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With great open banking innovation comes great responsibility for consumer data
Bob Schukai
The fintech developers who made mobile banking as routine as texting or online shopping aren't done. The next frontier for innovation is open banking – fintech builders are enabling consumers to be at the center of where and how their data is used to provide the services they want and need.
Most people don't even realize they're using open banking services today. If they connected their investment and banking accounts in a personal financial management solution or app, they're using open banking. Perhaps they've seen ads about how they can improve their credit score by uploading pay stubs or utility records to that same app – this is also powered by open banking.
While everyday consumers may not realize they're using open banking services, they do need to realize that they're sharing their information in exchange for being able to access more innovative services. The key to driving this innovation is supporting consumer control through responsible use of their data.
Innovation is only impactful when it's also protective
Open banking offers developers at fintech companies large and small the opportunity to build data-centric solutions that help solve real-world problems. Consumers can now use their data for their own benefit, and there's enormous potential in this space. That's why we've made important investments at Mastercard, including the acquisition of Finicity, a leading U.S. open banking aggregator providing banking connectivity and open banking services. Fincity enables consumer solutions like Rocket Mortgage's loan application process and uses APIs to verify account details across thousands of connections. Mastercard recently announced the acquisition of Denmark-based Aiia which has a similar suite of developer services to connect to banks across Europe through a single API.
Strong connectivity is important; however we also know that handling people's data is an enormous responsibility. We have an obligation to keep our customers' data secure and we set out four simple principles for the use of data. Consumers own the data they produce every day — and have the right to understand and control how it is shared and used. Ultimately, consumer data should be used to make their lives easier.
We've only just begun to scratch the surface of open banking innovation, but it's beginning to gain traction around the globe. As consumer expectations, technology and the competitive landscape evolve, it will be critical to increase data sources and data quality as well as deepen data intelligence and analytics to better serve consumers and changing needs.
If you are building a fintech that is innovating with consumer data, it's critical to clearly outline a set of privacy standards and data management practices up front. Protect that data using an appropriate set of privacy-enhancing technologies to back your claims. Treat the data of your users as if it was your own.
Putting privacy and data responsibility first
As developers, we have an obligation to design solutions that respect an individual's right to privacy and maintain data responsibility up front. This also creates a competitive advantage: Responsible use of data built into the foundations of our products will help us attract investors, grow market share and scale responsibly from the outset. One tactic fintech innovators should consider is leveraging Privacy Enhancing Technologies, lovingly referred to as "PETs." We began our work with PETs in 2018 with Trūata, a company specializing in PETs for privacy risk assessment, de-identification and true anonymization of data.
At their core, PETs are technologies that leverage federated learning, cryptography, synthetic data and core data protection to minimize risk during data usage. Data masking is one example of a PET where, for example, sensitive information is removed or obfuscated from general access. Another common technique is differential privacy, where a controlled injection of noise is inserted into a data set in order to prevent unique identification about an individual.
One of the more groundbreaking PETs is homomorphic encryption. This technique was described in a white paper written by Craig Gentry as a Ph.D. thesis in 2009 but has only become commercially viable in the last couple of years. Mastercard invested in the series A round of Enveil, a company focused on homomorphic encryption, after working with it as part of the Start Path startup engagement program. We found its technology to be game changing and commercially ready.
In a nutshell, homomorphic encryption enables one party to perform search and analytics on encrypted data without decrypting it first. It's a technique that is particularly useful when you want to query a sensitive remote dataset without moving data. This is a common attack vector where breaches occur – through the movement of data from point A to point B via man-in-the-middle attacks or similar. Rather than move that sensitive data, homomorphic encryption allows you to formulate an encrypted query (for example, is "information X" in your database or not) and return an encrypted answer (for example: yes or no) without revealing the content of the query and the response.
While there are many good resources available through an internet search on the topic of PETs, the adoption guide produced by the UK's Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation is an ongoing, living reference worth reading.
There will continue to be innovations impacting PETs and data sharing, and the next frontier is validating identity – proving who you are, whether you are interacting in person, online or in-app. Digital identity is a foundational component of Mastercard's multi-layered approach to security with implications for open banking and beyond. With digital identity, we believe there should be no trade-off between convenience and security, with users in control of their identity data. Through our acquisition of identity verification leader Ekata – which helps our customers make more informed decisions through unique scores, data attributes and risk indicators – we are advancing our identity capabilities to create safe, seamless ways for consumers to prove that they are who they say they are.
In the new digital economy, it's imperative that companies in the business of data set out and follow clear privacy standards and data management practices — and live up to their commitment by continually investing in technology that keeps consumers' data secure.
As part of our investment in what's next, we're always expanding the Mastercard Developers portfolio of programs and tools to help fintech developers easily, quickly and, above all, responsibly turn bold ideas into realities. That's why we recently added a new Start Path program specifically focused on open banking and open finance. Interested fintech builders can apply here for the program, which includes everything from API and exclusive sandboxes to data responsibility expertise and connections to Mastercard's global customer network to co-innovate.
Bob Schukai is Executive Vice President of Technology Development, New Digital Infrastructure & Fintech at Mastercard, where he leads the technical design, execution and support of innovative open banking and fintech solutions, as well as next generation technologies to support global payment and data capabilities. Prior to Mastercard, Schukai's work focused on cognitive computing, financial technology, blockchain, user experience and digital identity. He is also a member of the Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers.


There are different categories of painkillers including opioids and NSAIDs. Opioids work on specific receptors in the brain to decrease pain. Common narcotic painkillers include morphine, oxycodone, and codeine.
Opioids have several side effects including constipation, depression, and drowsiness. Long-term use can also lead to hormone imbalances and a weakened immune system. Opioids can also lead to dependency.
The rates of overdose deaths and addiction have dramatically increased in recent years. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, prescription opioid overdose deaths have risen by 10.6 percent in recent years.
Regular use of NSAIDs may cause even more serious side effects in some cases. According to research published in Best Practices & Research Clinical Gastroenterology, taking NSAIDs may increase a person's risk of stomach problems including ulcers. Studies also indicate that when taken regularly, NSAIDs are also associated with kidney and cardiovascular problems.
The good news is if you have pain, some alternatives can be an effective and safe way to ease the pain. In fact, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the American College of Physicians recommend trying non-drug treatments for pain relief as the first course of action.
Applying heat to a painful area can decrease soreness and improve blood flow. It also relaxes the muscles and can ease painful spasms. You can use dry heat or moist heat to ease pain. For example, apply dry heat by using a heating pad or dry heat packs. Use moist heat by applying a warm towel or sitting in a warm bath. Use heat for 20 to 30 minutes several times a day. Be careful to avoid burning the skin when applying heat.
Topical pain relievers can be a great way to treat aches and pain. Topical medications provide relief without causing the systemic side effects of oral drugs. Topical pain relievers may be in the form of a lotion, spray, gel, and cream and are applied directly to the skin. Many topical pain relievers work by blocking nerve endings close to the skin. Look for a topical reliever that contains ingredients, such as menthol, arnica, or trolamine salicylate, which may help to decrease the discomfort. Other beneficial ingredients include Capsicum, Aloe Vera, Emu Oil, Willow Bark, and More.
Stretching can also be an effective way to decrease pain, especially low back pain. The specific stretches to do depends on the muscle or area of the body that is sore. General stretching guidelines to decrease pain include stretching gently and slowly and holding the stretch for 15 to 20 seconds.
It's also important to avoid stretching cold muscles. Walk for about five minutes to warm up your muscles before stretching. Try stretching once or twice daily to decrease pain. Keep in mind; you should feel the stretch, but if you feel sudden or sharp pain, stop stretching.
The saying "mind over matter" may be true when it comes to meditation and pain. Research published in the Journal of Neuroscience indicated that meditation significantly reduced pain in study participants. There are different types of meditation that may help pain. Most studies used mindful meditation. Classes, books, and webinars are available to teach meditation. Meditation may take practice before it is an effective pain reducer.
Joint Support Supplements: There are herbal blends of supplements that contain beneficial ingredients for the health of joints and cartilage, which can help reduce common aches and pains.
White willow bark: One of the compounds in white willow bark is salicin, which converts to salicylic acid. Salicylic acid is one of the components in aspirin. Naturally occurring salicin appears to cause fewer side effects than aspirin.
Turmeric: Turmeric, which contains the active ingredient curcumin, may also be effective in reducing pain. Turmeric acts as an anti-inflammatory agent, which may decrease certain types of pain. In research published in the Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine, turmeric was as effective as ibuprofen in treating pain due to knee osteoarthritis.
Omega-3: Omega-3 is a fatty acid that has been found to have several health benefits including decreasing pain. Omega-3 is thought to affect the same biochemical pathways in the brain as pain medications. It also decreases inflammation, which reduces pain.
Depending on the type of pain you have, acupuncture or acupressure may be an effective natural treatment. Both treatments involve stimulating pressure points in the body. Specific pressure points are associated with certain areas of the body. By stimulating the pressure points, it restores balance in the body and treats various conditions including pain. Acupuncture and acupressure may also promote the release of serotonin, which is a neurotransmitter that reduces pain naturally.
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Texas Has a Sizable Trans Population. So Why All the Anti-Trans Politics?
July 8, 2016 | By Polly Anna Rocha
(Photo: torbakhopper via Flickr creative commons)
Originally published in the San Antonio Current
A recent study conducted by researchers at The Williams Institute at the UCLA School of Law shows that approximately 1.4 million adults consider themselves to be transgender. According to the study, the number is twice that of the transgender population estimated to have existed in the United States a decade ago.
The study, bluntly titled "How Many Adults Identify as Transgender in the United States," is said to be the first of its kind to reveal state-level population estimates of transgender individuals.
Unsurprisingly, several of the more densely populated states, including Texas and California, had higher percentages of transgender individuals. The study also takes into account age, supposing that adults ages 18-24 were more likely to identify as trans than adults older than 25.
The research comes as states across the country propose, with some even passing, legislation that strips basic civil rights away from trans people. Bills like North Carolina's transgender bathroom ban force transgender men and women to use public bathrooms that align with their assigned sex rather than their true gender. At the same rate, much of the proposed anti-LGBT legislation bans non-discrimination ordinances from the state-level, thus placing not only trans people but all LGBTQ individuals at risk of job, healthcare and housing discrimination.
So if there are 1.4 million trans adults living in the United States, along with an unaccounted for number of trans children, why are there so many laws targeting the trans community?
The answer can most likely be found in the strategic rhetoric of anti-LGBT activists, lobbyists and legislators that essentially aims to heighten the culture of violent attitudes that already exists towards the trans community. This rhetoric paints trans people as stereotypical sexual predators, repeating the fallacy that trans women are just men in wigs looking to assault unsuspecting women and children. It's the kind of language that dehumanizes, demonizes and even endangers the 1.4 million trans adults that we now know live in this country – deployed for the sake of defending the general public from a threat that doesn't exist.
To this day, there have yet to be any confirmed cases of trans men or trans women attacking people in bathrooms, but there are numerous accounts of trans and gender nonconforming folks experiencing harassment, assault and sexual violence because they used the bathroom of their choice. Yet there have been a handful of instances in which conservative representatives have been caught committing sexual acts in public places, such as former Republican senator Larry Craig who was caught sexually soliciting an undercover police officer at an airport bathroom.
Texas is spearheading the lawsuit against the federal government because of the non-discrimination directive recently delivered by the Obama administration. In 2013, San Antonio mayor Ivy Taylor voted against a proposed non-discrimination ordinance on the basis of religious freedom.
This year alone, at least four trans people have been killed in the state of Texas, including Veronica Banks Cano, a Black trans woman from San Antonio.
2015 was the deadliest recorded year for trans people, with more than 20 trans women murdered in the US alone. This does not account for the people who were misgendered by the media nor does it take into consideration the number of trans suicides, which are triggered by the rejection, discrimination and the culture of violence trans people are constantly subjected to for existing openly.
When the law begins to reflect bigotry, violence comes as no surprise. If state governments continue to criminalize being transgender, rates of murder and hate crimes against trans people will only continue to rise.
1.4 million transgender adults and an unaccounted number of transgender youth living in the US are at risk here, but every single one of us deserves to have the same rights and protections as anyone else.
Polly Anna Rocha
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Date: 3rd August 2011
DiCaprio Named Highest-paid Actor
Two actors who began their careers playing mostly androgynous characters in low-budget art films but who went on to star in huge blockbusters are now the highest-earning actors in Hollywood, according to Forbes magazine. Leonardo DiCaprio tops the list with an estimated $77 million earned between May 2010 and May 2011, while Johnny Depp, who topped the list last year with $75 million, dropped to second place with about $50 million.
"Both actors have achieved wealth and fame by making some unusual choices with their careers," the magazine observed. Forbes's estimates are based, it said, on discussions with agents, lawyers, producers and other industry insiders and represent pretax gross income before payment of management, agent and attorney fees. While versatility has paid off for DiCaprio and Depp, sticking to a familiar character put Adam Sandler on the Forbes list at No. 3 with $40 million. "As long as Sandler sticks to playing a stunted adult his films are huge hits," it noted. "But when Sandler strays his films tend to flop." Others members of Forbes's top ten: 4. Will Smith, $36 million; 5. Tom Hanks, $35 million; 6. Ben Stiller, $34 million; 7. Robert Downey Jr., $31 million; 8. Mark Wahlberg, $28 million; 9. Tim Allen, $22 million; 9. (Tie) Tom Cruise, $22 million.
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I met a guy and we started talking. He was very nice so we started dating. We were intimate a few times before he finally told me he was in prison and committed a crime that I don't want to mention. He has been through a lot and is a very lonely person, but overall very nice. I didn't want to continue seeing him though because we had only been together for about 2 months before he claimed I was the love of his life, and his soul mate. It was too fast and felt like he was reaching for something meaningful, but again this is just two months of knowing each other. I broke up with him in person and he just lost it. I mean crying telling me he is in a deep depression, he says he is numb and can't live life. He is nice and very sensitive but I feel that this is a lot for someone I have known for two months. I don't want him to hurt, but I don't want to be with him. I want to know if I am being too harsh or if he is acting irrational? He worries me.
You are definitely not being too harsh. You removed yourself, with valid reason, in a respectable manner, and from what you've described, this guy seems emotionally unstable and dependent. I'm sure he is a good person, but he has some things to work out, and this is not your responsibility.
I think it's a good thing that you have broken things off with him. He needs help and counseling. Any relationship with him right now will not be a good thing for you. You being with him is only a small band-aid for his issues and not helping anyone. I understand how much it hurts when you feel like you are being too harsh or hurting someone else. But you are not his therapist, nor his family. If you hear from him again, suggest he seek help for his depression and then cut off all contact. This has the potential of turning into something dangerous.
Probably a good idea not to get yourself in a situation where your stuck with an emotionally unstable person. Just be happy you ended it sooner rather than later.


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1st Day 2016
A Once in a Lifetime Experience for OBHS Students
Thanks to some quick thinking and fast action by two of Oyster Bay – East Norwich's newest faculty members, five Oyster Bay High School students were able to participate in a once in a lifetime event. Just before Labor Day, the new Supervisor of the Social Studies Department, Mr. Joseph Pesqueira, got an e-mail saying that Hofstra University was making tickets available to the first twenty high schools from Long Island who wanted to attend the first Presidential Debate of 2016. Each school would be allowed to send one teacher and five students.
Mr. Pesqueira contacted his new AP Government teacher Ms. Lauren Harnick. Together they quickly got a list of students interested in attending the event. They held a lottery drawing to determine the five lucky students. Mr. Pesqueira sent the names of the students and their teacher to Hofstra and were told that they were in. They found out later that a large number of schools wanted to go and got closed out. The students in attendance were: Steven Keehner, Ashley Kowalczyk, Bella Pace, Nicholas Ramirez and Jennifer Velasquez.
Steven Keehner writes for the Oyster Bay High School newspaper, The Harbour Voice. He was kind enough to allow us to reprint his impressions of the day here.
I was chosen to be one of five lucky students along with AP Government teacher Ms. Harnick to represent Oyster Bay High School at the Hofstra Debate Day on September 26th. This was truly a unique experience for all of my classmates and me. From 9 am until nearly midnight, my day was a nonstop roller coaster of events, whether it was watching a panel of journalists discuss the issues regarding the United States today, to appearing on ABC News at 4, or watching the Debate in Breslin Hall.
Much like Hofstra's Student Journalist Day, Debate Day began with all of the students and teachers meeting for a standard lecture by the Debate 2016 staff, who gave everyone a welcome and a rundown of what was going to be happening for the day. By the time this wrapped up, everyone gathered their belongings and we proceeded to the Debate Day Media Panel.
The panel featured an interesting variety of journalists, including: Rita Ciolli, Editorial Page Editor of Newsday, Jared Rizzi, White House Correspondent, SIRIUSXM radio, and Paul Middelhof, Campaign Correspondent of the German newspaper, Die Zeit. The discussion was moderated by Meena Bose, a professor at the Peter S. Kalikow Center for the Study of the American Presidency. The journalists were talking about reporting stories based around the 2016 Presidential Election and double standards within society, among other topics. They later took questions from the student audience regarding the topics previously mentioned. It was a very informative and interesting event. I would also like to point out that Jared Rizzi is incredibly hilarious. Overall, this was a much better event than the panel I would see later in the day, but I'll talk about this later.
Following the first panel of journalists, we got to go see the festival that had been set up outside. It was unbelievable to see so many major news companies such as NBC, FOX, CNN, and others reporting on this, but of course this was a massive event, so I wasn't shocked. It was packed with people who supported Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, and even Libertarian Candidate Gary Johnson or Green Party Candidate Jill Stein. The excitement was palpable throughout the entire area. We weren't there for too long though, because we had to head in to see a show.
The show was a play was entitled "Democracy in Performance-Presidential Politics 1872." This show was interesting, to say the least. It involved actors and actresses performing as many notable figures, such as Victoria Woodhull, Frederick Douglass, Susan B. Anthony, and Shirley Chisholm. While the actors performed very well, it was organized in a rather odd and confusing way, with the actors/actresses taking Q&A in character, and then out of character, and vice versa. By this point, we were only three hours into our day, and we still had about 12 hours to go.
The next relevant event wouldn't occur until about 3pm, where we were able to go to The Netherlands (The Hofstra Hall, not the country, unfortunately) and we weren't necessarily sure why we were there. They eventually sat us down in rows and it didn't take us long to discover that we were sitting behind the set of ABC News at 4! It was very exciting to be on TV a number of times; I even got my sign taken away by a producer (but that's a story for another time). It was also hilarious to see the face of one of my classmates when she discovered the camera was recording while she was feasting on cotton candy (if you re-watch it, it's hilarious.) Following this exciting moment, we went back to Breslin Hall for the second of the two panels, the CNN panel.
To call this a discussion of politics/journalism would be a stretch at times. This is definitely me being a cynical teenager, but I saw this to be more of a CNN plug for a new series (Documentary? Web exclusive? They didn't even really know yet) that they were currently working on. It got incredibly awkward when a student called out the group of CNN workers as being biased. That was probably the most notable highlight I took from this event. Following the discussion, we had dinner in the dining hall. About an hour later we made our way back to Breslin Hall for the main event of the evening, the Presidential Debate. The Debate itself could be a two or three page article in itself, but for what happened to us, we were all seated in the same theatre we had been in a few times by this point because of the panels.
On a big screen the debate was streamed for all of us to watch. It was certainly an interesting debate, one which revealed many of the students to be divided between the two candidates.
By 11:30 pm, we finally got on the bus and made our way back home. To call the day exhausting would be a massive understatement. While it may have been tiring, it certainly wasn't boring to me. It was exciting to see so many young people interested in the political process, whether it was the high school students or the many, many college students. This was a once in a lifetime experience, and one that I promise I won't forget anytime soon.
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Made his first start at right tackle against Notre Dame during his senior year (2017).
Was named APEX Predator Offensive Player of the Game twice and #theSTANDARD Player of the Game three times his senior campaign (2017).
Majored in adult and organizational development.
Played tight end and linebacker at Loyola Blakefield High School (Towson, Maryland).
Recorded 22 catches as a senior.
Also played basketball and rugby.
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How To Properly Protect Your Facebook Account, Login
Facebook has been rolling out new or improved security and privacy features in rapid succession for the past year.
Many of the changes have only been announced on the official blog and third party sites like Ghacks that report about them. Facebook users who do not read the official blog or third party sites like mine may have missed some or even all of the security and privacy changes. Most new features are added as opt-in features to the social networking site, which means that many users have not enabled them yet.
This short guide lists the important changes and some general tips to improve a Facebook account's security and login.
Facebook Account Hardening
Most security features on Facebook deal with the log in on the site. This is where we start as well.
Facebook password
Make sure you use a secure password on Facebook. Best passwords are made up of a combination of letters, numbers and special characters. It is suggested to use at least 14 characters, the more the better. Make sure that you do not use dictionary words, names or other terms that can be associated with you.
To change your password do the following: Click on the menu icon in the upper right and select Settings from the menu. You may load https://www.facebook.com/settings directly as well to open the Settings.
Locate and activate Security and Login under Settings and click the change password link after the page has loaded
A form opens on the same page where you need to enter your old password and the new password. A click on Change Password completes the process so that the new password will be the valid password from that moment on. You will be logged off all computers when you change the password.
Login Notifications
You can enable this option to receive emails whenever someone logs in to your Facebook account from an unrecognized computer.
Select Edit next to "get alerts about unrecognized logins" on the Security and Login page on Facebook's website.
Make sure that "get notifications" is checked for Notifications and/or Messenger.
If you want to receive alerts by email, enable email alerts on the page as well.
Facebook notifies you automatically when it recognizes logins from devices that the service can't link to you.
Two-factor authentication is probably the most important security feature next to selecting a secure password for your Facebook login.
The feature adds another layer to the authentication process which means that attackers can't just use a Facebook user's email address and password to sign in anymore but need a secondary code as well that is generated in real-time.
Select "use two-factor authentication" on the Security and Login website to enable the feature. You need a mobile phone for that, and may get codes via SMS or by using an authentication application.
Facebook walks you through the setup process on the website. Check out this help page on the Facebook website for additional information.
Other things you may do or enable:
View and manage the list of authorized devices. Remove any device that you don't recognize or don't use anymore.
Choose contacts that you trust to avoid getting locked out.
Provide Facebook with your OpenPGP public key so that the company may encrypt all emails it sends to you.
Check the list of recent emails sent by Facebeook.
Verify that your contact information, especially the email address, is correct.
Is there anything else that you do to keep your Facebook login and account secure? Let us know in the comments.
Old information that is no longer valid
Secure Browsing (https)
You can open Facebook by loading http://www.facebook.com/ and https://www.facebook.com/. The difference? The HTTPS variant is more secure, as it uses encryption which blocks access to spy on your network traffic. That's for instance helpful if you connect to the site from a public computer or wireless network.
The security question and answer are used by Facebook to identify the account owner, for instance when you contact them because you do not have access to your account anymore. It is important to select a question and answer that only you can answer. Remember that you can add any answer that you want. Instead of answering "What was the last name of your first grade teach" with Mrs. Smith, you could instead use characters from your ID card, driver's license or a phrase that you can remember well.
You can change the Security Questions under Account Settings as well. Just select change next to Security Question this time.
Facebook Login Approvals
This new feature improves security by linking the Facebook account to your mobile phone number. Facebook sends a pin to the linked mobile phone whenever someone tries to log in from an unrecognized computer. You need to add your mobile phone number to Facebook before you can make use of that feature.
You can configure all three options under Account Settings. Locate Account Security there and click the change button to see the following configuration options.
It is suggested to enable all three, unless you do not want to add your mobile phone to Facebook. Enable the first two (secure browsing and login notification) then.
Find out how to protect your Facebook account so that it is properly secured against attacks such as brute force password attacks or social engineering.
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David Bradley said on May 30, 2011 at 11:00 am
Definitely a good idea to answer security questions with a strong password instead of handing over pet's name, mother's unmarried name, birthplace etc…
Dan said on May 30, 2011 at 1:39 pm
I can't find the security question. See screenshot below:
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Martin Brinkmann said on May 30, 2011 at 1:48 pm
That's strange.
Useful Articles said on May 31, 2011 at 12:31 pm
The one about Login Notification was very useful to me. I didn't know about that. Thanks for sharing.
labko xe jehanna said on June 25, 2011 at 10:26 am
i cant open my own facebook.
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Q: Работа сайта на SQLAlchemy остановилась из-за одной случайной ошибки. Правильно ли я работаю с сессиями? Есть сайт на Flask, SQLAlchemy, PostgreSQL. При создании новой записи случилась ошибка, что PK ключ этой таблицы уже занят. Обычная таблица, с id SERIAL PRIMARY KEY. id генерятся всегда только автоматически.
И вот после этой ошибки каждое обращение к базе данных, даже просто на чтение, падало с такой ошибкой:

sqlalchemy.exc.InvalidRequestError: This Session's transaction has been rolled back due to a previous exception during flush. To begin a new transaction with this Session, first issue Session.rollback(). Original exception was: (raised as a result of Query-invoked autoflush; consider using a session.no_autoflush block if this flush is occurring prematurely) (psycopg2.IntegrityError) duplicate key value violates unique constraint "my_table_pkey"

До этого в этом сайте я использовал Flask-SQLAlchemy, таких проблем никогда не было. Но после перехода просто на ванильный SQLAlchemy, ошибка эта случилась.
Работа с бд ведется через db_session, который определен в __init__.py модуля:
_engine = create_engine(c.DATABASE_URL)
_Session = sessionmaker(bind=_engine)
db_session = _Session()

Создание записей делаю через db_session.add(new_ojb); db_session.commit()
Видите вы в такой работе с SQLAlchemy что-то неправильное? Почему при создании записи в таблице появился дубль PK, почему потом последующие запросы из-за этой ошибки перестали обрабатываться?

A: Ошибка происходит из-за того, что предыдущая транзакция не была откачена. Для того чтобы ее откатить достаточно сделать session.rollback().
Обычно комитят изменения в алхимии следующим образом:
try:
    session.commit()
except DatabaseError, e:
    session.rollback()
    logger.error('...')

Обновление
session.flush() записывает изменения в базу, но не коммитит их, они считаются не персистентными (но видны, например, уже при запросах в базу внутри этой транзакции), то есть если после этого будет сделан session.rollback() они пропадут.
Вот есть еще пост по этому поводу с комментарием от создателя алхимии.
Обновление 2
Ловить исключения надо в любом случае, иначе алхимия будет тебе выкидывать такую ошибку, и это абсолютно правильно c её стороны. Ты можешь эти ситуации обрабатывать явно через try/except, через менеджер контекста либо декоратор, выбирай что по вкусу. :)
По поводу ошибки генерации ID, теоретически они могут возникнуть при таком кейсе, смотри секцию подводные камни. Это всё что я могу сказать, глядя на приведённые данные.
Для подстраховки от возникновения такой ошибки снова ты можешь сделать 2 вещи, нигде не выполнять INSERT с заранее переданным PK и поставить на этой таблице setval на самый большой текущий PK. Подробнее.

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Kiki has toured extensively with Hull Truck Theatre ('Reunion', 'Fly Me to the Moon', 'I Want That Hair'). Other theatre credits include; 'My Beautiful Laundrette' (tour), 'The Woman who Cooked her Husband' (Winchester Theatre Royal), and award-winning 'Waiting for Hillsborough' (tour). She wrote, produced and appeared in 'Babooshka', 'Mutton' and 'NEXT!' for her own theatre company Liberated Theatre.
She has appeared in several award-winning films; 'Love Type D', 'Do I Love You?' 'Nine Lives of Tomas Katz', 'Frontman', 'Phobias', 'The Stomach', 'Egg' and 'Recession'. TV credits include 'The Office', 'Fat Friends', 'Cold Feet', '2 Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps', 'Waterloo Road', 'My Family', 'Casualty', 'Holby City', 'Doctors' and 'Funland'.
Kiki was awarded The Best Actress at the SoCal Film Festival for her role as Sarah in 'Frontman' and Best Creative: Actress and Writer at the Fringe Report Awards for 'NEXT!". Her play Babooshka won a Fringe First at the Edinburgh Fringe.
Kiki is currently appearing in the Young Vic's universally acclaimed 'The Jungle' at London's Playhouse Theatre.
Elliott is a young actor from South East London. Since graduating, he has participated in three runs of 'Torn Apart (Dissolution), one at Brighton Fringe. It is due to be shown in July at The Hope Theatre in Islington. Elliott has a sharp passion for Shakespeare and physical theatre and has recently featured in Taylor Swift and Zain Malek's music video; 'I don't wanna live forever' and is currently rehearsing 'Road' by Jim Cartwright for 'The Bob Hope Theatre'. As well as acting, Elliott loves directing and producing films. Which led him to co-found 'Brainchild', a collective of industry professionals that produce films with experimental theatre rehearsals.
Since playing Wilson in Ruffian, Elliott has had a prominent role in an episode of 'Casualty' and recently finished in The National Theatre's production of Polly Stenham's 'Julie'.
Pádraig trained at Drama Centre London. His theatre credits include The Plough and the Stars ( National Theatre) A View from the Bridge (Wyndhams Theatre; Young Vic in The West End ), Antigone in New York (The Rag Factory) Let the Right One In (Apollo Theatre ,Shaftesbury Avenue; National Theatre of Scotland in the West End ) The Kindness of Strangers (Southwark Playhouse), The Trail (The Barbican, Rift TC), Shawshank Redemption (Secret Cinema)The Quare Fella (Tricycle Theatre), The Beauty of Queen Linane (Salisbury Playhouse), Juno and the Paycock (National Theatre of Ireland - Abbey Theatre), Hamlet (Clwyd Theatr Cymru), By the Border (Royal National Theatre, Studio), Mariana Pineda (Arcola Theatre), Zoyka's Apartment (Old Red Lion Theatre and Edinburgh Festival), Macbeth (Upstairs at the Gatehouse), Dracula (Hackney Empire) and Roosters (Bush Theatre).
Film includes Night Shift, Northern Paradigm, Conspiracy of Silence, The Courier, Taffin, The Killing Zoneand The Summer House.
Television includes Fair City and The Cloning of Joanna May.
Ross has written and directed a number of films including 'The Last Stop' and 'Modern Monsters'. His work has been shown at many prestigious film festivals internationally, including Toronto, San Francisco, Tokyo, New York and Sydney. With 'The Last Stop' premiering in London at the BFI South Bank to great reviews and a sold out NFT1. Subsequently, there was a successful home video release, where it entered the HMV top 20. Recently, Ross has written his first novel, 'Danyrogof Deep', to 4 and 5 star reviews and was an Amazon best seller in November 2014.
He co-founded Blue Devil in 2016 and directing 'Ruffian on the Stair' for them was his first theatre project. The play became a critical and audience success, earning the company a Best Newcomer nomination at the Brighton Fringe Awards 2017. He followed this up by writing and directing 'Apparatus' for Blue Devil, to 4 and 5 star reviews and was shortlisted for Best New Play at the Fringe Awards 2018. Apparatus will transfer for a London run in early 2019.
Ross is currently working on Blue Devil's next production, The Geminus.
Rich worked as co-producer & producer on the films, 'The Last Stop' and 'Modern Monsters'. He first got involved with theatre and film whilst living in France where he translated several screenplays, scripts and advertising scripts into English.
A member of Blue Devil from the outset as co-producer, he originally planned and executed the advertising, promotional and marketing strategy for 'Ruffian on the Stair'. In the summer of 2017, Rich took over as principal producer of Blue Devil and brought 'Apparatus' successfully to the stage. Very much a creative producer, Rich loves being involved in all aspects of production, from inception, through financing and casting, to being on-hand during the rehearsal stage. He has a passion for nurturing and facilitating the creative process so that the artists involved are concentrating on what they do best. Rich's background in market research means he always keeps the needs of the audience at the forefront of all decision making whilst balancing this with the artistic ethos of the company.
Rich is currently planning the London transfer of Apparatus and in pre-production of Blue Devil's next production, The Geminus.
Alex studied film and documentary production at the London College of Communication and has worked on a variety of campaigning films, documentaries, topical comedy shorts and podcasts including the Noemi Weiss' feature documentary MILK, the hugely popular topical podcast No Pressure to be Funny and a series of films for the Justice Alliance Campaign to save legal aid.


Chris Gursky wrote that he appreciated the pristine view, despite thinking he was about to die.
A man's first time hang gliding in Switzerland turned into a terrifying ordeal after he realized he hadn't been strapped in before take off.
Chris Gursky was on the first day of a vacation to Switzerland when he decided to go hang gliding. He filmed what was expected to be a serene flight over Swiss forests and greenery, and instead turned into a nail-biting two minutes.
A video of the flight, which was posted to YouTube on Monday, has since been viewed more than 1.3 million times.
The video starts with Gursky standing behind an unidentified pilot as the two run to launch the glider. After the launch, Gursky is shown immediately realizing he's not strapped in, and grasped both the aircraft and the instructor.
"Houston, we have a problem," Gursky wrote as a subtitle on the video.
The hang glider is seen continuing to climb as the pilot tries to regain control and land. Meanwhile, Gursky grasps a metal bar and the back of the pilot's shirt.
Gursky, of Florida, wrote that he appreciated the pristine view, despite thinking he was about to die.
The hang glider then soars high above the trees as the pilot desperately tries to steer the device back toward the ground.
Finally, after a couple frightening minutes in the air, the hang glider gets low enough that Gursky is able to drop off.
He said he suffered a broken wrist that required surgery, but was able to walk away with his life.
"While the pilot made a critical error in our pre-flight setup by not attaching me to the glider, he did all he could to get me down to the ground as quickly as possible, while grabbing on to my harness and flying with one hand," Gursky wrote.
He wrote that because he didn't get to enjoy his first flight, he plans to give hang gliding another try.


While 10-nm yields are improving, the company is pushing volume production of 10-nm products into next year. Intel also announced that it hired veteran IC design guru Jim Keller to lead its silicon engineering group.
Oscilloscopes, spectrum analyzers, network analyzers, and multimeters have practically taken over. Oh, yes, there were some embedded systems too.
On this day in tech history, NASA's Ranger 4 crash landed on the moon, making it the first American spacecraft to reach the lunar surface.
This innovative PDM technique improves on simple TDM in a sensing subsystem, here using pulse oximetry as a demonstration platform.
12 апреля 2018 года компания ELNEC анонсировала новую версию управляющего ПО для линейки своих программаторов.
Компания Power Integrations выпустила новую серию контроллеров коэффициента мощности с МОП-транзистором на 600 В HiperPFS-4.


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What to Do in the First 30 Minutes of a Worker Injury
Toby Graham / June 26, 2019
Time has a way of slowing down during an accident or emergency. For environmental safety and health professionals, that phenomenon is important. Once a safety incident happens, the clock starts ticking, and every second counts. The longer it takes to act, the worse the consequences, both in terms of worker well being and organizational liability.
EHS Today senior editor Stefanie Valentic reports:
"Workplace injuries are a major cost for employers, and mitigating the incident from the moment it happens can have lasting effects, Ken Wells, president of Lifeline Strategies, told attendees at Safety 2018 in San Antonio.
At a cost of $60 billion per year to companies across the United States, action should be taken immediately. The most important thing is to take care of the worker and get [them] the help they need."
Do you know what to do immediately after an EHS incident—what steps to take within the first 30 minutes? How about the first 30 seconds?
Here's 10-step procedure Wells and EHS Today recommend:
Have a plan and work the plan.
Let the worker know you will take care of them.
Do an initial diagnosis.
Administer first aid.
Calm the worker.
Control hazards that caused the injury if needed.
Get help quickly if needed.
Have a manager accompany the worker to the clinic.
Follow up after the incident.
Complete case management.
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EHS Checklist
Your business is subject to many operational, regulatory, and compliance risks. This checklist itemizes some of the documents, training, and procedures that are required by many state and federal agencies. Can you check all the boxes?
View "Safety 2018: What to Do in the First 30 Minutes of a Worker Injury."
A lot can happen in 30 minutes. Swift action could be the deciding factor in saving money and saving lives. Remember: effective emergency response starts with preparation. If you have a plan, you can maximize the moments immediately following an incident—and minimize the fallout.
Learn how to expect the unexpected by developing a smart emergency response plan.
Toby manages the marketing communications team here at KPA. She's on a quest to help people tell clear, fun stories that their audience can relate to. She's a HUGE sugar junkie...and usually starts wandering the halls looking for cookies around 3pm daily.
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The development, known as Bolingbroke Park, was designed to take advantage of the established woodland setting of the site, which includes a large number of mature trees and two established ponds. Respect for the existing ecology and sloping topography of the site was paramount and has been used to create a development of well integrated dwellings which maximizes sunlight and daylight to all dwellings.
The high quality details and materials used across the site make a positive contribution to the local built environment, as well as including a number of energy saving features including a district heating system for the apartments and photo-voltaic roof panels throughout the site.


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Alex Jones's Legal Team Is Said to Have Sent Child Porn in Sandy Hook Hoax Case
Lawyers for families of victims in the 2012 shooting said the legal team acting for Mr. Jones, the conspiracy theorist, sent them child pornography, adding that they have notified the F.B.I.
by Aaron Randle and Rick Rojas, June 17, 2019
Lawyers representing several families of victims of the 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School said in court documents that the legal team acting for Alex Jones, the conspiracy theorist and host of the Infowars website, sent them child pornography, which they reported to the F.B.I.
The families have filed a defamation suit against Mr. Jones, who has spread the false claim that the shooting in Newtown, Conn., was an intricate hoax.
In a filing on Monday in a Connecticut court, lawyers for the families said consultants reviewing documents submitted by Mr. Jones's lawyers as part of the suit had found an image that "appeared to be child pornography."
Mr. Jones learned about the accusation earlier as part of the discovery process. On his show on Friday he forcefully denied any involvement in the material in question being sent and accused Chris Mattei, one of the lawyers representing the Sandy Hook families, of trying to frame him.
"You're trying to set me up with child porn," Mr. Jones said. "One million dollars to put your head on a pike."
Norman Pattis, a lawyer for Mr. Jones, said that the allegation had already been investigated by the F.B.I. and that Mr. Jones had been cleared of any wrongdoing.
"For two weeks the F.B.I. conducted an inquiry and I learned on Wednesday of this week that that inquiry concluded that no one here has any guilty knowledge of those emails, indeed there is no reason to suspect anybody even knew they were here," Mr. Pattis said on an Infowars broadcast on Saturday.
"The attempt to use this as a litigation club is the worst form of special pleading and the plaintiffs' lawyers know it," Mr. Pattis added.
Calls to the F.B.I. office in New Haven on Monday were not immediately returned.
"It is worth noting that if the Jones defendants had engaged in even minimal due diligence and actually reviewed the materials before production, they would have found the images themselves," the lawyers for the families, who are with the law firm Koskoff Koskoff & Bieder, wrote in their filing.
Mr. Mattei, through a representative, declined to comment beyond the filing.
The plaintiffs in the suit are relatives of five children and three adults killed in the shooting, along with one F.B.I. agent who responded to the scene.
They have accused Mr. Jones of spreading spurious claims that have subjected them to physical and verbal harassment, death threats and sustained attacks on social media. Mr. Jones amplified conspiracy theories claiming that the relatives of victims were actors involved in an elaborate ruse meant to confiscate firearms from law-abiding citizens.
A separate defamation suit is also moving forward in Texas, Mr. Jones's home state.
The plaintiffs in both lawsuits have achieved a series of victories in recent months, with judges in Texas and Connecticut ordering that Mr. Jones and others connected to his businesses had to testify or submit to questioning by the families' lawyers.
Mr. Jones has also come under intense scrutiny and has seen the reach of his platform diminish considerably after he was barred by Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. A deal for his program to be shown on the Roku streaming service fell apart after public outrage.
The Connecticut lawsuit against Mr. Jones reflected one of the ways the anguish in Newtown has endured and evolved in the years since the attack when a gunman stormed into the elementary school and killed 26 people, including 20 first graders, in a spray of gunfire.
At the time, the attack traumatized the country and made Newtown one of several communities that have come under the spotlight as a result of horrific violence.
But in more than six years since, it has also been an unsettling example of the ways a tragedy lingers in a community and continues to send out ripples of grief.
In March, Newtown was shaken once again after the apparent suicide of Jeremy Richman, whose 6-year-old daughter, Avielle, was among the children killed and who was part of the lawsuit against Mr. Jones.
The Koskoff law firm also represents the families in a separate suit against the companies that manufactured and sold the weapon used by the gunman, Adam Lanza, during the attack.


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Timber: Decatur City Commission treed by residents
Dan Whisenhunt Jan 22, 2014
Jan. 21, 2014. Decatur City Commissioners and Planning Director Amanda Thompson listen to during a presentation about a proposed tree ordinance. The commission voted 4-1 to defer approving the new policy that would regulate tree removal in the city. Photo by: Dan Whisenhunt
The public outrage on display at last night's Decatur City Commission meeting shouldn't have surprised anyone.
But what was surprising, to me at least, was the near-consensus view that this ordinance wasn't ready for prime time.
Even the people who were in favor of it had problems with the wording. Catherine Fox said the ordinance is a "great step forward" but added that people need more time to understand its implications.
"Five days isn't enough really for a lot of people to understand it, as you can see," Fox said. "We should adopt it now if that's our only choice, adopt it tonight with changes as needed … or put it off for a month."
Fox added that she'd like to extend the 90-day tree removal moratorium, which ends Jan. 24, for another month. Commissioners didn't consider extending it.
For the longest time, it didn't look like any of the commissioners wanted to consider doing anything at all. Mayor Jim Baskett was the most ardent supporter of passing the ordinance, even though he admitted it had some flaws that would need tweaks. He said he couldn't make the motion to approve it, however, and other commissioners were reluctant to do so. The motion he recommended was to approve the ordinance as it was and tweak it later.
But that just wouldn't have gone over well.
Commissioners received a glut of emails and phone calls after the city released a draft copy of its ordinance on Jan. 16, less than one week before they planned to vote on it. The comments exploded over at Decatur Metro and on the city's website set up for public input.
People didn't understand the ordinance, a complex document that was 17 pages long. Older residents who aren't as tech savvy as the city's staff had trouble logging on to the city's website to provide their input.
When City Planning Director Amanda Thompson showed commissioners a spreadsheet with examples of what the new ordinance might cost residents, you could almost hear the eyes popping in the room. I've asked for that spreadsheet and I haven't gotten it. I'll post it here when I receive it.
The ordinance brought some pretty high profile speakers to the commission meeting. There were at least two lawyers who questioned the vagueness of the definitions in the new policy. The word "lawsuit" was used several times by residents.
Atlanta Deputy COO Hans Utz, who lives in Decatur, was there. He told commissioners that in his experience bad policies typically don't get better once they're enacted.
"The experience we've had in Atlanta is it's basically untouchable once it's on the books," Utz said.
Utz' comments were convincing enough that Commissioner Patti Garrett referred to them when she made her motion to delay the approving ordinance. Commissioners agreed to add language that would alleviate the concerns of property owners.
The suggested tweaks will reduce the city's overall canopy goal from the 55 percent suggested in the original ordinance to 50 percent, and reduce the costs for tree removal from $1.50 per square foot to 75 cents per square foot. The tweaks also increase the amount of impervious service that property owners need to add to trigger a tree replanting from 10 percent to 15 percent.
Commissioners approved Garrett's motion 4-1, with Mayor Baskett casting the only "no" vote. The ordinance likely won't be considered again until March. Even the vote to delay it was confusing. Many people in the room, including myself, had to double check to be certain we knew exactly what the commission had just approved.
If commissioners decide to try this again, and not drive city staff crazy in the process, they will need to redouble their efforts to get the public to buy into it. This policy had a lot of detractors and only half-hearted support from many of its proponents.
It simply wasn't going to fly. Commissioners need to get this before the public well in advance of any vote.
Five days simply isn't enough time to give the public a chance to consider something this complex.
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Two ministers cancel trips to India
Convoy of Bangladesh's assistt high commissioner comes under attack from protesters in Guwahati
Foreign Minister A K Abdul Momen. File photo
Star Report
Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen and Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan have cancelled their scheduled trips to India.
The cancellations come at a time when India is seeing protests over the passage of Citizenship Amendment Bill in parliament.
Farid Hossain, minister (press) at the Bangladesh High Commission in New Delhi, confirmed the cancellation of the foreign minister's visit. He, however, did not give any reason.
The minister was scheduled to fly to Delhi yesterday afternoon to attend the Indian Ocean Dialogue and Delhi Dialogue XI, to be held today and tomorrow.
During his three-day visit, Momen was also expected to meet Indian External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on the sidelines of the Indian Ocean Dialogue.
This newspaper could not reach the minister for comments.
A foreign ministry official said Momen rescheduled his tour to join programmes at home on the Martyred Intellectuals' Day and the Victory Day. He is likely to visit India next month.
Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan was scheduled to fly to Meghalaya today at the invitation of its Chief Minister Conrad K Sangma.
Sharif Mahmud, public relations officer at the home ministry, confirmed the cancellation of the trip.
Another home ministry official said the minister would not visit India now as the northeastern Indian states were seeing protests over the citizenship bill.
In New Delhi, the spokesman for the Indian external affairs ministry, Raveesh Kumar, yesterday said cancellation of Momen's India visit would not have any effect on bilateral relations.
"We know the visit has been cancelled... I understand the foreign minister has given an explanation. Our relations are strong, like our two leaders have said repeatedly, and I don't think this cancellation will have any effect," he told reporters.
He said the cancellation of the visit and the passage of the Citizenship Amendment Bill should not be linked.
"We will have to go by the reason stated. As for his [Momen's] comments on Citizenship Amendment Bill, there is some confusion. Religious persecution was in reference to military regime and past governments," Kumar said.
The Indian parliament on Monday passed the controversial Citizenship Amendment Bill that would grant Indian citizenship to Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains, Parsis, and Christians who faced "persecution" in Bangladesh, Afghanistan and Pakistan.
ATTACK ON ENVOY'S CONVOY
Meanwhile, Bangladesh has protested an attack on the convoy of its assistant high commissioner in Guwahati and vandalism of signposts near the mission.
Acting foreign secretary of Bangladesh, Kamrul Ahsan, lodged the protest with Indian High Commissioner to Bangladesh Riva Ganguly Das when the latter met him at the foreign ministry in Dhaka yesterday evening, the ministry said in a release.
Kamrul requested the Indian government to protect the personnel and property of the mission.
Riva Ganguly said the Indian government was immediately alerted to enhance security of the chancery and residence premises of the Bangladesh assistant high commission.
Yesterday, the security vehicle escorting Bangladesh assistant high commissioner, Shah Mohammad Tanvir Monsur, from the airport to Guwahati city was attacked by mobs protesting adoption of the Citizenship Amendment Bill.
The foreign ministry release said some people from the processions and agitations knocked down two signposts of the mission approximately 30 yards away from the chancery premises.
The Indian authorities have already stepped up security to protect the Assistant High Commission, its personnel and members of their families, added the release.
The passage of the bill triggered protests in Assam. Several hundred troops, alongside paramilitary forces, were deployed in Tripura and Guwahati.
During a recent debate on the bill at the Lok Sabha, Indian Home Minister Amit Shah said torture on Hindu communities in Bangladesh, Afghanistan and Pakistan was taking place.
The debate continued for about nine hours before the lower house of the Indian parliament eventually passed the bill amid protests from opposition parties.
Denying the allegation of torture, Bangladesh Foreign Minister Momen told reporters in Dhaka on Wednesday that the Citizenship Amendment Bill, 2019 could weaken India's "historic position" as a tolerant and secular country.
There were also concerns over the Indian National Register of Citizens (NRC) which excluded nearly two million people in Assam, raising fears they could be rendered stateless.
Indian Home Minister Amit Shah on several occasions said the NRC would be implemented across India and all illegal migrants would be expelled.
Bangladesh maintains that the NRC is an internal issue of India and it will not affect Bangladesh.
Our diplomatic correspondent and New Delhi correspondent contributed to this report.


Had hoped that the little tune-let of my own that popped in near the end tonight would be fully finished and ready in time but it still has mixing curios aplenty and work to do. Sometimes you've got to pop that zit, so there it is, for now.
As ever it will be Love Bucket-ORAMA on Friday night, Judge Bao are doing the last week of their very popular pop-up palaver on the eats tip – and the tunes and alcoholic libations will be tight as a drum and funkier than a chicken farm on a sunny afternoon, as per….
Dear Humans by Damon Jee & Snem K.


Last week 14 CALS students presented their marketing plan for the product "Easy AI" at the National Agri-Marketing Association's (NAMA) Student Marketing Competition held at the national conference in Kansas City. Twenty-nine teams from across the country competed – six were named as finalists. Our very own UW-Madison NAMA team achieved fourth place honors!
If you see team members or their advisor Sarah Botham from Life Sciences Communication around campus- congratulate them on a job well done!
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WUTK is a proud sponsor of Operation Christmas Blessing! Open Chord is hosting a toy drive to benefit children in need this holiday season. Open Chord is looking for donations of toys for ages 3-13 ( $5-$20 in value). Any toy donation will gain admittance to the event and 1-5 raffle ticket entries per toy, based on value. More toys equals more chances to win! First prize is a full year membership to the YMCA.
Other evening festivities will include an ugly Christmas sweater contest with a cash prize, and live music from Josiah & The Greater Good, Eddie Self, and more!
For those that wish to donate a toy but cannot attend the fundraiser, there will be two opportunities to take donations to Harvest Church on Thursday November 15th and Thursday November 29th from 7-9 PM or any Sunday morning from 9:30-10:20 AM an Usher will take your donation.


The second chapter of Acts is a good case example of why it's important to read each individual story, dialogue, or monologue of scripture within the context of the larger narrative. Here we have, on the birthday of the church, many languages coming together in mutual understanding. Everyone... not just some but everyone understands what's being said, everyone hears their own language. Many languages, by the power of the Holy Spirit, are made one.
Now, in light of the larger narrative, this story should remind us of a similar but antithetical story found in Genesis chapter 11. It's the story most commonly referred to as "the tower of Babel" of which the opening passage says, "the whole world had one language and a common speech." It starts off the way Acts 2 finishes. But everything goes wrong and by the end of the story the people are divided by their language. Language--the key symbol of human connection--becomes a point of contention, one which eventually leads to wars and violence. So with that in mind, Acts 2 is powerful turning point of the story. The coming of the Spirit of God is the reversal of Babel (among all sorts of other good things). What was wounded under the power of the curse, a point of division, and a source of violence is now healed under the lordship of Christ through the power of the Holy Spirit. People are brought together in mutual understanding by the gospel of Jesus.
In this story we are given a picture, a foretaste even, of the Kingdom of God--an image of a reality which we as followers of Christ are to somehow make visible in the present. The Kingdom of God is a Kingdom of mutual understanding. It's where the wounds of division are healed and the many languages are brought together. And the church is the community of people whose one vocation is to make manifest that very reality.
Thus, I am utterly distressed by the arrogance of some white Christians in America (maybe particularly in Southern California). I've heard more than one conversation in which someone was angrily complaining about Spanish being posted on signs or being an optional language for automated phone calls or people speaking Spanish in business or government as though our God given freedoms were at stake. People talk as though English is the national language of heaven. People talk as though there's an invasion taking place. The fear and hatred in their rhetoric displays nothing of the Kingdom of God and perpetuates the curse of Babel itself, the curse of division and disconnectedness. I cannot help but think they must not have many Hispanic friends... they certainly aren't out to find any either.
The truth is that English was not the first language spoken in what's now called the United States. Indeed many different languages were spoken. But rather than take the time to learn the language, we forced the native Americans to learn ours under threat of death... indeed we actually ended up killing the vast majority of those who first occupied this land. But most people who are fearful the the growing population of Spanish speaking people in the U.S. don't look so far back. They look to the German and Italian immigrants of the more recent past, many of which did in fact end up learning to speak English... but many did not.
We're okay with the idea of mutuality... as long as we don't have to do the work. If everyone were speaking English, we'd be cool with it (not that we wouldn't still hold other prejudices against people who are different). What we must remember is as citizens of the Kingdom of God, we have no national language. We only have the language of mutuality, the language of kinship. If speaking that language means learning a new one, if only so that I might share with my neighbor, then followers of Christ who are empowered by the Holy Spirit will learn it without fear. We will put God's Kingdom on display in word and deed out of love and out of the knowledge that, after all, everything is a gift.
If Spanish, just for example, happened to develop as the common language of our neighbors, what would we as followers of Jesus have to fear? Instead of fear we will look to the future with joy, knowing that God is the God of all languages and He still can hear us even if we're speaking Spanish.


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Review — AMERICRUISE by Lawrence F. Lihosit (Honduras)
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Ben East
good stuff, Lawrence and Doc.
Americruise
(Travel) Second edition
Lawrence F. Lihosit (Honduras 1975–77)
Reviewed by David H. Greegor (Mexico 2007-11)
Americruise by Lawrence F. Lihosit is a short book with a mega font perfect for geezers like me, although this 2017 second edition (first edition published in 1993) wasn't written just for the geriatrics amongst us; the author wrote the original when he was 33.
For roughly the first quarter of the book, I can't say as I liked it at all. I thought the author was wacko with a complete disregard for syntax and the rules of the English language. His style defies description. This completely threw me off at the outset, quite likely because I'd never read anything by Mr. Lihosit before. His crazy syntax reminds of someone writing English but throwing in some Spanish rules of grammar. This makes sense because the heroine in the story, his wife, Margarita, is Mexican and they had lived in Mexico City.
If you are looking for normalcy, read something else. Having said that, after perhaps 20 pages into the book I had become accustomed to the author's bizarre style and sense of humor (which is exceedingly unique), I started to like Americruise and by the end of the book I was hooked and truly saddened to see it end. The story is about a bus journey taken in 1984 by Lawrence and Margarita not long after they were married and had moved to the U.S. The travel group eventually grew to include both of Margarita's sisters, Licha and Martha.
Three of the four bus to NYC to see a publisher and join sister Martha. Now four, they bus back to San Francisco via Canada. All are on a bare-bones budget, and that's stating it mildly, as Lihosit many times describes their trip rations as "dust."
Often he closes an observation with, for example, "You betchya" or "Cowabunga, who'd a tunk it?" Language I would have used as a Boy Scout in the 1950s.
To give you a sense of Lihosit's writing style (sometimes confusing as hell), and humor, on page. 37, after reaching the office of the NY editor who had, or so he thought, expressed interest in talking to him about his book, he writes:
At the last open door, the name was barely spoken when that gal's pearl necklace swung around her neck like errant reins and she pushed her rollered chair back against the far wall, her face white. She yelled about trespassing and the police. A vein in her forehead pulsated pink which made me wonder if maybe this wasn't poor timing. No matter how much my voice lowered or my hands were nearly crossed in front of my family jewels, passively like Indians do in Central America, my head bowed, she kept right on shouting until the nail painting secretary yelled back about dialing the police. All this for a novel? I reminded Ann about our long-distance conversation, her invite, my many telephone calls while in New York City. She finally stammered, her voice going up an octave while she told me that my manuscript was putrid garbage not fit to publish in Los Angeles, let alone someplace special like New York. I don't think she liked it.
Several other examples of the author's unique descriptiive and humorous style regarding activities, places and people include, such as follows on page 77, while they are camping their way across Canada:
The sun set, silhouetting the forest. Bill flicked on his outside generator, then the spotlights, so that we could play catch with his son. He loaned me a recently oiled Rawlings special with the extra-long pocket and wide index finger so that two fingers could slip in with no problem. I unloosened my belt and put on the glove. (Next paragraph) Birds chirped the next morning. I stretched one leg. "You're on my arm!" Margarita yelled.
This was a high-density campsite and putting on our trousers inside the tent, we looked like two worms after being pinched in the middle; wiggling this way and that.
The lake stretched out in all directions for a couple of miles. Its surface was like a shingle roof after a hurricane, all dips and turned up edges.
We sat for a spell watching a wind surfer cross the lake from nowhere to nowhere.
On page 79, after eating "dust" for days, malnourished and skin and bones, they were camped in Riding Mountain National Park and caught in a rainstorm. In their tent, Margarita raised the subject of having children. Lawrence writes:
Maybe all this talk of babies had something to do with malnutrition.
The entire 94 pages are essentially continuous examples of his unique descriptive prose and sense of humor, just like the above. As I said at the beginning of this review, from the first page to the last, I did 180 degrees in regard to my opinion of this little book. No question about it, I would definitely read other books by Mr. Lihosit.
Reviewer Dr. David Greegor (Mexico 2007-11) is a Research Associate and Curator of Herpetology at the Orma J. Smith Museum of Natural History, College of Idaho and the author of Going To México, Stories of My Peace Corps Service published in 2017.
Thanks, doc, for taking the time to read and comment on my thin literary work. Thank God I kept my day job!
Oh, heck. I forgot! Try Travels in South America, doc. It's crazier than git out.
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The Innere Mission organization run by the Evangelical Church of Munich has hired ten Greek schoolteachers to fill its educational needs as it lacks trained personnel.
Starting from September 1st 2012, ten schoolteachers from Greece will start working in the social institution of the Evangelical Church Innere Mission. The idea of hiring trained personnel belongs to a German-Greek employment agency, as unemployment amongst youth in Greece is extremely high.
"The response to the call was direct," Ms. Rosemary Rainheld says to DW, Head of the Nursery Department of the organization.
"The main reason for hiring the new schoolteachers is the major lack of trained personnel in Germany. During the interviews in Athens that I personally organized, I found out that the people applying for the jobs are well trained teachers that would happily move to Germany. For us, it was important to support their decision," Ms. Reinheld stated.
Good knowledge of the German language and sufficient previous studies are a prerequisite.
The organization criticizes the policy of the federal government that proposes the retraining of unemployed people from professions outside of education to fill the vacancies in the field of early education. According to the organization, people with specialized knowledge are necessary to be hired, as well as people that love this specific profession.
The salary offered is between 2.400 to 2.600 Euros per month (without taxes) and the contract is for an indefinite period of time. The example of the Evangelical Organization has inspired more organizations that are moving in the same direction.
The only minor problem is finding accommodations in Munich, but the people already working in the organization and living in Munich are doing their best to have everything ready before the time their colleagues from Greece arrive in Germany.


WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and the U.S. Department of Justice today announced a historic civil rights settlement with Westchester County, New York. The landmark agreement will result in the construction of 750 units of affordable housing in neighborhoods with small minority populations; will remove existing impediments to fair and affordable housing; and will require the County to take active steps to ensure its housing and development practices are fair to families without regard to their race or ethnicity.
"This is about expanding the geography of opportunity for families who may have been limited in their housing choices. The agreement we announce today demonstrates Westchester County's commitment to make sure its neighborhoods are open to everyone, regardless of the color of their skin," said HUD Secretary Shaun Donovan. "This agreement signals a new commitment by HUD to ensure that housing opportunities be available to all, and not just to some."
Westchester County receives a yearly Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) allocation from HUD and, as a condition of receiving this block grant funding, agrees to "affirmatively further fair housing." From 2000 to 2008, the County certified that it had complied with this requirement. The Anti-Discrimination Center of Metro New York (ADC) disputed this certification and filed a complaint under The False Claims Act. A federal court ruled that Westchester County failed its legal obligation to explicitly analyze "the existence and impact of race discrimination on housing opportunities and choice in its jurisdiction."
As a result, HUD and the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York helped to broker today's agreement whereby Westchester County agreed to make a $51.6 million investment in affordable housing over the next seven years in areas of the County where it has historically not provided affordable housing. The settlement also provides for payment of $7.5 million to ADC.
"This landmark agreement significantly advances the cause of promoting residential integration, the cause that led us to initiate this litigation more than three years ago," said Craig Gurian, Executive Director of the Anti-Discrimination Center of Metro New York. "It signals a new day for Westchester County, and I applaud HUD and the Department of Justice for joining with ADC to begin to make real the long-neglected promise that we can become one community, with no exclusion."
"The resolution of this case is a positive step toward creating new housing opportunities and advancing integrated residential patterns in Westchester County," said Ron Sims, HUD Deputy Secretary and former Executive of King County, Washington. "This settlement reflects an approach to equitable development in suburban areas that can serve as a model for building inclusive, diverse and sustainable communities across the country."
Westchester County will also undertake and fund targeted marketing, public education and other outreach efforts to promote fair and affordable housing in areas that have historically not provided such opportunities. Finally, the County's compliance with the agreement will be overseen by a court-appointed monitor who will have the authority to recommend additional actions. The monitor will be James E. Johnson, a member of the law firm Debevoise and Plimpton. The agreement announced today must still be approved by Westchester County's Board of Legislators.


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//!
//! @file   MechanicNodeSensor.hpp
//! @author Peter Nordin <peter.nordin@liu.se>
//! @date   2015-11-17

//$Id$

#ifndef MECHANICNODESENSOR_HPP
#define MECHANICNODESENSOR_HPP

#include "ComponentEssentials.h"

namespace hopsan {

//!
//! @brief
//! @ingroup MechanicalComponents
//!
class MechanicNodeSensor : public ComponentSignal
{
private:
    MechanicNodeDataPointerStructT mP1;
    double *mpOut_f, *mpOut_v, *mpOut_x, *mpOut_c, *mpOut_z, *mpOut_em;

public:
    static Component *Creator()
    {
        return new MechanicNodeSensor();
    }

    void configure()
    {
        addReadPort("P1", "NodeMechanic", "Sensor port", Port::NotRequired);
        addOutputVariable("out_f", "Force", "Force", &mpOut_f);
        addOutputVariable("out_v", "Velocity", "Velocity", &mpOut_v);
        addOutputVariable("out_x", "Position", "Position", &mpOut_x);
        addOutputVariable("out_c", "Wave variable", "Force", &mpOut_c);
        addOutputVariable("out_z", "Char. impedance", "", &mpOut_z);
        addOutputVariable("out_em", "Equivalent mass", "Mass", &mpOut_em);
    }

    void initialize()
    {
        getMechanicPortNodeDataPointers(getPort("P1"), mP1);
        simulateOneTimestep(); //Set initial output node value
    }

    void simulateOneTimestep()
    {
        writeOutputVariable(mpOut_f, mP1.f());
        writeOutputVariable(mpOut_v, mP1.v());
        writeOutputVariable(mpOut_x, mP1.x());
        writeOutputVariable(mpOut_c, mP1.c());
        writeOutputVariable(mpOut_z, mP1.Zc());
        writeOutputVariable(mpOut_em, mP1.me());
    }
};
}

#endif // MECHANICNODESENSOR_HPP


Fourteen players took part in the Open category of the first Perth International Open in Scotland on Saturday 14th June. Twelve players from local clubs Glasgow and Tayside were delighted to be joined by Colin Tarry, who made the trip up from London. A special guest, Subbuteo legend Mike Dent, also receives major plaudits for playing the day after his wedding in Edinburgh! Mike, originally from the local area, now lives in Malaysia and helps to promote the game there as coach with his club, Hartamas Tigers.
The tournament was played in great spirits and in a relaxed sporting manner, with some tense close games. In typical style, Steve Bennett, Scottish champion (1st seed), cruised to the semi-finals scoring 20 goals in 4 games to win his group. Tom Burns, second in the group also made the last four by going on to defeat Scott Fleming from Tayside, who clinched his group with a closely fought 3-2 win over 3rd seed Colin Tarry. Greg Dand progressed on 'Goals Scored' over teammate Gareth Christie (2nd seed) after a 0-0 draw between the pair in the remaining group.
Bennett and Christie also played out a thrilling 0-0 draw in the semi's; Christie winning with a well-taken golden goal. Dand, competing in his first FISTF tournament for many years, was 1-0 winner in a close match against Burns.
In the final, Christie had the perfect start, winning the ball then scoring a precise looping shot to the back post, on his first possession. However, this was quickly cancelled out by Dand with a fine strike at the other end. There was little between the two players, but half way through the second-half, Christie opened Dand's defence then scored with a long range shot into the corner for 2-1. Christie continues his run of Scottish IO successes with four wins in the last three seasons.
The team event on Sunday 15th was a low-key affair with just nine players available making up three teams, two from Tayside and one from Glasgow.
However, there were some great games including David Baxter (Tayside B) leading twice against Christie (Tayside A) which ended in a 2-2 draw. New player Andy Beskaby (Tayside B) upset the experienced Tom Burns (Glasgow) with a 2-1 victory, which helped clinch second place overall for his team.
One more thing… The Scottish Table Football Association would like to wish newlyweds Mike and Tray all the very best for the future.
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If the summer heat is too much for you to handle, head inside and have a taste of these excellent food and drinks.
Need a sweet treat after dinner? Check out this crepe with matcha green tea ice cream, strawberries and a chocolate drizzle and almonds on top.
Beautifully house-seasoned chicken accompanied with seasoned rice and tomato roses. If you are looking for an explosion of flavor, this is your dish.
This fruity cocktail packs quite a bit of punch, literally. It features Stoli Razberi vodka as well as blvd's homemade lemonade. Enjoy it with some of their delicious Asian chicken wraps.
This massive slab of beef is accompanied by pepperjack cheese, grilled onions, jalapeños, banana peppers and bacon, of course.
An Irish version of a margarita. This tequila based drink includes cranberry juice, Grand Marnier liqueur and Chambord liqueur. Very refreshing on the Blarney Stone patio.


Dr. Robinson recommends a complete physical exam every 6 -12 months depending on your pets' age and health. A regular physical exam for your pet allows Dr. Robinson to address any concerning issues you have and also identify any potential problems that may be noticed during the physical.
This is a proactive way for you to give your pet back some of that unconditional love they give you, while keeping them at their peak health and saving money in the long run. Call today for an appointment. 530-582-1133.
The exam time also provides time to discuss your pets' nutrition, supplements and medications and make any necessary changes.


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