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The Last of Us Part 2, Ghost of Tsushima Get New Summer Release Dates, Naughty Dog Begs Fans Not To Spoil The Game
Muhammad Kumar - Apr 28, 2020 | PC/Console
After being delayed indefinitely, The Last of Us Part 2 will be released on June 19, with Ghost of Tsushima pushed back to July 17.
Massive Spoilers: The Last Of Us 2's Various Story Scenes And Plot Details Leaked Online
The Last of Us Part II Is First Naughty Dog Game That Have Nudity And Sexual Content
The Last Of Us II Will Be Delayed For Another 3 Months
Naughty Dog has just released an announcement from its official social media account to address the various leaks yesterday of The Last of Us Part 2, along with the reveal of a new June 19 release date. This is probably to stem the tide of angry fans and people who were disappointed with the game because of the leak.
The Last Of Us Part 2 is one of the most anticipated games on the PS4
In another short tweet, Naughty Dog said that they are disappointed about the leak of the pre-release footage and hope that fans would be able to avoid spoilers and not spoiling it for others. Looks like the leaks from our previous post were more or less legit after all. Those leaked footages were from an angry employee of Naughty Dog – he also reveals that the company has been crunching super hard to get The Last of Us 2 out on time, which probably leads to dissatisfaction from the employees.
The last of us part 2's gameplay trailer back in E3 2018. This game has been in the work for quite a while.
Previously delayed indefinitely, Part 2 of the game will be released on June 19.
Ghost of Tsushima is somewhat similar to Dark Souls or Sekiro, with its high-risk high-reward combat style
In other news, Ghost of Tsushima, the samurai-themed open-world RPG title by infamous developer Sucker Punch, is pushed back to July 17 from its original June 26 release date. This is probably a deliberate attempt by Sony to give The Last of Us part 2 some breathing room. They blame Covid-19 for this, of course. This delay means that Ghost of Tsushima would be the last major release for the PS4, prior to the PS5's debut in Q4 2020.
Interested in more of our posts related to video games? Please check out this article for the upcoming Elden Ring's release date.
#The Last of Us Part 2 #Ghost of Tsushima #PS4


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SINET Innovation Summit 2013
Solving the research transition problem: Dr. Douglas Maughan, Director of Cyber Security at the Department of Homeland Security's Science and Technology (S&T) Directorate, spoke with the CyberWire this morning about organizing research in ways that facilitate transition to operational systems. He'll be moderating the Innovation Summit's panel on "Research Collaboration Models that Work" tomorrow afternoon.
Federal science and technology programs often find it difficult to move the results of research to the end users on whose behalf it's conducted. The challenge of transition is familiar to anyone involved with S&T, but Maughan believes the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has found some workable models that overcome many of these problems.
In general, DHS S&T finds that involving prospective end-users in defining problems, setting requirements, and funding some of the research (and test and evaluation) has greatly eased transition problems. Posing user-informed challenges to researchers and offering them early adopters for their products have done a great deal to channel research into eventual operational use. Maughan describes three successful public-private engagement models:
LOGIIC (Linking the Oil and Gas Industry to Improve Cyber Security). In this program, companies in the oil and gas sector fund research; DHS S&T funds administration and management. The industry partners, via an agreement with the Automation Federation, pose cyber security challenges, then decide which research projects will receive support. This collaborative agreement is structured to avoid the anti-trust issues that often inhibit private-sector cooperation. LOGIIC is a unique public-private partnership that brings five major oil and gas competitors together to work with government on the development and distribution of cybersecurity solutions for protecting the industry's critical infrastructure.
Industry-University Research Consortium. A joint National Science Foundation and DHS S&T program, the consortium is housed in Ball State University's Security and Software Engineering Research Center. A dozen universities participatein addition to the private sector. Government agencies and private companies identify research challenges, universities proposes research projects to address them, and the agencies and companies select the proposals to fund. The university performers tend to be highly capable institutions willing to focus on practical, hands-on operational solutions they can deliver in the near term.
TCIPG (Trustworthy Cyber Infrastructure for the Power Grid). Hosted by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, this consortium brings together DHS, the Department of Energy, Dartmouth, Cornell, the University of California, Davis, and Washington State. Funding is provided by the government and the universities themselves, but a key element of the program's success is the contribution of its advisory board: some four hundred owners, operators, and vendors in the electrical power sector who collaborate with the university researchers. The advisory board's members, again, set the research challenges and agree to act as early adopters of TCIPG technologies.
Maughan stresses the importance of a technology's ultimate users setting its research requirements. He notes the importance of intelligence in shaping those requirements. "We're not surprised by the claims made last week at Black Hat, and that critical infrastructure is of interest to attackers," he says. "We're interested in it from the defensive point of view. And we find that the technologies and techniques developed to defend control systems in the power sector have implications across critical infrastructures — some are using the same technologies — that can be of benefit to other infrastructure sectors. Tools developed to protect oil and gas infrastructure, for example, tend to be applicable to other infrastructures as well."
We'll be covering Dr. Maughan's panel tomorrow, along with the rest of the SINET Innovation Summit.
Frank Montoya, National Counterintelligence Executive, opened the conference this morning with a keynote address. Before placing counterintelligence into the context of cyber innovation, he lamented what he characterized as the current misrepresentation of Intelligence Community programs and activities—these are defensive, and not directed against US citizens. He was especially concerned to dispute claims of pervasive Government surveillance of content, which he described as simply beyond any agency's human capacity.
He urged symposiasts to leave their preconceptions about counterintelligence behind—it's no longer trench coats and fedoras. The threat is not what it once was. Now counterintelligence concerns itself with protecting supply chains, with thwarting insider threats, with all aspects of cyber security. Our lives are now online, and so the adversary is there as well. Cyber conflict is waged globally, and government depends upon industry for innovation. The US Government is also committed, by law, to protecting American business from industrial espionage.
Finally, Montoya called for engagement—industry should bring its challenges and solutions to the Government. Our law and our infrastructure must catch up with our technology. He concluded by drawing attention to the risk of neglecting STEM education in the United States.
The morning's first panel, "Federal Cybersecurity Opportunities for Small and Large Business," on which Deltek, NSA, Mocana Corporation, and DHS National Protection and Programs Directorate were represented, stressed the third phase of mobile technology as the coming need for the enterprise: security is the bottleneck to more widespread adoption.
John Mullen, Senior Operations Officer, CIA, spoke on the intersection of cyber security and human frailty. He began with three points: (1) Risk management strategies protect intellectual property. (2) Security programs aren't easy and don't generate revenue, but they will protect long-term viability and profits. (3) People represent the greatest cyber vulnerability any organization has. Insiders facilitate 70-98% of information losses.
He noted that tools used by foreign opposition to steal secrets include open source intelligence, an integrated (and state-sponsored or state-owned) approach, tradecraft, and organization. Their technology includes remote hacking, black-bag operations on mobile devices, and the supply chain itself.
Mullen observed that traditional recruitment and compromise of people continues. Opposition intelligence services work hard to compromise insiders. And it's worth noting that people tend to be more open (with secrets, opinion, secrets disguised as opinion) online than in person.
He advised companies to look at themselves, identifying what's invaluable. What makes your organization unique? Who determines what's secret, what's proprietary in your company? Mullen concluded with a reminder that the opposition only needs to get it right once. Security and threat mitigation must be an integral part of every enterprise's regular operations.
The morning's final panel, on legislative action and executive orders affecting critical infrastructure protection, addressed emerging voluntary, industry-driven standards, and the forcing role regulation plays in material disclosure. European regulation differs from US regulation in that it's risk-based. In the US, regulation and legislation tend to issue in long lists of things that must be done. US fixation on compliance breeds compliance fatigue, over-lawyering, and concentration on doing the exact minimum. The US might look with profit at the European model.
We continue our coverage of SINET's Innovation Summit, which concluded yesterday evening in New York. Here are some of the conference's highlights.
CIA Senior Operations Officer John Mullen took as his topic the weakest link: the intersection of cyber and human frailty. His talk emphasized cyber security's continuity with traditional intelligence and security tradecraft. His talk dealt largely (and appropriately) with the threat to companies from foreign intelligence services. Protecting information is inconvenient, but essential to an enterprise's long-term viability, and therefore organizations should anticipate and prepare for cyber attack.
The tools used to steal secrets include open-source intelligence, integrated approaches to exploit diverse vulnerabilities, traditional tradecraft, and organizational compromise. One can expect the opposition to manipulate relationships under state agencies' direction.
Expect the opposition to use remote hacking and black-bag operations on mobile devices. The supply chain is also an attack surface. Offensive intelligence operations are inherently dynamic. Adaptive security is great, but it must be genuinely adaptive to a threat that responds, learns, and modifies its approach.
When you're abroad, you're on the opposition's turf, and can expect that opposition to pursue and scrutinize you closely. The opposition aggressively targets people via, for example, blackmail, theft, and exploitation of their simple naiveté. Never lose physical control of devices abroad. Never accept files. Never use local services. Travelers' hotspots are typically active, aggressive sources of compromise.
Mullen emphasized that, in security, having one person make the decisions is always a bad thing. Get the right people around the table. Enunciating a theme other symposiasts would echo, he urged in effect a risk-based approach to security, identifying, before you engage foreign entities, exactly what you need to protect.
Finally, he reminded the conference that the CIA gives security briefings to US corporations upon request.
Bloomberg's Norman Pearlstine moderated a panel that discussed how legislation and executive orders might improve the security of critical infrastructure. Panelists pointed out that standards are evolved in a voluntary, industry-led process, and that Government serves more as a partner than director in many such efforts.
In general, US regulatory approaches tend to be compliance-based, which some think tend to drive security toward a minimum set of requirements. Panelists suggested a look at the European approach, which tends to be risk-based. Keeping up with evolving legislation and regulation are difficult, but the consensus was that social media and open news outlets provided the best way of staying current. One warning that would resurface throughout the day was the risk to information sharing overclassification posed.
Afternoon sessions began with Doug Maughan (DHS S&T cyber lead) and his panel on successful models of public-private research collaboration. We covered these programs in Monday's issue, but briefly, the panelists agreed on the importance of having end-users set challenges and requirements. The three programs represented, S2ERC, TCIPG, and LOGIIC, noted that solutions evolved in one economic sector often have ready applicability to others. They also noted the role of DHS in overcoming regulatory barriers to cooperation.
Columbia's Salvatore Stolfo opened a discussion of transitioning federally funded university research to markets. He began with an anecdote--microbiologists say that bacteria devote 30% of their resources to securing themselves; thus germs are twice as committed to security as the Federal IT budget.
He and some of his colleagues described some of Columbia's work on "beaconizing" documents, placing them in locations where they can be exfiltrated, and then using the resultant beacons to gather attack telemetry. This approach he characterized as "data loss alerting": innocuous files flow out, and then report back. This kind of technology fills a gap in adversary intelligence necessary for threat-based as opposed to vulnerability-based security. Other Columbia research has produced virtual containers to isolate attacks and software tools to identity vulnerabilities and malware embedded in hardware devices.
Stolfo's reflections on technology transition focused on impediments to commercialization imposed by an academic culture that devalues short-term impact and academic legal practices that emphasize licensing patents. Treating university patent offices as a revenue source is the beginning of a misalignment between academic and entrepreneurial cultures. And, finally, successful transition necessarily involves people: the wetware must be transitioned along with the hardware and software.
After panels addressing security for the boardroom and hardware-enforced security for the "Internet of Everything", Dawn Meyerriecks, the CIA's Deputy Director for Science and Technology, delivered the closing keynote on technological innovation for intelligence and security. She began by noting technology's democratization, a long-term trend that places capabilities once limited to well-resourced nation-states into the hands of poorer states and non-state actors. It's easy to profile a target, and we face adversaries who are capable and determined.
The Intelligence Community is well served by two innovation engines, In-Q-Tel (the venture fund that wants technology, not IP) and IARPA (an analogue to DARPA that invests in analysis, secure operations, and smart collection). She outlined some particular programs, several of them involved with improved socio-cultural context for natural language processing and different modes of detecting and overcoming cognitive bias and groupthink.
Two points were striking; first, her characterization of large-scale data ingestion as "wildly impractical--it doesn't scale," and second, her interest in bringing automation to analysis, particularly in ways that would tend to reduce analytical errors. (And, finally, she lost no opportunity to point out how the Intelligence Community was delivering good value for taxpayer dollars.)
We'll conclude our coverage of SINET's innovation Summit in tomorrow's issue. In the meantime, please note that SINET's next event, SINET Showcase: THE SINET 16, will meet in Washington at the beginning of December. We mention it here because applications for recognition as one of the SINET 16 close next week, on August 15. Supported by the Department of Homeland Security, Science & Technology Directorate, the Showcase puts industry's most innovative global entrepreneurs in front of 350 sophisticated investors, buyers, and researchers from commercial and government markets.
We conclude our coverage of SINET's Innovation Summit with two interviews, one with Chertoff Group Principal Mark Weatherford, the other with Mach37's Managing Partner Rick Gordon.
Mark Weatherford on information-sharing and workforce development.
The CyberWire: How would you rate the ongoing effort to improve public-private information sharing?
Weatherford: I think the "effort" to improve information sharing has been heartfelt, but "success" has been harder to substantiate. One reason is that there are so many organizations playing in the sandbox, the private sector oftentimes doesn't know who the right organization they should be sharing with. Thinking narrowly about cyber security threat information sharing, you have US-CERT at DHS, the US Secret Service, the FBI, DOD, state fusion centers, local law enforcement, sector-specific Information Sharing and Analysis Centers (ISACs) and even many private sector organizations. It can be very confusing. I think the government has made a lot of progress in the past year or so, mostly in response to some of the cyber-related activity focused on the United States, but it's still a challenge and there's still some wariness on the part of the private sector. The President's recent Executive Order, and specifically the recently announced "incentives" initiative, could have a very positive impact on public-private cyber security information sharing.
The CyberWire: What obstacles do you think remain, and what ongoing efforts would you like to make people aware of?
Weatherford: TRUST. Trust continues to be the biggest obstacle. I read a blog by retired General Stanley McChrystal the other day where he talked about Trust. In it he said to invest early and often in relationships and trust will follow. That is a profound truism. The government needs to continue investing in relationships with the private sector, and not just from a "check the box, we talked to them" perspective but real, sincere relationships where the goal is to improve everyone's enterprise knowledge about cyber security risks. I think the ISACs are another area where the government could make some real, tangible improvements. The ISAC's were a result of Presidential Decision Directive 63 in 1998, which called for action within critical infrastructure companies. Unfortunately, there has never been much support from the government to create a consistent and repeatable model for what an ISAC looks like and how it operates. A privately operated non-profit ISAC organization funded (at least partially) by the government for each of the 16 critical infrastructure sectors would be hugely beneficial to the Nation and could serve as an aggregation point for critical cyber security information sharing.
The CyberWire: Building a "cutting-edge" cyber workforce is generally recognized as a challenge. What measures would you recommend we take, as an industry, to meet it?
Weatherford: Make the development of cybersecurity talent a National priority. It gets great lip service but most government organizations and private companies do very little to actually invest in growing talent, finding it easier to poach people from each other. So while I think a certain amount of workforce transition is healthy, too much exacerbates the problem because it means we are losing valuable institutional knowledge. It's short-sighted and doesn't prepare us for the future, which will eventually have serious economic consequences for the Nation. Companies should obviously be funding internal training for current staff, but more importantly they should be supporting external programs like the US Cyber Challenge, the Air Force Association's CyberPatriot Program, and others to help grow the next generation of cyber security professionals. I also think it makes sense to begin thinking about adding a cyber component to the national STEM program - the situation is becoming that dire. There are dozens of answers for how industry can help address this problem but it requires a laser focus and the time is now.
Rick Gordon with advice to early-stage cyber startups.
The CyberWire: So, how would you describe a business accelerator?
Gordon: We focus on very early-stage cyber companies. Through the CIT GAP Fund, we offer an initial investment of $25k to help cover an entrepreneur's expenses during our three-month program. During those three months, we work with the company to answer three critical questions tech start-ups can tend to overlook: 1) What business problem are they solving and is there an attractive market? 2) Is the problem being solved uniquely by them? and 3) Who would buy the product, and at what price? Once they get through the program, if certain milestones are met, the CIT GAP Fund will offer an additional $100k in additional investment.
The CyberWire: What do you try to get from a start-up's prospective customers?
Gordon: We look for unambiguous market validation--willingness to alpha test, beta test--and we also look for an interest in buying the product at a realistic price point. Taking market risk off the table for investors will be reflected in significantly increased valuations of our companies by the end of the program.
The CyberWire: Some incubators merely offer low rents or even free occupancy for surplus office space, and that kind of hoteling's clearly not what you're doing.
Gordon: Right. While we do provide them with operating space, our process is consultative, bespoke and intensively focused on creating value for the entrepreneur.
The CyberWire: Will you take an equity stake in the companies in your portfolio?
Gordon: We will--a 7% stake is our model.
The CyberWire: What would you like prospective cyber entrepreneurs to know?
Gordon: Since we're meeting on a university campus, and have just heard from panelists who know something about the challenges of transitioning technology from universities to markets, I'd like to expand on some themes they've already sounded. Developing an enterprise security product takes more investment capital than most of them think. In particular, we often have discussions with academic researchers who can be a little naïve about what it takes to deliver to market a product that is reliable, easy to use, and easy to deploy and upgrade. In general, they assume that R&D-oriented funding (SBIR grants for example) is adequate. The best they can expect from those sources is a working prototype, but that's not the same as an enterprise-ready product.
We see a variation of this with small consulting shops as well, where they see a need they think they can address with a product, but then elect to invest cash flow from services instead of raising adequate capital. This greatly lengthens their development process, and inevitably, they find they're not quick enough to market--someone's beaten them to it. Service-oriented businesses often fail to realize they are usually competing against time.
The CyberWire: Is cyber different from other technology sectors?
Gordon: In some ways it is. The cyber entrepreneurs usually aren't twenty-somethings writing mobile apps. There are some twenty-somethings, but they're not typical. Typical cyber technologists are older with significant domain expertise. However, with that age and experience come added responsibilities--family, financial commitments, and so on--that stereotypical twenty-somethings do not have. We have found these responsibilities often make it difficult for cyber technologists to take the leap into entrepreneurship and we are focused on making that leap easier.
The CyberWire: As you work with entrepreneurs and the venture capital community, how would you like to see their opinions and ways of doing business evolve?
Gordon: I'd hope to see VCs realize that it's not necessary to get cyber security start-ups in our area to relocate elsewhere. We see this too often as a condition of investment where VC's, on the West Coast for example, expect a company to pull up stakes and head for Silicon Valley. It's unnecessary, and counterproductive given the rich density of cyber security expertise that exists in the Virginia-Maryland-DC region. And, it's particularly difficult for entrepreneurs who are more mature and are already integrated into their communities.
We also hope to collaborate more with our colleagues in Maryland and DC in this regard. While we are a part of the Virginia Center for Innovative Technology, I don't view similar efforts in Maryland and DC as competitive. Sometimes I see a misguided parochialism between Maryland and Virginia, but it's my belief that developing the cyber economy in either state is mutually beneficial.
I'm hoping, by the way, that the SINET 16 event helps foster some of these changes.
Final notes on SINET's Innovation Summit.
Our thanks to Mssrs. Weatherford and Gordon for their time and their thoughtful remarks. We'd be remiss if we didn't pick up on the occasion they've given us to mention two worthwhile upcoming events. Cyber Maryland's Cyber Challenge, which will provide the rising cyber generation a chance to show its stuff, meets in Baltimore on October 8 and 9. And applications for recognition as one of the cyber innovation-leading SINET 16 close next week, on August 15.

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Growing up, my parent's had a wonderful group of friends. I have memories of picnics by a southern lake, roaring holiday soirees, dinner parties where the number of children matched the number of adults, and get-togethers that ran long into the night… Like I said, they were a wonderful group.
Looking back, as a young girl, I remember one of my mother's friends would always fix me a special pasta dinner, particularly around the holidays. I knew it only as "Patti's Pasta," and I requested it by name often. It included fettuccine, peas, bacon, and a cream sauce, and I loved it. So, when I came across this recipe for Fettuccine con Piselli e Prosciutto, I was instantly transported back to those memories. That is, perhaps, one of my favorite magical abilities food possesses; the ability to rekindle.
This rendition is a bit more elevated than Patti's version, but one that still holds the talent to transport.
In a large frying pan over medium-low heat, melt the butter with the olive oil. When the butter has melted and begins to sizzle, and the onion and saute until soft and translucent, 7-8 minutes. Add the peas, stir to coat thoroughly with the fat, and cook until just tender and no longer raw-tasting, about 7 minutes.
Stir in 1/2 teaspoon salt, a generous grinding of pepper, and the lemon zest and remove from the heat. Cover the sauce to keep warm and set aside.
Add the fettuccine to the boiling water and cook until al dente, about 12 minutes or according to the package instructions. Drain, reserving about 1/2 cup. Transfer the pasta to the pan with the sauce and toss gently to combine. Add a splash or two of the pasta-cooking water to loosen the sauce, if needed.
Add the ricotta and prosciutto and toss gently to mix. Finally, add the Parmigiano and toss gently again. Taste and adjust the seasoning. Divid among 4 shallow bowls and serve.
I loved how easy and straight forward this recipe was, and I loved the addition of the lemon zest. It gave this, otherwise heavy dish, a bright burst. In fact, I loved the addition of the lemon flavor so much that I squeezed the juice of 1/2 lemon over the pasta prior to the addition of the Parmigiano. In so doing, it loosened up the pasta and other ingredients quite nicely.
In addition, I love when a recipe teaches me something new in regards to technique. Prior to this recipe, when cooking pasta, I had always boiled the water, added the pasta, and then reduced the water to a medium-high heat. Because of this, I felt as if I was constantly baby-sitting the pasta so it didn't get too soft. This time, I boiled the water, added the pasta, and cooked the pasta while the water continued to boil (for 12 minutes), and the pasta came out to the perfect al dente.
Two things, and truthfully they were both on me.
1) Pay attention when a recipe calls for something to be "room-temperature," it is important. In my case, my ricotta was chilled which did not allow for it to spread smoothly when added to the peas, onions, prosciutto, and pasta. And thus, I was "forced" 😉 to add more in order to coat the pasta evenly.
2) I OVER estimated what I thought the salt content of this dish would be, and thus I under seasoned. Between the salted water, ricotta, and prosciutto, I assumed the salt content would be high and so I was light handed when using salt and pepper to taste. Do not do this, this is a dish that relies on its seasoning.


Texas first lady Cecilia Abbott visited the El Paso County Republican Party to encourage supporters of Gov. Greg Abbott's re-election bid.
Texas first lady Cecilia Abbott visited the El Paso County Republican Party on Tuesday to thank and encourage supporters of the governor's bid for re-election.
Abbott spoke briefly to about 60 members of the local GOP at an invitation-only gathering at the party offices on the West Side.
Cecilia Abbott pointed out that her husband, Gov. Greg Abbott, received more votes in the El Paso County primary this year than in 2014 but noted that the Democratic turnout also had increased.
"That's a big message that we need to always remember," Abbott said. "What it's going to take is those constant phone calls and knocks on the door to let people know to go out and vote."
The governor received 10,978 votes in this year's primary, compared with 8,369 in 2014, according to El Paso County election figures.
There were more than 47,000 total votes for the Democratic gubernatorial candidates this year in El Paso County, compared with 28,488 four years ago.
This year, 12,071 votes were cast in the Republican gubernatorial primary for all candidates, compared with 9,793 four years ago.
In the 2014 general election, Abbott received 37 percent of the vote in El Paso County, compared with 60 percent for Democrat Wendy Davis.
Cecilia Abbott, wearing a "Latinas for Abbott" shirt, spoke only for about two minutes before taking photos with supporters. She did not take questions from the audience or the news media.
"We couldn't do it without you," she told supporters. "We love you. I always ask everybody here to please keep him (Gov. Abbott) in your prayers and all of our leaders in your prayers."
Cecilia Abbott, who is a former principal of a Catholic school in Austin, is the first Hispanic first lady of Texas. Her grandparents were immigrants from Mexico.
El Paso Republicans said they were encouraged by the visit from the governor's wife.
"It just gives us a boost," Raúl Solis, 53, of Montana Vista, said after taking his photo with the state's first lady.
In the November general election, the governor will face the winner of the Democratic Party primary runoff between former Dallas County Sheriff Lupe Valdez and Andrew White, son of the late Gov. Mark White. The runoff is May 22.


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Q: External database MVC 5.2.2 membership I have been fighting for days with the new Google OAuth, and I believe I got it to work (removed and reinstalled owin), but now when I hit my site, I get:
SQLExpress database file auto-creation error:
...The connection string specifies a local Sql Server Express instance using a database location within the application's App_Data directory...
Indicating that it is trying to access a SQL Express db in the App_Data directory.  I want it to connect to my existing external SQL Server
I have created a connection strings (two now).
I have tried to changing the connection string passed into the base of ApplicationDbContext to my connection string:
public class ApplicationDbContext : IdentityDbContext<ApplicationUser>
{
    public ApplicationDbContext()
        : base("myconnection", throwIfV1Schema: false)
    {
    }

    public static ApplicationDbContext Create()
    {
        return new ApplicationDbContext();
    }
}

I tried both pointing to a straight connection string, and an entity string.  The entity string originally errored out about tables not being included, but now it is giving me the same error.
I have tried changing the web.config to:
<defaultConnectionFactory type="System.Data.Entity.Infrastructure.SqlConnectionFactory, EntityFramework">
  <parameters>
    <parameter value="[tried a connection string here as well]"/>
  </parameters>
</defaultConnectionFactory>
<providers>
  <provider invariantName="System.Data.SqlClient" type="System.Data.Entity.SqlServer.SqlProviderServices, EntityFramework.SqlServer" />
</providers>

I have read hints like a line in FilterConfig.cs (that references a function that doesn't seem to exist in EF 5):
filters.Add(new InitializeMembershipAttribute());

I am just getting started with EF 5 coming from ASP.NET - The basic concepts are no issue, the framework is great and flexible, but Membership issues have been a beyond frustrating experience (and tiring that I've been at it this long)!  I have created small sites in MVC without membership before...
Are there specific web.config entries that are missing, similar to those from the old school ASP.NET membership?
I am also using [Authorize(Roles = "a,b,etc")] - do I need to specify something specific for roles, or should the change to the identity class take care of it as well?

A: You need to add the connection string to your web.config.  The base name set in the DbContext must match the name in the web.config and IS case sensitive.
Remote db looks like first line and local db looks like the second line.
Like this:
<configuration>
    <configSections>
        <section name="entityFramework" type="System.Data.Entity.Internal.ConfigFile.EntityFrameworkSection, EntityFramework, Version=6.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089" requirePermission="false" />
    </configSections>
    <connectionStrings>
        <add name="DefaultConnection" connectionString="Data Source=0.0.0.0;Initial Catalog=DatabaseName;Persist Security Info=True;User ID=someuser;Password=somepass" providerName="System.Data.SqlClient" />
        <add name="mycontext" connectionString="Data Source=(localdb)\v11.0; Initial Catalog=mycontext-20150116012312; Integrated Security=True; MultipleActiveResultSets=True; AttachDbFilename=|DataDirectory|mycontext-20150116012312.mdf" providerName="System.Data.SqlClient" />
    </connectionStrings>

    ... more content here ...

</configuration>

Hope this helps!

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Nothocasis is a genus of moths in the family Geometridae described by Prout in 1936.

Species
Nothocasis bellaria (Leech, 1897)
Nothocasis sertata (Hübner, 1817)

References

Trichopterygini

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***What in the World?" Weekly Quiz -- Jun 24-30, 2019***
Iranian air defense forces shot down a U.S. Global Hawk unmanned reconnaissance aircraft on Thursday sparking the most serious level of confrontation between Tehran and Washington in the recent round of tensions. The shootdown occurred in THIS location.
Southern Persian Gulf
Strait of Hormuz
Over eastern Hormozgan Province of Iran
Bab el Mandeb Strait
President Trump said he ordered the military to abort an attack on Iran on Friday for THIS reason:
The target list did not include nuclear development sites.
Casualty estimates were out of proportion to the loss of an unmanned aircraft.
Russia warned against striking Iran.
The Pentagon could not guarantee the safety of all U.S. airmen involved in the strike.
President Trump commented on the confrontation with Iran said, "We're not going to have Iran have a nuclear weapon... when they agree to that, they're going to have a wealthy country." Concerning the goal of a rapprochement he said:
"Let's make Iran great again."
"I want to see more trade and investment with Tehran."
"Let's start doing some deals with the Iranian people."
"Iran has hundreds of miles of coastline suitable for fantastic real estate investment."
The White House pulled the plug on military strikes against Iranian targets on Friday in response to the shootdown of an unmanned American reconnaissance aircraft but was said to have carried out cyberattacks against THESE targets.
Iranian Revolutionary Guard rocket and missile control systems
Iranian electrical grid in the city of Bandar Abbas near the Strait of Hormuz
Iranian nuclear facilities in Arak and Parchin
Iranian Revolutionary Guard Navy communications network
President Trump's statement, "They're not going to have a nuclear weapon and when they agree to that they are going to have a wealthy country," undercut the hard-line positions of National Security Advisor John Bolton and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo who demanded more far-reaching, and potentially regime-changing, conditions summarized by THIS.
Secretary Pompeo's "12 conditions" speech last year.
Advisor Bolton's warning that Iran not mistake US "prudence and discretion for weakness."
Secretary Pompeo's joint communique with Saudi and UAE foreign ministers in Riyadh on Saturday.
The UN Security Council Resolution condemning Iranian attacks on international shipping.
Following days of demonstrations that brought upwards of two million protestors to the streets of Hong Kong, the government announced it would suspend controversial legislation that would have allowed extraditions to the People's Republic of China. Despite suspension of the legislation, protests continue and now demand the resignation of THIS Hong Kong Chief Executive.
Joshua Wong
This weekend, the Trump administration released the economic portion of its "Peace to Prosperity" plan, which will be unveiled at a conference next week and lay out steps for resolving THIS conflict.
Yemeni Civil War
ISIS insurgency in Iraq
As Mexico puts into effect a deal on undocumented immigration reached with the United States, the Mexican government has announced THIS action to help control the flow of migrants headed towards the US. In doing so, the Mexican government hopes to head off stiff tariffs that the Trump administration has threatened to put on imports, but Mexico appears to be struggling to implement this action.
Deployment of 6,000 National Guard agents to its southern border
Expansion of welfare measures for asylum-seekers
Creation of a new law enforcement agency to monitor each of its borders
Convening of a regional task force aimed at shrinking migration flows
Protest leaders in Sudan have accepted a proposal put forward by THIS mediating power to resolve the political crisis that has consumed the country in the months since President Omar al-Bashir was removed from power in April. The proposal, which would create a civilian-majority governing body, has not yet been accepted by the ruling Transitional Military Council (TMC).
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un welcomed THIS head of state to Pyongyang last week, pulling out all the stops for THIS leader's first visit to North Korea. Though little was released in terms of outcomes from the visit, many anticipate that its agenda may be relevant to the G-20 meetings beginning in Osaka on Friday.
Shinzo Abe, Prime Minister of Japan
Moon Jae-in, President of South Korea
Lee Nak-yeon, Prime Minister of South Korea
Xi Jinping, President of China
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We report a fungal pan-genome study involving Parastagonospora spp., including 21 isolates of the wheat (Triticum aestivum) pathogen Parastagonospora nodorum, 10 of the grass-infecting Parastagonospora avenae, and 2 of a closely related undefined sister species. We observed substantial variation in the distribution of polymorphisms across the pan-genome, including repeat-induced point mutations, diversifying selection and gene gains and losses.We also discovered chromosome-scale inter and intraspecific presence/absence variation of some sequences, suggesting the occurrence of one or more accessory chromosomes or regions that may play a role in host-pathogen interactions. The presence of known pathogenicity effector loci SnToxA, SnTox1, and SnTox3 varied substantially among isolates. Three P. nodorum isolates lacked functional versions for all three loci, whereas three P. avenae isolates carried one or both of the SnTox1 and SnTox3 genes, indicating previously unrecognized potential for discovering additional effectors in the P. nodorum-wheat pathosystem. We utilized the pangenomic comparative analysis to improve the prediction of pathogenicity effector candidates, recovering the three confirmed effectors among our top-ranked candidates. We propose applying this pan-genomic approach to identify the effector repertoire involved in other host-microbe interactions involving necrotrophic pathogens in the Pezizomycotina.
Syme, R. and Tan, K. and Rybak, K. and Friesen, T. and McDonald, B. and Oliver, R. and Hane, J. 2018. Pan-parastagonospora comparative genome analysis-effector prediction and genome evolution. Genome Biology and Evolution. 10 (9): pp. 2443-2457.


Right of appeal is only available for orders that the animal be sold at public auction. The statutory language does not extend this right to seizure orders.
The court held that the owner of livestock who placed them in the care of his tenant while he was on vacation for a month, but failed to provide his tenant with enough food for the livestock could be found guilty under the animal cruelty statute.
Sarah, Keeli, Ivy, Sheba, Darrell, Harper, Emma, Rain, Ulysses, Henry Melvyn Richardson, Stephany Harris, and Klaree Boose, plai In this case, plaintiffs are non-human primates and humans interested in their welfare. The primates were formerly part of a research program run at Ohio State University for cognition research (the OSU Chimpanzee Cognition Center). After funding ran out, OSU sold the chimpanzees to Primarily Primates Inc. ("PPI"), who held themselves out to be non-profit that acts a sanctuary for retiring animals. However, plaintiffs allege that the conditions in which the chimpanzees were housed were inadequate and proper care was not provided to the primates (several of the animals died in transit and at the facility). Plaintiffs sued for breach of contract or, in the alternative, a declaratory judgment that would transfer the animals to a new sanctuary because defendants' actions are unlawful under Texas laws. Plaintiffs also sought a temporary restraining order that would allow a team of independent caretakers and veterinarians to assess the current conditions at PPI and prevent them from accepting any new primates, among other things.
Smith v. State Defendant Jonas Smith was convicted of aggravated assault and appealed. He argued that the trial court (1) erred by denying his motion to suppress his warrantless arrest; (2) abused its discretion by failing to grant a mistrial after the Plaintiff referenced the Defendant's previous incarceration; and (3) abused its discretion by allowing a child witness to testify with the assistance of a service dog. The Court of Appeal of Texas, Houston (14th Dist.)., held that: 1. The police officer had probable cause to believe that the defendant committed an act of family violence, which justified his warrantless arrest; 2. any prejudice resulting from the Plaintiff's reference to Defendant's prior incarceration was cured by prompt jury instruction to disregard reference; 3. allowing the child witness to testify with the assistance of a service dog was not likely to prejudice the jury in evaluating the child's testimony; and 4.any error in allowing the witness to testify with the assistance of a service dog was harmless. The Court of Appeals reasoned that the defendant did not present any argument during the trial about the jury being prejudiced by the presence of the service dog. Therefore, there was nothing present for review at the appellate level. Also, the Defendant did not identify any harm from the use of a service dog. The Defendant's conviction was affirmed.
This Texas case represents the State's discretionary petition for review after the lower court and Waco Court of Appeals granted defendant's motion to suppress evidence. The evidence at issue involved the seizure of defendant's 13 dogs from his aunt's backyard property, which then led to his indictment on felony cruelty to animals. As to the first issue, this court found that defendant has a reasonable expectation of privacy in his aunt's backyard despite the fact he did not have an ownership interest. Secondly, the court found that the officers were not authorized by the plain view doctrine to make a warrantless entry into the backyard to seize the dogs. Finally, the court found that the community caretaking doctrine was not argued by the State at trial or at the court of appeals; thus, the State was barred from advancing that argument in this appeal.
Defendant was charged with a violation of Section 822.005(a)(2) of the Texas Health and Safety Code - the dog attack statute. The trial court dismissed the indictment stating that Section 822.005(a)(2) was unconstitutional because it fails to set forth any required culpable mental state. The Court of Appeals, however, found that the statute was constitutional because it does set forth a culpable mental state. "[B]oth the plain language of Sections 822.005(a)(2) and 822.042 impose upon the owner of a dangerous dog the duty to restrain or secure his or her animal."
The Supreme Court of Texas considers petitioner's appeal from the court of appeals' decision holding that a dog owner may recover intangible loss-of-companionship damages in the form of intrinsic or sentimental-value property damages. The facts underlying the action involved the improper euthanization of respondents' dog, Avery. They sued for Avery's "sentimental or intrinsic value" because the dog had little or no market value and was irreplaceable. The trial court found that Texas law barred such damages, and dismissed the suit with prejudice. The Court of Appeals of Texas became the first court to hold that a dog owner may recover intangible loss-of-companionship damages in the form of intrinsic or sentimental-value property damages. The Supreme Court reverses that decision here, ruling that dogs are ordinary property, with damages limited to market value, and noneconomic damages based in relational attachment are not permitted.
Swilley v. State In the indictment, the State alleged Appellant intentionally, knowingly, or recklessly tortured or in a cruel manner killed or caused serious bodily injury to an animal by shooting a dog with a crossbow, a state jail felony. The dog in question was a stray, which fell within the statutory definition of an "animal." After a jury found Appellant guilty, the trial court assessed his punishment at two years' confinement in a state jail. On appeal, Appellant contended that the trial court erred by denying his motion for a mistrial after the jury heard evidence of an extraneous offense also involving cruelty to animals. Since the video that mentioned the extraneous offense was admitted without objection, the court held the Appellant waived the error and the trial court did not err by denying Appellant's motion for mistrial or by giving the instruction to disregard and overrule Appellant's first issue. Appellant further asserted the evidence was insufficient to support his conviction. The court, however, held the evidence was sufficient for a rational trier of fact to have found, beyond a reasonable doubt, that Appellant intentionally, knowingly, or recklessly tortured or in a cruel manner killed or caused serious bodily injury to an animal by shooting it with a crossbow. The trial court's judgment was therefore affirmed.


Guilford House Plan - Quaint…Timeless…Classic… all of these so accurately describe the charm that the Guilford exudes. From the cheery dormers, to the comfy front porch, to the board and batten shutters, this design stepped off the streets of yesteryear. Inside, the master suite features a wall of windows with views to the backyard. Two additional bedrooms share a divided bath. Decorative columns surround the dining room, enhancing the space without impeding it. An optional second floor adds 519 square feet to this design, adding an additional bedroom, bathroom and bonus area that can be used as guest quarters, a playroom, media room or home office.


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A 24-year-old man has been charged with outraging public decency, following a British Transport Police (BTP) appeal regarding an incident on a train in May.
Nadir Bugtti, of Welbourne, Werrington, Peterborough, was charged on Friday, 3 July, and bailed to appear at Peterborough Magistrates' Court on Friday, 31 July.
The BTP public appeal for information was issued on 12 June, along with an image. An update was issued, when Bugtti was arrested, on 17 June.


Multifunctional design enables organisations to cope with continuous change, as discussed in our article exploring agile working. You may think that space saving and multipurpose furniture is a new concept, but it is not – a brief Google search found pioneering designs such as a piano that folded in to a bed can be dated back to 1885. The advances of technology mean that we expect more from our gadgets, our cars, our homes. Combine that with the instant gratification need of having everything immediately, and you notice that people are craving the swiss-army knife all in one approach to their furniture.
Ruetemple designed the Cube, a transformative and wheeled structure that provides one- or two-bedrom accommodation, three sofas, wall and under-bed shelving storage as well as distinct wall dividers. Inspired by Japanese architecture, Russian-born Ruetemple Studio always focus on flexible design that encourages multi-space usage. The Cube offers a minimalist aesthetic with maximum functionality, taking up only 33 square metres. When designing spaces, Ruetemple have focused on creating an openness that appears in both the furniture and architecture they construct.
Noon Studio have devised a build your own stool-table-shelf combo out of steel and Ash wood. Influenced by "traditional English craftsmanship and Provencal rawness", each product has been designed and produced with the philosophy of using honest materials, simplicity of execution and a new approach on typologies. The designers claim that the precision of assembly allows the stool to hold its component perfectly tight in place. Whether it's a coffee table, side table, singular stool, long bench, room divider or shelving unit, the stool provides endless options.
Considering it's been estimated that there will be 11 billion people by 2100, space-saving solutions and multifunctional furniture will be a key design trend. As it evolves in the workplace, Workagile's products are designed to evolve with it. More about our products can be found here or check out further design inspiration found in Jacada Travel's earthy palette, or The White Company's elegant and uncomplicated interiors in their new London headquarters.


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About aventure magazine
Aventure, the quarterly magazine of Jain University brings together a cornucopia of articles from all walks of life. It combines the vibrant cultural and academic life at Jain University with well crafted, engaging and entertaining features. Aventure stands for enterprise a befitting tribute to the traditions of innovations and novel undertakings at Jain University.
Aventure was launched in January 2009. The magazine soon became an expression of a number of activities that the students and academic fraternity of Jain University engage in throughout the year. Aventure also brings to its readers a cornucopia of select choices when it comes to features. There are several sections devoted to evocative, witty and informative features.
The magazine is so structured as to provide a comprehensive review of different campuses of Jain University with a section devoted to news and events. Articles in this section focus on events from various campuses. It also brings forth the latest trends in the world of education, experiences of people, current issues, latest career options, travelogues, commentaries and books. Any literary foray cannot survive in vacuum. It requires readers who stimulate debates, question practices, appreciate and offer invaluable suggestions. A special section in Aventure is dedicated to our readers and their feedbacks.
With a multi-dimensional approach touching on different aspects of life, the magazine caters to a wide readership and their interests. Flipping through Aventure, it is quite discernable that the magazine holds together several microcosms blending together to create a universe.


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MLB All-Star Curtis Granderson to reflect on career, giving back to the community
Curtis Granderson. Photo: Coleture Group
Curtis Granderson, Major League Baseball veteran outfielder, philanthropist, and alumnus of the University of Illinois at Chicago (B.S. '03), will share his insights about leadership on and off the field, discuss his commitment to giving back and answer audience questions. Granderson's appearance is part of the UIC Business Alumni Network's Alumni Leadership Series.
Thursday, Nov. 21
Metropolitan Club
Granderson is committed to utilizing his platform as a professional baseball player to help improve the lives of children and families across the country. Over the past 16 years, he has introduced the game of baseball to more than 1 million youngsters in underserved communities through his organization, the Grand Kids Foundation; supplied 30 million meals to families in need; brought fitness activities to dozens of cities, and developed a multimillion-dollar, state-of-the-art sports complex on the UIC campus that serves more than 10,000 kids annually.
Granderson is a three-time All-Star, four-time Marvin Miller Man of the Year, and winner of the Silver Slugger and Roberto Clemente awards.
For tickets and to RSVP, click here: http://bit.ly/35mLFUt
Media interested in attending the event are requested to RSVP by emailing jboynes@uic.edu. Credentialed media will be asked to present credentials upon arrival at the Metropolitan Club.
Jeffron Boynés
jboynes@uic.edu


Collagen filler is a naturally-derived filler product - previous collagens were from bovine sources (cows), human sources (cadaver) and porcine sources (pig tendon). Not very glamorous sources, but collagen is a protein and thus far science has not been able to come up with a synthetic one for use in the skin.
Because they are non synthetic, they tend to break down very quickly. Most patients saw a 3 month duration - some a little more and others a little less. Recently Evolence was on the market for a brief period and was to have lasted 6 months or longer, but the economy hit it too hard to stay so for now, we only have the bovine and human collagens.


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Q: Broken links in only single HTML div tag; other links work Why am I getting broken links in just a single section of my website, hosted on Github pages? The webiste is lanl.github.io/LaGriT . The relevant part of the HTML layout file looks like this:

    Home

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                      <input id="searchString" name="searchString"
                             placeholder="Enter text here" type="text">
                      <input id="searchButton" name="googleSearchName" type="button" value="Search">
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The corresponding part of the CSS file looks like this:
#top_right {
    position:absolute;
    top:20px; right:200px;
    width:400px;
    background:#000;
}

A: If you use your browser's developer tools and inspect some elements, you will see that the
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DOM elements are stacked based on the order they appear in the page source; later elements are put on top of earlier elements.
The easiest way to fix that is to set a higher z-index on top_right.
#top_right {
    position: absolute;
    top: 20px;
    right: 200px;
    width: 400px;
    background: #000;
    z-index: 100;     /*  <-----  */
}

You could also change the order of the elements declaration, for example put your top_right div at the end of the HTML source so it is on the top of the z-index stack. Since you're using position: absolute it shouldn't matter where it appears in the source, but it will change the tab order, so that may not be desireable.


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} from './position-observer-worker';
import {Services} from '../../services';
import {debounce} from '../../utils/rate-limit';
import {dev} from '../../log';
import {registerServiceBuilderForDoc} from '../../service';

/** @const @private */
const TAG = 'POSITION_OBSERVER';

/** @const @private */
const SCROLL_TIMEOUT = 500;

export class PositionObserver {
  /**
   * @param {!../ampdoc-impl.AmpDoc} ampdoc
   */
  constructor(ampdoc) {
    /** @private {!../ampdoc-impl.AmpDoc} */
    this.ampdoc_ = ampdoc;

    /** @private {!Window} */
    this.win_ = ampdoc.win;

    /** @private {!Array<!PositionObserverWorker>} */
    this.workers_ = [];

    /** @private {!../vsync-impl.Vsync} */
    this.vsync_ = Services.vsyncFor(this.win_);

    /** @private {!../viewport/viewport-impl.Viewport} */
    this.viewport_ = Services.viewportForDoc(ampdoc);

    /** @private {Array<function()>} */
    this.unlisteners_ = [];

    /** @private {boolean} */
    this.inScroll_ = false;

    /** @private {boolean} */
    this.measure_ = false;

    /** @private {boolean} */
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    /** @private {function()} */
    this.boundStopScroll_ = debounce(this.win_, () => {
      this.inScroll_ = false;
    }, SCROLL_TIMEOUT);
  }

  /**
   * @param {!Element} element
   * @param {!PositionObserverFidelity} fidelity
   * @param {function(?./position-observer-worker.PositionInViewportEntryDef)} handler
   * @return {!UnlistenDef}
   */
  observe(element, fidelity, handler) {
    const worker =
        new PositionObserverWorker(this.ampdoc_, element, fidelity, handler);

    this.workers_.push(worker);

    if (!this.callbackStarted_) {
      this.startCallback_();
    }

    worker.update();

    return () => {
      for (let i = 0; i < this.workers_.length; i++) {
        if (this.workers_[i] == worker) {
          this.removeWorker_(i);
          return;
        }
      }
    };
  }

  /**
   * @param {!Element} element
   */
  unobserve(element) {
    for (let i = 0; i < this.workers_.length; i++) {
      if (this.workers_[i].element == element) {
        this.removeWorker_(i);
        return;
      }
    }
    dev().error(TAG, 'cannot unobserve unobserved element');
  }

  /**
   * @param {number} index
   * @private
   */
  removeWorker_(index) {
    this.workers_.splice(index, 1);
    if (this.workers_.length == 0) {
      this.stopCallback_();
    }
  }

  /**
   * Callback function that gets called when start to observe the first element.
   * @private
   */
  startCallback_() {
    this.callbackStarted_ = true;
    // listen to viewport scroll event to help pass determine if need to
    this.unlisteners_.push(this.viewport_.onScroll(() => {
      this.onScrollHandler_();
    }));
    this.unlisteners_.push(this.viewport_.onResize(() => {
      this.onResizeHandler_();
    }));
  }

  /**
   * Callback function that gets called when unobserve last observed element.
   * @private
   */
  stopCallback_() {
    this.callbackStarted_ = false;
    while (this.unlisteners_.length) {
      const unlisten = this.unlisteners_.pop();
      unlisten();
    }
  }

  /**
   * This should always be called in vsync.
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    for (let i = 0; i < this.workers_.length; i++) {
      const worker = this.workers_[i];
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    // mostly for in-a-box host, since most DOM mutations are constraint to the
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    this.updateAllEntries();
    this.measure_ = true;
    if (!this.inScroll_) {
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      return;
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    this.vsync_.measure(() => {
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}

/**
 * @param {!../ampdoc-impl.AmpDoc} ampdoc
 */
export function installPositionObserverServiceForDoc(ampdoc) {
  registerServiceBuilderForDoc(ampdoc, 'position-observer', PositionObserver);
}

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Why are there fatigued truck drivers on the roadways?
On behalf of Daniel Crandall of The Law Offices of Daniel L. Crandall & Associates posted in Truck Accidents on Thursday, October 4, 2018.
Virginians have done it at one point or another: push through a task when they are tired. The days get busy and our schedules get overloaded, but there is a difference between working on a school assignment or a work project late into the night and driving through the night to make a delivery or shipment. Unfortunately, truck drivers are often tasked with traveling long distances, meaning they drive long hours. This creates a great concern for fatigued driving. Although federal trucking regulations address this, they unfortunately do not prevent it from occurring and causing truck crashes.
Why are there fatigued truck drivers on the roadways? When victims are harmed in a truck crash, he or she may not automatically think, "how did this happen?"
During investigations, authorities consider a wide variety of causes, one being fatigued driving. Because truck drivers work long hours, it is likely that they end up behind the wheel tired. Thus, it is important to assess whether a fatigued truck driver was the cause the truck accident.
It was found that the average truck driver only gets 5 hours of sleep. This is 2 to 4 hours less than what they need. Often, truck drivers are expected to drive long hours, not allowing them to take their necessary breaks. Finally, truck drivers are compelled to speed up or driver long to obtain benefits for making a delivery sooner.
Victims of a truck accident should understand their rights and options. This means exploring the cause and whether negligence is to blame. This could help with the collection of compensation for losses and damages suffered because of a truck crash.


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An Interview With the Realtor Selling the Suburban House With the Sex Room in the Basement
"I'm like, 'Listen, it's a lifestyle.' ''
By Dan Kois
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When I first called Melissa Leonard, she asked, "Can you call me back? I have Action News here with their cameras and everything." Leonard is the Philadelphia-area Coldwell Banker Realtor whose listing, "50 Shades of Maple Glen"—a lovely brick colonial with five bedrooms, an updated kitchen, and a "private adult sexual oasis" in the basement—has been viewed more than 500,000 times on Redfin since it went live less than 24 hours ago. Why did she, a real estate professional, decide to stage the house with BDSM gear and a sex swing? Does a viral listing sell more quickly? I talked to Leonard by phone from the eye of the storm, as she drove back to her office—though our call was interrupted by angry neighbors.
Slate: How was your TV appearance? It sounds crazy right now.
Melissa Leonard: It has been. I did ABC, I did Fox, every magazine's calling me. And now I'm hearing sites are taking the basement photos down.
Who's taking them down?
I don't even know if they can do that. We uploaded to a main BrightMLS site, and it goes to all the real estate sites from that, and they took it down. Zillow kept it, Redfin took it down, but now they're down everywhere because BrightMLS seems to have taken them down. I have to look into it. But I own those photos.
So you can keep them on your site.
I had Philly police here, and all the TV channels.
Hold on, now the neighbors are flagging me down. They're really upset. You probably want to listen to this. Hello, sir.
Male voice: Are you the real estate agent?
Leonard: Yes. I'm Melissa.
Male voice: We're very upset about this whole thing. We do not want something like this in our neighborhood. Take that off the internet. That's disgusting. We don't want that.
Leonard: Sir, if the owner wants those photos on the listing, that's their choice!
Male voice: You've got to take them down! We live next door and we don't want this!
Leonard: You're angry at me but you're really angry at the owner. I'm trying to sell the house as fast as possible.
Male voice: People are all over the neighborhood and they're all saying they're here to see the sex house!
Leonard: Well, they're just here because of the news trucks. They want to see what's going on.
Female voice: Look, I know for a fact people are not here to buy the house. They just want to see the room.
Leonard: We're not showing to anyone without a Realtor. We're not letting people just walk in.
Male voice: Who is your supervisor?
Leonard [to Slate]: Can I call you back?
[Fifteen minutes later.]
That seemed intense!
He's cool now. I told him, "Look, I'm just selling the house as quickly as possible."
People seem really worked up.
I think they're really angry! Like, "They're whipping people sexually around in there!" I'm like, "Listen, it's a lifestyle."
Did you get the sense they had any idea what was going on in that house?
I think they were in the dark. I think they didn't know anything until this morning. He's like, "Did you know that house is on Airbnb?" I'm like, yes, duh.
How did you react when you first saw this house?
The seller called me, saying, "I need a Realtor who's outside the box, who can work with something different." I said, "OK, I'm driving, but send me the photos and I'll look when I get home." He's like, "I need you to pull over." So I pull over and I looked at them and I laughed. I laughed! I called him and I'm like, "You've got this whole little sexual oasis." So then I went over and looked at the house. I had a straight face. I said, "I can sell this. We can sell this." And here we are! We're on TV, magazines are calling, you're calling me.
It's a beautiful house in a great neighborhood, a great school district. Someone called me for a client in New York and said they want the house but they don't want the sex stuff. I said, "You don't have to have it! You can take it out!"
A beautiful house. Melissa Leonard/Coldwell Banker
In my experience, Realtors tell clients to depersonalize their houses when staging. Take down family photos, whatever. Why did you decide to stage this house and include this stuff?
He wanted to keep it because of the Airbnb business. He told me it had to be what it is. I'm cool with it. That's why people are so interested in the house now.
Do viral listings sell faster? Obviously it helps to get more eyes on it, but is there a risk that the house becomes notorious? Will people not like it because it went viral?
I think that people are gonna like that it went viral. It's gonna bring more people to the house and it's going to sell faster.
You don't think there's a downside.
No, there's no downside.
The slideshow really tells a story. When you were creating the listing, how did you decide where in the slideshow to put the basement photos?
So I put the whole house up, like 25 photos including every room, the yard. I kept the basement at the end. After the basement there's just duplicate photos. I wanted to grab their attention for the whole house, first.
So the selling point is the house, not the sex room.
Yeah, I was trying to do that so we would sell the house for what it is. It's a beautiful house! This is just what makes it different.
Did you hope that the listing might go viral?
I thought it had potential. I contacted Philadelphia magazine last week and told them about it, but I didn't call anyone else. And then today, we had local news stations calling first thing in the morning, and now magazines are calling me. So you know what: It went viral.
There's not that much equipment hanging on the wall in the basement. Looks like one whip, one flail. Does the basement have ample closet space for bondage equipment?
Good closets in the basement?
It … it has a lot of stuff going on.
Have you read Fifty Shades of Grey? Seen the movies? Did you know this was a whole thing?
I saw the first two of the movies. I only read maybe a couple of chapters of the book. That was the first thing that came to mind when I saw it: This guy has Fifty Shades of Grey going on his basement!* But I know that it's a way of life for people. Philly has clubs for this. I go out, I know about nightlife, they nickname me Philly Socialite on Instagram, so I go out all the time. Nothing bothered me.
Maple Glen seems pretty staid. What advice would you give to whoever buys this house to make peace with neighbors who are now up in arms?
It'll be fine! It probably will go to a suburban family, because it's such a great neighborhood! And whoever buys it, whether that person's into that or not, they'll never know. They never knew until now, until they saw the listing! You know, they have to kind of mind their own business. Maybe you're not into it, but they're not hurting you. Nothing's out in the open.
Have you taken people in to tour the house already?
I have not taken in anybody by myself. But a few Realtors took people in this morning. But I'm gonna make sure they're qualified before I take someone. If you're going to the trouble to go through a Realtor, I'm sure that Realtor is not gonna waste their time if you're not serious.
Melissa, there was one thing in the house that really, truly, shocked me. The island sinks in the master bath. What is the story there? Do people like that?
Ewww, what is that? Melissa Leonard/Coldwell Banker
The dual vanity? Yeah, usually they're next to each other or across. This is a little unusual. But it's so spacious in the master bath, with the soaking tub and the private toilet. It really makes sense for the space.
So you'd buy a house with … an island vanity?
Correction, Feb. 8, 2019: This piece originally misspelled the title of the book Fifty Shades of Grey.
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You can now save your Overwatch highlights
By Bo Moore 2017-06-22T18:04:14.172Z
Highlights will now last 24 hours, and you can capture your own.
Blizzard's Jeff Kaplan has revealed that Overwatch's highlight system is being overhauled—a feature that has been frequently requested since the game's launch. Until now, Overwatch would automatically save a handful of highlights—awesome moments and plays of the game from your last five matches—but those clips would be lost if you logged out of the game.
"Since the day we launched, you were asking for a way to save highlights," Kaplan said in a developer update video.
The game will still continue to collect your highlights, and suggest top highlights for you. Under the new system, those top five highlights will always persist for the next 24 hours. More importantly, there's now a "recently captured" section of the Highlights theater that will collect clips you've manually recorded.
After a cool moment happens in-game, you can press a capture key and the game will bookmark and remember that bit of gameplay, saving it into a 12 second clip. Then, from the highlights menu, you can save and export those moments in a variety of ways. Up to 32 "recently captured" highlights will be saved.
When you use the highlights feature on PC, it'll give you the option to record the video in many different ways. For example: if you're playing on a low-end system that can't handle high-end graphics settings, you can still output the video at 4K 60fps. Obviously, the higher-res settings you choose, the larger the file will be—it's all customizable.
The new highlights feature is being tested on the Overwatch PTR, and will likely be implemented into the live game in the next few weeks.


زارعی, عظیم اله, شعبانی, عاطفه. (1395). تاثیر گرایش کارآفرینانه برعملکرد کسب و کار منتج از ظرفیت جذب و آشفتگی بازار. کاوشهای مدیریت بازرگانی, 8(15), 109-131.
عظیم اله زارعی; عاطفه شعبانی. "تاثیر گرایش کارآفرینانه برعملکرد کسب و کار منتج از ظرفیت جذب و آشفتگی بازار". کاوشهای مدیریت بازرگانی, 8, 15, 1395, 109-131.
زارعی, عظیم اله, شعبانی, عاطفه. (1395). 'تاثیر گرایش کارآفرینانه برعملکرد کسب و کار منتج از ظرفیت جذب و آشفتگی بازار', کاوشهای مدیریت بازرگانی, 8(15), pp. 109-131.
زارعی, عظیم اله, شعبانی, عاطفه. تاثیر گرایش کارآفرینانه برعملکرد کسب و کار منتج از ظرفیت جذب و آشفتگی بازار. کاوشهای مدیریت بازرگانی, 1395; 8(15): 109-131.
در عصر حاضر، کارآفرینی در سطح سازمانی و گرایش کارآفرینانه در سطح فردی می‌تواند به‌عنوان مزیت رقابتی عصر جدید تلقی شود. پژوهش حاضر با هدف بررسی تأثیر گرایش کارآفرینانه بر عملکرد سازمانی در محیط آشفته شرکتهای کوچک و متوسط صورت گرفته است. این پژوهش بر مبنای هدف از نوع کاربردی، از حیث روش به دست آوردن داده‌ها از نوع توصیفی همبستگی و از نظر نوع داده‌های گردآوری‌شده که به‌وسیله پرسشنامه به‌دست‌آمده‌اند، از نوع کمی است. برای سنجش ابعاد عملکرد از پرسشنامه استاندارد ورهیز و مورگان، گرایش کارآفرینانه از پرسشنامه استاندارد کوین و اسلوین، ظرفیت جذب، پرسشنامه استاندارد جانسن و آشفتگی بازار از پرسشنامه استاندارد جاووسکی و کوهلی استفاده شد. جامعه آماری تحقیق، از مدیران ارشد کسب و کارهای کوچک و متوسط عضو پایگاه اطلاع‌رسانی صنایع کوچک و متوسط انتخاب شد. تحلیل دادههای گردآوری‌شده با استفاده از مدل‌یابی معادلات ساختاری نشان داد که ظرفیت جذب رابطه بین عملکرد و گرایش کارآفرینانه را در بازار آشفته تقویت می‌کند. یافته‌های این پژوهش می‌تواند به مدیران و تحلیلگران شرکت‌ها در شناسایی شرایط بازار و عوامل تأثیرگذار بر عملکرد شرکت‌هایشان کمک کند.
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Where to do a Stairway Workout in San Francisco
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San Francisco is a city made urban mountain training. It's laughably hilly in spots, making it the perfect playground for hill repeats with a heavy pack. And San Francisco has the added bonus of having hundreds of colorful, interesting, and historical public stairways to climb. You could incorporate a different stairway into your workout for years and not get bored.
If you have a big backpacking trip later this summer, a mountain trail race to train for, or just want a free leg-burning workout in the city, here are three stairways to climb from Stairway Walks in San Francisco by Mary Burk with Adah Bakalinsky.
Bernal Heights East
Bernal Heights sits high above a maze of major thorough-fares: Alemany, Mission, and Cesar Chavez Streets; US 101; and I-280. It is part of what was once the Rancho de las Salinas y Potrero Nuevo (the Salinas ranch and pasture), granted to Jose Cornelio de Bernal in 1839 by the Mexican government. In the 1860s, the rancho (one league square, approximately 4,000 acres) was subdivided, and Vitus Wackenreuder made a survey of Bernal Heights. Wackenreuder plotted his streets narrow and his lots small—23 by 76 feet. Most of them do not meet today's city minimum size specifications. The east slope exceeds a 45% grade in many places, and its geological composition has hazardous landslide potential.
Along with improved streets and water lines, the area now has, as of this latest writing, 50-plus stairways, with many of them constructed in the unused rights-of-way and on hills too steep to construct a street. The east slope is now one grand forest of stairway trails to explore.
Noe Valley is a little town inside a little town. It's an insulated little valley, a sheltered neighborhood, surrounded by low hills. Noe Valley is rather quaint too, as many longtime residents still claim, and the same is said by others who have moved away, lamenting. The enclave helped stop freeway sprawl in San Francisco, sometimes referred to in planning maps as the Southern Corridor, never to be built over the hills to West Portal. That plan for a freeway was stopped, and it let a neighborhood continue to thrive.
The walk itself features the thriving Noe Valley neighborhood's main thoroughfare. Also featured is a walk up one of the city's steepest streets, grade recorded at 32%, with a stairway built into the sidewalk. You can traverse the terrain much as the early settlers did, from bluff to bluff, with a nice walk down older residential streets that still remain quiet, save the noise of a far-off car. Victorians restored or retained here are definitely picturesque. Walk highlights include six stairways to keep you skipping, two open space areas inviting your leisurely visit, and views worth the walkabout in a place once known as Horner's Corner.
Golden Gate Park – The East Side Route
Discovering how big Golden Gate Park really is takes days of exploring. And it's worth it. The park has something for everyone: reflection, adventure, and so much beauty, both natural and man-made. Modeled after New York's Central Park, Golden Gate Park was designed by William Hammond Hall, who was asked to create the park by John McLaren in 1871.
The park is quite large at 1,017 acres, and that is partly why this walk is named the East Side Route. Golden Gate Park west of 19th Avenue is also very nice but has much more of a slowly sloping downward angle out to the Pacific Ocean. Instead, this walk keeps you east of 19th Avenue and takes you along a most pleasurable circuitous route through some of the best attractions Golden Gate Park has to offer. Walk highlights include multiple stairways, a possible hint of corpse flower, two waterfalls, and a Celtic cross; I can even promise you a rose garden. Allons-y!
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Every performance tells a story.
The characters belonging to the world of fiction become credible reality for the spectator thanks to the actor's technique.
In Traces in the Snow the technique itself becomes the protagonist. The actress carries on a dialogue with the secrets which precede and follow the building of a character and the creation of a performance.


"What's the purpose of your visit?" is a common question to get asked at immigration. "Who do you main?" is not.
Right after the game went on sale, the Internet's greatest minds went to work unlocking its dark secrets.