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Singer Cher on Aging: She Isn't Going Gently!
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The singer Cher is ageless and she has no intention of "Going Gentle Into That Good Night" any time soon. Cher has always been known for her outrageous costumes, along with her outspoken ideas (including her gay son, her younger boyfriends, and her plastic surgeries) no matter what she does she'll always be one of America's favorite pop icons!
Cher at the American Masters. Photo- Cher News
Excerpt: Cher Talks About (What Else?) Being Cher By Jacob Bernstein, The New York Times
"After nearly a half-century of being world famous, Cher has encountered every type of boldface name. She's shared a stage with Bette Midler, and worked for Phil Spector, who was her first boss and, she says, paid her $25 for a year's work. She even had a thing with Tom Cruise back in the '80s before he became a Scientologist.
Cher in LA Photo-IDLator
So when a caller to Andy Cohen's show, Watch What Happens Live,asked her last Thursday whom she'd most like to to shake hands with, there really wasn't much to say besides Jesus Christ.
Cher, 67 and conservatively dressed (for her) in a black-and-white striped Ann Demeulemeester jacket and black-and-white harlequin pants, knew exactly what she would ask him, too. "I would just say, 'Dude, what's the deal?' " she said to the small, mostly gay crowd.
She spoke frankly about the journey of her son Chaz Bono from female to male, and about the fact that she still has trouble with which pronouns to use… admitting that she had a tough time emotionally with his sex change at first but has since come around and couldn't be prouder of him.
Dazzling silver outfit. Photo- Styleite
She said that her romantic relationship with Robert Camilletti, a bagel-shop worker and bartender nearly two decades her junior (she was 40 and he was 22 when they became involved) was the easiest involvement she ever had.
There was never a problem. Never a worry. I'm temperamental. Not like a star, but I'm mercurial, and if I was, like, having some sort of tizzy, he'd say, 'I'm going to get cigarettes and I'll bring you a black and white cookie.
Her first of two husbands, Sonny Bono (the second was Gregg Allman), was the one she was most attached to, she said, though the marriage had its complications. It wasn't like anything before or after…And it wasn't all roses. It was very Russian roulette.
After that, she discussed her Hollywood career. She admitted that she doesn't get as many calls as she used to. And that she thought the reason may have something to do with her famously wrinkle-free visage. She recalled reading an article a few years ago in which the reporter said that the star looked neither young nor old, just Cher. Which of course makes it hard for Cher to become a character other than Cher. It didn't feel very good, but it was true," she said. I thought: I get that. I understand that.Of aging, she said: It's a bitch. I don't like it. Anyone who says they do is lying. Or they don't have my work."
Level: Intermediate -Advanced
Materials: Student handouts (from this lesson) access to news article, and video.
Objective: Students will read the article with a focus on improving reading comprehension and learning new vocabulary. At the end of the lesson students will express their personal views on the topic through discussions, and writing.
Stimulating background knowledge
Directions: Place students in groups, ask students to think about what they already know about the topic. Next, have students look at the picture(s) in the text and generate ideas or words that may be connected to the article. Debrief as a class and list these ideas on the board. Students can use the Brainstorming chart from Kootation.com
Directions: Students are to infer the meanings of the words in bold taken from the article. They may use a dictionary or thesaurus for assistance. Have students use the Word organizer from Enchanted Learning to assist them with new vocabulary.
Sentences:
Cher, 67 was conservatively dressed.
The narrow demographic in Mr. Cohen's clubhouse did not come as a surprise.
When it was all over, she did not retire to her hotel.
She spoke frankly about the journey of her son Chaz Bono.
She talked about her exes.
She recalled reading an article about herself.
Bob Mackie, is her longtime friend and partner-in-kitsch.
Some critics may be ruing their words.
Cher descended to the stage.
Moments later, she was ensconced in a booth.
Directions: Review the statements with students before the watching the video. As students listen to the video if a statement is true they mark it T. If the statement is not applicable, they mark it NA. If the statement is false they mark it F and provide the correct answer.
Cher is 58 years-old.
The name of the talk show Cher was visiting was Oprah.
Cher wanted to visit the show again in the future.
Cher would like most to shake hands with the president.
The audience at the show was mostly young.
Cher was in New York for the Gay Pride celebration.
Anderson Cooper of CNN arrived for a surprise guest appearance.
Chaz Bono is Cher's son.
Robert Camilletti is Cher's publicist.
Sonny Bono and Cher lived in New York for 10 years.
Word Order Puzzle
Directions: The following 5 sentences from the reading are out of order. Students can find the original sentences in the reading to check their work.
Her first of two husbands, Sonny Bono (the second was Gregg Allman), was the one she was most attached to.
The narrow demographic in Mr. Cohen's clubhouse did not exactly come as a surprise.
Moments later, she was ensconced in a booth with Mr. Cohen.
After nearly a half-century of being world famous, Cher has encountered every type of boldface name.
When it was all over, she did not retire to her hotel for milk and Nilla wafers.
Directions: Place students in groups and have them answer the following questions. After, have the groups share their thoughts as a class. To reinforce the ideas, students can write an essay on one of the discussion topics.
The article states, "She admitted that she doesn't get as many calls as she used to…She recalled reading an article a few years ago in which the reporter said that the star looked neither young nor old, just Cher." In your own words explain what this means.
From reading this article do you think Cher likes growing old? Provide support from the article for your answer.
In your opinion, when should a performer retire? Provide reasons why.
Choose one of the following people and write a short report: Sony Bono, Chaz Bono, Tom Cruise.
Video Clip: Cher: Watch What Happens Live Season 10 : Truth or Cher!
Cher interviews with host Andy Cohen on his show "Watch What Happens Live".
Note: This is the Video Link Only.
The game played was called "Truth or Chair".
The basis of the game was that Cher had to answer a question or perform a task.
Cher's favorite color is purple.
Cher understood what the host was talking about in the beginning.
Cher likes living in New York.
The first question was about her family.
Michael Jackson ranked in the top five of her list.
Cher said that her list was long.
The second time Cher chose to perform a dare.
The dare was to re-enact a scene from the movie Moonstruck.
1. After listening to this video has your personal idea of Cher changed in any way? If yes, describe in what way. If no, describe your original opinion.
2. With your group members, make up questions that you would like to ask Cher.
ANSWER KEY: Cher
Category: Music | Tags: Cher


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An Interview With John Bradford, Interface Chief Science & Technology Officer
Before he was Interface's mad scientist in residence, Chief Science & Technology Officer John Bradford was the child of farmers. "We never wasted anything, we couldn't afford to," he remembers of growing up in agriculture, "Whatever you did in the spring would be your consequence in the fall, so the cycles of accountability also were fairly short." In other words, Bradford's childhood taught him the concept of a closed system, in which materials are constantly reused, even if they must change form or phase to do so. The budding engineer also learned that such loops depend on stewardship: Neglect caring for soil depleted by last year's harvest or storing rainwater from a particularly wet season, and the next crop may disappoint.
For a large-scale instance of a loop tilting off axis, Bradford points to the global carbon cycle. Almost everything on Earth includes a carbon component. Plastics are made of hydrocarbons stored within the Earth's crust, while plants photosynthesize atmospheric carbon into carbohydrates. Under historically normal circumstances, the planet would hum along as plants sequester carbon dioxide and that carbon slowly filters into earth or air through various life processes. "But essentially the Industrial Revolution was the act of taking carbon-based materials and turning them into waste over time. And when you don't reuse those materials, you pump carbon into the atmosphere at a far more abundant rate [than Earth can absorb it]," Bradford says. Because the carbon system is closed, the atmospheric carbon causing climate change today is not merely excessive; "the carbon is in the wrong place."
Is it possible to coax this loop back into balance? Or, as Bradford puts it, to "un-pump the carbon out of the atmosphere and put it into cycles that restore our environment?" A year and a half ago, Jay Gould, now President and CEO of Interface, threw down precisely that gauntlet to the company with the Climate Take Back™ initiative, which began rolling out last June. Today Interface is moving a step closer to a solution with a prototype carbon-capturing tile.
Stop the cycle when the carbon is captured; then use those materials over again #PositiveSpaces
Bradford explains that before Interface could even consider achieving net-positive environmental impact, it first had to eliminate its carbon waste. "When you declare a dream like this, there are milestones along the way," and Gould's challenge specifically stands on the shoulders of Mission Zero®, Interface's goal to eliminate any negative impact the company has on the environment by 2020. "Before we were using large amounts of water to dye our products, and energy follows water, so our energy consumption dropped dramatically when we changed our processes," Bradford recalls. In Europe, the factory in the Netherlands now runs on 100% renewable electricity and biogas based on fish and chocolate waste sourced locally from food processing companies.
On average, approximately 70% of a material's carbon footprint is attributed to raw material extraction and processing, and Bradford says even more dramatic gains can be had by closing off Interface's system of production from raw materials. "In order for us to impact our total carbon footprint, we have to redesign things," he says, citing Interface's initiatives eliminating waste, creating closed loops and reusing post-consumer materials as all-new ingredients. Net greenhouse gas emissions from the company's Global factories plummeted from 1.46kg of carbon dioxide per square metre in 1996 to just 0.12kg in 2015.
Interface could conceivably purchase enough carbon offsets to get to zero and net positive from there. Bradford personally rejects complacency. Moreover, the new prototype proves that an even greener alternative is within reach. "This is not alchemy; this is not a pipe dream," he says, "This can really be done."
Understanding just how requires taking another look at the global carbon cycle, and two systems by which carbon is extracted from the atmosphere. The first is photosynthesis. Bradford calls this a continual process of separating carbon dioxide and water into breathable oxygen and sugars (i.e. plant stored carbon). In this cycle carbon is sequestered until the plant dies or gets consumed (e.g. burned), when either of these events occur carbon leaks skyward again. Plants would either have to keep on living or get processed in specific ways for carbon to be retained and, thus, removed from the cycle.
The second system involves extracting CO2 mechanically or chemically, and propelling it back into the Earth's crust through the application of pressure or heat. This, too, has its downsides. Synthetic extraction of CO2 from the air is a complex and often energy intensive endeavor.
Bradford's Interface's carbon-capturing tile leverages the first system. But the company doesn't peddle in perennials and shrubs, nor is it in the gasification business. "This takes me back to the farm," Bradford says. "All you really need to do is stop the cycle when the carbon is captured, then use those materials over and over again."
This is exactly what the prototype tile accomplishes, by incorporating natural plant-derived carbon throughout the tile. The plants from which these resources originate have grabbed carbon from the atmosphere – in fact, harvesting the materials does not necessarily entail killing the plants – and that carbon then enters the closed system that Interface has been developing for the last two decades. "The great part of this story is that the 20 years of work that we've put into building these closed-loop processes are all part of the Climate Take Back mission. If we didn't have those, we wouldn't have a mechanism for storing the carbon we brought home." And in the unlikely case that one of these carbon-capture tiles does find its way to landfill, Bradford says, the polymers in which the tile's ingredients are encased would prevent sequestered carbon release into the atmosphere for more than a generation. In all, Bradford estimates that the tile's net emissions will reach less than -2 kilograms of carbon dioxide equivalent per square meter.
To be sure, Bradford says the draping of the carbon-capture tile remains uncertain, and Interface will need to work on scalability – this is the way of prototypes. Yet he looks forward to the evolution that will take place as users and supply-chain partners interact with the prototype and offer their feedback for improvement. That roadshow begins in London in late May, with Interface's presentation at Clerkenwell Design Week, and it continues in the United States the following month at NeoCon in Chicago.
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Q: How to install rails? I've installed ruby2.0 and made it the default:
rabdelaz@q2-apps-gss01:~$ ruby -v
ruby 2.0.0p384 (2014-01-12) [x86_64-linux-gnu]

rabdelaz@q2-apps-gss01:~$ sudo ruby -v
ruby 2.0.0p384 (2014-01-12) [x86_64-linux-gnu]

But when I go to install rails I still get the following:
rabdelaz@q2-apps-gss01:~$ sudo gem install rails
ERROR:  Error installing rails:
    i18n requires Ruby version >= 2.0.0.

My ubuntu version:
rabdelaz@q2-apps-gss01:~$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description:    Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS
Release:    14.04
Codename:   trusty

A: Well it looks like installing everything via RVM is the easiest way to go: \curl -sSL https://get.rvm.io | bash -s stable --rails (ref: https://rvm.io/rvm/install)

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Chandler Sims is a Senior Associate with the Dallas Multifamily team. Since joining CBRE in 2015, he has participated in more than 350 transactions for sales exceeding $12 billion. His primary focus is business development and formulating acquisition and disposition strategies, transaction execution and sales negotiation. Mr. Sims works in partnership with Chris Deuillet to lead client engagements on behalf of investors in the multifamily space including private client, tax credit, loan assumptions and traditional multifamily deal structures.
Mr. Sims joined the CBRE Dallas Multifamily team as a Financial Analyst, underwriting multifamily assets within the DFW Metroplex. A graduate of the United States Naval Academy, Mr. Sims entered the commercial real estate industry after serving 12 years on active duty as a helicopter pilot in the United States Marine Corps.
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package gnu.java.awt.font.opentype.truetype;

import gnu.java.awt.font.opentype.Scaler;

import java.awt.FontFormatException;
import java.awt.geom.AffineTransform;
import java.awt.geom.GeneralPath;
import java.awt.geom.Point2D;
import java.nio.ByteBuffer;

/**
 * A scaler for fonts whose outlines are described in the TrueType
 * format.
 *
 *
Lack of Thread Safety: Font scalers are intentionally
 * not safe to access from multiple concurrent threads.
 * Synchronization needs to be performed externally. Usually, the font
 * that uses this scaler already has obtained a lock before calling
 * the scaler.
 *
 * @author Sascha Brawer (brawer@dandelis.ch)
 */
public final class TrueTypeScaler
  extends Scaler
{
  /**
   * The TrueType or OpenType table that contains the glyph outlines.
   */
  private ByteBuffer glyfTable;

  /**
   * A helper object for loading glyph outlines.
   */
  private GlyphLoader glyphLoader;

  /**
   * A helper object for measuring the advance width and height of a
   * glyph.
   */
  private final GlyphMeasurer glyphMeasurer;

  private final Zone glyphZone;

  /**
   * The number of units per em. A typical value is 2048, but some
   * font use other numbers as well.
   */
  private int unitsPerEm;

  /**
   * Constructs a new TrueTypeScaler.
   *
   * @param unitsPerEm the number of font units per em. This value can
   * be retrieved from the font’s head table.
   *
   * @param maxp the maxp table of the font, which
   * contains various constants needed for setting up the virtual
   * machine that interprets TrueType bytecodes.
   *
   * @param controlValueTable the cvt table of the font,
   * which contains the initial values of the control value table.
   *
   * @param fpgm the fpgm table of the font, which
   * contains a font program that is executed exactly once.  The
   * purpose of the font program is to define functions and to patch
   * the interpreter.
   *
   * @param locaFormat the format of the loca table.  The
   * value must be 0 for two-byte offsets, or 1 for four-byte
   * offsets. TrueType and OpenType fonts indicate the format in the
   * indexToLoc field of the font header.
   *
   * @param loca the loca table of the font, which
   * contains for each glyph the offset of its outline data
   * in glyf.
   *
   * @param glyf the glyf table of the font, which
   * contains the outline data for all glyphs in the font.
   *
   * @param preProgram the prep table of the font, which
   * contains a program that is executed whenever the point size or
   * the device transform have changed.  This program is called
   * pre-program because it gets executed before the instructions of
   * the individual glyphs.  If the font does not contain a
   * pre-program, pass null.
   *
   * @throws FontFormatException if format is neither 0
   * nor 1.
   */
  public TrueTypeScaler(int unitsPerEm,
                        ByteBuffer hhea,
                        ByteBuffer htmx,
                        ByteBuffer vhea,
                        ByteBuffer vtmx,
                        ByteBuffer maxp,
                        ByteBuffer controlValueTable,
                        ByteBuffer fpgm,
                        int locaFormat, ByteBuffer loca,
                        ByteBuffer glyf,
                        ByteBuffer preProgram)
    throws FontFormatException
  {
    int maxContours, maxPoints;
    VirtualMachine vm;

    maxContours = Math.max(/* maxContours */ (int) maxp.getChar(8),
                           /* maxCompositeContours */ (int) maxp.getChar(12))
      + /* fix for some broken fonts */ 8;
    maxPoints = Math.max(/* maxPoints */ (int) maxp.getChar(6),
                         /* maxCompositePoints */ (int) maxp.getChar(10))
      + /* fix for some broken fonts */ 12;

    glyphZone = new Zone(maxPoints + /* four phantom points */ 4);
    this.glyfTable = glyf;
    vm = new VirtualMachine(unitsPerEm, maxp,
                            controlValueTable, fpgm,
                            preProgram);

    GlyphLocator locator = GlyphLocator.forTable(locaFormat, loca, glyf);
    glyphMeasurer = new GlyphMeasurer(hhea, htmx, vhea, vtmx);
    glyphLoader = new GlyphLoader(locator, vm, unitsPerEm,
                                  maxContours, maxPoints,
                                  glyphMeasurer);

    this.unitsPerEm = unitsPerEm;
  }

  /**
   * Retrieves the scaled outline of a glyph, adjusting control points
   * to the raster grid if necessary.
   *
   * @param glyphIndex the glyph number whose outline is retrieved.
   *
   * @param pointSize the point size for the glyph.
   *
   * @param deviceTransform an affine transformation for the device.
   *
   * @param antialias whether or not the rasterizer will perform
   * anti-aliasing on the returned path.
   *
   * @param fractionalMetrics false for adjusting glyph
   * positions to the raster grid of device space.
   */
  public GeneralPath getOutline(int glyphIndex,
                                float pointSize,
                                AffineTransform deviceTransform,
                                boolean antialias,
                                boolean fractionalMetrics)
  {
    glyphLoader.loadGlyph(glyphIndex, pointSize, deviceTransform,
                          antialias, glyphZone);
    return glyphZone.getPath();
  }

  /**
   * Determines the advance width and height for a glyph.
   *
   * @param glyphIndex the glyph whose advance width and height is to
   * be determined.
   *
   * @param pointSize the point size of the font.
   *
   * @param transform a transform that is applied in addition to
   * scaling to the specified point size. This is often used for
   * scaling according to the device resolution. Those who lack any
   * aesthetic sense may also use the transform to slant or stretch
   * glyphs.
   *
   * @param antialias true for anti-aliased rendering,
   * false for normal rendering. For hinted fonts,
   * this parameter may indeed affect the result.
   *
   * @param fractionalMetrics true for fractional metrics,
   * false for rounding the result to a pixel boundary.
   *
   * @param horizontal true for horizontal line layout,
   * false for vertical line layout.
   *
   * @param advance a point whose x and y
   * fields will hold the advance in each direction. It is possible
   * that both values are non-zero, for example if
   * transform is a rotation, or in the case of Urdu
   * fonts.
   */
  public void getAdvance(int glyphIndex,
                         float pointSize,
                         AffineTransform transform,
                         boolean antialias,
                         boolean fractionalMetrics,
                         boolean horizontal,
                         Point2D advance)
  {
    double x, y;
    double scaleFactor = (double) pointSize / unitsPerEm;

    /* FIXME: Should grid-fit if needed. Also, use cache if present
     * in the font.
     */
    advance.setLocation(
      scaleFactor * glyphMeasurer.getAdvanceWidth(glyphIndex, horizontal),
      scaleFactor * glyphMeasurer.getAdvanceHeight(glyphIndex, horizontal));

    transform.transform(advance, advance);
  }

  /**
   * Scales a value from font units to pixels, given the point size
   * and the transform.
   *
   * @param pointSize the point size of the font.
   *
   * @param transform a transform that is applied in addition to
   * scaling to the specified point size. This is often used for
   * scaling according to the device resolution.
   *
   * @param fractionalMetrics true for fractional
   * metrics, false for rounding the result to a pixel
   * boundary.
   *
   * @param horizontal true if the funits
   * value is along the x axis, false if it is along the
   * y axis.
   */
  private float scaleFromFUnits(int funits,
                                float pointSize,
                                AffineTransform transform,
                                boolean fractionalMetrics,
                                boolean horizontal)
  {
    double s;

    s = (double) pointSize / unitsPerEm;
    if (transform != null)
      s *= horizontal ? transform.getScaleY() : transform.getScaleX();
    s *= funits;
    if (!fractionalMetrics)
      s = Math.round(s);
    return (float) s;
  }

  /**
   * Determines the distance between the base line and the highest
   * ascender.
   *
   * @param pointSize the point size of the font.
   *
   * @param transform a transform that is applied in addition to
   * scaling to the specified point size. This is often used for
   * scaling according to the device resolution. Those who lack any
   * aesthetic sense may also use the transform to slant or stretch
   * glyphs.
   *
   * @param antialias true for anti-aliased rendering,
   * false for normal rendering. For hinted fonts,
   * this parameter may indeed affect the result.
   *
   * @param fractionalMetrics true for fractional metrics,
   * false for rounding the result to a pixel boundary.
   *
   * @param horizontal true for horizontal line layout,
   * false for vertical line layout.
   *
   * @return the ascent, which usually is a positive number.
   */
  public float getAscent(float pointSize,
                         AffineTransform transform,
                         boolean antialias,
                         boolean fractionalMetrics,
                         boolean horizontal)
  {
    /* Note that the ascent is orthogonal to the direction of line
     * layout: If the line direction is horizontal, the measurement of
     * ascent is along the vertical axis, and vice versa.
     */
    return scaleFromFUnits(glyphMeasurer.getAscent(horizontal),
                           pointSize,
                           transform,
                           fractionalMetrics,
                           /* reverse */ !horizontal);
  }

  /**
   * Determines the distance between the base line and the lowest
   * descender.
   *
   * @param pointSize the point size of the font.
   *
   * @param transform a transform that is applied in addition to
   * scaling to the specified point size. This is often used for
   * scaling according to the device resolution. Those who lack any
   * aesthetic sense may also use the transform to slant or stretch
   * glyphs.
   *
   * @param antialiased true for anti-aliased rendering,
   * false for normal rendering. For hinted fonts,
   * this parameter may indeed affect the result.
   *
   * @param fractionalMetrics true for fractional metrics,
   * false for rounding the result to a pixel boundary.
   *
   * @param horizontal true for horizontal line layout,
   * false for vertical line layout.
   *
   * @return the descent, which usually is a nagative number.
   */
  public float getDescent(float pointSize,
                          AffineTransform transform,
                          boolean antialiased,
                          boolean fractionalMetrics,
                          boolean horizontal)
  {
    /* Note that the descent is orthogonal to the direction of line
     * layout: If the line direction is horizontal, the measurement of
     * descent is along the vertical axis, and vice versa.
     */
    return scaleFromFUnits(glyphMeasurer.getDescent(horizontal),
                           pointSize,
                           transform,
                           fractionalMetrics,
                           /* reverse */ !horizontal);
  }
}

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namespace DTA\MetadataBundle\Model\Workflow;

use DTA\MetadataBundle\Model\Workflow\om\BasePartnerQuery;

class PartnerQuery extends BasePartnerQuery
{
}


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With one of my blogging friends (Tara) recently getting engaged and another (Steph) having just got married, when I was contacted by Vashi Diamonds to talk about their collection of Zodiac rings, I thought it might be nice to share them. I am interested in Zodiac signs and how traits and temperament are influenced by them; I am a Virgo and I definitely feel that I match the traits to that sign quite well; I am a perfectionist and I am organised, I also tend to gravitate towards the colours that suit that sign such as neutrals and earth tones, and I prefer the classic style of dressing to anything too 'on trend' as befits a person of this Zodiac sign.
I was interested to see how Vashi would take these individual traits and use them to create a range of engagement rings. Personal style is very important to a lot of people and you would have to like a ring such as this an awful lot to consider it as an engagement ring, a piece of jewellery that you will wear for the rest of your life!
When I saw the lookbook, I of course skipped straight to the 'Virgo' ring and I have to say, it is probably the most 'me' of all of the rings featured. I love the simple cut, and the way the diamond is on it's own with no other stones around it. I think it looks very elegant and very beautiful. If I was being picky I would have made the band a bit finer, I don't like thick rings so much and this is pretty close to perfect other than that. I would also probably have a yellow gold band as I wear more of that colour than white gold, but in terms of the styling of the ring I think it's just lovely.
I'll be interested to hear whether you like the ring that pertains to your own sign, or whether you prefer another? It's an interesting idea and I wonder whether someone of a particular sign would be innately drawn to the ring that was crafted with them in mind.
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Jamestown Foundation
Growing Urban Islamist Militancy in Punjab Province Poses New Challenge for Pakistani Authorities
Date: October 30, 2011Author: ziaurrehman 0 Comments
Publication: Terrorism Monitor Volume: 9 Issue: 39
October 28, 2011 01:11 PM Age: 1 days
By: Zia Ur Rehman
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While Pakistan has directed its focus and significant resources to fighting terrorism in theFederally Administrated Tribal Areas (FATA) and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK), the growing activities of banned militant organizations and their influence in Punjab, the country's most populous province, have been largely ignored. Militants, most trained in Afghanistan and others ex-inmates of Afghan prisons, have recently surfaced in Punjab and become active in Punjabi jihadi groups.
The Punjabi militant network is a loose conglomeration of members of banned militant groups of Punjabi origin that have developed strong connections with the Tehrki-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), al-Qaeda, the Afghan Taliban and other militant groups based in FATA and KPK. Members shuttle between FATA and the rest of Pakistan, providing logistical support to FATA and Afghanistan-based militants to conduct terrorist operations deep inside Pakistan.
The main banned organizations with leadership and headquarters in Punjab include Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ), Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan (SSP), Jummat ud-Dawa (JuD), Jaish-e-Muhammad (JeM), Harkatul Jihadul Islami (HJI), all working in collaboration with the TTP and al-Qaeda (Central Asia Online, May 10). These sectarian groups are active in the Punjabi cities of Jhang, Lahore, Faisalabad, Gujranwala, Khanewal, Dera Ghazi Khan, Rahimyar Khan, Muzaffergarh, Layyah, and Gujranwala, leaving the government with the difficult task of eliminating these groups with actions other than those already taken in the tribal areas. [1] The LeT's governing offices are located in Muridke and Lahore while the SSP is controlled from Jhang district. Similarly, LeJ takes directions from Rahimyar Khan and the JeM is linked with its center in Bahawalpur (Viewpoint Online [Pakistan], July 16, 2011). [2]
Media reports suggest that a large number of militants from Punjab have joined hands with the TTP as well as the Afghan Taliban in recent years. With significant numbers of recruits from Punjab-based sectarian organizations, the TTP has proved to be lethal to government efforts to establish order on the frontier (Outlook [Kabul] May 6). According to the figures of the ten largest jihadi organizations, the number of "martyrs" from Punjab is more than 12,000, of which roughly 4,000 have lost their lives in Afghanistan. [3] An intelligence report recently prepared by the provincial government's Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) revealed that 2,487 militants trained in Afghanistan and 556 militants released from Afghan prisons have surfaced in the province and are now active in the Punjabi Taliban Network (Express Tribune [Karachi] August 30).
Terrorist and suicide attacks inside Punjab have increased significantly since the Pakistan military's offensive in South Waziristan in October 2009. Most of the terrorists involved in the attacks belonged to a variety of Punjabi cities, with most hailing from the province's southern region:
The terrorists involved in the September 20, 2008 suicide attack on the Marriot Hotel Islamabad belonged to Toba Tek Singh, Attock and Chakwal. These militants were members of the HJI, headed by Qari Safiullah (Asia Tribune, July 28, 2009).
Dr Usman, who masterminded the October 10, 2010 attack on the Pakistan Army's General Headquarter (GHQ) as well as several other suicide attacks, is a native of Kabirwala.
Asmatullah Muwaia, a key leader of the TTP in South Waziristan and master trainer of suicide bombers, also belongs to Kabirwala.
Osman, the head of a LeJ splinter group operating in the southern region of Punjab, was wounded and arrested in the GHQ attack. Recently a military court pronounced a death sentence on the LeJ commander (The News [Islamabad] August 13).
Similarly, the persons attacking the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) headquarters in Lahore also belonged to cities in South Punjab.
A large number of "Punjabi Taliban" belonging to the LeJ, the SSP, the JuD, the HJI and other splinter groups, are especially active in the tribal region (The News [Islamabad] August 18). [4] Interior Minister Rehman Malik has also written to the Punjab government asking them to take action against the anti-Shi'a militants based in Jhang district, following a September 20 attack on an Iran-bound bus in the Mastung district of Balochistan that killed 29 Shi'a pilgrims (BBC, October 4).
According to security officials, Shehbaz Taseer, son of slain Punjab governor Salman Taseer, was abducted from the provincial capital of Lahore on August 6 by Punjab-based militants. [5] Interior Minister Rehman Malik has said that Taseer has been shifted to the Pakistan-Afghanistan border, most probably to North Waziristan (Dawn [Karachi], October 17). The abductee's family members disclosed that they had received threats from militant groups since Governor Taseer was shot dead earlier this year for urging reforms to Pakistan's blasphemy laws (see Terrorism Monitor, February 24). Similarly, responsibility for the killing of Pakistan's Christian Minorities minister Shehbaz Bhatti was claimed by a group calling itself the "Punjabi Taliban" (AP, March 2). Punjabi militant groups have also played an important role in attacking Ahmadis, Shi'a, Sufis and other civilian targets in the province (see Terrorism Monitor, June 12, 2010).
The main reason for the emergence of a militant mind-set in Punjab is the rapid growth of religious madrassas (seminaries), most of them tied to militant organizations. There are a total of 5,500 religious madrassas in the Punjab, the majority of them belonging to the Deobandi sect. Students enrolled in these madrassas are from Pakistan-controlled Kashmir and KPK as well as Punjab. Religious madrassas based in Punjab provide 40% of recruits to the jihadi outfits. [6] A Punjab CTD report reveals that at least 170 madrassas in Punjab are involved in "suspected activities," a reference to their role in militant networks, preaching of jihad and spreading sectarian violence against the Punjab's Shi'a and Ahmadi communities (Express Tribune, August 30).
It is also believed that Pakistan's intelligence agencies and Punjab's ruling party, the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), have good relationships with the banned militant organizations. The Punjab government is known to have provided nearly $1 million worth of financial assistance to JuD in its provincial budget while senior leaders of PML-N (particularly law minister Rana Sanaullah) are seen campaigning with militant leaders and aggravating interfaith harmony (Express Tribune, June 18, 2010).
Although Punjab is not in imminent danger of a Taliban takeover, the expansion of militant activities in the province, if unchecked, could have serious outcomes for Pakistan's stability, the war in Afghanistan, the Indo-Pakistani relationship and the future of international terrorism. Unlike the Taliban entrenchment in South Waziristan and Swat, Punjabi militants are scattered across a large province instead of being concentrated in a single region where effective counterterrorism, intelligence and police operations are more likely to be able to contain their operations without massive military intervention. An initial step to dealing with the security crisis in Punjab would involve the provincial government and the national intelligence agencies abandoning their "strategic partnership" and selective attitude in dealing with banned militant groups.
1. Mujahid Hussain, Punjabi Taliban, Nigharshat Publishers, Lahore, 2009.
2. Interview with Muhammad Amir Rana, Director of Pakistan Institute of Peace Studies (PIPS), August 16, 2011. A government ban on these jihadist organizations merely led them to operate under different names. SSP began operating under the names of Millat-e-Islamia and Ahle-e-Sunnat Wal Jammat, JeM as al-Furqan and Khuddamul Islam, and JuD or Lashkar-e-Tayyaba as Falah-e-Insaniat Foundation.
3. Muhammad Amir Rana, A to Z of Jihadi Organizations in Pakistan, Mashal Books, Lahore, 2009.
4. Interview with a Bannu-based journalist who requested anonymity, October 16, 2011.
5. Interview with a Lahore-based senior police official who requested anonymity, October 16, 2011.
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Lynne Riding
"For F" 60 x 84 Acrylic on Canvas / Mixed Media
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"Pritchard's Island" 53 x 46 Oil on Linen
"Ocean 19" 36 x 48 Encaustic on Panel
"CB #30" 12 x 12 Natural Pigment on Paper/ Panel Silver Leaf
Lynne Riding is a visual artist living and working in Charleston, SC.
She received an MFA in Painting from the San Francisco Art Institute, a BFA in Fashion and Textiles from Manchester College of Art, UK and a 2 year Art Foundation from Hereford School of Art & Design, UK.
In addition to practicing as a professional artist, she has been an art educator at university level, currently serving as a faculty member at the Art institute of Charleston, SC.
Riding has exhibited extensively throughout the country in states such as SC, CA, FL, NM, AZ, and OK.
Highlights include invitational exhibits such as: "Abstract Art in SC, 1949-2012", State Museum, Columbia, SC. "30th Parallel- a Convergence of Contemporary Painting", 2005, JMOMA, Jacksonville, FL, and "CYMK", 2005, Trans America Pyramid, San Francisco, CA.
A childhood spent in Mid Wales instilled, a love of landscape and certain awe for the power and fluctuations of the elements. As an inveterate traveler of both land and sea, she draws on these experiences in her work. Many of the physical and mental experiences from her past sailing and competitive windsurfing experiences, together with memories of hiking in the hills of home, to current daily walking, find their way into her work.
Initially a representational artist, her work was originally concerned with both the landscape and the figure, the two combining at times. During 2002 Riding's work took a turn, this due to the wish to instill more inner depth and felt meaning to each piece, and so, her focus turned to abstraction.


Welcome to AFC Wimbledon (England - League 1) statistics. Below you find a lot of statistics for this team. Last and next matches, top scores, best players, under/over stats, handicap etc.
AFC Wimbledon is currently on the 19 place in the League 1 table. Last game played with Oxford, which ended with result: Draw 0:0.The best players AFC Wimbledon in all leagues, who scored the most goals for the club: Joe Pigott 17 goals, Kwesi Appiah 9 goals, Anthony Wordsworth 5 goals, James Hanson 5 goals, Mitchell Pinnock 4 goals, Scott Wagstaff 4 goals, Andy Barcham 2 goals, Jake Jervis 2 goals, Michael Folivi 2 goals, Anthony Hartigan 2 goals.
Statistics of matches that the team AFC Wimbledon won or lost with a particular goal difference.


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Venue Lighting: Bright times ahead
General advice states that you shouldn't believe your own hype. However, even though I'm a lighting practitioner, fully conversant in the 'tricks of the trade', I can still be sucked in through a door by good lighting, and then even allow lighting to influence or dictate the very experience I have in that venue!
Take the humble toilet for example. As busy, globetrotting professionals, how many hotel, restaurant and bar toilet visits are clocked up every year across the globe? (I couldn't even begin to find a statistic for this.) But ask me which toilet I have graced on my travels that springs to mind, and my immediate response is New York's Bar 89. For those of you who haven't been there (because, trust me, those of you who have will remember) the toilets at Bar 89 are a visitor attraction in themselves. Prospective users (of both sexes) are greeted by a row of transparent cubicles lit in different colours – it's not unknown for the uninitiated fainthearted to return cross-legged to their tables. But for those prepared to brazen it out, upon entering the cubicle and closing the door, the glass cross-fades to opaqueness, with the word 'occupied' projected on the door. That lighting scheme is infamous for generating physical responses in visitors – panic-inducing for some – and at the very least proves a talking point for others. I specifically selected that restaurant one New Year's Eve, owing to the reputation of the bathroom lighting, so it's a great example of the role lighting plays in enticing the customer into a venue.
Concentrating on venue lighting as opposed to commercial sector installations, if we practitioners agree that lighting can make or break a space, do those people with the power to sign off the cheques for venue installations also recognise its imperativeness? Or rather, how is the state of the market?
In a nutshell, all indications suggest it is buoyant to say the least. And while some in the industry are more reserved in their future predictions than others, there is nothing to suggest a slowdown in the market, in any specific venue sector.
Architectural sales manager for lighting control manufacturer Lutron, Anoushka Sulley, confirms this, saying: "The market is strong and, actually, I would say things are on the increase. I can't predict the future, but right now, we are busier than we were." At the other end of the control line, luminaire manufacturer Martin Professional's Morten Gjøtz, vice president – leisure, reports the same. "For the past few years, we have seen increased growth in the venue installation market. And while Western Europe is still taking the lead, Eastern Europe is definitely picking up."
A geographically connected Europe doesn't necessarily lend itself to an even economy across the entire territory, and there are some notable highlights, specifically in the east. John Saunders, product manager for Anolis, the architectural arm of ROBE lighting, says: "Central and Eastern Europe are very busy. In areas such as Croatia and Romania, it is the natural development of the countries and their infrastructures that is driving specific growth. We see growth right across Europe, and I would say it has actually increased. If the UK dips we have this surge in Central and Eastern Europe." And what of the (if the media are to be believed) ailing UK? Cheshire-based i-Pix designs and builds LED fixtures for the architectural and entertainment industries. The company's Chris Ewington comments: "You hear talk of recession on the news all the time, but none of our customer base, both international and UK, are complaining about depression, if anything far from it."
This is echoed by Roger Hennigan, technical sales manager for White Light: "Certainly in the UK we are getting more and more enquiries for architectural systems. People are very aware of the importance of venue lighting; any slowdown certainly hasn't hit us, although a lot of projects will have been costed and funded previously." "There is no disputing what people are saying on the news, but at the same time I haven't seen a slowdown yet," continues Lutron's Sulley. "I think it depends on what sector of the market you are in, and at Lutron we cross sectors."
Balancing out
Diversification is then perhaps the key, if it were to transpire that there is indeed a lag time due to hit. But the benefit of hindsight is something that manufacturers and installers don't afford themselves, and a continued drip-feed reporting of impending recession does nothing to allay concerns. But for those companies that span the globe, it's perhaps reasonable to expect a downturn in one area to be counterbalanced by the upturn of another region.
So what specific factors are driving the market? Already touched upon is general development in certain countries, primarily within Eastern Europe. But perhaps more important is increased consumer intelligence and hence raised expectations. You cannot fail to notice in everyday life the everincreasing variety of products and gadgets available to the consumer. Even in the local DIY store, a humble rotary dimmer is now outsmarted by dimmers operated with the TV remote control! Consumer savviness increases technological expectations that permeate all aspects of life, including raising the bar in the social environment.
"The brief is much higher these days," says Sulley. "A client understands that light is such an integral part of design and knows that it is going to make the difference in their luxury hotel or bar." Wayne Howell, managing director at Artistic Licence, a manufacturer of control, lighting and test equipment, also observes this trend in end-users' expectations. "People's personal use of technology has evolved in terms of internet integration – take iPhones for example – and how simply you can download music. People have an expectation that they can buy a box and it will just be able to talk to other things. I think this echoes through into the industry and expectations of connectivity and functionality increase."
Payback versus status
Peter van der Kolk of Helvar, a manufacturer of ballasts and control electronics for the luminaire industry, identifies other impacting factors. "For commercial buildings, energy legislation is driving the market, however for architectural design it's really about ambience; it's quite intangible," he says. "When the focus is on energy saving and cost of ownership, there needs to be a payback period of typically two or three years. Architectural projects, however, are about creating atmosphere and are often not directly linked with payback periods but rather the status of the building itself."
With the market driving forward in terms of technology and level of business, LEDs continue to dominate. The very nature of their size lends LEDs to installation in previously unchartered territories within a building, making them a 'must-have' for designers seeking to secrete light sources into ceiling coves, wall recesses and the like. Equally beneficial, the eff iciency and potential energy saving of LED fixtures almost needs no introduction, as professionals and the general public become increasingly educated. But, to date, not every aspect of LED technology has advanced as much as some would have hoped, and it is still some way off meeting all the demands placed upon it by practitioners looking for viable alternatives to traditional lighting.
"There are still a lot of issues with LED and until they are solved, I think we are awaiting the 'real breakthrough'," says van der Kolk. "Thermal management of products is one challenge, and colour rendering. LED is a very interesting light source, but replacing general lighting with LED will still take a bit of time. "It's difficult to say how long, if someone solves the issues tomorrow it could be in the next two years perhaps, but otherwise I think it will take another five to 10 years before it replaces traditional lighting. And there are political issues. Traditional lamp suppliers are not going to jeopardise their factories for normal lamp production so there will be some strategic planning behind the introduction as well."
So what is the take on progress from one such LED manufacturer? Erik Milz, director of strategic marketing for indoor lighting at Philips Lumileds, is unreserved in his excitement for pending and current technology. "In the past couple of years the technology has reached the point where the performance and efficiency levels make sense for general lighting applications; we are really on the cusp!
"Solid-state lighting is going to be on the increase for quite some time; I think we are just at the ramp-up period right now. We are seeing a lot of pilot programmes, large hotel chains, for example, that are implementing solid-state lighting in one hotel, and evaluating it. I think when we get to later in 2009- 10, we will see a significant 'hockey stick effect', of a broader mass adoption of the technology."
This phenomenon is also observed by the Anolis team. "We have always been involved in public areas within hotels, such as reception areas, bars and leisure facilities, but there has definitely been a swing in the past 12 months where it is becoming more acceptable for LED technology to be introduced into the guest rooms," says Sanders. "People are definitely making the effort to find alternative sources, and we are working in three or four hotels where the guest rooms will include LED as general lighting."
The talent that LEDs have for decorative lighting is a given, but the jury is still hung on the readiness of 'white' LED for general lighting in the here and now. And while, arguably, few would disagree that it's in the albeit unpredictable offing, how designers are responding in this limbo perhaps serves to illustrate their impatience for future technology.
"The most difficult target is the room with a ceiling full of fluorescent tubes," continues Milz. "We are seeing lighting designers becoming more creative about how they design those types of environment. Creativity is used and we stop flooding the area with light and focus more on task lighting, and LEDs are perfect. Where you have designers that continue to look to flood the area, we are probably still four to five years away from seeing significant options for that type of application."
It's important not to limit the armoury at a designer's disposal, and become blinded by fashion trends. The old 'horses for courses' adage still applies. Martin's Gjøtz agrees: "The advantages of LED are fantastic, but you have to be aware of its limitations. Of course LED is a 'must do' part of the installation but combine it with other fixtures; I think that is really key. The most successful venues we are seeing globally are the ones integrating all kinds of technology to give the best possible experience for the customer."
The crystal ball is (almost) definitive when it comes to the future of LEDs. At some undetermined point in time, LED technology will get brighter and therefore entirely viable for general lighting; the real conundrum is when? And in other areas such as control, Artistic's Howell raises key points: "Ethernet for control is going to take off in a huge way, and inevitably we are going to see more products that have Ethernet connectors, possibly as well as, or instead of, DMX. The other development will be in 'convergence'; show control, lighting control, building management, building maintenance, all starting to converge in the sense of systems being able to talk to each other and make intelligent use of functionality. This could include sending the building manager an email that a lamp needs replacing, along with details of its location. Time-saving uses of technology are something we can look forward to in the next couple of years."
Howell goes on to suggest "significant" changes in customers' perceptions of the sales process owing to familiarity with internet purchasing, as well as a reduction in tradeshows, as they shift from a product focus to networking – an interesting debate for another time. For those riding troughs instead of peaks, only history will serve as judge, but manufacturers and installers have every reason to feel confident in the outlook for the market, while consumers continue to enjoy raised standards in design and technology.
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package org.apache.hadoop.hbase.coprocessor;

import java.io.IOException;
import org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configuration;
import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.CoprocessorEnvironment;
import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.HBaseInterfaceAudience;
import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.ServerName;
import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.Connection;
import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.metrics.MetricRegistry;
import org.apache.yetus.audience.InterfaceAudience;
import org.apache.yetus.audience.InterfaceStability;

@InterfaceAudience.LimitedPrivate(HBaseInterfaceAudience.COPROC)
@InterfaceStability.Evolving
public interface MasterCoprocessorEnvironment extends CoprocessorEnvironment<MasterCoprocessor> {
  /** Returns Hosting Server's ServerName */
  ServerName getServerName();

  /**
   * Returns the hosts' Connection to the Cluster. Do not close! This is a shared connection with
   * the hosting server. Throws {@link UnsupportedOperationException} if you try to close or abort
   * it. For light-weight usage only. Heavy-duty usage will pull down the hosting RegionServer
   * responsiveness as well as that of other Coprocessors making use of this Connection. Use to
   * create table on start or to do administrative operations. Coprocessors should create their own
   * Connections if heavy usage to avoid impinging on hosting Server operation. To create a
   * Connection or if a Coprocessor requires a region with a particular Configuration, use
   * {@link org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.ConnectionFactory} or
   * {@link #createConnection(Configuration)}}.
   *

   * Be aware that operations that make use of this Connection are executed as the RegionServer
   * User, the hbase super user that started this server process. Exercise caution running
   * operations as this User (See {@link #createConnection(Configuration)}} to run as other than the
   * RegionServer User).
   *

   * Be careful RPC'ing from a Coprocessor context. RPC's will fail, stall, retry, and/or crawl
   * because the remote side is not online, is struggling or it is on the other side of a network
   * partition. Any use of Connection from inside a Coprocessor must be able to handle all such
   * hiccups.
   * @see #createConnection(Configuration)
   * @return The host's Connection to the Cluster.
   */
  Connection getConnection();

  /**
   * Creates a cluster connection using the passed Configuration. Creating a Connection is a
   * heavy-weight operation. The resultant Connection's cache of region locations will be empty.
   * Therefore you should cache and reuse Connections rather than create a Connection on demand.
   * Create on start of your Coprocessor. You will have to cast the CoprocessorEnvironment
   * appropriately to get at this API at start time because Coprocessor start method is passed a
   * subclass of this CoprocessorEnvironment or fetch Connection using a synchronized accessor
   * initializing the Connection on first access. Close the returned Connection when done to free
   * resources. Using this API rather than
   * {@link org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.ConnectionFactory#createConnection(Configuration)}
   * returns a Connection that will short-circuit RPC if the target is a local resource. Use
   * ConnectionFactory if you don't need this ability.
   *

   * Be careful RPC'ing from a Coprocessor context. RPC's will fail, stall, retry, and/or crawl
   * because the remote side is not online, is struggling or it is on the other side of a network
   * partition. Any use of Connection from inside a Coprocessor must be able to handle all such
   * hiccups.
   * @return Connection created using the passed conf.
   */
  Connection createConnection(Configuration conf) throws IOException;

  /**
   * Returns a MetricRegistry that can be used to track metrics at the master level.
   *

   * See ExampleMasterObserverWithMetrics class in the hbase-examples modules for examples of how
   * metrics can be instantiated and used.
   *

   * @return A MetricRegistry for the coprocessor class to track and export metrics.
   */
  MetricRegistry getMetricRegistryForMaster();
}


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Cardiff stumble, five-star Hull go second
Published Sunday, March 03, 2013
Championship leaders Cardiff crashed to a 2-1 defeat at Middlesbrough, while promotion rivals Hull regained second place with a 5-2 demolition of Birmingham on Saturday.
Malky Mackay's table-toppers saw their lead cut to five points following their first defeat in 10 away league games.
Former England midfielder Kieron Dyer's first league goal since 2007 put the hosts ahead in the 13th minute before on-loan Newcastle forward Sammy Ameobi marked his debut with the second four minutes later.
Aron Gunnarsson's seventh goal of the campaign reduced the deficit in the 67th minute, but there was no way back for Cardiff as Middlesbrough remain in the hunt for a play-off berth.
While Cardiff stumbled, Steve Bruce's Hull closed the gap on the leaders after an emphatic win over struggling Birmingham at the KC Stadium.
George Boyd and Mohamed Gedo both scored twice for the Tigers with Robert Koren also on the scoresheet as they bounced back from last weekend's 4-1 defeat at Bolton.
Hull were two goals to the good after just 11 minutes with Boyd scoring after just 46 seconds and Gedo firing home from 12 yards in a blistering start.
Boyd added his second just before the half hour mark as Hull secured a three-goal cushion before Koren struck after the break with Gedo beating Jack Butland again in the 76th minute.
Peter Lovenkrands and Christopher Burke scored late goals for Birmingham but Hull had done enough to take advantage of third placed Watford's 1-1 draw against Wolves on Friday.
Fifth-placed Leicester slipped up in their promotion bid as they lost 1-0 to Ipswich.
Substitute David McGoldrick claimed an 85th-minute winner for Mick McCarthy's side.
Leonardo Ulloa hit a hat-trick as Brighton continued their promotion push with a 4-1 win over Huddersfield.
Blackburn were blown away by a first-half Dwight Gayle hat-trick before Peterborough withstood a second-half fightback to climb off the bottom of the table with a 3-2 win at Ewood Park.
Leeds earned a 1-0 win over Millwall at Elland Road thanks to Stephen Warnock's 72nd-minute penalty after Ross McCormack saw his earlier spot-kick saved by Lions goalkeeper David Forde.
Craig Dawson struck the decisive goal for Bolton in the 3-2 win over Barnsley as they stepped up their play-off push by extending their unbeaten run to six matches.
David Ngog and Jay Spearing scored for Bolton before Tomasz Cywka and Chris O'Grady levelled the scores. Dawson then fired the winner in the 59th minute.
Elsewhere, Burnley beat Charlton 1-0 thanks to Charlie Austin's first-half goal while Blackpool drew 0-0 against Bristol City.


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Biden says Putin "knows there are consequences" if cyberattacks continue
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If you found yourself in an hours-long line for expensive gas last month, then you're probably familiar with the damage that ransomware attacks can do. The federal government certainly is.
During President Joe Biden's much-anticipated first meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday, the two leaders said they talked about the recent cyberattacks on some of the United States' most crucial systems and infrastructure, many of which have been traced to Russia. They agreed to further discuss both what critical infrastructure should be considered off-limits to cyberattacks and how to go after ransomware gangs operating within their borders. Last year's SolarWinds hack was directly attributed to the Russian government, and recent ransomware attacks on industries, including energy, food, and transportation, have been blamed on criminal organizations based in or near Russia — possibly with the country's knowledge and approval.
Putin claimed in a subsequent press conference that Russia had nothing to do with the attacks (he has denied any involvement in the past). In a separate press conference, Biden said he told Putin in no uncertain terms that the cyberattacks couldn't go on.
"He knows there are consequences," Biden said.
Biden also said he told Putin that he expects Russia to act against any criminal ransomware organizations operating within its borders, just as the United States would against any organizations operating within its own.
The United States government has already stepped up its response back home. The Biden administration sent a letter to corporations and business leaders with recommendations for how they can better protect themselves from attacks, and a plea that they do so. The DOJ formed a task force dedicated to ransomware, which has already managed to recover part of the ransom Colonial Pipeline paid to its attackers. And FBI director Christopher Wray even compared the ransomware attack epidemic to 9/11.
Wray's comparison might be a bit extreme. There's no evidence that a ransomware attack has been directly responsible for any deaths, let alone nearly 3,000 of them. But it should now be clear to everyone that ransomware is a serious issue that affects and disrupts even the most critical sectors. The attacks are ramping up in frequency and severity, and the US government is ready to throw everything it can at the problem in order to stop them — including, reportedly, giving ransomware attack investigations the same priority that they do terrorism.
But for all that, ransomware isn't new. There have been several high-profile attacks in the last few months that have given the issue more attention, but ransomware has been a major, and growing, issue for years. Wealthier and more sophisticated criminal organizations, new extortion tactics, and the pandemic have exacerbated the problem. But other factors — cryptocurrency, poor cybersecurity, and the fact that the ransoms often get paid and the attackers get away with it — have been around for a long time. And they may be here for a long time to come. A stern lecture at the leader of the Russian government almost certainly won't be enough to stop them.
Ransomware, explained
Ransomware is malware that locks up access to its victim's systems and then demands a ransom, usually in cryptocurrency, to unlock them. How the malware gets in the systems depends on the type used, but email phishing attacks are one of the most common ways. You may only need one employee out of thousands to open the wrong email and click on the wrong link if a company's systems are properly secured, and spoofed emails can be pretty convincing. Hackers may also exploit vulnerabilities in a company's systems or mount a brute force attack, which involves guessing at access credentials (like passwords) until they get one right.
"It could be a user with a weak password, it could be a user that clicks on a phishing email, or it could be a vulnerability in the system itself," Jonathan Katz, a professor of computer science at the University of Maryland, told Recode. "One way or the other, they're able to get this malware installed on computer systems."
The most common victims have been institutions or companies that are especially vulnerable to an attack and motivated to get their systems back online as soon as possible. The health care sector, for instance, has been one of the most targeted because the consequences of not paying the ransom quickly can be dire, from not being able to provide health care to sensitive patient data being leaked — or even the patients themselves being blackmailed not to have their data released. Municipal or government systems, from school districts to large cities like Atlanta and Baltimore, have also been frequent targets of ransomware.
But just because health and government systems have historically been the most likely targets doesn't mean organizations in other sectors should assume they're safe. If it wasn't obvious by now, attacks can and do hit anyone.
Fears of gasoline shortages stemming from the Colonial Pipeline shutdown led many Americans to panic-buy at the pump.
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Before the gas pumps went dry, you may have been paying for ransomware attacks without realizing it. When government systems are attacked, the cost is ultimately borne by the taxpayer, just as consumers often cover the cost of attacks on large companies (or smaller ones, assuming the attack doesn't put them out of business first). And the cost of fully recovering from a ransomware attack often far exceeds the ransom itself — it could be months of time and millions of dollars. Cybersecurity Ventures predicts that ransomware damage will cost $20 billion worldwide in 2021, up from $325 million just six years ago. But it can cost even more not to pay the ransom at all, so the victims pay up.
The victims are paying more, too: The average ransom amount has increased along with the number of attacks. Due to the fact that the majority of victims never go public, it's impossible to get an exact number, but one estimate says that the average ransom payment more than doubled between 2019 and 2020, from $115,000 to $315,000. When large companies like Colonial Pipeline, JBS Foods, and CNA Financial get hit, ransom payments are in the millions. It's believed that ransomware gangs pulled in at least $350 million in 2020. Check Point Software told Recode that the number of attacks doubled between 2020 and 2021. One commonly cited global statistic says businesses will be attacked by ransomware every 11 seconds by the end of 2021, though other estimates are far more conservative. Check Point, for example, says about 1,000 organizations were attacked every week in April 2021 — or, once every 10 minutes.
This all suggests that criminals are becoming bolder and, well, greedy.
"Not only has there been a huge uptick in the number of attacks, but the amount being demanded of victim companies has just skyrocketed," Peter Marta, cybersecurity law expert at Hogan Lovells and former head of cybersecurity law at JPMorgan Chase, told Recode. "I don't think anybody could have predicted a year and a half ago, where we would be today."
And while the US government has issued statements over the years saying that ransomware attacks were a real threat that companies needed to take seriously and protect themselves from, the Colonial Pipeline attack took its response to a new level.
The evolution of ransomware
Ransomware has actually been around since the 1980s (the first known instance was distributed on floppy disks, with ransom payments made in cashier's checks or money orders mailed to a post office box in Panama), but it wasn't until 2013, with the emergence of the CryptoLocker virus, that cybersecurity researchers started to see it as a real and growing threat. CryptoLocker was distributed via spoofed emails with attachments. Once the victim downloaded the attachment, their files were locked up, and they were told to pay a small ransom to unlock them, ideally in bitcoin.
"CryptoLocker was the first successful 'mass distribution' ransomware," Lotem Finkelsteen, head of threat intelligence at cybersecurity firm Check Point, explained. "Up until CryptoLocker, it was very rare to see ransomware. … Bitcoin, in a way, assisted in the ransomware blossom. And the rest is history."
Bitcoin, as a global decentralized digital currency, made it much easier for criminals to collect ransom payments and harder for authorities to trace, let alone recover — although, as we've recently seen, recovering the ransom is not impossible. Ransoms were paid, the attackers got away with them, and over time and with more money, they've evolved into sophisticated criminal enterprises, offering ransomware-as-a-service to partners and creating what some experts liken to franchises. All of which makes ransomware more accessible to attackers who might otherwise not have had the know-how or payment mechanisms.
"The commoditization of ransomware overall … has made this so much easier for anybody to get into the game," said Steve Turner, a cybersecurity analyst at Forrester.
And some, it seems, have become brazen enough to attack massive companies and demand huge ransoms while potentially disrupting the lives of millions all over the world.
"There's no mystery why some of these folks are being targeted," said Mark Ostrowski, head of engineering at Check Point. "Big bang for the buck. Big interruption, big return."
In cases where hackers are identified and charged for their attacks, they're usually well out of the reach of US authorities — in North Korea or Iran, for instance.
Why we're seeing so many attacks now
With the recent spate of high-profile attacks on companies from different yet important sectors — energy, food, transportation, finance, technology, and communications — it's understandable that the average person might think the US is under some kind of coordinated attack as part of a brewing cyberwar. That these attacks are coming on the heels of the SolarWinds cyberattack, which is believed to have been orchestrated and carried out by the Russian government, likely contributes to that impression. But SolarWinds was not a ransomware attack, and while it's true that many ransomware operations are based in or around Russia, possibly with some kind of informal agreement with the Russian government that they can go about their business as long as they don't attack Russia or its allies, many experts attribute the recent attacks to other factors, and the primary motivation to money.
Starting a year and a half ago, two things happened: Attackers started not just holding systems for ransom, but also stealing their victims' data and holding that for ransom too. Basically, hackers pivoted to data. You can back up and restore your systems without having to pay a ransom, but there's not much you can do to stop your data from being released — other than paying for it not to be.
"Yesterday's ransomware attacks were just encryption events," Marta said. "Today you have double extortion, where it's not just that your files and servers are encrypted, but also the threat actor has stolen a bunch of your sensitive data. And they're saying if you don't pay, we are going to dump that data on the dark web."
unsecured remote systems, but an exponential rise in phishing emails that took advantage of the circumstances and collective fear. The situation made people more likely to click on a link that would then infect their computers — and, from there, the rest of the system.
"Normally, personnel are physically at the location and do not need remote access," Prashant Anantharaman, a researcher at Dartmouth's Institute for Security, Technology, and Society, told Recode. "With the push for remote work, we had to make many of these facilities internet-connected and remotely operable, increasing the attack surface."
It's hard to know the full extent of ransomware attacks because the vast majority of them aren't reported. But even before the Colonial Pipeline attack — which introduced many Americans to the concept of ransomware, or at least how it could personally affect them — happened, the FBI had formed its ransomware task force and the Institute for Security and Technology had created a ransomware task force of its own, with an April launch event that featured a keynote speech from Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has steadily rolled out ransomware guides and fact sheets for everyone from individuals to businesses that run critical infrastructure.
Americans' shock over the recent spate of attacks may not be so much that ransomware exists or that cyberattacks are a threat, but that even massive companies and large governments can't or won't take steps to prevent them from happening in the first place. And that's a very difficult problem that will probably need several different solutions.
"Americans should be concerned about this," said Michael Hamilton, former chief information security officer (CISO) for the city of Seattle and current CISO of CI Security, which specializes in local government cybersecurity. "But I believe there is help on the way, and I think it's going to come in a number of parts."
In some cases, the government can — and does — require that certain sectors meet cybersecurity standards. Pipeline cybersecurity, for instance, is overseen by the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), but it did very little to ensure compliance from the companies under its purview. This will supposedly change soon. Colonial was breached through an account that didn't have multi-factor authentication, which is a basic cybersecurity step. (CEO Joseph Blount told a Senate committee that the password was "complicated." Any cybersecurity expert — or even a humble data privacy reporter — will tell you passwords, even the most complicated, are not enough. Safe to say that Blount knows this now, too.)
JBS Foods was hit by a ransomware attack in June that briefly closed several plants.
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"Regulations are part of it, but it's not going to solve the problem," Ostrowski, of Check Point, said. "How you're going to solve the problem is actually taking cybersecurity seriously. And I think a lot of verticals don't take cybersecurity as seriously as they should. They look at cybersecurity as an expense versus as a critical piece of their business. And that's how you're going to solve it."
The recent law enforcement crackdown on ransomware — and the results — may go a long way to alleviate the threat. After all, if hackers think they might actually get caught or have their operations shut down or their ransom payments seized, they'll think twice about who they attack. The FBI was able to break into a crypto wallet and seize much of the ransom Colonial paid, and the group responsible for the attack, DarkSide, claimed its servers had been taken down and that it was disbanding (you can decide if you want to take that claim at face value or not — it's pretty common for hacker groups to "disband" and then resurface with a different name). This shows that even those sophisticated ransomware-as-a-service organizations aren't completely immune from some consequences.
And, Hamilton points out, there's a big difference between being a cybercriminal and being labeled a terrorist by the US government.
"We change the rhetoric, we let them know we're coming after you in a much different way now," he said.
On the other hand, the aggressive response could make things worse if hackers are confident enough that they still won't get caught.
"If they're being targeted now, they're going to get much more bold on the targets that they're going after," Forrester's Turner said. "It becomes about getting revenge."
New laws could also make it harder to pay and collect ransoms. If organizations are forbidden from paying ransom and cryptocurrencies become better regulated, that could go a long way to cutting off the money stream that is believed to fuel many of these attacks. Of course, both of these things are easier said than done. But it's not impossible, either: Look at China's crackdown on cryptocurrencies. Experts are split on whether ransom payments should be banned.
One silver lining to all of this is that organizations that haven't invested in cybersecurity will finally realize that they could be attacked and make cybersecurity a priority — and have better guidance and resources to do so.
"I think with CISA finally on its way to getting the funding and resources, I think that there's a very big opportunity to make security better for everybody," Turner said. "At the end of the day, all of these folks are chasing the almighty dollar or the almighty bitcoin … And if it continues to be lucrative and there are no penalties or there's no traceability to what some of these folks are doing, they're going to continue to do it."
Correction, June 17, 10:45 am: The $20 billion global damage by 2021 was not predicted by AIG, as initially written, but cited by AIG from a CyberSecurity Ventures report.
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"This high quality asset will improve our portfolio and is expected to be earnings accretive for the remainder of financial year 2019," Mr Sewell said.
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