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A Requiem For Annie
As I checked in at the ticketing table, the young ladies hovering around in bright blue Beta Tau Alpha t-shirts and perfectly cuffed jeans transported me back to college. It is there I stayed for the duration of Beth Hyland's new play For Annie, unable to escape the sense that the ideal audience For Annie, with its palpable PSA undertones, is not in a Murray Hill loft but, rather, on a college campus. True, the themes of domestic violence, grief and survivors guilt in For Annie are likely to resonate with an audience of any age, but Hyland's work is uniquely crafted to speak to college students. Given that one in three college women may be a victim of sexual dating violence, Hyland's play seems more necessary now than ever.
A play within a play, For Annie opens with the girls of the Beta Tau Alpha sorority introducing their show, presumably being performed for fellow students, in honor of their sister, Annie Lambert, who, for reasons not yet disclosed, is spoken of in the past tense. An intelligent and sporty girl, Annie had everything going for her until a chance run-in at a grocery store with frat-boy Nick during her freshman year led to a dark and difficult college career. The play chronicles Annie's abusive relationship with Nick and her efforts to escape his control. The BTAs tell Annie's story, interjecting moments of tearful regret and heartfelt asides about how they missed the signs of abuse, and they explain the violent cycle that dictated her life and, ultimately, led to her demise.
Hyland's play proves incredibly accessible for anyone who has been to college, and the message absolutely merits discussion; however, the plot feels a bit juvenile for an adult who has long since left the collegiate world. Annie and her friends swoon over Orlando Bloom, jam to the pop hits of the early 2000s, dance awkwardly in dive bars and build relationships through text message. The set reflects the transitional college life with pictures strung on clotheslines and sheets lining the walls. This is less an indictment of the play than an observation that its ideal audience resides on the numerous college campuses around this nation. Domestic violence is a difficult subject matter to tackle in an honest and illuminating way, and For Annie succeeds in its effort to tug on the audiences heart strings, prompting them to look out for signs of abuse in others.
However, certain elements in The Hearth's production of For Annie, such as the use of an abuse cycle chart in the show, makes it feel like an educational after-school special. It is not until late in the show when a deceased Annie walks in agony among her living peers in an Our Town-esq moment does the piece elevate beyond its simple story-telling. Another failure of the play is Beth Hyland and Director Emma Miller's use of extended musical sequences throughout the show. In some instances, these sequences are drawn out with little substantive value. At other times, the use of these musical numbers distracts from the message being conveyed. For example, during a dance scene Nick and Annie's dialogue suggests that Nick is having rough sex with Annie, hurting her despite her protests, but the dance sequence seems to make light of this horrific situation by hiding it in a dance metaphor. These choices make the show more palatable perhaps, but simultaneously shield the audience from some of the more brutal realties of domestic violence.
The ensemble blends nicely together, embodying their collegiate roles with astute realism. Stand out performances include those from Andrea Negrete in her role as Annie's temperamental younger sibling Casey, playing the brooding teen with appreciable snark, Ari Shapiro as Annie's lovable and goofy boyfriend Max who provides much-needed levity in a dark show and Elizabeth Colwell in her brief, but touching, performance as the deceased Annie, reminding the audience that Annie's story has no happy ending even if the living find closure. With respect to technical design, Both set designer Emmie Finckel's set design and Dara Affholter's costume design are practical and appropriate, suggesting the casual and budgeted nature of college life. While Amy Elliott attempts to elevate her lighting design in the loft space at Lucid Body House, the design appears too busy at times, distracting from the action on stage rather than complimenting it. To be fair, it is quite difficult to create nuance in such a space during a limited run of an off off-Broadway production.
Ultimately, The Hearth's production of For Annie shines a spotlight on the still too-frequent occurrence of domestic violence on college campuses with the familiar and heart-wrenching tale of a young woman who was poised to succeed in life, only to have her time cut short at the brutal hands of a significant other. It highlights the warning signs of abuse and educates patrons about the cycles that drive abusive relationships, which is vital information that all men and women should understand but, unfortunately, often makes the show feel more like an educational piece better produced on a college campus.
Written by: Theresa Perkins
Published: Friday, 2016/12/23 - 15:19
Contemporary Theatre
The Hearth


Gianluigi Buffon is one of the five goalkeepers mentioned on the FIFA FIFPro World XI 2012 shortlist. The Italian national team and Juventus captain composed his World XI last week.
A special delegation of the Italian professional footballers association (AIC), including board member and FIFPro president Leonardo Grosso, was welcomed at the training ground of Juventus, the reigning champions of Italy.
Gianluigi Buffon was one of many players meeting Grosso and his colleagues and composing their personal World XI. Among the other players dropping in were Claudio Marchisio, Sebastian Giovinco, Andrea Barzagli, Stephan Lichtsteiner, Simone Pepe, Lucio, Emanuele Giaccherini, Simone Padoin, Giorgio Chiellini and Leonardo Bonucci.
Grosso and Buffon were invited to pose in front of the cameras; two goalkeepers sharing a moment together. In his playing career Grosso defended the goal of Genoa, among others.
In the seven-year history of the FIFPro World XI, Buffon was named twice in the World XI: in 2006 and 2007 his colleagues proclaimed him the best in the business. The last four years Iker Casillas took that honour from Buffon, but the Italian goalkeeper was always close: in all those years Buffon was on the shortlist.
In fact, since the introduction of the FIFPro World XI in 2005, Buffon has always made the shortlist. Thirteen more players could equal that record if they follow the example of Buffon and will also be named to this year's shortlist: Ashley Cole, Didier Drogba, Samuel Eto'o, Rio Ferdinand, Kaká, Frank Lampard, Lúcio, Alessandro Nesta, Andrea Pirlo, Carles Puyol, Cristiano Ronaldo, Wayne Rooney and John Terry.


text: Harmful Algae News An IOC Newsletter on Toxic Algae and Algal Blooms No. 60 - July 2018 www.ioc-unesco.org/hab Marine eukaryote and HAB monitoring in Japan with next generation technology Sequencing technologies such as Illumina MiSeq have made it possible to obtain billions of sequence reads in a single experiment. Massively parallel sequencing (MPS) is revolutionizing surveys of eukaryotic diversity, including harmful algal bloom (HAB) species. This technology enables us to detect several hundreds of operational taxonomic units (OTUs) of eukaryotes from seawater samples and facilitates the detection of low-abundance populations in complex eukaryote communities. The eastern part of Hokkaido facing the Okhotsk Sea is where the coldest water (2C) flows in from Sakhalin in the winter. The marine ecosystem in this area has been considered sensitive to perturbations in environmental conditions. Mombetsu city is thus recognized as the most important monitoring base for observing plankton biodiversity in (n = 112) the coldest waters of Japan. Plankton biodiversity has been performed using MPS-based technology once a week, from April 2012 until present day at Mombetsu city. The Mombetsu city office also has carried out daily environmental monitoring such as water temperature and salinity since 1996, and morphology-based monitoring of zooplankton sampled using nets more than once a week since 1997. In this study, a monitoring survey of eukaryote biodiversity using the MPS-based technique was performed. Surprisingly, many HAB species were detected in northern Hokkaido. Water temperature, salinity, and chlorophyll-fluorescence were measured weekly with a CTD from April 10 2012 to June 2, 2014 (n = 112) at the Okhotsk tower in Okhotsk Sea (Mombetsu city, Japan) (4420.22N, 14322.85E) and Nov Jan Content Oct Dec Sep Feb MDS2 Mar Aug Apr May Jul Jun MDS1 Fig. 1. A plot of non-metric multidimensional scaling (NMDS) analysis for the eukaryotic biodiversity survey using the MPS-based technique in the seawater samples of Okhotsk Sea. The similarity index was calculated using the Jaccard index. Invited contribution: Monitoring in Japan with NGTs (Satoshi Nagai)..................... 1 Dinoflagellate cysts in sediments: a response to Anderson 2018 (Barrie Dale)...... 4 Benthic HABs CFP and marine invertebrates in French Polynesia.......................... SPATT technology to monitor Gambierdiscus toxins....................... Ostreopsis distribution in the Bay of Biscay.......................... Ostreopsis blooms in Lisbon Bay 6 8 10 11 Other HAB events Fertilizer tank breakdown and Pseudo-nitzschia bloom.................. 13 Prymnesium parvum bloom in southwest India............................ 15 HAB Training and Networking Regional Workshop on Benthic HABs.......................... 16 Workshop on morpho-molecular methods for dinoflagellate cysts. 17 Cawthron Summer Scholar and Cyanobacteria............................ 18 Canadian HAB Workshop.............. 19 New: GEOHAB book......................... 20 Forthcoming 12 APC course ................................... 21 18 ICHA Conference . ...................... 22 A follow-up special session on dinoflagellate cysts is scheduled during the ICHA 2018 in Nantes, and will ensure the transfer of expertise and uptake of methods internationally (see p. 17). Anyone interested in this session can contact: Kenneth. mertens@ifremer.fr or Kirsty. 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Clearly, there is room for questions or criticism when this dynamic system is modelled from the assumption that bottom sediments, for example in Anderson s work in The Gulf of Maine, are in a static stable condition whereby a sa Contribution of marine invertebrates to Ciguatera poisoning : the case study of French Polynesia Reported as early as the 15th century by explorers, ciguatera fish poisoning (CFP) is the most prominent non-bacterial seafood poisoning worldwide. Widespread in tropical and subtropical regions, CFP res au développement du phytoplancton ciguatérigène en Polynésie française: CARISTO-Pf n7937/MSR/REC of 4th of December 2015 and Arrêté nHC/491/ DIE/BPT of 30th March 2016). Figure 2. 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Location of sampling sites The genus Ostreopsis encompasses benthic dinoflagellates that represent one of the main microalgal threats for beach tourism in w Bloom of Ostreopsis cf. siamensis in Lisbon Bay Fig. 1. Sampling sites on Lisbon Bay Reports of benthic HAB events have increased during the last decade in temperate regions. These have been associated with proliferations of benthic toxic dinoflagellates, in particular species of Ostreopsis. The M Table1 1- List - List the macroalgaecommunity communityspecies species Table ofof the macroalgae ITSA and ITSB primers [6]. Phylogenetic analysis (not Asparagopsis armata Corallina sp. shown) revealed that all the Caulacanthus ustulatus Cystoseira sp. studied sequences grouped Ceramiacea Derbesia s A possible link between the breakdown of a fertilizer tank and a toxic Pseudonitzschia bloom fishery, leaving toxic blooms undetected in other areas. By the time of the bloom, the diatom community primarily consisted of P. seriata (Fig. 3). Identification of P. seriata as the potential culprit diat Fig. 3. Pseudo-nitzschia seriata TEM micrograph of the poroid structure arranged within the striae consisting of two outer rows of larger poroids and one or two inner rows of smaller poroids. induce DA production in P. australis [7], and the most potent DA-inducing N form has been shown to be urea. Golden alga Prymnesium parvum Carter bloom off Azhikode, southwest India In September 2009, during the southwest monsoon season, a quasi-monospecific bloom of Prymnesium parvum was collected off Azhikode (10o 11 02 N; 76o 09 22 E), on the southwest coast of India (Fig. 1). A conspicuous pale browni Regional Workshop on Monitoring and Management Strategies for Benthic HABs if possible, establish tools for standardized procedures. The exercise is open to the entire international community. The goal of achieving improved assessments of the risks associated with BHABs will help reduce the health, Workshop on morpho-molecular methods for the study of dinoflagellate cysts A workshop on techniques for the morphological and molecular identification of cysts from toxic HAB species, led by Drs Kenneth Neil Mertens, Kirsty Smith, Lesley Rhodes and Lincoln MacKenzie, was held recently at the Cawthro Cawthron Summer Scholar Explores Bloom-Forming Freshwater Cyano bacteria Globally, cyanobacteria blooms in freshwater environments are causing water quality problems and health risks with increasing frequency. New Zealand is no stranger to this, suffering from blooms of toxin-producing cyanobacteria Canadian HAB Scientists Hold Workshop to Establish National Priorities and Develop Research Network A National Harmful Algal Bloom (HAB) workshop was organized and chaired by Dr. Ian Perry at the Institute of Ocean Sciences (IOS), Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO), Sidney, British Columbia, July 11- Joint FAO, IAEA, IOC and WHO Technical Meeting for the development of an InterAgency Global Ciguatera Strategy Harmful Algae News has previously brought information on an initiative between the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Environment Laboratories in Monaco jointly with the Oceanographi 12th Advanced Phytoplankton Course - APC 12 Identification, Taxonomy, Systematics Roscoff Biological Station (France) - 19th May to 8th June 2019 APC12 is organized by the Station Biologique de Roscoff together with the Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn and the IOC Science and Communication Centre on H ICHA 2018 News: 669 abstracts evaluated ! 250 orals + 45 ignite talks selected and participants notified ICHA 2018 News: 669 abstracts evaluated ! 9 plenaries confirmed 250 orals + 45 ignite talks selected and participants notified 3 satellite sessions 9 plenaries confirmed 3 satellite sessions

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Thousands of Nicaraguans took to the streets in protest for a second straight day on Thursday as discontent grew over controversial changes to social security that will increase worker and employer payments and reduce future pensions.
Students in the capital, Managua, took over the National University of Engineering, hurling stones and Molotov cocktails as they faced off with riot police, who responded by firing tear gas and rubber bullets.
The protests grew in intensity as pensioners were joined by businessmen and university students in several cities.
Nicaragua's vice president and wife of President Daniel Ortega, Rosario Murillo, justified the police response as legitimate defense against "tiny groups."
In Masaya, a stronghold of Ortega's left-wing Sandinista movement, hundreds of marchers were attacked with sticks by government supporters, leaving some injured.
Local television station "100% Noticias," which was broadcasting the protests live, had its signal abruptly cut. The television station took to Twitter to call the move "arbitrary and illegal."
With the changes, which were signed into law earlier this week, employees will now have to contribute seven percent of their salary to social security, up from a current 6.25 percent.
Employers will have to contribute 22.5 percent of salaries from a current 19 percent.
Pensioners will also have five percent of their pension taken out to be used for medical expenses.
The changes to the pension system are aimed at shoring up Nicaragua's social security system.
Students from the National Agrarian University in Managua protested against the latest reform of social security pensions in the capital Managua on Thursday.
Early results show that Nicaraguan incumbent President Ortega is set to win a third term in office.
Thousands gather in central Nicaragua to protest against a controversial canal project.


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"We will continue to work closely with our American partners to improve the civilian and humanitarian situation in Gaza," an IDF officer stated.
By: United with Israel Staff
On Tuesday, key IDF officials and Israeli liaisons to Gaza hosted Karen Sasahara, the American Consul General in Jerusalem, during a visit to the Kerem Shalom and Erez Crossings into Gaza.
The visits provided a platform to discuss ways to aid the Palestinians of Gaza, via the Americans and the IDF's Coordination of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) unit and the Israel Crossing Points Authority.
During the visit, the American delegation was briefed on activities at each crossing and efforts to improve the humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip.
The delegates were also briefed on the security challenges facing Israel in the area.
For instance, an ambulance crossing used to transfer Gazans out of the Strip in emergency humanitarian cases was hit late last month by a rocket fired by Gaza terrorists. The crossings have also been a target of Hamas terrorism.
"To what low have the terrorist organizations in the Gaza Strip reached?" wrote COGAT commander, Maj. Gen. Kamil Abu Rukun, on his Arabic Facebook page after the crossing was hit by a rocket.
The overall objective of the joint tour was the exploration of ways to improve the civilian and humanitarian situation in Gaza, COGAT said.
COGAT is the IDF unit responsible for implementing government policy in Judea and Samaria and vis-à-vis the Gaza Strip.
IDF Colonel Sharon Biton, head of COGAT's Civil Affairs Department, said that Sasahara's visit "demonstrates the closeness of the cooperation between COGAT and the United States Consulate General to improve the lives of Palestinian residents of the Gaza Strip."
"We will continue to work closely with our American partners to improve the civilian and humanitarian situation in Gaza," he added.
Aiming to maintain regional stability and promote economic development, Israel has previously formulated and implemented plans for the benefit of Palestinians in Judea and Samaria and Gaza.
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A while back, I talked about how ripe the Finder was for a revolution…or even an outright replacement. It still seems like the stodgiest part of the Mac OS. In contrast, I've spent months using a sophisticated computer that couldn't care less about the concept of 'files' and 'folders' namely, the iPad. And it got me thinking that maybe I didn't go far enough. If I'm petitioning for a revolution in the Finder, why not do away with the whole file system?
I mean, it's been 30 years since the first time I sat at an Apple II keyboard and typed "RUN HELLO." At this point in my life, "Volumes filled with folders and files" seems like an antique concept. Shouldn't we be ready to evolve into a world in which files, formats and locations are irrelevant, and we keep all of our information and creations inside libraries?
Spotlight is a nod in this direction. I rarely have to remember where a file is physically located. It's so much quicker to hit C-space to open a search box, tap in a few letters, and select the document I was thinking about.
But there's a better example of the needless limitations of a file structure, and it's presented by an app that you use every day: iTunes. Do you know where your copy of Lou Reed's 'Satellite of Love' is? No. Because you don't need to know.
When you stop thinking of 'Satellite of Love' as an MP3 file inside a subdirectory of your Lou Reed folder inside a subdirectory of your Music folder, and train yourself to think of it as a piece of music with no fixed role, purpose, or articulation…it can become almost anything.
You can listen to it as one song. Or you can hear it as the middle track of Lou Reed's Transformer album. Or you can think of it as a 220-second chunk of a three-hour playlist. It can be a part of several playlists, simultaneously. The iTunes library doesn't lock that track into a specific role; it appears wherever and whenever it's appropriate and useful.
Another app that urges us to think in terms of libraries instead of files is iPhoto. iPhoto understands that Humans are a fickle and indecisive species. It takes pity upon our weakness and offers us Nondestructive Editing. To iPhoto, a picture isn't a JPEG file inside your Pictures folder. It's the initial state of the picture data the first time you moved it to the library, plus a record of every change you made to it since.
That's a powerful concept. One photo is a holiday shot of your family in front of the Statue of Liberty and (with some cropping) it's also dramatic clip art for a Keynote presentation. It's the same content, articulated two different ways for two different purposes. iPhoto understands that kind of relationship; you won't lose the other version in the process.
iPhoto also actively tries to understand the relationships between all of the images in your library. It percolates for several minutes and then tells you that the same guy turns up in the following 72 photos in the library. Would you like to give this guy a name? "Uncle Bonfiglio?" Fab. Oh, and Picture #29 is actually your dog? What's the dog's name? "D'Artagnian." Got it. iPhoto will learn from this experience, and improve. You can now ask iPhoto to create a photo album that contains every Christmas Day photo that contains a family member.
Life would be much simpler if we were able to treat all of our data so abstractly, and if the OS could organise it as well. Think about how these features could be applied to information in general, and how much simpler our lives would be as a result.
Whoops…I forgot: I'm a narcissist. So instead, I urge you to think about how much easier my life would be.
The print edition of this column needs to be several hundred words shorter than the online version. Must I create two copies? Or must the world lose those a few precious gems of Truth, Beauty and Wisdom forever?
Naw. Like the photo of friends beside the Statue of Liberty, the new OS would understand this column has two versions.
I wouldn't know where the column is stored and I wouldn't care. The OS would understand how I use the information on my Mac. At any time, I can ask Spotlight "Show me every Macworld column I've written in this year" and presto, all of my columns appear. The Mac OS will have trained itself to spot the subtle je nais se quoi of a piece of writing destined for the magazine. Hell, this sort of plain-English organisation would even work if the new OS just allowed me to add keyword tags to the things I create.
It might even change the way I approach the assembly of projects. Conceptually, the elements of a 350-page book would come together like a playlist for an evening drive, and I could rearrange them as easily. An edit to a 700-word section wouldn't provoke a massive audit of the whole chapter.
And the book doesn't become a Word file or a Pages document until I decide what kind of file it needs to be. When I have to promote the book with a series of lectures, I could re-articulate the book's best bits as Keynote slides; the book isn't permanently fixed in the form of 350 printed pages.
The more I think of it, the more quaint the subject of a strict system of files and folders seems. I've been to those tourist villages where people in Colonial garb dip candles and sew quilts and churn butter and complain about King George and his Stamp Act. I've hated every minute of it.
'Quaint' stinks. I couldn't wait to get back to the future then, and I'm impatient to get to the future of the Mac OS now.


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package fix.test;

import java.util.List;

/**
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public class ClassWithJavadoc
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{
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    // ----------------------------------------------------------------------

    /**
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     */
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    {
        return null;
    }

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    // ----------------------------------------------------------------------

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    {
    }

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}

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Q: Retrieving a webpage that requires loading time I'm using Jsoup to parse the content from a website. The problem is that there are some data on the page that requires a couple of seconds to load. For this reason, my program can only get the loading graphic rather than the loaded data. Here is what I got:

Counsel

Loading

If I open this url in a browser, I can actually see the contents for this block rather than the "loading" word.
I was wondering if there is anyway to get the content after the page is fully loaded. Here is my simple code:
Document doc = Jsoup.connect(url).get();

Any help is really really appreciated.

A: HttpURLConnection may be a better method for grabbing a web page as it gives more control and error handling, plus you can get the MIME type and character encoding.

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Q: OpenBSD pf NAT rules based on DHCP/DNS I have a Proxmox installed and an OpenBSD VM in front of all the others to play the role of NAT, firewall, DNS and DHCP.
I have a fully functional DNS and DHCP. My DHCP is correctly updating my DNS records.
My NAT is also working well since my other VMs can reach the internet.
Now I would like to have a working firewall and incoming NAT rules.
For instance I have a VM named nginx, which can be contacted though nginx.local.lan.
In short terms, this is what I want to do:

*

*Redirect 80 and 443 ports to my ngnix.local.lan.

*Block everything that comes from the WAN interface (em0) except what is natted (80 and 443 to nginx) and SSH.

*But I also want to allow everything that comes from the LAN interface (em1).

Here is my current pf.conf file:
 set skip on lo
 block return    # block stateless traffic
 pass            # establish keep-state

 # Define interfaces
 ext_if=em0
 int_if=em1

 # Allow SSH connections
 pass in on $ext_if inet proto tcp from any to ($ext_if) port 22

 # Allow VMs to get out of the network
 pass out on $ext_if inet from $int_if:network to any nat-to $ext_if

A: I finally found a way to do everything I said before.
I'm going to explaining it:
In /etc/pf.conf:
Denying all incoming trafic
(Except the LAN interface)
 block in all
 pass in quick on $int_if

The first line block eveything while the second one allow anything from the LAN interface.
If you wonder what the quick keyword is, read this.
How can you be sure it's working? Just do a pfctl -sr, it should output something like:
 block drop in all
 pass in quick on em1 all flags S/SA

Redirecting the HTTP(S) traffic to a VM
As said before, I already configured a working DNS, DHCP, DDNS setup. Which means that if I have an nginx VM that's asking for a DHCP lease, it'll automatically associate the nginx.local.lan entry of the domain to the leased IP.
Knowing that, I tried to make it elegent in the config file using macro :
nginx_vm_map=80 443
pass in quick on $ext_if proto tcp from any to any port {$nginx_vm_map} rdr-to nginx.local.lan

The first line define the ports I want to redirect to my VM, then I use this macro $nginx_vm_map inside the natting rule to make it easily changeable.


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Nov. 30, 2016 7:00 a.m.
Tom Swanky was in Bella Coola last week presenting on his newest novel, "The Smallpox War in Nuxalk Territory." The book explores in further detail what the author and legal historian proclaimed in his first novel, "The True Story of Canada's "War" Of Extermination On the Pacific," which is the assertion that the government intentionally and systematically introduced the smallpox virus to exterminate the indigenous communities in an effort to clear the land for their own proposed projects, in particular a railroad from Bella Coola to the goldfields in the Interior.
Swanky reiterates many of the points that he established in his first novel, the most notable being that the spread of smallpox was intentional due to the government's wish to control the land which is unavailable at the time because it is occupied.
However, Swanky goes even further this time, presenting arguments that link the activities associated with the spread of the disease directly to the Attorney General at the time, George Cary, who was Governor Douglas's legal advisor at the time. Cary had a legal obligation to deliver vacant land: hence there was the need to clear these sites of their indigenous occupants.
Swanky also says that his findings are concurrent with his conclusion that this was not a natural epidemic. As in his first novel, Swanky states that the epidemic spread far too rapidly to be considered natural. Most Nuxalkmc who came in contact with the virus were dead in a matter of weeks, where a "natural" epidemic should take much longer to spread.
It is a bold argument and Swanky states that his intention is simple: to tell the truth.
The pain and grieving that these revelations spark in the Nuxalk community should not be underestimated. While many Nuxalk members believed Swanky's assertions long before his work was formally presented in this book, to see it recorded in such a format was a difficult but important acknowledgement of this dark time period.
Smallpox very nearly decimated the Nuxalk people. There are estimations of 10,000 – 12,000 people living in Bella Coola area; smallpox reduced them to 150 individuals.
While critics of Swanky's first novel agreed with many of his claims, they were critical of his methods of investigation.
Dr. Robin Fisher earned his PhD. at the University of BC, where he became a scholar of the history of British Columbia and, in particular, of First Nation-European relations.
"There can be little doubt, as Swanky argues, that governments and settlers in British Columbia deprived First Nations peoples of their land and undermined their traditional systems of government. Nor can there be any question that Europeans introduced smallpox and that the disease, along with others, resulted in a sharp decline in the Aboriginal population," said Fisher.
However, Fisher remains unconvinced that Douglas was carrying out a genocidal policy in regard to smallpox, coming to different conclusions than Swanky based on his analysis of the similar evidence.
When questioned about this, Swanky replied that he expected such a reaction and that, in least in part, these revelations would take time to surface and be explored more deeply.
The evening marked an important milestone for Nuxalk people as it opened up a new discussion about the impact of smallpox on their communities, past and present, and their willingness to face a difficult past that is still full of unanswered questions.


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BootHole issue allows installing a stealthy and persistent malware
July 30, 2020 By Pierluigi Paganini
Billions of Windows and Linux devices are affected by a serious GRUB2 bootloader issue, dubbed BootHole, that can be exploited to install a stealthy malware.
Billions of Windows and Linux devices are affected by a serious GRUB2 bootloader vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2020-10713 and dubbed BootHole, which can be exploited by attackers to install persistent and stealthy malware.
According to researchers from the firmware security firm Eclypsium, which discovered the issue, the BootHole flaw affects any operating system that uses GRUB2 with Secure Boot.
GRUB2 (the GRand Unified Bootloader version 2) is a replacement for the original GRUB Legacy boot loader, which is now referred to as "GRUB Legacy". The mechanism is designed to protect the boot process from attacks.
"The vulnerability affects systems using Secure Boot, even if they are not using GRUB2. Almost all signed versions of GRUB2 are vulnerable, meaning virtually every Linux distribution is affected." reads a report published by Eclypsium. "In addition, GRUB2 supports other operating systems, kernels and hypervisors such as Xen. The problem also extends to any Windows device that uses Secure Boot with the standard Microsoft Third Party UEFI Certificate Authority."
The flaw affects the majority of laptops, desktops, workstations, servers, and network appliances and special purpose equipment used in the healthcare, industrial and financial sectors.
The vulnerability could be exploited by an attacker with administrator privileges on the targeted device. The attacker can obtain higher privileges and achieve persistence by exploiting the issue.
BootHole is a buffer overflow vulnerability that is related to the way the GRUB2 parses its grub.cfg configuration file.
The config file is a text file that is typically not signed, an attacker could exploit the vulnerability to execute arbitrary code within GRUB2 and modify the contents of the GRUB2 configuration file. With this trick, the attacker can execute the malicious code before the operating system is loaded, gaining persistence on the device.
After Eclypsium disclosed the BootHole vulnerability, the Canonical security team discovered several other security issues analyzing GRUB2 implementation.
"All signed versions of GRUB2 that read commands from an external grub.cfg file are vulnerable, affecting every Linux distribution. To date, more than 80 shims are known to be affected. In addition to Linux systems, any system that uses Secure Boot with the standard Microsoft UEFI CA is vulnerable to this issue." states the report.
"Additionally, any hardware root of trust mechanisms that rely on UEFI Secure Boot could be bypassed as well."
To mitigate the flaw, the bootloaders have to be signed and deployed, experts suggest revoking vulnerable bootloaders. Unfortunately, this process could take a long time.
"While Secure Boot is easily taken for granted by most users, it is the foundation of security within most devices. Once compromised, attackers can gain virtually complete control over the device, its operating system, and its applications and data." concludes the report. "And as this research shows, when problems are found in the boot process, they can have far-reaching effects across many types of devices."
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2021 Detroit Lions suffered 3rd-highest injury impact in NFL
The Lions had some horrible, horrible injury luck last season.
By Jeremy Reisman@DetroitOnLion Mar 24, 2022, 9:01am EDT
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Football Outsiders is one of my favorite sites to go to for hard, objective advanced statistics. I often cite their DVOA metric, which measures a team's efficiency on a down-by-down basis, adjusting for the strength of the opponent, much like I do with my On Paper previews.
Another favorite statistic they invented is "Adjusted Games Lost." Football Outsiders uses this metric to try and quantify the injury impact that a team dealt with throughout an entire season. Rather than just adding up the games lost due to injury for an entire team, they have a more complicated process that weighs the impact of injured starters more and also factors in players who played, but weren't at 100 percent (taking into account injury reports).
At the end of each season, Football Outsiders throws all the injury data into their formula and spits out a number. On Wednesday, they released their results from the 2021 season, and it is probably no surprise that the Detroit Lions had the third-most games lost in the NFL with 122.4.
As if the Lions' roster wasn't impacted enough by general manager Brad Holmes stripping it down to its parts and replacing many old pieces with a lot of young, raw players, the Lions lost some key players they were intending on relying upon heavily. Taylor Decker, Tyrell Williams, Quintez Cephus, Frank Ragnow, Romeo Okwara, Jeff Okudah, and Ifeatu Melifonwu were all lost for a significant amount of time in the first month of the season.
It didn't get much better in the second half of the season. Trey Flowers played in just three games after Halloween, T.J. Hockenson missed the final five games, D'Andre Swift was out for all of December, Jared Goff was sidelined for three games down the stretch, and a trio of Lions cornerbacks—Jerry Jacobs, AJ Parker and Amani Oruwariye—missed a combined 11 games in the final seven weeks.
While injuries aren't alone to blame for the Lions' lack of success in 2021, it's impossible to ignore just how much of an impact injuries can have on a team's season. Of the 10 teams with the highest Adjusted Games Lost (most injuries), only two (Raiders, 49ers) made the postseason. Those 10 teams combined for a record of 71-98-1.
Meanwhile, of the top-10 healthiest teams by Adjusted Games Lost, six made the playoffs. Those 10 teams combined for a 101-69 record, with every single team winning at least seven games.
In general, season-to-season injury impact is random for every team. There are a few exceptions, but normally, teams regress to the mean over time. That could mean the Lions are in for good fortune after an unusually unlucky season.


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Fork Not Taken: What If Donald Trump Had Become a Used Car Salesman?
Dan Rattiner March 3, 2016
Cartoon by Mickey Paraskevas
We're at Donald Trump's used car lot. It's the largest in town. It sits on the old four-lane highway with the big sign out front. Strings of Christmas tree lights sweep over the rows and rows of shined-up used cars with soapy white lettering on the windshields. BEST DEAL. FANTASTIC BUY. GREAT PRICE. There isn't a lemon among them. Which is what The Donald says to end every TV commercial. "There isn't a lemon among them. The ones we had we squeezed out."
About 2 p.m. on a sunny day, a man driving a three-year-old Lincoln convertible pulls in. Trump smooths back his blonde toupee and in four bounds is out of his little office and by the driver's window.
"Terrible, terrible car you got here," he says. "Terrible, terrible."
The man gets out of the car and looks around. "Where's Charlie?" he asks.
"Charlie, you lookin' for Charlie? He's out with a client just now. I can take care of ya."
"Charlie Bowman."
"Bowman? Runs the used car lot across the street."
"I must have made a wrong turn."
"Terrible person. Used to work here with me. But I found out about him. Fired him so fast it made his head spin. Didn't know what hit him."
"What did he do?"
"Can't tell you that. Wouldn't be fair. But he's a terrible, terrible person."
"He's who sold me this car. Just came back to tell him how much I like it."
"This Lincoln? Nobody told you about it?"
"What's to tell?
"Says Lincoln on it. Nearly all of it was made overseas."
"It's an American car."
"American my ass. Lincoln would be rolling in his grave. And Charlie? Knows nothing about cars. Nothing at all. Tried starting it on cold days?"
"Well, you've only had it one day. Come on around front. Let me show you some of the things that are wrong."
The man gets out of the car.
"You look like a nice person," Trump says after looking him up and down. "What's your name?"
"Larsen."
"Good name. Goes back to the early settlers."
"My grandfather was from Sweden."
"Must have gone back then. But then he comes back to America. Good man."
"Married my grandma."
"Good family. American as they come."
Trump lifts the hood.
"Look at this battery. Made in China. The original Lincoln battery was terrible. Now they replace it with this one from China. Two weeks from now, you'll stop on a dark road at night and it won't start. See these numbers on the top? From China is bad enough. These are the batteries that didn't pass inspection."
"You shouldn't be doing business with Charlie."
"Changed his name. He's a Muslim. It's on his birth certificate."
"How did you see that?"
"He worked here. Remember?"
"And look at this distributor cap. See those raised letters?"
"Came in illegally. They make these 12-year-olds swallow them before they leave Mexico. Disgusting. They poop them out. I'm not afraid to tell it like it is. You should buy a car from me."
"Maybe I should."
"Let me show you a car I've got over here. Just for you, got your name on it. It's a little older than yours. But that shows you it's got lasting power."
"It says on the window it's a '98 Chevrolet."
"Best year for Chevrolet. Very best. You're going to love it."
"Good battery?"
"Made in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Never been one made this good."
"$10,800. And there's financing."
"And how much for my Lincoln?"
"I can take it off your hands. I'd be doing you a favor."
"It should be worth more than the one you're selling me."
"You know what it will cost me to fix up? So much I can't tell you. I'll probably just have it towed out of here. And I'll pay to do that. Cause you're such a nice guy."
"Maybe I should go back and see Charlie."
"Better go today if you're going to go. Tonight I'm building a wall around his place. Huge. And he's going to pay for it. That's the way it is. Terrible. Terrible. Huge."
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This system can be used to persist ordering and searches, create paginated results, control complex queries with just a couple of lines of code, fine-tuning the data representation, ... and a lot more.
Let's assume that you want to build a package with handle handle is my_boats that lists boats in a dashboard page (you can get the full source code here).
We won't discuss here how you can create the package controller (manual), the dashboard single page (manual), and the Doctrine Entity called Boat (manual).
a Result class, that defines your special Item class and can offer methods related to the whole result set.
Let's consider the file packages/my_boats/src/Search/Lists/Boats.php.
The main purpose of this class is to define the database query that will be used to extract data (the createQuery method) and to offer the filters that can be applied to the result sets (the various filterBy... methods). The query should return only the record identifier: the full instance of the involved entities will be created by the getResult method). Another purpose of the ItemList class is to create a Pagination object (see the createPaginationObject method), that will be used to split the results in multiple pages.
You can also use this class to define the columns that users can sort by clicking the header cells, as well as the query string parameters used to represent the current page index, the currently sorting column and its order.
When we present the boats to the user, we need to define the columns to be shown, and we can define a custom way to present the data. This is the purpose of column sets. In the sample package, it's implemented in the packages/my_boats/src/Search/Columns/Sets/Boats.php file. There you can see that we define 3 columns, assign every column a key/identifier, a name, and the method to be called against the entity to get the value to be displayed. In case of special columns, you can create a custom column class: in out example we use a YesNoColumn that prints out boolean values as Yes or No .
Another purpose of the column sets is to define the default column to be used to sort the results.
This controller is meant to control the process of reading the list state (that's persisted in a session variable as a StickyRequest instance), offers some data that can be useful (see the example getAllowedPaginationSizes and getDefaultPaginationSize methods), but above all it parses the content of the StickyRequest, apply the appropriate filters to the query and build the resulting object (see the search method).
This is not strictly mandatory, but you'll almost always need to have some extra details that's not directly available from the underlying data you're showing (for instance, the CSS class of an item row). In order to be able to define such a custom item wrapper, you have to use a custom Result class: in our example it's the packages/my_boats/src/Search/Results/Boats.php class. This class should implement a getItemDetails methods which receives the entity instance (or what's returned by the getResult method of the Item List) and returns the final item wrapper that will be used when displaying the data.
In our example, the Result class returns instances of the class defined in /packages/my_boats/src/Search/Results/Item/Boats.php. This entity wrapper class can then be used to build the final list, for instance by providing a custom CSS class for every result row.


Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Single's Day Gross Merchandise sales value cross whopping $30 billion in just 24 hours.
With a strong start, Alibaba sold out items worth 1$ billion in just 125 seconds.
Single's Day in China celebrated in response to the valentine day for being single and on the date 11 Nov as it has all singles (11.11).
Alibaba started Single's day event in 2009 and conceptualized by current Chief executive Daniel Zhang.
Alibaba Sold items ranging from iphone to milk powder in China and overseas during the 24 hour event on last Sunday.
Top selling brands are Apple, Dyson, Kindle, Estée Lauder, L'Oréal, Nestle, Gap, Nike and Adidas.
Alibaba Group's 29 different units including its retail chain Freshippo, digital payment system Alipay, cloud system, Brick and mortar Stores backed by Alibaba participated in the 11.11 event to make it grand and successful.
The Indian e-commerce players including Amazon.in and Flipkart together expected to reach around $3 billion in Five days event in 2018. But both the firms eyes to make it $10 billion in the coming couple of years with the strong Supply chains.
Single's Day GMV is greater than the Black Friday sale and Cyber Monday combined in the United States.


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T.L.C. - Officially the "Tea Lovers Circle"
T.L.C. - "Tender Loving Care"
As a church outreach to the local community, the TLC plans to hold two Monday cafes per month, 1.00pm - 3.00pm starting 24th April 2017 in Carmyle Church.
It will be known as the 'TLC Pop in Community Cafe'.
The TLC's aim is to welcome all from the wider community who wish to come along and share friendship over tea coffee and cake while enjoying various planned programmes of interest. This will include Singers, Speakers on interesting topics, Art Work Shops, Games, and Outings etc.
Monday 15 April at 1 PM; Daffodil Tea at Carmyle Church. Everyone Welcome.
The plan is to encourage carers and those who require care to come along and join with others in a safe environment where everyone can 'shake of the Monday blues' and share in fun and laughter over hot drinks and cake.
Kenmuir Mount Vernon church started the T.L.C. August 2013. This was an idea of the minister, the Rev Murdo Maclean, to encourage friendship, especially to offer companionship to those in the church, and in the wider community, that were living on their own or acting as carers for a loved one (but not exclusively). It is open to all ages, men and women whether they are members, adherents or neither of these.
The idea is to take the church out to the parish that it serves It does this by organising events to encourage an exchange of ideas that relate to 'church', but in a neutral setting such as a cafe rather than in the confines of a formal church.setting.
It recognises that non-church people may be intimidated to visit the church per se, but happy to meet in a cafe over coffee/tea and cakes (that includes a bit of laughter and fun).
These events may be organised round a coffee morning, an afternoon tea or, on occasions, a bus trip that usually includes stopping off for a light lunch.
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ESRGC Fall Spotlight 2019
"Working as an intern at the ESRGC...got my "foot in the door" so to speak, to take on progressively more technical roles"
- Karla
Name: Karla King
Graduation date: 2008
Hometown: Silver Spring, Maryland
When did you first use GIS? I first used GIS in Dr. Michael Scott's Introduction to GIS class as a geography major in 2002.
What is something you wish students knew about GIS?
It is easier when you have a specific application in mind. There are a wide range of tools available in any GIS software, and generally a user only needs about 10% of them depending on their work. I first really enjoyed GIS when I used it for an undergraduate research project mapping deforestation of cloud forests in Honduras with Dr. Alexis Aguilar.
What interested you in working with the ESRGC?
Though I had envisioned myself going into environmental planning, I was eager to explore the technical skills needed to make the maps planners rely on. Little did I know this would become my main focus moving forward in my career.
What project(s) did you worked on as an intern? How long were you an intern?
I worked on the Chesapeake Bay Critical Area Program and updated the National Wetlands Inventory in Georgia. It was extremely fulfilling because I grew to love wetland ecosystems living on the eastern shore of Maryland. I was an intern for 11 months.
Where are you working now? And what are you working on?
I work at Descartes Labs, a private company based in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The company got its start applying cloud computing to open source satellite imagery for applications such as crop modeling, deforestation mapping, and more. We've since expanded into other analytical areas, including ship tracking and financial modeling. The founders came out of Los Alamos National Labs and I work alongside scientists and software engineers to build a strategic vision for our data analytics platform as a product manager.
How has working with ESRGC prepared you for your current position?
To be a product manager at a data driven company, it is important you are somewhat of an expert in the subject and can get as technical as the scientists and engineers you work with. Working as an intern at the ESRGC was the beginning of a long line of very technical positions I've held that have supplied me with the subject matter expertise that qualify me for my current role. It got my "foot in the door" so to speak, to take on progressively more technical roles.
Have you gone to any GIS conferences? How did they go?
When I moved to San Francisco, California, I joined a professional mapping organization called BayGeo, and we hosted the state's GIS conference one year. I was amazed at how strong the GIS community was in California and became aware that most regions have a similar GIS community you can tap into. Networking and relationship building are critical to establishing yourself in the industry.
Dream job? (doesn't have to be GIS related)
This is a fun question. I feel like my dream job is always changing, but having worked at a handful of start-ups in the past five years, I am feeling more entrepreneurial as of late. I would love start my own company or non-profit that focuses on leveraging technology to solve environmental issues.
Living in New Mexico, it is all about nature. Santa Fe is a high desert environment that provides stunning landscapes and wonderful seasons. I spend a lot of time camping, hiking, and snowshoeing with my two dogs and husband.
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Commissioner-initiated investigation into the Department of Home Affairs
Download the print version and read our media release
Report finalised: 11 December 2020
Department's response: 6 January 2021
Report published: 29 January 2021
Part 1: Executive summary
Commissioner initiated investigations and reasons for undertaking this investigation
1.1 The objects of the Freedom of Information Act 1982 (FOI Act) are to give the Australian community access to information held by the Government. It requires agencies to publish information and provides a right of access to documents. The Parliament intends by these objects to promote Australia's representative democracy by contributing towards increasing public participation in Government processes, with a view to promoting better-informed decision-making and increasing scrutiny, discussion, comment and review of the Government's activities.
1.2 The FOI Act also expressly states that Parliament intends that functions and powers given by the FOI Act are to be performed and exercised, as far as possible, to facilitate and promote public access to information, promptly and at the lowest reasonable cost. Timely provision of public access to government information is a central enabler to fulfil the objects of the FOI Act.
1.3 As set out in section 10 of the Australian Information Commissioner Act 2010 (Cth), the Information Commissioner has the FOI functions, which under section 8 includes monitoring, investigating and reporting on compliance by agencies with the FOI Act. Under section 69(2) of the FOI Act I may investigate an agency's actions in performing its functions, or exercising its powers, under the FOI Act on my own initiative. I must also generally investigate a complaint made by a person under section 70 about an action taken by an agency in the performance of functions or the exercise of powers under the FOI Act.
1.4 In determining whether to commence this investigation in relation to the Department of Home Affairs (Department)[1] under section 69(2) of the FOI Act, I considered the compliance by the Department with the statutory processing requirements of the FOI Act for requests (FOI requests) for non-personal information. This was prompted by receiving 13 complaints (Initial Complaints) which I was required to investigate, raising concerns about delay in the processing of requests for non-personal information. In the case of each of the FOI requests that were the subject of the Initial Complaints (Initial FOI Requests), the Department exceeded the statutory processing time by between 5 and 256 days. I also took into consideration other material which was before the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) at the time, including:
FOI statistics for the financial years 2016-17, 2017-18 and 2018-19 and the period 1 July 2019 to 30 September 2019, as reported by the Department, including the number of requests received and the number of requests finalised within the statutory timeframes, and
the number of Information Commissioner review (IC review) applications then current in relation to the Department, particularly in relation to the number of IC review applications where the Department was deemed to have made an access refusal decision where it did not meet the processing timeframes.
1.5 I have taken into consideration investigations conducted by former Information Commissioners on similar issues.[2] Amongst other matters, I may take into account the objects of the FOI Act and the risks and impacts of non-compliance by an agency with the FOI Act.
1.6 The Initial Complaints which I was required to investigate related to the Initial FOI Requests. Two of the applicants were journalists and one was an individual. The applicants made FOI requests for information that related to matters of public interest relevant to the core functions of the Department and, in some cases, related to matters in which there had been significant media interest. The Initial FOI Requests included, for example, information regarding medical treatment provided to asylum seekers and refugees, disclosures of interests under section 19 of the Australian Border Force Act 2015 (Cth) and the treatment of detainees in detention facilities. Many of the requests were complex and involved large numbers of documents.
1.7 By way of further background, data submitted to the OAIC by the Department over the past four financial years shows:[3]
for each of the financial years, in excess of 50% of the FOI requests for non-personal information were processed outside of the statutory processing period and in the final year, 63% of those FOI requests were processed outside of that period,
assessed on a quarterly basis, there has been a significant increase in the percentage of non-personal FOI requests not processed within the statutory processing period over the financial years 2018-19 and 2019-20[4], and
over the four financial years, the number of IC review applications received by the OAIC in relation to the Department's processing of FOI requests for non-personal information has increased, including an increasing trend in the number of IC review applications for deemed access refusal decisions.
1.8 Given the factors outlined in paragraphs 1.4 to 1.6, and in light of the underlying principles and objects of the FOI Act, I determined to undertake this investigation under section 69(2) of the FOI Act to consider the Department's compliance with the statutory processing timeframes set out in the FOI Act. My investigation has been limited to FOI requests for non-personal information. However, there would be benefit in the Department considering the broader application of my findings and recommendations, as summarised in Table 1, in relation to all FOI requests that are received by the Department, that is, for both personal and non-personal information.[5]
1.9 As required by the FOI Act, this report sets out the results of my investigation, as well as my formal recommendations. I have also set out the reasons for why I have made my findings and recommendations. The Department's response to this report is attached as Attachment C.
Previous investigations
1.10 It is apparent that issues of delay have persisted in the Department over a number of years and have been the subject of numerous previous reviews.[6] The OAIC also notes that many of the findings and recommendations in this investigation have been the subject of previous reports, indicating a serious need for issues of delay to be rectified and sustained. For example, the 2012 own motion investigation of the then Department of Immigration recommended that the Department should consider and address inadequate internal governance arrangements for controlling delays in processing non-routine FOI requests and for ensuring senior executive supervision of those requests as well as failures to consider applying to the OAIC for extensions of time to process requests under section 15AB or 15AC of the FOI Act. My findings from this CII indicate that these issues remain.
Findings of investigation
1.11 The information considered in this investigation indicates that the Department does not have adequate governance and systems of accountability in place to ensure compliance with statutory time frames for processing FOI requests for non-personal information.[7]
1.12 The other key findings from my investigation may be summarised as follows:
In a general sense, a greater degree of senior level support and leadership for embedding policies, procedures and systems of accountability for compliance with the statutory processing periods in the FOI Act, would assist the Department in meeting the statutory processing period requirements of the FOI Act.[8]
With regard to the Department's FOI Section:
i. There is evidence that not all of the staff within the FOI Section are available to assist in the processing of FOI requests for non-personal information which has contributed to delays in processing these FOI requests.[9]
ii. The policies and processes that the Department has in place for the FOI Section do not address the steps required, both in relation to escalation and finalisation of decisions, where delays are contributed to by business areas of the Department or third parties.[10]
iii. The policies and processes that the Department has in place for FOI requests for non-personal information do not adequately address use of the provisions of the FOI Act which enable an agency to seek an extension of time in processing FOI requests.[11]
With regard to the business areas of the Department:
i. The Department has implemented an approach for processing FOI requests for non-personal information that requires significant engagement by the staff in the business areas to which a relevant FOI request relates. The training and resources made available to those staff does not facilitate processing FOI requests within the FOI Act statutory processing periods.[12]
ii. The Department's processes for consulting with senior staff, the Department's Media Operations and Minister's Office in relation to FOI requests limits the ability of the Department to meet FOI Act statutory processing periods.[13]
There are inadequate policies and procedures in place to support compliance with the requirements of section 6C of the FOI Act.[14]
1.13 The formal recommendations that I have made under section 86(2)(b) of the FOI Act in this report address improving the policies, systems of governance and accountability, procedures and training of the Department that are appropriate to ensure that the Department is able to meet the statutory processing periods specified under the FOI Act. I have also recommended that implementation of the recommendations is audited and a report provided to the OAIC. A summary of my recommendations from this CII is set out in Table 1. The detailed recommendations are set out in Part 5 of this report.
Table 1: Summary of recommendations:
Summary of recommendation
Timing for implementation
Appoint an Information Champion[15]
I recommend that the Department appoint an Information Champion. The Information Champion may be supported by an information governance board to provide leadership, oversight and accountability necessary to promote and operationalise compliance by the Department with the FOI Act.
1 month from the date that comments on this report are due
Operational Processes and Procedures[16]
I recommend that the Department prepare and implement an operational manual for processing FOI requests for non-personal information to be approved by the Information Champion referred to in Recommendation 1 and at a minimum:
(a) specify the steps that will be taken to ensure compliance with statutory processing requirements (as set out in more detail in Part 5),
(b) specify the steps that will be taken to ensure compliance with section 6C of the FOI Act and the processes to be adopted to request documents from contracted service providers, and
(c) include a short form guidance note to assist business areas in processing FOI requests for non-personal information.
Consistent with the requirements of the Information Publication Scheme, I recommend that the operational manual should be made publicly available by the Department on its website.
I recommend that the steps that will be taken to ensure compliance with section 6C of the FOI Act, as referred to in subparagraph (c), should be replicated in all other policies of the Department which relate to contractual requirements for procurement by the Department.
3 months from the date that comments on this report are due
Training[17]
I recommend that the Department:
(a) undertake and complete training for FOI Section staff and other staff (both decision makers and other staff who assist decision makers), and
(b) ensure that online training in processing FOI requests for non-personal information is available to all staff of the Department.
I recommend that new staff joining the FOI Section should be trained within 2 weeks of commencing in the FOI Section.
(a) Not later than 3 months after the completion of the Operational Manual referred to in Recommendation 2.
(b) Not later than 6 months after the completion of the Operational Manual referred to in Recommendation 2.
Audit of Compliance[18]
I recommend that the Department undertakes an audit of the processing of FOI requests for non-personal information to assess whether Recommendations 2 and 3 have been implemented and operationalised and whether those actions have been sufficient to address the issues identified in this CII. The audit should be undertaken either by the Department's internal audit committee or by an external auditor, as determined by the Department. A copy of the audit report is to be provided to the OAIC.
Within 3 months of completion of Recommendation 3.
1.14 As this CII has focussed on a consideration of the Department's compliance with the statutory timeframes set out in the FOI Act in relation to processing FOI requests for non-personal information, Recommendations 2 to 4, as set out in Table 1 and described in more detail in Part 4 of this report, are also limited in their scope to FOI requests for non-personal information. Taking a pragmatic approach to compliance, there would be benefit in the Department considering the broader application of each of the Recommendations in relation to all FOI requests that are received by the Department, that is, for both personal and non-personal information.[19] For example, although Recommendation 3 relates to training for the processing of FOI requests for non-personal information, in implementing Recommendation 3, the Department should give consideration to whether the training of staff across the Department who are involved, in whatever capacity, in the processing of FOI requests for personal information is also up-to-date and whether additional training may be required for that type of FOI request.
Ongoing assessment of the Department's compliance
1.15 The OAIC will continue to work with the Department to ensure not only that the Recommendations are implemented and operationalised but also to ensure that its policies and procedures evolve over time to continue to enable the Department to meet its obligations under the FOI Act, including to meet statutory timeframes. The OAIC will monitor compliance through quarterly agency statistics submitted by the Department, complaints and IC reviews, including deemed access refusals.
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[1] Including its predecessor agency, the Department of Immigration and Border Protection.
[2] 0n 26 September 2012, the former Information Commissioner Prof. John McMillan completed an Own Motion Investigation into processing of non-routine FOI requests by the then Department of Immigration and Citizenship: https://www.oaic.gov.au/freedom-of-information/foi-reports/processing-of-non-routine-foi-requests-by-the-department-of-immigration-and-citizenship/ On 22 September 2012, the Department advised the OAIC that in response to the announcement of Prof. McMillan's Own Motion Investigation, the Department had commissioned a review by Mr Robert Cornall of the Department's FOI procedures. That review made a number of recommendations: https://www.oaic.gov.au/freedom-of-information/foi-reports/diac-response-to-omi-report-on-processing-of-non-routine-foi-requests/ On 8 December 2017, the former Information Commissioner Mr Timothy Pilgrim investigated a complaint relating to the processing of non-personal FOI requests.
[3] Part 2 of this report sets out these statistics in detail.
[4] When assessing these statistics on a quarter by quarter basis across the two years, in only one quarter was there an increase in the percentage of non-personal FOI requests processed within time over that two year period.
[5] For example, in 2019-20, the Department processed 69% of requests for personal information within the statutory timeframes. Further detail on the processing of FOI requests for personal information is set out in Table 3.
[6] As referred to in paragraph 1.5.
[7] As described in paragraphs 4.12 to 4.16.
[10] As described in paragraphs 4.24 to 4.26.
[13] As described in paragraph 4.41.
[15] Required in light of the findings in paragraphs 4.12 to 4.16.
[16] Required in light of the findings in paragraphs 4.16 to 4.19; 4.24 to 4.31; 4.40 to 4.51.
[17] Required in light of the findings in paragraphs 4.20 to 4.23 and 4.34 to 4.39.
[18] Required in light of the comments in paragraphs 5.1 to 5.5.
[19] In 2019-20, the Department processed 69% of requests for personal information within the statutory timeframes.
Recommendations following investigation into FOI processing by Home Affairs
Report published on Home Affairs' compliance with statutory processing periods
Investigation into FOI processing by the Department of Home Affairs
Investigation to focus on processing FOI requests for non-personal information


The Washington Fish and Wildlife Commission will take action on a proposed new management policy for Columbia River white sturgeon Jan. 21, when commission members will convene via a conference call.
The commission, which sets policy for the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife, postponed a vote scheduled on the policy Jan. 8, because only four commissioners were able to attend a public meeting that day.
By law, at least five commissioners of the nine-member commission must be present to approve or disapprove a measure. Two members, Ken Chew and George Orr, left the commission Dec. 31 when their terms expired. Three other members were absent for personal reasons.
The proposed sturgeon guidelines support ?precautionary? reductions in harvest rates for stocks downriver from Bonneville Dam that have shown a marked decline in the abundance over the past three to five years.
Fishery managers from Washington and Oregon have advocated a reduction of at least 30 percent harvest over the next three years, and are preparing to announce this year?s catch levels and fishing seasons at a public meeting Feb. 8 in Oregon City.
That would follow a 40 percent catch reduction imposed during the 2010 fishing season.
The formula for allocating the catch between the recreational and commercial fisheries would remain the same under the new policy. As in past years, 80 percent of the allowable harvest will be reserved for the sport fishery and 20 percent for the commercial fishery.
A proposed fishing moratorium in the Elwha River Basin designed to support restoration of salmon and steelhead populations during and several years after work begins to remove two major dams from the river later this year.
New Puget Sound crabbing regulations that reflect a policy approved by the commission last October to expand recreational fishing opportunities.
A new 2011-13 management policy for Columbia River summer chinook salmon, which are expected to return in record numbers this year.
Policy guidance for WDFW on the North of Falcon process, where salmon-fishing seasons are set for the Pacific Ocean, the Columbia River, Puget Sound and other waters.
For more information about the commission's Jan. 7-8 agenda and upcoming meetings, see the commission's website at //wdfw.wa.gov/commission.


"How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of those who bring good news, who proclaim peace, who bring good tidings, who proclaim salvation, who say to Zion, 'Your God reigns!'" (Isaiah 52:7).
"For you yourselves know how you ought to follow our example" (2 Thessalonians 3:7a).
"If only my master would see the prophet who is in Samaria! He would cure him of his leprosy" (2 Kings 5:3). "Bear one another's burdens" (Galatians 6:1).
"So that no advantage would be taken of us by Satan, for we are not ignorant of his schemes" (2 Corinthians 2:11). "Put on the full armor of God so that you can take your stand against the devil's schemes" (Ephesians 6:11). "Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour" (1 Peter 5:8).
"In putting everything under Him, God left nothing that is not subject to Him. Yet at present we do not see everything subject to Him" (Hebrews 2:8).
"In the morning, O LORD, you hear my voice; in the morning I lay my requests before you and wait in expectation" (Psalm 5:3). "My soul, wait thou only upon God; for my expectation is from Him" (Psalm 62:5).
"But they were unfaithful to the God of their fathers and prostituted themselves to the gods of the peoples of the land" (1 Chronicles 5:25).
"When neither sun nor stars appeared for many days and the storm continued raging, we finally gave up all hope of being saved" (Acts 27:20).
"Don't let anyone look down on you because you are young, but set an example for the believers in speech, in life, in love, in faith and in purity" (1 Timothy 4:12).
"I already have plenty, my brother. Keep what you have for yourself" (Genesis 33:9). "God has been gracious to me and I have all I need" (Genesis 33:11). "He who did not spare His own Son, but gave Him up for us all--how will He not also, along with Him, graciously give us all things?" (Romans 8:32).
"Ask him. He is of age; he will speak for himself" (John 9:21).
"But you did not honor the God who holds in His hand your life and all your ways" (Daniel 5:23b).
"Yes, and I ask you, loyal yokefellow, help these women who have contended at my side in the cause of the gospel, along with Clement and the rest of my fellow workers, whose names are in the book of life" (Philippians 4:3).
"For you were like sheep going astray, but now you have returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls" (1 Peter 2:25).
"Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes" (James 4:14). "I make known the end from the beginning, from ancient times, what is still to come. I say: My purpose will stand, and I will do all that I please" (Isaiah 46:10). "The LORD will fulfill His purpose for me; Your love, O LORD, endures forever" (Psalm 138:8). "And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love Him, who have been called according to His purpose" (Romans 8:28).


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Why Russell Crowe was 'exhausted' playing Roger Ailes in The Loudest Voice
By 9Honey Celebrity| 3 years ago
He may be an Oscar-winning actor, but even Russell Crowe wasn't quite prepared for the challenges he'd face playing the role of Roger Ailes, the bold, brash TV executive who built the Fox News empire and advised Republican presidents, from Reagan to Trump.
However it wasn't the characterisation that Crowe struggled with — it was the hours spent in the makeup chair.
To physically transform into Ailes for The Loudest Voice, which premieres on Stan on July 1, Crowe, 55, gained weight — reportedly 35kg, and not long after he was losing the kilos he gained for Boy Erased — and endured many hours in the makeup chair.
Russell Crowe as Roger Ailes in Stan's 'The Loudest Voice'. (Stan)
"I'd be so exhausted because wearing all that prosthetic makeup adds a factor that's very hard to define," he told A Current Affair's Sylvia Jeffreys via satellite. "But it makes every step you take during the day more difficult as the day goes on and your skin starts to squeeze in and ache."
"I think by the end of the show I'd spent in excess of 12 days of my life sitting in that makeup chair," he added.
Former Fox News CEO Roger Ailes poses at Fox News in New York in September 2006. (AP)
In The Loudest Voice, Crowe is joined by an A-list cast that includes Sienna Miller as Ailes' wife Beth, Naomi Watts as Gretchen Carlson, the former Fox News anchor who led the charge of women publicly accusing Ailes of sexual harassment, and Seth MacFarlane as Brian Lewis, a young executive hired by Ailes to head up PR at Fox News.
Naomi Watts as Gretchen Carlson. (Stan)
The miniseries contains confronting scenes but Crowe credits his co-stars for being "brave" in their portrayal of the characters.
"We were able to talk through all this stuff and they were very brave about what we had to show," he said.
Despite all the promo he's had to do for The Loudest Voice, which is already getting early awards season buzz, there's something Crowe always makes time for: watching the South Sydney Rabbitohs.
Russell Crowe looks on from the stands during the Round 11 NRL match between the South Sydney Rabbitohs and the Wests Tigers at ANZ Stadium in Sydney, Saturday, May 25, 2019. (AAP)
"Your beloved Bunnies are taking on the Tigers, I assume you'll be watching via satellite somehow," said Jeffreys.
"There's a great product now, an app called Watch NRL, you can have it on your phone you just push a button on your phone and bingo bango you watch the entire game," said Crowe. "For a sports fan it's just a mind-blowing thing."
Unfortunately apps can't solve the problem of time difference.
"So I will be getting up at 2.30am, I will be watching, and I will be very interested in the outcome."
The Loudest Voice will air exclusively on Stan from Monday, July 1, fast-tracked from the US.
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Storytelling is a powerful tool that evokes visual images and heightened emotions. Leaders who can tell a good story have tremendous impact.
Storytelling is a timeless skill. Everyone tells stories. We do it every day. We see, hear, and tell millions of stories in our lifetime. And now more than ever, businesses, workers, and leaders have opportunities to stand out, spread messages, and make change through the use of stories. The leaders who can find, create, and share powerful stories will have a meaningful impact on productivity and profits.
This presentation on storytelling asks leaders to consider the set of life stories that shape their approach to leadership. Each participant will examine and share transformational moments from their business lives, moments of incredible impact and learning, success and failure that have shaped who they are as leaders.
Individuals will walk away having found, developed and told a personal business story that is meaningful and connects an audience of their choice. Additionally, they will begin a process of personal reflection that is necessary to find and share stories that motivate, entertain, inspire and move internal/external customers to act.
Create stories using techniques and skills that inspire and move your audience to action.
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During his career he has held various senior management positions such as Director of Private Banking for Spain and Latin America, Director of Internal Control (Legal and Compliance) and Director of Emerging Markets. He has also been appointed to the board of Bilbao Vizcaya Bank (Jersey) Ltd and its subsidiary Canal Trust Company Ltd (trust company).
Educated at St. Phillips Preparatory School (London), The London Oratory School (London), Birkbeck College of the University of London (London) and OU Business School (United Kingdom), he has been a member of the Chartered Institute of Securities and Investment (CISI) since 2000 and served on its Admissions Board in Switzerland from 2010 to 2012.
Faustino Garcia
Faustino started his career in the Swiss Banking sector in 1996, with an apprenticeship at AIG Private Bank AG. In 2000 he was recruited by Commerzbank (Schweiz) AG and was employed on the operations side of the bank. In 2004 he was employed by Credit Suisse First Boston also in an operational capacity. At that point Faustino decided to move into the client side of private banking and accepted a position in 2007 at BBVA (Suiza) AG for the Latin American desk. In 2008 Faustino was headhunted by Rothschild Bank AG where he worked for total of 8 years.
During his banking career Faustino has worked in various departments within the industry. As a result he has a broad knowledge of the international banking system seen from one of the most important sources of international wealth management services. This coupled to his exposure to client relations in diverse international environments has provided him with a broad base of knowledge and experience of international legal, fiscal and regulatory issues.
Faustino achieved a Certificate of Banking Competence from the KV Business School in Zurich and later a certificate in Marketing from the KS Kaderschule in Zurich . He went on to graduate from the AKAD Banking and Finance HFBF with a College of Professional Education and Training (PET) degree in Banking.
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Projects supported to date:
2016 - Reconstuyendo Sueños por Manabí (Terremoto Ecuador)
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