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Why email is safer in Office 365 than on your Exchange server
Beyond blocking spam and virus-laden messages, cloud services can determine whether links are safe to visit and whether you're protecting the right information.
By Mary Branscombe
CIO	 Mar 7, 2017 6:34 am PST
Running your own email servers doesn't do anything to differentiate your business from the competition (except in a bad way, if you get hacked). But avoiding the effort of managing and monitoring your own mail server isn't the only advantage of a cloud service. The scale of a cloud mail provider like Office 365 means that malware and phishing attacks are easier to spot — and the protections extend beyond your inbox.
Email protection isn't just about blocking spam anymore. It's about blocking malicious messages aimed at infecting computers and stealing credentials. Traditional antivirus scanning isn't the solution either, because attachments aren't just executable files you can recognize with a signature. Often, scammers use JavaScript and macros (including PowerShell) to trigger a secondary download with the malicious payload. And embedded links often go to legitimate but compromised sites, so you also can't rely on site reputation.
Even as malicious messaging is evolving, attacks are increasing. According to security firm Proofpoint, the largest malicious email campaign in Q4 of 2016 was almost seven times larger than the largest campaign from Q3 of that year. And corporate email continues to bear the brunt of the attacks (Google recently noted that attackers send four times more malware and six times more phishing attacks to corporate inboxes than to personal email addresses.) Of the 80 billion messages sent to Office 365 inboxes in a month; 55 billion are spam and bulk emails and over 20 million contain malware or phishing messages that could cause a data breach.
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Even with training, relying on users to spot phishing emails is problematic. In a Microsoft Ingnite presentation, Jason Rogers and Phil Newman, both Office 365 program managers, noted that targeted messages in particular are often so plausible that users report spearphishing messages that have been correctly blocked by Office 365 as false positives.
Can cloud email give you better protection? Yes, says Rudra Mitra, partner director for information protection on the Office 365 team. "On premise, you're one enterprise battling these security issues by yourself; your network is a perimeter and you try to see what comes in." That might be difficult with the scarcity of security talent, Mitra notes. But the real advantage of cloud email is just how much information Microsoft can gather to detect attacks, using the scale of Office 365 and other Microsoft services.
"We bring millions of organizations into the cloud so the view we get into attacks is aggregated over those millions of organizations," says Mitra. "You start with the patterns, the newest ways of attacking that show up, whether that's generally or just for the U.S. or the U.K., or specifically in the financial sector…. The malware one organization may be receiving is clear to us, as is whether they are the only organization getting it or it's showing up across the service in different geographies and sectors. The view you have of the threat landscape dramatically increases, and that intelligence and inference flows back into our security products."
We bring millions of organizations into the cloud so the view we get into attacks is aggregated over those millions of organizations — Rudra Mitra
That information powers new security features in Office 365 aimed at helping you see exactly what threats you're facing, as well as offering you more tools to protect yourself.
Some of those protections are only in the Office 365 Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) service (which is included in the E5 tenant and available as an add-on subscription for other Office 365 tenants and — for some features — is even available for on-premises Exchange servers, for $2 per user per month).
Attachments and links
Email sent to Office 365 inboxes already goes through several stages of detection and protection. Messages from IP addresses with a poor reputation or that match known delivery patterns for malicious messages will be blocked before they ever get into Office 365, and antivirus scanning (using three different antivirus engines) removes what Microsoft calculates is around 80 percent of malware in emails, although fast-changing malware variants can get through that stage.
In addition, Office 365 lets admins block specific executables and script files they know hackers are using to target their organization, and reputation blocking looks for those problematic files across the service. Microsoft also picks messages with a suspicious pattern of delivery and executes their attachments in a 'detonation chamber,' a sandbox with a set of hypervisors, each with a slightly different configuration, all instrumented to detect the behavior of the attachment.
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It doesn't matter if the file is marked as being a document, says Mitra. "If it's .TXT but it has a macro, it's going to execute in the detonation chamber." The detonation chamber can also cope with nested files. "We do recursive checks. If you have an email with an attachment that has an attachment that has an attachment that has a payload — we catch that."
If the file writes to the registry when it runs, tries to encrypt the hard drive, pulls down information from the network, reaches out to a botnet command and control server or performs tests to see if it's running in a sandbox (like checking whether the IP address of the machine it's running on is one allocated to a Microsoft data center), it's likely to be malware.
Because those patterns of behavior change, Microsoft uses a machine learning system to determine whether a file is just suspicious or is malicious. That machine learning system can even factor in details about your specific tenant (without sharing that information with anyone else). For example, if you're an engineering firm and you start to get messages that don't seem to be malicious but are otherwise similar to malicious emails sent to other engineering businesses, they might contain malware that hasn't yet been identified.
Zero day or zero hour
ATP adds more protections. It already includes Safe Links for URL checking and Safe Attachments, which, as of January 2017 puts every attachment (of any file type) on every email message you receive through the same detonation chamber.
The aim is to catch zero-day attacks with brand new malware, even in mail that doesn't look suspicious.
Safe Links looks at the reputation of any URL in an email when you click on it, rather than when the mail first arrives. That's important because attackers can change where the URL takes you after the message has been delivered; it might redirect to an innocent site when the mail system first receives it, but to an infected site by the time you get around to reading the message.
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The reputation of a newly infected site also takes time to change, so Safe Links also looks at the reputation of the sender and whether the message matches the 'fingerprints' of known malicious emails. And if the link goes to a document or executable file rather than a web page, that gets downloaded to the sandbox and executed in the detonation chamber. "We follow nested links, we crawl the destination," says Mitra
If a message isn't immediately detected as being malicious but the mail delivery pattern or the attachment behavior is later found to be malicious, Office 365 can retroactively 'undeliver' that message. "That's something the cloud can do that's almost impossible on premise," Mitra points out. "If something is missed, we'll pick it up a few minutes later and we can do a Zero-hour Auto-Purge (ZAP) — internally, we call it time travel. You can only do that if you have the combination of the intelligence you've picked up, the integration with the mailbox to pluck it out and the customer breadth to see small blips at the global scale." (ZAP is one of the options that only works for inboxes on Office 365.)
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If you don't have ATP (perhaps because you don't feel your business is the target of enough attacks to need it), you'll still get extra protection in Office 365 thanks to the customers who do subscribe to that service. "We don't reserve that understanding that this is malware to ATP; as soon as those detonations are happening and we understand that a particular piece of content or mail is starting to look like malware, we turn that into protection for all our customers right away. If we stop targeted malware, we don't leave it at that; we push that through our cloud so that any customer, whether they have ATP or they're just a traditional mailflow customer, is getting the benefit of our targeted understanding of malware. We can find things happening at very small scale through the cloud and use that to feed the flywheel so all our customers are getting intelligent protection."
Now in real time
Safe Links and Safe Attachments are both admin options you can turn on in Office 365, because they do change the email experience for users. Detonating attachments takes time (it can delay an email by about five minutes) and Safe Links wraps all URLs in a link that redirects them through Microsoft's Safe Link server, users you to look carefully at the URL that is displayed when you hover over the link to see where it actually goes — something many IT departments have tried to train users to do before they click.
In practice, you will rarely see the Safe Links server in action, but if the reputation check takes longer than usual they'll see an interstitial page notifying them the link is being scanned. If the site's reputation says it's malicious, they see a page telling them it's blocked. You can choose whether users can load the page anyway, or track which users are clicking through.
To avoid delays while attachments are being scanned, Dynamic Delivery (currently in public preview for Office 365 customers) lets you read and reply to a mail before the scan is finished — instead of the attachment you get a placeholder telling you it's being scanned, which is then replaced by the real file once it passes the scan.
These protections are also being extended beyond email; SharePoint does the same Safe Attachment scanning for uploads, and Word, Excel and PowerPoint will soon be getting Safe Links protection for links you include in documents (without the URL looking any different). And the upcoming Threat Intelligence service will let you 'close the loop' with other areas of IT, says Mitra. "With Threat Intelligence, you can see the IPs that are zero-day originators. You can take that IP list and plug it into filtering solutions that you have for other services, or into your cloud access security broker (CASB) or use it for filtering some on-premise infrastructure. Once you know these IPs, you can update your gateways for other systems so you don't let content in from that IP address. Or you can plug them into your security investigation and forensics tools and ask did anyone get in?"
We're giving you visibility of what's happening to your mailbox, what's happening at a tenant level and what's happening as a result of the security settings you've chosen, and providing that as intelligence back to the IT admin. — Rudra Mitra
Threat Intelligence gives you 'a more holistic view' suggests Mitra. "It used to be that what was happening in email didn't connect to what was happening in your browser or your proxy server." Office 365 draws on Microsoft's Intelligent Security Graph, which combines information from Windows Defender with attacks on Azure and consumer services like Xbox Live, and many other sources of information.
"We're giving you visibility of what's happening to your mailbox, what's happening at a tenant level and what's happening as a result of the security settings you've chosen, and providing that as intelligence back to the IT admin."
Threat Intelligence also gives you a broader view of the threat landscape outside your organization. "You can see over time the IP addresses that are targeting your tenant. You can also see the IP addresses targeting your sector in general. At the same time, you can see what's going on in malware in your organization and generally, for the whole month, so you can see whether it's on the increase or decrease. You get the close-up view, but you can step back and see the trends." (If you haven't noted your industry sector in your tenant profile, Office 365 will use clues like what Data Leak Protection rules you've set up to check information isn't being leaked through email.)
"We can enrich that over time, so the IT admin or security professional who is used to looking at the security landscape on premises can move up the stack, up the food chain and get smarter about the type of attacks going on generally. That means you can think about 'what user education should I do? do I need more protection?' If you're a financial business and you know that attacks on financial organizations come from these regions of the world, you can educate folks that if you're travelling there, you should be careful."
Admins can also look at the specifics of user behavior. "You can get a 30-day view for just one person. Are you as a person more susceptible to malware than the rest of your colleagues? Maybe that means more education or enrolling that mailbox for ATP, because if you're getting more malware, you should get more protection."
Security you can live with
In the future, Office 365 will move towards more personalized security, although Mitra notes that it's important to balance security with productivity. "More personalized security, more intelligent security around content and documents is the only way to maintain security control but not give up productivity."
"There's so much content in Office 365 that if we use the intelligence that powers Threat Intelligence, things become very interesting …. [I]f there's a mail flow that's classified by data loss prevention (DLP) as having high business impact because it has high security risks — if there are credit card numbers going out of my company or requests for credit card numbers coming in — then I want security alerts. If one person is getting lots of different emails with credit card numbers in or asking for credit card numbers or for signoff on credit card numbers, maybe I'll decided to turn on multifactor authentication (MFA), or maybe I'll think about making sure the finance team has more locked down devices for their endpoints."
Those patterns could look at behavior beyond email. "Imagine a user has been getting more targeted attacks … and then they log into a SharePoint site that's classified as high business impact and they look at a document that they haven't accessed before that has interesting content … that's a great signal," says Mitra.
The first order value of cloud services is that they can give quick and tangible savings; the second order benefit is the intelligence, understanding and knowledge that comes from it. — Mitre — Rudra Mitra
The data classification tools in Azure Information Protection can do some of that document labeling for you automatically by policy, and Mitra says "very soon you'll see that model being natively part of the Office clients." Over time, Office 365 might also suggest content to protect. "We might say 'other organizations are seeing this type of content as having high business impact.' If you haven't classified it or set it as sensitive content to be encrypted on download, we'll suggest doing that."
Another new service currently in preview, Office 365 Advanced Data Governance, could help you find the important data while winnowing out redundant and obsolete information. "These signals could broadly inform what content you should keep in the cloud or maybe not keep over time at all, as part of a policy to manage your overall data security surface and your overall surface area of risk."
Using that intelligence could decrease the cost of data management, Mitra suggests, but it also makes your data more valuable. "The first order value of cloud services is that they can give quick and tangible savings; the second order benefit is the intelligence, understanding and knowledge that comes from it."
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The scene of a train derailment near Lawtell, La. on Monday. The Union Pacific train, which was carrying hazardous materials, derailed Sunday afternoon near Lawtell, forcing the evacuation of about 100 homes.
With hundreds of people unable to return to their homes Monday, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal declared a state of emergency as specialists continued to assess the wreckage of a derailed freight train that was leaking chemicals.
More than 100 homes were evacuated after the 78-car Union Pacific locomotive came off the tracks about 3:30 p.m. (4:30 p.m. ET) Sunday near Lawtell, about 60 miles west of Baton Rouge.
Two of the 27 cars that derailed began leaking chemicals, including the substance sodium hydroxide, which can cause injuries if it touches the skin or even death if it is inhaled.
Another car was emitting lube oil, while a fourth containing vinyl chloride was damaged but not leaking.
All were secured by 1 a.m. local time, Union Pacific spokesman Mark Davy said.
St. Landy Parish President Bill Fontenot added that within an hour of the crash, authorities began evacuating homes near the site.
He added that Union Pacific had put up most of the residents in nearby hotels, although some had gone to stay with relatives or friends.
"Every carriage has to be checked before people can go back," he said.
Fontenot added that rain had hampered attempts to secure the crash site and that authorities had been forced to dig dams to prevent the harmful chemicals from entering the water supply.
He also expected U.S. Highway 190, which runs parallel to the track, would be closed for at least two days.
"We're working hard with both state and federal hamzat teams to secure the situation," Union Pacific spokesman, Mark Davy said.
He said repairs were being made to the 1,600 feet of track damaged by the accident, which he expected to be completed by 8 p.m.
Side booms were being used to right the overturned carriages, most of which would be put back on the track.
Those that were too badly damaged, he said, would be removed by road.
Jindal authorized state assistance in his emergency declaration Monday.
"Any time you have chemicals leaking into the environment, that's a serious issue," he said Sunday night on a visit to St. Landry Parish, KATC-TV reported.


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Github is really broken today.
Github has been really messed up this morning.
I have this repository: https://github.com/ZiCog/xoroshiro-plusplus/tree/master/src/main/scala/XoroshiroPlusPlus which is a week old and to which I pushed changes some hours ago. If I poke around in the files there I often get a 404 Not Found Error. Sometimes a red alert appears on the page announcing that it cannot supply the latest commits at this time.
To make things more interesting some hours ago I renamed that repo to just "xoroshiro". Well https://github.com/ZiCog/xoroshiro is 404 Not Found.
But in my home page xoroshiro was listed as one of my repos earlier today and I was able to surf it. Not any more.
Basically, github is serving up random files or randomly saying things are not found.
At one point I could not clone either of these as git clone said it could not find them at all!
Luckily git is a distributed system. Even if github disappeared all together things can just keep rolling along here.
Dang, I was about to blame M$!
I'm not sure I see a problem, except for when you're just browsing around the site. The backend git services are supposed to be working, but even if there weren't - we're talking Git here, we all have fully distributed copies of the repos and we can just keep working. Catch up or sync with github another day. Just as we do internally at work, with the internal git server. And we can always fetch from each other, without going via any server.
Sorry folks, I meant to post this thread under "General Discussion". Perhaps someone could move it there.
It's weird, my repo is really out of synch. Sometime I see "xoroshiro" in my repo list, sometimes with it's old name "xoroshiro". Sometimes I can access the files of one or other. Then again not. Sometimes I can clone one or the other, sometimes not.
The the problem for many is that they have become dependent on github's issue tracker. They have no work to do today as they see no issues coming in. Or they cannot show any progress.
This is why one should use cloud system that are distributed and fault tolerant not "cloud" systems that are that in name only and really highly centralized.
I've just tried to access your repo, and apparently, it's coming back, slowly, file by file.
Sometimes a 404 error shows its ugly face, then, one more try and things seems to be working, as expected.
Except xoroshiro-plusplus was renamed xoroshiro and so should not exist. They both do. They are both available and not available at random. They alternate in my repo list.
It will be interesting to see where my repo lands when they have everything synced up again.
For a short while there I could not sign in at all.
Not completely working anymore. Unstable!
Another set of retries, and back again at 404. Weird behaviour, like a vintage Cuckoo Clock!
Well, they *are* trying to live-repair a system with one or more broken disk drives.. can't expect things to be much better. The alternative would be downtime until it's fixed.
Yes, I'm sure it's not trivial.
However, I naively assumed that the issue of failed disks/machines and software in distributed cloud services was a solved problem. That, basically, there are dozens, hundreds, thousands of nodes. That nodes being broken or off line was expected to be a normal situation and systems are designed to keep working despite that, without down time or interruption.
Why would I assume that? Well, it's been a a long time since Lamport, Shostak, and Pease wrote their famous paper on the problem of "Byzantine" fault tolerance. Since then other solutions have been used widely, the Paxos and Raft algorithms.
This past yeas I have been using the CockroachDB database. Which is a distributed SQL database that will remain functional and importantly consistent, provided a majority of nodes can agree on the state of things. Cockroach uses the Raft consensus algorithm. It's been kind of fun playing with this, killing off nodes and watch how well it survives. It does.
Still. On the whole I think Github has done very well over the years. They did survive the biggest DDOS attack in history some time back. I have never noticed any such prolonged unavailability before.
One wonders what they use for storage. Googling around nobody seems to know.
All seems to be up and running stably again.
I'm sure the infrastructure (object stores?) is pretty interesting and distributed. Maybe an indexing service issue? Anywho, other than a backup of page build jobs all seems to be well.
I'd love to read an analysis of today's events.
For example after I renamed my repo from "xoroshiro-plusplus" to "xoroshiro" it was oscillating between those two names in my repo list on my front page. That and sometimes a page was available and sometimes 404'ed under either name of the repo. Clearly different parts of their store were in different stages of update, out of sync.
From this I think we can conclude they are not ensuring consensus between nodes with any consensus algorithm like paxos or raft. Rather they have an "eventually consistent" distributed store. Something like Mongo DB perhaps.
This presents the slight worry that when one does a download or git clone it may be possible to get an out of date version of a repo on occasion.
Yep, all seems well just now.


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European EDM Invasion with innovative band Mary Keey
Nick Christophers
As we know history sometimes repeats itself. It is most evident with one particular industry, which is music. We experienced the birth of Rock 'n' Roll then the explosion of the disco era. Both then lost their touch and alternative music caught the spotlight. What was to come next was anyone's guess.
In the early 2000's dance music was attempting to break through once again. The arrival of artists like Lady Gaga and Katy Perry made it possible for dance music to break into mainstream. All this was happening in America. But back in Europe dance music was always a popular style that never really lost its ground.
Dance music has even adopted a new name EDM that has become a universal term. In the European market there are many recording artists/bands that have crossed the Atlantic to celebrate their music with American audiences. One such band has done that once and plans on doing it again.
Mary Keey was formed in 2009 with the goal to share their love for dance music with the world. The band is made up of vocalist / songwriter Mary Keey, guitarist / music producer Phil Gitwilk and DJ Live who works the tables. The band was born when Mary attended a show in Zurich of the pop-rock band HOUSTON!. She had the opportunity to speak with band member Phil.
Phil expressed an interest on starting a new project but more dance driven with a pop-rock twist. Mary was all for it and the fusion of Mary Keey was born. They soon began working in the studio developing their own sound and laid down their own tracks.
Mary, whose Mom ran a cosmetic store in Switzerland learned how to utilize make-up in various ways. She has taken those tricks and has applied them to her look on stage. It is not only the make-up but also her creative fashion statements as well. Mary studied Linguistics but taught herself the English language long before her first English lessons at school. Her love for poetry and song writing only inspired her more to follow into the music world.
m"I have always been into fashion…. and I'm a shopping addict, I could go shopping for days 🙂 but the make-up ideas came actually natural. My mum has a cosmetic studio and I have learned the tricks from the day I was first allowed to put make-up. So it's always been something I've been around and when you get creative also pencils and eye shadows are not safe from me."
Phil is a product of Italy who began his musical journey at eleven years old learning to play guitar. As he grew up he began to gravitate to pop-rock music and soon formed the band HOUSTON!. While working with the band he studied music theory and the cello. In Italy he studied modern music at the Academy of Modern Music as well as classical music at the Conservatory of Music in Piacenza. He went ahead and enrolled at Berklee College of Music in 2010 and completed a Masters Degree in Music Production and Guitar in Spring 2013. After connecting with Mary in 2009 he dabbled in rapping and playing with sound design and DJ-consoles.
The band soon worked on some of their own music and released soon to be fan favorites like "OMG", "Euphoria" and "100 Lights". Their style became a fusion of Hip-Hop, Urban, Techno, and Rock. The originality of their music turned out to be well received internationally.
Mary Keey toured the East Coast of America and came away with great reviews. One of their venues was Kenny's Castaway, where bands such as Mark Knopfler, Rod Stewart and Bruce Springsteen have played in the past.
"EDM is a major movement that's taking over this historic period and changing what's the approach to music. I guess there are some differences we found between touring in Europe rather than USA. Generally, we are more appreciated in the US and I can't tell you exactly why…that's the way it is. That's where we sell the most records and we have the more online buzz as of now."
After their success in the US they traveled to London to work with producer / engineer Steve A. Williams at the famous Chapel Studios. There they began working towards a new album. That is where they produced their single "100 Lights:" The album they are working on now is titled "Electricize Me". They are rehearsing for an upcoming US West Coast Tour, which is set to start off at the end of this November 2013.
Currently they have completed a new track "RADIO" which is due for release by the end of this month. Mary Keey is an exciting and creative band with hypnotic beats along with a fashionable stage show. They are due in the US from end of November all the way to January of 2014. Don't miss out on a once in a lifetime experience you can visit their website for more info – http://www.marykeey.com.
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Q: How to refresh color of custom drawn cell? I have custom UITableViewCell class which implements custom drawn design (as you can see, the cell has shadow effect.)
As you can see below I'm trying to paint 1st cell with white color, any other cell must be gray.
- (void)drawRect:(CGRect)rect {
CGContextRef context = UIGraphicsGetCurrentContext();

CGColorRef whiteColor = [UIColor colorWithRed:1.0 green:1.0 blue:1.0 alpha:1.0].CGColor;
if (_rowNumber == 0)
    CGColorRef lightColor = [UIColor whiteColor].CGColor;
else
    CGColorRef lightColor = [UIColor grayColor].CGColor;
CGColorRef darkColor = _darkColor.CGColor;
CGColorRef shadowColor = [UIColor colorWithRed:0.1 green:0.1 blue:0.1 alpha:0.5].CGColor;
CGContextSetFillColorWithColor(context, whiteColor);

CGContextFillRect(context, _paperRect);
CGContextSaveGState(context);

CGContextSetShadowWithColor(context, CGSizeMake(0, 2), 7.0, shadowColor);
CGContextSetFillColorWithColor(context, lightColor);

CGContextFillRect(context, _coloredBoxRect);
CGContextRestoreGState(context);
}

The problem is: when I'm using dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier the method "drawRect" invoked only 3 times (my cells have height 200), so the fourth cell has same color like the first one.
Is there any way to manage this problem?
Thanks
UPDATE
i've tried to invoke my custom redraw method from UITableViewController, but i have got "null" context error
- (void)refreshColorOfRow:(int)row{
 CGContextRef context = UIGraphicsGetCurrentContext();
 if (row > 0)
     _lightColor = [UIColor colorWithRed:200.0f/255.0f green:199.0f/255.0f blue:200.0f/255.0f alpha:1.0];
 else
     _lightColor = [UIColor colorWithRed:240.0f/255.0f green:240.0f/255.0f blue:240.0f/255.0f alpha:1.0];
CGColorRef lightColor = _lightColor.CGColor;
CGContextSetFillColorWithColor(context, lightColor);
CGContextFillRect(context, _coloredBoxRect);
CGContextRestoreGState(context);
}

A: I'm assuming you're setting _rowNumber as a property for your UITableViewCell subclass.
You should call setNeedsDisplay in the setter to force redrawing :
-(void) setRowNumber:(int)value {
    _rowNumber = value;
    [self setNeedsDisplay];
}

A: I think you can make the first cell and other cells different identifier , such as first cells resueIdentifier is @"first" ; other cellss resueIdentifier is @"others" and then in your custom cell , you can creat a BOOL _isFirstCell to mark first cell and then in the  - (void)drawRect:(CGRect)rect method , you can draw both type cell use if else statment
- (void)drawRect:(CGRect)rect {
CGContextRef context = UIGraphicsGetCurrentContext();

CGColorRef whiteColor = [UIColor colorWithRed:1.0 green:1.0 blue:1.0 alpha:1.0].CGColor;
if (_isFirstCell)
    CGColorRef lightColor = [UIColor whiteColor].CGColor;
else
    CGColorRef lightColor = [UIColor grayColor].CGColor;
CGColorRef darkColor = _darkColor.CGColor;
CGColorRef shadowColor = [UIColor colorWithRed:0.1 green:0.1 blue:0.1 alpha:0.5].CGColor;
CGContextSetFillColorWithColor(context, whiteColor);

CGContextFillRect(context, _paperRect);
CGContextSaveGState(context);

CGContextSetShadowWithColor(context, CGSizeMake(0, 2), 7.0, shadowColor);
CGContextSetFillColorWithColor(context, lightColor);

CGContextFillRect(context, _coloredBoxRect);
CGContextRestoreGState(context);
}

A: In -(UITableViewCell*)tableView:(UITableView*)tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath*)indexPath you could call [cell setNeedsDisplay];.
But why don't you use [cell setBackgroundColor:[UIColor yourColorXY]]; if you only want some simple colors and shadows?
EDIT:
Like Guo Luchuan said, is an often called drawRect: a performance-killer.
Just try it simple ;)
NSIndexPath *selectedCell; //Declare this in your .h

-(UITableViewCell *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath {
    static NSString *CellIdentifier = @"CellIdentifier";
    UITableViewCell *cell=[tableView dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier: CellIdentifier];
    if (cell == nil) {
        cell = [[UITableViewCell alloc] initWithStyle:UITableViewCellStyleDefault reuseIdentifier: CellIdentifier];
    }
    if (selectedCell.section==indexPath.section && selectedCell.row==indexPath.row) {
        [cell.contentView setBackgroundColor:[UIColor whiteColor]];
        [cell.textLabel setText:@"The Choosen One"];
    } else {
        [cell.contentView setBackgroundColor:[UIColor lightGrayColor]];
        [cell.textLabel setText:@"FOO"];
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Author Of The Dork Diaries
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Rachel Renée Russell's children's book series Dork Diaries is going to be on screens someday soon: Summit Entertainment just acquired film rights to the bestselling series. The books follow "dork".
Frenemies Forever (Dork Diaries #11) by Rachel Renée Russell $16.99 buy online or call us from Read On Books Pagewood, -shop 161/62 Westfield Eastgardens, 152 Bunnerong Rd ,
Author-illustrator David Shannon reads from his new book Grow Up, David. Mother-daughter duo Rachel Renée Russell (r.) and Erin Russell, creators of the Dork Diaries series. British author-illustrator.
Russell's books help make sense of the crazy adolescent world of pre-teens and include puzzles, quizzes, an interactive fan club, videos and numerous other product extensions. The Dork Diaries are a.
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The author announced the event on her blog, and the publisher reached out to local bloggers for additional publicity and posted news of the promotion on the Dork Diaries Facebook page. "So many.
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Rachel Renee Russell's "Dork Diaries 4: Tales from a Not-So-Graceful Ice Princess. would it really be such a terrible idea if there were televised awards for children's books? Don't you think the.
I don't want to compare Dork Diaries: Tales from a Not-So-Fabulous Life to Diary of a Wimpy Kid. All the reviews are doing that. It's not really fair because the only things the two books have in common are the cartoon diary format, middle school setting and engaging voice of an authentic protagonist.
Aug 15, 2019 · But she has a total MELTDOWN when she learns that MacKenzie is her new roommate! Will Nikki survive her dream tour as it quickly goes from AWESOME to AWFUL?! The drama continues in Dork Diaries 14: Tales from a Not-So-Best Friend Forever!
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Erin Danielle Russell is the co-author of the Dork Diaries series of illustrated middle grade novels along with her mother, Rachel Renée Russell. Told in a journal format and featuring art by Erin's.
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Mark Waters will direct the Lionsgate movie "Dork Diaries," an individual with knowledge of the. A YA Adaptation With More Hormones Than Brain Cells The books have sold over 21 million copies in.
Nikki has helped illustrate a number of her mother's books. The next "Dork Diaries" novel, slated for release next month, is "Dork Diaries 13: Tales from a Not-So-Happy Birthday." Signing 1:30-2:30. 1.
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The Dork Diaries are written by Nikki Maxwell, a misfit at a new school. Russell was inspired to write the books after seeing her own daughters struggle with the "dork" label during their teenage.
Will she ever make any friends? Will she ever belong in the CCP club? Will Brandon her new secret crush even notice her? Find out in the Dork Diaries series. Recommended for ages 10 – 13.
Dork Diaries 10 Tales from a Not-So-Perfect Pet Sitter Nikki has to hide seven ADOREABLE puppies from two parents, one nosy little sister, an entire.
Dork Diaries (Dork Diaries #1) by Rachel Renée Russell $16.99 buy online or call us (+61) 264923386 from Candelo Books, 208 Carp St, Bega, NSW, Australia
This book is about a 14 year-old girl called Nikki who is the school dork. She has a boyfriend called Brandon, who everyone 'likes'. Her biggest challenge is overcoming being bullied by Mackenzie,
"Diaries" centers on eighth-grader Nikki Maxwell, who tells her diary about the goings-on at her middle school. "Summit Entertainment bringing 'Dork Diaries' to life is a dream come true!" Russell.
In the sixth book in the blockbuster Dork Diaries series – now with more than 8 million copies in print – join Nikki, Chloe and Zoey as they tackle the topic of love, Dork Diaries style! Another brilliant book by Rachel Renée Russell, author of The Misadventures of Max Crumbly (publishing June 2016).
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Join Nikki Maxwell in her life as the dork of Westchester country day school. It's trouble having a locker next to MacKenzie, who is determined to trash Nikki's life at middle school as well as each.
Can a dork like Nikki take on the most popular girl in school and win? The third book in the bestselling Dork Diaries series by Rachel Renée Russell, author of The Misadventures of Max Crumbly (publishing June 2016). 'There are all sorts of feelings readers can relate to in this 10/10 read.' Nayu's Reading Corner 'A perfect tween read.'
so he seems like a perfect fit to launch what Lionsgate hopes will turn into a franchise. The books series already features nine installments, with the 10th coming out Oct. 20. Dork Diaries hits.
This book is the ninth book in the Dork Diaries series and it was by far my favourite! It starts off the main character Nikki Maxwell having a terrible day. Her worst enemy Mackenzie Hollister has.
Lionsgate's Summit Entertainment has acquired movie rights to Rachel Renee Russell's young teen book series "Dork Diaries. Bree Bailey and Jessica Switch. The author is represented by Daniel Lazar.
The brand NEW instalment from the internationally bestselling DORK DIARIES series, from Rachel Renee Russell, author of The Misadventures of Max Crumbly (June 2016). Perfect for fans of Wimpy Kid, Tom Gates, Jacqueline Wilson and James Patterson.
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Big digital Djing noob here, and just started getting into a digital setup, but I have some issues.
Amplifier with two pairs of bookshelf speakers connected.
There is something wrong with the cue on my headphones. When both cue buttons are inactive on the mixer, and the MIX/CUE knob is turned completely to CUE, i can hear the main mix on my headphones as well as on the speakers. turning the knob does nothing. If I press one of the cue buttons, it previews the track fine, but both cues on has the same effect as both cues off, namely hearing the main mix.
Turning the master volume knob on the mixer does nothing, but the monitor knob does adjust the volume. Any ideas what I'm doing wrong? I must be missing something obvious but I can't figure out what.
Additionaly, can somebody help me in setting up the cdjs and mixer so that i can control Cross with them? I have got the mixer to show up on my computer as a sound device, but I don't know how to proceed from here.
Please link your license key/serial number for Cross to your profile, so that we can get further details on the version you are running. I am assuming it is the LE version that came bundled with your Xone23c, but could be mistaken.
The CDJ 900s should work plug and play with Cross DJ as MIDI controllers and as HID controllers with Cross, however I am not clear if they also work with Cross LE. Let me know if you need an explanation on how to get them connected to Cross and I can try to walk you through it.
Also if you can post a screenshot of how you have the Audio page setup in Cross's preferences that will help solve what is wrong with the headphone cue.
Let us know some more details and hopefully we can figure out what the issue is.
HID support is only in the full Cross version.
If you use an external mixer you have to use the mixer for the Cue as Cross sends both decks at Line level to the mixer channels.
As mentioned upgrading to the latest version is the best start for resolving Pioneer related issues.


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Indian engineering and construction major Larsen & Toubro (L&T) on Wednesday said it has bagged a Rs 1,700 crore order from Japan's Marubeni Corporation to set up a 400-MW gas-based power plant in Bangladesh.
"Bangladesh Power Development Board awarded the EPC contract for setting up the 400-mega watt (MW) gas-based power plant project to Marubeni Corporation of Japan, which in turn awarded the EPC sub contract to L&T on a turnkey basis," L&T said in a BSE filing.
The company said its scope of work includes design, detailed engineering, supply, installation and commissioning of the complete power plant.
The project, located at Nabiganj Upzilla in Habibganj district, will be executed by L&T Power's gas-based power projects business unit based in Baroda.
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If there are any students in this class who have documented disabilities and have been approved to receive accommodations through SNAP Services, please see me to discuss this.
Cellular technology: All cellular devices must be turned off during class unless you have a job that requires them to be on for safety (e.g. EMT or firefighter).
Cheating: Violations of the College of Charleston Honor Code (including cheating or attempted cheating) will be referred to the Office of Student Affairs for adjudication. Examples of cheating relevant to this course include copying test or quiz answers, using cellular technology to communicate information during a test or quiz, or copying homework answers verbatim from an external source.
Collaboration: You will normally be working in small lab groups. Be sure everyone in your group is contributing. Don't let someone else "carry" you through the course; I'll be watching for this. Collaboration is not allowed on quizzes.
Attendance is mandatory. One lab grade will be dropped at the end of the semester. This is intended to cover all possible reasons you might miss a lab, or can simply serve to improve your grade. If you miss more than one lab, then your grade will almost inevitably suffer. Only in the most extreme circumstances will I even consider excusing an absence and even then it is entirely at my discretion. Note that making up a lab by sitting in on another lab section is generally not permissible. This option will only be considered under extraordinary circumstances and requires prior approval of both instructors.
Tardiness is rude, especially to your lab partners. Furthermore, it disrupts the flow of the class. Please be polite by being on time. If a student is tardy to lab three times, their third tardy will be counted as an absence (i.e. they will get a 0 for that lab).
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Students demonstrate an understanding of the impact that science has on society.
With only 12 graded labs, each one counts more than 8% of your final grade. Grades will be based upon written lab reports (normally turned in as a group) and weekly lab quizzes (done individually). The lab reports count for 80% of your grade and the quizzes 20%.


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Drew Brees, Saints Treading On Uncomfortable Waters With Contract Negotiations
Posted on March 2, 2012 March 8, 2012 by Adam Cubbage
Indianapolis isn't the only team with major contract issues involving a superstar quarterback.
In New Orleans, contract negotiations with franchise saving quarterback Drew Brees are ongoing, and with the recent news that the two sides aren't close (NFL.com) in the yearly figures for the first three years, coupled with already chippy verbiage (SI.com blog) coming from the Saints general manager its looking like a potentially ugly situation.
The Saints, who are wanting an annual salary in the range of $18 million per year for Brees, are $5 million off from what the Brees camp are said to be seeking. Both sides are basing their numbers off different parameters that could make matters more complicated.
The assumption is that Brees, who has led the Saints to their most successful run in franchise history, is looking for a deal similar to the one Manning received before the start of this past season. At $23 million per year annually, his argument seems to be that of similar accomplishments to this point in his career. He has led the Saints to three division titles, a conference championship, and a Super Bowl victory in which he was named MVP.
Saints, while trying to make Brees one of the better compensated quarterbacks in league history, are also trying to operate in such a way that would allow them to focus on signing other free agents that would allow them to be successful as a team. Most notably Brees' favorite target Marques Colston, who himself will be looking to cash in on a career that has seen him go over 1,000 yards receiving in five of his first six seasons (note: the one he didn't he missed time due to a broken hand and still managed 760 yards in 12 games).
The biggest concern here is the lapse in time; you don't want your franchise quarterback to feel slighted by a franchise tag. You also don't want to hinder the teams success by limiting your resources in one player, even if he is Drew Brees. Brees certainly is the key in the Saints run since he came over from the Chargers in 2006, and the argument can be made that the other players are made better by Brees the same way Tom Brady and Peyton Manning make those around them better. You do have to take caution because, as the Colts are finding out, injuries happen, and if that were the case you have to look at where you will be on the other side.
The Saints should do their best to avoid an uncomfortable situation with a player that has meant so much not just for the organization but the city of New Orleans as well. The all-time single season record holder for yards passed may have to make some concessions in order to get the deal done, the only question is whether he is willing to do so or not.
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Central serous chorioretinopathy (CSCR) has been reported to occur after various kinds of intraocular surgery including dacryocystorhinostomy1, trabeculectomy2, refractive surgery3 and laser photocoagulation.4 CSCR after strabismus surgery is indeed a very rare complication.5 We would like to share briefly about a clinical case that we came across who developed CSCR after strabismus surgery.
A 38-year male underwent an uneventful horizontal strabismus surgery in the left eye for a residual exotropia measuring 35 PD on adjustable sutures. The patient had a history of strabismus surgery in the right eye one year back. His preoperative visual acuity was 20/40 OU and preoperative fundus examination in both eyes was normal. There was no history of previous episode of CSCR. The patient received combination moxifloxacin/dexamethasone eyedrops 3 times daily for one week after surgery which were gradually tapered. He presented one week later with decreased visual acuity OS. On examination, visual acuity was 20/200 and there was a central pigment epithelial defect with neurosensory detachment at the fovea confirmed on Optical Coherence Tomography imaging (Figure 1). Topical steroids were stopped; no intervention was done and the fluid resolved over a subsequent period of 8 weeks.
We would also like to point out that the age of the patient is a very crucial factor. Almost all the cases described with CSCR after ocular surgery or intervention occurred in the 4th or 5th decade of life. When we encounter older patients in early postoperative period with a disease like CSCR that is known to affect younger males, it may trigger our thought process to the above-mentioned factors as potential causal elements. Nevertheless, we may observe such a case without intervention and try to remove any risk factor if encountered. Since there is a paucity of literature on such cases and their treatment; we hypothesize that treatment in cases of non-resolution can be undertaken as other cases of CSCR.
We wish to stimulate urge and caution towards this relatively rare complication after strabismus surgery. CSCR can occur even in the absence of other factors; hence all the factors mentioned can be blamed; but the possibility of CSCR occurring as an isolated idiopathic event may not always be ruled out.
Mondal L, Basu S, Baidya K, Bhaduri G. Central serous chorioretinopathy after dacryocystorhinostomy operation on the same side. Indian J Ophthalmol 2009; 57:57-8.
Semeraro F, Russo A, Delcassi L, Costagliola C. Recurrent central serous chorioretinopathy after peripheral retinal laser photocoagulation: a case report. Eur J Ophthalmol 2013; 23:258-61.
Liew G, Quin G, Gillies M, Fraser-Bell S. Central serous chorioretinopathy: a review of epidemiology and pathophysiology. Clin Exp Ophthalmol 2013; 41:201-14.
McHugh JM, McHugh WB. Pain: neuroanatomy, chemical mediators, and clinical implications. AACN Clin Issues 2000; 11:168-78.
Amaya F, Izumi Y, Matsuda M, Sasaki M. Tissue Injury and Related Mediators of Pain Exacerbation. Curr Neuropharmacol 2013; 11:592-597.
Dray A. Inflammatory mediators of pain. Br J Anaesth 1995; 75:125-31.


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The Anna's Traveling Shoes is a feet item in Club Penguin.Members were able to buy this item for 250 coins in the Penguin Style catalog. It goes along with The Winter Traveler, Icy Eyelashes and Anna's Traveling Clothes.
The Anna's Traveling Shoes is a feet item that was first available on August 6, 2014. It returned in the April 2015 Penguin Style catalog.
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When Olympus Visionary Chris Eyre-Walker heard that he could have access to a pre-release version of the company's latest model, the OM-D E-M5 Mark III, he came up with a novel plan. He challenged himself to create a photographic portrait of his country, Belgium – which he would complete in the space of a single day. The goal: 24 photos in 24 hours. [Article courtesy of Olympus]
He rounded up a couple of videographers who, using Olympus OM-D E-M1Xs, would capture the whole process from planning through the 24-hour shoot to a final exhibition entitled 'The Essence of Belgium'
'Time was our biggest enemy', said Chris of the hectic 24-hour, 1100 km project. 'We were figuring it out as we went. Some locations were pitch dark, empty or simply not that impressive… others were random in-between locations that happened to be a good 'Belgian' moment and photo worthy. It was all about being out there and having the camera ready at all times to capture something Belgian.
'For example, I knew I wanted to shoot the Atomium, or Manneken Pis, but I didn't know how or what kind of composition. Those things I left over to the moment itself.
'I think that was the beauty of this project. One might have guessed what I would shoot, but not even I knew how I would shoot it. Some shots ended up being shot out of the moving car, others were just a fraction of the initially planned subject, others were shots that happened right in the moment and wouldn't be repeatable ever again. That was the beauty of the time restriction in this project. It really forced me to solve problems on the go and to be creative.'
On the technical side of things Chris noted that although he was a little apprehensive about stepping down from his workhorse E-M1X to the new little brother, his concerns quickly evaporated. 'When I picked up the E-M5 III for the first time, it couldn't have been easier.
'I unpacked it, dialled in some of the button and wheel layout settings to match my E-M1X's and was ready to use it within a few minutes. There's a consistency with Olympus cameras that just goes across all levels. The menus, button layout, functions and most importantly reliability are similar across the board. As a professional that's actually a big deal.
'Of course there are differences,' Chris added. 'What really struck me was how small and lightweight the E-M5 Mark III is. But then you start shooting and you realise just how capable and powerful this little camera is at the same time.'
'It's unusual for a professional to 'downgrade' and shoot with a less professional camera. I was expecting it to be a big step down and expected to struggle more… but it was just a breeze. And once we saw the prints come out in A1 size at the printers there was no doubt: this little camera is just as much a beast as all its big brothers!'
'Since we were a team of five and all shooting on Olympus cameras, we were constantly swapping around lenses. I'm a big fan of the M.Zuiko PRO lens series, simply because of the weather sealing. I never have to worry about rain or dust so I can fully focus on the subject in front of me.'
Asked which lenses in particular he relied on for the project, Chris said, 'I shot most of the photos with the 12-40mm f/2.8 PRO. It simply allowed me to keep the setup really small and compact and the 12-40mm range is a fantastic all-round setup for the kind of shots we were after.
'The 17mm f/1.2 is also one of my favourite lenses. It's just a perfect focal range for almost everything. And the f/1.2 aperture really helps when there's little to no light, which was something that mattered for the 24-hour project,' he added. 'We spent almost 50% of the time in dimly lit, empty streets, or even total darkness.'
Reflecting on the project and how he works these days, Chris said of his approach to photography, 'unless I travel with a purpose, with a concept, with an idea, with a plan – I don't go. Projects don't all need to aim to change the world, but they need to be original or they aren't worth my time. And I've become very self-critical about it. I shoot less and try to make everything count.'
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Blockchain In Government Processes
Blockchain in Government: Use Cases, Challenges, and Real-Life Projects
Published: 6 July, 2021 Updated: 12 December, 2022
Blockchain and government may seem like an incompatible combination at first glance. However, together they can address key issues such as lack of digitalization and transparency, privacy concerns, inefficiencies, and many more. But how?
In 2021, Deloitte conducted the Global Blockchain Survey that explored overall attitudes and investments in blockchain and digital assets. The company surveyed 1,280 senior executives and practitioners in 10 countries.
The survey found that 81% of global respondents believe that blockchain technology is broadly scalable and has achieved mainstream adoption and 73% of them shared that their organizations would lose their competitive advantage if they didn't introduce digital assets and blockchain-based solutions.
Governments and public sector organizations are also among those who either already use blockchain or have big plans for this tech. They mainly leverage it to replace inefficient centralized systems that can be unsafe and quite expensive. Blockchain, on the other hand, allows for the creation of more secure, flexible, and cost-effective platforms.
Let's find out more about why governments adopt blockchain, understand what benefits this technology brings, and explore real-life blockchain government use cases.
What is the role of blockchain for governments?
With blockchain, governments, businesses, and individuals share resources over a decentralized distributed ledger secured by using cryptography. This way blockchain helps protect sensitive citizen and government data.
What's more, blockchain can help organizations tackle a number of existing problems in government processes, including the lack of digitalization, privacy issues, and widespread corruption.
For example, the World Economic Forum published a study on the blockchain-based public procurement system in which experts analyzed the feasibility of blockchain technology implementation in this area. They concluded that blockchain, with its cryptography and distributed consensus mechanisms, has properties that make it a promising technology capable of reducing corruption.
Some of these properties are continuous accounting, the immutability of recorded information, transaction data transparency, and auditability. Blockchain also implies the automated function of smart contracts and significantly reduces centralized authority and ownership of information within processes.
What are the potential benefits of blockchain in government?
A blockchain-based digital government can protect sensitive data while increasing trust and accountability. Some of the key benefits of implementing blockchain in government include:
Secure storage of sensitive government and citizen data
Prevention of data leakage risks
Digitalization and reduction of labor-intensive processes
Reduced costs associated with managing accountability
Increased transparency and prevention of corruption cases
Enhanced efficiency and automation of administrative processes
Reduced costs by removing the need to turn to intermediary organizations and third parties
Enhanced trust from citizens due to transparent transactions
What are the top 8 blockchain use cases in government?
There is a wide range of blockchain in government applications, from document tracking to e-voting. Let's deep dive into 8 top use cases of blockchain in government.
#1 Blockchain as a tool to cut costs
Blockchain in government helps remove the need to turn to intermediary organizations and third parties, thus significantly reducing overall costs and providing opportunities to invest more in developing and improving social services.
Citizens would also feel better knowing that their tax money is spent on improving services instead of paying unnecessary costs for numerous intermediaries.
#2 Immutable record storage
Governments collect information for many different purposes, from statistics, border control, and public health to climate monitoring, social security, and law enforcement. The immutability of records provided by blockchain can help government organizations collect and store information without the risk of it being tampered with.
When people are sure that no one has intentionally changed the statistics, they will trust the data provided by the government.
Check out DocFlow – a blockchain-based DMS that digitizes the entire paperwork cycle and guarantees data security and authenticity
#3 Land title registries
License and registry processes involve piles of papers, plenty of middlemen, and, hence, costly and inefficient transactions. There is also a risk of fraud because it is difficult to verify documents and check the identity of the intermediary.
A blockchain-based land registration system will reduce the total number of intermediaries and help citizens save time and money. Moreover, they will be able to view verified information on real estate transactions and track all the changes.
For example, the Georgian government's land registry department relies on blockchain as a land registry tool to track real estate transactions and land ownership. This way the government can ensure a greater transparency in land dealings while reducing the likelihood of corruption.
#4 Blockchain-powered e-voting
Regardless of the voting method – digital or paper-based – there is always a chance that someone will falsify or interfere with elections. The audit of election results is usually centralized and not transparent, and there are threats of cyberattacks both from within the country and abroad.
In addition to that, electronic voting machines and their maintenance, ballot printing, the organization, and the subsequent process of counting the results – all these things require a lot of money.
Blockchain can bring transparency into elections, improve security and vote verification, enable remote participation for citizens, and reduce the cost of running all stages of elections.
There is also good news for countries concerned about foreign involvement in elections. Blockchain can help prevent this, too. Since blockchain for the government implies immutability and increased security, no one can interfere with the voting results.
Looking for a voting solution for your company? Meet this blockchain app that speeds up the decision-making process
#5 Payroll tax collection
Smart contracts can be used to match tax data with income transactions and calculate tax and social security deductions, thus bringing more efficiency and streamlining the entire tax collection process.
A blockchain-based system can automatically transfer net salary and tax payments to recipients while ensuring enhanced security.
#6 Vaccination tracking
Governments can use blockchain to record vaccination data on distributed ledger. This way schools, insurance, and medical providers will be able to validate vaccinations quickly.
The technology allows governments to track the entire process of vaccine deployment as well as ensure better protection of vaccine safety and vaccination data.
#7 Validation of documents
Blockchain in government can help validate the documents of all citizens. It can store hash values of citizen documents, thus allowing governments to provide an attested electronic version of these documents anytime.
#8 Student loans tracking
Another prominent blockchain in government use cases includes the ability to efficiently track and manage student loans and grants. For example, smart contracts can be programmed to manage grant and loan applications. They can also track the compliance with terms and conditions. As a result, governments will have real-time loan data that is transparent and secure.
Blockchain for government: challenges
Despite numerous benefits, there are still a few issues for governments wanting to use blockchain. Some of the major challenges include:
When a decentralized network sees a sudden large influx of users, it becomes congested and slows down. As governments seek to interact and provide services to a wide audience, this issue is highly relevant to them.
Users of the two largest and most popular blockchains, Bitcoin and Ethereum, face this issue as well. Nevertheless, there is a way out: this challenge can be tackled with Layer 2 solutions or next-generation protocols such as Ethereum 2.0.
Meanwhile, Bitcoin and Ethereum are not the only blockchains in existence. Developers are trying to find solutions and make blockchains scalable, especially when building new platforms.
For example, the Flow blockchain launched in 2020 leverages its multi-node architecture to provide vertical scalability. The architecture of the nodes is built in such a way that the work is distributed among them. Thus, the blockchain is capable of processing a large number of transactions at a low cost and in a short period of time.
Solana is also a highly scalable blockchain whose transaction fees are very low. The Solana creators claim that the blockchain can process up to 65,000 transactions per second, and the average cost of a transaction is $0.00025.
Check out the article on Ethereum's merge to PoS and find out how it affects the platform's scalability
Application and adaptation processes
Government agencies are obviously already using plenty of different programs and applications, and it may take some time to implement a new platform and integrate it with existing programs. Again, this is not an impossible task. If you partner with a professional blockchain team, experienced developers will customize the new application to your needs and fit it perfectly into the agency's existing infrastructure.
Security risks associated with losing private key
Blockchain security is one of its most prominent features. Thanks to powerful encryption, blockchain-based networks are generally highly resistant to hacking and fraud. However, if someone obtains your private key, they can access your sensitive data and agency information.
The recommendation on how to avoid this situation is simple – be extremely careful and never share or lose your private key.
Lack of knowledge
For most governments, blockchain is still a new technology that will require a learning curve. Agencies can do the research themselves, or they can contact a trusted blockchain consulting company that will not only explain how blockchain works but also demonstrate use cases and real-world applications and offer a suitable solution.
Blockchain projects in government across the globe
You might be thinking, "This all sounds very cool, but is it really possible to implement government blockchain projects like this and get all these benefits?"
Currently, dozens of countries are either developing blockchain applications, or have implemented pilots, or have been successfully using blockchain on numerous projects for years. Let's take a look at some of them.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is running the Accelerate program – the first federal government blockchain-based program to get an authority-to-operate. In an effort to reduce procurement costs for the department, HHS has embarked on this project and has already achieved tangible results.
CIO Jose Arrieta said at the Digital Health CXO Tech Forum in February 2020,
"We negotiated a deal with a company and we're going to save $30 million over five years. It's about a 52.25% discount off of the rate that we're currently paying. We'll generate savings immediately in year one. That deal in and of itself more than pays for the investment that we've made in Accelerate."
How did it work? The Accelerate neural network performed a cluster analysis of 10-year HHS contracts and identified price discrepancies in its portfolio. Later, the department used the results of this research to strike the deal.
The platform's deep database is built on the Hyperledger Fabric blockchain framework and contains contract data from the department's five procurement systems. The use of this platform enables automatic price reductions for the government as HHS staff can view how suppliers interact with the department, check time-stamped financial records, detect price discrepancies, and review all the information related to past contracts.
"We're using [blockchain infrastructure] so that we can nudge and encourage decentralized behavior in the future. There's a number of use cases that we see that could benefit the agency leveraging blockchain," Mr. Arrieta added.
The United Arab Emirates government is probably one of the biggest blockchain enthusiasts in the world that is currently implementing numerous blockchain projects.
For instance, in 2020, the Ministry of Health and Prevention (MoHAP), together with the Ministry of Presidential Affairs, Dubai Healthcare City, and other authorities, launched a blockchain-based medical platform. The platform will record and store data for healthcare and medical practitioners as well as pharmaceutical, government, and private institutions.
The blockchain-based trade finance platform launched by the Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank (ADCB) is another example of a blockchain project being implemented in the UAE. To realize this project, the bank started working with the Singapore-based dltledgers platform. In fact, ADCB became the first bank in the country to execute an end-to-end automated blockchain trade finance transaction.
What is the result? The private ADCB network is now able to provide end-to-end trade transparency throughout the entire transaction lifecycle with authenticated digitized documents at every stage.
It will take too long if we cover all blockchain projects in the UAE, so let's take a look at just some of them:
A blockchain-powered eCommerce platform launched by Dubai Customs
The Dubai Immigration and Visas Department combines biometric authentication and blockchain to develop digital passports for seamless entry into Dubai airport
The Dubai Multi Commodities Centre (DMCC) opens a Crypto Centre that will house companies developing crypto and blockchain technology
Collaboration between IBM and Dubai's Department of Economic Development resulting in the creation of a blockchain-based registry to share information about mainland and free zone registered companies and various aspects of their structure
Blockchain has already entered numerous industries in the United Arab Emirates and doesn't seem to be stopping there.
Estonia has applied blockchain in its e-government system to ensure the safety and security of digital data and take a big step towards a truly digital state. This ambitious project is simply called e-Estonia.
Currently, the Estonian government provides blockchain-based services in almost all areas: education, residency, healthcare, e-identity, mobile services, and others.
The country uses KSI Blockchain, designed by Estonia-based Guardtime. Thanks to KSI Blockchain implemented in Estonian government networks, historical records can't be edited or rewritten by anyone.
Moreover, the authenticity of all recorded data can be mathematically proven. Thus, it is impossible to manipulate data and avoid punishment, no matter where you try to interfere with the system from – within government or even abroad.
Malta is also a country deeply involved in the adoption and use of blockchain technology. The government planned to turn the country into a "blockchain island" and they did so: according to the Times of Malta, since 2017, when the government first announced the creation of a "blockchain island", about €60 billion in cryptocurrency and other virtual assets have passed through the country.
One of the projects implemented by the government, the Ministry for Education and Employment (MEDE), to be exact, was the adoption of the Blockcerts platform.
Using Blockcerts, educational institutions can create, issue, and verify diplomas, certificates, and other academic documents belonging to Maltese citizens. Those citizens, in their turn, will have control over the sharing of their academic credentials.
This solution helps reduce the risk of academic fraud and opens up opportunities for simpler, more convenient, and secure storage and sharing of academic information.
It's worth mentioning that at the end of 2021, the Ministry for the Economy and Industry announced the launch of three new blockchain-based projects in the public sector. The first one will ensure the digitization and registration of official documents relating to industrial property rights in secure digital networks.
In the second project, products made in Gozo will be digitally labeled throughout the production cycle, and the entire process will be documented in the system. This will then allow consumers to scan the product's QR code and receive confirmation that the item was indeed produced in Gozo.
The third project will see the strengthening of the Planning Authority through the DLT.
In November 2017, the government of the Swiss city of Zug decided to test digital identity issuance using the Ethereum blockchain. By the way, Zug is also known as "Crypto Valley" for its cryptocurrency acceptance and many blockchain-related start-ups.
Swiss users interact with the system via the uPort app. The protocol uses two smart contracts – a controller contract and an identity contract – to confirm the validity of the identity and protect data in case the user loses their mobile phone.
In addition to registering via the app, each applicant initially needs to visit the city hall to confirm that they are indeed a resident of the city. After the successful approval, their identity is publicly attested to the Ethereum blockchain.
Once all the steps are completed, the Zug digital ID owner can use the uPort app on their mobile phone to provide identity information.
"Thanks to blockchain-based digital identities, people are getting back control over their own data", commented city clerk Martin Würmli.
Currently, the digital ID can be used for many municipal services, including voting.
South Korea, famous for its technology and online services, couldn't simply pass blockchain by. The South Korean government, for example, is actively developing the ICON platform. It is the country's largest blockchain project, which aims to become a bridge between the online community and businesses in banking, healthcare, government, and many other industries.
There are three enterprise applications based on the ICON blockchain at the moment:
Zzeung – for identity authentication and management
BROOF – for digital certification and management
VisitMe – for visitor check-in and management
In 2020, the Jeju Island government selected Zzeung for secure and reliable COVID-19 contact tracing. Since Jeju Island is one of the most popular tourist destinations in Korea, it was important to ensure the health and safety of tourists and local people while also protecting their personal data.
The South Korean commercial bank Shinhan Bank also chose Zzeung, but with a different goal: to launch the country's first Know Your Customer (KYC) blockchain-based financial authentication service.
Blockchain can help build citizens' trust, prevent data breaches, reduce corruption, and cut government spending. The money saved – citizens' taxes – can be better used, for example, to improve services and invest in medical care, education, etc.
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Liberty Ballers on Lunch Break: Deja Vu All Over Again
We love you, Doug. But you're making it hard for us to defend you right now.
By Roy Burton@TheBSLine Feb 21, 2013, 8:29pm EST
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The lion on LeBron's sweater is bigger than the lion on my sweater.
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About two months ago, I went on CSN Philly's Lunch Break to discuss whether or not Doug Collins is the right man to coach the Philadelphia 76ers.
In the interim, our beloved Sixers have gone 10-21, Andrew Bynum is still no closer to making his way onto the basketball court, and a malaise has affected Michael Levin to the point where he's posting pictures of snowmen on the front page of Liberty Ballers.
Thanks to an excellent piece by Brandon Lee, the same question was posed to be on Lunch Break today: Is Doug the man to lead this team going forward? We also debated whether or not the Sixers needed to do something at the trade deadline, and wondered whether it's even worth it for the team to make a playoff run at this point. Hit the link (or watch below) for 5:52 of #SixersTalk!
(Note: For the record, I really didn't/don't want Josh Smith. But if the Sixers feel as though they HAD to make a move, and they HAD to get the best player available, then a potential Smith trade wouldn't have angered me. I am, however, a member of #TeamTank.)


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/**
 */
package gluemodel.CIM.IEC61970.Informative.MarketOperations.impl;

import gluemodel.CIM.IEC61970.Core.impl.CurveImpl;

import gluemodel.CIM.IEC61970.Informative.MarketOperations.GeneratingBid;
import gluemodel.CIM.IEC61970.Informative.MarketOperations.MarketOperationsPackage;
import gluemodel.CIM.IEC61970.Informative.MarketOperations.NotificationTimeCurve;

import java.util.Collection;

import org.eclipse.emf.common.notify.NotificationChain;

import org.eclipse.emf.common.util.EList;

import org.eclipse.emf.ecore.EClass;
import org.eclipse.emf.ecore.InternalEObject;

import org.eclipse.emf.ecore.util.EObjectWithInverseResolvingEList;
import org.eclipse.emf.ecore.util.InternalEList;

/**
 *
 * An implementation of the model object 'Notification Time Curve'.
 *
 *

 * The following features are implemented:
 *

 *

 *
{@link gluemodel.CIM.IEC61970.Informative.MarketOperations.impl.NotificationTimeCurveImpl#getGeneratingBids Generating Bids}

 *

 *
 * @generated
 */
public class NotificationTimeCurveImpl extends CurveImpl implements NotificationTimeCurve {
	/**
	 * The cached value of the '{@link #getGeneratingBids() Generating Bids}' reference list.
	 *
	 *
	 * @see #getGeneratingBids()
	 * @generated
	 * @ordered
	 */
	protected EList<GeneratingBid> generatingBids;

	/**
	 *
	 *
	 * @generated
	 */
	protected NotificationTimeCurveImpl() {
		super();
	}

	/**
	 *
	 *
	 * @generated
	 */
	@Override
	protected EClass eStaticClass() {
		return MarketOperationsPackage.Literals.NOTIFICATION_TIME_CURVE;
	}

	/**
	 *
	 *
	 * @generated
	 */
	public EList<GeneratingBid> getGeneratingBids() {
		if (generatingBids == null) {
			generatingBids = new EObjectWithInverseResolvingEList<GeneratingBid>(GeneratingBid.class, this, MarketOperationsPackage.NOTIFICATION_TIME_CURVE__GENERATING_BIDS, MarketOperationsPackage.GENERATING_BID__NOTIFICATION_TIME_CURVE);
		}
		return generatingBids;
	}

	/**
	 *
	 *
	 * @generated
	 */
	@SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
	@Override
	public NotificationChain eInverseAdd(InternalEObject otherEnd, int featureID, NotificationChain msgs) {
		switch (featureID) {
			case MarketOperationsPackage.NOTIFICATION_TIME_CURVE__GENERATING_BIDS:
				return ((InternalEList<InternalEObject>)(InternalEList<?>)getGeneratingBids()).basicAdd(otherEnd, msgs);
		}
		return super.eInverseAdd(otherEnd, featureID, msgs);
	}

	/**
	 *
	 *
	 * @generated
	 */
	@Override
	public NotificationChain eInverseRemove(InternalEObject otherEnd, int featureID, NotificationChain msgs) {
		switch (featureID) {
			case MarketOperationsPackage.NOTIFICATION_TIME_CURVE__GENERATING_BIDS:
				return ((InternalEList<?>)getGeneratingBids()).basicRemove(otherEnd, msgs);
		}
		return super.eInverseRemove(otherEnd, featureID, msgs);
	}

	/**
	 *
	 *
	 * @generated
	 */
	@Override
	public Object eGet(int featureID, boolean resolve, boolean coreType) {
		switch (featureID) {
			case MarketOperationsPackage.NOTIFICATION_TIME_CURVE__GENERATING_BIDS:
				return getGeneratingBids();
		}
		return super.eGet(featureID, resolve, coreType);
	}

	/**
	 *
	 *
	 * @generated
	 */
	@SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
	@Override
	public void eSet(int featureID, Object newValue) {
		switch (featureID) {
			case MarketOperationsPackage.NOTIFICATION_TIME_CURVE__GENERATING_BIDS:
				getGeneratingBids().clear();
				getGeneratingBids().addAll((Collection<? extends GeneratingBid>)newValue);
				return;
		}
		super.eSet(featureID, newValue);
	}

	/**
	 *
	 *
	 * @generated
	 */
	@Override
	public void eUnset(int featureID) {
		switch (featureID) {
			case MarketOperationsPackage.NOTIFICATION_TIME_CURVE__GENERATING_BIDS:
				getGeneratingBids().clear();
				return;
		}
		super.eUnset(featureID);
	}

	/**
	 *
	 *
	 * @generated
	 */
	@Override
	public boolean eIsSet(int featureID) {
		switch (featureID) {
			case MarketOperationsPackage.NOTIFICATION_TIME_CURVE__GENERATING_BIDS:
				return generatingBids != null && !generatingBids.isEmpty();
		}
		return super.eIsSet(featureID);
	}

} //NotificationTimeCurveImpl

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Q: Laravel 5.7 Notification ->line there is no option to escape html but it was working in 5.5 I have the same code notification in Laravel 5.5 and 5.7, for Laravel 5.5, I am able to use  in ->line, but in 5.7 it will escape it.
In my notification blade view file, I set {{ ]} or {!! !!}, I still can't display html in my email. In 5.5, I do not need to escape it still work.
\\this is when I not escape
<strong>2019-01-13 15:41</strong>

 \\this is when I escape
 2019-01-13 15:37

what I want is display bold like below.
2019-01-13 15:37
both method also displayed the tag, It will not bold the text. The same coding work in 5.5 but not Laravel version 5.7.20

A: According to @driesvints

You don't need withoutDoubleEncoding in 5.7 so you can remove that.
As you can see lines are being escaped in the template:
framework/src/Illuminate/Notifications/resources/views/email.blade.php
Line 15 in d818fd1
{{ $line }}  So you'll need to indicate that the line has HTML in it.
  Try this:
->line(new HtmlString('Due Date: ' . Carbon::parse($this->info->created_at)->format('Y-m-d
  H:i').''));

This is solution. Thanks!

A: From 5.5 to 5.6 upgrade, the Laravel blade double encoding is removed. If you would like to maintain the previous behaviour of preventing double encoding, you may use the Blade::withoutDoubleEncoding method like the following.
<?php

namespace App\Providers;

use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Blade;
use Illuminate\Support\ServiceProvider;

class AppServiceProvider extends ServiceProvider
{
  /**
   * Bootstrap any application services.
   *
   * @return void
   */
   public function boot()
   {
       Blade::withoutDoubleEncoding();
   }
}

You can read more about it on Laravel Documentation.


Charlie Chaplin said that The Gold Rush was the film for which he would like to be remembered; it glitters with some of his most memorable nuggets of comedy. In the frozen wastes of the Klondike, where hordes endure hardship in the quest for gold, Chaplin's hapless Lone Prospector takes shelter in the cabin of a hungry giant, who hallucinates Charlie into a startlingly convincing chicken. In other oft-excerpted scenes, our hero is reduced to eating his own boot, leads a pair of rolls in a graceful soft-shoe, and tries to escape a cabin teetering on the brink of an abyss. But The Gold Rush is more than the sum of its moments: Chaplin's comedy of desperation and get-rich-quick fantasies both looks back to the tragic folly of the Donner Party and lampoons the mad American hunger for wealth that remains as ravenous as ever.
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Margaret Giragosian Williamson received her early training at The Washington Ballet, the Maryland Youth Ballet, and the Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet. During this time, she was also privileged to spend three summers studying with American Ballet Theatre. She received her BFA in Dance from George Mason University where she was a regular performer and choreographer with the GMU Dance Company; represented the university at the American College Dance Festival and Chautauqua Dance Festival; was the recipient of the 2008 Chris Thaiss Award for Excellence in Writing in Dance and also earned a BA in English. Following her graduation, Williamson completed the Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet Teacher Training Workshop.
She has taught ballet and pointe technique to students of all ages and levels at American Dance Institute in Rockville, MD and has taught creative movement and pre-ballet to young children at Tiny Dancers LLC in Virginia. Williamson is also a proud member of MMT in Concert, a local dance and music performance group.