegal immigrants. Asking Americans to call their lawmakers, he added: "This is a choice between right and wrong, justice and injustice. This is about whether we fulfill our sacred duty to the American citizens we serve."
Democrats dismissed his talk of crisis as overstated cynicism and, with polls showing Mr. Trump bearing more of the blame since the partial shutdown began last month, betrayed no signs of giving in. The White House earlier in the day dispatched Vice President Mike Pence and others to Capitol Hill to try to shore up Senate Republicans, who are growing increasingly anxious as the standoff drags on.
In their own televised response on Tuesday night, Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California and Senator Chuck Schumer of New York, the Democratic leader, accused the president of stoking fear and mocked him for asking taxpayers to foot the bill for a wall he had long said Mexico would pay for.
"President Trump must stop holding the American people hostage, must stop manufacturing a crisis and must reopen the government," Ms. Pelosi said.
In taking his argument to a national television audience and on a trip to the Texas border he plans to take on Thursday, Mr. Trump hoped to reframe the debate. After spending much of the first two weeks of the shutdown cloistered in the White House, he has now opted to use the powers of the presidency to focus public attention on his ominous warnings about the border.
Government Shutdown Timeline: See How the Effects Are Piling Up
The longer the federal government remains closed for business, more services are affected.
[Full transcripts: Trump's speech and the Democratic response.]
Yet privately, Mr. Trump dismissed his own new strategy as pointless. In an off-the-record lunch with television anchors hours before the address, he made clear in blunt terms that he was not inclined to give the speech or go to Texas, but was talked into it by advisers, according to two people briefed on the discussion who asked not to be identified sharing details.
"It's not going to change a damn thing, but I'm still doing it," Mr. Trump said of the border visit, according to one of the people, who was in the room. The trip was merely a photo opportunity, he said. "But," he added, gesturing at his communications aides Bill Shine, Sarah Huckabee Sanders and Kellyanne Conway, "these people behind you say it's worth it."
Mr. Trump plans to head to the Capitol on Wednesday to attend a Senate Republican lunch and later will host congressional leaders from both parties to resume negotiations that so far have made little progress. Mr. Trump has insisted on $5.7 billion for the wall, while Ms. Pelosi said she would not give him a dollar for a wall she has called "immoral."
In a nod to Democrats, Mr. Trump spent the first half of his talk on the humanitarian situation at the border before even mentioning the wall, expressing sympathy for those victimized by human smugglers. "This is a humanitarian crisis — a crisis of the heart and a crisis of the soul," he said.
Even so, he directly took on Ms. Pelosi and Mr. Schumer. "The only thing that is immoral is the politicians to do nothing and continue to allow more innocent people to be so horribly victimized," he said.
Mr. Trump has made the wall the singular focus of his presidency as he enters his third year in office. His promise to erect a "big, beautiful wall" along the border became perhaps the most memorable promise on the campaign trail this fall, eliciting chants from supporters of "build the wall," and he has been frustrated by his inability to deliver on it.
But his alarming description of a "crisis" at the border has raised credibility questions. While experts agree there are serious problems to address, migrant border crossings have actually been declining for nearly two decades. The majority of heroin enters the United States through legal ports of entry, not through open areas of the border. And the State Department said in a recent report that there was "no credible evidence" that terrorist groups had sent operatives to enter the United States through Mexico.
At one point in his speech, he even suggested that Democrats had signaled that they would accept his wall if redesigned. "At the request of Democrats, it will be a steel barrier rather than a concrete wall," he said, even though Democratic leaders have made clear they oppose the barrier regardless of the material.
The Border Wall: What Has Trump Built So Far?
Here's how much the proposed border deal would add to existing barriers.
Even so, Democrats, many of whom like Mr. Schumer voted in 2006 for 700 miles of fencing along the border, did not want to conduct the debate on Mr. Trump's terms. Instead, they focused attention on the damaging effects of the shutdown, already the second longest in American history. About 800,000 government employees are either furloughed or working without pay, in addition to hundreds of thousands of contractors.
House Democrats planned to approve individual spending bills this week that were intended to reopen closed departments one at a time in hopes of putting Republicans on the defensive, but Senator Mitch McConnell, Republican of Kentucky and the majority leader, has said he would not put any bill on the floor without Mr. Trump's explicit support.
Senate Democrats took to the floor on Tuesday to pressure Mr. McConnell and vowed to block consideration of other legislation until the government is reopened.
Mr. McConnell fired back, noting the 2006 legislation. "Maybe the Democratic Party was for secure borders before they were against them," he said. "Or maybe they're just making it up as they go along. Or maybe they are that dead-set on opposing this particular president on any issue, for any reason, just for the sake of opposing him."
But two more Republicans, Senators Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Shelley Moore Capito of West Virginia, spoke out on Tuesday in favor of reopening the government while negotiations over border security continue. "I think we can walk and chew gum," Ms. Murkowski told reporters.
Ms. Capito expressed frustration with the shutdown and "how useless it is," indicating that she might support reopening the government while wall talks continue. "I mean, I think I could live with that, but let's see what he says tonight," she said before the speech.
That makes five Republican senators who have expressed such a position, which if combined with a unanimous Democratic caucus would make a majority to reopen the government if Mr. McConnell were to allow a vote.
Allies of the president warned fellow Republicans to stand with Mr. Trump. "If we undercut the president, that's the end of his presidency and the end of our party," Senator Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina, said on Fox News after the speech.
What the Shutdown Would Look Like if It Happened in Other Industries
How the number of people affected compares to different American companies and industries.
The political nature of the fight was hard to miss. Just hours before he went on air, Mr. Trump's re-election campaign sent out a fund-raising email asking supporters to raise $500,000 by the time his speech began. On the other side, Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, a possible candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination next year, offered his own response after Ms. Pelosi and Mr. Schumer.
For all of the pyrotechnics of competing national speeches, it seemed like a political Kabuki dance that by the end of the evening had changed no minds in Washington.
Representative Hakeem Jeffries of New York, the No. 5 House Democrat, who perhaps most succinctly summed up his party's response: "We are not paying a $5 billion ransom note for your medieval border wall," he wrote on Twitter, with a castle emoji. "And nothing you just said will change that cold, hard reality."
If Democrats do not approve money for the wall, Mr. Trump has threatened to declare a national emergency and proceed with construction without Congress, a move that could provoke a constitutional clash with the legislative branch over the power of the federal purse. While some legal experts said the president has a plausible case given current law, it would almost surely generate a court challenge.
Even some Republicans warned against it. Senator Susan Collins of Maine said that although the law provides the president with emergency powers, "the administration should not act on a claim of dubious constitutional authority." She added, "It should get authorization from Congress before repurposing such a significant sum of money for a border wall."
The wall is popular with Mr. Trump's base, but the public at large holds the president responsible for the shutdown, according to polls. In a Reuters-Ipsos poll, 51 percent of respondents said that Mr. Trump "deserves most of the blame," up four percentage points from earlier in the crisis, while 32 percent pointed the finger at congressional Democrats.
Moreover, the public seems to have grown weary of the impasse. Seventy percent of registered voters in the latest The Hill-HarrisX poll favored a compromise, while just 30 percent said sticking to principles was more important than reopening the government.
The president's use of the Oval Office for the speech stirred some debate, with critics asserting that a setting more typically used for occasions of war or other national security crises was being turned into a partisan platform. The subsequent joint statement by Ms. Pelosi and Mr. Schumer was the first time opposition leaders were given national airtime to respond to a president in the Oval Office.
Not counting speeches to Congress, Mr. Trump had made only five formal addresses to the nation before Tuesday night, three of them in prime time and none from the Oval Office, according to Mark Knoller, a longtime CBS News journalist who tracks recent presidential history. Mr. Trump's previous prime-time speeches were to introduce his two Supreme Court nominations and to announce his decision to send more troops to Afghanistan.
By contrast, President Bill Clinton gave 16 addresses to the nation over eight years, 14 of them from the Oval Office. President George W. Bush gave 23 such addresses, six from the Oval Office, and President Barack Obama gave 12, with three from his office.
Reporting was contributed by Maggie Haberman, Julie Hirschfeld Davis, Sheryl Gay Stolberg, Michael Tackett, Emily Cochrane and Catie Edmondson from Washington, and Michael M. Grynbaum from New York.
Follow Peter Baker on Twitter: @peterbakernyt.
A version of this article appears in print on , Section A, Page 1 of the New York edition with the headline: Trump Appeals Directly to U.S. For Border Wall. Order Reprints | Today's Paper | Subscribe
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Not too long ago, I got a copy of a Qualcomm message sent out to a trucking fleet. In signing off of the message, the company representative included a well-used sports motivational quote: "Don't quit when you're tired. Quit when you're done!"
I knew the phrase well, but it didn't stop my jaw from dropping. It's hard not to have heard at least some incarnation of a sports motivational quote applied to "regular" life. Be it your job, your relationships, whatever.
Sports imitate life. Until they don't.
Trucking is not a game. Being behind the wheel of a truck and worn slap out, pushing for one more mile, one more stop - there's no strength or character in that. It's irresponsible. And to suggest anything but taking care of yourself and getting off the road is reckless.
After the initial message went out, the company followed up with another one. It said the quote was out of context and reiterated that the point of the initial message was to encourage drivers to use all available hours.
In the meantime, I reached out to the company and got the same basic explanation back via email. That email to LL was quickly followed up by another Qualcomm message to drivers. In that one, the company apologized for the quote and told drivers to listen to their bodies and "we never want to put the motoring public in danger."
Maybe in the end, safety considerations and driver decisions to address their fatigue will be respected.
The problem is that while I'm using one line from one Qualcomm message from one company as an example here, there is a pervasive mindset among fleet executives throughout the industry that hours of service are to be maximized.
We hear all the time about productivity gains. That's PR code for drivers working more hours.


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Q: How to use gnuplot from within C program to plot graph I am trying to plot a graph from within C program (Windows 7)
I have maintained an array of graph points,say x[] and y1[],y2[] and y3[]. I want to plot multiple y points for fixed x points.
How can I use gnuplot from within my program to plot the graph?

A: Not the most elegant solution, but this should work:
int main(int argc, char **argv){
    FILE * temp = fopen("data.temp", "w");
    FILE * gnuplotPipe = popen ("gnuplot -persistent", "w");
    for(Iterate over your array so that you create another exact temporal array){

        float a, b, c;

        x = something;
        y1 = something;
        y2 = something;
        y3 = something;

        fprintf(temp, "%d %d %d %d \n", x, y1, y2, y3);
    }

    fprintf(gnuplotPipe, "(here whatever you want to tell gnuplot to do) i.e plot 'data.temp' using 1:2 with lines, etc");

    return 0;
}

Alternatively you can do this:
int plot(){
    system("gnuplot -p -e \"(Here put whatever you would put in gnuplot as if you were ploting manually)\"");
    return 0;
}

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Huddleston died of advanced heart, kidney disease
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Autopsy reveals Dartmouth skier died of rare heart defect
Torin Tucker, 20, collapsed during cross country skiing marathon
HANOVER, N.H. — An autopsy has determined that a rare heart defect killed a 20-year-old Dartmouth College cross country skier last weekend.
Torin Tucker, a junior from Sun Valley, Idaho, died while competing at a cross country skiing marathon in Craftsbury, Vt., on Saturday.
His death certificate says he suffered sudden cardiac arrest as a result of a problem in the left coronary artery. Medical research says the condition is rare and is frequently associated with sudden death during intense physical activity.
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Hundreds donate blood for Billerica girl
Girl's heart surgery delayed after shortage
BOSTON — The American Red Cross collected 700 units of blood at a drive at the TD Garden Sunday. Organizers say it is a much higher amount than expected and credit a Billerica girl for getting donors out.
Watch NewsCenter 5 report
Eight-year-old Jacqueline Rogers was scheduled for her second open-heart surgery at Boston Children's Hospital last Friday. The surgery was postponed at the last minute because there was a shortage of her blood type — O negative.
"I guess it's because the little girl caught me. She needed O negative and I have O negative," said Jacob Nazarian III, one of Sunday's donors. "So I decided to take a trip down and see if I could help her."
Nazarian drove to Boston from Buzzards Bay after he saw Rogers' story on NewsCenter 5.
"To do a favor for somebody means an awful lot to me and it should mean an awful lot to other people, too," Nazarian said.
Rogers' surgery is rescheduled for Wednesday.
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Young Canton kids lose mom in November, dad in January
Deaths leave family, friends reeling
CANTON, Mass. — Stephen Furbush grilled up a meal of ribs and chicken Saturday night, watched the Patriots game with his young children and a few friends, and went to bed.
He never woke up.
The heart attack that took the life of the 39-year-old father came exactly two months and a day after his wife, Kristen, who had been battling an aggressive brain tumor, died at their home. Their children — Kayley, 6, and Patrick, 3 — were suddenly parentless, the Patriot Ledger reported.
"It's just surreal," said Laurice Vallancourt, who met Kristen at age 10 when both were playing basketball in Braintree. "Their kids aren't going to have a chance to know how awesome they were."
The two deaths have left friends and family across the South Shore reeling. A fund Stephen Furrush started last year to help put his children through college has taken on new urgency as friends work to make sure Kayley and Patrick are provided for well into the future.
An online fundraising effort had raised more than $83,000 as of early this morning, and friends are meeting this weekend to work on plans for a benefit in the couple's honor at Dorchester's Florian Hall on June 7. Kayley and Patrick are staying with their grandparents.
Friends describe Stephen and Kristen Furbush as a quick-witted and generous couple who cherished their children and had many close friends, some since childhood. Kristen, a longtime vice president at State Street, was part of a close-knit group of friends who came together as children in Braintree and stayed close even as they grew up and had children of their own. They called Kristen "Okie," a nickname drawn from her maiden name of O'Keefe.
"Kristen was just – she was probably the smartest girl I ever met, and with such a fun, awesome sense of humor and so thoughtful," Vallancourt said.
Stephen, a mortgage processor for Wellesley Bank, met Kristen while she was a student at Providence College and the two eventually married and moved to Canton, where they had lived for about five years. He loved to cook for friends and, like Kristen, had a sharp wit and loved to make people laugh.
"He just really had a unbelievable ability to leave a positive impression on everyone he met," said Brendan Carr, a longtime friend who met Stephen in seventh grade in Framingham. "He always put everyone at ease."
Starting last May, Kristen's vision began to blur and she complained of frequent headaches. After an MRI, doctors found a tumor pressing on an optic nerve and started Kristen on a regiment of radiation and chemotherapy.
Stephen set up a website and kept friends and family updated on Kristen's progress through several months of grueling but unsuccessful treatment. On Nov. 8, he reported that "the cancer is moving faster than the medical science" and said Kristen would be leaving the hospital to rest "in this house that she has transformed into our little home."
Kristen died Nov. 11. "She just wanted to come home and get her loving arms around her two beautiful children whom she loved more than any mother ever has," Stephen wrote that morning. "She said all her goodbyes, made her peace and set her soul free."
Carr said Stephen was devastated by his wife's death but focused all his energy on his kids for the next two months.
"He really did just work hard on making sure he got his kids lives back to as normal as possible," Carr said. "He did a fabulous job of making Kayley and Patrick know that they were loved and cherished."
Visiting hours will be held at the Dockray & Thomas Funeral Home, 455 Washington St., Canton, from 4 to 8 p.m. Thursday. To donate, go to http://www.sharingcounts.com and search for "Furbush Children's Fund."
In Brain Tumors, Death, Health, Heart Attack, Heart Disease Aggressive Brain Tumor, "Furbush Children's Fund", Brendan Carr, Canton MA, Deaths, Dockray & Thomas Funeral Home, Heart Attack, Kayley Furbush 6, Kristen Furbush, Laurice Vallancourt, Patrick Furbush 3, Patriot Ledger, Providence College, Stephen Furbush, Wellesley Bank, www.sharingcounts.com
50 years of progress cuts smoking rates in half — but can we ever get to zero?
Maggie Fox NBC News
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Cigarette companies are still allowed to advertise, but they must now label their products as deadly.
Smoking rates cut in half. Eight million lives saved. More than 800,000 fewer lung cancer deaths. Fifty years after the U.S. Surgeon General first warned about the dangers of smoking, the benefits of quitting have never been clearer.
Yet 18 percent of the population still smokes. Nearly 2,000 teenagers take up the habit every day and tobacco companies advertise candy-flavored tobacco products with impunity. Is it possible this is the best the United States will ever do?
Health experts are convinced it isn't — and they point to maps that rank states and regions by smoking status as proof. A look at a county-by-county breakdown of who smokes and where makes it clear that there are opportunities to get smoking rates way down, they say.
Kentucky has the most smokers — more than 28 percent of the population smokes there, compared to just 11 percent in Utah, which has the lowest rates, and double the 14 percent in California. And when you overlay those smoking maps with details of rates of heart disease, stroke and cancer, it's equally clear that there are still plenty of lives to be saved by trying.
"(With) taxes, strong smoke-free laws and fully funding state tobacco prevention programs," says Dr. Mariell Jessup, president of the American Heart Association. "These measures can reduce the number of adult smokers to less than 10 percent of the population in 10 years."
Also, raising the legal age to buy tobacco products to 21 would go a long way to stopping kids from ever getting addicted in the first place, the Heart Association, American Lung Association, American Cancer Society, Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids and other groups agree.
"We do it with booze yet we don't do it with cigarettes, when cigarettes kill about 10 times more people than alcohol does," says Dr. Michael Fiore of the University of Wisconsin's Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention.
Smoking is often just another marker for social and economic disparities, Fiore adds. "Fewer than 10 percent of college graduates smoke," Fiore points out. But 35 percent of people who never graduated from high school do.
"Two things will solve this issue over time and eliminate tobacco use. One is hard-hitting public policy. At the same time, we need the ready availability of treatments for smokers."
A 50 year public health battle
It was Jan. 11, 1964 when then-Surgeon General Dr. Luther Terry held a news conference to announce that smoking causes cancer and probably heart disease, too. It was a time when close to half of Americans smoked — including Terry himself — and it set off a 50-year battle between regulators and the tobacco industry.
Video – From the Archives: Smoking Causes Lung Cancer: The federal government's report presented January 11, 1964 on smoking and health was a landmark report spelling out the negative health effects of smoking. NBC's Frank McGee reports.
Since then, science has proven beyond any doubt that smoking causes most cases of lung cancer, most heart disease and lung disease as well as stroke and a range of cancers from breast to bladder. Researchers have proven that nicotine is one of the most addictive substances known, and that tobacco companies deliberately manipulate nicotine levels in their products to get people hooked on the first cigarette and keep them hooked for life.
In a study published this week in the Journal of the American Medical Association, Theodore Holford of the Yale School of Public Health and colleagues estimated that 17.7 million people died between 1964 and 2012 because of smoking. But they also calculated that tobacco control measures saved 8 million lives. And the average American lives two years longer than they otherwise would have, they said. Smoking rates have plummeted from 42 percent of the population in 1965 to 18 percent today.
Yet smoking still kills 1 in 5 Americans, or 440,000 people a year, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says. That includes more than 49,000 people who die from the effects of secondhand smoke.
And tobacco companies kept up the fight. When they failed to cast doubt on the health effects of smoking, they re-framed the issue as one of personal choice. When schools, cities and employers completely banned smoking on their premises, companies advertised cigarettes as stress-relievers and subtly encouraged smokers to feel like they were somehow edgy rebels instead of tobacco addicts.
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Cigarettes are no longer portrayed as glamorous, and stop-smoking campaigns have saved 8 million lives, a study published this week shows.
Shaking a national addiction
Health experts say there are still ways to get smoking rates lower, even as policymakers grapple with new battles over e-cigarettes.One is to stop people from smoking in the first place, says Dr. James Perrin, president of the American Academy of Pediatrics.
"Eighty-eight percent or more of lifetime smokers start before they turn age 18," he told NBC News. The adolescent brain is particularly susceptible to the addicting effects of nicotine, and just raising the legal age to buy tobacco to 21 would help get kids past the most vulnerable point, he says.
Perrin joins other health experts in urging the Food and Drug Administration to take a firmer hand. "Four years ago, the U.S. stopped sales of candy-flavored cigarettes because they are particularly appealing to children," Perrin said. Yet little cigars flavored like cotton candy, grape and even gummy bears remain on the market. Such products are not aimed at 40-year-olds, Perrin maintains.
Taxes also have been shown to reduce smoking rates. But they are nowhere as near as high as they should be, argues Dick Woodruff of the American Cancer Society's Cancer Action Network. "Taxes work," Woodruff told reporters. But federal taxes are just a dollar a pack. "It's just ridiculous," he says. "We need to overcome the anathema Congress has on taxes and revenues and educate them."
In the 1950s, smoking was considered glamorous. Research now shows it's deadly.
States add their own taxes, and Kentucky, the state with the highest smoking rates, adds just 60 cents a pack, while New York adds $4.35 a pack and Massachusetts $3.50. Studies show that the people most likely to smoke are also the most sensitive to price.
Experts also argue that states aren't spending these tax revenues properly in helping people to stop smoking. They're also not using a big pot of money called the Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement from a giant lawsuit settled in 1998 between the attorneys general of 46 states and the four biggest tobacco companies. It provides $206 billion over 25 years — that's more than $175 million a year per state, or more than $8 billion a year for all the states. Yet states spent just $640 million on tobacco control efforts in 2010.
Warning: Danger inside the pack
Tobacco companies have fought and lobbied against every measure. But anti-tobacco activists marked a victory on Friday. Tobacco companies and the federal government reached an agreement on a series of "corrective statements" the companies must publish. It comes from a 2006 ruling in which Washington, D.C., federal district judge Gladys Kessler ruled that the cigarette companies conspired for decades to conceal the dangers of smoking.
Under the agreement with the Justice Department , each of the companies must publish full-page ads in the Sunday editions of 35 newspapers and on the newspapers' websites, as well as air prime-time TV spots on NBC, CBS or ABC five times per week for a year. They've been fighting over the wording, says Vince Willmore of the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids. "The companies have appealed every step of the way," he said.
These ads must say, for instance:
"Smoking kills, on average, 1,200 Americans. Every day."
"Philip Morris USA, R.J. Reynolds Tobacco, Lorillard, and Altria intentionally designed cigarettes to make them more addictive."
"When you smoke, the nicotine actually changes the brain — that's why quitting is so hard."
The companies also must publish the statements on their own websites and affix them to a certain number of cigarette packs three times per year for two years.
Something else — doctors need to nag their patients more, says Fiore. "I would never dream of letting a patient with high blood pressure leave my office without treating it," Fiore said. "But every day in America, millions of Americans go in and out of a physician's office and their smoking is not treated."
In Cancer, Health, Health Risk, Heart, Heart Disease, Smoking cancer, cigarette, Health news, Heart Disease, Smoking, Tobacco
My why I love technology posting of the day (12/05/13)
Everett heart patient uses Skype to keep up with class
Nicole Olson, 8, stays in school via Skype
BOSTON —It's hard not to smile around 8-year-old Nicole Olson.
Despite being confined to her room at Boston Children's Hospital for the past six weeks, she's usually telling a joke or laughing.
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And she doesn't like to wear pajamas. A pink dress, fur vest and pink fedora are more her style.
The Everett girl is used to hospitals after having a heart transplant when she was 6 days old. But this has been her longest hospital stay since then.
"I'm feeling better, much better. So much better that I just want to bust out of here," Nicole said.
In the meantime, her classmates at the Lafayette School in Everett make sure Nicole knows she's still an important part of Jared Taylor's second grade class.
Her teacher is using Skype to bring Nicole back in the classroom.
"It means a lot," Nicole said. "I really have fun talking to them."
It's also given a lot of comfort to Nicole's family.
"The love and support of the children at the Lafayette School and the teachers and staff — they've all been great," said Lisa Gallagher, Nicole's mother. "They made her never feel that she was left out."
Classmates have made signs and cards. And the school's older students designed pink rubber bracelets that read "Love for Nicole."
"It's become a team effort," said Taylor, Nicole's teacher. "When they have free choice, it's not really free choice anymore. It's Nicole choice. What can we do for Nicole?"
It's a lesson in compassion that has touched the school community and beyond. All inspired by an 8-year-old's smile, strength and style.
"You can have all the standards in the world and curriculum. But sometimes what they learn most is from each other," Taylor said. "In this case, they are learning from Nicole."
In Health, Heart, Heart Disease, Technology Boston, Dancing with the Stars, Heart transplantation, Jared Taylor, Lafayette School, Nicole Olson, School District of the Chathams, Skype
My Health News (09/07/13)
Transparent skull implant provides 'window to the brain'
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/265634.php
Trust is a brain habit in long-term relationships
'Higher stroke risk' in young people
In Behavior, Brain, Health, Heart Disease, Medicine, News, Prevention Brain, habit, Health, Implant, Medicine, relationships, science, Skull, stroke, Transparent
Doctors Support Raising the Smoking Age
http://www.cnn.com/2013/08/26/health/raise-smoking-age-proposal/index.html?hpt=he_c2
Personally, I've always believed that the smoking age and drinking age should have always been the same "21". Why would you have two different ages? It never made sense to me. I've never understood why people ever wanted to do something that could so drastically change the health of their heart, which in turn changes their total health. Smarten up people. Aspire to "Live long, Live strong".
In Cigarettes, Health, Heart Disease, Smoking Health, Smoking


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On an intriguing weekend of games, Division 1 Champions Mohill lost further valuable ground on the top two while Allen Gaels suffered their first loss in Division Two.
With the top of the table clash between Glencar/Manorhamilton & Sean O'Heslin's falling victim to flash flooding on Saturday, there was ground for Mohill to make up but Melvin Gaels held them to a high scoring draw in Kinlough on Saturday, 0-17 to 1-14.
Mohill's goal came from Ronan Kennedy with Keith Beirne scoring four points but it now leaves them three points behind O'Heslin's and four behind Glencar/Manor with a game extra played.
The big move in Division 1 was Gortletteragh who scored an impressive 2-13 to 0-15 win over Aughawillan to move into third place in the table, just a point behind Ballinamore who they have yet to play.
The defeat, however, leaves Aughawillan third from bottom and only separated from the relegation places by two points on scoring difference against Ballinaglera who drew 1-8 apiece with their neighbours Drumkeerin.
Drumkeerin's point was enough to lift them out of the relegation places while a severely injury hit Aughnasheelin must be getting worried after they suffered a 3-15 to 1-10 loss to St. Mary's Kiltoghert after trailing by just two points at halftime.
The victory eases the pressure on the Carrick men who are now on six points, level with Fenagh St. Caillin's who fought out a low-scoring 0-8 apiece draw with Leitrim Gaels.
In Division 2, an impressive Annaduff are now solely top of the table thanks to a 1-26 to 0-6 destruction of Cloone while Allen Gaels suffered their first loss of the campaign to Bornacoola, losing 0-13 to 0-6.
The Drumshanbo men missed a few great chances while the Bors showed the killer instinct to hit three injury time points to secure a win that moves them clear of a crowded relegation zone.
St. Patrick's Dromahair moved into third place in the table, separated only by scoring difference from Allen Gaels, when they secured a had fought 1-8 to 0-13 victory over Carrigallen, who are now only one place above the drop zone.
First teams continue to struggle against second teams in the Division with Ballinamore Sean O'Heslin's drawing with their Drumreilly neighbours, 3-9 apiece, while Kiltubrid had to work hard for their 2-13 to 0-17 win over a Mohill team who beat them in the championship last year.
The final game saw a north Leitrim derby as Glencar/ Manorhamilton defeated Melvin Gaels 5-13 to 0-11.


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Pulčíkovo (1238 m) – szczyt w Wielkiej Fatrze w Karpatach Zachodnich na Słowacji.

Pulčíkovo wznosi się w bocznym, południowo-wschodnim grzbiecie szczytu Šiprúň i stanowi jego zakończenie. Stoki wschodnie opadają na Revúcke podolie, południowo-zachodnie do doliny Nižné Matejkovo, w kierunku północno-wschodnim odbiega krótki grzbiet oddzielający jedno z odgałęzień Trlenskiej doliny od dolinki potoku płynącego przez Jazierce. Podobnie jak inne szczyty w tym miejscu Pulčíkovo zbudowane jest ze skał wapiennych. Wychodnie wapienne znajdują się w kilku miejscach jego stoków, na grzbiecie północno-wschodnim jest to Vlčia skala, a u podnóży wschodnich Bukovinka. Obydwie są pomnikiem przyrody. Pomnikiem przyrody są także położone na północno-wschodnim grzbiecie Jazierskie travertíny.

Znajduje się w otulinie Parku Narodowego Wielka Fatra. Bezleśna jest tylko dolna część jego wschodnich zboczy. Znajdują się na niej pola i zabudowania oraz przebiega nią  elektryczna linia wysokiego napięcia.

Przez szczyt Pulčíkovo nie prowadzi żaden szlak turystyczny, ale jego północno-wschodnimi zboczami drogą leśną poprowadzono szlak rowerowy.

Szlaki turystyczne
  odcinek: Rużomberk – Trlenská dolina – Vlkolínec – Grúň – Pulčíkovo – Jazierskie travertíny – Jazierský vodopád – Trlenská dolina

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Should Men Pay for the First Date: The Courtship Ritual of the Satin Bowerbird
By: Judah Stiefel | November 14, 2018
By Judah Stiefel
It's not about how he used his wallet, it's about why. In today's modern world, one can easily view a man offering to pay for the first date as an anachronistic act of misogyny. Pioneers of gender equality and social justice sound alarms and tear down the walls of patriarchally attributed gender roles. The very reason that this cultural subjugation is finally being torn down is due to a civilizational shift in professional emphasis from manual brute strength (designated as "male") to an emphasis on intellectual acumen. Men were able to create sexist, androcentric cultural codes based on their socioeconomic necessity within a nomadic and agricultural society. It's therefore ironic when a man takes out his wallet to pay. He's fallen behind in the times.
Consider the courtship ritual of the Satin Bowerbird, native to the continent of Australia. When the male of the species reaches sexual maturity, it builds a bower out of twigs and mud and begins to hoard colorful objects it finds from all around, within. The objective of this odd ritual is to attract the female of the species. In today's era of cheap, mass, plastic production, most of this species' treasure trove is now just garbage. To us, the process looks absurd. This bird is flying around filling its home with colorful straws, McDonald's Happy Meal containers, and candy wrappers, yet somehow this frenzied ritual does, in fact, result in the attraction of female Satin Bowerbirds.
This is absolutely not an implication that women are attracted by materialism. In fact, quite the opposite. It is to say that people often do embarrassing, silly things to prove their worth in the name of love. A man attempting to pay on the first date is likely just like the male Satin Bowerbird, trying to display his worth. He flashes a small, colorful piece of plastic in an attempt to gain approval. (If he's in college, it's likely he got it from his parents anyway.) His intentions may be innocent, the alarms going off in your head may be premature. He's just trying to demonstrate his worth, and he has yet to figure out how. After all, he just met you. If the date went well, don't condemn him because he tried to pay. Instead, offer to pay for the next one. Give your Satin Bowerbird a second chance. He may be thick in the head, but at least he's got nice plumage.
The act of a man flashing his wallet at the end of a meal may be off-putting, but this act may not necessarily be a statement of gender suppression. It's more than likely that this man is not trying to establish himself as the alpha male hunter or the pater familial breadwinner. It's true his choice of expression may be founded in ancient gender assumptions, but consider his motivations first before condemning him to a second-dateless Saturday night. It's not about how he used his wallet, it's about why.
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Deepwave is running a new remix contest for his new single, giving the chance to win a digital release on Deepressiva Recordings remixing the track "Energise". Enter now!
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how much longer do we have to wait for the results?
I've just contacted Markus from Deepwave passing him your thoughts, stay tuned.
seriously, this is an extreme lack of respect!!!!! I want to know where the remix went because it REALLY seems that this wasnt a remix contest! Seems more like a scheme to take free remixes from other producers!!!!!


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High Profile Twitter Account(s) Compromised and Bitcoin Scam
6 months ago Jordan Vashey
A number of high-profile Twitter accounts were simultaneously hacked on Wednesday by attackers who used the accounts — some with millions of followers — to spread a cryptocurrency scam.
The Twitter accounts of U.S Presidential front-runner for the democratic party, Joe Biden, Bill Gates, Elon Musk, and many other billionaires were compromised. The attackers posted a Bitcoin address under each compromised account claiming generously that they would double the money sent to their Bitcoin accounts. See below.
Joe Biden's Twitter Account Hacked
Update from Twitter – 7/18/20
On Friday evening, Twitter issued its first full blog post about what happened after the biggest security lapse in the company's history, one that led to attackers getting hold of some of the highest profile Twitter accounts in the world — including Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, President Barack Obama, Tesla CEO Elon Musk, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, Kanye West, Michael Bloomberg, and more.
The bad news: Twitter has now revealed that the attackers may indeed have downloaded the private direct messages (DMs) of up to 8 individuals while conducting their Bitcoin scam, and were able to see "personal information" including phone numbers and email addresses for every account they targeted.
That's because Twitter has confirmed that attackers attempted to download the entire "Your Twitter Data" archive for those 8 individuals, which contains DMs among other info.
They may even have DMs that the 8 individuals tried to delete, given that Twitter stores DMs on its servers as long as either party to a conversation keeps them around — we learned last February that you can retrieve deleted DMs by downloading the "Your Twitter Data" archive, even if you've deleted them yourself. The archive can also include other personal information like your address book and any images and videos you may have attached to those private messages as well.
The good news: Twitter claims none of those 8 accounts were verified users, suggesting that none of the highest-profileindividuals targeted had their data downloaded. It's still possible that the hackers looked at their DMs, but no, Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden and others probably didn't just get their DMs stolen outright.
According to Twitter, hackers targeted 130 accounts; successfully triggered a password reset, logged in, and tweeted from 45 of them; and only attempted to download data for that "up to eight" non-verified accounts. We do not know how many accounts they may have scanned for personal information or how many DMs they might have simply accessed or read.
And for the larger batch of 130 accounts — including high-profile ones like the Democratic presidential candidate — Twitter says they may have been able to see other sorts of personal information. Twitter also allows logged in users to see a location history of the places and times that they've logged in, as an example.
Twitter previously confirmed that its own internal employee tools were used to facilitate the account takeovers, and suspected that its employees had fallen for a social engineering scam — now, the company is going further to say definitively that the attackers "successfully manipulated a small number of employees and used their credentials to access Twitter's internal systems, including getting through our two-factor protections."
That aligns with the prevailing theories, which you can read more about in the NYT's impressive report here.
There are still many, many more questions and serious investigations still ahead.
You can read Twitter's full blog post here.
Jordan Vashey
Cybersecurity Engineer | Website
Jordan is a Cybersecurity Engineer who has consulted in numerous sectors such as finance, education, manufacturing, and public sector organizations within the United States.
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Implications on Financial Flows after COP26 – A Board Perspective.
« Boards as drivers of Corporate Renewal and Sustainability
Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Requirements and Impact on Boards »
Climate Governance Initiative Webinar on
Many countries have put forward ambitious 2030 emissions reduction targets (NDCs) that align with reaching net zero by the middle of the century, and business has a critical role to the low carbon transition. At COP26, international financial institutions are expected to be to redirect trillions in private and public sector finance to support the global adaptation and mitigation plan.
As the governing body of companies, boards will need to understand how they best can support their companies to attract finance going forward. This seminar will explore the implications on financial flows for companies after COP26.
• What will investors and creditors demand of businesses, in light of climate change and the conclusions from the COP26 meeting?
• What new financial flows and trends are emerging?
• What can companies and boards do to meet new requirements?
• What are the changing expectations on boards, and what good practices are emerging?
• What will happen to those companies that cannot attract finance? Is divestiture the answer?
On November 23 at 13.30 CET, 20:30 HK, 7.30 AM EST The Climate Governance Initiative in collaboration with World Economic Forum invites you to a one-hour webinar discussing Implications on financial flows after COP26 – a board perspective. The webinar is organized by the Nordic Chapter, Boards Impact Forum.
Panelists and Moderator
• Laura M Cha – Chairman, Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing, NED of Unilever, Senior International Advisor of FAM Sweden AB, Director World Federation of Exchanges, Vice Chairman of the International Advisory Council of the China Securities Regulatory Commission
• Werner Schnappauf – Chair of the German Council for Sustainable Development, Senior Advisor to Bank of America, Partner Graf von Westfalen, Former Member of the Supervisory Board of Allianz Deutschland, State Minister for Environmental Protection and CEO of the Federation of German Industries.
• Carine Smith Ihenacho – Chief Governance and Compliance Officer at Norges Bank Investment Management, Manager of Norwegian Government Pension Fund with 1,4 Trillion dollars under management, the largest single owner in world stock markets with holding in 9000 companies
• Magnus Billing – CEO at Alecta, 5th largest pension fund in Europe, 130 Billion dollars under management and recognized for its trailblazing sustainability focus. Previous CEO of Nasdaq Nordic and of EU high level expert group on Sustainable Finance
• Moderator: Liselotte Engstam, Board member of the Climate Governance Initiative in collaboration with World Economic Forum & Chair of the Nordic Chapter Boards Impact Forum. Chair and NED of listed and private companies.The session is open to the global network and convene board members, regulators, experts, academia, and other corporate governance leaders, with the aim to be relevant to boards of directors enabling them to act upon the risks and opportunities that the climate emergency poses to the long-term resilience and business success of their companies.
About The Climate Governance Initiative (CGI) : CGI was established to build a community of non-executive directors who understand and can position the climate challenge with their board colleagues. Decisions made at the board-level have a significant impact on the climate challenge as corporations are responsible for generating sizeable emissions of carbon. In collaboration with a growing number of chapters around the world, the CGI helps non-executive directors put the World Economic Forum's Climate Governance Principles into practice. It was launched in 2019 and is part of the World Economic Forum's Climate Action Platform.
Speaker Bios:
Laura M Cha
Laura is chairman of Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Ltd and a Senior International Advisor of Foundation Asset Management AB. She is non-executive board director of Unilever. She is also a member of the Executive Council of HKSAR Government.
Laura became the first person outside Mainland China to join the Chinese Central Government at the vice-ministerial rank when she was appointed as vice chairman of the China Securities Regulatory Commission in 2001. She stayed in that post until 2004. Previously, she worked in the Securities and Futures Commission in Hong Kong from 1991 to 2000. Laura was also an independent non-executive director of HSBC Holdings plc between 2011 and 2021.
Laura has also been recognised for public service by the Hong Kong government, which awarded her the Grand Bauhinia Medal in 2017, a Gold Bauhinia Star in 2009 and a Silver Bauhinia Star in 2001.
Laura was educated in the US with a BA from the University of Wisconsin and a JD (Juris Doctorate) degree from the University of Santa Clara. Laura has also been recognised for public service by the Hong Kong government, which awarded her a Gold Bauhinia Star in July 2009 and a Silver Bauhinia Star in 2001.
Werner Schnappauf
Dr Werner Schnappauf is partner at the law firm Graf von Westphalen and CEO of Shcnappauf Consulting. Among his clients is Bank of America to which he is senior advisor since 2011. In his decades-long career, Dr Schnappauf has acquired broad experience in the fields of economy, ecology and sustainability. He served as Bavarian State Minister for Environmental Protection, CEO of the Federation of German Industries (BDI) and was a member of the Federal Assembly.
He sat on the Supervisory Board of Allianz Deutschland and currently serves on the Board of Trustees for both the Allianz Environment Foundation (Allianz Umweltstiftung) and the University of Munic's ifo Institute. At Bucerius Law School in Hamburg, he presides over the Circle on Energy Law and Policy. In 2016, Chancellor Angela Merkel appointed Dr Schnappauf to the German Council for Sustainable Development in 2020, he was elected as the Council's Chair.
Carine Smith Ihenacho
Carine Smith Ihenacho is responsible for the governance and compliance area, which includes ownership and responsible investment activities, control and operational risk, compliance and legal services at Norges Bank Investment Management. Prior to joining Norges Bank Investment Management, Ms Ihenacho was Vice President Legal and Chief Compliance Officer in Equinor ASA. She has more than 20 years' experience as a lawyer, working in both financials and the energy industry, as well as in law firms. She also has extensive board experience.
Ihenacho holds a law degree from the University of Oslo, a Master of Law from Harvard Law School and a Master of Economics from the Norwegian School of Economics (NHH).
Magnus Billing
Magnus Billing is the CEO of the occupational pension company Alecta, with appr 130 USD assets under management and is owned by approximately 2,6 million private customers and 35,000 corporate clients. Prior to joining Alecta, Magnus Billing was the CEO NASDAQ Nordics and Baltic Markets, and has been working in the financial industry since early 2001.
Magnus Billing was a member of the High-Level Expert Group (HLEG) on sustainable finance that the EU Commission appointed and gave the task to come up with recommendations for how to create a sustainable EU financial market. Magnus Billing is chairman of the Board of Directors for Stockholm Sustainable Finance Center. The center was established and is supported by the Swedish Government, Stockholm School of Economics and Stockholm Environment Institute.
Magnus Billing was previously a member of the NASDAQ Listing Committee, secretary of the Board of Directors, NASDAQ Nordic Foundation, and served as director of Federation of European Securities Exchanges, Swedish House of Finance and as an alternate director of the Swedish Corporate Governance Code Board of Directors. He holds a degree in law from Stockholm University.
Liselotte Engstam
Liselotte Engstam is a Member of the Global Governing board of the Climate Governance Initiative in collaboration with World Economic Forum, and Chair of the Nordic chapter: Boards Impact Forum. She is a Chair at FCG Group (priv), a Non-Executive Director at TietoEvry (publ), Transtema (publ), Zalaris (publ), Ografy (priv) and at the Academic Foundation IMIT.
Engstam is the founder of Digoshen, a Think Tank hosting board membership networks and programs, is an affiliated academic researcher on board topics, and co-author of several books about boards.
She has a background from international executive leadership positions in major European, American, and Indian companies in technology, engineering, and professional services sectors.
Engstam holds an M.Sc. in Engineering and Sustainability from Chalmers University of Technology, an international board certification (IDP-C) from INSEAD, is a Fellow at the Institute of Coaching, Harvard Medical School, and was appointed one of 2021 Modern Governance Top 100 professionals in the world.
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Born on King Street in Leith north of Edinburgh, John Gladstones was the eldest son of the merchant Thomas Gladstones, and his wife, Helen Neilson.
He was the second son, and third child of Sir John Gladstone and the brother of William Ewart Gladstone who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom four times.
He was the fourth child of Sir John Gladstone, a Scottish-born businessman who settled in Liverpool and made a large fortune initially from trading in corn with the United States and cotton with Brazil, and later through sugar plantations in Jamaica.
The elder brother of the Liberal Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone, he was born in Liverpool, the eldest son (and second child) of the wealthy Scottish businessman Sir John Gladstone, 1st Baronet and his second wife Anne MacKenzie Robertson.
John never travelled abroad again: but the new couple settled into Rodney Street.
Gladstone decided that he wanted to move his young family away from the city centre, and in 1813 the Gladstone family finally settled at Seaforth House, two years after construction had begun.
Jack was deported to the island of Saint Lucia after the rebellion following a clemency plea by Sir John Gladstone, the owner of "Success" plantation.
Around 1820 John Gladstone began searching for an estate in Scotland, and in December 1829 he purchased the Fasque Estate in Kincardineshire from Sir Alexander Ramsay for £80,000.
It was purchased in 1829 by Sir John Gladstone, 1st Baronet, father of Thomas Gladstone and William Ewart Gladstone, later Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, who often stayed there.
Sir John Gladstone, who had never set foot on his plantation, had acquired half share in the plantation in 1812 through mortgage default; he acquired the remaining half four years later.
Although he wanted to stand for election in Liverpool, there was no vacancy, and he was obliged to explore other possibilities, including Ross-shire and Stafford, before deciding to stand for Lancaster in the general election of 1818.
He finally served as MP for Berwick-upon-Tweed from 1826 to 1827.
At the general election of 1818, Gladstone chose to stand for Woodstock, due to the heavy financial cost of the Lancaster constituency.
Sir John Gladstone of Fasque, 1st Baronet, FRSE LLD (11 December 1764 – 7 December 1851) was a Scottish merchant, slave-trader, Member of Parliament, and the father of the British Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone. Born on King Street in Leith north of Edinburgh, John Gladstones was the eldest son of the merchant Thomas Gladstones, and his wife, Helen Neilson.
As a result of the Slavery Abolition Act 1833 which abolished slavery in the British Empire, Gladstone expelled most African workers from his estates and imported large numbers of indebted Indian indentured-servants, through false promises of providing them schools and medical attention.
On completing his apprenticeship in 1781, he entered his father's corn and grain trading and provisioning business.
On completing his apprenticeship in 1781, he entered his father's corn and grain trading and provisioning business. In 1784, he sent John to the German Baltic ports to buy grain, transacting his business through an interpreter.
Thomas Gladstones was aware of the limitations of Leith, especially compared with the opportunities then opening up in Glasgow and in Liverpool.
In 1784, he sent John to the German Baltic ports to buy grain, transacting his business through an interpreter.


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Tag Archives: collaborative
Filmmaking, Media & Society
Mentors Breathe Inspiration into Creativity
My Home Town Movie Theatre
When I mentor young filmmakers in how to develop their style and breathe life into their films, I often watch their eyes close me out from their thoughts. They are adamant about making sure the film is theirs and they don't want anyone to give them a helping hand. This is problematic for a collaborative art form.
The idea of inspiring someone to a higher level of art can only come from words of encouragement, difficult moments of challenge, and the sharing of conceptual ideas. The word, "inspire," means to "breathe into" or to "infuse with life by breathing." That means someone has to do the breathing of new ideas to help the filmmaker get his mind cranking.
The creative process requires an environment of ideas, enthusiasm and energy. These are tools that help us gain experience from others and expose our minds to various styles and artistry. The shared wealth of history creates a powerful form of influence that brings the young filmmaker to a higher level of art than his or her counter parts ever achieve. Yet, Millennials seldom want to collaborate.
Inspiration of Mentors Stir Our Heartfelt Voice
The best thing that happens in a collaborative process is the deep sense that your own ideas demand to be heard. From deep within the gut comes this voice begging to resound. The inspiration of mentors draw out those deep ideas from within us and we suddenly find a way to express them. The inspiration brings our ideas to the surface so we can take action.
Unfortunately some people think that when you share a creative idea with the hopes of inspiring them, they think you want them to use your idea. But that is far from the truth. The mentor only wants to get the filmmaker thinking about something they never finished thinking about—that special something that resides deep within their heart.
I was mentoring one filmmaker who wanted to create a world that lacked water. The scarcity drove many to kill for a single cup of fresh water. The original script had a sign in it that made the idea of water scarce, but I suggested he find a way to demonstrate the rarity of water instead.
His latest cut of the film had the water sewn throughout the entire story as the key driver of all decisions made by every character. It became obvious that the liquid was such a rare commodity that everyone's life changed in the presence of fresh water. Within that setting his protagonist could then mature and become a person who questioned his selfishness and chose to demonstrate love sacrificially.
While I gave him a handful of ideas that were plausible to demonstrate the scarcity of water, he was inspired enough to come up with his own unique ideas. Not one of my suggestions made it into the film, which was good, because my goal was to inspire his convictions and expressions. His choices worked.
The Journey of Understanding
Film is an emotional medium that comes from the heart. Those who hold to conservative standards make conservative films. Those who understand the liberal first and then make conservative films takes the audience on a journey that ends with a conservative view that makes sense to all, not just those with likeminded ideologies.
By finding inspiration from both sides of the political spectrum, a filmmaker becomes more powerful in the messages he can send to an audience that's hungry for answers to the latest societal issues. But closed-minded conservatives who only focus on their views can present nothing of value to the liberal.
And what good is a film that only reaches the likeminded?
Film is not necessary when used as a tool of validation. It's only necessary to help opposing viewpoints be understood. When film demonstrates the potential results of an idea, while touching the emotions of everyone watching, the audience is able to buy into the concepts and consider how they might apply within their own life.
For this reason I hangout with liberals and conservatives. I read both sides of every issue. And, I create paths through story that will take an audience to the life-breathing conclusion that cries out to be heard. These actions breathe creativity into each viewer so he or she is capable of altering their life with healthier choices.


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Convert 8000 days. How much is 8000 days? What is 8000 days in other units? Convert to seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, and years. To calculate, enter your desired inputs, then click calculate. Finally, check the summary to find out the result.
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Founded in 1972 (as Little, Michaels and Kennedy), LMK Insurance has grown to be one of the Delaware Valley's most experienced and respected insurance brokers. This reputation has been earned through more than 45 years of serving the unique insurance and financial needs of a wide range of clients, including businesses and individuals.
Now in its second generation of ownership, LMK offers an exceptional staff of licensed insurance professionals, the hands-on leadership of a committed management team and a wealth of resources within the industry. As independent agents, we have access to a broad range of insurance providers and can develop recommendations for our clients that are ideally suited to their coverage needs. These factors, together with our commitment to bring the highest level of service, professional insurance advice and innovative solutions, have resulted in long-term relationships with our clients.
To protect the assets of our individual clients, we provide coverage through the top regional and national insurance carriers.
We can provide a broad range of benefits including medical, disability, life, dental, vision, 401 K savings plans, IRAs, annuities, flexible spending accounts (FSAs), and COBRA administration.


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Q: How to serialize and deserialize hierarchical class as xml in C#? Actually I could serialize but i couldn't deserialize it. I need to have an object of my viewmodel with all children from output of destabilization and also i'm not sure where i should set my xml attributes; model or view model.
Here's my clss and viewmodel
public class Person
{
     public string Name { get; set; }
     readonly List<Person> children = new List<Person>();
     public IList<Person> Children
     {
         get { return children; }
     }
}

public class PersonViewModel : {

private ObservableCollection<PersonViewModel> children;
private Person person;

public PersonViewModel()
{
    person = new Person();
}

public PersonViewModel(Person _person)
{
    person = _person;
    children = new ObservableCollection<PersonViewModel>(
            (from child in _person.Children
                select new PersonViewModel(child))
                .ToList<PersonViewModel>());
}

[XmlElement("Name", typeof(string))]
public string Name
{
    get
    {
        return person.Name;
    }

    set
    {
        person.Name = value;
        this.RaisePropertyChanged("Name");
    }
}

[XmlArray("Children", IsNullable = false), XmlArrayItem("Person"),]
public ObservableCollection<PersonViewModel> Children
{
    get
    {
        return children;
    }
}

}
this is the content of xml file that my code generated already.
but when i want to deserilize it to an object type of my view model, the children won't initialized by existing data.

Serializer:
            XmlSerializer xs = new XmlSerializer(typeof(PersonViewModel), new XmlRootAttribute { ElementName = "OrgChart" });
        using (StreamWriter wr = new StreamWriter(System.AppDomain.CurrentDomain.BaseDirectory + "OrgChart.XML"))
        {
            xs.Serialize(wr, rootPerson);
        }

Deserializer:
                    XmlSerializer xs = new XmlSerializer(typeof(PersonViewModel), new XmlRootAttribute { ElementName = "OrgChart" });

                FileStream fs = new FileStream(filePath, FileMode.Open);
                XmlReader reader = XmlReader.Create(fs);

                rootPerson = SelectedItem = Profile = (PersonViewModel)xs.Deserialize(reader);
                reader.Close();


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This night light would be great for the little ones to scare away the monsters, or to just make sure you don't stub your toe on the way to the bathroom. It comes in 4 colors for you to choose.
This adorable music box plays the ending song, "Yasashisa ni Tsutsumareta nara" while the cats inside move along to the music.
This cute plush is sure to make any fan of Princess Mononoke very happy! This plush length is around 15 cm so it will fit in the palm of your hand.
As seen in Spirited Away, these sugar candies are sure to satisfy your sweet tooth. This would make a great gift for a friend, or just keep it in your desk when your cravings strike!
This 8" plush toy lets you bring No Face with you to the office, home, or anywhere else you want a little more magic! He stands up on his own and is huggable!
Need to take a nap on a flight? Haku is here to save the day! This super comfortable neck pillow will help prevent you from getting a crick in your neck, while showing how much a Spirited Away fan you are!
Keep your food warm/cool in this insulated lunch bag!
Soot Sprite suction cup plush toy is sure to please Miyazaki and Spirited Away fans! Also featured in our Holiday Stocking Stuffers Gift Guide!
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Major

### Version Introduced
4.5

### Version Reverted
4.5.2

### Source Analyzer Status
Planned

### Change Description
When targeting the .NET Framework 4.5 in the workflow designer, and loading a re-hosted 3.5 workflow with the WorkflowDesigner.Load() method, a XamlDuplicateMemberException is thrown while saving the workflow.

- [x] Quirked
- [ ] Build-time break

### Recommended Action
This bug only manifests when targeting .NET Framework 4.5 in the workflow designer, so it can be worked around by setting the `WorkflowDesigner.Context.Services.GetService<DesignerConfigurationService>().TargetFrameworkName` to the 4.0 .NET Framework.

Alternatively, the issue may be avoided by using the [WorkflowContext.Load(string)](https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee425926(v=vs.110).aspx) method to load the workflow, instead of [WorkflowDesigner.Load()](https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee403482(v=vs.110).aspx).

### Affected APIs
* `M:System.Activities.Presentation.WorkflowDesigner.Load`

### Category
Windows Workflow Foundation (WF)

[More information](https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/details/786503/)


Join us for An Evening of Elegance at our 2019 Lincoln Day Dinner Fundraiser. Details can be found on our Lincoln Day Dinner Event Page. Buy Tickets Here.
We had a great 2017 Lincoln Day Dinner that was well attended with Congressman Jack Bergman speaking!


After an extensive search, testing quite a lot of plug-ins in a search for a free mosaic plug-in, I finally found Flow-Flow.
The WordPress theme I'm using did some odd things to the feed's layout, but with a simple fix from the developer (thank you Alexander at Looks Awesome for the super-quick response) it looks exactly as it "did on the box".
Super easy to use, lots of features for a free plug-in, I'd recommend it in a heartbeat.


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Q: Use xPath or Regex? The two methods below each serve the same purpose: scan the content of the post and determine if at least one img tag has an alt attribute which contains the "keyword" which is being tested for.
I'm new to xPath and would prefer to use it depending on how expensive that approach is compared to the regex version...
Method #1 uses preg_match
function image_alt_text_has_keyword($post)
        {
            $theKeyword = trim(wpe_getKeyword($post));
            $theContent = $post->post_content;
            $myArrayVar = array();
            preg_match_all('/<img\s[^>]*alt=\"([^\"]*)\"[^>]*>/siU',$theContent,$myArrayVar);
            foreach ($myArrayVar[1] as $theValue)
            {
                if (keyword_in_content($theKeyword,$theValue)) return true;
            }
            return false;
        }

function keyword_in_content($theKeyword, $theContent)
        {
            return preg_match('/\b' . $theKeyword . '\b/i', $theContent);
        }

Method #2 uses xPath
function keyword_in_img_alt()
{
global $post;
$keyword = trim(strtolower(wpe_getKeyword($post)));
$dom = new DOMDocument;
$dom->loadHTML(strtolower($post->post_content));
$xPath = new DOMXPath($dom);
return $xPath->evaluate('count(//a[.//img[contains(@alt, "'.$keyword.'")]])');
}

A: Using RegEx for selecting nodes in an XML document is as appropriate as using it for finding if a given number is a prime.
The fact that this is possible doesn't make it even a bit appropriate.
What is more, XPath 2.0 has RegEx support while RegEx do not have XPath support. Therefore, if both are needed, it is probably best to use XPath 2.0

A: If you are parsing XML you should use XPath as it was designed exactly for this purpose. XML / XHTML is not a regular language and cannot be parsed correctly by regular expressions. You may be able to write a regular expression which works some of the time but there will be special cases where it will fail.


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Q: Can I get all validation errors in spring boot web application? I have a pojo like below (please assume a controller and rest of the code. Application is in Spring boot):
@Getter  @Setter
@AllArgsConstructor  @NoArgsConstructor
public class User  {
    @NotBlank(message = "userName is blank")
    private String userName;

    @NotBlank(message = "secretKey is blank")
    private String secretKey;
}

and defined a ExceptionHandler class annotated with @ControllerAdvice and defined a method as bellow:
    @ResponseStatus(HttpStatus.BAD_REQUEST)
    @ExceptionHandler(value = {MethodArgumentNotValidException.class})
    protected ResponseEntity<ErrorResponse> handleMethodArgNotValidException(MethodArgumentNotValidException ex,Locale locale) {
        // code to handle exception.
    }

    @ResponseStatus(HttpStatus.BAD_REQUEST)
    @ExceptionHandler(value = {WebExchangeBindException.class})
    protected ResponseEntity<ErrorResponse> handleException(WebExchangeBindException ex, Locale locale) {
        // code to handle exception.
    }

But in this case even if both fields have validation errors client is getting only one.
I want to ask that is there any way I can list out all the validation errors in the response of this endpoint?
curl --location --request POST 'localhost/api/login' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--data-raw '{
    "userName": null,
    "secretKey": null
}'

A: You can get the BindingResult from MethodArgumentNotValidException and then compose a message based on all rejected fields, for example:
@ControllerAdvice
public class GlobalExceptionHandler {

    @ResponseStatus(HttpStatus.BAD_REQUEST)
    @ExceptionHandler(value = {MethodArgumentNotValidException.class})
    protected ResponseEntity<ErrorResponse> handleMethodArgNotValidException(MethodArgumentNotValidException ex, Locale locale) {

        String errorMessage = ex.getBindingResult()
                .getFieldErrors()
                .stream()
                .map(fieldError -> fieldError.getField() + ": " + fieldError.getDefaultMessage())
                .collect(Collectors.joining("; "));

        // put errorMessage into ErrorResponse
        // return ResponseEntity<ErrorResponse>
    }
}

Example of possible output with message:
{
    "timestamp": "2022-01-28T17:18:53.1738558+03:00",
    "status": 400,
    "error": "BadRequest",
    "errorMessage": "userName: userName is blank; secretKey: secretKey is blank"
}


As the Revolution have passed on selections in the third and fourth rounds of the 2019 MLS SuperDraft, it's time to do a quickie check on the roster as it stands headed into the final week of the pre-preseason; preseason workouts begin next Monday, January 21 before the club heads to Spain for additional training.
Just a reminder that the roster becomes official just before the start of the season. As we did last month, we'll consider this as an unofficial placeholder, just to show Revs supporters how everything should shake out; I based this off the 2018 Revolution roster.
As you notice, I have adjusted things from the last posting back on Dec. 20, yet kept Brian Bilello's tweet from the day before that in mind as I've set this up.
On Dec. 20, I had Brandon Bye in the Supplemental, but with Tajon Buchanan sitting there as a Generation Adidas player, that would move him back to the Reserve Roster, where he was in 2018.
But why not the Senior? Again, remember Bilello's tweet about signing 3 or 4 above maximum Salary Budget Charge players ($530,000 is the max SBC for 2019) before the season; the actual tweet said "Will add," so we're holding him to that. One of those "3-4" was signed the next day — Juan Fernando Caicedo — so we'll reduce that to 2 or 3, which would be enough to fill the Senior Roster should those moves go through.
Right now, New England sits at 24 players on the roster.