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January 21, 1981: The First Delorean DMC-12
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1981 – While getting this up to 88 miles per hour doesn't take you back in time, it was still a cool car to have. The First production Delorean DMC-12 was built. A prototype was made back in 1976 and all Deloreans were made in Ireland.
9,000 Deloreans were made before financial issues got to the company in 1983. A revival was attempted and announcements of an all-electric Delorean (with prototype), but as of this point has not come out of Vaporware.
There is one gold-plated Delorean in Reno, NV. I also got to experience the original "Back to the Future" Delorean at CES 2014 (video below).
AOL acquires Personal Library Software
Intel stamping serial numbers on processors
Microsoft's Injunction to package Java from Sun Microsystems.
Day in Tech History/ Dell
Dell Adds AMD Processors
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August 17, 2006: Dell announced in 2006 they will begin putting AMD processors into Dimension desktops and later in the year Dell AMD servers will be available. On that same day, they announced that after an internal investigation into its accounting practices Dell would restate and reduce earnings from 2003 through Q1 2007. A total amount of between $50 million and $150 million was deducted – 2 cents to 7 cents per share.
The first CD is made
FBI search a SD "Forensic Tech Solutions" that had gained access to some government computers.
US rules on Grokster for Peer to Peer and accountability
Computer/ Day in Tech History
February 15, 1946: ENIAC Debuts at University of Pennsylvania
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February 15, 1946: ENIAC Debuts
1946 – J. Presper Eckert and John Mauchly debut the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer (ENIAC). 17,468 vacuum tubes at 100,000 pulses/second. It was part of a $400,000 contract from the U.S. Army.
The computer was actually announced on Feb 14th, but the dedication happened on the 15th.
Intel demonstrates the Willamette processor
Kevin Mitnik is arrested by the FBI
The Pirate Bay trial begins in Sweeden
August 17, 2006: Dell Adds AMD Processors
Dell announced in 2006 they will begin putting AMD processors into Dimension desktops and later in the year Dell AMD servers will be available. On that same day, they announced that after an internal investigation into its accounting practices Dell would restate and reduce earnings from 2003 through Q1 2007. A total amount of between $50 million and $150 million was deducted – 2 cents to 7 cents per share.
Full Day in Tech History podcast show notes for August 17
Wikazine – Full show notes for February 15
February 15, 1972: Copyright Protection for Sound Recordings
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1972 – It was an overhaul to the 1909 copyright act that failed to cover sound recordings. Before 1972, each state had its own law against illegal duplication of sound recordings. For the most part, if you recorded it, you could be considered the "Intellectual owner". Of course, common law copyright was also in play but it had to be proven without a doubt.
The new law put in place would cover sound recordings but with one major hole – anything before Feb 15, 1972 was NOT covered by this law. These cases would have to rely on the individual state that governed the original recording.
Keep in mind that this can also protect older magnetic media with computer programs from getting copied. Of course this is not much of an issue today.
January 21, 2000: Kevin Mitnick Uses the Internet
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Kevin Mitnick
2000 – Kevin Mitnick, who was imprisoned for 5 Years in hacking IBM, Motorola and DEC; then a big chase with the FBI, was released from prision. He was still ordered to not log onto a computer.2003 – Kevin Mitnick finally logs back onto the Internet after the 3 year probation. He fought the prohibition from the Internet and got it reduced to 3 years. No word as to where he went on his first login.
Wikazine – Full show notes for January 21

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Quartz (named after a Slavic word for "hard") is one of the most common minerals on earth. Many beautiful and affordable gemstones come from Quartz, two of the most popular being Amethyst and Citrine. Quartz occurs in a very broad range of colors.
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Google Chrome's PDF Tagger Highlights the Need for PDF Accessibility
Almost no one thirty years ago could have imagined the extent to which the Internet has become an essential part of daily life—and the need for digital accessibility alongside it. The ADA has been widely interpreted to apply to websites just as much as physical places of business, which means that organizations must ensure that people with disabilities enjoy equal access to their services online.
To help promote the goal of digital accessibility, Google Chrome is releasing a new automatic PDF tagging feature in the next version of the browser: Chrome 85, which is currently in beta and scheduled for general release in late August. Below, we'll discuss how PDF tagging can help people, and what we know so far about Chrome's PDF tagging feature.
PDF tagging and accessible PDFs
By enforcing a standardized format for displaying images and text formatting, PDFs have become one of the most widely used file types. Vice magazine once called PDFs "the world's most important file format." This means that PDF accessibility is an important, yet often overlooked, topic for people with disabilities.
One problem is that the source of a PDF file can be either an image scan or a typed document. For example, there are two ways to convert a Microsoft Office document to a PDF: print it out and scan it, or convert it digitally. Even though both PDF files are made from the same document, the one that has been scanned will not have text that can be searched or highlighted, which makes it much less practical to use.
The good news is that you can convert non-searchable PDFs to searchable ones by using optical character recognition (OCR) (PDF) technology, which recognizes text in a digital image. This inserted text can then be converted to synthesized speech by screen readers, an assistive technology used mainly by people with visual disabilities.
But inserting searchable text is just the start when it comes to making PDFs more accessible. PDF tagging is a technique for inserting "tags" (supplemental metadata) into a PDF file, helping people using screen readers understand and navigate the document.
PDF tagging is critical for multiple reasons:
PDF tags identify a document's headings and overall structure so that screen readers can quickly scan through the sections of the file, similar to scanning the headlines of a newspaper.
PDF tags outline the correct reading order for the different elements in the document. This is critical, as information that's in the wrong order isn't usable.
PDF tags are needed to make non-textual content, such as images and tables, accessible. In the case of images, screen readers can use alternative text that provides a description of each image's contents. In the case of tables, PDF tags help screen readers understand the best way to present the table and its structure.
Perhaps the biggest barrier to adopting PDF tagging is that it can be labor-intensive to manually tag longer documents. Tools such as Adobe Acrobat include automatic PDF tagging features, although they're not enough for compliance on their own, as they're a good starting point but need manual revision. With the upcoming introduction of Google Chrome's PDF tagging feature, people will have another way to automatically tag their PDF files and improve their screen reader experience.
How does Google Chrome's PDF tagger work?
Google Chrome's PDF tagger has the potential to make a big impact for people who use screen readers—but will also be practically invisible for those who don't regularly use the feature.
To download a web page in PDF format in Google Chrome:
Select "Print" from the main menu, or use the Ctrl+P keyboard shortcut. This will open a dialog box.
Under "Destination," select the option "Save as PDF" from the drop-down list.
Starting with the Chrome 85 version, the browser will automatically insert metadata into the PDF when saving the web page, including tags for headings, lists, tables, paragraphs, and image descriptions. The Chrome PDF tagger generates these tags using the web page's HTML code, which defines the web page's structure. HTML includes elements such as <h2>, <table>, and <p> (denoting headings, tables, and paragraphs, respectively) that can easily be converted into PDF tags.
To create the Chrome PDF tagger, Google partnered with CommonLook, a company that builds PDF accessibility software. According to CommonLook president and CEO Monir ElRayes, the company has been working with Google for the past two years on the topic of PDF accessibility in Chrome.
Adding automatic PDF tagging to Chrome is a major step forward for digital accessibility. Google Chrome is the world's most popular browser, with 69 percent of the global web browser market share. With the release of Chrome 85, millions of users with visual disabilities will be able to take advantage of this new feature.
There's no word yet on how accurate Chrome's PDF tagging will be, but it's important to remember that automatic PDF tagging solutions like this aren't perfect. According to Dominic Mazzoni, Google's technical lead for Chrome accessibility, there's already more to be done: "Future work [on the PDF tagger] includes… improving the quality of generated tagged PDFs," as well as improvements to Chrome's built-in PDF reader.
Automatic PDF tagging—whether it's done with Google Chrome, Adobe Acrobat, or another solution—should always be followed by manual checks to ensure that the conversion is accurate. In addition, manual PDF tagging by human experts can insert richer and more useful metadata than is currently possible with automated tools alone.
Creating More Accessible Icons: 5 Web Accessibility Tips


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André Louis Armand Rassenfosse (Luik, 6 augustus 1862 - Luik, 28 januari 1934) was een Belgisch graficus, boekillustrator en schilder.

Leven en werk
Zijn familie had sinds generaties een winkel van woninginrichting en van toegepaste kunst: kristal, porselein, brons en oosterse tapijten. Zoon Armand leek voorbestemd om de familiezaak voort te zetten, doch de laatste jaren van zijn humaniora ging hij in Namen studeren en woonde hij in bij zijn oom, die hem enkele etsen van Félicien Rops schonk uit zijn collectie. Armand Rassenfosse raakte erg geboeid door die etsen, en ging al gauw zelf experimenteren met deze techniek.

Na zijn humaniora ging hij voor de familiezaak werken. Voor een meubelfabrikant bewerkte hij houten panelen met pyrografie, waarbij een decoratieve lijntekening in het hout wordt gebrand en met kleur gehoogd. Ook als autodidact kunstenaar ging hij aan de slag en zo kwam hij in contact met Adrien De Witte, directeur van de Luikse kunstacademie, en met een groep kunststudenten, onder wie Gustave Serrurier-Bovy. Alhoewel hij van hen een en ander opstak, raadden zij hem wegens zijn talent en gedrevenheid aan om voort te doen en vooral om autodidact te blijven.

Toen hij op 25-jarige leeftijd in Parijs was voor de familiezaak, ging hij zijn idool Félicien Rops opzoeken. Het klikte wonderbaarlijk tussen de beide mannen, en uit die ontmoeting groeide een levenslange hechte vriendschap en een uitgebreide correspondentie over hun experimenten met de verschillende etstechnieken. Op vraag van Rops ontwikkelde Rassenfosse een speciaal doorzichtig 'vernis mou' voor etsen, dat ze 'Ropsenfosse' doopten.

Rassenfosse zette kort daarna zijn werk voor de familiezaak stop en werd omwille van de broodwinning artistiek directeur van de Luikse drukkerij Bénard. Mede dankzij zijn stage in Parijs bij Jules Chéret gaven zijn ontwerpen de drukkerij bekendheid omwille van haar artistiek hoogstaande affiches.

Intussen zette Rassenfosse zijn eigen grafisch werk voort als etser en als boekillustrator. Hij kleefde de stroming van het symbolisme aan. Zijn etsen waren technisch en thematisch verwant met het werk van Félicien Rops, doch ze kunnen niet worden beschouwd als het werk van een leerling of epigoon omwille van de eigen inbreng van Rassenfosse zelf.

Zijn contacten met Rops leverden Rassenfosse uiteindelijk een belangrijk contract op met de Parijse uitgever Eugène Rodrigues van de "Société des Cent Bibliophiles" om Charles Baudelaires gedichten uit Les Fleurs du mal te illustreren. Rassenfosse werkte gedurende twee jaar aan dit project, dat alle 158 gedichten illustreert met een grote kleurets en met een sluitvignet. Het boek verscheen in 1899 in een oplage van slechts 130 exemplaren. Het geldt niet alleen als het magnum opus van Armand Rassenfosse, maar ook algemeen als één der hoogtepunten op het vlak van boekillustratie.

Na 1900 verliet Rassenfosse grotendeels de artistieke stroming van het symbolisme. Hij ging meer en meer schilderen, doch bleef ook doorgaan met vrije grafiek en met boekillustratie. In zijn schilderijen ontpopte hij zich als de schilder van 'de Vrouw', veelal naakten in een intimistisch decor, doch ook danseressen in de rijkelijke decors van de Ballets Russes van Serge Diaghilev of danseressen in de stijl van Isadora Duncan. Maar ook de 'hiercheuses', zoals de jonge meisjes en vrouwen uit de Luikse steenkoolindustrie genoemd werden, bleven hem boeien als thema, evenals het moederschap.

Rassenfosse werd een internationaal gevierd en gevestigd kunstenaar. Hij werd benoemd tot commandeur in de Leopoldsorde. Hij zetelde tot aan zijn dood in tal van officiële comités en jury's van tentoonstellingen.

Postuum
Claire de Rassenfosse, kleindochter van de kunstenaar, legateerde zowel het atelier-huis (het in 1898 door architect Paul Jaspar gerealiseerde Maison Rassenfosse in art-nouveau-stijl aan de Rue Saint-Gilles in Luik) als zijn inhoud aan de Koning Boudewijnstichting. Het ensemble werd op 20 februari 2009 toegevoegd aan de lijst van beschermd erfgoed in Luik. Ook een honderdtal werken – onder meer schilderijen, tekeningen, gravures, affiches – maken deel uit van de collectie, waaronder enkele emblematische stukken van de kunstenaar.

Zie ook
 Lijst van Belgische kunstschilders

Galerij

Externe link
 Université de Liège - collections artistiques

Kunstschilder van het symbolisme
Belgisch kunstschilder

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Your iPhone is now a burrito maker! Fast food has finally met its Fast Ordering bliss. Chipatople … Chipootle … Chipotle Mexian Grill is now in your iPhone with the Chipotle Ordering app. Barbacoa, Carnitas, Spicy Shredded Beef, Green Peppers, Rice with Lime and Cilantro, Chicken Fajita, Extra Rice, Tortilla, Chips and Guacamole, Want it in a bowl? What's your favorite food? It's all there for you to order right from your iPhone. Pick your selection, pick your favorite mouth watering ingredients, and your personalized order starts its journey. Pay on your iPhone with any major credit card, and drive over to pick it up at your local Chipotle. The app is free, and works on your iPhone or iPod touch.
Following the footsteps of Pizza Hut; Chipotle has pulled off what other fast food chains should have done a long time ago. SUBWAY, Quiznos, In-N-Out Burger … where is your iPhone app already?
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We know that our data isn't just a reflection of what we do on the internet; it's a direct result of our thoughts, beliefs, and perspectives as unique individuals. So when we are caught in the power struggle between governments and big tech companies, how can we position ourselves to respond appropriately? Is it possible to take control of our own data?
Alexander McCaig and Jason Rigby discuss plenty of heavy-hitting issues in this episode. Aside from the possibility of an Orwellian future, brought about by the Chinese government's efforts to surveil and assign social credits to all their citizens, they also discuss the government's attempt to control big tech companies.
Are We Government Puppets in the Making?
China aims to be a leader in harnessing big data. The Social Credit System, which was first conceptualized in 2014, is definitely a development that we need to keep a wary eye on. However, it's still got a long way to go. While there is a lot of information being collected, the government remains challenged to unify efforts being made across the country and centralize information.
But once the government does get the hang of the credit system, the future looks pretty bleak. What's it like to live in a society where you are so heavily surveilled and regulated, you eventually start to change the way you think and act? It's probably going to be like slowly boiling a frog in a pot filled with water—you won't know you're dead meat until it's too late.
TARTLE campaigns for government and corporate transparency, and human rights. We believe in a world where the individual is empowered to make their own decisions, take their own actions, and hold their own data. This is not possible in a society where the government is making an effort to farm our personal information to control our words, thoughts, and actions.
Caught in the Tug of War Between Government and Big Tech
As individuals, we find ourselves caught in a power struggle between big tech companies and the government. One seeks to commodify us, and the other seeks to control us. It is amidst this struggle that we, more than ever, need to reclaim our data for ourselves.
The controversial Personal Information Protection Law (PIPL) discussed by Alexander McCaig and Jason Rigby on this episode was just recently passed and enforced last November 1, 2021. While the title makes it sound like a noble act, the duo discussed how this law is the latest attempt in China's efforts to rein in the growth of its tech giants.
Its effect on data in the country is a double-edged sword. It does stop unauthorized data trading and theft— but it also caters to the national government's vested interests. Tech companies from overseas that cannot fulfill the PIPL are in danger of being blacklisted. This bans them from processing Chinese personal data.
In fact, the implications of operating under China's PIPL have already scared away tech companies. Yahoo shut down its last few services in the country after the law was passed, citing in a statement to BBC that their decision was because of the "increasingly challenging business and legal environment" in the country. Linkedin also pulled out of China for similar reasons a month before the PIPL went live.
Closing Thoughts: Are We Really Free?
It's difficult to say for certain if we remain in full control of our thoughts and actions in a world where we are constantly being sent subliminal messages—where we are both pawns and subjects in the power struggles of bigger entities.
The people on the ground need platforms that function as safe spaces for them to practice taking ownership over their own data. We have become so accustomed to having other entities handle our information that the idea of profiting from our personal data seems so foreign. However, it is possible—and it's a future we want to build here at TARTLE.
TARTLE's mission is to make the answer to that issue a bit clearer and in our favor. We deserve to have the tools and skills that will help empower us and our data. It is our vision to have a world where our personal information benefits ourselves, and not big tech nor the government.
What's your data worth?
Data and Navigating the Unexpected
COVID came out of nowhere and upset the balance of pretty much everything. Back in February of 2019 things were proceeding normally, more or less. Then, countries around the world started locking down, one after the other. All of a sudden, people went from normal lives to in many cases not being allowed to leave their homes except to buy groceries once a week. While it never got that extreme in the United States, many businesses were curtailed, especially restaurants, theaters, and any other place where people would gather. That in turn had a significant effect on their suppliers. The net result has been a major shift in the global economy, the full effects of which likely won't become fully apparent for years.
It's no surprise that many businesses haven't survived the turmoil. Tens of thousands have shut their doors for good. What is surprising is the number of businesses that have survived so far and those that have managed to thrive despite the unique circumstances that have been thrown at them. Those are businesses run by people who either already understood the importance of data or quickly learned to appreciate it. They were able to use technology and data to adapt to radically different circumstances.
Whether it be the restaurant that offered curbside pickup or outdoor seating, or the art instructor that added participation through Zoom as an option they've managed to turn those adverse circumstances into an opportunity.
Bigger businesses have naturally gotten involved as well. So much so that the executive position of Chief Data Officer (CDO) is becoming increasingly common. These executives have a difficult job not just in terms of organizing the acquisition and analysis of data but also in justifying the return on investment (ROI) that comes from all of that data. That last bit can of course be the most difficult because the benefits of all of that data are sometimes hard to quantify. Indeed, if not managed properly, there won't actually be any benefits. How to navigate that particular minefield? The CDO of course needs to be able to show how the reach of their efforts is often greater than what is obvious. One successful interaction can lead to many more and it is the job of the CDO to make sure that the extended reach can be shown, to acquire that data and process it into a format that the other executives can readily grasp.
This is where issues often arise. Responding to the pressure that comes with that position can lead CDOs or whoever is in charge of the data to be tempted to get as much as they can, however they can. That can lead to all kinds of ethical issues in acquiring that data. We've seen a number of examples of that in this space over the last few months and there are many others. People are often tricked into giving up their data unwittingly or in other cases it's just taken outright with no chance whatsoever for the individual to provide consent. It's a kind of digital theft and it is a major problem for people's rights around the world.
What should they do then? One option that we would obviously like to propose is that they sign up on TARTLE as a buyer. That way these businesses, large or small can connect directly with individuals who are using or might use their products and services. Then the CDO can be sure that they are getting their information with the consent of people which in turn ensures that it is more accurate than anything else that could be gathered through any other method. TARTLE also allows buyers access to something that no algorithm can possibly touch, the why. Why do people do the things they do? Why does one marketing campaign work while another doesn't? Yes, we know companies learn these things through focus groups. But how much time does that take? Wouldn't you rather get your information faster, almost in real time? I know I would. That's what TARTLE offers, accurate, near real-time data that is gathered with the full consent of the individual. That's a much better world, one that is responsive and honest.
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They have more than $260,000 saved, compared with $82,000 for those without an adviser.
Career military families that are working with a financial adviser are amassing assets that are significantly larger than their do-it-yourself counterparts, according to the First Command Financial Behaviors Index.
As of the second quarter, these families had $262,710 in retirement and savings accounts, compared to $82,710 for families without an adviser. They are also more likely to own a retirement savings account (62% versus 52%) and a long-term savings vehicles (56% versus 30%).
They are saving an average of $995 a month for retirement, compared to $545 for those without an adviser. Additionally, military families with advisers are saving $889 a month for non-retirement long-term savings, compared to $378.
Forty-seven percent of those with a financial coach are either extremely or very confident in their ability to retire comfortably. By comparison, only 24% of the DIY-ers share this confidence.
Forty-seven percent of military families working with a financial adviser are extremely or very confident their financial situation will improve in the next year. This is true for only 33% of the DIY-ers.
Additionally, military families with an adviser are saving $673 a month for short-term savings (versus $379). They are also paying $2,165 a month to pay down short- and long-term debt. The DIY-ers are contributing $1,769 a month for these efforts.
"Career military families who work with a financial adviser are more likely to save more and feel more confident about their finances," Spiker says.
Sentient Decision Science Inc. conducted the survey of 530 people for the First Command Financial Behaviors Index.


"Beverly Hills, 90210" stars Shannen Doherty and Jennie Garth hung out this weekend, but it wasn't at the Peach Pit. They were in Las Vegas, to see Steve Sanders Ian Ziering perform as a Chippendales dancer at the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino.
"Look out Vegas," Garth captioned an Instagram photo of herself and Doherty en route to Sin City on Sunday.
Garth, 41, and Doherty, 42, weren't always said to be the best of friends, but in a 2012 interview with The Huffington Post, Doherty explained how she was able to mend fences with her onetime rival.
"Jennie and I reconnected on the new '90210' and, through that process, we were able to sort of talk and work out what our issues were with each other in the past, and look at each other and go, 'OK, wow... I get where you were coming from.' And she got where I was coming from back then," Doherty said. "And then acknowledge that we're both incredibly different people now and that we've both matured quite a bit and we've both been through heartache and pain. We've both lost our fathers, and we've both gone through divorces and we can sort of be there, as women, for each other. And I do like her. Seeing her at her birthday, I was so happy for her, and so happy that she was doing well and she had a new show coming out, and she's happy for me. So yeah, I do consider her a friend."


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"When President Obama took office in 2009, his party was in better shape than it had been since the era following Watergate. The Democrats controlled both houses of Congress by very comfortable margins. They had just regained the White House in a historic election. They believed they would control Washington for decades, if not generations, to come. Yet fewer than six years later, their congressional majorities have been annihilated and their prospects for retaining the presidency in 2016 are far less promising than they were just a month ago. Virtually all this devastation has been caused by Obama himself." – David Catron/The American Spectator
"Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel handed in his resignation on Monday, the first cabinet-level casualty of the collapse of President Obama's Democratic majority in the Senate and the struggles of his national security team to respond to an onslaught of global crises." – NY Times
"So why has he been fired? Because the Obama White House needs a scapegoat. President George W, Bush fired Don Rumsfeld in connection with a change in strategy (the surge) and to bring in someone of independent stature. That's not the case today. President Obama continues to want a Pentagon with weak leadership and little independence. There's therefore no reason to expect the next two years of Obama foreign and defense policy to be any better than the past two." – Bill Kristol/Weekly Standard
"With appropriate remedy for Obama's Thursday spectacle unavailable, the GOP must find alternatives that will not only negate his policy but rebuke him for spilling the banks of his authority. Here are five, in hopes the Republicans will act on most, if not all." – Scott McKay/The American Spectator
"The final weekend before the Thanksgiving holiday passed without a grand jury decision on whether to indict a Ferguson police officer, fueling new speculation about the timing as protesters demand justice for Michael Brown." – CBS St. Louis
"If a St. Louis County grand jury does not indict Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson, evidence in the case may never be made public, despite promises from the prosecutor." – TIME
"Unlike other resolutions circulating on Capitol Hill that would give the president various degrees of authority to use force against Islamic militants, Mr. Paul would take the extra step of declaring war — something Congress has not done since World War II." – NY Times
"Forget football. A real battle of Midwest heavyweights might be looming next year in the Republican Party between Walker, Kasich, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence and Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder." – POLITICO
"I do not think I would shake hands with Barack Obama." – Kevin Williamson/National Review
"Direct Action Everywhere, the California-based animal rights activists who gave us last month's 'Chicken Lady' video showing the group confronting diners eating in a trendy California restaurant, have added a new tactic to their playbook: funerals for frozen chickens." – The Blaze
"Chances are that Republican Bill Cassidy doesn't consult an actual game plan that spells out how he can unseat Democrat Mary Landrieu in the U.S. Senate race in Louisiana that will be decided Dec. 6. But if he were doing so, it could read something like this:" – Baton Rouge Advocate
"Before he took the stage, Cassidy spoke with Townhall about what his first initiative as senator would be, his refusal to become complacent even with his current double digit lead, and the president and his party's failed agenda." – Townhall.com
"This is the only country where just because an individual is born here physically, he or she is a citizen. That's an outlier rule. No other industrialized country has that rule," Vitter added. "I don't know why we have that rule." – Washington Examiner
"We have the opportunity to create these jobs," Cassidy said. "It starts with developing North America's natural resources and securing America's energy independence now. That's why I've been fighting for job-creating projects like the Keystone XL pipeline." – NOLA.com
"President Barack Obama's executive action on immigration will affect about 5,000 undocumented people in Louisiana's capital city by keeping them united with their families, according to two Baton Rouge women who have spent years reaching out to immigrants." – Baton Rouge Advocate
"Democrats have their supposed bad guy too: When they want to hurt Cassidy, they link him to Republican Gov. Bobby Jindal." – AP
"In the brutal closing scene of the 2007 film 'There Will Be Blood,' a bowling alley beating, set in motion by years of tension and personal torment, concludes with the final biting words, 'I'm finished.' Sifting through the wreckage on the Senate floor last week, the same words could have come from Louisiana's Mary Landrieu. Forty-one of her Democrat colleagues ruthlessly beat down her proposal to approve the Keystone pipeline, effectively sealing her fate in the December runoff election to keep her seat." – John Sununu/Boston Globe
"Some of the major industrial projects fueling Louisiana's expected economic boom could be at risk if the price of oil continues to fall, says economist Loren Scott, including one of the largest in the pipeline: Sasol Ltd.'s gas-to-liquids complex outside Lake Charles that alone could represent as much as a $22 billion investment." – Baton Rouge Business Report
"The number of accidents reported by ExxonMobil refinery in Baton Rouge was lower in 2013 than in 2012, but environmental groups said Saturday that doesn't mean much because the numbers depend on self-reporting from the company itself." – Baton Rouge Advocate
"The U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear the appeals of two women who were convicted of killing one of their husbands on a lonely road south of Lake Charles." – Lake Charles American Press
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Archive for the 'Matt Keough' Category
Breathe in. You're a teenager, a talented infielder drafted early right out of high school by the World Series champions, a son of a major leaguer. Breathe out. You stumble your first pro season, hitting .198 as an 18-year-old in the single A Midwest League. Breathe in. You move to another A's single A affiliate in the California League and blossom, batting .303 with 13 home runs and 81 RBI. Breathe out. At double A the next season, you can't hit at all, the once-wide path to the majors narrowing to no path. Truth is a pathless land. Breathe in. You start pitching and within two seasons you're in the majors; within three you're the A's representative at the 1978 major league all-star game. Breathe out. In 1979 you do nothing but lose, starting 0 and 14 and finishing 2 and 17, the worst major league pitching record in decades.
In all the Zen stories, life seems as uncluttered with the actual concrete pull of life as it is in jokes. Two monks are walking along. One says one thing, the other says another thing, neither thing makes any sense, and that's that. You're supposed to ponder the meaning of the inscrutable exchange incessantly until your mind breaks. Thusly shattered, you see the light, I guess. I don't know. None of those Zen stories—koans—have ever made the slightest impact on me except to produce a mild increase in my general feeling of inadequacy. I am bound to a life of threadbare rationality and disillusionment, a life of suffering.
This is how it goes for Matt Keough. Suffering life. Breathe in, breathe out, fall, rise. Fall. Here he is, on his 1980 card, the 2 and 17 record the freshest line of stats on the back, yet he looks straight into the camera. His face is young enough to show signs of pubescent acne, yet his eyes are confident. He's been down before. He'll rise.
Life is suffering. That's one of the Billboard Top Four Truths. It's one I've more or less accepted in my own life (though I still reserve the right to complain constantly), but now that I have a kid I am feeling the sting of it for real. I don't care if I suffer, but now my baby has to suffer? What the fuck is that? He is suffering right now—wailing. My writing desk is in the basement. He's right above me. I can't concentrate. To write these words is a supreme act of self-indulgence, really. I should go up there. But no, I have to sit here and ponder enlightenment. Good lord. Okay, fuck it, I'll go up.
And that's how it goes. You go down, you go up. In 1980 the A's hire a new manager, Billy Martin, and the haunted Yankee exile, arguably the most desperate man in baseball history, rides the A's rotation of young starting pitchers as if his life depended on it. The short-term results are good, the A's climbing from putrid to pretty good, and Matt Keough wins 16 games and the Sporting News Comeback Player of the Year award. Soon enough, however, all the arms of the A's overtaxed hurlers begin falling off, so to speak. Keough is the first to suffer, feeling pain in his shoulder in early 1981, but he pitches through the pain throughout that season and the next as it worsens and the losses again start to mount.
I'm back down. Got the baby to go to sleep. Where was I? Oh yeah, suffering. All weekend long my wife and I tried to deal with the baby's wailing—he has a cold—and he, or rather, his suffering, has been thrashing us like it is Andre the Giant and we're a couple of regular-sized tag-team foils. One of us tags in, gets beaten to a pulp, and tags out, and in goes the other one to take a turn getting thrown over the ropes. Our eyes are bloodshot, his cold is our cold, snot streams everywhere, both of our backs are wrenched so badly we grimace if we try to pick up so much as the toothbrush he gnaws on as a chew-toy, and still his suffering rages, huge and undefeated. Two monks walking down the road trying to one-up the other with irrational non sequiturs, what does that do for me? Satori? Who gives a fuck.
Battling persisting arm pain through the early to mid-1980s, Matt Keough's numbers dwindle. Soon, it seems, he will disappear. People disappear all the time. That's the game. Matt Keough fights this by going east, to Japan. Though American position players by that time have begun to find success in Japan, American pitchers haven't. It's a different game, a different culture, a different world altogether, and perhaps the more complex cluster of skills needed to be an effective pitcher make it more difficult to weather all that disorientation and still thrive. Keough proves the exception to that rule. He has the advantage of once being there before, as an adolescent, when his own father capped his major league career with a stint in Japan. The father only lasted one year. The son lasts four. He wins in Japan. He's big in Japan.
Oh, if only I had lived a life of utter seclusion, staring at the wall. If only I'd shipped myself off years ago to a life of privation and koans overseas. I have been to Japan, actually, twice, once for a few hours as a 21-year-old on my way to China, and once for a few hours a few months later on my back. On the way back, I had just said goodbye to a woman I was in love with. I planned to return to her in a few months, but before I could she wrote me a letter on rice paper telling me she'd met someone else. It was another foreign student, a Japanese guy with money. Maybe they're still together, living in Japan. There's a certain weight to life, a pull of desire that links you to others inextricably. The root of suffering is desire. I was suffering in Japan, suffering again some months later while reading words on a piece of rice paper, suffering the removal of that pull, that thing that ties one to another, suffering the removal of the insane hope that desire might lead to peace.
In 1992, Matt Keough returns from Japan and attempts to find work in the majors again. Who better to carry out an improbable comeback? In the first inning of a preseason game, a foul ball shears off from the bat of leadoff hitter John Patterson. What are you thinking this moment? What will you be thinking when you are struck by the terrible blow of satori? When the world opens up to infinity or ends or who knows? Matt Keough is rushed to the hospital for emergency surgery to relieve the pressure of a blood clot caused by the impact of the errant line drive. Keough survives, but that'll do it for the comeback. The ball is taken from his hands, replaced with something lighter, more painful. We all get a rice paper note placed in our hands one way or another, telling us the version of life we had welded to our heart is over.
"He lost all self-respect, his self-esteem," a man named Rob Harley will say many years later, referring to Keough's horrific satori, that screaming line drive to the head. "And now," Harley, an attorney for Matt Keough, will continue, "he's an alcoholic, a caged animal." These words will come the day Matt Keough is sent to prison. Because his life at that point will have become ensnared in televised samsara, the mug shot of the suffering reality show personality attracts much more attention than any earlier images of Keough ever had. Breathe in. You are young and pimply-faced and pocked with losses but strong, unbowed, poised to rise. Breathe out. You are chained to the world.
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Who is Louis Farrakhan? 10 things to know about the Nation of Islam leader, black activist
Who is Louis Farrakhan? Louis Farrakhan is the leader of the Nation of Islam, an African-American movement and organization rooted in elements of traditional Islam and black nationalism. The 84-year-old religious figure was born Louis Eugene Walcott on May 11, 1933, in The Bronx, New York. In his youth, Farrakhan studied music and became a violinist, guitarist and singer. He often sang political lyrics to Carribean-style music. He is known for having expressed anti-white, anti-Semitic, anti-Catholic and a
National & World News | Oct 18, 2018
By Fiza Pirani
Louis Farrakhan, a prominent African-American religious leader and black activist has drawn both scorn for his anti-Semitic comments and praise for his advocacy for the black community throughout his life.
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This week, Farrakhan is facing backlash for another string of anti-Semitic comments on Twitter comparing Jews to termites.
I'm not an anti-Semite. I'm anti-Termite. pic.twitter.com/L5dPQcnVg4
— MINISTER FARRAKHAN (@LouisFarrakhan) October 16, 2018
He posted a clip of a Sunday speech he gave in Detroit during a 23rd anniversary event for the 1995 Million Man March in which the minister said he supports rapper Kanye West's controversial remarks about repealing the 13th Amendment, then joked about being "anti-Termite" after an anti-Semitic rant.
Twitter told BuzzFeed News in a statement that it will not suspend Farrakhan's account because the platform's recent policy changes have not yet taken effect, so Farrakhan's language is not quite in violation "of any extant policy."
Twitter stripped Farrakhan of his verification status in May after he ranted about "satanic Jews" in a separate speech.
Here are 10 things to know about Louis Farrakhan:
He is the leader of the Nation of Islam.
In 1955, Louis Farrakhan joined the Nation of Islam, an African-American movement and organization rooted in elements of traditional Islam and black nationalism.
In 1964, Farrakhan condemned his rival Malcolm X, a prominent figure in the Nation of Islam at the time. But when Malcolm X broke with the Nation of Islam over political and personal differences with then leader Elijah Muhammad, Farrakhan took his place as minister of Harlem's Temple No. 7.
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When Malcolm X was assassinated, Farrakhan replaced him as the organization's national spokesman. In 2000, Farrakhan appeared on "60 Minutes" with Malcolm X's daughter, Qubilah Bahiyah Shabazz, and said he regretted that his writing may have influenced others to assassinate him, CNN reported.
Farrakhan was disappointed when he was not named Elijah Muhammad's successor following his death. He instead led a breakaway group in 1978, which he also called the Nation of Islam. Farrakhan's group preserved the original teachings of Muhammad, unlike his successor, the fifth of Muhammad's six sons.
He was born in New York.
The 84-year-old religious figure was born Louis Eugene Walcott on May 11, 1933, in the Bronx, New York. He and his family eventually moved from the Bronx to the Roxbury neighborhood in Boston.
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He studied music as a youth and eventually became a playwright and film producer.
According to Brittanica, Farrakhan studied music while attending Winston-Salem Teachers College, but dropped out after three years to pursue a career in music.
He went on to perform on the Boston nightclub circuit and was known as "The Charmer." Farrakhan was a violinist, guitarist and singer. He often sang political lyrics to Caribbean music.
According to CNN, Farrakhan wrote two plays, "The Trial" and "Orgena," which is "a Negro" spelled backwards.
» RELATED: Louis Farrakhan: 'We need to put the American flag down'
He married his wife Khadijah in 1953, and they have nine children.
Farrakhan (then Walcott) married Betsy Ross in 1953. She's since changed her name to Khadijah. The pair has four sons and five daughters together.
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He's known for his controversial anti-Semitic, anti-white and anti-homosexual comments.
Farrakhan came into the American public light when he began supporting Rev. Jesse Jackson's bid for the presidency. However, when he praised Adolf Hitler, calling him "a very great man," Farrakhan set off conflict with American Jewish voters. He would eventually withdraw his support. He's denied being anti-Semitic.
He was also active in the fight against drugs and crime, advocating for clean living and black self-help.
Farrakhan often blamed the American government for conspiring to destroy black people with AIDS and addictive drugs, according to Brittanica.
Under his leadership, the Nation of Islam created a clinic for AIDS patients in Washington, D.C., forcing drug dealers out of public housing projects and private apartment buildings. The Farrakhan-led movement also worked with gang members in Los Angeles to do the same.
He continued to advocate for African-American economic independence.
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He came into the political realm when supporting Jesse Jackson's bid for the presidency.
Farrakhan also later filed a lawsuit against President Ronald Reagan, claiming his administration's sanctions actions against Libya and travel ban violate freedom to worship and freedom of speech.
He's been critized for his early association with anti-American leaders like Libya's Moammar Gadhafi and Cuba's Fidel Castro, but has dialed back his rhetoric in recent years.
» RELATED: Rev. Jesse Jackson diagnosed with Parkinson's disease
In 1991, Farrakhan was diagnosed with prostate cancer.
After his diagnosis, Farrakhan toned down on the racial rhetoric. He suffered a reoccurrence in 2007, but after a long surgery, the prostate and cancerous tissue were removed.
He co-organized the Million Man March in 1995.
One of largest demonstrations in Washington, D.C. history, the Million Man March (or the Day of Atonement) involved 12 hours of speeches directed at black men to promote self-improvement and encouraged them to take responsibility for their families and communities.
» RELATED: The Million Man March's understated inclusivity
He gave what was known as a farewell speech in 2007.
An aging and ailing 73-year-old Farrakhan delivered a "last public address" on the Nation of Islam's annual Saviours' Day in February 2007, calling for Christian-Muslim unity.
He said Jesus and Mohammed "are brothers who come from the same eternal God."
"How dare us try to split up the prophets and make them enemies of each other to justify our being enemies...If Jesus and Mohammed were on this stage, they would embrace each other with love. If Moses and the prophets and Abraham the father would be on this podium with all the prophets, they would embrace each other," he said.
Farrakhan later spoke at the Justice or Else rally in Washington, D.C. in 2015 and at a Tehran, Iran, rally marking the 37th anniversary of Iran's Islamic revolution, CNN reported.
In 2017, Farrakhan strongly criticized President Donald Trump's foreign policy agenda involving the Middle East and North Korea.
» RELATED: Trump isn't the anti-Israel candidate Louis Farrakhan is looking for
In 2018, Farrakhan made headlines, again.
According to the Daily Caller, a new photo of Farrakhan and former President Barack Obama at a Congressional Black Caucus meeting in 2005 emerged last week. "The journalist who took the photo said he suppressed its publication to protect Obama's presidential aspirations," the Caller reported.
And on Monday, Democratic Illinois Rep. Danny Davis defended him for being an "outstanding human being," inviting harsh criticism.


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Rivest Cipher 4 (RC4) is one of the most popular stream cipher and as per ICSI Certificate Notary project statistics, RC4 encrypted communication comprises of about 30 percent of SSL/TLS communication. In past few months, couple of attacks, or enhancement of previous known attacks against this widely used algorithm have been proposed and thus making future use of RC4 perilous and hopefully bringing curtains to 28 years of successful existence.
Before getting into the details of the attacks, firstly let us revisit what SSL/TLS is. Secure Socket Layer (SSL, a.k.a Transport Layer Security (TLS)), is the most widely used secure communication protocol on the Internet today. SSL/TLS is presently used for protecting various application level traffic, like in HTTPS to encrypt web browsing traffic, in IMAP and SMTP to cryptographically protect email traffic, to name a few. It is also extensively used with embedded systems, mobile devices, in point of sale payment devices etc. To learn more about SSL/TLS, please read my previous post.
In the recent past, SSL/TLS has been in the limelight for various security flaws of varying severity and discussed over here. Broadly, the flaws were either algorithmic weakness or implementation weakness. Heartbleed and OpenSSL CCS occurred because of improper implementation in OpenSSL library, a widely used SSL/TLS library. In contrast, POODLE involved algorithmic weakness. Implementation based security vulnerabilities are relatively easy to fix, as it involves patching the vulnerable part of the code, but vulnerabilities arising because of shortcomings in algorithm design requires change of components which are vulnerable.
The two attacks are based on the inherent design flaws of RC4 and discussed below.
The first attack  is based on the fact that some of the pseudo-random bytes in RC4 used to encode messages are predictable. In 2013 researchers demonstrated that this lack of randomness can be exploited by seeing more than 17 billion (234) separate encryptions of the same data. At the time, this was considered to be impractical attack. Now researchers have further refined the attack and claim that now it takes a tad more than 67 million (226) encryptions of same data to recover the underlying plaintext with 50 percent success rate. It is successfully demonstrated that the enhanced attack can extract security tokens from both basic access authentication over HTTPS and IMAP protocol, used for retrieving and storing e-mail.
The second attack , dubbed "bar-mitzvah" attack, given the age of "invariance weakness" on which the attack is based. The attack is devised by researchers at Imperva, a security firm and was presented at Black Hat security conference in Singapore. "Invariance weakness" in RC4 was responsible for fatal exploits against Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) technology used to encrypt Wi-Fi networks in 2001. "Bar-mitzvah" attack requires sampling of one billion RC4 encryption to decrypt credit card number, password, or authentication cookie key. Though this attack has a very limited scope, as it is restricted to first 100 bytes of ciphertext generated by RC4. In spite of the limitation, it is significantly faster than performing exhaustive attack that guesses passwords, credit card numbers etc and thus should be considered a practical threat.
Historically, block ciphers also did not have a good past. AES-CBC has seen significant cryptanalysis attacks like BEAST, Lucky 13, POODLE to name a few. These attacks were based on design shortcomings of the algorithm. After series of attacks against block ciphers, RC4 (stream ciphers) was proposed as the recommended work around the attacks. Which also justifies the presence of huge chunk of RC4 encrypted traffic on the Internet. And now two new proposed attacks on RC4, pushes it towards the cliff.
Many argue that the above attacks against RC4 may not be easy to execute practically, but if anything is to be learned from BEAST, Lucky 13 and POODLE, is that – attacks only get better. FREAK vulnerability is a perfect example of implications of using old and archaic standards beyond a certain threshold may come back and bite us really hard. To further strengthen the case against the use RC4, as per RFC 7456 , use of RC4 with any TLS version is prohibited.
Various browser vendors are working on doing away with support of RC4 in their browsers . Mozilla Firefox  will stop supporting RC4 in Firefox 44 (expected in Jan 2016), while Google's Chrome  and Microsoft's Edge  browser will stop support by Feb 2016.


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[![Puppet
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DC/OS nodes management

## Features

 * installation from bootstrap server
 * manage agent's attributes
 * provide `dcos-version` command (and export `dcos_version` fact e.g. to PuppetDB)
 * support running DC/OS on Debian based systems

## Installation from bootstrap server

When bootstrap URL is given, Puppet will try to install DC/OS (in case that there's no previous installation in `/opt/mesosphere`):
```yaml
dcos::bootstrap_url: 'http://192.168.1.1:9090'
# checksum of dcos_install.sh
dcos::install_checksum:
  type: 'sha1'
  hash: '43d6a53813bd9c68e26d0b3b8d8338182017dbb8'
```
then simply include DC/OS into node's definition. For master node:
```puppet
include dcos::master
```
For agent:
```puppet
include dcos::agent
```

Puppet will fetch `$bootstrap_script` (defaults to `dcos_install.sh`) and attempt to run [Advanced installation](https://dcos.io/docs/1.10/installing/custom/advanced/) e.g. `bash dcos_install.sh slave`.

Role `slave_public` can be also configured in Hiera backend:
```yaml
dcos::agent::public: true
```

You can also provide checksums for installation script:
```puppet

class {'dcos':
  bootstrap_url => 'http://192.168.1.1:9090',
  install_checksum => {
    type => 'sha1',
    hash => '43d6a53813bd9c68e26d0b3b8d8338182017dbb8'
  },
}
```

## Usage

Private DC/OS agent:

```puppet
class{'dcos::agent': }
```
Public agent:
```puppet
class{'dcos::agent':
  public => true
}
```

Agent accepts `mesos` hash with `ENV` variables that will override defaults in `/opt/mesosphere/etc/mesos-slave-common`.

Disabling CFS on agent node:
```puppet
class{'dcos::agent':
  mesos => {
    'MESOS_CGROUPS_ENABLE_CFS' => false
  }
}
```

Master node:

```puppet
class{'dcos::master':
  mesos => {
    'MESOS_QUORUM' => 2,
    'MESOS_max_completed_frameworks' => 50,
    'MESOS_max_completed_tasks_per_framework' => 1000,
    'MESOS_max_unreachable_tasks_per_framework' => 1000,
  }
}
```
`mesos` hash will create a file `/opt/mesosphere/etc/mesos-master-extras` overriding default `ENV` variables.

attributes:
```yaml
dcos::agent::attributes:
  dc: us-east
  storage: SATA
```

also existing facts can be easily used:
```yaml
dcos::agent::attributes:
  arch: "%{::architecture}"
  hostname: "%{::fqdn}"
```

## Mesos Resources

Resources offered by Mesos could be limited using [`MESOS_RESOURCES` ENV variable](https://mesos.readthedocs.io/en/latest/attributes-resources/).

Resources attribute:
```yaml
dcos::agent::resources:
  cpus:
    type: SCALAR
    scalar:
      value: 7.0
```
will be converted to JSON string that will be passed to `mesos-agent`
```json
[
  {
    "name": "cpus",
    "type": "SCALAR",
    "scalar": {
      "value": 7.0
    }
  }
]
```
NOTE: DC/OS merges `MESOS_RESOURCES` with allocated disk resources.

## YAML (Hiera/lookup) configuration

Simply use supported parameters:
```yaml
dcos::agent::mesos:
  MESOS_CGROUPS_ENABLE_CFS: false
dcos::master::mesos:
  MESOS_QUORUM: 2
```

## Limitations

Currently doesn't manage Docker dependency at all. Make sure appropriate Docker version is running before installing DC/OS.

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Underwear-bomb maker believed dead in Yemen strike
Ibrahim Hassan al-Asiri, a Saudi militant believed killed in the U.S. drone strike in Yemen, constructed the bombs for the al-Qaida branch's most notorious attempted attacks — including the underwear-borne explosives intended to a down a U.S. aircraft, and a bomb carried by his own brother intended to assassinate a Saudi prince.Ho / AP
Oct. 1, 2011, 9:31 PM UTC / Source: The Associated Press
By LEE KEATH
A Saudi militant believed killed in the U.S. drone strike in Yemen constructed the bombs for the al-Qaida branch's most notorious attempted attacks — including the underwear-borne explosives intended to a down a U.S. aircraft, and a bomb carried by his own brother intended to assassinate a Saudi prince.
The death of Ibrahim Hassan al-Asiri would make the Friday drone strikes on a convoy in the central deserts of Yemen one of the most effective single blows in the U.S. campaign to take out al-Qaida's top figures.
The strike also killed Anwar al-Awlaki, a Yemeni-American cleric who had been key to recruiting for the militant group, and a Pakistani-American, Samir Khan, who was a top English-language propagandist.
But Christopher Boucek, a scholar who studies Yemen and al-Qaida, said al-Asiri's death would "overshadow" that of the two Americans due to his operational importance to al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula, the Yemen-based group that is considered the most active branch of the terror network.
Late Friday, two U.S. officials said intelligence indicated al-Asiri was among those killed in the strike. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because al-Asiri's death has not officially been confirmed.
The 29-year-old al-Asiri was one of the first Saudis to join the Yemen-based al-Qaida branch and became its key bombmaker, designing the explosives in two attempted attacks against the United States.
His fingerprint was found on the bomb hidden in the underwear of a Nigerian man accused of trying to blow up Northwest Airlines Flight 253 over Detroit on Christmas Day 2009, according to U.S. counterterrorism officials. The attack failed because the would-be bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab botched detonating the explosives, ending up only burning himself before being wrestled away by passengers.
The explosives used in that bomb were chemically identical to those hidden inside two printers that were shipped from Yemen last year, bound for Chicago and Philadelphia in a plot claimed by al-Qaida. The bombs were intercepted in England and Dubai.
In perhaps his most ruthless operation, al-Asiri turned his younger brother, Abdullah, into a human bomb in a 2009 attempt to kill Saudi Prince Mohammed bin Nayef, the kingdom's top counterterrorism official and son of its interior minister.
Abdullah volunteered for the suicide mission, asking to replace another militant named to carry it out, according to an account in Sada al-Malahem, an Arabic-language Web magazine issued by al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula. Abdullah pretended he was surrendering to Saudi authorities, and Prince Mohammed agreed to receive him in his home in Jiddah during a gathering to celebrate the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.
While talking to the prince, Abdullah blew himself up. The prince, however, escaped with only injuries.
Saudi officials have said the bomb was "inside" Abdullah's body, but explosives experts believe that al-Asiri strapped the bomb between his brother's legs.
"Come see my brother Abdullah's body parts. May he enjoy it, he was killed the way he had hoped for and his body was torn for the love of God," al-Asiri said afterward, according to Sada al-Malahem.
All three bombs contained a high explosive known as PETN, or pentaerythritol tetranitrate, which was also used by convicted shoe bomber Richard Reid when he tried to destroy a trans-Atlantic flight in 2001.
Al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula is led by a Yemeni militant named Nasser al-Wahishi, a former aide of Osama bin Laden, and combines Yemeni fighters with the remnants of the terror network's branch in Saudi Arabia, which was largely crushed by the kingdom's security forces in the mid 2000's. The group is believed to number several hundred fighters, hiding in the mountains of Yemen where the central government has little control.
According to Sada al-Malahem, al-Asiri and his brother Abdullah were the first of the Saudi branch to pledge allegiance to al-Wahishi, after fleeing Saudi Arabia following a month chase by Saudi authorities. After their allegiance, the magazine issued the call for other Saudi members to come to Yemen.
Al-Asiri and his brother abruptly left their Mecca home three years ago, said their father, a four-decade veteran of the Saudi military. Aside from a brief phone call to say they had left the country, he never heard from them again.
According to Sada al-Malahem, al-Asiri and his friends originally planned to go fight the Americans in Iraq, but Saudi police raided the apartment where they were hiding and arrested them.
"They put me in prison and I began to see the depths of (the Saudis) servitude to the Crusaders and their hatred for the true worshippers of God, from the way they interrogated me," the magazine quotes him as saying.
Upon his release, al-Asiri tried to create a new militant cell in Saudi Arabia but was once again discovered. Six of his colleagues were killed and he and his brother fled south to the Asir mountains where they holed up for weeks.
They entered Yemen on Aug. 1, 2006, and met with al-Wahishi, who had escaped from prison just months earlier, and became the nucleus of the new al-Qaida affiliate, said the account, which could not be independently confirmed.
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Antarctica's mile-high University Valley lies within the only region on Earth where the terrain matches that of Phoenix landing site. This is where NASA's IceBite team will test ice-penetrating drills for a future Mars mission.
Scientistswith NASA?s IceBite project are heading this week for University Valley, ahanging valley perched more than 1600 feet (more than 1 mile) above sea levelin Antarctica?s McMurdo Dry Valleys. Their objective: to test a set ofice-penetrating drills and select one for use on a future mission to the Martianpolar north, the same region of the planet that NASA?s Phoenix landerinvestigated in 2008.
Thenorthern polar region on Mars is of particular interest to scientists becauseit once may have provided a habitableenvironment for life. Due to variations over time in Mars? orbit and theangle at which it tilts toward the sun, Mars? north pole received much moresunlight several million years ago than it does today ? enough sunlight toproduce liquid water, enough liquid water to support life. Indeed NASA?sPhoenix lander found evidence in Martian arctic soil that liquid water had beenpresent there in the past.
That makesthe Martian northern plains a favored place for a futuremission to Mars targeted at the search for life. And it makes analoguesites on Earth, locations that mimic the conditions encountered by Phoenix, agood place to prepare for a Phoenix follow-up mission. University Valley, whereIceBite researchers will conduct their field work, is just such a site.
Althoughpermafrost exists in many places on Earth, it is typically wet permafrost.?Everywhere in the northern hemisphere where there?s permafrost, it is wet andit gets muddy in the summer,? explains Chris McKay of NASA Ames, IceBite?sprincipal investigator. ?There is always a point in the summer where you havewet soil and then ice and so the temperature at that boundary is zero degrees[Celsius].?
But in2008, when NASA?sPhoenix lander studied a small patch of ground in Mars? northern polarregion, it found a layer of bone-dry, frozen soil ? dry permafrost ? sittingatop a layer of ice. On Earth, however, there is only one place where dry soiloverlays solid ice: in the upper elevations of the Dry Valleys. ?In Antarctica,and only in Antarctica, we find a completely different phenomenon called drypermafrost,? says McKay. ?The whole system never gets warm enough for that iceto turn to liquid. That?s the relevant model for Mars.?
An unnamedglacier fills the upper end of University Valley. At the tip of the glacier,ice is present at the surface and there is no overlying soil. Here, during thesummer months the surface warms enough for melting to occur. But the fartherone moves away from the glacier, the deeper the overlying soil layer becomes,eventually becoming so deep that the ice beneath it never warms above minus 10degrees Celsius (14 degrees Fahrenheit), so liquid water never appears, and thepermafrost above the ice remains dry year-round. This is where McKay?s teamplans to drill.
The IceBiteproject, funded by NASA?s ASTEP (Astrobiology Science and Technology forExploring Planets) program, will spend three austral summers in Antarctica.This year, the team?s focus will be on scouting the area to identify the bestlocations for drilling. ?We?ll look at the physics of the soil, the watermoisture. We?ll look at the snow packs that are surrounding the valley. Andwe?ll stick in all sorts of data loggers and temperature and environmentalloggers to record what?s going on,? says McKay.
IceBitescientists are also interested in studying the microorganisms that live underthese challenging conditions. So in addition to scouting the area for drillsites, McKay and his colleagues plan to collect samples, for laboratory study,of organisms that live in the ice, in the dry permafrost, and on the boundarywhere they meet.
Bacteriahave been found living in ice at temperatures even colder than minus 10Celsius. ?We know that?s a habitat for growth,? McKay says. And in past visitsto Antarctica, organisms have also been found in the dry permafrost. ?Ice anddirt mixed together at minus 10 [Celsius] is plenty of water for life,? McKaysays. But whether the organisms are growing and reproducing in the dry soil, orare merely lying dormant, is still unknown. ?One of the things we want to do isstick sensors in there and see if the water activity gets high enough for themto have seasonal growth.?
AstrobiologyMagazine will be in contact with the science team throughout the six-weekperiod when they are in the field in Antarctica, and visitors to the AM websitewill be able to use our Aska Scientist feature to pose direct questions to team members about theIceBite project.
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Clickhere to visit Astrobiology Magazine?s Ask a Scientist feature to learn moreabout the IceBite project.


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Q: Changing monkeypatch setattr multiple times I am trying to test code that depends on a third party and would like to use monkeypatch to replicate what I expect a request will return. Here is a minimal example of the code that I have.
import requests

def get_urls(*urls):
    results = []
    for url in urls:
        results.append(requests.get(url).text)

For my tests, I have something like the following:
from my_package import get_urls

def test_get_urls():
    urls = ("https://example.com/a", "https://example.com/b", "https://example.com/c")
    assert len(get_urls(urls)) == 3

How can I monkeypatch each of the calls to requests.get using monkeypatch.setattr? The mock package seems to be able to do this using side effects. How do I do this with pytest?

A: When you override a method call using monkeypatch, you can set that attribute to be a custom function. Here is one method of implementing different behaviors based on url:
URL_MAP = {
    'https://example.com/a': json.dumps({1: 2}),
    'https://example.com/b': json.dumps({3: 4})
}

def fake_req_get(url, *args, **kwargs):
    return URL_MAP.get(url, '{}')

def test_get_urls(monkeypatch):
    monkeypatch.setattr('requests.get', fake_req_get)
    urls = ("https://example.com/a", "https://example.com/b", "https://example.com/c")
    assert get_urls(urls)[0] == URL_MAP["https://example.com/a"]

A: I had a similar situation (but not an identical one), which the accepted answer helped me with, but there was a little extra thinking I had to do to finish figuring out how to do this for my particular use case. It took me long enough that I thought I would share the fruits of my labor here since it led to a more generalizable way of doing things.
If you're doing a test where the function you're executing, (in this example get_urls), calls the monkeypatched thing (here requests.get) more than one time, and you want the result of the monkeypatched thing to be a certain value the first time, and another value the second time, you can create a class with stateful info involving what you want the first, second, ... calls to it to return, plus an index for which call you're on, with a __call__ attribute so that an instance of the class still seems like a normal function to the caller. This makes the return value of the thing you're monkeypatching similar to the progression of values as you go through an iterator. For example:
def test_mock_a_function(monkeypatch):
    class fake_random_twice:
        vals = ['a', 'c']
        val_idx = 0
        def __call__(self):
            val = self.vals[self.val_idx]
            self.val_idx += 1
            return val

    def to_exercise():
        import random
        val1 = random.random()
        val2 = 'b'
        val3 = random.random()
        return val1 + val2 + val3

    # Remember, `fake_random_twice()` *instantiates* a callable, but doesn't call it yet,
    # so `to_exercise`'s calls to random.random() will return actual values.
    monkeypatch.setattr('random.random', fake_random_twice())
    assert to_exercise() == 'abc'

Test passes! :)
Or, in the case where you're already mocking a method of a class (which was my exact usecase, here for mocking datetime.now), you do something like this:
def test_mock_a_method(monkeypatch):
    mocked_start_time = datetime.datetime.now()
    # Pretend we next call now() 100 milliseconds later.
    mocked_end_time = mocked_start_time + datetime.timedelta(microseconds=100)

    class datetime_mocker:
        # Return first the mocked start time and second the mocked end time. This works because
        # datetime.datetime.now() is called twice by the thing we're testing; if it instead called
        # datetime.datetime.now() eg. three times, we would want to list out three separate times here.
        timestamps_to_return = [mocked_start_time, mocked_end_time]
        # Stateful variable used by now() to accomplish our goal of returning first one time, then
        # the next.
        timestamp_idx = 0

        @classmethod
        def now(cls, timezone):
            this_calls_timestamp = cls.timestamps_to_return[cls.timestamp_idx]
            cls.timestamp_idx += 1
            return this_calls_timestamp

    def to_exercise():
        import datetime

        start_time = datetime.datetime.now(datetime.timezone.utc)
        # ... Do stuff here that takes time which we care about
        # We can tell the mock is working since we'll assert the elapsed value is only 100 ms - but
        # time.sleep(1) ensures that if we were using the real-life datetime, the elapsed value
        # would be >= 1 second.
        time.sleep(1)
        end_time = datetime.datetime.now(datetime.timezone.utc)
        elapsed = end_time - start_time
        return elapsed

    monkeypatch.setattr(datetime, 'datetime', datetime_mocker)
    assert to_exercise() == datetime.timedelta(microseconds=100)

Test also passes! :)
Hopes this helps someone else one day.

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaStackExchange


From May 24th to 31st, 2014, the Institute will convene a delegation to explore policy in Havana and surrounding areas. The trip is a week of immersion in Cuban government, business, art, and culture as legally licensed educational travelers. The program will be led by Ambassador Charles Shapiro, President of the Institute and formerly Coordinator of Cuban Affairs at the U.S. Department of State.
Few in our generation have been inside Cuba, and even fewer have had the inside access now being offered to you by the Institute. The Institute is offering an insider's perspective to life in Cuba and the Cuba-US relationship. Participants will meet with high-ranking government officials, hear from entrepreneurs in the Cuban private sector, learn from professional Cuban artists and musicians and convene with diplomats and economists familiar with the intricacies of the island.


Verco Shallow Vercor Form Deck is strong, light weight, economical, and easy to install. It is used either as a form deck to pour concrete or as siding and roofing. Shallow Vercor is 9/16" deep and is available in galvanized G-90 finishes. Verco Shallow Vercor is good in stock in 22 Gauge. In addition, Shallow Vercor deck is available in lengths ranging from 12'-6" to 20'-6". Material can be custom run to different gauges and longer or shorter lengths if needed.
Shallow Vercor Form Deck is in stock in Ontario, California or Phoenix, Arizona. Route trucks run throughout the country on a weekly or monthly basis depending on your location and can be shipped very inexpensively.


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Amy Howden-Chapman
Amy Howden-Chapman (b. Aotearoa/New Zealand) is an artist and writer whose work has focused for more than a decade on the ways culture can intervene in the climate crisis. Specifically, her work concerns the ways artistic engagement with local sites can help shape climate understanding and action. She is a founding editor of The Distance Plan (TheDistancePlan.org), a platform that brings together artists, scientists, policymakers, and activists to promote interdisciplinary conversation on climate change and culture. Howden-Chapman was the 2016 DAAD fellow at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research. She is Visiting Associate Professor at the Pratt Institute, and she also teaches a course on Sustainability at Parsons School of Design at the New School.
Recent exhibitions include Elbow-Room in the Universe (Enjoy Public Art Gallery, 2020), Portfolios (The Architectural League of New York, 2019), and Brick Fall, Glass Wall (The Physics Room, 2016).
Howden-Chapman has been based in the United States for over a decade and now lives in Brooklyn, New York.
See: amyhowdenchapman.com
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The U.S. military is holding about 500 juveniles in detention centers in Iraq, and has about 10 detained at the U.S. base at Bagram, Afghanistan, the United States has told the United Nations.
A total of 2,500 youths under the age of 18 have been detained, almost all in Iraq, for periods up to a year or more in President Bush's anti-terrorism campaign since 2002, the United States reported last week to the U.N.'s Committee on the Rights of the Child.
The report said that of the total of 2,500 juveniles jailed since 2002, all but 100 had been picked up in Iraq. Of the remainder, most were swept up in Afghanistan.
The U.S. military says it has held eight juveniles, ages 13-17, at Guantanamo since the detention center opened in 2002.
Six were released and two are now adults facing war-crimes charges.
Canadian Omar Khadr, now 21, was captured in July 2002 and is charged with murder for allegedly throwing a grenade that killed a U.S. special forces soldier. Mohammed Jawad, an Afghan who the military says is about 23, faces charges of attempted murder for a 2002 grenade attack that wounded two U.S. soldiers.
In Afghanistan, "as of April 2008, there are approximately 10 juveniles being held at the Bagram Theater Internment Facility as unlawful enemy combatants," the report said.
In Bagram, a U.S. military spokesman, Marine 1st Lt. Richard K. Ulsh, told the AP on Sunday: "At any time there are up to 625 detainees being held at the Bagram Theater Internment Facility. There are no detainees being held under the age of 16 and, without getting into specifics due to the frequent fluctuation in the number of detainees being held, we can tell you that there are currently less than 10 detainees being held under the age of 18."
"It's shocking to me that the U.S. government has not figured out a way to keep children out of adult prisons. It's outrageous, and it is not making us any safer, I can say that about Afghanistan from personal experience," Tina M. Foster, the executive director of the International Justice Network, said Sunday.
Her group brought lawsuits on behalf of the Guantanamo detainees in 2006, and has taken on the cases of adult detainees in Bagram. She said the U.S. military does not release the names of juveniles it is holding in Bagram, so her group is trying to learn who they are by finding Afghan relatives.
"It is shocking to know that the U.S. is holding hundreds of juveniles in Iraq and Afghanistan, and even more disturbing that there is no comprehensive policy in place that will protect their rights as children," Jamil Dakwar, director of the American Civil Liberties Union's Human Rights Program, said in a statement. "Juveniles and former child soldiers should be treated first and foremost as candidates for rehabilitation and reintegration into society, not subjected to further victimization."
"Although age is not a determining factor in whether or not we detain an individual under the law of armed conflict, we go to great lengths to attend to the special needs of juveniles while they are in detention," the U.S. report said.
The U.N. Committee on the Rights of the Child is scheduled to question the U.S. delegation on its compliance with its obligations on May 22 in Geneva.


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Frijoles Negros (Black bean soup) a staple in cuban cuisine.
Place beans in a pot of water covering completely first thing in the morning and let sit all day.
in the evening when you are ready to start preparing dinner, remove the beans and place them in a large saucepan and add water. Bring the beans to a boil, reduce heat to low, cover, and cook until the beans are tender, about 1 hour.
Do not drain the water from the cooked beans.
Sauté the onions, green pepper and minced garlic in the olive oil until the onions are translucent.
Add the beans, oregano, cumin, bay leaf, vinegar, salt, pepper and wine. Stirring occasionally, simmer over low heat for 15 minutes.
Take out about a half of cup of beans and mash them. Put them back in the pot (this will thicken the soup).
Add the sugar; spoon the remaining olive oil over the beans. Immediately cover the sauce pan and shut off the heat, it will be ready to serve in five minutes.


From the moment go, BUZZ by Aastha Gill featuring rapstar Badshah and heartthrob Priyank Sharma has become the most watched song on YouTube with over 10 millionviews and No. 1 trending. From the hook of the song, to the chemistry between Aastha – Priyank and Badshah's swag, the song has become a youth anthem.
The video has been directed by the multi-talented director Arvindr Khaira over three days in Chandigarh in India, and can be seen exclusively on Sony Music India's YouTube channel.
The music video follows a young girl's story with her obsession for her lover and how she loves his vibes.


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Het Heilig Hartbeeld is een standbeeld aan de Kerkstraat in de Nederlandse plaats Gemert, in de provincie Noord-Brabant.

Achtergrond
Bij de Sint-Jans Onthoofdingkerk stond sinds 1918 een Heilig Hartbeeld gemaakt door Jan Custers. Toen er een nieuwe pastorie werd gebouwd aan de achterzijde van de kerk, wilde men ook daar een Heilig Hartbeeld. In de tuin werd een marmeren beeld geplaatst dat Wim Harzing in 1930 maakte.

Beschrijving
Het witte, marmeren beeld toont een staande Christusfiguur in het voor Harzing karakteristieke, gestileerde ontwerp, met de linkerhand wijzend naar het Heilig Hart op de borst, de rechterhand opgeheven met breed afhangende mouw. Het beeld staat op een eenvoudige, bakstenen voetstuk.

Zie ook
 Heilig Hartbeeld (Gemert, Prins Bernhardlaan)
 Lijst van beelden in Gemert-Bakel
 Lijst van Heilig Hartbeelden in Nederland

Gemert
Gemert-Bakel
Beeld van Wim Harzing


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Two city neighborhoods lose development fights
Doug Caruso, The Columbus Dispatch
Columbus City Council members approved two construction projects last night despite opposition from residents who urged them to uphold city-approved neighborhood plans.
About 100 people packed the council chambers, about half of them from the Harrison West neighborhood just south of Ohio State University and about half from Clintonville.
In the Harrison West case, the council unanimously approved allowing the Wagenbrenner Co. to build a 108-unit apartment building on a 1.9-acre parcel that was planned for no more than 75 units. In the second, council members voted 6-1 to allow the Wesley Glen Retirement Center to build a 120-space parking lot on residential land on Fenway Road to the north of its campus.
Councilwoman Priscilla R. Tyson cast the no vote.
Harrison West neighbors said that Wagenbrenner officials told them as recently as April that the site near their homes in the developer�s Harrison Park neighborhood would hold 42 condominiums. The plan for 108 apartments is too dense, and at four stories too tall, they said. They also said it will cause more traffic and attract single young adults instead of families.
�This proposal violates the entire spirit of the Harrison West plan,� Adam Deutsch, president of the Harrison Park Homeowners Association, told the council. �You�re setting a precedent that says to developers, �It�s open season on Harrison West.�?�
Developer Mark Wagenbrenner defended the proposal, saying the entire Harrison Park development on former industrial land near the Olentangy River was planned for 345 units. This project won�t change that overall density, he said.
The project changed to apartments from condominiums, he said, because that�s where the market is. Eventually, he said, the company plans to sell the one- and two-bedroom units, but nobody wants to buy condominiums now.
Councilman A. Troy Miller, the council�s zoning chairman, said he was persuaded to vote yes because the 345-unit limit on the whole development won�t be exceeded, and by Wagenbrenner�s past record.
�His work has been very good,� Miller said. �We�re not talking about a question of an unknown developer making these changes.�
In the other case, both the Clintonville Area Commission and the city�s zoning office opposed the parking lot because it encroaches on a residential area designated in the neighborhood�s plan.
Apologetic officials from the retirement home said they got into a parking crunch when they built a new activity center for their residents on a former parking area. Despite several attempts to come up with a plan that would appease neighbors, they were unable to do so, said Michael Shannon, the attorney for the retirement home.
D Searcy, a member of the area commission, said the retirement home has other options, including a lot across N. High Street that�s already zoned for commercial use. She said the center�s operators should have known when they built the activity center that parking would be a problem.
But two other members of the area commission, Jennifer Kangas and John DeFourney, told the council that the plan to place the parking on Fenway near High Street is the best option for solving Wesley Glen�s problems. DeFourney, the area commission president, signed up to speak against the zoning change, then asked council members to approve it.
Miller said a zoning change was necessary to help the center�s employees: �We�re trying to take care of those who are taking care of elderly individuals.�
dcaruso@dispatch.com


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Brave Arlesey mother shares heartbreaking loss of triplet for Baby Loss Awareness Week
Georgia Barrow
Tracey holding Henry and Paul holding James when the boys came home from hospital, Picture: Courtesy of Tamba
Copyright Katie Spicer. All Rights Reserved.
An Arlesey mother has shared the heartbreaking loss of one of her triplets for Baby Loss Awareness Week.
Tracey Kirby – the loving mother of three-year-olds Henry and James – lost her third child in the womb.
She decided to share her story for baby Loss Awareness Week which starts today and ends on Sunday.
She and her husband Paul hope to raise awareness for the Twins and Multiple Births Association and help promote the charity's new Bereavement Support Group Booklet which offers information, support and stories – including Tracey's – about multiple birth.
Tracey said: "It still hits me when people call the boys twins – they'll always be triplets.
Tracey Kirby at 32-weeks pregnant on the morning of her c-section. Picture: Courtesy of Tamba
"People think they're being kind when they say 'oh, but you still have two', but there isn't a day goes by where we don't think about Cayden."
Tracey and Paul, aged 30, were shocked and delighted when they found out they were expecting triplets – identical twins and a singleton.
However, at 19 weeks, the couple were told that the twins had TTTS (twin to twin transfusion syndrome) – a condition which affects the flow of blood from the placenta to each baby.
TTTS causes the recipient twin to receive too much blood and have a large amount of amniotic fluid surrounding them, while the donor twin receives too little blood and lacks amniotic fluid.
New born James and Henry Kirby with mum Tracey. Picture: Courtesy of Tamba
The couple found out they were having three boys and nicknamed them the singleton, twin two and twin three.
Just a few days later, the situation rapidly deteriorated.
"We were told they'd become stage three TTTS and were offered the selective reduction of twin three, because he was the smaller, but we just couldn't do it," Tracey added.
At 20 to 22 weeks the TTTS had stabilised and Tracey was offered a laser ablation – a common form of treatment which involves putting a needle and camera into the womb and using a laser to seal off the connecting blood vessels in the shared placenta, helping to balance the blood flow.
Paul Kirby holding Henry, with wife Tracey holding James, now aged three. Picture: Courtesy of Tamba
During the procedure Tracey was able to see live video footage of her three babies for the first time.
She said: "We saw them properly on the screen, it was amazing. I'll never forget seeing Cayden when he was alive."
To find out if the procedure had worked meant an agonising two-week wait.
"Those whole two weeks I just couldn't relax," said Tracey, "but I knew I just had to get through them and then it would all be fine.
"The next week I had an appointment with a local midwife and she had a listen to the heartbeats – I couldn't believe it when she said she'd heard all three.
"I was so happy and excited – all the boys were alive and it was just amazing.
"Later that day we had our appointment in London, but because we knew it was going to be fine, we were happy and we didn't worry.
"But then our consultant listened to the heartbeats and found James' and Henry's. I made a joke about Cayden being cheeky and hiding. The consultant then put his hand on mine and said 'I'm so sorry, he's gone'.
"I just couldn't understand, we'd heard him that morning, but he said Cayden had died the day before. It was just such a complete shock.
"They said he'd probably had a cardiac arrest with all that extra blood pumping into his body.
"The midwife was so apologetic afterwards but she'd actually made things better – for those few hours between appointments, I had a little part of my pregnancy where I was happy."
Tracey carried her three sons, including Cayden, for seven more weeks.
On August 4 2014, Tracey had a C-section giving birth to James, who weighed 3lb 6oz, and Henry who was 1lb 8oz.
"We named him Cayden because it means 'little fighter' in Celtic," said Tracey.
"He carried on fighting until his little heart gave up."
For further information visit tamba.org.uk or for confidential support call Twinline on 0800 138 0509.
Arlesey
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Students animatedly discussed ideas in lecture halls, whiteboards overflowed with colorful ink, and groups practiced their product pitches. It wasn't just an ordinary day at the Warren Alpert Medical School — it was the inaugural run of Hack Health.
Hack Health is a hackathon with a mission to "improve healthcare using innovation," said Alexandra Kaye '17, one of the co-founders of the event. Though this is its first year, Hack Health has already managed to draw 90 participants from nine schools for the weekend, she said. While most participants were undergraduates, others were medical students or healthcare professionals.
Although data analytics will play a role in precision medicine, experts say we're far from achieving the full potential. Instead, the focus of analytics now is on value-based care.
Healthcare organizations have spent years installing electronic health records and other information systems that collect data and improve patient care.
With all that data in hand, now the challenge is to take advantage of it for value-based reimbursement and show that it is being meaningfully used. Many experts believe the opportunity for transforming that ocean of data into something understandable and valuable in clinical care lies in data analytics, whether it be predictive analytics, big data or genomics.
The healthcare IT market includes electronic heath records, revenue cycle management, practice management and mobile health.
The total market size is currently estimated to be between $32 billion and $47 billion.
The market is estimated to be growing at 10-14% annually.
A new study from Xerox finds that consumers and providers have different perceptions of their responsibilities in healthcare. An mHealth platform could bridge that gap.
A new survey suggests that mHealth may be useful in bridging a startling perception gap between doctors and their patients.
Nearly half of American consumers recently surveyed by Xerox say they take complete responsibility for their health – yet only 6 percent of doctors in the same survey say this is true. Conversely, 40 percent of doctors and payers say consumers don't know how to take charge of the healthcare, while less than 5 percent of the consumers surveyed say that's accurate.
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