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The above process is one of the most important steps mainly because of the reasons mentioned below;(a) It helps the user to navigate through the web page easily.(b) The web makes an emotional impact on users, thus impacting the objectives of the business.(c) The stage is all set for the testing of the web and to find out if it has been designed in the way desired by the users.
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I seem to have skipped last year, but otherwise I have been to the DFN Workshop regularly. While I had a publication at this venue before, it's only this year that I got to have a the conference.
I cannot comment on the other talks so much, because I could not attend too many But our talk (slides) was well visited and I think people appreciated the presentation being a bit lighter than the previous one about the upcoming GDPR.
I talked about PrivacyScore.org and how we've measured German universities. The paper is here. Our results were mixed. As for TLS deployment, with a lot of imagination we can see a line dividing Germany. The West seems to have fewer problems with their TLS deployment than the East. The more red an area is, the worse its TLS support is. That ranges from not offering TLS at all to having an invalid certificate or using broken parameters.
As for tracking its users we had the hypothesis that privately run institutions have a higher interest in tracking its users than publicly run institutions. The following graphic reflects the geographic distribution of trackers on German university's Web sites.
That hypothesis can be confirmed by looking at the PrivacyScore list that discriminates those institutions.
We found data that was very likely not meant to be there, such as database dumps or Git repositories of the Web site's code (including passwords for their staging environments, etc.). We tried to report these issues to the Web site operators, but it was difficult to get hold of the responsible people. For the 21 leaks we found I have 93 emails in my mailbox. Ideally, the 21 I sent off were enough. But even sending those emails is hard, because people don't respect RFC 2142 and have a security@ address. Eventually, we made the Internet a tiny bit more secure by having those Website operators remove the leaks from their Web site, but there are still some pages which have (supposedly) unwanted information such as their visitors' IP addresses online. The graph below shows that most of the operators who reacted did so in the first few days. So management of security incidents seems to be an area of improvement.
I hope to be able to return next year, if only for the catering Then, I better attend some more talks and chat with the other guests.
As in the last few years, the DFN Workshop happened in Hamburg, Germany.
The conference was keynoted by Steven Le Blond who talked about targeted attacks, e.g. against dissidents. He mentioned that he already presented the content at the USENIX security conference which some people think is very excellent. He first showed how he used Skype to look up IP addresses of his boss and how similarly targeted attacks were executed in the past. Think Stuxnet. His main focus were attacks on NGOs though. He focussed on an attacker sending malicious emails to the victim.
In order to find out what attack vectors were used, they contacted over 100 NGOs to ask whether they were attacked. Two NGOs, which are affiliated with the Chinese WUC, which represents the Uyghur minority, received 1500 malicious emails, out of which 1100 were carrying malware. He showed examples of those emails and some of them were indeed very targeted. They contained a personalised message with enough context to look genuine. However, the mail also had a malicious DOC file attached. Interestingly enough though, the infrastructure used by the attacker for the targeted attacks was re-used for several victims. You could have expected the attacker to have their infrastructure separated for the various victims, especially when carrying out targeted attacks.
They also investigated how quickly the attacker exploited publicly known vulnerabilities. They measured the time of the malicious email sent minus the release date of the vulnerability. They found that some of the attacks were launched on day 0, meaning that as soon as a vulnerability was publicly disclosed, an NGO was attacked with a relevant exploit. Maybe interestingly, they did not find any 0-day exploits launched. They also measured how the security precautions taken by Adobe for their Acrobat Reader and Microsoft for their Office product (think sandboxing) affected the frequency of attacks. It turned out that it does help to make your software more secure!
To defend against targeted attacks based on spoofed emails he proposed to detect whether the writing style of an email corresponds to that of previously seen emails of the presumed contact. In fact, their research shows that they are able to tell whether the writing style matches that of previous emails with very high probability.
The following talk assessed end-to-end email solutions. It was interesting, because they created a taxonomy for 36 existing projects and assessed qualities such as their compatibility, the trust-model used, or the platform it runs on.
The 36 solutions they identified were (don't hold your breath, wall of links coming): Neomailbox, Countermail, salusafe, Tutanota, Shazzlemail, Safe-Mail, Enlocked, Lockbin, virtru, APG, gpg4o, gpg4win, Enigmail, Jumble Mail, opaqueMail, Scramble.io, whiteout.io, Mailpile, Bitmail, Mailvelope, pEp, openKeychain, Shwyz, Lavaboom, ProtonMail, StartMail, PrivateSky, Lavabit, FreedomBox, Parley, Mega, Dark Mail, opencom, okTurtles, End-to-End, kinko.me, and LEAP (Bitmask).
Many of them could be discarded right away, because they were not production ready. The list could be further reduced by discarding solutions which do not use open standards such as OpenPGP, but rather proprietary message formats. After applying more filters, such as that the private key must not leave the realm of the user, the list could be condensed to seven projects. Those were: APG, Enigmail, gpg4o, Mailvelope, pEp, Scramble.io, and whiteout.io.
Interestingly, the latter two were not compatible with the rest. The speakers attributed that to the use of GPG/MIME vs. GPG/Inline and they favoured the latter. I don't think it's a good idea though. The authors attest pEp a lot of potential and they seem to have indeed interesting ideas. For example, they offer to sign another person's key by reading "safe words" over a secure channel. While this is not a silver bullet to the keysigning problem, it appears to be much easier to use.
As we are on keysigning. I have placed an article in the conference proceedings. It's about GNOME Keysign. The paper's title is "Welcome to the 2000s: Enabling casual two-party key signing" which I think reflects in what era the current OpenPGP infrastructure is stuck. The mindsets of the people involved are still a bit left in the old days where dealing with computation machines was a thing for those with long and white beards. The target group of users for secure communication protocols has inevitably grown much larger than it used to be. While this sounds trivial, the interface to GnuPG has not significantly changed since. It also still makes it hard for others to build higher level tools by making bad default decisions, demanding to be in control of "trust" decisions, and by requiring certain environmental conditions (i.e. the filesystem to be used). GnuPG is not a mere library. It seems it understands itself as a complete crypto suite. Anyway, in the paper, I explained how I think contemporary keysigning protocols work, why it's not a good thing, and how to make it better.
I propose to further decentralise OpenPGP by enabling people to have very small keysigning "parties". Currently, the setup cost of a keysigning party is very high. This is, amongst other things, due to the fact that an organiser is required to collect all the keys, to compile a list of participant, and to make the keys available for download. Then, depending on the size of the event, the participants queue up for several hours. And to then tick checkboxes on pieces of paper. A gigantic secops fail. The smarter people sign every box they tick so that an attacker cannot "inject" a maliciously ticked box onto the paper sheet. That's not fun. The not so smart people don't even bring their sheets of paper or have them printed by a random person who happens to also be at the conference and, surprise, has access to a printer. What a gigantic attack surface. I think this is bad. Let's try to reduce that surface by reducing the size of the events.
In order to enable people to have very small events, i.e. two people keysigning, I propose to make most of the actions of a keysigning protocol automatic. So instead of requiring the user to manually compare the fingerprint, I propose that we securely transfer the key to be signed. You might rightfully ask, how to do that. My answer is that we've passed the 2000s and that we bring devices which are capable of opening a TCP connection on a link local network, e.g. WiFi. I know, this is not necessarily a given, but let's just assume for the sake of simplicity that one of our device we carry along can actually do WiFi (and that the network does not block connections between machines). This also prevents certain attacks that users of current Best Practises are still vulnerable against, namely using short key ids or leaking who you are communicating with.
Another step that needs to be automated is signing the key. It sounds easy, right? But it's not just a mere gpg --sign-key. The first problem is, that you don't want the key to be signed to pollute your keyring. That can be fixed by using --homedir or the GNUPGHOME environment variable. But then you also want to sign each UID on the key separately. And this is were things get a bit more interesting. Anyway, to make a long story short: We're not able to do that with plain GnuPG (as of now) in a sane manner. And I think it's a shame.
Lastly, sending the key needs to be as "zero-click" as possible, too. I propose to simply reuse the current MUA of the user. That sounds easy, but unfortunately, it's only 2015 and we cannot interact with, say, Evolution and Thunderbird in a standardised manner. There is xdg-email, but it has annoying bugs and doesn't seem to be maintained. I'm waiting for a sane Email-API. I mean, Email has been around for some time now, let's now try to actually use it. I hope to be able to make another more formal announcement on GNOME Keysign, soon.
Anyway, the event was good, I am happy to have attended. I hope to be able to make it there next year again.
I had the opportunity to attend the 18th DFN Workshop (I wonder how that link will look like next year) and since it's a great event I don't want you to miss out. Hence I'll try to sum the talks and the happenings up.
It was the second year for the conference to take place in Hotel Grand Elysee in Hamburg, Germany. I was unable to attend last year, so I didn't know the venue. But I am impressed. It is very spacious, friendly and well maintained. The technical equipment seems to be great and everything worked really well. I am not too sure whether this is the work of the Hotel or the Linux Magazin though.
After a welcome reception which provided a stock of caffeine that should last all day long, the first talk was given by Dirk Kollberg from Sophos. Actually his boss was supposed to give the talk but cancelled it on short notice so he had to jump in. He basically talked about Scareware and that it was a big business.
He claimed that it used to be cyber graffiti but nowadays it turned into cyber war and Stuxnet would be a good indicator for that. The newest trend, he said, was that a binary would not only be compressed or encrypted by a packer, but that the packer itself used special techniques like OpenGL functions. That was a problem for simulators which were commonly used in Antivirus products.
He investigated a big Ukrainian company (Innovative Marketing) that produced a lot of scareware and was in fact very well organised. But apparently not from a security point of view because he claimed to have retrieved a lot of information via unauthenticated HTTP. And I mean a lot. From the company's employees address book, over ERM diagrams of internal databases to holiday pictures of the employees. Almost unbelievable. He also discovered a server that malware was distributed from and was able to retrieve the statistics page which showed how much traffic the page made and which clients with which IPs were connecting. He claimed to have periodically scraped the page to then compile a map with IPs per country. The animation was shown for about 90 scraped days. I was really wondering why he didn't contact the ISP to shut that thing down. So I asked during Q&A and he answered that it would have been for Sophos because they wouldn't have been able to gain more insight. That is obviously very selfish and instead of providing good to the whole Internet community, they only care about themselves.
The presentation style was a bit weird indeed. He showed and commented a pre-made video which lasted for 30 minutes out of his 50 minutes presentation time. I found that rather bold. What's next? A pre-spoken video which he'll just play while standing on the stage? Really sad. But the worst part was as he showed private photos of the guy of that Ukrainian company which he found by accident. I also told him that I found it disgusting that he pillared that guy in public and showed off his private life. The people in the audience applauded.
A coffee break made us calm down.
The second talk about Smart Grid was done by Klaus Mueller. Apparently Smart Grids are supposed to be the new big thing in urban power networks. It's supposed to be a power *and* communications network and the household or every device in it would be able to communicate, i.e. to tell or adapt its power consumption.
He depicted several attack scenarios and drew multiple catastrophic scenarios, i.e. what happens if that Smart Grid system was remotely controllable (which it is by design) and also remotely exploitable so that you could turn off power supply for a home or a house?
The heart of the Smart Grid system seemed to be so called Smart Meters which would ultimately replace traditional, mechanical power consumption measuring devices. These Smart Meters would of course be designed to be remotely controllable because you will have an electrified car which you only want to be charged when the power is at its cheapest price, i.e. in the night. Hence, the power supplier would need to tell you when to turn the car charging, dish or clothes washing machine on.
The next guy talked about Smart Grids as well, but this time more from a privacy point of view. Although I was not really convinced. He proposed a scheme to anonymously submit power consumption data. Because the problem was that the Smart Meter submitted power consumption data *very* regularly, i.e. every 15 minutes and that the power supplier must not know exactly how much power was consumed in each and every interval. I follow and highly appreciate that. After all, you can tell exactly when somebody comes back home, turns the TV on, puts something in the fridge, makes food, turns the computer on and off and goes to bed. That kind of profiles are dangerous albeit very useful for the supplier. Anyway, he committed to submitting aggregated usage data to the supplier and pulled off self-made protocols instead of looking into the huge fundus of cryptographic protocols which were designed for anonymous or pseudonymous encryption. During Q&A I told him that I had the impression of the proposed protocols and the crypto being designed on a Sunday evening in front of the telly and whether he actually had a look at any well reviewed cryptographic protocols. He didn't. Not at all. Instead he pulled some random protocols off his nose which he thought was sufficient. But of course it was not, which was clearly understood during the Q&A. How can you submit a talk about privacy and propose a protocol without actually looking at existing crypto protocols beforehand?! Weird dude.
The second last man talking to the crowd was a bit off, too. He had interesting ideas though and I think he was technically competent. But he first talked about home routers being able of getting hacked and becoming part of a botnet and then switched to PCs behind the router being able to become part of a botnet to then talk about installing an IDS on every home router which not only tells the ISP about potential intrusions but also is controllable by the ISP, i.e. "you look like you're infected with a bot, let's throttle your bandwidth". I didn't really get the connection between those topics.
But both ideas are a bit weird anyway: Firstly, your ISP will see the exact traffic it's routing to you whatsoever. Hence there is no need to install an IDS on your home router because the ISP will have the information anyway. Plus their IDS will be much more reliable than some crap IDS that will be deployed on a crap Linux which will run on crappy hardware. Secondly, having an ISP which is able to control your home router to shape, shut down or otherwise influence your traffic is really off the wall. At least it is today. If he assumes the home router and the PCs behind it to be vulnerable, he can't trust the home router to deliver proper IDS results anyway. Why would we want the ISP then to act upon that potentially malicious data coming from a potentially compromised home router? And well, at least in the paper he submitted he tried to do an authenticated boot (in userspace?!) so that no hacked firmware could be booted, but that would require the software in the firmware to be secure in first place, otherwise the brilliantly booted device would be hacked during runtime as per the first assumption.
But I was so confused about him talking about different things that the best question I could have asked would have been what he was talking about.
Finally somebody with practical experience talked and he presented us how they at Leibniz Rechenzentrum. Stefan Metzger showed us their formal steps and how they were implemented. At the heart of their system was OSSIM which aggregated several IDSs and provided a neat interface to search and filter. It wasn't all too interesting though, mainly because he talked very sleepily.
The next day started with Joerg Voelker talking about iPhone security. Being interested in mobile security myself, I really looked forward to that talk. However, I was really disappointed. He showed what more or less cool stuff he could do with his phone, i.e. setting an alarm or reading email… Since it was so cool, everybody had it. Also, he told us what important data was on such a phone. After he built his motivation, which lasted very long and showed many pictures of supposed to be cool applications, he showed us which security features the iPhone allegedly had, i.e. Code Signing, Hardware and File encryption or a Sandbox for the processes. He read the list without indicating any problems with those technologies, but he eventually said that pretty much everything was broken. It appears that you can jailbreak the thing to make it run unsigned binaries, get a dump of the disk with dd without having to provide the encryption key or other methods that render the protection mechanisms useless. But he suffered a massive cognitive dissonance because he kept praising the iPhone and how cool it was.
When he mentioned the sandbox, I got suspicious, because I've never heard of such a thing on the iPhone. So I asked him whether he could provide details on that. But he couldn't. I appears that it's a policy thing and that your application can very well read and write data out of the directory it is supposed to. Apple just rejects applications when they see it accessing files it shouldn't.
Also I asked him which protection mechanisms on the iPhone that were shipped by Apple do actually work. He claimed that with the exception of the File encryption, none was working. I told him that the File encryption is proprietary code and that it appears to be a designed User Experience that the user does not need to provide a password for syncing files, hence a master key would decrypt files while syncing.
That leaves me with the impression that an enthusiastic Apple fanboy needed to justify his iPhone usage (hey, it's cool) without actually having had a deeper look at how stuff works.
A refreshing talk was given by Liebchen on Physical Security. He presented ways and methods to get into buildings using very simple tools. He is part of the Redteam Pentesting team and apparently was ordered to break into buildings in order to get hold of machines, data or the network. He told funny stories about how they broke in. Their tools included a "Keilformgleiter", "Tuerfallennadeln" or "Tuerklinkenangel".
Once you're in you might encounter glass offices which have the advantage that, since passwords are commonly written on PostIts and sticked to the monitor, you can snoop the passwords by using a big lens!
Fortunately, Chritoph Wegener was a good speaker. He talked about "Cloud Security 2.0" and started off with an introduction about Cloud Computing. He claimed that several different types exist, i.e. "Infrastructure as a Service" (IaaS), i.e. EC2 or Dropbox, "Platform as a Service" (PaaS), i.e. AppEngine or "Software as a Service (SaaS), i.e. GMail or Twitter. He drew several attack scenarios and kept claiming that you needed to trust the provider if you wanted to do serious stuff. Hence, that was the unspoken conclusion, you must not use Cloud Services.
Lastly, Sven Gabriel gave a presentation about Grid Security. Apparently, he supervises boatloads of nodes in a grid and showed how he and his team manage to do so. Since I don't operate 200k nodes myself, I didn't think it was relevant albeit it was interesting.
To conclude the DFN Workshop: It's a nice conference with a lot of nice people but it needs to improve content wise.
Again, I had the great pleasure to attend the annual DFN Workshop which takes place in the Conference Center Hamburg (ever thought about, why they haven't called it "Konferenz Zentrum"?).
The first person to speak was a Dr. Neil Long from Team Camry and he spoke about the underground economy. They claim to research and investigate in that area and make deals with the criminals. He showed IRC logs most of the time and it was quite funny to see how the people interact with each other. They actually do speak 1337 and even I had a tough time reading their conversation He explained in great detail how the underground is organized. He claimed, that there are specialists for everything, everywhere. Programmers, Exploit-writers, Webhosts, Credit Card stealers, yadda yadda. Everything has it's price and that is paid through various online money trasferring systems.
This first-stage part opens an interesting attack vector to the wannabe hackers: Many Web Exploit Toolkits were infected with malware themselves. Because you have to run a strange smelling binary to create your first-stage excutable, you might run foreign malware yourself. I actually don't understand, why this loader thing is such a big issue. I assume you could deploy your malware in first place without having it loaded through a staging program.
The next interesting talk was given by the smart guys from Red Team Pentesting, which is a pretty interesting company actually. Former students founded that company and they do professional Pentesting. I have to admit, that I envy them a little. It must be a great job with a lot of interesting stuff to see. Anyay, they talked about jBoss insecurities. It seems that jBoss comes with development configuration and the people don't change them to productive values but blindly bind their server to the network. It turns out that you can get shell access through nearly a handful ways, even if a smart administrator has locked some ways down. Also, many corporate or governmental site are driven by a jBoss server and -which is the interesting part- have a weak configuration. They have an interesting statistic that shows that only 8% of the JBoss servers out there are reasonably secure.
How secure is the JBoss Web?
I was actually bored by just one talk. It was about GRID Firewalls. While the topic is interesting in general, the guy made me fall asleep :- That's a pity, because I believe he knew what he was talking about and had valuable information to deliver, especially due to his strong emphasis on practical problems. Maybe he can get his talk accepted next year and improve his talking skills.
After the first day, we visited the Groeninger Braukeller which was a real blast! They have one of the finest beers I know of. Also the food in there is delicious. It's a perfect atmosphere to get together and discuss the talks you've just listened to. I also took the chance to meet old friends which I haven't seen for a while.
Probably due to the massive amount of food and beer, I couldn't sleep well that night and I thus was very tired the second day. I've listened to the talks but I couldn't make it to the ModSecurity workshop It's really annoying, because I actually wanted to attend that session! I do use ModSecurity at some projects and I think it's a good tool. A reallife-relevant workshop would have been great.
So, if you have nothing else to do on 2009-02-09, consider coming to Hamburg and enjoy the 17th DFN Workshop!


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Assessing the relationships between integrative social-rights and human development factors in South-Western Nigeria from the Islamic economics perspective / Oladapo Ibrahim Abiodun
Oladapo Ibrahim, Abiodun (2016) Assessing the relationships between integrative social-rights and human development factors in South-Western Nigeria from the Islamic economics perspective / Oladapo Ibrahim Abiodun. PhD thesis, University of Malaya.
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This study examines and analyses the perceptions of people on the influence of human rights and social justice on the actualization of human development in Nigeria through the constructs of education, health, and income using primary data. The primary data were collected from four (4) rural communities in South-western Nigeria using a cross-sectional technique. In the last few decades, Nigeria has experienced different developmental initiatives such as Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and National Economic Enhancement Development Strategy (NEEDS) which were tailored towards the enhancement of human development in the country; however, these initiatives have been hindered especially due to injustice and abuse of fundamental social and economic rights. For instance, the development policy in Nigeria caters mostly for the people living in the urban areas while over 50% of the total population living in the rural areas is deprived. This is reflected in the uneven outcomes across geographical and social groups. Prior research in Nigeria has not examined how social justice and human rights influence educational attainment, healthcare delivery, and income distribution in the rural communities using primary data. This study was empirically conducted to fill this gap in the existing literature by assessing the relationships between integrative social-rights (human rights and social justice) (exogenous) and the three contextualized human development factors (education, health, and income) (endogenous) among Nigerian Muslim adults, ages 20 to 49 years living in rural communities. The data were explored in relation to Islamic framework. A total number of 500 survey questionnaires were distributed to collect data from the respondents in the selected rural areas in South-western Nigeria and 384 responses were finally used for the analysis. For data analysis, both SPSS (version 16) and AMOS (version 20) were used. This study found a significant inter-factor relationship between human rights and social justice among the Nigerian rural populace. The study also found that human rights and income and social justice and health explain the variances in human development. Education was found to be an important variable influencing social and economic right, followed by income and then health. Overall, the findings in this study suggest no significant differences in the perception on human development for males and females groups. Although gender was not found to influence human development in this study, it should not be assumed to mean that gender equality in education, income, and health exists in Nigeria. It is widely reported that gender inequality plays a major role in influencing social and economic status. The findings in this study provide the foundation for making further investigations on social justice and human rights factors in order to promote equality and equity in education, income, and health among the Nigerian citizens irrespective of tribal or ethnic and religious affiliations.
Thesis (Ph.D.) – Academy of Islamic Studies, University of Malaya, 2016.
Human capital; Integrative social-rights; South-Western Nigeria; Islamic economics
B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BP Islam. Bahaism. Theosophy, etc
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The first French media dedicated to women and LGBT+ in hip hop
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GOTAL: "Consider us as human beings"
When and how did you discover hip hop?
I discovered real hip hop in June 2011, thanks to a friend and brother Cheikh Diop aka Kaze Blue, who was a rapper and my manager, and introduced me to this world. Otherwise, I've always loved music since I was a child.
How and why did you found the GOTAL collective in 2009?
The GOTAL collective was founded in 2009 by one of the members Anta Ba, who wanted to gather hip hop female artists in order to work in team and possibly release some products on the market. I joined the collective in 2013, at the same time as Venus, during a training with Beat Making Lab (a North Carolina label) in collaboration with Speak Up Africa, the label Bois Sakre (training in beatmaking) and DJ Zeyna, who joined the collective in 2015.
GOTAL is made up of Venus, Toussa, Lady Zee, Anta Ba et DJ Zeyna. How are you perceived as women on the Senegalese hip hop scene?
The GOTAL collective is now made up of Vénus, Anta Ba, Lady Zee and DJ Zeyna. Toussa is no longer part of it, she chose to focus on her solo career. I think we are well-perceived, because we are often invited at concerts, radio and TV shows, contests, featurings… It's true that it's not easy to impose ourselves, but I believe we worked on it, deserve this place and begin to earn it in the field.
You covered Queen Latifha's famous "U.N.I.T.Y". What does this track represent to you?
We covered Queen Latifah's song because it was a way to convey a striking message, and denounce men who think we make it in this world by sleeping our way up the ladder or give ourselves up to sick practices to reach the top. To those who also think women don't have a place on the music scene. Let's not forget that music is international and is for everyone to have. So let's be united for a one and only cause.
You're also active on the social field. What type of projects do you launch and how important is it to you?
Actually, we worked on several social actions to help put winning strategies in place that could encourage the population, and especially young people, to have a more positive vision of our goals and behaviors. Like the "remise de dons", on March, 8, 2015 for women's day at the Liberté 6 criminal camp in collaboration with Dakar label DD RECORDZ . On October, 7, 2015, for the event "Octobre rose", through our managers Ina Makosi and Wasso Tounkara, we offered, with Marie Stopes International, a free consultation day on breast and cervical cancers. We also fight against the defects of African society, with the single "Nuul Kukk" (black skin), that denounces skin whitening and many more.
Who are your female role models?
Our female role models are firstly our mothers, who fortunately gave us an education that makes us references in the world we evolve in. Apart from them, and personally,Coumba Gawlo, for her greatness, combativeness, the respect she advocates everywhere she goes and her relentless work, Fatim of BMG44, and there are other examples like Queen Latifah in the West.
Do you consider yourselves feminists? Why?
We consider ourselves feminists quite understandably because we are women lol. There is only one way to prove it. Let's just do things equitably, so that everybody can get their bearings. Consider us as human beings above all else.
What are you listening to these days?
I'm currently listening to Matador "Sénégal", from the album Reewgaal Nation, otherwise we listen to all kinds of music as we have an international style.
What are your upcoming projects?
To have videos broadcast pretty much everywhere, release a product on the market (a mixtape, an EP…), we're working on it, tour on the national and international scene, keep working on social projects and speak a truthful language to the population through our lyrics.
What do you think of Madame Rap? What should be changed or improved?
We can only thank Madame Rap for the initiative, that helps maximize the presence and visibility of women in the hip hop world. We are delighted to see you're interested in us and also to be part of the sections on your website. One love.
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Environmental Studies Department Pages
Swarthmore, PA 19081-1397
Email: envs@swarthmore.edu
Divestment Debates
Swarthmore Mountain Justice launched an extended sit-in for fossil fuel divestment on the campus that birthed the now global divestment campaign, kicking off a historic spring of escalating nonviolent action throughout the student divestment movement.
The national fossil fuel divestment movement started at Swarthmore with the student group Swarthmore Mountain Justice. In 2010, a group of students traveled to West Virginia on their spring and fall breaks to learn about mountaintop removal coal mining and its effects on the communities of Appalachia. Back at Swarthmore, the students "decided on a divestment campaign as a way for us to use the power and position we have as students to move our institution's money to stop funding practices that harm people's health and communities." The fossil fuel divestment campaign, picked up and expanded by 350.org and others, has become one of the best-known organized responses to climate change.
Pictured from left to right: Professor of Religion Mark Wallace, Professor of Sociology Lee Smithey, Professor of Biology Scott Gilbert, and Professor of Philosophy Peter Baumann. Photo by Mindy Cheng
Swarthmore's Environmental Studies faculty, all agreed on the urgent importance of mitigating climate change, nonetheless hold a range of opinions about the efficacy of the divestment movement. Several members of the program—Betsy Bolton (English), Peter Collings (Physics), Giovanna Di Chiro (then Lang Professor for Issues of Social Change), and Mark Wallace (Religion)—participated in a Climate Change and Divestment Teach-In back in 2013.
In the spring of 2015, Mark Wallace joined the student sit-in for divestment; Tim Burke (History) wrote an opinion piece "Against Divestment;" and Betsy Bolton, Carr Everbach (Engineering), Carol Nackenoff (History), and Mark Wallace were four of seven signatories of the "Third Way Proposal" suggesting divestment from non-commingled funds as a way forward from the stand-off between Swarthmore Mountain Justice and the Board of Managers.
In an open letter to The Swarthmore College Daily Gazette (February 3, 2015), Religion Professor Mark Wallace took issue with Vice-President of Finance Greg Brown's reiteration of the Board of Managers' view that "[the College does] not believe the endowment should be used to make social statements, no matter how compelling the cause." Professor Wallace argued that
"Either the College does screen its investments, in which case fossil fuel divestment is a candidate for removal from the College's portfolio on moral grounds. Or the College doesn't screen its investments – in spite of its earlier South African divestment – in which case, my and my colleagues' salaries, and our students' financial aid packages are being funded, arguably, by unethical and illicit activities. Does the College have no moral compass by which to guide its portfolio decisions?"
Professor Wallace then sketched the visible impact of fossil fuel extraction on a nearby landscape and community, tying these effects back to the College endowment:
"I recently took a group of students to Williamsport, Pennsylvania, a city just north of Philadelphia, to observe the environmental squalor that the Marcellus Shale extraction industry has wrought in an area historically called the Endless Mountains. What was once a beautifully preserved habitat of forests, rivers, homes, and farms is now pockmarked with eighteen-wheelers barreling down the highways; well-pad flares all hours of the day and night; and compressor stations, retention ponds, and gas pipelines converting sylvan woodlands into a loud, ugly, toxic industrial zone. Mr. Brown's vision of unfettered investments in the very industries that are destroying the Endless Mountains – and by extension, the planet as we know it – is grounded on a short-term interest in financial returns rather than the long-term well-being of Earth's vital systems. Until and when Swarthmore's finance and investment decision-makers balance their drive for profits with ethically-based common sense, the College's heritage and mission as a learning institution with a social conscience will be fundamentally undermined."
In "Against Divestment," another opinion piece in The Daily Gazette, published February 11, 2015, History Professor Tim Burke took issue with Professor Mark Wallace's appeal to morality, pointing to "a better argument for divestment from fossil fuels." For Professor Burke, this better argument could be summarized in these terms:
"Fossil fuel companies only appear to be a good investment because of a massive infrastructure of governmental subsidies and assistance and because they're permitted to treat their huge contribution to anthropogenic climate change as an externality, charging it to the global public. If the U.S. government and others like it were willing to withdraw some or all of those subsidies and support some form of carbon taxation, alternative energy sources would instantly be competitive in the market, and fossil fuel production would be exposed as a risky, destructive investment."
"This is a strategic argument about how to impede the environmentally destructive production of fossil fuels. […] This strategic idea has yielded a tactical proposition: that current governments can only be pushed to dismantle extensive support for fossil fuel production through popular political pressure, and that this in turn can only be secured through changing popular perceptions of the fossil fuel industry. This in turn led to the suggestion that one way to change that perception would be for major institutional investors to publicly disavow owning shares in the major fossil fuel corporations."
While accepting this strategy and these tactics as one possible response to fossil fuel production, Professor Burke criticized the college campus divestment movement for its "self-flattering and insular" nature. Burke argued for a more multidimensional response to climate change and fossil fuel reduction, offering two main suggestions:
it might be that universities can most affect the image of fossil fuel producers by focusing intense curricular and analytic attention upon them.
efforts to change consumption of fossil fuels within academic institutions are very likely to be more potent even just as a symbolic source of persuasive legitimacy for wider publics than changes in investment policy. If students, faculty, and staff agreed, for example, to forgo 20% of their previous travel by air during an academic year, that might demonstrate to wider publics a more expansive and determined form of community will than tinkering with the strictures on a $1.5 billion endowment.
Two months later, on Earth Day 2015, four Environmental Studies professors—English professor Betsy Bolton, Engineering professor Carr Everbach, Political Science professor Carol Nackenoff, and Religion professor Mark Wallace—joined with Sociologists Joy Charlton, Lee Smithey, and Sarah Willie-LeBreton to propose a compromise between the Board of Managers and Swarthmore Mountain Justice. Their "Third-Way Proposal" worked to articulate the common ground shared by these opposing sides:
"The stalemate is often framed this way: on the one side are those who are committed to defending the endowment's role in financial support of the College and maintaining its independence from political activism; on the other side are those who believe investment is not politically or morally neutral and who want to use the endowment to make a political, symbolic statement. Moral arguments can be and have been invoked in defense of both sides."
"But we see a common ground shared by these two positions: in particular, both sides are concerned with reducing intergenerational inequity, either by maintaining financial resources to support future students or by influencing larger movements working to reduce the intergenerational inequalities associated with climate change."
The Third-Way proposal asked the Board of Managers to emphasize this common ground by declaring the separately held assets of the endowment to be free of fossil fuel stocks.
"This very modest compromise proposal works to support both sides, by preserving the independence of the vast majority of the endowment while offering a small yet potent symbolic gesture of support to a broader social movement working, in response to an unprecedented global challenge, to encourage economic and political policies to reduce striking intergenerational inequities."
The proposal emphasized the importance of working with students intent on building a social movement capable of grappling with the immense challenge of climate change:
"One of our greatest contributions to mitigating climate change may well be sitting on the floor outside Greg Brown's office at this very moment—or sitting somewhere else, listening and thinking about the divestment debates. The students protesting are among those most motivated to challenge our reluctance to move beyond business as usual, the most motivated to lead their generation toward a future that allows for broader distribution of human prosperity. Finding a way to support and steer these students—our own precious human capital—may be our best contribution to a flourishing human future."
In May, the Board of Managers voted not to divest the endowment from fossil fuels, but they did create a new endowment fund, free of fossil fuel investments, where supporters of divestment could donate to the College.
The divestment debates will surely continue.
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Post-punk's 'woodstock' was the 1979 Futurama Festival in Leeds,and the opening night was headlined by PiL, above such luminaries as Joy Division ,Cabaret Voltaire and a raft of nearly every other hip band of 1979.......it even had Hawkwind, despite them being more science fantasy in their outlook than science fiction.
PiL's performance had mixed reviews from brilliant to terrible,with Lydon spending most of the gig with his back to the audience.A stance I've always approved of.
Wobble's outfit was an all white combination of socks, sandals and shorts,as if he was drafted in from Wham!'s 'Club Tropicana' video.
This band had a fantastically terrible attitude that matched the brilliance of their groundbreaking music. They had every right to put on a terrible performance; that's why they(PiL 1978-80) were always brilliant no matter what they did.
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Coming from the main color, Red but with a deeper and even stronger shade is the color purple. We could only think of this color as a deep seated red color with a twist and combination of a little bit of purple; and this color is absolutely unique in nature. Do you know why?
Read more about the color maroon, what it means, what people think about it; and even more know about its contribution to the fashion scene most especially in the burlesque costumes scene of course.
Have you know someone who owns a set of maroon burlesque costumes or maybe someone who plans to own one? If you do, and you think this color of burlesque costumes might also suit you, consider the next few blog posts we will be featuring and know more about the color maroon and how it would be perfect for your next set of burlesque costumes.
Just think about it, having the maroon color as your burlesque costumes would give you the sexiness and firing attitude the color red possesses and at the same time, it will give you the charismatic appeal found in the color purple.
Indeed the combination of this two colors could end up in that one unique color that everyone would absolutely love.
So when you might be thinking twice about having burlesque costumes in the color maroon, think of red and purple rolled into one and think of it as a very nice combination of colors. Even more, think of the fact that kings, and queens wore maroon capes!


By 2020, at the latest, biodiversity values will have been integrated into national and local development and poverty reduction strategies and planning processes and incorporated into national accounting… and reporting systems.
The IOC facilitated development of national road maps for target two, which will be implemented in Madagascar and Comoros until 2020. Madagascar and Comoros have adopted the Ecosystem Natural Capital Accounts (ENCA) methodology, which was first tested in Mauritius in 2014. In Madagascar this complements the WAVES (Wealth Accounting and Valuation of Ecosystem Services) approach, which focuses on the monetisation of nature's resources.
More than 50% of Madagascar's wealth is based on natural capital… its agricultural lands, water resources, forests and mines." (Mamy Ratolojanahary, General Director of Planning in Madagascar).
The South West Indian Ocean area is a biodiversity hotspot whose coral reef ecosystems are valued at seven billion dollars and mangroves at around nine billion dollars.
Considering ecosystems as a lever for economic performance should profit IOC members. Natural capital accounting allows measurement of the environment's contribution to economies and growth." (Alice Ndiaye, Standing Liaison Officer between the IOC and Madagascar).
The long term goal is to integrate natural capital into national accounts in the South West Indian Ocean area. This ties in to the IOC Biodiversity Programme's aim, to build national and regional capacity on sustainable conservation in order to benefit the population.
*The project is supported by the European Union and covers 6 countries: Comoros. Kenya, Madagascar, Mauritius, Seychelles and Tanzania.


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Todays Though > News > Carlos Rodon explains what he'll do with Venmo money Yankee fans sent to try to lure him to Bronx – Boston Herald
Carlos Rodon explains what he'll do with Venmo money Yankee fans sent to try to lure him to Bronx – Boston Herald
The passion of Yankee fans is undeniable. Newly inked starting pitcher Carlos Rodon already has experienced that passion without even stepping foot on the mound.
While rumors were swirling around the time of the Winter Meetings about the Bombers' and Rodon's mutual interest, Yankee faithful decided to take matters into their own hands. Fans found Rodon's Venmo account — an app that allows you to send and receive money — and began to send him money.
"I didn't know what to expect," Rodon said with a chuckle after his Yankee introductory press conference. "My wife [Ashley] and I were in the car and I was starting to send them back and she was like, Carlos, there's like 400 Venmo requests.
"My cousin was standing right there and was like 'hey, we should do something nice for someone for the holidays,' and that's kind of something we're going to do."
"Yankee fans and all fans of baseball, I appreciate you guys sending me Venmos," Rodon added. "I don't need the money, but we're going to give it to someone who does need the money."
Rodon indeed does not need the money as his six-year, $162 million deal was made official on Wednesday afternoon. However, the southpaw and his wife are going to make good on his promise that the fans' money will be put to good use. They already have an idea of what cause they will support.
"We have a kid whose house burned down," said Rodon. "He's 15 or 16 years old, we're going to do something nice for him for the holidays. [They're] a family in western-central Indiana who doesn't really have much. [They] don't have home insurance, so they've kind of gotten set up with a house and some living situations.
"Obviously, it's the holiday season, so we're going to do something nice for the kid."
The Venmo trend began when a Yankee fan on Twitter figured he would send Rodon a little birthday present along with a message to bring him to the Bronx.
"Well, I just saw it was Carlos' birthday and I thought it'd be a funny, kind thing to send him a couple bucks and just show him that New York loves him and wants him in pinstripes," Gabe, who goes by the Twitter handle @PlayoffTanaka_, told the Daily News. "It was my dumb little way of recruiting him.
"I figured a couple more would [follow suit], then I looked at Carlos' Venmo the next morning and saw hundreds of people sending him money and I was like 'oh man, what have I started.'"
The good news for Yankee fans is that they landed their target and their money is going to a better cause. Their investment in trying to acquire their player seems to be well thought out as Rodon has experienced success while on the mound in the Bronx.
The 30-year-old owns a career 2.16 ERA in four starts at Yankee Stadium. His most recent start at the Stadium resulted in six shutout innings, two hits, zero walks and 13 strikeouts on May 21, 2021.
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The Naval Club of Seixal, in Porto Moniz, is again promoting the Meeting Canyoning Madeira 2018 this year.
The event is scheduled for June 4 to 9.
This is the 10th edition of the meeting.
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The third day on our special boat trip to Alaska marks the beginning of four consecutive days of what my wife and I call the Natural Geographic experience aboard the Disney Wonder cruise to Alaska. These are the meaty adventures that lured us here and if today is any barometer for what's to come this ocean voyage part of our 40-day Miami to Alaska vacation is only going to be more spectacular.
We began our favorite day on the ship so far with the much anticipated character breakfast at the Parrot Cay restaurant. Every passenger gets this priviledge so you want to be sure that when you go on your Disney cruise you don't miss breakfast on that day. Mickey, Minnie, Pluto, Chip n Dale and our daugthers' favorite Goofy all came by to get their breakfast photos with us. If you don't buy one of the photo packages Disney sells on the ship this is your best opportunity to use your own camera for free snapshots with many of the top Disney characters.
At noon, the glacier viewing excitement began to build for us as our ship started winding through Alaska's famous Tracy Arm en route to the South Sawyer Glacier, a popular glacier that's frequented by other cruises. While guests begin to jockey for the best seats on the top deck of the starboard side of the ship, the part that will get the best view of the glacier, Disney crew prepared a BBQ lunch of salmon and steak. It's chilly so everyone snags one of the Disney-supplied snuggle blankets to stay warm.
The things our kids and I are about to see are truly alien to us Miami dwellers so earlier today, right after breakfast and before reaching Tracy Arm, we took a crash course on glaciers and were reminded that a glacier is a large body of ice originating on land that forms where the accumulation of snow and sleet exceeds the amount of snow that melts.
The onboard ranger program was great for educating our family about the things we would be seeing on this trip.
The contrast of pools and glacier country is interesting. In general we didn't find too many people using the pools today even though they are heated.
The sea passage to South Sawyer Glacier is gorgeous with surrounding steep, pine tree-lined mountain cliffs that rise hundreds of feet and then simply crash down straight into the frigid waters below. To think that Alaskan fire fighters sometimes have to climb these steep hills to control fires is pretty amazing. We sat next to a Washington state forest ranger that told us that the danger of black bears is so great here that rangers in Alaska are the only ones in the country who are supplied with shotguns. Talk about tough jobs.
On either side of the ship, everywhere we look, it's photograph city. We're in awe to see so many springs and valleys in one place.
A major clue that we're fast approaching the South Sawyer Glacier is evident as the closer we get to the glacier the more pieces of ice we see in the water. Most of the floating ice sheets are chunks that have chipped off the glacier itself. At first we see small ice sheets but then the ice sheets get bigger. These larger chunks of ice are icebergs but don't worry none of them are huge like the ones that sank the Titanic and even if they were, our ship is keeping a safe distance from any that could hurt us.
90% of this iceberg is actually underneath the water, a pretty startling fact about most icebergs and one of the reasons why you need to think of icebergs as floating underwater boulders.
About two hours or so into our journey into Tracy Arm we arrive in a part of the passage that looks like a field of pure floating ice sheets and icebergs. In the backdrop, imposingly beautiful but safely hundreds of yards away is the South Sawyer Glacier, a so-called Tidewater glacier because it's the kind you always see suddenly collapsing into the sea in documentaries and newscasts about the environment.
If you didn't get to your viewing spot early you will have a hard time taking the most obvious photos you should have but a crew member tells me that some of the best photo views can be taken on the top deck of the ship at the back of the starboard side because most people congregate only in the parts that have chairs.
As I mentioned in an earlier post, it turns out that our two year old Briani decided to potty train herself on our trip. That's good but it's also bad because for several days we thought the pain she kept showing us she had in her private parts were related to a diaper rash. In fact it appears Briani's pain is related to not wanting to wet her diapers. We thought it would get better because we've been regularly taking her to the bathroom but the pain hasn't gone away. Today we decided to take her to the doctor on board the ship and he confirmed what we believed all along. Briani has a bladder infection.
The good doctor prescribed some antibiotics and sent her on her way. How's that for knowing every facet of our ship?


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I would say get out of the marriage while you can.
I haven't met him nor does he want to meet me because I am dating the woman who is carrying his child. Here's what you do. I generally "commend" people for their actions after extended history of their greatness raising another's child as a step, etc. Having a baby puts added stress on any relationship. I am part of decisions she makes for her baby. Just be honest, up front, and let them know the baby comes first.


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Leap Into History With Assassin's Creed 15th Anniversary Celebration Video
An eagle's eye view of the past
by Jack Yarwood Wed 7th Sep 2022
Image: Ubisoft
This November marks the 15th anniversary of the release of the first Assassin's Creed game, and to celebrate, Ubisoft has put together a video paying tribute to the series's past.
The mix of live-action and visual effects opens on Altair in Jerusalem, before cycling through characters and locations from the rest of the series. Characters like Eivor, Kassandra, Edward Kenway, Evie Frye, and Desmond, to name just a few. Throughout the two-minute video, we see assassinations, hand-to-hand combat, and of course, some death-defying parkour, before it closes with all the characters performing a leap of faith.
A message then asks players to tune into the Assassin's Creed Showcase taking place on 10th September, at 12pm PT/9pm CEST, where it's expected multiple new games will be announced (per a Bloomberg report).
Assassin's Creed came out on November 13th, 2007 on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 in North America. Those in Europe, meanwhile, had to wait three days later to get their hands on the game. Reviews of the game ranged from incredibly enthusiastic to some slight disappointment over it not living up to the pre-release hype. Nevertheless, it has since seen a number of direct sequels, a Hollywood movie, and spin-offs like the Assassin's Creed Chronicles series and Assassin's Creed: Altaïr's Chronicles.
What's your favorite Assassin's Creed game? Let us know in the comments!
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Rufus Sewell Overview
Oct 29, 1967 Birth Place:
Twickenham, Middlesex, England, UK
Sporting the kind of darkly mischievous good looks that often get him cast as randy, ne'er-do-well paramours, Rufus Sewell began his film career in the early '90s and soon emerged as one of England's most promising young actors. The son of an Australian animator who died when he was ten, Sewell was born in Twickenham, Middlesex, on October 29, 1967....
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Downloading Nancy 2008
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The Holiday 2006
The Illusionist (2006) 2006
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The Legend of Zorro 2005
The Last King (2003) 2004
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Extreme Ops 2002
A Knight's Tale 2001
Bless The Child 2000
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Dark City 1998
Dangerous Beauty 1998
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Cold Comfort Farm 1995
Man of No Importance 1994
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Home News Iran: Western Nations must Oppose the Regime's Nuclear Extortion
Iran: Western Nations must Oppose the Regime's Nuclear Extortion
The regime has also barred the IAEA from watching video surveillance on such facilities since February. Another deal was required to allow routine maintenance on those cameras, as well as other data collection equipment that Tehran has kept out of bounds.
On Wednesday, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) published additional findings detailing Iran's aggressive nuclear operations and unsolved disagreements with the authorities. Even as they prepare to resume talks in Vienna aimed at salvaging the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, the reports show the Iranian regime's authorities' continued lack of cooperation.
Stockpiles of the regime's most highly enriched nuclear material have grown to 17.7 kg, according to the IAEA report, up from only 10 kg at the time of a previous report in August. As per experts, if refined further, this may provide 10 kg of 90% enriched uranium, which is about half of what would be required for a nuclear weapon. Given the regime's current capabilities, a further 10 kg of weapons-grade material could be extracted from lower-enriched stockpiles in a matter of months.
The regime's new head of the Atomic Energy Organization claimed in October, following the release of the IAEA's most recent quarterly report, that they had gathered more than 120 kg of 20% enriched uranium. This value was approximately 50% more than the IAEA's assessment, and Tehran's stocks "have more than that figure," Mohammad Eslami said.
Striking deals with #Iran's regime, as proven in recent months, will only embolden the mullahs to continue their nuclear program & malign activities. The West should end Tehran's race towards nuclear weapons by sanctioning the regime.#JCPOAhttps://t.co/txkm4if57P
— Mohammad Mohaddessin (@Mohaddessin) November 24, 2021
The ambiguity of this statement was most probably intended to upset the international community over the restrictions placed on the IAEA's operations earlier this year. Following the adoption of a measure enacted by the regime's parliament in an attempt to persuade Western countries to either withdraw or begin breaking US sanctions that had been reimposed, nuclear inspectors were nearly removed from Iran in February. The ousting was averted because of a last-minute compromise reached by IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi, although inspectors were refused access to nuclear sites for the time being.
The regime has also barred the IAEA from watching video surveillance on such facilities since February. Another deal was required to allow routine maintenance on those cameras, as well as other data collection equipment that Tehran has kept out of bounds. However, because the agreement took so long to reach, there was a two-week period during which footage could not be recorded due to storage device capacity.
In the coming week, Rafael Grossi will return to Iran. Even though Grossi has grown increasingly skeptical of both the Iranian regime and Western relations with it, the planned meetings imply that he has not given up hope of saving the JCPOA. Grossi noted publicly after the publishing of the second quarterly report that Tehran's provocations made it impossible to simply restore the JCPOA without amendments or the establishment of a parallel deal. Then, in October, when asked whether it would be a good idea for the Board of Governors to sanction Iran, he said yes.
Questions remain on Iran's nuclear program before talks resume in Vienna#Iran #JCPOA https://t.co/1wjTLESvdf
— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) November 23, 2021
Because previous conversations have failed, the IAEA's Board of Governors should impose extra pressure on Iran's leadership by issuing a formal censure when it meets next week.
When Ebrahim Raisi was chosen as the regime's president in June, the Vienna discussions came to a halt. Since then, Raisi has appointed foreign policy experts who have openly opposed the nuclear deal, as well as the concept of negotiating with Western nations in general. For a long time, the regime has been dragging its feet on the nuclear accord. Reaching an agreement with the regime or reopening dialogue will just buy the regime more time to develop a nuclear weapon. Increased sanctions on the regime and the reinstatement of the UN Security Council's six resolutions on Iran's nuclear adventurism should put an end to Tehran's nuclear program once and for all.
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Music on hold is a feature which plays music to callers who have been placed on hold or are currently in a call queue.
The music can be customized to play music pertaining to the demographic base of the callers, or simply present the callers with a number of custom recorded messages relating to the potential nature of the call.
An example of this would be to record a message which can then play every n seconds indicating that the call is "important to us and will be answered in priority sequence".
Another option is to record a message which can be played to callers to inform them of a potential issue which has been made aware (e.g. "we are currently aware of the escaped monkeys and are working to apprehend them. If this call is not concerning the ravenous monkeys, then please continue holding").


I am currently running a virtual server and using Let's Encrypt on 24 domains. On a regular basis the Let's Encrypt service fails to update the existing certificate correctly. The control panel indicates success but the end result appears to be that the certificate is unchanged and the expiry date has not been extended. I have tried deleting the original certificate and then installing a new certificate. The end result is the same - the apparently new certificate start and end date is the same as the previously deleted certificate.
Installation of new certificate appears to have completed successfully through the Control Panel but the expiration date is unchanged.
I wonder whether this might be part of the issue? This appears to be set in MSPControl rather than regional server setting.
The version of my client is (e.g. output of certbot --version or certbot-auto --version if you're using Certbot): N/A?
It seems to be an unresolved bug in MSPControl. If you have a paid licence with them, you might consider opening a support ticket with them directly.
As MSPControl is closed source, commercial software, there's not much else we can do to assist you.
In order to resolve this I had to delete the Certificate from the server / website. Then delete the profile for the user and generate the certificate from the user again.
The error is a standard problem. Happens, if the certificate doesn't has a private key or if the private key is saved on the wrong place (personal store, not machine webhosting).
But an application should be able to handle that correct.


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La Coppa delle nazioni africane 1974 fu la nona edizione della suddetta competizione riservata alle nazionali di calcio del continente africano. La fase finale si disputò in Egitto. La formula del torneo prevedeva otto nazionali divise in due gironi all'italiana composti da quattro squadre ciascuno, le prime due classificate di ogni girone passavano il turno e si scontravano in semifinale. Oltre all'Egitto, ammesso d'ufficio come paese ospitante, e al Congo, ammesso d'ufficio come detentore del titolo, parteciparono alla fase finale Uganda, Zambia, Costa d'Avorio, Guinea, Zaire e Mauritius. La vittoria finale andò allo Zaire, capace di superare nella finale di ripetizione lo Zambia. Qui sotto, in dettaglio, tutti i risultati della manifestazione.

Fase a gironi

Gruppo A

Gruppo B

Fase finale

Tabellone

Semifinali

Finale 3º/4º posto

Finale

Finale

Ripetizione

Collegamenti esterni

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These Franklin County athletes wrapped up successful college seasons
Bill Arsenault
For the Public Opinion
Cody Gustafson is one of the top wide receivers in Division III football. If you don't believe that, check out the NCAA statistics and then take a peek at the Eastern College Athletic Conference's Player of the Month Awards.
The Grove City senior, from Newburg and a Shippensburg graduate, finished the regular season with 80 receptions good for 1,188 yards and 10 touchdowns. He averaged 14.14 yards per catch and 118.80 yards per game.
His receiving yards are second in Division III and his receiving touchdowns are tied for seventh. He was named ECAC Division III South Offensive Player of the Month for both September and October. He had 100-plus yards in each of Grove City's four games last month, including 13 receptions for 131 yards against No. 24 Washington & Jefferson and eight catches for 157 yards and two touchdowns against St. Vincent.
Gustafson has played in 36 games in his career and has 244 receptions good for 3,908 yards and 28 touchdowns. The receptions, yards and touchdowns are all school records. He has been a three-time All-Presidents' Athletic Conference first team choice and a two-time ECAC first team selection.
Franklin County's backyard:He's one of the most successful coaches in America. Why is he at a tiny prep school in Pa?
The Wolverines finished the regular season after a 56-0 Presidents' Athletic Conference victory over Thiel to retain the Mercy County Cup. The team completed just 10 passes with Gustason getting four for 46 yards. Grove City didn't need to pass, rushing for 356 yards.
Grove City finished the regular season with a 7-3 overall record and a 6-3 league mark and hosted Utica (N.Y.) in the Eastern College Athletic Conference Division III Scotty Whitelaw Bowl. Grove City won, 49-7.
Cadie Kiser (Chambersburg)
The Lock Haven senior cross country standout finished 11th out of 180 runners at the Division II NCAA Atlantic Region Championship on Nov. 6 in Lock Haven to help the Bald Eagles finish fifth out of 22 schools. She covered the 6,000-meter course in 21:50.7 to earn All-Region honors for the fourth straight season. That ties her for first all-time in program history. Kiser finished seventh at the PSAC championship on Oct. 22 in Kutztown with a time of 23:02.6.
Send us your shots:Calling all hunters: Send in your deer harvest photos
Taryn Parks (Greencastle-Antrim)
The sophomore wrapped up her season running with the North Carolina women's cross country team by finishing 37th out of 138 competitors at the tough Atlantic Coast Conference Championship on Oct. 29 in South Bend, Ind. Parks covered the 6,000-meter course in a season-best time of 21:11.5. She just missed scoring for the Tar Heels, who finished second. Parks also competes in the mile and with the distance medley relay during both the indoor and outdoor seasons.
Penn State's 2021 bowl plans:A New Year's Six game is completely out of the question
Gianna Weigel (Chambersburg)
The freshmen defender played in 13 games with seven starts for the Youngstown women's soccer team, the Penguins finishing 2-11-5 overall and 2-5-4 in the Horizon League. Weigel scored her first collegiate goal, and it was a game-winner in a 1-0 league victory over Northern Kentucky on Oct. 22 in Youngstown, OH. The team battled to three 0-0 ties and two 1-1 ties. And the team's record was hurt by five 1-0 setbacks.
Top players:Anthony Smith, Aidan Mencia win MVP: Many more selected for All Divisional Teams
Derek Buhrman (Waynesboro)
The junior was named to the MAC Commonwealth second team for his all-around play with the Eastern men's soccer team. Buhrman started all 17 games for the Eagles, who finished 10-5-2. He had two goals and five assists for nine points. Junior Emmanuel Hewitt (Chambersburg) played in 17 games with 16 starts and had four goals and an assist. He was named the league's Offensive Player of the Week on Nov. 1 after scoring goals in back-to-back games the previous week.
Outstanding athletes:Franklin County athletes named to Mid-Penn All Division Teams
Rachel Dusman (Chambersburg)
The senior was named to the PSAC second team after another solid season with the Kutztown field hockey team. It was the third time that she has earned second-team honors. Dusman started all 18 games for the Golden Bears who finished 11-7 after dropping a 3-1 decision to West Chester in the league tourney quarterfinals. She finished second on the team in points with 26, scoring 11 goals with four assists. She had three game winners.
Taylor Clawson (Waynesboro)
The junior midfielder and the McDaniel women's soccer team saw its season end with a 2-0 loss to Carnegie Mellon in the Division III NCAA Tournament second round last Sunday. The Green Terror finished 18-2-1. Clawson played in 20 games with 13 starts. Her only goal of the season was a game-winner in a season-opening 3-0 victory over Catholic on Sept. 2. She also helped the defense limit foes to just eight goals with 17 shutouts.
Jenna Carty (Greencastle-Antrim)
The defensive standout was named to the Colonial States Athletic Conference first team after a big season with the Wilson field hockey team, the Phoenix seeing their 18-game win streak end with a 3-0 loss to New Paltz in the first round of the Division III NCAA Championship on Nov. 10. Carty posted seven defensive saves on the season which was tied for 13th in Division III. She also led a defense that limited foes to just 11 goals with 12 shutouts.
Abby Yourkavitch (Chambersburg)
The senior finished 13th out of 91 runners at the American Athletic Conference Cross Country Championship on Oct. 29 in Lakeland, FL to help East Carolina finish fifth out of 11 teams. She was the team's top finisher with a 6,000-meter time of 22:02.5. Yourkavitch saw her season end when she finished 102nd out of 229 runners at the Division I NCAA Southeast Regional last Friday in Louisville, KY. She had a 6K time of 22:27.5.
Hannah Kimmel (James Buchanan)
The 5-foot-8 freshman midfielder played in 12 games with nine starts for the Mount Aloysius women's soccer team, the Mounties finishing 11-8 overall and 6-2 in the Allegheny Mountain Athletic Conference after a 2-0 loss to Pitt-Greensburg in the second round of the league tournament. Kimmel had a goal and an assist and collected her first point with an assist on the team's only loss in a 4-1 setback to Chatham on Sept. 22. She scored her first collegiate goal in a 6-0 victory over Pitt-Bradford on Sept. 25.
Ashlyn Barton (Chambersburg)
The 5-foot-8 freshman midfield/defense came up big for the 9-11 Arcadia field hockey team in a 5-2 victory over Eastern in a MAC Freedom contest on Oct. 30. With the game tied at one, Barton scored three goals in a span of 10 minutes in the third quarter to get the game-winner and ice the victory. On the season, Barton played in 14 games with eight starts and had five goals and an assist for 11 points. She also helped the Knights post seven shutouts.


Simple Escapes in Langley City. It's the perfect blend for city and nature lovers.
Grab a coffee and take a walk down our iconic one-way stretch of Fraser Highway, a pedestrian friendly area full of shops and authentic restaurants. Here you'll also find one-of-a-kind shopping boutiques, coffee shops, and the BEST outdoor summer events and festivals in McBurney Plaza. Just a few steps away is the Cascades Casino where you can enjoy a night out or watch the big game at Match Eatery & Public House. To venture out of the downtown core, take a 5-minute drive to check out peaceful Sendall Botanical Gardens and nature trails, or take the bikes up to our massive 10,000 sq ft Penzer Action Park, Canada's largest outdoor parkour park!
We can't wait for you to come stay and play with us!


Here we have Dan from Chelsea Guitars in his shop in New York. He is talking about a Fender 1949/1951 Telecaster Broadcaster Nocaster Vintage Guitar.
Sam Hutton was the guy who worked for Fender building amplifiers for 35 years. He had a guitar that he would test the amps out with. George Fullerton one day came and said to Sam that the guitar was really valuable and he shouldn't leave it hanging on a nail with a string; he should put it in the will for his son. So time goes by, Sam passes away and his son has this guitar. This was in 1998.
It is hard to believe now that very few people knew about really early Esquires or Fenders. The first ones where made of pine. Also they don't have a trussrod so they are really interesting. Dan thinks that there where maybe five guys in the USA that knew something about these guitars. This guitar is really unusual 0009, it is probably the six one made. This one is really unique, it doesn't look like much. When Dan got it he was thinking about repainting it. The color is 1950's Studabaker Red.
They figured out that Leo Fender used this one as a test-ban. First five guitars basically are Esquires, either red or black, pine body, no trussrod. Gibson was coming out with the gold top with two pickups. So Leo decided to do something. That is why Leo made this pickup which is very handmade looking. This is one of the first guitars that has two pickups.
For the rest of the story, watch the video below. Enjoy!
If you love old, classic guitars you owe it to yourself to check this place out. The place is tiny; basically what you see in the display window is most of what they got. Go inside and it's like dropping in to a friend's apartment, albeit a tiny apt. But it's cool; Dan and whoever else is there are just hanging out. If you need help, they're glad to do it but if you just want to hang, they'll give you space.


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Bachelor's and Master's Degree Data
Doctoral Degree Data
Field Classification Schemes
Technical Tables
This publication uses data from the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) Completions Survey to report numbers of bachelor's and master's degrees. The Completions Survey, conducted by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), U.S. Department of Education, collects data annually on all degrees conferred between 1 July of one year and 30 June of the following year from the universe of accredited institutions of higher education in the 50 states, the District of Columbia, and the U.S. territories and outlying areas. Institutional representatives submit data to the IPEDS online collection system. The survey is mandatory for all institutions that participate in or are applicants for participation in any federal financial assistance program authorized by Title IV of the Higher Education Act of 1965, as amended. Data are collected according to sex of recipient and field of study. For more information on IPEDS, see http://nces.ed.gov/IPEDS/about/.
Each year between 1966 and 2010, institutional response rates to the survey have exceeded 99%. Imputations for nonresponse were based on the previous year's response for an institution. For bachelor's and master's degree data, the percentage of degrees imputed rounds to zero.
Because the data in this report include those for institutions in the U.S. territories, they may differ from numbers published by NCES that relate to the 50 states and the District of Columbia and their field groupings. Data on degrees by field of study were collected according to the NCES Classification of Instructional Programs (CIP) (see appendix B). Information on the CIP is available at http://nces.ed.gov/pubs2002/cip2000/.
Through 1995, IPEDS reports were concerned primarily with the subset of postsecondary institutions that were accredited at the college level by an agency recognized by the Secretary, U.S. Department of Education. The National Science Foundation (NSF) presented counts of bachelor's and master's degrees from this same subset of institutions in its science and engineering (S&E) degrees reports (S&E Degrees). Beginning with 1996 data, NCES categorized the postsecondary institutional universe on the basis of degree-granting status as well as eligibility for Title IV federal financial aid (based on a list of eligible institutions maintained by the Department of Education's Office of Postsecondary Education). This change expanded the types of institutions whose data appear in NCES reports to include for-profit and online institutions. NSF chose to retain the earlier, less inclusive institutional coverage criterion for the data in its S&E Degrees report. As a result, beginning with the 1966–96 edition, the counts of bachelor's and master's degrees presented in S&E Degrees reports diverged from the degree counts reported by IPEDS. With the 1966–2008 edition, the S&E Degrees report adopted the more inclusive institutional coverage of the IPEDS reports, and the bachelor's and master's degree counts from 2000 forward are now based on the larger set of institutions (owing to field classification issues, the change in institutional coverage was not extended all the way back to the original divergence in 1996). Consequently, the bachelor's and master's degree counts for 2000–06 appearing in the present edition of the S&E Degrees report differ from the degree counts reported in earlier editions for those years. Also, detailed national data were not released by NCES for the academic year ending 1999, and so bachelor's and master's degree data for those years are missing from all tables.
Data on doctoral degrees were derived from the Survey of Earned Doctorates (SED), funded jointly by NSF, the National Institutes of Health, the U.S. Department of Education, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
The SED is a voluntary survey that collects information annually for the period of 1 July of one year through 30 June of the following year from all persons who have fulfilled the requirements for a research doctorate at an accredited U.S. institution. A research doctorate is a doctoral degree that (1) requires the completion of an original intellectual contribution in the form of a dissertation or an equivalent project of work (e.g., musical composition), and (2) is not primarily intended for the practice of a profession. Doctoral degrees, such as the PhD, DSc, and research EdD, are included in this survey; professional doctoral degrees, such as the MD, JD, DDS, PsyD, and DMin, are not. The Completions Survey collects data on professional doctoral degrees (called "doctorate degree-professional practice") as well as research doctoral degrees. The Completions Survey reported that over 104,000 professional doctoral degrees were awarded in 2011, of which only 1,325 were awarded in S&E fields.
SED data were preferred over Completions Survey data for doctoral degrees because the self-reported data provided by individual doctorate recipients are more specific with respect to the field of specialization. Furthermore, self-reported data provide almost complete coverage for data by field and sex of individual recipients, whereas the institutional data from NCES are subject to imputation for nonresponse.
The SED survey forms are sent to all accredited U.S. doctorate-granting institutions for distribution by the graduate deans to all research doctorate recipients as they complete degree requirements. The survey collects demographic data, such as the student's sex, citizenship, and racial/ethnic group; educational history, including field of degree; sources of graduate student support; employment status during the year preceding receipt of the doctorate; postgraduation plans; and background on parents' education.
Approximately 93% of doctorate recipients complete and return the survey forms. For nonrespondents, commencement programs, graduation lists, and other similar public records allow construction of partial records, limited to field of study, year of doctorate, doctoral institution, and sex, which are added to the data file. Consequently, for the variables used in this report, there is almost complete coverage. Data are updated annually from completed survey forms submitted belatedly by previous nonrespondents; therefore data on doctorates are subject to revision and may differ slightly from reports published earlier. For more information on the SED, see http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/doctorates/.
Four field classification systems were used during the 1966–2010 period covered by this report. The current classification scheme for the CIP is used for the Completions Survey; it and corresponding fields for the SED are provided in appendix B, "Classification of Fields of Study," Data for earlier years are presented as consistently as possible with the current classification schemes.
Note that the data in this report are grouped into the S&E categories used by NSF. Data on engineering technology degrees and degrees in health/medical fields are not included in the S&E totals here. Therefore, data in this report may differ from those in reports published by the U.S. Department of Education. However, separate tables for engineering technology and for health/medical fields, as well as for first professional degrees, are included in this report.
Beginning with the 1966–2008 edition of the S&E Degrees report, the constituent fields of study reported in two social sciences fields and six engineering fields were changed. Consequently, the counts of degrees in the eight affected data tables differ from the counts reported in pre-2008 editions of this report, as explained in the following paragraphs.
In pre-2008 editions of this report, counts of bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees in sociology included degrees in the fields of demography/population studies and sociology. Beginning with the 1966–2008 edition, doctoral degrees in demography/population studies are included within the other social sciences category of fields (table 45), and the counts of sociology doctoral degrees (table 44) reflect only degrees awarded in the single field of sociology. These adjustments were applied to all years reported in the two tables. The counts of bachelor's and master's degrees in the field of demography/population studies are also included within other social sciences, but only for 2000 and later years. That is, counts of bachelor's and master's degrees reported in table 44 (sociology) include demography/population studies degrees and sociology degrees for 1998 and earlier years but exclude the demography/population studies degrees from 2000 onward; counts of bachelor's and master's degrees reported in table 45 (other social sciences) include demography/population studies degrees for 2000 and later years but exclude those degrees for years 1998 and earlier. These changes are summarized in table A-1.
In pre-2008 editions of this report, counts of bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees in each of the following five engineering field categories included degrees in multiple subfields of engineering: chemical engineering (table 48), civil engineering (table 49), electrical engineering (table 50), materials science engineering (table 52), and mechanical engineering (table 53). Beginning with the 1966–2008 edition, counts of doctoral degrees in these five engineering tables reflect only single engineering subfields, and the remaining doctoral degrees from the subfields formerly included in these five engineering field categories are counted within the other engineering category (table 54). These adjustments were applied to all years reported in the six tables. The same adjustments are made to the counts of bachelor's and master's degrees, but only for 2000 and later years. For 1998 and earlier years, the counts of bachelor's and master's degrees in the five noted engineering tables include degrees in multiple engineering subfields, and the counts of degrees in the other engineering table exclude degrees awarded in these subfields. These changes are summarized in table A-2.
To summarize the changes in the eight affected data tables: (1) counts of doctoral degrees reported in 1966–2008 and later editions of the S&E Degrees report differ from the counts reported in pre-2008 editions, and the differences occur in all years reported in the eight data tables; (2) counts of bachelor's and master's degrees reported in 1966–2008 and later editions of the S&E Degrees report differ from the counts reported in pre-2008 editions, but the differences occur only in the data for 2000 and later years.
A-1 Fields of study included in tables displaying sociology and other social sciences degrees, by survey year of report, degree, and data year
A-2 Fields of study included in tables displaying engineering degrees, by survey year of report, degree, and data year


FOUR TET New Energy vinyl at Juno Records.
2. "Two Thousand & Seventeen"
If you were judging Kieran Hebden's 11th Four Tet studio album merely on the way it's presented, you'd immediately think he'd spent the last two years immersed in early '90s ambient house albums. While it's unlikely he's done that, it's fair to say that New Energy does owe a debt to classic electronica sets from that period. For all the exotic instrumentation and subtle nods to post-dubstep "aquacrunk" experimentalism and chiming, head-in-the-clouds sunrise house, the album feels like a relic of a lost era. That's not meant as a criticism - New Energy is superb - but it is true that his choice of neo-classical strings, gentle new age melodies, sweeping synthesizer chords and disconnected vocal samples would not sound out of place on a Global Communication album.


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Jodium-111 of 111I is een radioactieve isotoop van jodium. De isotoop komt van nature niet op Aarde voor.

Jodium-111 ontstaat onder meer door radioactief verval van xenon-111.

Radioactief verval
Jodium-111 bezit een korte halveringstijd: 2,5 seconden. Het vervalt vrijwel volledig door β+-verval naar de radio-isotoop telluur-111:

De vervalenergie hiervan bedraagt 7,516 MeV.

Een klein gedeelte (0,088%) vervalt door uitzending van alfastraling naar de radio-isotoop antimoon-107:

De vervalenergie bedraagt 3,2816 MeV.

Radioactieve isotoop
Isotoop van jodium