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Netskope Safely Enables Plex's Cloud App Security Strategy
Fast-growing Silicon Valley startup relies on Netskope to provide key insights into usage trends on important cloud apps, including Google Drive and GitHub
LOS ALTOS, Calif. – April 7, 2015 — Netskope, the leader in safe cloud enablement, today announced that Plex, a fast-growing technology startup, has selected Netskope to help monitor and safely enable and reduce risk for its growing cloud app ecosystem. Plex, whose workforce spans more than 20 separate locations, cited Netskope's data loss prevention and introspection features as significant factors in choosing Netskope.
"Netskope helps us safely operate a number of critical cloud business services while reducing the chances of exposing our business unnecessarily," said Scott Olechowski, Chief Product Officer and co-founder of Plex. "It was important for us to find a solution that provided robust DLP capabilities and the ability to do granular policy enforcement across the broad set of apps that we use — Netskope stood out as a leader in these areas."
Netskope enables organizations to achieve granular visibility into data movement inside and outside of cloud apps, helping to determine risk and set security policies. During the Netskope proof-of-concept, Plex used the Netskope introspection and data loss prevention capabilities within their Google Apps for Work environment. This meant that data already residing in Google Drive could be inspected for intellectual property and other sensitive files. Plex also put the Netskope Active Platform in place to stop out-of-policy downloads of source code from GitHub in real-time.
"Plex is a fast-growing company with an increasingly global presence that requires the ability to proactively monitor cloud app usage trends," said Sanjay Beri, chief executive officer and founder for Netskope. "When you've got globally distributed teams and your business is frequently originating and sharing proprietary data through cloud apps, being out in front from a security point of view is absolutely critical."
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The Advisory Council International conducted a technical evaluation of Netskope as a Cloud Access Security Broker. The results were shared in the TAC Test Track Report. Get a copy of the report here.
About Plex
Plex organizes all of your movie, TV show, video, music, and photo collections so you can stream them to all of your screens. Plex allows you to stream your media to your devices, such as your Mac, PC, smartphone, tablet, Xbox, Playstation, Smart TV, Roku, Chromecast, and more.
Netskope™ is the leader in safe cloud enablement. Only gives IT the ability to find, understand, and secure sanctioned and unsanctioned cloud apps. With Netskope, organizations can direct usage, protect sensitive data, and ensure compliance in real-time, on any device, including native apps on mobile devices and whether on-premises or remote, and with the broadest range of deployment options in the market. With Netskope, the business can move fast, with confidence.
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The Tollander Prize to Ulla-Lena Lundberg
17 February 2011 | In the news
One of the biggest literary prizes in Finland is the Tollander Prize, awarded annually on 5 February, the birthday of he national poet J.L. Runeberg, by Svenska litteratursällskapet i Finland (the Society of Swedish Literature in Finland). The prize is worth €35,000.
The recipient of the 2011 Tollander Prize is Ulla-Lena Lundberg, a versatile writer of novels, short stories, poems and travel essays. 'She moves freely in different landscapes, times and cultures, finding universality in locality, whether on the island of Kökar in Åland, in Africa or in Siberia', said the jury.
Written between 1989 and 1995, Lundberg's fictional trilogy of Leo, Stora världen ('The big world') and Allt man kan önska sig ('Everything one can wish for'), focused on the seafaring history and evolution of shipping in the Finnish Åland islands. Her autobiographical work Sibirien (Siberia', 1993) has been published in German, Danish and Dutch.
Read the extracts from her latest book, Jägarens leende ('Smile of the hunter', 2010), on rock art, reviewed on our pages by Pia Ingström.
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Soila Lehtonen is a journalist and theatre critic, and currently Editor-in-Chief of Books from Finland. She has edited a collection of writings about the city of Helsinki together with Hildi Hawkins, Helsinki: a literary companion (The Finnish Literature Society, 2000). Hildi Hawkins is a writer and translator, and the London Editor of Books from Finland. She is also the co-editor of things, a journal of writings about objects, their pasts, presents and futures.

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Dying man who rang 999 after being stabbed was put on hold listening to recorded message
Court hears dad-of-two Paul Millea repeatedly begged for help as he lay dying in the street
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A dying man who rang 999 after being stabbed in the street was put on hold listening to a pre-recorded message.
Liverpool Crown Court heard dad-of-two Paul Millea's call was placed in a queue because of a high volume of calls.
It eventually took paramedics around 40 minutes to arrive, by which time several members of the public had gone to his aid.
Phillip Daniels, 26, is standing trial accused of murdering the 36-year-old at around 11pm on Saturday, June 17 this year.
Prosecutors say he stabbed Mr Millea with a knife because he thought he was having an affair with his pregnant girlfriend.
Daniels, of Corner Brook, West Derby, admits stabbing him, but says he used a pair of scissors and acted in self-defence.
As the trial got underway yesterday Nigel Power, QC, prosecuting, described how Mr Millea called 999 at 11.10pm and said "I've been stabbed in the chest" and "babe, I'm going to die".
Mr Millea told the female operator "he stabbed me for nothing" before repeatedly saying "I'm going to die".
Murder accused stabbed dad-of-two believing he was having affair with pregnant girlfriend
Mr Power said: "The operator says 'hold the line' and then Mr Millea says 'he stabbed me like a nutter, I'm dying".
"We only hear sadly a recorded voice saying that the call was in a queue because there were a high number of calls.
"Mr Millea obviously knew that he was dying because he said 'I'm dying, I'm going to die, can't I stay here? I'm dying'."
Neighbour Helen Ireland – one of several residents and passers-by who helped Mr Millea – then took over the call.
Paramedics and police arrived in Shrewsbury Road, outside Daniels' girlfriend Kayleigh Maylor's house, by 11.50pm.
Mr Millea was taken to hospital, where he died from a stab wound to the right side of his chest shortly before 1.30am.
Prosecutors say Phillip Daniels stabbed Paul Millea, 36, with a knife outside Kayleigh Maylor's house in Shrewsbury Road, Garston
The wound passed through his right lung, entered the heart sac and penetrated a major vein draining into the heart.
Mr Power said Daniels was "visibly distressed" when he arrived at his mum Janet Lester's house in Stockbridge Village at 1.30am.
He said: "He was shaking, crying and repeatedly saying that he was sorry.
"He said that he thought Kayleigh was having an affair with someone and that when that man knocked on the door he stabbed him.
"He asked her to wash his clothes, but his mother wisely declined."
His sister Kimberly arrived the next morning and took Daniels to a barbers, also taking away his clothes from the night before.
The area around Shrewsbury Street in Garston sealed off after Paul Millea was stabbed to death
Mr Power said his "very distinctive hair" was "shaved off" and asked why he did this, other than "not wanting to be apprehended for murder".
Kimberley was arrested by police the next day and would not say where her brother was.
The lawyer said: "She has pleaded guilty to the offence of assisting an offender, providing sanctuary for her brother and helping him dispose of evidence."
Man accused of entering Seaforth school and slashing caretaker
While giving a statement to police, Ms Lester received a phone call from her son and told him to come home.
Mr Power said he returned and was arrested, when his mum told him to be honest and he replied: "What are you talking about mum? Just shut up'."
He said Kimberley had agreed to co-operate with prosecutors, which may result in her receiving a reduced sentence.
Mr Power said she would tell the jury how her brother had been "acting like a love-struck teenager" over Miss Maylor.
Mr Power claimed she said he rang asking for a lift, saying "I think I've killed somebody", then told her he stabbed a man he thought was seeing his girlfriend.
Mr Power said: "No weapon has been recovered. She asked what happened to the knife, he said that he wiped it and stashed it a few streets away, though he didn't say where he got it from."
Daniels denies murder and manslaughter.
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Yesterday, we first reported on iHeartMedia's mass layoff of employees nationwide. Now, the company has explained why those people were let go.
We certainly hear a lot about machines replacing humans in the workforce. And there are certainly some in-your-face examples, like self-checkout aisles at supermarkets. But most of the threats feel like they're in the distant future.
Unless you're a laid-off iHeartMedia or iHeartRadio employee.
Yesterday, we first reported that iHeartMedia and its iHeartRadio unit were laying off a massive amount of employees, with potentially hundreds impacted. Initially, we reported that dozens were losing their jobs, but that number quickly increased. A source to Rolling Stone has since pegged the number of laid-off employees closer to 850, while a source to Billboard simply called the mass-layoff a 'bloodbath'.
Radio publication All Access has named nearly 60 DJs out of work.
Now, iHeartMedia has released a press release trumpeting the move, while crediting its "significant investments in technology and Artificial Intelligence (AI)."
The statement was sent just hours after employees were sent packing. "As it enters the new decade, iHeartMedia today announced a new organizational structure for its Markets Group as it modernizes the company to take advantage of the significant investments it has made in technology and artificial intelligence (AI) and its unique scale and leadership position in the audio marketplace," the company declared.
In an internal memo sent to iHeartMedia and iHeartRadio employees, the company pointed to the "unfortunate price we pay to modernize the company."
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In true dystopian fashion, the release also emphasized the ability of its technology improvements to help its employees.
But of course, that only matters if you weren't just laid off.
"The company has made significant technology investments to change everything from how it sells advertising to how it utilizes data and builds new businesses like its digital platform, podcast platform and robust data platform – all of which have given it an undisputed leadership position in the audio world," the release continues. "Additionally, the company's technological advancements increase its ability to support its employees and its customers through world class systems and innovation."
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This is a guest post on Clyde Street written by Darrell Cobner.
I have tremendous admiration for Darrell, his vision and his practice. I think he exemplifies the digital scholarship of 21st century sport science. I benefit enormously from his commitment to connectivism.
I was thinking of posting a foreword and afterword to his post but I believe the issues he raises are so important that I need to write a separate response.
I do wish to affirm that disciplinary gaze in performance analysis is addressing fundamental issues in the social construction of pedagogy and is doing so in spaces in addition to peer reviewed journals. I am grateful to Darrell for raising these issues here.
He and I welcome your comments on this post. The choice of picture from the grounds of the Shanghai University of Sport is mine and shared with a CC BY 3.0 license.
We are undertaking some of our biggest Performance Analysis (PA) challenges to date at Cardiff Metropolitan University. These include establishing a PA hub to service multiple teams and developing work-based learning curricula that encourage open discussion and reflection.
We are fortunate enough to be in an environment where, as a teaching team, we can ask questions of a diverse range of people: Level 4-7 students, coaches, athletes and external stakeholders. We are hopeful that our approach assists a disciplinary gaze (Carling, Wright, Nelson & Bradley, 2013) into social and cultural influences that impact PA delivery, student/analyst/coach/athlete learning, and research in applied settings.
Last week, I was exploring the current perceptions of the role of an analyst to deliver two one-hour learning experiences for our new first year students. This took me on a journey, leading to topical opinions; some which challenged approaches to PA and traditional PA research, and invited a response to question the best medium for disseminating information.
Summarising two recent academic papers (Mackenzie & Cushion, 2013; Carling, Wright, Nelson & Bradley, 2013).
I have a practical, applied background in PA. I have struggled to engage with the academic elements in PA as I have found that direct applicability is not often clear. Although the exploration of the two papers was arduous at times, I was pleasantly surprised at the content, and there was a lot of thought provoking information to extract.
This prompted me to think about how we share the contents of papers in an open blogging space. The papers to which we refer are often closed behind a paywall. I am delighted that Mackenzie & Cushion (2013) is a free access paper.
A core theme that emerged from my reading was the uninspiring approaches and repetitious papers that have been published in PA. I was relieved that others shared the same viewpoint as me. But I really had to concentrate, read and re-read to get the points out (or my interpretation of them). Is that really necessary? Is this loss of flow in academic writing in fact a contributing factor for the blockage between research and applied practice?
Pulling my thoughts together for the OAPS101 small open online course was a great exercise this time last year. I revisited primary source papers from 1985 and 1987 that set an underpinning framework for PA in the coaching process. This encouraged me to consider whether had changed in PA and how PA could be progressed.
I can relate to many the themes that emerged from my reading of Mackenzie & Cushion (2013) and Carling, Wright, Nelson & Bradley (2013).
Has PA become too big?
Does it need to be broken down further into specialisms?
Are we all performance analysts?
Whose role is it to collect and analyse GPS data?
Is too much expected of one person; when they are sometimes underpaid, sometimes unpaid?
My experience with the germ of an idea shared as a Tweet at an academic conference that became a blog post, then a series of blog posts, and (eventually) a peer-reviewed article is just one example of the changing nature of scholarship. From where I sit, being a scholar now involves creating knowledge in ways that are more open, more fluid, and more easily read by wider audiences.
I learn a great deal from a daily stream of blogs and feeds; from people who are sharing their thoughts without the motivation of titles or monetary gain (and sometimes an aspiring performance analysts looking for a role).
Should the conversations about academic papers migrate to platforms, including blogs, more conducive to conviviality and that might facilitate/accelerate change? Would this conversational approach enable the immediate flow of ideas between research and practice? This would enable more people to contribute to discussion and work in applied contexts.
I am attracted to the openness of blogging, the immediacy of conversation it allows, the ability to question thoughts or ask for clarification. Conversation and collaboration are very important for me. I have preferred to engage with my community of practice in this way rather than through formal peer review.
I wonder if open sharing makes it more likely practitioners will transform their practice. I do understand the challenges facing open access sharing and publication. My experience has been that most practitioners do not adopt unthinkingly new techniques for observing, recording and analysing performance. However my experience tells me that the practitioners are not going to academic journal papers as a first call.
At Cardiff Met we are trying to ensure that our PA students engage with the spectrum of agile scholarship outlined by Jessie Daniels.
1. We are encouraged to customise PA to the individual environment, but conversely, people are looking to compare global data using the same operational definitions and approaches. Do we need authenticity to explore the potential of PA or standardisation/stability to explore the potential of PA?
2. If there is to be a thrust towards centralised terminology/operational definitions, is the written word the best way of communicating them? The word limitation of journal articles was cited as a hindrance for allowing comparisons. Surely we are in a different era now? Within a discipline which utilises powerful visual media to deliver/share information, should we be progressing towards pictures/videos as demonstrations of operational definitions rather than written attempts?
3. The best assessors of reliability are the consumers – the players /coaches that actually use the available resources to review performance. Are they confident enough to rely on the information to make decisions based on the accuracy of the data collected by the service providers?
4. Being able to produce reams of data, extended reports and pretties is no longer the challenge. Is simplicity overlooked?
5. Big data – do the needles exist?
6. Is the chase of technology/features impacting on the PA process?
7. A lot of performance analysts have learned their craft in applied contexts. Many of them are learning this alongside learning how to manage and train people. How do we support the development of social skills?
8. What is to count as research? Do we need other metrics to extend the concept of impact?
9. Should the teaching be research-informed or practice-led? Particularly if the research elements are not being adopted in everyday practice.
Mackenzie, R. and Cushion, C. (2013). Performance analysis in football: A critical review and implications for future research. Journal of Sports Sciences. 31 (6), 639-676.
Carling, C., Wright, C., Nelson, L.J. and Bradley, P.S. (2013). Comment on 'Performance analysis in football: A critical review and implications for future research'. Journal of Sports Sciences. DOI:10.1080/02640414.2013.807352.
Great article Darrell – some really good points in this.
In relation to the 'peer review' debate and the disconnect between applied and academic performance analysis, this is a big issue for PA as an industry. I have no doubt that there are very few coaches who go to academic journals as a first reference and there is a need to find a better way of disseminating the information.
Part of the problem is the structure of a Journal article – to anybody not used to reading them they can be very off putting. Coaches don't have the inclination or time to invest in this. Unfortunately there is also pressure on researchers to publish in this format – as there is a strong resistance from certain groups to accepting any piece of research that has not gone through the 'peer review' process. I would believe (as you have addressed above) that the ultimate peer review is that of coaches and industry practitioners.
There are no easy answers to some of the problems you raised but well worth having the debate.
I think much of the debate for me is about how we share stories about performance.
I have posted some content on 'Medium' to explore the feasibility of the platform to create the conversation and interaction approached in this blog.


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Q: dbt Snapshot Failing (ERROR: 100090 (42P18): Duplicate row detected during DML action) So we have a table called dim_merchant.sql and a snapshot of this table called dim_merchant_snapshot.
{% snapshot dim_merchant_snapshot %}

    {{
        config
        (
          target_schema='snapshots',
          unique_key='id',
          strategy='check',
          check_cols='all'
        )
    }}

select * from {{ ref('dim_merchant') }}

{% endsnapshot %}

We never had a trouble with it but since yesterday, we ran into failure in running the snapshot with the following error message:
Database Error in snapshot dim_merchant_snapshot (snapshots/dim_merchant_snapshot.sql)
100090 (42P18): Duplicate row detected during DML action

The error is happening during this step of the snapshot:
On snapshot.analytics.dim_merchant_snapshot: merge into "X"."SNAPSHOTS"."DIM_MERCHANT_SNAPSHOT" as DBT_INTERNAL_DEST
    using "X"."SNAPSHOTS"."DIM_MERCHANT_SNAPSHOT__dbt_tmp" as DBT_INTERNAL_SOURCE
    on DBT_INTERNAL_SOURCE.dbt_scd_id = DBT_INTERNAL_DEST.dbt_scd_id

    when matched
     and DBT_INTERNAL_DEST.dbt_valid_to is null
     and DBT_INTERNAL_SOURCE.dbt_change_type in ('update', 'delete')
        then update
        set dbt_valid_to = DBT_INTERNAL_SOURCE.dbt_valid_to

    when not matched
     and DBT_INTERNAL_SOURCE.dbt_change_type = 'insert'

We realized that some values were being inserted and updated twice in the snapshot (since yesterday) and that caused the failure of our snapshot but we are not sure as to why.
Note that the id key on dim_merchant is tested for its uniqueness and there are no duplicated of it. Meanwhile, the snapshot table contains duplicate after our first snapshot run (that doesn't cause any failure), but the subsequent runs on the snapshot table infected with duplicates are failing.
We just recently updated dbt from 0.20.0 to 1.0.3, but we didnt find any change in the snapshot definition between these versions.
SETUP:
dbt-core==1.0.3,
dbt-snowflake==1.0.0,
dbt-extractor==0.4.0,
Snowflake version: 6.7.1

Thanks !

A: I know it's been a while since this was posted. I wanted to report that I'm seeing this weird behavior as well. I have a table that I'm snapshotting with the timestamp strategy. The unique_key is made up of several columns. The intention is that this is a full snapshot each time the model is run. The table that is being snapshotted has all unique rows meaning dbt_scd_id is a unique key. I resolved this issue by adding the updated_at column to the unique_key config. In theory, this shouldn't matter since the dbt_scd_id is already a concatenation of unique_key and updated_at. Regardless, it has resolved the issue.

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A Major Jubilee Is Coming to America
By Porter Stansberry
Steve's note: Regular readers know I'm bullish today. But eventually, the "Melt Up" will end – and when it does, my friend and colleague Porter Stansberry wants you to be ready. That's why this week, I'm sharing the first chapter of his book, The American Jubilee. In today's piece, he argues that the warning signs of a coming "Debt Jubilee" are already here...
If you study American history, you'll see that Debt Jubilees occur only in a unique type of extreme political environment.
After all, a Jubilee is a radical measure.
The government essentially steals money from one group and hands it to another.
In order for this to occur, four elements must be in place...
1. The wealth gap must be getting dramatically bigger.
2. There must be cultural threats from those with different values or from outsiders (in other words, minority populations and immigrants).
3. The government must be ineffective at providing solutions.
4. And there must be growing anger toward the "elites."
Sounds familiar, doesn't it?
We have the largest gap ever between the rich and poor...
We have huge increases in violent protests about immigration and race...
We have a completely ineffective government...
And we have extreme animosity toward the "elites" from both the left and right.
Check... check... check... and check.
There's actually a name for this type of political and social phenomenon. It's called "populism." And it emerges every 30 to 40 years...
Populist movements are characterized by extreme anger at the government, at the wealthy, at the establishments, and at "newcomers" and minorities.
As the director of an Alabama group that tracks violence and hate crimes around the country told Newsweek in June 2017: "There has been a massive explosion of violence across the country."
I'm sure you've seen this yourself.
The hatred and anger is like nothing I've witnessed in my lifetime. And it's coming from all sides. A member of my staff went to a book reading in Baltimore by one of the most famous left-wing authors in the country.
The author told the crowd that he wished he could go back in time and smother Donald Trump in his crib as a baby... or convince Trump's mother to have an abortion.
This epitomizes the political and social environment in America today.
From the protests and marches... to the refusals to stand during the national anthem...
From Black Lives Matter to the anti-immigration movements... to the rejuvenation of white supremacists... to the tripling of membership in the Democratic Socialists of America.
It's clear we are in the middle of an extreme "populist" period in America.
Ray Dalio, one of the richest men in America, studied the political environments of the past 100 years and concluded in March 2017...
The last time that it [populism] existed as a major force in the world was in the 1930s, when most countries became populist. Over the last year, it has again emerged as a major force.
Look at this chart. The big spikes show when populist politicians got the most votes in America and abroad...
It proves that what we're experiencing today is eerily similar to what happened in the 1930s... right before the biggest and most radical Debt Jubilee in American history.
The economic comparison is stunning.
Interest rates hit zero leading up to each of these periods...
The government went into mega money-printing mode during both periods...
Printing money caused the stock market and other risky assets to boom during both periods... boosting the wealth of the rich, but doing nothing for the poor...
During the 1930s, just like today, the wealthy acquired a much higher-than-normal percentage of our nation's wealth...
And in both the 1930s and today, the percentage of the population who were foreign born was higher than normal... causing animosity among the "common man."
Just like today, the economic conditions of the 1930s caused extreme income inequality.
Back then, the top 10% earned 45% of all income (compared with 50% today) and owned 85% of the wealth (compared with 75% today).
Even the political characters are the same...
The 1930s saw a popular socialist presidential candidate, just like we had in 2016. Huey Long was a former governor of Louisiana and a U.S. senator. He proposed an income cap at $1 million... a 30-hour federal work week... and 100% income taxes at the highest level.
Long even established 27,000 "Share Our Wealth" clubs around the country and had a radio show that was listened to by one in five Americans.
So where did this all lead? It led to America's most dramatic Debt Jubilee to date...
Porter Stansberry
Editor's note: A financial revolution is already starting to take place across America. But you still have time to protect yourself. Porter and his team of analysts have put together a presentation to explain everything. You'll learn how the Jubilee will play out, as well as the steps you can take to survive... and prosper. Get the full story here.
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Today's chart highlights the return of gluten…
Regular readers are familiar with Steve's "bad to less bad" trading strategy. If you buy assets dirt-cheap when no one is left to sell, you don't always need a complete turnaround to make massive profits. All you need is for things to get "less bad." Right now, we can see this with a bread and pastry maker…
Flowers Foods (FLO) owns popular brands like Nature's Own, Wonder, and Tastykake. But in 2015, FLO shares tumbled. The company was facing lawsuits for paying its drivers as independent contractors. Then it reported declining sales and a disappointing forecast for 2017. But now, things are getting "less bad"… Last quarter, sales and profits rose 0.6% and 10.3%, respectively, from last year. The company is restructuring to improve efficiency… And the bad press has died down.
Shares are up about 45% from their September 2016 low – and they recently hit new 52-week highs. As investor worries fade, watch for this "bad to less bad" rally to continue…


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They will ask you questions to assess your symptoms, and give you the healthcare advice you need or direct you to the right local service. Where possible, they will book you an appointment or transfer you directly to the people you need to speak to.
NHS 111 will direct you straight away to the local service that can help you best.
The North East Ambulance Service handles 111 calls for North East England in partnership with Northern Doctors Urgent Care.
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It's that time of the year again — time to enroll for summer and fall classes.
Registrar Alan Stringfellow said those who want to continue their education at OCCC should be aware that it's a good idea to enroll right away.
By enrolling early, he said, students can speak with academic advisers and faculty advisers who have the knowledge students need to get a degree.
New students will need to bring all official high school and college transcripts to the admissions office to get started, Stringfellow said.
In addition, he said, students should start enrolling as soon as possible to avoid lines and to get the class schedule they want.
Stringfellowsaid OCCC is exceptional at taking care of those students who have jobs and families outside of college, and need specific class schedules.
However, in order to get the hours that will work for the individual, it is always best to be the first in line, he said.
Some returning students may not be able to enroll right away because of enrollment holds caused by outstanding fees or not providing correct official transcripts, Stringfellow said.
He said students who owe fees need to go see the bursar's office where they can correct any issues.
Stringfellow said it's important for students to get the correct official transcripts from their high schools or college and be sure they have the official seal from that school.
Aside from the regular summer and fall terms, students also can enroll in intersessions and Fast Track courses on the same date, he said.
For questions about enrollment, contact Stringfellow at astringfellow@occc.edu or call 405-682-7512.


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Q: Dapper.SimpleCRUD - ISNULL I'm trying to retrieve the root node in a hierarchy using Dapper.SimpleCRUD. The root node is identified by having no parent node. This is the call I'm making:
var whereConditions = new object { ParentId = (int?)null, CompanyId = 1 };
var root = db.GetList<T>(whereConditions).FirstOrDefault();

And this is the SQL that is generated:
exec sp_executesql N'Select * from [Folders] where [CompanyId] = @CompanyId and [ParentId] = @ParentId',N'@CompanyId int,@ParentId int',@CompanyId=13,@ParentId=NULL

The problem is that [ParentId] = @ParentId will return no records as @ParentId is null. To match a record the statement would need to be [ParentId] IS NULL.
I wonder if SimpleCRUD can detect when a nullable parameter equals NULL and can generate an IS NULL statement? Something like this:
exec sp_executesql N'Select * from [Folders] where [CompanyId] = @CompanyId and [ParentId] IS NULL',N'@CompanyId int,@ParentId int',@CompanyId=13,@ParentId=NULL

I know I can send in the WHERE string in manually but was hoping for an automated SimpleCRUD approach.
Apologies in advance if I've missed something obvious and thanks for your time.

A: Elmar-de-groot on GitHub kindly pointed out the issue here:

Hi John, I actually also ran into this issue today as well. Problem
  appears to be originating from 'BuildWhere' where there's a hard-coded "=" equal sign.

private static void BuildWhere(StringBuilder sb,
IEnumerable<PropertyInfo> idProps, object sourceEntity) {  .... }

I created this workaround to solve my issue:
private static void BuildWhere(StringBuilder sb, IEnumerable<PropertyInfo> idProps, object sourceEntity, object whereConditions = null)
var propertyInfos = idProps.ToArray();
string param = "";

...

try
{
    // use the 'is null' operator if value of parameter null, else use '=' operator
    param = (whereConditions.GetType().GetProperty(propertyToUse.Name).GetValue(whereConditions, null) != null ? "{0} = @{1}" : "{0} is null");
}
catch (Exception err)
{
    param = "{0} = @{1}";
}

sb.AppendFormat(param, GetColumnName(propertyToUse), propertyInfos.ElementAt(i).Name);

A: I looked at this a little closer and really don't like the idea of implementing something that has to be in a try/catch to work.
Could you use the manual where method for this case?
var user = connection.GetList("where age = 10 or Name like '%Smith%'");

or in your case:
var user = connection.GetList("where ParentId is null AND CompanyId = 1");

You could easily generate a different where clause depending on if the ParentId is null.


Nowadays, with the huge range of lipstick brands, colors and textures, we find it difficult to select products that suit us. Many women refuse to wear anything but one or two lipsticks, they are accustomed to using. It is not hard to choose lipstick colors once you know a simple fact. Everything you need to know is whether your skin tones are "warm" or "cool". Everyone is either warm or cool and it's all over your face color: blondes, brunettes and redheads can be either.
"If I had someone to learn only one thing about lipstick color it would be this: Find a lipstick that looks good on your face when you absolutely do not wear makeup." – Bobbi Brown, "Beauty".
For everyday makeup, choose a lipstick color that matches the natural color of your skin and hair. Keep lipstick color lighter for daytime and darker for night. A pure, natural-looking lipstick color with a little polish also works well for the day.
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Do not feel shy to mix and mixing different colors of lipstick would bring the desired color of your skin color and tone to complement a try.


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Legislating peace and security: Part II
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This week, Critical State digs into new research about legislative oversight when it comes to security issues. As historian Peter Roady writes in a new article in the Journal of Policy History, the National Security Agency has escaped congressional oversight with two words: "It's classified."
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Former CIA director John Brennan, former CIA deputy director John McLaughlin, former CIA acting director Michael Morell and former acting FBI director Andrew McCabe, speak during a forum on election security titled, "2020 Vision: Intelligence and the US Presidential Election," at the National Press Club in Washington, Oct. 30, 2019.
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Last week, Critical State looked at how popular movements work to influence the legislative process through protests and other forms of signaling, and why protests by less privileged people are more effective than similar actions by more privileged people. This week digs into new research about the strategies of the most privileged group of all when it comes to influencing the legislative branch: the executive.
Related: Legislating peace and security: Part I
In the US, the last great period of legislative oversight over security issues was the 1970s. After a huge expansion of the country's security bureaucracy during and after World War II, the disaster of the Vietnam War, and a series of high-profile intelligence misadventures early in the Cold War, Congress decided that it would like to play a more active role in controlling what America's soldiers and spies were up to. That period brought us the War Powers Resolution, the Church Committee and other congressional action that produced a slight hiccup in the ongoing trend toward presidential control of national security matters.
Related: Illiberalism isn't just rising — it's spreading: Part I
When Congress asked what was going on at Fort Meade, executive branch lawyers, politicians and intelligence officials collectively shrugged their shoulders and said: "Can't tell you, it's classified."
One thing Congress didn't accomplish in that period, however, was establishing tight regulation over the activities of the National Security Agency (NSA), the electronic surveillance arm of America's intelligence community. The agency would later rise to infamy after Edward Snowden released records showing that it routinely gathered Americans' digital information. As historian Peter Roady writes in a new article in the Journal of Policy History, the reason the NSA escaped congressional oversight in the 1970s comes down to a fairly simple explanation: When Congress asked what was going on at Fort Meade, executive branch lawyers, politicians and intelligence officials collectively shrugged their shoulders and said: "Can't tell you, it's classified."
Related: Illiberalism isn't just rising — it's spreading: Part II
NSA existed as a result of a memo from President Harry Truman in 1952 — by the 1970s, Congress had still never passed a bill explaining what the agency was actually supposed to do.
Back in the mid-1970s, even members of Congress had only a passing familiarity with the NSA. Its work was so secret, and intelligence agencies proliferating so fast, that it was only a small blip on the radar of any security-conscious representative. And how would they know? NSA existed as a result of a memo from President Harry Truman in 1952. By the 1970s, Congress had still never passed a bill explaining what the agency was actually supposed to do. As Roady reports, at the time, "only two congressional staffers had sufficient security clearances to peer inside NSA, and they focused on budgetary matters."
Congress began asking questions after a 1974 press report alleged that the Central Intelligence Agency was illegally spying on Americans.
Congress began asking questions after a 1974 press report alleged that the Central Intelligence Agency was illegally spying on Americans. Given that NSA was, at the time, engaging in warrantless domestic surveillance, those questions were cause for alarm in the intelligence community. To buy time, the White House (including a pre-Supreme Court Antonin Scalia) set up a lengthy process for reviewing any intelligence documents Congress requested as part of their investigation. By releasing the documents slowly and in pieces, the executive not only controlled what questions the legislative was able to answer but even what they knew to ask.
FISA, which still governs electronic surveillance today, created a secret court for granting wiretapping and other electronic surveillance warrants.
That process, which set the precedent for subsequent document review processes in congressional intelligence investigations, gave the administration time to pull together Executive Order 11905. The order established a charter for the NSA and other intelligence agencies and basically dared Congress to limit the critical mission described in the charter. The White House also used the delay to draft legislation that would become the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), which purports to regulate electronic surveillance. FISA, which still governs electronic surveillance today, created a secret court for granting wiretapping and other electronic surveillance warrants. That court, which granted 99.97% of government warrant requests between 1979 and 2012, was enough to convince members of Congress and judges that no further major restrictions on NSA actions were necessary.
Executive obstruction is so common in legislative oversight of security matters because it works. Not only did the NSA escape substantial regulation in the 1970s, but that state of affairs lasted for decades. When the Snowden disclosures appeared in 2013, the world was once again shocked by the very thing Congress was hoping to uncover back in 1975: warrantless collection of Americans' communications by the NSA.
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Many people think that the development of China's mobile Internet "to foreigners stunned" ralph lauren pas cher, but the WeChat of the big data gives a different answer.
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"Watch" on the life of foreigners in China inventory. The report shows that foreign users in China than the average number of users in China are more than 60% of the number of messages, the use of audio and video functions are also more than the frequency of 42% and 13%.
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At the same time the report also found that no cash life on foreigners have had a profound impact, 10 foreigners in the use of six WeChat payment.
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