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"""
    webapp2_extras.xsrf
    ===================

    Helpers for defending against cross-site request forgery attacks.

    :copyright: 2012 by tipfy.org.
    :license: Apache Sotware License, see LICENSE for details.
"""

__author__ = 'John Lockwood'

import base64
import hmac
import hashlib
import time

class XSRFException(Exception):
    pass

class XSRFTokenMalformed(XSRFException):
    pass

class XSRFTokenExpiredException(XSRFException):
    pass

class XSRFTokenInvalid(XSRFException):
    pass

class XSRFToken(object):
    _DELIMITER = '|'

    def __init__(self, user_id, secret, current_time=None):
        """Initializes the XSRFToken object.

        :param user_id:
            A string representing the user that the token will be valid for.
        :param secret:
            A string containing a secret key that will be used to seed the
            hash used by the :class:`XSRFToken`.
        :param current_time:
            An int representing the number of seconds since the epoch. Will be
            used by `verify_token_string` to check for token expiry. If `None`
            then the current time will be used.
        """
        self.user_id = user_id
        self.secret = secret
        if current_time is None:
            self.current_time = int(time.time())
        else:
            self.current_time = int(current_time)

    def _digest_maker(self):
        return hmac.new(self.secret, digestmod=hashlib.sha1)

    def generate_token_string(self, action=None):
        """Generate a hash of the given token contents that can be verified.

        :param action:
            A string representing the action that the generated hash is valid
            for. This string is usually a URL.
        :returns:
            A string containing the hash contents of the given `action` and the
            contents of the `XSRFToken`. Can be verified with
            `verify_token_string`. The string is base64 encoded so it is safe
            to use in HTML forms without escaping.
        """
        digest_maker = self._digest_maker()
        digest_maker.update(self.user_id)
        digest_maker.update(self._DELIMITER)
        if action:
            digest_maker.update(action)
            digest_maker.update(self._DELIMITER)

        digest_maker.update(str(self.current_time))
        return base64.urlsafe_b64encode(
            self._DELIMITER.join([digest_maker.hexdigest(),
                                  str(self.current_time)]))

    def verify_token_string(self,
                            token_string,
                            action=None,
                            timeout=None,
                            current_time=None):
        """Generate a hash of the given token contents that can be verified.

        :param token_string:
            A string containing the hashed token (generated by
            `generate_token_string`).
        :param action:
            A string containing the action that is being verified.
        :param timeout:
            An int or float representing the number of seconds that the token
            is valid for. If None then tokens are valid forever.
        :current_time:
            An int representing the number of seconds since the epoch. Will be
            used by to check for token expiry if `timeout` is set. If `None`
            then the current time will be used.
        :raises:
            XSRFTokenMalformed if the given token_string cannot be parsed.
            XSRFTokenExpiredException if the given token string is expired.
            XSRFTokenInvalid if the given token string does not match the
            contents of the `XSRFToken`.
        """
        try:
            decoded_token_string = base64.urlsafe_b64decode(token_string)
        except TypeError:
            raise XSRFTokenMalformed()

        split_token = decoded_token_string.split(self._DELIMITER)
        if len(split_token) != 2:
            raise XSRFTokenMalformed()

        try:
            token_time = int(split_token[1])
        except ValueError:
            raise XSRFTokenMalformed()

        if timeout is not None:
            if current_time is None:
                current_time = time.time()
                # If an attacker modifies the plain text time then it will not match
            # the hashed time so this check is sufficient.
            if (token_time + timeout) < current_time:
                raise XSRFTokenExpiredException()

        expected_token = XSRFToken(self.user_id, self.secret, token_time)
        expected_token_string = expected_token.generate_token_string(action)

        if len(expected_token_string) != len(token_string):
            raise XSRFTokenInvalid()

        # Compare the two strings in constant time to prevent timing attacks.
        different = 0
        for a, b in zip(token_string, expected_token_string):
            different |= ord(a) ^ ord(b)
        if different:
            raise XSRFTokenInvalid()


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Not all of these superstars will get a chance at Diamond League glory again in '20. (JIRO MOCHIZUKI/IMAGE OF SPORT)
IN EARLY NOVEMBER Seb Coe's long-promised major retooling of the Diamond League was unveiled, creating a storm of controversy as 4 disciplines have been cut from the core of the program so that a DL meet can be shoehorned into a 90-minute broadcast window. This isn't the first time that the DL program has been cut back, but previous tightenings weren't as severe as this new protocol.
In the first 7 editions of the DL (2010–16), each of 16 events was contested 6 times (for each sex) in the pre-Final meets before all were staged in the finales in Zürich and Brussels. For the '17 season there were only 8 such disciplines: 100, 200, 400, 800, 1500/Mile, 110H, HJ & PV. It was down to 4 appearances for the other 8 events: steeple, 3000/5000, 400H, LJ, TJ, SP, DT, JT. For '18 & '19, the 400H was moved back to the list of events contested in 6 non-final meets.
But now the 200, steeplechase, triple jump and discus no longer enjoy DL status. The decision to cut them, says Monaco, was justified by post-meet surveys as well as online sampling. None of the four will be staged in the DL Final (which will be a single-meet event in '20, with an extended 150-minute TV window), although all will still be present in a diminished capacity—5 meets for each sex for the two running events, 1 meet for each sex in the TJ and DT—in the 14 non-final meets. These cuts follow the earlier decision to remove the option of running a 5000 as a distance event, instead mandating that they all be 3000s.
Explains Coe, "Our objective is to create a faster-paced, more exciting global league that will be the showcase for our sport. A league that broadcasters want to show and fans want to watch. However, we understand the disappointment of those athletes in the disciplines not part of the 2020 Diamond League season."
"Disappointment" puts it mildly. The Diamond League announcement ignited significant opposition, most notably by triple jumper Christian Taylor's formation of The Athletics Association.
Taylor Not The Only One Distressed
A group called Global Throwing brought together some of the world's top discus practitioners. In a 4-page letter, they noted that their past suggestions for streamlining the throws at meets had apparently not been considered.
"This is a sport of both Track and Field, as well as road and country," the letter reads. "Yet where are our representatives at the decision-making table as it seems that these discussions are going on behind closed doors, impacting on the lives of thousands of athletes around the world, but also their coaches, families and the tremendous volunteer base that our sport relies upon."
Jeff Porter, chair of USATF's Athletes Advisory Committee, expressed bewilderment in a letter to WA, saying, "United States athletes have grown exhausted of accepting the unfavorable decisions made by the IAAF, which are typically made with minimal input from the athletes. It is our hope that you would immediately reverse these actions to remove the events from the Diamond League schedule, and bring athlete representatives to the table to correct this major misstep."
The European Athletics Athletes Committee sent a critical letter with unanimous support of its members which said, in part, "Our sport is in need of modernization to ensure we remain commercially viable and popular, but we do not believe cutting these disciplines is the answer."
The Twitter Crew Chimes In
Steepler Emma Coburn—"I'm disappointed. Cutting events isn't the solution for exciting TV. Don't blame athletes/events @iaaforg. We compete and put on a show. Racing is exciting & compelling. It's on you to translate that. I guess our efforts & contributions racing & promoting the DL mean nothing."
Sprinter Noah Lyles—"Wow no 200m."
British distance runner Eilish McColgan—"So the 5000m isn't a core event in the Diamond League OR the Continental Tour either!? Or am I missing something here? What's the point in having it at the major championships? Gives athletes almost zero opportunities to run qualifying times or earn a living…"
Hall of Famer Carl Lewis—"The real issue is that the owner and marketing agent for the Diamond League has failed in their responsibilities. This is not an issue of time management."
TJ World Record holder Jonathan Edwards—"There are so many things wrong with World Athletics decision re Diamond League events but what Usain Bolt showed athletics is that it's not about events but personalities and to exclude and alienate one of the sport's true stars [Christian Taylor] is beyond comprehension."
A teammate of Ethiopian distance runner Selemon Barega posted a video of the 5000 specialist preparing for the next edition of the DL by practicing his shot putting.
There Will Be Other Options
WA hasn't left the orphan events completely out in the cold, however, as a new "Continental Tour" has been formed (see sidebar for details).
A New Series: The Continental Tour
As the second phase of revamping the international calendar World Athletics has announced the new Continental Tour, which is slated to grow to some 100 competitions, managed by Area associations. The meets will be divided into gold, silver and bronze levels, determined by the quality of the competition and the amount of prize money made available. For '20, the gold level—whose roster of meets very much resembles the old IAAF World Challenge series—will be funded by WA "to increase the number of high quality competitive opportunities available to showcase our sport's best athletes."
The 10 gold level meets in the first year will offer a total of $2 million in prize money, with a minimum of $20K for "core" events ($6K for the winner) and $10K for "discretionary" events ($3K for the winner) at each stop on the tour. Diamond League winners, by way of comparison, receive $10,000 per meet. The core events for '20 will be those 4 expelled from the DL (200, steeple, TJ, DT) plus the hammer, which previously had its own challenge. Yearly CT winners in the 5 core events will also earn Wild Card entries to the '21 Worlds.
The current 9-meet CT schedule (with the tenth meet to be announced later): May 10—Tokyo, Japan; May 13—Nanjing, China; May 22—Ostrava, Czech Republic; June 01—Hengelo, Netherlands; June 09—Turku, Finland; June 13—Kingston, Jamaica; July 07—Székesfehérvár, Hungary; September 06—Silesia (Chorzów?), Poland; September 15—Zagreb, Croatia
Jon Ridgeon, CEO of World Athletics, published a letter officially responding to Global Throwing's concerns, noting that the decisions on event cuts will be reviewed at the end of '20 and that some events may return in '21.
Otherwise, Ridgeon gave every indication that the DL restructuring is for the long term: "Whilst change will always be challenging, the market has already responded positively, with a new title sponsor in Wanda Sports Group being recently secured. This new partnership represents the single biggest sponsorship deal that the sport of athletics has ever attracted and was only possible because of the message of evolution we sent to the market through our proposed changes."
The 2020 DL Schedule
April 17—Doha, Qatar
May 10—TBD, in China
May 16—Shanghai, China
May 24—Stockholm, Sweden
May 31—Rabat, Morocco
June 07—Eugene, Oregon
June 11—Oslo, Norway
June 13—Paris, France
July 04—London, England
July 10—Fontvieille, Monaco
August 16—Gateshead, England
20 August, Lausanne, Switzerland
September 04—Brussels, Belgium
September 11—Zürich, Switzerland
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Could Pokemon Go cheaters threaten your cybersecurity? – Archer Security Group
by Editor | Aug 1, 2016 | Blog
By: Kerry Tomlinson
Some say the rise in "location-spoofing" could lead to more GPS attacks on cell towers, drones and more.
It's not enough to play the game. Some fans of Pokemon Go are cheating their way to success.
Though some players report trying ceiling fans, record players or drones to simulate walking, the most popular cheat talked about online appears to be location-spoofing—fooling the app into thinking you're in a busy city with many Golbats and Pinsirs ready to catch, when you're actually on your couch at home.
"I've moved all over the globe to most popular cities and honestly NYC is F'in STACKED with everything… no need to move elsewhere because there ARE rare pokemon in NYC," says one location faker. "Just stay in NYC guys… seriously… central park is a gold mine."
Other players may cry fair or foul, but there is a much bigger concern emerging among some in the technology security world—will this wave of geo-cheating breed a new group of GPS spoofers ready to try out their skills on criminal ventures or crucial infrastructure?
"The longer term consequences for the rest of us could be much more serious," said Dana Goward, president of the Resilient Navigation and Timing Foundation in Washington, D.C. in a post. "Location deception is a huge and growing cyber problem (no one knows exactly how big since deceivers work hard to remain undetected). This will make it worse."
Why cheat?
In Pokemon Go, the more you move, the more opportunities you get to catch the pocket monsters. Some players say they want to try location-faking because they are disabled
Others say there are fewer Pokemon in rural areas, so they "teleport" to bigger cities to chase them down.
"…Some of us live in the middle of nowhere, while people in their flats in NYC can just watch Netflix and farm poke balls," writes one geo-bluffer. "I know this because Pokemon Go now thinks I live in one of those flats."
And some cite "desperation" as the reason for their cheating.
"Dude, I havent found a single pokestop or gym, I drove 400 km a few days ago, there wasnt a single one," said a player online. "Now im running out of pokeballs, and I'm not looking to pay because im mainly broke as hell. Call it sad or pathetic or whatever, but in reality its only desperation that drives people to do this."
But the basic message relayed online—to the disgust of more virtuous players— is, "I will do whatever I can to catch more monsters, even if it breaks the rules." The cheaters say that Pokemon Go bans players who spoof their GPS, but call them "soft bans" that usually only last a few hours.
"The whole concept of this game is to get people walk around and catch Pokemon. Someone sitting at home and playing all day traveling the world and claiming gyms gives that person a huge advantage and cheating, regardless of whether or not you can physically play," wrote one player in response.
A step further?
If you're willing to use location-spoofing to cheat at Pokemon Go, would you do the same at work, or worse, to the machines that move your world?
"There will be some number of people that will eventually use that capability for their own purposes, most of which are nefarious," Goward told Archer News.
Drug traffickers have been spoofing government drones at the U.S.'s southern border, reported Defense One. Game location-spoofers turned curious criminals might try something similar, said Goward.
"Since a private citizen now can, for $300, build and operate their own GPS spoofing device, I think they could do so and start diverting drones of all kinds. Recreational drones, ones that start delivering Amazon packages," he said. "Any number of drone vehicles or aircraft and diverting them for their own purposes."
"You could do a number of things to damage automated systems that rely on GPS," he added.
Spoofing at work
Taxi drivers in Australia were caught spoofing their locations so they didn't have to wait in line for the next fare at the airport and could instead roam around picking up passengers, he said. That would be unfair for the cab drivers who did wait their turn as required. Some Uber drivers did the same at the San Francisco airport, reported KPIX.


In the early 20th century, the British gentry bought up villa after villa in Florence, ushering in a renaissance of their own. One of the most famous houses of the period is soon to be open to the public.
The Anglo-Florentines, like the great white hunters and the burra sahibs and the tea planters of Ceylon, have vanished into the mists that swallowed Britain's imperial civilization. The English and American grandees—and the not-so-very-grand—began swarming into Florence early in the 19th century and remained through World War II, after which most of them abruptly decamped. And so much of what we know of the Anglo-Florentines, and of their villas in the hills above Florence, comes from Edith Wharton or from Henry James, who in Italian Hours wrote an elegy to their charmed existence: "What a tranquil, contented life it seemed, with romantic beauty as a part of its daily texture!"
Though this life can no longer be witnessed, it can be vicariously experienced. This summer, La Pietra, one of the greatest of Florence's Renaissance villas, will open to the public for the first time. In 1994, New York University inherited La Pietra from Sir Harold Acton, the last remnant of pre-war Anglo-Florentine culture. The university, which uses the villa for conferences among heads of state and Supreme Court justices as well as for undergraduate education, has spent upward of $15 million restoring the buildings and their gardens to a Jamesian splendor. La Pietra has been made a richly embroidered stage set, designed to evoke that old life, majestic and self-enclosed.
La Pietra—"the stone"—is situated one mile from the Porta San Gallo, an entry to the Old City of Florence. You drive there along the Via Bolognese, twisting past modern apartment blocks, until you come to a gate, which swings open—and there you are, at the upper end of a long lane of cypresses facing a great ocher palazzo, with olive groves spreading out on both sides over an expanse of 57 acres. There's something almost comically wonderful about the effect: here, the city, with its winding avenue; there, on the other side of a wall, the country, fertile and gray-green.
Sir Harold Acton was, among his various vocations, a historian of the Italian Renaissance. Memoirs of an Aesthete, the first volume of his autobiography, includes an extensive account of La Pietra's origins. The land, in the hills of Montughi, was purchased in 1460 by the Sassetti, an ancient family of Florence whose head, Francesco di Sassetti, had made a fortune as Lorenzo de' Medici's banker in France. The square mansion, with friezes carved into its gray stucco, was built on the highest hill, looking back over Florence and the Duomo. If the grounds were covered then, as they are now, with umbrella pines and those peculiarly Tuscan evergreens whose branches curl upward into a mushroom cap, La Pietra must have looked like a landscape by Botticelli, Sassetti's near contemporary.
In 1564, La Pietra was sold to another great Florentine family, the Capponi. Sir Harold writes (some modern scholars disagree) that Cardinal Luigi Capponi, a powerful figure in the middle decades of the 17th century, oversaw the expansion and modernization of the estate. The Capponi remain one of the loftiest clans in the Florentine pecking order. Neri di Capponi, a 76-year-old magistrate and canon lawyer, told me that his family had been serving in the Signoria—the ancient municipal government of Florence—since a generation or so before Dante. I mentioned that I had just visited his former family home. He turned to me with an amused look and said, "You know, we are a very large family. We have so many homes. Which one were you in?"
By the middle of the 19th century, impoverished Florentine nobles were renting and selling their country seats to the English and the Americans for risible prices. In Italian Hours, James observed that "an expanse of thirty windows" could be had for $500 a year. The English mania for Tuscany was in full spate. In 1907, Sir Harold's parents, Arthur and Hortense Acton, bought La Pietra from a branch of the Capponi family. Arthur Acton was an art dealer who had made one of those fortunate turn-of-the-century Anglo-American marriages: Hor-tense's father was the founder of the Illinois Trust & Savings Bank. Very little is known of either of them, beyond Sir Harold's quick sketches of them in his memoirs, but it is plain that Arthur was the relentless socializer in the family; Hortense was quieter, more bookish. And it was Hortense, rather than Arthur, who made many of the couple's art purchases.
The Actons were wealthy, refined magpies, and they went on a 35-year buying spree. They bought important early Renaissance paintings and unimportant "scuola di" Renaissance paintings; they bought wooden peasant figurines; fake chinoiserie; Javanese puppets; tiny devotional paintings by local nuns; baroque Roman mirrors and Baroque beds that look as if Bernini had designed them; Neapolitan crèche dolls; magnificent Flemish and Italian tapestries; Persian carpets; plateware and silver. And they did not so much exhibit this wild array of objects as live with them, moving them around constantly to make an arresting or even amusing ensemble. They posed a pair of beautiful early-13th-century polychrome wood statues, of the Virgin Mary and Saint John the Evangelist, so that the Virgin gestures with her left hand and Saint John with his right toward a grandiose fireplace in the main dining room. Ta-da!
The word villa designates not so much a building as a building set in a garden and a wider landscape—an idea that dates from Augustan Rome. The ever-adaptable Florentines, as well as the English themselves, had surrendered to the fad for "English" gardens, with lawns and flowers and plantations of exotic trees. In Italian Gardens and Villas, published in 1904, Edith Wharton lamented that "there is perhaps no region in Italy so rich in villas and so lacking in old gardens as the neighborhood of Florence." In fact, the Neoclassical garden, which had been considered indispensable through the 18th century, was quite "independent of floriculture," as Wharton writes, its three constituent elements being "marble, water, and perennial verdure." The garden was meant to harmonize both with the fully man-made world of the house behind it and with the natural world of the podere, or farm, beyond.
Wharton does not even mention La Pietra, which furnished yet another sad example of an English garden supplanting a Neoclassical original. But Arthur Acton, who had studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, understood very well the subtle harmonies of Italian landscape architecture, and spent years shaping a very personal version of the Renaissance garden. In turn, New York University has poured a small fortune into restoring Arthur's masterpiece. The garden, which stretches behind and to either side of the house and looks, on one side, over the hills of Vallombrosa beyond Florence, consists of terraces or lawns divided by hedges and topiary and pergolas and low walls and classical statuary. Each space is like a separate room, with its own views and its own furnishings of marble and greenery (and occasionally water), even its own smell. Perhaps the loveliest part of the garden is the high-walled limonaia, with its row of lemon trees running up the center and, at the back, its decorated 17th-century shed, where the trees are stored in winter. The garden is as artfully designed as the house itself.
In the late teens and twenties, Sir Harold writes, "My parents welcomed half Florence to the villa, as well as itinerant museum directors and art critics" who came to scrutinize the masterpieces and the bric-a-brac. You have the feeling, reading his memoirs and other accounts, of a ceaseless round of entertainment and amusement between country villa and city palazzo. There were tango-teas and fancy-dress balls with "Oriental" themes. One photograph shows Arthur and Hortense wearing turbans and fabulous beaded costumes designed by Poiret from Persian miniatures. A rage for dress-up and performance swept through the Anglo-Italian elite of the day. The Actons staged impromptu theatricals in the terraced garden. Serge Diaghilev paid a visit, as did Max Beerbohm, Rebecca West, Hugh Walpole. The eccentric Sitwells camped out at nearby Montegufoni, and Bernard Berenson, the peerless connoisseur and a great friend to young Harold, held forth at I Tatti. Sir Harold, who considered his father cold and disapproving, writes that Arthur preferred "a shifting kaleidoscope of strangers" to real friends and was always ready to welcome anyone with a letter of introduction.
Harold Acton was raised in a rarefied and theatricalized atmosphere, and at Oxford he developed into a famous and famously precious aesthete, a poet, and a novelist; he imagined himself the equal of his friend Evelyn Waugh, though reviews quickly made him realize that he was not. Both a modernist and an antiquarian by temperament, he became a historian and a sort of exotic wayfarer, traveling to China in 1932 and staying there throughout the decade. Only after the war did Sir Harold, somewhat reluctantly, return to La Pietra; his parents had sat out the war in Switzerland and then returned, and Harold now came home to care for them and became, in effect, their villa's curator.
Sir Harold was, by all accounts, a witty, erudite, and charmingly bitchy conversationalist, a figure of unfailing and exquisite politesse. Yet when I asked Neri di Capponi what he recalled of Sir Harold, after some thought he came up with the phrase snakily silent. Others had noted this same air of indirection and cunning. With the death of Berenson, his aged mentor, in 1959, Sir Harold became the last of the monstres sacrés—an obligatory visit for cultivated or at least well-connected travelers wishing to catch the dying light of a pre-war world. He added little to his parents' collection, but, at least until his final years, lovingly preserved both the house and the grounds.
Sir Harold had hoped to leave La Pietra to his alma mater, Christ Church, Oxford, but the college could not afford to keep it up. Only the increasingly globalized American universities had the necessary resources; and so, just as Berenson had left I Tatti to Harvard and others had left their palazzi to Johns Hopkins and Georgetown, Sir Harold bequeathed La Pietra to NYU. It turned out to have been a wise decision. The university quartered 400 undergraduates in other buildings on the grounds and in downtown Florence; the additional revenue has covered the immense costs of preservation. From early 1998, when work began in earnest, to early 2002, NYU kept about 140 people working continuously on the buildings and the garden. The Actons' home was virtually dismantled in order to install air-conditioning and new plumbing and wiring, shore up old timbers, clear out mold, and so on. Every object was removed to be cleaned and repaired, then put back exactly where Sir Harold had left it when he died.
La Pietra is not a museum so much as an evocation of the life of an extraordinary family in an extraordinary setting. And it is still—or rather, once again—a living place. Should you run into, say, Justice Ginsburg in the sala di caminetto, you might want to ask about the latest gossip from the Court.
La Pietra, 120 Via Bolognese; 39-055/50071; tours of villa and garden start in July 2003.


The Heritage Museum of Montgomery County is housed in the Grogan-Cochran home. These two families owned and operated 25 sawmills over the years. One of the first to open in Montgomery County was in 1917 where The Woodlands is located today. J. G. Grogan built this home in downtown Conroe. He and his family moved into it in 1924. A year later, Mrs. Grogan died and he sold it to his sister and her husband, Laura and Terrell Cochran. Four generations of Cochrans occupied the home until the last descendant and owner, Carolyn Meadows Walker, along with her husband, Andy and their son, Andrew, donated it to be used for a museum. The home was moved to Candy Cane Park in Conroe in 1985 to create the Heritage Museum of Montgomery County.
Tours of the Heritage Museum of Montgomery County are Wednesday – Saturdays from 9am – 4pm. Entry Donation: Adults - $2.00 each; Children - $1.00 each.
The Heritage Museum of Montgomery County relocated the Strake-Gray Oilfield House from Duffy Lane, Conroe, Texas on August 23, 2015 and placed the house next to the Museum Complex at 1506 I-45 North (Inside Candy Cane Park), Conroe, Texas 77301. The move took place after the buildings were donated by Sarah Bess Gray Crow, Mary Emily Garcia and Arrel Thomas Gray on December 3, 2014.
In the 1930's, George W. Strake, Sr. ordered the redi-cut, pre-fab house with screened porch and garage for his driller and the first Strake Oilfield Superintendent, Harvey Lee. Harvey Lee was the driller who brought in the "big one' and lived in the company house. The house fabrication was called portable construction and was built in 1938 for $3,200.00. The house sat in the Conroe Oilfield across the street from the Strake Production Company.
Clyde Thomas "Dolly" Gray became the Strake Superintendent in 1946. He and his family lived in the company house after Harvey Lee. Dolly Gray was instrumental in perpetuating the Strake Company Baseball Team which later became the Conroe Wildcats. The Superintendent's home is considered the main oilfield building (30x50) and is similar to a redi-cut 1938 Sears Pre-Fab building. The other building is the Strake-Gray Roughneck Bunkhouse which was used by employees working for Strake Company. This building represents the era of the oil industry in Montgomery County, Texas during the early 1930's.
Tours of the Strake-Gray Oilfield House are available on Saturday, 9am – 4pm. Entry through the Heritage Museum. Entry Donation: Adults - $2.00 each; Children - $1.00 each.
The Strake-Gray Roughneck Bunkhouse was relocated from Duffy Lane, Conroe, Tx on August 23, 2015 and placed near the Strake-Gray Oilfield House and Heritage Museum of Montgomery County located at 1506 I-45 North (inside Candy Cane Park), Conroe, Tx 77301. Clyde Thomas "Dolly" Gray's family, Sarah Bess Gray Crow, Mary Emily Gray Garcia, and Arrel Thomas Gray donated the Roughneck Bunkhouse, as well as, the Oilfield House (re-named Strake-Gray Oilfield House and Strake-Gray Roughneck Bunkhouse) to the Heritage Museum Complex.
The Roughneck Bunkhouse was used by employees working for Strake Oil Company. At the end of the Roughneck's shift, he would sleep in the bunkhouse and when they returned to the oilfield, the next group of roughnecks would sleep in the bunkhouse. The "little house or roughneck bunkhouse" was located in the family's backyard. Later, the Gray family stored the Strake Wildcat and the Conroe Wildcat baseball equipment in the Roughneck House. This building represents the era of the Oil industry in Montgomery County during the early 1930's.
Tours will be available once renovations are completed in the future.


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import java.io.IOException;
import java.net.ServerSocket;

public class CalcMultiServer {

	public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException{

		if (args.length != 1) {
			System.err.println("Usage: java CalcMultiServer <port number>");
			System.exit(1);
		}

		int threadNumber = 0;
		int portNumber = Integer.parseInt(args[0]);
		boolean listening = true;

		try (ServerSocket serverSocket = new ServerSocket(portNumber)) {
			System.out.println("Server started");
			while(listening){
				new CalcMultiServerThread(serverSocket.accept(), threadNumber).start();
				threadNumber++;
				System.out.println("Thread number: " + threadNumber);
			}
		} catch (IOException e) {
            System.err.println("Could not listen on port " + portNumber);
            System.exit(-1);
        }

	}

}

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How government is being reimagined
While 2020 has certainly been traumatic, it's also taught us things we thought weren't possible actually are, and that we can do them far faster than we could have imagined. And there is hope in that.
As Covid–19 surged, earlier this year, the ANZSOG and Centre for Public Impact were delivering a webinar series 'Reimagining Government.' The changes propelled by Covid-19 weren't the sole focus of the series: but they were a consistent theme, as were the possibilities of co-design and systems thinking and the challenges posed by risk management and performance measurement. As an evaluator and someone involved in designing and developing social programs, here is what struck me most from the series.
From command and control to enablement
Practitioners and students of government will have seen myriad shifts in the role of government; from rowing to steering, and centralisation to decentralisation and back again (and again). This webinar series had a different take – underpinned by Thea Snow's idea that now is the time for government to shift from a delivery to an enablement paradigm. In this paradigm, governments need to "create the conditions in which communities can thrive". This is a tall order. It requires something more than what has come before: it requires a rethink of the way we perceive power and risk and failure.
The challenge of doing this, in a context where "failure" is seen to risk a front-page headline rather than to create a learning opportunity, came through strongly in conversations during the series. But, as Snow identified, in our current context, not taking empowered, decisive actions on the best evidence available carries a risk of failure at least as great as the more traditional, prolonged planning approach.
Reconceptualising risk was covered in the webinar on "reorienting to learning." A successful reorientation to learning asks a lot of all of us—it requires governments to change how they talk about policy promises, the media to consider and cover policy promises differently, and the general public to hold realistic expectations of public policy in a complex world, where things often don't go according to plan.
power sharing for true co-design
With the central focus on enablement, it is no wonder that the concept of co-design came up in the webinars. Over the last few years, I've noticed a growing interest in co-design from government agencies, but this hasn't always been accompanied by the understanding that co-design isn't consulting on predetermined options to address a pre-defined problem. Co-design means listening to people with lived experience to understand their perspectives on what the problem is and then to their ideas for solutions.
This requires a redistribution of power and a fluency in power relationships. As Kelly Ann McKercher, author of Beyond Sticky Notes, put it in a recent Social Design Sydney webinar: co-design is more than a movement, it's a method and a mindset. It requires those involved to check their privilege and ask themselves tough questions about whether they are the right person for the project, when they should step up, and when they should step back.
In the fourth ANZSOG and CPI webinar, New Zealand-based designer, Penny Hagen, took this further, suggesting that as long as it's people at the centre deciding how much power to share, we aren't genuinely sharing power. She and colleague, Angie Tangaere, at The Southern Institute are actively exploring broader approaches to power sharing than limited scope co-design initiatives.
Shifting Silos into systems
The concepts of power fluency and 'sharing' are congruent with a shift from siloed to systems thinking. The webinars highlighted that government social policies operate within complex adaptive systems. So it is not surprising that, when asked 'What is the most important element of the enablement paradigm?' nearly one-third of webinar participants said, 'systems thinking'.
Complex systems are characterised by non-linearity, emergence, dynamism, co-evolution and uncertainty. We have little control of processes in complex systems, and we can't predict outcomes in advance. Complexity requires us to think differently about how we plan, shifting our focus from optimising the parts to understanding the whole.
While hierarchies and silos make for neat organisational charts, they limit our ability to adapt and remain resilient. This makes me think of Team of Teams, in which General Stanley McChrystal argues we need to structure and manage our organisations differently. For organisations to adapt and thrive, we need to shift our focus from the parts to the whole, build trust and shared purpose, forge connections and share information, and grow the capability required for successful distributed decision-making. It means we need to work on ourselves as leaders, being willing to be humble and learn from failure.
The troubles with measurement
Dr Toby Lowe traced the culture of fear of "failure" and risk aversion back to outcomes-based performance management, suggesting that this incentivises gaming and fudging data rather than learning.
In a fast-paced, interconnected and complex world, scientific management's ruthless focus on efficient delivery no longer works. Systems can't be understood through reductionist metrics and focussing on outcomes can be problematic where these are emergent rather than predictable.
We're holding onto how we measure success and criteria and how we choose what people can and can't do, sometimes not based on what's the best outcome for people, but around how we've decided to manage, track and measure. Penny Hagen
As an evaluator, I was particularly struck by the way conversations turned back to the need to change the way we think about measurement to support a reorientation to learning, power sharing systems thinking.
Evaluators know there are a range of approaches to measuring outcomes, which should be deployed with sensitivity to the context of an initiative and its stage of development. For example, we can use principles-focused approaches when initiatives are guided by principles, and participatory and empowerment approaches to engage stakeholders in defining what is of value and how we value. But a barrier remains in that some people still think that there is one gold standard of measurement: the randomised-control trial.
Scaling success
A final theme of the series was that while there are many positive examples of different ways of doing government, these tend to be smaller scale and localised. Suggestions for scaling success included strengthening the sharing of stories. I agree that stories have the power to shift hearts and minds, but also took note of Dr Toby Lowe's advice that we spend more time building a coalition of the willing, than trying to convince the sceptics. When you're an innovator trying to a shift system, early adopters will help build momentum.
You can find summaries of each webinar in the series on the Centre for Public Impact website. I look forward to continuing conversations with clients and colleagues about how we reimagine government for a complex world.
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Djokovic might be under the most pressure, as he has not lived up to expectations in 2014. He ended 2013 on a 24-match win streak, and hired Boris Becker as a coach, but is 0-2 against top-10 players this year and has not yet reached a final. It is the first time since 2006 he reached March without a title.
With Williams out, the women's title is completely up for grabs. Maria Sharapova always has a shot, as does Victoria Azarenka, known to hit her stride this time of year. Then there's Li Na, determined to build on her Australian Open title.
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 Eberhard Garbe, Peter Hennig: Lausche-Baude in Waltersdorf. In: Bergbauden und Aussichtstürme der Oberlausitz – einst und jetzt. Oberlausitzer Verlag Frank Nürnberger, Spitzkunnersdorf 2011, ISBN 978-3-941908-15-4, S. 8–10.
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 Andreas Gerth: A 75 (T) – Die Gegend von Waltersdorf und der Lausche. In: Reise in die Erdgeschichte der Oberlausitz, des Elbsandsteingebirges und Nordböhmens. Teil 2 (Tertiär bis Quartär). Oberlausitzer Verlag Frank Nürnberger, Spitzkunnersdorf 2013, ISBN 978-3-941908-44-4, S. 721–725.

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Throughout the month of August, monetary donations to the Trail Safety Task Force of Delphi Historic Trails will be matched dollar for dollar through a grant with the Indiana Housing and Community Development Authority, according to a press release from the task force.
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