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Economic Areas Category: INDUSTRIAL PARKEconomic Areas Tags: Cape
Epping is an industrial area of Cape Town that is situated to the south of Thornton, east of Pinelands and north of Langa.
Epping Industria was first developed in the late 1940s. Industrial development was initially slow and in the early 1950s the circular Gunners Circle was used as a race track for cars. When industrial development picked up in the late 1950s the racing was stopped. The completion of the Athlone Power Station close by assisted in the proliferation of industrial businesses into the area in the mid 1960s. [3]
Epping Industria is the largest and most centrally situated industrial area in greater Cape Town. Its proximity to the major roadways and the availability of most forms of public transport make it an extremely sought after location for business. The area hosts a number of companies involved in the textile, automotive, logistics, construction and food processing industries. Nampak, Africa's largest packaging company,[4] is one of the largest companies to have operations in Epping. Other large companies in Epping Industria are Distell Ltd, AVI Ltd and Afrox.
The Cape Town Market is one of the oldest and largest fresh produce markets in South Africa. It is over 50 years old and services over 5500 producers delivering fresh produce to market agents, who in turn sell the fresh produce to over 8000 registered buyers.
Epping Industria is managed by the Epping Community Improvement District (ECID) whereby all owners contribute to the operating costs of the ECID. The ECID assists the City of Cape Town to look after aspects such as cleaning, security, emergency management and traffic management.
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Making Research "Infinitely More Interesting" | October Editor's Choice
by Natasha Pandit
By Mikaella Evaristo | Senior Editor
Illustration by: Michelle Shi | Director of Art & Layout
One truth that comes from being a part of a STEM field is the challenge brought upon by scientific papers. Many readers fall into confusion as they try to trek through empirically dense reading. This poses a problem in the universal understanding of a breakthrough in research, and thus it becomes important to make research "infinitely more interesting," as Oliver Sacks, renowned neurologist and English writer, would have said. In his Fall 2015 article, "Oliver Sacks' Human Vision," student author Mark Robles-Long highlights the importance of approaching medicine in an interdisciplinary, multifaceted way. In his article, Long discusses the brilliance that Sacks brought to the field of medicine.
Long introduces Sacks as a "progressive neurologist who expanded the [medical] field's focuses, creating a body of work that introduced not only science to creative literature, but also poetry to medicine". 1 Sacks is referred to as the "poet laureate of medicine," because he was able to bridge the gap between a subject as objective as medicine and at the opposite side of the spectrum, the field of the written word. He used writing as "a medium by which he could transcend the density of empirical, scientific papers and reach those looking for meditation upon the human brain as it related to the human condition". 1 Sacks is best known for his collections of neurological case histories, such as The Man who Mistook his Wife for a Hat, Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain, and Awakenings, to name a few. He was a frequent contributor to the New Yorker and the New York Review of Books, and inspired the movie "Awakenings," starring Robert De Niro and Robin Williams. 2
Sacks was a brilliant man who not only contributed to two entirely distinct fields, but also somehow merged them together through his pure passion for the two disciplines. In 2009, Sacks gave a TED talk on hallucinations, an underreported phenomenon. He had asked the question, "What do hallucinations reveal about our minds?" In his talk, he elaborated on his experiences in a nursing home with elderly people who were having hallucinations. 3 What was interesting about these cases was the fact that the elderly people were either hearing- or sight- impaired, and so had auditory or visual hallucinations. This is referred to as the Charles Bonnet Syndrome, who first described the condition in 1760. 2 Sacks opens his talk by immediately capturing his audience's attention by saying that we "see with the eyes, but we also see with the brain. And seeing with the brain is often called imagination."
In his very lyrical way of speaking, stemming from his perfected craft of the English language, Sacks was able to capture his audience's attention. He then begins to tell us, in vivid detail, about his encounters in the nursing home. He tells us how a blind woman was seeing Kermit the Frog and how a deaf person was hearing a symphony. 3 Sacks' main purpose for giving his talk was not revealed until towards the end, where he states that such a disorder needs to be brought out into the public. He says that the phenomenon is "infinitely interesting, and valuable as to giving insight on how the brain works". 3 He notes that there are thousands of hearing- or visually- impaired people too scared to report their visual or auditory hallucinations for fear of being labeled "insane," but Sacks hoped that he was shifting the focus more on the "infinitely interesting" phenomenon. 3 He closes his talk by quoting Charles Bonnet: "The theater of the mind could be generated by the machinery of the brain". 3 By pinning the mind as a complex stage of artistic movement, Bonnett was able to presuppose an integral "backstage" element to producing the show of the mind, implying a duality between brain (the physical) and mind (nonphysical). By detailing his experiences in such a vivid manner and drawing from history, Sacks was able to make his cause heard.
A core attribute to Oliver Sacks' success lay in his merging of two polar passions. Sacks was able to make his causes heard by not only the STEM field, but also those in other disciplines. He was able to detail every encounter he had with his patients in a way that made it interesting to the average avid reader. He touched not only the world of science, but also the realm of writing and those that belong in them. His audience was varied because of his efficient mode of delivery when he elaborated on things that he deemed mattered. In zooming in on the collegiate life, where the campus is as diverse as the ambitions it sees, it would be smart to apply Sacks' way of garnering attention on important matters in the medical world. As a student within the STEM field, it is too easy to get lost amidst the sometimes labeled "boring" papers of new research studies. How do we make research "infinitely more interesting"? How do we merge our individual, polar passions to be heard? How do we bring other disciplines into the STEM world?
1. Robles-Long, Mark. "Oliver Sacks' Human Vision ." Medical Dialogue Review, 2015.
2. Cowles, Gregory. "Oliver Sacks, Neurologist Who Wrote About the Brain's Quirks, Dies at 82." The New York Times, The New York Times, 30 Aug. 2015.
3. Staff, NPR/TED. "What Do Hallucinations Reveal About Our Minds?" NPR, NPR, 6 Feb. 2013.
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Daniel, Prince of Sweden and Duke of Västergötland, was born on 15 September 1973 at Örebro University Hospital.
His parents are Ewa Kristina Westling and Olle Gunnar Westling. He was christened at Almby Church in January 1974.
The christening at Almby Church in 1973.
Prince Daniel is the youngest child of Ewa and Olle Westling. He has one older sister, Anna Westling Söderström.
Prince Daniel lives at Haga Palace with The Crown Princess, Princess Estelle, and Prince Oscar.
Prince Daniel attended Rabo Primary School and Perslunda School in Ockelbo, and later Hammar Upper Secondary School in Sandviken. He graduated from upper secondary school in 1991.
Prince Daniel spent many of his summers working, including at a home for the elderly in Ockelbo.
After graduating from upper secondary school, The Prince worked within elderly care in Ockelbo again while waiting to begin his military service. He carried out his military service at I14 in Gävle.
When he had completed his military service, Prince Daniel worked for just over a year at a school and recreation centre for children with special needs.
Prince Daniel moved to Stockholm in 1994 to study at the Lillsved Sports Folk High School. He studied the youth recreation leader programme here from 1994-1996, focusing on sport.
Prince Daniel worked for a fitness company while studying at folk high school. After completing his course he began working for the fitness company full-time.
While working at the fitness company, The Prince also taught on a course for personal trainers and body building coaches.
Prince Daniel started his own company in 1997 and worked as a consultant in the fitness industry. He then went on to run his own gym, Master Training, together with a colleague. Master Training expanded and now has two gyms in central Stockholm.
In 2006, he started the company Balance, a gym featuring a new concept, also situated in central Stockholm. The company now has approximately 100 employees. Together, the gyms have around 5,000 members.
Two of Prince Daniel's greatest interests are skiing and golf. He is passionate about social issues, health, sport and entrepreneurship, and enjoys going to the theatre.
During the spring term of 2011, Prince Daniel studied physiology, physical activity and health. He continued his studies in physiology in autumn 2011. He studied growth and physical development in children and young people in relation to physical activity and illness.
As previously, his studies took the form of commissioned courses with teaching staff from Karolinska Institutet. During the autumn, he completed studies worth 7.5 higher education credits.
In spring 2013, The Prince continued his studies with courses worth 7.5 higher education credits in geriatrics and pathology.
The Crown Princess and Daniel Westling announced their engagement on Tuesday 24 February 2009, and the wedding took place on 19 June 2010 at Stockholm Cathedral.
Princess Estelle was born on 23 February 2012.
On 2 March 2016 Crown Princess Victoria and Prince Daniel had a son, Prince Oscar.
You can see more pictures of The Crown Princess Couple and Princess Estelle in the photo galleries.


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SAFE Policy Center Lecture: Prof. Athanasios Orphanides
When:13 September 2013
Where:PEG Building, Room 1. G 147
Speaker: Athanasios Orphanides
Title: The Politics of the Euro Area Crisis
Athanasios Orphanides will discuss the origins of the euro area crisis and the role of politics in hindering its resolution and risking the demise of the European Union project.
Athanasios Orphanides is Professor of the Practice of Global Economics and Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management. He is also Senior Fellow at the Center for Financial Studies and Research Fellow at the Institute for Monetary and Financial Stability in Frankfurt. Athanasios served a five-year term as Governor of the Central Bank of Cyprus from 3 May 2007 to 2 May 2012. After the introduction of the euro in Cyprus on 1 January 2008, he also served as a member of the Governing Council of the European Central Bank and, following the creation of the European Systemic Risk Board, he was elected a member of its first Steering Committee. Earlier he had served as Senior Adviser at the Federal Reserve Board, where he had started his career following the completion of a Ph.D. degree in economics at MIT.


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Hendo is introducing the world's first REAL hoverboard and hover developer kit. We are putting hover technology in YOUR hands.
So where does the HENDO hoverboard stand today? Well, about 1 inch off the ground. As you can see from the video above, the prototype is real and it works! But to see it hover in person, and better yet, to defy gravity by riding it, is something you need to experience as well.
With the support of the Kickstarter community, we all can. We need your help to put the finishing touches on the Hendo Hoverboard, to help us produce them, and to create places to ride them.
Ok, so you can't shred a halfpipe with one of these, but you can still show your support for Hendo with one of our Betaboards instead. The Betaboard is a smaller version of our hoverboard that floats on a magnetic base. It uses a a different type of levitation than our technology, based on electromagnetic stabilization. It cannot be moved around too quickly and needs to stay plugged in, but it's perfect for any desk and makes a great gift!
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Thirty-three of the 67 MSAs in CJR have an option to voluntarily participate in CJR for years 3, 4 and 5. These rural-area hospitals with low volume will be given a one-time opportunity to continue their participation.
From January 1 through January 31, 2018, CMS will hold a one-time participation election period for hospitals with a CCN primary address located in the voluntary-participation-MSAs, and for specified low-volume hospitals and rural hospitals in the mandatory participation MSAs. CMS must receive the hospital's voluntary participation election letter no later than January 31, 2018 in order for a hospital to voluntarily continue to participate in the CJR Model.


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Q: Python lxml etree remove tail from element I have an element which contains a
 element and a tail.
for example:

Content that I want to keep
content that I want removed
I notice that the content that needs to be removed is in the tail, and I would think that there is an easy way to remove the tail from an element using etree.
How would I be able to do that?

A: Old question, but for the benefit of others looking for an answer, if the goal is "remove tail to call etree.tostring()", then you don't need to modify the tree:
https://lxml.de/api/lxml.etree-module.html#tostring
string = tostring(element[0], with_tail=False)

A: After working on this for a couple of hours the answer just came to me. (Of course right after posting the question)
I just set the tail to None:
element = root.xpath("path/to/element")
element[0].tail = None
string = tostring(element[0])

And it works.

A: Use elementsoup from lxml package:
#!/usr/bin/env python

from lxml.html.soupparser import fromstring

s = """
Content that I want to keep
content that I want removed"""

print fromstring(s).find('.//p').text

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Citation: MATOS, Jennifer Conceição Carvalho Teixeira de. Proposição de método para definição de cotas per capita mínimas de água para consumo humano. 2007. 122 f. Dissertação (Mestrado em Tecnologia ambiental e recursos hídricos)-Universidade de Brasília, Brasília, 2007.
Water is an indispensable natural resource to the life and the majority of the activities developed for the man. However, until today there are a lot of people without access to drinking water in compatible amount with its basic requirements. In this context, the great demand for the universalization of the supplying services and the great variability of the consumed volumes motivate the search of a method capable to not only identify the standard of residential water consumption, as the minimum, enough per capita quota for the maintenance of the health and the quality of life's population. The aim of this work was to consider a method capable to get, to compare and to analyze the domestic water consumption. Questions about availability, forms of measure and impacts of the water unavailability had been raised to base the proposal methodological without, however, to deplete the subject. As result, it is presented a systematization of tools that are: plan of sampling, application of questionnaires to collect socioeconomic data, measurement of volumes in each point of consumption and construction of a data base. A consultation of specialists and the identification of chances of reduction in the consumption are considered to approach of a minimum per capita quote. Method's validation and its application are recommended to increase the comprehension of water's use in residences and to guide public politics of sanitation which has the aim of universalize the water supply.
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Q: Reading Excel file into R using readxl and httr/libxls error: Unable to open file I'd like to read in sheet 1 of an Excel file from a website Link using the url of the Excel file. I'm on windows 10, R 3.6.1.
I'm trying to use the code from Read Excel file from a URL using the readxl package and have also checked out reading excel files into a single dataframe with readxl R.
url = 'https://dataverse.harvard.edu/file.xhtml?  persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/WEGWGS/I11K9Y&version=1.0'
GET(url, write_disk(tf <- tempfile(fileext = ".xls")))
df <- read_excel(tf, 1L)

# Error message
libxls error: Unable to open file

I get the following error message:

libxls error: Unable to open file

Thanks for any help!

A: If you scroll down that webpage (https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/WEGWGS), you will see that there is an explicit link for downloading the file directly (in the file meta-data box).
If you do the following, similar to your code above, you can retrieve the file correctly:
url = 'https://dataverse.harvard.edu/api/access/datafile/:persistentId?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/WEGWGS/I11K9Y'

library(tidyverse)
library(httr)
library(readxl)
httr::GET(url, write_disk(tf <- tempfile(fileext = ".xlsx")))
tf

df <- read_excel(tf, 1L)


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How the Saved By The Bell cast look 20 years on
by admin February 6, 2015, 7:34 am 1.9k Views
It's been more than 20 years since the original cast of Saved By The Bell walked the halls of Bayside High School.
But on Wednesday the onscreen pals got together for a reunion on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, showing fans what they've been missing all these years.
The passage of time has, of course, worked some changes on the actors who rose to international fame as teenagers.
The pretext of the reunion was a parody of the beloved series with a twist, as Tonight Show host Fallon played the part of a new student at Bayside.
But as the cameras rolled a few things became clear – the profound effect of time on the actors.
Cherubic Tiffani Thiessen (who played cheerleader Kelly Kapowski), 41, is pregnant with her second child with husband Brady Smith.
And Elizabeth Berkley (Jessie Spano), while the oldest of the bunch at 42, is nearly identical to her 1990s self.
Missing from the line-up was Dustin Diamond (Screech) and a Lark Voorhies (Lisa).
Dustin is accused of stabbing a man during a bar fight on Christmas, while Lark has withdrawn from the limelight as she is reportedly battling bipolar disorder.
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Sometime's its hard to come up with excellent essay content. You feel the points you're making have been over-explored and your argument is weak. It's a fact of uni life that sometimes you just don't know how to approach an assignment. And with the deadline ticking ever closer, how can your boost our essay grades?
There is a general rule of thumb at universities when it comes to word count: you can go 10% over, but no more. Any more and it will be reflected in your grades, so keep it concise.
Different universities deal with word count misconducts individually. Some will deduct a certain amount of marks, others will only mark up to the word count and anything following will be ignored. Keep this in mind.
Essay plans can be a lifesaver when you're unsure of your content. Even if your argument is lacking, a plan forces you to express it via a clear and solid structure.
How your case manifests and is argued in an essay is half the battle of good writing. Ensure you format it correctly. Have a case statement in your introduction, dissect it in the main body and tie the whole thing up with a solid conclusion. Make sure your conclusion has a definite position and avoid leaving it open-ended. It's there to show the marker your final stand on the question and texts.
Consistent referencing can increase your marks easily. Referencing should be easy. You just need to put the time in to make sure you've applied it correctly.
Most universities have their preferred citation style. Whether it's MHRA, MLA, APA or Harvard. Get to know yours!
There are many great online resources that will reorganise and correctly cite your work, so try them out.
Theory is vital in university essays. You must always include citations with a submission of writing, whatever the word count. But while having theory is one thing, engaging with it effectively quite another.
Don't be scared to argue against a theorist. Examiners want to hear your opinion! If you disagree with a statement, take a stand and explain your view in a clear and concise manner. Avoid using theory only to support your own points.
Remember: theory is not a word count booster, but a device to strengthen your argument. Always critically engage with any quotes you incorporate, and make it clear why you have included that reading in your piece.


I often tell friends and family I'm grateful that I'm not a policeman or an ambulance driver because no one dies when I make a mistake.
Nevertheless, we flatter ourselves that like those life-and-death service providers what we do is essential and believe that the newspaper must come out every day, no matter what.
Indeed, in the paper's 20-year history, we have never failed to publish a record we maintained during last week's snowstorm. The fact that our circulation department was unable to deliver the paper to every subscriber's doorstep for a couple of days is no reflection on their sometimes-heroic efforts.
I had been out of town for a couple of days and had missed all forecasts of the storm. The first I knew of it was when my phone rang at 9 a.m. Sunday morning as I was preparing breakfast.
The caller was reporter Tom Carter, who lives near the office and drives an SUV, offering to come in and work.
"Have you looked out the window?" he replied.
After tuning in the Weather Channel and thinking about it for a bit, I called back Mr. Carter and told him there was no need for him to come to work I normally work alone on Sundays but it would be useful if he could come to my house and drive me to the office.
Having been through a few big snowstorms before, I had a pretty good idea how things might unfold. I packed up a change of clothes and my wife prepared a package of foodstuffs dipping into the emergency-evacuation kit we had just prepared that probably would have kept me going for a week.
The newsroom was mostly empty when I arrived, even more so than is normal for a Sunday. The national desk was unstaffed until editor Ken Hanner made it in at about 2:30 p.m. The metro desk, which had to deal with covering the storm, had two editors and a reporter in place. The photo desk presumably had photographers out on the streets.
Geoff Etnyre, the only senior editor to work that day, announced that in order to give the circulation department a fighting chance we would have only one edition instead of the usual three and that the deadline for that edition would be 45 minutes earlier than usual.
For those of us not covering the storm, the idea was to get our stories written and edited as early as possible. That was easy enough for the foreign desk as I was able to fill the section with previously edited staff stories and wire-service copy that usually requires little work.
The heavy lifting was done by metro and photo desks, and their first-rate effort showed up in Monday's paper for those who were lucky enough to see it. The copy desk, which must read every story for spelling, grammar and style, also showed up in force and helped get everything done on time.
We closed the paper at 10 p.m., by which time the snow had accumulated to the point where there was little chance of anyone getting home. Staffers who lived in Maryland were in any case deterred by Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr.'s order banning nonessential vehicles from the state's roads until 4 p.m. Monday.
As it has done during other big storms, the paper made arrangements for us all to spend the night at a nearby hotel and a couple of SUV owners shuttled the lot of us over there. The greatest benefit of this arrangement was that we were all guaranteed of being back to the office on Monday.
There was no breakfast at the motel on Monday morning. The man who delivers their doughnuts had failed to arrive and the Dunkin' Donuts next door was no better off.
Mr. Hanner and I walked the half-mile through the snow back to the office, being the first to arrive apart from the security guard who let us into the building and a lone cafeteria worker who had already managed to produce a basket of steaming hot muffins.
Monday was largely a repeat of Sunday, with the handful of reporters and editors who made it to work putting out the paper with the same early deadlines.
A few got through in their cars and at least one reporter arrived in a taxi. Luckily for me, one of those who made it to work was deputy foreign editor Willis Witter, who took over the desk from me at midafternoon and stayed through until the 10 p.m. closing.
At that point, I hitched a ride from an SUV owner and headed home to dig out.
David W. Jones is the foreign editor of The Washington Times. His e-mail address is djones@washingtontimes.com.


Prior fracture since turning 50 years old.
Fracture risk assessment could be undertaken during annual health checks or flu clinics etc. You can identify patients aged 50 and over who have a history of fragility fracture and work with a local fracture liaison service (FLS), where available, and impact on a reduction in fracture rates through secondary prevention programmes.1 Flagging up patients with a history of fracture who have not had a DXA scan or who have not been prescribed bone protection to the GP is a vital part of the process.
A trial investigating the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of screening older women in primary care for the prevention of fractures has shown a reduction in hip fracture.³ The cost-effectiveness analyses for the study are ongoing but the results may guide future policy.
Vertebral fracture identification is the most challenging issue for clinicians, with less than one third of patients with vertebral fracture coming to clinical attention. Height loss and spinal deformity (kyphosis) is not unique to osteoporosis, with degenerative disease also causing the same presentation. It is not uncommon for patients to have experienced marked loss of height insidiously over time, many without an acute episode of pain. Radiological confirmation of fracture is necessary to determine diagnosis.
Which fracture risk assessment tool shall I use?
The most widely used tool is FRAX. FRAX estimates the patient's 10-year risk of major osteoporotic fracture (vertebral, hip, forearm and proximal humerus) and hip fracture probability. It can be used with or without a bone mineral density (BMD) measurement, making it ideal for a primary care setting.
FRAX is a free online calculator and can be opened during consultations to allow for patient participation in their fracture risk assessment. The assessment takes a few minutes to complete but is more accurate if actual rather than estimated height and weight are used. Patients have a tendency to overestimate their height especially if height loss has occurred gradually over time.
The National Osteoporosis Guideline Group6 recommends the use of FRAX as the first stage of a fracture risk assessment. Treatment is usually recommended without the need for a DXA scan in older ages.
The guidance is divided into three thresholds. The first is low risk (green) with patient reassurance and lifestyle advice. The second is intermediate risk (amber), which suggests BMD measurement. The third is high risk (red), with immediate treatment without the need for BMD assessment.


Most likely, many neighbors are anxious for the first day of spring! If you cannot wait to see beautiful foliage and colorful flowers, consider taking a trip to the Philadelphia Flower Show, Pennsylvania Convention Center, 12th and Arch streets, Philadelphia.
The show runs March 2-10.
If you would rather stay in the Lehigh Valley area but are still longing for spring, visit the Lehigh Valley Flower Show at Allentown Agri-Plex, 302 N. 17th St., Allentown, March 8-10.
St. Elizabeth of Hungary Roman Catholic Church, 618 Fullerton Ave., will hold the next Golden Agers meeting 12:30 p.m. March 1 in the parish hall.
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Preschool and toddler storytime registration is now open. Register on the website or at Whitehall Township Public Library.
The preschool storytime is for ages 37 months to 6 years old. This program is 10:30 a.m. Tuesdays and runs from March 5 to April 30. There will also be storytime 1 p.m. Wednesdays from March 6 to April 10.
The toddler storytime is for ages 12 to 36 months. This program is 10:30 a.m. Thursdays and runs from March 14 to April 25.
Coplay Public Library is running a 50/50 raffle during the month of February. Tickets are on sale at the library.
The drawing will be held noon March 1.
Coplay Borough is celebrating its 150th anniversary this year. We would like you to help us take part in the festivities!
If you have any photographs, mementos or keepsakes of Coplay, we would love to borrow them to display in the library. Anything you could tell us about the objects would also be a great help. We will display your name with the items.


My mother (age 59) who is a nurse herself has been told she needs an angioplasty. She is planning on putting it off for "another year or so". Are there any benefits to putting this off? Or just the obvious risks?


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Sol com algumas nuvens e chuva passageira durante o dia. À noite o tempo fica firme.
Pressione enter para começar a busca ou Esc para fechar a janela.


The orientation and symmetry of light spots and asterism in rose quartz spheres from Madagascar. Published in Journal of Gemmology, 2006.
Caesiumreiche Morganite aus Afghanistan und Madagaskar. Published in Zeitschrift der Deutschen Gemmologischen Gesellschaft, 2003.
Caesium-rich morganite from Afghanistan and Madagascar. Published in Journal of Gemmology, 2003.
Star garnets and star garnet cat's-eyes from Ambatondrazaka, Madagascar. Published in Journal of Gemmology, 2002.
Rosa bis rosa-orangefarbene Malaya-Granate aus Bekily, Madagaskar. Published in GZ, 2002.
Un gisement d'émeraudes à Madagascar. Published in Revue A.F.G., 1983.


I consider it nothing short of a TRAGEDY that I was born without a head full of natural curls. Come on, I'd even settle for waves! My mother and grandmother were blessed with major curls (not sure they saw it as a blessing though...) and I was always waiting for my hair to get curly. I thought if I waited long enough and maybe slept in sponge curlers often enough, then my hair would just magically become curly. I was kind of out of touch with reality for a long time. Still waiting to find some kind of magic amulet which turns me into a teen witch, Universe!
I know curly hair can be a lot of maintenance and, truth be told, I probably couldn't handle it. Everyone who wakes up early to blow dry, straighten or otherwise wrangle their hair has my respect. I know if I actually had hair that required any effort I would probably wear it up in a messy bun even more frequently than I normally do, assuming that was physically possible. I'll stick to envying you curly ladies from afar.
Since it's summer, I've been doing some research on beach hair sprays to get a little effortless texture. I've tried some store bought kinds in the past (all borrowed from friends so I'm not sure which ones) and it seems everyone on the internet agrees that it is ALL about Bumble & Bumble Surf Spray, which is cool and all, but I'm ALL about keeping my $25 so when I found this recipe, I decided to try my hand at some DIY Beach Wave Spray.
I made a small batch to test this out, so you can use my measurements or double/triple/whatever them to make more.
First, pour 1/4 cup of water into a mixing bowl. Add 1/4 tsp of sea salt to the water.
Next, add 1/2 TBS leave-in conditioner.
Then add 1/4 tsp coconut oil.
Add a small blob of pomade and mix all ingredients.
Add the mixture into your spray bottle via a funnel (or not if you're a risk taker...also know that I like your style). Shake the closed bottle to mix.
For reference, here is my super straight hair before I got going.
Disgusted at my lack of natural curls or waves. Simply ridiculous.
You want to apply this to damp hair. I sprayed mine with water, but if you're the type who regularly washes your hair, feel free to do this fresh from the shower, show-off.
When hair is damp, spray the Beach Wave Spray all over like a madwoman.
When your hair feels sufficiently covered, start scrunching it all over to encourage waves. This should feel very familiar if you attended middle/high school in the late 90s-early 2000s and favored the "wet look" created with crunchy gel. Don't worry, I won't tell anyone.
Here's where I got distracted by the fact that my lipstick perfectly matched the nozzle (what a great word) of my spray bottle. EVERYTHING HAPPENS FOR A REASON!
Here is my hair right after I scrunched my little heart out. It was halfway dry and had some texture and waves all over. Plus a bit o' frizz, but even that is vaguely exciting for a pin-straight-haired lady.
Instead of letting it roam free, I decided to go with the beachy, hippie-esque vibes by adding some braids and a daisy hair clip. This allows for the messiness to look intentional, which is essential to the beach wave look, and also a great way to be kinda lazy about it.
A closeup of the braids. Basically, I just made a tiny braid right above each ear, draped them over my forehead and bobby pinned them on the opposite side, under the rest of my hair. Kind of like mini milkmaid braids, which are THE BEST.
To save your precious fingers from scrolling back up, here's a very scientific before and after comparison.
BONUS! I slept with my hair in a big messy bun (because that is how I always sleep) and the next day I had some curls which had been held together by the Beach Wave Spray! This means two days of hair looks for one day of effort, which is always a win in my book. Unless, of course, you're one of those show-off daily hair washers I mentioned earlier, in which case you don't get this benefit. I think that's fair.
I constantly have a fake flower in my hair. SO WHAT?! You can see me make this one here.
SHORTCUT: Skip all of these steps and just go to the beach, dip your hair in the ocean and sit in the sun like a total champ. Best hair ever and zero dollars. This is my usual approach.
Do you use any beach wave sprays? Do you prefer texture or straight hair on yourself? Are you one of those awesome people who have a giant head of curls that are basically an extra accessory, like Felicity (or another more current example for the young folks)?
I love the tiny braids as a headband. I have never tried that. I am seriously going to tomorrow. Very nice!
Those tiny braids are too cute, and now I'm bemoaning my short hair a little bit. But I might try out a spray like this just to see what it does. For science!
Wavy/curly hair is the bane of my existence so I will no way in the future be trying this out but the braids are absolutely cute!! That, I will be doing today!!


An evolving research agenda at the Marcell Experimental Forest. Chapter 3.
Source: Canadian Journal of Forest Research. 39: 802-813.
Reliably estimating carbon storage and cycling in detrital biomass is an obstacle to carbon accounting. We examined carbon pools and fluxes in three small temperate forest landscapes to assess the magnitude of carbon stored in detrital biomass and determine whether detrital carbon storage is related to stand structural properties (leaf area, aboveground biomass, primary production) that can be estimated by remote sensing. We characterized these relationships with and without forest age as an additional predictive variable. Results depended on forest type. Carbon in dead woody debris was substantial at all sites, accounting for ~17% of aboveground carbon, whereas carbon in forest floor was substantial in the subalpine Rocky Mountains (36% of aboveground carbon) and less important in northern hardwoods of New England and mixed forests of the upper Midwest (~7%). Relationships to aboveground characteristics accounted for between 38% and 59% of the variability in carbon stored in forest floor and between 21% and 71% of the variability in carbon stored in dead woody material, indicating substantial differences among sites. Relating dead woody debris or forest floor carbon to other aboveground characteristics and (or) stand age may, in some forest types, provide a partial solution to the challenge of assessing fine-scale variability.
Bradford, John; Weishampel, Peter; Smith, Marie-Louise; Kolka, Randall; Birdsey, Richard A.; Ollinger, Scott V.; Ryan, Michael G. 2009. Detrital carbon pools in temperate forests: magnitude and potential for landscape-scale assessment. Canadian Journal of Forest Research. 39: 802-813.


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Google is coming with a new OS? – Is this related to Google's under development Fuchsia OS?
By Adersh Unnikrishnan
Google's Official Gif Logo
Let keep those tons of rumours aside about Google is developing a new OS named "Fuchsia OS". Seems like Google has been working even better when they report a new trademark for a new operating platform named "Pigweed".
The filed trademark for Pigweed OS
The name "Pigweed" first appeared on the USPTO's website (United States Patent and Trademark Office). This news was discovered by a Reedit user named "lgats".
In the description of the filed trademark says that "Pigweed" is going to be introduced for the use as a "computer operating software"
Google's New OS – Is Pigweed and Fuchsia OS the Same?
Pigweed (Non-official Logo)
Fuchsia-OS Official Logo
This name was also clean spotted in a Chromium code registry and then the proposed name got changed into Fuchsia OS code.
Fuchsia and Pigweed (The Evidence of Name Change Process)
The name change process that happened in the code doesn't make to become a piece of solid evidence for assuming that Pigweed is related to the Fuchsia OS.
This was spotted when Gary Miguel told the developer that "a reference to pigweed seems wrong here", to which he replied, "Done".
Hence, it shows that the developer is responsible for using the name Pigweed in the Fuchsia project and he made a mistake and then changed it back to Fuchsia again.
Now in case of the name being spotted in the Chromium code registry, we found that the name can be located in a code related to "Monorail", this is an issue tracker which is used by Chrome and some other Google-related projects.
After some time, it was revealed that the name doesn't have any sort of connection with the new Fuchsia OS, this statement depicts that Pigweed is a totally separate project which comes in the Monorail bug tracker and Gerrit code review.
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Monorail – Pigweed's Reference
Monorail – Pigweed Reference
As for now, we don't have many updates about it apart from the above true facts and the unusual process cum mistake name change of Pigweed.
After this, we do have a lot of questions which yet to answer and we can do only one thing which is "Wait" either for the official release of OS or maybe we may get some strong rumours or statements from google, Stay tuned for more updates.
What do you think? Is Fuchsia OS and Pigweed are the same? Also, what do you think, when these OS may release? Do give your opinions in the comment section below.


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UP Witnesses Joining Hand of SP and BSP to Counter Narendra Modi and BJP
News By/Courtesy: Nikhil Verma | 21 Apr 2019 14:45pm IST
Politics UP Witnesses Joining Hand of SP and BSP to Counter Narendra Modi and BJP
Bhartiya Janata Party took a dig at the alliance formed by the Samajwadi Party and Bahujan Samaj Party for the Lok Sabha elections of 2019 terming it as "storm" in favour of Narendra Modi
Mayawati at the joint rally with Mulayam Singh Yadav called the term of Narendra Modi as "Fake" and labelled Mulayam Singh Yadav as the "true leader" of the backward class.
The Deputy Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh Keshav Prasad Maurya stated that "Both Mayawati and Akhilesh Singh Yadav are petrified of the integration of the backward class
Bhartiya Janata Party took a dig at the alliance formed by the Samajwadi Party and Bahujan Samaj Party for the Lok Sabha elections of 2019 terming it as "storm" in favour of Narendra Modi which compelled the opposition parties to join altogether. The supreme head of both the parties came together on a stage after several years of grudge bearing discord. Mayawati at the joint rally with Mulayam Singh Yadav called the term of Narendra Modi as "Fake" and labelled Mulayam Singh Yadav as the "true leader" of the backward class.
The BJP spokesperson Shahnawaz Hussain said that "this is a strong proof of storm in favour of Modi. Both SP and BSP have become incapable by the public and come together for saving their existence.
The Deputy Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh Keshav Prasad Maurya stated that "Both Mayawati and Akhilesh Singh Yadav are petrified of the integration of the backward class to bring the National Democratic Alliance in the majority again. The backward Prime Minister established a world record of "Sabka Saath Sabka Vikas". The Union of bua-bhatija will break down. Holding responsible both the parties for aggravating the conditions of the Uttar Pradesh, he said that had the previous government done anything for elevating the Dalits and backwards, our state would have been on the top position. He further said that civilians of Uttar Pradesh do not possess trust in Biasness, Hooliganism and Deception.
Tags : #SP #BSP #Poll #Alliance #Against #Counter BJP


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Q: Kotlin/JS suspension function in an HTMLButtonElement EventListener I am writing a program targeting KotlinJS for the browser. I do not know much about Kotlinx's coroutines, but I need them to avoid freezing the thread for 20 minutes.
suspend fun getBigList(ids: bundleID) {
    val resp = GlobalScope.async{requestS("URLwithPARAMS${ids}")}
    val bigList = resp.await()?.let { it1 -> Json{ignoreUnknownKeys = true}.decodeFromString<LogList>(it1) }
    //do something with bigList, or return it and do something in the event listener, either way it will have to be a suspended function that makes HTTP requests based on the bigList
}
//requestS is a synchronous xmlHTTP request. wrapping synchronous with async instead of creating an async xmlHTTP request so that I can await on the response instead of using callbacks.

suspend fun main() {
    val button = document.getElementById("mybutton") as HTMLButtonElement
    val input = document.getElementById("myinput") as HTMLInputElement
    button.addEventListener("click", {
        val playerIDs = {/* data class instance derived from input.value */}
        getBigList(playerIDs)
    })
}

Calling getBigList in button.addEventListener causes an error, Suspension functions can be called only within coroutine body
I understand why it does this (addEventListener is not suspendable), but I don't know how to get around it (I can't just tag button.addEventListener as 'suspend')
The final flow needs to be: User clicks button -> Program sends http request to external site, which returns a large (1000-4000) list of lets say for simplicity, random numbers. -> Program then takes those returned numbers and sends 1 new http request for each number (I will have to figure out how to ratelimit it).
I only include this extra information so that you may have all the information you need to tell me what I need to do for the event listener, and if I'm even using the right async idioms.

A: Seems like you want the button to trigger some asynchronous activity. One way to do that would be:
    button.addEventListener("click", {
        GlobalScope.launch {
            // This is a suspend lambda.
            // i.e. you can call getBigList here
            // The execution will suspend when needed and run until completion
        }
    })

Here launch is a function from the kotlinx.coroutines library.
This is similar to invoking an async function in JS.


There is no doubt that 2014 was a fantastic year for planetary sciences – the high points were the successful landing of Philae on comet 67P, the discovery of methane by the Curiosity rover on Mars and a doubling in the number of known exoplanets.
As well as scientific advances, there were important technology developments – the arrival of the Mangalyaan spacecraft at Mars signalled that India had become a significant member of the space-faring club of nations. And China continued its inexorable progress in lunar exploration with the successful launch and return of a robotic mission to the moon.
Despite setbacks in human space exploration, most notably the explosion of Virgin Galactic's SpaceShip Two and the tragic death of its pilot, there were encouraging steps forward, including a successful test flight of NASA's Orion exploration vehicle.
How can 2015 follow these achievements?
Early in the new year, NASA's Dawn mission will approach the largest body in the asteroid belt, Ceres. This stony object is about 1,000 km across and is thought to be almost completely unchanged since its formation some 4.6 billion years ago.
The New Horizons mission will take increasingly detailed images of Pluto and its moons, leading up to closest approach in July. This mission was launched back in 2006 – when Pluto was still considered a planet. Now Pluto is classified as a Kuiper Belt object (KBO), demoted by the International Astronomical Union a few years ago. The Kuiper Belt, a swarm of many thousands of rocky and icy objects which orbit the sun beyond Neptune, is also presumed to be the location from which many short-period comets originate.
Comets, or at least one comet, 67P Churyumov-Gerasimenko, will continue to hog science headlines, as the Rosetta spacecraft accompanies the comet on its approach towards the sun. By late spring, it is hoped that the Philae lander will have warmed sufficiently for its solar-powered batteries to charge up, allowing the probe to continue its analysis of the cometary nucleus. Even if that does not happen, there will be spectacular images from Rosetta of changes to the comet's surface. Perihelion (closest approach to the sun) is in August, by which time the comet's tail should be well developed.
The Human Space Exploration programme will remain centred on the operation of the International Space Station – especially from March when the NASA astronaut Scott Kelly and the Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko are due to commence a one-year mission. They will be closely monitored for the effects of lengthy space habitation in preparation for future space travel to Mars. Scott Kelly's twin brother Mark, who is also an astronaut, will remain on Earth and will be monitored as a terrestrial "control" for the mission. There will be a roster of astronauts joining Kelly and Kornienko, including Tim Peake, the UK's first astronaut to visit the ISS. He will join the crew in November 2015.
Depending on when the launch takes place, Kelly and Kornienko might have a prime view of the total eclipse of the sun, which is due to take place on March 20. The eclipse track is across the northern hemisphere, but only crosses the land masses of Svalbard and the Faroe Isles.
A week before the eclipse, NASA plans to launch the Magnetosphere MultiScale (MMS) mission into Earth orbit. This is a flotilla of four probes which, broadly speaking, will measure interactions between the solar wind and the Earth's magnetic field. The observations will not only help us to understand (and possibly predict the effects of) space weather, but will also cast light on behaviour of turbulent plasmas in other environments, such as close to black holes.
So 2015 promises many exciting events – and these are only the ones which are planned. The excitement of planetary sciences is that we don't know what else might be in store. A new, bright comet might swim into view, an Earth-sized exoplanet with an oxygen-rich atmosphere might be discovered, or a meteorite might hit the Earth, bringing fresh information about our origins.
No-one knows what is in store – but I wish that whatever your field all your systems will be nominal.


MARRIED at First Sight fans were left in tears tonight as Jonathan and Steph tied the knot - despite the fact they don't think their union will last.
Series four of the Channel 4 show saw the first of two couples head down the aisle.
Jonathan, 39, is a property manager from Bristol and said he wanted to meet "someone active and outdoorsy, who is kind".
He married new wife Steph, 28, from Somerset, who said marrying a stranger could be "refreshing" as it's a clean slate.
Viewers were in tears during their wedding ceremony, which saw them meet for the first time at the altar.
The new couple managed to share a laugh as Steph said she had "clammy hands" while Jonathan said he was "shaking".
The couple then exchanged vows and rings before nervously sharing their first kiss in front of their friends and family.
Taking to Twitter, one viewer wrote: "Aww I'm smiling at the telly....even though it will never last. #MarriedAtFirstSight #mummysboy."
A second added: "Almost crying for the 3rd time in 45mins! #emosh #MarriedAtFirstSight".
A third tweeted: "#MarriedAtFirstSight is my favourite programme I swear. I'm crying."
However, others were unsure the union would last, with one writing: "Jesus, Steph is a steaming hot mug of trust issues.
"This won't end well. Mark my words #MarriedAtFirstSight".
Another wrote: "This won't end well. Steph wants to skip the building a relationship stage and head straight to marriage because she has trust issues.
"The once he's married me, he can never leave me school of thought."
But the newlyweds seemed happy with their new spouse, with Jonathan saying: "You walked in and you looked amazing!"
Steph told the camera: "I'm really happy, it couldn't go better I don't think."


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    /// The Google User
    /// </summary>
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    public class GoogleUser
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        /// <summary>
        /// Gets or sets the user ID.
        /// </summary>
        /// <value>
        /// The user ID.
        /// </value>
        [DataMember(Name = "id")]
        public string UserID { get; set; }

        /// <summary>
        /// Gets or sets the email.
        /// </summary>
        /// <value>
        /// The email.
        /// </value>
        [DataMember(Name = "email")]
        public string Email { get; set; }

        /// <summary>
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        /// <summary>
        /// Gets or sets the last name.
        /// </summary>
        /// <value>
        /// The last name.
        /// </value>
        [DataMember(Name = "family_name")]
        public string LastName { get; set; }

        /// <summary>
        /// Gets or sets the profile URL.
        /// </summary>
        /// <value>
        /// The profile URL.
        /// </value>
        [DataMember(Name = "link")]
        public string ProfileURL { get; set; }

        /// <summary>
        /// Gets or sets the profile image.
        /// </summary>
        /// <value>
        /// The profile image.
        /// </value>
        [DataMember(Name = "picture")]
        public string ProfileImage { get; set; }

        /// <summary>
        /// Gets or sets the gender.
        /// </summary>
        /// <value>
        /// The gender.
        /// </value>
        [DataMember(Name = "gender")]
        public string Gender { get; set; }

        /// <summary>
        /// Gets or sets the locale.
        /// </summary>
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        /// The locale.
        /// </value>
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        public string Locale { get; set; }
    }
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A pensioner who had been driving for just three months caused a fatal crash as he headed for a day out at the coast with his disabled wife, a court heard today (Tuesday).
David McWilliam only decided to take up driving after retiring from his job as a bookbinder because he wanted to go on trips with his wife Pat.
He passed his test and under the Mobility car scheme he acquired a Ford B-Max people carrier converted to take her wheelchair.
Lincoln Crown Court was told that McWilliam, despite his advanced years, was an inexperienced motorist and in December 2013 as he headed along the A52 to Skegness his driving became increasingly erratic.
Mark van der Zwart, prosecuting, said McWilliam alternately accelerated and then braked as he drove in a line of traffic and his car moved to and fro between the verge and the centre white line.
Then, shortly after overtaking a bus, McWilliam went onto the grass verge for a 50-yard stretch of road before swerving back onto the carriageway and into the opposite lane where he collided with an oncoming vehicle.
Jean Holland, 80, a front-seat passenger in the other car suffered fatal injuries. Her long-term partner Keith Finney, who was driving, received a number of injuries including a fractured sternum.
The couple were on their way to a celebration lunch to mark Mr Finney's 82nd birthday.
Mr Van der Zwart said the fatal collision was entirely due to McWilliam's driving although he initially tried to claim that it was caused by mud on the road.
He said: "Mr Finney was completely blameless in this incident. It is plain that after travelling along the grass verge the defendant sought to return the wheels onto the road. He did that but went into the opposite carriageway and then collided with the oncoming vehicle.
"There was an extensive examination of the scene and of both vehicles. It is plain that there was no other explanation or cause for this collision other than the driving of this defendant.
Jean Holland, a mum and grandmother of six, still worked part-time in a local charity shop in Skegness. The court was told her family were devastated by what happened.
Jean Holland's son Michael Holland said: "She was vibrant and full of energy. She was one of the kindest and most caring people you could ever wish to meet.
McWilliam, 68, of Braunstone, Leicester, admitted causing death by dangerous driving as a result of the incident at Wrangle, on December 4, 2013.
He was given a two year jail sentence suspended for two-years with 200 hours of unpaid work.
Recorder Nicholas Syfret QC banned him from driving for 10 years and ordered him to pass an extended retest before he can drive again.
Richard Dawson, defending, said McWilliam was an honest and decent man who had never been in trouble before.
"His lack of experience affected him on that day.
"This is a man who will never drive again.


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This article describes a tried and true approach to security improvement that can be effectively used during deployment and operations. It identifies prerequisites that must be in place to sustain a desired state of security. It provides a set of minimum requirements for security hygiene and several security implementation frameworks that can be used in concert with the other articles in this content area.
The Plan-Do-Check-Act approach described here can be used to deploy and operate the categories of practices described in the other articles in this content area.
These four questions can be directly mapped to W. Edwards Deming's Plan, Do, Check, Act (PDCA) approach. Effective methods for improvement and management of change typically use some variation of this approach.
Plan: Establish ISMS policy, objectives, processes and procedures relevant to managing risk and improving information security to deliver results in accordance with an organization's overall policies and objectives.
Do: Implement and operate the ISMS policy, controls, processes, and procedures.
Check: Assess and, where applicable, measure process performance against ISMS policy, objectives, and practical experience and report the results to management for review.
Act: Take corrective and preventive actions, based on the results of the internal ISMS audit and management review or other relevant information, to achieve continual improvement of the ISMS.
This approach can be used during deployment and operations to install a single security practice or control, a new secure software testing procedure, a new security technology, a patch or any other software change, or to securely configure a new server. The approach is general purpose and can be applied in a spiral, iterative fashion for successive levels of improvement and incrementally increasing scope.
Plan: How do I decide what to do and in what order?
W. Edwards Deming states "It is not enough to do your best; you must know what to do and then do your best." In large part, deployment and operations is about managing change, whether intentional or unintentional (including change caused by a security breach). To achieve effective and sustainable success and efficient use of resources, several prerequisites need to be in place before any changes are made to an operational system. This includes changes that could affect the software's or system's security posture or state.
Organizational leaders, including board directors, business executives, chief information officers, and managers of corporate audit, security, legal, line-of-business, privacy, and supply chain, all must play a role in making and reinforcing the business case for effective security. Trust, reputation, brand, stakeholder value, and customer retention are at stake if security management is performed poorly. Attentive organizations are much more competent in using security to mitigate risk if their leaders treat it as essential to the business and are aware and knowledgeable about security issues.
It is difficult, if not impossible, to sustain security improvement and move it into everyday organizational culture and practice without senior management commitment and ongoing reinforcement.
Clear, concise policies serve to enact the intent of the organization and help fulfill organizational objectives. A policy typically outlines specific requirements and rules that must be met, including appropriate behavior and consequences for unacceptable behavior.
You need to identify the organization's most critical assets and where those assets are most at risk in order to help select and prioritize security practices to implement during deployment and operations.
As with any project, a strategy and plan are necessary to successfully deploy and operate systems and software to meet security requirements and sustain a desired security posture. Security strategies and plans can be integrated into organizational strategic and operational plans (ideally) or they can be written as stand-alone documents.
A popular expression is "what gets measured, gets done." Some form of security measures is necessary to determine if deployed security practices are meeting security requirements and how well they are doing so. Metrics, in part, serve to enact policies, plans, and strategies and to indicate progress (or not) toward mitigating security risks.
The extent to which each of the prerequisites described above is in place depends on the organization's view of security's role in meeting business objectives, including the need to mitigate security risks to critical business assets (information, processes, services, applications, and infrastructure).
Table 1 (included at the end of this article) provides indicators for each prerequisite to help determine its presence (or absence). Suggested sources for detailed practices are also listed. These describe, at varying levels, how to implement each prerequisite.
Do: How do I do it?
If the prerequisites in Table 1 are absent or are not sufficient to determine which practices to deploy and in what order, then the best choice is to start tackling them in order, recognizing that addressing all of them to the degree required will take time. Many of the sources listed in Table 1 provide additional guidance on how to do this.
Unless security is a critical requirement for deploying and operating a system, most organizations first encounter the need for greater security when they experience common types of infections such as viruses, worms, and spyware, many of which result from opening email attachments or visiting infected web sites. There is ample, current state-of-practice guidance describing how to mitigate against events of this type, including the useUse includes defining and deploying procedures to ensure that antivirus software is regularly updated with signatures for newly detected events and that virus scans are conducted on a frequent basis across all system components, both physically resident and remotely connected (laptops and mobile devices, workstations, servers, routers, etc.). of antivirus and antispyware software. Most organizations find that deploying such software is necessary but not sufficient to protect against the increasing proliferation and evolution of malicious software-based attacks and the exploitation of software vulnerabilities.
Other technology practices, such as deploying firewalls and intrusion detection systems at the perimeter of the network and protecting critical subnetworks and servers, are implemented to better secure the operational environment. Testing and installing vendor patches as they are released is essential. Vulnerability scanning and assessment is often used to detect and patch existing vulnerabilities before they can be exploited by new attack scripts.
These commonly deployed security practices, along with several others, are sometimes referred to as the minimum required for basic security hygiene. While tackling the prerequisites noted above, a useful parallel action is ensuring the presence of the minimum essential security practices listed below and then deploying those that are missing or insufficient. This list of practices derives in large part from the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard [PCI 08]. Table 2 (included at the end of this article) provides additional details and sources that expand these practices.
Maintain an inventory of all devices, software, and services on the network.
Encrypt transmission of sensitive data across open, public networks.
Use and regularly update antivirus software or programs. Guard against all forms of malicious code.
Restrict physical access to sensitive data.
Track and monitor all access to network resources and sensitive data.
Develop, deploy, and periodically refresh some level of security awareness and training.
Determine and implement a means for measuring practice effectiveness.
Ensure that third-party providers deploy adequate security practices (at least this minimum essential set).
Check: How do I know if what I did worked?
This question is answered by monitoring, measuring, reviewing, assessing, and evaluating system and software security performance against some pre-established list or standard such as those suggested in the tables at the end of this article. Doing this on a regular and periodic basis and as part of normal day-to-day operations is vital.
The most critical aspect of the Check phase is to define in advance what constitutes success and acceptable performance and then ensure that practices are in place to collect and report against these criteria to those in a position to act on the results.
Act: How do I decide what to do next?
The Act phase involves determining how best to sustain the current security state of systems and software while also accommodating changes and improvements. Actions should be informed by security policy, objectives, strategies, plans, assessment results from the Check phase, and analysis of security events.
Acting often starts as a reactive task, identifying critical, near-term corrective actions that need to be taken immediately. As the system and software security state becomes more stable, staff can concentrate on more proactive and preventive measures as the next order of business. Risk-centered practices that produce reliable risk assessment results are one of the most effective methods for determining what to do next.
This section introduces several implementation frameworks that can be used to deploy and operate systems and software in a secure manner, building on the practices described above.
Each element and step in Figure 1 is described below.
It is important to assign accountability for configuring the hundreds of security parameters in the average operating system product, especially taking into account the various and widely used combinations of operating systems, middleware, and applications software. It is up to purchasers of software applications to insist on the demonstration of full functionality of the application on hardened operating-system and middleware platforms. The need to "soften" the software status of the platform (with respect to security) to achieve application functionality is all too common. Community work in developing, implementing, and enforcing the use of effective consensus benchmarksSuch work is being done by the Center for Internet Security [CIS 08]. for securely configuring broadly used software products is providing demonstrable results.
The Harden/Secure step strengthens a system against known attacks by eliminating vulnerabilities and other weaknesses commonly used by intruders. Practices include retaining only those services and features necessary to meet system requirements, removing or disabling those that are not necessary, and replacing those that are known to be insecure. Patch selection, installation, and prerelease testing occur here. Object access controls (such as default passwords) are eliminated, updated, and restricted based on role and need to know. Tools necessary for secure administration (such as antivirus, antispyware, vulnerability assessment, and software/system/network monitoring) are installed and tested. The practices performed during this step may change over time to address new attacks and vulnerabilities.
An essential concept underlying the Prepare step is that undiscovered vulnerabilities exist. This requires an administrator to be able to recognize when previously unknown vulnerabilities start to be exploited. Practices to characterize normal system behavior are included here, such as capturing a trusted baseline state for all files and directories and periodically comparing the current state with the securely stored, trusted state to detect suspicious or unexpected behavior. Prepare also includes the configuration and installation of intrusion detection technology and other data collection mechanisms, such as firewall and log analysis tools, that are responsible for reporting suspicious or out-of-tolerance behavior.
regular penetration testing. For further details, refer to the Penetration Testing content area on the BSI site.
The Software Engineering Institute's IDEAL model for software process improvement can be easily adapted for security practice deployment and has been tailored for information security governance [CGTF 04].
Work performed in collaboration with the IT Process Institute and the Institute of Internal Auditors has provided access to a community of practitioners who operate large, complex, highly secure, highly available operational systems. Practitioners responsible for deploying and operating such systems accomplish this, in part, by embedding well-defined security controls into mature IT operational processes such as change management (which includes patch management), configuration management, and release management.
The Visible Ops [ITPI 04] and Visible Ops Security [ITPI 08] methods describe this concept in detail, identifying the steps necessary to get an IT infrastructure that is out of control under control. This method takes into account technical, management, performance, monitoring, and audit practices for both operations and security. Visible Ops and Visible Ops Security are described in more detail in Integrating Security and IT and Prioritizing IT Controls for Effective, Measurable Security.
The American Chemistry Council's Chemical Information Technology Council (ChemITC)TM Chemical Sector Cyber Security Program describes a comprehensive Plan-Do-Check-Act cyber security management system that addresses securing manufacturing and control systems, IT, and the value chain for chemical-sector organizations. It includes "a collection of self-assessment questions and examples of how chemical companies are implementing cyber security practices" [CSCSP 06].
This article described a general approach to ensuring adequate security during deployment and operations of software-intensive systems. It recommended using a Plan-Do-Check-Act improvement cycle supported by essential prerequisites and practices necessary for security hygiene and provided several example implementation frameworks. The tables below provide a range of sources providing further guidance on how to go about this.
Table 1 provides indicators for each prerequisite to help determine its presence (or absence). Suggested sources for detailed practices are also listed. These describe, at varying levels, how to implement each prerequisite. The sources include other Build Security In content areas. Each source is fully cited on its first occurrence and summarized thereafter.
This table includes sources that identify the designated practices as necessary for security hygiene. Several provide implementation guidance. Each source is fully cited on its first occurrence and abbreviated thereafter.
FIPS 200 Minimum Security Requirements for Federal Information and Information Systems SC [NIST 06]FIPS 200 uses the following two-letter designators for security-related practice areas. These are used in this table to provide more direct traceability: AC (access control), AT (awareness and training), AU (audit and accountability), CA (certification, accreditation, and security assessments), CM (configuration management), CP (contingency planning), IA (identification and authentication), IR (incident response), MA (maintenance), MP (media protection), PE (physical and environmental protection), PL (planning), PS (personnel security), RA (risk assessment), SA (system and services acquisition), SC (system and communication protection), and SI (system and information integrity).
Develop and maintain secure systems and applications. This includes secure configuration management, change management, and patch management.The next set of lower level practices in [PCI 08] includes 6.3.1 Test all security patches and configuration changes before deployment; 6.3.2 Separate development/test and production environments; 6.3.3 Ensure separation of duties between development/test personnel and production personnel; 6.3.4 Do not use production data for testing or development; 6.3.5 Remove test data and accounts before production systems become active; 6.3.6 Remove custom application accounts, user IDs, and passwords before applications become active; 6.3.7 Review custom code prior to release to production to identify vulnerabilities. Web applications are subject to additional controls (6.6).
Restrict access to data by business need to know.
Detect, respond to, and track security events and incidents.
For employees and contractors. Policy includes topics such as acceptable use, roles/responsibilities, employee screening, incident response, access control, data backup and recovery, third party access, sanctions for non-compliance; include policy statements that require minimum essential practices included in this table.
Ensure that third party providers deploy adequate security practices (at least this minimum essential set).


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A look at the designer-curated presentation from Design Week.
With Next Level a group of likeminded designers grabbed themselves a space in NoHo and took design week into their own hands. The result is more than a collection of furniture on display; the show exudes joie de vie and the sort of whimsy that one only finds in art. A lot of old Ravelin favorites are included, including Fort Standard. We had the chance to speak with one of the designers, Jamie Israelow, about how the project came to be.
Is there a philosophy that undergirds the co-curation approach?
The co-curation is something that comes from a naturally occurring camaraderie and community in the New York design world. Since we all share resources and spaces and work alongside one another frequently, there is a lot of natural synergy with all of our work. When we sought out work from designers and artists participating in Next Level we asked them only to send us images of work that really is elevated to the "next level." As in, not just what you normally do or might show elsewhere. It has to be their best, that they are most proud of, work that indicates the designer really pushed him/herself to the edge of what they're capable of. Thinking here specifically of Patrick Weder's cast concrete pieces. He is working with materials that people are used to seeing, but not at all in the way he is using them. His technique is definitely "next level." Kin and Company's work also comes to mind immediately in epitomizing this concept. In talking with co-founder Joe Vidich of Kin and Company, I learned that he and Kira were not afraid to try sparkles in their one of their finishes, knowing it could look amazing or it could be cheesy. Of course it ended up amazing.
Why do you think it's important to blur the line between art and design?
The blurring of the line between art and design is a common thread throughout most of our work. We'd all be really bored if we were only designing objects. Having an artistic element to what we do means making the world a more interesting place to inhabit. We value blurring this line because a lot of us have artistic backgrounds and so art has always been a part of our practice while design has brought our work into the functional realm. Asher studied sculpture before getting a degree in architecture. Furniture is the clear connection between those two realms, and every object he makes is informed as much by form and idea as it is by function. Shanan (of Eskayel) has a background in painting and translates that aesthetic into rugs and objects that make a space more enjoyable to live in. Jamie (of Hart textiles) has a previous career in photography and uses her understanding of light, space and composition to inform her use of materials and forms and how they interact with space. Tamika (of Here Projects) has a thriving art practice, turning anything she touches into art, but she also has the drive and vision to connect design and art to the world around her. Patrick has a background in sculpture that has led to curiosity and experimentation with materials and forms.
How did the designers who started "Next Level" know each other previous to the project?
All of the pieces achieve a sort of precision mixed with the whimsical which creates a nice juxtaposition between function and luxury object.
How did you settle on the "Next Level" venue?
The venue was a serendipitous opportunity that actually spawned the whole idea of Next Level. Though we had been talking about the idea of doing our own pop-up galleries during design week for years, we hadn't actually pursued it until this year. So when we got the space and then were motivated to do something that would justify its incredible size and location.
Is there a common aesthetic that you think the designers involved share?
There is a common thread of reverence for materials and craftsmanship that runs throughout all the work. All of the pieces achieve a sort of precision mixed with the whimsical which creates a nice juxtaposition between function and luxury object.