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Federal Officials Halt Work on Dakota Access Pipeline
By Brad Kramer September 13, 2016 View Profile
Three federal agencies issued a joint statement Sept. 9 to halt further work on the Dakota Access pipeline. The decision came moments after a U.S. District Court ruled the project could move forward despite legal action against the project from the Standing Rock Sioux tribe in North Dakota.
The U.S. Department of Justice, the U.S. Department of the Army and the U.S. Department of the Interior reversed U.S. District Judge James Boasberg's ruling regarding Standing Rock Sioux Tribe v. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and stopped construction on the controversial pipeline until the agencies conduct further investigation.
"We appreciate the District Court's opinion on the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' compliance with the National Historic Preservation Act," said the joint statement. "However, important issues raised by the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and other tribal nations and their members regarding the Dakota Access pipeline specifically, and pipeline-related decision-making generally, remain. "
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The Army said it will not authorize construction of the Dakota Access pipeline on Corps land bordering or under Lake Oahe. Authorization will have to wait until the Army Corp of Engineers can determine whether it will need to reconsider any of its previous decisions regarding the site under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) or other federal laws.
"The Army will move expeditiously to make this determination, as everyone involved — including the pipeline company and its workers — deserves a clear and timely resolution," the joint statement said. "In the interim, we request that the pipeline company voluntarily pause all construction activity within 20 miles east or west of Lake Oahe."
The three federal agencies also said the case highlights the need to discuss nationwide reform regarding tribal views on infrastructure projects. The DOJ, Army, Department of the Interior said it will invite tribes to "formal, government-to-government consultations" related to how the federal government can better ensure "meaningful tribal input" related to such projects and whether new legislation should be proposed to change the existing framework on how projects or approved to better protect tribal lands, resources and treaty rights.
"Finally, we fully support the rights of all Americans to assemble and speak freely," the statement said. "We urge everyone involved in protest or pipeline activities to adhere to the principles of nonviolence. Of course, anyone who commits violent or destructive acts may face criminal sanctions from federal, tribal, state or local authorities. The Departments of Justice and the Interior will continue to deploy resources to North Dakota to help state, local and tribal authorities, and the communities they serve, better communicate, defuse tensions, support peaceful protest and maintain public safety."
Energy Transfer Partners was granted permission to build the 1,170-mile pipeline in July, but hundreds of have since flocked to North Dakota in efforts to stop the project. Dakota Access LLC, the joint venture company developing the $3 .8 billion project, filed suit on Aug. 15 to stop protestors near the Standing Rock Sioux reservation in North Dakota from interfering with the construction of the project.
The Standing Rock Sioux tribe has sued to block the pipeline and says the Army Corps of Engineers failed to conduct a proper cultural and historical review before granting federal approval for the pipeline.
In legal filings, however, the Corps rejected those claims, saying it consulted extensively with tribal groups, including the Standing Rock Sioux. Energy Transfer says it has acquired the necessary state and federal permits and plans to finish construction by the end of 2016.
Dakota Access is a 30-in. diameter pipeline from the Bakken/Three Forks production area in North Dakota to market centers in Patoka, Illinois. The pipeline is expected to initially deliver more than 470,000 barrels per day (bpd) of crude oil, but could be expanded to 570,000 bpd. The pipeline has six origin locations in North Dakota. The construction of terminals began in January 2016, mainline pipeline construction began in May 2016, and all major materials and equipment have been procured.
The pipeline will also provide shippers with access to Midwestern refineries, unit-train rail loading facilities to enable deliveries to East Coast refineries and the Gulf Coast market through an interconnection in Patoka with the ETCO Pipeline, which will provide crude oil transportation service from the Midwest to the Sunoco Logistics Partners and Phillips 66 storage terminals located in Nederland, Texas.
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Q: Help with SQL Trace I have setup SQL Profiler as follows -
Template: Tuning
Save to dbo.myTable
Event selection: Duration greater than or equal to 2000 (ms)
This will record TextData, Duration, SPID, DatabaseID, DatabaseName, ObjectType, LoginName for the events RPC:Completed, SP:StmtCompleted & SQL:BatchCompleted.
I exported the script for the SQL Trace and the script below was created. However I need the trace to write to a database table rather than a file. How do I change the script to write to a db table instead?
/****************************************************/
/* Created by: SQL Server Profiler 2005             */
/* Date: 21/06/2010  09:32:56         */
/****************************************************/

-- Create a Queue
declare @rc int
declare @TraceID int
declare @maxfilesize bigint
set @maxfilesize = 5

-- Please replace the text InsertFileNameHere, with an appropriate
-- filename prefixed by a path, e.g., c:\MyFolder\MyTrace. The .trc extension
-- will be appended to the filename automatically. If you are writing from
-- remote server to local drive, please use UNC path and make sure server has
-- write access to your network share

exec @rc = sp_trace_create @TraceID output, 0, N'InsertFileNameHere', @maxfilesize, NULL
if (@rc != 0) goto error

-- Client side File and Table cannot be scripted

-- Set the events
declare @on bit
set @on = 1
exec sp_trace_setevent @TraceID, 10, 1, @on
exec sp_trace_setevent @TraceID, 10, 3, @on
exec sp_trace_setevent @TraceID, 10, 11, @on
exec sp_trace_setevent @TraceID, 10, 35, @on
exec sp_trace_setevent @TraceID, 10, 12, @on
exec sp_trace_setevent @TraceID, 10, 13, @on
exec sp_trace_setevent @TraceID, 45, 1, @on
exec sp_trace_setevent @TraceID, 45, 3, @on
exec sp_trace_setevent @TraceID, 45, 11, @on
exec sp_trace_setevent @TraceID, 45, 35, @on
exec sp_trace_setevent @TraceID, 45, 12, @on
exec sp_trace_setevent @TraceID, 45, 28, @on
exec sp_trace_setevent @TraceID, 45, 13, @on
exec sp_trace_setevent @TraceID, 12, 1, @on
exec sp_trace_setevent @TraceID, 12, 3, @on
exec sp_trace_setevent @TraceID, 12, 11, @on
exec sp_trace_setevent @TraceID, 12, 35, @on
exec sp_trace_setevent @TraceID, 12, 12, @on
exec sp_trace_setevent @TraceID, 12, 13, @on

-- Set the Filters
declare @intfilter int
declare @bigintfilter bigint

set @bigintfilter = 2000000
exec sp_trace_setfilter @TraceID, 13, 0, 4, @bigintfilter

-- Set the trace status to start
exec sp_trace_setstatus @TraceID, 1

-- display trace id for future references
select TraceID=@TraceID
goto finish

error:
select ErrorCode=@rc

finish:
go

A: You can't. Profiler does that by using the rowset provider.
Only the flatfile provider is available for server side traces. It is easy to insert from file to table or just read the file as though it was a table with fn_trace_gettable though.

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Influencers Are Craving A Deeper Connection With Brands
AspireIQ's 'State of Influencer Marketing 2021' report sheds light on influencers' expectations of brands around social causes and pay rates.
By Steven Lai
The influencer marketing industry is projected to reach nearly $14 billion this year, up from 1.7 billion in 2016. That momentum is only intensifying, as evidenced by the rate at which social media companies like Instagram, YouTube and TikTok are launching new creator-focused tools. Instagram announced a native affiliate program, YouTube started a $100 million Shorts Fund to encourage creators to use its short-form camera Shorts and TikTok is now letting creators add programs and services to their videos via a new third-party integration feature called 'Jumps.'
All this to say, with the accelerated shift to ecommerce in the past year, brands are realizing the need to engage consumers where they're spending most of their time: on social media watching influencers. According to AspireIQ's "State of Influencer Marketing 2021" report, released in January, 76 percent of marketers plan to increase their influencer marketing budget.
Research shows millennials and Gen Z want to be socially and politically engaged, as well as empowered, by brands. It's no surprise then that AspireIQ found 68 percent of brands worked with influencers and other brand fans to help speak on matters such as the pandemic, racial justice and the elections.
With a larger spotlight on brands, consumers are placing greater importance on authenticity, which is why when a brand takes a stand on an issue, 65 percent of consumers research the company's authenticity, according to AspireIQ.
Creators are also looking to brands to have an opinion on social matters. Fifty-two percent of influencers said that it's important for brands to speak and act on real-world events. What's more, 74 percent of influencers said that alignment with their personal brands is the most crucial factor for deciding to collaborate with a brand. As AspireIQ notes, today that means working with brands that take a stand on the social causes they care about.
It's also important that brands establish a personal connection upfront as 20 percent note that personalization in a brand's outreach is the top deciding factor on whether to work with a brand. The third factor, as noted by 4 percent of influencers, is monetary compensation.
On that same note, nearly all (96 percent) of influencers are craving a deeper connection with brands, namely they want to work with brands beyond posting on social media. When asked how they'd like to engage with brands, 92 percent of influencers said they want to produce content for marketing and 91 percent said they'd like to become a long-term brand ambassador. Other ways they want to be involved with brands include co-creating products (63 percent) and co-creating events and panels (51 percent).
Marketers already see the value in tapping influencers as brand ambassadors as AspireIQ found that 73 percent of marketers have a brand ambassador program or plan to launch one in the near future. Ambassadorships afford a brand multiple benefits: exclusivity, diverse audiences, evergreen content, better rates and authentic endorsements.
Brand ambassadors often agree to form an exclusive partnership with a brand, which means the brands can monopolize the ad space on their ambassador's social media feed. Another perk that comes with recruiting ambassadors? They create evergreen content and thereby eliminate the need for annual studio shoots.
A longer-term partnership also means securing a brand ambassador for less, given brands can lock in rates with them upfront. Lastly, investing in brand ambassadors comes with authentic endorsements. When an ambassador genuinely likes a brand, they'll post about it several times, sometimes organically.
Last year, AspireIQ found that micro-influencers, creators who have between 10,000 and 60,000 followers, achieve 42 percent higher engagement rates than their macro-influencer counterparts, creators who have more than 200,000 followers. Hence why 60 percent of marketers today are working with nano- and micro-influencers, according to AspireIQ.
As brands begin their search for the perfect influencers, AspireIQ suggests focusing less on finding influencers with a massive following size and focusing more on creating lasting partnerships with passionate brand enthusiasts. More brands seem to be doing this already as 93 percent told AspireIQ they worked with other community members in addition to traditional influencers.
Based on AspireIQ's analysis of thousands of social media posts, influencers see the highest engagement rate on YouTube (18 percent) and TikTok (16 percent), compared to just 3 percent on Instagram.
Still, 85 percent of brands said they plan to increase their presence on Instagram this year, followed by 49 percent who said the same about YouTube and 47 percent for TikTok. The last figure represents a huge jump from last year, when just 12 percent of marketers told AspireIQ they'd grow their presence on TikTok.
Thirty-five percent of brands plan to cut back on Twitter, 32 percent plan to do the same on Snapchat and 31 percent will decrease their presence on Facebook.
As the influencer marketing landscape becomes more sophisticated, influencers have become more expensive when measured on a cost-per-engagement (CPE) basis. Based on market trends, AspireIQ estimates the current average CPE is $0.32, a 23 percent year-over-year increase from last year, when average the CPE was $0.26.
Amid economic downturn, fewer opportunities for influencer collaborations have impacted influencers' pay rates, with 60 percent of influencers saying they're willing to accept lower rates due to the effects of COVID-19. Another 87 percent of influencers told AspireIQ they're willing to work with their favorite brands in exchange for free products, as long as they love the brand or the product value is high.
Though the pandemic threw a wrench in content production, one upside is that brands were able to reduce content creation costs significantly through user-generated content (UGC). On average, brands have reduced their content spend by 52 percent by leveraging UGC, reports AspireIQ. The advantages to UGC are endless: it's quick and cost-effective to source, it's authentic, enables for diverse subjects and locations and it adds social proof.
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Without careful planning, much of your life's legacy could be lost to estate taxes. While a simple will can provide for the transfer of your estate to your loved ones, if your assets are significant, consideration should be given to estate tax planning.
Federal Estate Tax: Exemptions & Rate
The American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2013 provides for a federal estate tax exemption amount of $5.25 million. This means that each individual can transfer up to $5.25 million in assets free of federal estate tax. The exemption, also referred to as the applicable exclusion amount, is adjusted annually for inflation. The exemption is $5,340,000 for estates of persons who died in 2014 and it increases to $5,430,000 for 2015.
The taxable value of the estate is calculated by adding up all the assets owned by the individual and subtracting from that total his or her liabilities. Additional deductions can be taken for qualified charitable deductions as well as administrative and legal costs involved in settling the deceased's estate.
The federal estate tax rate for estates exceeding the exemption amount is 40%. The rate is applied to the taxable estate value that is in excess of the exemption amount.
Federal Estate Tax: Understanding Portability
In addition to the individual exemption, married couples enjoy an unlimited deduction for transfers to one another. While this is great news for many couples who choose to leave their estate to each other, without proper planning it can result in a forfeiture of some of the individual estate tax exemptions after the passing of the second spouse.
For example, this can occur when a husband leaves $3 million of his individually-owned assets to his surviving wife who already has $5 million herself, bringing her total net worth to $8 million. The bequest to his wife is not subject to estate taxes because it qualifies for the unlimited marital deduction. After some time, the wife also passes away, leaving everything to the children. While her estate can take advantage of her individual exemption of $5.25 million, the rest of her estate could be subject to estate taxes because her husband's individual exemption was not utilized.
To address this issue, the current estate tax law allows for "portability" of individual exemptions between spouses. Stated another way, estate tax portability enables the surviving spouse to utilize the unused portion of the first-to-die spouse's estate tax exemption. Portability is not automatic and in order to take advantage of it, an estate tax return must be filed with the IRS within 9 months of the passing of the first spouse, even if there are no taxes due at the time.
An alternative to relying on portability is to utilize a special planning tool referred to as a credit shelter trust (also referred to as a bypass or A-B trust). If properly established, such trusts work much in the same way as portability, but do not require the filing of an estate tax return after the passing of the first spouse.
Maryland's Estate Tax
Maryland is one of a handful of states that still impose a separate state estate tax. Similar to the federal estate tax, Maryland's estate tax is based on the value of a decedent's wealth at their time of death. Under current law, the Maryland estate tax is imposed on taxable estates valued at over $1.5 million (effective January 1, 2015).
The Maryland estate tax exemption differs from the federal exemption amount. The Maryland legislature recently increased the amount exempt from Maryland's estate tax. The exemption amount is $1.5 million for 2015, $2 million in 2016, $3 million in 2017, and $4 million in 2018. Finally, in 2019 it will match the federal exemption which is projected to be $5.9 million.
The Maryland estate tax rate is based on a progressive/graduated scale that reaches a maximum of 16%. In 2015, the tax is limited to 16% of the amount that the estate value exceeds $1,500,000.
Maryland's Inheritance Tax
The inheritance tax is imposed on the privilege of receiving property that passes from a decedent and has a taxable situs in Maryland. Tangible property acquires a taxable situs in Maryland if it is physically located within the state. The inheritance tax is imposed on the transferee of property received on the death of a former owner. The tax is imposed at a rate of 10% on the value of property passing to non-exempt persons. The persons exempt from inheritance tax include a child or other lineal descendant, spouse of a child or other lineal descendant, spouse, parent, grandparent, stepchild or stepparent, siblings, or a corporation having only certain of these persons as stockholders. Charitable institutions are also exempt from inheritance tax.
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Oregon State stifles Washington State 62-47
foxsports Jan 17, 2015 at 11:21p ET
PULLMAN, Wash. (AP) The Oregon State Beavers lack depth, scoring and experience. What they do not lack is heart.
"They're playing their butts off. Really dialed in defensively," first-year coach Wayne Tinkle said after the Beavers held red-hot Washington State to 29.2 percent shooting from the floor in a 62-47 triumph Saturday night at Beasley Coliseum.
Junior guard Langston Morris-Walker posted career highs of 22 points and 11 rebounds for the Beavers (12-5, 3-2 Pac-12). Morris-Walker said Tinkle has inspired the troops in Oregon State's best start since going 15-2 in 1989-90.
"He always preaches, `If we're going to lose, it's not going to be because the other team played harder than us,"' Morris-Walker said.
Oregon State's zone defense gave the Cougars (9-8, 3-2) fits in their first outing since Thursday, when they scored 108 points in an overtime win against Oregon. WSU scored 10 fewer points in Saturday's entire game than they scored in the first half Thursday.
"They did a good job of executing that (defense)," Washington State star DaVonte Lacy said after scoring all of his team-high 16 points in the second half.
"Coach Tinkle, I like to think of him as a defensive guru," Morris-Walker said. "Him and his staff are great with us defensively."
The Beavers shot 48.8 percent from the field, outrebounded WSU 37-22 and had a 24-12 advantage in points in the paint. Oregon State silenced a season-high crowd of 5,116 by scoring the first six points of the first half and the first eight points of the second half. Lacy was slowed by a bruised right knee he suffered late in the Oregon game.
"Oregon State did an excellent job," WSU coach Ernie Kent said. "They are very well coached."
The Beavers led from the opening basket. The Cougars trailed 25-16 at the half, and when they narrowed Oregon State's lead to 46-39 with 4:57 to go, Morris-Walker quickly answered with a 3-pointer. Morris-Walker scored 19 points in the second half.
"Langston hit some big, big 3s for us," Tinkle said. "Super proud of him, and he earned it. He defended his tail off, rebounded well."
Tinkle said the Beavers stress the need for guards to rebound well when playing zone defense. Gary Payton, a 6-foot-3 guard, led the Beavers with 13 rebounds. He also had 13 points and a game-high five steals.
"Gary is an unbelievable rebounder," Tinkle said.
"Gary is one of the best rebounders I've ever played with," Morris-Walker said. "Any position."
Kent praised the "tremendous" crowd support, but the coach said his young team was "just not back where they needed to be" mentally after the thrilling victory over Oregon.
Oregon State: The Beavers have won four consecutive games against Washington State for the first time since a four-game run from 1999-2001.
Washington State: The Cougars, who were riding a three-game winning streak, have already tied their conference wins total from a year ago, and they're just one shy of last season's overall victory total. WSU finished 10-21 last season, including 3-15 in the Pac-12.
PAYTON POWER
Gary Payton II leads the Beavers with 11.8 points, 8.5 rebounds and 2.9 steals per game. The junior college transfer ranked second in NCAA Division I through Friday with 2.8 steals.
SHORTHANDED BEAVERS
The Beavers, already short on depth and scholarship players, played their second game without sixth man Victor Robbins. He's serving a 10-game suspension for a violation of athletic department policy. Robbins is Oregon State's third-leading scorer at 10.3.
Oregon State hosts UCLA on Thursday.
Washington State visits Utah on Wednesday.


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'Game Of Thrones' Sophie Turner Set For Branded Pictures Entertainment's 'Mary Shelley's Monster'
by Jen Yamato
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EXCLUSIVE: In a new take on the life and lore of Frankenstein authoress Mary Shelley, Game of Thrones' Sophie Turner has been cast as Shelley herself opposite Jeremy Irvine (War Horse, Stonewall) as Percy Shelley. Scripted by Deborah Baxtrom, Mary Shelley's Monster tracks the young writer as she writes her seminal novel and is drawn into a Faustian bargain with her own "monster" of an alter ego, who offers literary fame at a desperate personal cost. Taissa Farmiga (American Horror Story, The Bling Ring) is attached in a supporting role as Mary's stepsister Claire Clairmont.
The real Shelley first published her Gothic horror classic Frankenstein anonymously at the age of 21 after marrying the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley. Monster envisions her life as "the story of the most extraordinary 19th century teenage heroine told in a visceral, sexy, contemporary way," per producer Rose Ganguzza, who produced last year's Beat Generation drama Kill Your Darlings. "Our film is not a period drama. It is a story of youth that transcends time, a gothic romance, a love triangle that involves a dark passenger and we are tremendously excited to have such an exciting cast onboard this wonderful project."
Director Coky Giedroyc is helming after directing episodes of AMC's The Killing and Showtime's Penny Dreadful. Producers are Ganguzza, J Todd Harris (The Kids Are All Right), Damon Lane and Marc Marcum. Filming is slated to begin later this year in the UK and Malta. Turner is repped by CAA and Independent in the UK. Irvine is repped by CAA and Hatton McEwan Penford. Farmiga is repped by ICM Partners and Authentic Talent and Literary Management. Giedroyc is repped by UTA and Independent and Deborah Baxtrom is repped by ICM Partners and Zero Gravity Management.
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Graduates receive £10,000 to develop project
11 Oct 2016 12:00PM
A group of games designers in Ipswich have been awarded a £10,000 grant after competing in a national competition.
The graduates formed 'Miracle Tea Studios' after coming together at the Eastern Enterprise Hub to take part in the Tranzfuser project.
The competition tasks graduate games designers with creating a game from an initial £5,000 grant, before developing it and pitching to industry professionals in a dragons-den style presentation.
After successfully progressing through the initial round in Birmingham, Miracle Tea Studios won a £10,000 grant in the final at Edinburgh – which will allow the group to release the game in 2017.
Speaking to the Ipswich Star, graduate Tom said "I was pretty excited – I was watching my emails constantly all day. I saw one from the UK Games Fund, read the first line and it said congratulations so I knew it was good news."
Being based at the Eastern Enterprise Hub, the group was able to take advantage of guidance from university tutors and all the technology in place in a supportive environment.
Fellow graduate Bradley said "The lecturers here were giving advice that helped us look at the thing completely differently, and there were always messages back and forth."
Rob Kurta, course leader for computer games design at the University of Suffolk, said: "The games team at the University of Suffolk are very proud of the recognition our graduates have gained from the UK Games Fund. This is a major success story for indie game development in Ipswich and it is a testament to the hard work and dedication of the development team. We wish them every success in the project."
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Q: Javascript/Ajax - Manually remove event handler from a Sys.EventHandlerList() I have two script controls, one holds the other, and I have successfully been able to handle events from the child on the parent using:
initialize: function()
{
    this._autoComplete = $get(this._autoCompleteID);

    this._onAutoCompleteSelected = Function
      .createDelegate(this, this.handleAutoCompleteSelected);

    var autoControl = this._autoComplete.control;
    autoControl.addItemSelected(this._onAutoCompleteSelected);
    ...
}

Where addItemSelected(on the child) is:
addItemSelected: function(handler)
{

    list = this.getEvents();
    list.addHandler('userItemSelected', handler);

},

and getEvents is:
getEvents: function()
{

    if (this._events == null)
    {
        this._events = new Sys.EventHandlerList();
    }

    return this._events;
},

Problem is that on dispose of the parent, I want to do the same thing:
dispose: function()
{
    var autoControl = this._autoComplete.control;
    autoControl.removeItemSelected(this._onAutoCompleteSelected);
    ...
}

but, .control no longer exists.  I'm guessing this is because the child control has already been disposed and thus the .control property no longer works.
In light of this, I decided to run though the event list on the child and remove all the event handlers in it.
dispose: function()
{
    list = this.getEvents();
    for(var item in list._list)
    {
        var handler;

        handler = list.getHandler(item);

        list.removeHandler(item, handler);
    }

    ....
}

Is there a better way to do this?

A: I'm not sure that the "control" expando property on the DOM element is the right way to reference the control object. It is managed by the framework and as you're seeing, I think it's already munged by the time your dispose is called.
Have you tried using $find instead of $get and reworking your references this way?:
initialize: function()
{
    this._autoControl = $find(this._autoCompleteID);

    this._onAutoCompleteSelected = Function
      .createDelegate(this, this.handleAutoCompleteSelected);

    this._autoControl.addItemSelected(this._onAutoCompleteSelected);
}

dispose: function()
{
    this._autoControl.removeItemSelected(this._onAutoCompleteSelected);
    this._autoControl = null;
}

Oh yeah and where you reference the DOM element stored in this._autoComplete you instead go through the control object itself:
this._autoControl.get_element();

So basically invert the logic of "get element => get control object" to "get control object => get element".


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Q: How to switch to the new version of my website which is located in subdirectory of the old webste I have a new version of my old website. Old website is still alive and it resides in the root of my hosting. I have upladed the new version to the subdirectory /new_website. It works fine when I use: www.mydomain.com/new_website
Now I want to to redirect www.mydomain.com to /new_website.
How to do this using .htaccess?


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Sarasota man spends 3 days lost in swamp after losing arm in gator attack
by: Brittany Muller
Posted: Sep 7, 2022 / 05:27 PM EDT
Updated: Sep 8, 2022 / 07:15 PM EDT
"I came out the swamp, naked, with one arm," said Eric Merda. "I was reborn for a reason and I believe that is to motivate people."
MANATEE COUNTY, Fla. (WFLA) — A Sarasota man is re-adjusting to his life with only one arm after he was attacked by an alligator while swimming in Lake Manatee in July.
Eric Merda, 43, said he was reborn on July 17 when he lost his right arm to the gator. Now, he has a new calling in life.
Massive 'tail-gator' strapped to SUV on Florida highway
"I looked over and there was a gator and I went to swim like Olympic style swim and she grab my arm from the outside," Merda said.
The nearly seven-foot gator tore off Merda's right arm. He spent the next three days lost in the swamp.
"With a bone poking out a lot of pain the whole three days I was screaming at the top of my lungs," he recalled.
He found his way out and was airlifted to the hospital where doctors amputated what was left of the arm.
WATCH: Officer wrangles alligator outside Polk elementary school
"There's no way that this is real," he remembered thinking. "My arm is gone. I don't have an arm anymore. There's no way. I have to be dreaming or something."
Merda said he was given the opportunity to live and he had a choice to make.
"I came out the swamp, naked, with one arm," he said. "I was reborn for a reason and I believe that is to motivate people."
Merda plans to use his second chance to become a motivational speaker.
Florida Fish and Wildlife said a day after Merda was found, a contracted nuisance alligator trapper removed a six-foot and nine-foot gator from the lake.
So far this year, 22 alligator bite incidents have been reported to the Florida Fish and Wildlife. In 2021, a total of 21 bite incidents were reported to the FWC and nine were determined to involve an alligator and be unprovoked, according to the agency.


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Home » AO On Site- London: Joan Miro, "The Ladder of Escape" at Tate Modern through September 11th, 2011
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AO On Site- London: Joan Miro, "The Ladder of Escape" at Tate Modern through September 11th, 2011
All pictures by Caroline Claisse for Art Observed
Currently on view at Tate Modern is "Joan Miro: The Ladder of Escape" featuring over 150 paintings, sculptures, drawings, and prints in the first London retrospective of the renowned Surrealist artist in over fifty years. Working in a rich variety of styles, Juan Miro (1893-1983) is considered a precursor to Abstract Expressionism. He effectively combined his surrealist style with strong political views to create work which is all at once playful and socially thought-provoking.
Tate Director Chris Dercon, Grandson of Joan Miro, curators Marko Daniel and Matthew Gale
One of the most preeminent artists of the twentieth century, Joan Miro incorporated a language of symbols in his work that articulated his artistic vision and his profound concern for humanity and national identity. Works here, borrowed from major international collections, reflect his innocent imagery and free spirit and capture the artist's alongside the development of his artistic career.
At "The Ladder of Escape, " pivotal works from the artist's career are on display. One of his earliest works 'The Farm" (1921-2), is a vivid orange and blue rendering of a country farm which was once owned by Miro's friend Ernest Hemingway. Other works include "Head of a Catalan Peasant" (1924-5), a painting which the artist claimed came 'almost entirely from hallucination.' It nevertheless now known that he carefully copied this abstract rendition of a Catalan peasant's head wearing a red barratina hat symbolizing support for Catalan nationalism from a small preparatory drawing.
Miro worked in Barcelona and Paris and captured the political sentiments of the Spanish Civil War and the first months of the Second World War in France. Renowned works of protest include "Aidez l'Espagne" ("Help Spain") (1937) which features a man raising a large fist in defiance and later pieces such as "May 1968" and "Burnt Canvas II" (1973), which were blackened and set fire to in response to the political restrictions in Franco's Spain at the time of their creation.
"Our exhibition is built on new research that will offer a fresh understanding of his importance for those already familiar with his work," said Matthew Gale, co-curator of the exhibition in a recent interview with The New York Times. "Drawing upon recent scholarship, we look at his work in a wider historical context. In focusing primarily upon the years 1918-25, 1934-41 and 1968-75, we have sought to draw out the oscillation of Miró's sometimes uncomfortable confrontation with social and political concerns."
Marko Daniel
Figure (1934) Woman (1934)
Portrait of Vicens Nubiola (1917)
House with Palm Tree (1918)
Painting (The catalan) (1925)
Vegetable Garden and Donkey (1918)
Burnt Canvas (1973)
Head of a Catalan Peasant (1925)
The Hope of a Condemned Man I, II (1974)
Mural Painting I Yellow-Orange, Mural Painting II Green, Mural Painting III Red (1962)
Mural Painting I Yellow-Orange
Blue I, II, III (1961)
Painting (Figures and Constellations) (1949)
Naked Woman Going Upstairs (1937)
Painting (1936)
Head (1968)
The Red Sun Gnaws at the Spider (1948)
Fireworks I, II, III (1974)
His Highness the Prince (1974), Her Majesty the Queen (1974), His Majesty the King (1974)
-R.A. Proctor
Exhibition Page [Tate Modern]
Juan Miro, Tate Modern, Seven Magazine Review [The Telegraph]
Miro Show at Tate Has Fanciful Blobs, Squiggles, Turds: Review [Bloomberg]
Video: Juan Miro at the Tate Modern [The Huffington Post]
Juan Miro at Tate Modern [The Guardian]
Juan Miro, Tate Modern, London [The Independent]
Juan Miro Exhibition Comes to Tate Modern [BBC]
A Broad Look at Miro at London's Tate Modern [NY Times]
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Vegas is a destination that everyone should go to at least once. Of course, once you do go to Vegas, you will most likely be drawn back again at some point. It's a fantastic destination for a myriad of reasons – bachelor and bachelorette parties, weddings, and concerts among them. There's always something to do in Vegas, even if you aren't a big gambler.
For those of you considering a trip around the world, Vegas might be a great addition, particularly if you've never been there before. Part of the appeal of a RTW trip is going to places you've never been and seeing cities you have always wanted to see. If you are not from the US and planning on visiting, then Vegas is one of those quintessential destinations that really should be seen. If you are from the US and have yet to visit Las Vegas, then adding it to the beginning or end of your trip might be able to be done for cheap when it comes to plane tickets.
Adding Las Vegas to your round the world trip itinerary would give you a city that is unique and unlike anywhere else in the world, and isn't that one of the draws of long-term travel? There really is nothing like Vegas, and you may be surprised at what it has to offer. Sure, there's the gambling and shows, but there's also the food, lots and lots of great food all over the place. There are even plenty of free activities in Vegas in case you are on a tight budget, and there are also plenty of cheap hotel rooms. In fact, you can get a hotel room for as cheap as $30/night, which is nearly impossible in most other cities in the US. Add in the surrounding areas – like the Grand Canyon and Hoover Dam – and you have all the makings of a great addition to your trip.
If you are planning a RTW trip, consider Vegas as a possible destination. It can be a great transition from one country to the next, and there really isn't an experience like visiting Las Vegas.


Vosniadou, Stella. (Ed.). (2008) International Handbook of Research on Conceptual Change. Routledge.
Chi (2008): Chi, Michelene T. H. (2008) Three Types of Conceptual Change: Belief Revision, Mental Model Transformation, and Categorical Shift. In Vosniadou (Ed.) (2008), 61-82.


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Toyota invests $394 million in flying taxi startup Joby Aviation
Toyota Kinto combines leasing, car sharing and other services in Europe
Toyota is building an insane smart city near Mount Fuji
Latest in Collision
People are struggling to use Tesla's Smart Summon feature safely
SpaceX wouldn't move its satellite despite collision warning, ESA claims (updated)
Astronomers believe the young Milky Way once swallowed a dwarf galaxy
Tesla will perform most collision repairs 'in-house'
Toyota's new crash-avoidance technology takes control of the wheel
Donald Melanson, @donmelanson
Crash-avoidance technology in cars is hardly anything new, of course, but Toyota's gone a bit further than most with its latest effort. While complete details are still a bit light (including any word of an actual rollout to vehicles), the new system is said to use a combination of both front and rear cameras, and millimeter wave radar technology to detect pedestrians or obstacles that could lead to a crash. The real kicker, however, is that when the car does detect a possible collision, it actually takes control of the wheel to avoid it instead of just stopping the vehicle. What's more, that's just one new safety measure that Toyota recently showed off to reporters in Tokyo -- it's also working on things like a pop-up hood that could provide some additional protection in the event of a crash, and a steering wheel that can measure the driver's heartbeat and avoid a crash if they suffer a heart attack.
In this article: collision, collision avoidance, CollisionAvoidance, crash, crash avoidance, CrashAvoidance, millimeter wave, millimeter wave radar, millimeter-wave, MillimeterWave, MillimeterWaveRadar, radar, steering, steering wheel, SteeringWheel, toyota


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Q: Delete a specific Intellisense suggestion in VS Code Intellisense sometimes comes up with irrelevant suggestions that I will never use in my project. Those can get in the way of the valuable other suggestions.
They also prevent VS Code features like "Add all missing imports" from working.
For example:

The first DocumentType is a low-level module that I will never use.
The second is one that I need in most of my files.
So how can I get rid of the first one?
Related (obsolete and unanswered) questions:

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*VS Code intellisense remove some suggestions

*Disable specific autocomplete suggestion in Visual Studio 2013

A: You cannot disable specific IntelliSense completion options, however, there are a few other relevant caveats.
Answer to not your question: You can filter whole classes of keywords with the editor setting editor.suggest.filteredTypes. See more about this here.
IntelliSense does not allow you to configure or filter specific keywords. The list of all IntelliSense options is here. It also appears this is impossible with other major options. For example, the language server protocol does not support this(GitHub thread abt this). That being said, there is a plethora of autocomplete extensions and I'm certain this feature exists for some.
Something like intellicode might also be an answer, as it will look through other files you've edited to try to learn your practices.
If you're 100% sold on IntelliSense, and you're willing to sink several hours into this, you could set up a discrete language server, and then use something like this to filter completions as they are sent to the editor. While this would work, I think it's a terrible idea.

A: After spending several hours with no satisfying result, I created my own IntelliSense snippets. I used another keyword to make sure, it will show on top.
I used the Easy Snippet plugin for this.


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Nel gioco del cricket un over è una frazione di gioco caratterizzata da una sequenza di lanci validi eseguiti da un unico lanciatore verso il battitore situato sul lato opposto del pitch.

Attualmente in tutte le forme di cricket un over è una sequenza di sei lanci validi (sono quindi esclusi dal computo eventuali wide, no ball, ecc.) eseguiti da un unico lanciatore designato dal capitano della squadra al lancio verso il battitore della squadra in battuta situato dal lato opposto del pitch. Lover deve il suo nome al fatto che si tratta della parola pronunciata dall'arbitro dopo il sesto lancio valido per indicare che la squadra al lancio deve cambiare il lanciatore.

Dopo l'avvicendamento dei lanciatori la partita riprende con un altro over in cui i lanci però dovranno necessariamente essere effettuati dal lato opposto a quello precedente (e quindi diretti verso il lato precedentemente usato dal lanciatore dell'over concluso). La sequenza di lanci deve essere eseguita obbligatoriamente da un solo lanciatore, è prevista la sua sostituzione per l'over in corso solo ed esclusivamente nel caso in cui un lanciatore non possa completare l'over in corso per infortunio o perché allontanato da un arbitro per comportamento scorretto.

Come detto nel caso il lanciatore commetta dei lanci non validi, questi non saranno conteggiati nel computo per terminare l'over, e l'arbitro assegnerà un numero variabile di runs (penalty runs).

Storia
Sin dalla stagione 1979/80 tutti gli overs del test cricket sono caratterizzati da sei lanci. In precedenza le regole sono variate più volte a seconda del luogo e della competizione.

Inghilterra
 1880: 4
 1889: 5
 1900: 6
 1939: 8
 1946: 6

Australia
 1876/77: 4
 1891/92: 6
 1924/25: 8
 1928/29: 6
 1936/37: 8
 1979/80: 6

Sudafrica
 1888/89: 4
 1891/92: 5
 1902/03: 6
 1938/39: 8
 1961/62: 6

Nuova Zelanda
 1929/30: 6
 1968/69: 8
 1979/80: 6

Pakistan
 1954/55: 6
 1974/75: 8
 1978/79: 6

In India, Indie Occidentali Britanniche, Sri Lanka, Zimbabwe, Bangladesh si sono sempre disputati su 6 lanci.

Record
 Il record di runs marcate in un solo over appartiene al sudafricano Herschelle Gibbs, che in una partita ODI realizzò un over perfetto marcando 36 runs, ovvero 6-6-6-6-6-6 il massimo ottenibile. A livello di Test cricket il record è 28 ed è condiviso tra il caraibico Brian Lara (4–6–6–4–4–4) e l'australiano George Bailey (4–6–2–4–6–6)
 Per quanto riguarda i lanciatori, il record di wicket ottenuti in un singolo over appartiene al singalese Lasith Malinga con 4 wicket consecutivi.

Collegamenti esterni

Terminologia del cricket

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Fongoli Savanna Chimpanzee Project
From Apeswiki
SITE UNDER PROGRESS
2 Site characteristics
3 Ape status
4 Threats
5 Conservation activities
6 Impediments
7 Research activities
The Fongoli Savanna Chimpanzee Project (hereafter referred to as the FSCP) was first surveyed in 2000 by Dr. Jill Pruetz, and subsequently a research station was established in 2001. The FSCP habitat is described as sudano-guniean mosaic habitat, including gallery forest, open and closed woodlands, grassland savannas, open plateaus, ecotone, and other habitat types. The climate of the FSCP site is relatively extreme (Wessling et al. 2018b), with an average of 945mm rainfall per year (FSCP longterm database) a nine-month dry season, and an average daily maximum temperature of 37deg C (Wessling et al. 2018a). Possibly due to these environmental extremes, the FSCP site is located in the northwestern limit of the western chimpanzee biogeographical range. Interesting insights from FSCP research has illuminated unique behaviors demonstrated by savanna chimpanzees, including cave use, pool use, and tool assisted hunting (see Behaviors section below).
The FSCP was founded in 2001 by Dr. Jill Pruetz (Texas State University, USA) following initial surveying conducted by Dr. Pruetz and her collaborators (Pruetz et al. 2002). The Fongoli site was selected for the creation of a long-term research site based on it's high density of chimpanzee nests relative to other locations in the Kedougou Region of Senegal. Habituation efforts were underway from 2001-2005, until in 2005 all male individuals of the community were fully habituated and research effort intensified.
The FSCP (12°40'N, 12°13'W) is located within the Tomboronkoto Arrondissement of the Kedougou Region (southeastern Senegal) and is managed by the Departement des Eaux et Forets des Chasses de Senegal. The project area encompasses an area of approximately 100km² (the size of the Fongoli chimpanzee community home range). A number of villages surround the community, including a number of ethnic groups (Bassari, Bedik, Pulaar, and Malinke; Pruetz 2013).
Table 1: Basic site information for the FSCP
Area: 100km2
Designation: Long-term research site (non-protected area)
Habitat types: IUCN category: Moist Savanna
[IUCN habitat categories] [IUCN Protected area categories]
Ape status
Initial surveying of Fongoli suggested the Fongoli area (identified in Pruetz et al. 2002 as Tomboronkoto) to be of highest chimpanzee for the region, with a chimpanzee encounter rate of 285 chimpanzee signs per 5.8 km walked. To date, no formal surveying has been conducted in Senegal to confirm true abundance estimates relative to other sites. However, as of 2018 32 individuals belong to the research community, although it has varied in size from X to X since 2005. Surrounding communities to the northwest have been estimated to be between 9 and 18 individuals, at a similar estimated density as that observed at Fongoli (Micheletti 2018), although no abundance estimates were provided.
Traditionally, resource extraction (e.g., Saba senegalensis fruits, Khaya senegalensis and Pterocarpus erinaceus wood) has been the predominant threat to chimpanzee habitats in Senegal, and these threats have been previously studied at Fongoli (e.g., Clavette X, Mara X). Chimpanzees in the region are not a hunted species but in 2009 a hunter opportunistically captured an infant chimpanzee from the research community after injuring its mother (Pruetz and Kante 2010). The hunter attempted to sell the infant as a pet before it was confiscated and returned to its natal community. Therefore, it appears that chimpanzees at Fongoli and in the region in general are vulnerable to opportunistic hunting.
More recently, artisinal gold minign has increased anthropogenic pressure on Fongoli chimpanzees, as several mining sites have opened within the FSCP territory. Along with increased exposure to toxins (e.g., mercury) in the environment, artisinal mining has also been shown to have an impact on movement patterns of the chimpanzees.
Threats present: poaching, agriculture, logging, artisinal and industral
Threats list
Table 2: Threats to great apes in Fongoli
Major Threats
Poaching low, but present chimpanzees are not targeted but have been confiscated opportunistically
Disease low Fongoli chimpanzees appear to have low parasite loads (from Howells et al. X)
Agriculture high the Fongoli community home range is interspersed with agricultural fields, the local population is predominately subsistence agriculturalists
Logging low Certain key species are targeted for logging, but extraction level has been minimal
Mining high artisinal gold mining is a severe and growing threat to all chimpanzees in the Region
Conservation activities
Neighbor Ape was founded by Dr. Pruetz as a means of supporting local communities surrounding the FSCP (link). The charity has undertaken a varied number of approaches towards supporting these communities, including funding individual and village-wide health projects, school fees and supplies, and other education-related endeavors such as founding a housing project to support students from local villages (OBRAR: link). Other conservation activities include....
Conservation activities present: e.g. radio campaign, aquaculture project....
Conservation activities list
Table 3: Conservation activities in !!! insert site name !!!
Conservation actions
Law Enforcement no non-protected area, although hunting restrictions by the Dept. des Eaux et Forets are in place
Long-term Research yes since 2005
Permanent Monitoring Program no
Education no
Public Awareness Campaign yes intermittent programs through FSCP-associated organization Neighbor Ape
Ecotourism no
Impediments
Artisinal gold mining is a challenging threat to overcome to chimpanzee conservation at FSCP, as it is viewed by the local population as a significant means of income. Likewise, agricultural production within and surrounding the FSCP is a traditional means of sustaining the local population (commonly subsistence farmers), and therefore is unlikely to be eradicated.
Impediments present: e.g. poverty, lack of alternative livelihoods....
Impediments list
The FSCP site was first surveyed in 199 as part of larger-scale surveying in the region (Pruetz et al., 2002). Since then, the FSCP community has been under continuous research since 2001, with all males of the community habituated to researcher presence since 2005. Research at Fongoli has been predominately behavioral (see below), although ecological (Bogart and Pruetz 2011), endocrinological (Wessling et al. 2018a,b), and isotopic research (Sponheimer et al. 2006) have also been conducted there. Research activities have also recently extended to neighboring chimpanzee communities (e.g. X).
Table 4: Great ape population estimates at the FSCP
Number of Individuals (or present/absent)
95% C.I.s
Western chimpanzee 2000 49.1 signs / km (present) NA Pruetz et al. 2002 Recce survey
Western chimpanzee 2018 0.32 / km2 NA Known chimpanzee density; FSCP long-term data Research community
Documented (exceptional) behaviours:
Tool-assisted hunting (Pruetz and Bertolani 2007, Pruetz et al. 2015)
Cave use (Pruetz 2002, Pruetz 2007)
Coprophagy (Pruetz and Bertolani 2012)
Pool use (Pruetz and Bertolani 2009)
See Behaviour list
Relevant datasets: A.P.E.S Portal
Clavette et al X
Boyer Ontl 2017
Pruetz and Kante 2010
Bertolani, P., & Pruetz, J. D. (2011). Seed Reingestion in Savannah Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes verus) at Fongoli, Senegal. International Journal of Primatology, 32(5), 1123-1132. doi:10.1007/s10764-011-9528-5
Bogart, S. L., & Pruetz, J. D. (2008). Ecological context of savanna chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes verus) termite fishing at Fongoli, Senegal. Am J Primatol, 70(6), 605-612.
Bogart, S. L., & Pruetz, J. D. (2011). Insectivory of savanna chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes verus) at Fongoli, Senegal. American journal of physical anthropology, 145(1), 11-20. doi:10.1002/ajpa.21452
Howells, M. E., Pruetz, J., & Gillespie, T. R. (2011). Patterns of gastro-intestinal parasites and commensals as an index of population and ecosystem health: the case of sympatric western chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes verus) and guinea baboons (Papio hamadryas papio) at Fongoli, Senegal. Am J Primatol, 73(2), 173-179. doi:10.1002/ajp.20884
Micheletti, K. (2018) Influence of human disturbance on Western Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes verus) nesting behavior in a savanna mosaic habitat, southeastern Senegal. Iowa State University, Ames, IA, USA. Masters Thesis.
Pruetz, J. (2001). Note: Use of Caves by Savanna Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes verus) in the Tomboronkoto Region of Southeastern Senegal. 8(2).
Pruetz, J., & Bertolani, P. (2007). Savanna chimpanzees, Pan troglodytes verus, hunt with tools. Current Biology, 17, 1-6.
Pruetz, J., & Bertolani, P. (2009). Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes verus) behavioral responses to stresses associated with living in a savannah-mosaic environment: Implications for hominin adaptations to open habitats. PaleoAnthropology, 2009, 252-262. doi:10.4207/pa.2009.art33
Pruetz, J. D. (2007). Evidence of cave use by savanna chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes verus) at Fongoli, Senegal: implications for thermoregulatory behavior. Primates, 48(4), 316-319. doi:10.1007/s10329-007-0038-1
Pruetz, J. D. (2013). Studying Apes in a Human Landscape. In K. B. Strier (Ed.), Primate Ethnographies: Pearson Publishers.
Pruetz, J. D. (2018). Nocturnal behavior by a diurnal ape, the West African chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes verus), in a savanna environment at Fongoli, Senegal. American journal of physical anthropology.
Pruetz, J. D., Bertolani, P., Boyer Ontl, K., Lindshield, S., Shelley, M., & Wessling, E. (2015). New evidence on the tool-assisted hunting exhibited by chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes verus) in a savannah habitat at Fongoli, Sénégal. Royal Society Open Science, 2(4), 140507.
Pruetz, J. D., Marchant, L. F., Arno, J., & McGrew, W. C. (2002). Survey of savanna chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes verus) in Southeastern Senegal. Am J Primatol, 58(1), 35-43. doi:10.1002/ajp.10035
Pruetz, J. D., Ontl, K. B., Cleaveland, E., Lindshield, S., Marshack, J., & Wessling, E. G. (2017). Intragroup lethal aggression in West African chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes verus): Inferred killing of a former alpha male at Fongoli, Senegal. International Journal of Primatology, 38(1), 31-57.
Skinner, M. F., & Pruetz, J. D. (2012). Reconstruction of periodicity of repetitive linear enamel hypoplasia from perikymata counts on imbricational enamel among dry‐adapted chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes verus) from Fongoli, Senegal. American journal of physical anthropology, 149(3), 468-482.
Sponheimer, M., Loudon, J. E., Codron, D., Howells, M. E., Pruetz, J. D., Codron, J., . . . Lee-Thorp, J. A. (2006). Do "savanna" chimpanzees consume C4 resources? Journal of Human Evolution, 51(2), 128-133. doi:10.1016/j.jhevol.2006.02.002
Wessling, E. G., Deschner, T., Mundry, R., Pruetz, J. D., Wittig, R. M., & Kuehl, H. S. (2018). Seasonal Variation in Physiology Challenges the Notion of Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes verus) as a Forest-Adapted Species. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 6, 60.* Wessling, E. G., Kühl, H. S., Mundry, R., Deschner, T., & Pruetz, J. D. (2018). The costs of living at the edge: Seasonal stress in wild savanna-dwelling chimpanzees. Journal of Human Evolution.
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Can Nasal Sprays Actually Worsen Allergy Symptoms?
When you've got a little tickle in your nose, do you reach for an allergy nasal spray? What if that nasal spray that you use each time you get a sniffle or sneeze is not good for you? What if, in fact, you've become addicted to it?
Urgent care clinics like Popcareplus in Franklin are warning nasal spray users about the dangers of rebound congestion from, and addiction to decongestant allergy nasal sprays.
The active ingredients in nasal sprays help to reduce swelling in nasal tissues that are irritated by a sinusitis or allergy. They offer quick relief (seconds to minutes) with a cool blast of air and medicine, and continue that relief throughout the day. However, after many days of use, the nasal sprays actually have the opposite effect – they create rebound congestion that can only be relieved with the spray, which in turn causes more swelling of the nasal tissue and so on.
After multiple days of prolonged nasal spray use, particularly with sprays like Afrin the decongestant cause your nasal tissues to become more inflamed, even when your sinus infection or initial allergy has passed. Ronald H. Saff, M.D.of the Allergy & Asthma Diagnostic Treatment Center in Tallahassee, Florida, told the Huffington Post that chronic users experience, "A rebound where the nasal congestion is actually worse than before you administered the spray." They can also increase frequency and severity of headaches, increase blood pressure, and in very rare cases may perforate the septum.


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Swift Move
Bruce Swift, formerly chief operating officer and president of Covisint LLC, takes over as CEO and chairman of the automotive Internet exchange as Harold Kutner retires for a second time. After much hard work, I am now comfortable and confident that Covisint is strategically on track to fulfill its mission and achieve financial success by delivering value to its customers, says Kutner, the former
Bruce Swift, formerly chief operating officer and president of Covisint LLC, takes over as CEO and chairman of the automotive Internet exchange as Harold Kutner retires for a second time.
"After much hard work, I am now comfortable and confident that Covisint is strategically on track to fulfill its mission and achieve financial success by delivering value to its customers," says Kutner, the former General Motors Corp. purchasing chief who came to Covisint last year after retiring from GM. Kutner helped create Covisint in 2000.
Swift assumes an enormous task: to convince the auto industry, specifically suppliers, that it needs a virtual marketplace and auction house for parts and supplies, and that Covisint should administer it. Covisint had high hopes of becoming a highly-valued public company, but the business model remains unproven.
At the same time, Covisint opens a new 65,000-sq.-ft. (6,039-sq.-m) headquarters on Lahser Road in Southfield, MI, moving from its previous Southfield location along Northwestern Hwy.
The new building has capacity for 400 workers, but Covisint's 7-year lease has an option for an additional 15,000 sq.-ft. (1,394 sq.-m) of space if it needs to expand.
In January 2002, Covisint said it would locate its headquarters in a 9-story building recently completed in Southfield. Covisint was to occupy the first four stories of the building. That deal fell through when Covisint officials decided not to sign the lease.


This is the ceramic-bearing version of Wheels Manufacturing's external bearing bottom bracket. It's suitable for use with all Shimano and Race Face cranks and some, though not all, FSA cranks (those with a tapered axle will not work). It comes with spacers so it can be used on 68 or 73mm BB shells.
Ceramic ball bearings are harder than steel ones (roughly double on the Vickers hardness rating). They also generally have a smoother surface finish and up to 40 percent lighter weight than comparable steel balls.
The harder nature of the ceramic bearings means they're less likely to deform under load and thus will retain their roundness – with the rule of thumb being 'the rounder the better' for any ball bearing.
A smoother surface means less power-robbing friction, and lighter weight means less force is required to make the bearing move and also less energy to propel the unit forwards.
What you feel is a temporary sense of the cranks spinning more freely – that is, until you become desensitised to the feeling. After that, riding is the same hard work it always was.
The reality is that it's taking you a fraction less energy to spin the cranks just once, and those fractions soon add up, though it must be said the effect works as much on your state of mind – knowing everything is as smooth running as it can be – as it does on extending your actual physical ability.


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Triton is the world's most murderous malware, and it's spreading – MIT Technology Review
As an experienced cyber first responder, Julian Gutmanis had been called plenty of times before to help companies deal with the fallout from cyberattacks. But when the Australian security consultant was summoned to a petrochemical plant in Saudi Arabia in the summer of 2017, what he found made his blood run cold.
The hackers had deployed malicious software, or malware, that let them take over the plant's safety instrumented systems. These physical controllers and their associated software are the last line of defense against life-threatening disasters. They are supposed to kick in if they detect dangerous conditions, returning processes to safe levels or shutting them down altogether by triggering things like shutoff valves and pressure-release mechanisms.
The malware made it possible to take over these systems remotely. Had the intruders disabled or tampered with them, and then used other software to make equipment at the plant malfunction, the consequences could have been catastrophic. Fortunately, a flaw in the code gave the hackers away before they could do any harm. It triggered a response from a safety system in June 2017, which brought the plant to a halt. Then in August, several more systems were tripped, causing another shutdown.
The first outage was mistakenly attributed to a mechanical glitch; after the second, the plant's owners called in investigators. The sleuths found the malware, which has since been dubbed "Triton" (or sometimes "Trisis") for the Triconex safety controller model that it targeted, which is made by Schneider Electric, a French company.
In a worst-case scenario, the rogue code could have led to the release of toxic hydrogen sulfide gas or caused explosions, putting lives at risk both at the facility and in the surrounding area.
Gutmanis recalls that dealing with the malware at the petrochemical plant, which had been restarted after the second incident, was a nerve-racking experience. "We knew that we couldn't rely on the integrity of the safety systems," he says. "It was about as bad as it could get."
In attacking the plant, the hackers crossed a terrifying Rubicon. This was the first time the cybersecurity world had seen code deliberately designed to put lives at risk. Safety instrumented systems aren't just found in petrochemical plants; they're also the last line of defense in everything from transportation systems to water treatment facilities to nuclear power stations.
Triton's discovery raises questions about how the hackers were able to get into these critical systems. It also comes at a time when industrial facilities are embedding connectivity in all kinds of equipment—a phenomenon known as the industrial internet of things. This connectivity lets workers remotely monitor equipment and rapidly gather data so they can make operations more efficient, but it also gives hackers more potential targets.
Those behind Triton are now on the hunt for new victims. Dragos, a firm that specializes in industrial cybersecurity, and where Gutmanis now works, says it's seen evidence over the past year or so that the hacking group that built the malware and inserted it into the Saudi plant is using some of the same digital tradecraft to research targets in places outside the Middle East, including North America. And it's creating new strains of the code in order to compromise a broader range of safety instrumented systems.
News of Triton's existence was revealed in December 2017, though the identity of the plant's owner has been kept secret. (Gutmanis and other experts involved in the initial investigation decline to name the company because they fear doing so might dissuade future targets from sharing information about cyberattacks privately with security researchers.)
Some notable cyber-physical threats
2010 💥 StuxnetDeveloped by America's National Security Agency, working in conjunction with Israeli intelligence, the malware was a computer worm, or code that replicates itself from computer to computer without human intervention. Most likely smuggled in on a USB stick, it targeted programmable logic controllers which govern automated processes, and caused the destruction of centrifuges used in the enrichment of uranium at a facility in Iran.
2013 🕵♂ HavexHavex was designed to snoop on systems controlling industrial equipment, presumably so that hackers could work out how to mount attacks on the gear. The code was a remote access Trojan, or RAT, which is cyber-speak for software that lets hackers take control of computers remotely. Havex targeted thousands of US, European, and Canadian businesses, and especially ones in the energy and petrochemical industries.
2015 ⚡ BlackEnergyBlackEnergy, which is another Trojan, had been circulating in the criminal underworld for a while before it was adapted by Russian hackers to launch an attack in December 2015 on several Ukranian power companies that helped trigger blackouts. The malware was used to gather intelligence about the power companies' systems, and to steal log-in credentials from employees.
2016 ⚡ CrashOverrideAlso known as Industroyer, this was developed by Russian cyber warriors too, who used it to mount an attack on a part of Ukraine's electrical grid in December 2016. The malware replicated the protocols, or communications languages, that different elements of a grid used to talk to one another. This let it do things like show that a circuit breaker is closed when it's really open. The code was used to strike an electrical transmission substation in Kiev, blacking out part of the city for a short time.
Over the past couple of years, cybersecurity firms have been racing to deconstruct the malware—and to work out who's behind it. Their research paints a worrying picture of a sophisticated cyberweapon built and deployed by a determined and patient hacking group whose identity has yet to be established with certainty.
The hackers appear to have been inside the petrochemical company's corporate IT network since 2014. From there, they eventually found a way into the plant's own network, most likely through a hole in a poorly configured digital firewall that was supposed to stop unauthorized access. They then got into an engineering workstation, either by exploiting an unpatched flaw in its Windows code or by intercepting an employee's login credentials.
Since the workstation communicated with the plant's safety instrumented systems, the hackers were able to learn the make and model of the systems' hardware controllers, as well as the versions of their firmware—software that's embedded in a device's memory and governs how it communicates with other things.
It's likely they next acquired an identical Schneider machine and used it to test the malware they developed. This made it possible to mimic the protocol, or set of digital rules, that the engineering workstation used to communicate with the safety systems. The hackers also found a "zero-day vulnerability", or previously unknown bug, in the Triconex model's firmware. This let them inject code into the safety systems' memories that ensured they could access the controllers whenever they wanted to.
Thus, the intruders could have ordered the safety instrumented systems to disable themselves and then used other malware to trigger an unsafe situation at the plant.
The results could have been horrific. The world's worst industrial disaster to date also involved a leak of poisonous gases. In December 1984 a Union Carbide pesticide plant in Bhopal, India, released a vast cloud of toxic fumes, killing thousands and causing severe injuries to many more. The cause that time was poor maintenance and human error. But malfunctioning and inoperable safety systems at the plant meant that its last line of defense failed.
More red alerts
There have been only a few previous examples of hackers using cyberspace to try to disrupt the physical world. They include Stuxnet, which caused hundreds of centrifuges at an Iranian nuclear plant to spin out of control and destroy themselves in 2010, and CrashOverride, which Russian hackers used in 2016 to strike at Ukraine's power grid. (Our sidebar provides a summary of these and other notable cyber-physical attacks.)
However, not even the most pessimistic of cyber-Cassandras saw malware like Triton coming. "Targeting safety systems just seemed to be off limits morally and really hard to do technically," explains Joe Slowik, a former information warfare officer in the US Navy, who also works at Dragos.
Other experts were also shocked when they saw news of the killer code. "Even with Stuxnet and other malware, there was never a blatant, flat-out intent to hurt people," says Bradford Hegrat, a consultant at Accenture who specializes in industrial cybersecurity.
It's almost certainly no coincidence that the malware appeared just as hackers from countries like Russia, Iran, and North Korea stepped up their probing of "critical infrastructure" sectors vital to the smooth running of modern economies, such as oil and gas companies, electrical utilities, and transport networks.
In a speech last year, Dan Coats, the US director of national intelligence, warned that the danger of a crippling cyberattack on critical American infrastructure was growing. He drew a parallel with the increased cyber chatter US intelligence agencies detected among terrorist groups before the World Trade Center attack in 2001. "Here we are nearly two decades later, and I'm here to say the warning lights are blinking red again," said Coats. "Today, the digital infrastructure that serves this country is literally under attack."
At first, Triton was widely thought to be the work of Iran, given that it and Saudi Arabia are archenemies. But cyber-whodunnits are rarely straightforward. In a report published last October, FireEye, a cybersecurity firm that was called in at the very beginning of the Triton investigation, fingered a different culprit: Russia.
The hackers behind Triton had tested elements of the code used during the intrusion to make it harder for antivirus programs to detect. FireEye's researchers found a digital file they had left behind on the petrochemical company's network, and they were then able to track down other files from the same test bed. These contained several names in Cyrillic characters, as well as an IP address that had been used to launch operations linked to the malware.
That address was registered to the Central Scientific Research Institute of Chemistry and Mechanics in Moscow, a government-owned organization with divisions that focus on critical infrastructure and industrial safety. FireEye also said it had found evidence that pointed to the involvement of a professor at the institute, though it didn't name the person. Nevertheless, the report noted that FireEye hadn't found specific evidence proving definitively that the institute had developed Triton.
Researchers are still digging into the malware's origins, so more theories about who's behind it may yet emerge. Gutmanis, meanwhile, is keen to help companies learn important lessons from his experience at the Saudi plant. In a presentation at the S4X19 industrial security conference in January, he outlined a number of them. They included the fact that the victim of the Triton attack had ignored multiple antivirus alarms triggered by the malware, and that it had failed to spot some unusual traffic across its networks. Workers at the plant had also left physical keys that control settings on Triconex systems in a position that allowed the machines' software to be accessed remotely.
Triton: a timeline
2014Hackers gain access to network of Saudi plant
June 2017First plant shutdown
August 2017Second plant shutdown
December 2017Cyberattack made public
October 2018Fireeye says Triton most likely built in Russian lab
January 2019More details emerge of Triton incident response
If that makes the Saudi business sound like a security basket case, Gutmanis says it isn't. "I've been into a lot of plants in the US that were nowhere near as mature [in their approach to cybersecurity] as this organization was," he explains.
Other experts note that Triton shows government hackers are now willing to go after even relatively obscure and hard-to-crack targets in industrial facilities. Safety instrumented systems are highly tailored to safeguard different kinds of processes, so crafting malware to control them involves a great deal of time and painstaking effort. Schneider Electric's Triconex controller, for instance, comes in dozens of different models, and each of these could be loaded with different versions of firmware.
That hackers went to such great lengths to develop Triton has been a wake-up call for Schneider and other makers of safety instrumented systems—companies like Emerson in the US and Yokogawa in Japan. Schneider has drawn praise for publicly sharing details of how the hackers targeted its Triconex model at the Saudi plant, including highlighting the zero-day bug that has since been patched. But during his January presentation, Gutmanis criticized the firm for failing to communicate enough with investigators in the immediate aftermath of the attack.
Schneider responded by saying it had cooperated fully with the company whose plant was targeted, as well as with the US Department of Homeland Security and other agencies involved in investigating Triton. It has hired more people since the event to help it respond to future incidents, and has also beefed up the security of the firmware and protocols used in its devices.
Andrew Kling, a Schneider executive, says an important lesson from Triton's discovery is that industrial companies and equipment manufacturers need to focus even more on areas that may seem like highly unlikely targets for hackers but could cause disaster if compromised. These include things like software applications that are rarely used and older protocols that govern machine-to-machine communication. "You may think nobody's ever going to bother breaking [an] obscure protocol that's not even documented," Kling says, "but you need to ask, what are the consequences if they do?"
An analog future?
Over the past decade or so, companies have been adding internet connectivity and sensors to all kinds of industrial equipment. The data captured is being used for everything from predictive maintenance—which means using machine-learning models to better anticipate when equipment needs servicing—to fine-tuning production processes. There's also been a big push to control processes remotely through things like smartphones and tablets.
All this can make businesses much more efficient and productive, which explains why they are expected to spend around $42 billion this year on industrial internet gear such as smart sensors and automated control systems, according to the ARC Group, which tracks the market. But the risks are also clear: the more connected equipment there is, the more targets hackers have to aim at.
To keep attackers out, industrial companies typically rely on a strategy known as "defense in depth." This means creating multiple layers of security, starting with firewalls to separate corporate networks from the internet. Other layers are intended to prevent hackers who do get in from accessing plant networks and then industrial control systems.
These defenses also include things like antivirus tools to spot malware and, increasingly, artificial-intelligence software that tries to spot anomalous behavior inside IT systems. Then, as the ultimate backstop, there are the safety instrumented systems and physical fail-safes. The most critical systems typically have multiple physical backups to guard against the failure of any one element.
The strategy has proved robust. But the rise of nation-state hackers with the time, money, and motivation to target critical infrastructure, as well as the increasing use of internet-connected systems, means the past may well not be a reliable guide to the future.
Russia, in particular, has shown that it's willing to weaponize software and deploy it against physical targets in Ukraine, which it has used as a testing ground for its cyber arms kit. And Triton's deployment in Saudi Arabia shows that determined hackers will spend years of prodding and probing to find ways to drill through all those defensive layers.
Fortunately, the Saudi plant's attackers were intercepted, and we now know a great deal more about how they worked. But it's a sobering reminder that, just like other developers, hackers make mistakes too. What if the bug they inadvertently introduced, instead of triggering a safe shutdown, had disabled the plant's safety systems just when a human error or other mistake had caused one of the critical processes in the plant to go haywire? The result could have been a catastrophe even if the hackers hadn't intended to cause it.
Experts at places like the US's Idaho National Laboratory are urging companies to revisit all their operations in the light of Triton and other cyber-physical threats, and to radically reduce, or eliminate, the digital pathways hackers could use to get to critical processes.
Businesses may chafe at the costs of doing that, but Triton is a reminder that the risks are increasing. Gutmanis thinks more attacks using the world's most murderous malware are all but inevitable. "While this was the first," he says, "I'd be surprised if it turns out to be the last."
Article link: https://www.technologyreview.com/s/613054/cybersecurity-critical-infrastructure-triton-malware/amp/
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Michelle Obama sends letter to Laura Bush
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By Christina Bellantoni The Washington Times - June 18, 2008, 11:24AM
Are the current First Lady and the FLOTUS hopeful pen pals?
Michelle Obama, currently co-hosting "The View" on ABC and wearing a dress from trendy White House Black Market, just told the ladies that she sent a letter of appreciation to Laura Bush when the first lady came to her defense over comments about her pride in the United States.
"i was touched by it," Obama said when the ladies discussed how the first lady said the media was blowing the "proud" comments out of proportion.
"That's what I like about Laura Bush - [she takes] a calm, rational approach to those issues," she added.
Obama said she didn't want to talk about the note because "She might not have it yet," but grinned when saying she'd addressed the letter to "Dear Madame First Lady."
What's interesting is the ladies on The View showed a clip of the remark that was not the clip that sparked the furor. Obama said a version of the phrase twice that day. Here's a clip comparing the two remarks:
The View showed the second clip, with the phrase "really proud," and portrayed the remark as if anyone who cited the first speech was twisting Obama's words.
"I am proud of my country, without a doubt," Obama said today.
She also was asked if Sen. Hillary Clinton experienced sexism during the campaign, and she said there were elements of that present in the media.
"People aren't used to strong women," she said, adopting Clinton's own line about her run creating "18 million cracks" on the glass ceiling.
"We need to keep pushing it and pushing … [and sometimes] take the risks and its paniful and it's hurtful," she said.
— Christina Bellantoni, national political reporter,
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It has recently been brought to our attention that employers who withhold Indiana State Tax for more than 25 employees must report electronically to the Indiana Department of Revenue for tax year 2010. Employers that have 25 or less employees with Indiana withholding can continue to report on paper.
See http://www.in.gov/dor/4455.htm for further details.
USPS does not directly support the electronic reporting of Indiana State Tax, so submission of an EFW2 tape in the format required by Indiana is not possible for USPS users.
However, Indiana does have an online application in place called INtax that allows for the keying and electronic reporting of 25 - 2000 W2s. In order to use this system employers must register with The State of Indiana before 12-31-2010.
Please visit https://www.intax.in.gov/Web/Security/login.aspx for further information on the INtax system and for details on how to signup.
We wanted to make sure all ITCs were aware of this change since the 12-31-2010 registration deadline is fast approaching.
If employers have more than 25 employees and do not report electronically Indiana imposes a $10.00 per W2 fine.
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General Electric to Buy France's Alstom for $17 billion
Europe, Markets, News May 2, 2014 Sarah J Cohen
General Electric (GE), a US company, is considering buying the French engineering company Alstom for about 16.9 billion USD. GE is not the only major player interested in acquiring Alstom, with the French firm being eyed also by the German company, Siemens, which wants to enter power turbine business. Alstom has hinted that although it may prefer the US offer more, they want to keep the doors open also for Siemens. Both bidders have already discussed their bids with French President Francois Hollande. GE's chief executive, Jeff Immelt, also added that it had had "a productive two-way dialogue" with the French government. He concluded that he deemed the GE bid good to be executed.
Alstom, whose sales amounted 15 billion USD in power business last year, said that a GE agreement would help the company focus more on the other side of its business, which is the TGV high-speed trains. In an official statement, Alstom's leadership said that they had identified "unanimously the strategic and industrial merits" of the GE bid and they would make up their minds by the end of this month. The company's chairman and chief executive, Patrick Kron, said that Alstom's employees would join a well-known, important global business player that would invest in people, technology, and support research and development.
President Hollande met the bosses of GE and Siemens on Monday (April 28) and said that the French government would prioritize to preserve jobs at one of the major industrial companies in France. The country's economic minister has already hinted that the government would block any agreement that it sees as not good enough. For any deal to go through, Alstrom would also need support of Martin Bouygues, the billionaire chairman of family conglomerate Bouygues, which is Alstrom's largest shareholder with more than 29 percent.
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Pentagon accuses China government, military of cyberattacks
by Jeremy Kirk
May 7, 2013, 10:40 am May 7, 2013
China's government and military appear to be directly involved in cyber-attacks against the U.S., according to a report released Monday by the U.S. Department of Defence.
The conclusion, contained in an annual report evaluating China's military capabilities, marked another pointed claim by the U.S. government amid rising tensions between the two nations over cyber-space.
The DoD said that, last year, "numerous computer systems around the world, including those owned by the U.S. government, continued to be targeted for intrusions, some of which appear to be attributable directly to the Chinese government and military. These intrusions were focused on exfiltrating information."
The stolen information is useful to a range of Chinese entities, including its defence and technology industries, U.S. policy makers in China as well as military planners, the report said.
Cyber-warfare capabilities could be used to complicate efforts to respond during a military confrontation, including causing slow response times by constraining the communication and commercial activities of an adversary, the report said.
China has strongly denied that it is coordinating hacking campaigns, but computer security researchers – as well a major companies such as Google – have frequently pointed to the nation when describing intrusions.
The DoD report also said Russia and China were playing a "disruptive role" in international forums aimed at establishing confidence-building measures and transparency in cyber-space.
Both nations are also pushing an Information Security Code of Conduct, which would give governments sovereign authority over content and information on the Internet. The proposal has been widely criticised.
The U.S. has argued that existing international humanitarian law should apply in cyber-space. China doesn't agree, but "Beijing's thinking continues to evolve," the report said.
In March, U.S. President Barack Obama's national security advisor, Tom Donilon, said U.S. businesses have serious concerns about "cyber intrusions emanating from China on an unprecedented scale." He called on China to recognise the threat cyber-attacks pose to the two countries' relationship and trade.
In February, computer security vendor Mandiant released a comprehensive report that named a specific Chinese military unit called "61398" as conducting an extensive, seven-year hacking campaign that struck 141 organisations.
The hacking group, also called the "Comment Crew," was extremely active in targeting U.S. companies and other organisations despite China's claims that it does not permit state-sponsored hacking.
Cyber-attacks to become more targeted in 2021, says HP Inc.
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