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Every interior design lover who ever went to the capital of Denmark, probably payed a visit to the Normann Copenhagen shop. The brand grows very quickly and for spring 2016 it has 18 new designs for us in store. I am sharing my favorite ones with you today.
To start off the Nic Nac series designed by Nicholai Wiig Hansen. This organiser family has an industrial but airy look thanks to the perforated pattern. It comes in five sizes and seven colors and is perfect as a holder for office supplies, a tray for kitchen essentials or to store your make up or keys.
The Circus pouf that comes in velour is my absolute favorite of the new Normann Copenhagen collection. Thanks to its round shape and clean graphic lines it is a modern interpretation of the Moroccan leather pouf. For me it's the deep colors combined with the texture of the velour that gives it an amazing rich feeling.
Normann Copenhagen's Flip mirror was already a hit thanks to its organic shape and the possibility to hold your morning essentials like jewellery and make up. This spring Flip will be available in four new amazing colors: grey, lemonade, blush and dusty blue.
My hunt for the perfect sofa is still ongoing and the new Rope modular sofa from Normann Copenhagen is a serious contender. This elegant and minimalistic beauty with classic piping on the edges is designed by Hans Hornemann and is likely to be very comfortable thanks to the use of foam and pocket springs. You can 'build' your own ideal sofa with the 12 different modules, pouffes in two sizes and a cushion for your neck and back. The sofa is available in three different qualities of textiles and leather.
Click here to see the complete Normann Copenhagen spring 2016 catalogue.


Here's a fantastic little DIY for an outdoor sink and counter made from old pallets. Mr. Restyle and I had this idea to find an old sink and create a fully functioning place to wash fresh veggies from our garden without dragging dirt and mud into the house every time. It also makes for a great area to pot plants and wash hands. Conveniently located right next to our BBQ. I do realize that some people might think this is a crazy idea. Never one to worry about what others think, we just went for it.
Found this old industrial looking sink which we think came from a restaurant.
A fabulous find ready to become our new backyard sink.
I love that it has a prep area in the front. It was a bit rusty and dirty but nothing a little elbow grease couldn't take care of. I have been doing so much sanding and bending lately that I'm actually starting to tone my biceps and my thighs. Yay me! Out of 2 pallets he constructed this.
Sink surround and counter constructed from 2 old wood pallets.
I like the rustic look but it had a couple of different wood types so I decided to give it some stain from the little bit I had left over from another project.
Here it is after just a quick coat of stain.
It's so cute, don't you think?
And the best? It really, really works!
Cold running water from the attachment to the garden hose.


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I'm here!! Or at least I think I am. I'm still trying to decide the best way to track my progress. These are my numbers for NW in personal Capitol.
The big bump is mostly (24k) my annual student loan payment from work.
Your job pays 24k toward your student loans annually? What the heck job do you have?!
This is finally starting to feel like we will actually make it, not only to 250k but maybe all the way to 1M. Its an odd feeling. The only thing I can really compare it to was getting out of debt. It felt like we would never make it until one day we were only a few thousand away.
Wish I had your optimism...just feel like I am playing a Pokemon game and am at the Elite Four...just grinding it out endlessly until I level up enough to defeat them.
I completely understand. I've had more than a few months where i felt the same way, maybe even like im going backwards. Just keep grinding away at it, it will feel easier after a while.
In some ways I think this actually gets harder and more important the further you are in your journey. In the beginning, building up savings and paying off debt produces (almost always) a positive gain most months or quarters. As you kill debt and start putting more money in the market or real estate or whatever, you lose control over the numbers a lot more.
Good month overall. Next month through the end of the year should be good since I start to get my additional ~1k/mo for teaching this semester.
Dude, you added $33K in just 7 months. I call that killing it.
Agree with Dcozad999, great job adding $30k+ in just 7 months.
Thanks to some bonuses, decent market performance this month, and copious numbers of zombie novels sold, the Nick Miller clan has finally...and the Nick says finally!...graduated from this thread!
I really enjoyed the banter and getting to know some of you folks, and I'm pretty sure the fun will continue in $250k-$500k.
Well, that wasn't very stressful as far as races go.
Rough month. All the bills from July came due at the same time, which include several prepaid items that will amortize over the next few months, but in terms of cash flow and present value of assets, not a good one. Even still, managed to get the numbers up. The market trading mostly flat didn't help, but the last few days of the month made the end result look better than it felt.
Congratulations!!! I might have withdrawals for a few months missing your antics. See you in the next thread!
Hasta next thread, amigos! I guess I've graduated. SO starting a steady job definitely helped!
Yay! Finally reached 250k, and I think we will stay solidly there by the end of this month, too, even if the market fluctuates a bit. It's weird to have this much but also, it's not enough for FIRE. It's good to see from everyone else how long it takes. Headed to the race to 500k thread!
@Lews Therin, well I'm guessing the race to $500K will be a bit more stressful...we have a few years of trash talking ahead of us. Do you trash talk in Canada or is that against your constitution?
@Blahhhh456, how far away are you?? I promise there will be antics in the $250k-$500k thread. Someone there already told me that no one wears pants there! No one!
@Virtus, I win. No rationale needed because...lawyered!
I'm also FIRE at 500k, so racing is done at 250k.
Posting slightly early cause not expecting thing to change much over the week end.
Let's go! Seeing some progress here. Really starting to see the compounding effect. I could really see it come into play around 140K.
Stretch goal still 200K by EOY. 13.5k away.
Seems that lately your standard jumps are $5k with $10k outliers and for me that too is sort of a mental difference vs 3 or 4k increments. I just recently eclipsed $150k so I hope my trajectory aligns with yours.
Pulled some temp savings to start the T IRA fill up for 2018 - should finish filling it up in October. So while it looks like a huge jump, 8.5K of that was just sitting in savings and now it's invested. So not quite as impressive as it looks. Definitely won't have many 14K additions for one month in the future!
OUCH! I really hope to move on to the next thread at the end of this year. The needle has not been moving as fast as I would like the past few quarters.
Expenses were high this month and investments were flat. Nonetheless, still moving in the right direction.
There are some huge jumps in there this year, awesome job. Could hit $500k very quickly.
Gearing up for a house purchase... then comes furniture, refinishing flooring, ripping out carpet and I"m sure a bunch of other costs :(.
Would love to hit 250k invested by the end of the year but that is really going to depend on the above costs + the size of the annual bonus. Wish us luck!
We had a spendy month in September. Went to Paris, bought plane tickets and put down deposits for Cancun in the Spring for a family reunion/my gramps's 90th birthday and I ended up paying to put my parents up in a decent hotel after their AirBnB was disgusting. We were able to get our grocery spending back on track after a few months of going way over. My husband's LDL came back a little elevated from his last doctor's visit so we'll be shifting our eating to less red meat/bacon which will also save money. If husband could have it his way we would eat beef every day. Not great for the grocery budget. We are looking to get me a bike, but might hold off til Black Friday for some deals.
Looks like we'll graduate from this thread in early January, maybe in December if the bonus/investment gods smile on us.
Equity grants and a big jump in home value have pumped up our NW. Feels good to see the number get bigger!
Dropped a good chunk of change on a reservation for 2019, so prepaying for a vacation set me back a grand. This month could be a huge month for me, as a big payment comes due, but who knows. The bigger goal is to stay on budget this month--I haven't made it under budget in 4 months, and the past two months haven't even been close!
You're going the wrong way... lol there is always next month for a big swing. Plus September is historically a down month in the market.
I like the big jumps, I save on average about 5-6k a month after tax. From there I live on 1,800 or less including housing expenses. So any extra commission go into the savings. I figure save as much as I can now, then is 3-4 years the rest of life finances won't be a major focus. Trying to ramp commissions so I can save even more.
Just might make it to $250k by year end!
Whoops a little late with reporting!!
Thank you to three paycheck month, I am closing in on $250k!
So close!! Next month should put me over $250k; hoping for no dramatic loss in the markets.
Is it too late to join this challenge? Set to hit $100k this month if everything goes according to plan. But looks like a number of people on here have already completed the challenge since thread started in 2015.
People are joining all the time! And people are graduating all the time. Welcome aboard.
It's like the rollercoaster games on computers. New people jumping on all the time, and then being ejected to the next one because it's funnier to not finish the tracks and watch the little people fly.
10-100k; 100,250k and then I think there's a 250k to Jeff Bezos. That one is pretty rough.
This month went very well until last friday when our dollar jumped and made my accounts appear lower, sunk in $8000 extra and only up $4616. It'll all work out in the end, and upward trend is great. Maybe I'll get a little bit of cheap stock buying now, hoorah.
Finally back to May status, low 140s are expected for the end of the year.


Join the Bardi Symphony Orchestra and guest vocal soloists at the best seat in the house to hear music and songs from a fabulous selection of Broadway and West End blockbusters including The Phantom of the Opera, South Pacific, Cats, Carousel, Les Misérables, Mack and Mabel, Anything Goes, The King and I, My Fair Lady, West Side Story and of course The Sound of Music!
Three top-flight international soloists join the Orchestra for Beethoven's joyous and rarely heard Triple Concerto, followed by Richard Strauss's mighty "Ein Heldenleben" (A Hero's Life) to bring the Bardi's season to a dazzling and heroic close.
The annual Family Gala Concert Concert at De Montfort Hall has become one of the highlights of the Bardi Wind concert season. Over the recent years the concert has raised thousands of pounds for local charities. This year the concert will be again conducted by Music Director David Calow with Compere Martin Ballard from BBC Radio Leicester and soloists Jenny Saunders and David Morris. The concert continues the association with Oadby & Wigston Lions Club and will supporting the East Midlands Congenital Heart Centre Children's Heart Hospital relocation.
The Bardi Young Musician 2018 is Trumpeter Evie Dunn.
The concert will be at the newly re-opened Haymarket Theatre in Leicester.
Sunday 8th July 2018 3pm.
Join the Bardi Wind Orchestra under the baton of Music Director David Calow again for this year's Bradgate Park Prom Concert.
Here fantastic music from stage and screen and sing along in a "Last Night of the Proms" Finale with wildlife friendly fireworks!
The Bardi open their 2018/19 season with a concert of well-known classics including Mendelssohn's 'Fingal's Cave' overture and Brahms' Symphony No.1 in the newly re-opened Haymarket Theatre in Leicester. The principal Oboe, Clarinet, Bassoon and Horn from the Orchestra are also showcased in Mozart's sublime Wind Sinfonia Concertante.
To commemorate the centenary of the ending of the Great War, the Bardi are joined by Leicestershire's three leading Choirs, Choristers from Leicester Cathedral and outstanding soloists in a performance of Benjamin Britten's powerfully moving War Requiem.
Vienna is celebrated in style by the Bardi in music by Johann Strauss Father and Son, including the Radetsky March and The Blue Danube Waltz. Schubert's 8th Symphony, his 'Unfinished' and the rousing Light Cavalry Overture are also in the programme.
Following the successful collaboration with the Bardi last season in Stravinsky's ballet The Firebird, Dance Activate return in a Ballet Concert which includes the 2nd Act of Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker.


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Obama to speak in Kennedy's place
BOSTON (AP) — Sen. Barack Obama has agreed to deliver the commencement address at Wesleyan University in place of Sen. Edward Kennedy, who pulled out today after finding out he had brain cancer.
Kennedy, 76, had planned to address the graduates — including stepdaughter Caroline Raclin — Sunday in Middletown, Conn. The commencement exercises coincide with 25th reunion festivities for his son, Edward Kennedy Jr., who graduated from the school in 1983.
The Massachusetts Democrat decided against making the trip after suffering a seizure last Saturday and undergoing a brain biopsy on Monday. A malignant brain tumor was diagnosed on Tuesday.
As he did immediately after returning home, Kennedy went sailing today. He spoke briefly to reporters at his home in Hyannis Port, saying that he felt "very well" and that the hospital workers had been "just spectacular."
"We received an incredible amount of wonderful notes and letters from friends and colleagues in the Senate, as well as people here in Massachusetts," he said.
The senator said the outpouring of support he received, which included honks and waves from drivers on his way home and hand-lettered signs in his neighborhood, have been "very uplifting, very touching. And I'm grateful for all that."
Obama, who leads in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination, said he and Kennedy had talked earlier in the week about the Illinois senator delivering the commencement speech. Kennedy has endorsed Obama in his race against fellow Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton and has campaigned for Obama.
"Considering what he's done for me and for our country, there's nothing I wouldn't do for him," Obama said in a statement. "So I'm looking forward to standing in his place on Sunday, even though I know I won't be able to fill his shoes."
Spokeswoman Stephanie Cutter said Kennedy accepted Obama's offer to help "knowing it would be an historic opportunity for the school and all those attending. … He's enormously grateful to Sen. Obama and the support he's received from all of his colleagues this last week."
Kennedy will not attend the graduation ceremonies, remaining at his family compound on Cape Cod. He returned to Hyannis Port yesterday after being released from Massachusetts General Hospital.
The senator will still keep long-standing plans to host Raclin, daughter of his wife, Vicki, at a dinner Saturday night. Also expected at the dinner are her siblings, grandparents and aunts and uncles.
Congress is on a Memorial Day recess next week, although it is unclear when Kennedy will return to Capitol Hill. His doctors are weighing chemotherapy and radiation regimens, but no further announcement is expected from them before midweek.

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A pre-recorded streaming video from the September 2017 webcast, Debt Collection: Starting a Collection Practice, or Refining Your Existing One .
Whether you have thought about setting up a collection practice or have recognized that your current system needs retooling, this program is for you! This program will give you the basic tools and tips you need in order to start setting up a thriving debt collection practice, or improve upon your existing operation.
In addition, this seminar will provide the perspective of a consumer protection lawyer on FDCPA compliance by collections attorneys. A leading Virginia attorney in the field of debtor's rights will tell you what he looks for when analyzing potential FDCPA claims—tips helpful to avoid violating the FDCPA, or, worse yet, a class action lawsuit.
In retirement, Judge Pustilnik serves as a substitute judge for about 25 different courts, and is on the bench somewhere almost every day. Additionally, he continues to update several publications, teaches civil law to new judges, and follows and reports on the legislative session for the benefit of the General District Court Judges. He is an editor and author of the Virginia CLE® publication Debt Collection for Virginia Lawyers: A Systematic Approach.
As one of Virginia's first consumer protection attorneys, Dale Pittman represents consumers in debt collection harassment and false credit reporting cases, claims against payday lenders and car title lenders, and employment background check cases. His cases range from more routine individual claims to large consumer class actions. His litigation has resulted in many published opinions furthering the rights of victims of consumer credit overreaching and abuse.
Mr. Pittman has lectured for the ABA, Virginia CLE®, the Virginia State Bar, the VBA, the Virginia Trial Lawyers Association, the National Association of Consumer Advocates, the National Consumer Law Center, the Naval Justice School, the Judge Advocate General's Legal Center & School, local bar associations and others. He has contributed to numerous NCLC publications. He heads the VTLA's Consumer Law Section, is past president of the Petersburg Bar Association, serves as the 11th Judicial District's representative to the Council of the Virginia State Bar, and has served on the faculty of the VSB Professionalism Course on ethics for new Bar admittees. He is a recipient of the VSB Legal Aid Award, NACA's Consumer Attorney of the Year Award, and the Virginia Poverty Law Center's Advocate of the Year Award, and is a Virginia Lawyers Weekly "Leader in the Law 2010." VTLA recognized Mr. Pittman as only the fifth recipient of its Oliver White Hill Courageous Advocate Award, given periodically for demonstrated courage and commitment to the ideals of justice in representing an individual or cause at considerable personal risk.
Robert Quadros graduated from Virginia Tech in 1971 and received his law degree from the Marshall Wythe School of Law of the College of William and Mary in 1974. He was admitted to the Virginia State Bar in September of 1974. He specializes in general collection and plaintiffs' litigation practice, with an emphasis on creditors' rights in all state courts.
Mr. Quadros is a member of The Virginia Bar Association and past president of the Virginia Creditor's Bar Association. He also has been a speaker for the Committee on Continuing Legal Education for the Virginia State Bar on collection and creditor's rights from 1980 through present.


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Neymar's Net Worth, Salary and Endorsements
Brazilian football star, Neymar , made his professional debut with local club, Santos FC. He was offered a contract with them back in 2003 as a youth academy player. He stuck with the side for nearly a decade, before La Liga giants, FC Barcelona took notice of him.
The team rejected offers from Premier League sides, West Ham and even Chelsea, despite hefty sums on the table. In 2011, he won the Puskas Award for a solo goal against Flamenco.
Finally, in 2013, Santos accepted an offer from Barcelona and off he went to La Liga. He thrived at the club until the 2017 season, alongside Leo Messi and later, Luis Suarez.
In August 2017, he completed a transfer to Ligue 1 side, Paris Saint-Germain, albeit under controversial circumstances. Neymar's legal representatives made a payment of €222 million to the club, making it the most expensive transfer at the time.
Barcelona filed a lawsuit against Neymar, demanding the return of a contract renewal bonus as well as €8.5 million in damages and an additional 10% for the arrears.
According to their claims, they are owed money that Neymar received as part of a renewal bonus when he signed a new contract in 2016. The club also requested Paris Saint-Germain to take on the responsibility for the payment of the fees if the player cannot do so himself.
On-Pitch Achievements
Neymar primarily plays as either a striker, winger of attacking midfielder. He has been described as "a true phenomenon" by many. He possesses the ability to drift towards the infield, due to his energetic pace and playmaking skill. His skill with the ball has even drawn a few comparisons with the likes of Ronaldinho. Ronaldinho himself tipped Neymar on becoming the best player in the world
With Barcelona, he helped clinch the La Liga twice, in 2014-15 and 2015-16. He also helped guide the team to three straight Copa Del Reys in a row and a 2014-15 UEFA Champions League.
During his Ligue 1 stint, PSG won the Ligue 1 title in 2017-18, the Coupe de France and the Coupe de la Ligue 1 in the same year. He even guided the national team to the Confederations Cup in 2013.
Neymar's Endorsements
Neymar has inked numerous sponsorship deals since his reputation began to grow from the young age of 17. He has deals with the likes of Nike, Panasonic, Volkswagen, Claro, Unilever and Santander among many others.
In 2013, he was even named the most marketable athlete ahead of Messi and Ronaldo. Neymar's net worth as of 2018 is estimated to be $185 million. It is believed that at PSG, Neymar's salary is €36.8 million a year.
Foundations and Charity
Neymar reportedly donates 10% of his earnings to his church back in Brazil. In addition to that, Each year, Neymar organizes a charity match with fellow Brazilian footballer Nene.
Spouse None
Residence Sao Paulo
Nationality Brazil
Endorsements Nike, Panasonic, Volkswagen, Claro, Unilever, Santander
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MS-13 gang members indicted in brutal deaths of high school students
More than a dozen members of the MS-13 gang were indicted Thursday on seven killings on Long Island spanning three years, including the deaths of several high school students last year.
The US Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of New York said the 13 members of La Mara Salvatrucha, known as MS-13, face offenses including seven murder charges, racketeering, attempted murder, assault, obstruction of justice and arson in the 41-count indictment unsealed Thursday in federal court in Central Islip, New York.
"Law enforcement was determined that these brutal murders wouldn't turn into cold cases," US Attorney Robert L. Capers told reporters.
Two of the students -- Nisa Mickens, 15, and Kayla Cuevas, 16 -- were beaten with baseball bats and a machete, Capers said. The girls attended Brentwood High School in Brentwood, a working-class community in Suffolk County, about 45 miles east of New York City.
At the time, police said there appeared to be gang involvement in the girls' deaths and the deaths of two others, whose skeletal remains were found after they had been missing for months. Police have not announced arrests in the latter two deaths.
"The Brentwood family has spent the last six months in mourning, but today marks the beginning of the healing process for this beautiful and resilient community," Suffolk County Police Commissioner Timothy Sini said.
Kayla was involved in a "series of disputes" with MS-13 gang members and associates months earlier, authorities said. She and friends then became involved in an altercation at Brentwood High a week before the girls' deaths, authorities said. MS-13 members vowed to seek revenge.
On September 13, gang members went looking for rival gang members to kill in Brentwood, authorities said. Prosecutors said gang members, including one man who was indicted, saw the two best friends. The girls had gone for a walk that night, News 12 Long island reported.
They recognized Kayla, and got permission to kill the girls from two gang leaders, who were also indicted, authorities said.
A passerby found Nisa's body on a Brentwood street on September 13, the eve of her 16th birthday, Sini said. The next day, Kayla's body was discovered in the backyard of a nearby home.
"My message to the people of Brentwood and all of Suffolk County is that although we are keenly aware that nothing will ever undue the heartbreaking loss of Nisa and Kayla, we can take solace in the fact that their savage murderers will be held accountable," Sini said.
Authorities said a third Brentwood High School student, Jose Pena, 18, was killed on June 3, 2016. His skeletal remains were discovered on October 17, 2016, in a wooded area that served as a burial ground for MS-13 victims, Capers said.
Pena was killed because he was suspected violating gang rules, federal authorities said.
"His bones bore marks of repeated stab wounds and beatings with a bat, a blunt force instrument," Capers said.
Sini said Suffolk police have cracked down on gangs. Police have collected intelligence on MS-13 members and created a list of gang members to put under surveillance. Officers have arrested members for various crimes, he said.
Since September 2016, Sini said, 125 MS-13 members have been arrested.
"We are going to eradicate MS-13 from these communities," Sini said.
MS-13 is one of the largest criminal organizations in the United States, according to federal authorities. An international criminal organization, it has more than 6,000 members in the United States, including a presence in at least 46 states and the District of Columbia, officials said.
More than 30,000 members operate mostly in El Salvador, Mexico, Honduras and Guatemala, federal authorities said.
MS-13 is the largest and most violent street gang on Long Island, the US Attorney's Office said.
Capers said two of the suspects are US citizens. A third suspect is a legal permanent resident and the rest are undocumented immigrants, Capers said.
If convicted, the defendants could face up to life in prison or the death penalty.
CNN's Darran Simon contributed to this report.


Located directly on the beach, The Breakers is a complex where every condo has a view of the Gulf. Enjoy your morning coffee on your large screened balcony with an amazing Gulf view.
This remodeled property boasts custom kitchen cabinetry with a large island for extra counter space, crown molding and plantation shutters throughout, and unique bathrooms.
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3.2.18 Client-Side Attacks
Client-side attacks
Because that's where the money is. – Quote apocryphally attributed to bank robber Willie Sutton when ask why he robbed banks.
People create structures to provide security from attack for their persons and property. As with most security mechanisms, it becomes an "arms race"; the attacker devising increasingly sophisticated measures to penetrate the defense and the defenders improving their security profile to repel the penetration attempts.
Nomadic humans first formed camps as a way leverage resources and protect each other from attacks by marauders and other hostile forces. As the attacks against the camps became more sophisticated, the protections evolved to repel the threat. The camps evolved into forts, forts became castles, castles grow into fortified towns, etc. At each stage, the strength of the fortification becomes a deterrent to the attacker who then cast about for more effective penetration techniques or an easier target.
In computing, the server is the fortified structure created to serve and protect data and services. As the target of attacks, it may be initially vulnerable, however it eventually improves defenses enough that most attackers begin looking for easier targets.
Using a castle analogy, if one cannot breach the castle walls to plunder its resources, the next best thing is to intercept it before it reaches the castle. This is the equivalent of the client-side attack.
As server-side resources, i.e. resources stored on the server, become increasingly difficult to access due to improved processes and security advances, malicious users instead direct their attacks against the less well-defended client devices and applications. I.e. they moved from attacking the server to attacking the client.
An Exaggerated View of Server-Side & Client-Side Security
A client can be a standard web browser such as Internet Explorer or Google Chrome or it can be an embedded browser object in an application such as an email client, media players, e-book reader, etc.
Servers are juicier targets for the malicious user as they contain the data sought by the malicious user and because servers are naturally designed to make information available to users.
Web servers, database servers, mail servers, streaming video servers, etc. all contain data they want to make available to users. The trick is to increase the defenses of the server enough that the strategic value of the data is less than the cost of measures needed to penetrate it.
Servers are improving their defenses, encouraging attackers to turn increasingly to client-side attacks.
Two reasons why client applications are more inviting targets for attackers include:
Clients generally undergo less rigorous security testing than server applications
Clients are more difficult to patch due to the diverse range of client versions, owners and environments
Executing code at the client, such as by embedding JavaScript in HTML pages, makes dynamic and interesting content possible. An example is the page interactivity possible in Google Maps. However these capabilities add complexity and introduce the potential for security vulnerabilities into the application.
"Cross-site scripting (XSS) is a vulnerability that permits an attacker to inject code (typically HTML or JavaScript) into contents of a website not under the attacker's control. When a victim views such a page, the injected code executes in the victim's browser."‡
Cross-site scripting or XSS is a type of client-side attack. XSS takes advantage of interactions between the client and server to exploit any resulting vulnerabilities.
What does the "cross-site" in cross-site scripting mean? A good explanation is the one from apache.org, "It was coined earlier on when the problem was less understood, and it stuck."
Cross-Site Scripting is an attack technique that embeds malicious code into a user's browser instance. When the malicious code is triggered, it executes on the client-side (i.e. in the user's browser) and is generally used to add, modify or delete data. The malicious code can be in one of various script languages including Java, JavaScript, VBScript, ActiveX.
When running in the local browser instance, the malicious code the privileges of the user, as such it has the ability to access and modify potentially sensitive local user data. Via XSS a malicious user can take control of the session between the browser and a website, and access sensitive data or redirect the browser to a malicious web site.
Categories of XSS
There are several recognized categories of XSS attacks including: Stored XSS, Reflected XSS, Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF), Cross-Site Tracing (XST) and DOM-based XSS. In this article we will look at Stored and Reflected XSS.
XSS vulnerability is introduced when a web site accepts input from the client without first validating that the data is "clean", i.e. in the format it was expecting and also when the web site outputs data to the web client without sanitizing it, i.e. removing or masking any potentially dangerous code.
When an attacker discovers a server that is not validating or sanitizing data, it will send the server malicious data, e.g. by filling out a form with input that is a script instead of simply text. Since the server is not doing input validation, it either incorrectly stores the script in its database where it gets executed by the next user accessing the database or it gets reflected back to the browser.
Stored XSS Attacks – are those where the code to exploit the vulnerability is permanently stored on the target servers (typically in a database) and can be retrieved to create pages sent to any user visiting the site. The victim retrieves the injected script from the server when it requests the stored information.
Forums and blogs that allow the use of HTML and that store information in databases are potentially vulnerable to this form of exploit. Protecting against stored XSS exploits involves input validation and output sanitization, i.e. translating the elements such that it will not be interpreted by the browser as code.
Stored Cross-Site Scripting is also known as Persistent Cross-Site Scripting.
Reflected XSS Attacks – are those where the attack is in the request itself and the vulnerability occurs when data submitted by the client is processed by the server and sent back (reflected) to the browser without first being properly encoded or sanitized. The Reflected XSS attack begins when a victim visits a URL with the embedded malicious script. The malicious URL can be distributed in the form of an email sent by the attacker. An exploit is successful when the:
victim loads the malicious code in his/her browser
code gets sent to the server listed in the URL
server "reflects" the malicious code back to the browser embedded in the response, (such as an error message or search result)
browser dutifully renders the malicious code (as it came from a "trusted" web site)
malicious code does its work
Step #0 of this exploit is finding a web server that processes raw HTML on input without scrubbing or filtering and on output without encoding or sanitization.
XSS exploits can perform various malicious activities for the attacker, including:
steal information in script variables
set or read information in cookies
send requests to a server as the user
redirect to another site
modify displayed content
send captured data to another site
log keystrokes, capture camera data, etc.
Unlike with Stored XSS where the malicious code is persistently stored on the server and activated by any visitor to that page, the Reflected XSS is commonly delivered via phishing attacks or via a compromised web site.
The attacker may attempt to evade detection by encoding portions of the malicious script in hexadecimal characters, making it less like a script and less suspicious.
A Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability arises when Web applications take data from users and dynamically include it in Web pages without first properly validating the data.†
Minimizing the vulnerability of Stored and Reflected XSS involves following web good coding practices such as validating, filtering or scrubbing input at the server-side and by sanitizing or encoding output before execution at the browser-side. If input data is not validated, malicious script can be inserted into the page that is sent back to the browser where it runs in a trusted context.
http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2000-02.html
http://www.veracode.com/security/xss†
http://google-gruyere.appspot.com/part2‡
https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Cross-site_Scripting_(XSS)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7M-R6U2i5iI
http://httpd.apache.org/info/css-security/
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3.2.15 Malicious Insider Threat
Malicious insider threat
We have met the enemy and he is us. – Walter Crawford Kelly, Jr.
IT security professionals and laypeople alike are aware of IT security threats posed by external forces such as hackers, malware, denial of service attacks, etc. Systems and policies to mitigate these "outsider" security threats such as firewalls, intrusion detection and prevention systems, antivirus software, etc. are well defined. However these security mitigation efforts are largely ineffective against what several studies have recognized as a significant threat to an organization's security profile, the malicious insider.†
Electronic Crimes most costly or damaging to an organization
Bob Bragdon, VP and publisher, CSO puts it this way "Cyber threats can come from outside and inside the organization. Public awareness has been largely focused on the more sensational successful cyber espionage attacks from nation-states, but the fact is insiders with malicious intent also pose a great security risk."‡
Insiders necessarily have legitimate access to internal resources and are familiar with the organization's security controls for protecting them. A malicious insider is a current or former employee, contractor, or business associate who has or has had authorized access to an organization's resources and has (incidentally or intentionally) misappropriated that access in a way that negatively impacts the confidentiality, integrity and availability of the organization's resources.
According to research by CERT, the malicious insider is motivated in many cases by revenge and greed and as such his or her activities will include sabotage of computer systems, extortion, theft of Intellectual Property and exposure of private information.†
Most Common Insider Cyber Incident
Unintentional exposure of private or sensitive data 34%
Theft of intellectual property (IP) 34%
Theft of other (proprietary) info including customer records, financial records, etc… 31%
Unauthorized access to/ use of information, systems or networks 30%
Source: 2013 US State of Cybercrime Survey
Malicious insider threats are difficult to defend against since the insider has intimate knowledge of security controls and methods bypass them. The scope of the impact of malicious insider threats may be underreported and likely underappreciated. The following table from a 2006 survey highlights how over 400 organizations handled both insider and outsider threats: ‡‡
Insider Outsider
Handled internally without involving legal action or law enforcement 72% 75%
Handled internally with legal action 13% 6%
Handled externally by notifying law enforcement 14% 18%
Handled externally by filing a civil action 2% 1%
At the 2013 RSA Conference in San Francisco, Patrick Reidy of the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) shared five lessons-learned for security practitioners based on the FBI's experience investigating malicious insider threats.
Insider threats are not hackers.
The Insider Threat Study in 2008 by CERT and the National Threat Assessment Center (NTAC) describes several key findings:††
A specific event or series of events triggered most insiders' actions.
Revenge was reported as the main motive in just over half the cases.
Frequently reported goals of insider attacks included financial gain, theft of information and sabotage to the organization.
The first step to mitigation is gaining an understanding of the motivation of the malicious insider.
Insider threat is not a technical or "cybersecurity" issue alone.
Mitigating insider threats calls for controls that move beyond IT and include solutions that are people-centric.
Successful mitigation strategies look at the interplay between business processes and information technology.
"Adopt a multidisciplinary whole threat approach"
A good insider threat program should focus on deterrence, not detection
Create an environment that makes it "really difficult or uncomfortable to be an insider."
Crowdsource security, i.e. solicit input from the user community on how to improve controls to protect data
Avoid the data overload problem
Deploy data filters
Periodic audits
Implement segmentation of duties
Use behavioral based techniques for detection of insider threats
"Base detection on user's personal cyber baselines"
"The idea is to detect insider bad behavior closer to that tipping point of when a good employee goes rogue."
The following table describes some differences between insider and outsider threats and point to why insider threats demand special categorization.
Trusted Untrusted Insiders have intimate knowledge and are able to sidestep security measures more easily without raising alarm.
Legitimate Access Unauthorized Illicit activity by insiders can more easily be masked as authorized because they have legitimate access to the resource.
Operational tools Specialized tools Relatively low-tech tools can be deployed by insiders as they are already behind the firewall, already know the administrator password, etc.
Revenge Financial The motivation of the insider is usually less sophisticated, however in many cases, it is also less predictable and more expensive to prevent or detect.
Insider vs. Outsider Threats
As in most cases, effective security measures calls for a multi-layered approach to security. To mitigate malicious insider threats, in addition to technology-based deterrents such as firewalls, intrusion detection systems and monitoring, behavioral and policy-based deterrents should also be deployed.
Behavioral and policy-based deterrents include tools such as acceptable use policies (AUP), background checks, account management policies and segregation of duties. In a 2006 E-Crime Watch Survey conducted by the United States Secret Service (USSS), the SEI CERT Program, and CSO Magazine, the top five security policies and procedures used by organizations in the survey were:‡‡
Account/password management policies
Acceptable use policy/ Formal "inappropriate use" policy
Employee/contractor background check
Employee education & awareness programs
Conduct regular security audits
Here are some best practice considerations suggested by various security principles:
Monitor how users interact with information
Establish a baseline of normal user behavior with respect to data and resource usage, conduct trending analysis and alert on deviations from baseline with respect to data movement, channels and usage.
Log, monitor, and audit employee online actions
Anticipate and manage workplace issues across the employee lifecycle
Deploy policies and procedures designed to monitor, manage and respond to disruptive and suspicious behavior.
Deactivate computer access following termination
Implement comprehensive and consistent information controls to minimize data exfiltration
Require accountability regardless of endpoint (e.g. desktop, tablet, smartphone)
Employ controls across all information states (at rest, in motion, and in use) and across all endpoints (network, tablet, desktop, smartphone, etc.)
Understand, monitor and lock down all exit points for data, e.g. wireless, removable media, fax/printers, social media, FTP, etc.
Implement secure backup and recovery processes
Institute stringent access controls and monitoring policies on privileged users
Institutionalize system change controls
Centralize security control management for rapid incident identification, analysis, and response
Enforce separation of duties and least privilege
Define explicit security agreements for any cloud services, especially access restrictions and monitoring capabilities
Use a log correlation engine or security information and event management (SIEM) system to log, monitor, and audit employee actions
Collect and save data for use in investigations
Institute periodic security awareness training for all employees
Related Terms: stochastic forensics
www.cert.org/archive/pdf/CyberSecuritySurvey2013.pdf†
www.cert.org/archive/pdf/insiderthreat_it2008.pdf††
www.cert.org/archive/pdf/State_of_Cybercrime_Survey_ Press_ Release_2013.pdf ‡
www.cert.org/archive/pdf/ecrimesurvey06.pdf ‡‡
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insider_threat
resources.sei.cmu.edu/asset_files/Book/2012_014_001_34033.pdf
www.mcafee.com/us/resources/solution-briefs/sb-protecting-information-insider-threats.pdf
media.blackhat.com/us-13/US-13-Reidy-Combating-the-Insider-Threat-At-The-FBI-Slides.pdf
www.ncix.gov/issues/ithreat/docs/Common_Sense_Guide_to_Mitigating_Insider_Threats.pdf
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Good Tech, Compassionate Healthcare
AI Democratizing Access to Parent Child Quality Assessment
In this conversation Nicole Letourneau RN, BN, MN, PhD, Monica Oxford PhD, and Linda Duffet-Leger PhD, MN, BN discuss their study on mothers with depression and how they are developing a technology to improve the serve and return relationship between caregivers and their children.
If you would like more information on Nicole, Monica, and Linda and the important work they are doing here are some links to get you started:
Nicole Letourneau RN, BN, MN, PhD: Professor and Research Chair in Parent and Child Mental Health at the University of Calgary
Monica Oxford PhD: Professor at the University of Washington school of Nursing and Executive Director for the Barnard center for Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health
Linda Duffet-Leger: PhD, MN, BN: Associate Professor in the Faculty of Nursing at the University of Calgary
- Shane Sinclair: Associate Professor in the Faculty of Nursing and Adjunct Professor in the Department of Oncology, Cumming School of Medicine at the University of Calgary. Founder and Director of the Compassion Research Lab.
- Cindy Lee Dennis: Professor at the Lawrence S. Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing and the Faculty of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto.
- Penny Tryphonopoulos: Assistant Professor at the Arthur Labatt Family School of Nursing, Western University
- Mohammad Moshirpour: Meng Software Program Director Schulich School of Engineering, Senior Instructor Department of Electrical and Software Engineering at the University of Calgary.
Parent child interaction teaching scale (PCI): used to be known as the nursing child assessment teaching scale
Serve and Return: parental sensitivity and responsiveness to infants and young children in relationships
EQIP: enabling quality interaction with parents
Links to resources on infant and child mental health:
https://www.sickkids.ca/en/learning/our-programs/infant-and-early-mental-health-promotion/
https://www.zerotothree.org/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzMxrMJBZdQ
https://developingchild.harvard.edu/science/key-concepts/serve-and-return/
https://developingchild.harvard.edu/resources/serve-return-interaction-shapes-brain-circuitry/
https://barnardcenter.nursing.uw.edu/
https://www.pcrprograms.org/
This podcast, brought to you by AMS Healthcare, explores the convergence of technology and compassion in healthcare today. Good Tech, Compassionate Healthcare will host conversations between leading researchers, scientists and healthcare providers, as well as patients and caregivers, as they confront the challenges threatening our healthcare system, especially in the face of the pandemic. Join us as they discuss the opportunities for digital health to innovate all aspects of our healthcare today, and tomorrow. They will share their hope for technology, and they will share some cautionary tales about what they are seeing in the field. We hope to foster open and frank discussions about how they think we should integrate technology into the health-care system in a way that enhances – and doesn't diminish – compassionate care. Because ultimately, we want these discussions to help us all advance the cause of better healthcare for patients, caregivers, and healthcare providers everywhere. If there was ever a time to uphold compassion as the bedrock and guiding principle of healthcare, it's now! Join us for these illuminating conversations as AMS Healthcare explores "Good Tech, Compassionate Healthcare.


Salamanca is a beautiful residential neighborhood and shopping district of wide streets and grand 19th century buildings, some of which are now foreign embassies. Salamanca is home to Madrid's wealthier and most aristocratic residents, as well as the up market shopping boulevards Serrano and Ortega y Gasset.
While the Salamanca neighborhood is typically a great place to go for quality, traditional Spanish restaurants, here you'll also find modern eateries, gourmet places and restaurants serving different international cuisines. During the day you'll probably be dining alongside ladies who lunch and nearby embassy staff, while at night you'll likely be surrounded by the local residents.
Often grand, beautiful and expensive, Salamanca's accommodation choices reflect the nature of Madrid's most aristocratic neighborhood. In this area you'll find luxurious and well-known five star hotels like Wellington, Adler, Villa Magna and Gran Melia Fenix, as well as a plethora of great four star hotels.
When it comes to elegant fashion and fine house wares, Salamanca is the Spanish capital's shopping heaven – the neighborhood's two main shopping arteries being Serrano and Ortega y Gasset streets. The most important Spanish designers and international brands all have stores in Salamanca. Apart from the big names though, there are plenty of smaller shops that warrant careful attention, too.


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Why are the Jewish people told that they should give a donation for the Tabernacle "every person whose heart inspires him"?
Weren't they commanded to give anyway?
What is it about this spirit of volunteerism that is so important?


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New sculpture takes flight at Great Seal State Park
CHILLICOTHE— Ohio Governor Mike DeWine and Ohio Department of Natural Resources Director (ODNR) Mary Mertz recently unveiled a new memorial honoring the victims and survivors of the COVID-19 pandemic. After the Storm, a mixed-media sculpture designed and created by Ohio artist Kevin Lyles, is now on permanent display at the COVID-19 Pandemic Memorial Grove at Great Seal State Park.
"This sculpture is a meaningful addition to the memorial grove at Great Seal State Park," said Governor DeWine. "After the Storm represents the memory of loved ones lost, the strength of survivors, and the courage of those who faced - and are still facing - the impacts of the pandemic."
Governor DeWine and Director Mertz dedicated the COVID-19 Pandemic Memorial Grove to the heroes and victims of the pandemic in April 2021. The grove was designed by ODNR to provide a peaceful place of solitude for visitors to remember and reflect on the pandemic.
The sculpture, which stands 15 feet tall and 12 feet wide, reflects the natural characteristics of Great Seal State Park's hilly landscape. Its foundation is a stainless-steel grid cage filled with locally sourced glacial rock. Its curved lines follow the hollows and ravines of the area, like the park's trail system.
"The peace and serenity often found in nature have been beautifully depicted in the striking sculpture, After the Storm," ODNR Director Mary Mertz said. "From the native birds in flight to the way the sun interacts with the steel sculpture, we hope that visitors will find optimism for the future in the quietness of the COVID-19 Memorial Grove."
Nearly 40 species of birds, such as swallows, gulls, raptors, and hummingbirds were included in the sculpture. The natural world is a reoccurring theme in Lyles' art. He chose birds as a memorial symbol because, for him, they personify how COVID-19 did not differentiate by age, race, wealth, religion, or gender.
"As the base rises up, a grid symbolizing the pattern of life features stainless-steel negative silhouettes of various bird species, which become partially and then fully realized three-dimensional cutouts of Ohio birds soaring up to the heavens," said Lyles. "The memorial is a reminder that we were privileged to have our loved ones with us, and this isn't their end, our memories of them have transformed into blessings that we will keep with us."
As the stainless-steel birds begin rising above the grid, their shapes form a pattern of individual birds in flight. Not only will the stainless steel, which is virtually maintenance-free, maintain its luster but the sculpture will also appear lit by the sun's natural light throughout the day. As the light changes from dawn to mid-day to sundown, the sculpture will reflect the change in colors of the sky lit from overhead.
Lyles, who lives in rural southeast Ohio, is a tenured professor at the University of Rio Grande. He has taught art history, drawing, design, sculpture and ceramics there since 1990. He has created numerous large-scale sculptures for public display including Fruit of Inquiry for the Ohio Agriculture and Research Development Center in Wooster, Farmland Forest for the Bob Evans Corporate Headquarters and his most recent piece, Tranquility, can be seen at the Hocking Hills State Park Lodge.


Let me take a page out of Scott's book (Scott's blog, I suppose… Scott's blook?), and write a bit about life on the tenure trail. I submitted my materials for my 3rd-year review back in September, and now the process is finally completed! On Friday I got my letter from the Chancellor making my reappointment official. Hooray! I feel the unbearable lightness of being. Ok, so I haven't exactly been biting my nails down to the wrist lately: I had my meeting with the Dean back in January, & I felt the the unbearable lightness of being after that meeting. In that meeting we discussed the School's recommendation to the Chancellor (thumbs up) & my colleagues' advice to me for implementation between now & submitting my tenure materials. This advice can be summed up as follows: more national-level projects, & more theory. Neither of which was a big surprise, & I'm working on both, but it's still good to have it spelled out explicitly.
For those of you in the audience unfamiliar with the 3rd-year review / reappointment process, let me 'splain. No, there is too much. Let me sum up.
I submit my review materials.
The personnel committee solicits letters about me from the SILS faculty.
Members of the faculty write letters to the personnel committee. This step is optional: no faculty member must submit a letter, though most do.
The personnel committee compiles the faculty's letters & writes a letter to the Dean.
The Dean compiles the personnel committee's & the faculty's letters & writes a letter to the Chancellor.
I have my meeting with the Dean.
Some mysterious process happens and a letter emerges from the Chancellor's office.
This is an ordinal, not an interval scale: intervals between these integers are not equal or drawn to scale.
This reappointment is not to be construed as an indication of the eventual outcome of any phase of future institutional tenure review.
Would that it were so! Well, one review process at a time. And just so there's no confusion, the letter is careful to point me to the Trustee Policies and Regulations Governing Academic Tenure. Which I've already read, thankyouverymuch, and will now pore over with a fine-tooth comb.
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The Geeta Ashram Youth would like to wish each and everyone a Shubh Ashtmi, Shubh Vaisakhi and a very Happy Vishu to all celebrating!
May this year bring good health, love and happiness to one and all!
From all of the youth here at Geeta Ashram Malaysia, we wish you a prosperous Year of the Goat! Happy Chinese New Year!


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68:1-2 Nun . By the pen and that which they write (therewith) , you are not , for your Lord's favor to you, a madman.
68:3-7 And lo! Yours verily will be a reward unfailing. And lo! You are of a tremendous nature. And you will see and they will see which of you is the demented. Lo! Your Lord is Best Aware of him who strays from his way, and He is Best Aware of those who are guided.
68:8-13 Therefore obey not you the rejecters who would have had you compromise, that they may compromise. Neither obey you each feeble oath monger, detractor, spreader abroad of slanders, hinderer of the good, sinful transgressor, greedy therewithal, intrusive.
68:14-16 It is because he is possessed of wealth and children that, when Our revelations are recited to him, he says: Mere fables of the men of old. We shall brand him on the nose.
68:17-33 Lo! We have tried them as We tried the owners of the garden when they vowed they would pluck its fruit next morning. And made no exception (for the will of God); then a visitation came upon it while they slept and in the morning it was as though plucked. And they cried out one to another in the morning, saying: Run to your field if you would pluck (the fruit). So they went off, saying one to another in low tones: No needy man shall enter it today against you. They went betimes, strong in (this) purpose. But when they saw it, they said: Lo! We are in error! Nay, but we are desolate! The best among them said: Did I not say to you: Why glorify you not (God)? They said: Glorified be our Lord! Lo! We have been wrongdoers. Then some of them drew near to others, self-reproaching. They said: Alas for us! In truth we were outrageous. It may be that our Lord will give us better than this in place thereof. Lo! We beseech our Lord. Such was the punishment. And verily the punishment of the Hereafter is greater if they did but know.
68:34-40 Lo! For the pious are Gardens of Bliss with their Lord. Shall We then treat those who are Muslims (have surrendered) as We treat the guilty? What ails you? How foolishly you judge! Or have you a Scripture wherein you learn that you shall indeed have all that you choose? Or have you a covenant, an oath from Us that reaches to the Day of Judgment, that yours shall be all that you ordain? Ask them (O Muhammad) which of them will vouch for that!
68:41-45 Or have they other gods? Then let them bring their other gods if they are truthful on the Day when it befalls in earnest, and they are ordered to prostrate themselves but are not able, with eyes downcast, abasement stupefying them. And they had been summoned to prostrate themselves while they were yet unhurt. Leave Me (to deal) with those who give the lie to this pronouncement. We shall lead them on by steps from whence they know not. Yet I bear with them, for lo! My scheme is firm.
68:46 Or do you (O Muhammad) ask a fee from them so that they are heavily taxed?
68:47 Or is the Unseen theirs that they can write (thereof)?
68:48-50 But wait patiently you for your Lord's decree, and be not like him of the fish, who cried out in despair. Had it not been that favor from his Lord had reached him, he surely would have been cast into the wilderness while he was reprobate. But his Lord chose him and placed him among the righteous.
68:51-52 And lo! Those who disbelieve would gladly disconcert you with their eyes when they hear the Reminder, and they say: Lo! He is indeed mad; when it is nothing else than a Reminder to creation.


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Young Chop talks about moving past his former beef with Pusha T and recording "Blocka", and says he is now working on Pusha's solo LP.
One of the most sought after up and coming producers is the producer of "I Don't Like", Young Chop. Â Back in May, he and Pusha TÂ exchanged jabs on Twitter after Chop took exception to a line on T's diss track "Exodus 23:1". Â Now the two have seemingly moved past their differences, and collaborated on the hit single "Blocka", and various other tracks. Â The young producer talks about their recording process, and how they have used their musical compatibility to move past their differences.
In an interview with XXL, Young Chop discusses his recording process and says he is not comfortable with just sending rappers beats and prefers to work with them in the studio, "I don't send beats to no artists. I gotta get in the studio with you...I like to make something fresh on the spot for you."
Pusha T has some upcoming solo projects, including his Wraith Of 'Caine mixtape, which features the track "Blocka" along with G.O.O.D. Music partner Travi$ Scott.  Young Chop reveals that he originally had intended the track for Scott, but then heard what Pusha put down, and ever since they have been working together, including Chop dropping some beats for the Clipse rapper's solo album.  "I gave the beat to Travi$ Scott a minute ago in New York and then he put the hook down and then he gave it to Pusha," the producer continues, "we were in the studio together and he started playing me the song and I'm like, "Dang, that's it.""
It seems the two did not feel the need to even address their past tension, and just focused on making music, "I'm working on his album too. He's a cool dude though. We didn't even have a conversation about our [past beef], we just started making music."
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Briand ist der Familienname folgender Personen:
 Anne Briand (* 1968), französische Biathletin
 Aristide Briand (1862–1932), französischer Ministerpräsident und Außenminister
 Arnaud Briand (* 1970), französischer Eishockeyspieler und -trainer
 Jean-François Briand (* 1965), französischer Kanute
 Jimmy Briand (* 1985), französischer Fußballspieler
 Ludwig Briand (* 1981), französischer Schauspieler
 Manon Briand (* 1964), kanadische Regisseurin und Drehbuchautorin
 Michel Briand (* 1930), französischer Segler
 Pascal Briand (* 1976), französischer Inline-Speedskater und Eisschnellläufer
 Philippe Briand (* 1950), französischer Politiker

Siehe auch:
 Briand, Pseudonym des französischen Bildhauers Marcel André Bouraine (1886–1948)
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Ronnie Coleman is undoubtedly one of the greatest bodybuilders of all time. Winning eight world's most prestigious bodybuilding competition, Mr. Olympia and dominating the competition for much of his career grants Ronnie Coleman that status alongside Lee Haney, Dorian Yates, and Arnold Schwarzenegger. Bodybuilding is by no means an easy task to take up, even if you are genetically gifted. But among all the naturally gifted bodybuilders out there, Ronnie Coleman is still in his own class.
In addition to inhuman strength and muscle mass, Coleman was known for his incredible form "definition". To this day, many bodybuilding and fans "debate" in which year Ronnie Coleman reached his best Form.
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UKFast founders make £5m commitment to young people
Husband-and-wife team behind Manchester tech business create new charitable trust for disadvantaged young people
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Alistair Hardaker	 3:51pm 8th May 2019
Gail and Lawrence Jones
The husband-and-wife team behind fast-growing tech company UKFast have donated £5 million into a newly created charitable trust to give a helping hand to disadvantaged young people.
Lawrence Jones MBE, who set up the cloud hosting firm with wife Gail in 1999, is placing the funds directly into the UKFast Community and Education Trust, which seeks to improve the education, training and development opportunities available to young people, particularly within Greater Manchester.
The company said that the trust is committed to providing sustainable and lasting support for young people experiencing poverty, abuse, discrimination, exclusion and neglect.
It will also support individuals and organisations looking after young people with life-limiting and life-threatening conditions.
UKFast has a history of similar initiatives which have formed its mission to improve digital skills, and also fund breakfast club at Holy Name RC Primary School, providing 22,310 meals for children across Greater Manchester during the school holidays as part of a Holiday Hunger initiative in 2018.
These initiatives have developed into partnerships with more than 60 schools and colleges.
Today the company reaches 60,000 young people across Greater Manchester and its education team runs more than 500 events each year.
Gail & I are incredibly proud to announce the news that we have donated £5m into a newly created charitable trust to give a helping hand to disadvantaged young people & boost digital skills.
Find out why here: https://t.co/pd9tRBhH4F pic.twitter.com/TQTiomWXsZ
— Lawrence Jones MBE (@Lawrence_Jones) May 8, 2019
CEO Lawrence said he was proud to be based in Manchester. "We made a conscious decision to work with the local community," he said. "After all, it's their home and it's our responsibility to be a good neighbour.
"When we heard that Holy Name School, just a stone's throw from our campus, had children who couldn't afford to pay 20p to attend a breakfast club we made a decision to get involved. Kids can't sit through lessons and concentrate on activities if they don't have basic nutrition.
"At the last count we've invested nearly £10m in various education programmes in the last decade across Greater Manchester. It's our intention to raise more funds, raise more awareness and inspire others to contribute. Our goal is to make this fund sustainable to maximise the impact it has over many years.
"We have problems in all of our towns and cities, where kids feel less empowered and further away from the bright lights they see on social media.
"We believe that one way to bridge this gap is by bringing digital education to the forefront and connecting young people to the opportunities in our industry, tackling the digital skills shortage at the same time.
"This is how we'll develop deeper relationships and partnerships to make a lasting difference, rather than it just offering short-term financial support. The trust helps us professionalise our efforts and kick-starts a new era with the addition of £5m."
UKFast is also committing 5,000 volunteering hours annually to community projects through the trust, worth a further £67,000 a year, as well as value-in-kind donations of the firm's facilities including its auditorium, which has hosted 1,500 young people to date in a series of free cinema screenings during school holidays.
UKFast Director of CSR Russell Feingold added: "UKFast is passionate about making a difference to the lives of young people in communities across Greater Manchester.
"There is a huge amount of work to do and the formation of the trust allows us to make a much bigger impact and enable charities and projects to increase their reach and impact. We also aim to inspire and engage other business to do all they can to help disadvantaged young people in the region."
UKFast Director of Training and Education Aaron Saxton added: "The trust was originally set up to concentrate our efforts on education, but we rapidly saw the need to extend the scope of the support to the community."
The £5m fund is accessible to projects and charities that can prove their track record of delivering sustainable and impactful programmes that directly benefit young people, positively increasing the quality of their lives through education and personal development.
For more information on working with UKFast Community and Education Trust contact makeadifference@ukfast.co.uk
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West Brom are set to host Middlesbrough at the Hawthorns in their next Championship fixture on Saturday.
Having picked up 50 points from 28 games so far, the Baggies are currently fourth in the league standings and are three points ahead of Tony Pulis' side.
While the home side have been absolutely good in terms of offensive productivity, Pulis' side have been robust.
Both the teams are in contention for promotion to the Premier League and therefore, the fixture promises to be an exciting one.
Darren Moore will have three new loan signings available to use; Jacob Murphy, Jefferson Montero and Stefan Johansen.
Jake Livermore is back in contention after a four-match suspension. However, James Morrison and Matt Phillips remain sidelined owing to their ankle injuries.
Sam Johnstone is expected to start in goal and is a regular in the West Brom lineup. Ahmed Hegazy and Craig Dawson have been resilient at the heart of the defence and should keep their place.
After 24 outings in the Championship, Hegazy averages 1.3 tackles, 6.4 clearances and 1.3 blocks per game, and will be an instrumental player at the back for the team.
Kieran Gibbs and Mason Holgate could start as the full-backs. The two have to get forward whenever possible to stretch the Middlesbrough defence.
Rekeem Harper deserves to keep his place in the starting lineup, and he should be paired up with Livermore in the central midfield.
Harper is still pretty much a newbie, and is progressing well with every passing game. However, there is a lot of competition in the squad and Harper can't afford to drop his performance levels.
Gareth Barry could play in the deeper midfield role to protect the backline and dictate the tempo of the game as well.
Jay Rodriguez has been in good form this season, having plundered 14 goals and three assists in 28 league games and might lead the line against the Riversiders.
New signing Murphy might start on the right flank. Early on, Murphy needs to use his pace and dribbling ability to good effect and leave a mark to get the fans behind him.
Hal Robson-Kanu, with his experience, will come in handy for the Baggies in the business end of the season and is expected to start on the left flank.


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FALL DOWN SIX TIMES, STAND UP SEVEN — Japanese Proverb
Posted byAmy Law August 18, 2022 October 1, 2022 Posted inUncategorizedTags:dyslexia, failure, recovery from failure, success
School is often hard for dyslexics. But high school grades and standardized tests aren't actually very good at predicting how successful someone is later in life.
What is a good predictor? How hard a person is willing to work for a goal.
There are a couple of different ways to look at failure. Some successful people look at failure as something to overcome. Others embrace failure, and see where it takes them. Neither approach is wrong. You'll probably use both approaches at different times in your life.
What these two approaches to failure have in common is that neither of them let failure win.
COMEBACK FROM FAILURES
If you listen to athletes who've come from behind to win a game, they usually say something like "We made some mistakes early, but we just focused on what we do best, and we were able to win the game."
Athletes who worry about what's going wrong during the game are the ones who choke. They don't do as well as they could if they just let the mistake go.
Don't worry about making mistakes. Be like a championship athlete: Focus on what you are good at, and try it again.
"The looks, the stares, the giggles … I wanted to show everybody that I could do better and also that I could read.
Earvin "Magic" Johnson— one of the NBA's 50 Greatest Basketball players of all time, now a successful businessman and co-owner of the LA Dodgers and the LA Sparks
SOMETIMES YOU GOTTA FAIL BEFORE YOU CAN LEARN SOMETHING NEW
But sometimes it's more about what you learn along the way rather than the end result.
Paper sticky notes started as a glue that wasn't sticky enough — it barely held two pieces of paper together. When an inventor at 3M needed a bookmark, though, he realized that he needed a glue just strong enough to hold his bookmark in place.
Microwave ovens were invented during World War II, when an engineer standing next to a radar set found a melted candy bar in his pocket. He realized that the microwaves produced by the radar set could be used to cook food.
In 1928, some scientists were looking for a mold that could kill bacteria. Dust blown in through an open window contaminated the lab experiment. But as the scientists threw the samples out, they noticed that the bacteria on the contaminated plate had died. Penicillin mold blown in through the window had killed it. That mistake led to the development of penicillin-based antibiotics, and has saved hundreds of thousands of lives.
"Take chances, make mistakes, get messy!"
Ms. Frizzle, in the Magic School Bus series, by Johanna Cole
Although the people who discovered these ideas may not have been dyslexic, they used a trick dyslexics are good at: they looked at the mistakes differently than the rest of us, and saw greatness.
Remember that everybody makes mistakes. You can recover from them, and they may lead you to interesting new places.
"Failing isn't a problem — interesting things happen along the way, as any entrepreneur will tell you. After all, I haven't actually become an astronaut, but I still hope. And in the meantime, I do get to space with the instruments and technology I help create…"
— Maggie Aderin-Pocock, Space Scientist, Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (MBE)
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This is definitely a quantity over quality job, and speed is of the essence, so I'm hoping to finish them all off and be ready for basing sometime at the end of the week.
I'll also give a runthrough here on the technique I'm using to speedpaint the figures. It works (well, at least for me) on painting very dark / black skin tones.
First step is to give a heavy basecoat of tough black-gloss enamel paint.
This is followed by a very heavy drybrush to bring out detail and highlight the raised surfaces.
I then prepare a wash using water based artists acrylics. The acrylics will bring out the shadows and highlights on the black skins.
I use Van Gogh which are excellent consistent quality and work really well. I used a mixture of Raw Umber and Burnt Sienna.
Mix the two until you get a thick but creamy consistency ... and yes, it does look like something disgusting that the the dog just dropped.
Finally add a little black to dip into for some slight shading when you paint the wash onto the figures, and the next day when they are dry you should have figures that look something like this.
You can then just paint up the details.
So I'm now about halfway there, most of the figures in progress are in the picture below.
Once I've got them based I'll add a final update on the Zulus and in the near future some pictures of them in action in the upcoming game.
Not thousands, but well over a hundred and fifty of 'em.
Old Esci Zulus, from four separate sets that are at least 15 years old, maybe even older.
Well with a game coming up organised by Carlos, I remembered I had these Zulus he gave me and promised to paint them up. When I dug them out of their box I aslo discovered that the majorty of the shields and spears have nearly all been lost over the years - victims of multiple transfers to and from different boxes, maybe lost in the bottom of another box, or perhaps even a landfil somewhere, victims of a past clearout of trash.
So with 150+ Zulus and only 20 odd shields and spears, what do you do when you've promised to have them ready for the game ? No choice but to improvise and make your own.
The shields were made from rugged card that were cut into oblong shapes. I made a shield shape similar in size to the original shield printed multiple copies onto the back of the rugged card.
A broom with some nice thick stiff plastic bristles was the spear donor.
Some flat-nosed pliers were used to squash the end of the plastic and a sharp knife to make the spear point.
And I'm quite pleased with the way the spears turned out.
So the next step, paint them all up.
Come back soon, more pics to follow.