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$5.75 Million for Philosopher-Led Interdisciplinary Project on Public Discourse
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Michael Lynch, professor of philosophy at the University of Connecticut, has been awarded a $5.75 million grant from the John Templeton Foundation for The Public Discourse Project: Balancing Humility and Conviction in Public Life, an interdisciplinary research and engagement project. Historian Brendan Kane is the co-principal investigator on the grant. It is the single-largest grant ever awarded by Templeton, and quite possibly the largest research grant ever awarded in the humanities.
The grant will be administered by the University of Connecticut Humanities Institute, and will fund research into various aspects of public discourse. Professor Lynch writes:
Central concerns of the grant include whether awareness of our own implicit biases can play a productive role in public dialogue, and whether we can balance being open-minded and responsive to reasons with being deeply committed to our political and religious principles.
The three year project involves public forums, workshops, a fellowship program and a $2 million call for research proposals. Initial letters of intent for our research funding competition are due May 1st. See the website for details.
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Aleeta curvicosta (обично позната као брашнасти пекар или млинар, позната до 2003. као Abricta curvicosta) је врста цврчка, једног од најпознатијих инсеката у Аустралији. Пореклом са источне обале континента, описао га је 1834. године Ернст Фридрих Гермар. Брашнасти пекар је једина описана врста у роду Aleeta.
Карактеристичан изглед брашнасте пекаре и гласан позив чине је популарном међу децом. И уобичајено и име рода потичу од белих влакана налик брашну који покривају тело одрасле особе. Његово тело и очи су углавном смеђе боје са бледим шарама укључујући светлу линију дуж средње линије пронотума. Њена предња крила имају карактеристичне тамно смеђе мрље у основи две апикалне ћелије. Женка је већа од мужјака, иако укупна величина врсте варира географски, са већим животињама повезаним са регионима са већим падавинама. Мужјак има карактеристичне гениталије и гласан и сложен зов генерисан честим извијањем ребрастих бубњића и појачан трбушним ваздушним кесама.

Брашнасти пекар је усамљен и јавља се у малим густинама. Јединке обично излазе из тла током тромесечног периода од краја новембра до краја фебруара и могу се срести до маја. Брашнасти пекар се налази на великом броју дрвећа, са одређеним предностима за врсте папирне коре (Melaleuca). Релативно је лош летач, плен је осе убица цикада и великог броја птица, и може подлећи гљивичној болести специфичној за цикаде.

Таксономија
Немачки природњак Ернст Фридрих Гермар описао је брашнастог пекара 1834. као Cicada curvicosta. Гермар је засновао опис на два примерка који се сада налазе у Природњачком музеја Универзитета у Оксфорду, али није одредио типски примерак и њихове тачне локације нису забележене. Године 2003. један од оригиналних примерака је означен као лектотип, а други као паралектотип.

Истакнути шведски ентомолог Карл Стол дао је име роду Abricta 1866. године, и он је или третиран као подрод рода Tibicen (Lyristes) или као засебан род. Тако је постао познат као Tibicen curvicostus, и Abricta curvicosta од 1906. Француски ентомолог Жан Баптист Боисдувал описао је два примерка сакупљена из Порт Џексона као Cicada tephrogaster (касније Tibicen tephrogaster) 1835; ово се дуго сматрало млађим синонимом. Међутим, преглед рода из 2003. показао да је Abricta била различита група врста, а аустралијски чланови су премештени у друге родове. Макс Молдс је спровео морфолошку анализу рода и открио да су цикаде природно подељене у кладе према биогеографском региону. Од 15 аустралијских врста, брашнасти пекар је био најранији изданак. Необјављени подаци су потврдили да је прилично генетски удаљена од осталих 14 врста, па је класификована у нови монотипски род Aleeta, док је већина осталих стављена у род Tryella. Морфолошка разлика између Aleeta и Tryellaсе заснива на два фактора: A. curvicosta има већу величину предњег крила – ретко мање од 3,2 cm и обично преко 4 cm, док Tryella никада није већа од 3,2 cm; некални режњеви карактеристичних мушких гениталија Aleeta су оборени на својим дисталним крајевима, док су они од Tryella окренути нагоре. Име Aleeta је изведено од грчког "aleton" што значи брашно или оброк.

Уобичајено име пекар од брашна добија по изгледу да је посут брашном, а и народни термини пекар и млинар су били у употреби до 1860. Назив је понекад искварен као "пекар са цвећем". Од 1905. исти назив "пекар од брашна" био је у употреби и за другу врсту аустралијске цикаде (Altria perulata, сада Arunta perulata), која има беле "вреће" као звучне кутије. Та врста се данас обично назива "бели бубњар".

Филогенетски докази потврђују да су Aleeta и Tryella најближи рођаци познатих периодичних цикада (род Magicicada) у Северној Америци упркос томе што су географски раздвојене.

Опис
Са дужином тела од 2,9 cm, предњим крилима дугим између 3 и 5,1 cm, распоном крила од 9-10 cm и тежине око 1,02 г, брашнасти пекач је цврчак средње величине. Појединци се значајно разликују по величини по регионима у зависности од локалних падавина. Подручја са просечном годишњом количином падавина од преко 1.000 мм – углавном приобална – имају много веће јединке, са просечном дужином предњег крила око 1 cm дуже од оних у областима са мало падавина.

Одрасла јединка је смеђа са белим прашњавим изгледом; бели паперјасти филаменти покривају већи део тела, ногу и неке вене на крилима, али се ово сребрно крзно са тела лако отире, па је често значајно смањено код старијих одраслих особа и музејских примерака. Појединци имају различите ознаке на телу, али сви имају бледу средњу линију на пронотуму. Ноге су им смеђе, понекад жућкасте, али без изразитих ознака. Њихова сува маса је у просеку 36,2% њихове укупне телесне масе, већа од већине аустралијских цикада, што сугерише јак егзоскелетни оклоп. Очи су им тамносмеђе. Имају жућкасту оперкулу који се бочно простиру далеко изван тела. Женка је нешто већа од мужјака. У принципу има сличну боју и ознаке, иако може бити мало блеђа у неким областима. Њен девети трбушни сегмент је дугачак и тамноцрвенкасто-браон, понекад делимично склон црној боји. Њен овипозитор је дугачак, нагнут надоле, а овојница јајолога је црна или тамноцрвенкасто-смеђа.

Крила су провидна са црним или смеђим жилама и браон-црном мрљом у основи апикалних ћелија 2 и 3. Ове мрље су понекад спојене у непрекидни цик-цак тамно браон до црне боје. Базална ћелија је често непрозирна и ћилибарске боје. Као и код многих инсеката, мембране крила су обложене са обе стране понављајућим узорком кутикуларних наноструктура, висине око 200 нм, раздвојених за око 180 нм. Сматра се да помажу у антирефлексној камуфлажи, против влажења и самочишћењу.

Мушки позив се може чути у било које доба дана и састоји се од необичног звука шиштања, који почиње као серија сибилантних рафала од једне секунде у размаку од једне секунде, који се понављају брже док не постану константно шиштање које траје 7–10 с. Описан као "рп, рп, рп, рп, рррррп", звук се производи када појединачне мишићне контракције кликну на бубну унутрашњу страну, извијајући 7–9 бубних ребара, од којих свако производи пулс. Ово се дешава наизменично на два тимбала и брзо се понавља на фреквенцији од око 143 Hz (у групама од по четири, осим када је цврчак у невољи – када су негруписани и на нижој фреквенцији), дајући фреквенцију понављања пулса од око 1050 у секунди, са релативно широким опсегом звучних фреквенција од 7,5–10,5 kHz,  која има доминантну фреквенцију (на којој се примећује вршна енергија)  од 9,5–9,6 kHz.

Трбушне трахеалне ваздушне кесе окружују звучне мишиће и протежу се у абдомен, делујући као резонантне коморе за појачавање звука. Брашнасти пекач брзо продужава или подиже свој стомак, модулишући тако утицај ваздушних кеса на звук како би променили његову јачину, висину или мелодију током увода у слободну песму. Ово се може чути када је цикада неометана у свом природном окружењу, док мужјаци цикада користе ове позиве да привуку женке. Ова врста је једна од најгласнијих аустралијских цикада  и названа је "најбољим музичарем од свих".

Брашнасти пекар се разликује од сличне неописане врсте A. sp. nr. curvicosta (мали брашнасти пекач) по структури мушких гениталија и чујно јасном позиву. Припадници  Aleeta and Tryella се лако разликују од других аустралијских цикада јер немају поклопце бубњића, док се обална ивица њихових предњих крила повећава према месту где је крило причвршћено за тело. Код ових родова је јасно шира од обалне вене.

Животни циклус
Јаја се полажу у низ прореза које обично исече мајчин јајовод на живим гранама или гранчицама њихових биљака за исхрану. У просеку око шеснаест јаја, од укупно неколико стотина, положи се у сваки прорез. Сва серија се излеже око 70 дана касније – обично у року од дан или два једна од друге – али траје дуже у хладним или сувим условима. Овипозиција је примећена на широком спектру аутохтоних и интродукованих биљних врста и може да ослаби гране младих воћњака тако да не могу да издрже оптерећење својих плодова.

Након излегања, нимфе падају са грана да траже пукотину у земљишту где могу да се закопају, често до дубине од 10–40 cm, копајући својим великим предњим ногама. Сматра се да веће врсте цикада као што је A. curvicosta проводе 2-8 година под земљом, а за то време расту и хране се соком из корена дрвећа. Оне се митаре пет пута пре него што изађу из земље да би одбациле своју последњу љуску. Иако се стално дешава ноћу, појава популације је дифузно распрострањена током сезоне у поређењу са аустралијским врстама веће густине. Однос полова је око 1,15 мужјака према свакој женки, доследан током ницања. Брзина метаболизма у периоду од око 6,5 сати током појаве A. curvicosta је око 1,8 пута већа од брзине метаболизма одрасле особе у мировању. Студија у југоисточном Квинсленду објавила је да ће се нимфе појавити на већини врста дрвећа, али да избегавају Норфолску араукарију (Araucaria heterophylla) и кору широког листа (Melaleuca quinquenervia). Одрасле јединке се обично налазе између новембра и маја, али се понекад примећују већ у септембру па све до јуна. Забележено је да се појављују сваке године, углавном у децембру и јануару у западном Сиднеју,  са сличним периодом појаве од 92 дана од краја новембра до краја фебруара забележеним у југоисточном Квинсленду. То је чини једном од последњих аустралијских цикада које се појављују сваке сезоне. Нимфа се свим ногама хвата за кору дрвета, гута ваздух и редистрибуира хемолимфу да би поделила гипс по средини леђа. Затим извлачи главу и клипеус погрбљеним телом, а када су се они појавили, закрећу се уназад како би извукли ноге из кућишта. Затим полако отвара крила, на крају се савија напред и хвата се за предњи део шкољке како би ослободио свој стомак. Када се ослободи, виси још сатима док се крила стврдну.

Када дођу у зрело доба, већина одраслих врста цикада живи још око две до четири недеље. За то време се хране соком који тече са грана дрвећа, а долази до парења и полагања јаја.

Распрострањеност и станиште

Брашнасти пекар се налази од реке Даинтрее у Северном Квинсленду до Бендалонга у јужном Новом Јужном Велсу. То је планинска врста у северном делу свог ареала, ограничена на Атертон Таблеланд и Национални парк Еунгела западно од Мекеја, али више низијска врста у остатку свог домета. Може се наћи на различитим стаништима, од руба прашуме до предграђа, чак и у центру Сиднеја.

Понашање
Појединци су обично усамљени, са студијом југоисточног Квинсленда која процењује густину од само 50 по хектару (у поређењу са неким другим аустралијским врстама које су скоро два реда величине гушће). Одрасли брашнасти пекар обично седи окренут надоле и на гранама дрвећа, а не на стаблима. Налази се на великом броју биљака, најчешће на врстама из породице Миртовке, тачније разним врстама биљака Melaleuca и Callistemon, као и на смеђој лешници (Lysicarpus angustifolius) и пегуну (Bauhinia hookeri). Очекује се да ће то такође бити биљке за исхрану нимфа. Ова врста је повезана са белим перјем (Melaleuca decora) у студији на три локације у западном Сиднеју. Кора широколисног папира је потврђена као биљка за исхрану нимфа.

Брашнасти пекари нису искусни летачи у поређењу са другим аустралијским цикадама. Они су спори, са типичном брзином од 2,1 метар у секунди (6,9 ft/s), која се пење на око 3,9 метара у секунди (13 ft/s) (14 km/h) када су прогоњени или провоцирани. Они су у стању да генеришу само малу аеродинамичку снагу и њихови летови су релативно кратки, трају око 3,4 с, са просечно 3,3 промене смера. Нити су вешти у слетању. Удаљеност на којој реагују на посматрача који се приближава је умерена, како у мировању тако и у лету.

Предација
Птице грабљивице одрасле цикаде су уобичајене, са вранцима и сивим лепезастим реповима, бучним рударима, плавим медоједима, малим врвицама, сивим и пегавим птицама месарима, свракама, торезијским вранама, белим чапљима, па чак и ноћним чапљем жабоуста, сви пријављени као значајни предатори. Запажено је да се жабоусти и брадати змајеви хране нимфама у настајању, међутим укупна смртност нимфа се процењује на испод 10%.

Одрасле јединке неких аустралијских цикада су подложне гљивици која је специфична за цикаде из рода Massospora, која расте на њиховим гениталијама и трбушној дупљи, што на крају доводи до опадања репа. Аустралијске цикаде даље су плен оса убица цикада (Exeirus lateritius), која боде и паралише цикаде високо на дрвећу. Њихове жртве падају на земљу где се ловац на цикаде пење и носи, гурајући се задњим ногама, понекад на удаљености од 100 м. Затим се гурају у ловчеву јазбину, где се беспомоћна цикада ставља на полицу у често пространој 'катакомби', како би формирала залиху хране за осеку која расте из јаја депонованих у њој.

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Every month I'll look back at what we've been reading together and separately. For reference, my boys are 5, 3.93, and 2 years old. Also, my children can't read yet, but they're excellent picture-lookers, so that's what they're doing in these photos.
This month was interesting for a couple of reasons. The first is because we spent a lot of time outdoors, so I feel like we didn't really do as much reading as we usually do. The second is that I took the kids to the library for the first time! I admit that I have been too chicken to try going since I tried to take two-year-old Ephraim and six-or-seven-month-old-Clive who was just hard to take anywhere. That wasn't an awful experience, but it scared me enough to not even consider taking Clive to a library for a long, long time. Over three years!


Read the latest announcements about Beccles Rifle Club here.
Two members of the club have recently achieved success in the County Rifle League. Chris (on left), a comparative newcomer to competitive target shooting, shot well throughout the season to collect runner up in Division14. Mike in his fifty eighth year of shooting, won division 7 proving that unlike most sports, shooting can be enjoyed well into retirement.


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Cloudflare: Our network is our product
Cloudflare's chief product officer explains why its network is its product and how it protects organisations against cyber threats
This article can also be found in the Premium Editorial Download: CW Asia-Pacific: CW APAC: Trend Watch: Cloud networking
Aaron Tan, TechTarget
Published: 28 Feb 2022 6:12
With points-of-presence in 250 cities across the globe, Cloudflare runs a sprawling network that protects organisations against a variety of cyber threats, from distributed denial-of-service attacks to sophisticated ransomware campaigns.
The company, which was founded in 2009 to improve the delivery, performance and reliability of applications on the internet, has since expanded its portfolio to include network and security services.
Cloudflare's product strategy, said the company's chief product officer, Jennifer Taylor, is closely tied to the evolution of the internet and how the cloud has become a platform for enterprises to run business.
"When we step back and look at the world today, fundamentally you see more workloads shifting to the internet, but in many ways the internet was never built for what it has become," said Taylor. "It was never built with security in mind and it's a network of interconnected networks. So, it's struggling with performance and reliability. And navigating that landscape can be a very complicated and fragmented experience."
During a recent trip to Singapore, Taylor outlined Cloudflare's product strategy, which she said is focused on enabling users of all types to take advantage of its platform to provide performance, security and reliability for applications and services. "At the heart of our product is fundamentally our network, and so I often say our network is the product," she added.
Cloudflare's network already spans major business hubs and markets where cloud adoption is high or emerging, but it is not resting on its laurels, even though its network can be reached within 50 milliseconds from 90% of the internet.
"From a performance perspective, we've yet to improve upon the speed of light," said Taylor. "And so, we're constantly thinking about how to bring our network closer to end-users so that we can extend to our customers and their customers a highly performant experience."
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IBM has opened a new cyber security hub in India to help enterprises in APAC guard against cyber attacks, which have intensified across the region.
Two-thirds of APAC organisations have a zero-trust strategy even as they grapple with the lack of skills and other organisational challenges, study finds.
Organisations will need to develop behavioural detection, machine learning and threat hunting capabilities to keep pace with the onslaught of cyber attacks.
GitHub's first chief security officer offers a glimpse into the company's efforts to help developers and organisations embrace secure software development practices.
Doing so also gives Cloudflare "unprecedented visibility" into cyber attacks as they unfold – and that insight is used to improve its products and roll out new capabilities in response to immediate threats.
For example, when the vulnerability in the Log4J logging service used by developers to monitor their Java applications first emerged, Cloudflare saw anomalies in its network traffic and logs, prompting it to deploy a security rule globally for all its customers, including those on free plans.
When it comes to innovation, Taylor said Cloudflare is not an organisation that spends a lot of time mulling over PowerPoint presentations or business plans. Instead, it has built an architecture internally that enables it to try new things and roll them out quickly for certain segments of its people to learn.
"In many ways, we build enterprise software in the same way that companies like Facebook build their platforms," she said. "What I love about this is that it enables us to follow our curiosity and dig into problems we're seeing and hearing from customers. And it takes the debate out of whether something is a good or bad idea; it lets the customers show us and guide us in the direction that we are going."
While Cloudflare is doing well in markets where cloud adoption and awareness of cloud security is high, it sees opportunities in places where the faster pace of digital transformation spurred by Covid-19 has exposed the downsides of on-premise infrastructure.
"It's very difficult to spin up a new box or firewall, or configure and manage security at scale remotely," she said. "If you need to think about sending laptops to new employees or implementing, managing and scaling up your VPN [virtual private network], the limitations of some of those physical solutions start to show.
"I think it's in those moments that we're starting to see people become what I would call more cloud curious, or interested in thinking about ways in which they can leverage cloud security models," said Taylor.
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Me, opening something: "crinkle, crinkle, crinkle"
R and/or G: "Mom, what are you eating?"
At this point I can go one of two directions: I can take the responsible route and walk-away-from-the-snack. Or, I can share my snack with the boys, who have little to no will power with snacking right before dinner (they are, after all, hungry, and have a bona fide snacking gene) and then end up frustrated because they don't eat a good dinner.
So I like a good snack when they are asleep in bed and I can relish a snack moment in peace. These muffins are my latest sweet treat. I love a good, tasty, but healthful muffin, and these fit the bill perfectly.
In a medium bowl, combine the hot water and dried cranberries. Let sit for 15 minutes.
Meanwhile, combine the flours, sugar, baking powder, salt and ginger in a large bowl.
In a medium bowl whisk the eggs and add the applesauce, oil, buttermilk and orange zest.
Drain the water from the cranberries and add the cranberries to the muffin mixture. Stir to incorporate.
Pour into muffin tins with liners. Bake 15-20 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into the middle comes out clean.
36 too many muffins for you? Halve the recipe, freeze some for later, or do what we did and wrap up a bunch and share them with others...R's and G's teachers, even R's bus driver got a surprise last week.
I make a muffin very similar to these and Liam can't get enough! He picks out the cranberries and eats them first. :D And I feel better about giving him something from the oven instead of the marketed "kids snacks". Even with it being a baked good, my homemade snacks have lower sugar in them than what's on the shelves.
I'm working my way through your snack ideas, too! Those afternoon munchies hit our house like a plague and I get tired of the same old, same old... so thanks for all the ideas.
Oh and, I too have to hide my snacking. I was really sad the day that happened for the first time.
How's your pregnancy going, Fearless?
That "crinkle crinkle" gives me away too! Fortunately the kids are thrilled to have apples (which we have out of our ears now) and carrots and dip these days.
On the muffin topic, I made and froze a bunch of zucchini (with applesauce) and chocolate chip muffins this summer, and they are still hits with the kids.
I am going to try these using a gluten free mix with xynthum gum. I'm not a baker, so wish me luck. :) My little guy has been requesting muffins since going GF a few months ago.
Um, how bout spell check... that would be xanthan gum duh!


These poems were all written by my father John Hayward during the Second World War. He initially served as radio operator on a minesweeper ploughing up and down the east coast of Britain. In 1944 he left for Ceylon, then Australia and eventually Hong Kong and Singapore, during which period as part of "Ultra" he listened in to the radio conversations between Japanese planes and bases in an attempt to locate their forces.
And settles o'er the sea.
The wind ruffled your feathers ?
The storm torn your wings ?
And the seas washing over the gunwale.
Whither goest ? To the ends of the earth ?
In search of a happier clime ?
Is eternal ? Is't there ye would land ?
O'er the sun, and the skies are not grey.
Art strong enough now to continue ?
'Cross ocean and desert ?
God grant you good luck, - and farewell !
This eternal rolling; will it never be still ?
Will never this endless sway of heaving sea subside ?
Her displeasure ? Will she never relent ?
Through the wall of living sea.
That on his sea the tossing ships should wallow so.
The humbler beauty of thy ways.
Those wisped dancers 'cross the sky.
And tells of life's inconstancy.
Reigns lonely in his brilliancy.
One upon one in endless stream.
Having nothing better to do.
Deep in their own thoughts.
What is time to the timeless ?
Little round ball of black fluffiness.
Knows only in hunger extremity.
Insignificant blot of unsociable egotism.
Behind those fire-alive discs of your eyes !
Eh, when we play ?
With your fire –blackened soul.
Of their death-note; climbing high.
A cargo of death 'neath their wings.
Of the lives you have shattered tonight !
Innocent dwellers in city and town.
Of the bombsticks screaming down.
- May God help England tonight.
The bombers are taking flight.
Of the bombers coming near ?
The fullness of fear ?
The newspaper headlines grow bolder.
They haven't killed enough yet.
Dear God, let me forget.
Is outvied by the rose.
That shines in all the skies.
And lives with thee alway.
In 1944 I left England.
Where the ships of the convoy lie.
Washes its muck past Greenock town.
Rise in the evening air.
Softly. Gently the wind abates.
And we hung, poised on the creeping river.
Only a gull to whisper goodbye.
Dying, till at last it disappeared from sight.
- Only the night to wish us goodbye.
Long ere the first wave folded spuming o'er the primal strand.
That give birth to my dreaming.
That is dear to me.
That deep cobalt were a paler hue.
A fine emerald had less sheen.
The desert sun were more mellow.
Which were less bloody if the whole earth bled.
New fall'n snow were less white.
Poised on an azure sky.
That aches and blisters under a searing sky.
O'er a dead land still waiting to die.
A jackass shatters the day.
May yet be lit with dragon fire.
Is our pride of the stock from which we came.
To "square" the jury "just to make sure".


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export CYAN='\033[1;36m'
export GREEN='\033[1;32m'
export NC='\033[0m' # No Color

SCRIPT_DIR=$(dirname $(readlink -f $0 2>/dev/null) 2>/dev/null || echo "${PWD}/$(dirname $0)")

source ${VARS_FILE}
export ADMIN_USER=$(gcloud config get-value account)

# Create a logs folder and file and send stdout and stderr to console and log file
mkdir -p logs
export LOG_FILE=${SCRIPT_DIR}/../logs/cleanup-$(date +%s).log
touch ${LOG_FILE}
exec 2>&1
exec &> >(tee -i ${LOG_FILE})

echo -e "\n${CYAN}Switching users...${NC}"
# Check ADMIN_USER variable exists
while [ -z ${ADMIN_USER} ]
    do
    read -p "$(echo -e ${CYAN}"Please provide your user email (your account must be Org Admin): "${NC})" ADMIN_USER
    done
gcloud config set account ${ADMIN_USER}

echo -e "\n${CYAN}Deleting cloud endpoint service...${NC}"
gcloud endpoints services delete frontend.endpoints.${TF_VAR_ops_project_name}.cloud.goog --project $TF_VAR_ops_project_name --async --quiet

echo -e "\n${CYAN}Deleting dev1, dev2, dev3 and ops projects...${NC}"
if gcloud projects list --filter $TF_VAR_dev1_project_name | grep $TF_VAR_dev1_project_name; then
  gcloud projects delete $TF_VAR_dev1_project_name --quiet
fi
if gcloud projects list --filter $TF_VAR_dev2_project_name | grep $TF_VAR_dev2_project_name; then
  gcloud projects delete $TF_VAR_dev2_project_name --quiet
fi
if gcloud projects list --filter $TF_VAR_dev3_project_name | grep $TF_VAR_dev3_project_name; then
  gcloud projects delete $TF_VAR_dev3_project_name --quiet
fi
if gcloud projects list --filter $TF_VAR_ops_project_name | grep $TF_VAR_ops_project_name; then
  gcloud projects delete $TF_VAR_ops_project_name --quiet
fi

echo -e "\n${CYAN}Removing shared vpc lien on the host project...${NC}"
export LIEN_ID=$(gcloud alpha resource-manager liens list --project=${TF_VAR_host_project_name} | awk 'NR==2 {print $1}')
if [[ -n $LIEN_ID ]]; then
  gcloud alpha resource-manager liens delete $LIEN_ID;
fi

echo -e "\n${CYAN}Deleting host project...${NC}"
if gcloud projects list --filter $TF_VAR_host_project_name | grep $TF_VAR_host_project_name; then
  gcloud projects delete $TF_VAR_host_project_name --quiet
fi

echo -e "\n${CYAN}Deleting terraform admin project...${NC}"
if gcloud projects list --filter $TF_ADMIN | grep $TF_ADMIN; then
  gcloud projects delete $TF_ADMIN --quiet
fi

echo -e "\n${CYAN}Deleting folder...${NC}"
gcloud resource-manager folders delete ${TF_VAR_folder_id}

echo -e "\n${CYAN}Removing cloudbuild service account project creator IAM role at the Org level...${NC}"
gcloud organizations remove-iam-policy-binding ${TF_VAR_org_id} \
--member serviceAccount:${TF_CLOUDBUILD_SA} \
--role roles/resourcemanager.projectCreator

echo -e "\n${CYAN}Removing cloudbuild service account billing user IAM role at the Org level...${NC}"
gcloud organizations remove-iam-policy-binding ${TF_VAR_org_id} \
--member serviceAccount:${TF_CLOUDBUILD_SA} \
--role roles/billing.user

echo -e "\n${CYAN}Removing cloudbuild service account compute admin IAM role at the Org level...${NC}"
gcloud organizations remove-iam-policy-binding ${TF_VAR_org_id} \
--member serviceAccount:${TF_CLOUDBUILD_SA} \
--role roles/compute.admin

echo -e "\n${CYAN}Removing cloudbuild service account folder creator IAM role at the Org level...${NC}"
gcloud organizations remove-iam-policy-binding ${TF_VAR_org_id} \
--member serviceAccount:${TF_CLOUDBUILD_SA} \
--role roles/resourcemanager.folderCreator

echo -e "\n${CYAN}Removing CloudBuild SA billing user permissions from billing account ...${NC}"
gcloud beta billing accounts get-iam-policy ${TF_VAR_billing_account} --format=json | \
    jq '(.bindings[] | select(.role=="roles/billing.user").members) -= ["serviceAccount:'${TF_CLOUDBUILD_SA}'"]' > ${SCRIPT_DIR}/../tmp/cloudbuild_billing-iam-policy.json
gcloud beta billing accounts set-iam-policy ${TF_VAR_billing_account} ${SCRIPT_DIR}/../tmp/cloudbuild_billing-iam-policy.json

echo -e "\n${CYAN}Remove infra git repo...${NC}"
(cd ${SCRIPT_DIR}/../infrastructure && rm -Rf .git)

echo -e "\n${CYAN}Remove gke, istio-${ISTIO_VERSION}, vars and tmp folder...${NC}"
#rm -rf ${SCRIPT_DIR}/../gke
#rm -rf ${SCRIPT_DIR}/../istio-${ISTIO_VERSION}
#rm -rf ${SCRIPT_DIR}/../vars
#rm -rf ${SCRIPT_DIR}/../tmp

echo -e "\n${CYAN}Unsetting RANDOM_PERSIST variable...${NC}"
unset RANDOM_PERSIST

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Periodically, we like to take a look at  rising web design trends. Here are three more (of many) new web design trends on the rise over the course of 2018 and into 2019.
Over the last several years we've witnessed a boom in animated visualizations and an increased appetite for data representation from a 3D perspective. There is now a huge emphasis on effective storytelling through design, conveying often complex information as simply and as engagingly as possible to a variety of audiences. Designers are thinking outside the box with new, bespoke creations – the older muted palettes ditched in favor of vibrant color transitions paired with minimalist yet bold typography. Greater accessibility to new technology will certainly continue to spawn an increase in the number of designers using animation as a means of storytelling.
Additionally, with AR and VR advancements ushering in the prospect of simulated exploration of virtual models, it's important that we keep information and data at the heart of what we do. When done right, the overlapping spheres of data science and design will allow for ever increasingly informative, grounded and clear examples of data visualization. Technology has enabled us to more readily mix our real world with our screen-based world. We're moving on from an increasing desire to add video to our digital experiences; layering them with a depth and richness unachievable not so long ago.
Mixed reality brings us firmly into the 'new', with large tech firms committed to innovating in AR. Future design will need to consider our world in all four dimensions. We are already seeing the start of this mixed reality in popular games large brand apps, so these factors will continue to impact the ways we look at, and ultimately achieve great, unique design.
In the battle for eyeballs, typography is a powerful weapon, and its use on the web has broadened out this year. Typography is powerful and the bigger the better. So while sans-serif styles like Helvetica remain in vogue, designers are branching out, turning to the huge variety of typefaces available. 2019 will see the continued return of serifs to the screen, as well as increasing numbers of sites pairing serif and sans-serif fonts to create a dynamic user experience.
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and music commentator for NPR's Morning Edition.
Hast charmed me into a better world.
But just how does our gracious Art exercise these powers? How does it comfort us, charm us, kindle our hearts?
We might start our search for answers by positing two fundamentals: a fundamental pain and a fundamental quest. A fundamental pain of our human condition is loneliness. No surprise here: We're born alone, we're alone in our consciousness, we die alone, and, when loved ones die, we're left alone. And pain itself, including physical pain, isolates us and makes us feel still more alone, completing a vicious circle.
Our fundamental quest—by no means unrelated to our aloneness and our loneliness—is the quest for meaning, the quest to make sense of our time on earth, to make sense of time itself.
Where does music come in? Music is both a balm for loneliness and a powerful, renewable source of meaning.
The first thing music does is banish silence. Silence is a metaphor for loneliness: It's a loneliness of the senses. Music overcomes silence, replaces it. It provides us with a companion by occupying our senses—and, through them, our minds and our thoughts. It has, quite literally, a presence.
We know that sound and touch are the only sensual stimuli that literally move us, that make parts of us move: Sound waves make the tiny hairs in our inner ears vibrate, and, if sound waves are strong enough, they can make our whole bodies vibrate. We might even say, therefore, that sound is a form of touch, and that in its own way music is able to reach out and put an arm around us.
One way we are comforted when we're lonely is to feel that at least someone understands us, knows what we're going through. When we feel the sympathy of others, and especially when we feel empathy, we experience companionship—we no longer feel entirely alone.
And strangely enough, music can provide empathy. The structure of music, its essential nature—with many simultaneous, complex, overlapping, and interweaving elements is an exact mirror of the psyche, of the complex and interwoven structure of our emotions. This makes it a perfect template onto which we can project our personal complexes of emotions. And when we make that projection, we hear in music our own emotions—or images and memories of our emotions—reflected back. And because the reflection is so accurate, we feel understood. We recognize, and we feel recognized.
It's a kind of illusion, but it's a beautiful one, and very comforting. And, in fact, it's not entirely an illusion, because even though the specifics may differ, we all share the same kinds of emotions. We all know love and loss and longing, and in different measure we all know joy and despair. We're linked with the composer of the music by our common humanity. And if a composer has found a compelling way to express his or her own emotions, then to a certain extent that composer can't really avoid expressing, and touching, ours as well.
Not to be forgotten among these psychological considerations is what Joseph Conrad called "the inexhaustible joy that lives in beauty." The sheer beauty of music lifts us up and gives us hope, reminding us in our darkest moments, in our "gray hours," that life itself can still hold wonders and beauties.
Furthermore, the very "movement" of music, its rhythmic movement through time, carries inevitable associations with life, with positive forces and feelings. Life is movement and movement is life, and joyous music can literally get us moving again when we've been stunned or stilled by sadness.
Did I say "movement through time"? Ah, time. It passes in music. But not without purpose, not without reasons, not without . . . meaning. And that's just the point: Music gives meaning to time. If all those overlapping and interweaving elements and events in a piece of music indeed mean something, if they remind, reflect, comfort, inspire, or excite—then by definition the time it takes for them to do all that means something too.
A piece of music must take a certain amount of time; there's no way around it. And though it may be just a self-contained fragment of time, a little world of its own, within that fragment time is used, arranged, and manipulated so that the passage of time makes sense.
We can only guess at how the music of the ancients sounded (and my friend exaggerates), but we know that from the beginnings of Gregorian chant, somewhere around a.d. 600, it did indeed take about a thousand years for tonality to evolve, and to find general acceptance. By 1700, it had reached a position of unchallenged primacy in Western music.
What does it mean for a piece to be "in a key"? Well, when a piece of music is in the key of C major, for example, it means that the harmony of C major functions as the home base, the harmonic center of gravity of the piece. A piece in C major will establish the C major harmony at the beginning (using the notes of a C major chord) and return to it in no uncertain terms at the end. In technical terms the home harmony is called the "tonic," and the gravitational force of the tonic—built into the system and cleverly exploited by the composer even if we're not always aware of it—is inexorable.
Between its beginning and end, however, a piece will inevitably traverse any number of other harmonies, major and minor. The various harmonies don't follow each other randomly: They're ordered in progressions, one harmony leading to the next, sometimes in predictable ways, sometimes in unusual or surprising ways.
Let me emphasize immediately that the pleasing qualities of consonant chords and intervals, and the power of tonal relationships in general, are not arbitrary constructs. They were determined empirically, over the course of centuries. And they are firmly rooted in the laws of acoustical physics, with frequency ratios and a natural phenomenon called the harmonic series (or overtone series) playing vital roles. Or to put it another way, the origins of tonality lie not in a set of inventions and decisions but in the fundamental nature of sound.
To be clear: Tonal music contains lots of dissonance. If you were to string together all the dissonant chords in a piece by Bach (or Schubert or Tchaikovsky or any other composer of tonal music) with no other chords between, the effect would loosen your fillings.
But the dissonances in tonal music are never strung together that way, because the function of dissonance is to provide tension, and that tension is always resolved by a return to consonance.
Indeed, the true genius of the tonal system is that it enables a composer to combine the power and momentum of harmonic progressions with the manipulation of melodic material, in ways that create the impression of a narrative, a dramatic structure complete with characters, conflict, tension, uncertainty, and ultimate resolution.
So, pleasing sounds, striking contrasts, coherent dramatic structures that form clear relationships and patterns—for more than 200 years this remarkable system served as the unquestioned foundation of Western music. Countless composers of every conceivable individual and national style shared the basic framework of tonality; they spoke what was essentially a common musical language.
Add two centuries and a little bit to 1700, and you arrive somewhere in the early 20th century. The basic framework of tonality was still in place, but by this point its boundaries had been expanding for some time.
As the new century began, this expansion of tonality's limits was so extensive that, despite an ever-accumulating repertory of great works, some thought that the potential of Western music's traditional tonal resources was nearing exhaustion. The foundation, according to a particular theory of music history that's still current, was crumbling fast.
But was it? In listing composers whose music sits comfortably in a tonal framework, I could include any number of extraordinary composers whose careers extended well into the 20th century—and, in some cases, well beyond the century's midpoint.
I might start with Jean Sibelius and Sergei Rachmaninoff and continue with Igor Stravinsky, Maurice Ravel, George Gershwin, Paul Hindemith, Béla Bartók, Ernest Bloch, Leos Janácek, Sergei Prokofiev, Darius Milhaud, Francis Poulenc, Aaron Copland, Samuel Barber, Benjamin Britten, William Walton, Bohuslav Martinu, Alberto Ginastera, Heitor Villa-Lobos, Dmitri Shostakovich, and Leonard Bernstein. Not a bad list, and by no means a complete one. These composers are among the greatest, most revered musical figures of the 20th century, and they simply don't fit the theory. If tonality was on its last legs, somebody must have forgotten to tell them.
Another composer made quite an impact in the early 20th century, however, and his name was Arnold Schönberg. Born in Vienna in 1874, Schönberg was at first an exponent of the expansionist, superheated style of late-19th-century Romanticism. But by the end of the first decade of the 20th century, he was on his way to a dramatic renunciation of tonality that included a rejection of consonant harmonies and a happy embrace of dissonance.
And by the early 1920s, he had introduced a novel method of composition that came to be known as the "12-tone" method.
In 12-tone music, the composer orders the 12 tones of the chromatic scale (the scale that on the piano includes all the keys, black and white, in any one octave) in a series of his choosing called a "tone row," and that row—in place of traditional scales, harmonies, and harmonic progressions—functions in complex ways as the basis for all the musical elements of the piece.
Twelve-tone music (also called "serial" music) is by definition "atonal": It's not in a key, and it doesn't depend on consonant harmonies to provide stability or resolve tension.
In theory, the point in 12-tone music is not that dissonance is good and consonance is bad, but rather that they're both irrelevant. In practice, however, Schönberg's 12-tone works, especially his early ones, were strikingly dissonant.
Schönberg claimed to have "liberated" dissonance. There are some, however, who would say that, far from leading to a "liberation" of dissonance—a liberation whose necessity was by no means generally acknowledged—Schönberg's system led, rather, to a tyranny of dissonance.
The serial music of Schönberg became enormously influential, to an extent way beyond anything having to do with its general acceptance or popularity. This influence came about through Schönberg's own tireless efforts as a teacher and musical zealot, through the proselytizing and philosophizing efforts of various musicians, writers, and critics, and through a strange and complicated confluence of aesthetic and political influences, especially after World War II.
The works themselves were controversial from the beginning, to put it mildly. They were often critically reviled, and to this day they have never found more than a very narrow public.
But Schönberg's serialism led directly to a postwar European avant-garde or "modernist" movement spearheaded by such composers as Boulez, Stockhausen, and Ligeti. It led to a simultaneous modernist movement in the United States whose seminal figure was John Cage.
And it led ultimately to a 50-year modernist reign in the world of Western classical music, a reign in which to have any hope of being taken seriously by the critical and academic communities, composers were obligated, regardless of their specific styles and techniques, to avoid traditional tonal procedures and the comforts of consonance and to accept that dissonance was king.
Now, it's true that we often add salt and hot spices to our food to enhance its flavor and heighten contrasts, and it's important to remember that some people like their food much hotter and spicier than others.
It's true as well that harsh elements can be a tool of great visual art, and that much great literature makes use of disturbing images or harrowing episodes, or both. But is there a chef on the planet who suggests swallowing a tablespoon of salt for an appetizer and following it with a bowl of Tabasco for an entrée before washing it all down with a cup of vinegar?
We know from listening to tonal music that dissonance can be wonderfully useful when it's employed imaginatively. It can enhance and even create meaning.
But in and of itself, dissonance is something that people fundamentally don't like—that's its very definition. When composers nonetheless demand that their listeners endure dissonance at great length and without letup, it's hard not to see that demand as something spiteful, stubbornly aggressive, even hostile.
The primary proposition in defense of relentlessly dissonant and persistently unpopular avant-garde music has always been that, through exposure and familiarity, we often come to appreciate, and even love, things that initially confuse or displease us.
This reasoning, unfortunately, has been the refuge of countless second- and third-rate talents. Beethoven ate fish, too. If you eat fish, are you like Beethoven?
But there's a much graver flaw in the argument: Beethoven was not misunderstood in his time. Beethoven was without doubt the most famous composer in the world in his time, and the most admired. And if there were those who didn't "get" his late string quartets, for example, there were plenty of others who did, and who rapidly accepted the quartets as masterpieces.
In fact, the notion that great geniuses in the history of music went unrecognized during their lifetimes is almost entirely false. It's difficult to find an example of a piece we now consider a masterpiece that was not appreciated as such either while its composer was alive or within a relatively short period after his death.
"But there was a riot at the premiere of Stravinsky's Rite of Spring!" Yes, that was at the premiere, in Paris in May 1913. But the Rite was performed again almost immediately, without riots, in Paris and London, and quickly acquired its stature as perhaps the most celebrated and influential piece of the 20th century. It has since been performed and recorded more times than anyone could possibly count.
Still, tastes do evolve, and we're reminded that people who as children eat and drink only Velveeta and soda pop often later develop a taste for Camembert and cognac. That's fine, even if it may be a little on the generous side to use "Camembert and cognac" as analogues for unpleasant sounds. But I'm afraid the "lesson" has usually been taken considerably further, and reinforced with large doses of intellectual condescension and intimidation.
If the joys and comforts of beautiful sounds were all we sought in music, the dominance of dissonance would be the only problem of avant-garde music that we'd need to consider. But we're also burdened by our fundamental quest for meaning, our need for music to make sense.
Reading emphasizes that "information is contained in the way objects are arranged within a system, not in the objects themselves," and just as Bach and Beethoven would wholeheartedly agree, so would Schönberg and his musical descendants. The musical objects—notes, chords, rhythms—in the works of many modernist composers are in fact arranged with extraordinary care, and sometimes with dazzling intellectual complexity.
The catch is that for the arrangements to convey "information," to be meaningful, they have to be perceivable: Unrecognizable or imperceptible patterns are the same as no patterns at all. And without patterns we lose our bearings. We're not sure where we are or where we've been, and therefore we have little interest in wherever it is we may be going.
This is where Schönberg himself so often failed, and where others have most grievously failed. They have either grossly overestimated or willfully ignored the limits of the auditory perceptual abilities of most human beings, and somewhere along the way they have either forgotten or willfully ignored the reasons most people listen to music in the first place.
They, or their boosters, may write detailed, not to say impenetrably turgid, analyses of the structural underpinnings of their works and the strict mathematical relationships inherent therein, but to the extent that those relationships remain completely unapparent to the human ear—as they so often do—they're meaningless, and what we actually hear is . . . noise.
Or we could just call it bad music. Why not?
Molière said, "Anyone can be an honorable man, and yet write verse badly." No one would dispute that there have been many honorable, sincere, dedicated, and very nice men and women writing music over the past 80 years. But if there are such things as "good music" or "good pieces" or "great pieces," then there must also be such things as bad pieces.
There must be pieces that don't work very well or don't work at all, pieces that to most ears don't make sense, and that therefore cannot do what honorable, sincere, and open-minded music lovers look for music to do.
Do we agree that Bach and Handel were the greatest composers of the Baroque era? Then the other Baroque composers were . . . less great. And some were not very good at all.
What's interesting is that we have little difficulty in agreeing on many of these distinctions when the people in question are long dead. Why not make distinctions while people are still alive, when making these distinctions might actually be useful?
Despite what we've been told so often to think, why not go by what we hear? Why not say this: If a piece has had 30 or 50—or 80—years to be "understood" by the public but still isn't, the chances are extremely good that it's not ever going to be. And that's far more likely the fault of the piece, and the composer, than of audiences.
Why not come out and say, without fear and without apology for our supposed shortcomings, that the emperor has been naked, and that too much of the music written over the past five decades has been just plain bad?
Am I being too harsh? Have I exaggerated the intensity of the distaste that so much modernist music has aroused? No, sad to say, not if we keep certain factors in mind.
One is the strength of the needs, the intensity of the desires, that we fulfill with music. Our expectations of music—expectations of the type nurtured, reinforced, and satisfied for generation upon generation—are enormous, and enormously important to us, and when those expectations are disappointed, we take it very badly indeed.
Another crucial factor is time. One of the more obvious reasons we appreciate music's giving meaning to time is that our supply of time is so limited. But this is also why we so strongly resent having our time wasted!
If you see a painting hanging on the wall and don't like it, you simply turn your gaze elsewhere, and hardly any time has been squandered. But if you go to a concert and the program includes music you find ugly or unpleasant, precious minutes of your life tick away, lost. You could have done something else with that little part of your life, anything else, but you're stuck four seats from the aisle, and time is passing. From resentment to hatred is but a small step.
And, of course, not many people enjoy being insulted, either, or falsely accused. In a 1964 speech at the Colorado campus of the Aspen Institute, the English composer Benjamin Britten said, "It is insulting to address anyone in a language which they do not understand." And if what's said—or played—seems so often to be couched intentionally in a language that virtually nobody could understand, and yet one finds oneself blamed over and over again for not understanding. . . .
Let me repeat: People have written very good and very moving pieces in styles that have little or nothing to do with tonality. Good composers find a way to write good music.
But while tonal music benefits from a built-in logic established by centuries of development, any primarily atonal idiom requires the composer to create his or her own logic, and that can be very difficult.
When it's done well, the logic makes itself understood, even on first hearing. Notes, harmonies, and rhythms follow one another in patterns that make sense, and the musical language, though perhaps unfamiliar, unusual, or highly spiced with dissonance, is comprehensible and convincing.
Inevitably, however, we return to the fact that there's something basic to human nature in the perception of "pleasing sounds," and in the strength of the tonal structures that begin and end with those sounds.
Blue has remained blue to us over the centuries, and yellow yellow, and salt has never started tasting like sugar. With or without physics, consonances are consonances because to most people they sound good, and we abandon them at great risk.
History will say—history says now—that the 12-tone movement was ultimately a dead end, and that the long modernist movement that followed it was a failure.
Deeply flawed at their musical and philosophical roots, unloving and oblivious to human limits and human needs, these movements left us with far too many works that are at best unloved, at worst detested. They led modern classical music to crisis, confusion, and, in many quarters, despair, to a sense that we've wasted decades.
The good news is that there are many composers today who, despite the uncertain footing, are striving successfully, to write works that are worthy of our admiration and affection. They write in a variety of styles, but the ones who are most successful are those who are finding ways—often by assimilating ethnic idioms and national popular traditions—to invest their music with both rhythmic vitality and lyricism. They're finding ways to reconnect music to its eternal roots in dance and song.
Still, I can't help wondering: Will anybody ever find new ways that are so striking, so wonderful, that our entire musical landscape will be transformed as if by magic?
If we're very lucky, a musical magician may come along one day who will perform miracles in ways that are completely unforeseeable to us now. Others will learn from his or her work and contribute new riches. The term "modern music" will take on a wonderfully positive ring, and the heaven of better times will be thrown open to us.
O gracious Art, let's hope we get lucky.


NTT Security has re-launched its security operations centre (SOC) in its Sydney headquarters on 20 February.
The new space was designed and built to meet the protected national security classification and has 49 seats and a nine seat secure SOC, an area for analysts that need to be physically segregated from NTT's commercial SOC.
NTT Security, which is part of the NTT Group that includes Dimension Data, NTT Communications and NTT Data, operates 10 SOCs across six continents and has been updating and expanding its SOCs in Asia Pacific.
There are four in the region, the Sydney one, another one in Japan, the Singapore SOC – which was relocated in December 2017 – and one in India set to be opened in the next 60 days.
The North Sydney SOC will be responsible for the delivery of NTT Group's companies managed security services to clients located in Australia and other regions including Asia and South Africa.
It counts on a security service desk that take calls and act as queue managers, client service managers, threat intelligence team, analysts, enterprise security monitor service, a device management team, technical account managers and more.
The SOC provides a highly secure advanced threat monitoring and incident response. It also counts on machine learning, big data and "complex" event processing analysis. All of which is validated by analysts.
Because NTT Security's SOCs follow a standard within the company, it also offers its security specialists an option for career progression which includes relocation to other regions.
Martin Schlatter, NTT Security's global CIO and regional CEO for Asia Pacific, said that cyber security risks are less predictable than before, with increasingly sophisticated ways of breaching defences.
"The role of the SOC has evolved from a stand-alone security monitoring and alerting environment to one that is much more proactive in hunting for threats and more integrated with each client's environment – not just the technology – but also at an operational and business level," Schlatter said.
"Together with our NTT Group companies, we're providing the necessary services across the entire information and communications technology stack and throughout the full security life-cycle globally."
Schlatter also explained that the company considered reducing the number of SOCs a couple of years ago but the a trend in the last few years, including new legislations and different requirements across different regions showed that there were some regions where they just had to have a presence.
Matt Gyde, Dimension Data's group executive of security, explained to ARN that DiData complements and integrates what NTT Security does.
"We take what the environment the client is and make it more secure, by giving the outcome they are looking for."
He also explained that over 40 per cent of the internet traffic touches NTT cables at any particular time so it gets access to data and it is very important to turn it into intelligence.
Another benefit of outsourcing a SOC is that companies do not have the need to deploy a security incident and event management solution which can be costly to maintain without a dedicated professional running it.
NTT Security was established as a separate entity in August 2016 to deliver managed security services and specialised security professional services.
At the time of the launch, the Group said the services would be taken to market globally, and client engagement was to be managed by NTT operating companies: Dimension Data, NTT Communications and NTT Data.
The Australian arm of NTT Security originated from a Dimension Data acquisition in May 2013, when it bought Australian managed security services provider Earthwave for an undisclosed sum.
NTT Security has experienced a lot of growth recently having more than doubled the staff count in Australia in the last two years.
The Asia Pacific operation has seen 130 per cent growth in floor space of operations centres and staff increased by 152 per cent.


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Each Life Group has 10-15 people. We gather for three, ten-week sessions: fall, winter and spring sessions. During these ten-week sessions we get together every week.
Life Groups are diverse. They include mature disciples of Jesus, newer Christians, and non-Christians. They bring together people of different ages, vocations, and socio-economic backgrounds. All are welcome to grow, connect and thrive in a Life Group.


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I love all Big Foot Javas, but I felt kinda rushed when I was ordering my drinks. The employees were nice and I get it they think face pace, but don't make me feel rushed.
Nice place our two drinks were made like we wanted. Staying at Holiday Inn across the street. They don't seem to have a walk up window that is out of the way from cars.


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Biologic medicines are next generation drugs capable of treating many medical conditions that lack other treatment. New marketing approvals for biologics have risen sharply in the United States for the past few years. Approved biologics are gaining increased market share. From small molecule drug experience, all players know that a successful drug is always chased by generic manufacturers. Successful biomedicines are destined to face fierce biosimilar challenges. Therefore, for effective defence, biologics innovators must prepare in advance of a biologics license application (BLA) filing. Biologic medicines require unique market protection strategies, particularly in patent preparation. Biologic innovators need to build a robust patent portfolio to fend off generic entries.
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A motorboat ride to Venice! Visit St. Mark's Square and the main monuments. From mid-May to September 30th. Departure from Sottomarina at 9 AM with return at 5 PM.
Tour of the islands by motorboat stopping in Murano, Burano and Torcello. Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays, from June to the end of September. Departure from Sottomarina at 9 AM with return at 5 PM.
Canoeing on the Lusenzo Lagoon, horseback riding in nature areas (horseback riding lessons upon request), biking to the Brenta and Adige river mouths, sailing on the Caleri Lagoon, tour of the Bosco Nordio Nature Reserve, Porto Caleri Botanical Garden, Palazzo Grassi in Chioggia and the Valle Averto WWF Nature Reserve, typical fishing valley.
Discover the exciting scenery surrounding the Hotel Le Tegnùe, rich in enchanting sites and natural beauty, ideal for side trips, excursions and magnificent tours!
Here's a few of our suggestions!
Bicycle routes abound in Sottomarina and Chioggia. From mid-June you can enjoy evening rides with our staff to discover the local colors, perfumes and traditions.
A day spent along the routes in the vast greenery of an ancient fishing village where the wind, sea and sun regale exciting and irresistible sensations.
Hop aboard! Discover the traditions and history of the ancient fishing village of Chioggia! Meet the fishermen, swim at secluded beaches and dine on fresh fish. Preferably from April to September.
By day or on a romantic summer night, on a typical fishing boat visiting the lagoon's muscle and clam beds and Brenta dams, listening to the fascinating history of Chioggia narrated by captain Marco!
One of the most enchanting lagoon landscapes, scattered with hunting lodges and fishing huts including the Valle Zappa. A thrilling tour of the sandbanks and fishing valleys.
A moonlight sail accompanied by nature guides. An exhilarating sunset surrounded by the infinite silence of the almost surreal surroundings.
Guided bus tour to the Ca' Vendramin pumping station, one of the symbols of the Delta. A scenic tour on the Sacca degli Scardovari road to discover the flavors of the Delta sampling local products!
Ideal for those who want to combine a vacation, nature, fun, sport and the health properties of iodine. An easy and fun way to stay in shape using the special "poles".


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Mãe preta é uma escultura de bronze, que retrata uma mulher negra amamentando uma criança branca, localizada no Largo do Paissandú, no Centro Histórico de São Paulo. A obra foi produzida por Júlio Guerra e data de 23 de janeiro 1955.

A representação na escultura remete à ama de leite. Até 2021, era a única escultura de uma mulher negra na cidade de São Paulo e se tornou um ponto marcante para atos políticos e culturais do movimento negro.

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A escultura foi produzida no contexto das celebrações do Quarto Centenário, sendo a vencedora de uma competição para a produção de obras públicas em São Paulo.
A escultura foi tombada pelo CONPRESP em 2004.

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O estilo moderno da escultura despertou críticas, em especial do movimento negro, pois há um exagero na proporção de pés e mãos em comparação com o resto do corpo, especialmente a cabeça, diminuta. Foi portanto criticada como uma representação da mulher negra na perspectiva da elite branca.

Mãe preta
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It is always tasteful receive multimedia information about the terminal more expected, if it is of good quality, better than better, on this occasion I share with you a gallery of images of the Nexus One, and a video in which we can see running the benchmark Neocore Qualcomm.
The result of the test is difficult to assess, since despite having achieved similar numbers to which you can see in one HTC Magic, We must bear in mind that it is moving information with more than double points on screen, due to the WVGA resolution of the Nexus One. I hope that soon prepare updated tests to compare the new chipsets for devices.
What is interesting is we find an extensive gallery of images with a decent quality, it can see details such as the miniatures of the different desktops in the purest style Cards of Palm webOS or resident applications.
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The Lyrid Meteor Shower is a Class 1 Major Shower which peaks on 22 April. The parent comet is P/Thatcher 1861 G1 with a zenithal hourly rate (ZHR) of 15 meteors an hour, travelling at a velocity of 47 km/sec with about 8 percent leaving persistent trains. They emanate from a point about 10 degrees southwest of the brilliant star Vega.
There are a few interesting things to point out in this particular image.
Note that the *asterism Collinder 399, Brocchi's Cluster also known as "The Coathanger" in Vulpecula is at top in between the two Lyrids. This is a fantastic group to observe with binoculars.
Also for those with keen eyesight, you can make out Sagitta "The Arrow" and if you zoom into it the M71 globular cluster is easily seen; Delphinus "The Dolphin" is at the bottom of the photo and the constellation Aquila is below the 'streak' to the right of the image.
All this area is contained within the Summer Triangle, which is made up of Deneb in Cygnus, Altair in Aquila and Vega in Lyra.
These constellations are easily visible during the summer months.
*asterism is a pattern of stars which are not physically related.
The Geminid Meteor Shower of 2012.
13-14 December. It originates from asteroid 3200 Phaethon as opposed to a comet. Their higher rocky meteoroid density suggests they are fragments of an asteroid and that is why they often appear to last slightly longer before extinction than those from other showers.
They are a good target for photographers. Bright meteors are yellowish, fairly fast and sometimes of long duration.
The image on the left shows 2 Geminids streaking through the constellation of Orion. Note that the Orion Nebula is evident as the "middle" star in the Sword of Orion.
The image on the right shows a Geminid gliding by the constellation Taurus. The 'V' shape of the Hyades open cluster is recognisable; so too is the open cluster M45 better known as the Pleiades or Seven Sisters which is clearly visible at the top right hand corner. The planet Jupiter was also in the area at the time.


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Hello, tournament fans, players and organizers.
Hope you find all kinds of tournaments that suit your tastes in this issue.
Have a comment on any news item? Send in your letters to Gozar.
Here are just some of the tournaments that are currently taking signups. Just click the title to visit the thread.
Tournament based on the famous board game Monopoly. It needs premium membership and 2 months of commitment but it's a bit different than many other tournaments. Still looking for two players.
There are about 30 spots remaining in this tournament featuring many different single player settings. There will be a premium prize, but only current premiums can sign up.
Here are how some of the currently ongoing tournaments are progressing. Just click the title to visit the thread.
Freedom is not free it costs a buck-o-five. So you will have to play a grueling 105 games matched against 6 players in order to come out on top to win that freedom.
Week 2 games will be created on February 20th, 2008.
Each of these players "survived" the senate; outlasting 5 other candidates in each Division. They are now playing to see who will be doubles partners in the General Election.
CC's Historical Battles has finished its first cycle, having replayed all of the historical battles in the CC-world. Prinfi came out on top with a whopping 30 points out of a possible 35. An excellent performance.
The semi-finals round will be beginning soon with the top 20 players, and new maps will be added. To represent the escalation of battle the second time round (and to speed up the tournament a little) this round may be all escalating games, but that remains to be determined.
There are only 2 games remaining to determine the other 2 finalists. Congratulations to Vish and gonzo111 who have secured places in the finals.
The Round 2 games at Puget Sound are coming to a close. 3 more teams will be eliminated with the others moving on to Pearl Harbor for the 3rd leg of the race.
Four divisions compete for premium membership, on maps designed by the tournament's sponser, cairnswk.
Day Three has just begun, with twelve assassins left.
Final game of the round STILL running.
The third installment of Gozar's "Battle" series. Three games remain until the finals.
Here are some tournaments that noted tournament organisers are planning on running soon.
This week we had the opportunity to ask pjdonald some questions, and he answered. All questions are reader submitted, so if you have something you want to ask an upcoming organizer; PM me. Next week's interview will be with Night Strike. If you have not submitted your questions, you have until Tuesday to either PM me, or post in this thread.
In two weeks, our interview will be with a new organizer, Physics=2muchFD. Feel free to begin submitting your questions now, I have created this thread for that purpose.
Q: What made you want to start running tournaments?
A: When I started on CC (Dec 2006), I played exclusively public games for several months. When I first dipped my foot into tournaments, I found the games to be even more exciting and consequential - even if the consequences were only bragging rights! There are certainly other good tournaments out there, but I had some ideas I didn't see getting played out anywhere else.
Q: Describe the experience of your first tournament ran and first played in.
A: As for the first one I ran, there are actually 3 answers to that. The first one I played in (The Race to Defend America) ended up also being the first one I ran. The organizer dropped out early on, so I picked it up for him (partly because I had won my first game, and partly because the idea of a tournament just being abandoned repulsed me).
That sort of happened again with the 2nd tournament I ran. The random map tournament got abandoned midway through the first round. I volunteered to restart it, but I did so under basically the same guidelines as the original organizer.
The first tournament I ran that was truly my own was the 3456 League. I organized this at a time when the 1v1 tournaments were all the rage. I can't stand the 1v1 setup; with all the other setups, luck certainly plays a role, but luck is 75% or more of the outcome in 1v1. I wanted a larger competition that didn't involve 1v1, while allowing people to choose the terrain.
Q: How excited where you with your first CC win?
A: Pretty juiced. A beginner's luck freestyle win in the first game I ever entered.
Q: Where did you come up with the ideas for your tournaments?
A: I like the idea of participants choosing the settings. And I'm not a big fan of gimmicks like attaching meaningless things to make it sound more interesting (e.g. choose your NFL team). I work hard to make things equitable.
Q: In regards to your 2345678 tournament, how did you come up with this specific idea?
A: Its pretty much an extension of the 3456 league I described above. With 3456, everyone in each division got to choose the settings for one game of each size, but that was going to result in too many games, I felt, in 2345678, so I paired it back. I've tried to seek input on the setups, and I appreciate those that have given it.
Q: How many tournaments have you run and how long have they been?
A: 5 I think. The longest was PJ's Random Map Reprise. I think that lasted about 4 months. Though Defend America dragged out for quite a while too, as it was all Flat-Rate 3-player, which has a tendency to stale-mate. The 5th one (still going) is Tossed Salad Doubles. I played very little team games in the first year I was a member, but I've really warmed to it now. I think there is a place for both team tournaments, and individual tournaments using the team setup.
Q: Is there a specific type of format that you tend to gravitate towards? Why?
A: I don't plan to run true team tournaments, because there are other organizers who do that very well. I do have some more ideas for somewhere down the line when I get the time.
As far as just playing games, no freestyle, no 1v1, rarely assassin, and rarely terminator (I think there's too much disadvantage for higher-ranked players to be targeted).
Q: What is your favorite tournament you've run? Why?
A: I think 3456. It required the most thought and planning. I use spreadsheets a lot in my work, so I enjoy setting them up for tournaments.
Q: What is your favorite tournament you've played in?
A: AndrewB's doubles tournaments have been fun. I got to the finals in one last fall, and aim to do the same with goggles p this spring.
Q: With experience comes the wisdom of knowing what mistakes you've made in the past so you can avoid them in the future. What mistakes have you made in your tournaments that you are sure to avoid in future tournaments?
A: I'm always looking for ways to discourage dropouts. Its tough. I hope I never drop out of a tournament, or worse yet, abandon one I'm running, but I know RL issues come up. But dropouts/abandonment happen too often.
I also have worked hard with each new tournament to establish a predictable schedule and make sure people now what they're signing up for, and to stay on schedule. I signed up for one last year that is still going and the end is not in sight. The original plan would've taken 2 years or more (my fault for not realizing that when I signed up!), and has had to be modified to make it playable.
Q: If you could change one thing about Conquer Club in general, what would it be?
A: No complaints, really! There's a lot of good stuff on those to-do lists I see on the forums, but I know it takes time. I'm really intrigued by Game Log 2.0. It would be nice to see more of what happens round-by-round.
Q: If there was something that the Conquer Club administrators could implement into the game to make tournaments easier to manage, what would it be? Similarly, is there anything you would like to see taken away from Conquer Club to make running tournaments easier?
A: The mandatory lag between postings makes it tremendously difficult. I understand why its there, but maybe it could be waived for organizers. It greatly increases the time needed to set up games (send out PM's). I've circumvented this to a degree with group coordinators, but that's not a perfect solution either.
Q: How's life in the USA, especially during all the presidential hassle?
A: My guy (Romney) is done, so I'm kind of disappointed. I'm a political junkie, so I enjoy following the stuff. My surfing is pretty much sports, politics, and CC.
Q: Any tournaments planned for the future? What are they?
A: Perhaps a follow-on to Tossed Salad Doubles. Not sure if it will be triples or 6-man doubles. We'll see!
Interview with Night Strike Night Strike will answer reader submitted questions in our tournament interview series.


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Considering his algorithm must factor each province or territory's major landmarks, parks, sites or monuments into the trip, it must be noted that his route isn't necessarily the best drive – it's simply the most value-packed way to hit most of Canada's significant landmarks.
Obviously some major highlights were missed, but you can't argue with the algorithm's efficiency (details on its process here).
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Oct 31, 2016 | Gross-Gerau
Colleagues for colleagues: CHG-MERIDIAN employees run for a good cause
Carrying the baton: marathon route completed by six relay teams
Collective effort: €2,531.70 raised for the Gross-Gerau sports association for disabled people
Cooperation: CHG-MERIDIAN has employed people with disabilities at its Gross-Gerau site since 2007
On October 30, 24 employees of technology management specialist CHG-MERIDIAN AG took part in Frankfurt's Mainova Marathon. Although it was undoubtedly a test of their fitness, the focus was very much on raising money for a good cause. For each kilometer run by the employees, the Company donated €10 to the soccer department of Gross-Gerau's sports association for disabled people. Some of the disabled people who train with the association work at CHG-MERIDIAN's Gross-Gerau site.
Six CHG-MERIDIAN teams ran the marathon in relay, each completing four legs of between 6.1 and 13.5 kilometers. In the final reckoning a total of exactly 253.17 kilometers had been completed. This meant that overall CHG-MERIDIAN was able to hand over a check for €2,531.70 to the Gross-Gerau sports association for disabled people.
The association's soccer department was the main beneficiary of the money raised by the CHG-MERIDIAN runners. Coach Ronald Zelger was suitably delighted as he took receipt of the check: "This is a very special day for us. By making this donation today, CHG-MERIDIAN's staff have proven that togetherness is not just important in sport." Sylvia Römer, Chairperson of the Gross-Gerau sports association for disabled people, added: "Thanks to this donation, our organization will be able to continue offering a wide range of sports to people with disabilities."
CARE initiative brings together CHG-MERIDIAN's community-based activities
The marathon project was initiated by Olga Haushalter, an employee at the Gross-Gerau site. A member of the Internal Sales team and an experienced runner, she took charge of organizing the relay run for colleagues from across Germany. She was given comprehensive support from CHG-MERIDIAN's in-house CARE initiative, through which employees can propose different ways of funding community-based projects. "The CARE initiative brings together company activities that benefit the wider community," says Matthias Steybe, Head of Communications and Marketing at CHG-MERIDIAN. "Our employees have a big say in determining the projects that we support. They can contribute their own ideas and bring them to fruition." Activities focus on providing support for regional projects based in the communities surrounding the Company's sites.
Gross-Gerau a key cog in the CHG-MERIDIAN Group
With a workforce of around 100 people, the Technology and Service Center in Gross-Gerau is not only an important site for CHG-MERIDIAN but also a key local employer. Computers and other IT equipment that are returned by customers at the end of their usage agreements are reconditioned here so that they can be remarketed. The center is also where data that is stored on PCs, servers, and laptops is erased using a proprietary process that has been certified by the TÜV product standards regulator.
Every year CHG-MERIDIAN carries out an average of around 100,000 data erasures and prepares nearly half a million assets for remarketing so that they can be used again. Its customers include 20,000 or so large corporations such as banks and insurance companies as well as SMEs and public-sector clients. "The services we perform at the Technology and Service Center in Gross-Gerau help ensure that pre-owned hardware is not simply thrown away, but can be used productively for as long as possible in line with a sustainable business approach," says Steybe.
Employing people with disabilities since 2007: a model of success
CHG-MERIDIAN has long maintained links with the Gross-Gerau sports association for disabled people via the Rhine-Main workshops for the disabled. It has offered employment opportunities to people with disabilities since 2007, with the Rhine-Main workshops currently providing 13 disabled employees for CHG-MERIDIAN's Technology and Service Center. Reinhard Gross, Head of Production at CHG-MERIDIAN, believes that having disabled and non-disabled employees working under the same roof has many advantages: "Getting people with and without disabilities to interact on a daily basis at work benefits them all and helps them to understand each other better. Our disabled members of staff play an important role in our day-to-day work processes."
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