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Experts Question The FBI's Thinking In Keeping iPhone Hack A Secret
Apple vs. FBI
Will the government follow through with its own review process and disclose the hack it used to access the iPhone of the San Bernardino shooter?
By Hamza Shaban
Hamza Shaban BuzzFeed News Reporter
Posted on March 31, 2016, at 4:54 p.m. ET
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Nearly four months after the FBI confiscated a locked iPhone used by the man behind the San Bernardino terrorist attack, investigators have found a way to access the data inside of it.
The Justice Department has refused repeatedly to share details of how it got in, so the method they used remains a mystery, along with the identity of the outside party who showed the FBI how to penetrate the device. But even as the Justice Department has decided to keep these things a secret, at least for now, the White House has recognized that disclosing such vulnerabilities can serve the public interest. Under the government's own review process, the FBI may be obligated to share the details of the method with Apple.
Michael Daniel, a special assistant to the president and cybersecurity coordinator, laid out the benefits and drawbacks of disclosing vulnerabilities in a 2014 White House blog post. "Too little transparency and citizens can lose faith in their government and institutions," he wrote, "while exposing too much can make it impossible to collect the intelligence we need to protect the nation."
Daniel said the government "established a disciplined, rigorous, and high-level decision-making process for vulnerability disclosure." Among the questions Daniel would ask an agency who wishes to keep a vulnerability secret:
"Does the vulnerability, if left unpatched, impose significant risk?"
"How badly do we need the intelligence we think we can get from exploiting the vulnerability?"
"How likely is it that someone else will discover the vulnerability?"
Daniel's post gave the public a glimpse into the government's internal review process for disclosure, a process that privacy experts say lacks transparency and public accountability.
Known as an equities review, the process was designed to balance the competing interests of government agencies after a new vulnerability has been discovered. In some cases, withholding a vulnerability allows the government to conduct counterintelligence or prevent criminal activity, Daniel wrote. But keeping exploits a secret can also leave the American public at risk, with consumer products and computer networks vulnerable to intruders or manipulation.
"This administration takes seriously its commitment to an open and interoperable, secure, and reliable Internet," Daniel wrote, "and in the majority of cases, responsibly disclosing a newly discovered vulnerability is clearly in the national interest."
In a call with reporters Monday, a law enforcement official declined to comment on the risk that the San Bernardino method may pose to other iPhone owners. He also declined to say if the vulnerability would be subject to the equities review process. But experts outside the government agree that it should, and that the iPhone security breach ought to trigger disclosure, so that the millions of American iPhone owners won't be exposed to the same vulnerability.
"By keeping this a secret, the FBI is essentially gambling that no one else will independently discover it," Christopher Soghoian, the principal technologist at the ACLU, told BuzzFeed news. "It's unlikely that they will remain the only entity that knows about this flaw forever."
Soghoian also expressed concern about the equities review process itself. The interagency review group, overseen by the president's National Security Council, he said, is stacked with people who are inclined to keep vulnerabilities secret, in order to use exploits to conduct surveillance, hacking, counterintelligence, and law enforcement. "You have a bunch of foxes deciding how the hen house should be built," he said.
"There's not a lot we know about that equities process," Alan Butler, the senior counsel of the Electronic Privacy Information Center, told BuzzFeed News. The 2014 White House blog post is one of the few public documents about the review process. Another, from January of this year, was made public by the government only after the Electronic Frontier Foundation pursued a public records lawsuit compelling its release.
EPIC's Butler believes the government is obligated to disclose the San Bernardino iPhone method, especially considering the abundance of data that iPhones contain, in addition to personal information. "In many situations, these phones are used as keys and authenticators for other sensitive material, including critical infrastructure," Butler said.
Riana Pfefferkorn, the cryptography fellow at Stanford's Center for Internet and Society, told BuzzFeed News that responsible disclosures can enable companies like Apple to "to alert their users, come up with a fix, and push it out to their users through software updates." But from the Justice Department's perspective, a successful security patch can also represent the loss of a law enforcement tool. "The key thing is that Apple can't fix what they don't know about, so the DOJ wouldn't lose this method if they keep it secret," Pfefferkorn said.
But Pfefferkorn believes the tradeoff works in favor of disclosure. Keeping the method secret would mean leaving everyone's devices less secure, she said, "so that law enforcement potentially can get access in some instances to some mobile devices used by the tiny percentage of the population who are criminals."
The law enforcement official on the press call declined to say whether the Justice Department would share details of the secret method with Apple, or whether the method would be used on additional iPhones in different investigations.
In an active New York drug case, for instance, a federal judge rejected the government's application for a court order that would force Apple to extract information from a confiscated iPhone; the Justice Department has appealed. Court documents from the New York case also revealed that 12 additional cases are pending throughout the U.S., all of which feature the government requesting that Apple pull information from encrypted devices.
Because little is known about the method outside the government, it's difficult for outside experts to gauge the risk that it may pose to the public, Jay Kaplan, a former NSA analyst and CEO of Synack, a cybersecurity firm, told BuzzFeed News. "There might not be anything for Apple to fix," he said.
"There's a lot between the conclusion that this particular phone could be accessed by a particular contractor and everyone's phone being vulnerable," said Joseph DeMarco, a former federal prosecutor who also represented law enforcement groups in support of the Justice Department in the San Bernardino case. "I think there's a lot of assumptions and steps in between that."
It's also not clear whether a nondisclosure agreement between the FBI and the unidentified third party would trump the government's obligation to disclose the vulnerability.
Ordinarily, DeMarco told BuzzFeed News, the contract between the government and the third party would govern whether the method could be shared with other parties, including additional law enforcement agencies and Apple.
Following the Snowden revelations, the Obama administration convened a special review group to assess the government's intelligence agencies. In addition to the review group recommending that the government "not in any way subvert, undermine, weaken, or make vulnerable generally available commercial encryption," the group also advised the government to generally disclose vulnerabilities.
"In almost all instances, for widely used code, it is in the national interest to eliminate software vulnerabilities rather than to use them for US intelligence collection," states the 2013 review group report. And that principle holds true in the 2014 White House blog post: "Disclosing vulnerabilities usually makes sense."
Andrew Crocker, a staff attorney for the EFF, told BuzzFeed News that the requirements to trigger the review process — a newly discovered vulnerability that is not publically known — are clearly present in the San Bernardino case.
What's unclear, he said, is whether the government will actually follow through with the process, or weigh the public interest case for disclosure fairly. "You can imagine all kinds of workarounds. And we've found that the government plays all kinds of word games related to the intelligence context," he said.
"It's just a policy adopted by the government; there's not a lot of transparency or rules around this."
In the same way that the Apple vs. FBI dispute has made concrete what was once a more abstract disagreement over encryption, Crocker believes this case has also drawn attention to how the government cloaks what ought to be in public view.
"Everyone who is innocent and is walking around with a phone is at the same risk as a target of surveillance or hacking or whatever the government might want to engage in."
Hamza Shaban is a technology policy reporter for BuzzFeed News and is based in Washington, DC.
Contact Hamza Shaban at Hamza.Shaban@buzzfeed.com.


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3 Dividend Payers on Fire Sale
Here are three stock ideas for value and dividend investors. All three are cheap by most measures.
Cliffs Natural Resources (CLF)
Cliffs is an iron ore miner. Iron ore price is low due to low demand, especially from China, which for years has been the top buyer of iron ore. Cliffs is currently yielding north of 6%. They more than doubled their dividends back in April 2012. CLF is trading at close to book value of estimated available resources and a P/E of just 6.
Risks and Opportunities. Should demand for iron ore pick up again, CLF will benefit. However, prices can stay low for a long time, or even go lower. There's a ton of pessimism around miners in general and specifically around iron one. Prices are sensitive to China's economy as well as a global economic recovery. The silver lining is that China's own sources of iron ore are of very low quality and as such once China is back at building its infrastructure full steam, they will have to buy good quality iron ore from one of the global producers and so CLF's boat will be lifted with the high tide.
Investment Thesis. CLF is a risky bet, but one that could payoff handsomely for a patient investor. Meanwhile, should they continue to pay dividends, there's nothing to complain about the current yield. Demand has to pick up again, eventually. Timing is key though -- now could be early to invest and they could remain depressed for years and even trim the dividend. I recently started a position and am currently adding to it on pull backs. Look for prices below $36.
Intel (INTC)
Intel is a juggernaut in microprocessor and chipset manufacturing and a leader of its group. It's currently yielding 4.6% and has paid dividends for decades and raised it for the last 9 years. Its 9-year compounded annual return based solely on its dividend growth has been 27%. The stock price has not followed accordingly, but their earnings did just as well, with a compounded annualized return of 20% for the same period. With a historic low P/E of just 9, it's currently offering a juicy dividend on the cheap.
Risks and Opportunities. Intel has missed the mobile wave so far as most cell phones and tablets out in the market do not use Intel's technology. This trend is dangerous for Intel, but I believe fears are exaggerated for a couple of reasons. 1) Intel has always caught up to competition even when it wasn't the leader. Almost a decade ago, AMD had better performing, lower cost and lower power chips than Intel, but Intel managed to catch up and dominate again. It's highly dubious Intel won't produce an ARM-like chip for cellphones and tablets. 2) Tablets and cellphones are becoming more compute-hungry and that brings the market closer to Intel's turf. 3) It's misguided to think that mobile computers replace big computers. That might be true at home and office, with tablets replacing desktops, but for every few cellphones and tablets a big server must exist in the cloud somewhere. Datacenters are the playground of Intel and these are constantly growing. Demand will not go away for big and powerful chips.
Investment Thesis. Intel is a clear winner. It has traded for a large premium for a very long time. Its best days are still ahead of it and current low prices are bound to disappear. I recently started a position and am still adding to it, mostly via at-the-money naked put options. Prices below $20-21 offer the greatest returns and yield.
Entergy Corporation (ETR)
Entergy is an electric and gas utility in the northeast and midwest. Entergy has paid dividends for decades, raised it most years and bought back its own stock at various times in the past years. It's currently yielding 5.3% and has a P/E of 16. It has grown dividends a compounded annual rate of 9% over the last 10 years and its earnings have appreciated by a similar amount.
Risks and Opportunities. With the global slowdown, ETR has suffered too. Demand for energy has weakened, especially in the industry-heavy midwest. However, growth and energy are synonymous -- as one cannot happen sustainably without the other. Once growth returns, ETR will continue to prosper. It's currently the cheapest it's been in many years, approaching levels not seen since 2004 and some brief moments during the 2008-2009 crisis.
Investment Thesis. I have been following ETR for years and have never made a move due to its relatively rich valuation. I believe this current weakness is temporary (a mere reflection of the poor state of the world's economy) and its fundamentals have not changed. I've started a position at around $63 and am looking to add more at this level or below.
CLF is the riskiest of the three, but also offers the most potential upside. Invest carefully and with a long-term view. INTC and ETR offer the most down side protection, especially ETR, which is as stable as utilities come. INTC offers good down side protection, but as with all technology leaders, watching for new developments is crucial. Should it fail miserably to make inroads into mobile devices or see its lead in the server market erode, things could turn south fast. I put the odds of that happening at low, though.
Disclaimers: This is not intended as financial advice. Do your own homework and consult your financial adviser. I own all three stocks mentioned above.
Spicer Matthews January 01, 2013 9:40 PM
Great Write up!!!
Intel just worries me because they have no mobile strong hold. Also, the new streaming tv service out of Intel seems like some confused leadership.
Plus software is eating the world. (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111903480904576512250915629460.html) not sure intel is the greatest at software.
At this point I would not be worried about Intel cutting a dividend but I would be worry about the dividend growth in the future.
Will keep CLF and ETR on my watch list.
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TikTok denies spying on Aussies
by Jennifer Dudley-Nicholson
22nd Sep 2020 5:58 AM
Besieged social network TikTok has denied it censored or shared information from thousands of Australian users with the Chinese Government, and claimed it was under "more scrutiny" than any other social network "due to the company's origins".
The video-sharing platform's Australian general manager Lee Hunter made the comments in a submission to Australia's inquiry into Foreign Interference Through Social Media today, just days before the company's executives were due to appear before the Senate committee.
It also comes a day after TikTok narrowly avoided a ban on app downloads in the United States by striking a deal to shift responsibility for its American users to Oracle and Walmart.
The short video-sharing service, popular for everything from dance videos to scathing political commentary, has amassed more than 680 million users worldwide, including more than 1.6 million users in Australia, Roy Morgan estimates.
But TikTok has also been widely criticised over potential national security risks, with Liberal Senator and former army major general Jim Molan pointing to claims that it could be a "data collection service disguised as social media," and Labor Senator Jenny McAllister, chair of the social media inquiry, warning Australians about how the app could use their information.
TikTok's Australian general manager Lee Hunter, left, said the company had received unprecedented scrutiny. Picture: Britta Campion/The Australian
"There have been credible reports that TikTok takes more data than its users would expect, and moderates content for reasons that its users may not be comfortable with," she warned.
"We want Australians to have confidence that the only thing to worry about when using TikTok is the quality of their dance moves."
In a statement to the inquiry, Mr Hunter said the company had received more attention than any other social network due to ownership by Chinese firm ByteDance and it did not "want TikTok to be a political football".
But Mr Hunter said TikTok would endeavour to provide more transparency around its operations to address concerns around security issues, and denied it had received requests for users' personal information from Chinese officials.
"To date, we have not received any (mutual legal assistance treaty) requests in respect of Australian user data, nor have we received requests to censor Australian content from, the Chinese Government," he said in the statement.
Under the 2017 Chinese National Intelligence Law, Chinese organisations and citizens are obligated to provide intelligence for government officials who ask for it.
TikTok currently requests access to a user's phone number, email address and contacts, as well as location, camera, microphone and files on their smartphone.
Over the weekend, TikTok narrowly avoided a ban on downloads of its app in the United States after President Donald Trump demanded the company divest its American operations over national security fears.
TikTok has since reached a deal with software firm Oracle and retail chain Walmart that has received "in concept" approval from President Trump.
It's not yet clear how this will affect local users, however, with the company's Australian, New Zealand and Canadian operations initially included in a potential Microsoft deal.
Mr Hunter said TikTok would "provide the Select Committee updates on such changes as and when appropriate".
TikTok executives are due to appear before the Australian Senate on Friday.
Meanwhile, a US judge blocked the government's ban on WeChat downloads, hours before it was due to take effect in an ongoing technology and espionage battle between Washington and Beijing.
The Trump administration had ordered a ban on downloads of the messaging platform WeChat, owned by Chinese technology giant TenCent. The ban has now been suspended.
A California court ruling said it granted a "motion for a nationwide injunction against the implementation" of the government order on WeChat, with the judge citing concerns over free speech.
The order would have slowed WeChat down and made it unusable in the United States for video chats with family and friends, according to experts.
WeChat has around 19 million active daily users in the US.
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Pipes
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Esta seção explicará de uma maneira bem breve e prática como se utilizar pipes (e você deve querê-la).

O que eles são e porque vai usá-los
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Pipes deixam você utilizar (de uma maneira muito simples, insisto) a saída de um programa como a entrada de outro.

Pipe simples com 'sed'
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Esta é uma maneira muito simples de utilizar pipes:

.. code-block:: bash

         ls -l | sed -e "s/[aeio]/u/g"

O que acontece: primeiro o comando `ls -l` é executado e sua saída, ao invés de printada, é enviada (piped) para o programa `sed`, que, no caso, printa sua saída.

Exemplo: uma alternativa para ls -l \*.txt
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Provavelmente esta seja uma maneira mais difícil do que paneas fazer `ls -l *.txt`, porém deseja-se apenas ilustrar o uso dos pipes, e não resolver tal dilema.

.. code-block:: bash

         ls -l | grep "\.txt$"

Aqui a saída do programa `ls l` é enviada para o `grep`, que, no caso, irá printar linhas cujo padrão combinam com a expressão regulas (regex) `\\.txt$`

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Universal Credit pushing tenants into rent arrears
More than a third of landlords in the private rental sector have tenants receiving Universal Credit in rent arrears, an increase of 10% on last year, according to new research by the Residential Landlords Association.
According to a survey of almost 3,000 landlords conducted by the RLA, 38% of landlords currently housing tenants in receipt of Universal Credit, said they had tenants in rent arrears.
In February of last year that figure stood at 27%.
The survey also showed that the average amount owed in rent arrears by tenants receiving Universal Credit has reached £1,150.
With the pace of the Universal Credit roll out set to increase across the UK from October, there are warnings that the system as it is currently poses a threat to the finances of both tenants and their landlords.
While the impact of Universal Credit will be felt by tenants first, landlords could find their own finances hit if arrears start to mount up, especially if they are still repaying a mortgage on the rental property.
The RLA are calling for the government to cut the seven week waiting period before a claimant can start receiving Universal Credit and for payments to be made directly to landlords when a tenants has built up arrears.
RLA Vice Chairman, Chris Town, said: "Whilst we continue to welcome the principle of simplifying the benefit system, it cannot be right that as it is currently designed, Universal Credit is leading many more tenants into rent arrears.
"This is not financially responsible and does nothing to encourage landlords to house people needing to claim benefit."
If you're a landlord struggling with outstanding mortgage debt or arrears are affecting your finances, contact Landlord Debt Advisory on 0161 222 4311 or fill out a contact form on our website and arrange an initial free, no obligation consultation.
Number of UK landlords continues to fall
UK slides down European buy to let rankings


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All Alone is an Iranian movie released in February 2013. The film is about a teenage boy who lives on an island and wants to meet the president and talk about the problems that a boycott has brought to his family's life. The film is directed by Ehsan Abdipour, who won the best directing award for creativity and original screen play in Iran Cinema Festival, 2013.

Plot

Rangerou is the nickname of a teenager boy living in one of the Persian Gulf islands with his family. He works to support his family while still in school. He sells fish at the Russian campus, where engineers who are working on the island 's nuclear site live. One night he dreams about a UFO and an abandoned alien but believes it was real. The next day he tells his story to everybody he meets, but no one believes it except for a Russian boy of his age. Soon they become good friends even though they can't speak the same language. After some time Rangerou, who learns Russian by practice, understands that his friend and all other foreigners have to leave Iran for some obscure, political reasons.

Civil airplanes are replaced by a fighter aircraft and the island is isolated in order to protect the nuclear site.

He learns that all the world leaders will attend a conference in Belgium. He writes a letter to them about his friendship with his Russian friend. He decides to find a way to go there and read his letter to the World Leaders.

References

2010s Persian-language films
Films shot in Iran
Iranian comedy-drama films

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Science, Technology, and Innovation Policy Seminar
Tuesday October 16, 2007
Location: DM Smith Building, Room 303
URL: http://gtalumni.org/campusmap/bldngmodel.php?id=24
Philip Shapira
Contact Philip Shapira
Summary Sentence: Featuring Rainer Frietsch on Gender Aspects
Full Summary: Rainer will offer a presentation on "Gender Aspects of Patenting and Publishing."
The School of Public Policy is pleased to welcome Rainer Frietsch, from the Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovations Research. Rainer will be a visiting researcher with the Program in Science, Technology and Innovation Policy (STIP) from October 11 through to October 26th.
Rainer's visit gives us a wonderful opportunity to continue our master class series on the application of bibliometric indicators in innovation research.
On Tuesday, October 16, 4pm, Rainer will offer a presentation on "Gender Aspects of Patenting and Publishing."
This will be one of the first detailed presentations at Georgia Tech on the use of SCOPUS -- said to be the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature and quality web sources. SCOPUS is emerging as an alternative to the Web of Science (WoS) SCI/SSCI databases, especially since it allows analysis by factors which are not as yet available in WoS. Rainer
and his colleagues are using SCOPUS for the identification of male and female authors in 8 scientific fields. They also use the ESPACE data of European Patent applications to identify male and female inventors. The analysis has been undertaken for 14 countries (based on 4 languages), including the United States, Britain, France, Germany, Italy and Spain. Based on this, Rainer has analyzed changes in female participation over time and in selected scientific and technological fields.
All faculty and students are welcome to attend the seminar!
Rainer Frietsch has a business and management background and studied social science at the University of Mannheim. He has been a research scientist in Competence Center of Innovation Systems and Policy in the Fraunhofer Institute for System and Innovation Research since 2000. Rainer's research interests include patent statistics, bibliometrics, economic and social
indicators, qualification and education in the innovation process, technology foresight, and methodological foundations for empirical research.
Rainer is also available to meet faculty and students independently while he is in Atlanta.
Professor, School of Public Policy
Georgia Tech Program in Science, Technology and Innovation Policy
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Q: C# ASP.NET MVC read-only for data field not working I am having some issues with an edit form that does not seem to work no matter what I use.
I have tried
[ReadOnly(true)] and [Editable(false)]

in the Model
@Html.EditorFor(model => model.SellingPrice, new { htmlAttributes = new { @class = "form-control", @readonly = true } })

in the View..
I have changed the controller with nothing about the field.
I have also tried changing the model to
{ get; private set; }

According to a other post on another site using the [ReadOnly(true)] in the model and nothing in the controller pointing to it, it should come up 'null' and it does not. It seems to give a value of 0 or what the field has in it. Depending on if I use it in the edit View or not.
This field in the table is a calculated field on the SQL side. Used only for viewing.
Below is the controller POST - 2 Versions that I have tried:
[HttpPost]
[ValidateAntiForgeryToken]
public ActionResult Edit(ProductMaster productMaster)
{
    System.Text.StringBuilder sb = new System.Text.StringBuilder();

    try
    {
        if (ModelState.IsValid)
        {
            ProductMaster prodFromDB = db.ProductMaster.Single(x => x.ProductMasterId == productMaster.ProductMasterId);

            prodFromDB.VendorId = productMaster.VendorId;
            prodFromDB.Material = productMaster.Material;
            prodFromDB.VendorRef = productMaster.VendorRef;
            prodFromDB.CreatedDate = productMaster.CreatedDate;
            prodFromDB.CreatedBy = productMaster.CreatedBy;
            prodFromDB.LastUpdated = productMaster.LastUpdated;
            prodFromDB.UpdatedBy = productMaster.UpdatedBy;
            prodFromDB.UnitOfMeasure = productMaster.UnitOfMeasure;
            prodFromDB.StandardCost = productMaster.StandardCost;
            prodFromDB.AverageCost = productMaster.AverageCost;
            prodFromDB.LastCost = productMaster.LastCost;
            prodFromDB.IsPrimary = productMaster.IsPrimary;

            var Manager = ((IObjectContextAdapter)db).ObjectContext.ObjectStateManager;
            Manager.ChangeObjectState(prodFromDB, System.Data.Entity.EntityState.Modified);

            db.SaveChanges();

            sb.Append("Submitted");
            return Content(sb.ToString());
        }
        else
        {
            foreach (var key in this.ViewData.ModelState.Keys)
            {
                foreach (var err in this.ViewData.ModelState[key].Errors)
                {
                    sb.Append(err.ErrorMessage + "
");
                }
            }
        }
    }
    catch (Exception ex)
    {
        sb.Append("Error :" + ex.Message);
    }

    return Content(sb.ToString());
}

[HttpPost]
[ValidateAntiForgeryToken]
public ActionResult Edit([Bind(Include = "ProductMasterId,VendorId,Material,VendorRef,CreatedDate,CreatedBy,LastUpdated,UpdatedBy,UnitOfMeasure,StandardCost,AverageCost,LastCost,IsPrimary")] ProductMaster productMaster)
{
    System.Text.StringBuilder sb = new System.Text.StringBuilder();

    try
    {
        if (ModelState.IsValid)
        {
            db.Entry(productMaster).State = EntityState.Modified;
            db.SaveChanges();

            sb.Append("Submitted");
            return Content(sb.ToString());
        }
        else
        {
            foreach (var key in this.ViewData.ModelState.Keys)
            {
                foreach (var err in this.ViewData.ModelState[key].Errors)
                {
                    sb.Append(err.ErrorMessage + "
");
                }
            }
        }
    }
    catch (Exception ex)
    {
        sb.Append("Error :" + ex.Message);
    }

    return Content(sb.ToString());
}

The error that I get is:

The column "SellingPrice" cannot be modified because it is either a computed column or is the result of a UNION operator

A: First thing would be to mark the Entity property with the DatabaseGeneratedOption of Computed:
public class Product
{
    // ...
    [DatabaseGenerated(DatabaseGeneratedOption.Computed)]
    public decimal SellingPrice { get; internal set; }

    // ...
}

The next thing would be to avoid code that sets an entity's EntityState to modified explicitly. So long as the DbContext is tracking the entity, this should be enough:
ProductMaster prodFromDB = db.ProductMaster.Single(x => x.ProductMasterId == productMaster.ProductMasterId);

prodFromDB.VendorId = productMaster.VendorId;
prodFromDB.Material = productMaster.Material;
prodFromDB.VendorRef = productMaster.VendorRef;
prodFromDB.CreatedDate = productMaster.CreatedDate;
prodFromDB.CreatedBy = productMaster.CreatedBy;
prodFromDB.LastUpdated = productMaster.LastUpdated;
prodFromDB.UpdatedBy = productMaster.UpdatedBy;
podFromDB.UnitOfMeasure = productMaster.UnitOfMeasure;
prodFromDB.StandardCost = productMaster.StandardCost;
prodFromDB.AverageCost = productMaster.AverageCost;
prodFromDB.LastCost = productMaster.LastCost;
prodFromDB.IsPrimary = productMaster.IsPrimary;

db.SaveChanges();

The reason is that lets say I have an entity with 20 columns and I update 5 of them from the view model, and only 2 of those values actually differ from the entity's current state. If I let the DbContext track the changes and just call SaveChanges then the resulting UPDATE SQL statement will be an update specifying just the columns which values actually changed.  If instead I set the EntityState to Modified, the UPDATE SQL statement will include all columns, whether I set them or not, and whether they actually changed or not. Computed columns should be ignored, but why incur the cost/risk of updating/overwriting values you don't intend to have been changed?

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Le false vergini (La casa de las mil muñecas) è un film del 1967 diretto da Jeremy Summers.

È un film giallo spagnolo e tedesco con Vincent Price, Martha Hyer e George Nader.

Trama
Stephen Armstrong in vacanza con la moglie in Spagna incontra un vecchio amico disperato perché la fidanzata è stata rapita da una banda capitanata dal mago Manderville e la sua complice Rebecca che rapiscono giovani donne per alimentare la tratta delle bianche.

Produzione
Il film, diretto da Jeremy Summers su una sceneggiatura di María del Carmen Martínez Román e Harry Alan Towers con il soggetto dello stesso Román, fu prodotto da Harry Alan Towers per la Constantin Film Produktion e la Producciones Cinematográficas Hispamer Films e girato a Ceuta e a Madrid in Spagna.

Distribuzione
Il film fu distribuito in Spagna dal 3 giugno 1968 al cinema dalla As Films S.A. con il titolo La casa de las mil muñecas.

Alcune delle uscite internazionali sono state:

 negli Stati Uniti l'8 novembre 1967 (première)
 in Germania Ovest il 7 dicembre 1967
 negli Stati Uniti il 13 marzo 1968 (House of 1000 Dolls)
 in Ungheria (Az ezer öröm háza)
 nel Regno Unito (House of a Thousand Dolls)
 in Italia (Le false vergini)

Note

Collegamenti esterni

Film polizieschi
Film drammatici
Film gialli


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Startups Analysis
Whitehat Jr's 18-month valuation sprint from $6 mn to $300 mn
Karan Bajaj, founder & CEO, WhiteHat Jr
Binu Paul	12 Aug, 2020
Exactly two years ago, when Karan Bajaj was at the helm of American broadcaster Discovery Inc's South Asia operations, he came up with what was at the time a somewhat offbeat idea for this market -- teaching kids to code online. He cobbled together a pitch deck and shot off a cold email to Anup Gupta, a partner at venture capital firm Nexus Venture Partners. Gupta responded overnight.
In November 2018, when Bajaj was serving out his notice period at Discovery, Nexus committed to leading a $1.3 million seed investment round in Whitehat Education Technology. At the time, the Mumbai-based startup, incorporated in October 2018, was valued at $6 million.
Soon after the investment, Bajaj and a team of seven started to build Whitehat Jr, a platform that aimed to teach children aged between 6 and 14 the fundamentals of coding.
"The idea of teaching kids to code online, while obvious now, seemed off the left field then -- there were many questions on the depth of market, how to create a platform which is not dependent on star teachers, keeping kids engaged for multiple sessions across months, etc… After a couple of discussions, we agreed to partner and Nexus led the seed round in WhiteHat Jr at the concept stage," Gupta recalled.
Though edtech startups were beginning to make their presence felt at the time, it wasn't yet the gold rush it has become over the past 6-9 months. Most edtech startups that were popular with investors back in 2018 focused on areas such as online tuition, test preparation and tutor-parent engagement.
Whitehat Jr was clearly an outlier. "It was a contrarian investment and in a sector that was not considered hot at the time…" Gupta said.
Last week, the contrarian bet paid off handsomely for Nexus when Bengaluru headquartered online learning platform Byju's acquired Whitehat Jr in a $300 million all cash deal.
Nexus and Omidyar, which came in as part of the $1.3 million seed round, stand to score a 14X return on their original investments, according to people privy to the transaction. The two investors also participated in Whitehat Jr's $10 million Series A round in September last year which was led by San Francisco Bay Area based venture capital firm Owl Ventures. Owl Ventures is expected to make a 10X return on its investment when the deal is completed, the people cited above said on the condition of anonymity.
What makes this deal notable, apart from Whitehat Jr's 18-month sprint from a valuation of $6 million to $300 million, is that the founder comes out a big winner. Bajaj is expected to rake in about Rs 900 crore ($120.6 million) for his little over 40% stake in the company. There's also something for employees. The ESOP pool of about 10-12% comes with an upfront component and will deliver liquidity to the company's early employees.
Shared global vision
Much like Whitehat Jr's inception, the run up to the company's acquisition by Byju's also started with a cold call. A WhatsApp message to be specific.
Sometime in early June, Bajaj received a message from Byju Raveendran, founder and CEO of Byju's, introducing himself. A chat followed the next day over phone and within the next couple of days the two entrepreneurs thrashed out the basic contours of the deal. Investment banking advisory firm DC Advisory was brought in and within a few days Bajaj took the proposal to his investors.
In all, it took about six weeks from Raveendran's WhatsApp message to stitch up the deal after due diligence, legal reviews and related paperwork.
And, in a nod to prevailing times, the entire deal, start to finish, was executed online.
"The pace of the deal, I would give a lot of credit to Byju..." Bajaj told TechCircle. "...it (Whitehat Jr) was a $150 million annual revenue business that has a lot of different cost elements, different countries involved with 65,000 paying customers… he (Raveendran) was able to navigate through all of that and get the due diligence done in a short time because of extreme focus," Bajaj added.
What also contributed to the quick and successful execution of the deal was what Bajaj likes to term the "boundary less global vision" the two entrepreneurs share.
"We expanded to the US in a short span, which is somewhat unusual for India, as I have a complete global view for the product. He too shared the view and supported it," he said.
Whitehat Jr launched in the US market in February 2020, about a year after the platform was formally launched in India. The US launch helped accelerate growth and in July this year, the company was at an ARR (annual recurring revenue) of Rs 95 crore (a little over $150 million at current exchange rates), Bajaj claims.
According to the company's last regulatory filings with the Ministry of Corporate Affairs, dated for the year ended March 31, 2019, it reported losses at Rs 2.5 crore against revenues of Rs 21 lakh. At the time though, the platform was still in beta.
Whitehat Jr claims a user retention rate of more than 85% in the US market while in India, about 60% of its business is generated from outside the top 15 cities. The user retention rate in India, Bajaj said, is 70%. Out of the 65,000 paying customers or users that Bajaj claims, 65% are located in India. The US market, however, accounts for 55% of its revenues and almost one-third of the revenues each month come from renewals. Bajaj declined comment on the company's pricing structure for each of its markets.
The platform teaches coding fundamentals such as sequence, structure, logic, commands and algorithmic thinking. With its original coding curriculum, the platform offers four levels of courses -- beginner, intermediate, advanced and professional -- to help children build commercial-ready games, animations and apps online.
Bajaj claims the company has been cash flow positive from January this year and about $16 million, including $11 million in venture capital, was in the bank at the time of acquisition.
Three-year roadmap
The $300 million acquisition by Byju's has made Bajaj, 41, the latest poster boy for India's bubbling startup ecosystem overnight. But he's far from done with Whitehat Jr.
"I'm definitely not exiting (the company). I'm very much part of Byju's focus. Instead of venture capital funding, we have Byju's acquiring… I want to continue this growth. It's a huge global market. There is no category as coding for kids. We have created this category so rapidly in India and the US. I think India can become the leader in this category by using the supply here and making it available throughout the world," he said.
Post acquisition, Byju's has committed to invest $30 million over a period of three years to help WhiteHat Jr with new product development. As of now, according to Bajaj, Whitehat Jr will operate as an independent entity and Byju's has committed to offer 100% support with zero interference.
The company is already working with Byju's to build a math product. Mirroring its product philosophy, the new product will be a one-one-one platform, which will focus on learning by doing and building. The product is currently in development and is expected to make its way to the market by September-October this year.
The acquisition will also enable WhiteHat Jr to leverage Byju's global presence while Byju's will piggyback on the company's US presence to further expand its footprint in one of its largest focus markets.
Scaling Whitehat Jr on the Byju's platform will consume Bajaj for a while -- he says he will stay with the company for at least the next three years -- as he focuses on its global expansion and creating more teaching jobs in India. After that, if he chooses to take a breather, writing a fourth novel -- he's published three so far -- would certainly be a fine way to unwind.
WhiteHat Jr Byju's Edtech coding coding platform Byju Raveendran Karan Bajaj


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Hawaii Student Matthew Shimura Takes Top Honors in National Competition
Oceanic Time Warner Cable is proud to announce that the grand prize winning entry for C-SPAN's national 2012 StudentCam competition is a student from Hawaii!
Matthew Shimura – StudentCam 2012 Grand Prize Winner [Photo courtesy: Kiman Wong]
The national competition, sponsored by Time Warner Cable and C-SPAN, challenged middle and high school students to bring the U.S. Constitution to life in the form of a video documentary. Students were asked to examine any section of the Preamble, Articles or Amendments of the U.S. Constitution and discuss its relevance in their lives, with the opportunity to win part of more than $50,000 in cash and in-kind prizes. More than 1,203 films were received in this year's competition from more than 2,000 students from 43 states, Washington D.C., and Puerto Rico.
Of the 148 student finalists from across the United States who won prizes, Matthew Shimura, a ninth grader from Punahou School here in Honolulu, won the grand prize with his documentary video entry titled: "The Constitution and the Camps: Due Process and the Japanese-American Internment."
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The Constitution and the Camps: Due Process and the Japanese-American Internment
Through his remarkable exploration of American policy towards Japanese-Americans during World War II, Shimura took viewers on a journey that presents the history of Japanese internment camps in the United States. He focused on his uncle John, a former prisoner at the infamous Manzanar camp in California, as an example of someone who was able to overcome harsh realities and achieve the American Dream.
Matthew Shimura and family [Photo courtesy: Kiman Wong]
As the grand prize winner, Shimura won a trip to Washington D.C., a $5,000 scholarship award, as well as $1,000 in funding for his school to spend on digital video equipment supplies.
Oceanic Time Warner Cable recently honored Shimura and his family at an awards reception held at Punahou School, his Alma Matter.
Oceanic Time Warner Cable President Bob Barlow presents Matthew Shimura with his $5,000 check [Photo courtesy: Kiman Wong]
In attendance were Matthew and his immediate family members, influential Punahou faculty and staff, key Oceanic Time Warner Cable employees, and Honolulu Mayor Peter Carlisle.
Matthew with his moms Tony Shimura and Dr. Sharon Webb, Mayor Peter Carlisle, and Punahou School Academy Dean William Ouellette [Photo courtesy: Kiman Wong]
Oceanic sends a big congratulations to Matthew Shimura and a job well done to all students who participated in the 2012 StudentCAM competition!
To view all photos from that day, please visit our Facebook page.
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Most *"Share with Twitter/Facebook/Google+"* buttons leak user data even
when people don't don't use the button.

This implementation of social sharing doesn't leak user data until a user goes
to share the page.

## Usage
Insert the following code to get it to run

```html
<div class="socialshare" data-type="{{bubbles/small-bubbles}}"></div>
<script src="media/socialshare.min.js"></script>
<link href="media/socialshare.min.css" type="text/css">
```

Other resources (images, fonts) should be reached from their own media folder.

### Options

Name          | Value
------------- | -------------
data-type     | Controls the size of the share icons (bubbles/small-bubbles)
data-tweet-at | Controls which twitter account tweeted the content (default: @firefox)
data-label	  | Controls the share toggle text label (default: 'Share This')
data-fb-lang  | Controls the Facebook like button [language translation](https://www.facebook.com/translations/FacebookLocales.xml) (default 'en_US')

Some values are not configurable through the plugin. For example the tweet text and tweet website are controled by the open graph meta data:

```html
<meta property="og:title" content="Owen is awesome">
<meta property="og:url" content="http://owencoutts.com">
```

## Making Changes

So you provided me with a bunch of minified files, what if I want to change them? There are a few more requirements to be able to compile all the files.

### Prerequisite

- [lessc](http://lesscss.org/) This is needed to compile less files. You can install this with `npm install -g less`. More about how to install [npm here.](http://npmjs.org/)
- [uglify.js](https://github.com/mishoo/UglifyJS) This is the minifier. You can install this with `npm install uglify-js`. More about how to install [npm here.](http://npmjs.org/)

### Compiling

Run `./compress.sh` from the root directory in order to regenerate all the files.


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Karezza: the new trend reviving sex lives
An unconventional approach to sex known as karezza has been linked with improving health and restoring relationships.
There's an interesting new idea being discussed in sex therapy circles as a way to enhance relationships and revive sex lives. It involves having regular intercourse without it ending in orgasm.
The practice is called karezza and while the trend is new, its roots are in ancient times, borrowing from Taoist and Tantric principles, says Marnia Robinson, a karezza devotee and author of Cupid's Poisoned Arrow (Random House), in which she writes about climax-free sex.
It should be noted that karezza is a sexual practice, not just kissing and cuddling.
"In simplest terms, karezza is affectionate, sensual intercourse without the goal of climax," Robinson says.
"Intercourse is generally frequent, although not necessarily daily. But couples will typically also engage in daily 'bonding behaviours' – non-erotic skin-to-skin contact, gentle stroking and so forth."
Why people do it
"Removing the goal of orgasm puts the focus on sex as a sensual experience and puts couples in the moment, so they are thinking about giving and receiving pleasure, not just aiming to get to the end," body+soul sexologist Dr Gabrielle Morrissey says.
"Research shows that when it comes to sex, people value the connection with a partner more than the physical release. Karezza, and practices like it, can shift that focus to the connection instead of couples constantly chasing the orgasm."
Robinson adds that karezza has been found to keep the romance alive between couples when the honeymoon period or new relationship high inevitably dissipates after a few years.
"Bonding behaviours and karezza are two ways to keep the romantic feelings flowing even without the racy hit of those extra new-love neurochemicals," she says.
"Couples practising karezza tend to make love more frequently than they did with conventional sex, which is a very positive outcome in my view."
Robinson also cites research which claims that orgasms don't always make everyone feel good and can even lead to a kind of biochemical hangover.
"Researchers are discovering that a surprisingly large percentage of women report chronic tears and irritability
after sex," she says.
She says this can happen even after satisfactory sex with a loving partner.
Robinson says orgasms bring the level of dopamine – the neurotransmitter that helps control the brain's reward and pleasure centres – to an all-time high, only to crash later. She says this feeling can last for some time.
Could it be healthier?
In contrast, the responses she has received from couples who have tried karezza have reinforced her belief that this sexual practice enhances health and happiness.
"Women use words like 'blissful', 'pure contentment', 'heart-burstingly loving'. They report that their relationships are more harmonious and playful. Some report less menstrual pain and feeling and looking younger," she says.
"One man said, 'I have fallen deeply in love with my wife really for the first time. We're like teenagers… and are able to have intimacy and sex now that was simply unheard of before.'
"Other men have said things like 'deeply satisfying' and that they feel more virile. They report feeling more attracted to their partners and say they are having sex more frequently."
Robinson says karezza can also help people overcome sexual dysfunction caused by addiction to adult videos.
Many sceptics may question the claim that it is "deeply satisfying", as having sex without an orgasm may be like trekking to the top of a mountain but not bothering to see the sunrise. But Robinson says that with practice, karezza is totally satisfying.
"Karezza definitely takes a bit of getting used to at first," she says. "Lovers must learn what they're doing and why, take a slow enough approach to intercourse, and make love in gentle waves – that is, when things heat up, they allow their arousal to drop down repeatedly, so they end in a relaxed, trance-like state."
It's not forever Morrissey describes karezza as a "safe" way to change up your love life and says the practice is not that far removed from the homework exercises prescribed by sex therapists for couples seeking help.
"If adopting a new way of having sex helps bring back some excitement and opens up a positive dialogue between a couple about their sex life, that's great," she says. "But I don't see it as something a couple needs to, or would probably want to, practise forever."
While Robinson knows couples who practise karezza full time and have for years, she suggests that couples still have conventional sex every now and then, particularly when they are beginning with karezza.*
She advises couples take a consistent approach over a three-week period, gradually adding intercourse to the mix. "It can be good to schedule lovemaking during your karezza experiment, so both lovers can look forward to the occasions."
Robinson says no-one should go into this arrangement without fully understanding the reasons and the techniques.
"Get educated. It's almost impossible to make any progress with karezza unless you have a clear understanding of why you both want to do it," she says. "Karezza is a duet, not a solo.
* I did not say this. I did say that even the most devoted practitioners seem to have inadvertent orgasm now and then and it's not cause for alarm. I actually think it's important to try for consistency at the beginning or couples tend to make very little progress. The pull of our biological programming is strong.
‹ Could Orgasm-Free Sex Save Troubled Marriages? up Radio Interview About Karezza (KCSB) ›


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Filming the next series of "Gordon's Great Escape," Gordon Ramsay created a popular dish for customers in a vietnamese restaurant."Ramsay's Ribs" is now one of the most popular items on the menu at the Old Hanoi restaurant.
Restaurant owner Nguyen Thuong Quan was very impressed with the dish created by Ramsay: "The ribs may not have impressed the judges, but we're sticking with Gordon's recipe and word has travelled. People are specifically asking for the ribs and telling their friends to come and try them too..with "Ramsay's Ribs" he's left us a culinary legacy and our customers love it."
During his career Ramsay has been awarded a total of 12 Michelin Stars. However, he's even more famous as a TV chef who presented The F Word, Hell's Kitchen and Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares.


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AND WHEREAS, Section 36b-31(b) of the Act provides, in pertinent part, that "[n]o . . . order may be made . . . unless the commissioner finds that the action is necessary or appropriate in the public interest or for the protection of investors and consistent with the purposes fairly intended by the policy and provisions of sections 36b-2 to 36b-34, inclusive.
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2. The Commissioner finds that Tricarico committed has committed at least one violation of Section 36b-16 of the Act, at least one violation of Section 36b-4(a) of the Act, at least one violation of Section 36b-6(a) of the Act, at least one violation of Section 36b-23 of the Act, and at least one violation of Section 36b-31-14e(a) of the Regulations.
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Advising a historic Kent based family printing company in a financially distressed management buy out transaction.
Joanne's clients include private limited companies, owner managed businesses of all sizes and UK subsidiaries of major foreign companies.
Joanne is individually ranked in band 1 in her practice area for the Lower Mid Market Corporate / M&A in the South, by independent legal ratings guide Chambers. She has been ranked since 2011 to date.
Joanne studied law at Guildhall University in the City of London and obtained a degree in Business Law (LLB) she then went on to study for her professional solicitor's exams at the College of Law in Chancery Lane, London. Joanne qualified as a solicitor in December 1994. She became a partner in 2006 and is Head of the Corporate & Commercial Team.
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We'd walked through the secret stairs of Whitley Heights, then we went to Birds for a nostalgic and very disappointing meal, and on the way back to the car I told her to stop in this doorway. She turned around, and for an increment of time wasn't trying to look pretty. She was Mona Lisa. I suppose this means I like it for what she's hiding from us.
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On the other hand, it is temptingly ajar. Always an invitation to a lifelong marshmallow test defier like myself.
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WTF? Who put this here? Down we retreated….
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CED Solutions provides the Microsoft Professional Certification MCITP: SharePoint 2010 Administrator starting on January 15th and MCPD: SharePoint 2010 Developer starting on January 21st.
Names are important and in some cases that goes for software too. In the content, document and collaboration industry it seems that everything needs to fit into perfect categories, so that we can better understand features and capabilities and be able to run side-by-side comparisons. Some vendors define new categories in their desire to set themselves apart. Some of these are deserved, others are marketing tricks.
How should you categorize SharePoint? That depends on whether you are talking about SharePoint 2007 (see CMS Wire's SharePoint 2007 review) or SharePoint 2010 (see CMS Wire's SharePoint 2010 review). It also depends on who you ask and what your needs are.
For starters, the name SharePoint is a solid clue — this software product is first about sharing information and secondly about finding and collaborating on information at a specific place.
In the pie diagrams below you see that Microsoft divided both SharePoint 2007 and 2010 into 6 different core functional areas, and that these core concepts have evolved from the 2007 to the 2010 version.
The 2010 release offers a number of improvements over the 2007 product, including user interface improvements, greater social capabilities, deeper business intelligence, advanced records and document management and better integration with with other systems.
In the following six sections I quickly walk you through the key parts of SharePoint 2010. As you read on, keep in mind that customers are in no way obliged to use all of these things. Some companies will use five or six of the core areas, some might only use one.
That's a lofty goal. Let's look closer.
While there have been a number of improvements related to web content management (WCM) in SharePoint 2010, CMSWire readers know that it's a stretch to call it a full-fledged web content management system. Nevertheless, Microsoft has stated that they believe SharePoint is a good platform to support your WCM needs, whether it's for an intranet, extranet or an Internet.
In short, SharePoint 2010 comes with native Web CMS functionality. Regardless of how you use SharePoint, you will likely use some of this functionality, at least for internal collaboration websites. Broader uses could include running your entire intranet on SharePoint, or running your public-facing website(s) on SharePoint. However, these are decisions you'll have to make based on thorough analyses. There very well might be other products in the market that will better meet your needs.
He went on to say that he's proving it by putting his own website on SharePoint as part of the "SharePoint WCM revolution".
Other people are more tepid on SharePoint 2010 as a Web CMS solution. Errin O'Connor, the CEO of the EPC Group, also believes SharePoint can be used for web content management, but that Microsoft really needs to sort out the licensing before we'll see it used more broadly for public-facing websites.


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Q: Google Cloud is not serving my static files I have deployed my laravel application, which is successfully running on my PC. But after deploying to gcloud I tried to access it and its failed to load all static assets created in the "public/" directory. I am getting 404 error for all the static files. Using Web Engine Source code view I checked the files and all the files are available in gcloud. Please let me know how can I serve my static files from gcloud.
Please find my app.yaml file.
runtime: php72

env_variables:
  ## Put production environment variables here.
  APP_KEY: My_Key
  APP_STORAGE: /tmp
  VIEW_COMPILED_PATH: /tmp
  SESSION_DRIVER: cookie

  ## Set these environment variables according to your CloudSQL configuration.
  DB_DATABASE: mydb
  DB_USERNAME: myuser
  DB_PASSWORD: my_password
  DB_SOCKET: "/cloudsql/myproject:us-central1:myconn"

runtime_config:
 document_root: public

A: There are two different AppEngine types that have different app.yam configuration:

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*Flexible: that uses document_root configuration and app.php that point to your static content.
You can find complete example of the app.yaml and app.php files on the github.
There is env: flex to deploy app as the flexible environment.
So if you want to use flexible environment, your app.yaml could look like that:

runtime: php72
env: flex
env_variables:
               ...
               ...
runtime_config:
    document_root: public

*Standard: that uses http_handlers handlers.
Example to serve directory as a static resource:

runtime: php72
handlers:
- url: /public
  static_dir: public

And another example, to serve content from static directory:
runtime: php72
handlers:
- url: /
  static_dir: public

More php app.yaml directory configuration handlers examples

Configuration directory is always relative to your app.yaml file location


Ever tried emailing a Keynote presentation? Uploading it? FTP? The progress counter just stays there, counting, but nothing ever gets uploaded.
The problem lies within Apple's .key file format. Keynote files are actually folders (or Packages, as Apple likes to call them) containing all the different files used in the presentation.
Keynote (.key) files behave the same way Application (.app) files do. Go to your Applications folder and try right-clicking on one of your apps: you'll see the "Show Package Contents" option.
In order to be able to send someone a Keynote file, you first need to compress the file into a .zip archive and then send this compressed file. The recipient simply needs to uncompress the file to retrieve the original Keynote file and all its contents.
Remember, to send (e-mail, upload, ftp, etc) a Keynote presentation, simply compress it to a .zip file and send the compressed version. If the recipient does not need to edit the presentation, you can always export to PDF (or any of the other export options).
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Thank you thank you thank you. Exactly the information I needed!
This was super helpful thanks!! but I have another question.. I like to write a newsletters with pages ad I always wanted to add a video to it but it seems that the people when recieves it cannot play the video, so I was thinking to make a slide with keynote and add that file to pages can I do that??
I need to upload a presentation to the internet. However, the presentation has to be interactive through the hyperlinks I have throughout the slideshow. Depending on what is selected changes the order of slides. How do I do this? I was told powerpoint can through its Kiosk Mode but Keynote doesn't have that option. Please help ASAP!
I've tried sending them as ZIP files and that doesn't work for gMail or Yahoo. Is there another option to try?


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Q: Suggest a better way to make panorama video I am trying do make panorama video from PC game.
Here are the steps.

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*Save images from different angles, interval == 30ms. (The game can be paused.)

*Stitch images for (video length/30ms) times.

*Make panorama video from Step 2.

However, doing this will produce so many images. Is there a better way?
By the way, I was wondering, after finish Step 2, images from Step 1 can be deleted immediately. When generating Step 1 images, is it possible to save images at RAM or somewhere, but not in HDD.


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Prime Minister Imran Khan in a conversation with a group of digital media publishers on Sunday. — DawnNewsTV
Prime Minister Imran Khan on Sunday said his government had reached the conclusion that India was backing the militant Islamic State (IS) group to cause turmoil in Pakistan.
In a conversation with a group of digital media publishers and broadcasters, the premier suggested that the IS extremist group had carried out last Sunday's killing of Shia Hazara coal miners in Balochistan's Mach area at the behest of India.
While answering a question about the Hazara murders, he said the genesis of militant sectarianism in Balochistan lay in the Afghan jihad of the 1980s.
After foreign powers left Afghanistan, the militant groups remaining in the region "caused immense losses to Pakistan", particularly by targeting the Shia Hazara community, he noted.
"Now this [attack] that has been claimed by ISIS … the opinion of all of us [and] our security agencies is that India is backing ISIS," the premier said, using the alternative name for IS. He added that it was the "stated aim" of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government to spread unrest in Pakistan.
Prime Minister Imran said his government had been given an intelligence briefing in March last year that India wanted to "inflame sectarianism" in Pakistan by starting the killings of Shias and Sunnis.
"This was going on for a while. Full marks [to] our ISI and world-class agencies that pre-empted this," he said, adding that security agencies had targeted such elements with great difficulty and diffused the situation.
He said sectarian groups had morphed into the IS, and regretted that successive federal governments had not paid enough attention to Balochistan because of its small vote bank.
The premier also attributed Balochistan's problems to its sardari system, under which he said tribal leaders would enter into an alliance with federal governments; under this alliance, the development funds issued for Balochistan were spent through the sardars and did not reach the masses.
"So the people [in Balochistan] are poor but the sardars over a period of time have become very powerful," he said.
Prime Minister Imran said his was the first government that was focusing on the socio-economic development of the province. He said the government had for the first time given a large development package for south Balochistan but acknowledged that "it is a large area for which a lot of funds are needed which we don't have at the moment."
Praising the performance of Balochistan Chief Minister Jam Kamal Khan Alyani, he said the government was making efforts to change the existing legacy harming the province.
The prime minister's remarks come a week after 11 miners belonging to the Shia Hazara community were brutally massacred in the Mach coalfield area. Armed assailants had entered their residential compound early on January 3 where they were sleeping, blindfolded and trussed them up before executing them. The IS, also known by the Arabic acronym Daesh, claimed responsibility for the attack.
Relatives and residents started a protest against the killings on the same day, arranging the miners' coffins on the Western Bypass on the outskirts of Quetta and refusing to bury them in a symbolic gesture until the prime minister's visit and assurance of protection.
The protests later spread to other parts of the country, including Peshawar, Lahore and Karachi, where demonstrators blocked several important roads, disrupting traffic.
After a deadlock lasting for nearly a week, talks succeeded between the protesters and the government, leading to the end of the protests and burial of the miners on Saturday.
Disclaimer: India backing IS to spread unrest in Pakistan: PM Imran on Hazara killings - Views expressed by writers in this section are their own and do not necessarily reflect Latheefarook.com point-of-view
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13 tracks, originally recorded between 1986 and 1999, that have been digitally re-mastered by Jeff Silverman, giving the audience an entirely new listening experience.
"From the Vault (A Collection of works by Rick Springfield & Jeff Silverman)" is a collection of newly mastered and some previously un-released demos from Grammy-Award-Winner Rick Springfield and veteran producer, engineer, songwriter, and lead-guitar player from his first touring band, Jeff Silverman.
Springfield and Silverman started recording together in the late 1970's. "I would go to [Jeff's] studio when I wanted to record some really great sounding demos," says Springfield. "We also wrote quite a few songs together, which was something I hadn't done with another musician before." Silverman states "Rick and I discovered that we had a great deal in common… our professional relationship began to evolve into more than just playing live. It grew to recording his demo's together, writing together and eventually making records together."
"From the Vault (A Collection of works by Rick Springfield & Jeff Silverman)" consists of 13 tracks, originally recorded between 1986 and 1999, that have been digitally re-mastered by Jeff Silverman, giving the audience an entirely new listening experience. Many of the tracks, such as "Dancin' on the Edge of the World", "Right Planet, Wrong World", "You Write the Book", "Dream in Colour" and "Religion of the Heart" are previously unreleased versions of the songs. Others such as "Somewhere", "Monkey", "Love Receiver" and "My Depression" were later recorded for Springfield's albums.
Springfield states that "The songs on this CD are the result of long hours slaving over a hot studio console in Jeff's studio and have never been released like this before." "Even though many of the songs on the CD were never released," agrees Silverman, "the care, the hard work and love that went into making every song the best we could make, was always our main objective."
Having performed for millions of fans over the last three decades, and showing no signs of slowing down, Rick Springfield continues to play 100 shows a year, sharing his love of performing, unstoppable energy and his unique brand of crowd interaction with thousands of fans each night. Rick literally wades deep into the crowd at each show. His tour dates also include a 5-day fan oriented cruise. This year, the 3rd annual Rick Springfield & Friends cruise is set to sail in November 2010. In 2005, Springfield returned to daytime TV's General Hospital as the character he originated in the 80's, Dr. Noah Drake as well as assuming an alternate character, Aussie rocker Eli Love. More recently, Springfield appeared on a 4 episode ARC on Showtime's hit show Californication's 3rd season.
Jeff Silverman is a veteran producer, engineer, songwriter, accomplished musician and singer. He started playing piano at the age of 5, then guitar at 10 and made the decision to make music a lifelong career not long after. After traveling around the US in club bands after high school, he arrived in LA in 1976 and almost immediately met up with Rick Springfield for his first US tour of the Wait for Night album. He has been a staff songwriter at Motown/LA and has co-written with a number of artists including: Rick Springfield, Michael Peterson and Tommy TuTone. Jeff has also mixed, mastered and edited for artists such as: Charice, Boyz to Men, David Cassidy, George Clinton and Prince and has performed live with Rick Springfield, Roger Miller and Redbone. He currently operates Palette Studios his own Pro Tools HD3 studio in Nashville, Tennessee where he writes, produces and records.
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Just because you don't have – or don't want to spend – a lot of time to make dinner doesn't mean you have to settle for that fast food junk or a bowl of popcorn.
This easy thai peanut chicken sounds like it's complex, but no – it's not… All you need is boneless skinless chicken breast, one bottle of thai peanut sauce (I used the Archer Farms one from Target), light coconut milk, olive oil , some spices and you're in business.
Now, you may think that is recipe looks like a lot, but it honestly really isn't and the steps are so easy!
Once you cook this beauty up you can spoon it on top of some rice, which can be easy to make, too… There are the pouches of rice that you can microwave that make it even easier (which meals no more pans!). I actually found a coconut rice in a pouch at target and it was amazing!!
Place trimmed chicken tenders into a bowl, then add 1 tbsp. olive oil, ginger, garlic powder, paprika, onion powder, cumin and season with salt and pepper. Toss to fully coat each tender.
In a large skillet, heat remaining tablespoon of olive oil on medium high. Once the pan is heated, place tenders in the skillet and brown on each side for about 3 minutes. Remove from pan and set aside.
Turn heat down to low and add peanut sauce and coconut milk and stir together.
Turn heat up to medium and let simmer for about a minute.
Add browned chicken tenders to the sauce, spoon sauce over the top, cover and cook for about 10 minutes (or until chicken is fully cooked).
Sprinkle with chopped green onions and serve in a bowl over rice or noodles.


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/**
 * Abstract class for the link transformations plugins
 *
 * @package    PhpMyAdmin-Transformations
 * @subpackage Link
 */
if (! defined('PHPMYADMIN')) {
    exit;
}

/* Get the transformations interface */
require_once 'libraries/plugins/TransformationsPlugin.class.php';
/* For PMA_Transformation_globalHtmlReplace */
require_once 'libraries/transformations.lib.php';

/**
 * Provides common methods for all of the link transformations plugins.
 *
 * @package PhpMyAdmin
 */
abstract class TextLinkTransformationsPlugin extends TransformationsPlugin
{
    /**
     * Gets the transformation description of the specific plugin
     *
     * @return string
     */
    public static function getInfo()
    {
        return __(
            'Displays a link; the column contains the filename. The first option'
            . ' is a URL prefix like "http://www.example.com/". The second option'
            . ' is a title for the link.'
        );
    }

    /**
     * Does the actual work of each specific transformations plugin.
     *
     * @param string $buffer  text to be transformed
     * @param array  $options transformation options
     * @param string $meta    meta information
     *
     * @return string
     */
    public function applyTransformation($buffer, $options = array(), $meta = '')
    {

        $append_part = (isset($options[2]) && $options[2]) ? '' : $buffer;

        $transform_options = array (
            'string' => ''
                . htmlspecialchars(isset($options[1]) ? $options[1] : $buffer)
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        return PMA_Transformation_globalHtmlReplace(
            $buffer,
            $transform_options
        );
    }

    /* ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Getters and Setters ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ */

    /**
     * Gets the transformation name of the specific plugin
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     * @return string
     */
    public static function getName()
    {
        return "TextLink";
    }
}
?>


Home \ Expert Q & A \ Addiction Treatment \ Addiction Treatment: William Anderson \ Help! I'm on Tramadol and can't get off. What do I do?
I am hopelessly addicted to Tramadol. I was prescribed then for back pain by a doctor who told me they weren't addictive. I never found that they worked all that great for pain but I found that I really loved the speedy high they gave me and I began taking them for energy and good mood all the time. I was supposed to be taking 2 50mgs pills per day and I quickly rocketed up to like 20 or so per day.
They're easy to get on the internet and all was well until I ran out for a couple of days before my next package arrived and it was hell. I figured that even though my doctor told me they weren't addictive that I'd have to go through a little something after taking so many but I was shocked at how horrific I felt. I was so irritable and I had these very unpleasant restless legs and I felt really anxious and down. As I write this it doesn't so sound like it was so bad but honestly, it was the worst 2 days of my life and I have never been so relieved to get that package come in the mail.
That was over a year ago and since that time I've been too scared to try quitting on my own again. I no longer have any medical reason to take these pills at all and they now totally dominate my life. I used to be a pretty even keeled person but now I am either in a good energized place when the pills are working or in an anxious and irritable and uncomfortable place in the dips between.
I just want to feel normal again. They are also totally affecting my memory and my ability to think. I just want to have a clear head again and I am also starting to have trouble affording my habit.
How do I get off these pills??? I don't think I need rehab or anything like that because at this point I am totally not using these pills to get high anymore, just to keep those terrible feelings away. I have tried tapering down but I am useless at it and always bounce back up.
You can get back to normal, but you'll have to give up the idea that it should be easy to get off Tramadol. You'll need help.
You are addicted to a very addictive drug. If it's not done right, withdrawal can be very dangerous as well as miserable. There is a right way. It takes professional help and guidance to get off of it. Stop putting it off and go see a counselor that specializes in addiction. Make an appointment now. You can see someone in private practice or you can go to a private or community drug treatment facility and talk to the counselors there about what to do. Communities and often churches have counseling centers you can go to and talk to someone about it. Then you can figure out what the best course of action is, whether it is going to a rehab or some sort of outpatient approach.
Stop wasting time trying to convince yourself that you shouldn't be having this problem. Your life will be much better very soon if you quit stalling and get help now.


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MC Buzz B Biography
Advert, 1991
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Inspiral Carpets, James, MC Buzz B, The Stone Roses
Fanzine, 1988
Happy Mondays, MC Buzz B
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808 State, Happy Mondays, MC Buzz B
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I recently started using this. Since it was licensed earlier, now it's free. This is an awesome tool for query performance tuning.
SQL Server Sentry Plan Explorer is the free tool given to SQL community you can download here https://www.sentryone.com/plan-explorer click download plan explorer button with right bit. It will not ask you much for download.
Plan Explorer really makes DBAs job easier, this will help to read the bigger execution plans quickly and which code block taken more time duration, even if it's 1000 lines code.
Once you have installed, open the tool click file –> new and on command text " select * from sysobjects o join sysindexes i on o.id=i.id " and click get actual plan –> ok see how it shows on the results tab.
There are 1. Statement 2. Text 3. Bottom nine tab.
Click on the "plan diagram" tab and right click into it and see the various options.
Options to use 1. show cumulative cost 2. cost by CPU or IO or CPU+IO 3. Lines width by rows or data size 4. Full object name 5. Copy output list from any operator ex: Index scan.
There are other tabs are available, each will give more information. When you play with bigger text or longer running queries. You can use "Table operation" tab and sort it the cost and click the " plan diagram" again this will tell you which operator used more cost. You can check the "Expression" and "Index Analysis" tab to get more details.
On "Statement" tab 1. There will be number of statement, click which one using more cost and check the 1. estimated and actual number of rows 2. Check the degree of parallelism etc.
The estimated and actual number differ mostly by out of stats or skew data. One of my case, I used collect data by Whoisactive, this will have a query plan column also, I could see each time the plan differs, when it took high maxDOP it runs quick, I used DOP hint on the code to fix that.
Install it one of DBA centralized server and you can run query and capture the execution plans.
you can upload a execution plan by invoking whoisactive table results. Or you can view the saved plans.
This will not show you the result, it does not mean it will not run the code, it will run the code behind the screen, be careful on DML part, if you have any DML, you have to remove or change it to select statement.
This will show the statistics details like a DBCC show statistics and you can run the update stats as well.
It has a run history as well, you can rewrite and re-run your code and benchmark it.