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Q: Mapbox iOS sdk: How to update shape layers at runtime I recently started using the Mapbox SDK for iOS in one of our new apps, as we needed a replacement for native MapKit of Google Maps SDK, because we need to display around 65.000 points on a map, and this makes the native map solutions very slow and causes memory problems on older devices. Although the Mapbox SDK is working just fine, I find it difficult to find relevant information for the following problem:
Is it possible to update a (in our case) 'MGLCircleStyleLayer' with new GeoJson data every x seconds, and this without having to remove and re-add the whole source/layer. This last option works, but between removing the existing layer, and adding the layer again, the circles disappear for a second, and than re-appear. We tried adding a new layer, and later remove the old one so the circles stay visible, but this causes:

Message from debugger: Terminated due to memory issue

after just a few updates.
This is the code I currently use to add the layer. The displayed data is scattered over the whole global map:
    MGLShapeSource *dataSource = [[MGLShapeSource alloc] initWithIdentifier:@"data-source" URL:serverDataURL options:nil];
    [mainMapView.style addSource:dataSource];

    MGLCircleStyleLayer *dataLayer = [[MGLCircleStyleLayer alloc] initWithIdentifier:@"data-layer" source:dataSource];

    NSDictionary *colors = @{@1: [MGLStyleValue valueWithRawValue:[UIColor whiteColor]],
                             @2: [MGLStyleValue valueWithRawValue:[UIColor yellowColor]],
                             @3: [MGLStyleValue valueWithRawValue:[UIColor orangeColor]],
                             @4: [MGLStyleValue valueWithRawValue:[UIColor colorWithRed:0.987 green:0.237 blue:0.032 alpha:1]],
                             @5: [MGLStyleValue valueWithRawValue:[UIColor colorWithRed:0.985 green:0 blue:0.027 alpha:1]],
                             @6: [MGLStyleValue valueWithRawValue:[UIColor colorWithRed:0.686 green:0 blue:0.014 alpha:1]]
                             };
    dataLayer.circleOpacity = [MGLStyleValue valueWithRawValue:@0.7];
    dataLayer.circleColor = [MGLStyleValue valueWithInterpolationMode: MGLInterpolationModeInterval
                                                          sourceStops: colors
                                                        attributeName: @"colorcode"
                                                              options: nil];

    dataLayer.circleRadius = [MGLStyleValue valueWithInterpolationMode:MGLInterpolationModeExponential
                                                       cameraStops:@{
                                                                     @12: [MGLStyleValue valueWithRawValue:@2],
                                                                     @22: [MGLStyleValue valueWithRawValue:@180]
                                                                     }
                                                           options: @{MGLStyleFunctionOptionDefaultValue:@1.75}];

    [mainMapView.style addLayer:dataLayer];

This part is working just fine as it is. Only, when I try to update this, I run into problems like (for example):

identifier data-source already exists

Adding new layers with a new identifier, as already explained, works fine but leaves a gap between removing and re-adding the layer for about a second (even when most of the work in done outside the main thread).
I don't find any good examples on the Mapbox website, and there is not much info on Google to go on.

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Alasingha Perumal: A Rare Disciple of Swami Vivekananda
Dec 3, 2014 | 1 comment
by Swami Tathagatananda
Review by John Schlenck
Vedanta Society of New York
Paperback $5.00 69 pp. 2014
Alasingha Perumal
This short biography of Swami Vivekananda's South Indian disciple Alasingha Perumal will be of particular interest to Swamiji's English-speaking admirers. Anyone who has read more than a cursory biography of Vivekananda has come across Alasingha's name in connection with Swamiji's travels in southern India and the many letters Swamiji wrote to this disciple. But we don't find much about the disciple himself.
The efforts of Alasingha on behalf of his Master were nothing short of heroic. It is fair to say he worked harder and did more to promote Swamiji's work than anyone else in southern India prior to the arrival of Swami Ramakrishnananda in 1897. Before Vivekananda reached Madras at the end of 1892 and met Alasingha, the latter had formed a group of friends dedicated to preserving India's spiritual heritage. Ironically, he heard about the upcoming Parliament of Religions in Chicago through Christian missionary newsletters. Learning of Swamiji's arrival in Madras from a relative, Alasingha went to meet him and immediately recognized Swamiji as his longed-for teacher. From that moment on, he lived only to serve Swamiji.
Alasingha strongly urged Swamiji to go to America and attend the Parliament. He organized a meeting of friends, where a formal request was made to Swamiji to go as the Hindu representative. Alasingha and his friends were willing to go door to door to raise money for Swamiji's passage. Touched by their sincerity, he agreed to go, but still hesitated, waiting for a clear sign that the Divine Mother wanted him to go. He repeatedly declined and returned money collected for his journey. Finally, receiving unqualified support and blessing from Holy Mother Sarada Devi, his guru's wife and successor, he made definite plans to go.
Before Swamiji sailed from Bombay, Alasingha came there with difficulty and rendered last-minute service, persuading Swamiji to get a watch and having appropriate clothes made for him.
Even before reaching America, Swamiji wrote fiery letters of inspiration to Alasingha, and through him to his other followers in South India, exhorting them to work for India's uplift and telling them of what he learned abroad. Once in the United States, he quickly ran out of money and cabled for financial help and also with news of his rough treatment by some people. Alasinga now felt guilty for having urged Swamiji to go, and begged and borrowed funds—even sold his wife's jewelry with her glad assent—to send money to Swamiji. Soon Swamiji found friends in America who appreciated his worth and were able and willing to give him assistance.
But Swamiji's real trials began after his tremendous success at the Parliament, when lies and rumors were spread by jealous adversaries to discredit him. He needed his friends in India to vouch for his bona fides. Alasingha organized meetings and contacted important people to publish appreciation and thanks to Swamiji, informing people in America of Swamiji's credentials. Letters were sent to American newspapers, and they were published. The American press knew well of Swamiji's appearance and influence at the Parliament. The New York Herald even published a collection of Sri Ramakrishna's sayings submitted by Swamiji's American disciple, Swami Kripananda.
To garner additional support and awareness in India, Alasingha spearheaded two durbars (congratulatory assemblies of leading citizens), in Madras and Calcutta.
That same year (1894) he founded the Young Men's Hindu Association to counter the inroads of Christian missionaries and to raise up the exploited masses. The following year, at Swamiji's urging and with help from friends, he founded the journal Brahmavadin and struggled hard to keep it going in spite of financial difficulties.
Along with the story of Alasingha's life, Swami Tathagatananda gives numerous quotations from Vivekananda's letters. These letters give us vivid glimpses of Swamiji's life and mind as he struggled to fulfill the mission entrusted to him. They also convey his deep love for and faith in his disciples.
Not much information is given about Alasingha's later life. Brief mention is made of the important part he played in organizing the unparalleled, ecstatic reception Swamiji received on his return from the West in early 1897. Alasingha passed away in 1909 at the age of 44.
Swami Tathagatananda is to be thanked and congratulated for making the life of this great disciple of Vivekananda more widely known.
Swami Tathagatananda is Minister-in-Charge of the Vedanta Society of New York.
Sumana saha on April 4, 2015 at 5:59 am
I would like to know about other South Indian disciples of Swamiji. I have translated 'Alasinga Perumal- an illustrious disciple of Swami Vivekananda' by Sw. Sunirmalananda into Bengali and the bengali book, published by Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda University on the auspicious day of Saraswati Puja, 24th January, 2015 in the holy presense of President Maharaj, Swami Atmasthanandaji Maharaj.
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I successfully installed macOS Mojave (10.14.2) on a Lenovo Flex 3. Most things are working fine, except the graphics. It looks like there is no acceleration at all. It runs pretty slowly, there are some graphical glitches, and none of the effects (blur) work.
Attached is the Clover folder with the configs and kexts. I say configs because there is two of them in there. One makes the computer boot, the other one (supposedly) enables graphics acceleration. It's the config from RehabMan's GitHub with some edits done by me, hoping it does anything (the stock one didn't work either).
I should add that when I say it doesn't boot, I meant it gets stuck at "End RandomSeed" with no other errors. I left it there for about 30 minutes and it doesn't progress beyond that point.
I am aware of that, but something in the bootable plist is making it work, and I'm not sure what it is. It could also be the reason for missing acceleration, but again, I'm not sure what is responsible for it booting.
I have tried this already, along with booting with a fresh 520 plist, but they don't work. To most people the issue was they were missing the AptioMemoryFix driver, which I have. I don't know why it gets stuck at End RandomSeed with the cleaner configs, and why it doesn't with the other one.
I also took a picture of the verbose output, if it helps.
Okay, I tried both OsxAptioFixDrv and OsxAptioFix3Drv, both of which didn't do anything. I couldn't find the 2nd variant though.
Is that whole "End RandomSeed" specifically a memory issue or is there another meaning to it?


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The Tamolitch Falls, now a seasonal waterfall, once had a constant flow on the McKenzie River in Lane County, Oregon.  The site is located in the Willamette National Forest.  In the 1960s, water was diverted for hydroelectric use from the stream above the falls; that section of the stream, as well as the falls, ceased to flow except during periods of heavy runoff or when water was diverted from the dams upstream. When this is not the case, the stream goes underground and now emerges below the falls. At the base of the former falls is the Tamolitch Blue Pool, a small body of water known for its blue color.  Elevation:

The water temperature of the pool is around 38°F which is too cold for even microorganisms to live in. Although the water depth looks to be pretty shallow, the pool is actually 30ft deep.

The pool can be reached from part of the McKenzie River Trail. From the trailhead to the pool, it is a 3.6 mile out and back hike. The trail is heavily trafficked during the spring and summer and parking fills up quickly. The trail welcomes hikers, bikers, runners, and dogs as long as they are on a leash. The beginning of the hike is through an old growth Douglas fir forest. As the McKenzie River flows below, the trail goes up along a cliff which then descends into a dry river bed and from there it eventually goes through an old lava flow. The trail isn't too strenuous, but it does have an elevation gain of 285ft. The trail also passes by multiple steep cliffs which are hazardous.

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External links
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 https://web.archive.org/web/20110726211430/http://www.oregonwild.org/about/blog/waterfall-showcase-showdown
 Tamolitch Pool - McKenzie River

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Mid-peninsula Open Space preserves--Two protest letter regarding three proposed burn in native grassland and wildflower habitat, June 2010.
Agenda Items #6, #7 and #8 Authorizations to burn three preserves.
(Page 5 of April 14, 2010 minutes).
I am requesting that the Board directs the staff to prepare and Environmental Impact Report (EIR) for the three 2010 burns, for the following reasons.
Hereafter CEQA is the California Environmental Quality Act, Public Resources Code § 21000 et seq. and an EIR is an Environmental Impact Report.
1.) The two burns proposed for MONTE BELLO and SIERRA AZUL are not exempt from CEQA and no EIR has been prepared for the RUSSIAN RIDGE burn, and the only document related to the 2010 burn, is a 2007 CALFIRE Russian Ridge prefire checklist, and that document is inadequate and cannot be used as a substitute for an EIR under CEQA.
2.) The District has failed the CEQA FAIR ARGUEMENT standard, which requires the District to prepare EIRs for each of the three burns.
I have provided the Board with the fair arguments, based on substantial evidence, in 127 emails since 2006, about the effects of the District's 2002 and 2007 burns.
I have also outlined in a web page at http://www.ecoseeds.com/invent.html, my measurements and photographs of the environmental outcomes for those burns at RUSSIAN RIDGE, and provided the Board with substantial evidence that there have been significant environmental impacts caused by those burns.
The "Fair Argument standard" means that under CEQA, an agency must prepare an EIR, "Whenever it can be fairly argued on the basis of substantial evidence that the project may have significant environmental impact."
3.) District's stated reasons for the necessities of the three burns in 2010, not supported by any evidence.
Two documents were mailed out, dated April 6, 2010, as notification by the District for the three Preserve burns, one by Gordon C. Baillie an MBA and another by David Sanguinetti, Operations manager.
Gordon Baillie's claim for the Sierra Azul burn is that "Prescribed burns are..used to manage the land for fire safety and the health of the natural environment..They also reduce invasive [exotic plant] species and support native plant and a diverse healthy ecosystem."
David Sanguinetti's claim for burning at Russian Ridge and Monte Bello, is that, "The burns have also been an excellent resource management tool..."
There is no evidence that any of these claims are true, and none of those claims are supported by adequate measured data, or even by any photos of the "before and after" effects of each burn.
In 1998 and 1999, burns at Russian Ridge were conducted by the District's hired consultant, without any EIR, and the District staff did not monitor the weeds or the native plant species, during the years the consultant was working on exotic plant (weed) management of that Preserve in 1997, 1998, 1999 and 2000.
The District produced a document ("Russian Ridge Open Space Preserve Grassland Monitoring Summary," pdf file, no date, no author, #12287F) that concluded that any Russian Ridge vegetation measurements done by their hired consultant (Rana Creek Habitat Restoration 2000) before and after those two burns is useless for any future exotic plant or native plant vegetation measurement comparisons.
Furthermore, the District did not conduct any vegetation measurement at Russian Ridge before and after the 2002 or 2007 burns, that the District conducted without any EIRs, and no Russian Ridge exotic plant or native plant vegetation measurements were done in 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 or 2008.
Under CEQA, the Board is prohibited from authorizing the three 2010 burns without an EIR, and especially when the Board and the public lack any knowledge of the environmental consequences of their decisions, before they are made. (Western Placer Citizens for an Agr. and Rural Env. v County of Placer--App. 3 Dist. 2006, 50 Cal. Rptr. 3d 799, 144 Cal. App. 4th 890).
Under CEQA, the purpose of an EIR is to provide detailed information to the public and to responsible officials, about significant environmental effects of a proposed project; and the EIR must contain substantial evidence on those effects and a reasonable range of alternatives.
When the Board authorized the three burns in April for 2010, neither the Board nor the public had been provided with any substantial information about the projects, that are required by CEQA. Furthermore, the stated reasons for the necessities for the three burns, has not been back up by any substantial or measured evidence.
4.) The three 2010 fires, pose a real and substantial danger to the native plants on those preserves, and the determination to burn is not supported by substantial evidence.
Since one of the District's stated purpose for the three proposed 2010 burns, is to reduce the exotic plant (weeds) cover, then that purpose naturally assumes that the three burns could also produce significant environmental effects on the native plants, therefore CEQA requires that EIRs be written for the 2010 burns.
By checking photographs that were taken in 2002 of Russian Ridge, prior to the 2002, 2007 and 2009 burns, any reasonable person does not need to be a trained botanist, to clearly see that the exotic plant cover, specially the four-foot tall weeds like the wild oats and the Harding grass, have greatly benefited from the numerous fires, with these weeds able to rush in and cover the burned ground faster than the native plants can regenerate.
Additionally, when you set fire to tall weeds, they produce fires with about 10-50 times more burnable biomass, than if you burned a native wildflower or native grass area. The perennial native plants are unable to survive such a severe fire, killing the native species in the burn areas on the north end of Russian Ridge, like Coyote mint, Mules ears, and Melica grass.
If the District had conducted annual vegetation cover measurement since 1997 at Russian Ridge, those measurements would show that the yellow star thistle, the Italian thistle, and exotic clovers have greatly benefited from the numerous fires, so the claim that the fires are managing weeds on that preserve is in error, and is grossly misstated.
5.) Failure to write EIRs for the three burns is considered by the courts, as an abuse of discretion.
Whenever an agency fails to do an EIR for a project, when there is a possibility that the project may have a significant environmental impact, the courts have ruled consistently against the agency, calling it an "abuse of discretion. "
6.) No EIRs and no alternatives to burns given to, or discussed with the public.
This is a violation of CEQA---when no EIRs were written for any of the Russian Ridge burns in 1998, 1999, 2002, 2007, 2009 and now for 2010, the District has not given the public a range of alternatives, and fostered public participation and encouraged the public to examine those alternatives.
Under CEQA, when an agency proposes a project like the three burns, courts have ruled that the agency must "foster...public participation" and offer to the public, "...a range of project alternatives for examination and must publicly disclose its reasoning for selecting those alternatives." (Preservation Action Council v. City of San Jose, App. 6 Dist. 2006, 46 Cal. Rptr. 3d. 402, 141 Cal. App. 4th 1336).
7.) Conclusion. The State of California considers our native grassland and wildflower field habitats to be the second most endangered plant community in California.
To any reasonable person, there has been no good faith effort by the District for over twelve years to adequately manage the public's extremely rare and irreplaceable native grassland habitats and wildflower resources---by approving the numerous burns, without full disclosure, no EIRs, no informational public discussions nor opportunities for public review, no meaningful analysis of the effects of all those fires on the environment, no consideration of alternatives given to the public, no substantial evidence that the burns will achieve the stated goals, and the burns have been conducted as an abuse of discretion by the District.
I am requesting that the Board directs staff to prepare and EIR for the three 2010 burns, so that the Board and the public can be fully advised of the environmental impacts of the three burn projects.
RE: April 14, 2010 Meeting - Agenda Items #6, #7 and #8 Authorizations to conduct three burn projects, are illegal under CEQA--PART 2 of protest.
The State of California Department of Fish and Game considers native grassland and wildflower habitat as the second most endangered in California.
Hereafter, CEQA is the California Environmental Quality Act, Public Resources Code § 2100 et seq. and an EIR is an Environmental Impact Report.
The three 2010 burn projects of concern, are at RUSSIAN RIDGE OPEN SPACE PRESERVE (hereafter Russian Ridge), SIERRA AZUL OPEN SPACE PRESERVE (hereafter Sierra Azul), and MONTE BELLO OPEN SPACE PRESERVE (hereafter Monte Bello).
I am requesting that the Board direct staff to prepare an EIR for the three 2010 burn projects that were approved at the April 15 Board meeting.
On June 15, I emailed and mailed via certified mail to the Clerk of the District, six reasons why an EIR is legally required before three burn projects in 2010 can proceed.
A copy of my June 15 letter will be sent to CALFIRE, Santa Clara Fire and Palo Alto Fire, together with these additional protest items, so that these agencies will be notified regarding the three burn projects.
CEQA Guidelines, Cal. Code Reg. Title 14, § 15355, "Cumulative impacts" refers to two or more individual effects which, when considered together, are considerable or which compound or increase other environmental impacts.
§ 15355 (a) The individual effects may be changes resulting from a single project or a number of separate projects.
§ 15355 (b) The cumulative impact from several projects is the change in the environment which results from the incremental impact of the project when added to other related past, present, and reasonably foreseeable future projects. Cumulative impacts can result from individually minor but collectively significant projects taking place over a period of time.
The environmental damage by the burn projects on the Russian Ridge native flora is apparent even to the non-botanist. The previous burn projects have helped spread the weeds, especially the wild oats and Harding grass. You can compare how Russian Ridge looked in 2002 to today, utilizing the photo panoramas on the Web.
Thirty-two different locations on Russian Ridge were photographed in 2002, at http://www.virtualparks.org/parks/russian-text-list.html.
In my 128 emails to the Board since 2006, and my webpage at http://www.ecoseeds.com/invent.html, I found that cumulative environmental impacts have occurred, caused by the previous burn projects at Russian Ridge.
8.) NO REVIEW OF THE SIGNIFICANT IMPACTS of the burn projects, done in 1998, 1999, 2002, 2007, and 2009 on any of the District's preserves. I have noted in my 128 emails to the Board, and at http://www.ecoseeds.com/invent.html that significant environmental impacts have occurred from burn projects at Russian Ridge.
The CEQA guidelines define "significant effect on the environment" as: "a substantial, or potentially substantial, adverse change in any of the physical conditions within the area affected by the project including land, air, water, minerals, flora, fauna, ambient noise, and objects of historic or aesthetic significance" (CEQA guidelines, Cal. Code Reg. Title 14, § 15382).
There have been significant effects on the environment at Russian Ridge of substantial and adverse changes to the flora and to the California native wildflowers, which constitute objects of historic and aesthetic significance.
9.) SIERRA AZUL 2010 BURN PROJECT, there are at least three errors in the CEQA paperwork filed with Santa Clara County and with the State of California.
First Error is in the Notice of Exemption (NOE) , filed June 14 with the County of Santa Clara, why the burn project at Sierra Azul is exempt from CEQA: "Staff concludes that this project will not have a significant effect on the environment."
This Notice of Exemption to the State contradicts an earlier statement issued on April 6, by the District regarding the burn, by Gordon Baillie, where the previous burns at that particular preserve have been used to "...reduce invasive species and support native plants and a diverse, healthy ecosystem."
The District is admitting to the public of the potential of the burn projects at this preserve to kill weeds, which means that the burn project also has the potential to have an adverse impact on the native flora, therefore an EIR is necessary.
10.) SIERRA AZUL 2010 BURN PROJECT, the second error, using Cal. Code Reg. Title 14, § 15304 Minor Alterations.
The Notice of Exemption filed June 14 with Santa Clara County and with the State of California, states that the burn is exempt from CEQA under Cal. Code Reg. Title 14, § 15304, the Minor Alterations exemption.
This exemption is not supposed to be used for projects like burns. Whenever fire is involved in land management, and the area contains California's second most endangered habitat, there is a reasonable possibility of an environmental impact.
Fires, by their very nature, make major alterations to the environment, and since the potential for the burn project to kill weeds, and is one of the District's stated purposes in their April 6 letter to the public, therefore an EIR is required and this exemption cannot be used.
11.) SIERRA AZUL 2010 BURN PROJECT, the third error, using the Cal. Code Reg. Title 14, § 15306, Collection of Data.
The Notice of Exemption (NOE) filed June 14 with Santa Clara County and with the State of California, states that the burn is exempt from CEQA under Cal. Code Reg. Title 14, § 15306, Collection of Data.
The Collection of Data exemption is null and void for the Sierra Azul burn project, because this particular exemption states that the project shall not cause "..a serious or major disturbance to an environmental resource." The very nature of a fire, and the stated purpose by the District for this particular burn project, is to make major alterations in the environment.
12.) NONE OF THE MONTE BELLO 2010 BURN PROJECT CEQA paperwork has been filed with Santa Clara County or with the State of California.
The only paperwork supplied to date by the District Clerk for the 2010 Monte Bello burn project is a Notice of Determination (NOD) filed August 2, 2004, stating that the fire will not have a significant effect on the environment. However, no evidence is presented to support that conclusion.
This 2004 Notice of Determination does not qualify to be recycled in 2010 to act as the 2010 Notice of Determination for the current Monte Bello burn project.
The District has received pertinent new information, from 2006 to 2010, about the environmentally damaging effects of past burn projects, and a "fair argument" exists (Laurel Heights Improvement Assoc. v. U.C. Regents (1993) 47 Cal. 3d 376).
The District has failed to promptly, upon the receipt of that new information, either, to write the legally required CEQA EIRs, or review their "Thresholds of significance" for their burn projects (Public Resource code § 21082).
Furthermore, there may have been a complete failure by the District over time to ever have complied with § 21082, regarding the numerous burn projects conducted over the past 12 years on the District's preserves.
13.) NONE OF THE RUSSIAN RIDGE 2010 BURN PROJECT CEQA PAPERWORK HAS BEEN FILED with Santa Clara Co. or State of California.
The CEQA paperwork supplied by the clerk for the 2010 Russian Ridge burn project is a 2007 CALFIRE preburn checklist. That checklist is not a substitute for an EIR, as in Sundstrom v. County of Mendocino (1988) 202 Cal.App.3d 296.
14.) WITHOUT THE CEQA paperwork filed or accurately filled out for the three burn projects in 2010, it is reasonable to assume that under CEQA, the District cannot legally conduct those burns, until EIRs are written for each of them.
I am requesting that the Board directs staff to prepare EIRs for the three 2010 burn projects, so that the Board and the public can be fully advised of the environmental impacts of the three burn projects.


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Seems Like Star Wars: The Clone Wars Will Cross Into Revenge of the Sith After All
Yes, this is the animated version of something that happens in Revenge of the Sith.
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Star Wars fans know Revenge of the Sith begins with the end of the Clone Wars. So, most people assumed The Clone Wars TV show would end before that, or at least right at that moment. But if there's one thing you should never do in the world of Star Wars producer Dave Filoni, it's assume anything.
Last month when a new trailer for the final season of The Clone Wars was released, one scene, in particular, stood out like a purple lightsaber. It was Mace Windu delivering the line "I sense a plot to destroy the Jedi." That's the same line he delivers in Revenge of the Sith, right before he sends Anakin Skywalker to check on Chancellor Palpatine. And we all know how that turns out.
So when io9 spoke to Clone Wars co-creator Dave Filoni this week about the show's return, we had to have him set the record straight: Will The Clone Wars bleed into Revenge of the Sith?
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"Yeah, I won't say a lot about [that]," Filoni began. "I definitely will say that I don't think Mace is a person [who] repeats himself."
Coming from Filoni, that's about as close to a confirmation as you can get. If Mace doesn't repeat himself, the trailer is showing the moment from the film. He went on to discuss the difficulties in lining the two things up.
"I've always, always been interested in a crossover point with the films when it got right down to it at the very end," he said. "I was always interested in trying to make the audience aware of where Ahsoka was, where Captain Rex was, during sometimes critical moments that we all know from the movies. And yet maintaining the integrity of the films."
"Maintaining the integrity of the films" means that, in this final season of The Clone Wars, three main characters may not exactly have a lot to do.
"There were certain choices to make in this because, well, I wanted to represent the major characters of the film—in Anakin, Obi-Wan, and Padmé—[and] I didn't want to do anything in these last episodes that would interrupt or contradict what happens with them in [Revenge of the Sith]," Filoni said. "So I tried to touch upon those characters and show how they relate more to the characters I'm dealing with in Ahsoka and Rex and tell their story that way, and then give you some idea of where they may or may not be during certain events. So we'll see. We'll see if it works out."
Whether it works out or not, it seems like a certainty that The Clone Wars will show events from Revenge of the Sith...from a certain point of view. We wonder though, just how far will it go? Will we see the animated version of Order 66 kill the Jedi?
We'll find out soon because Star Wars: The Clone Wars is back on Disney+. New episodes will be released each week and you can check out our premiere recap right here.
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It's not because Microsoft doesn't have the talent; it's because of the lawyers. Microsoft grew sick and tired of defending itself in antitrust lawsuits ("If you include all the software anybody would ever need, you're stifling your competition!"). So nowadays, Microsoft leaves out all those controversial programs.
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Thunderstorms don't stack on top of each other. Are you referring to a following storm cell?
..Ignore the halo out in front. And this is in Florida. Super cells in the Midwest will behave differently. The 2 lower parts are 2 different thunderheads. Stop it once in a while and take a close look. It's easier to understand this if you're there when it happens.
Just one cell there. Get your eyes checked. Perhaps you are seeing double.
Sure you posted up the correct storm? In the video you can only see 1/2 of ONE storm. There is NO view of the top to confirm two cells. I see one mature slightly outflow dominant supercell. What are you looking at?
...GasGuzzler, that it has 2 thunderheads is obvious. That's why there's a dark band between the upper and lower thunderheads and yet both you and itn missed this separation. At the same time you say there is no climate change. itn says that climate cannot be defined. See where I'm going with this ? About all you and itn have is discrediting other people because then this means that you must be right. Still, we're technically in an ice age because glacial ice touches the Southern Ocean in Antarctica and yet we're worried about how warm it's going to get ? See where I went with that ?
..And with this I did call it a Super Cell as well but it has 2 different thunderheads and when it rains those rains will be like 2 different thunderstorms. In the Midwest a Super Cell goes all at once. See where I went with that ?
OK, now you're going to have to define thunderhead. I define it as a Cumulonibus cloud, which is a thunderstorm. A typical thunderstorm has a rain core below or lagging slightly behind forward movement. I only see 1/2 of a rain core in that video. ITN may be on to something. You are seeing double...or maybe even quadruple.
...GasGuzzler, that it has 2 thunderheads is obvious.
That's why there's a dark band between the upper and lower thunderheads and yet both you and itn missed this separation.
At the same time you say there is no climate change.
itn says that climate cannot be defined.
'Climate' can be defined. 'Climate change' so far has not been defined. Pay attention.
About all you and itn have is discrediting other people because then this means that you must be right.
Still, we're technically in an ice age because glacial ice touches the Southern Ocean in Antarctica and yet we're worried about how warm it's going to get ?
Now you are redefining 'ice age'.
See where I went with that ?
No, it doesn't. Get your eyes checked.
and when it rains those rains will be like 2 different thunderstorms.
A torrential rain is not like two different thunderstorms.
In the Midwest a Super Cell goes all at once.
OK, now you're going to have to define thunderhead. I define it as a Cumulonimbus cloud, which is a thunderstorm.
a cloud forming a towering mass with a flat base at fairly low altitude and often a flat top, as in thunderstorms.
..What's in the video doesn't have a towering mass so it can't be your Cumulonimbus https://goo.gl/images/DW5C8P cloud.
..And now we're back to being in an ice age.
...itn, go to Florida one day. You'll see it doesn't constantly sprinkle like Seattle does.
In Florida the video I showed most likely had 2 different periods of torrential rain. That makes it like 2 different thunderstorms because they are separated by time. Time is what a person is aware of when they're not getting stoned all the time.
..You seem to have no concept of time because of your religious faith. People who have impure thoughts like science or math should be stoned. I think you are a very religious person. Just my opinion.
The top of that cloud, likely 40,000 ft tall or more, is obscured by the outflow section of that storm. You can't see the top....even if you are seeing double you STILL won't see it!
..You're making stuff up now. The video was a time lapse shot from a distance. There's nothing towering above it.
You're screwing with me, right? If so, then well played. If not, well then you might need to learn to some stuff.
WRONG. Cumulo means 'piled'. Nimbus means 'rain' (but includes any form of precipitation). A cumulonimbus is a rain cloud that has a 'piled' appearance, as opposed to a stratus, or 'flat' cloud. You might go study at least an introduction of meteorology.
What's in the video is a cumulonimbus cloud. Just one.
Thunderstorms do not stack on top of each other.
...itn, go to Florida one day.
Been there, done that. Even been through a hurricane that hit Jacksonville while I was there. (Wasn't as strong as the last one was).
You'll see it doesn't constantly sprinkle like Seattle does.
In Florida the video I showed most likely had 2 different periods of torrential rain.
That makes it like 2 different thunderstorms because they are separated by time.
If that is so then there are two cells, but they are not stacked on top of each other.
The video you showed shows only one cell.
...It shows one on top of the other. The dark area is the bottom of the top cell.
I placed 4 large arrows pointing towards the bottom of the 2 thunderheads. That's why those areas are so dark. And I did say it is a Super Cell. There is a phenomena associated with thunderstorms that would allow this to function as a Super Cell that can become 2 different cells. This would explain why there is a different thunderstorm a little over an hour later from this same cell.
..I think with meteorologists they spend their time on hurricanes and tornadoes for obvious reasons. And from a meteorological stand point this is pretty cool. The 2nd picture is to a typical thunderhead which is common in the Midwest and is what GasGuzzler would be talking about.
..Ever hear of sprites ? They're the red flashes above this one. And with the heat lightning, the double thunderhead in Florida would/could be a more concentrated storm cell which would allow it to act like 2 thunderheads while being a Super Cell. Just a lot of energy involved and the lower part of the Super Cell could be feeding the upper part as I mentioned. The red sprites go up into space so the heat lightning could be going from bottom to top in this video.
..This link is to a picture I took of the Red Sprites. This will let everyone know when and where to look for them. Anymore I don't think either GasGuzzler or itn finds anything interesting. Neither of them have seen a storm cell produce 2 different sets of torrential rains. They can only go by the information they find online. The image I posted does show separation in a Super Cell and both have the dark bottoms of a thunderhead. Unique to Florida I guess. Then again the Gulf Stream is feeding it so that would explain why it would have different characteristics than a storm from the Gulf of Mexico unless it's near the coast.
Sprites were accidentally discovered because it was believed that thunderheads never discharged any type of energy up into the atmosphere.
...This video has nothing to do with the weather but is still kind of cool to watch.
...It shows one on top of the other.
The dark area is the bottom of the top cell.
I placed 4 large arrows pointing towards the bottom of the 2 thunderheads.
You are pointing at the 'anvil' of the cell.
That's why those areas are so dark.
No, the density of the cloud is why it's so dark.
And I did say it is a Super Cell.
There is a phenomena associated with thunderstorms that would allow this to function as a Super Cell that can become 2 different cells.
This would explain why there is a different thunderstorm a little over an hour later from this same cell.
That's a different cell, unrelated to the first one.
..I think with meteorologists they spend their time on hurricanes and tornadoes for obvious reasons.
They spend their time on all weather. Even sunny days!
The 2nd picture is to a typical thunderhead which is common in the Midwest and is what GasGuzzler would be talking about.
The only difference is size.
..Ever hear of sprites ?
Yup. Seen 'em too. They're common in most any intense thunderstorm.
They're the red flashes above this one.
Yup. You correctly identified them.
That is not heat lightning. Look up 'heat lightning'. I grew up the desert.
the double thunderhead in Florida would/could be a more concentrated storm cell which would allow it to act like 2 thunderheads while being a Super Cell.
Nope. It's one cell. Just a very large cell.
Just a lot of energy involved and the lower part of the Super Cell could be feeding the upper part as I mentioned.
There is no lower cell and upper cell. It is one cell.
Sprites are unrelated to 'heat lightning'. BTW, lightning is not heat. The term is misnomer.
could be going from bottom to top in this video.
Nope. Cloud to cloud lightning just travels sideways.
..This link is to a picture I took of the Red Sprites. This will let everyone know when and where to look for them. Anymore I don't think either GasGuzzler or itn finds anything interesting.
Neither of them have seen a storm cell produce 2 different sets of torrential rains.
That is two unrelated storm cells, not one.
They can only go by the information they find online.
Nope. I grew up in the desert. I've been through Florida hurricanes. I've experienced tornado activity near where I was standing.
and both have the dark bottoms of a thunderhead.
Unique to Florida I guess.
Nothing special about Florida in this regard.
Then again the Gulf Stream is feeding it so that would explain why it would have different characteristics than a storm from the Gulf of Mexico unless it's near the coast.
Irrevelant. A storm is a storm is a storm.
WRONG. Tesla observed them from his observatory near Pikes Peak.
...If ya'all have missed it, both itn and GasGuzzler have been supporting mainstream science.
There is no such thing as 'mainstream' science. Science is a set of falsifiable theories, not a media or news agency.
Mainstream science claims that there is climate change and global warming.
There is no theory possible, scientific or otherwise, for undefined and meaningless buzzwords. You MUST first define 'global warming' and/or 'climate change' without using circular definitions.
only one is on top of the other.
Thunderstorms don't stack on top of each other.
Could explain why the thunderstorm comes from the lower part of a Super Cell while the top part of the cell behaves differently/has different winds.
A thunderstorm IS the cell.
They work together in their own way.
..This gets old itn where you post like you're an obsessive-compulsive. In the end it's meaningless yet you get off on it. It's an addiction to you, isn't it ?
What gets old is you, in typical liberal fashion, can no longer stand on your statements and then resort to attacking the person and not the argument.
Tell me something James...we got hail here today and it was 90 degrees out. Now how the "hail" did that happen?
...gasguzzler, I'm not a liberal. This is a liberal policy.
...I'm not in here to discuss politics. I'll repost the image of a traditional thunderhead. The area between the 4 arrows is the thunderhead.
...The area above it which is all nice and white and fluffy is because something else is happening. I'll let itn explain this with his conservative policy. The difference between that area and the area above should be obvious. If not then I must be seeing double or quadruple, right gasguzzler ?
...Mainstream science claims that there is climate change and global warming.
...Why do you require what "is" to be defined ?
...Define "cell" without using circular definitions.
...They work together in their own way.
Cumulonimbus is a dense, towering vertical cloud, forming from water vapor carried by powerful upward air currents. If observed during a storm, these clouds may be referred to as thunderheads.
..In the meantime gasguzzler and itn can give their thoughts on this phenomena if they feel like it.
You're a liberal...even by the definition you just gave.
...I'm not in here to discuss politics.
You're here to insult people and push your bizarre religion on others as 'science'.
I'll repost the image of a traditional thunderhead. The area between the 4 arrows is the thunderhead.
...The area above it which is all nice and white and fluffy is because something else is happening. I'll let itn explain this with his conservative policy.
The difference between that area and the area above should be obvious. If not then I must be seeing double or quadruple, right gasguzzler ?
...Ice what ? I think everyone knows that hail is associated with thunderstorms in the Midwest. A vague reference about an effect of a Midwest thunderstorm is not an answer. We're back to my saying you find nothing about our environment interesting. It's a good thing that you're not Native American because I've always have heard that Native Americans are naturalists. They care about nature. You seem to have no such desire about you.
The area above is all nice and fluffy because it's ice.
Seriously, don't you know ANYTHING about clouds?
Hail can pound Florida too, not just the Midwest. Guess what? it forms from the same process, anywhere in the world. The only thing different may be what is causing the tremendous lift. Believe it or not, it has NEVER been caused by stacked super cells.
By the way, what you point to in your picture is just the shelf cloud with a couple striations. The actual rain core is a mile or two south of it.
...and don't tell me I don't appreciate nature. This is the storm i was chasing just last night. I left work just about ten minutes late as this was looking south with a 60mph eastward storm motion. Storms are my passion and I've spent shitloads of too much money driving to see them.
(1039) it's cool posting from TV. I like the way that you're answering for each other. I've heard that couples do that for each other. Are guys gay? It's okay if you are. Actually it's kind of sweet .
it's cool posting from TV. I like the way that you're answering for each other. I've heard that couples do that for each other. Are guys gay? It's okay if you are. Actually it's kind of sweet .
Yeah dumbass, the TV always has a date stamp and time stamp on the bottom right-hand corner.
What about you and ITN?
..If anyone downloads the picture they should be able to see it is this post. Took a picture with my smart phone, emailed it to myself then downloaded it on to my p.c.
After clicking on the link click on the picture and you'll see climate-debate in the browser. Click on the magnifying glass and the last sentence will be (difficult to read) What about you and itn?
..I think I like posting better on my TV though. Try hurrying or getting worked up over something just isn't going to happen. That's the problem that itn and gasguzzler have, they get worked up when there's no need for it.
(1107) My bad, I thought you were trying to say I didn't take the pic and stole it off the TV.
I guess you were just rambling on about nothing again. Sorry.
This is the same storm looking west at around the same time...and the view I wanted to get...and I just realized my camera is an hour off on the time. I did steal this one off the web.
How many supper cells are stacked in this one do you think??
..It has a date and time stamp in the lower right corner which he says the TV always has. He sure knows what he's talking about.
(1039) ..Since it's close enough to Friday. Heat is removed from the thunderhead which is why there is an updraft. This is why hail can form when barometric pressure is low enough. Thermodynamics states that heat flows from warm to cold yet in a thunderhead there is that updraft of warm air from the cold thunderhead. Something for itn and gasguzzler to consider.
..With me makes me kind of think that water molecules might create a stronger bond in a Joules-Thomson field. Then again at some point they might bind which basically means they could start sharing electrons. Kind of what research is for. To understand how the adhesive properties of water molecules might be efficiently reduced for engineering purposes. Stuff like that isn't for this forum though.
Heh. Everyone needs a hobby!
I too like to see a good storm. You kinda miss it with the drizzle around Seattle most of the time.
My bad, I thought you were trying to say I didn't take the pic and stole it off the TV.
That's a neat cloud formation. It looks like the arc of doom.
..Since it's close enough to Friday. Heat is removed from the thunderhead which is why there is an updraft.
WRONG. A thunderstorm IS heat.
This is why hail can form when barometric pressure is low enough.
WRONG. Hail can form anytime there is rapid cooling of moist air by convection.
Thermodynamics states that heat flows from warm to cold yet in a thunderhead there is that updraft of warm air from the cold thunderhead. Something for itn and gasguzzler to consider.
The updraft out of the top of a thundercloud is the same temperature as the thundercloud itself. It is moving into yet colder air.
..With me makes me kind of think that water molecules might create a stronger bond in a Joules-Thomson field.
There is no such thing as a Joules-Thompson field. The bond strength of water is the same regardless of any Joules-Thompson effect.
Then again at some point they might bind which basically means they could start sharing electrons. Kind of what research is for.
They are already bound. That's why we call it water.
To understand how the adhesive properties of water molecules might be efficiently reduced for engineering purposes. Stuff like that isn't for this forum though.
Water tension doesn't change unless you contaminate it with something.
Field; An area rich in a natural product, typically oil or gas.
..What makes this sad is that you are the one who insists on defining everything. At the same time you say we already know everything. This makes you a Flat Earther.
Believe it or not, it has NEVER been caused by stacked super cells.
..I never said it was. This is almost funny. If you and ITN would've been alive in 1900 both of you would've said powered flight was impossible, breaking the sound barrier would've been impossible and everything we have today you'd say it was all science fiction. You guys are like my nephews when they were about 10. They didn't believe me when I told them that there was a time when phones had to be dialed with a round dial and there were no video games. They thought I was making things up.
Inversion fallacy. Insult fallacy. Redefinition fallacy.
Not at all. Gliders were around for quite awhile at the time, and birds fly using powered flight.
Not at all. It was difficult, and new designs had to deal with the flutter issues, but people like me kept at it.
and everything we have today you'd say it was all science fiction.
What 'everything' are you talking about?
Things like semi-automatic driving cars, the Alexa services, flat TV's? Microprocesors? It WAS science fiction in 1900.
You guys are like my nephews when they were about 10. They didn't believe me when I told them that there was a time when phones had to be dialed with a round dial and there were no video games. They thought I was making things up.
Inversion fallacy. You are like your nephews. It is YOU that thinks theories of science are 'made up' and don't count for anything.
Yeah, very cool. The odd part of this was it was not so much a super cell, but more of a squall line with a kink. It was tornado warned, which is somewhat of a joke. I really don't know why they bother with warning QLC tornadoes. They're almost always rain wrapped so they are rarely spotted, and the straight line winds almost always outpace the "tornadic" winds. That was the case Tue also. There was an F-0 with 80 mph wind and there was straight line measured at 90. At 60mph forward storm motion, what's the difference? Not much.
... of course reading some of the social media, there were the typical idiots blaming climate change for a run of the mill Midwest severe storm. Do they have any flipping clue how much COLD air was involved in the birth of that storm?!!


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Charm bracelets have been found in the tombs of Egyptian pharaohs, bearing symbols both mystic and mundane, stamped into golden discs, or made with intricate inlays of gold, silver and gemstones. Some of the charms were meant as a message to the gods, so that the body would be clearly identified for being transported into the netherworld, while other charms told the story of the life of the person wearing them.
In Roman times, members of the nascent Christian church would use charms as a pass sign, to show that they were members of the new religion, bearing the symbol of the fish that still appears on charms today, but worn openly to profess religious affiliation. In some cases, the charms would be worn as amulets with small parts of scripture folded inside to hide it from persecutors.
During medieval times, knights and royalty wore charms, but with magical intent. Western Europe had its earth worship pagan religious symbols co-opted by the rising Christian faith, and it was not unusual for knights to wear charms meant to mystically strike at their enemies in battle. Such charms were at times also given and worn as tokens by the knight's paramours or ladies, to show their devotion to their lady.
Queen Victoria's charm bracelets were perhaps the reason for the sudden widespread use of charms as jewelry throughout the modern world at the end of the 19th Century. Her bracelets were renowned and noted all over the world, and the newly-forming British middle class was quick to adopt the fashion of Her Royal Majesty throughout the globe-spanning Empire.
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The Augusta Sledge House, also known as the Morrisette-Tunstall-Sledge House, was a historic plantation house and historic district near Newbern, Alabama, USA.  The main house was built in 1855 and is an example of the cottage orné style, which was at the height of its popularity in the mid-19th century. The property is included in the Plantation Houses of the Alabama Canebrake and Their Associated Outbuildings Multiple Property Submission. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on July 7, 1994, due to its architectural and historical significance.  It was razed circa 2010.

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The Milken Institute issued its annual best performing cities rankings and a number of California cities got high marks. But not all concerns often raised about the state of California cities were weighed in the report. Number one among those is pension liabilities.
The Milken calculator measures a "metro areas economic performance using outcomes-based metrics such as job creation, wage gains, and technological developments to evaluate relative growth." With technology leading the economy, the state's Silicon Valley area naturally scores well with this metric.The San Jose–Sunnyvale-Santa Clara area took the second position in the report behind Provo, Utah. San Francisco also landed in the top ten at number four.
The San Jose area jumped from the 11th spot in last year's ranking to number two this year. Merced also gained jumping from 56 to 38. Two-hundred large metro areas and 201 small cities were ranked.
California cities in the top 25 included Oakland-Berkeley at 14, Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario at 15 and Santa Rosa at 18.
In the Golden State the pension issue could confound the positives found in the cities' abilities to function effectively.
Originally published at Fox and Hounds.


Michael Ignatieff is the Carr Professor of Human Rights Practice, and is the Director of the Carr Center of Human Rights Policy at Harvard University.
He is a former Senior Research Fellow at King's College, Cambridge, and has held teaching posts at Harvard, Cambridge, Oxford, the University of California, the University of London and the London School of Economics.
Mr. Ignatieff served on the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty.
He holds a PhD in history from Harvard University.


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In order to ramp up vaccine production as the country battles the second wave of coronavirus, the Centre has decided to support some PSU companies with grants under 'Mission COVID Suraksha'. Under this move, one such company is Hyderabad-based Indian Immunological Limited (IIL), which is expected to produce nearly 10-15 million vaccine doses monthly. Meanwhile, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare said that more than 22.46 crore vaccine doses have been provided to the states and union territories, and 1.84 crore doses are still available with the states/UTs to be administered while 3,20,380 vaccine doses are in the pipeline and will be received by the states/UTs within the next few days.


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V4 Issue 43
V4 | Issue 43 | 10.31.20
Therapy patients blackmailed after data breach. Ransomware attacks against hospitals. Tracking Turla.
Therapy patients blackmailed after data breach.
Finnish Psychotherapy Center Vastaamo has suffered a data breach with loss of patient information, and extortionists have begun targeting individual patients with demands for hundreds of euros in exchange for keeping their data private. The incident is notable for its cruelty: private notes from the therapeutic sessions of about 2,000 patients have already been posted online, and the victims themselves are being asked to pay to have their information taken down.
Details of the breach remain sparse, but Computing reports that some 40,000 patients' data were compromised. Around 15,000 victims have already filed criminal reports, and the incident has received attention at the highest levels of Finland's government. The Guardian quotes Robin Lardot, director of Finland's National Bureau of Investigation, as saying, "We are investigating an aggravated security breach and aggravated extortion, among other charges."
Yle Uutiset reports that Vastaamo sustained two breaches—one in 2018 and one in 2019. The company has dismissed its CEO after concluding he'd been aware of the second breach for more than a year without disclosing it. CyberScoop says the attackers initially approached Vastaamo itself last month with a demand for around €450,000, which the company refused to pay. The criminals then began going after patients directly.
Victim Support Finland has advice for those affected.
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Ransomware attacks against hospitals.
The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the FBI, and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued a joint statement warning that healthcare organizations are under an "increased and imminent" threat from ransomware. The strains deployed are usually Conti and (especially) Ryuk; the perpetrators are Russophone gangsters, not spies. NBC News reports that at least twenty hospitals have been hit in a recent wave of ransomware, with at least six occurring this past week. Many of the attacks were preceded by infestations of Trickbot or the related strain BazarLoader.
The majority of these incidents have been attributed to an Eastern European gang tracked as "Wizard Spider" or "UNC1878," which operates the Ryuk ransomware. Recorded Future's Allan Liska told Reuters, "This appears to have been a coordinated attack designed to disrupt hospitals specifically all around the country. While multiple ransomware attacks against healthcare providers each week have been commonplace, this is the first time we have seen six hospitals targeted in the same day by the same ransomware actor." MIT Technology Review on Thursday quoted Scope Security's Mike Murray as saying, "I think we're at the beginning of this story. These guys are moving very fast and very aggressively. These folks seem to be trying to collect as much money as possible very quickly. I think it will be tomorrow or over the weekend before the real scale of this is understood. Compromises are still ongoing."
FireEye's Mandiant unit has also been tracking increased ransomware activity against healthcare institutions. The malware families facilitating these attacks are tracked by Mandiant as KEGTAP, SINGLEMALT, and WINEKEY (also known as BazarLoader or Team9), which CISA says were likely developed by the Trickbot gang. Mandiant's researchers say they are "directly aware of incidents involving KEGTAP that included the post-compromise deployment of RYUK ransomware. We have also observed instances where ANCHOR infections, another backdoor associated with the same actors, preceded CONTI or MAZE deployment."
Mandiant adds, "The operators conducting these campaigns have actively targeted hospitals, retirement communities, and medical centers, even in the midst of a global health crisis, demonstrating a clear disregard for human life." Charles Carmakal, SVP and CTO of Mandiant, commented that the Eastern European gang behind Ryuk in particular is "one of most brazen, heartless, and disruptive threat actors I've observed over my career."
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Turla uses updated malware against European government entity.
Researchers at Accenture say the Russian cyberespionage group Turla is using updated custom malware to target government organizations. The threat actor used its HyperStack backdoor and remote access Trojans Kazuar and Carbon to compromise an unnamed European government entity. Accenture says the group has been using some of these tools for more than a decade and it "will likely continue to maintain and rely on this ecosystem, and iterations of it, as long as the group targets Windows-based networks." HyperStack is a newer tool, first spotted in 2018. It's a "remote procedure call (RPC)-based backdoor" that's used for moving laterally and communicating with other systems on the local network.
The Estonian government and others have associated Turla with Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB), according to CyberScoop. Accenture observes that, like other threat actors, Turla is abusing legitimate web services for command-and-control. In this case, Turla used a Pastebin project to serve commands to its Carbon RAT. BleepingComputer notes that Turla is known for its resourcefulness; in the past, the group has used comments on Britney Spears's Instagram photos to point to its command-and-control server.
CISA also this week issued Malware Analysis Reports on two strains of Russian state-sponsored malware. One concerns ComRAT, a PowerShell backdoor and infostealer currently being used by Turla, while the other describes Zebrocy, a backdoor that BleepingComputer says has been attributed to the Russian GRU's APT28 (also known as Fancy Bear).
Charming Kitten targets conference attendees.
Microsoft says the Iranian threat actor Phosphorus (also known as APT35 or Charming Kitten) sent spearphishing emails to influential people thought likely to attend the Munich Security Conference and the Think 20 (T20) Summit. The phishing emails were well-crafted phony invitations to the events, and they succeeded in tricking several recipients. The victims included "former ambassadors and other senior policy experts who help shape global agendas and foreign policies in their respective countries."
The phishing emails asked recipients to reply with their photo and bio, which the attackers would add to a PDF containing a URL. They'd then send this PDF to the victim and instruct them to click on the link, which led to a credential-harvesting site. Once the attackers gained access to an email account, they set up email-forwarding rules so they could continue receiving new emails even if they were locked out of the account. Finally, they exfiltrated a copy of the victim's entire mailbox and contact list.
"We recommend people evaluate the authenticity of emails they receive about major conferences by ensuring that the sender address looks legitimate and that any embedded links redirect to the official conference domain," Microsoft says. "As always, enabling multi-factor authentication across both business and personal email accounts will successfully thwart most credential harvesting attacks like these. For anyone who suspects they may have been a victim of this campaign, we also encourage a close review of email-forwarding rules in accounts to identify and remove any suspicious rules that may have been set during a successful compromise."
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Outlining Kimsuky's activity.
CISA, the FBI, and US Cyber Command on Tuesday issued an alert detailing the TTPs being used by North Korea's Kimsuky group, a cyberespionage operation of Pyongyang's Hidden Cobra outfit. The agencies assess that:
"The Kimsuky APT group has most likely been operating since 2012.
"Kimsuky is most likely tasked by the North Korean regime with a global intelligence gathering mission.
"Kimsuky employs common social engineering tactics, spearphishing, and watering hole attacks to exfiltrate desired information from victims.
"Kimsuky is most likely to use spearphishing to gain initial access into victim hosts or networks.
"Kimsuky conducts its intelligence collection activities against individuals and organizations in South Korea, Japan, and the United States.
"Kimsuky focuses its intelligence collection activities on foreign policy and national security issues related to the Korean peninsula, nuclear policy, and sanctions.
"Kimsuky specifically targets: Individuals identified as experts in various fields, Think tanks, and South Korean government entities.
"CISA, FBI, and CNMF recommend individuals and organizations within this target profile increase their defenses and adopt a heightened state of awareness. Particularly important mitigations include safeguards against spearphishing, use of multi-factor authentication, and user awareness training."
"Perception hacks" in the US elections' endgame.
The FBI and the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) have steadily and credibly maintained that they've discerned no foreign success at compromising US election infrastructure, and indeed Foreign Affairs argues that, with the level of preparation seen at the Federal and state level, these elections may be the most secure in US history. Disinformation and misinformation, however, continue to be distributed (much of it at this point, the Washington Post says, arriving by text or email).
If, as has long been the case with Russian disinformation, and more recently with Iranian disinformation, the goal is to increase friction, to undermine the adversary's civil society by increasing mistrust in its institutions, then no actual successful cyberattack may be necessary at all. "Perception hacks," they're calling them in SecurityWeek and New York Times reports. Getting people to think the process is corrupt, or broken, is just as good as actually corrupting or breaking it.
Countering such perception hacks is a principal purpose of CISA's rumor control page. And CISA Director Krebs has been tweeting advice and reassurance about election security in the few remaining days before voting concludes on Tuesday. Among the points he makes is that website defacements like the one the Trump campaign briefly sustained (apparently, TechCrunch says, at the hands of alt-coin scammers) are just petty larceny noise, of very little consequence.
For more, see the CyberWire Pro Disinformation Briefing.
Sophisticated botnet targets CMS vulnerabilities.
Researchers at Imperva describe KashmirBlack, a well-designed botnet that exploits known vulnerabilities in popular CMS platforms. Imperva believes the botnet has been active since November 2019, and it's used for at least five purposes: "crypto mining, spamming, defacement, spreading and, pending bot." The defacement element led the researchers to suspect that the botnet is controlled by a member of the Indonesian hacking group "PhantomGhost."
Imperva emphasizes that KashmirBlack's developers and operators appear to be more sophisticated than most botnet groups. In a second blog post, the researchers outline the technical aspects of the botnet's infrastructure that make it complex, resilient, and easily expandable.
For more, see the CyberWire Pro Research Briefing.
Arctic Wolf secures $200 million in Series E round.
SOC-as-a-service provider Arctic Wolf has raised $200 million in a Series E round led by Viking Global Investors, with participation from DTCP and existing investors. The company also announced that it's moving its global headquarters from Sunnyvale, California, to Eden Prairie, Minnesota, explaining that, "Over the last four years, Arctic Wolf's office in Minnesota has been at the center of the company's corporate growth strategy, with the team in Eden Prairie growing to over 200 employees." Arctic Wolf stated that it plans to use the funding "to make significant investments in its new headquarters by the end of 2021 with addition of over 150 new jobs and the construction of the company's third security operations center (SOC)."
More business news, including executive moves, can be found in the CyberWire Pro Business Briefing.
Crime and punishment.
There have been three more guilty pleas this week in the bizarre cyberstalking case involving former senior eBay employees harassing a Massachusetts couple who ran a mom-and-pop online newsletter that was sometimes mildly critical of the online auction giant. The US Justice Department announced that Phillip Cooke, a former supervisor of security operations for eBay's European and Asian offices (and a former police captain in Santa Clara, California), pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit cyberstalking and conspiracy to tamper with witnesses. Brian Gilbert, a former Senior Manager of Special Operations for eBay's Global Security Team, and Stephanie Stockwell, the former manager of eBay's Global Intelligence Center, pleaded guilty to the same charges as Cooke. This brings the total of guilty pleas to five; two other former eBayers in the case have yet to plead.
To recap the incident, the Justice Department's statement on the guilty pleas says that "Members of eBay's executive leadership team followed the newsletter's posts, often taking issue with its content and the anonymous comments underneath the editor's stories." The charges allege a harassment campaign that included "anonymous and disturbing deliveries" to the home of the couple that ran the small newsletter. These included adult material, a bloody pig mask, and a book of advice on how to cope with grief after the death of a spouse. The accused are also alleged to have sought various interactions with the Natick, Massachusetts, police department to first, discredit the targeted couple and, second, to deflect suspicion of responsibility for the harassment campaign away from themselves and on to other third parties.
Courts and torts.
The CEOs of Google, Twitter, and Facebook on Wednesday testified before the US Senate Commerce Committee concerning Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, although TechCrunch notes that "The actual law being considered for revision was mentioned only a handful of times in the nearly four-hour hearing, the balance being taken up by partisan bickering."
IT Pro reports that online retail giant Amazon suffered a data leak in which an employee passed customer email addresses on to an unidentified external party. Though Amazon did send a general notification about the incident to customers, it seems the vague nature of the message has done more to worry customers than to alleviate their fears. Amazon did disclose that they've terminated the employee and notified law enforcement, but they haven't confirmed how many customers were affected or where the data were leaked.
Policies, procurements, and agency equities.
ZDNet reports that Slovakia, Kosovo, Bulgaria, and North Macedonia have signed 5G security agreements under the United States's Clean Network initiative, which is aimed at preventing Chinese companies from providing technology to be used in the 5G infrastructure of the US and its allies. The Bulgaria-US joint declaration is representative:
"To promote a vibrant and robust 5G ecosystem, the United States and the Republic of Bulgaria believe that a rigorous evaluation of suppliers and supply chains should take into account the rule of law; the security environment; ethical supplier practices; and a supplier's compliance with security standards and best practices. Specifically, countries' evaluations, while respecting their national legislation rules and competences, should include especially the following elements:
"Whether the network hardware and software suppliers are subject, without independent judicial review, to control by a foreign government;
"Whether the network hardware and software suppliers have transparent ownership, partnerships, and corporate governance structures and are subject to a legal regime that enforces transparent corporate practices;
"Whether the network hardware and software suppliers are committed to innovation and respect for intellectual property rights; and
"Whether the network hardware and software suppliers have a record of ethical corporate behavior.
"The United States and the Republic of Bulgaria also believe that the objective evaluation should be applied to foreign direct investments in critical communication infrastructure, be it physical or virtual, through a dedicated screening mechanism. Further, the United States and the Republic of Bulgaria recognize the need to raise awareness of the importance of 5G security and intend to promote it within the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and the European Union."
For more, see the CyberWire Pro Policy Briefing.
Today's issue includes events affecting Bulgaria, China, Estonia, Iran, Japan, Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Republic of Korea, Kosovo, North Macedonia, Russia, Slovakia, and the United States.
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/**
* Name:  Ion Auth Config
*
* Author: Ben Edmunds
* 		  ben.edmunds@gmail.com
*         @benedmunds
*
* Added Awesomeness: Phil Sturgeon
*
* Location: http://github.com/benedmunds/ion_auth/
*
* Created:  10.01.2009
*
* Description:  Modified auth system based on redux_auth with extensive customization.  This is basically what Redux Auth 2 should be.
* Original Author name has been kept but that does not mean that the method has not been modified.
*
*/

	/**
	 * Tables.
	 **/
	$config['tables']['groups']          = 'groups';
	$config['tables']['users']           = 'users';
	$config['tables']['users_groups']    = 'users_groups';

	/**
	 * Site Title, example.com
	 */
	$config['site_title']		   = "Pisyek.com";

	/**
	 * Admin Email, admin@example.com
	 */
	$config['admin_email']		   = "admin@pisyek.com";

	/**
	 * Default group, use name
	 */
	$config['default_group']       = 'members';

	/**
	 * Default administrators group, use name
	 */
	$config['admin_group']         = 'admin';

	/**
	 * Users table column and Group table column you want to join WITH.
	 * Joins from users.id
	 * Joins from groups.id
	 **/
	$config['join']['users']       = 'user_id';
	$config['join']['groups']      = 'group_id';

	/**
	 * A database column which is used to
	 * login with.
	 **/
	$config['identity']            = 'email';

	/**
	 * Minimum Required Length of Password
	 **/
	$config['min_password_length'] = 8;

	/**
	 * Maximum Allowed Length of Password
	 **/
	$config['max_password_length'] = 20;

	/**
	 * Email Activation for registration
	 **/
	$config['email_activation']    = false;

	/**
	 * Allow users to be remembered and enable auto-login
	 **/
	$config['remember_users']      = true;

	/**
	 * How long to remember the user (seconds)
	 **/
	$config['user_expire']         = 86500;

	/**
	 * Extend the users cookies everytime they auto-login
	 **/
	$config['user_extend_on_login'] = false;

	/**
	 * Folder where email templates are stored.
     * Default : auth/
	 **/
	$config['email_templates']     = 'auth/email/';

	/**
	 * activate Account Email Template
     * Default : activate.tpl.php
	 **/
	$config['email_activate']   = 'activate.tpl.php';

	/**
	 * Forgot Password Email Template
     * Default : forgot_password.tpl.php
	 **/
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	/**
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	 * 59beecdf7fc966e2f17fd8f65a4a9aeb09d4a3d4 if false
	 **/
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	/**
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	 **/
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	/**
	 * Message End Delimiter
	 **/
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	/**
	 * Error Start Delimiter
	 **/
	$config['error_start_delimiter'] = '
';

	/**
	 * Error End Delimiter
	 **/
	$config['error_end_delimiter'] = '
';

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