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Scalable and Interoperable Platform for Precision Medicine: Cloud-based Hospital Information Systems
Healthc Inform Res. 2022;28(4):285-286
Healthc Inform ResJournal ArchiveHealthc Inform Res. 2022;28(4)
Publication date (electronic) : 2022 October 31
doi : https://doi.org/10.4258/hir.2022.28.4.285
Jin-Su Jang1 , Nackhwan Kim2 , Sang-heon Lee3
1Human Behavior & Genetic Institute, Associate Research Center, Korea University, Seoul, Korea
2Korea University Research Institute for Medical Bigdata Science, Korea University Medical Center, Seoul, Korea
3Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Korea University Medical Center, Seoul, Korea
Hospitals' clinical, administrative, and financial operations are managed via hospital information systems (HISs), which are sophisticated, integrated information platforms [1]. The effectiveness of a system and the quality of its information are associated with user satisfaction [2,3]. Therefore, many hospitals are investing significant financial resources into building next-generation HISs in order to create and utilize high-quality biomedical data. HISs have also been recently acknowledged as a vital component in the digitalization and intellectualization of hospitals. However, because of the high level of difficulty in domain expertise, HIS renewal projects are large-scale IT initiatives that frequently fail [4].
Korea University Medical Center (KUMC) began developing "P-HIS 1.0," a cloud-based hospital information system, in 2017, and became the first institution in Korea to operate an HIS using cloud infrastructure on March 29, 2021. Since then, it has obtained approximately 18 months of experience in operating the system. This period was not just a time interval, but a community-wide effort to provide future medical care and a challenge to adapt to the changing environment of the biomedical industry. The leaders who introduced these changes emphasized the scalability and interoperability of the HIS as a platform for the future medical industry. The data flowing through the system are extracted as standardized terms, transformed into common modules, and loaded into an integrated database. The biomedical data are used for clinical services and for research and development to achieve precision medicine. To effectively regulate incursions from external networks to internal networks, the cloud architecture incorporated an intrusion prevention system (IPS). The security capacity was further enhanced by deploying several anti-distributed denial-of-service (DDoS), IPS, and firewall security devices. In addition to general user access, a virtual personal network (VPN) system with enhanced security is installed for those in charge and users who need access to systems and servers from outside, and all information is encrypted through externally enhanced security access to maintain operational continuity. In other words, general users and hospital personnel use the network separately.
Scalability can be defined as the capacity of an HIS to match the increasing number of environmental requirements comprehensively and allow the integration of systemic growth [5]. Interoperability implies the capacity of different software applications and information technology systems to communicate and share data consistently, effectively, and accurately, as well as to properly use the shared data [6]. The utilization of a tremendous amount of biomedical data is only possible on a platform equipped with scalability and interoperability. The construction and operation of the platform are close to the realm of art based on the essential characteristics of its data, medical services, and technical design. KUMC's information technology leaders understand this vital significance well and are building and growing the foundation of P-HIS with an organized approach.
The core backbone for the expanded utilization of HIS includes standardized language. A terminological consensus should be advanced scholarly and verified globally. The project team that developed the P-HIS established a standardized terminology based on SNOMED-CT with a research team from Samsung Medical Center (SMC). The officers and researchers of KUMC and SMC have been organically collaborating to maintain high-quality terminology and biomedical data. The team standardized 89,004 terms and codes, including 39,495 for clinical diagnosis, 9,485 for surgery, 3,325 for nursing, and 36,699 for residential addresses. Based on the emergent properties of highly connected networks, registering more hospitals in the P-HIS will enhance the quality of the biomedical database. The goals are for the best healthcare services to be shared across regions in a way that is more efficient compared to existing infrastructure and more precise on an individual level.
Security issues must be mentioned for a system that deals with sensitive information. Many institutions are paying substantial costs in return for security failure. Even if one does not emphasize that legacy systems on local servers are not perfect for security, it would be counterproductive to argue that the use of cloud servers makes systems vulnerable in terms of privacy protection. In addition, hospital managers should accurately identify whether the HIS, the heart of hospital operations, is simply a system for protecting information or a support system that enables on-site clinics to function continuously. It should be kept in mind that the backup protection method of the cloud system for preparing for a disaster such as ransomware-induced inaccessibility may prevent interruptions in the operation of on-site clinics.
Through the actual use of the HIS running on cloud infrastructure for 18 months, we discovered potential ways of fixing the issues described above. This platform will address the issue of the concentration of large hospitals in metropolitan areas because small and medium-sized hospitals can easily use medical software and data that are comparable to those of large hospitals, and the quality of healthcare will be improved by lowering medical costs through patient risk group management and preventive treatment. This will soon present a chance to raise the satisfaction levels of patients, their families, and medical staff.
No potential conflict of interest relevant to this article was declared.
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Anna Radzanowska, Anna Uhnowska herbu Prawda (zm. po 1478) – córka wojewody bełskiego Zygmunta z Radzanowa, Uhnowa, żona księcia warszawskiego Bolesława V.

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Jan Długosz w swoich Rocznikach czyli Kronikach sławnego Królestwa Polskiego błędnie nazywa Annę córką Pawła Hunowskiego. Nowsza historiografia ustaliła jednak, że ojcem Anny był Zygmunt z Radzanowa, Uhnowa, chorąży płocki w latach 1443–1464 oraz wojewoda bełski w latach 1465–1470. Imię odziedziczyła ona po swojej ciotce Annie, córce wojewody bełskiego Pawła z Radzanowa, która poślubiła Jana z Sopuszyna. Zgodnie z relacją Jana Długosza, w Annie zakochał się książę warszawski Bolesław V. Małżeństwo Radzanowskiej z przedstawicielem dynastii Piastów doszło do skutku 20 lipca 1477. Prawdopodobnie było ono powiązane z chęcią usamodzielnienia się Bolesława V, który dzielił władzę w księstwie mazowieckim ze swoimi braćmi.

Po ślubie z Anną Radzanowską Bolesław V, dzielący dotychczas kancelarię ze swoim młodszym bratem Januszem II utworzył własną, na której osadził na początku 1478 brata swej małżonki, podstolego płockiego Jana Radzanowskiego. Jeszcze w 1478 doszło jednak do odwołania kanclerza Radzanowskiego ze stanowiska, co wiązało się najprawdopodobniej z porzuceniem Anny przez księcia. Do zerwania małżeństwa Anny i Bolesława doszło zapewne przed październikiem 1478, kiedy to doszło do załatwienia sporów pomiędzy Bolesławem V a jego bratem Konradem III Rudym.

Losy wojewodzianki po rozstaniu z Bolesławem nie są znane. Jej małżeństwo z księciem Bolesławem było bezpotomne.

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Bibliografia
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 Długosz J., Roczniki czyli Kroniki sławnego Królestwa Polskiego. Księga 12: 1462–1480, Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN, Warszawa 2009, , s. 421.

 Opracowania
 Balzer O., Genealogia Piastów, wyd. II, Wydawnictwo Avalon, Kraków 2005, , s. 919–922.
 Grabowski J., Dynastia Piastów mazowieckich, Wydawnictwo Avalon, Kraków 2012, , s. 491–492.
 Jasiński K., Rodowód Piastów mazowieckich, Wydawnictwo Historyczne, Poznań – Wrocław 1998, , s. 184–185.

Żony polskich książąt
Urodzeni w XV wieku
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Johan van Nellesteyn (1617 - 1 december 1677) was een invloedrijk burgemeester van Utrecht in de jaren 1658, 1659, 1664, 1665, die in 1671 door Margaretha Turnor en haar man Godard Adriaan van Reede werd gesteund inzake een herbenoeming als burgemeester, maar niet werd uitverkoren.

In het Rampjaar vluchtte hij naar Amsterdam met zijn derde vrouw Lucia Wijbrants, die hij op 29 februari van dat jaar in Sloten had gehuwd. Zij gaf hem haar portret ten geschenk, geschilderd door Jurriaen Ovens. De Franse bevelhebber, Louis II van Bourbon, de Prins van Condé nam eind juni 1672 bezit van zijn huis en dat van zijn zwager aan het Janskerkhof. Van Nellesteyn huurde samen met zijn zwager een schuit om linnengoed en huisraad naar Amsterdam over te brengen.

In augustus besloot Van Nellesteyn terug te keren naar Utrecht. Op 1 september 1672 werd Van Nellesteyn herkend door het volk langs de Amstel, gevangengenomen en opgebracht naar het stadhuis op de Dam. Tegen betaling van 40.000 gulden zou men hem vrijlaten.

Begin juni 1673 werd Condé opnieuw aangesteld als bevelhebber over Utrecht. De burgemeesters hadden besloten min of meer samen te werken, en de Fransen niet tegen de haren in te strijken. Toen de Fransen in november 1673 waren vertrokken, heeft stadhouder Willem III, die sterk beïnvloed was door de leer van Voetius, 120 leden van zowel de Staten van Utrecht als de vroedschap afgezet. Na de wetsverzetting in 1674 kon Van Nellesteyn nog twee jaar aanblijven als burgemeester van de stad Utrecht.

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Geertruid van Herlaer op 7 januari 1644 te Utrecht, overleden 27 augustus 1657 te Utrecht.
Hillegonda Pater op 3 juli 1660 te Utrecht, overleden 1670.
Lucia Wybrants 29 februari 1672 te Sloten (geboren Amsterdam, 21 oktober 1638 - overleden Utrecht, 23 mei 1719)

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Dateline: Edgewood , WA
Farmers remain silent at auction so young man can buy his family farm back
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David's family's 80 acres of land [in Nebraska, USA] was sold to a distant relative and the family's property was gone. What they had spent decades building vanished in a split-second bank interaction.
Throughout his life, David dreamed of somehow getting back the family's land and rebuilding their business.
Several years after losing the family land, it suddenly appeared on auction. David and his father decided they would do their best to collect whatever modest means they had to try to get it back, reports goodnewsnetwork.com.
They spent many days and sleepless nights trying to come up with every possible way to acquire the extraordinary assets to reclaim their land. When the day of the auction finally came, their hearts sank: nearly 200 farmers were gathered. David and his father felt their chances of repossessing their family land were slim to none.
But they gave it their best shot. When the auctioneer announced their land, they immediately placed their bid — and held their breath.
Theirs was the first bid and David and his father anxiously waited to see who would bid next. But suddenly, the room went silent.
David didn't understand what was happening and even the auctioneer was stupefied. He made further attempts to solicit a new bid, but got only silence. Stunned, he called a break.
They reconvened — three times — and each time, not a single farmer placed a bid.
The auctioneer finally had no choice, and with the strike of the gavel, David and his family had their land back.
It felt like a miracle. A miracle of 200 farmers from Nebraska, USA — every single one of them knowing what the right thing to do was.
David could finally write a happy chapter in his family history book.
"I've had two profoundly humbling days in my life. The first was the day my son was born. The second was that unforgettable day at the Auction House," he said.
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Artist Mandy Martin opens solo exhibition at Beaver Galleries, Canberra
Canberra life
By Clare Colley
Updated September 2, 2015 — 1.30pm first published at 12.07pm
When Mandy Martin sees a smoke plume rising over the hill near her property in central-west NSW, two possibilities spring to mind: Is it someone burning off or is it a bushfire?
The scenario makes her feel ill at ease, as do small daily changes in the weather which she worries could be ominous signs of a bigger shift in climate.
Mandy Martin raises burning issues in A Change in the Weather. Credit:Rohan Thomson
It's a concept that's at the centre of her solo show of rich, textured oil paintings at Beaver Galleries, her first in Canberra since 1992.
The Adelaide-born artist moved to Canberra in 1976 and worked as a School of Art lecturer at the Australian National University until 2003.
Storm at Sunset by Mandy Martin poses questions of climate change.
During the time, she established an environment studio and began embarking on a series of art and environment projects from 1995, a methodology she decided to pass on to her students.
"I paint and draw in the landscape. I literally take a crate of canvases or framed or stretched paper and a sketchbook," she says.
"Often it's too cold or too dark to paint, so I sketch. If the paint won't dry because it's too cold or humid, you can sketch at least.
"I'm pretty intimate with my material. You're right in there."
Dry Creek, Bolivar by Mandy Martin hints at climate change.
In 1996, she moved from Canberra to a property near Mandurama in central-west NSW and, soon after, a new neighbour arrived – the beginnings of what would become one of the world's largest gold mines.
As the crow flies, the gigantic underground and open-cut mines at Cadia are about 20 kilometres away, but visible from her studio and an influential presence in her work.
Dry Creek, Bolivar, late afternoon by Mandy Martin shows Australia's changing landscape.
"We were very involved in the environmental impact survey and still are," she says. "We can see it clearly. You can see the trucks going back and forth."
She started a new series of environmental art projects at her Belubula River property, and the works fed into a larger body of work influenced by the central-west landscape, mining and climate change.
Cool Burn, Kabulwarnamyo explores Mandy Martin's feeling of unease.
"I also developed a need to talk about the spiritual connection to landscape, what are the special places in landscapes," she says.
All the themes feature in her latest show, A Change in the Weather, which also includes works painted after visiting Western Australia's Lake Gregory near the Tanami Desert and others from during her 10th and ongoing environmental project in Arnhem Land.
Burning Blackall reflects Mandy Martin's interest in fire. Credit:Ron Cerabona
While the landscape of Martin's NSW home is distinctively different from that of northern Australia, fire is an element both have in common, and appears frequently in her paintings.
"I'm really interested in fire and I have been for some time," she says. "I became really interested in cool burning and traditional burning.
"You're literally rubbing up against it, and getting it in your eyes and in your hair and smoke up your nose."
While some of her works show the "good" cool-burn fires used by Aboriginal people to cultivate the landscape and flush out feral animals for hunting, others show what happens when controlled fires turn into wildfires, such as one depicting a firefighter in front of the "mega fire" at Lithgow in 2013.
"You see all those images of people fighting something larger than life. These mega fires are almost a new phenomenon – really, they're so big," she says.
People from Arnhem Land have a "whole vocabulary" when it comes to fire and, through her work in the north, Martin helps to collect Indigenous testimony visually by encouraging them to paint.
With her son, Canberra artist and curator Alexander Boynes, she is now using the latest gaming technology to find a new way to record dreamtime stories.
Her own works, however, explore the feeling of unease when the initial plume of smoke is seen or when things in the landscape change.
"You watch a dust storm blowing in off Lake Eyre," she says, "and it's brought half the red sand from the centre of Australia right to your doorstep, and you think, `Is that a sign of climate change or is that something that's just happened cyclically in Australia for millennia? Are there more of them. Are they worse?'
"My feeling is climate change is really beginning to change the landscapes of Australia and this is a critical moment to witness those changes."
Extreme weather events such as the recent record snowfall in much of NSW pose questions about whether the event has occurred before.
"In European records, often the answer is no. In Aboriginal records, the answer is different, because they've been through climate changes before, but certainly not one that's as fast and induced by mankind as much as this one."
She knows there are still many people, especially in regional areas, who remain sceptical of climate change, seeing it as a "trendy city people" idea.
While she sees living in the country, with its space and lifestyle, as a "privilege", she hasn't ruled out returning to Canberra.
"I love Canberra and I'd come back here when we get too old and silly to farm," she says.
Mandy Martin's show, A Change in the Weather, is on at Beaver Galleries, Deakin, from September 3 to 22. For more information, see beavergalleries.com.au.
Clare Colley
Clare Colley is Head of Audience Engagement at The Australian Financial Review. She was previously an online editor, arts editor and journalist at The Canberra Times.


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In recent years, Chinese shipyards have secured orders for increasingly large box ships, and the three new 16,000 teu ships are only a fraction smaller than the largest container vessels being built today in Korea. The design was developed by the Marine Design and Research Institute of China (MARIC) in co-operation with BV, which performed the drawing approval and conducted a thorough structural examination.
The vessels will have an overall length of 399 m, a beam of 54 m, and a draft of 16 m. Special consideration has been given to hydroelastic design (whipping and springing) issues, which are so important for this size of ship. A hydroelastic examination was performed using BV's HOMER software in order to take into account extreme whipping loads due to slamming and additional fatigue damage due to springing, factoring in the elastic structural response of the ship. This review provides a higher level of safety compared to the rigid approach traditionally adopted to such issues, and is mandatory under BV Rules for ULCSs of 300 m and above. On the strength of this examination, BV's WhiSp2 notation has been assigned to the ships.
The 16,000 teu ships will be able to operate at a maximum speed of over 23 knots with a single-screw propeller directly coupled to a 69 Megawatt, 2-stroke electronic engine. The vessels' environmentally friendly profile is attested to by BV's class notations CLEANSHIP and FORS. The latter incorporates special arrangements to ensure that the ship's fuel oil tanks are safely emptied in case of emergency, minimizing the risk of pollution. This is an important safety aspect considering the size of the fuel oil tanks of ULCSs.
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Fianna Fáil's move North is a long time coming
Potential merger with SDLP represents a complete break with the past
Not until 2007, more than 80 years after the party's establishment, did Fianna Fáil – under Bertie Ahern – announce plans to remodel the organisation as a 32-county party. Photograph: Alan Betson
Recent reports in the media that Fianna Fáil is to merge with the SDLP in a move that would see the parties initially stand on a joint platform for next spring's local and European elections represents a major U-turn regarding the party's traditional stance on contesting elections in Northern Ireland.
Since Fianna Fáil's establishment in 1926, conservative leaders from Éamon de Valera to Albert Reynolds refused to extend the party into Northern Ireland. In fact, not until 2007, under the direction of then leader and taoiseach Bertie Ahern, did Fianna Fáil officially register with the UK Electoral Commission as a Northern Ireland political party.
For many rank and file party supporters, the Fianna Fáil leaderships' continued refusal to remodel itself as a 32-county party represented a paradox. After all, Fianna Fáil's raison d'être is to secure a united Ireland. The orthodox policy for such a party would be to organise throughout the island and fight elections in both jurisdictions.
Yet, at the inaugural Fianna Fáil Ard Fheis in 1926, de Valera categorically ruled out the extension of the organisation into Northern Ireland, arguing that the party should leave aside any ambitions of contesting Northern Ireland elections until Fianna Fáil secured a "political victory" and entered government in the South of Ireland.
However, on entering government in 1932, de Valera again ruled out extending Fianna Fáil into Northern Ireland. Although he won a seat as an abstentionist MP for South Down in 1933, this was an isolated case. For the remainder of de Valera's leadership, until his retirement in 1959, Fianna Fáil remained committed to not remodelling the party on an all-Ireland basis.
Rejected resolution
Lemass adhered to this policy throughout his eight years as Fianna Fáil leader. Speaking at the 1964 Ard Fheis, for example, he rejected a resolution from the party's grass-roots demanding that Fianna Fáil be extended into Northern Ireland on the grounds that it would be conceived by Ulster Unionists "as a kind of Southern interference in the North's affairs". Arguably, the Fianna Fáil government's reluctance to interfere with the political status quo within Northern Ireland was understandable as at this time Lemass was encouraging co-operation between the Dublin and Belfast governments.
During the respective leaderships of Jack Lynch, Charles Haughey and Albert Reynolds, which coincided with the worst years of the Northern Ireland conflict, the prospect of extending Fianna Fáil across the border was deliberately submerged beneath the political undergrowth.
It was widely felt within Fianna Fáil circles that the party's participation in Northern Ireland politics at this time would have further split a fragmented nationalist electorate, which already had to contend with the SDLP and Sinn Féin.
In particular, the Fianna Fáil hierarchy was wary of policy initiatives that might undermine the SDLP during the early years of the fledgling Peace Process in the late 1980s and early 1990s. As Dermot Ahern explained, Fianna Fáil did not wish to place a "dagger" in the back of the SDLP and its moderate brand of constitutional nationalism.
Not until 2007, more than 80 years after the party's establishment, did Fianna Fáil announce plans to remodel the organisation as a 32-county party. The catalyst for Bertie Ahern's decision was in response to the signing of the St Andrews Agreement in 2006. Although devolution of policing and justice powers to the Northern Ireland assembly remained unresolved, in the aftermath of the agreement, the DUP and Sinn Féin took the momentous decision to enter a power-sharing executive with one another.
With the Northern Ireland executive up and running, under Ahern's successor Brian Cowen, Fianna Fáil went ahead with its plans to cross the Border. In July 2010, Cowen visited Crossmaglen, south Armagh, to officially open a Fianna Fáil office in the town.
Fianna Fáil's plans to contest elections in Northern Ireland, however, were dealt a dramatic blow following the party's crushing defeat at the 2011 Irish general election. Fianna Fáil's humiliating relegation to the opposition benches, under the party's new leader Micheál Martin, meant that there were very few resources, or indeed appetite, to continue with Bertie Ahern's one-time master project of remodelling the party on an all-Ireland basis. As a result, Martin ordered the shelving of this proposal.
Although over the past several years, Martin has routinely mooted the potential for Fianna Fáil to eventually enter Northern Ireland politics, his recent discussions with the SDLP regarding a possible merger between the two parties has brought the issue back into the public domain.
Why now? The obvious answer is that in the context of Brexit Fianna Fáil feels threatened by the growing electoral strength of Sinn Féin on the island of Ireland. Martin, therefore, views Fianna Fáil's potential entry into Northern Ireland as a useful policy in his battle with Sinn Féin for the hearts and minds of the electorate in the Republic of Ireland.
Stephen Kelly is Senior Lecturer in Modern History at Liverpool Hope University
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Tyrone's game-plan
Sight for sore eyes
The Irish Times view on the measles outbreak: An unnecessary exposure
The Irish Times view on the US migrant crackdown: cruel and vindictive
Every US president deports undocumented migrants, but Trump's approach goes far beyond merely applying the law
The Irish Times view on the Green Party: leaving options open
The party's decision not to rule out coalition with the two big parties will put it in a pivotal position


Trevor Wragg has been a professional dry stone waller for many years and is the 1996 British Champion. He holds the Dry Stone Walling Association's (DSWA) Master Craftsman Certificate and is also a qualified training instructor and examiner with the DSWA. In addition Trevor is on the Skills Committee for the DSWA and is also an assessor with the National Proficiency Testing Council (NPTC) and Dales Agriculture & Rural Training Ltd (DART).
He has written a leaflet called 'There's More to Walls' which he uses as a vehicle to promote the beauty, importance and heritage of Peak District dry stone walls and to support his talks on the subject which he delivers to a wide variety of groups and organisations.
When not training, assessing, demonstrating or presenting his talk, Trevor manages to find time to squeeze in his own Landscape and Garden design business, working on a wide variety of projects for private clients. Recently, Trevor made a valuable contribution to a Gold Medal and Best in Show winning garden design for Tatton Park.
In June 2007 Trevor was part of a Derbyshire DSWA team that displayed their skills to HRH Prince Charles during the Prince's trip to the Peak District to visit the new Moorland Centre that was opened by the Duke of Devonshire in September 2006.


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Q: symmetric decryption throwing error I'm working on adding the ability to decrypt a file encrypted using GPG & Symmetric Encryption.
However whenever it tries to get the private key data this exceptions keeps getting hit:

Unable to cast object of type 'Org.BouncyCastle.Bcpg.OpenPgp.PgpPbeEncryptedData' to type 'Org.BouncyCastle.Bcpg.OpenPgp.PgpPublicKeyEncryptedData'.

everywhere I look this is how you do it:
Stream inputStream = IoHelper.GetStream(inputData);
        PgpObjectFactory pgpFactory = new PgpObjectFactory(PgpUtilities.GetDecoderStream(inputStream));
        PgpObject pgp = null;
        if (pgpFactory != null)
        {
            pgp = pgpFactory.NextPgpObject();
        }

        PgpEncryptedDataList encryptedData = null;
        if (pgp is PgpEncryptedDataList)
        {
            encryptedData = (PgpEncryptedDataList)pgp;
        }
        else
        {
            encryptedData = (PgpEncryptedDataList)pgpFactory.NextPgpObject();
        }

        Stream privateKeyStream = File.OpenRead(PrivateKeyOnlyPath);

        // find secret key
        PgpSecretKeyRingBundle pgpKeyRing = new PgpSecretKeyRingBundle(PgpUtilities.GetDecoderStream(privateKeyStream));
        PgpPrivateKey privateKey = null;

        foreach (PgpPublicKeyEncryptedData pked in encryptedData.GetEncryptedDataObjects())
        {
            privateKey = FindSecretKey(pgpKeyRing, pked.KeyId, Password.ToCharArray());
            if (privateKey != null)
            {
                //pubKeyData = pked;
                break;
            }
        }

I'm referencing the code from here
I'm lost on why it's not working and not sure where to go next.

A: Hybrid Cryptosystems
The "normal" way of encryption in OpenPGP (which GnuPG implements) is hybrid encryption: public/private key cryptography for key management and encrypting a session key, and subsequently symmetric encryption using this session key of the actual data.
From what you write, it seems the public/private key cryptography step was omitted, and the session key instead generated using a passphrase, for example by using the command gpg --symmetric. You can determine how it was encrypted using pgpdump. Output for a symmetrically encrypted file looks like
Old: Symmetric-Key Encrypted Session Key Packet(tag 3)(13 bytes)
    New version(4)
    Sym alg - CAST5(sym 3)
    Iterated and salted string-to-key(s2k 3):
        Hash alg - SHA512(hash 10)
        Salt - 3b be 1b 03 64 c3 bb 7e
        Count - 102400(coded count 105)
New: Symmetrically Encrypted Data Packet(tag 9)(26 bytes)
    Encrypted data [sym alg is specified in sym-key encrypted session key]

Especially consider the first line with the symmetric-key encrypted session key packet.
What to do
I'm sorry I do not really know C#, and neither have worked with Bouncy Castle yet, so I cannot provide a ready-to-run solution. Moreover, the C# documentation seems to be more or less inexistent.
I'd guess you'll have to make use of the PgpPbeEncryptedData class, which seems to take an input stream and a passphrase and provides the decrypted information as an output stream. There is an example for the Java Bouncy Castle package, which will probably be very similar and mostly boils down to
byte[] decryptedAgainByteArray = ByteArrayHandler.decrypt(encryptedAgain, PASS.toCharArray());


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OfS plans powers over universities on handling sexual misconduct
English regulator 'moving forward' with registration condition and student survey that could spotlight individual universities for intervention
Twitter: @johncmorgan3
The Office for Students plans to introduce a condition of registration for institutions on dealing with sexual misconduct, alongside a survey of students, potentially allowing it to identify universities where there is "high prevalence and low reporting".
Susan Lapworth, the English regulator's chief executive, announced the moves at a hearing of the House of Commons' Women and Equalities Committee.
If registration conditions are breached, the OfS has the power to levy fines against universities, or even block their students from accessing Student Loans Company funding.
In 2021, the OfS published a statement of expectations for institutions on preventing and addressing harassment and sexual misconduct affecting students. The OfS expects an independent evaluation of the impact of that statement "imminently" but has had an "early readout", said Ms Lapworth.
That shows universities "reporting they have taken a range of actions, improved their systems and processes", said Ms Lapworth.
But the report also asked the views of students – where it finds progress has been "patchy" and "too slow", with the OfS "not seeing the impact we would have expected", she added.
The OfS, said Ms Lapworth, had "signalled to the sector when we published [the statement of expectations] that if that didn't do the trick…then we were going to return and look at introducing a condition of registration, which has sharper, mandatory requirements set into it".
"I can tell you today that we plan to move forward with that work," she added.
"We're working on a condition of registration that we would consult on early in the New Year, I think. Subject to the consultation, that would put this area on a sharper regulatory footing – it would put in place mandatory requirements and it would allow us then to intervene where we saw concerns in a particular university."
On data on sexual misconduct, Ms Lapworth said the last crime survey in England and Wales showed full-time students were "three times more likely than any other occupational group to experience sexual assault", with numbers being higher for women than men.
But a sector prevalence survey was "necessary to tell us who this is happening to, the kinds of students it's happening to", as well as "where it's happening and when it's happening", she added.
"I'm able to tell you today that we've begun work to design and deliver the first prevalence survey for higher education," said Ms Lapworth. "We think that is a really important step forward."
This would "help universities to understand the patterns in their institution, target their interventions", she continued.
While it would be possible to carry out a "whole student population survey similar to other sorts of surveys that run in the higher education sector", that would be "really expensive", she also said. It would also be possible to carry out a "carefully constructed sampling approach across the sector".
Ms Lapworth said that the aim was to introduce the new registration condition for the start of the next academic year in September, and for the prevalence survey to be run "in parallel so those two things come together".
She added: "If we can collect prevalence data that gives us a picture across the sector as a whole, and an understanding of which kinds of students in which contexts are affected by this, and if we can see that for individual universities, that lets us target our interventions. So, a university with high prevalence and low reporting would perhaps raise concerns for us and we would then want to understand in detail what was going on there, and that would allow us to focus our effort."
Andrea Jenkyns, the skills minister, who also appeared before the committee, said there should be "a zero-tolerance approach to this".
She added that she "100 per cent" supported "a registration condition to protect women from sexual harassment on campus. We've made it clear as a department we do support that."
Asked how much power the OfS should have in response to any failings by universities, Ms Jenkyns said that "if there's examples of universities not following the guidance…then there needs to be consequences." She added: "Does it mean universities are no longer part of the OfS?"
But she continued that she did not "want to jump the gun", adding that "we really do need to wait for this report" on the statement of expectations.
john.morgan@timeshighereducation.com
Office for Students (OfS)
Call to overhaul harassment complaints after 'Degrees of Abuse'
Handling multiple complaints against same alleged perpetrator separately often means pattern of behaviour is harder to spot, academics say
Call for universities to publish annual data on harassment
Greater transparency would provide a more accurate picture of sexual misconduct in sector, campaigners say after Everyone's Invited allegations
Pass sexual consent test if you want to enrol, say students
Call comes after publication of thousands of allegations of sexual harassment and abuse on UK campuses
English regulator demands 'urgent action' on sexual harassment
Office for Students calls for universities to review sexual misconduct policies by summer, following publications of thousands of claims of abuse across sector
English HE bill anticipated with focus on lifelong loans
Government said to be aiming for 'uncontroversial' legislation on LLE, with future of plans to limit student entry unclear
By John Morgan
'Conflict-seeking' OfS vows to reset engagement with universities
Chief executive Susan Lapworth says regulator will 'respond positively and practically' to recommendations from highly critical report
By Jack Grove


The most common joint to cause sciatica is seldom listed. The joint that allows sciatica to become chronic because it is rarely corrected.
The joint you use in almost every activity, whether you bend, lift, twist or even turn over in bed. This joint has no disc and hence can become inflamed and cause back pain and sciatica easily.
The joint that attaches your sacrum (the wedge shaped bone at the base of your spine) to your pelvis. This joint is one of the main gravitational joints, meaning - all the weight of your body goes through these joints.


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Milngavie development recognised at prestigious retirement housing awards
A retirement development in Milngavie has been commended by the Elderly Accommodation Counsel (EAC) as a successful example of later life housing.
Bield's Oakburn Gardens has received a bronze award in the annual EAC Housing Awards - with tenants, staff and visitors all nominating the development for the accolade.
The awards aim to shape the future of housing options for older people, considering the votes of tenants as the most significant factor in the nomination process in order to celebrate developments which best cater to the needs of their residents.
Dorothy O'Donnell, retirement housing manager at Bield's Oakburn Gardens, said: "We're all absolutely thrilled to have been recognised for everything we do here at Oakburn Gardens.
"When we found out that we'd been successful at the awards we were all so chuffed – the majority of our votes came from our tenants who play a huge role in making the development what it is so I'm especially grateful that they thought to nominate us."
Bield is the only Scotland-wide housing provider recognised at the awards this year, with Greenock's Jamaica Court development also recognised in the Retirement Housing 25-30 Units category.
John Galvin, EAC's chief executive, said: "Specialist housing for older people plays an enormously significant role in helping them stay independent for longer.
"The security, support and great communities have a positive impact on individuals and reduce the need for NHS services."
Oakburn Gardens in Milngavie offers spacious living for those over 60 who wish to retain their independence while leaving the worries of repairs and maintenance behind.
The development boasts 26 one- and two-bedroom properties with lift and stair access in a quiet residential area close to the town centre.
Bield boots are made for walking for charity
Bield pensioners prove kidding around is good for you
Bield on the lookout for volunteers in Linlithgow
Bield seeking befrienders in Dunbartonshire


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Q: Array searching and slicing Given the string nums that contains only digits and the array of numbers predefinedNumbers, I have to construct a new string, based on nums but where each number between colons has to be a valid number from predefinedNumbers and return all possibilities.
Example input:
nums = "143163421154143"
predefinedNumbers = ["21154", "143", "21154143", "1634", "163421154"]

Desired output:
[ ":143:1634:21154:143:", ":143:163421154:143:", ":143:1634:21154143:" ]

So far I tried this code but it's not the result I need and I'm stuck trying to understand how to go over it recursively:

let nums = "143163421154143";
predefinedNumbers = ["21154", "143", "21154143", "1634", "163421154"];

let newArray=[];
function makeNumSentences (nums, predefinedNumbers) {
    predefinedNumbers.map(item => {
        if (nums.includes(item)) {
            newArray.push(item)
        }
    })

    console.log(newArray.join(':'));
        };

makeNumSentences("143163421154143",["21154", "143", "21154143", "1634", "163421154"])

Any hint is very much appreciated.

A: Please note that the loops will never end in case the nums is not composed of predefinedNumbers only.

const nums = "143163421154143";
const predefinedNumbers = ["21154", "143", "21154143", "1634", "163421154"];
const result = [];

function makeNumSentences(nums) {
  check([], nums);
  console.log(result);
};

function check(array, nums) {
  predefinedNumbers.forEach(e => {
    if (nums.startsWith(e)) {
      const newArray = array.concat(e);
      const newNums = nums.slice(e.length);
      if (newNums) { check(newArray, newNums); }
      else { result.push(newArray.join(':')); }
    }
  });
}

makeNumSentences(nums);

A: First, please read How do I ask and answer homework questions?.
Since there is already an accepted answer, though, I will just show an alternate technique.  The fact that the elements are digits is meaningless.  This same technique will work for any strings.  (There are mathematical techniques to find the right value, but they would quickly overflow normal numbers, and since the output needs to be a string in any case, there seems to be no need to pursue them.)
Thinking about this recursively, we can break this into two pieces.  Which of my predefined values appear in the start of my target string?  And for each one of those, how do I perform the same operation on the remainder of the string?  A recursion needs a base case, and we can say that if the target string is empty, then we can return a single empty string.
We can implement it like this:

const make = (target, sources) =>
  target .length == 0
    ? [[]]
    : sources .filter (s => target .startsWith (s))
              .flatMap (s => make (target .slice (s .length), sources) .map (r => [s, ...r]))

const makeNumSentences = (target, parts) =>
  make (target, parts) .map (r => `:${r.join(':')}:`)

const nums = "143163421154143"
const predefinedNumbers = ["21154", "143", "21154143", "1634", "163421154"]

console .log (makeNumSentences (nums, predefinedNumbers))

Notice the breakdown into a main recursive function, which returns an array of arrays of elements from our sources ([["143", "1634", "21154", "143"], ["143", "1634", "21154143"], ["143", "163421154", "143"]]) and a wrapper which combines them into the output format.  ([":143:1634:21154:143:", ":143:1634:21154143:", ":143:163421154:143:"]).  This is to my mind the proper breakdown of the work.  Arrays are nice to work with and we can do much more with them.  But this is not the only way to go.  We can alter this to return the strings directly:

const make = (target, sources) =>
  target .length == 0
    ? ['']
    : sources
       .filter (s => target .startsWith (s))
       .flatMap (s => make (target .slice (s .length), sources) .map (r => `:${s}${r}` +  (r ? '' : ':')))

const nums = "143163421154143"
const predefinedNumbers = ["21154", "143", "21154143", "1634", "163421154"]

console .log (make (nums, predefinedNumbers))

Note that there is some additional complexity here in building the strings.  This is because of the trailing ":".  We want to add that only on the first step when the existing string is empty.  (We always add the leading one.)


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Global Game Jam 2015 – After Quest
Posted on January 30, 2015 by Administrator
Another day, another blog post. As I said I'd be yesterday, I'm here today to talk about my GGJ 2015 entry, After Quest. Please download it from the GGJ website.
After Quest is a 2D action game in the style of old-school Zelda games. The plot begins moments after our main character has defeated the game's final boss. Instead of the game ending when this occurs though, the main character is left standing around waiting for something to happen. Eventually the main character is sent to the credits screen for the game they just completed, and somehow ends up back at the very beginning of the game. After walking around town and talking to some of the villagers he realizes something is not right, and the game world is falling apart at the seams. Now the main character must fight his way through the game itself, and hopefully find a way out of the game world before it collapses with him inside.
I developed After Quest with a team of four other people, and I acted as the Programmer, and Co-Designer for the project.
The theme of GGJ 2015 was "What do we do now?" This lead to a lot of obvious jokes from people in the crowd, and was overall a more challenging theme to work with. My team went through at least 10 different ideas before we settled on this one, and most of them revolved around the central conceit that the player would be forced into a situation where they didn't know what they were doing, or where the player had to deal with the aftermath of some event. My favorite un-used idea was one where the player wakes up in a room with a dead body and has to try and hide the body before the police arrive.
After Quest started the same way as many of our other ideas and was originally going to be a text adventure about what the main character does after the final quest is finished. We eventually decided it would be more interesting if the game itself started collapsing because it hadn't been programmed well enough to support the player after the final quest occurs. What would happen if the player was somehow forced back to the beginning area but none of the other characters realized he had already finished the quest?
The dev process on the game was a pretty straight-forward one. We took a lot of time before pitching the game to the group to really flesh out the story-line, the characters, what the gameplay would be like, what assets we would need, etc. By the time we actually had our team our game design doc, which was really just two large pieces of poster paper, was basically finished and we had a strong vision of not only what the game would be, but also why it would be that way. This gave us a huge advantage when we sat down with our final team and allowed us to quickly make a paper prototype, and move on to computer development in almost no time at all.
We were also helped by the fact that our game was relatively simple from a gameplay perspective. Even by the time it was finished, the game was basically just a top-down action game where the player could do a basic attack. We even took advantage of our concept and the fact that the main character would theoretically already have the best weapons and be at "max level". This allowed us to give all of the enemies simplistic AI, not have to worry about them doing the player any significant damage, and even make the player super powerful, because it all fit perfectly into the world we had designed. By the end of the first 12 hours, we already had 85% of the gameplay implemented in it's final form, and by the end of the first day, almost all the work we were doing was purely level design and iteration.
The whole process went incredibly smoothly. Even with all the work we completed on the first day though, we were still working on the game up to the last minute trying to cram in just a few more features and ideas.
This was probably the most successful game I've ever worked on for a game jam. Not only did we complete 99% of our goals for the final product, we also created a game that achieved our original vision and conveyed everything or almost everything we set out to do without having to compromise due to time restraints. It's very rare that you end a game jam thinking you made the best game you could, and it's even rarer that the game you end up with accomplishes all of your goals, but I can honestly say I walked away feeling both of those things after this jam.
I also think that this was one of the best teams I've ever worked with on a game jam before. Everyone on the team was very realistic about what they could and couldn't do, and no one really over-estimated their skill or what they could accomplish in 48 hours. On top of that, everyone I worked with was great at what they chose to do.
Overall I'm walking away from this jam with a true sense of accomplishment and I can only hope that my next game jam is even half as successful as this one was.
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'use strict';

// =============================================================================
// var declaration
// =============================================================================
var mongoose = require('mongoose'),
	User = mongoose.model('User'),
	SystemConfig = mongoose.model('SystemConfig'),
	async = require('async');

// =============================================================================
// helper function declaration
// =============================================================================
var createInitialSetupInSystemConfig = function(callback) {
	var systemConfig = new SystemConfig({
		key: SystemConfig.INITIAL_SETUP,
		value: 'true'
	});

	systemConfig.save(function(err, result) {
		if(!err) {
			callback();
		}
	});
};

var createUser = function(name, nip, email, password, roles, callback) {
	var newUser = new User({
		name: name,
		nip: nip,
		email: email,
		password: password,
		provider: 'local',
		roles: roles
	});

	newUser.save(function(err, result) {
		if(!err) {
			callback();
		}
	});

	return newUser;
};

var createPengaliPerformance = function(callback) {
	var pengaliPerformance = {
		pengaliPenilaianUser: 0.1,
		pengaliTimesheetCollection: 0.15,
		pengaliAbsensi: 0.15,
		pengaliBillableUtilization: 0.6
	};

	var pengaliPerformanceSystemConfig = new SystemConfig({
		key: SystemConfig.PENGALI_PERFORMANCE,
		value: pengaliPerformance
	});

	pengaliPerformanceSystemConfig.save(function(err, result) {
		if(!err) {
			callback();
		}
	});

	return pengaliPerformance;
};

var generateResponse = function(res, resultObject) {
	res.jsonp(resultObject);
};

var findInitialSetupInSystemConfig = function(req, res) {
	SystemConfig.findOne({key: 'initial-setup'}, function(err, systemConfig) {
		if(!systemConfig) {
			var pengaliPerformance = createPengaliPerformance(function() {
				var eroDesdriantonIslamy = createUser('Desdrianton Islamy', 'xxx', 'desdrianton.islamy@xsis.co.id', 'XsisWinners321', ['ero'], function() {
					var eroAhmadBagus = createUser('Ahmad Bagus', 'xxx', 'ahmad.bagus@xsis.co.id', 'XsisWinners321', ['ero'], function() {
						var eroApriyaniRismawanti = createUser('Apriyani Rismawanti', 'xxx', 'apriyani.rismawanti@xsis.co.id', 'XsisWinners321', ['ero'], function() {
							var eroRismawanti = createUser('Rismawanti', 'xxx', 'rismawanti@xsis.co.id', 'XsisWinners321', ['ero'], function() {
								var eroAlfianaMaulidia = createUser('Alfiana Maulidia', 'xxx', 'alfiana.maulidia@xsis.co.id', 'XsisWinners321', ['ero'], function() {
									createInitialSetupInSystemConfig(function() {
										generateResponse(res, {
											pengaliPerformance: pengaliPerformance,
											eroDesdriantonIslamy: eroDesdriantonIslamy,
											eroAhmadBagus: eroAhmadBagus,
											eroApriyaniRismawanti: eroApriyaniRismawanti,
											eroRismawanti: eroRismawanti,
											eroAlfianaMaulidia: eroAlfianaMaulidia
										});
									});
								});
							});
						});
					});
				});
			});
		} else {
			return res.send(409, {message: 'Initial setup sudah pernah dilakukan !!!'});
		}
	});
};

// =============================================================================
// exported function declaration
// =============================================================================
exports.do = function(req, res) {
	findInitialSetupInSystemConfig(req, res);
};

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Angrit is a single handsome guy who has to take care of his niece because her parents passed away. Often there are times where they don't get along, but one day they finally decides for a truce in order to put an end to their disputes. Angrit likes Miew, who is deaf. When his niece finds out about Miew she instantly rejects her and the adults must make her understand their love.


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BEYOND FEAR - USA
Beyond Fear - 2006 - SPV
S= Winter's Bane, British Steel, Judas Priest, Iced Earth, Spawn, The Sickness, Seattle, Yngwie Malmsteen, Solo, Hail>>TIM "RIPPER OWENS">>Iced Earth, Spawn, The Sickness, Seattle, Yngwie Malmsteen, Solo, Hail, Dio Disciples, Tred, Project Rock, Rockstar, A New Revenge
G= 13 Faces, Spawn, Ripper Owens>>JOHN COMPRIX>>Ripper Owens - Missing Skin>>DWANE BIHARY
B= Winter's Bane, Seven Witches, Wretch>>DENNIS HAYES>>Seven Witches, Wretch, Iced Earth
D= All You Fear>>ERIC ELKINS
Initiated in 2004 and entitled in 2005, Beyond Fear was the new act of former Judas Priest singer Tim Owens. Judas Priest dumped Owens in 2003 following the return of Halford to the English veterans. Owens quickly recruited former band-mates and friends like bassist Dennis Hayes of Winter's Bane (and Seven Witches) and drummer Bobby Jarzombek of Halford fame and recorded a demo. The band played the BW&BK 6-Pack show in Cleveland and signed to SPV later that year. A tour with Jon Oliva's Pain was also undertaken. The drumming had, in the meanwhile, been taken over by one Eric Elkins. Management was taken over by Wendy Dio. The band issued its debut in the spring of 2006. Producer Jim Morris recorded the album in Florida. The band also hit Europe with Anthrax. The band was also booked for the Rock Hard Festival in Germany. Following the surprising return of Matt Barlow to Iced Earth, Ripper was again left homeless. The singer soon joined Yngwie Malmsteen and Soulbender.
BEYOND FEAR - same - SPV
Many have probably by now heard of Beyond Fear. The new band of former Judas Priest singer Tim "Ripper" Owens is widely expected with anticipation running high. After all, Owens is also fronting Iced Earth and has already proven his singing ability.
It is with more than a whiff of disappointment and lost opportunity that Beyond Fear, the debut album featuring twelve songs, sounds like a by-the-numbers recording that will be a mere footnote in a few short years.
The album begins with its best or second best song, Scream Machine. This is of the same nature as Judas Priest and is one of the rare moments where Owens actually pushes himself. His vocals hit the high notes here, the melodies and harmonies are patently metal and the front-man re-establishes his Judas Priest credentials. Coming At You has a melody like Forbidden's Step by Step. The song is embarrassing almost given its repetitive nature. It could have been written during a sound check. Your Time Has Come has some atmosphere and power and is above average here. The drum sound though is too clinical, which happens to be one of the album's faults. Dreams Come True is slow and another of those songs which could be interpreted as being autobiographical. I Don't Need This innovates with its multiple vocal tracks! At least the song has plenty of guitars. Words Of Wisdom follows and also has some directive and angry lyrics. Could these last two songs be implicitly aimed at the Priest guys? The album ends with The Faith which, again, is repetitious and could be described as a vocal exercise. The drummer is doing his own thing. The more one listens to the songs, the more it sounds like an affirmation of sorts. How come the song My Last Words don't end the album?
Beyond Fear could have been better. Instead, Ripper shows that he needs good writers around him to push him, prod him and write memorable tunes. - Anna Tergel
Beyond Fear


The Industrial Association - Veliko Tarnovo is starting a project "Building a sustainable model and partner network to support employment and labour mobility in the cross border area Bulgaria-Romania".
The aim of the project is to promote labor mobility in key economic sectors in the field of cross-border cooperation by creating conditions for balance between supply and demand on the labor market.
Development and maintenance of a common database with useful information for the employees and the employers on both sides of the border.
The project is funded under the INTERREG program, totaling € 593,492.79, of which € 504,468.87 are from European funding. It is expected to be completed in the spring of 2019.


EE is a UK-based mobile network operator (MNO) with a heritage of innovation, born when Orange and T-Mobile joined forces in 2010.
EE was the first mobile operator in Britain to offer 4G mobile services alongside fiber broadband. EE goes to market through the EE, Orange and T-Mobile brands—reaching 31 million customers through fixed, mobile and wholesale businesses.
EE delivers customer service through their websites and customer service applications, over the phone and in-store, with over 11,000 customer service and retail employees who are trained experts in mobile device operating systems.
The existing self-care mobile applications "My T-Mobile" and "Your Orange"—that allowed customers to check balances, manage their mobile plans and make payments—did not talk to each other, ran on different mobile platforms, supported different features and did not provide a consistent interface.
EE understood that this would be a challenge to offer seamless customer experience and engagement.
The fusion of the two companies was a chance to rationalize and adapt processes, introduce common standards and reduce operating costs. And after complete integration, the company needed to develop a new flagship application under their new brand.
With Accenture's help, EE moved the applications on all of their mobile platforms up to a consistent standard with respect to look, feel and functionality—strengthening both their brand messaging and the efficiency of their mobile platforms.
Despite the complex nature of this project, Accenture was able to deliver a new suite of applications under extremely tight timescales to support all three of EE's brands and meet the crucial EE 4G service launch date.
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Mexico's Midterms: Three Possible Outcomes
by Gerardo Garibay Camarena
Opinion, Mexico
Mexico's future will be defined this Sunday, June 6 and the campaigns are silent. Today began the so-called "electoral ban", a 3-day period where Mexican law prevents candidates and their teams from promoting the vote, in addition to prohibiting the press from disseminating the results of opinion polls.
Therefore, from now on, the political struggle disappears from the surface and is directed towards the depths of the political process, those where vote mobilization and internal logistics allow them to take advantage of their structure to achieve the best result. In view of the circumstances, it is a good time to delve into the analysis of the most viable scenarios for the future of Mexico once the mid-term elections are over.
First: Morena wins the majority of governorships and maintains a two-thirds majority in the Chamber of Deputies
In this case, López Obrador will wake up very happy on Monday, June 7. He will dedicate his daily conferences to emphasize how this electoral result shows the people's support for his "fourth transformation" process and gives him a mandate to deepen it. In the following weeks the president will announce much more dramatic reforms to the country's institutional system, which will be presented and approved during the first ordinary session of the new legislature, which begins in September.
The opposition will face much more intense pressure from the ruling party, as the obradoristas will take advantage of the circumstances to divide the opposition, buying the loyalty of parties and candidates to whom they will offer privileges or support in exchange for their joining Morena or supporting the president at key moments, even if nominally they remain militant in their parties.
In the medium term, López Obrador will consolidate his dominion over the Judicial Power, the electoral authorities and the Bank of Mexico, without the opposition being able to exert sufficient legal or political pressure to prevent him from doing so.
Within his party, López Obrador will have the room for maneuver to balance the ambitions of the different power groups and freely position the next president, or even extend his own presidential mandate for at least a couple of years, postponing the presidential elections to 2026.
Mexico would deepen its social, economic and institutional crisis, but the opposition would no longer be in a position to take advantage of these problems for the presidential elections of 2024.
Mexico's future depends on the elections and if AMLO achieves to impose his project. Image: EFE/Mario Guzmán
Second: Morena wins approximately half of the governorships and maintains a majority in the Chamber of Deputies, but without reaching two thirds of the votes
Depending on the political calculation made in the National Palace, AMLO could opt for two paths: to make an effort to sell the result as the citizen's mandate to continue with the "fourth transformation" or to denounce that the fraudulent practices of the opposition manipulated the popular will.
In either case, presidential rhetoric will become more aggressive, in an attempt to intimidate opponents and keep potential rivals within his own movement in check. He will most likely order his operators to seek an extraordinary session before September, to pass constitutional reforms taking advantage of his current two-thirds majority in the Chamber of Deputies, pressuring some opposition senators to get the upper chamber's vote and consolidate his constitutional advantage before giving up that possibility in the new legislature.
Already with the new legislature, the president will consolidate his power as much as possible through reforms to secondary laws, which only require a 50% majority vote in Congress. The focus of these reforms would be mainly in the electoral field, with the disappearance of the INE (National Electoral Institute) as a priority objective.
For the opposition, this scenario will imply the enormous challenge of maintaining unity in the face of increasing pressure from the President, who will try to convince (by hook or by crook) the leadership of the other parties and divide the so-called "containment bloc."
Third: the opposition snatches Morena's majority in the Chamber of Deputies
In this case, the president will take the results with fury and will use all the resources of his administration to derail the election and accuse fraud. He will multiply the accusations against the opponents and will accelerate the processes opened against the opposition referents in the Attorney General's Office.
Basically, he will launch a campaign with two big pincers: the rhetoric of fraud and legal pressures, so that opposition leaders accept the repetition of the elections, at least in those districts and states that are key for Morena.
The president will also intensify pressure against civil society and increase polarization. We will see massive demonstrations called by the pro-worker movement and the opposition will have to do the same. Political confrontation will move from social media to street demonstrations.
In legislative terms the president will use his operators to call for an extraordinary session to approve a broad package of reforms with the intention that the government can consolidate its political advantage before the new legislature places them in a minority.
Eventually, AMLO will be forced to accept that he has lost control of the legislature and that his political project is in serious trouble. He will face desertions among his allies, and even those who continue to support him will sell their support at a much higher price, so he will be forced to bet on one of the groups within his movement and eventually he will have to back a presidential candidate not chosen by him.
For the opposition, the great challenge will be to maintain unity in the face of the temptations implied by the exercise of power, to which another serious risk is added: by controlling the Chamber of Deputies, the opponents will become to a certain extent "co-responsible" for the Government and therefore Obrador will be able to blame them for the inevitable bad results during the second half of his administration.
In return, the opponents will have the political leeway to negotiate and prevent AMLO from capturing the Bank of Mexico and the electoral institutions, placing both sides in a competitive scenario for the 2024 presidential elections.
A reflection on Mexico's future
Of course, each of these scenarios has other nuances and side possibilities, which for reasons of space it is impossible to raise in one article. However, in general terms this is what can be expected as of next week, and none of the scenarios implies automatic or guaranteed happiness.
In any case, Mexico's future will continue to be shrouded in uncertainty.
Gerardo Garibay Camarena
Gerardo Garibay Camarena, is a doctor of law, writer and political analyst with experience in the public and private sectors. His new book is "How to Play Chess Without Craps: A Guide to Reading Politics and Understanding Politicians" // Gerardo Garibay Camarena es doctor en derecho, escritor y analista político con experiencia en el sector público y privado. Su nuevo libro es "Cómo jugar al ajedrez Sin dados: Una guía para leer la política y entender a los políticos"


The DASH Diet (which stands for Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension) was developed as a lifelong dietary approach to treating or preventing the onset of hypertension, or high blood pressure. The diet emphasizes reducing daily sodium intake and portion sizes while increasing the variety of fresh and whole foods and nutrient intake. There are numerous resources available today for the DASH Diet from tips and suggestions on how to get the right amounts of food to meal plans and recipes.
Following the DASH Diet is primarily meant to significantly reduce blood pressure naturally, either alone or in conjunction with current blood pressure medications. But in addition to lowered blood pressure, the DASH Diet also offers a structured, healthy way of eating that can offer health benefits beyond blood pressure including healthy weight loss.
There is a variation of the DASH Diet that has been shown to have the most dramatic effects on blood pressure and cholesterol levels. It's a little more restrictive than the original DASH Diet, but it might be just what you need to get kick-started into this lifestyle and quickly lower cholesterol and blood pressure with healthy food choices.
To keep things simple, think of a serving here as 1/2 cup raw or cooked vegetables or 1 cup of leafy greens. A serving of fruit is a piece of fruit or 1/2 cup of sliced fruit.
This one is pretty easy. A serving is equivalent to 1 slice of bread or 1/2 cup of rice, pasta, or cereal. Measure these at first; you might be shocked to see how little 1/2 cup of pasta really looks on the plate.
1.5 ounces of cheese (for reference, one string cheese stick is usually 1 ounce while 2 American cheese singles are almost 1.5 ounces) or 1 cup of milk or yogurt.
These foods are measured slightly different with a serving of cooked beans measuring to ½ cup and a single serving of nuts weighing in at 1/4 cup.
Anyone new to watching portions is going to be shocked when they see the daily ration of meat or poultry; it's about the size of a deck of cards. If you like fish, you are in luck, as it is okay to eat more fish a day.
Don't get too excited by this one. While a serving is 1 cookie or 1 teaspoon of sugar, you likely have already eaten it before you even get to lunch. For instance, if you eat flavored yogurt, you have definitely used up this ration in added sugar (and probably exceeded it by a couple of teaspoons).
There is enough sugar added to almost anything processed (e.g., breakfast cereal, bread, stir-fry sauces) that you are pretty sure to be at your limit before you even start looking at cookies. Our suggestion here would be to forget about this category altogether, occasionally allowing yourself to have a bite or two of your dining companion's dessert for a treat.
A serving here is 1 tablespoon of healthy oil. Again, this is not a serving that you will have to go looking for. One serving of salad dressing or oil for cooking your veggies will use up this daily allowance.
This is one serving of pretty much anything up there: fruits, vegetables, meat/poultry/fish, oil, grains, or sweets. Again, if you are really serious, we would suggest forgetting about this category, as a couple extra nuts, an extra teaspoon of salad dressing, and a smidge of meat in pasta sauce (even lean), easily use up this category.
Anyone interested in following the DASH Diet whether for blood pressure or general health should download the free National Institute of Health (NIH) guide.
National Institutes of Heart, Lung, and Blood of the National Institutes of Health. Your Guide to Lowering Your Blood Pressure with DASH. Revised 2006.
A Day's Worth of Food. Nutrition Action Health Letter. September 2010.
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Hello, September. It's that time again, another school session is in full swing. Those first magical weeks of connection and collaboration have lit students' hearts and minds on fire and stoked their passion to learn and grow. Everything is going swimmingly. How will you make sure it continues that way? What techniques do you have in place to help students handle the stress that sometimes accompanies academic pressures in the upcoming days, weeks, and months? Consider trying one or more of these ideas to ward off and/or manage school stress.
In this day and age of the connected learner, there's no reason anyone has to go it alone. Encourage your students from the start to seek out like-minded study buddies that complement their personality and learning styles. Seize opportunities to let them pair up as much as possible to tackle their tasks so they get comfortable with collaborating. Implement accountability partners who rotate sending out calendar reminders with due dates for projects, quizzes, and tests. Together we're better.
Everybody has the same basic waking hours available, but not everybody knows how to manage that time effectively. Teach your students to use a calendar to help. Whether they prefer a paper planner or an electronic one, time management is so much easier and planning goes more smoothly when everything is written down. Encourage students to schedule the due dates on their projects and allow for proper chunks of time to work on the projects in small increments. If students are collaborating, remind them to allow extra time to work around everybody's calendars and commitments.
Students don't have to wait until they're crumbling under stress to seek out a tutor. When my daughter was in precalculus, we hired a tutor for her proactively so that she could understand the advanced math better and stay ahead of the stress. Weekly visits with the math specialist were well worth our money as we watched her gain confidence and competence. Check with your local high school—sometimes they have students in groups like National Honor Society or student council who will tutor for a reduced rate or to earn service hours. Faith groups and organizations like the YMCA might also offer tutoring services.
Extracurricular classes, activities, and clubs can help students stay in shape, not only physically, but also mentally and emotionally, and offer a break from studies. Taking a break by doing something physical is a really strong self-care idea; encourage your students to try power walking, biking, cross-training, tennis, Frisbee golf, inline skating, jumping rope, or jumping on a trampoline. If they'd prefer an organized team sport, consider signing them up to play basketball, volleyball, softball, baseball, or soccer. Hobbies don't have to be physical; check out community education classes like cooking, sewing, scrapbooking, playing chess, knitting, painting, and taking magic or music lessons.
Mindfulness is the practice of staying in the moment—fully present, mindfully aware, and without judgment. Teach your students to be mindful when pressures threaten to strangle them. Start by breathing with intention. Inhale deeply through the nose; exhale through the mouth. Just three to five deep breaths can help clear the brain when it starts to fog over. Want to try something new? Texas school counselor Stephanie Lerner suggests breathing backward: exhale first, then inhale. It will force thoughts toward the breathing and away from the pressure cooker one is in. Students might also choose a mantra to complement their mindful breathing rituals—something like inhale calm, exhale chaos.
Relaxation looks different for everyone. Maybe it's time to take a break from the books and de-stress by listening to music, dancing, playing an instrument, or reading a fictional tale for fun. Maybe relaxing looks like taking a power nap or a long, luxurious bubble bath. It might be gardening, inviting a friend over to build a jigsaw puzzle, watching a funny movie, or enjoying a sitcom on television. It might be listening to a guided meditation or stretching with some yoga poses. It could even mean going out for a snow cone or some other refreshing treat. Encourage your students to keep a self-care journal in which they can list or draw the strategies they connect with as they step away from stress to regroup. It will be a welcome resource in the event that school life ever gets too pressurized for them to remember what works.
Remember that academic success isn't about being the best, but about giving one's personal best. A growth mindset reminds us that growth is more important than grades. Encourage students to give themselves some grace in the grades department; if they are working hard and giving it their all, then they will make progress toward mastery. Celebrate the baby steps and focus on the journey rather than the end goal. As our students innovate and create, may they never arrive at the Land of Done. Professor and author Carol Dweck suggests that we name and claim our fixed mindsets. Open up a conversation with your students to help them see and admit what their fixed mindsets are, then give them the tools to unlock those errant thoughts and beliefs.
What are your students' favorite go-to pressure relief valve strategies?
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There are years of snow-day sledding and ski-resort ripping ahead, but for now your little adventurer is mostly focused on crawling, and that gets pretty wet in the snow. To keep them warm and dry in cold and snowy weather, hook them up with the Patagonia Baby Snow Pile One-Piece Snow Suit. It's outfitted with a waterproof H2No shell and super-warm Thermogreen insulation, ensuring that they can take their first hobbling steps through the snow without worrying about being soaked and cold. The one-piece coverage extends to a removable hood, while partially elasticized leg and arm cuffs fit over boots and mitts to ensure that the cold stays out. And if you're worried about them outgrowing it next season, it's got a grow-fit feature that adds two inches on the legs and sleeves, so they'll still be covered when they've got that whole "walking" thing nailed down.
It can be tough to tell online which snowsuit will be the warmest for your little one - but I'm pretty sure this is it. It's heavily insulated without being too bulky. Kiddo is 14 months old going into fall so we got the size 18mo (12-18mo) hoping to at least get a full winter of use out of it (we definitely will). There's plenty of room to grow, and I wouldn't be surprised if she's able to wear this next fall too.
Other call-outs: the elastic loops at the feet are a lifesaver in keeping the legs from riding up out of her boots. The details and quality are well worth the price - I especially appreciate the reinforced knees and bottom, and the fact that the hood is removable. This is a very versatile piece of outerwear.


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