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Vizio Gives Its New TVs A Mobile Heartbeat
March 24, 2016 By Paul SweetingBlog0 Comments
For people who still want to watch TV programming on a big-screen TV, cutting the cord means accepting a series of kludges. You can use the built-in apps on your smart TV to stream Netflix, Hulu and other popular over-the-top channels, but you're still stuck navigating through menus and login screens using a point-and-click remote that's often less functional than an ancient cable remote navigating a grid-style program guide. Browse VIZIO's webpage to know more of Vizio's TV.
You could buy a new Apple TV device with it's sleek-looking, touch-based remote, but you'll still be scrolling through menus and fumbling through on-screen, point-and-click keyboards. You can use a Chromecast dongle, and do your navigating on a mobile device, but Chromecast basically just turns the TV into a dumb display. Your mobile device isn't really talking directly to the TV — the dongle is simply discovering your tablet or smartphone inputs by virtue of being on the same network and then fetching the content requested itself — which introduces latency between command and response. And if you need to answer your mobile phone in the middle of a show it can interrupt your cast.
But the biggest problems with most connected TV streaming platforms, whether embedded in the TV itself or implemented in a set-top box, are that their operating systems are generally static and the apps you use are no one's priority.
TV makers are not really OS companies, and their streaming platforms show it. The UIs are primitive, and the OS functionality is limited by the computing horsepower — often not very much — built in at the time of manufacture. Since people generally don't replace their TVs very often — certainly compared with how often they upgrade their phones — OS upgrades are limited to firmware updates, which don't happen very often. Read More »
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Kim Choon-Rye (, born June 21, 1966) is a South Korean team handball player and Olympic champion. She received a silver medal at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, and she received a gold medal with the South Korean team at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul.

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Q: Mysql where clause for million rows I have two tables, t1,t2 in schema - 'Schema,
t1 has 1 million rows and around 30 columns.
I am running a query like one given below,
select b.Contract_ID,
b.Signed,
b.Funding_Source,
b.Theater, b.Country,
b.Partner, b.BEID,
b.Contract_Type, b.TCV,
b.Technology,
b.Partner_Signature_Date,
b.Signature_Date, b.Term,
b.Purchase_Order,
b.Contract_Baseline,
b.Organic_Rate, b.Target_Organic,
b.Target_Incremental,
b.Total_Bookings_Target,
b.Tracking_Start,
b.Tracking_End, b.Qualifier_BEID,
b.Qualifier_BEGeoID,
a.`CSC Global Ultimate ID`,
a.`CSC Company Target ID`,
b.Qualifier_Theater,
b.Qualifier_Country, a.SCMS,
b.Qualifier_POType, b.MCO,
b.Contract_Status, b.Accrual_Start,
b.Accrual_End, b.Booking_Start,
b.Booking_End, b.TMS_Level_1,
b.TMS_Level_2, b.TMS_Level_3,
b.Pf,
b.Allocation,a.`Fiscal Period ID`,
a.Bookings*b.Allocation as Bookings
from
(SELECT * FROM `Schema`.`t1` where `BEID` in
(select distinct (BEID) from Schema.`t2`)) a
INNER JOIN
(SELECT * FROM `Schema`.`t2`) b
where
a.`Business Entity Id` = b.Qualifier_BEID
and a.`BE Geo Id` = b.Qualifier_BEGeoID
and a.`Country` = b.Qualifier_Country
and a.`PO Type` = b.Qualifier_POType
and a.`Product Family` = b.Pf

This is the query, but it is taking 45 minutes to run. A little background about a few things.

*

*select distinct (BEID) from Schema.t2

results in 137 numeric values (all maximum 4 digits).

*I have BIED column indexed, so alias 'a' would be a bit faster to calculate.

A: First off, write the query like this
select b.Contract_ID,

b.Signed,
b.Funding_Source,
b.Theater, b.Country,
b.Partner, b.BEID,
b.Contract_Type, b.TCV,
b.Technology,
b.Partner_Signature_Date,
b.Signature_Date, b.Term,
b.Purchase_Order,
b.Contract_Baseline,
b.Organic_Rate, b.Target_Organic,
b.Target_Incremental,
b.Total_Bookings_Target,
b.Tracking_Start,
b.Tracking_End, b.Qualifier_BEID,
b.Qualifier_BEGeoID,
a.`CSC Global Ultimate ID`,
a.`CSC Company Target ID`,
b.Qualifier_Theater,
b.Qualifier_Country, a.SCMS,
b.Qualifier_POType, b.MCO,
b.Contract_Status, b.Accrual_Start,
b.Accrual_End, b.Booking_Start,
b.Booking_End, b.TMS_Level_1,
b.TMS_Level_2, b.TMS_Level_3,
b.Pf,
b.Allocation,a.`Fiscal Period ID`,
a.Bookings*b.Allocation as Bookings

from

`Schema`.`t1` a
INNER JOIN
`Schema`.`t2` b on a.BEID = b.BEID

where
a.`Business Entity Id` = b.Qualifier_BEID

and a.`BE Geo Id` = b.Qualifier_BEGeoID

and a.`Country` = b.Qualifier_Country

and a.`PO Type` = b.Qualifier_POType

and a.`Product Family` = b.Pf

second, make sure you created an index on Schema.t1.BEID AS WELL AS schema.t2

A: Make it a standard join without subqueries, and move all conditions up into the join condition. Use distinct only if a BEID can appear multiple times in t2.
select distinct
    -- various columns as per your posted query
from t1 a
join t2 b on a.BEID = b.BEID
    and a.`Business Entity Id` = b.Qualifier_BEID
    and a.`BE Geo Id` = b.Qualifier_BEGeoID
    and a.`Country` = b.Qualifier_Country
    and a.`PO Type` = b.Qualifier_POType
    and a.`Product Family` = b.Pf

Put an index on t2(BEID), or better on t2(BEID, Qualifier_BEID, Qualifier_BEGeoID)
I omitted the columns because they are not important to the problem.

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Q: "The attempted operation is not supported for the referenced object type" when installing Ubuntu WSL on Windows 10 I'm trying to install Ubuntu using Windows Subsystem for Linux.  But when running Ubuntu, it always it gives me L'opération tentée n'est pas prise en charge pour le type d'objet référencé
English :
The attempted operation is not supported for the referenced object type

what is the problem?
Windows Information:

thank you.

A: Run the following commands in an elevated command prompt.
wsl --shutdown
netsh winsock reset

Manually apply the following changes to your registry:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\WinSock2\Parameters\AppId_Catalog\0408F7A3]
"AppFullPath"="C:\\Windows\\System32\\wsl.exe"
"PermittedLspCategories"=dword:80000000

Source:

*

*https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/WSL/issues/547

*https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/5351


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No sensible, sane, normal person condones terrorism. No sensible, sane, normal person condones terror or violence of any kind. The tragic events of Sept. 11 in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania came as a reminder – a shocking, painful one – that all is not milk and honey with the world we live in. Dark, evil forces do exist, and they do assert themselves so horribly every now and then. The sad fact is that just as there are sensible, sane and normal people on our globe – a majority, no doubt – there are insensible, insane and mad people as well. The latter are a minority, luckily, but, unluckily, they do affect our world in serious, at times even crucial, ways.
It is sad and tragic that thousands of innocent people lost their lives on Sept. 11. Millions of people, not just in America, but throughout the world, also suffered shock, disbelief, anger, frustration and deep sorrow.
What happened was immensely disheartening. People's reaction to it the world over, however, was truly heartening. The condemnation of the horrible act; the feelings of sympathy expressed to the families of the bereaved, to the American people and to the American government by the international community; the declaration of war against terror by all members of the human species; the candles that were lit; the flowers that were laid; and all other forms of mourning, protest against terror and solidarity with America testify to the fact that a great deal is still well with our world.
America, I am trying to stress, received a great deal of sympathy from the vast majority of the inhabitants of today's world. There may exist some who, for one reason or another, "hate" America. The Sept. 11 events, however, have shown that the many love and sympathise with it.
America, I would argue, has more, much more, friends and lovers than enemies and haters worldwide.
There are many, the world over, who grieved for what happened because of what actually happened to America. Human beings are capable not just of sympathy but also of empathy. And there are many, as well, who saw the evil that took place in America on Sept. 11 as an incarnation of the evil that takes place in their own lives and worlds.
America is by no means a nation of innocence – i.e., free from evil, suffering and destruction. Despite arguments to the contrary, America has suffered evil and terror since the very beginning, from the moment Columbus stepped into the so-called New World in 1492 or the moment the Pilgrims arrived in Plymouth in 1620, all through King Philip's War, the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, Pearl Harbour, the Oklahoma bombing and the many wars that it fought outside its own territory, the two world wars, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, etc. Americans have had their share of suffering, as a result of war and as a result of all kinds of acts of violence.
Nevertheless, America is so huge and powerful, its society is so privileged, and the acts of evil and terror are so infrequent that many have come to view, and it has perhaps come to view itself, as sheltered, protected, peaceful, serene, untouched and untouchable.
Which is in sharp contrast with what has been happening in the rest of the world. Outside America, terror and violence have reigned in many parts of the world – and constantly and aggressively so – for decades. People, for example, in the Middle East, in many African countries, in the Balkan region, in Spain, in Ireland, in many Asian regions have been plagued by violence and terror – violence and terror that result from the acts of terrorists, but also violence and terror that result from conflicts, occupation, acts of aggression by individuals, groups and states.
One hopes that those responsible for the Sept. 11 deeds will be identified and made to pay for what they did. One would also hope that this type of evil individuals or groups will be eliminated, so that they won't commit any such acts of horror in the future.
But one also hopes that America and the Americans will be made more aware than they are now that what happened in America on Sept. 11 has been happening in many parts of the world for decades, that in the same way America and Americans have suffered, millions throughout the world have been suffering, and that just as America and Americans are so determined to find the architects and executors of the said acts, they will show equal determination to find and fight the architects and executors of acts of violence and terror that plague many parts of the globe.
While some Americans are amply aware of what goes on in the world around them, many Americans – alas – know little or nothing about the problems (including terror, conflicts and occupation) from which many fellow human beings are suffering. It is easy to live in America and know nothing about what happens in the world.
What I am trying to say is that there is an opportunity now for America and the world to work together not only to find those who have done what they have done in America or those who "hate" America and mean ill to it, but also those who are causing havoc in many parts of the world, due to insanity, shortsightedness, stupidity or paranoia.
America and Americans have, and one is heartened by this, received a great deal of sympathy and support from the world. The world, in turn, needs both sympathy and empathy from America and the Americans. As a superpower, and as a country which cherishes noble ideals, America can do a lot for the world at this point in time.
We Middle-Easterners, for example, like the American people, want to get rid of, to uproot, the acts of terror, as well as the causes of these acts which have plagued us for the most part of the century.
Death, much death, happened in America on Sept. 11, but death, much death, has been happening in our part of the world on a daily (nay an hourly) basis. We also need America's solidarity with us and intervention on our behalf.
Mr. Ahmad Y. Majdoubeh contributed above article to the Jordan Times.
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HEI's image. The North-CaucasusFederalUniversity is the leading higher education institution of the Stavropol region, which graduates Bachelors in the training area "Life Safety".
The educational programme prepares the graduates for addressing the relevant issues in the field of life saving, for using different methods of protection against possible conse-quences of accidents, disasters, natural disasters, for conducting research for planning and adjustment of professional activity processes.
Programme presentation. Material and technical facilities of the University and the Faculty of Physical Education of NCFU comply with the requirements of the Federal State Educational Standard. Thus, the educational process is provided with the necessary set of licensed software for conducing classes: lectures, practical and laboratory work, consultations, etc. The classrooms are equipped with up-to-date multimedia facilities; practical and laboratory classes are conducted in computer classrooms, specialized rooms, and a sports and health complex. Extracurricular work of students is provided with relevant methodological support.
North-Caucasus Federal University also offers Bachelor's and Master's programs in Psychology and Teacher Training.
Teaching staff. The educational process is carried out by qualified teaching staff, which includes about 5% of employers. Over 18% teachers have a degree of Doctor of Sciences and the academic title of professor. 98% of teachers in the profile disciplines have academic degrees. All teachers of the professional cycle have basic education and/or an academic degree, which corresponds to the profile of the taught discipline.
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Q: Melhoria e simplificação do código Estou no primeiro semestre da faculdade, e como projeto final o professor pediu para fazer um jogo da forca, eu já fiz meu código porém queria que sugerissem melhorias, ou reportassem futuros problemas do código.
#include<stdio.h>
#include<locale.h>
#include<string.h>
#include<windows.h>
#define T 19
void cenario(void);
void head(void);
void body(void);
void lefthand(void);
void righthand(void);
void leftleg(void);
void rightleg(void);
int main (void){
    setlocale(LC_ALL,"PORTUGUESE");
    int i,j,vidas,exec,op;
    char *palavra;
    char nome[25],letra;
    char lacuna[16]="_";
    char palavras[T][16]={"humanidade","juventude","shopping","supermercado","historia","camiseta","abacaxi","acerola","computador","tartaruga","cachorro","atividade","especialista","entusiasmo","capitalismo","socialismo","desenvolvimento","sistemas"};
//sorteia uma palavra entre as pré definidas
    srand(time(NULL));
    palavra = palavras[rand()%T];
//preenche as lacunas com o comprimento da palavra
    for(i=1;i<strlen(palavra);i++)
        lacuna[i]='_';
//introdução do jogo
    system("cls");
    system("color b");
    fflush(stdin);
    printf("Bem vindo ao jogo da forca!\nDigite seu nome para começar.\n\nNOME: ");
    gets(nome);
    vidas = 6;
//inicio do jogo
    do{
        exec=1;
//limpa o buffer do teclado pra evitar quaisquer erros
        fflush(stdin);
        system("cls");
//faz a parte de interface do boneco
        if(vidas==6)cenario();
        else if(vidas==5)head();
        else if(vidas==4)body();
        else if(vidas==3)lefthand();
        else if(vidas==2)righthand();
        else if(vidas==1)leftleg();
        else if(vidas==0)rightleg();
//printa as lacunas
        printf("\t\t%s\n",lacuna);
        printf("\nDigite uma letra: ");
        fflush(stdin);
        scanf("%c",&letra);
//verifica se a letra digitada está na palavra
        for(i=0,j=0;i<strlen(palavra);i++)
            if(letra == palavra[i]){
                lacuna[i] = letra;
                j++;
            }
//verifica se acertou a letra na rodada anterior
        if(j==0)
            vidas--;
//verifica se já acertou a palavra inteira
        if(strcmp(palavra,lacuna) == 0){
            system("cls");
            system("color a");
            printf("A palavra era: %s.\n\nVocê ganhou o jogo %s, parabéns!\n\n\n\n",palavra,nome);
            exec=0;
        }
//verifica se já acabaram as vidas do jogador
        if(vidas==0){
            system("cls");
            system("color c");
            printf("A palavra era: %s.\n\nVocê perder o jogo %s, mais sorte na próxima vez!\n\n\n",palavra,nome);
            exec=0;
        }
    }while(exec==1);
//fim do jogo e pergunta se deseja jogar novamente
    system("color b");
    system("PAUSE");
    system("cls");
    printf("Deseja jogar novamente?\n1-SIM\n2-NÃO\n\n");
    scanf("%d",&op);
    if(op==1)
        main();
    else
        return 0;
}
//funções da interface do boneco
void cenario(void){
    printf(" +-------+\n |       |\n |       |\n |\n |\n |\n_|_");
}
void head(void){
    printf(" +-------+\n |       |\n |       |\n |       o\n |\n |\n_|_");
}
void body(void){
    printf(" +-------+\n |       |\n |       |\n |       o\n |       |\n |\n_|_");
}
void lefthand(void){
    printf(" +-------+\n |       |\n |       |\n |       o\n |      /|\n |\n_|_");
}
void righthand(void){
    printf(" +-------+\n |       |\n |       |\n |       o\n |      /|\\\n |\n_|_");
}
void leftleg(void){
    printf(" +-------+\n |       |\n |       |\n |       o\n |      /|\\\n |      /\n_|_");
}
void rightleg(void){
    printf(" +-------+\n |       |\n |       |\n |       o\n |      /|\\\n |      / \\\n_|_");
}

A: Exemplo de melhoria: if(op==1) quando for fazer comando de decisão, utilize {} fica mais fácil a compreensão, imagine em um programa que você precisa utilizar for dentro de for dentro de while, e assim sucessivamente, logo, o uso das chaves te ajudará na hora de ler e entender o código.
No momento em que você disse //faz a interface... abaixo você usa varios if e else if, uma dica é utilizar assim para melhor compreensão e leitura do seu código...
if(vidas==6){
   cenario();
}
else if(vidas==5){
   head();
}


Caldwell Takes Jack: "Risk To Be Great"
In ran into Atlanta Falcons General Manager Thomas Dimitrioff last year at the NFL owners meeting walking down a hallway to dinner.
"Hey, I work with Dave Caldwell a lot and he said he learned a lot from you," I said as we shook hands.
"Be careful," he responded, "He's really smart."
Smart. And measured, and knows how the game is played.
While not making a big offer to Josh Norman last week drew some criticism, in retrospect, it was the right move. Sitting and waiting at number five in the first round, the scenario played out so Jalen Ramsey, the player the Jaguars had rated as the best in the draft, fell right to them.
On Thursday, Caldwell and the Jaguars personnel staff had UCLA linebacker Myles Jack listed as the third best defensive player in the draft. With teams shying away from his knee issue and rumors swirling, Jack started to slide down the draft board, into the bottom third of the picks. The Jaguars GM tried to move back into the first round to take Jack, but didn't want to part with the price: a second and fourth round pick this year.
And then there was some talk in the afternoon of day two of the NFL Draft that if Jack was there with the 38th pick, the Jaguars would take the risk and pick him.
Working the phones and his contacts, Caldwell determined Jack wouldn't last that long so he started to deal and found a willing partner in the Baltimore Ravens. Instead of a 4th rounder to get back into the first round, Caldwell was willing to part with a 5th rounder to move up a couple of spots and selected Jack with the 36th pick overall.
So from speculation that the Jaguars might take Jack over Ramsey at number five, they end up with both players. How often does a team get two of the top three players on their board in the same draft? Never is the answer.
"Somebody had to believe in me, and I had a feeling it was going to be Jacksonville," Jack said by phone after his selection. "I knew after my workout for the Jaguars that they'd take me in the second round. I really love coach Bradley. ... He earned my trust on that first visit."
It was a long period of study for Head Coach Gus Bradley when it came to Myles Jack. He wanted to know about his physical ability but also needed information about Jack's personality, especially if he had to go through another long rehab.
"We've had conversations about Myles Jack for many months now, just really intrigued by his skill set and how he plays the game," Gus explained."
"It helped that our scouts had a great idea about who he was, Dave, the analysis of the tape, but also (UCLA Head Coach) Jim Mora. I coached with Coach Mora, was with him at Seattle, so I had many conversations with him about the impact he (Myles Jack) had and the type of person he was and type of player he was. Just really excited about having Myles be there for us."
Perhaps to prove a point, Jack posted a video of him dunking a basketball on his Twitter account today, throwing it down with ease as if to say, "What knee?"
No question it's a calculated risk for Caldwell and the Jaguars but when asked about the possibility of Jack not working out, Caldwell didn't flinch.
"We want to be great and to be great sometimes you have to take risks," he said flatly.
So when the Jaguars take the field in Week One they could have "three first round picks" starting on defense: Ramsey, Fowler and Jack. Add Gipson and Jackson, Marks coming back, Odrick, Amukamara, Smith, Cyp and Poz and all of the sudden the Jaguars defense looks legitimate.
No question that word "potential" will be thrown around a lot when the talk turns to the Jags defense but Bradley thinks the right kind of player are joining the squad.
"These guys that we're bringing in, too, the mindset, I really like that part of them, how competitive they are. They're just going to be, that's one of the things when I talked to Jalen (Ramsey), he said he could feel it just in talking to our guys and when he was here. I think our guys trust that we're going to bring in guys with like mindsets."


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Jacob Owens November 20, 2019
CHRISTIANA – Bank of America announced Wednesday, Nov. 20, that it was donating $500,000 to the Endowed Fund for Translational Cancer Research at ChristianaCare's Helen F. Graham Cancer Center & […]
CHRISTIANA – Bank of America announced Wednesday, Nov. 20, that it was donating $500,000 to the Endowed Fund for Translational Cancer Research at ChristianaCare's Helen F. Graham Cancer Center & Research Institute.
The $10 million fund benefits communities throughout Delaware and around the country by supporting biomedical research for new breast, ovarian, lung and colorectal cancer treatments, gene editing and more.
[caption id="attachment_170677" align="alignright" width="300"] From left to right, Gordon Brownlee, vice president of development at ChristianaCare; poses with Chip Rossi, Bank of America Delaware market president; Dr. Nicholas Petrelli, Bank of America endowed medical director of the Helen F. Graham Cancer Center & Research Institute; Doneene Damon, board chair of ChristianaCare; Dr. Janice Nevin, president and CEO of ChristianaCare; Connie Montana, vice president and community relations manager of Bank of America Delaware; and Drew Fennell, chief communications and experience officer at ChristianaCare. PHOTO COURTESY OF CHRISTIANACARE[/caption]
"The way we value and support our community is a reflection of who we are as a company," said Chip Rossi, Bank of America Delaware market president, in a statement. "We know that in underserved communities, the incidence of cancer and access to health care is a challenge. We are honored to partner with ChristianaCare to improve the health and quality of life for Delaware residents."
Bank of America is a longtime supporter of ChristianaCare, with gifts in 2002 helping to establish the Helen F. Graham Cancer Center & Research Institute and endowing the medical directorship of the cancer program, and in 2005 in support of the Center for Heart & Vascular Health.
While Delaware is the second smallest state in the nation, when the Graham Cancer Center opened in 2002 Delaware ranked highest in the nation for incidence and mortality rates for cancer, according to the American Cancer Society. Today, in large measure due to the Graham Cancer Center, Delaware now ranks 18th in the nation.
ChristianaCare also has one of the busiest cancer programs on the East Coast, treating more than 70% of the cancer cases in Delaware. More than 230,000 patient visits were recorded last year, and ChristianaCare is projected to treat more than 3,000 new cancer cases next year, according to officials.
In a statement, Dr. Janice E. Nevin, president and CEO of ChristianaCare, called the donation an "exceptional gift" that "serves as a cornerstone to support the Cawley Center for Translational Cancer Research at ChristianaCare."
Established in 2009, the Cawley Center for Translational Cancer Research is a formal collaborative program between the Helen F. Graham Cancer Center & Research Institute and academic partner institutions. The partnership allows physicians and scientific researchers to work as a team, identifying needs of individual patients at the bedside, exploring solutions in the lab and translating those results directly into unique treatment plans.
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Security: Losses Outpace Gains
Complexity, new and highly connected technology, and more valuable data are making it harder to keep out hackers.
April 6th, 2017 - By: Ed Sperling
Paul Kocher, chief scientist in Rambus' Cryptography Research Division, sat down with Semiconductor Engineering to discuss the new threats to security, artificial intelligence and machine learning, and how to engineer a secure system. What follows are excerpts of that conversation.
SE: Where are we with security? It seems that rather than getting better, things have actually gotten worse over the past year. Where are the problems and how do we close up some of these holes?
Kocher: At a high level, if you want to run some complex set of applications, run huge amounts of software and keep it from being compromised from adversaries, this is an area where we're losing ground. And it's one where we've been losing ground for a long time. It's hard to get a sense of where things are going because the press is missing both the positive and negative information. Nobody writes an article announcing which system is not hacked this week. On the other side, most attacks don't get detected, which is the number one objective if you're an adversary. If you've recognized you've been breached, the attacker already messed up. The ones that get detected are the ones that either have business models that necessitate detection, like financial fraud, or they're amateurish and unlucky or working on such a scale that they've can't hide. If you look at what gets caught, there's an awful lot that clearly is not being reported on.
SE: But this is more than just a reporting issue, right?
Kocher: Yes, but there aren't good metrics. You can measure the speed of a clock by sticking an oscilloscope on it and seeing how many gigahertz it's running at. People love those kinds of problems where you have a clear, measurable and easily observable sense of whether you're making progress or not. In security, you don't have that. It's fundamentally this opaque thing, where you ask 10 different practitioners what you should do and you get 11 different answers. It's kind of a dark art in the way that medicine was before it was viewed as a science. That fundamentally makes progress really difficult because you can't know whether that choice that you took was even moving you in the right direction or not.
SE: So where are you seeing progress?
Kocher: People are finally realizing that security solutions are not cost-prohibitive for transistors. If you look at what it costs for a small microprocessor on a die, then you're in the order of magnitude of a penny, depending on what logic you add around it. Often it costs you nothing if you don't actually change the number of chips that you get on the reticle itself. If you have some corner and it's going to be otherwise unused, and you stick some logic there—especially if it doesn't have tight timing constraints—you can often just squeeze it in somewhere on a chip and it ultimately won't cost anything. So we are seeing a lot of that sort of thing happening.
SE: Where?
Kocher: If you look at Andes' processors, they've got some security processors that complement the big CPUs. If you look at Intel, they've a number of these, as well. There are a series of things that have started to happen in these spaces, but there need to be way, way more. There's also a problem with people who have been trained to optimize for performance and efficiency. To go and add something that adds neither performance or efficiency is hard to do mentally. If you look at other areas like structural engineering, where you put more steel than is needed to keep the building standing, that is entirely natural for a structural engineer. If you told structural engineers that you wanted to make something with tens of thousands of components, any one of which would cause the whole building to collapse if it didn't work perfectly, they would say you're nuts. We've been doing this for so long, both hardware and software engineering, that it's hard to change the mindset to say, 'I want to spend $10,000 making my product slower and more expensive to build because it is safer.' Yet we've been doing this in lots of other industries for many years.
SE: A lot of that has been regulated from the outside down, whereas, the chip industry for the most part has never had to deal with this.
Kocher: It may take regulation or other market forces to change behavior. It certainly is true that if you look at industries like aviation, pharmaceuticals, and to a certain degree medicine, change has occurred and regulators have played a role in that. It's still a little early in the security space to really apply a lot of regulation because we don't exactly know what the best solutions to a problem are. When you reach the point that everybody should put a seatbelt in a car and you know what seatbelts look like, it's fairly easy for a regulator to say, 'Okay, all cars will now be equipped with seatbelts in them.' There's still a lot of experimentation right now. If you regulate a specific approach, it may not be the best one. That is part of what makes things messy.
SE: What could regulators do?
Kocher: They could regulate what your expectations should be for a product if it claims to be secure, because right now most products sold have security bugs in them that make them not secure. Trying to figure out what information should be delivered to customers about what was done probably could help. It would certainly make the security easier if and when it becomes highly regulated.
SE: One of your areas of expertise is cryptography. What's changing there?
Kocher: Cryptography is the one piece of security that people still really expect to work really reliably. For the most parts, it's been able to deliver on that promise. People typically know quite a long time in advance if there are little cracks in the defenses of an algorithm. Right now, one of the areas of research is building public key systems that are resistant to quantum computers, which are themselves a decade or more off in terms of actually being able to scale to the point they are a threat to our current cryptographic constructions. The RSA algorithms and the elliptic curve cryptography standard, which are the most widely used of the public key algorithms like Diffie-Hellman, all could be broken if a quantum computer of sufficient size and reliability came along. It's not an immediate threat, and if you look at a medical analogy, what's causing problems today are implementation bugs. Those pose a dire and immediate threat to security. From a resource perspective, building resistance into products before you get the bugs out is really not a very high priority. But from a research perspective, it's a really neat set of new mathematic and engineering problems to come up with sufficient algorithms that are resistant to these hypothesized quantum computers.
SE: So what's next?
Kocher: There are some pretty good proposals that are currently on the table that are being studied, and there will be standardization process for those. In a lot of ways, cryptography is comparable to bricks. You need good bricks if you're going to build a building, but there's a lot more to architecture than just the bricks. You're trying to figure out how you take algorithms and put them into protocols and solve a user's actual security problem and how you implement those protocols in a way that's correct. And then you have to put that correct implementation into a system in a way that the bugs and other parts of the system don't compromise the security of the protocol. It's an onion with many layers, and the crypto is often at the center of all of that. The algorithms themselves are in many cases are relatively trivial part of what you need in order to solve the ultimate business privacy problem that you are focused on.
SE: Machine learning and AI have emerged very quickly, probably due to Tesla's push into autonomous driving and the competitive race that followed. Do those raise any red flags in terms of security that were not there before, or is it just a continuation of something that was already in play?
Kocher: Can AI, for example, be developed in ways that could recognize vulnerabilities in widely deployed software—perhaps even instruct an exploit and turn what is currently a time-consuming human manual process into something much more accessible and spreads itself everywhere? I don't think that is going to happen. However, it's something where the manual processes now involved in attacking things probably will get assisted through AI-based tools that can do some level of software analysis. On the defense side, there's an open question about whether AI can be taught to understand properties of software-hardware design and tell us useful things about them. For example, whether or not the design is one that might have certain categories of bugs in it. That's one of the things I'm actually going to be spending some time looking at. There's an open question about how far AI can go there. The current AI applications tend to be ones where you're optimizing some kind of a search space or you have a relatively straight forward set of problems with very large amounts of training data. But understanding complex logic doesn't fit very well into that mold. There are clearly some advances in AI that are needed for that to happen. The third category of questions around AI is how do we deal with these systems where they're making judgments that are critical for safety or that are critical for us as humans, but we don't actually understand what the decision-making process of the AI is. Driving is an example where if you don't really understand how the AI know what a stop sign looks like, there's a question of can we trust that with our lives.
SE: What is the right answer?
Kocher: It depends on whether there are massive global failure modes or whether the failure modes are relatively isolated. If your AI occasionally misses a stop sign and perhaps even kills the occupants of a car, it may still be better to have an AI-based driver rather than a human being that stares at their cell phone with limited vision, or who is tired, and might be much more likely to crash. We have fairly good data already about the safety profile, for example, of automobiles. If we can make them orders of magnitudes safer, even if they're not perfect, it's still probably an improvement. The question of whether there are global massive failure modes where all the cars crash at the same time—that ends up being a very different question. Some of those come back to conventional software security problems, like how you get updates delivered securely and how you ensure training sets for your AI haven't been tampered with by someone who is injecting malicious data into them. The problems we're going to see in the automotive space may involve more challenges around things like that than specifically the vision analysis and interpretation systems that are the first applications of AI there.
SE: AI is not even close to the evil HAL in "2001: A Space Odyssey," but there is some level of machine learning and inferencing involved in these systems. How do you see that evolving?
Kocher: There are things in the gray area. In a game like Go, or poker, the rules are set. You can run simulations, but those involve the real world to collect arbitrary amounts of data for your AI to learn from. With a problem like recognizing images or handwriting recognition, it doesn't make a lot of sense to have the systems generating images that it tries to analyze itself because it's going to go off in some world that deviates from our real world. Underneath, the software techniques are pretty similar. It's just a question of whether you can use your own system to generate the raw data that helps you get better or whether you have to get that data from real world testing.
SE: Which brings up a question on the security side—is there a difference if a system learns by itself?
Kocher: There's a classic attack that has been done a bunch of times against systems that have been trained in machine learning. If you have a system designed to detect cars and you give it a picture of a cat, it's going detect that it's not a car. But if you make a small change to the picture—imperceptible things like changing a few pixels, and then ask, 'Is it closer to being a car or further away from being a car,' and if it's closer you keep the change and if it's farther away, you don't. Then you iterate it, making little tiny imperceptible changes, keeping only the ones that make it look more like a car, you would end up with a picture of a cat that the system thinks is a car. A human looking at it would say it is obviously a cat, but the AI doesn't really understand cat necessarily in the way that we do. It recognizes something that is correlated to being cat-like, and it's then good enough for non-maliciously generated input. But if you start doing things like intentionally producing things to trick it, the system can be susceptible. It will be a long time before AI can be useful in an environment, for example, where someone can manufacture input file that must be correctly characterized or some kind of consequence occurs. There will certainly be some problems there, although they'll be small compared to a conventional computer security crisis that we're struggling with around non-AI based systems, which will also affect AI-based systems. If you're running on some cloud compute machine that's compromised, it doesn't matter whether your algorithm is AI-based or not. You're still compromised.
SE: The security picture comprises lots of smaller pieces. AI is one component. The Mirai botnet was another piece, where little things you don't expect to be important add up to something big, like the first massive IoT attack. You also have the standard stuff that has been going on for a while, hacking into a server to get financial data. Can they be addressed on a macro level, considering everything is now connected, or does everything have to be addressed separately?
Kocher: There's a point where you've got a specific vulnerability in a specific product, and those things end up being treated like a specific gunshot wound that might be treated in an ER. A patient comes in and people do the best to deal with whatever you got there, minimizing the consequences. There are a lot of things that are common root causes to different problems that are often many steps before the actual product was shipped to a customer. Those need a lot of foundational work so that we don't keep having these problems, and they don't keep getting exponentially more common and serious. That includes a lot of the hardware. Right now, the standard assumptions that hardware people make is that they will faithfully execute instructions, but it's the job of the software people to make sure there are no bugs in the software. That's a very convenient assumption to make if you are a hardware engineer because you can push the problem off to somebody else. It's also an incorrect assumption. The software that we have today is buggy, so if you still build something that depends on huge amounts of bug-free software, you're already ensuring that security is going to fail. Instead, you should be asking questions like, 'How do I make it so that there can be pieces of software that can run securely even if other pieces of software are compromised?' Critical parts of the software, like the network security piece, need to be done in a way that can function by itself. For example, IoT devices can be turned into DDoS blasters. But if they were configured in a way where they could only send image data out to somebody who connected into them first, and that data needed to be encrypted correctly with a well-verified network security stack coupled with redundancy, you wouldn't be seeing this kind of problem. Starting at the hardware architecture level, we need to develop systems survive having at parts of them being buggy without that resulting in serious or catastrophic consequences.
SE: This is a fundamental rethinking and getting rid of some basic assumptions on how to secure a piece of hardware or network. The usual approach is to make sure there is only one way in.
Kocher: We're in a world where all of our popular devices have software complexities that we don't necessarily trust, with a whole bunch of different types of functionality with security properties that co-reside on the same device. If you think of your mobile phone, TV, car, or any kind of multiple-function electronic device, they're largely built where security is one bug, or maybe two or three, away from getting compromised. And each of the systems that might have bugs in them are riddled with bugs. The adversary process is finding the vulnerability, develop and exploit, and you can take over everything running on the device. We need to get much more durable and reliable mechanisms so, for example, the video game you're playing doesn't have the ability to steal your banking credentials. It may well involve using separate hardware. If you think about the design constraints for the graphics processor, it's performance-driven, but not so much security-driven. In contrast, the thing that is going to manage the credentials that authorize wire transfers really can be slow and you can build that using 1980s technology and it would be just fine. The design constraints there are different. Going back to the hardware question, figuring out how to get high assurance pieces of chips to exist alongside, for example, high-performance silicon is something where chip companies are ultimately going to have to do a lot better job if people making products using their silicon are going to be successful on security front.
SE: So stepping back up to 60,000 feet, are we worse off than a couple of years ago?
Kocher: Defenses have improved and things have gotten better, but they haven't gotten better as fast as the attackers have gotten more powerful. There are really three separate exponential curves that are fueling the attacks. First, there is an exponential increase in the complexity of devices, which correspond directly to an increase in the number of bugs in those devices. If I make something 10X more complex, I'm going to get at least 10X as many bugs if my software and design quality stay the same. Quality has improved if you measure it on a per-line-of-code basis, but the improvement hasn't kept up with the increasing complexity. If Moore's Law slows down greatly, that actually may start letting security catch up. But over the last decade, Moore's Law has moved faster than our ability to debug and improve the quality. So we have one exponential place where we are losing ground relative to complexity.
SE: What are the other two?
Kocher: There's a very rapid increase in the number of devices. If you go back 15 years, your corporate network was basically a bunch of PCs. If you look at more a more modern network, you have a huge heterogeneous mix of different kinds of devices that are being connected to it. The ability to actually dedicate resources to understand it and maintain security of each of those is really limited, both at the end user layer as well as the manufacturer side. There's no good solution to that. The third area where we've lost ground is just the value of the data on systems has gone up a lot. That makes things better for attackers. Trends that are good for creating functionality are just swamping our ability to defend systems and keep them secure. I don't think that's going to dramatically change over the next five years. I don't see any silver bullet coming along that will improve security in such a dramatic and rapid way even to make things equivalent to where they are now. I make the prediction every year that the following 12 months will have more spectacular and worse security breaches than the previous 12 months. That's been a fairly safe bet over the past decade plus.
IoT Security Risks Grow
Experts at the table, part 3: Why existing standards are insufficient; different strategies for securing connected devices; the widening impact of cost control.
Experts at the table, part 2: Mirai, Shodan, and where the holes are in security; establishing a chain of trust from a solid root; how to future-proof security.
Uncovering Unintended Behavior
First of two parts. Does your design contain a Trojan? Most people would never know, and do not have the ability to find the answer.
Chaos, Progress In Mobile Payment Security
Rapid transitions have stalled some development efforts, limited others, but improved security is on the way.
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It has been a while, but I have another bunch of mini reviews for you. Two of these are novellas, so mini reviews make lots of sense. Furthermore, I have two books I don't have much to say about, so here we go.
This novella is about Kenji and you basically read the final chapters of Restore Me from his point of view. Kenji is my favorite character in this entire series, so I was happy to read his point of view. The novella is short and you could finish it in one sitting.
Honestly, this novella didn't make any sense to me. Yes, it's Taryn's story, but she is just trying to justify her actions in an open letter to Jude. The Lost Sisters is only available as an ebook, but I really didn't like it. I finished this within half an hour because it's so short. Did it add something to the actual books? No, it doesn't. Because nothing from this novella comes back in The Wicked King.
THE BALANCE OF POWER HAS FINALLY TIPPED...The precarious equilibrium among four Londons has reached its breaking point. Once brimming with the red vivacity of magic, darkness casts a shadow over the Maresh Empire, leaving a space for another London to rise.
WHO WILL CRUMBLE?Kell - once assumed to be the last surviving Antari - begins to waver under the pressure of competing loyalties. And in the wake of tragedy, can Arnes survive?
WHO WILL RISE?Lila Bard, once a commonplace - but never common - thief, has survived and flourished through a series of magical trials. But now she must learn to control the magic, before it bleeds her dry. Meanwhile, the disgraced Captain Alucard Emery of the Night Spire collects his crew, attempting a race against time to acquire the impossible.
WHO WILL TAKE CONTROL?And an ancient enemy returns to claim a crown while a fallen hero tries to save a world in decay.
This mini review hurts to write. Why? I really liked the other books in V. E. Schwab's Shades Of Magic series, but wow what was A Conjuring Of Light? I found it really slow-paced, I couldn't get sucked into the story and I was bored. Trust me this hurts. I still liked the world et cetera, but I just can't give this book five stars. Maybe I will try this again when it's out in Dutch, because I mixed everyone up as well. Such a pity.
It's always been just Kate and her mom—and her mother is dying. Her last wish? To move back to her childhood home. So Kate's going to start at a new school with no friends, no other family and the fear that her mother won't live past the fall.
Kate is sure he's crazy—until she sees him bring a girl back from the dead. Now saving her mother seems crazily possible. If she succeeds, she'll become Henry's future bride and a goddess.
I never read The Goddess Test, so it was about time. This is an older YA book, so I was curious whether I would like it or not. Well, I did. However, I think I would have liked this book much more whenever I read it back in 2013 – that's when the Dutch translation came out. This book is full of clichés, tropes and it's less action-packed than current YA fantasy, but it was not bad. The way Aimee Carter intertwined Greek mythology into the story is original and unique. However, I won't pick up the rest of the series as there are so much more books to read.


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Grimes scores 32 to lift Houston past Rice 97-89
CBK Headlines
No. 3 Villanova back after long layoff
BC-Virginia Tech postponed due to COVID
No. 2 Baylor tops No. 9 Kansas, now 13-0
Balanced St. John's gets by No. 23 UConn
Gonzaga, Baylor stay 1-2; Duke falls out
Ducks cleared to resume from COVID-pause
Michigan St. postpones 3rd straight game
2 more TCU games postponed by Big 12
Nebraska's Hoiberg, 11 others positive
No. 5 Iowa rips Northwestern, run hits 5
HOUSTON (AP) Quentin Grimes had a career-high 32 points, making four 3-pointers, as Houston blew past Rice 97-89 in the second half on Tuesday night.
After Rice took a 78-76 lead with just under four minutes left, Marcus Sasser and Grimes hit back-to-back 3s around a Dejon Jarreau steal and the Cougars didn't look back, going up by as many as 11 points down the stretch.
Jarreau had 15 points, 13 after halftime, for Houston (2-1). Nate Hinton and Sasser had 15 points for the visiting team. Sasser made five 3-pointers.
Robert Martin had 23 points for the Owls (4-2), whose four-game win streak came to end. Ako Adams and Drew Peterson each scored 16 points and Chris Mullins had 12.
Houston trailed 39-32 at halftime but scored 65 points in the second half, making 10 of 17 3-pointers in the last 20 minutes and adding 16 second-chance points to Rice's two.
Houston travels to play No. 11 Oregon on Friday. Rice plays Milwaukee on Friday.
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Historical wax cylinder recording made by Northcote Whitridge Thomas, a British government anthropologist who conducted field research in Sierra Leone in 1914-15. NWT676 (m on cylinder rim; Balan on box). 1. Announcement: Record 676, Kabala [?] September 22nd 1914. Balan [?]. 2. Ref tone. 3. Duet for balangi - a xylophone type instrument. Good quality recording but with variable signal. C51/3006 (better quality) is the master, C51/3069 is a duplicate. This is a digital access version of an original wax cylinder recording held in the collection of the British Library. Supplied and used with permission from The British Library.


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Japanese Tech Firm to Cut Jobs in Glasgow After Talks with US Company
07 September 2020, 10.40am
Tech company ARM is looking to separate its two IoT Services Group (ISG) businesses and "deepen its focus on its core semiconductor IP business".
An Internet of Things (IoT) company is cutting jobs at its Glasgow site after supposed talks of a deal involving US tech company Nvidia.
The firm's UK business, semiconductor and software giant ARM, has told staff that up to 21 roles at its city centre operation are at risk, according to The Herald.
The company announced the move in July, but the proposals were "subject to a further board review, customary closing conditions, consultation with local staff representatives (where applicable) and if approved, is expected to be finalized by the end of September 2020".
ARM says the redundancies come due to the separation of its IoT Services Group (ISG) businesses, IoT Platform and Treasure Data, to new entities owned and operated by SoftBank, leaving ARM to "deepen its focus on its core semiconductor IP business".
Speaking to The Herald, an ARM spokeswoman said: "There will be two independent businesses, Pelion and Kiegen, under an IoTP (Internet of Things platform) holding company.
"As part of this proposed transfer, both the Pelion and Kiegen business teams are taking some steps to ensure their resources align with the appropriate level of investment including redundancies for both businesses, pending local laws and consultations," she said. "In terms of how many jobs are impacted or locations, we are not disclosing that information."
Cambridge based ARM has had offices in Glasgow since 2018 after the purchase of tech firm Stream Technologies.
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It was hoped that ARM's acquisition would expand its IoT connectivity and device management capabilities. Stream has grown to 90 staff members in Glasgow under ARM's ownership.
Reports on a £24.3 billion deal which saw ARM become part of SoftBank in 2016 stated that the Japanese company had made legal commitments to keep ARM's headquarters in Cambridge, and to at least double its UK workforce from 1,600 in five years.
Data suggests it had grown the UK headcount to 2,742 by the latter part of 2019.
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Father of suspect in hunter's death says his son kept guns 'everywhere'
Ethan Landon Davis is charged with killing deer hunter Curtis Ross in November 2017 on public hunting ground near Rathbun Lake.
Father of suspect in hunter's death says his son kept guns 'everywhere' Ethan Landon Davis is charged with killing deer hunter Curtis Ross in November 2017 on public hunting ground near Rathbun Lake. Check out this story on desmoinesregister.com: https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/crime-and-courts/2019/02/11/iowa-hunter-death-father-says-suspect-kept-guns-everywhere/2842586002/
Associated Press Published 5:10 p.m. CT Feb. 11, 2019 | Updated 5:21 p.m. CT Feb. 11, 2019
Appanoose County Sheriff Gary Anderson discusses finding the body of Curtis Ross, a Cedar Falls hunter who was found in a rural area of the county. Linh Ta/The Register
CENTERVILLE, Ia. — The father of a man charged with murder in the death of a deer hunter has testified that his son owned numerous guns and kept them "everywhere."
The Daily Iowegian reports that Jamison Davis testified Monday in the first-degree murder trial of his son, Ethan Davis.
Ethan Davis is charged with killing deer hunter Curtis Ross in November 2017 on public hunting ground near Rathbun Lake.
THE TRIAL: Prosecutor says Davis opened fire from hilltop
Jamison Davis says his son owned shotguns, pistols, knives and more than one AR-15-style weapon. Prosecutors say one of those AR-15 firearms was used to kill Ross.
Ethan Landon Davis, 27, of Promise City is charged with first-degree murder in a hunter's death. (Photo: Special to the Register)
Jamison Davis says his son kept guns "everywhere," including various spots at the family farm and in his vehicles.
Earlier Monday, Kenneth Brown, an employee of a nearby quarry operation, says he heard gunfire on Nov. 24, 2017. He called them "rapid fire shots that I was not familiar with."
THE CASE: Memories of hunter Curtis Ross
Curtis Ross, 31, of Cedar Falls, was found in a remote rural area of Appanoose County in the public hunting land around Lake Rathbun at 115th Avenue near Sandy Branch. (Photo: Special to the Register)
Prosecutors have accused Davis of perching on a hilltop and using an AR-15 to shoot Ross, who was also stabbed more than two dozen times. Officials say they don't have a motive for the killing.
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Khattar, Kejriwal pledge to fight smog in 2018
Agencies15 Nov 2017 10:00 AM GMT
Chandigarh: Chief Ministers Manohar Lal Khattar of Haryana and Arvind Kejriwal of Delhi on Wednesday discussed for nearly 90 minutes here and agreed to take steps to prevent a repetition of smog in the National Capital Region (NCR) next year.
"We ... are happy to have had a very fruitful meeting at Chandigarh. We recognise our deep and shared concern over the recent episode of heavy smog in our NCR. We agreed upon the need for action on many measures aimed at preventing its re-occurrence in the winter of 2018," a joint statement said.
"During discussions, we agreed that the serious health risk to which such episodes of smog expose one and all require concrete and quick action on a number of fronts.
"We covered crop residue burning and vehicular pollution issues. We resolve to put in sustained efforts in pursuance of the jointly identified action points in the coming days, weeks and months," the statement added.
"We look forward to covering other sources of air and water pollution in our future discussions," it said.
Speaking to the media after his meeting with Khattar, Kejriwal said: "We cannot control the direction of the wind. We all will have to make efforts to control air pollution."
Kejriwal, who had earlier blamed farmers of Punjab and Haryana for causing smoke and air pollution in Delhi, avoided blaming anyone.
Khattar said: "We have discussed a number of steps that can be taken to ease air pollution."
Both Chief Ministers did not take any question from the media.
Kejriwal was earlier greeted by protests by activists of the Shiromani Akali Dal and Congress when he reached the Chandigarh airport.
Opposition leaders in Haryana criticised Khattar for agreeing to meet Kejriwal, saying the Delhi Chief Minister was raking up the issue only to blame farmers in Haryana and Punjab for causing air pollution by burning stubble.
Kejriwal flew into Chandigarh along with Delhi Environment Minister Imran Hussain and Environment Department Secretary Keshav Chandra.
He had earlier written to the Chief Ministers of both Haryana and Punjab and sought a joint meeting to find a solution to the problem that has led to widespread health concerns in the NCR.
But on Tuesday, Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh rejected Kejriwal's request and instead asked him to refrain from trying to politicise a serious issue.
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Nope not new, and it's not blue or borrowed, either. I haven't posted in a while, not because I don't want to, but because I am working on some Tudor sketches (which I shall discuss later when they are ready, and not here where I'm feeling compelled to gush about them in an unrelated entry), which should be posted soon. I spent a lot of the weekend coloring.
So I've decided in between posting new work that CLEARLY I should be posting old work that's just sitting around hoping I'll look at it again. BECAUSE OMIGOSH I HAVE SO MUCH OF IT.
THIS drawing I did in 2010. I never liked how the bottom of her hair came out…it's too swirly dumb and graphic against the more hilariously epic realistic drapery that I do like. But I forgive it.


Proffitt, T; (2018) Is there a Developed Oldowan A at Olduvai Gorge? A diachronic analysis of the Oldowan in Bed I and Lower-Middle Bed II at Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania. Journal of Human Evolution , 120 pp. 92-113. 10.1016/j.jhevol.2018.01.006.
Access restricted to UCL open access staff until 9 May 2019.
Debates regarding the validity of the Developed Oldowan as separate cultural facies within the Oldowan techno-complex have primarily concentrated on the Developed Oldowan B/Acheulean transition, with little attention paid to the validity of the Developed Oldowan A (DOA) as a valid technological differentiation. This study presents a diachronic technological analysis and comparison of Oldowan and DOA lithic assemblages from Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania, dated between 1.84 and 1.6 Ma, to test the validity of Leakey's original distinction between these two cultural facies. The results from this comparative analysis show very few technological differences between the lithic assemblages previously assigned to the DOA and Classic Oldowan. Significant diachronic variation in raw material availability and use is, however, identified between Bed I and Lower/Middle Bed II of Olduvai Gorge, which may go some way to explaining the originally perceived techno-cultural differences. The results suggest an increase in hominin knapping and percussive activities, as well as a clear ability to preferentially select high quality raw materials stratigraphically above Tuff IF. Technological innovation and complexity, however, does not seem to vary significantly between the Classic Oldowan and DOA assemblages. The results of this analysis along with similar studies from the wider eastern African region lead to the conclusion that the term Developed Oldowan A should no longer be used.


You can find the exhibition hall, which opened in 2002, right next to Bodensee-Airport Friedrichshafen. Whether company events, professional or public exhibitions, rock concerts or TV productions – events in Friedrichshafen touch the heart! Friedrichshafen is also the ideal place for successful and unforgettable side events.
And this is where Europe's most important general aviation trade show, the AERO, takes place every year. You can see around 200 business jets, ultralight aircraft, helicopters, and propeller-driven aircraft in eleven exhibition halls and in the outdoor area. More than 600 international exhibitors check into Friedrichshafen yearly and present their innovations and trends for visitors to see.
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If you own a pet and that pet is a gentle canine, do not think that you have no reason to worry about being held liable for your dog's actions. Any species of canine can bite or attack a child or an adult. Even if a small animal seems unable to cause any harm, it could still frighten a surprised individual. In other words, every dog owner should accept certain risks. He or she might one day be held liable for someone's injury. His or her pet might attack or frighten a child or an adult.
The damages paid by the victim are usually covered by a homeowner's or a renter's insurance policy. Still, the company that issued such a policy will study the extent to which the guilty pet had been controlled by the pet's owner. If an insurer feels that the owner has failed to make the sort of changes that could prevent another dog bite incident, then that dog owner might lose his or her homeowner's or renter's insurance.
Keep in mind, too, that within any municipality, the governing authorities do not want to see dogs running around lose, and posing a danger to others. Every dog should be licensed and placed under the owner's close control. An owner's failure to maintain that necessary level of control could result in loss of a dog license.
Could the owner have an adequate defense?
The owner would need to consult with a personal injury lawyer in Burlington. The lawyer would want to know what measures, if any, that same dog lover had used, in order to control his or her pet canine. If adequate measures had been put in place, then the person being held liable for a personal injury might have an adequate defense.
For instance, it could be that someone had damaged or broken the chain that had kept the dog from going after anyone that passed by the residence of the dog's owner. A defense could be based on proof that someone had caused such damage to the dog owner's chosen, controlling device.
Maybe it could be proven that the person targeted by the dog's teeth had come onto the property with the intention of committing a crime. Perhaps he or she intended to steal something from those same premises. Naturally, the legal system would not be ready to promise an award to such a victim. On the other hand, if a provider of services had arrived to help with solving a problem, then the pet's attempt to bite that same person could introduce a real problem. The owner that had sought help from the service provider could require a lawyer's assistance.
Can A Dog's Owner Be Held Liable For Harm Caused By A Dog Bite?


We've all heard different tricks that people use to combat motion sickness while traveling; everything from chewing gum to looking out at far away objects near the horizon, and everything in between is supposed to help. However, the truth of the matter is that what helps one person many not do anything at all to relieve symptoms that another is feeling.
Mind the Foods You Eat Beforehand: According to Dr. Robert Stern from Penn State University, it's imperative that people not travel on empty stomachs. That being said, however, you shouldn't fill the hump with greasy, fatty foods, either. Those greasy foods will contribute to nausea; instead, any low-fat meal that is small will help. Take along healthy foods and snacks to munch on every couple of hours like ginger ale, water, and dry crackers.
Clear Up Sinus Congestion: Being congested not only can make people feel out of sorts, but it can also make motion sickness worse. Add that to a lack of sleep that often comes with congestion, and you've got a recipe for queasiness and nausea. Before leaving for a trip, try to manage sinus congestion and make sure sinuses are cleared to prevent unbearable car sickness.
Stock Up on Ginger: Although ginger doesn't help everyone who needs relief, there is evidence that it is effective in the treatment of nausea and upset stomach. Some people even swear by it. Stock up on ginger ale, ginger tea, ginger tablets, and ginger candy, which are all available at grocery and convenience stores. It's recommended that people take a 250mg dose of ginger in a capsule up to three times a day during traveling. Ginger works to reduce nausea, vasopressin release, and tachygastric activity. You can also try peppermint.
Conventional Medications: People can find motion sickness relief with prescription and over-the-counter medicines, but be aware there are various side effects that must be considered. Many of them cause drowsiness, which can be dangerous if you are the one driving during your family road trip. Other side effects can include dry mouth, blurred vision, and more.
Natural Alternatives: If the thought of all the side effects deters you from using conventional medications, and you want something that is natural but equally effective, you may want to consider using something like Motioneaze. This natural remedy can help relieve symptoms in as little as five minutes, and there are no side effects, either. Motioneaze can be given preventatively or even after symptoms have started. It is available over the counter at retailers or online and is great for children and adults.
When motion sickness is tackled in advance of a family road trip, preparations are made, and possible problems are addressed ahead of time, the entire family will have the best and most memorable trip possible. Everyone deserves relief from motion sickness for the trip of a lifetime!
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Quick no bake Fruit and Nut Trail Mix Energy Bites Recipe are loaded with dried cranberries, oats & pistachios for a healthy breakfast or snack on the go!
Let's talk oneeeee more time about Super Bowl.
I know. I know. I know. It's like beating a dead horse. But it's my last talk before the big game. So bare with me one more time. Or you can just scroll to the bottom for the recipe. You choose.
Oh good you are still here! So do you have your whole game plan sorted out? All things buffalo, wings and sweets planned out? Ready to kick back with a cocktail and probably not watch one moment of the actual game and just scout out the best commercial?
Where has that kind of humor gone?
Keeping my hopes this year will have some solid commercials this year, but I am not holding my breath.
Now, I bet you thought I would throw one last healthy spin on 'bar food' recipe, but I thought what is a party without dessert? We already went over my need for something sweet at the end of a meal, and a party is no exception.
There is not one day that passes that I do not have an energy ball type recipe in my fridge. They are sweet, popable and completely customizable. Throw in whatever dried nuts, peanut or almond butter, chocolate chips or coconut flakes in a bowl and you have one killer sweet tooth saver! Before or after a workout? Energy ball! Bored while attempting to write a blog post? Energy ball! Just passing through the kitchen? Energy ball!
When I first tried this recipe, I was going for no bake energy bars, but my mixture was too thin and they just broke in half. But the taste was still fantastic. Good thing I don't discriminate because they still tasted great, so they got rolled into balls rather than bars. By all means, you can press these into a 9×9 pan (lined with parchment if you want to make your life easy) and refrigerate.
The flavor reminded me of those trail mix bars from Quaker, I use to enjoy as a kid. Wholesome oats, raisins, mini chocolate chips all held together by honey. Sweet and filling!
As I indulge in snack foods galore on Sunday, I will rest assured that I will have plenty of sweet endings awaiting!
these Energy Bites Recipe are the perfect on-the-go snack! Make a batch on the weekend or evening, store in a sealed container in the fridge, then grab as needed!
Quick and healthy no bake Fruit and Nut Trail Mix Energy Balls are loaded with dried cranberries, oats and pistachios for a nutritious breakfast or snack on the go!
Dry: Combine the dry ingredients in a medium bowl. Mix well.
Wet: In a small microwave-safe bowl, combine the wet ingredients and microwave for 30 seconds. Stir, microwave on 20-second intervals until completely melted.
Add the wet to the dry ingredients and mix well until the mixture forms a ball.
For Bars: Line a 9x9 pan with parchment and add the mixture. Press down until it's even. Refrigerate for a 3 hours or until hard. Cut into 8 bars. Store in an airtight container in the fridge.
For Bites: Chill dough for 3 hours or until hard. Roll into 20 balls and store in an airtight container in the fridge.
*If you are having a hard time rolling into balls, add more honey until comes together. These bites are a bit lighter rather than a super dense energy bite.
*Recipe Updated 9.10.2015: Added the addition of chilling the dough as it is essential for the coconut oil and the honey to solidify, which holds the mixture together.
If you make this energy bites recipe, make sure to snap a photo and hashtag it #WITHSALTANDWIT. I'd love to see what you are cooking up in your kitchen!
These are just what my morning needs!
Or anytime of the day but mornings especially!
My favorite kind of snack is one with fruits and nuts and these certainly fit that bill. They look perfect and my kids would adore as well. Pinned!
Oh I am with ya! Kids big and small alike like these...hope you enjoy!
I can definitely think of a few instances where popping a few of these energy bites would be welcomed! They look so tasty, and I'd probably have a hard time not eating too many ;). And YES, the commercials are sometimes the best part of SuperBowl (depending on who's playing...).
I am hoping the commercials are good this since my team is long gone from the race! Thanks Heather!
I need all the energy I can get! I would love to have a bowl of these beside me when I'm working at the computer! A snack you don't have to feel guilty about!
I seriously can never get enough of energy bites! These look delicious! I love the trail mix combo in here, sounds like the perfect snack!
I really need to make these - and stat! My energy levels have completely tanked and I know it's only going to get worse!
Oh these will be the ticket to getting them back up!
I could totally just sit and much on these all game!
You will love them! Thanks Cyndi!
These little bites of happiness look amazing! Love all that nutty flavor...yum!
I like your title of them!
I love energy balls like these.. they are the perfect healthy thing for me to snack on when I am craving something sweet. Thanks for the great recipe Meg, I do have to give these a go.
Exactly! Hope you enjoy, Thalia!
Umm.. yes, please! These look amazing!!
Coming right up ;) Thanks Kelley!
love healthy snacks! These sounds great!
Times have totally changed since I was a kid. Now I look forward to the game more than the commercials, partially because they've just become so darn awkward! I always watch the game at my parents' house because they throw a big potluck, and if I'm turning about 50 shades of pink watching the cringe-worthy commercials... Something is kind of wrong. But hey, if I have these gorgeous energy bites to pay attention to instead, life wouldn't be so bad! ;) Pinned!
I wish I would have been lucky enough to go to a putluck for the game! We were lame and stayed home..stupid snow! Thanks Amy!
Oh no! I am sorry Donna! I would try adding more honey next time as the mixture needs more liquid to hold together!
Hi Valerie! Sorry to hear they didn't hold for you. Definitely try adding more nut butter and/or honey. Either one will work, but honey may be better as it is more sticky. And definitely don't add any liquid as that doesn't have any holding power.
Did as u suggested and increased the honey but they still didn't hold together very well. This only made them too sweet. I eventually got them to come together somewhat after adding some nut butter. Still not happy about them though, so would definitely like to try them again. How much nut butter should I be using, do u think? Your list of ingredients does not include nut butter. Also, I would prefer using a substitute for the honey. I love agave but it may be too liquidy. Any other suggestions? Thank you.
Hi Valerie, Sorry to hear that still. As for the next butter, I am not sure as I have not tested it. My goal was to make an energy bite without a nut butter. As for the agave, you can use it no problem but I don't think it will affect the texture much as it is very close to honey and maple syrup. I would add about 1/2 cup nut butter and go from there.
Hi Valerie, I remade this today and the proportions are correct in the recipe. But you must chill the dough. The honey and coconut oil solidify which is what holds the mixture together. I didn't mention that as I always chill my dough because I usually run out of time and have to go do something else! Sorry and hope that helps!


As the saying goes, Half knowledge is more dangerous than ignorance, these children's dreams of a complete formal education while residing on the streets is a far-fetched reality. TOUCH Balgram, situated in the Vihigaon Taluka of Shahapur District (Thane), is a sister initiative that aims at lending these children a complete formal education. With a homely atmosphere that encourages growth, these children are motivated to stay at the Balgram and are provided with all facilities, whilst being taken care of by housemothers and qualified teachers.
With the aim of a wholesome care of the mind, body and soul, these children then can use these skills in transforming themselves into responsible citizens of the society.


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My Introduction into American Motor-ing
January 4, 2012 August 9, 2011 by Gary Freelen
John Vander Meulen
The fall of 1965 had me with a total of $550. No chump change then. Eager for freedom and to break the yoke of parental confinement I looked to buy my first car. Ontario Motor Sales in Oshawa had two in my price range: a 57 Caddy and a 1960 Rambler Six. I went for the Rambler. They wanted $700..I offered $550. Ok kid, said the salesman, "no warranty". It was burgundy, 4 door, cloth interior, 3 on the column, famous "Weather Eye" heater and damaged fender. I drove it home. No safety or E- test required. It had sold new for $2100.
At the time, autos manufactured in North America could be described as "Queen Size", the physical dimensions increasing every model year. Ramblers were considered compact by comparison. AMC TV commercials featured "six large Raccoon Wrestlers" emerging from a Rambler to illustrate that the interior dimensions of their cars were equal to the big three.
The freedom of my own car gave me the biggest rush since owning my first firearm at age 14. (all that power) and yes, I still have it. Some minor mechanical problems occurred. The fuel line tended to freeze up in the winter and the voltage regulator for the generator went south. Had to buy one new - $16 nylon tire from Canadian Tire, (no sales tax yet). In cold weather it would develop a flat spot from sitting but once under way it would "thump, thump, thump for about ½ a km before it rounded out again.
One year after I purchased the car it developed a bad bearing knock….probably exasperated by my continuing to drive it. I could be wrong but I don't recall this model having an oil filter. I got it repaired at the Sunoco station at the corner of Hopkins Street and Hwy 2 in Whitby (now a Sub shop) for two weeks wages..ouch.
Moving up in the corporation and with my hourly rate increased to $2 an hour I felt like I had won the lottery. It was time to trade. At the time the stigma of owning an AMC was that you were "married to it" and got your best trade- in value by buying another one. It was early 1967 and AMC was doing well. A new line of engines, the Marlin, a new dealership in Whitby, (now Nurse Motors) and air conditioning standard in all new Ambassadors. I went shopping. Trent Rambler in Peterborough had recently opened a branch dealership in Bowmanville. Wanting to take a bite out of the local car buying market they located on Hwy #2 beside the zoo, same side, eastbound. They also sold British Leyland including the Sunbeam Alpine and Sunbeam Tiger. My timing was perfect, Rambler American prices were factory reduced to about $2400. I ordered a 290, 2V, heavy duty suspension, 3 on the column, larger tires and a radio. Six weeks delivery from Keno
sha. Inflation was modest. The sales price of new cars didn't increase much from year to year and when they did, it was news. The Arab oil embargo was still five years away. The American was almost identical to the one owned by club member Al Rodgers. It's said that you associate certain hit songs you hear on the radio with pivotal moments in your life. This time "The Happening" by the Supremes, was playing on CHUM radio en route to take delivery of my new car.
The driving was great. The thrill of a new car. Gasoline was 33 cents a gallon or 8 cents a litre…full serve at the pumps and lots of free giveaways and promotions. Gas "wars" were commonplace. Blue Sunoco, Esso Tigers, Good Gulf and Super Shell kept one mobile. Day three the horn stuck while cruising through Brooklin. Someone stopped to assist and since it was difficult to discuss the situation orally he simply pulled the horn wires off for me. Undeterred I waited a day and then reconnected. Two weeks later at 2AM while all asleep the horn sounded while the car was at home parked in the driveway. The neighbours were not amused. I had friends in Kingston so the miles accumulated quickly. There was a three week beer strike in Ontario in July, 1968 and we made several runs from Kingston to St. Polycarpe, Quebec. Not only did this experience hone my entrepreneurial skills but also helped to relieve the distress of the thirsty locals where I was staying. The trunk was quite spacious and would hold a considerable quantity of wobbly pops. The nineteenth century Ontario liquor laws in force were quite strict and when transporting alcohol you were to go directly from the store to your place of residence, no stopping in transit and the merchandise was not to be not stored within reach of the driver.
My aftermarket tachometer indicated 4500 rpm at 100 mph or 160 kph. Traffic volumes were much lighter on the 401 at that time and there seemed to be a more mature attitude to traffic law enforcement. No tasers, phasers, radar, helicopters, cameras, shoot your dog, everyone's a terrorist, threatening "road to perdition signs" if you went 5mph over the limit and "stunt driving" fines. The 507 mile long 401 highway was once considered the longest racetrack in the world, southwestern Ontario in the Windsor to London corridor especially so. Travelling this section I've had kids wave to me from the family Buick station wagon drifting by at the century mark. Now we know where all the 2.56 gear ratio rear ends were being sold.
The service manager looked after my problems, a 50,000 mile powertrain warranty being in effect. I met him again 20 years later managing a McKerlie-Millen auto parts store. Speaking of managers, the son of the AMC president from the late 50's to early 60's is now running for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination. He's the only man named after a "glove".
The weight distribution with the V8 was not favourable to driving in snow and one got stuck very easily, even with snow tires. You were better off with the 199 or 232 six. The car was easy to maintain, no computers, smog plumbing and fuel pumps in the tank. With no radiator recovery system, it tended to "froth' a bit after a hot summer run. No synchromesh in 1st gear meant a full stop before shifting down.
John Vander Meulen's 1969 AMX
By late 1968, muscle cars began to become more popular. The Javelin and the AMX were introduced. The dealer allowed me to test drive their first AMX, 343 automatic. I was impressed. I shopped around again. Prices for a Camaro started around three thousand plus whatever performance package you wanted, SS 396 Chevelles $4500 and a Plymouth GTX could be had for $4800 plus $900 for the hemi option.
By this time the Bowmanville dealership had expanded and moved into larger "digs" close to the hospital, into a building that had been recently vacated by a Dodge dealership. Cracks were beginning to develop in the relationship between the factory and the dealer. A leading AMC franchise in Willowdale "went Japanese". The innovative quality ideas of W. Edwards Deming were coming to fruition in Japan, called "Kaizen" or "continuous slow improvement" contributed much to the high tolerances of goods made in Nippon. In contrast, North American assembly line defects were known as "goodies for the dealer". Isuza-Bellets and Toyota Crowns began to appear on the road.
One day, in early 1969, a salesman friend of mine called and said "we have a new car in the showroom and we're prepared to make you an offer you can't refuse".
(John was first recruited by Mr. Perrier in 1979 and over the years been somewhat delinquent in club participation and attendance).


Most children in foster care dream of the day when they will finally find a new family and a permanent place to call home. However, the unfortunate reality, say experts, is that this day sometimes never comes for older children or teens, as would-be parents are often looking to adopt either babies or toddlers.
Another unfortunate reality, say experts, is that teens who age out of the foster care system are often at a distinct disadvantage since they are lacking a strong support system. Homelessness, limited education, and a lack of job opportunities are also a reality for many of them post-foster care.
Fortunately, we do have something of a support structure here in Texas for children who age out of the foster care system. In addition to certain monetary allowances and limited transitional living arrangements, these emancipated youths are given the opportunity to attend public colleges in the state for free.
Furthermore, state officials mandate that all soon-to-be emancipated youths must attend a program called Preparation for Adult Living and even offer some the chance to remain in the foster care system until the age of 22.
This is not to say, of course, that older children are never likely to be adopted by loving families. In fact, consider a truly heartwarming story out of Hidalgo County, where a Texas teen was adopted after more than a decade of waiting.
17-year-old Anthony originally entered foster care when he was only seven years old after his mother died and his father's parental rights were terminated by a state court.
After ten years of living in the foster care system, he met a loving couple in their early 60s at an adoption picnic this past November and the three clicked instantly. Flash forward to a courtroom in the 93 state District Court just a few weeks ago, where a judge finalized Anthony's adoption only weeks before his 18th birthday.
If you would like to learn more about adoption, contact a skilled legal professional who can guide you through the entire process and help you complete your family.


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100 voices in one show! It's a laugh keeping up with funny girl Debra
Halifax Comedy Festival
October 20 to 27
Victoria Theatre/Halifax Minster
It's hard to keep a straight face talking to Debra Stephenson when you're not sure whose voice will come down the telephone next, writes Tim Worsnop.
In the half hour we chatted about her career and upcoming show Night of 100 Voices - at the Victoria Theatre, Halifax on Sunday, October 21 - Debra slips into the guise of Margaret Thatcher, then Pam Ayres and finally her current favourite take-off, TV presenter Lorraine Kelly.
"I'm married to a Scotsman you see so I particularly love the accent," says Debra, a mum of two and native of Hull, who lives in Poole, Dorset with her family.
She always wanted to perform and as a six year old, coached by her dad, the family's very own 'Mike Yarwood' (he would amuse her with his own versions of Disney characters Donald Duck, Pluto and Mickey Mouse among others) ,she learned how to mimic Margaret Thatcher .... "when I become Prime Minister.'
"I was told it was very good and encouraged and I thought this was the thing to do," she said. Debra was also a talented singer and thanks to her nan's wonderful collection of records she learned how to copy stars like Shirley Bassey, Barbra Streisand, Marilyn Monroe , Lulu, Sandie Shaw and Kate Bush.
"Somehow these voices were uploaded into my brain," she says.
Her first public performance was at school, not taking off teachers, but reciting a Pam Ayres poem as Pam Ayres ... "Oh I wish I'd looked after me teeth...".
Her big break came at 14 when she won through to the All Winners final of Opportunity Knocks broadcast live from the London Palladium.
Early years working in Social Clubs around Hull - her first paid gig was at 13 when she was paid £12 for a 15 minute slot over Sunday lunch - instilled in her a real work ethic and resilience.
A glance at her packed CV shows she has not just relied on being an impressionist but has proved herself to be an extremely good actress with starring roles in TV series like Bad Girls, Coronation Street and Playing the Field. And she has done a stack of radio work too.
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"I am extremely grateful because the chances of succeeding are very slim. It is a precarious career," she says.
Night of 100 Voices - part of Halifax Comedy Festival - is something she is extremely proud of, and she's only taking it on stage in Hull, Halifax and Poole this year.
"I just love it. This is my lifetime's work and it is mine," says Debra who most recent TV series The Imitation Game - "it was like a big party for impressionists with games" - has just finished its Sunday night run on ITV.
"I literally do 100 or more impressions across the show. It's an immersive experience and I like to think we all have fun together," says Debra.
So what of the future? Last year she starred in the touring version of Son of A Preacher Man, the story of Dusty Springfield, and she admits she would love a role in a West End play.
With her drive and determination who would back against that happening? Not me.
The Halifax Comedy Festival kicks off on October 20 with Comedy Club for Kids.
October 21: Debra Stephenson - Night of 100 Voices.
October 22: Comedy stars from Britain's Got Talent including Lost Voice Guy.
October 24: Ross Noble is El Hablador.
October 25: Eleanor Conway: Walk of Shame 2 (Reality Bites).
October 26: Dick and Liddy's Comedy Club.
October 27: Jay Foreman's Disgusting Songs for Revolting Children.
October 27: Comedy Congregation at the Minster.
All shows take place at the Victoria Theatre, Halifax except the final show Comedy Congregation which will be performed in Halifax Minster.
For full details on shows and ticketing go to https://www.victoriatheatre.co.uk/hxcf
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