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With as many as 381 exhibits, the twentieth-century painting and sculpture section is the largest in Fondazione Cariplo's collection.
The first three decades of the century are represented by the works of Milanese artists, like Michele Cascella whose appreciated activity bears witness to a persisting late nineteenth-century naturalist taste. Works by Leonardo Dudreville, Anselmo Bucci, Achille Funi and a later Mario Sironi illustrate the so-called "back to order" phase culminating in the Novecento movement led by the critical voice of Margherita Sarfatti, represented by few authors only. Also close to these Lombard masters in their twentieth-century vocation are Tuscans Ottone Rosai and Ardengo Soffici and Roman Antonio Donghi.
This section also contains works of other less easily classifiable artists though no less important at national level - Aldo Carpi, Raffaele De Grada, Donato Frisia and Arturo Tosi, the latter the head of the landscape school. Post World War II 'Chiaristi', also in the Cariplo collection, are Umberto Lilloni, Cristoforo De Amicis and Francesco De Rocchi, as well as new art exponents inspired by various French avant-garde such as Fiorenzo Tomea, Orfeo Tamburi, Renato Guttuso, Giulio Turcato, Remo Brindisi, Aligi Sassu and Ernesto Treccani, Sassu. Fondazione Cariplo is also the owner of Giacomo Manzù's monumental bronze masterpiece celebrating Household Savings (Risparmio Familiare).
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A Certain Idea of Canada
Is it Last Post for the Canadian Armed Forces?
Paul H. Chapin	 Feb 21, 2018
A Certain Idea of Canada, Feature Story
The Canadian Armed Forces are entering a new "decade of darkness" characterized by wilting defence capabilities, in the process disarming Canadian diplomacy and leaving Canada not only defenceless but without influence in the world. Canadians ought to be mad as hell, but most do not realize they are being managed like mushrooms: kept in the dark and fed manure.
The problem isn't a political or economic one. It is something far more serious, the deterioration in the civic culture over generations. Beginning in the 1960s, Canadians have become disconnected from their great national institutions such as Parliament and government. The cultural chasm is particularly deep between citizens and the Canadian Armed Forces. Since this condition developed over decades, it will take years to change it — and those who wish to do so need to raise their planning horizons accordingly. In the final analysis, only the education of a new generation of leaders can reverse the decline. And in this — fortuitously — the Canadian Armed Forces can be a main catalyst. It's a role long performed by the military in Britain and the United States, and once was in Canada.
The Canadian syndrome
The future of the Canadian Armed Forces is looking bleak. The political priorities of recent governments have not favoured them. Both Liberal and Conservative governments have pledged support for the military and showcased defence plans to restore Canada's military capabilities, but defence spending has been on a steady downward trajectory for 30 years – from 2% of GDP in 1988 to around 1% today. Important capital acquisitions have routinely been announced, delayed, and then cancelled altogether.
The result has been catastrophic. Despite citizens being consistently supportive of the Forces, national defence has atrophied and military capabilities in support of international peace operations and humanitarian relief are minimal. Even in the face of clear and present new dangers.
The Army's Regular Force is half the size it used to be, down to three brigades only one of which is maintained ready for deployment. The Army has been waiting for years to replace its trucks, to acquire the heavy equipment it needs to build camps and roads when deployed abroad, and to secure defence systems to protect troops in war zones against artillery, aircraft and missiles. The Reserve Force, which Canadians rely on to help with calamities at home and to backstop operations abroad, would be hard-pressed to handle more than one major national emergency at a time and is losing the skilled personnel needed for foreign expeditions.
The Canadian navy has lost its ability to control events at sea. At present, it is heavily reliant on others to participate in task group operations and dependent on them for at-sea refuelling and logistics support. It will be many years before new warships are built; by some estimates, there will not be enough of them to ensure adequate defence capability for both the Atlantic and Pacific. None are planned to have Aegis missile defence systems. When new offshore patrol vessels become available, they will be slow, poorly armed, and capable of Arctic operations only in summer. And there are no plans for the RCN to acquire ships of the kind that can transport troops and equipment on peace operations or large volumes of humanitarian supplies and helicopters to disaster areas.
For air defence, Canada's original fleet of 138 CF-18s is down to 77 with only half operational at any one time because of maintenance and upgrades. This translates into the RCAF having only 35 to 40 planes for the simultaneous defence of the continent and for NATO or UN operations. At one time, Canada had 36 aircraft earmarked just for North American defence — and that was before the RCAF was tasked with additional surveillance and intercept obligations post 9/11. For the First Gulf War, Canada sent 24 planes, for the Balkans 18, for Libya 7, for Iraq/ISIS 6, and to "reassure" NATO ally Slovenia in October 2017 just two planes. Only in Canada does a "low dishonest" debate continue over whether the F-35 is the right replacement for the CF-18. Allied countries are buying hundreds of the planes, 674 at last count: UK 138, Australia 72, Netherlands 37 etc.
Canada has no defence for ballistic missiles. Were North Korea to launch nuclear-armed ICBMs against North America, the Deputy Commander of NORAD has told Parliament "the extant US policy is not to defend Canada". This is not out of resentment for Canada having refused to participate in BMD but because of the "ugly math". The United States only has 36 ground-based interceptors (GBIs); tests have only been 50% successful; so the US has to count on just 18 GBIs being sufficient. There aren't any to spare for Canada.
It is a Canadian syndrome to neglect the armed forces until they're needed, to send under-trained and under-equipped forces into war zones on the spurious grounds Canada is contributing to peacekeeping, to take casualties while hurriedly rebuilding the country's military capabilities, to prevail in conflict, and then to repeat the cycle.
The cycle is being repeated. Before the current government issued its new defence plan in the summer of 2017, the Minister of National Defence said the Canadian Armed Forces were in the troubling position "where status quo spending on defence will not even maintain a status quo of capabilities". The new defence plan undertook to fix the situation — just not right away. As a Globe and Mail editorial concluded: "The aim of the current defence policy review is to allow the Canadian Forces, a decade from now, to be able to do roughly what the Canadian Forces were doing, a decade ago."
Disarming Canadian diplomacy
This is not the defence effort expected of a G7 country, and it is not going to keep Canada in the G7. Already, meetings of the G4 (US, UK, France, and Germany) and G5 (plus Japan) are directing decision-making on the great international security issues of our times. These are groupings of serious countries driven by the hunt for solutions that will "make the world safe for democracy", typically not settling for pieties when action is necessary. Their attitude towards allies is: what can you do to help? Everyone has ideas, ideas are cheap. But unless you can make a significant material contribution, there's no reason having you around while we're trying to sort things out. You're just a bureaucratic encumbrance.
Canada used to be valued; now it's mostly an encumbrance. It does a very poor job of defending itself, it has minimal expeditionary capabilities even for low-risk peacekeeping operations, and it can play only a minor role in disaster relief. But it can talk — though not many are listening anymore.
It wasn't always this way, of course. So why has this happened?
The civil-military divide
The explanation isn't political or economic. It is cultural. The public culture today is very different from what it used to be, in particular how citizens looked on their military.
For generations, the citizen-soldier was a staple of Canadian society. Citizens and soldiers were often the same people. In every walk of life – business, education, government, the media, politics — it was the norm to find large numbers of civilians who had served in the military. If a citizen wasn't actually a service member, he or she knew about military service from family and friends.
This conditioned how Canadians viewed their military. Most valued the profession of arms, understood the contribution the military made to their security, and did not begrudge spending on the military. The population at large didn't have a chip on its shoulder about seeing people in uniform or paying for defence.
In the 1960s, things changed. In the social ferment of the time – anti-establishment, anti-Vietnam War, anti-military — a disconnect developed between citizens and their military. Both citizens and soldiers were responsible for it. Government and opinion leaders succumbed to the mood of the times. The universities developed a special animus towards the armed forces, inculcated it in their students, and severed their institutional ties to the military formations in their districts. In turn, the Forces disappeared from campuses and terminated the officer-training programs they had been conducting at 27 universities for 50 years. They then compounded the problem by physically removing themselves from major urban centres and consolidating operations in mostly isolated military bases. Finally, they stopped being able to explain themselves in language the public could understand. By the 1990s, citizens and soldiers were living lives apart – with a cultural chasm separating them.
The result has been two generations of Canadians, including the leaders of those generations, who have little or no connection with the military, limited appreciation for the Canadian Armed Forces as a national institution, almost no strategic sense about the world beyond Canada, and scant interest in defence policy. In Parliament, where once a third of the members had military backgrounds, only a handful of MPs now have any first-hand experience of life in the services. In the current 42nd Parliament, just 17 of 338 members have served in uniform: 12 Liberal, 3 Conservative, 1 NDP, 1 Bloc.
With citizens no longer connected to their military, Canadian defence policy no longer has to pay attention to either. Governments may swear repeatedly that their first priority is the safety of citizens and a military capable of defending them, but the fact is that defence policy today is driven by the interests of almost everyone but citizens and their military: the political interests of governments, the bureaucratic interests of departments including National Defence, the tribal interests of the army, navy and air force, the special interests of advocacy groups, the commercial interests of Canadian industry, even the fiscal interests of Canada's European allies who want Canada to spend more on defence – the defence of Europe.
Return of the citizen soldier
The Canadian Armed Forces have a powerful reason for doing something about this. Their survival as a consequential national institution depends on it. They cannot, of course, fix the problem themselves; but they have allies in the citizenry if they have the wit to connect with those who can help.
There's obviously no quick fix. It took years for the current culture to become firmly rooted, so it will take many more years to replace it. This means the CAF leadership needs to think and plan for a longer-term than the next election or the next budget.
Job#1 is to rebuild the CAF's relations with the civilian world – something that is entirely within the CAF's own ability. In particular, it needs to rebuild its relations with those elements of society with the greatest influence on the evolution of the Canadian culture.
If you're building for the future, the logical place to start is with young people and with those whose task it is to educate them and prepare them for responsible and engaged citizenship – the universities and community colleges of Canada. The influence the universities and colleges have on the public culture, and therefore can have on changing it, is enormous. Canada has 98 universities and 130 community colleges on 900 campuses, with a total of 1.7 million full-time undergraduate students.
For the CAF, this means finding a way of accessing the university and college students from whom the leaders of tomorrow will emerge and offering them something of real value to enhance their leadership competencies. In Britain and in the United States, this is accomplished through the University Officer Training Corps (UOTC) and the Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) – the most effective leadership development programs ever devised. Canada needs something comparable.
The Canadian National Leadership Program
The Canadian National Leadership Program would fulfil the same purpose. The CNLP is a joint venture between the Canadian Armed Forces and institutions of higher learning, expressly designed to develop the leadership abilities of full-time university and college undergraduates. In Britain, the UOTC has some 4500 students enrolled at over 100 universities including internationally renowned institutions such as Oxford, Cambridge and the University of London. In the United States, the ROTC operates at more than 1700 institutions including some which banned "boots on campus" during the Vietnam era such as Harvard, Yale and Columbia. Canada has no such program, but it once had university-based officer training at 27 universities with over 5000 enrolled — until the CAF itself killed it in 1968 after 50 years of operation, for short-sighted economy reasons having nothing to do with its merits.
The CNLP is a citizens' initiative, launched at a symposium on Parliament Hill in 2009, into which foundations and philanthropists have invested over $8.5 million to date. The idea was conceived by the Breakout Educational Network, a charitable educational institution in Toronto which has been the driving force behind it. As with so many noble ventures in Canada, it has had to fight bureaucratic inertia all the way — in government, in the military, and in the universities. But the foundation work has been completed. The federal government is on board, the CAF has committed to providing trainers and facilities, dozens of universities and colleges have expressed interest in participating, and two — one in Alberta and one in Quebec — have signed on. The challenge now is to accelerate the growth of the program and stay ahead of the obstructionism which continues to dog its heels.
So what would happen? Well, imagine the impact on young people of participating in a leadership development program which brought them into regular contact with men and women in uniform – whether regulars, reservists, or veterans – who were helping them to acquire practical leadership skills that built their self-confidence and gave them a strong start in their working lives. Would the graduates of such a program have a chip on their shoulder about people in uniform or begrudge spending on the military? Or could they be counted on to have an appreciation for military life as earlier generations did? If most didn't choose the military life for themselves, wouldn't some significant portion of them join the Reserves and virtually all of them support adequate funding of the Canadian Armed Forces?
Now imagine the impact on the civic culture if even a small percentage of Canada's 1.7 million undergraduates were enrolled in such program. With an annual adrenaline shot exceptionally competent young men and women joining the workforce (and the electorate), Canadians would soon be thinking very differently about their military. In ten years, Canada wouldn't be the same place.
That's the concept behind the Canadian National Leadership Program. If the political class is playing Last Post for the Canadian Armed Forces, citizens and soldiers need to get working on tomorrow.
Feature image: www.forces.gc.ca
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This pdf clocks in at 2 pages and is a mini-dungeon. This means we get 2 pages content, including a solid map and all item/monster-stats hyperlinked and thus, absent from the pdf, with only deviations from the statblocks being noted for the GM. This one does not come with a .tif extra map, just fyi.
The dreaded summoner Vlexigorn, known for the delight he takes in enslaving demons, was about to meet his match, when the kolyarut hunter Lanthanus was on his trail. Unfortunately, the summoner has managed, with the help of his vrock-aide Chor-da ta'al, to get the better of the kolyrut and use his portal to escape to Mechanus – the resulting instability has the creature on the clock (Get it? Mechanus…clock? Sorry, will hit myself for that one later…) and stranded in the material plane -he can't return for now and in 3 hours, he'll be banished here! The wounded outsider thus beseeches the PCs to enter the clockwork world of Mechanus and stop the vrock.
Upon entering the place, the PCs will at least find the bloody remains of the summoner – which alas, means that the vrock is now free-willed. Really weird: Bypassing the gears that claimed the summoner's life requries a Dexterity check – not a Ref-save, not an Escape Artist check…I don't get it. The exploration of the small complex depicted here…is somewhat weird. The depictions of bellows, scrying devices and the like are flavorful…but you can't do much with them. There is a control device for portals…and it needs a DC 28 (!!!) Intelligence check to understand. Again, weird – not Knowledge (engineering), not even Knowledge (planes) – straight Int versus DC 28. That being said, it is pretty evident why the complex, as such, isn't that detailed or engaging – the mini-dungeon basically is a prolonged boss-fight, with relatively detailed tactics given for the vrock – which I'd generally applaud. At the same time, however, a "permanently active electrical field" is supposed to keep the vrock in line. Guess what? Vrocks are immune to electricity. he could just LEAVE. Heck, his tactics even mention him using the electricity as a shield…but not how much damage that would inflict to PCs braving the field.
Another logic-bug: Vrocks can at-will greater teleport, teleport into the PC's back, finish the kolyarut. In short – if you swallow the premise, this can be a fun module; but if you don't and look closer…then it just makes no sense.
Editing and formatting are very good, I noticed no significant glitches on a formal side. Layout adheres to a beautiful 2-column full-color standard and the pdf comes sans bookmarks, but needs none at this length. Cartography is full color and surprisingly good for such an inexpensive pdf. The pdf does sport one nice piece of original full-color art – kudos!
Jonathan Ely can and has done so much better. The premise is cool; I like the gear-studded map and the adversary and his strategy is neat. The strange ability checks when you'd expect saves or skill checks are weird…but don't weigh as highly as the stretches expects you to swallow. I can get the "immensely lucky"-angle for the portal; it's the premise of the adventure. Strange stuff happens. However, I don't get why the module wastes precious word-count on the back-story of an irrelevant, ostensibly high-level summoner who has no loot (WTF?) and no bearing to the plot whatsoever.
The dungeon, ironically, is sterile – it has almost no interaction points and those that are here bear no relevance to the, admittedly cool boss fight….that remains cool unless you start thinking, when suddenly, it stops making any semblance of sense. The adversary's tactics are aimless make zilch sense to me; the vrock's not stranded, the kolyarut's wounded, he's free two greater teleports and we have a PC-failure on our hands. Even if you'd argue that the vrock wants to infiltrate Mechanus, it makes no sense, he'd just have to use spores, then teleport away until the timer's elapsed. His whole motivation makes no frickin' sense. As soon as you start questioning anything in this mini-dungeon, even tangentially, you'll see it coming apart. I love the idea here – but the execution is extremely flawed. My final verdict will clock in at 1.5 stars, rounded up for the idea that a GM can scavenge and the nice map. Plot-wise, this is a wreck.
You can get this mini-dungeon here on OBS.


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Game of Thrones Season 8: 39 New Shots from the Latest Trailer
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Click through for our (almost) shot-by-shot breakdown of the Game of Thrones Season 8 trailer.
The trailer begins with a terrified Arya, bloodied and running from an unseen enemy through the halls of Winterfell, which seems to imply that the White Walkers have breached the Starks' ancestral home.
Some have pointed out that something behind her has been masked out of the trailer version of this scene. Given everything that Arya has been through since the series began, it's a little worrying to see her so panicked...
Ditto Varys, who looks decidedly freaked out, huddled in the crypts of Winterfell with a bunch of women and children (including Gilly and baby Sam in the background) but that's also just confirmation that everyone is taking the considerable threat of the Night King seriously.
Still, the footage is intercut with Arya's voiceover, presumably before the battle, in which she sounds a lot more confident about facing death.
We also see Davos preparing for the showdown on the battlements of Winterfell.
Here we get a glimpse of Greyjoy ships, probably sailing back from Essos, where Cersei sent Euron on a vital mission at the end of Season 7...
The mystery man standing at the ship's bow appears to be wearing golden armor similar to Kingsguard colors, and his blond hair seems much more reminiscent of Jaime's than Euron Greyjoy. Our guess is that this is Harry Strickland and the Golden Company, the band of mercenaries who Cersei sent Euron to collect at the end of last season to beef up her army.
The trailer also gives us confirmation that Beric Dondarrion and Tormund Giantsbane survived the destruction of the Wall - but where are they? Dolorous Edd wasn't with them at Eastwatch, so are they at Castle Black, or somewhere else, on the way to warn Jon about the Night King's approach?
Here we have Sam and Bran, who we last saw discussing Jon Snow's true identity as Aegon Targaryen, the son of Rhaegar Targaryen and Lyanna Stark, and true heir to the Iron Throne. They probably don't know that Jon has hooked up with his aunt at this point, but we're guessing that Sam's expression when he finds out will be pretty similar.
Meanwhile, in King's Landing...
Cersei is looking fairly confident, despite Jaime's defection and the alliance stacked against her - is she watching Euron's ships come in, piled high with soldiers from the Golden Company?
We get a sense of the impressive scale of Dany and Jon's army from the point of view of the townspeople outside Winterfell...
As Daenerys has previously demonstrated, a queen knows how to make an entrance.
Plus, Sansa gets her first glimpse of Dany's dragons - responding with appropriate awe.
Check out this impressive dragon's-eye-view of Winterfell.
Perhaps the most quietly significant moment of the trailer sees Jon visiting the crypts of Winterfell, where the statue of his mother, Lyanna, is located. Jon looks conflicted as Dany approaches - could this scene take place after Jon has learned the truth about his identity as Aegon Targaryen (and the fact that he just hooked up with his aunt - which would explain why he doesn't want to make eye contact with her?)
Gendry is hard at work in the forge, and you have to imagine he's churning out dragonglass weapons to arm Winterfell's warriors against the dead.
Elsewhere in Winterfell, Ser Jorah is saddling up to face the White Walkers.
Missandei and Grey Worm share a tender moment before he goes to war - we hope those crazy kids make it out okay.
Jaime is caught in the heat of battle (literally, he's surrounded by fire - perhaps from an ice dragon?) and looks increasingly desperate - it seems as if he might be trying to defend Winterfell's outer defenses.
In this blink and you'll miss it shot, we see Cersei holding court on the Iron Throne. It's hard to make out who's standing in front of her, but if our theory about the Golden Company is correct, this could be her first meeting with Harry Strickland, since the visitor's clothes do seem to have a yellow tint.
But in a private moment which seems to see Cersei alone with a glass of wine (does this mean she's suffered a miscarriage?), it's clear that heavy lays the head that wears the crown - she's never been more isolated, and it shows.
Another swooping dragon's-eye shot of winter encroaching on Westeros.
Judging by the hint of awe on Arya's face, we're guessing this is her first glimpse of Dany's dragons as they approach Winterfell, rather than a shot of her witnessing Viserion's attack.
Grey Worm gets his hero shot as he suits up for the battle.
Jon is once again following in Ned Stark's footsteps, visiting the Winterfell godswood as his uncle did many times when trying to make a difficult decision.
The Hound seems to have gotten over his fear of fire - not that he'll have much choice, given the scale of destruction we can expect from the Battle of Winterfell.
Here, Jaime seems to be confirming his defection from Cersei, telling someone "I promised to fight for the living. I intend to keep that promise." The Kingslayer (also often called "oathbreaker") has gone full hero.
Jon and Dany are approaching her two remaining dragons with clear purpose here...
If this is after Jon has learned the truth about his Targaryen lineage, could we be about to see Jon mount up as a dragonrider?
We don't get much of a sense of Sansa's role in the battle, since she's not likely to pick up a sword like Arya, but she's here!
Arya's done plenty of fighting in her time on the show, so it's a bit crazy to realize this is her first ever battle. It looks as though those water dancing skills are coming in handy.
Here, Daenerys looks pensive - has she just learned the truth about Jon?
This brief shot of Tyrion in the trailer has him watching the skies - so it's a safe bet he's looking at some dragon action here.
And look, a dragon!
This is the calm before the storm; Brienne, Pod, and the North's forces stand ready to face the undead.
As do Ser Jorah and the Unsullied.
Although we don't see any of the White Walkers or the Night King in the trailer, we are given a glimpse of a rotting, undead horse hoof landing on the battlefield (but notably, no ice dragon). Winter is officially here.
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In addition to policies affecting the calculation of payment rates, this final rule finalizes a number of documentation, coding, and payment changes to reduce administrative burden and improve payment accuracy for office/outpatient evaluation and management (E/M) visits over several years. For CYs 2019 and 2020, it finalizes several documentation policies to provide immediate burden reduction, while other changes to documentation, coding, and payment would be implemented in CY 2021. It also finalizes our proposals to pay separately for two newly defined physicians' services furnished using communication technology.
Additionally, through an interim final rule with comment period, CMS is implementing a provision from the Substance Use-Disorder Prevention that Promotes Opioid Recovery and Treatment (SUPPORT) for Patients and Communities Act that expands access to telehealth services furnished for purposes of treatment of a substance use disorder or a co-occurring mental health disorder for services furnished on or after July 1, 2019. CMS will accept comments on the interim final rule until December 31, 2018.
The CY 2019 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Proposed Rule with comment period was placed on display at the Federal Register on July 12, 2018. This proposed rule updates payment policies, payment rates, and other provisions for services furnished under the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) on or after Jan. 1, 2019.
This proposed rule proposes potentially misvalued codes, adds procedures to the telehealth list and other policies affecting the calculation of payment rates. This proposed rule includes a number of new proposals, including a proposal to change documentation, coding and payment to reduce administrative burden and improve payment accuracy for office/outpatient Evaluation and Management visits, and a proposal to pay separately for two newly defined physicians' services furnished using communication technology. CMS will accept comments on the proposed rule until September 10, 2018, and will respond to comments in a final rule. The proposed rule can be downloaded from the Federal Register at: https://www.federalregister.gov/public-inspection.
The CY 2018 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Final Rule was placed on display at the Federal Register on November 2, 2017. This final rule updates payment policies, payment rates, and other provisions for services furnished under the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) on or after Jan. 1, 2018.
In addition to policies affecting the calculation of payment rates, this final rule identifies potentially misvalued codes, adds procedures to the telehealth list, and finalizes a number of new policies.
The CY 2018 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Proposed Rule with comment period was placed on display at the Federal Register on July 13, 2017. This proposed rule updates payment policies, payment rates, and other provisions for services furnished under the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) on or after Jan. 1, 2018.
In addition to policies affecting the calculation of payment rates, this proposed rule proposes potentially misvalued codes, adding procedures to the telehealth list, and a number of new policies. CMS will accept comments on the proposed rule until September 11, 2017, and will respond to comments in a final rule. The proposed rule can be downloaded from the Federal Register at: https://www.federalregister.gov/public-inspection.
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Summer Seminars in Cybersecurity
The Department of Computer, Control and Management Engineering of Sapienza University of Rome, department of excellence in cybersecurity, organizes a cycle of seminars scheduled approximately every two weeks. Seminars are targeting doctoral students, researchers, professors and companies.
The seminars will be offered by researchers and professors who have distinguished themselves in recent years and whose researches are having a significant impact on the cybersecurity community.
Contact person: Riccardo Lazzeretti
April 30 2021, 17.30AM: Paolo Gasti (NYT, Keyless) "Secure Biometric Authentication"
June 23 2021, 11.00AM: Dario Fiore (IMDEA) "Cryptography for Privacy and Integrity of Computation on Untrusted Machines"
July 14 2021, 11.00AM: Ivan Visconti (Univ. Salerno) "Cryptography for Blockchain Technology"
Paolo Gasti (NYT, Keyless) "Secure Biometric Authentication"
Speaker: Prof. Paolo Gasti
Affiliation: New York Institute of Technology, USA; Keyless.io
Location: Online, https://meet.google.com/rox-pajg-qku
Abstract: Common smartphone authentication mechanisms (e.g., PINs, graphical passwords, and fingerprint scans) are not designed to offer security post-login. Multi-modal continuous authentication addresses this issue by frequently and unobtrusively authenticating the user via behavioral biometric signals, such as touchscreen interaction and hand movements. Because smartphones can easily fall into the hands of the adversary, it is critical that the behavioral biometric information collected and processed on these devices is secured. This can be done by offloading encrypted template information to a remote server, and then performing authentication via privacy-preserving protocols.
Bio: Paolo Gasti is an associate professor of the New York Institute of Technology and co-founder of Keyless, a start-up created in Italy together with Prof. Giuseppe Ateniese and others. Before joining NYT in 2012, he obtained a PhD in computer science from University of Genoa in 2010, and then held postdoc positions at University of California, Irvine, USA. His research focuses on behavioral biometric authentication, applied cryptography, and network security. In particular, he works on privacy-preserving techniques for biometric authentication of smartphone users, privacy-preserving protocols for sharing sensitive information, and security in new Internet architectures.
Dario Fiore (IMDEA) "Cryptography for Privacy and Integrity of Computation on Untrusted Machines"
Speaker: Prof. Dario Fiore
Affiliation: IMDEA Software Institute, Madrid, Spain
Date: June 23rd, 2021
Location: Online, https://uniroma1.zoom.us/j/82882140412?pwd=WjZUVkhNYy9sYnlPb21MQk9TbmI4Zz09
Abstract: Due to phenomena like the ubiquity of the Internet and cloud computing it is increasingly common to store and process data on third-party machines. In spite of its attractive aspects, this trend raises a number of security concerns, including: How to ensure that the results computed by third parties are correct (integrity) and no unauthorized information is leaked (privacy)?
The current way to deal with these problems is to trust third-party machines under legislation guarantees—an assumption that unfortunately is often contradicted. In contrast, in this talk I will discuss how to address these questions in the challenging scenario where third-party machines are untrusted. I will give an overview of the cryptographic problems related to computing securely on untrusted machines, their state of the art, and the challenges that are ahead of us towards their cost-effective application.
Bio: Dario Fiore is an Associate Research Professor at the IMDEA Software Institute in Madrid. Before joining IMDEA in 2013, he obtained a PhD in computer science from University of Catania in 2010, and then held postdoc positions at the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems in Germany, the New York University in the United States, and the École Normale Supérieure of Paris in France. Dario's research interests are on theoretical and practical aspects of cryptography, and its applications to security and privacy. He is a recipient of an ERC Consolidator Grant (2020), and he co-authored over 50 peer-reviewed research papers that have been published in flagship international conferences and journals in the areas of Cryptography and Security, and have attracted so far over 2500 citations.
Ivan Visconti (Univ. Salerno) "Cryptography for Blockchain Technology"
Speaker: Prof. Ivan Visconti
Affiliation: University of Salerno, Italy
Date: July 14th, 2021
Location: Online, https://uniroma1.zoom.us/j/83775461425?pwd=M0ltYkc3M1lPalFzTEQyM1VWd1F2Zz09
Abstract: This talk will present blockchain technology with a specific focus on the cryptographic tools that are used to build a blockchain. Moreover, the talk will discuss issues due to the presence of confidential data.
Bio: Ivan Visconti is a full professor of Computer Science in the Computer and Electrical Engineering and Applied Mathematics Department of the University of Salerno. His research interests focus mainly on designing provably secure and privacy-preserving cryptographic protocols and securing blockchains and their applications. He has been from 2018 to 2021 the scientific local coordinator at the University of Salerno for the H2020 European project "PRIViLEDGE" (Privacy-Enhancing Cryptography in Distributed Ledgers). Currently, he is serving as Senior Area Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security journal. Several of his results have been published in the proceedings of IACR conferences.


As you can see, Peter is putting a bit of light into her face. Reflectors can be improvised: anything light will do.
And as before, it is amazing how people will smile when you point a camera into their faces. Try it!
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Some key information is highlighted below, however for the full visiting supporters guide please click HERE.
Please note important changes that have been made from previous seasons and these include a number of items which are not now permitted into the stadium. The notable change in policy is with regards to suitcases & large bags and solid containers & flasks.
Only clear plastic water bottles 500ml or lower will now be permitted and bottle tops will be confiscated on entry. No large bags or suitcases will be permitted into the stadium and please note we do not have a storage area at the stadium.
Supporters are being advised of the following important travel information ahead of this Premier League fixture.
Trains: Southern Rail have informed the club that they will be operating an enhanced service for this match, however please note that there will be a bus replacement service operating between Three Bridges and both Lewes and Brighton respectively, and all supporters are advised to check with Southern's website prior to travelling.
Buses: Brighton & Hove Buses will be operating a full Saturday service within the club's travel scheme, therefore free travel is available to supporters on production of a match ticket, but please check the club's website for areas within the bus travel scheme.
Refreshments are available from catering vans outside the Stadium as well as from the kiosks in the Stadium concourses, which will be open 2 hours before kick-off. All kiosks accept card payment via contactless or chip and pin.
Amex stadium is a smoke- free Stadium. Smoking (including electronic cigarettes) is prohibited in ALL areas.
Open 2 hours before kick-off. Please arrive early to avoid any queues.
Yates and Weatherspoon's on West Street central Brighton are the recommended visiting supporter pubs.


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Home Sports Olympics Will Olympics change surfing and equal pay for women? Stephanie Gilmore hopes...
Will Olympics change surfing and equal pay for women? Stephanie Gilmore hopes so
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While many are focusing on how the upcoming Olympics could change surfing, Australia's Stephanie Gilmore has her eyes set on something much bigger and meaningful.
Gilmore, who is talked about as possibly the greatest athlete of all time in her sport, takes pride in being on the ground floor in the fight for a prize that could have a longer-lasting impact: equal pay for women on the professional tour where she and her rivals make their living.
The World Surf League put itself in rare company earlier this year with its decision to begin paying women the same as men, starting in 2019. While the majors and a few other tournaments in tennis have committed to paying women and men equal prize money, the WSL is the first U.S.-based global sports league to make that move.
The fight for equal pay begun decades ago by Billie Jean King on the tennis courts — and still waged daily in corporations across America that have nothing to do with sports — has found a toehold on the beach.
"Sports are the perfect platform to show equality," Gilmore said last week, after capturing her record-tying seventh season title. "In most workplaces, what people make is completely private. In ours, the prize money is public knowledge."
When the 30-year-old champion started surfing on tour, women typically made around $12,000 for a win, while men — led by 11-time champion Kelly Slater — would rake in around $40,000.
"Surfing was not a career path," Slater recalled of his youth, in the HBO surf documentary "Momentum Generation." ″It was just something you enjoyed doing."
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Especially so for the women. And even next year, when women and men are both expected to make around $100,000 for a victory (men made $100,000 and women $65,000 in 2018), it's hard for anyone but those at the very top to get rich riding waves. Competitions are only a piece of the puzzle. Sponsorships, filming, and free-surfing make up the rest.
Could the Olympics change that?
It's a debate coursing through the sport that is now experiencing some of the same growing pains as other so-called "lifestyle" sports — namely, snowboarding — two decades after their counter-culture vibe was welcomed into the stiff-suited, tradition-bound world of the Olympics. For the most part, snowboarders have accepted the Olympics and benefited from the platform it provides.
"It's definitely new territory, and some people are a little unsure about it," Gilmore said. "They think it's not authentic surfing. I think it's kind of cool. I grew up watching (Australian 400-meter sprint champion) Cathy Freeman, thinking 'I want to go to the Olympics.' But I thought that, as a surfer, I'd never get that chance."
Now she will.
Gilmore grew up only 400 meters (1,300 feet) from the beach. Her father loved surfing, and Gilmore and her sisters "really had no choice" but to learn how to ride, she said. By the time she was 11, she knew this was what she wanted to do for a living.
The moment that triggered the run to her seventh world title came at the same beach where she learned how to surf.
Gilmore finished a disappointing fifth in this year's season-opening event, the Roxy Pro Gold Coast in Queensland, Australia. Three years had passed since her last season title, and, she conceded, some doubt was starting to creep into her mind as to whether her best days were behind her.
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"It sort of killed the confidence and made me think, 'Do you still want this? Do you still have it?'" Gilmore said. "I got quite overwhelmingly emotional. And that's when I realized, 'You obviously still really care about this.'"
Gilmore refocused. She won three events in 2018 and finished second in three more. After the season's final event in Maui last week, she had captured her seventh title, which ties her with another Australian, Layne Beachley, for the most for a woman. (The title came with a $150,000 bonus.) Only Slater, with 11, has more.
Already a household name among surfing fans and her peers, an Olympic gold medal would clearly go a long way toward expanding Gilmore's reach.
In many ways, though, she has already sent quite a powerful message.
"Women like Stephanie are competing in the same conditions, on same waves, showing the same bravery as the men," said the WSL's CEO, Sophie Goldschmidt. "It's incredibly inspiring. They are positive role models, pushing boundaries and gaining audiences. But it's not where it should be. There's still room to grow."
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(Yicai Global) Feb. 2 -- Chinas biggest computer maker Lenovo Group Ltd. reported a net loss of USD288 million in the third fiscal quarter due to an extraordinary write-off of USD400 million in deferred income tax assets following the recently enacted tax reform in the US.
This loss will not affect the company's operating performance, said CEO Yang Yuanqing in a statement, adding that the US' low tax rate will help the Hong Kong-based firm achieve long-term business development goals. The firm posted a pre-tax profit of USD150 million, an increase of 48 percent on the same period last year.
Lenovo's revenue for the quarter, running from Oct. 1 to Dec. 31, reached USD12.94 billion, an annual increase of 6 percent, representing the highest earnings for a single quarter since 2014.
Personal computers remain the pillar business of Lenovo, with sales reaching 15.7 million units in the quarter, basically the same as last year. PC revenue was USD9.25 billion, a year-on-year increase of 8 percent.
The firm's data center business saw rapid growth, with earnings of USD1.23 billion, an annual increase of 17 percent. Revenue for mobile equipment reached USD2.08 billion, a decrease of 5 percent.
Lenovo still attaches great importance to the mobile terminal sector, Yang said, despite the smartphone market being close to saturation point, the firm will consider investing in research and development according to the profitability of future mobile devices, he added.


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Chapter Ten:
'Beth Buries Her Ghosts'
After arriving at 'Beaconhouse', Megan stayed with Beth until she was settled in and before leaving her there, she indicated that she would stay in touch with her. "Just give the process a chance to work, Beth," Megan implored her adding, "And I'll find out what I can about Clare. You keep your side of the bargain and I'll keep mine."
'Beaconhouse' had a dozen alcoholic residents at any given time of both male and female status and was run by Dermot Malone, a man who looked to be in his late forties. There was an age requirement of all residents to have reached the age of 21 years. Being classified as a 'Dry House' meant just that. The golden rule that guaranteed eviction was to be found with alcohol on you in the premises.
While the staff at 'Beaconhouse' would not tolerate alcohol on the premises under any cicumstances, there were occasions when a resident might fall off the wagon of abstinence and be found drinking in one of the local pubs and clubs. When this happened, they would be allowed one lapse, but would then be strictly warned that should it happen again, they'd be out on their ear!
'Beaconhouse' had a good success rate and was always oversubscribed to the extent that applications would arrive from all across the British Isles in their hundreds annually. The programme of residence was a rolling one, but usually lasted around the six to seven months period, although it had been known to occasionally stretch to a full year. Consequently, from the hundreds of applications for residency the hostel received annually, a mere few dozen alcoholics would be the lucky ones accepted.
Megan had been extremely lucky getting Beth admitted to the hostel upon her discharge from hospital. To do so, it had been necessary to pull a few strings at her disposal and call in a few favours. You see, it had been Megan's mother who had once been the original warden who'd managed 'Beaconhouse' when it had first opened and although she'd now been retired over four years from the post, it had been largely upon her personal recommendation that the newly-appointed Hostel Warden and Manager was to be Dermot Malone.
Dermot's appointment had been a somewhat controversial one, having turned from poacher to gamekeeper so to speak. At the time of applying for the hostel position, Dermot Malone was a known and reformed alcoholic who'd abstained from drink for over six years. In fact ten years earlier, he'd also been a resident and client of the hostel. At that time, the name of the hostel was 'Blunt House', but one year after becoming the Warden there, Dermot managed to persuade the governing committee to agree to a name change. The hostel then became known as 'Beaconhouse'.
Dermot essentially felt that 'Blunt House' sounded too severe a name and that it might provide better focus and impetus for the residents to 'find the light' and reform their ways if their time there became like a refuge in a storm; a place that would direct their future passage away from the evils of alcoholic overindulgence and addiction. Dermot then happened to come across the emblematic crest of a school which gave him his name. Therefore it was felt that 'Beaconhouse' would be much a more appropriate and inspiring name for their temporary home.
Other rules of the establishment involved being on a rota for kitchen and washing-up duties, always making sure that you signed on weekly if unemployed or if you were fortunate to hold down a job, that you attended work in accordance with your terms of employment. While heated discussions between the residents would be tolerated within limits, no form of bullying, racism, sexism or physical violence ever would! The most important hostel rule was to attend the group discussion meeting on each of the three weekly evenings it was held for its two hours' duration, and to also attend a supervisory session with the Warden or their Deputy once a week by arrangement.
Each resident had their own room and were responsible for cleaning it and changing their own bed linen once weekly or in some instances, as often as was required if they still wet the bed as many alcoholics are prone to do. Beth welcomed this private space to which she could retire and be uninterrupted any time of the day and night and even though it was small in space, it was quiet comfortable, clean and had its own key to lock the door.
Initially, Beth found the open discussion meetings too threatening to talk about things that were personal to her alone. It was one thing talking to Megan whom she now trusted completely, but was quite another kettle of fish to tell all manner of strangers about the intimate details of one's past, just because they sat in a magic circle, shared the same addictive behaviour and slept beneath the same roof.
While all residents were encouraged to contribute to the open group discussions, knowing how hard it was for newcomers to feel confident enough to share, Dermot would tend to ignore them during the first two or three weeks if they showed a preference to listening only. If however, after one month they were still not contributing to the group discussion, they would be confronted in their weekly supervisory session with Dermot to either 'part with their contribution or depart from hostel residency, forthwith!' Such a threat would usually prove sufficient to elicit their future cooperation, however reluctantly it might initially be given.
While Beth stayed quiet in the discussion group for the first four weeks of her stay in the hostel, like many quiet group members before and since, she was still able to learn vicariously; a somewhat substitute way of learning about self through hearing the experiences of another person who underwent similar experiences to you.
Most of the four female residents of 'Beaconhouse', although they came from greatly different backgrounds, all seemed to have suffered from physical or sexual abuse in the past, and sometimes both! Christine had been sexually assaulted by her father as a child and had grown into an attractive teenager only to be groped freely by a visiting uncle whenever he visited her home. Maureen had been physically ill treated by her father as a child, had gone on to marry a wife batterer whom she stayed with out of fear for fourteen years before she finally ran away and became dependent on drink and drugs. When she got admitted to 'Beaconhouse' it was from a derelict squat with no windows to keep out the cold. The worst treatment of the bunch was experienced by Sally, who became a prostitute to feed her drink and drug habit and at the time of hostel entry had just been rescued as a sex slave.
Whether man or woman resident, all had either broken or had lost contact with their parents for most years of their alcoholic dependency. Common to all was their experience of destitution and homelessness for varying periods of time, and as regards to being able to hold down a job, such had generally proved an impossibility and was an experience as rare as hen's teeth!
As Beth listened to their bits of conversation contributed to group discussion weekly about their lives and problem behaviour, along with their many and varied excuses for having become a drunk, she frequently compared her own experiences with theirs. Not one of them had lived rough like her for as long as she had; almost fifteen years, though two or three of the male residents had held down responsible jobs in the past before the demon drink had ruined their lives and their relationships.
There was Jack who had one time been a teacher while Christine who was in her thirties and nicknamed 'Bailey' because she coudn't get enough of the drink had worked with a firm of London accountants in the past.
Finally there was Mack who told the group that he had at one stage in his life been a millionaire before drink and gambling and playing the stock market for high stakes had brought him ruination, bankruptcy, and homelessness. Most of the hostel residents didn't know whether to believe Mack and the jury remained out as to whether or not he was to be believed as being wholly above board. Before Mack agreed to enter the hostel however, it was only on the proviso that Dermot found a temporary home for the two Labrador pups he had found on the streets and had homed.
As the months progressed at the hostel, Beth found herself making unconscious use of the skills she had so often employed in her role as shop steward at Harrison Gardner's; particularly whenever she wanted to persuade the discussion group towards her viewpoint on some matter or whenever she tried to calm down an overheated discussion that was in danger of becoming a row.
Often she seemed to take over Dermot's role as group leader and instead of preventing her, he would sit back and watch Beth in action as he admired her social skills tactics. She would even encourage the person next to the one upset to be the first group comforter.
If the truth be known, Dermot was becoming quite interested in Beth, not only a resident who had undoubtedly come a long way in so short a time, but also as a woman of attractive appearance. During her time at the hostel she'd started to take more pride in her appearance once again and had started to dress in more fashionable and feminine clothes like a blouse and skirt. Beth also reminded Dermot of himself during earlier years when he'd been a resident at the hostel instead of the leader of its staff.
After making exhaustive enquiries to track down Beth's daughter as she had promised to do, Megan eventually reported back to Beth. Even before Megan told Beth the outcome, Beth realised that the awaited news wasn't what she wanted to hear.
"Sit down, Beth," Megan said one morning as she visited the hostel to inform her of the results of her search. "I'm afraid that the news isn't as positive as I'd hoped for."
"So you haven't been able to trace her then?" Beth replied in a disappointed tone of voice, adding, "I wasn't sure you could after all this time. It's been so many years now."
"It's not that we weren't able to trace your family tree that led towards your daughter, Clare," Megan said, "As the Social Services Department were able to track her down. However, I'm afraid that when they eventually communicated with her and placed your request before her, she declined to see you. They were not in a position to tell me any more than that, except to say that your daughter is safe and well and was happily looked after during the years of her adoption. Clare has been provided with my name and address should she ever decide in the future that she would like to see you again. She knows where to reach me with a view of acting as messenger and intermediary."
"I know it's not the news that you hoped for Beth, but so long as I always know your current whereabouts.... then who knows what time and place will turn up?" Megan said reassuringly.
After a few minutes, Beth, who seemed to take the news as well as Megan could have possibly expected said, "That's not bad news! If we know her to be alive and well, then that's positive news to be grateful for. Thank you so much for all your efforts, Megan. You are a good friend........despite your profession!"
Megan was surprised how maturely Beth had apparently taken the mixed news. She judged Beth to have certainly come a long way in her progress of being able to see things from a more positive slant than when they'd first met. Just to be on the safe side though, Megan shared the news of this disappointment with the hostel warden and asked Dermot to keep a more vigilant eye open over the next few days, especially tonight.
Too often in their jobs, Megan and Dermot had come across residential clients who seemed to be doing so well and then after receiving some bad news or a knock back, they'd finished up breaking their pledge and hitting the bottle once more. Megan knew that it wasn't only a matter of character and personal insight gained that would conquer the demon drink, however essential those two aspects were along the road of long-term progress, but how the alcoholic reacted to bad news during their early recovery period when the temptation to relapse was greatest. Both she and Dermot knew the sheer pulling power of the alcoholic's long-term addiction when emotions had been knocked for a six.
Beth had been addicted to alcohol for well over twenty years now and although she'd been abstinent for the past ten months, living under the constraints of hospital confinement and hostel rules had denied it reasserting its grip on her life. Even Dermot had broken his abstinence after having remained dry for nearly two years once, and his experiences had not been half as bad as those Beth had endured since her teenage years.
That evening after Beth failed to come down for her evening meal with the other residents, Dermot went to knock on her door and check she was okay. After receiving no reply and a few minutes of knocking, Dermot decided to play safe and opened the bedroom door with his pass key. He found the room empty. Then he decided on a hunch to visit the nearest pub, 'The White Lion' to see if Beth was there.
Five minutes later, he entered the pub and was relieved to see that Beth wasn't there propping up the bar. Next he called to the nearest off licence shop and after providing a description of Beth, he discovered that she hadn't been there either. He decided to walk back to the hostel and as he passed the local park, he saw the figure of a woman sitting alone on a bench with her head hung low, clutching hold of something tightly. It looked like Beth was tormenting herself as to whether she should have a taste or not of whatever she was clasping, so Dermot cautiously approached.
"Is that you, Beth?" he gently asked as he approached the park bench.
Beth looked up and Dermot was greatly relieved to see that it was a handkerchief she was holding in her hand and not a bottle of spirits. Tears streamed down Beth's face and when she saw Dermot stood there looking concerned yet glad to have found her, she just broke down uncontrollably and fell upon his shoulder for emotional support.
"Shush lass," Dermot softly said. "Megan told me what had happened regarding her enquiries about your daughter. I'm so sorry lass.... so sorry for you!"
For a few moments, Dermot softly comforted Beth in silence. When she next looked up, for a brief moment it seemed most natural for him to kiss her, especially as she appeared to want kissing, but Dermot quickly remembered his position as Hostel Warden. Focusing back upon the vulnerability of Beth once more, he moved his body out of temptation's way. As a hostel resident and being under his professional supervision, to have followed his heart and have kissed Beth there and then would have overstepped the bounds of all professional ethics and common sense and might have jeopardised all her progress.
"Come on lass, let's be getting you back to the hostel and I'll see if I can rustle you up a sandwich to eat as you must be starving," Dermot said.
"Thanks Dermot," replied Beth. "That was kind of you to look out for me when you saw me in the park. You're a good man, Dermot Malone.....a good man!"
Fifteen minutes later, Beth was back at the hostel eating a sandwich and feeling much better for her earlier walk to the park and lengthy weep.
When Beth had been at 'Beaconhouse' for eight months she was judged to be ready to be discharged. In addition to her hostel commitments and her weekly contacts with her Social Worker, Megan, who had become more of a close friend than a social worker to Beth, she had also been attending the local branch of Alcoholics Anonymous a few times weekly.
While neither she nor Dermot had allowed themselves to be placed in another situation again that might prove compromising to their respective positions, such efforts had nevertheless failed to create that emotional distancing that ought to exist between the relationship of worker and client.
When the week of Beth's discharge arrived, the other residents held a going away party for her in the hostel the night before her departure. While there was naturally no alcohol on the party menu, the residents pulled out all the stops when it came to the buffet and buns that they'd bought in. Dermot made sure that even though he wasn't on duty that evening, (being due to work the midnight to morning shift), he attended Beth's leaving do.
Dermot had done a considerable amount of thinking that past fortnight and had arrived at a decision that affected his future along with the future of Beth. However hard he tried not to become attached, he sensed himself having fallen in love with Beth. In fact, looking back, he had loved her for over four months now, but had tried to deny the truth. Since that night in the park however, his thoughts had been preoccupied with Beth from the start to the end of every day and the strength of his feelings had increased beyond the stage of denial. He'd imagined many times how things might have turned out for them had they met and fallen in love as young people without an alcoholic problem. All he knew was that he wanted to be with her, he wanted to help her, he wanted to guide her through the difficult year ahead; he wanted her!
On the other side of the coin, Beth also had been aware of the feelings that had grown between them and though such feelings had remained unspoken, they nevertheless could be concealed as being present whenever they approached each other. Even in the group discussions, as Beth opened up and started to tell the group about some of her selected experiences and feelings, often Dermot found it hard not to go and place his arms around Beth and comfort her as he dearly wanted to.
That night around 11.30 pm after Beth's party celebrations had ended for the day and the residents had retired to their rooms, being on duty throughout the night, Dermot hung around for his shift to start at midnight. As he was having a coffee around 12.45 am, Beth popped down to his office to thank him for all the help he had given her over the past months.
"I knew that you wouldn't be around tomorrow at 10 am when I leave and I wanted to thank you," Beth started to say. As soon as she started to speak and the couple looked at each other, they each knew what would happen next. Without saying a word, Dermot gently drew Beth towards him, kissed her gently and softly said, "I love you lass...........I think I always have."
Returning his kiss with a warm smile, Beth replied, "And I love you, Dermot Malone............only it probably took me longer to get to trust you than it did the other way round! Now that we've got that out of the way, what are we going to do about it?"
For the next hour and a half the couple talked and started to plan for a future together. Dermot realised that he would have to leave his job at the hostel at the first proper opportunity. He said to Beth, "It can sometimes takes months to get a suitable replacement and the hostel committee were so good giving me the job as Warden in the first instant, despite the risk they took with my past. I've no intention of seeing them in the lurch by leaving the post before they have another suitable candidate established. I reckon it will take a minimum of three months before we can be together, Beth and might even stretch to four or five. I hope you understand."
"Of course I do, Dermot" Beth replied adding, "I wouldn't have expected any less of you..............that's why I'm helplessly in love with you, sweetheart."
By the end of their discussion, plans had been made and the couple knew what they were doing.


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—Do you believe it could withstand a nuclear explosion?
—I don't know. Maybe? I think a more important question is how much the sphere is shielded from what happens outside. It might be almost impossible to destroy the robot itself, but it doesn't mean all that much if everyone inside is dead.
In any case, if it did survive a nuclear blast, the energy the robot would release would probably be nearly as destructive as the blast itself, unless it can be focused somehow. The fragment I used only weighs a few grams, it's smaller than the nail of your little finger, and it made a hole about one foot in diameter. I'm just now realizing how powerful this thing might be. I must admit, she's beginning to scare me.
—What do you think she was built for?
—Up until now, I tried to ignore the fact that this might very well be a weapon, an enormously powerful weapon. But when I think about it, there's simply no reason to build something this massive for anything else. There's nothing practical about it. She'll weigh about seven thousand metric tons if we manage to put her together. She'll destroy anything she steps on. What worries me is that you could have walked through an army of ten thousand men with something a tenth of this size. There was nothing remotely powerful enough six thousand years ago to justify a weapon of this magnitude, nothing of this Earth anyway.
—You believe she is that powerful?
—We'll just have to locate the head to find out.
—We will have all the answers very soon. Unfortunately, we will need to go under the sea to get them.
—I thought about that possibility. I'm hoping it's not, because I can't get the ARCANA compound to disperse well under water. It'll take months to develop a new delivery system, and a whole lot longer to go through all the oceans. Whatever I come up with, I can already tell you that dispersal will be a lot slower under water. With a slower vehicle, like a submarine, it could take decades before we find anything. It might be wishful thinking, but I'm really hoping that whoever buried these things was afraid of water.
—You misunderstood. What I meant is that I know exactly where the head is. It is beneath the sea. The Bering Sea.
FILE NO. 143
INTERVIEW WITH CAPT. DEMETRIUS ROOKE, UNITED STATES NAVY
Location: Naval Submarine Base Bangor, Kitsap Peninsula, WA
—Please state your name and rank.
—Captain Demetrius Rooke, United States Navy.
—What is your current assignment?
—I'm in command of the USS Jimmy Carter, designated SSN-23.
—If I understand the designation correctly, that is a nuclear attack submarine.
—Yes, sir. Seawolf class.
—How long have you been in command?
—Five years in October, sir.
—I am not part of the military. You do not have to call me "sir."
—What would you prefer I call you?
—On second thought, sir will be just fine. Please describe, in your own words, the events that occurred on the morning of August 17.
—Very well. We left Bangor Base alongside the USS Maine. She's an Ohio class ballistic missile sub. We were on our way to SEAFAC in Ketchikan, Alaska, for a week of detection exercises when we got a call from SECNAV.
—You received a call from the Office of the Secretary of the Navy.
—No. I mean from the Secretary of the Navy himself.
—Does the Secretary of the Navy often call submarine captains directly?
—No, he does not. That was unusual in and of itself. His orders were definitely out of the ordinary. We were to intercept two Russian subs in the Bering Sea and secure whatever we found on the site. We were to avoid hostilities, if at all possible, but use of force was authorized if necessary.
I don't know if you've ever spoken to SECNAV, but he's a very loud man. He speaks slowly with a very deep voice. It's really impossible to misunderstand anything he says, but I asked him to repeat anyway. I don't think a sub captain has heard those words since World War II.
First, we had to head back to Bangor, to take an Army Chief Warrant on board as an advisor. Good-looking girl. We headed west from there. The trip is about sixty hours at maximum speed.
She said we were on our way to recover a new kind of power reactor, some new fission technology we couldn't let the Russians get their hands on. Apparently, it was on its way to a secret facility in Alaska when there was an incident and they had to drop it into the sea. Her helo was escorting the ship, and she was familiar with the device. That's why we had to bring her aboard.
She asked to be brought to the control room right away. One of my lieutenants told her we'd send for her when we reached our destination, but she insisted. Some words were exchanged. My XO had to intervene. I didn't think too much of it at first. I thought claustrophobia was getting to her. It's not unusual when people get on a sub for the first time. Tight spaces, small doors, low ceilings—some people have a hard time adjusting. It can make them irritable. I let her blow a little steam and left it at that.
—Did you bring her to the control room?
—Not right away, no. I sent for her about twelve hours from our target. She seemed calm and in control. We went around the Alaskan Peninsula and headed north from Dutch Harbor. After about ten miles, we made sonar contact with three objects. There was an Akula class sub lying on her side at the bottom of a small cliff. She appeared to be disabled. The Saint Petersburg was just sitting there, staring at us, about two thousand feet west of the Akula.
—The Saint Petersburg?
—Lada class. She's the lead ship. Really quiet. She was designed for this sort of thing. Blowing up subs, defending a base, things like that. They must have sent her when the Akula stopped responding. Whatever she was guarding, the "reactor," she seemed adamant about not letting us anywhere near it.
—You do not think it was a power reactor?
—It's not my place to say. It was a large object, about thirty-five feet in diameter, sitting in between her and the disabled Akula. Sonar said it was metallic. When we tried to get closer, the Saint Pete maneuvered herself between us and the target.
We stopped. The USS Maine tried to go around the Russian sub. We were hoping that having two ships to deal with might make her run. She didn't. She kept her nose straight at us and flooded her torpedo tubes.
—What did you do then?
—Nothing. Our other boat stopped. We waited. Submarines are slow, clumsy things. A lot of what we do is just sit and wait. We're good at that.
—You had orders to fire if necessary.
—I didn't think it was necessary. And I wasn't ready to get blown to bits quite yet. We could have taken her down, but not before she fired everything she had at us.
—How long did you wait?
—About a day. Like I said, we're good at waiting. The next morning we received an ELF warning that a Russian corvette was under way. It would get there in less than ninety minutes. We had to act quickly. A corvette is well equipped for antisubmarine warfare and she would no doubt bring the target aboard or tow it away.
I gave the order to flood and open our torpedo tubes, and we used the Gertrude to tell the USS Maine to do the same. The Russians responded in kind. That's when things started to get crazy. Our Army guest "suggested" we surface and warn the Russians that we'd destroy the object before we let anyone have it.
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$Signed a one-year, $3.5 million contract with the Redskins in July of 2018.
McCoy missed the final four weeks of the regular season, but his efforts to make a quick return prevented the injury from healing properly. He's now had two surgeries during the offseason and hasn't been able to participate in any of Washington's voluntary workout program. The 32-year-old eventually is expected to battle Case Keenum for the starting job, though the nature of the competition could change if the team drafts or trades for a young quarterback. There doesn't seem to be any expectation of Alex Smith (leg) playing in 2019.
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McCoy signed a three-year extension with the Redskins in 2016, solidifying himself as the No. 2 quarterback on the depth chart for the next handful of seasons. Last season marked the first time in the 30-year-old's career in which he did not take a snap during the regular season. The Redskins will hope for the same result in 2017 as Kirk Cousins heads into his third season as starter under center after not missing a contest in either of the past two years. Bearing that in mind, McCoy should garner little to any fantasy buzz as he prepares for another season on the sidelines.
Entering his third season with the Redskins, McCoy was the primary backup in 2015 and will fill the role again this year. He only had 11 pass attempts last season and will only see playing time in 2016 if starter Kirk Cousins suffers an injury. Though Washington drafted former Indiana quarterback Nate Sudfeld in the sixth round this year, he shouldn't be a threat to the 29-year-old McCoy's second-string status this season.
McCoy started last year as the third string quarterback but injuries and ineffective play from Robert Griffin III and Kirk Cousins opened the door. The former Texas signal caller saw significant playing time in five games last season, posting 1,057 passing yards, four passing touchdowns and three interceptions in his most action since 2011. McCoy demonstrated better pocket presence than his teammates and showed signs of a game manager at times, but his season ended in Week 14 due to a neck injury. He enters 2015 as a backup, likely as the team's second-string quarterback, but he could drop lower depending on preseason performance. His chances of seeing game action are directly tied to Griffin's health and ability to run the offense.
McCoy is expected to back up Colin Kaepernick in 2013 and is unlikely to see the field, barring an injury to Kaepernick.
Outside of two shocking victories over the Patriots and Saints in his rookie season, McCoy's first two years have been tough sledding. He's thrown for 4,309 yards, 20 touchdowns, and 20 interceptions in 21 games with a 74.5 rating. Heading into the 2012 season the Browns organization has vowed to give McCoy a chance to compete for the starting job with rookie first-round selection Brandon Weeden, but he doesn't figure to win that battle, or last long if he gets the first crack. There is a possibility he ends up in another city by opening day, but it would likely be in a backup roll.
While he was promising as a rookie, the short term doesn't look to be especially favorable to McCoy's fantasy prospects. The Browns declined to add Alabama wideout Julio Jones in the draft, opting for Atlanta's trade offer instead, leaving McCoy again with what figures to be one of the worst wideout lineups in the league. To leave McCoy less vulnerable from his lack of targets, look for Cleveland to run Peyton Hillis and Montario Hardesty often. If McCoy doesn't have his opportunities limited by a run-heavy offense, his accuracy as a passer and ability to run make him worth monitoring.
McCoy was taken in the third round of this year's draft and is seen as a project for team president Mike Holmgren (see Joe Montana, Steve Young, Brett Favre and Matt Hasselbeck). If he sees playing time this season, it will likely be after injuries plague Jake Delhomme and Seneca Wallace as McCoy is seen as a commodity to be groomed before being thrown into the fire. It will be fun to track his progress down the road, but this year he will spend the bulk of his time on the sidelines watching and waiting for his opportunities to come down the road.