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BBC's Lyse Doucet does 'reporter in the rubble' redux – part three
Lyse Doucet's second filmed report from the Gaza Strip (the first was discussed here) seen by viewers of BBC television news on February 25th took the now well-worn 'reporter in the rubble' theme to its logical conclusion by having Doucet deliver a two and a half-minute monologue while standing on a pile of earth, metal and concrete in Shuja'iya.
The report also appeared on the BBC News website's Middle East page where it was titled "Caught in a wasteland: Gaza six months after the ceasefire".
"Gazans, the international community, certainly didn't expect Gaza to look like this. Six months ago there was a welcome, there was a celebration among Gazans, among Israelis – particularly in southern Israel – that a ceasefire had been reached. But look at this now. It's like a wasteland. You could be forgiven for thinking there'd been a natural disaster here."
Whilst Doucet made copious use of those 'wasteland' and 'natural disaster' themes in all of her latest reporting from the Gaza Strip, at no point did she bother to try to put the scenes of destruction she promoted so enthusiastically on radio, television and social media into their correct context. BBC audiences were not informed that the scenes from the neighbourhood of Shuja'iya upon which her reports focused are not representative of the situation in the entire Gaza Strip.
That same practice was already in evidence six months ago when BBC reporters likewise nudged audiences towards the mistaken belief that the isolated images of structural damage which had been selected to appear in BBC reports reflected the situation as a whole. Doucet continues:
"But this was the result of 51 days of war as Israeli forces entered on the ground and carried out airstrikes and artillery fire looking for the network of underground tunnels in what they had described as a Hamas stronghold."
As we see, Doucet is still unwilling to tell audiences the facts about Shuja'iya without 'Israel says' style qualification. She goes on:
"But there was a huge human cost as well. And today you can see behind me, in the shell of that home, there's one pneumatic drill hard at work. In most neighbourhoods we go to we see one digger, one drill. It's not enough. And just take a closer look at these mounds of slabs of concrete and twisted wires: the white signs that have been posted. Each sign says…gives a description of what stood there once – you can hard….you don't know what it is now – what stood there, which family lost it and a telephone number to call when aid is going to arrive.
But unfortunately, a lot of the aid hasn't arrived. And so people – you see clothing lines – people are living in what's left of their houses and here – right across this crossing here – we've been seeing a man in the window of his home, waiting every day, hoping against hope that someone – the United Nations, the Palestinian authorities – someone will come to deliver money."
Whether or not there is any substance to Doucet's pathos filled suppositions about a man viewers do not hear or see, we do not know. She continues with more use of the famous 'Israel says' formula, which BBC audiences have been very well trained to interpret as actually meaning 'the BBC refuses to take a position on whether or not this is true'.
"Now, Israel says it has allowed some construction materials in."
But, as we noted in our previous post:
"In January 2015 alone, 15,205 tons of construction materials were imported into the Gaza Strip. Since the end of the conflict, 50,000 tons of building materials have entered the Strip and more than 42,000 residents have purchased them."
There was, therefore, no reason whatsoever for Doucet to use the 'Israel says' formula here. She could have easily verified the exact amounts of construction materials which have been imported into the Gaza Strip over the last six months and informed her viewers accurately and impartially on that topic. Significantly, she chose not to do that. Doucet's monologue goes on:
"The international community – the UN – says some donors have been generous and given some aid."
Once again, Doucet avoids providing audiences with factual information about the factors which have caused other donors to be less forthcoming and instead opts for dramatic and emotive generalisations.
"But look at the scale of this. The United Nations in the summer said that nearly 20,000 homes and schools were completely destroyed. There's not enough aid and construction materials to rebuild these homes and certainly not enough to rebuild lives. But in Gaza nothing is ever simple. They're caught in the politics of disunity between Hamas and the Palestinian authority. Caught in the ongoing conflict with Israel, tensions with Egypt which also keeps its border shut. The appeal of Gazans today to the aid agencies is don't let the people suffer because of the politics."
So far we have looked at three reports from Shuja'iya put out by Lyse Doucet in the last few days. All of those reports were lacking in detailed, factual information which would help BBC audiences to understand why reconstruction in Gaza is happening so slowly or to appreciate what has been done so far. All three reports placed the focus on emotive, generalized, over-dramatic, context-free descriptions more suited to a telethon appeal than to contributing to viewers' or listeners' fact-based knowledge and one report was replete with Hamas propaganda. The bottom line of all these reports is that Doucet avoided adequately explaining to BBC audiences that the reconstruction of housing in the Gaza Strip has been hampered primarily by the Palestinians themselves.
Lyse Doucet is not some rookie reporter or even a local bureau staffer: she is the chief international correspondent of the world's biggest media organization. The fact that she appears to believe that reports of this mediocre quality contribute anything to fulfilling the BBC's obligations to its funding public should be cause for considerable concern.
BBC's Lyse Doucet does 'reporter in the rubble' redux – part one
BBC's Lyse Doucet does 'reporter in the rubble' redux – part two
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8 comments on "BBC's Lyse Doucet does 'reporter in the rubble' redux – part three"
asherpat
And what about omitting anything about Egypt "restrictions"? Not even a token, shy and hidden mention of the fact that Israel can't prevent everything being imported into the strip because Ghaza has a border with Egypt? The vase majority of the public simply doesn't know about it and BBC isn't keen to point it out, is it?
bbc and its chief reporter are not an information tool just a PROPAGANDA tool worth nothing. Trash and rubble are in doucet's head!
Emanuel Lombard
Not once have I seen a comment regarding the absence of bomb shelters in use during the 51 days! Al lIsraelis have shelters fore everyone. The rubble could be put to god purposes: the heavy, larger chunks could be removed and hauled out to a designated spot off shore that could be a marvelous spot for an apartment hotel with the finer bits and gravel dust used to cast shelter concrete. A possibly shrewd idea is to use sea front apartment hotels without attention to the customary elegant finishing touches of decor, etc to be occupied first by Gazans until suitable housing may be built in a less income producing areas. After locals are provided for, the hotels can have the luxurious touches completed. The rubble at sea can make dramatic sites accessible only by boat.
BBC Watch could and should tell the BBC that the entire world Jewish population do not believe anything spouted by the BBC – and that it is high time they got their act together and allowed Israelis to provide balancing reports on all incidents and updates in which Israel is mentioned.
gee59
I have noticed that in all areas where mankind lives from the Arctic to the Shara the people have used native materials to build shelters. Gaza certainly had buildings before concrete was imported
Why is that Arabs cannot rebuild with the material that they have? Are they to stupid or is it that they are too lazy?
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Targa panel refining recommendations following 2022 tragedy
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Thursday 22nd December, 2022 - 2:00pm
The Targa Review Panel is soon set to present final recommendations after the 2022 Targa Tasmania event. Picture: Targa Facebook
The Targa Review Panel which was formed after this year's Targa Tasmania fatality is set to review its recommendations before presenting them to Motorsport Australia.
Anthony Graeme Seymour, AKA Tony Seymour, lost his life when he crashed a 2013 Lotus Exige over an embankment on the Mount Roland stage on Day 2 of this year's event.
He became the fourth person to die in the past two years of Targa Tasmania, after two fatal accidents in 2021 which prompted the establishment of an Investigatory Tribunal, which delivered 23 recommendations.
The latest tragedy prompted Motorsport Australia to suspend Targa-style tarmac rally events and commission a Targa Review Panel, chaired by Garry Connelly and comprised also of Matthew Selley and Neal Bates (all of whom also sat on last year's tribunal).
In an update issued by the panel today, via Motorsport Australia, it has advised that it is reviewing its draft recommendations following consultation with stakeholders including Targa Tasmania, Adelaide Rally, Targa West, the Tarmac Rally Competitors Association, and Motorsport Australia.
"The stakeholders had been previously provided with a draft of the Panel's Report and had subsequently submitted their written comments on the specific recommendations proposed in it," reads that update, in part.
"As a result of the meeting, the Panel will now review its proposed recommendations taking into account the input from all stakeholders."
See below for full statement from the Targa Review Panel
The Motorsport Australia Risk and Safety Committee will receive the Final Report from the panel, after which it will make recommendations to the Motorsport Australia Board.
The Board is set to make a decision on those recommendations in late-January or Early-February.
Of the 23 recommendations from last year's Investigatory Tribunal, Motorsport Australia had committed to implementing all of them, and Targa Australia to the 17 (originally stated as 13) which it claims apply to it.
However while the national governing body stated all recommendations would be implemented by March 1 of this year, Targa Australia stated just ahead of the 2022 Tasmania event that two remained a "work in progress".
The 2023 Targa Tasmania route. Picture: Targa Facebook
Those were Recommendation 9, concerning the 'identified risk' of 'Car or its set-up not 'Fit for Purpose'', and Recommendation 11, concerning 'Driver Skill not Matching Potential of the Car'.
The latter was set to be addressed by the introduction from 2023 of a superlicence-style system which would restrict eligibility for the higher classes of Targa Tasmania and Targa Championship.
The 2022 event was downgraded to touring status following the fatal accident on Day 2.
Targa Australia opened applications for next year's Tasmania and High Country events in late-October, and has already released a route map for the six-day journey through the Apple Isle, which is set to take place from April 17-22.
Targa Review Panel Update
The Targa Review Panel recently met with key stakeholders in Melbourne.
The Panel was appointed by the Board of Motorsport Australia to investigate the conduct of tarmac rallies in Australia and to make recommendations as to the conditions under which such events could recommence.
Present at the hearing were representatives of Targa Tasmania, Adelaide Rally, Targa West, the Tarmac Rally Competitors Association and Motorsport Australia.
The Review Panel comprises Garry Connelly (Chair), Matthew Selley and Neal Bates. The Chair of Motorsport Australia's Risk and Safety Committee, Ian Gillespie, also attended.
The stakeholders had been previously provided with a draft of the Panel's Report and had subsequently submitted their written comments on the specific recommendations proposed in it.
The Panel expressed its appreciation of the constructive and collaborative manner in which the stakeholders participated in an endeavour to arrive at a set of recommendations to present to the Motorsport Australia Board for its consideration.
The Panel is now confident that it will be able to submit its Final Report to the Board and the Motorsport Australia Risk and Safety Committee shortly.
The recommendations will be considered by the Risk and Safety Committee which will then make final recommendations to the Board.
It is anticipated that the Motorsport Australia Board will be in a position to consider a decision on the recommendations in late January or early February.
The Review Panel's recommendations will address all areas of tarmac rallies including course design, stage selection and management, competition vehicle eligibility, safety equipment and preparation, crew licensing, training and monitoring and the conduct of the tour components of events.

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Marina And The Diamonds debut new single 'Primadonna' online – listen
Tom Goodwyn Mar 13, 2012 8:46 am GMT
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Singer reveals the first single proper from her second album 'Electra Heart'
Marina And The Diamonds has debuted 'Primadonna', the first single from her forthcoming new album 'Electra Heart', online. Scroll down to the bottom of the page and click to hear the track.
The track, which has been produced by long-time Britney Spears/Katy Perry collaborator Dr Luke, is set for release on April 16. 'Electra Heart', meanwhile, which is the follow-up to the singer's 2010 debut record 'The Family Jewels', will be released on April 30.
The LP contains 12 tracks in all, three of which – 'Homewrecker', 'Starring Role' and 'Fear & Loathing' – have already been released online.
The singer's recent single 'Radioactive', however, will not feature on the album. Other producers who have worked on the record include Diplo (Rolo Tomassi/MIA), Stargate (Rihanna/Chris Brown) and Guys Sigsworth (Bjork/Frou Frou).
Marina And The Diamonds will embark on a UK tour in May in support of the album, playing eight shows across the UK. The gigs begin at Manchester Cathedral on May 4 and run until May 15, when they headline Cardiff Coal Exchange.
You can watch an interview with Marina from last month's NME Awards at London's O2 Brixton Academy by scrolling down to the bottom of the page and clicking.
The tracklisting for 'Electra Heart' is as follows:
'Bubblegum Bitch'
'Primadonna'
'Lies'
'Homewrecker'
'Starring Role'
'The State Of Dreaming'
'Power And Control'
'Living Dead'
'Teen Idle'
'Valley Of The Dolls'
'Hypocrates'
'Fear & Loathing'
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Kennebunk Free Library announces March exhibit
Kennebunk Free Library announced its March 2-31 exhibit of the artwork of students of The New School in Kennebunk and The School Around Us in Arundel. The show features pieces of different media created by students ages 5 to 18.
"Cat," by Avery Seuter, 16, will be among the featured works of student art at Kennebunk Free Library in March. Courtesy image
A public reception is scheduled for 4 to 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, March 3. The public is invited to view the exhibit throughout March during regular library hours when Speers Gallery is not in use for library programs.
The New School is an independent democratic high school where students are encouraged and supported to find their voice, pursue their passions and become lifelong learners. Students actively participate in creating curriculum, connecting to their community, and engaging in real-world learning opportunities.
In 2016, The New School was featured in a one-school art show at Full Circle Gallery in Biddeford and in 2017, at The Brick Store Museum in Kennebunk. This is the third consecutive year that these schools have exhibited at Kennebunk Free Library.
The School Around Us is a holistic learning community for students ages 5 to 14.
Holistic education is a philosophy of education based on the premise that each person finds identity, meaning, and purpose in life through connections to the community, the natural world, and humanitarian values such as compassion and peace. The School Around Us celebrates its 50th anniversary in 2020, making it one of the oldest independent schools of this type in the country.
According to Kennebunk Free Library, "The arts are an important part of the curriculum at The New School and School Around Us fueling imagination and personal expression, contributing to the development of a sense of self, supporting close observation of the world and the ability to fuse emotion and intellect, and building self-confidence and the ability to connect with an audience. Art at these schools is integrated into much of what is done rather than as separate subject. We find that the balance between academic pursuits and artistic expression meets our belief in holistic education."
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Q: Are the addresses in Android's tombstone file exactly matched to addresses in .so every time (even after reboot)? When system crashed, it leaves a tombstone file in /data/tombstone.
I found a bunch of addresses as below.
#00  pc 00010a20  /system/lib/libc.so
#01  pc 0000b332  /system/lib/libc.so
#02  pc 0000ca62  /system/lib/bluez-plugin/audio.so
#03  pc 0000d1ce  /system/lib/bluez-plugin/audio.so
#04  pc 0000e0ba  /system/lib/bluez-plugin/audio.so

Let's suppose that there is a trouble caused by address 0000e0ba  /system/lib/bluez-plugin/audio.so.
I used 'add2line' to see which line made it bad like this.
{TOOL_CHAIN}/arm-linux-androideabi-addr2line -f -e android/{OUT}/target/product/{PRODUCT}/symbols/system/lib/bluez-plugin/audio.so 0000e0ba

It showed the specific line in code that made the trouble.
Here's the question.
I don't really understand how PC's address in tombstone is directly matched to its .so's address every time it runs. Obviously this is to (post-mortem) debug after system died, which means phone's power already goes off.
Should I think that dynamic library(.so) is always loaded into the same address in RAM even after reboot?

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This includes receiving prescription requests, counting and weighting prescriptions to make certain that they are accurate, preparing prescription labels, filing and organizing prescription orders, taking good care of customer transactions and insurance related issues, and a lot more. Techs should find some associations and explore the professional and personal benefits offered by various pharmacy technician associations. Terms may change once in a while so it helps to double-check together with your provider about this matter just before treatment.
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Remember the Golden Rule: As hard as it can be some times, you can obtain a lot more done in the calm friendly manner then you ever will accomplish by pounding your fist for the counter. The local temperature with the medicine producing country is one and also the other country could be another, along with the avian temperature could be the other. Most drugs need to be stored at exact temperatures, so one from the things pharmacists learn as part of pharmaceutical quality training may be the necessary steps to hold the facilities clean and in compliance with regulations.
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Civil Rights Hero,Pioneer,And Much-Loved Leader,Dr. Benjamin Hooks,85, Dies
Civil Rights leader Dr. Benjamin Hooks has died today in his Nashville,Tennessee home,at the age of 85, after battling a long illness.
Dr. Hooks served a 15-year tenure atop the NAACP,which was 1 million dollars in debt and its membership was down to 200,000 – less than half its total from a decade earlier,when he took over the top office of the NAACP, and is credited for restoring prominence and respectability to the organization.
Dr. Hooks was also the first black judge in a southern state since the first Reconstruction period, where whites galvanized themselves into hate groups, terrorizing the black community as a reaction to the abolishment of slavery,…much like their current reaction to our first black president,ushering in the hate speech from the Republican party,tea baggers, and all of their ilk, causing this second period of Reconstruction,that the majority have so cynically labeled as "Post-Racial" America.(WIKI)
The New York Daily News reports that….Seven years later, Hooks was appointed as the first black commissioner of the Federal Communications Commission. Under his guidance, minority ownership and employment in broadcasting grew…, but unfortunately due to the reign and tyranny visited upon minorities during the Republican regime, all of those advancements were turned back!!!
This is the basis for why black people are portrayed in the most disrespectful ways as possible when we are on T.V. when they are broadcast and financed by the majority race that owns and controls every aspect of the broadcasting business, and Dr. Hooks knew this, and attempted to stop it, or at least slow it down.
It must have been a profound disappointmentt for him to witness many of our youth accepting money from the majority controllers to portray our people in the most disrespectful and demeaning ways that they majority could write,create and pay for to produce.I view that as a Black on Black crime that is financed by white men who hate us….but you got to let a coon be a coon, I suppose….
Hooks' lifelong devotion to the civil rights cause stemmed from (him growing up black in America) as well as his World War II experience guarding Italian prisoners of war.
The enemy was permitted to eat in "whites only" eateries that excluded black GIs. The humiliated Hooks vowed to fight racism once he returned to the U.S.(SOURCE)
I personally thank God for the life of Dr. Benjamin Hooks, for I am well aware of the fact that I have benefitted here in the US from the work this man has done to tear down the walls that racism so often build to deny our people advancement in this society, and I marvel at his courage and strength to overcome any threats or acts of violence that was targeted toward him, simply because he demanded that black people are treated equally in this society.
"Black Americans are not defeated," he told Ebony magazine after becoming the NAACP's director. "The civil rights movement is not dead. If anyone thinks that we are going to stop agitating, they had better think again."(Dr. Benjamin Hooks)
I say to those who would proclaim that there is no more need for any civil rights organization to exist because we have our first black president better think again-we know what you are up to, and your tricknology will not prevail….and I say to the brothers that have achieved financial wealth and stature,…do not allow yourself or your personal success to be used as a weapon to thwart the civil rights cause in any way shape or form.Do not position yourself against your family,and ancestors, like Ward Connerly, Judge Clarence Thomas,and at an underground level-JiggaBoo Jones.
Trust me,you are only one mistake away from being called a N@!gg#r,humiliated and dehumanized like the majority of the nameless and faceless black American citizens,because we are nothing more to the majority than a "Ghetto" stereotype, and a minstrel.
…Just ask Tiger Woods and O.J.Simpson!
Rest in Peace Reverend Dr.Benjamin Hooks…
Rev. Dr. Benjamin Hooks...dead at the age of 85....R.I.P.
Read more on the life of Dr. Hooks….
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One Response to "Civil Rights Hero,Pioneer,And Much-Loved Leader,Dr. Benjamin Hooks,85, Dies"
RIP – Benjamin Hooks, 85, led the NAACP from 77-92. In his last speech he urged "Remember where crime abounds & dope proliferates; where babies are having babies, our brothers & sisters are crying to us: Is anyone listening? Does anyone care?" http://urdead2me.wordpress.com/2010/04/15/rip-benjamin-hooks/
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Apple finally put women on stage at its annual developer conference
Charles Pulliam-Moore
At its annual Worldwide Developers Conference, Apple finally addressed one of the more glaring examples of its (self-admitted) diversity problem. Two female executives, Jennifer Bailey and Susan Prescott, took to the stage at Moscone West to introduce two of the company's products that'll be built into the latest versions of iOS and OS X. Apple fans and advocates of diversity in tech quickly took to Twitter to express their excitement at finally seeing Apple execs who weren't your standard-issue white men at the event.
Bailey, who is Vice President of Apple's online store, unveiled the future of Apple Pay, which basically turns your iPhone into a credit card. Prescott, Apple's VP of Product Management and Marketing, demonstrated Apple News, a new feature that works a lot like Flipboard, but is actually baked right into iOS.
Earlier this week, ahead of the conference, Apple CEO Tim Cook hinted that this year's WWDC would feature a more diverse cast of voices. In an interview with Mashable, Cook explained that Silicon Valley's problems with diversity couldn't just be explained away by saying that minorities and women weren't interested in tech.
"I think it's our fault—'our' meaning the whole tech community," Cook said. "I think in general we haven't done enough to reach out and show young women that it's cool to do it and how much fun it can be."
Prior to this year's WWDC, Apple struggled to bring its female leadership into the spotlight, despite many women playing active roles in much of the company's recent success. As Gizmodo points out, prior to Bailey and Prescott's WWDC appearances, Apple had only managed to bring six female presenters to WWDC and major product launches since 2007. Six women total in eight years of conferences and launches. Google, on the other hand, featured three female voices at its own developer's conference last week.
Though their presence at WWDC is new, both Bailey and Prescott have been key players at Apple for some time. Before helming Apple Pay, Bailey was responsible for the online Apple stores, one of the most crucial components to Apple's strategic launch of its products. Prescott joined Apple in 2003 as a VP of one of its creative groups, opting to leave her position at Adobe, where she'd served as a VP Product Management and Marketing.
Conspicuously missing from the entire event were any speeches given by Apple employees of color, though there were guest appearances by the McKinsey Institute's James Manyika, Neil deGrasse Tyson, and a seemingly nervous Drake, who plans to release his next album using Apple's new Connect music streaming feature.


The architectural style of the classic American summer, the shingled house can suggest the beach, the countryside, the mountains, and even the city. AD100 architects Ike Kligerman Barkley, one of the most successful firms practicing in a traditional style today, presents 14 houses that celebrate the simple wood shingle's infinite flexibility—ranging from richly historic to sculptural and experimental.
The New Shingled House includes examples throughout the fabled seaside resorts of New England—Martha's Vineyard, Block Island, and the Hamptons—as well as houses in California's Bay Area and Point Loma, on a pristine mountain lake in South Carolina, and a Scandinavian influenced family residence in Connecticut. All are characterized by a sense of graciousness and generosity that makes them unique spaces for the owners and enviable spaces for readers.
The versatility of the shingle style allows the designers to explore formal ideas and to respond to client preferences and taste. The houses thus achieve the architects' fundamental goal: when their clients enter their new house for the first time, they should feel as though they have always lived there.
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In recent years, many organizations have shifted their focus to core competencies. This is because those same companies have been able to increasingly outsource non-core processes to third-party service providers, which can often perform these functions better, more quickly, or at a lower cost.
This shift makes it critical for organizations to implement third-party risk-management programs to better manage and govern third-party vendor relationships. These comprehensive measures can help mitigate threats—such as security breaches, data theft, and loss of data—that could damage an organization's reputation or disrupt operations.
By building a risk-management framework comprised of just five key activities, organizations are able to better protect client data, promote confidence in end-to-end chain of custody, and meet compliance requirements and commitments.
Organizations today operate in a vastly interdependent environment. Because of this, it's important for entities to evaluate and fully understand the different types of vendor relationships in which they're involved.
A key aspect of the evaluation process involves assessing the vendor population. This requires organizations to rank vendors based on their criticality and classification, also known as the type of dependency an organization has on its vendors.
Vendors that aren't strictly categorized as financial or operational are generally purely transactional and require monitoring on an annual basis to determine if the dependency—and classification—have changed.
There's a financial dependency when the products or services provided by a vendor have a direct material impact on an organization's financial performance and reporting—a payroll service provider, for example.
Alternatively, when products or services provided by a vendor don't have a direct material impact on the financial performance and reporting of an organization but still impact operational performance, there's likely an operational dependency. Examples of these types of vendors include web-hosting services and cloud-service providers.
Unclassified vendors are those providing products and services that can easily be replaced with other sources. These vendors typically have no impact on an organization's financial-, operational-, or regulatory-compliance requirements and commitments.
The components of an effective vendor risk-management program generally differ based on the scope and nature of an organization's outsourced functions. However, effective vendor risk-management programs typically comprise the following five activities.
As a first step, organizations should develop and approve appropriate risk assessments and risk-based policies to govern third-party vendors. Risk assessments can then be performed and updated annually to remain current with new and emerging threats.
At the same time, management can benefit from validating and verifying third-party vendors are in compliance with an organization's compliance requirements and commitments.
Typically, legal counsel is involved in this process to help address all contractual and regulatory requirements for the industry in which an organization operates, such as the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 in health care.
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Q: False recursion vs. true recursion I have been warned by my professor to avoid "false recursion", where a function behaves recursively, but does no useful recursive work.
I believe I understand recursion, but would like to double check.
I have written a short recursive sorting program that sorts (recursively I hope) the given array, ignoring the first element. After sorting all elements after the first, it places the first element in the correct place within the sorted sub-array (by shifting elements left).
The code is as follows:
#include <iostream> // for cout
using namespace std;

void RecSort(int*, int, int); //RecSort function declaration
int arr[8] = {4,1,2,7,5,9,0,2}; //global array to sort (just an example)

void RecSort(int* arr, int len, int curr)       { //RecSort definition
        if (curr < len - 2)     { //-1 to agrre with 0 indexing, -1 to stop 1 element before the end (terminating condition)
                RecSort(arr, len, curr + 1); //recursively sort all elements except first element
        }
        for (int i = curr; i < len - 2; i++)    { // once the rest of the array is sorted, shift elements to the left of the first element
                if (arr[i] > arr[i + 1])        { // while appropriate (in this case, sort ascending order)
                        int temp = arr[i + 1]; //swap array elements if needed
                        arr[i + 1] = arr[i];
                        arr[i] = temp;
                }
        }
}

int main()      {

int length, current;
RecSort(arr, length = 8, current = 0);// sort array (recursively?)
        for (int i = 0; i < length - 1; i++)    {
                cout << arr[i] << " "; //print array to verify functionality
        }
}

Does this appear to be truly recursive?

A: I've never come across the term "false recursion" before, and it sounds like it might be terminology original to your professor. As a consequence, its a bit hard to judge what he thinks qualifies. I'll assume he means that the function can be easily rewritten using a loop instead of recursion, thus it didn't need to be recursive.
As a general rule of thumb, if a function needs to be recursive, it'll call itself multiple times. When a function only calls itself once, it can usually be rewritten as a loop.
In your case, what you are doing is sorting the last element, then the last two elements, then the last three elements, etc. You can implement this as loop something like:
for (int startIndex = length - 1, startIndex >= 0; startIndex++) {
    // do what you would have done before.

What you've done here is implemented an insertion sort, its not typically implemented in a recursive fashion.


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September 01, 2017 / Steven Sande
Yesterday, Apple made the ninth beta version of both iOS 11 and tvOS 11 available to developers. Today, the company followed up with the latest (ninth) developer beta of macOS 10.13 High Sierra.
It's quite likely that this will be the last beta version of macOS High Sierra, as the new OS is likely to ship on or around September 12 -- the day of Apple's product announcement event. However, one feature may not be available for all users at launch time, and that's the highly-anticipated Apple File System (APFS).
Recent articles note that while APFS is enabled by default on those devices like the MacBook that use solid state drives (SSDs) for storage, issues have apparently come up with the migration of HFS+ formatted hard disk drives and Fusion drives. Apple could possibly delay the ship date of macOS High Sierra, or just ensure that at least for now, HDDs and Fusion drives retain the older HFS+ file system.
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Hey Nosh Show Listeners, Episode 69 is live but once again I missed the taping. Me and the Mrs were at a holiday dinner and we didn't get back until after the show was done recording. Have no fear though, our bud CT from the Nerd Lunch Podcast filled in for me so big thanks to him!
Quick question: Is there anything you guys want reviewed by us before year end? (ok, reviewed by me, Rovo is in an alternate dimension right now). As you can tell by the trickle of reviews right now, not much is going on. Any suggestion is welcome, though I might point you to an older review if we've already covered it. I can only think of a few items we've missed.
Thanks again to CT! Have a good week everyone!
If it's available to you, I'd love to see a review of Mcconnells. Any flavor. I want to know if you find the brand as amazing as I do. Im in South Florida and The Fresh Market carries 7 flavors. SO SUPERIOR to Jeni's. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. Thanks for your dedication to all things frozen!
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Ben and jerrys New York super fudge chunk and phish food.
I would like to see you review Turkey Hill Hazelnut Gelato if you can find it.
I meant Wegmans. It was next to perrys gingerbread so I got confused. And how about Ben and jerrys festive since it's back for a little while??
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CROSS WORDS And the D-Day Invasion
I would say, with apologies to Winston Churchill, that never have so many labored so hard to obscure what was so obvious to so many as during the spring of 1944. Every school child in Europe knew that soon the allies were going to hurl themselves against the Nazi held Atlantic coast of France.
And there were only two places with beaches close enough for unlimited air support from Britain and wide enough for major military operations - the Pa de Calais, just 20 miles across the channel, and 75 miles away, in Normandy. But it was vital the 400,000 German defenders not know which of these two spots was the eventual target, or exactly when the invasion would occur. The planned date and location of the invasion was maybe the second biggest secret of the 20th century.
It would take 1 ½ million military personnel, and probably another 2 million civilians to prepare and launch the invasion. And 4 million people can not keep a secret. So, like a puzzle the invasion was divided into pieces, each given a code name to disguise how it fit into all the others.
The over all plan was code named "Overlord".
Misinformation fed to confuse the Germans was code named "Bodyguard". Bombing to isolate the beaches was code named "Point Blank".
Naval operations were code named "Neptune". Operation "Tonga" was the code name for the British parachute and glider attacks designed to be launched before dawn behind the beaches.
The British beaches were "Gold" and "Sword", the Canadian beach "Juno", and the American beaches "Utah" and "Omaha".
Architectural drawings for the two floating harbors built in England and towed across the channel were code named "Mulberry".
And the flexible gasoline pipeline rolled out and laid down under the channel after the invasion was named "Pluto".
Out of the millions of documents generated for "Overlord" - the 9th Air Force's plan for the airborne troops parachute drop alone was 1,376 pages and weighed 10 pounds - ranged from shipping bills of lading to company rosters. Only a few thousand of these referred to the actual time and place of the invasion. But almost all of them hinted at one or both.
Besides being stamped with "Top Secret" and "Eyes Only", the most sensitive documents also had the word "Bigot" stamped on them. Only a few hundred people with an absolute "need to know" were allowed to handle or read "Bigot" papers. These people were given special security clearances, and were described as "Bigots or "Bigoted".
There were, of course, slip ups. In March a U.S.sergeant accidental used "Bigot" papers as packing material for a present sent to his sister. When the package broke open in transit, workers in the Chicago Post Office were put under FBI surveillance. Some wind and an open window forced British staffers to spend two hours recovering 12 copies of a "Bigot" memo from a Whitehall street. An abandoned briefcase containing "Bigot" papers left on a train in Southern England was turned in to the station master. The last owner of those was reduced in rank and placed under detention. And several officers were reduced in rank and relieved for talking too much at a cocktail party . But the British domestic Military Intelligence Service - MI 5 - thought all these leaks had been plugged. At least until they picked up a copy of the Daily Telegraph newspaper on 2 May, 1944.
The Daily Telegraph - "The Largest, Best, and Cheapest Newspaper in the World" - started out as a penny tabloid in the 1850's. By the 1930's it had built a circulation of almost 1 million readers by assuming its audience was intelligent, middle class and progressively conservative. The Telegraph helped make Winston Churchill Prime Minister in May of 1940., and in late 1941 the paper printed an offer to donate £100 to charity for each person who could solve the paper's crossword puzzle in less than 12 minutes. Winners were then ordered to report as code breakers to Beletchley Park, home to the Twentieth Century's ultimate secret, the breaking of Germany's top secret code machines.
On that Tuesday, 2 May, 1944, a "Bigoted" officer was solving the Telegraph crossword and stumbled over the clue for 17 across - "One of the U.S. (4 letters)"
The next day the paper published the solution - "Utah" - the codename for one of the intended American invasion beaches (above).
It was most likely a coincidence. Right? Well, paranoia being an occupation hazard for intelligence officers, this hyper vigilant Bigot decided to look closer. And ominously, a review of solutions to April's crosswords turned up more invasion beach code names - "Gold", "Sword" and "Juno"
Well, gold and sword were common crossword words, and even if Juno was unusual it was decided an investigation might draw too much attention And for ten days the Telegraph crosswords were clueless, as least as far as military intelligence was concerned.
And then on Monday, 22 May, 1944, the clue for 3 down - "Red Indian on the Missouri (5 letters) – led to the obvious solution published on Tuesday, "Omaha". - the other intended American invasion beach (above) code name. And now that their suspicions had been aroused, in the same puzzle the word "dives" appeared, which might refer to the Normandy river named Dives, at the eastern edge of the invasion area. And also in the puzzle there was the name "Dover" which did not have any special importance to the invasion, but which, at this point just sounded suspicious. MI 5 decided to assign two agents to investigate.
It didn't seem the newspaper itself could be responsible. The owner and editor-in-chief, William Berry, was so trusted he had briefly served as the Minister of Information. But agents learned the crosswords were written ahead of time not by a Telegraph staffer, but by a 54 year old freelance "compiler", a legendary amateur football player and "stern disciplinarian" headmaster of the Strand School for boys, Mr. Leonard Sydney Dawe (above). And the agents had questioned Dawe once before when his crosswords had seemed to violate security.
On Sunday, 17 August, 1942, a puzzle composed by Mr Dawe contained the clue "French Port (5 letters), with the answered confirmed on Monday, 18 August, by the word "Dieppe". At 5:30 in the morning of Wednesday 19 August, 1942 (one day later) , 5,000 men from the 2nd Canadian infantry Division, 1,000 British Commandos and 500 U.S. Army Rangers landed on the stone beaches of the French harbor of "Dieppe" (above). Their objective was to seize and hold the port for 24 hours.
But the Nazis were waiting as if they had been forewarned. Less than 6 hours after landing the Canadians had suffered 50% causalities (above) and the surviving men had to be withdrawn. MI 5 had interrogated Dawe for several hours then, and come to the conclusion that the word "Dieppe" had been "a coincidence". But as they say in the intelligence game, fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice and you are in BIG trouble.
The puzzle published on Saturday, 27 May, 1944 was the final straw. Almost as if Dawe were taunting officials one of the clues to that day's puzzle was "...some bigwig like this..."(8 letters)", which led to the solution on Sunday, 28 May of "Overlord" - code name for the entire invasion! Leonard Dawe was arrested at the school's temporary home in Effing and brought in for questioning. As he had two years earlier, Dawe denied having any inside knowledge, and kept denying it "They turned me inside out," he said later. "But they eventually decided not to shoot me after all."
Meanwhile Dawe's crosswords kept indicting him. Tuesday, 30 May the clue was "This bush is the center of nursery revolutions". The answer, printed on Wednesday 31 May was "Mulberry" - the code name for the floating artificial harbors. And then on Thursday, 1 June the clue for 15 down was "Britannia and he hold the same thing." The solution published on 2 June was "Neptune" - code name for the naval operations within Overlord. It seemed to some that disaster was certain. But shortly after that the Daily Telegraph crossword didn't matter anymore.
Just fifteen minutes into Tuesday, 6 June, 1944 the first paratroops landed on French soil. At 5:45 in the morning the Operation Neptune bombardment began. And at 6:30 troops began landing on the American beaches of Omaha (above) and Utah . An hour later the British and Canadians followed.
By 3:00 that afternoon the first sections of a Mulberry harbor breakwater were sunk off the beaches. By nightfall, the allies had landed 156,000 men along 50 miles of Normandy coast, and penetrated up to 6 miles inland. The invasion was a success, so far..
On Wednesday, 7 June, Leonard Dawes was released by MI 5, and after reporting to the schools managing board - who were close to firing him - the first person he wanted to see was a 14 year old student named Ronald French. Having called the boy into his office, Dawe immediately, "...asked me point blank where I had got the words from. "I told him all I knew..." And what young Mr. French knew would have sent the spooks from MI 5 into a faint.
According to Roland, the school's temporary home (they had been bombed out of their original sturcture) was surrounded by Canadian and American military camps, filled with young soldiers, most no more than four or five years older than Roland, all in training for the invasion. "I was totally obsessed about the whole thing", Roland admitted recently. "I would play truant from school to visit the camp. I used to spend evenings with them and even whole weekends...I became a sort of dogsbody about the place, running errands and even, once, driving a tank."
He explained that the soldiers talked freely in front of him... "because I was obviously not a German spy. Hundreds of kids must have known what I knew.". Bryan Belfont, another student recalled, "The soldiers were obviously lonely...they more or less adopted us. We'd sit and chat and they'd give us chocolate." But just how much did these children know?
"Everyone knew the outline of the invasion plan and they knew the code words", said Roland. "Omaha and Utah were the beaches, and these men knew the names but not the locations. We all knew the nickname for the operation was Overlord....Hundreds of kids must have known what I knew." As proof Roland showed Dawes the composition books he had filled with diary like notes. According to Roland, Mr. Dawe "was horrified and said the books must be burned at once." And while the book burned, Dawes lectured the boy on national security, and war time censorship. "He made me swear on the Bible I would tell no one about it." Roland was so traumatized he stopped doing all crossword puzzles, himself.
So there was the great leak, the hole in the allied security net. Thousand of young soldiers talking to other young soldiers, overheard by even younger boys. It was to be expected. It was even allowed for. Knowing the code words would tell the Germans almost nothing essential. But after 6 June 1944 the invasion was no longer a great secret. Why did Leonard Dawe insist the boy swear never to reveal the details? The answer was that Dawes was protecting his own "Butt" (1 down, 3 letters) . Because Leonard Dawes was a bit of an "ass" (1 across, 3 letters).
Dawes had created more than 5,000 crosswords for the Telegraph since 1925, and over the following decade had stumbled upon the easiest working method. He would lay out the crossword grid on a sheet of paper pinned to his wall. There were no letters or numbers in the grid, just empty squares with some blacked out for random aesthetics. And he would then invite his students to fill in the blocks, telling them it was a to improve their "mental discipline". In truth it was to improve his income. Dawes would then write clues to match the words provided by his 14 and 15 year old wordsmiths. In their naivety they considered him "...a man of extremely high principle." But if the truth had come out the newspaper would have fired him for plagiary, and the school for lying.
Leonard Sydney Dawe died in January of 1963. But Roland French, like the other adolescent wordsmiths, kept his school master's secret for another two decades, finally revealing the truth in an interview in 1984. And only then did Roland French feel he could start enjoying solving crossword puzzles again.


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#23 Transylvania softball starts out Texas trip with split against LeTourneau
Transylvania (2-1) 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 5 2
LeTourneau (11-6) 2 0 1 0 0 2 X 5 8 0
LeTourneau (11-7) 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 2 6 1
2B: Cece Wittry
3B: Kimmy Baker
3B: Alyssa Nunn
2B: Brianna Diaz
3B: Ethel Warren
Seguin, Texas – The No. 23 Transylvania softball team opened their spring break slate of games in Texas with a two-game split with the LeTourneau University Yellow Jackets on Sunday night.
The Pioneers fell to the Yellow Jackets by the final score of 5-1 in game one before bouncing back to claim a 5-2 victory in game two.
Taking the mound for Transylvania in game one was Kameron Bowling, who picked up the loss after walking three batters and giving up three runs in just three innings of work before giving way to Jordan Kramer, who worked three innings in a relief appearance for Transylvania.
The Pioneers seemed primed to take control of the game early on as Cece Wittry smacked a double into left field and later scored on a Brittany Mumford sacrifice fly to give Transylvania a 1-0 lead going into the bottom of the first.
LeTourneau responded with a pair of runs in the bottom half of the frame to take a 2-1 lead over the Pioneers.
While the Transylvania bats seemed to cool off, the Yellow Jackets manufactured another run in the third and added two more runs in the bottom of the sixth to push the final tally to 5-1 in favor of LeTourneau.
Jessica Gunter made the game two start for Transylvania, striking out two batters and allowing just two runs in four innings of work. Bowling picked up the save after pitching three shutout innings in a relief appearance for Transylvania.
The Pioneer bats were on display in game two as Brittany Mumford and Alyssa Nunn combined to hit 5-for-8 with an RBI and two runs scored.
A Jordyn Powell bunt scored Nunn in the top of the first to give Transylvania a 1-0 lead. The Pioneers scored two more runs in the third via a Nunn single and a LeTourneau wild pitch.
Transylvania added a pair of insurance runs in the top of the sixth on an RBI single by Janelle Hynes and an infield sacrifice by Shelby Gambrell, taking the final score to 5-2 in favor of the Pioneers.
Transylvania will return to the field tomorrow morning, March 11, for a pair of games against the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor Cru. Game one is set for a 5:00 p.m. Eastern time start at Ed Kruse Stadium.
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The Department of Fish and Wildlife has announced that they will be holding a public meeting on Tuesday, September 19th in Pateros.
The purpose of the meeting is to receive input and answer questions about a variety of topics regarding management of fish and wildlife resources in North Central Washington.
According to Jim Brown, Region 2 Director, WDFW staff will provide updates on some issues, but most of the meeting will be dedicated to questions, comments and discussions with those who attend. Wildfires, drought and low fish returns have affected fish and wildlife populations throughout the region.
Some of the anticipated topics of discussion include this summer's wild Chinook fishery, the fall steelhead and salmon seasons and post-wildfire habitat recovery efforts.
The meeting will be held at the Howard's on the River Central Building, 233 Lakeshore Drive, in Pateros.
The meeting is scheduled for 6 – 8 p.m. Another item that may be of interest to salmon anglers is the no-size limit and no bag limit fishery for Atlantic salmon that is open in the San Juan Islands.
The nets at a fish farm operation on Cypress Island failed, releasing four to five thousand 10-pound fish, and the department wants anglers to catch as many of them as possible.


Scott Streiner, Chair & CEO of the Canadian Transportation Agency (CTA) will be holding a technical briefing on the proposed Air Passenger Protection Regulations.
The Chair and CEO will be making opening remarks, walk through the proposal and answer questions from the Media. As this briefing will be conducted in audio only, no cameras will be permitted, but audio can be recorded. Following the technical briefing, the Honourable Marc Garneau, Minister of Transport, will be making an announcement at the Domestic Arrivals area of the Ottawa International Airport. A separate Media Advisory can be consulted.
Media who wish to attend or dial in are asked to pre-register before the session at media@otc-cta.gc.ca. Media representatives wishing to conduct a Skype or telephone interview with the Chair and CEO following the session, should send their request to media@otc-cta.gc.ca.
Media are asked to park in the Parkade (P1). Vouchers will be provided.


What are the responsibilities of a system owner Each correct answer represents a complete solution.
/ISC / CISSP-ISSEP / What are the responsibilities of a system owner Each correct answer represents a complete solution.
What are the responsibilities of a system owner Each correct answer represents a complete solution. Choose all that apply.
A. Integrates security considerations into application and system purchasing decisions and development projects.
B. Ensures that the necessary security controls are in place.
D. Ensures that the systems are properly assessed for vulnerabilities and must report any to the incident response team and data owner.
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Q: Recursion definition Give a recursive defintion of the following set: $\{ 5^m  7^n \mid m, n \in N \}$
I don't have the slightest idea how to approach this question, id be really grateful if someone could provide me with guidance

A: Think about how you'd generate all the members of that set. You start with $1$. Then, given a number $x$ that you already know to be in the set, you add both $7x$ and $5x$ to the set. Formally, you can write that as $$\begin{eqnarray}
  A_0 &=& \{1\} \\
  A_{n+1} &=& \{5x \,|\, x \in A_n\} \cup \{7x \,|\, x \in A_n\} \\
  A &=& \bigcup_{n=0}^\infty A_n \text{.}
\end{eqnarray}$$

A: Another way of putting fgp's answer (assuming that $N = \{0,1,2,\dots\}$): It's the set $X \subseteq N$ consisting of all $k \geq 1$ such that either $k = 1$, $k/5 \in X$, or $k/7 \in X$.

A: You can also order the set by first including all the $n+m=0$, then all the $n+m=1$, etc.
$$U_s = \bigcup_{m=0}^s 5^m7^{s-m}$$
$$A_0 = \{\}$$
$$A_s = A_{s-1} \cup U_{s-1}$$
Anyway you define your recursion, you are going to need either 2 recursive variables or 1 recursive variable and a quantified variable (like the variable of the union or set comprehension).


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COVID-19: More Than Half of Kiwis Now Not Confident in Financial Stability - Study
The majority of New Zealanders support the Government's handling of the COVID-19 situation, yet lack confidence in their personal financial stability through the crisis - according to new research.
The two-stage study, commissioned by NZ research firm Penrose Data, compared consumer attitudes before and after the first week of Level 4 lockdown.
The research found consumers' optimism that the COVID-19 crisis would improve increased significantly from 14% to 32% after the lockdown began.
However, less than half (45%) of Kiwis are confident in their financial stability, a figure which has remained constant prior to and during the lockdown.
As a result, more than 90% of consumers will put off making at least one major purchase due to COVID-19. This figure is highest for recreation/sports products or computers (34%), vehicles or property (33%), appliances (32%) and furniture (29%). Only a tenth (9%) of Kiwis say it won't impact their major purchases.
Despite the financial impact, consumer confidence in the Government's response to COVID-19 has increased significantly following the first week of the lockdown with seven in 10 (70%) believing the response has been effective so far.
Geoff Walmsley, CEO of Penrose Data, who is currently caught up in his fourth week of lockdown in the Netherlands, saw a number of parallels between the two markets and initiated the study to support Kiwi businesses.
Walmsley says the company specialises in providing research insights for Kiwi FMCG exporters but recognises it is often the SME's who are most in need of information at this time.
"The Netherlands is currently in its fourth week of nationwide lockdown in response to the COVID-19 crisis - where the curve is just starting to flatten off.
"The lead time ahead of the New Zealand market gave us a better understanding of the challenges that would be faced for consumers and companies alike and allowed us to measure attitudinal shifts as the Level 4 changes were implemented.
"We believe that access to timely information can help businesses better navigate the challenges ahead and we will be providing weekly insights throughout the lockdown period," he says.
Walmsley says despite the dip in consumer confidence locally, key export markets such as China have reopened and demand for New Zealand products will support our economic recovery.
The research also found that Kiwis had improved access to basic food after the lockdown - particularly for items like bread with more than a third (35%) of respondents having trouble purchasing it, compared to just a fifth (20%) after the lockdown began.
Similarly, one in three (35%) Kiwis had limited access to cleaning products before the lockdown with this dropping to a quarter (24%) at the end of the first week. Access to fruit and vegetables declined however with a seventh of those surveyed encountering restrictions of these goods.
Those who reported struggling with access to basic staples were more likely to have a negative view of the Government's response to the crisis.


A vulnerability broker published a video demonstrating one of several flaws it has found in the privacy-focused Tails operating system, which is used by those seeking to make their Web browser harder to trace.
Exodus Intelligence of Austin, Texas, said its short clip shows how the real IP address of a Tails user can be revealed using the flaw. The company said it hoped publicizing its findings would serve as a warning to users about putting "unconditional trust" in a software platform.
"Users should question the tools they use, they should go even further to understand the underlying mechanisms that interlock to grant them security," Exodus said in a blog post on Wednesday.
Tails is a self-contained, Linux-based operating system and suite of applications that can be carried on a USB stick, an SD card or a DVD. It is designed in part for use on public Internet terminals, protecting a person's online activity and leaving few digital traces on the computer it runs on.
Exodus, which sells software vulnerabilities to vetted parties, came under fire earlier this week for how it approached disclosing the problem in Tails, which has been endorsed by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden.
The company tweeted on Monday that it had found several zero-day vulnerabilities in Tails without notifying developers of the project first. Critics worried that Exodus might sell the information, potentially putting users at risk.
CEO Aaron Portnoy later said the company would not sell the information and would provide it to Tails so the issues could be fixed. It wasn't clear if public pressure contributed to that decision, but the Tails project said it appreciated the disclosure.
The flaw Exodus described in its blog post is contained in an open-source networking component within Tails called I2P, which encrypts Web traffic and masks a computer's true IP address. Exodus said the vulnerability is present on default, fully patched versions of Tails and allows a malicious payload to be delivered to the victim's computer.
Obtaining a computer's true IP address does not necessarily identify a specific user. But it does indicate what service provider supplies Internet connectivity to the machine, which could then be forced by court order to disclose the subscriber.
Developers from Tails wrote on Tuesday that there are many programs in its software package, all of which periodically have security vulnerabilities. It encourages security researchers to audit and report flaws.
"Some people report such vulnerabilities, and then they get fixed: This is the power of free and open source software," the project wrote. "Others don't disclose them, but run lucrative businesses by weaponizing and selling them instead. This is not new and comes as no surprise."


Many of the HR leaders I've recently spoken with sincerely want to better support their internal customers and business partners. They really want to get more done and spend more time address-ing people related issues that need attention.
The 'hitch in the giddy up' is that many HR leaders find themselves buried in work that is highly inefficient and are completely overwhelmed with activities that maintain the status quo.
These leaders openly admit to spending much of their time solving repetitive problems and struggle with finding the time to address the root causes.
Have you found yourself too busy meeting with employees about their problems that it keeps you from resolving what's causing those problems?
Are you too busy hiring that you haven't taken the time to find out why people leave (causing you to do so much hiring)?
Having had similar experiences over the years, I truly appreciate the difficulty of getting out of these spirals long enough to change them.
Finding your stride generally involves making a commitment to improving the effectiveness of your work while simultaneously becoming more deeply focused on the current business strategies and challenges.
1. Does my team need to work on strengthening basic processes as a starting point for im-provement? If we have well designed processes, how well are we following them?
2. What would it take to make more time for improvements?
3. What is my level of commitment to having less waste in my work?
The second half of the equation is how well HR is strategically setting their priorities. Often the HR agenda is reactive to requests focused on legal requirements and/or generally restricted to HR topics. Increasing the value HR brings to a business requires the focus to be more strategically aligned to the most important business issues.
1. What areas of my business need the most attention, and what areas of HR could most sup-port those challenges?
2. What are ways I could strengthen the validation of my priorities with my business partners and internal customers?
3. Do I need to improve my approach to a long term HR plan to assist in prioritizing work and strengthening the strategic value of HR?
4. How can I better support the improvement of my organization?
Consider choosing a few of the areas above to focus your 2018 efforts.
Here's to breaking free and finding your stride by being more aligned, more proactive, and more strategic this coming year. Wishing you a very happy 2018.


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I loved this book. The story is very smart the way the characters are developed and come together. I would recommend this highly. Can't wait to read other books by Rick Moody.
In the Ice Storm Moody gives us the typical suburban family from the 70's. The father is a lech, mom is unhappy, the daughter has already developed a reputation and the son is unbalanced. In one night the family will fall apart. While mom and dad attend a key party at the neighbor's, the children are left to their own devices. The underlying theme to this story is sexual tension and how its freezing each family member out of the others lives.
More cultural refs than a Billy Joel song!
This book had more references than that famous Billy Joel song "We didn't start the fire"--Duraflame logs, Family Affair, Jonathan Livingston Seagull--from the beginning to the end. As one who had heard about the movie (and who was a youngster himself in the early 1970s) I tried to keep an open mind.
I think I did, although I wish Moody had paid more attention to the story and the characters than to the cultural references. Do we really have have it shoved through our eyes and into our minds that no one enjoyed the swinging and other pleasures associated with the key parties? I'm not a prude but I didn't to be hammered and reminded that no one who participated in such events was very happy.
As for the rating, I'd give it a three-and-a-half stars. For all of my critical comments, I'll have to admit that many members of my family went through similar anguish in the early 1970s. Moreover, my mother was a BIG Jonathan Livingston Seagull freak.


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Hueytown, AL, is located in Jefferson County, between Birmingham and Bessemer. The city is named after its founder, Huey Long who was Governor of Louisiana. Huey's philosophy of providing services to the poor against big business interests influenced his nephews—Jimmie Lee and Russell B. Long—both U.S, senators from Louisiana during the middle of the twentieth century. Huey's son, Palmer Reid Long, was a charter member of the Bankhead House in Washington, D.C., which was established in honor of Alabama Senator John H. Bankhead II to serve as headquarters for Louisiana's Democratic Party.
The city was incorporated from 1910 to 1912 with William Rufus King as its first mayor. King was the last Republican to hold that office, serving from 1912 through 1916. Hueytown is located at 33°7'23" North, 86°43'29" West (33.124606, -86.724504).
Religion has played a large role in developing and maintaining the social life of Hueytown. The city was founded as a railroad town by the L & N Railroad in 1887, just outside two other small, unincorporated settlements called Jonesboro and Jug Factory. One of Hueytown's major draws to this day is its proximity to the spiritual headquarters of several Christian sects, including 28 churches (not counting branch locations) of the Assemblies of God, nine Southern Baptist churches, four United Methodist churches, three Churches of Christ congregations and one Catholic church.
At one time there was a sign just outside Hueytown that read "Welcome to the home of the world's largest outdoor baptist revival." The southern part of Jefferson County has long been known as the "buckle" of the Bible Belt due to the high concentration of churches and other venues related to Christianity.
Social life also has been influenced by Hueytown's predominant industries: coal mining and steel production. Coal mines operated around Hueytown until after World War II, but mining jobs gradually became less important as foreign steel producers captured U.S. markets during the 1970s and 1980s. The steel mill in Hueytown was shut down by its owner, U.S. Steel Corp., and its 2,000 employees were laid off on July 12, 1986.
The town is serviced by the Bessemer Division of the L & N Railroad which still operates today.
Hueytown was the home of Gene Littler, one of America's top professional golfers in the 1950s and 1960s and a winner of two major championships: the 1959 and 1961 PGA Championships. Littler's father, a steelworker at U.S. Steel in Hueytown, introduced him to the game of golf as a toddler by placing a club in his hands and rolling a ball across the floor for him to strike with the club.
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Every year The Rainbow Times puts together a story about the main New England Pride organizations, their scheduled events, themes and all things Pride. This year is no different. Here is the latest news on these Pride celebrations.
TRT: What's this year's theme?
David Sullivan: Pride Portland! 2016 Theme is "Pride Through The Generations" Honoring*Celebrating*Creating.
A: Our choices have not yet confirmed … they will be released on May 13, 2016, at our launch party.
Q: What are you excited about for 2016? Do you consider your Pride to be inclusive and to have members of the LGBTQ community of color on your board?
Pride Portland! Will celebrate 10 years of Pride starting on June 10. For more information visit www.prideportland.org/.
BP: "Solidarity Through Pride." Hundreds from the community participated in the vote that selected this year's theme with many suggestions that touched on solidarity and the issues faced within the LGBT community. The theme encourages the LGBT community to see that there are multiple struggles in a wide range of communities, but are all related and intertwined. This is the first year that Boston Pride has had the same theme as InterPride, the organization that ties together Pride organizations across the globe.
A: Grand Marshal: Claire Naughton of Foxboro, an LGBTQ ally and longtime activist for gay rights; Parade Marshal: Raffi Freenman-Gurspan, who works at the White House as an Outreach and Recruitment Director for Presidential Personnel and was the first openly transgender person to work in the White House and the first transgender legislative staffer to work in the Mass. Legislature; Honorary Marshals: The late Bayard Rustin, an activist for gay rights, civil rights, socialism and nonviolence. He organized the 1963 March on Washington, DC. and the late Thomas Barbera, a longtime labor and gay rights activist.
Q: Do you have a current list of events? Why they are relevant in terms of your theme? What are you hoping to achieve at these events?
A: Our events are listed on our website www.bostonpride.org and we are continually building the events for Pride Week and throughout the year. We anticipate having more than 40 Boston Pride events during Pride Week June 3 to June 12 that are open to all in the community. Our goal is, and has been, to provide safe spaces for the LGBT community and allies to celebrate the wonderful diversity of our community.
Q: Last year, you were under widespread criticism from community members and the #BlackLivesMatter action for not being inclusive or sensitive to the needs of the LGBTQ communities of color. What are you doing this year to combat such a characterization? Has your board been diversified?
A: Our board is diverse and includes black and Latino representation. Boston Pride always strives to be inclusive to all in the community: our organization has reached out, for years, to many other organizations that represent all components of the LGBT community. Our goal has always been to ensure that everyone in the LGBT community can celebrate during Pride Week, and to provide safe spaces for discussions around issues raised in the community. Our recent Community Forum on Intersectionality did that and we were pleased with the strong response with over 80 members of the community in attendance. We hope that this was just the start of a discussion on these important issues. We are stronger together, and it has been proven that things get done when we work together and people are in the room to contribute their ideas, express their concerns, and contribute solutions. Boston Pride Committee meetings have always been and will continue to be open to all: anyone can attend every Tuesday, at 6:30 p.m. at the Eastern Bank Community Room next to the Back Bay MBTA Station. Black and [email protected] Pride meetings are also open to all, every 4th Thursday, 6:30 p.m. at the Blackstone Community Center, 50 West Brookline Street, Boston.
[email protected] Pride will be celebrated in September of this year. We are excited to have new three new volunteers to join the committee in 2016 who are eager to plan a full schedule of events celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month, which will include our annual [email protected] Awards & Reception.
Q: What are you excited about for 2016 Pride Season?
A: We are very excited about the 2016 Pride Season as we have already had several successful events, including Black Pride Week in February, and participation in the St. Patrick's Day Parade and the Community Forum in March. There has been a great response of groups signing up to march in the Parade and to attend the Festival. We are looking forward to hosting, once again, one of the largest Pride celebrations in the U.S.
Boston Pride's flag raising event will take place on June 3, 2016. The parade and festival will be on Saturday, June 11. For more information about these and other BP events visit: www.bostonpride.org/.
TRT: What's this year's theme? Logo?
A: Grand Marshal: The 76ers (Surviving participants of Rhode Island's first Pride march in 1976); Honorary Marshal: Providence Mayor Jorge Elorza in recognition of his administration's LGBT inclusive policies, particularly the expansion of full healthcare coverage to transgender city employees; and Honorary Marshal: PrYSM (Providence Youth Student Movement) in recognition of their 15th Anniversary and for their leadership in advocacy and political activism.
A: Planning is still underway at this time. Dates for our annual Countdown to Pride events will be announced on our website (www.prideri.com). Currently confirmed dates include Gay Bingo on Thursday, June 16, 2016, and the annual VIP party/gala, on Friday June 17, 2016.
Q: What are you excited about for 2016?
A: RI Pride's 40th Anniversary celebration is expected to attract the biggest and most celebratory crowds ever. As crowds have steadily increased over the past 4 years, our focus has been on streamlining our event logistics and placing public safety as a primary concern. We expect dramatic improvements in the festival layout this year and improved crowd control on the parade route that will provide an all-around better experience for fest and parade goers, as well as our volunteers who have been pushed to the limit in recent years in trying to keep up with the challenges the larger crowds bring.
This excites us because it is evidence that PrideFest is a public celebration that is accepted and shared by an increasingly larger segment of Rhode Islanders, a marked difference from the original march and rally in 1976 that required a court order to be allowed to go forward as part of the state's bicentennial celebrations.
A: RI Pride's eleven-member board is made up of members who are of color, trans, lesbian, gay, bi, and straight. There are currently two vacancies.
Q: When (date) will RI PrideFest be this year?
A: PrideFest will take place on Saturday, June 18th, 2016. The Festival will be at 12 p.m. on South Water St. For more information visit: www.prideri.com.
HWB: Our theme this year is Building Community with Pride as we unveil our new logo and tag line.
A: This year as we celebrate our 5th year anniversary we are choosing to honor North Shore Pride's Fabulous Five. We have selected 5 individuals from the North Shore who have contributed to the advancement of Building Community with Pride. North Shore Pride is honored on this our 5 year anniversary to honor, in part, advocates from the Transgender and Bisexual North Shore community.
Q: Do you have a current list of events? Why are they relevant in terms of your theme? What are you hoping to achieve at these events?
A: On June 24, 2016 there will be the North Shore Pride Interfaith Celebration at the Tabernacle Church on Washington St. Salem at 7:00 p.m. On June 25, we'll celebrate the North Shore Pride Parade and Festival in Salem, MA. The parade starts at Riley Plaza at noon. The Festival will be at the Salem Common from 12:00 to 4:30 p.m., showcasing over 75 vendors and a full day of family-friendly professional entertainment. Also on June 25 we will have the Official North Shore Pride Youth After Party. North Shore Pride is very happy to partner with NaGLY this year to offer a Youth After Party to be held at NaGLY located at Museum Place, 1 Church St. Salem, MA from 4:30-9:00 p.m. The event is open to youth from ages 13 to 23. On June 25 too, we'll have the North Shore Pride Official Adult After Party. We are honored to hold the official North Shore Pride After Party again this year with our community partner, Murphy's Pub, 300 Derby St. Salem, MA. The After Party will be held from 5:00-9:00 p.m. and all are invited to remain at Murphy's throughout the night to the great sounds of DJ Andrea.
A: 2016 has already been very exciting for NSP. As we celebrate our 5th year we reflect on our mission of education and advocacy for the LGBTQ in our community. North Shore Pride has worked diligently through the years to integrate ourselves as members of our business and citizen community. NSP is encouraged and proud to be engaged this year with, The Forum on Tolerance at North Shore Community College, Gordon College LGBTQ Students, The LGBT Asylum Task Force, OUTVETS, Vet to Vet, Montserrat School of Art, the Gay Straight Alliances (GSA) in both public and private North Shore Schools and The North Shore Chamber of Commerce among many. NSP has welcomed new business members to our LGBTQ community this year and we are very excited and honored to build relationships in our community as we provide education and advocacy on behalf of our LGBTQ community on the North Shore.
Q: Do you consider your Pride to be inclusive and to have members of the LGBTQ community of color on your board?
A: NSP works diligently to be welcoming to all persons. We have representation of our North Shore community both on the Board, in our committees and through our volunteer groups. We offer open Board meetings for visitors from the community who wish to attend our meetings and we offer a limited amount of scholarships to our events for those in need so that all groups and members of the spectrum are represented. Our Board diversity through the years has ranged from representation of persons of color; to democrats, republicans & independents; from straight to LGBTQIA … We welcome and ask any member of a our community who wants to be involved with NSP to please reach out to us and get involved. It takes an entire community to offer the events that we offer and we can always, always use new ideas and perspective. We take pride in learning each and every day as we talk and meet with others in our community in our efforts towards building our community with pride.
North Shore Pride will take place on June 25, 2016. For more information visit: www.northshorepride.org.
A: Since our Pride is in September, we have not yet determined our Marshals.
A: We are looking forward to working with the multiple Worcester organizations to build on City Fest, a coordination of the multiple events being held in the City on Sept 10. We are also excited for our first ever "recovery brunch," being held on Sept 11 (site to be determined).
Q: Do you consider your Pride to be inclusive and to have members of the LGBTQ community on your board?
A: We are a very inclusive Pride and have members of every community on the board. We have worked diligently over the last several years to position Worcester Pride as a family friendly and inclusive member of the entire Worcester community.
A: Our Pride Week is Sept 7 – 11, 2016.
NOTE: SPRINGFIELD PRIDE did not have their answers ready by the closing of the story, although multiple representatives were invited to participate. For more information about Springfield Pride, visit: https://goo.gl/fSeneS.
NORTHAMPTON PRIDE: Northampton Pride Parade will open Pride Season in New England on May 7. TRT invited JM Sorrell, the organization's listed spokesperson and Bear White, its Director, to participate in this story. No response was received for over two weeks, adding an extended deadline as well. All attempts were met without viable responses. For more information about Northampton Pride, visit: http://goo.gl/8M4kiM.
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