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Would Cameron have been able to block Juncker if the Tories were members of the EPP?
No major party in the UK backed Jean-Claude Juncker, or any other 'Spitzenkandidat'. It is therefore fair to say that the UK electorate had no influence over the course of what some describe as an 'election'.
The counter-charge is that David Cameron is to blame because he 'left' the main centre-right group - the European People's Party (EPP). Former Lib Dem leader Charles Kennedy made this point yesterday in the Commons - which was also alluded to by Labour MPs. If Cameron was a member, so the argument goes, he could have blocked Juncker's appointment as the candidate and then had some say over the 'election campaign' and associated deals. Critics are zooming in on the meeting of EPP-affiliated leaders in Dublin in early March, at which Juncker was selected (behind closed doors no less).
It may not be that simple though:
The Conservative Party was never a member of the EPP. It was a member of the European Democrats (ED) that was linked to the EPP in the so-called EPP-ED. As such, the Tories didn't have offical 'voting rights' and therefore David Cameron would not have had a vote over Juncker's appointment.
It's also worth noting that the Labour Party, although being a member of the S&D group failed to block Martin Schulz as their group's Spitzenkandidaten.
Likewise the Liberal Democrats failed to block Guy Verhofstadt as the ALDE candidate
There's an argument that Cameron could have used the political influence and clout garnered from being associated with the EPP to stop Jucnker, even absent a formal vote. However, other EPP leaders had limited influence on the EPP candidate. Sweden's Moderaterna were opposed but were over-ruled. Berlusconi failed to attend and Hungary's Orban was hostile.
In any case, we will never know.
The reason the Conservative Party left the EPP-ED is because they did not agree with the EPP's push for further integration. The wider problem for the UK political parties - and reform-minded parties in other countries too - is that their views are grossly under-represented in the main groups. This, in turn, links to to the fundamental problem with the European Parliament itself (as we argued here).
For the record this is how the EPP delegates voted to adopt Juncker, so Cameron's vote would have made little difference - but again, we won't know:
EPP delegate votes to adopt Juncker as candidate
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Labels: angela merkel, Cameron, EPP, european parliament, juncker, MEPs, spitzenkandidaten
As Cameron says he is opposed to the Spitzenkandidaten process in principle it seems immaterial and irrelevant whether or not the EPP might have chosen a different person as its Spitzenkandidat.
And as Cameron says he regards it as a fundamental principle that the EU leaders should choose the President (and other members) of the Commission clearly he should not be satisfied with moves just to prevent the Spitzenkandidaten process being repeated next time, if that was possible, because that would not prevent a majority of MEPs still deciding that they wanted a certain person to be President of the Commission and placing the EU leaders under duress to choose that person by threatening that they will not vote to approve any other person as President, or vote to approve a Commission with any other person as President as they would have had to do before the small modification made by the Treaty of Amsterdam.
If Cameron really wants that fundamental principle to be reinstated then he must press for a treaty change to reverse the change made by the Maastricht Treaty, when MEPs were not only given the right to be consulted on, but the power of veto over, the composition of the Commission.
Is he going to do that? Is he really going to tell other EU leaders that he wants to deprive MEPs of the power of veto, and so the ability to place them under duress, that his Tory predecessor Major agreed MEPs should be granted over two decades ago?
The EPP must be incompetent.
They had a 'closed door' meeting and some how let 800 people plus the media into it.
Pictures of the event have even escaped onto Wikipedia
Peter van Leeuwen said...
I think Cameron lacked creativity. Only because he was determined to play to his eurosceptic home crowd and make a huge issue out of Juncker, did other leaders (especially Merkel) decide to decide on the Council's recommendation so quickly and accept Britain's defeat as collateral damage.
Having antagonised his 26 colleagues, Cameron is inevitably due to pay a price one day, which is not in Britain's interest. For the moment other leaders will fear that Cameron has turned into a liability, who by design or failure will cause a Brexit anyway. They may use him for reforms that they want anyway, but they will hope that he won't return in 2015. I could expect a similar attitude and lack of support from the US, the City, and the larger businesses in Britain.
Average Englishman said...
I cannot agree with you on a number of counts.
Cameron may have 'played to his Eurosceptic home crowd' but playing the tune of the electorate is what a democratically elected politician should do, not keep them in the dark and feed them with lies and contempt like many Eurocrats are happy to. Whether or not he annoyed some other heads of state in Europe is immaterial; at least for whatever reason he set out a logical'ish case (setting aside that the damage was done at Maastricht many years ago) and stood by his decision.
Everyone with any sense knows that the EU needs massive reform and anyone who is honest about the matter would agree that Juncker is not the man to deliver such changes. The other politicians were wrong and Dave (for once) was right.
As for the US, well, so far as I can see they haven't got a foreign policy worth a damn any more and they have been wrong about Europe for many years anyway. They see the EU countries as one handy trading block with no real concern for their individualities and want their little old Anglo Saxon buddy the UK inside to help them keep the beggars in check. The UK does not exist to keep the dullards in the US State Department happy.
The City of London is coming round at last against the UK staying in the EU, as it sees more future profits for The City outside of Europe and riles at the ever more expensive and annoying legislation coming from Brussels.
Big business? Well some may be unhappy but many more will not be bothered or will be content for a UK withdrawal but in any event, Dave and his crew are slowly beginning to understand that it is not big business that rules the UK, it is more small businesses and the people employed by them. A lot of us are mightily cheesed off with the EU and are keen to leave; hence UKIP. That party did not spring out of nowhere because of smiling Nigel, it arrived courtesy of an ever growing army of ordinary citizens who do not want their children's futures to rely upon the type of undemocratic double dealing seen in Brussels recently.
Nope, Dave did something useful for a change, for whatever reason and it will do him no harm where it counts for him, at the ballot box. Having said that, he's still likely to lose the next General Election unless he really turns Eurosceptic and pledges a UK withdrawal because the Average Englishman is still not going to vote for him otherwise.
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Q: Keras model.predict function write on file (instead of memory) I have a fairly large image dataset and I want to know if there's a way I can make keras model.predict 'dump' results on a file on my disk intead of loading a large numpy array on memory, to avoid out of memory issues.
I know I can split the file in small batches and process each batch separately, but I'm wondering if I can alter keras (or python) behavior to direct the result to file (maybe a pickle object?).

A: You can probably use np.savetxt to save the ndarray returned by model.predict directly,
np.savetxt( 'results.gz' , model.predict( test_images ) )

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Q: How to plot a qubit on the Bloch sphere? I've been reading pages such as this one:
http://comp.uark.edu/~jgeabana/blochapps/bloch.html
Which talk about the Bloch sphere, but I've been unable to figure out how to plot states on the sphere due to both states being a complex number, thus resulting in 4 "coordinates".
Many sources say it's only the relative angle between the states that matters, but that seems odd to me, since there is an absolute $|0\rangle$ and $|1\rangle$ state, which makes it think that both imaginary parts of the complex values matter.
So, how would I plot things like these, or at least, how would I convert them to spherical coordinates for plotting on the bloch sphere?
$$1/\sqrt{2}(|0\rangle + |1\rangle)$$
$$1/\sqrt{2}(|0\rangle - |1\rangle)$$
$$1/2(\sqrt{3}|0\rangle + |1\rangle)$$

A: Using equation (1) of your link, consider your first qubit:
$$\cos\theta/2 = 1/\sqrt 2, \quad e^{i\phi}\sin\theta/2 = 1/\sqrt 2$$
Hence--given the range of values of $\theta$ and $\phi$--we have $\theta = \pi/2$ and $\phi = 0$.
Proceed similarly for the other qubits.

An important thing to remember about qubits is that we don't care about overall phase. Hence if we have a qubit of the form
$$|\psi\rangle = e^{i\alpha}a|0\rangle + e^{i\beta}b|1\rangle = e^{i\alpha} \left( a|0\rangle + e^{i(\beta-\alpha)}b|1\rangle \right) $$
we find the Bloch representation of $a|0\rangle + e^{i(\beta-\alpha)}b|1\rangle $.


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Q: Creating a custom button from an image with rounded sides in Flutter I would like to create a custom button from an image in Flutter.
I've created the following image to be used as the background for the button:

As you can see, the sides of the button image have a perfectly rounded half-circle shape.
My requirements for the button are:

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*The half-circle sides of the button should remain perfectly rounded (i.e. not get stretched).

*Only the middle part of the button's image should stretch in order to accommodate its content.

*The button can't have a fixed size, and should grow according to its content.

*The button's content should overlap with the half circle areas of the button.

Ideally, it should look something like this:

I've created the following button Widget in Flutter:
import 'package:flutter/material.dart';

class MyButton extends StatelessWidget {
  final String text;
  final double fontSize;

  const MyButton({Key? key, required this.text, required this.fontSize})
      : super(key: key);

  @override
  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
    return GestureDetector(
      onTap: () {},
      child: Container(
        decoration: BoxDecoration(
          image: DecorationImage(
              image: AssetImage('assets/images/my-button.png'),
              fit: BoxFit.fill),
        ),
        child: Padding(
          padding: EdgeInsets.all(24),
          child: Text(text,
              style: TextStyle(fontSize: fontSize, color: Colors.white)),
        ),
      ),
    );
  }
}

Using the Widget above, I've created 4 buttons:
Column(children: [
    MyButton(text: 'Play', fontSize: 32.0),
    MyButton(text: 'Settings', fontSize: 32.0),
    MyButton(text: 'Very very very very very very long text', fontSize: 20.0),
    MyButton(text: 'Small', fontSize: 12.0)
])

This resulted in the following buttons:

Now as you can see, the half-circle sides of the buttons are now stretched up/down, and are no longer perfectly rounded.
One of the many things I've tried was playing with the centerSlice attribute of the DecorationImage Widget which looked promising, but the button's sides would stay perfectly rounded only when the button's height was exactly the height of my image (conflicting with requirement #3 listed above).
How can I create a button that meets the requirements I've listed above?

A: You need to maintain the image width, others fit doesn't looks better imo. Follow this structure, it will provide a little better look
return GestureDetector(
  onTap: () {},
  child: Container(
    padding: EdgeInsets.all(24),
    clipBehavior: Clip.hardEdge,
    decoration: BoxDecoration(
      borderRadius: BorderRadius.circular(24),
      image: DecorationImage(
        image: AssetImage('assets/images/my-button.png'),
        fit: BoxFit.fitWidth,
      ),
    ),
    child: Text(text,
        style: TextStyle(fontSize: fontSize, color: Colors.white)),
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);


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Q: How to format a string into a two column list I have a python string in the following format:
"x1 y1\n x2 y2\n x3 y3\n ..."

I would like to transform this into a list points = [p1, p2, p3,...], where p1, p2 and p3 are [x1,y1], [x2,y2] and [x3,y3] etc.
Thanks

A: Think you can use the following:
inputText = "x1 y1\n x2 y2\n x3 y3\n"
print [line.split() for line in inputText.split('\n') if line]

A: obviously, many ways to do this.
I would use list comprehension for its brevitiy.
>>> str = 'x1 y1\n x2 y2\n x3 y3\n'
>>> [p.split() for p in str.split('\n') if p != '']
[['x1', 'y1'], ['x2', 'y2'], ['x3', 'y3']]

A: points = []
for point in myStr.split('\n'):
    points.append(point.split())

A: a='x1 y1\n x2 y2\n x3 y3\n'

points = map (lambda x : x.split (), a.split ('\n'))

A: Would this do?
>>> raw = "x1 y1\nx2 y2\nx3 y3"
>>> lines = raw.split("\n")
>>> points = []
>>> for l in lines:
...     points.append(l.split(' '))
...
>>> points
[['x1', 'y1'], ['x2', 'y2'], ['x3', 'y3']]
>>>

Split on new lines, then for each line assume a space splits the values, create a list of points from that.


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San Giorio di Susa is een gemeente in de Italiaanse provincie Turijn (regio Piëmont) en telt 1015 inwoners (31-12-2004). De oppervlakte bedraagt 19,6 km², de bevolkingsdichtheid is 52 inwoners per km².

De volgende frazioni maken deel uit van de gemeente: Balma, Martinetti, Viglietti, Pognant, Grangia, Garda, Airassa, Adrit, Città.

Demografie
San Giorio di Susa telt ongeveer 472 huishoudens. Het aantal inwoners steeg in de periode 1991-2001 met 4,9% volgens cijfers uit de tienjaarlijkse volkstellingen van ISTAT.

Geografie
San Giorio di Susa grenst aan de volgende gemeenten: Bruzolo, Chianocco, Bussoleno, San Didero, Villar Focchiardo, Coazze, Roure.

Gemeente in Turijn

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Q: Lambda -> Atlas connection timeout (private subnet - peering) We have 1 Atlas cluster that is already peered to 1 VPC in 1 region (eu-west-1). This peering connection has worked fine for years. At the moment, I'm trying to setup another peering connection to another VPC we have in another region (eu-west-2).
The peering connection has been established fine (the latter one on the screenshot below):

...and the SG has been whitelisted...

So, as far as I'm aware, everything seems fine on the Atlas side of things.
In AWS, we have the VPC (vpc-0ac2d...) with an IPv4 CIDR of 172.16.0.0/16. The peering connection looks fine as well:

The VPC has 2 Route Tables associated with it; rt-main-pub & rt-main-priv. The former having 3 public subnets & the latter having 2 private subnets.
Public routes below:

...& private routes:

The NAT (nat-03b...) is sitting in the public subnet so all traffic routed through there to the IGW & hit the wider internet. Apart from IPs that fall within the range of the Atlas CIDR which are routed to the peering connection (pcx-0d7...)
I have a test lambda which is doing just some HTTP request which succeeds so I know that the NAT -> IGW setup is working.

^^ that's my lambda config. In the correct VPC & the 2 private subnets.
And the rules on the SG (sg-05782b...) are...

I've compared all this to the setup that we currently have & I really can't see any differences. Logically, this seems like it should work but the lambda connection times out to the cluster.
It's also worth nothing that I can connect fine to the cluster with the Mongo URI connection string that I'm using.


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Nope: Moneterize is not a word.
I suspect that the author of the Spectrum article may be out of his own league. There are numerous precedents for pleasure pilots overestimating their understanding of jet transport operations. In any case, he seems to have gotten at least some of the facts wrong.
Heads up - today, 21 April is second the round of the Ukraine presidential election.
Russia has meddled with US elections, now it is meddling with Ukraine elections.
From this election depends whether Russia gets Ukraine for free on the silver platter or not.
Moneterize is not a word.
That IS what is needed.
You've left out the words 'some of" after "IS".
There are other areas than encryption and traffic analysis you need to mitigate.
Those were some outstanding comments.
Notice that Manning and Assange are both in jail. Our little mockingbird in Moscow is next, and he can surely sense that his noose is being lowered.
It would be interesting to know how much money the U.S. has spent in bringing Assange down, and to whom some of that enormous sum went in fat paper bags. If you were to weigh one million U.S. dollars in one-hundred dollar bills, you would discover that it comes to about twenty-two pounds.
More bad news about Boeing.
It appears that the 737Max is not the only safety SNAFU Boeing has.
"Was Julian Assange subject to mind games by the Ecuadorian regime?"
that indictment of @malwaretech is damning. Many people were saying it was a case of government overreach, that he was just studying malware, etc. etc. That is most certainly not what he plead guilty to. What he plead guilty to was trying to digitally rob banks and then cover his tracks by working with a partner. I have to wonder if @emptywheel is going to admit that she was wrong.
"In a vote of 232-190, the House of Representatives passed the Save the Internet Act (H.R. 1644) [9 April 2019]. This is a major step forward in the fight for net neutrality protections, and it's because you spoke up about what you want."
Making government stronger does not help you when the time comes... as all have before in history and as all will in the future... for that government to fall; this is objective certainty, and it is only humans that live on. Making government stronger only makes their respective and inevitable endings that much harder suffering for everyone to live through.
The solution is seek solutions beyond governments.
As some know, in what is potentially good news, ..."
20 years ago I was, admittedly, a vigilante hacker. I created the first suite of html trojans. I released these as proof of concept tools, partly for deniability. But, I also felt the government was not playing hardball with pedophiles and neo-nazis as they should. So, I did a batman thing.
Everything was html, and we could own entire groups of bad guys simply by sending a single email or usenet post.
"we focus heavily on the activities of these "Computer Hackers". In that we are focused on the symptoms. The cause is INSECURE SOFTWARE and poor or non-existent security practices."
I can't help but put this in context of the 2020 election process. Russia really dared do a number on the US in 2016. What will they do, and what have they been doing this election cycle?
In this case, the issue very much is the people and resources a government brings to the table in regards to hacking.
Please beware of images and/or digital (or non-digital) vandalism or litter used to incite hostilities. Nevertheless, also please be AWARE that OTHER similar and DIFFERENT images and/or digital (or non-digital) vandalism EDITs or litter EDITs are NOT used to incite hostilites, and could convey or communicate just about anything else.
Last but not least, beware of alleged lyrical transcribings.
The results tend to vary wildly for a very large list of reasons, too complex to explain at this time in the small formspace allowed.
Damn it! How instagram let them do this.
The "Right Answer" is to eliminate DNS.
But, it used to be that way.
Iranian IRGC has lot of hiered people. For example this Instagram account is one of them.
Whatever the case, Lulzsec was caught too, right? Only a "Japanese" member of the group with better skills then anyone there got away. Same Lulzsec who was hacking foreign embassies, which are hot spots for undercover spies. This was done while the ringleader was working for the FBI.
I am not a big fan of locking people up. Full stop.
Prison is a waste of money; most locked-up criminals behave worse after they are released than they were before. There are some prison regimes that take seriously the need for rehabilitation; but they are far and few. And locking people up is fantastically expensive - it's like putting them in a 3-star hotel. Completely mad.
I am also opposed to extraterritoriality. You shouldn't be subject to US criminal procedures, if the thing you're accused of was not done in the US.
I am not a big fan of locking people up, but Marcus Hutchins pretty clearly was involved in widely disseminating banking trojans and profiting from them. It is reprehensible to steal money from people like that, turning a lot of struggling people's lives upside down.
I'd say some punishment is definitely warranted, particularly so young people know the cost of such deeply antisocial crimes.
China is a modern country with CNN, the Washington Post, The Boston Globe, al Jazeera, RT, The Telegraph, The Guardian, Japan Times, The Sun, etc., all available to EVERYONE. How in the world could anyone say that China is actually repressing news on any scale that could matter?
Many VPNs work like a charm in China. Some VPNs are sponsored by Chinese five-star hotels in the mainland. If you use a Wi-fi in some hotels, then you are using a VPN.
The Washington Post talks about how encryption shaped the outcome of Mueller's investigation.
"The rise in end-to-end encryption has made collection of data from devices themselves more important for investigators."
@fish wrote, "Why not use StartPage? It uses a syndicated feed to Google so the search quality is pretty good (much better than DDG), but doesn't track you."
This isn't just about Googling on the interweb. Many prime OSes have already integrated their very own advertising platforms. See how MS stocks had steadily climbed in recent years. Thanks to Mr. Gates they've gotten it right again in this new era. Next to ante this up a bit, your mobile telcos will provide hooks to serve ads. There's simply no getting out from these all-knowing advertisers.
Funny as it sounds, cybersecurity would not exist if the Big Brother does not warrant it thru legislations. Gone are the days they treat it as some sort of mail fraud.
Telcos are also in a better position to push for merged application stacks. Some services are better served closer to the end user and closer they will get. This way the advertisers are assured to have your MACs and know exactly what/where your needs are.
@The Pull, "BTW, what I posted was not to occlude matters. There really is stuff which is big that does not hit the media. We can assume Russia was behind the Shadowbrokers, and can assume then, they are behind this latest attack/release of tools."
I just can't understand this line of thining when he/they were so apparently caught.
Boeing's solution to its hardware problem was software.
We know it does not work, as proved by the failed workarounds to rowhammer, meltdown, spectre, spoiler and so on attacks. Vulnerabilities must be fixed at the level they happen.
Hardware must be fixed at hardware level, software at software level and firmware at firmware level. Users remain mostly unfixable.
It is my belief that it's already known these "hold up" situations are nothing more than bargaining chips for the hosting party. What do you do when you have a little something somebody else wants, you hold it and look for a deal. This is what we learned from this and previous presidencies. I'm of the few to think that 2016 election was the final straw for Mr. Assange.
As some know, in what is potentially good news, at the end of last month Utah's Governor signed the "Electronic Information or Data Privacy Act" (House Bill 0057) into law. In the House vote it passed without any dissenting votes.
The PDF Association has released a report on the security asspects of an officially released document that was done in a way that conflicts with the correct legal procedure for doing so (ie requirment for disability access).
In essence they went for the next nearest thing to "Paper Paper never data" they could and still end up with a PDF, many many times bigger and actually of lower quality and usability, than a properly printed docunent.
Lawfare has published a Justice Department white paper on the CLOUD Act (Clarifying Lawful Overseas Use of Data). Whilst the Act itself is old news the white paper by the Justice Department is probably, depending on your preconceived notions, either chilling fact or risible fiction.
The people who wrote the code for the original MCAS system were obviously terribly far out of their league and did not know it.
Sorry, "fat finger syndrome" has struck again.
Of my two posts about Assange / Ecuador, can you remove the one which lacks the second link.
Was Julian Assange subject to mind games by the Ecuadorian regime?
Marcus Hutchins signed a plea agreement that was entered today... ...It's a sad result. And testament that justice is a lot different for people like MalwareTech than for Don Jr.
The new version is not working properly on my Lenovo device. It is showing lots of issues. If you have any proper idea, please share with us.
it's too easy for phishing messages with included hot-links to re-route customer to bad places.
Whilst that may once have been true, some ISP's see there is money to be made from knowing what your DNS searches are.
I use Tor to reduce the tracking done by Google (yes, they block it sometimes, which is a shame).
Even though I am known for a dislike of Tor I would use it or even a --very limited-- number of VPN services, to do a subset of things I do.
Right, bad enough, but it seems LE don't bother to investigate even after the fact?
Offer copyright protected files, CP or hate speech and they are there!
we focus heavily on the activities of these "Computer Hackers". In that we are focused on the symptoms. The cause is INSECURE SOFTWARE and poor or non-existent security practices.
e/mail is one of the biggest offenders, perhaps the biggest: messages are often written in HTML format and then include notes to "click here to access your account".
@Sancho_P: Your ISP probably doesn't care if you run your own DNS server and is even less likely to care who uses it, unless your DNS traffic exceeds your bandwidth allowance.
Is this a kind of stenography? I have done this one a message board. If anyone post that isn't fome me I ca verify my profile picture. Too complex for anything but to prevent identity theft.
Please study the following weblink's linked human-readable content. Please study it last entry to first entry if you please; it's decent in text form.
I hope your (plural) filter bubble(s) and my filter bubble (singular) still present the same data which seems to me to be still quite normal and decent and proper and appropriate and peacefully pragmatic.
Feel free to email my given email, and I can prove this is me. I did not come out as Laird Brown did. But, simply providing my linkedin should be sufficient evidence. As the evidence is there.
I would think what we did in Hacktivismo was a goal you would be aligned with.Likewise, I still work towards those goals -- and always have.
Your second statement holds true with the NSA toolkit leak, as well.
Problem is, their motives very likely would not be the motives you may think they are. Could the Iranian tools leakers be the same as the NSA tools leakers. That certainly is a very far fetched possibility. But, it is hard to explain the motives of the leakers beyond coincidence.
It certainly does not appear American, because of the NSA leak. Unless the NSA leak did not really give away anything.
Forgot to note: speculation at this time, but this could be another spy agency doxxing another spy agency. If that's the norm, I welcome it for the reasons in the above comment, even if its also mixed with other geopolitical objectives.
This is fascinating. First US tools, now Iranian.
While in the short run these are painful for espionage agencies and the governments utilizing them ultimately in the long run I think these leaks are important to the transparency we all need to understand the security of the world we live in and the relationship we as citizens have with those who govern.
We've seen an increase in client inquiries around DDoS attacks (for Canadian) SMEs in the latter part of Q1 and into Q2 this year. Already the number of inquiries has surpassed the total ransomware- and malware-related inquiries combined for 2018. We've cataloged the attacks in a report here - Canadian Cyber Security Risks in 2019. I'm not sure if this is another uptick or just a general increase, but the trend is alarming.
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I don't think Mr. Schneier was pushing for a new large Government Department. All I took from it was He was glad they were at least talking about it. I'm glad too. Problem is most people in Government are like me and have no clue about how everything works. I like reading His Blog and follow as much of it as I can. People don't like to talk about things they don't understand.
There is zero oversight about the FTC/FCC allowing ATT to defraud customers, thereby permitting customers abuses, distress, etc., and ZERO attys are addressing this permissive government fraud and abuse of civilian accounts they have singled out! Shame on the Dept of Commerce!
Why not use StartPage? It uses a syndicated feed to Google so the search quality is pretty good (much better than DDG), but doesn't track you.
So they changed e.g. the Lebanon based IP 194.126.10.18 to 139.59.134.216 which is based in Germany?
Is nothing sacrosanct these days? sheesh. Do I need to cache the DNS servers to protect my people from nation-state attacks? And monitor then changes?
Also, are these guys from Hawaii with the SeaTurtle moniker?
"...Albania, Armenia, Cyprus, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Syria, Turkey, and the United Arab Emirates...."
One doesn't make bureaucracies better by making them bigger. The US government is a -massive- top heavy bureaucracy, populated by -mostly- paper-pushers riding the taxpayers dime. The best analogy is a tollway, which, once the new road is built, never goes away.
I have long been in favor of a new federal agency to deal with Internet -- and especially Internet of Things -- security. The devil is in the details, of course, and it's really easy to get this wrong.
Oh, of course. Now how do you expect the new NSA that you propose to be any better or different than the old NSA?
Wouldn't the same old federal employees essentially be doing the same jobs as they were before, only at the new federal agency?
Neither CAA nor DNSSEC are the "right answer". They help, sure, although they are more server-side settings. This is really more a client-side attack.
Use of HTSTS perhaps in combo with DNSSEC is closer to the "right answer", but is still far from ideal, and doesn't address a number of issues that are basically related to the problem of trusted key distribution and zero-knowledge trust.
Route 53 supports DNSSEC for domain registration but does not support DNSSEC for DNS service. If you want to configure DNSSEC for a domain that is registered with Route 53, you must use another DNS service provider.
@Cormacolinde: CAA records, unfortunately, depend on all CAs actually honoring them. They don't save you from a CA's intermediate certificate getting compromised: IIRC TLS doesn't check for CAA records itself, just that the certificate traces back to a trusted root.
@Sok: And nothing is signed because nobody checks the signatures.
Assigning responsibility through this new department puts us on the right track. Onboarding though, could mean the breakup of existing agencies.
Many CAs that do domain-based validation could be fooled too.
Basically any commercial CA would be fooled by a sustained successful attack. Certs aren't worth the paper they're not printed on.
The right answer here is DNSSEC, but inertia and FUD have kept it from being deployed. At the moment it doesn't even help to sign your zone, because almost nothing checks it. The main value from signing is to counter whining idiots who won't write code to check signatures because "nothing is signed anyway".
- Monitor your DNS! Make sure you monitor your NS glue records and other critical records.
- Create a CAA record to prevent someone using a different CA to get certificates.
- Use DNSSEC to sign your DNS zone.
But in order to protect yourself from this kind of attack completely, you might be better using an internal CA for all internal systems, and use certificate pinning.
So Google Chrome is becoming the new "In the net Exhorer" being pimped in ways that are probably illegal in places like the EU.
"Courthouse News specialty is reviewing legal documents, such as affidavits and court cases, not technical matters."
"Dear Courthouse News. You need a new reporter"
Still stands, actually go back and read the article again, because it realy does contain gibberish, that did not originate out of an FBI affidavit, but I assume the reporter's mind.
Great idea but this is really just another avenue to spend taxpayer money.
Moores law means the effective strength of any hash or key halves every 18 months anyway. So every 18 months sees a virtual 1 bit bitrot of all existing keys.
What's more interesting, was the development by the USN of the capability for divers to work on the seabed under pressure for extended periods.
I think I've mentioned before I was involved several decades ago with a similar capability development by the UK. Supposadly it was to get productivity in the North Sea oil industry up.
It became clear by the way they did not want some problems investigated, was because lowering a diving bell from a submarine does not have the same issues as doing it from a surface vessel.
The above four, "Krebs Anthony", "Adib becca", "Andy" and "Harry Heaton" are unsolicited service advertising.
The reason for dropping Google is their now absolute insistance that you be "data raped" by them.
Yes unless you went through a VPN they could still track you but it was not as invasive.
The two above from "Owen Susan" and "Cindy" are unsolicited service advertising.
This is the kind of persistent exploit that itself can be the target of a piggy back exploit, or a full take-over. I mean, how hardened against attack is the typical exploit code back door? Sort of how easy it is to hijack an IoT that is already running Mirai. You don't need to write a Mirai exploit. You let Mirai carry the huge catalog of exploits, then you come in after and sniff out Mirai devices and bust into them and add them to you own botnet.
I agree totally! And I would just add "Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?". I don't trust any of them!
Security implications if the Internet of Food ?
Cut out the middleman and just militarize NASA. Giant lasers etc.
@AL: " Similarly, I think "Spaceforce" should be handled by the Airforce."
No, the Navy gets space. Reason: There is no air up there, just like there is no air around a submarine. The Air Force gets the air.
Understanding the intricacy of the English language, we should rather have a cybersecurity department.
This thing about rainbow tables came straight from the FBI affidavit. Courthouse News specialty is reviewing legal documents, such as affidavits and court cases, not technical matters. Insofar as the technical matter is concerned, the FBI affidavit did discuss the forensics, such as matching the LM hash found in the jabber chat with one on the system that Manning was allegedly trying to hack.


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Unique autograph book to be auctioned for 6 Villages for 2006
Proceeds of more than 500.000 Euros through FIFA World Cup Ticket- Show
17/06/2006 - In a first for the FIFA World Cup™, an exclusive autograph book, containing the signatures of all 736 players and head coaches of the 32 finalist teams, is about to be auctioned with the proceeds going to the official charity campaign 6 Villages for 2006.
Bids can be made online until 23.59h on 9 July 2006.
"This is without doubt the most precious fan book of all time. We have to thank all of the players and coaches, and not least the local organising committee, sincerely for their support. This is a true sign of fair play and solidarity. I hope that the final bid will reflect the goodwill value of this unique memento," announced FIFA President Joseph S. Blatter, who is particularly pleased that football will be able to give children especially in poor countries the prospect of a better future as a result of the 6 Villages for 2006 campaign.
The 32 pages, with the printed names of the World Cup stars next to which they signed just before the start of the tournament, will be bound in precious leather. Top names, including Ronaldinho, Ballack, Totti, Riquelme, Beckham, Drogba, Parreira, Hiddink, Tunisia's Hatem Trabelsi and Paraguay's Carlos Bonet, have all signed the book for a good cause. The proceeds from the auction of the autograph book will go towards building six children's villages.
"Players see all kinds of hardship during their travels around the world. But it is children who suffer the most. The most precious gift we can give to these children is a home and a good education. SOS Children's Villages do wonderful work for such children," declared LOC chairman Franz Beckenbauer, who officially presented the unique collectors' item at half-time during the World Cup match between Sweden and Paraguay (1-0).
Today it was announced that the FIFA World Cup Ticketing Show on German television ZDF on 8 June, presented by Thomas Gottschalk and Johannes B. Kerner, raised more than 500,000 Euros for 6 Villages for 2006. A total of 3.2 million viewers participated in games by calling a special number where 17 cents from every call went directly to the charitable campaign.
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Q: Why is calling close() after fopen() not closing? I ran across the following code in one of our in-house dlls and I am trying to understand the behavior it was showing:
long GetFD(long* fd, const char* fileName, const char* mode)
{
    string fileMode;

    if (strlen(mode) == 0 || tolower(mode[0]) == 'w' || tolower(mode[0]) == 'o')
        fileMode = string("w");
    else if (tolower(mode[0]) == 'a')
        fileMode = string("a");
    else if (tolower(mode[0]) == 'r')
        fileMode = string("r");
    else
        return -1;

    FILE* ofp;
    ofp = fopen(fileName, fileMode.c_str());
    if (! ofp)
        return -1;

    *fd = (long)_fileno(ofp);
    if (*fd < 0)
        return -1;

    return 0;
}

long CloseFD(long fd)
{
    close((int)fd);
    return 0;
}

After repeated calling of GetFD with the appropriate CloseFD, the whole dll would no longer be able to do any file IO.  I wrote a tester program and found that I could GetFD 509 times, but the 510th time would error.
Using Process Explorer, the number of Handles did not increase.
So it seems that the dll is reaching the limit for the number of open files; setting _setmaxstdio(2048) does increase the amount of times we can call GetFD. Obviously, the close() is working quite right.
After a bit of searching, I replaced the fopen() call with:
long GetFD(long* fd, const char* fileName, const char* mode)
{
    *fd = (long)open(fileName, 2);
    if (*fd < 0)
      return -1;

    return 0;
}

Now, repeatedly calling GetFD/CloseFD works.
What is going on here?

A: You need to use fclose with files opened via fopen, or close with files opened via open.

A: The standard library you are using has a static array of FILE structures. Because you are not calling fclose(), the standard library doesn't know that the underlying files have been closed, so it doesn't know it can reuse the corresponding FILE structures. You get an error after it has run out of entries in the FILE array.

A: fopen opens it's own file descriptor, so you'd need to do an fclose(ofp) in your original function to prevent running out of file descriptors. Usually, one either uses the lower level file descriptor functions open, close OR the buffered fopen, fclose functions.

A: you are open the file fopen() function so u have to close the file useing fclose(), if you are using open() function and try to call fclose() function it will not work

A: If you open a file with fopen, you have to close it with fclose, symmetrically.
The C++ runtime must be given a chance to clean up/deallocate its inner file-related structures.


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Q: Search / Filter State NGXS I am new to NGXS and trying to integrate it into a small project. The only problem is that there are no good examples of a search / filter on state.
My app gets a list of products from a backend API. It shows them by SKU on the page. I want the user to be able to type in an SKU in the input field and have the list automatically filter products as the user types.
products.state.ts:
@Selector()
static getProductList(state: ProductStateModel) {
  return state.products;
}

@Selector()
static prodFilter(searchObj: any[]) {
  // something needs to happen here in order to filter state
}

products.component.ts:
@Select(ProductState.getProductList) products: Observable<Product[]>;

filterForm = this.fb.group({ sku: null });

constructor( private store: Store, private fb: FormBuilder ) { }

ngOnInit() {
  this.store.dispatch( new GetProducts() );
}

//something in here (ngOnInit? ngOnChanges?) to pass (cloned??) product state into selector??

products.component.html:
<form
  [formGroup]='filterForm'
  novalidate
  ngxsForm='products.filterForm'
  (ngSubmit)='onSubmit()'
>
  <input type='number' formControlName='sku' />
  <button type='submit'>Submit</button>
</form>

<mat-accordion class='product-accordion'>
  <mat-expansion-panel *ngFor='let product of products | async'>
    <mat-expansion-panel-header>
      SKU: {{ product.sku }}
    </mat-expansion-panel-header>

${{ product.price }}

{{ product.description }}

  </mat-expansion-panel>
</mat-accordion>

I have so many questions. I believe that I shouldn't be mutating the products state directly so would I clone it? Would the HTML output change then? Should I create a new state.ts file for the filtered products?
Any help would be much appreciated (especially a stackblitz example)!

A: You might find this easier if you model your state like this, capturing the base products list and the text entered in the search textbox:
export interface ProductsStateModel {
  products: Product[];
  filterText: string; // Your SKU value that is entered
}

.. Then in your state, use a selector to project out the filtered list that you actually want to display on the UI (filteredProducts).
@State<ProductsStateModel>({
 name: 'products'
})
export class ProductsState {

   @Selector()
   static filteredProducts(state: ProductsStateModel) {
      return state.products.filter(p => p.sku === state.filterText);
   }

   @Action(ProductSkuEntered)
   updateFilter({patchState}: StateContext<ProductStateModel>, {payload}: ProductSkuEntered) {
       patchState({ filterText: payload.skuText });
   }
..

}

In the UI, you can in your template then subscribe to the selector i.e. in products.component.ts use @Select(ProductsState.filteredProducts) products$.
When the search text changes, you can dispatch an action to the store to update that string in the state i.e. store.dispatch(new ProductSkuEntered({ skuText: enteredText }));
The NGXS selector will then automatically update your 'filteredProducts` list to display just those that match the text.
It's also nice to hook up a debounceTime to the change in the text so that you only filter when the user has stopped typing. i.e. only dispatch the ProductSkuEntered after the debounce.
Note: I see you are using the NGXS forms plugin - I don't have experience with that plugin but it is not required for this scenario (although you might be using it elsewhere).


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June 1, 2005 8:00PM EDT
D.R. Congo: Gold Fuels Massive Human Rights Atrocities
Leading international corporations established links to warlords
(Johannesburg, June 2, 2005) — The lure of gold has fuelled massive human rights atrocities in the northeastern region of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Human Rights Watch said in a new report published today. Local warlords and international companies are among those benefiting from access to gold rich areas while local people suffer from ethnic slaughter, torture and rape.
Miners work in the grueling conditions of an open pit gold mine in Watsa, northeastern Congo.
© 2004 Marcus Bleasdale / VII
The 159-page report, "The Curse of Gold," documents how local armed groups fighting for the control of gold mines and trading routes have committed war crimes and crimes against humanity using the profits from gold to fund their activities and buy weapons. The report provides details of how a leading gold mining company, AngloGold Ashanti, part of the international mining conglomerate Anglo American, developed links with one murderous armed group, the Nationalist and Integrationist Front (FNI), helping them to access the gold-rich mining site around the town of Mongbwalu in the northeastern Ituri district.
June 1, 2005 Report
The Curse of Gold
Download this report
The Human Rights Watch report also illustrates the trail of tainted gold from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to neighboring Uganda from where it is sent to global gold markets in Europe and elsewhere. The report documents how a leading Swiss gold refining company, Metalor Technologies, previously bought gold from Uganda. After discussions and correspondence with Human Rights Watch beginning in December 2004, and after the report had gone to press, the company announced on May 20 that it would suspend its purchases of gold from Uganda. The Metalor statement was welcomed by Human Rights Watch.
"Corporations should ensure their activities support peace and respect for human rights in volatile areas such as northeastern Congo, not work against them," said Anneke Van Woudenberg, senior researcher on DRC at Human Rights Watch. "Local warlords use natural resources to support their bloody activities. Any support for such groups, whether direct or indirect, must not continue."
In contravention of international business standards and the company's own code of conduct, AngloGold Ashanti provided meaningful financial and logistical support – which in turn resulted in political benefits - to the FNI and its leaders, a group responsible for some of the worst atrocities in this war-torn region. In correspondence with Human Rights Watch, AngloGold Ashanti stated there was no "working or other relationship with the FNI" but it said that it had made certain payments in the past to the FNI, including one in January 2005 that was made under "protest and duress." AngloGold Ashanti also said that any contacts with the FNI leadership were "unavoidable."
Human Rights Watch researchers documented meetings between the company and the armed group leaders. The self-styled president of the FNI, Floribert Njabu, told Human Rights Watch, "The government is never going to come to Mongbwalu. I am the one who gave [AngloGold] Ashanti permission to come. I am the boss of Mongbwalu. If I want to chase them away, I will."
AngloGold Ashanti started preparations for gold exploration activities in Mongbwalu in late 2003. The company won the mining rights to the vast gold concession in 1996 but, hampered by the ongoing war, postponed activities there until a peace agreement was signed and a transitional government was established in Kinshasa. The central government failed to establish control of Ituri, however, and the areas around Mongbwalu remained in the hands of the FNI armed group.
"As a company committed to corporate social responsibility, AngloGold Ashanti should have waited until it could work in Mongbwalu without having to interact with abusive warlords," said Van Woudenberg. "Congo desperately needs business investment to help rebuild the country, but such business engagement must not provide any support to armed groups responsible for crimes against humanity."
From 1 – 3 June, Anglo American is co-chairing the Africa Economic Summit in Cape Town, aimed at promoting business investment and engaging business as a catalyst for change in Africa.
The gold concessions of northeastern Congo, some of the richest in Africa, could help to rebuild Congo's shattered economy. But according to Human Rights Watch researchers, fighting between armed groups for the control of the gold mining town of Mongbwalu cost the lives of at least two thousand civilians between June 2002 and September 2004. One miner told Human Rights Watch: "We are cursed because of our gold. All we do is suffer. There is no benefit to us."
Throughout the conflict, artisanal mining has continued. Millions of dollars worth of gold are smuggled out of Congo each year some of it destined for Switzerland. The Swiss refining company, Metalor Technologies, bought gold from Uganda. Asked about these purchases by Human Rights Watch on April 21, 2005, Metalor stated it believed "the gold…was of legal origin." But since Uganda has almost no gold reserves of its own, a significant amount of the gold purchased by the company was almost certainly mined in Congo. In its public statement of May 20, Metalor said it would not accept any further deliveries from Uganda until the company could clarify Uganda's position and statistics on gold production and export.
"We hope other companies will follow the lead set by Metalor," said Van Woudenberg. "The problems we have documented are not unique to Congo, nor to one international company. Rules governing corporate behavior must be enforced, otherwise they are meaningless."
In August 2003, a group of United Nations experts adopted a set of draft human rights business standards, known as the U.N. Norms, which signaled a growing consensus on the need for standards on corporate responsibility, but they have not yet been widely implemented by companies. The international community has also failed to effectively tackle the link between resources exploitation and conflict in Congo, choosing to ignore previous U.N. reports that highlighted the issue.
Northeastern Congo has been one of the worst hit areas during Congo's devastating five-year war. Competing armed groups carried out ethnic massacres, rape and torture in this mineral-rich corner of Congo. A local conflict between Hema and Lendu ethnic groups allied with national rebel groups and foreign backers, including Uganda and Rwanda, has claimed over 60,000 lives since 1999, according to United Nations estimates. These losses are just one part of an estimated four million civilians dead throughout the Congo, a toll that makes this war more deadly to civilians than any other since World War II.
"Efforts to make peace in Congo risk failure unless the issue of natural resource exploitation and its link to human rights abuses are put at the top of the agenda," said Van Woudenberg "Congolese citizens deserve to benefit from their gold resources, not be cursed by them."
Quotes from The Curse of Gold
Witness of atrocities by the UPC armed group in a village near to Mongbwalu:
I saw many people tied up ready to be executed. The UPC said they were going to kill them all. They made the Lendu dig their own graves… [then] they killed the people by hitting them on the head with a sledgehammer.
Witness in Mongbwalu:
When the UPC were in Mongbwalu they sent their gold to Bunia and from there it was sent to Rwanda. In exchange they got weapons.
A witness to the burning of Hema women accused of being witches by the FNI armed group:
The strategy was to close them in the house and burn it. They captured the women from the surrounding countryside. They said it was to bring them to talk about peace. They put ten women in a house, tied their hands, closed the doors, and burned the house. This lasted about two weeks, with killing night and day.
A young gold trader tortured for failure to pay taxes to the FNI armed group:
There I spent two days in a hole in the ground covered by sticks. They took me out of the hole to beat me. They tied me over a log and then they took turns hitting me with sticks - on my head, my back, my legs. They said they were going to kill me.
A witness to forced labor:
The FNI combatants come every morning door-to-door. They split up to find young people and they take about sixty of them to the river to find the gold… They are forced to work. If the authorities try to intervene they are beaten.
A victim of torture by General Jerome:
They said the gold was for Commander Jérôme and he needed money to build his house. They said if I didn't give the money, Jérôme would give the order for me to be killed. On the fifth day Jérôme came with his officers to the prison . . . and pointed his gun at me. He said: "Since the first day, I said I would kill you. I don't joke. Today it's the end of your life." They made me get out of the hole and lie down. Jérôme loaded his revolver and put it to the back of my neck.
Mining engineer in the Durba gold mining region where the Ugandan army had been present:
The Ugandan army were responsible for the destruction of Gorumbwa [gold] mine. They started to mine the pillars. It was disorderly and very widespread. People were killed when the mine eventually collapsed. It was not their country so they didn't care about the destruction.
A gold trader asked why he worked in the dangerous mines:
"Tell me what choice I have? This is the only way I can make any money. Its about my own survival and that of my family."
A Congolese government official:
"We just watch our country's resources drain away with no benefit to the Congolese people."
Charles Carter, Vice President at AngloGold Ashanti:
The company has made preparations to "commence exploration drilling on the Kimin prospect [OKIMO] in the Ituri region of the DRC…[W]hile this is obviously a tough environment right now, we are looking forward to the opportunity to fully explore the properties we have in the Congo, believing that we now have access to potentially exciting growth prospects in Central Africa."
Local observer to events in the mining regions:
"Njabu [President of the FNI] now has power due to the gold he controls and [the presence of] AngloGold Ashanti. This is his ace and he will use it to get power in Kinshasa.
Ethnic Violence
October 21, 2004 News Release
D.R. Congo: Executions, Torture by Armed Groups in Ituri
January 17, 2020 Statement
Submission to the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women on Zimbabwe
Burkina Faso: Armed Islamist Atrocities Surge
Targeted Attacks, Executions Kill Over 250 Civilians


Dining hall employee Bachhue Tran refills the bin of strawberries at the salad bar in Selleck dining hall after the lunchtime rush.
Remember how your parents always told you to eat your vegetables? Well, they're not the only ones anymore.
The federal government and campus dining services at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln are also chiming in to get students to eat healthier.
The newest edition of the USDA dietary guidelines, released at the beginning of the year, also emphasizes eating vegetables. The guidelines, which are updated every five years, also suggest eating more fruits, whole grains, seafood, lean meat and poultry, beans, peas, nuts and seeds. But now that students at University of Nebraska-Lincoln don't have mom and dad telling them to eat these healthy foods, the dining services staff has stepped in to fill the role.
Five dining halls on city and east campus serve 63,000 meals each week. To help students incorporate these healthy foods into those meals, dining services management already has several initiatives in place.
In fact, just before the new guidelines recommended consuming no more than 2,300 milligrams of salt a day, the dining services management had begun a project to reduce the amount of salt in its recipes.
"It was good timing," said Pam Edwards, assistant director of dining services at UNL. Dining management also had changed or incorporated 150 new high fiber and high whole grain recipes into its database of nearly 5,000 recipes.
But university dining management wants so much for students to get good nutrition that a committee was established to help achieve that end. The gNc (Good Nutrition Counts) committee is made up dining services management, the dining services administrative assistant, a health center registered dietitian, the UNL Wellness coordinator, three directors from UNL Residence Life, as well as a handful of students.
"Creating healthy, balanced meals and making informed diet and lifestyle decisions often presents a challenge during the transition to college," said Simpson, a nutrition, exercise and health science and dietetics student.
WOW (Working on Wellness) was a program created by the gNc (Good Nutrition Counts) committee to promote wellness in every area of UNL students' lives.
One of the gNc's programs is the WOW (Working on Wellness) campaign, created two years ago to help students achieve wellness in all areas of their lives. A wheel of wellness featuring the seven elements of wellness – emotional, environmental, intellectual, occupational, physical, social and spiritual – was displayed in the dining halls. Students would spin the wheel, answer a question about the area of wellness it landed on and would win a healthy snack like soy nuts or a piece of fruit.
A more recent initiative is designed to boast the benefits of eating whole grains. The committee puts labels on the bread, cereal and pasta in which whole grains to make it easier for students to select. The committee also created nutrition labels to show students how the amount of calories, fat, carbohydrates and protein are in each serving of food.
Freshman Jenny Hosack said she uses the labels a lot when choosing what to eat in the dining halls. She focuses particularly on the amount of fat and calories from fat in each food, she said.
"If there are an outrageous number of calories for a really small piece of food, I usually stay away," said Hosack, a secondary math education student from Harlan, Iowa. She said that even though nutritional labels can be very helpful, they still need to be read carefully. "The serving sizes are usually smaller than what people actually eat," Hosack said.
Jenny Hosack fills her bowl with fresh veggies at Selleck Dining Hall.
No laws force the university to run these educational campaigns in the dining halls to help students comply with the dietary guidelines.
"We don't go through and say, 'we're doing this and we're doing this and we're doing this,'" said Edwards, dining services assistant director. Even if there was a law, the eating habits suggested are personal choices students have to make for themselves.
Hosack agreed that students have to make their own food choices. "The dining halls do a good job of offering a variety of healthy foods, but there's definitely the option of not eating that way," said Hosack.
Freshmen Robert Moore and Andrew Borer both said they were unaware of the dietary guidelines. They also said they don't really pay attention to the dining services' efforts to promote healthy eating. They choose what to eat based on what they feel like eating or what looks the best.
"Last semester I was a terrible eater," said Moore, a graphic design student from Omaha. "I was trying to gain weight for football and was eating really bad sugary and fattening foods," said Moore, who is trying to walk on to the Huskers football team as a tight end.
When it comes to gNc's nutrition labels, they said they've noticed more women paying attention to them than men. "It's always the girls who don't need to be on a diet that pay attention to calories," Moore said.
One of the gNc committee's projects was to label all food in which whole grains could be found to make it easier for students to work more whole grains into their diet.
High calories aren't the only factor that can make certain foods unhealthy. According to the dietary guidelines, Americans consume too many calories from solid fats, added sugars and refined grains. Moore and Borer were examples of this last semester. They've only just recently discovered the benefits of choosing healthier foods and drinks, they said.
Borer, a music education student from Norfolk, Neb., said last semester he and his roommate were drinking 48 cans of pop a month. Moore said he used to go through eight cans every day. After realizing how much better they felt and performed when playing basketball at the rec center, they decided to cut way back.
Now the two are both down to a glass or less of pop a day and Borer's new eating habits follow the rule of eating whatever makes him feel better.
Though it may not have been the gNc's campaigns or the dietary guidelines that changed Borer and Moore's way of eating this semester, they still learned what the gNc committee and federal dietary guidelines wanted them to –to eat healthier.
"I feel like you're happier when you're healthier," Borer said.


When did you realise you wanted to become an artist and what inspired you to paint?
I began painting in my late teens and am self-taught. I was inspired by the landscape around where I was brought up and where I live. I believe that a lifetime of painting is to be found within a few miles of one's home. For me 'home' is the Mearns & my work is firmly 'located' in and inspired by this area. I never tire of it: the furrows and field patterns, the September light, the Winter when snow clouds loom over the Grampians, the beauty of a late Autumn afternoon when the hearst is under way and clouds move across the land under a constantly changing light. It's a unique place – bound up as it is for me with so many memories.
It just seemed the natural choice for me. I was encouraged by a local watercolourist and, as I had no formal art training – I still don't – was guided in my choice by him. He showed me how to get a start and I took it from there. He painted local landscapes and always worked on the spot believing that in doing so the finished work was more closely connected with the landscape. I followed his example, worked outside in all seasons & embraced the spontaneity which is, for me, the essence of working 'on the spot'. Watercolour responds in a uniquely sensitive way to the atmosphere in which the work is created. I quickly discovered that working in the drying wind on a hot July day was quite different to painting in the dying light of a soft October afternoon as the haar drifts in from the North Sea into the Howe. The rapidly changing light also forced me to work quickly – to take risks. Later I learned a good deal about the Scottish tradition of painting on the spot and simply followed: W G Gillies and Joan Eardley were early influences.
Has your approach to watercolour changed over the years?
Yes, it has. When I took early retirement from teaching in 2009 in order to paint and exhibit more widely, my working method changed and my work is now mostly studio-based. I find I can explore aspects of the medium which were impossible when working within the constraints of painting in the landscape. Now, my watercolours are the product of a much slower process of development; they are less 'spontaneous' but, I hope, reflect similar preoccupations. I now work from sketches & digital images which act as references and provide source material to be worked on. But the real source is visual memory & my aim remains to get as close to the original experience of being in the landscape as I can.
What is the starting point for a painting?
Well, I continue to be inspired by the changing Seasons and the Mearns landscape, seascape and shoreline. I tend to work on a series of paintings on the same subject or theme at any one time then move on. The starting point might be a visit to St Cyrus or a walk in the countryside near my home. The light and the time of year is important to me. I don't have a routine and I don't go into the studio every day – or even every week. Recently, the area around Denlethen Woods to the south West of Laurencekirk has provided the inspiration for the series of Autumn and Winter landscapes in the exhibition.
Can you describe your technique?
Yes. I start with a detailed drawing to establish the composition. Then I work quickly to cover the whole area of the paper with a series of washes to 'kill the white'. It goes without saying that I am a tonal painter – not a colourist. The tone establishes the mood. I use a number of papers: Bockingford 200lb, Saunders Waterford 200lb, Not and HP – always stretched on board. Recently, I have experimented with Saunders Waterford 200lb High White HP. I employ a limited palette of quality pigments, mostly very traditional 'earthy' colours such as ochres, siennas and umbers. I am not a 'purist': I like to mix pigments with Chinese White though I try to adhere to Hockney's dictum by applying a maximum of 3 or 4 washes to any one area to avoid overworking. I use a lot of masking: often layering areas of wash, then repeating the masking and working from light to dark.
Sometimes it's difficult to tell when to stop. Sometimes areas become 'dull' or 'muddy' and there comes a point when the work simply must be abandoned. For me, a work is 'finished' when it gives back to me the essence of the experience which gave rise to it. Certainly, a painting must do more than replicate a scene. It develops over time and can never really be 'like' a photograph as the process of producing a painting is quite different. A photograph is the record of a moment frozen in time; a painting develops over time …hours or days. The finished work must bear witness to the act of seeing itself while remaining true to the impulse which gave rise to it. Above all, it must connect with the artist's emotional response to the landscape. If it succeeds in this, then it will have made its mark.
Andrew Wyeth wrote: It's the moment I'm after, a fleeting moment but not a frozen moment. My own work is an attempt to capture such fleeting moments – to create 'reminders', if you like – and to record and celebrate the natural beauty of the Mearns landscape and shoreline as it changes with the Seasons.
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Patrícia Mbengani Bravo Mamona  (São Jorge de Arroios, Lisboa, 21 de novembro de 1988, segunda-feira) é uma atleta portuguesa de triplo salto, de ascendência angolana. Em 2021, ganhou a medalha de ouro em pista coberta, no Campeonato da Europa de Atletismo. Nos Jogos Olímpicos de 2020 ficou em segundo lugar na prova, ganhando a medalha de prata com 15,01m.

Percurso
Desde de muito nova que Patrícia mamona se destacou como uma atleta com grande potencialidade, foi descoberta pelo treinador José Uva, tendo representado a  Juventude Operária de Monte Abraão (JOMA), entre 2002 e 2010.

A atleta em 2003 no Triplo Salto arrasou completamente todos os Recordes Nacionais com 11,69m, para nos dois anos seguintes melhorar o Recorde, até chegar ao 12,87m durante os Campeonatos do Mundo de Juvenis onde ficou num honrado 7º lugar.

A sua especialidade sempre foi o Triplo Salto, mas em 2005 bateu os recordes nacionais juvenis dos 100m barreiras e do Salto em Comprimento. Nessa altura também já tinha batido quatro vezes o Recorde Nacional Júnior do Triplo Salto e, em 2006 viria a fazê-lo outras quatro terminando o concurso no 4º lugar.

Na categoria de sub-23, Patrícia Mamona entre 2006 e 2010, melhorou o Recorde Nacional do Triplo Salto onze vezes, e, foi penta campeã de Portugal no Triplo Salto e no Salto em Comprimento, para além de ter conquistado dois títulos nacionais nos 100m barreiras.

Em 2008 foi para a Universidade Clemson no estado americano da Carolina do Sul, para tirar o curso de engenharia biomédica, passando a competir no circuito universitário americano, ao mesmo tempo que continuava a vir a Portugal para participar nas principais provas.

Ainda como atleta do JOMA, foi tri-Campeã de Portugal no Triplo Salto entre 2008 e 2010, abrindo este ultimo ano com um salto de 13,85m, que era  Recorde Nacional em pista coberta.

Ainda em 2010,  a atleta viria a melhorar mais três vezes o Recorde Nacional do Triplo Salto, tornando-se na primeira portuguesa a ultrapassar a barreira dos 14 metros durante a fase final dos NCAA, a competição universitária de maior destaque nos Estados Unidos da América.

Mas o melhor estava guardado para os Campeonatos da Europa que se disputaram em Barcelona, onde Patrícia Mamona saltou  14,12m durante as qualificações, batendo assim novamente o Recorde Nacional e garantindo um lugar na Final da competição, onde foi 8ª classificada.

No final de 2010 Patrícia Mamona transferiu-se para o Sporting Clube de Portugal, onde estabeleceu um novo Recorde Nacional do Triplo Salto obtido nos Campeonatos de Portugal, onde foi novamente Campeã, chegando assim aos 10 títulos consecutivos, aos quais somou outros seis obtidos na pista coberta, entre 2012 e 2017.

Voltando a 2011, a atleta conquistou a Medalha de Prata no Triplo Salto das Universíadas, que se disputaram na China, mas nos Mundiais da Coreia do Sul, esteve abaixo das expectativas e não passou das qualificações.

Já em 2012 Patrícia conquistou a Medalha de Prata no Triplo Salto dos Campeonatos da Europa de Atletismo, com 14,52m.

Depois destes resultados, as suas expectativas para os Jogos Olímpicos de Londres eram elevadas, mas ficou no ingrato 13º lugar das qualificações, com a marca de 14,11m, que a deixou a um lugar e a apenas 5 centímetros da final olímpica.

A 23 de Fevereiro de 2014, no decorrer do Campeonato Nacional de Pista Coberta, com um salto de 14,01m, tornou-se assim a primeira portuguesa a ultrapassar a barreira dos 14 metros em pista coberta e depois melhorou para 14,36m, que era a 3ª melhor marca mundial do ano. Ainda nesse ano fez parte da equipa do Sporting que conseguiu o histórico 2º lugar na Taça dos Campeões Europeus de Atletismo.

Em 2015 foi 5ª classificada no Europeu de Pista Coberta  ficando muito perto das medalhas ao saltar 14,32m, mas nos Mundiais de Pequim não conseguiu passar das qualificações.

No dia 10 de julho de 2016, no Campeonato Europeu de Atletismo, em Amesterdão, saltou 14,58 metros, conquistando a medalha de ouro e estabelecendo um novo recorde nacional de triplo salto feminino. No mesmo dia, foi agraciada com o grau de Comendador da Ordem do Mérito, insígnia que lhe foi entregue três dias depois, a 13 de julho. No mesmo ano, a 14 de agosto, nos Jogos Olímpicos do Rio de Janeiro, terminou o concurso na 6ª posição, obtendo assim a melhor classificação de sempre do triplo salto feminino português, após um salto de 14,65 metros.

Iniciou a época de 2017 num grande momento de forma, realizando 4 concursos consecutivos sempre acima dos 14 metros, um dos quais lhe valeu o seu 6º título de Campeã de Portugal no Triplo Salto em pista coberta.

No dia 4 de Março de 2017 Patrícia Mamona conquistou a Medalha de Prata no Triplo Salto no Campeonato da Europa de Atletismo de Pista Coberta, que decorreu na Sérvia.

Em Agosto de 2017 voltou a marcar presença nos Campeonatos Mundiais de Atletismo, garantindo facilmente um lugar na Final ao saltar 14,29m. Na Final começou com um nulo que a inibiu e depois chegou aos 14,12m, que a colocaram no 8º lugar, mas no último salto da terceira ronda foi ultrapassada pela espanhola Ana Peleteiro e ficou de fora dos três saltos finais por apenas 1 centímetro, terminando assim no 9º lugar.

Ainda em 2017 recebeu o prémio Leões Honoris Sporting na categoria Atleta Feminina do Ano.

Patrícia fez parte da equipa que ganhou a Taça dos Campeões Europeus de Atletismo em 2018, contribuindo com uma vitória no Triplo Salto. Ainda nesse ano esteve presente nos Europeus de Berlim, onde não conseguiu chegar à Final pois vinha de uma paragem motivada por uma lesão que também a impediu de ser mais uma vez Campeã de Portugal, título que recuperou em 2019.

No dia 2 de Fevereiro de 2019 igualou o Recorde Nacional do Triplo Salto em pista coberta no Meeting de Karlsruhe e poucos dias depois em Madrid confirmou o grande momento de forma que atravessava com um concurso brilhante, com saltos entre os 14,11m e os 14,44m.

Iniciou a época de 2020 novamente em excelente forma vencendo o Meeting de L'Eure de pista coberta, em França, obtendo a segunda melhor marca mundial do ano com a marca de 14,33m. Logo a seguir foi Campeã de Portugal no Triplo Salto em pista coberta pela 7ª vez, ,para no Verão obter o seu 12º título ao ar livre com a marca de 14,26m.

No dia 7 de março de 2021 ganhou a medalha de ouro (Triplo Salto) no Campeonato Europeu de Atletismo em Pista Coberta 2021 em Torún, com uma marca de 14.53 metros, após ter lutado contra a COVID-19.  A 1 de Agosto de 2021, a atleta garantiu a medalha de prata, apenas atrás da gigante venezuelana que bateu o recorde mundial do triplo salto.

No verão de 2021 foram realizados os Jogos Olímpicos de Tóquio 2020, devido à pandemia covid-19, Patrícia Mamona alcançou a medalha de prata com a marca de 15,01m, batendo assim o recorde nacional na modalidade.

A 11 de janeiro de 2022, foi agraciada com o grau de Grande-Oficial da Ordem do Mérito.

Em 2023 conquistou a Medalha de Bronze no concurso do Triplo Salto dos Europeus de pista coberta, disputados na Turquia.

Foi distinguida com o Prémio Stromp na categoria Atleta em 2012, 2016 e 2021 e em 2017 na categoria Europeu.

Biografia
Filha de um pai funcionário da IBM e mãe auxiliar de enfermagem, cresceu em Agualva, no concelho de Sintra. O pai é angolano do Uíge e o seu apelido significa visionário em quicongo.

Quando tinha 13 anos, o pai emigrou para Inglaterra e o resto da família juntou-se mais tarde. Patrícia ficou em Portugal por causa do atletismo e para terminar os estudos. Aos 17 anos, ganhou uma bolsa e foi estudar Medicina na Universidade Clemson, na Carolina do Sul.

Recordes Pessoais
 Triplo salto: 15,01m  (Tóquio - 2021)
 Comprimento: 6,21m (Blacksburg - 2009)
 200 metros: 24,42s (Clemson - 2010)
 110 metros com barreiras: 13,53s (Clemson - 2010)
 Heptatlo: 5 293 Pontos (Durham - 2011)

Palmarés
Campeonatos Nacionais
 3 Campeonatos Nacionais Triplo salto (2008 - 2010)

Campeonatos da Europa
 (Torún 2021) Triplo salto (1.º lugar - 14.53 metros)
 (Campeonato da Europa de Pista Coberta, Belgrado, Sérvia 2017) Triplo salto (2.º lugar - 14.29 metros)
 (Amesterdão 2016) Triplo salto (1.º lugar)
 (Helsínquia 2012) Triplo salto (2.º lugar)
 (Barcelona 2010) Triplo salto (8.º lugar)

Campeonatos do Mundo de Juniores
 (Pequim 2006) Triplo salto (4.º lugar)

Jogos Olímpicos
Tóquio 2020 Triplo salto (2.º lugar)
Rio 2016 Triplo salto (6.º lugar)

Competições Internacionais

Ligações externas

 Perfil na Associação Europeia de Atletismo
 Perfil na Federação Portuguesa de Atletismo
 Perfil no Clemson Tigers

Naturais de Lisboa
Barreiristas de Portugal
Heptatletas de Portugal
Saltadores em triplo salto de Portugal
Atletas olímpicos de Portugal
Desportistas do Sporting Clube de Portugal
Comendadores da Ordem do Mérito
Grandes-Oficiais da Ordem do Mérito
Atletas nos Jogos Olímpicos de Verão de 2012
Atletas nos Jogos Olímpicos de Verão de 2016
Atletas nos Jogos Olímpicos de Verão de 2020
Medalhistas olímpicos de prata de Portugal
Medalhistas de Portugal nos Jogos Olímpicos de Verão de 2020
Portugueses de ascendência angolana


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