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I've written an agent in c++, and am using learners.base.RemoteLearner to connect to the task evaluator, however I get errors on the remote learner side when non ascii codes are sent through (specifically 0x80). Do the bytes need to be decoded into utf-8?
I had been limiting the actions between ' ' and '~' but I read in one of the other faq's that this might not be right for the evaluation round.
Did anyone figure this out ? We're having similar issues with the remote learner.
you're right, they need to be decoded into utf-8 and then converted to a code point, which will be in range (0-255).
When we're sending bytes through the remote learner, we first interpret the byte as a utf-8 codepoint. For instance, given byte 193 (or 0xC1 in hexadecimal), we interpret it as a utf-8 codepoint, character 'Á'. We then encode this character in UTF-8, as 195 129 (or 0xC3 0x81 in hexadecimal). Finally, RemoteLearner sends this character over the network to your agent. You should decode this character by an inverse process.
When sending bytes towards the RemoteLearner, you should repeat the same - interpret the byte as a UTF-8 codepoint, create the UTF-8 character from that codepoint and serialize that character to bytes, which you send to the RemoteLearner.
Ok, great. Thanks Martin. I've also found this table which helped me to visualise the changes I'll have to make to my endpoint for each direction.
Why can't Python decode byte 0xc3? Am I doing something wrong? Should I use Python 3?
The error message looks like you're sending only the leading 0xC3 character, without appending the 0x80 character. Can you verify that both characters get sent to the remote learner?
thank you for the reply. Indeed, I was not communicating both characters. It was a bug in my code, not a issue with python 2.7.


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Q: How to specify width and height in the_content for image attachments When the_content print attachment images (attachment template) it automatocally displays the picture. Is there a hook to specify the width and height of the image displayed?

A: I believe this is what your looking for. The complete code can be found in twentyten's loop-attachment.php template. Look for the
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<?php if ( wp_attachment_is_image() ) :
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December 04, 2013 Reviews
Twice Born
At their humblest, film directors claim most of their work is done once they've finished the casting process—that the most important aspect of the job is finding the perfect combination of actors. By that measure, Twice Born is a resounding failure, predicated as it is on a passionate romance between two characters who barely seem aware of each other's existence, much less madly in love. In this particular case, though, the problem stems from more than the absence of chemistry. An Italian-Spanish coproduction adapted from an Italian novel and set mostly in Bosnia, Twice Born illustrates the perils of today's financing dictates, which often insist upon an American star whether there's a suitable role for one or not. Emile Hirsch has no business being in this movie, yet here he is anyway, painfully floundering in a role originally written as Italian. Specifically, the character was Genoese, which presumably involved a host of socio-cultural nuances that have all been jettisoned in favor of generic brash-Yank heartthrobbin'.
For added international confusion, the film's female lead, Gemma, who's also meant to be Italian, is played by Penélope Cruz. (This seems less likely to be the whim of some suit; Cruz previously starred in Sergio Castellitto's Don't Move, and both films are based on novels by his wife, Margaret Mazzantini.) In the present day, Gemma is happily, though somewhat distantly, married to a military policeman (Castellitto) and has a sullen teenage son, Pietro (Pietro Castellitto, Sergio's son by Mazzantini—another huge casting error). Out of the blue, Gemma receives a phone call from Gojco (Adnan Haskovic), a Bosnian poet she knew decades earlier, who invites her to attend an exhibit featuring photographs by her long-dead lover Diego (Hirsch). With Pietro in tow, she heads to Sarajevo, and the movie then alternates between extended flashbacks of her ostensibly torrid romance—which begins at the 1984 Winter Olympics and extends through the Bosnian War—and present-day revelations regarding the true story of Pietro's conception.
Even on the page, it's hard to imagine this unabashedly melodramatic tale being effective, though the book was a bestseller in Italy). Among other issues, its use of the war feels ickily opportunistic, with the real-life suffering of countless women reduced to a cheap, meaningless plot twist. But at least it's possible that the central relationship, as originally written for two Italians, had some oomph, rather than being utterly stillborn. Cruz, usually sensual, here somehow achieves a state that can only be called erotic catatonia, and her passivity forces poor Hirsch to compensate by going into full-blown carpe diem manchild mode; every moment they share onscreen creates a gigantic emotional vacuum. Furthermore, since it becomes clear early on that Pietro's father isn't Gemma's husband—both Diego and Gojco are floated as possible candidates—it's hard to comprehend why Castellitto would cast himself and his own son, who looks just like him (and looks unmistakably Italian), in those two roles. Nearly every superficial element of the movie is badly misconceived; it was doomed before the first scene was shot.
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124 min / Run Time
December 06 2013 / Release Date
Italian / Language
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Sergio Castellitto
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Dungeons & Dragons Immortals
DnD Immortals Simurgh
Post date Aug 30, 2020
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Dungeons and Dragons – Mystara Immortals
Simurgh – Sphere of Time
Player Section
Game Master Section
Immortal Overview
Sponsorship Hierarchy
Info to be Discovered
Classic Stats
3.5 Stats
0e-wi-b1 D&D BECMI Wrath of the Immortals Book One
Player Section – Simurgh
Keeper of the Flow of Time
Secret Crafts:
Clerics:
Favoured Weapon: dagger
Domains: Life, Prophecy, Repose, Time, Travel
Symbol: the face of an eagle seen from the side
Warlocks:
Patron – Life-Cycle, Travel, Travellers, Wisdom.
Patron and Title Keywords – Living (Birth, Death, Health), Racial (Aerial Races), Science (Flight), Title (Sphere of Time (Ancient, Eternal))
Ancient Ones pantheon only – Sphere of Time (Ancient)
Eternals pantheon only – Sphere of Time (Eternal)
Time pantheon only – Sphere of Time (Eternal)
Racial Pantheons
Dragonkin (Keeper of the Flow of Time) Due to Patron of Birth.
Dwarven and Gnome (Simurgh) Due to Patron of Science group (Flight)
Elven (Keeper of the Flow of Time) –
Giantkin (Keeper of the Flow of Time) Due to Patron of Health
Cultural Pantheon
Outcast (Keeper of the Flow of Time) Due to Patron of Death
Elemental Pantheon
Darkness (Keeper of the Flow of Time) Due to Patron of Death.
Forest (Keeper of the Flow of Time) Due to Patron of Living group (Birth, Death, Health)
Sky (Simurgh) Due to Patron of Flight.
Immortal Pantheons
Eternals (Simurgh) Due to Rank of Eternal.
Time (Simurgh) Due to Member of Sphere of Time.
Special Pantheons
Ancient Ones (Simurgh) Due to Rank of Ancient.
Assembly (Simurgh) Due to being an Immortal of Mystara.
Appearance: a giant bird with the head of an eagle coloured silver, his beak armed with two rows of teeth, the body and the legs of a lion, two pairs of wings of metallic orange feathers, and the tail of a peacock.
Simurgh's Campaign Information
Game Master Section – Simurgh
Simurgh – Eternal of Time 26
Was Empyreal of Time (19)
Sourcebooks: Vaults of Pandius (vop)
Portfolio: protector of life and bearer of health, patron of travellers and flight, protection of living species and the flow of time, health, wisdom, flight, travel
Other Names: Keeper of the Flow of Time
Artefact: The Feather of Simurgh
Allies of Simurgh
Assists (can also be assisted by)
Khoronus (36) Hierarch of Time
Enemies of Simurgh
Opposes (can also be opposed by)
Ka (35) Hierarch of Matter
Sponsorship Hierarchy – Time
Sponsorship of the Time Sphere
Fugit (30) Eternal of Time
Brindorhin (14) Celestial of Time
Finidel (7) Temporal of Time
Carnelian (11) Temporal of Time
Ordana (31) Hierarch of Time
Calitha (18) Celestial of Time
Sharpcrest (19) Empyreal of Time
Oleyan (6) Initiate of Time
Yav (20) Empyreal of Time
Petra (17) Celestial of Time
Protius (29) Eternal of Time
Al-Kalim (3) Initiate of Time
Ahmanni (16) Celestial of Time moved from Thought (14)
Chardastes (24) Empyreal of Time
Hymir (13) Celestial of Time
Kallala (14) Celestial of Time moved to Entropy (22)
Malafor (15) Celestial of Time moved from Matter (18)
Crakkak (10) Temporal of Time moved from Matter (10)
Vanya (23) Empyreal of Time
Liena (1) Initiate of Time
Taroyas (6) Initiate of Time moved to Thought (6)
Luca (12) Temporal of Time
Simurgh (26) Eternal of Time
Vethandi (35) Hierarch of Time
Gorrziok (25) Eternal of Time moved from Matter (22)
Skuld (34) Hierarch of Time was Entropy (34)
Tyche (28) Eternal of Time (28) was Thought (28)
Bastet (22) Celestial of Time (22) was Matter (16)
Raven (21) Empyreal of Time moved from Thought (21)
Tourlain (8) Temporal of Time moved from Thought (8)
Urd (32) Hierarch of Time was Matter (35)
Zalaj (27) Eternal of Time
Water Elemaster (32) Hierarch of Time
History: Simurgh is an immortal creature whose origins remain mysterious. His first apparitions in the history of Mystara goes back to the time of the first Beastmen and the carnifex, but no one knows if he was a mortal being before he ascended to become an Immortal. Although he has a proper home plane, he was rarely found in the Multiverse, and even seemed to vanish for entire centuries, only to return to manifest as the prelude to great calamites and catastrophes, with the declared aim of helping mortals and cultures to survive the events. Khoronus is his most loyal supporter, and he affirms that Simurgh is a native being of the temporal plane that gained Immortality in the Sphere of Time in time immemorial, and who normally lives within the flow of time. Some suspect instead that Simurgh is an emissary of the Old Ones, the creatures that live on the other side of the Dimensional Barrier, and that he emerges from the Vortex as he should whenever something's wrong in the Multiverse, acting thus to repair the errors of mortals and Immortals. What is certain is that from when he first appeared, in the prehistory of Mystara, his level of power has never changed despite his efforts to protect different species and cultures, and this (together with his long absence) has induced the Immortals to believe that he is totally disinterested by the Immortals hierarchy of power, or that he has not even influenced by them (although continues to operate in accord with the Hierarch of Time).
Personality: Simurgh is a affable being that fundamentally tries to act to preserve the life cycle and the existing cultures in the Multiverse, having already seen over time the loss of worlds and entire continents. For this he incites his followers with visions, dreams and apparitions, helping the most worthy with gifts (among which the fabulous Claw) and miraculous generosity, but carefully avoiding to intervene in more direct ways on the affairs of the mortals. He didn't approve the creation of the Hollow World partly by Ka: for him every race has the right of selecting its own destiny and for the belief of his sphere preserving a culture forever in the same static and stratified form represents an aberration. In this way of seeing things he has always found faithful allies both in Khoronus and in Fugit. Simurgh is worshipped as protector of life and bearer of health, patron of travellers and flight in different parts of the Multiverse, while the intelligent flying species like rocs and giant eagles consider him their own ancestor.
Info on Simurgh to be discovered by Groups
Unfinished Pantheon
Sind (Simurgh)
Design Details – Simurgh
DnD BECMI Rules
DnD 3.5 Rules
Classic D&D (BECMI) Stats
Followers Alignment: any; clerics must be Neutral
Favoured weapon: dagger (allowed mace and thrown weapons)
Clerics skills and powers: power of transforming into a giant eagle once per day (gains the physical characteristics of the eagle, keeps his own mental characteristics, THAC0 and ST, cannot use any of his special powers), free train animals (flying) skill
D&D 3.5 Stats
Domains: Time, Good, Protection, Healing, Travel
Preferred weapon: dagger
Design Changes
Simurgh – Patron to Pantheon Links – This is to be the basis on who is in what Pantheon and why.
Birth (patron) added to the Dragonkin pantheon.
Birth, Death and Health (patron) added to the Living patron group.
Death (patron) added to the Darkness and Outcast pantheons.
Flight (patron) added to the Sky pantheon.
Flight (patron) added to the Science patron group.
Health (patron) added to the Giantkin pantheon.
Aerial Races (patron group) added to the Sky pantheon.
Living (patron group) added to the forest pantheon
Science (patron group) added to the Dwarven and Gnome pantheon.
Ancient (rank) added to the Ancient Ones pantheon.
Eternal (rank) added to the Eternals pantheon.
Sphere of Time (rank group) added to Time pantheon.
2021-09-10 – Added in design changes and Patron to Pantheon links to show where this Immortal features in the Pantheon.
2021-08-19 – Update to layout, menu, tags and links.
2021-08-15 – Updating allies and enemies. Also some of the layout updates.
The Gods: The Immortals Overview,
GM Section: Immortality Overview, Path Conqueror, Path Dragon, Path Dynast, Path Epic Hero, Path Paragon, Path Polymath, Quest Petition, Quest Meeting
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Thought/Air (36): Air Elemaster (32), Arnelee (8), Asterius (28), Clebard (2), Cochere (12), Cretia (16), Diulanna (18), Eiryndul (20), Frey (13), Freyja (13), Gorm (22), Halav (17), Karaash (5), Kersy (21), Korotiku (32), Koryis (10), Malinois (15), Ninfangle (27), Nob Nar (5), Noumena (34), Odin (36), Orisis (19), Palartarkan (11), Palson (4), Pax (35), Ralon (9), Sinbad (25), Soubrette (24), Ssu-Ma (23), Tarastia (30), Taroyas (6), Thalia (31), Thor (29), Turmis (1), Urtson (7), Usamigaras (27)
Time/Water (33): Al-Kalim (3), Ahmanni (14), Bastet (22), Brindorhin (14), Calitha (18), Carnelian (11), Chardastes (24), Crakkak (10), Finidel (7), Fugit (30), Gorrziok (25), Hymir (13), Khoronus (36), Liena (1), Luca (12), Malafor (15), Oleyan (6), Ordana (31), Petra (17), Protius (29), Raven (21), Sharpcrest (19), Simurgh (19), Skuld (34), Tiresias (9), Tourlain (8), Tyche (28), Urd (32), Vanya (23), Vethandi (35), Water Elemaster (33), Yav (20), Zalaj (27)
Tags Domain of Life, Domain of Prophecy, Domain of Repose, Domain of TIme, Domain of Travel, Dungeons & Dragons, Elven Pantheon, Mystara, Patron of Death, Patron of Flight, Patron of Life, Patron of Travel, Patron of Travellers, Patron of Wisdom, Wrath of the Immortals, {atron of Health
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"There is no alternative to cooperation with Germany and the EU " – such conclusions were reached by participants in the debate organised by the Casimir Pulaski Foundation in cooperation with the Centre for International Relations to discuss the exposé of the Minister of Foreign Affairs Witold Waszczykowski. The debate was moderated by the President of the Casimir Pulaski Foundation Zbigniew Pisarski and was attended by president of the Center for International Relations, Dr. Małgorzata Bonikowska, prof. Stanislaw Koziej, Dr. Bartlomiej Nowak and Dr. Pawel Kowal .
At the very beginning of the discussion differences in the assessment of the foreign policy of new Polish government emerged. General Koziej acknowledged that the policy of President Andrzej Duda and the new government, especially towards NATO, is a good continuation of the previous government's one. Polemical position was taken by Dr. Bartlomiej Nowak, who stressed that the expose made by minister Waszczykowski is probably "the most difficult moment for Polish foreign policy since 1989″, because it completely negates the approach of previous cabinets.
Another topic of the discussion were the Eastern affairs and relations with the Russian Federation. Dr. Pawel Kowal positively assessed the current actions of the Polish government towards Russia. According to him, Moscow does not seek good relations with Warsaw, because Poland plays a role in creating negative propaganda in Russian media. Dr. Kowal also warned that Poland should strive for the creation of a new "Eastern initiative" and protect the achievements of the Eastern Partnership. This is important because it creates the image of Poland as an active and effective player in the Eastern affairs. Pawel Kowal also pointed out that the big challenge for the new Polish government is to avoid being accused by EU of straining democratic standards. He added that it is necessary to build a good relationship with the European Commission, which will be crucial in the context of relations with the EU in general.
The ambassador Jerzy M. Nowak also took part in the discussion and negatively assessed the exposé of Minister Waszczykowski. He stated that "this is not good change" and the expose of the new Foreign Minister was too emotional. Janusz Onyszkiewicz, fmr Minister of Defence stressed the cooperation with the United States. According to him, Poland should have no illusions that if it wants to be an important ally for the USA, it must have a strong position in the European Union. A similar situation can be observed in the case of the UK, which is more valuable for the US, as a member of the EU.


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I was born and raised in the Chicago area. I attended Illinois State University and was the first student from ISU to be accepted into Oxford University in England. After studying at Oxford in 1999 and 2000, I graduated from ISU with a bachelors degree in political science. I later went on to the John Marshall Law School on a scholarship and received my J.D. and a LLM in real estate law.
After working at a couple of different law firms, I started my own practice in 2009. Today, my practice focuses primarily on real estate and is one of the biggest practices in the Chicago area by volume for residential and commercial real estate.
I am married to my wonderful wife Gina, have two beautiful daughters Audrey and Addison, and our sweet shelter dog Callie.
I am involved with St. Raphael Church and School, a local precinct committeeman, Operation Support Our Troops, Naperville Chamber of Commerce, Naperville Jaycees, Loaves and Fishes, and many other organizations.
I am also currently in the middle of restoring a 1966 Ford Mustang!


A request to help the city's senior citizens was heard at Monday night's Red Bud City Council.
Marilyn Langrehr, the site coordinator of the Red Bud Senior Center, took an opportunity to speak to the council during the meeting's public comments, urging them for assistance.
The senior center is currently operating out of Red Bud First Baptist Church on West Market Street. It moved there in late 2013 from its previous location north of town. Over the years, the center has dealt with reductions in funding from the city, as well as the state, which has forced it to reduce days they are open and services provided.
"I want to stress the importance of our center, in that it plays an important role in the lives of our seniors," Langrehr told the council.
Langrehr noted that the center has been trying to find a new location for some time, and now that the church is also housing Perandoe's high school program, the need is more urgent.
For more from the city council's meeting, please see this week's print edition.


The Australian Red Cross Heritage Collection, comprising both archives and memorabilia, is held across all Red Cross state and territory offices.
The collection includes annual reports, board and other committee minutes for all states and territories, Minutes and other records from Red Cross branches, units and clubs (some dating back to 1914), Red Cross uniforms, badges, posters, quilts, flags, photographs and thousands of other documents and items.
In 2014 we marked the Centenary of Australian Red Cross by donating our archive and heritage collection from the national office and Victorian division to the University of Melbourne Archives, a gift to the nation to be preserved and shared with future generations.
In June 2015 the transfer of annual reports and official records marked the start of a five year process to handover one hundred years of photographs, records and treasured objects. At approximately 400 shelf metres, it will be the largest single donation the University of Melbourne Archives has ever received.
In June 2015 the first transfer of more than 970 archive boxes was made.
Over 18 months a team of staff and volunteers spent more than 3,000 hours preparing for the first transfer. The second transfer took place in 2016 and a third is scheduled for the first half of 2017. In the meantime, items of a medical nature will be transferred to the University's Medical History Museum.
It's been a huge job managing the archives of one of Australia's largest and oldest charities. We thank our dedicated teams of staff and volunteer archivists in each state and territory, who have faithfully cared for our historical records and memorabilia with limited space and resources.
In other states and territories, transfers are being made to public repositories.
Assist with any enquiries about information and items held in our Heritage Collection and archives held by the wider International Red Cross Red Crescent Movement.
Provide access to the Heritage Collection for researchers.
Arrange the loan of items from our Heritage Collection, primarily for display purposes.
Receive new items of items of significance into the Heritage Collection.
Undertake conservation and other projects to care for our Heritage Collection.
Support the donation of archival material to the selected repository.
For more information about the Red Cross Heritage Collection please email us.
Read more about accessing material in the University of Melbourne Archives.


Help teach it by adding your drawings to the world's largest doodle data set, which could be shared publicly to help with machine learning research in the future.
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1. Create a new folder in Drive and share it as "Public on the web."
2. Upload your HTML, JS & CSS files to this folder.
3. Open the HTML file & you will see "Preview" button in the toolbar.
4. Share the URL that looks like www.googledrive.com/host/... from the preview window and anyone can view your web page.


One of the best things to have happened in my life is to come into contact with the lectures of Swami Paramarthananda Saraswathi, a disciple of Swami Dayananda Saraswathi. Swami Paramarthanandaji has been giving talks on Vedanta in Chennai and other places for a few decades. His recent lectures can be found at http://www.vedantavidyarthisangha.org/. His old lectures can be bought at http://www.sastraprakasika.org/. People have posted several of his lecture series on the internet.
There are several teachers of the tradition of Swami Dayananda Saraswati who are teaching in various places in India. http://www.arshavidya.org/teachers_india.html gives a good list of them.
Swami Paramarthanandaji has given numerous lectures on the Bhagavad Gita in different levels of detail. He delivered a series of 250 lectures covering Bhagavad Gita verse by verse. A devotee, P.S. Ramachandran of Coimbatore, has transcribed the entire lecture series and has made it available to the public as a PDF file. You can access this invaluable resource here: http://arshaavinash.in/?wpdmdl=790 If that link does not work, you can access a copy here.
The chapter summaries of the series have been transcribed separately by some students of Vivekananda Study Circle, IISc, Bangalore. You can find that here.
Earlier I had published my lecture notes on this website. Now, with the availability of the full transcript, my lecture notes are redundant. I have removed them.
Salutations to the holy feet of the Guru, the Lord and His devotees.
Yes. I need to put them in. I have the notes in my notebook. I need to type them in. Swami Paramarthanandaji's lectures are a treasure to all seekers.
You can find them in Hinduonline website.
I am Sivajothi from Singapore.
I happened to chanced upon mp3 audio of vedanta talks. It's really interesting.
May i know who the speaker is?
This is the link I found it.
It is Swami Paramarthanandaji, who is a disciple of Swami Chinmayananda and Swami Dayananda. It is the person whom you can see at the right-most picture at the top of this page.
Initially I attended his lectures.as I aged, I listen to him over the intyer-net.
I am looking forward to lecture notes of Bhagawad Gita – Chapters 5 to 18. When will these be posted? Lecture notes of chapters 1-4 are very instructive.
I have the rest in my notebook. I need to type them in. Meanwhile, you can access the three books on Gita – "Summary". "Essence" and "Message" at the e-library link.
It is indeed an invaluable work of Shri P.S. Ramachandran for transcribing all Swami's Gita discourses. Thank you very much for making it available to everyone! Sarvam Krishnaarpanamasthu.
Thank you P.S.Ramachandran Sir, for all the efforts in transcribing the entire lecture series.I have been listening Srimad Bhagavageeta lectures since 2011 and have scribled the contents but I am really grateful for the exhaustive and complete discourses.It i s indeed a great service that you have done for people ,specially to those staying abroad and have no opportunity to attend the classes regularly.
Sastanga Pranams to the Lotus feet of H.H.Swamiji & thank you again for your invaluable service.
Thank you so much for posting the link for the entire commentary on Bhagawad Geeta by Swamiji. This is indeed a Jewel, thanks and namaskarams to both the Teacher as well as the students, who has taken the efforts to compile this wonderful piece of wisdom to propagate the Vedantic wisdom to all. Shri Gurubhyo Namaha!!!
Thank you so much for making the link for the Transcript of the entire commentary on Bhagawad Geeta available on this site. This is indeed a piece of Jewel. Thank you to both the Teacher (Swamiji) and the student (Ramachandranji) for making this possible. Namaskarams to all of you for your efforts in spreading the wisdom of Vedanta to seekers like me. Shree Gurubhyo Namaha!!! Namo Mahadbhayah Kshullakebhyah Cha!!!


A lot of my work here at Alternate Histories is just silly monster fun, but one thing I take seriously is voting rights! Recently my friend Andrea Laurion posted this image online and I absolutely loved it; it's from the Women's Suffrage movement that led to the passing of the 19th Amendment.
Unfortunately the original image wasn't in great shape, having been passed around and reposted online so many times, so I decided to refresh it and make it into a downloadable, printable image for the upcoming midterm elections. Feel free to download the images below, share them, pass them around, and print and post them! I only ask that you don't sell them for profit.
Let's all get out there and vote on November 6!
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I believe deeply in the Earthwatch mission of promoting science and environmental awareness by connecting volunteers with field science projects. It has been very rewarding to take my students on Earthwatch expeditions to the Bahamas, Trinidad, Peru, Costa Rica and Ecuador to participate in valuable science, learn about global conservation concerns, and make a positive impact in the world.
It takes a lot of advance planning and preparation to make a trip like this come to fruition. Planning for this expedition begins about 16 months before a trip. I worked closely with Earthwatch to select a project that aligns with my educational goals for the students, fits our calendar of availability and is in a reasonably accessible location. Once an expedition is selected, I have to begin advertising to the students for enrollment. I am fortunate to have relatively easy time getting students to enroll thanks to word of mouth advertising. Expeditions typically fill within a few weeks of the start of the school year.
Once the team is set, the focus shifts to logistical arrangements. I focus on getting travel finalized; Earthwatch forms complete, vaccinations, and packing. It is a lot of extra work on top of my daily work, and I'll admit that there are a few moments of, "why am I doing this again…?" during the process.
The answer to that question is easily answered once we arrive at our destination. I feel an overwhelming pride when my students are patrolling a beach, independently collecting data, tagging and measuring the turtles, transect sampling and assisting with authentic science. The students are eager to learn, passionately caring and committed to making an impact. These kids should give us all reason to be optimistic for the future of humanity and our planet.
Read about our adventures in the Issaquah Press or Earthwatch Unlocked.


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We're sitting in Mr. Roop Singh's kitchen, eating dinner. Dan and I are sitting on a blanket and eating alone, though there are a half dozen other people in the room. There are two dishes tonight. One contains 'keer', similar to green peas, in a rich turmeric sauce, and the other is 'kumatia' (a sort of mushroom) in a rich yellow curry. Both are incredibly delicious. Each is held in it's own small stainless steel bowl, which in turn is on a large stainless steel tray.
The room is small, perhaps ten feet square, painted dark red. Near us, three women are sitting around a small fire cooking. The daughter and mother are making chapatti one at a time on a flat plate that sits directly over the fire. Occasionally the daughter will blow air into the fire using a steel tube.
The eldest, the grandmother, roasts peanuts a few at time. She lays down a small handful of in-shell peanuts, then pulls a few coals out from the fire to lay around the peanuts. After a little while she picks out the nuts, shells them, and drops them onto our plate. They are, of course, yummy.
When a chapatti is done, the women quickly lift it with their fingers and flip it onto our tray. They're too hot to handle, so we have to wait a bit for them to cool. The chapatti are delicious, perfectly cooked with a slight char, lightly covered in melted butter. We eat at least a dozen.
In addition to the women, there are three children sitting around the fire, watching us eat. But Mr. Roop Singh is not sitting with us. As he explained apologetically, as the head of household, he must eat separately from the women. Since we expressed interest in watching the cooking, he is eating alone in the next room.
Today we drove from Jodhpur to Osian, a small village to the north, visiting a few temples along the way, including Maha Mandir. Osian contains a very large hindu temple which we visit for a while, trying to remember the various gods, some of which are aspects of others. For someone who hasn't grown up with this faith, it's all terribly confusing.
Afterwards we drove to the nearby village of Bhalasariya, where Mr. Singh's family lives. The family lives in a compound walled in by buildings, granaries, and walls. The courtyard and floors are compressed cow dung and are very clean, and we took off our shoes before entering.
This may seem foreign or shocking to many westerners, but the floors were hard and stable, almost like tile. The women swept the floors frequently. They were decorated around the edges by floral designs painted in red and white.
We sat on a blanket in his courtyard and were served a delicious lunch. The highlight was a vegetable called 'sangari', which grows on a tree by the same name. The sangari tree is the state tree of Rajasthan, and for good reason. The pods are very nutritious and when dried can be stored for a year. In addition the tree provides firewood and goats love to eat the leaves. Mr. Singh explained that the local people are very careful never to cut the trees down. Instead they simply trim branches off, never taking too much from any one tree.
Afterwards we drove around Bhalasariya. The roads were twin ruts in the soft sand, and the jeep was often sliding as much as driving along. Sometimes the road was a single car width between two fences, and other times it is a roughly-defined track across the sand. We come across a farm family mending the 'wall' around their field, constructed by stacking extremely spiny plants up to create an impassable barrier. The daughter veils her face as we approach.
The fields are filled with peacocks, which are wild here. In addition there are small short-horned gazelles and the blackbuck, and larger deer with magnificent antlers.
After dinner we retire to our room, a small round hut away from the family compound. The hut has two rope cots which are surprisingly comfortable. We sleep well, but every few hours a peacock somewhere will call, and almost immediately several dozen will reply, a short chorus of shrieking which makes for an amusing interruption to my dreams. There is also the distant barking of dogs, and once, the cry of a baby wanting to be fed. At dawn, a goat begins bleating almost directly into my left ear.
The next morning we eat breakfast, consisting of chai and wheat porridge, before heading out towards Jaisalmer. The scenery gets continuously drier, and sand dunes drift across the highway. We pass an accident where a bus and car destroyed one another. The car entire front of the car is flattened, and the bus is off to one side of the road, upright, but separated from its front wheels and axle, which are ten feet away. Mr. Singh spends 15 minutes telling me that he never drives too fast, because he believes that he will eventually get there anyhow, and it is better to get to the destination than not get there at all. I thank him for his caution, and ask him why he never wears a seat belt. He doesn't need to, he says, because he prays every morning.
Along the way we pause at a crossroads truck stop for chai and chapatti. We also have 'papad masalla', a piece of papadum (crispbread) topped with what is basically a mixture of chopped onions, tomatoes, and chili peppers, what the mexicans would call 'pico de gallo'. It's delicious.
As I sit drinking my chai, I notice a boy standing to my right, staring at me. He's beautiful and wrapped in a black shawl. I ask him if he wants me to take his picture, and he shakes his head eagerly. After I take his picture, he insists that I follow him to every business along that stretch of road, photographing the welders, auto mechanics, and even a vagrant along the way.
P.S. I've created a new gallery called 'Rajasthanis'. Take a look!
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The boy in the black shawl is GORGEOUS.


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Q: Doppler effect of observer and source moving in different directions and at an angle While studying the classic Doppler effect equation, I was curious to how the traditional equation of the doppler effect for sound, where the observer and sources are facing each other, gets effected once the observer is stationary and the source moves at an angle from the horizontal?

A: Here's a derivation of a general formula, which turns out to be just as simple as the commonly quoted formulas that work only in special cases.
Choose the rest frame of the medium as your reference frame. Let $c$ be the speed of sound. Say that an emitter with velocity $\def\v{\mathbf v} \v_e$ emits a wavefront at $\def\x{\mathbf x} t=0,\x=0$, and a second wavefront at $t=δt, \x = δt\,\v_e$, and a receiver with velocity $\v_r$ detects the first wavefront at $t=Δt, \x=Δ\x$ and the second at $t=Δt+k\,δt, \x=Δ\x+k\,δt\,\v_r$. The ratio of time intervals, $\frac{k\,δt}{δt} = k$, in the $δt\to 0$ limit, is the Doppler (red)shift factor. (I picked $k$ at random because, weirdly, there is no standard letter for this ratio.)
Both wavefronts travel at $c$, so
$$\begin{align}
Δ\x^2 &= c^2 Δt^2 \\
(Δ\x + k\,δt\,\v_r - δt\,\v_e)^2 &= c^2 (Δt + k\,δt - δt)^2
\end{align}$$
Subtracting the first equation from the second gives you
$$2 Δ\x \cdot (k\,δt\,\v_r - δt\,\v_e) + (k\,δt\,\v_r - δt\,\v_e)^2 = 2 c^2 Δt \, (k\,δt - δt) + c^2 (k\,δt - δt)^2$$
In the $δt\to 0$ limit, the second term on each side is negligible. If you drop those terms, it's easy to solve for $k$:
$$\boxed { k = \frac{c^2 - \mathbf c \cdot \v_e}{c^2 - \mathbf c \cdot \v_r} }$$
where $\mathbf c = Δ\x/Δt$ is the "velocity of sound": a vector of length $c$ pointing from the emitter toward the receiver.

You can derive the special-relativistic Doppler shift for light in a similar way. The result is even simpler:
$$k = \frac{\x \cdot \v_e}{\x \cdot \v_r}$$
where the $\v$s are four-velocities, and $\x$ is a null four-vector pointing from emitter to receiver.

A: The equation will change as the moving source/observer changes position. You will only get a constant frequency if the source and observer are both moving with the same velocity (unless $\theta=0$ or $\theta=\pi$).


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The Burning of Cork is the name commonly given to a devastating series of fires that swept through the centre of Cork City on the night of 11th December 1920. The burning and the subsequent controversy is one of the most significant events of the Irish War of Independence.
During the War of Independence, Cork was one of the main centres of IRA activity. On the day of the fire, a soldier was killed in an attack on British forces at Dillon's Cross. Later that day Black and Tans opened fire on a group of civilians near the corner of Summerhill North and what is now MacCurtain Street.
At 10 pm that night fire engines responding to reports of a fire at Dillon's Cross encountered a fire in a department store on Saint Patrick's Street. Several other fires had been lit in the vicinity, and the fire service was unable to control the conflagrations.
By the next morning numerous buildings on Saint Patrick's Street were completely destroyed by fires that had been set in buildings along its east and south sides. The City Hall and the Carnegie Library were also completely destroyed by fire, resulting in the loss of many of the city's public records.
Over five acres of the city were destroyed and an estimated £20 million worth of damage was done. Also that night two IRA men, the Delaney brothers, were murdered in their beds by the Black and Tans.
The loss of the stock of the library and of the records in Cork City Hall was a huge blow to future historians. The Chief Secretary for Ireland, Sir Hamar Greenwood, immediately denied that Crown forces were responsible for the conflagration. He also refused demands for an impartial enquiry which was called for by several public bodies in Cork.
In spite of Greenwood's obstinacy, the Irish Labour Party and Trades Union Congress published a pamphlet in January 1921 entitled, 'Who burned Cork City?' The work drew on eye-witness evidence assembled by Seamus Fitzgerald which suggested that the fires had been set by British forces. Members of the fire service testified that their attempts to contain the blaze were hampered by soldiers who fired on them and cut their hoses with bayonets.
A subsequent British Army enquiry (which resulted in the "Strickland Report") pointed the finger of blame at members of a company of Black and Tans. The soldiers, it was claimed, set the fires in reprisal for the IRA attack at Dillon's Cross.
Among the buildings completely destroyed on Saint Patrick's Street were Roche's Stores, Cash and Co., The Munster Arcade, Egan's, The American Shoe Company, Forrests, Sunners chemist and Saxone Shoes.
Photo: The devastated city centre of Cork City following its destruction by locally garrisoned units of the British Occupation Forces.


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Join Jamie McDell live for one night only as she visits home amongst life in North America. Telling stories and playing songs from her recent EP of which Rolling Stone & Billboard featured and Americana Highways stated "It doesn't take long to realize that McDell has a way with words. Not only that, but she manages to sing acid-tongued lyrics in a very sweet voice that almost makes it sound complimentary – to a point." BYO food & drink, limited capacity venue.
Special guest is Miller Yule. In 2016, solo artist Miller broke into the NZ music scene with his acclaimed debut EP \"Shoot Me in the Heart\". The EP hit #4 on the NZ Albums Chart and gained further momentum with the release of music videos for singles \"Shoot Me in the Heart\" and \"Little Things\".
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Vinicius Machado hosted a Stop Bullying Now event that benefited the homeless in South Los Angeles.
Actor and National Spokesperson of the "Stop Bullying Now Foundation", Vinicius Machado hosted the Stop Bullying Now Event on December 1, 2016 that benefited the homeless in South Los Angeles. The event was located The Big House At 180 E. 35th Street in the City of Los Angeles, California.
Mr. Machado along with other co-hosts Jorge Nuno (Social Entrepreneur & Candidate for the Los Angeles City Council District 9), Allen Maldonado (Actor-Blackish –ABC), Sarah Buehler (Actress-Speechless- ABC), Eric Lane (Actor-Empire), Tara Batesole (Actress- Almost Christmas), Dr. Levi Harrison (The Dr. Levi Show), Spicy Mari (Real 92.3 F.M.), Porscha Coleman (Silicon Valley – HBO), and Leah McKendrick (Actress-Bad Mom) were also in attendance. Dr. Sam Nguyen (Founder of (S.A.M) Stable Anchor Manor Foundation) was a special invited guests.
Guests that attended were asked to bring a coat, toy, can food or blanket for their donations. These items would later be distributed to homeless men and women in the South Los Angeles area. Many homeless men and women are outdoors in the cold with no shelter or food. The donations people have given will help bring warmth to them.
Melvin Jackson Jr. (Actor), Ciera Payton (Actress), Dominic Pace (Actor- Superstore – NBC), Isis King (Model-America's Top Model), Usman Ally (Actor- A series of unfortunate events), Eshun Melvin (Actor-Teen Wolf), Steve Cederquist (Flip or Flop), Mary Kennedy (Actress-Shameless-Showtime), Justin Tinucci (Actor-Lady Dynamite – Netflix), Chloe Noelle (Actress-True Blood-HBO), Jax Malcolm (Actor-Hidden America with Jonah Ray-NBC), Serena Laurel (Actress-Short Girls Club), Thushari Jayasekera (Actress/Comedian), Katie Lohmann (Actress), Berna Roberts (Actress) and many others.
Delicious food and drinks were served while guests enjoyed music played by a D.J. Many stories were told how they were bullied or even witness others that have been bullied. Short speeches were given by Vinicius Machado, Arnold Garcia (President of ShineON Hollywood Magazine), Jorge Nuno, and Dr. Levi Harrison. Some mentioned how they had been a victim of being bullied and how it impacted their lives. Overall message is for all to love and treat everyone with respect. Support each other and raise awareness to stop bullying.
About Stop Bullying Now Foundation
Stop Bullying Now Foundation, Inc., has a mission to raise money to school districts around the country to try to eliminate and address the impact of students that has been bullied which causes death, metal or physical harm. School districts do not have funds to address this problem due to budget cuts.
To donate, please visit the website at www.stopbullyingnowfoundation.org.
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The law in Florida requires all motorists and drivers to maintain basic insurance coverage to legally drive a car. The primary purpose of the requirement is to make sure that, in the event of an accident resulting in severe bodily injuries or death, the driver has sufficient coverage to cover all the damages incurred by the victim involved in the crash.
However, insurance companies, just like the other businesses are after profit. For an insurance company to make a profit, it must collect more money in terms of monthly premiums compared to what they pay out when it comes to settling claims. Therefore, you need to remember the fact that all insurance adjusters are trained and expected to settle insurance claims for as little money as possible to help the insurance company realize a lot of profit.
In most cases, these adjusters take advantage of the less informed car accident victims who do not know what their insurance claim is worth. As such, accident victims are advised to avoid initiating any settlement negotiations without involving an experienced personal injury lawyer who understands how much you should be compensated depending on the nature and severity of the injuries sustained.
From your first phone contact with the insurance adjuster, be clear that you are not going to discuss much since you already have a personal injury lawyer who will negotiate on your behalf. You should also let the insurance adjuster know that you will not be willing to engage in any further conversations until the accident investigation report is out and until the time you complete your medical treatment and recover fully from the injuries that you sustained.
Don't engage in any conversation with the adjuster relating to how the accident occurred, the kind of injuries that you sustained or how much you think the insurance company should pay you. Set boundaries in your first conversation with the insurance adjuster and request that any communication between you and him/her should be in writing.
As mentioned earlier, the primary objective of the adjuster is to ensure that the insurance company pays you the least amount of money possible. Sometimes, the adjuster may start saying that they feel you are partly to blame for the accident or they have problems with the medical treatment you are going through. All these are tricks meant to reduce your expectations and don't fall for them.
In most cases, the adjuster may start to pressure you into accepting the company's offer even before a precise diagnosis has been made of the injuries sustained. Most victims fall to this tactic but the consequences are always severe since the risk of serious injuries will now shift from the insurance provider to the victim. You should also avoid quick settlements and estimated future settlements. It is always a bad idea to accept the compensation even before you know the extent of your injuries.
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Have you or your loved one been involved in a car accident in Florida and is currently dealing with a pushy insurance provider? The law office of Michael E Fenimore, PA may be of help to you. We help individuals to deal with difficult personal injury circumstances ranging from car accidents to slip and fall cases. Contact us today for legal assistance.


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Spotlight on ransomware: Ransomware encryption methods
The WannaCry ransomware outbreak has raised many questions about how ransomware works and what can be done about it. How does it get into a system? What does it do when it's in there? Our Spotlight on Ransomware series explores the different stages of a ransomware attack. This week's focus: ransomware encryption.
A ransomware infection is one of the fastest ways to have all of your personal files encrypted and potentially lost forever. Employing encryption makes the criminal's threat credible and gives malware authors control over your data. With encryption methods employed getting more and more sophisticated, it is becoming harder for the good guys to provide free help.
Follow us as we explain what file encryption is, the different methods ransomware developers use and why understanding encryption is crucial to recovering victims' files.
Before we dive in, if you aren't familiar with how ransomware gets into a system or what it does once it's in there, start here.
A brief background on cryptography and cryptanalysis
Cryptography (from greek: hidden or secret writing) is the practice of techniques that prevent third parties or the public from reading private messages. It uses encryption to scramble plaintext (the unencrypted data) into ciphertext (the encrypted data) to obfuscate the content of the message to third parties looking in.
There are 4 main objectives to cryptography:
Confidentiality: only the intended recipient can understand the message,
Integrity: the message cannot be edited without the tampering being detected,
Non-repudiation: the sender cannot deny their intentions in creating the message, and
Authentication: the sender and recipient can identify that they are communicating with one another.
Modern cryptography exists at the intersection of the disciplines of mathematics, computer science, and electrical engineering, and has broad applications including military communications, electronic commerce, ATM cards, computer passwords. Basically anything where secure communication is essential.
Cryptanalysis, defined as the study of cryptographic systems with the goal to find weaknesses and retrieve the contents of encrypted messages, evolved in parallel with cryptography. Even though the word was only coined in the 1920s, the practice of breaking codes and ciphers dates back as far as the 9th century. Cryptanalysis played a decisive part during World War II to decipher German intelligence secured by Enigma machines, which used an unencrypted symmetric key for both the sender and receiver of the message.
Since then, the emergence and explosive growth of computing power allowed ever more complex encryption methods that are not only used to secure your email messages and web traffic but also, sadly, to hold your files for ransom by cyber criminals.
Encryption methods: Symmetric v asymmetric
Encryption methods have become incredibly complex compared to the earliest substitution ciphers used by Julius Caesar, where the plaintext letters are simply replaced by shifting it back or forth a fixed amount of positions along the alphabet.
Since the structure of the plaintext is the same as the encrypted message, it's easy to spot patterns using frequency analysis to identify how often and in which sequence the characters appear.
Symmetric encryption: Fast but vulnerable
Yet the above cipher is a simple example of how symmetric encryption works: both the sender and the receiver shift the letter the same fixed number of positions. This number of positions is what is referred to as the "key". It is therefore imperative that the key is kept secret, which is why symmetric encryption is often referred to as "secret key encryption".
There are two major types of symmetric encryption: Block ciphers and stream ciphers.
As the name implies, block ciphers operate by encrypting in byte-sized blocks using the same key. The message itself is split across multiple blocks depending on the length, and predictable data is appended to extend it to a full block in a process known in cryptography as padding. The most common block ciphers you'll come across are AES and Blowfish, the former of which is often used in ransomware encryption (more on that further down in the article).
Stream ciphers, on the other hand, encrypt each digit of the plaintext at a time (usually in the form of a bit), with the help of a pseudo-random key stream. This means a different key from the stream is used for each of the bits. A mathematical operator "exclusive or" (XOR, for short) then combines the the two to create the ciphertext. Common stream ciphers in use today include RC4 and Salsa20.
What characterizes each of these symmetric encryption methods is that they have low computational requirements to function, and use only one key for both encryption and decryption of the message.
The latter raises an important question however: how do you secretly communicate the key without someone listening in on the exchange?
Asymmetric encryption: Secure but slow
Asymmetric encryption, also known as public key encryption, has the answer: it uses a pair of keys, consisting of a public and a private one.
The public key is intended to be distributed widely, while the private key is only in the possession of the key pair owner. Messages encrypted with the public key can only be decrypted using the private key, while messages encrypted with the private key can only be decrypted using the public key.
As a result, asymmetric encryption algorithms not only allow you to encrypt and decrypt messages, but also allow for authentication of that message, as only the private key owner can create a message decryptable by the public key.
At the base of most asymmetric cryptography systems is usually an algorithm that requires computationally heavy operations. The most common in use today are Diffie-Hellman-Merkle, RSA and Elliptic Curve Cryptography. While explaining each of these would be beyond the scope of this article, there's a fairly in-depth article on ArsTechnica if you're brave enough to dive into the maths behind them.
The bottom line is that asymmetric encryption allows for relatively secure encryption without the need of a shared secret key, yet the complex computational nature makes it unfeasible for large sets of data.
Given that both encryption types have their unique advantages and disadvantages, most implementations (including ransomware authors) will use a combination of both: symmetric encryption with a randomly generated key, usually referred to as the session key, to encrypt the actual message or files, then an asymmetric algorithm to encrypt the session key used.
Common cryptology terms
Message: The data that you want to protect through encryption; this can be text as in an actual message or a file
Plaintext: The unencrypted message
Ciphertext: The encrypted message
Key: The component that is used by an encryption algorithm to turn a plain text into a ciphertext and vice versa.
Block cipher: symmetric encryption in blocks of bytes.
Stream cipher: use of a keystream to encrypt one bit at a time.
Symmetric (secret) key encryption: The same key is being used for encryption and decryption of a message.
Asymmetric (public) key encryption: Different keys are being used for encryption and decryption of a message.
How ransomware authors use encryption: CryptoLocker
To see how exactly malware authors use encryption for their nefarious purposes we are going to take a look at the one ransomware family that was so prolific and widespread that its name is, to this day, used synonymously for all ransomware: CryptoLocker.
CryptoLocker was certainly not the first file encrypting ransomware, but it definitely was the first major ransomware family that got widespread media attention. It uses 256 bit AES symmetric encryption for the actual file encryption, and asymmetric RSA encryption for communication and securing the symmetric session key.
Unsurprisingly, the way CryptoLocker operates has become a blueprint for many other ransomware families that followed, making it an ideal case study to show how it uses encryption to lock up your files.
Establishing secure communications
When it arrives on a system, CryptoLocker comes with nothing more than a RSA (=asymmetric) public key, used by the ransomware to establish a secure channel to its command and control server. The ransomware handles all communication between itself and the malware author's server via this channel. Using public key encryption has two major advantages in this case:
Any third parties listening in on the network communication won't be able to see the plaintext messages being exchanged between CryptoLocker and its server. All a malware analyst would see when trying to understand the protocol by sniffing the network traffic is a bunch of encrypted gibberish.
More important however is that malware authors not only hide their messages from prying eyes, but also ensure that the server the ransomware is talking to belongs to the malware authors.
Remember: Any public key only decrypts messages that were encrypted by their corresponding private key, which only the malware author will have access to.
As a result, encrypting the communication with RSA not only ensures its secrecy but also its authenticity. This way, a law enforcement agency seizing command and control domains can't simply take over control of the malware by issuing its own commands.
Encrypting the files
During the communication, CryptoLocker will request a second RSA public key from its server that is unique to the victim. It then goes ahead and creates a 256 bit AES session key that it will use to encrypt the victim's files. As mentioned before, asymmetric cryptography like RSA isn't well suited to encrypt large amounts of data directly as it is relatively slow compared to its symmetric cousins. Using a symmetric algorithm like AES to encrypt the bulk of the user data is therefore much more efficient.
Securing the shared key
As a final step, CryptoLocker encrypts the 256 bit AES key using the victim-specific, asymmetric RSA public key and stores it together with the encrypted file data.
Once the encryption process finishes, the ransomware will erase the AES session key from its memory, making sure no trace is left anywhere. Only the owner of the victim's private key, which was generated and is stored only on the malware author's server, is able to decrypt the AES session key from within the encrypted files and decrypt the files again once the victims have paid the ransom.
Ransomware leverages the advantages of both asymmetric and symmetric encryption to lock up the victim's files within a matter of seconds, rather than hours. Recovering them without paying the criminals is almost impossible.
Understanding encryption helps fight ransomware
Analyzing ransomware encryption is incredibly complex. We barely scratched the surface in this article, yet this high level overview of how ransomware locks up your files will give you an idea of the hard work our Lab team does on a daily basis to try and create ransomware decrypters to help affected victims. For free!
Sometimes we are lucky: Ransomware that solely relies on symmetric encryption, such as Harasom, "hides" the same key it uses to encrypt every file on every system in the ransomware executable itself.
We wish ransomware authors always made it this easy…
Cryptolocker's more complex encryption makes it much harder to crack, yet it also opens the door for flaws in the implementation, just as bugs sneak into legit, professional applications that make them exploitable.
Take CryptoDefense for example: this ransomware family launched after CryptoLocker and used almost exactly the same approach with one minor difference: Instead of the server generating the private and public key for the victim, it generated the key pair on the victim's system and then sent it off to its command and control server. Fortunately for us, the CryptoDefense authors didn't read the documentation of the encryption library they used properly and accidentally saved the generated key pair on the victim's system. From there it was easy for us to find those keys and use them to restore any of the victim's files.
Protection is better than cleaning up the mess
As with all types of malware, it's better to be protected in the first place then trying to clean up afterwards. This is even more relevant in the case of ransomware. So don't wait until it's too late and make sure you're protected by a reputable anti-malware solution.
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New cases dip to 1,990; death toll up to 6,372
Gerard Naval
A DAY after reporting over 3,000 infections, the Department of Health said the number of new cases dropped to 1,990 yesterday but there were 40 more deaths that raised the number of new coronavirus disease (COVID-19) fatalities to 6,372.
In its latest bulletin, the DOH said 580 of the new cases came from the National Capital Region while Cavite had 114, Rizal 105, Laguna 100, and Misamis Oriental 94.
Overall, the total number of infections in the country rose to 344,713.
Majority of the new deaths were recorded in Western Visayas with 13 while CALABARZON had 10.
There were 327 new recoveries, raising the number of survivors to 293,383.
Globally, as of October 12, there were 37,423,660 confirmed cases of COVID-19, including 1,074,817 deaths, according to the World Health Organization.
Twenty-six more overseas Filipinos have been infected with the deadly virus, according to the Department of Foreign Affairs.
The 26 new cases brought the number of infected overseas Filipinos to 11,108, with 7,170 recoveries.
The DFA also reported 8 new fatalities, bringing the death toll to 810.
Of the 11,108 COVID-19 cases among overseas Filipinos, 7,355 were registered in the Middle East and Africa. The two regions have the highest death toll among overseas Filipinos at 528.
The Asia Pacific region reported 1,734 cases and 9 deaths followed by Europe with 1,209 cases and 95 deaths. The Americas reported 810 cases and 178 deaths. – With Ashzel Hachero
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In the town in Maine where I grew up, there's an apple orchard.
The most important thing about this particular orchard is that it sells made-from-scratch, still-warm-from-the-oven, heaven-sent apple cider donuts.
The second most important thing is that they offer made-from-scratch, heaven-sent apple squares with a buttery crust and a generous drizzle of icing on top.
Of third importance: the orchard is located in a remote and scenic spot, with beautiful, sweeping views of the mountains beyond the acres of apple trees.
Least importantly, but I should still note, they also offer hay rides and the opportunity to pick your own apples straight from the tree.
Needless to say, my family made the trip to the apple orchard every fall for a donut, an apple square, and a bite of a juicy, ripe apple.
This year, we had the opportunity to take baby Trevor for his first trip to the apple orchard.
They also sell pumpkins, plus every imaginable fall fruit and vegetable, wooden toys, cider vinegar, maple syrup, and gorgeous fall flowers.
We went to the orchard on a bright, crisp, clear day, and the lines were out the (renovated barn) doors.
I tried to get a few photos of baby sitting amidst the beautiful fall bounty on display.
But he was so not interested in looking in my direction.
Too fascinated by the colorful flowers.
The very best and ripest apples always seem to be the ones at the tops of trees. Just out of reach for ninety-nine percent of us.
But Trevor got a lift from his tall dad to get to that most prime position for apple picking.
He looked like he'd found his proper place in the world up there at the very top of the apple tree on that bright fall day, and who could blame him? It was a fun adventure.


This week: Should parents spank their children? Let us know by email or in the comments below.
So much for 15 minutes of fame. It was the late '90s, and my dad was a father of three young children at the time. We were living in Atlanta, and a family friend, a producer at CNN International, was doing a segment on spanking. The studio was serious about representing all sides of the argument, they said. Would my parents be interested in going on television as pro-spankers?
There is no reason being spanked at age 4 should cause you to have a heart attack at 64.
For many today, spanking remains a Rorschach test born of personal experience — like the famed ink blots, our take on corporal punishment is open to interpretation. Some believe it is never an option, others think it should be used sparingly. The only certainty: a heated debate. "Like a lot of issues, it's a lot more complicated than what you hear," says Christopher Ferguson, a psychologist at Stetson University in DeLand, Florida.
Ferguson did not spank his son, now a teenager. But he also doesn't believe the facts are clear about whether mild spanking is harmful for children in the long run. Too often, statistics around spanking are clouded, mistakenly wrapped into other, more violent behavior, or deriving causation out of what could be mere correlations, Ferguson says.
"There is no reason being spanked at age 4 should cause you to have a heart attack at 64," he adds, and yet he has seen studies claiming that spanking led to an increased risk for heart disease. "That is bad data," he says, debunking the research. Bob Larzelere, a research methodologist at Oklahoma State University, says that his 2005 review of spanking studies showed that, when compared to alternative disciplinary methods such as timeouts or removing privileges, spanking was no worse for children from 2 to 6 years old — and, in some cases, was actually more effective as a secondary tactic when reasoning failed.
But there are also no studies that prove spanking is effective in helping children's behavior in the long term, says Andrew Grogan-Kaylor, a researcher at the University of Michigan. "Additionally, spanking is associated with increased child anxiety and child aggression in the short term," he says. There are 53 countries that have banned the practice outright, including Spain, Greece, Paraguay and Mongolia.
As for my family? The CNN segment didn't show the pancakes, nor my dad's attempts at model fatherhood. No, the camera began with him extolling the merits of spanking. Then it showed my little sister, her back pressed against the metallic refrigerator, bawling like all hell had broken loose — she cried like this every time my dad left for work. But to the rest of the world, it appeared as if they had just witnessed the heartbreaking cries of American child abuse.
So what do you think — does spanking get a bum rap? Should parents spank their children?


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Q: Methods for spline fitting for transcendental functions? How to place the knots? I was thinking about the following problem the other day:
Fit a spline $s(t)$ to some transcendental function $f(t)$, so that:
$$s(t) = \cases{P_k(t), \text{ if } t_k \leq t \leq t_{k+1}}$$
For polynomials $P_k(t)$:
$$P_k(t) = \sum_{i=0}^{N} c_{ik}t^k$$
Now we seek $c_{ik}$ so that $s(t)$ approximates $f(t)$ well on interval $t\in [t_0,t_{max}]$.
How can we do this? How to choose the $t_k$ knot points?
Which boundary conditions should be obeyed there?
If the knot points were fixed then the problem could be approached like some least squares norm minimization:
$$\sum_l\|s(t_l)-f(t_l)\|_2^2 + \epsilon(\text{boundary terms})$$
All would be linear. But how to tackle the non-linearity that is introduced with not knowing where knot points should be placed?

A: If your question is about convergence, then interpolating splines converge to the initial function if the interpolation step converges towards zero. See for example here.


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import com.auttc.business.User;
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            DBUtil.closeResultSet(rs);
            DBUtil.closePreparedStatement(ps);
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    }

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        String rowNum = "SELECT COUNT(*) FROM auttc_users.users ";
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            ps.setString(2, user.getUsername());
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            ps.setString(4, user.getPassword());
            ps.setInt(5, 0);

            return ps.executeUpdate();
        } catch (SQLException e) {
            System.out.println(e);
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        } finally {
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Q: TTStyledText not displays string which has '<' charcter I am using TTStyledText to display text on my tableView. I came across a problem where, If my TTStyledText text contains '<' character than my complete text becomes null.
TTStyledText *text = [TTStyledText textFromXHTML:@"3<5" lineBreaks:YES URLs:YES];

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tnc is of type TTStyledTextLabel.
Logs displays the object but text as (null).
Thanks.

A: Use @"3<5" instead of @"3<5"
Here < is a special entity so you should use html code for < which is < or <     or < defined here.


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Trafficking slur on Nepal�s envoy to Australia
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Published: 08:15 am Dec 04, 2018
This undated image shows Nepalu2019s Ambassador to Australia Lucky Sherpa. Photo: THT
Trafficking slur on Nepal's envoy to Australia
Kathmandu, December 3
Nepal's Ambassador to Australia Lucky Sherpa's driver Wongchhu Sherpa has accused her and her husband of human trafficking.
Wongchhu told a private TV channel of Nepal that he paid Rs 3.3 million to Ambassador Sherpa's husband to go to Australia. He added that he tried to bring some people to Australia at the behest of Ambassador Sherpa. He said he collected Rs 1.4 million from Nim Dawa Sherpa in order to bring him to Australia, allegedly as per Ambassador Sherpa's plan and that amount was invested in Ambassador Sherpa's two ropani land in Naya Pati in Kathmandu.
He added that one woman filed a false case against his wife saying that she had defrauded her of Rs 4 lakh, promising to send her to Australia. Wongchhu said his wife has been in judicial custody since May 20.
He claimed that he had saved the telephonic conversation with Ambassador Sherpa to prove his allegation of human trafficking against her.
Ambassador Sherpa, however, told THT over phone from Australia that Wongchhu's allegation against her and her family was false and fabricated. She said the telephonic conversation that Wongchhu claimed to have saved was fake.
The Embassy of Nepal in Australia, meanwhile, alleged that Wongchhu had decamped with valuables from the embassy while the ambassador was away. The ambassador added that there were complaints against Wongchhu in Nepal and at the Embassy of Nepal in Australia, accusing him of fraud. The embassy stated that it had written to authorities concerned on December 20, 2017, seeking action against Wongchhu. A case against him is sub judice in Nepal's court.
The embassy release added that Wongchhu had been living illegally in Australia and was trying to influence the court by levelling false accusations against the ambassador and her family.
Sherpa said if she was found guilty of any wrongdoing she was ready to face punishment. She said Wongchhu wanted to acquire Australia's permanent residence card and he might have got angry with her when she told him that he would have to return to Nepal upon completion of her tenure in Australia.
Controversy surrounding Ambassador Sherpa, who belongs to the ruling Nepal Communist Party (NCP), has riled party leaders. NCP's Bishnu Rijal and Yubaraj Chaulagain wrote angry Facebook posts demanding action against the ambassador.
Rijal wrote that she should be immediately sacked and brought to book. He cited examples of Bishwa Pradhan, Maya Sharma and Hamid Ansari, who were sacked after they landed in controversy.
Chaulagain wrote that accusation against Sherpa had tarnished the country's image.
A source close to Minister of Foreign Affairs Pradeep Gyawali said the minister was aware of the controversy and was looking into the matter. MoFA Secretary Shanker Das Bairagi could not be contacted for comments.
NCP Spokesperson Narayan Kaji Shrestha said the party would look into the issue.
According NCP sources, party Co-chair Pushpa Kamal Dahal, who had played a decisive role in Lucky Sherpa's appointment, had made up his mind to recall her. Sherpa, who was associated with the CPN-UML, had quit the party to join the erstwhile CPN-Maoist Centre.
No complaint lodged against nominees
#human trafficking #Lucky Sherpa #Nepal's Ambassador to Australia #Wongchhu Sherpa
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