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The director actually scheduled out an entire day to complete the two big scenes, but they only took half the day to complete it.
As a result, the time for afternoon interviews are quite abundant.
Ning Xi and Jiang Muye were quite cooperative, answering all the reporters questions. The reporters were quite respectful to their feelings and avoided the extremely sensitive topics.
Seeing that the atmosphere is very good, after completing the interview questions about the drama, the reporters began to ask them some personal questions.
Ning Xi had a headache, because it was difficult for her to answer such a conventional question.
She was someone who did not want to get married, and thus she never thought of having to choose a spouse, so how would she have a list of criterias ah?
Ning Xi shook her head, concentrating on answering the questions from the reporters.
"My spouse selection criterias are that he should be about my age, have similar interests as me, and that we are like-minded people." Fortunately, on this issue, she was well prepared, so she readily said the prepared lines.
En, the answer was perfectly reasonable and they should not find anything wrong with it.
Two hours later, the interview ended.
Even though they got to see the stunning scenes between the two today, but because they are not allowed to release major spoilers, thus they could not share it. However, a small fragmented clips and tidbits were still allowed.
Moreover, the interview went very smoothly, and the content was very rich. Both Ning Xi and Jiang Muye act harmoniously both on and off the screen. Since they received a lot of writing and broadcasting material, the reporters were very satisfied.
Thank you for the translation! You made my day by releasing yesterday and today! LTX where are you?
Near her age: Big Boss/Big Bun IS near her age.
Like Minded people: definitely Big Boss. Have you guys seen how these two couple bully people around?
Likes and Hobbies: oh we all know Big Bun's hobbies and likes are Ning Xi, herself.
Noooo Eunie what happened with schoool?
Well you see as soon as I graduated from my four year course (IR studies) I was thrown in a law school by my parents where the professors are all this hard headed competitive bunch. Like for example when class starts and they see you looking at your book or the book is just sitting there on top of your table, the very next thing you'll know is your book has been thrown out of the third floor. You'll be lucky if it wasn't raining during that time.
I'm actually planning on transferring school without my parents knowing for the upcoming semester so report cards and stuff needs to be on the higher side but Ugh. I'm gonna die if I stay in that law school but my parents won't even allow me to get a job! *sniffs* so transferring somewhere else might be better….
Eunieberry!! Get out of that place! I can't believe a place like that exists! How can anyone learn anything in that environment. A teacher threw a college student's phone against the wall?? Throwing books out a 3rd story window?? *boggles* You can't read your textbooks in class? *head spinning* That place sounds like it needs to be shut down. Get out of there! I'm seriously flabbergasted!
Weeeell, that was also my reaction for the first month of the first sem. But everyone just went like "cause it's law school" so just getting into law school is some sort of suicidal and masochistic act. A torture. Wherein you'll think the crazy maths You had in high school or the sleepless and crazy thesis and research paper in uni. Is actually so much better.
Has anyone read the current raws ? Do we know who little buns mother is ?
That's actually kind of obvious… Tidbits of clues says she's his mother… Especially the clue that when they smile, they look very alike… Even the ex had a passing thought that little bun looked like her (thinking about the "supposedly" dead baby) when he saw them in the hospital. ..
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In one video that would later be posted to Florence and The Machine's Twitter account, "Constellations" can be heard in the background while Die Antwoord's Ninja scribbles something on a notepad. The duo had filmed the snaps while in a hotel room after headlining the Argentinian edition of Lollapalooza.
Look out for more on Jack Ü's Florence Welch collaboration, "Constellations," as festival season approaches.


Set in a 100% recycled 14k yellow gold carved Evergreen 4 prong setting is an other-worldy 1.55ct teal oval Montana Sapphire.
There are Montana Sapphires, and then there are Montana Sapphires like THIS one... the stone is precision cut to perfection in a spectacular oval brilliant design. It was carefully mined in Rock Creek, Montana and faceted in the United States. The sapphire color will look a little different depending on the light source but overall it is much more blue than green. It is a heated stone, a routine treatment that mimics the earth's natural process to enhance color and improve clarity. The clarity on this stone is excellent for a Montana Sapphire. There are no visible inclusions. The stone measures 7.7mm x 6.7mm.


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TV Series | 60 min | Drama
Tough female doctors treat an exclusively female clientele at the Rittenhouse Women's clinic, tackling female-centric issues and trying to make the world a better place in a male-dominated society.
Dr. Luisa Delgado
(131 episodes, 2000-2006)
Jenifer Lewis
Lana Hawkins
Josh Coxx
Midwife Peter Riggs, R.N.
Philip Casnoff
Chief of Staff Dr. Robert Jackson
Brennan Elliott
Dr. Nick Biancavilla
Dr. Andy Campbell
Tammy Ader, Whoopi Goldberg
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Very Good Show!
I would recommend anyone to watch this show. Lifetime has an eye for brilliant ideas when it comes to their shows. The storylines are real and open up the viewer's mind to the frailty of life and how other people are coping with things you can't imagine. I lost touch with it a little after Dana left because I didn't think I'd be accustomed to the mom from Home Improvement as her replacement. I don't quite remember why Dana left. I think she wanted to have kids? Anywho, Dr. Delgado is awesome and puts her opinions out there for the world to know. Even in medicine, there are systems of inequality and I like that they let you know that. I love Lana's character and how she fits into the equation. Their lives are pretty interesting too, but the show focuses on the neglected needs of women which is what is really interesting. What's good for the goose isn't necessarily good for the gander.
Judging Amy
Designing Women
Third Watch
Rosa Blasi and Jenifer Lewis are the only cast members to appear in every episode. Rosa Blasi, Jenifer Lewis, and Josh Coxx are the only cast members to appear in every season.
Jonas: So, today's the big day. Too late to elope?
Dr. Luisa 'Lu' Delgado: Ah, don't tempt me.
There is an episode where a 16-year-old girl overdoses on cough syrup. Throughout the episode, the doctors refer to the drug in cough syrup as "DMX". The psychoactive ingredient in some cough syrups is dextromethorphan hydrobromide, commonly called "DXM".
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Sarah Hillyard is based in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and holds a Masters Degree in Teaching English to Young Learners from the University of York, U.K. She is currently Kindergarten Coordinator at a bilingual school and a teacher trainer specialising in teaching English to very young learners. She has also taught at Secondary level and has been tutor of "Children's Literature" at the National Teacher Training College in the city of Buenos Aires.
She has had articles published in journals and has written a supplementary teacher's guide on how to use puppets to accompany Macmillan's series "Tiger Time". She spent two years travelling as an actress with "The Performers" (TIE - Theatre in Education) and is now the company's English Coach.
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Spain's acting PM, Mariano Rajoy, on Tuesday edged potentially closer towards forming a government after cutting a deal with his most likely partner, liberal newcomers Ciudadanos, to elect one of his ministers to the post of parliament speaker.
Rajoy's centre-right party lost its majority in a general election in December, leaving Spain in a political impasse that a subsequent vote in June did not resolve, prompting warnings of repercussions for the country's return to economic growth.
In parliament's first order of business after reconvening on Tuesday to swear in newly-elected representatives, Public Works Minister Ana Pastor won a vote to be speaker with support from both her People's Party (PP) and Ciudadanos ("Citizens").
She trounced Patxi Lopez, the Socialist Party candidate and a former leader of the Basque regional government, potentially shoring up Rajoy's position as the PP seeks to form a government after last month's inconclusive election.
Pastor's election as speaker heading the lower house's nine-member executive committee marked a small victory for Rajoy. At present, business-friendly Ciudadanos, which came fourth in the June election, looks like his most likely ally.
But the acting premier said there was no sign of any breakthrough deal yet with either centrist Ciudadanos or the PP's Socialist arch-opponents on forming a government.
"The only agreement we have reached is to form the executive committee ... From there on, we only know what the positions are of the two parties that have enough seats to reach an understanding with one another," Rajoy told reporters.
"It's obvious that if neither of those positions change, it won't be possible to hold the (government) investiture."
Ciudadanos has said it would abstain from any investiture vote of a new PP-led government. The Socialists have refused to endorse any such outcome, despite not having won enough seats to join forces with other left-leaning parties such as Podemos.
If Rajoy can garner the support he needs from a cluster of other smaller parties to form a realistic government proposal, he will hold an investiture ballot.
Under rules set out in the constitution, Rajoy must obtain an absolute majority of 176 seats on the floor of the 350-seat lower house to avoid a second vote two days later.
At the second vote, he would need only a simple majority - that is, more "yes" votes than "no" even if short of 176.
The prospect of a second hung parliament prompted ratings agency Fitch to warn that further political stalemate would probably have a greater negative impact on confidence and growth this time around than in December.
But, Fitch said, June's ballot was less likely to result in another six months of paralysis, a view echoed by investors, who have lifted Madrid's blue-chip IBEX index by nearly 12 percent from three-year lows.
"It makes no sense to prolong this indefinitely, nor to hold another election," Rajoy said.


Father's day is around the corner, and we really love dads around here! We appreciate them for all that they do for us, their quirky dad humor, their awkward dancing, and all the memories we've made with them through the years. It's especially fun getting to watch our own little kiddos create their own sweet memories with their dads, our hubbies! Is there any thing more attractive than seeing a man become an awesome father?! Nope!
In honor of these good men, we thought it would be fun to ask our toddlers some questions about their dads. Their answers are adorable. Obviously they are on the younger side, but they were so excited to talk about dear 'ol dad! We used a cute questionnaire provided by Discount Tire all about hitting' the road with their dads from "what's dads favorite snacks? and "what music does dad like to listen to on the road" to "wheres your favorite place to go with dad" and more. We think it's a pretty cute video, but we are their moms 😉 You can ask your kids the same questions that we have listed below. Happy Father's Day to all those daddies out there, and future daddies, and guys that don't have kids, but are nice to kids. You're awesome, we love ya.
I love my dad because he….
I think I am like my dad because….
If my dad could go anywhere….
he would like to take a road trip to….
When my dad goes on a road trips he packs….
My dad likes to stop here to take a….
driving break whenever we are on a road trip….
My dad's favorite road trip snack is….
My dad's favorite music to list to in the car is….
My dad's favorite road trip game is….
My favorite place that I….
visited with my dad was….
I love going on road trips….
Thank you Discount Tire for sponsoring this conversation and reminding us that it's not about where you're driving, it's about who you're driving with! Check out the Discount Tire site here.


London – 6 September 2018 - Gresham Technologies plc, the leading oftware and services company that specialises in providing real-time data integrity and control solutions, is delighted to announce the release of WBR Insights Regulation, Innovation, and Digitalisation survey.
In a survey sponsored by Gresham, WBR Insights surveyed 100 Chief Data Officers across Europe to find out the challenges they are facing as the financial sector grapples with a data revolution and increasingly complex regulatory environments.
You can download a copy of the survey at the Gresham website here.


A recently renovated complex of houses originally built in early 19th century when was accommodating Vourakis family.
The guesthouse is built on the foothills of Leuka Oroi offering an amazing view of the mountains from inside the apartments. It is also situated just a breath away from the famous beach of Sougia in the South coast of Chania in Lybean Sea.
The recent renovation combines uniquely the traditional rural architecture of the area and the village, with a contemporary essence of design and amenities offering a beautiful premise for romance, relaxation and family vacations.


In Singapore, the current practice suggests that the High Court has original jurisdiction to revoke a patent. However such a practice is not established at law, rules the Singapore High Court in Sun Electric Pte Ltd v Sunseap Group Pte Ltd and others  SGHC 232.
This landmark case is the first time in Singapore that the specific question of whether the High Court may hear revocation proceedings has been directly ruled upon. Justice George Wei clarified that the Singapore High Court in fact has no original jurisdiction to hear revocation proceedings or grant a prayer for revocation regardless of whether it is by way of a counterclaim in infringement proceedings.
"[T]he fact that there is a practice does not provide a basis to establish jurisdiction as a matter of law. Nor can practice trump law." says Justice George Wei.
The Plaintiff is a registered proprietor of a Singapore patent in respect of a power grid system and a method of determining power consumption at building connections in the system ("the Patent"). The Plaintiff commenced an infringement action against the Defendants alleging that some but not all the claims of the Patent were infringed.
The Defendants, by way of a defence, denied the claims and filed a counterclaim against the Plaintiff which included a declaration that all claims of the Patent are invalid and for an order that the Patent be revoked. In response, the Plaintiff sought to strike out the counterclaim.
The Plaintiff asserted that the Defendants could not put in issue any claims of the Patent by way of a counterclaim for revocation. The Plaintiff's case was that the right to institute revocation proceedings is confined to proceedings by way of an application to the Registrar of Patents ("the Registrar"), and the Defendants could not commence revocation proceedings in the High Court, not even by way of a counterclaim.
On appeal, the Plaintiff argued that revocation proceedings may not be commenced in the High Court at first instance. The Plaintiff submitted that the provisions of the Patents Act indicate that only the Registrar, and not the High Court, may revoke a patent.
The Defendants, on the other hand, argued that revocation proceedings may be brought by way of a counterclaim in infringement proceedings commenced in the High Court. According to the Defendants, provisions of the Patents Act and the existing practice make clear that the High Court may hear revocation proceedings.
Wei J's decision centred around trying to establish the statutory basis of the High Court's jurisdiction to hear revocation proceedings. He noted a Court of Appeal judgment where the Court of Appeal held that the court cannot assume or confer jurisdiction upon itself "regardless of how it may have acted". Instead, the court's "jurisdiction is a question of law [to] be determined by reference to the relevant legislation".
Wei J first concluded that neither the Parliamentary Debates nor the sections of the Patents Act raised by the parties were conclusive on the issue on appeal. He then went on to examine Section 16(1) of the Supreme Court Judicature Act ("the SCJA") which provides for the court's general civil jurisdiction to hear actions in personam. He then drew a distinction between an action in personam which binds the parties and an action in rem which also affects others not party to the proceedings.
Wei J thus proceeded to examine the conceptual nature of the proceedings and orders in the context of infringement and revocation. He noted that an order of revocation, unlike a finding on infringement, has an effect in rem. In light of the nature of a revocation proceeding and in the absence of any statutory basis conferring original jurisdiction upon the court to hear revocation proceedings, Wei J held that the High Court did not have jurisdiction under section 16(1) of the SCJA to hear patent revocation cases.
Revocation proceedings cannot be heard in the High Court at first instance, whether by way of a counterclaim in infringement proceedings or an application for revocation.
The High Court can exercise its appellate jurisdiction to determine questions on revocation from a Registrar's decision under Section 80 of the Patents Act.
A declaration of invalidity in connection with proceedings for infringement and groundless threats of suit can be heard in the High Court at first instance.
Even if the declaration of invalidity succeeds, until a separate application to the Registrar for revocation succeeds, the patent will remain on the patents register and it is, in theory, possible for the patentee to assert the same patent against another person.
In this regard, unlike in the English Courts, an order for revocation cannot be made in a High Court proceeding where the validity of the patent is being challenged as a defence or counterclaim. The High Court can only make a declaration of invalidity which is an order in personam.


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Payroll Vault Announces Fourth Annual Conference for Franchisees
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Event Geared To Inspire, Educate, And Ensure Success Of Franchise Owners
August 31, 2016 // Franchising.com // Greenwood Village, CO – Payroll Vault Franchising, one of the fastest growing franchises nationwide, announced today its fourth annual franchisee conference to take place at The Inverness Hotel & Conference Center in Englewood, Colorado August 31 – September 2, 2016. The conference serves as an education forum where Payroll Vault franchisees from 14 states across the country will gather to exchange ideas, participate in workshops, and learn through peer-to-peer interaction.
Payroll Vault Franchising president and founder Sean Manning, CPA, stated, "By bringing a group of professionals together who share a similar vision and the same goals within an environment of learning, it sets the stage for innovative thought and a rich educational experience. We want our franchisees to learn from our team, but also from each other - sharing stories of success and areas for improvement."
Payroll Vault Franchising has enjoyed a successful fourth year, selling 29 franchises in 14 states. To date, there are also several franchisees at various stages of the onboarding process.
"We've invested countless hours and resources building a sound payroll business model to ensure the success of our franchisees. Payroll Vault franchisees benefit from our sound business model, strategic marketing, and access to our years of experience operating a profitable payroll practice. We have worked diligently to compile all of the hands-on expertise and knowledge and are continuing into our fourth successful year," Manning said.
A Payroll Vault franchise offers prospective owners an opportunity to tap into the lucrative payroll revenue stream - without having to build a practice from scratch The Payroll Vault franchise fee is far less than the estimated cost to launch a payroll business solely.
About Payroll Vault Franchising
Headquartered in Greenwood Village, Colorado, Payroll Vault Franchising provides entrepreneurs the opportunity to start-up their own small business with the support of our team of experts with decades of experience providing payroll support and small business success. Since its launch in 2012, Payroll Vault Franchising has grown rapidly as clients realized the immense value of the service as a business. As a result, today Payroll Vault Franchising is recognized as a national leader in the industry. For more information, visit PayrollVaultFranchise.com.
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Headquartered in Greenwood Village, Colorado, Payroll Vault Franchising provides entrepreneurs the opportunity to start-up their own small business with the support of their team of experts.
Low investment, fastest growing with over 1,000 franchises in 10 years, #1 in franchisee satisfaction for the last six years...enough said!
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Edition: GLOBAL - Today's top story: Sudan impasse can end if Bashir sets aside his pride and agrees to mediation Click here to view this message in your web-browser.
After 30 years in power, Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir is facing a stiff challenge to his leadership in the form of popular protests. People are deeply unhappy about soaring inflation and the high cost of basic foodstuffs, like bread. Luka Kuol suggests that Sudan is at a crossroads - and that it's time for Bashir to accept mediation, and to stand down, or indicate that he won't stand for reelection in 2020.
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i've been here before with a friend to get her nails done, i didn't actually get them done. but from what she said and the way her nails looked, they did a great job, and the people there were really great!
the service here was pretty good. i usually don't come to this place but i was in a hurry and they weren't busy so it was nice to get right in. the staff are great and really polite! no complaints!
this place has some great italian food. some of the best around and the menu is fabulous! i suggest trying just about anything, its all good. it's not the cheapest place so this would be for a bit of a nicer dinner, but the food is delicious!
when my friends and i go here we usually get a couple dishes and share. the portions are big but its not the cheapest chinese food around. the food is pretty good though, check it out!
this place has great greek food. the best i've had around the evanston area. the prices are pretty fair and you get a pretty good value! the service was great while i was there as well. check it out if you are in the area!
this place is a lot of fun. it gets busy but what place doesn't! the food here is great and make sure to try new things every time you go in, it makes it more fun that way because everything is delicious!
great for breakfast! the food is good and the value is great! the prices aren't too bad and the portions are pretty good.
the staff are always nice and friendly!
this is one of my favorite places to go eat with friends. the food is always fresh and you can always try new things and mix it up with all the sauces. the lunch special is great - 9 bucks for all you can eat! if you are student you get a student discount with ID!!! check it out!


Cougar Company announced the addition to the range of its first digital power supply, which has a certification 80Plus Bronze. According to the developers, the arrival on the market of a new CMD Digital PSU is a major milestone for digital power supplies, taking them out of "niche" class products and bringing to the usual options for gaming PCs.
In the novelty Cougar has implemented its proprietary Digital Power technology and integrated it into the Cougar UIX control system. Digital control allows software to monitor the power supply parameters, such as input and output voltage, current efficiency, power consumption, heating temperature, as well as fine-tune of the supply voltage. With TSR-sensor which may be installed on one of the components of the system, it is possible to monitor the temperature at a given point. In addition, UIX allows you to control the speed of rotation of the two additional fans.
The power supply includes one line of +12 V with a maximum load current of 40 A (for 500-W models) or 49 A (for 600-W model).


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Hi, I'm Karl! I'm a Software Engineer.
I had a passion for robotics and programming from a very young age. When I was quite young, I was excited to work in BASIC on a C64 and play games on an Intellivision. I still remember the first time I saw my first NES game – Super Mario Bros. I was quite the Nintendo fanboy: begging my parents for a NES, then SNES, saved up to buy a used Gameboy (original), then got a N64. At this point I became more interested in PC gaming.
I started playing PC games back when there was only DOS (and Windows 3.1, but most games were DOS) and thanks to the rise of the 'demo version' distribution method, I played the demos of games over and over, Wolfenstein 3D, Commander Keen, Doom, Duke Nukem 1/2/3D, Crystal Caves, X-Wing, and many more. Some I was lucky enough to buy full versions of. This was also the time that I did some Visual Basic programming, but nothing very complex.
Then came Windows 95, where games like WarCraft II, StarCraft, Quake1, Jedi Knight, and so on were my games of choice. After that Windows 98, and Windows 2000, where I started making levels for Quake2, and eventually worked on a full 'total conversion' mod called '007 Quake 2'. I learned a lot about making levels for that engine, some gameplay programming, some UI programming, and organizing a team completely remotely (I still have not met any of them in person to this day) to work on the rest of the conversion, like art, sounds, levels, etc. When the full engine source code for Quake 2 was released open-source, I was able to make the mod fully stand-alone by removing all references to original Quake 2 content. I also added some enhancements to the renderer.
Quake 3 is still one of my favourite games, and I remember playing the beta of it with the original NVIDIA Riva TNT, on a 56k modem pinging about 200ms on the official id Software server. They did a great job with client-side prediction on that title. I also remember the first time I ran the game with the original NVIDIA Geforce 1 – the game ran amazing on that card.
I worked on my Quake 2 mod during high school, and right after I graduated I started a 'game programming program' at CDIS, a local private arts and technology college. During my orientation day there, I was informed that they had just been purchased by Arts Institute. Unfortunately that meant that during my time there, there was a lot of changes due to the transition to the new owner. It didn't benefit any of the people in my program. I did learn some useful skills (thanks to the teachers there) and made great life-long friends in some of my colleagues, but the cost of the program was not worth it to me, so I quit after a year and decided to go to university instead.
I started at SFU Surrey in 2004, taking the SIAT program. I worked on some small games as class projects, and was lucky enough to be invited to speak about one of them at a local game exhibition. I then had my first co-op placement at Relic Entertainment in 2006, where I worked on an unannounced (then cancelled) project, then helped ship Company of Heroes, the highest rated PC RTS of all time. I then came back for a longer co-op placement in 2007, where I helped ship Company of Heroes: Opposing Fronts, and started work on Dawn of War 2. In 2008 I came back to work more on Dawn of War 2 with my own negotiated contract, working part-time some of the time due to university classes, but then started full-time work at Relic in the beginning of 2009. I was still finishing up my degree, but graduated with my Bachelors of Science in mid 2009.
At Relic I saw Dawn of War 2 through to ship, then had a lot more responsibility on Dawn of War 2: Chaos Rising, and even more shipping Dawn of War 2: Retribution. After Retribution I was assigned to help Space Marine ship in its last 8-9 months of development. There I was mainly responsible for the PC SKU, coming up with the minimum requirements for the game, making sure it ran smoothly on the minimum requirements and above, dealing with hardware vendors, driver compatibility problems, etc.
During my time at Relic I also had the opportunity to attend a few conference, and spoke at the Canadian Games Conference 2011 in a panel, which was captured on video here.
In early 2012 almost the entire team I was working on at Relic was laid off, and we actually were not working on the Dark Millenium Online project, but what we were working on is something I can't share.
In August 2012 I decided to join the game design consultancy Adrian Crook & Associates as a Lead Programmer. I worked on on internal and client iOS projects, as well as PlayRank, their own start-up social second-screen sports mobile app. In short, think of it as 'twitter for sports'.
In March 2013 I joined YMC Network as a Lead Mobile Software Engineer, responsible for building and leading a team to build mobile app and game technology.
Later that year Kevin Oke and I created UFO Dad, which launched on PlayStation Mobile December 18th, 2013.
Near the end of 2013 I joined DeNA Vancouver as a Senior Software Engineer. At DeNA I helped develop Super Battle Tactics, and kept it running until I parted with the company in May 2015.
In July 2015 I joined a local enterprise e-commerce business called Mobify. It was my first software engineering job outside of the game industry, and was quite eye-opening. I learned a lot there.
In June of 2018 I returned to the game industry and helped co-found Gasket Games, a new studio in Vancouver. We are working on several exciting projects, as well as striving to make a positive difference in the Vancouver game industry.
© 2020 Karl Schmidt


Hilton Head Prep suffered its first loss of the season Saturday, losing 11-6 to visiting Augusta Christian.
The Dolphins got out to a 4-0 lead after two innings before the Lions scored three in the third and two in the fourth and broke it open with a pair of three-run innings in the sixth and seventh.
Connor McDonnell took the loss in relief, allowing eight runs (four earned) in 3 1/3 innings with seven walks.
Gage Hurlbut was 3-for-3 with two doubles, two runs, two RBIs, and two stolen bases to lead the Dolphins' offense. Harrison Booker went 3-for-4 with a double, a stolen base, and three runs for the Lions.
HHP (4-1) hosts Memorial Day on Tuesday.
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the rebuilders
The global pandemic doesn't have to halt your global growth strategy
The worst thing you can do through this economic tumult is sit and wait it out. Instead: Adapt, plan, and build virtual relationships to push your venture forward.
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In July 2019, our human insights company opened its first international office, in Edinburgh, Scotland. This followed a monthslong process that saw me and members of our executive team cross the pond several times to scout locations, interview job candidates, and meet with local partners.
In July 2020, our company made another big international move, hiring our first Asia-Pacific vice president of sales to grow our presence in the region. I've met him only via Zoom.
What a difference a global pandemic makes. COVID-19 shutdowns began in mid-March just as we announced a $100 million venture funding round to, in part, drive our San Francisco-based company's worldwide expansion. Then, all of a sudden, we couldn't even get on a plane.
What we've found since, however, is that the pandemic and the subsequent economic downturn didn't have to thwart our global strategy, it merely has changed how we've approached it in certain ways.
And apparently we're not alone. According to a report by consulting firm Globalization Partners, most businesses are undeterred by COVID-19 and are pushing forward with new or expanded international operations.
"This research offers grounds for optimism that the economic crisis caused by COVID-19 has not derailed international expansion plans for most businesses who were already on this path," the report said.
But what should such companies be doing to tackle the challenge? Based on our experience, here are three key things to keep in mind.
International expansion may make more sense now
COVID-19 has forced many business leaders to struggle with managing their core North America business, let alone think about extending their footprint abroad. But, in some ways, pursuing overseas expansion is especially smart now.
First, the pandemic hasn't changed the reality that a global workforce allows companies to recruit talent from a wider landscape. In fact, a remote, international employee base can help with the country-by-country variations in economic reopening. It's a good time to be diversified.
Second, companies expand into foreign markets to attract new customers and grow. Pulling back now only jeopardizes growth and can put competitors at an advantage during the inevitable recovery.
While companies are wise to manage their global expansions cautiously these days, they should not lose sight of how valuable those investments can be.
The pandemic has affected relationship dynamics
In a normal year, I would have made a half-dozen international business trips by this point in late summer, spending quality time with the teams and meeting with customers and partners. The number in 2020: zero. Zoom is now as personal as it gets.
While videoconferencing has been a godsend in enabling people to stay connected wherever they are—and is way easier than long plane flights—we all know it's no replacement for good old-fashioned face-to-face interaction. And the absence of it can hinder some of the normal routines in a global company.
For example, on the day in mid-March when we announced the acquisition of a Norwegian company, I had planned to be in Oslo along with other members of our executive team so the employees could get to know us as people, not just some U.S. company that bought them. I still am waiting to make that trip. I'm also sad that I haven't had the opportunity to meet in person with most employees in our Edinburgh office, which has grown considerably in the last year.
The best way to attack this challenge is through what McKinsey calls "a people-centered approach to internal and remote leadership." That means frequent virtual meetings with international teams and using that time not just for status updates and decision-making but for relationship-building and empathy.
Flexibility has never mattered more
I mentioned earlier that we recently brought in our first Asia-Pacific vice president of sales. Ordinarily, I would have traveled to Singapore or he to San Francisco for an in-person interview. Instead, the hiring process consisted of a Zoom call and leaning heavily on references. Would we have hired a senior executive this way pre-COVID-19? Unlikely.
We're very happy with the hire, but my point is that in the current environment you have to be flexible. You have to be ready, willing, and able to work with the hand we've all been dealt. That means an extraordinary level of nimbleness.
The need for flexibility and adaptability also applies to another aspect of successfully managing internationally right now—not viewing all your overseas operations as a monolith. COVID-19 restrictions and economic recoveries vary country by country—heck, they vary even within the U.K.—so a company must be granular in its planning, staff deployment, marketing, etc.
As these three points show, a global pandemic doesn't mean a company has to stop expanding globally. It just requires an acknowledgment that these are unique times that demand unique approaches.
Andy MacMillan is CEO of UserTesting, a human insights platform.
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Leo is a calm, friendly puppy! He will wow you with his good manners and gentle nature. His mom is 33 pounds, and his dad is 50 pounds. When arriving to his new home, Leo will be up to date on vaccinations, vet checked, and pre-spoiled. After a long day at work, this cutie will surely make your day with all his puppy kisses waiting at the door. Leo loves to cuddle and just relax while getting his belly rubbed. Hurry! He can't wait to start sharing his love with his new family!


Debts, the obligation to pay for something we don't really need but desire it so.
While Malaysian folks I know, here and there, are caught in the vicious spiral of indebtedness, some are feverishly avoiding the entrapment. An unpaid, overdue debt, based on materialism culture, is something we talk about yet unable, at least for the majority, to escape.
As my feet treads the hard Malaysian soil, with the promises of unpleasant humidity in the air, I am reminded of the societal desire for unimaginable wealth. Houses owned, property acquired, then lost, the very least to the twitching hands of greedy relatives. Are we all consumed by rapacious gluttony, to take what truly does not belong to us?
Aye, the very epitome of building wealth is to rob others of theirs and convert it to one's liking.
The weather does nothing to dispel the reality. After almost 24 years of savings, of scraping what's insanely loose change then to find out that relatives are moving for the balance, leaves a foul taste.
In all my working years, and in all that I have experienced, I am aware of the ferocious appetite of fate. I wait, this I can afford, and wait, and wait, until such time when greed lords over their sanity, or what's left of it, and leaves them vulnerable to fate. Aye, definitely, I have the time.
Narathiwat. A province torn by unrest, a land misunderstood by many Thais. I arrived today, at noon, and somewhere lost in translation, I was nearly abandoned by the vehicle that was supposed to take me to the hotel. A few hours later, I was told that there was two separate bombings near the airport. No one was injured, thankfully.
The town reminded me of the many large villages in Malaysia. I'm facing no problems speaking "Malay" with the people, yet they are equally fluent in Thai. Been a tiring day. Had visited a rubber plantation, went to have dinner with the villagers. On both occasion, I enjoyed speaking to them, for once I didn't need a Thai translator in Thailand.
Its interesting, the way people live in crowded communities in Bangkok. Quite a popular term "crowded community" as the Thais dislike the word "slum" « fortunately I'm not Thai.
People living in the slum are people. Many are poor, others are slightly above the working-class, almost everyone have a problem with land ownership. However it never stops them from living their lives the best that they can. Some are Thais, others are refugees and migrant workers, though this would depend on which district you're visiting.
People are generally friendly, though suspicion will be thrown at your direction the moment you start snapping pictures at their direction. There's also a distrust towards landowners and their agents, as there has been many tales and violent dramas when these two groups meet. Bangkok is a colossal city, and urbanisation is a growing problem, despite the city's administration attempt at containment.
I'm enjoying my time in the slums, the friendly faces, the street food and the stories that people share. Slum, a word that Thais should not deny, as it vibrates not only hardship but also Life.


Despite the fact that a common weight reduction administration concentrates on getting thinner from the general body, certain individuals need to shed pounds from a specific zone of the body where the fat has gathered over a period.
Unfortunately, spot weight diminishment is troublesome as the sum and rate of fat misfortune from particular territories of your body relies on your hereditary guide. Keeping in mind the end goal to lose fat from one particular locale, you have to blaze a larger number of calories than you devour.
The criticalness of fitting eating regimen ought not to be overlooked when attempting to lose arm fat. More fruits and vegetables ought to be fused in your eating methodology and undesirable things like colas, liquor, and transformed sustenances like chips and treats ought to be disposed of. Drink no less than 8 glasses of water in the middle of the dinners to control your hunger that can help digestion system and smolder fat.
It is fitting to have regular littler dinners rather than few expansive suppers as it empowers your body to repair after workouts while keeping your glucose low. Keep your arms completely straight and twist them in such a way that your palms face the ceiling.
Honing yoga or Pilates no less than 2 days a week is likewise helpful in this appreciation as it reinforces and extends your muscles and all the while manufactures since a long time ago streamlined arms rather than massive muscles. By emulating the right eating methodology consolidated with legitimate activity, the inquiry of how to get in shape from arms will never again be question!
This can be attained to by chopping your day by day caloric admission down to 500 calories. Separated from making conformities in calories, an eating methodology rich in lean proteins and comprising of moderate smoldering sugars and sound fats must be expended. Mono and poly-unsaturated fats from sources like olive oil, flaxseeds, walnuts, trout and salmon ought to supplant the undesirable soaked fats.
Don't drink a lot of water with your dinners as it can weaken stomach corrosive and impede assimilation.
In this way, it is fitting to have a fluid feast, for example, protein shake in the wake of doing activity. Cardiovascular activities, for example, strolling, running, swimming, high impact exercise, cycling, rope bouncing can be exceptionally powerful in smoldering the calories. You can begin off with light weights of around 2 to 3 pounds and steadily move to heavier weights. A lot of other factors come into play when you are thinking about how to lose weight from arms, such as your body's metabolism and your genetics.
This is the motivation behind why individuals neglect to lose fat from arms disregarding performing a progression of abdominal area works out. Decrease the admission of flour and refined sugars and expend a greater amount of entire grains. Drinking immaculate spring water detoxifies your framework and offsets your anxiety hormones.
The bad news is that doing just the simple exercises that work your arm muscle will not result in getting rid of the fat from your arms. This happens on the grounds that these activities are just intended to tone your muscles, not smolder fat that covers your arms.
It is prudent not to radically chopped down your caloric admission as this may deny your assortment of vitality and reason weakness and tipsiness.
The length of time of workout ought to be expanded slowly up to 30-45 minutes and the recurrence of workout to 5-6 times each week as your continuance increments. You can begin off by holding weight staring you in the face and knees rather than your hands and toes. These exercises will simply help tone your muscles.So in order to lose weight from your arms, you need to take a holistic approach.
Here are a couple of basic however successful tips to lose overabundance fat from your arms.
Therefore, so as to get thinner from your arms, you ought to take after a full body work out. Consequently, you ought to step by step cut your caloric utilization and smolder a larger number of calories than normal. Separated from these, you can depend on open push-ups with your arms set more extensive than the width of your shoulders or shut push-ups, with arms set near one another. It can be done by following a full body workout, eating a balanced diet, and being mentally prepared to slog it out for a long time. It will take a long time to see results, so you need to be determined to push yourself to that point.Push-Ups and Pull-UpsPush-ups and pull-ups both work your arm muscles, strengthening and toning them.
Pull ups are even more effective than push ups as the whole weight of your body needs to be supported solely by your arms. But instead of swimming for leisure, you will need to take it up a notch and do faster laps to burn the fat and tone your arms.
So instead of developing bulk muscles, you will get toned lean muscles.Whatever workout routines you develop, you will only see results if you stick to with it. You need to depend on healthy food and exercise to slowly bring your body to look the way you want. I can watch movies back-to-back all day long and I love listening to sappy country songs on long drives.
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When you buy shares in a company, there is always a risk that the price drops to zero. But if you pick the right business to buy shares in, you can make more than you can lose. For example, the Ero Copper Corp. (TSE:ERO) share price had more than doubled in just one year - up 100%. Also pleasing for shareholders was the 50% gain in the last three months. We'll need to follow Ero Copper for a while to get a better sense of its share price trend, since it hasn't been listed for particularly long.
Ero Copper isn't currently profitable, so most analysts would look to revenue growth to get an idea of how fast the underlying business is growing. Shareholders of unprofitable companies usually expect strong revenue growth. As you can imagine, fast revenue growth, when maintained, often leads to fast profit growth.
Over the last twelve months, Ero Copper's revenue grew by 57%. That's a head and shoulders above most loss-making companies. And the share price has responded, gaining 100% as we previously mentioned. It's great to see strong revenue growth, but the question is whether it can be sustained. Given the positive sentiment around the stock we're cautious, but there's no doubt its worth watching.
This free interactive report on Ero Copper's balance sheet strength is a great place to start, if you want to investigate the stock further.
Ero Copper boasts a total shareholder return of 100% for the last year. A substantial portion of that gain has come in the last three months, with the stock up 50% in that time. Demand for the stock from multiple parties is pushing the price higher; it could be that word is getting out about its virtues as a business. You could get a better understanding of Ero Copper's growth by checking out this more detailed historical graph of earnings, revenue and cash flow.
We will like Ero Copper better if we see some big insider buys. While we wait, check out this free list of growing companies with considerable, recent, insider buying.


Think about a beach. What comes to mind? Miles of soft white sand lapped by gentle turquoise waves? Sun on your skin? A parasol moved by a soft breeze? Making sandcastles; eating ice cream; paddling in the shallows; sunburned shoulders? Sounds lovely. But some of us yearn for a different scenario.
Our beach is wide and empty. There are miles of soft sand, but ours is pounded by rolling surf. The sun is shining, but there's a chilly wind so you need to wrap up well. There still may be ice cream, but a hot chocolate at The Dunes Cafe is more the order of the day. And while cheeks and noses may turn red, that's a rosy winter glow.
Yes, some of us prefer the beaches in winter: when everyone has gone home and there's often only us, our dog and the seagulls for company.
At this time of year there may also be seals. Hundreds of them come ashore to have their pups at nearby Horsey between November and February (there's lots about them in previous blogs) and the sight of them basking in the winter sunshine is a rewarding end to a bracing walk. Dogs have to be controlled near them, but general beach restrictions are lifted outside the summer season so our furry friends can run, chase balls, jump and swim to their hearts' content. Just make sure you take plenty of poo bags to clean up – those rules always apply!
Just walking along, enjoying the peace and solitude is real balm for the soul. Some plug in to music, some find a sheltered spot to sit and watch the world go by, others stride out purposefully with their eyes on the horizon. What are they thinking about? Big business decisions? Family problems? Whether to have marshmallows or a flake in their hot chocolate? Who knows?
What we do know is that studies have shown that the seaside is associated with calmness, enjoyment and refreshment – whatever the time of year. Just watching the rhythm of the waves is calming, and it has a soporific effect on a busy brain. Searching for shells or seaglass is a good way to while away a stroll, and keep an eye out for stones with holes in – they're considered lucky in coastal villages and if you hang them outside your home they will keep witches away!
We are lucky in Winterton because as well as the beach we have miles of dunes to walk in, so when the wind really is whistling off the North Sea, there's a bit of shelter. We particularly like it when there's been a hard frost – or even snow! The white against the sand is beautiful. Sunrises and sunsets are particularly stunning in winter, and those big Norfolk skies with brooding clouds building over the sea are just magnificent at all times of the day.
And as with any walk, if there's a good pub with a roaring fire at the end to warm you up and get those fingers and toes tingling it's even better. We are spoiled around here with The Fisherman's Return in the village and the Nelson Head at Horsey where you can thaw out with a reviving brandy, mulled wine or hot toddy, or you can tuck into a hearty meal followed by a rib-sticking pudding. Well worth the walk.
If you want to venture further afield there are plenty of other beautiful beaches you can drive to. Beaches from Holkham and Wells down to Gorleston and Southwold are very different in winter. The sands are often deserted and the towns are much quieter than in summer, so you can have a proper look around.
So don't just hole up because it's a bit cold or looking like rain. Get out there. Hats, scarves, gloves and thick socks have been waiting for this opportunity! Fill your pockets with sweets (maybe even a hip flask) and put your best foot forward. If it's breezy, we recommend walking into the wind on the way there so it will be at your back and give you a push home when you're tired! You never know, winter might become your favourite time to go to the beach, too.


This project involved a transforming make over of the client's property leading to the creek. The whole area was cleaned up removing the overgrowth of privet and other invasive trees and weeds revealing the beautiful view of the creek and hillside.
A tree swing was added along with a small ropes course at the bottom. Now there is plenty of room around the fire pit area and space for games and tent. Views were opened up from each angle and along the lovely stairway leading down the hill. The space is now inviting and can truly be enjoyed.
Near the Fire Pit -- with wood stacked and ready for the next bonfire.
Meagan trying out the swing and the low ropes course.
Reece at the base at the end of the job.
Colin trimming up the area for a finished look and Nathan cleaning up with the pole pruner.
Reece, Colin and Nathan and the finished project.
View of the hillside and creek from the top. This whole area was covered in underbrush and weeds.
Cleared out view to the "play house" and creek below.


I have finished building a Space Derby track and am trying to work out the details on how the race will be run. It seems I can go by distance, time, or placement.
The problem with time is I would have to rig up a way to use my Pinewood timer to work with the Space Derby track.
The problem with placement is determining the order fairly (1st, 2nd, 3rd). How do you setup a finish line?
The problem with distance is determining how many turns it will take to NOT allow a craft to reach the end (you don't want any to reach the end in this case).
I was also wanting to use the 'lane rotation' method to try to even out differences in lanes, but am not sure how this would work. I can understand doing with with times, because in that case, the actual 1st, 2nd placement doesn't really matter, what matters is the time, so you can get the performance easily by totaling the times and averaging them out. In doing the other two methods (placement or distance) I'm a bit more fuzzy on how lane rotation would fairly work.
Without electronics, determining 3-lane finish places with consistently high accuracy is a problem. Determining the heat winners is a lot more sure.
Option 1. PPN can be run with heat winners getting 1 point and other two getting 0. The accuracy of the final standings is somewhat lower than if all places are scored. IIRC, you can use Cory's Derby Sim program to evaluate this option.
If you go for "distance competition", you may have to rerun heats with fewer turns. For instance, assume you set your winder for 50 turns (or 15 seconds, if you don't have a turns counter). You find that racers in lane 1 and lane 3 reach the end, but the racer in lane 2 doesn't. Then you need to drop the turns counter by 1/3 or 1/2 and rerun the two racers again in lanes 1 and 3. You can retain this "count" for subsequent heats or return to the prior count for a few more heats, then decide what to do for the next round. I don't anticipate any of the Scouts objecting to the reruns.
Regardless of the method you use, you must be exceptionally careful that winding is equalized.


I love Fall and cool evenings around the fire with friends is just one of the best activities of the season.
I look forward to this latte every year and its back!
This is probably the best book I've read this year. As a medical doctor, pastor, and Biblical Counselor Mike Emlet brings a unique look to the subject of diagnoses and medications. This book is phenomenal and should be required reading for every Biblical Counselor!
Every Fall Deneweth's a has a cute little Fall Festival, which includes pumpkin painting, a spooky wagon ride, a corn maze, and more. The kids enjoy it and we like to indulge in some cider donuts afterwards, so I love it. This year we had to be out of the house for a couple of hours due to home showings, so we spent the day at Deneweth's and had a blast.
The ministry staff from CBC had a fun day of bowling this month. I was, of course, terrible, and Terry O'Brien was awesome. Still it was fun to do something different and build our friendships as a team. Shore Lanes Bowling was a nice place too.


This Harry Potter vs Twilight fan art might contain hip boot, thigh boot, bien habillé personne, costume, costume pantalon, tailleur-pantalon, pantalon costume, pantsuit, personne bien habillé, pantalon de costume, anime, bande dessinée, manga, and dessin animé.
I do love the drawing style here, but the... fan-service not so much.
Hahaha! Ron's going to get a full on body bind jinx for this!


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Q: Is it bad practice to have two separate MEF plugin containers? Let's say I have a class (not a static class), A, that in some way uses plugins. I use MEF to manage those plugins, and add methods for my users to add parts catalogs. Example usage:
var myA = new A();
myA.LoadPlugins(new DirectoryCatalog("path/to/plugins"));
myA.DoStuffWithPlugins();

In the same namespace as A is class B. B also uses MEF to manage plugins, and has its own CompositionContainer. If a user wants to interact with B's plugins, she must use B's plugin management methods.
B is used just like A is, above.
My question is, is this bad? Should I care that there are two separate places to load plugins in my namespace? If it is bad, what are the alternatives?

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My question is, is this bad? Should I care that there are two separate places to load plugins in my namespace? If it is bad, what are the alternatives?

Not necessarily.  There is no reason you can't have two completely separate compositions within the same application.
That being said, there's also no real reason, in most cases, to have more than a single composition.  MEF will compose both sets of data at once.  In your case, you could compose your importers and your reports with the same composition container, which would have the advantage of allowing somebody who is extending your system to only create a single assembly which extends both portions of your application.
One potential minor red flag here is that these are two separate types within the same namespace, but each of which have their own plugin system.  Typically, a framework with a full plugin system is going to be complex enough that I'd question whether they belong in the same namespace - though from going by type names of "A" and "B" it's impossible to know whether this is truly inappropriate.

A: I don't see any problem with that. I would recommend a base class for class A and class B to reuse methods.
class A : BaseCompositionClass {
    //    implementations
}

class B : BaseCompositionClass {

    //    implementations
}

You could use a single CatalogExportProvider and then query that provider for the matching imports and exports. You could then use a single CompositionFactory from which classA and classB request compositions.

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19 November 14:00Radio Protocol Vulnerabilities in 5G Networks / Ravishankar Borgaonkar, SINTEF Digital
LT2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building
Cellular devices support various technical features and services for 2G, 3G, 4G and upcoming 5G networks. For example, these technical features contain physical layer throughput categories, radio protocol information, security algorithm, carrier aggregation bands and type of services such as GSM-R, Voice over LTE etc. These technical features and network services termed as 'device capabilities' and exchanged with the network during the device registration and Authentication and Key Agreement (AKA) protocols. The 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) responsible for the worldwide standardization of cellular communication networks has designed and mandated the use of the AKA protocol to protect the subscribers' mobile services.
In this talk, we discuss several vulnerabilities discovered in cellular device authentication and registration process in 5G networks. Low-cost hardware setup, proof-of-concepts attacks to demonstrate the impact, countermeasures, and remedial actions from 3GPP/GSMA for 5G networks will also be presented.
11 November 13:00Realistic Adversarial Machine Learning / Nicholas Carlini, Google Brain
While vulnerability of machine learning is extensively studied,
most work considers security or privacy in academic settings.
This talk studies studies three aspects of recent work on
realistic adversarial machine learning, focusing on the "black
box" threat model where the adversary has only query access
to a remote classifier, but not the complete model itself.
I first study if this black-box threat model can provide apparent
robustness to adversarial examples (i.e., test time evasion
attacks). Second, I turn to the question of privacy and examine
to what extent adversaries can leak sensitive data out of
classifiers trained on private data. Finally, I ask to what extent
the black-box threat model can be relied upon, and study
"model extraction": attacks that allow an adversary to recover
the approximate parameters using only queries.
29 October 14:00Automatically Dismantling Online Dating Fraud / Matthew Edwards, Faculty of Engineering, University of Bristol
Online romance scams are a prevalent form of mass-marketing fraud in the West, and yet few studies have presented data-driven responses to this problem. In this type of scam, fraudsters craft fake profiles and manually interact with their victims. Due to the characteristics of this type of fraud, and the peculiarities of how dating sites operate, traditional detection methods (e.g., those used in spam filtering) are ineffective.
This talk will report on our investigation into the archetype of online dating profiles used in this form of fraud, including their use of demographics, profile descriptions, and images, shedding light on both the strategies deployed by scammers to appeal to victims and the implicit traits of victims themselves. Our work is presented in the context of building and evaluating a machine-learning classifier for detecting spam profiles, and elaborates on our findings from investigating areas of under-performance.
15 October 14:00Reducing Metadata Leakage from Encrypted Files and Communication / Nikitin Kirill, Decentralized/Distributed Systems Lab, EPFL
Most encrypted data formats leak metadata via their plaintext headers, such as format version, encryption schemes used, number of recipients who can decrypt the data, and even the recipients' identities. This leakage can pose security and privacy risks to users, e.g., by revealing the full membership of a group of collaborators from a single encrypted e-mail, or by enabling an eavesdropper to fingerprint the precise encryption software version and configuration the sender used. We propose that future encrypted data formats improve security and privacy hygiene by producing Padded Uniform Random Blobs or PURBs: ciphertexts indistinguishable from random bit strings to anyone without a decryption key. A PURB's content leaks nothing at all, even the application that created it, and is padded such that even its length leaks as little as possible. Encoding and decoding ciphertexts with no cleartext markers presents efficiency challenges, however. We present cryptographically agile encodings enabling legitimate recipients to decrypt a PURB efficiently, even when encrypted for any number of recipients' public keys and/or passwords, and when these public keys are from different cryptographic suites. PURBs employ Padmé, a novel padding scheme that limits information leakage via ciphertexts of maximum length M to a practical optimum of O(loglog M) bits, comparable to padding to a power of two, but with lower overhead of at most 12% and decreasing with larger payloads.
Kirill Nikitin is a fifth-year Ph.D. student in the Decentralized/Distributed Systems lab at École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) advised by Prof. Bryan Ford. His research spans the topics in Privacy, Systems Security, and Blockchains. His primary interest at the moment is on designing encryption schemes and security protocols that provide improved metadata protection.
Currently, Kirill is doing an internship in the Confidential Computing group at Microsoft Research, Cambridge.
For the detailed bio, see https://nikirill.com/.
12 September 14:00An analysis of the threats of the consumer spyware industry / Diarmaid Harkin, Alfred Deakin Institute, Deakin University
Invasive surveillance software known as "spyware" is available for general consumption, allowing everyday users the ability to place a smartphone under close surveillance. The widespread availability of spyware creates clear risks that this software can be used abusively, with many indicators that it is being used frequently in the context of domestic and family violence. This presentation reports on the findings of an Australian-based study into the threats of the consumer spyware industry. The consumer spyware industry was subjected to a market analysis and legal analysis, in addition to user analysis of spyware products and a technical analysis of a select sample of spyware.
Our investigation revealed a range of concerning findings about the threat of spyware, including (a) multiple spyware companies encourage and promote the use of spyware against intimate partners and children; (b) Android users carry a higher risk of being subject to spyware than iPhone users; (c) Technical analysis of spyware reveals that software developed within the consumer spyware industry often exhibits extremely poor data security practices, creating additional risks for the exposure of highly sensitive personal information and data. Ways of countering the threats of consumer spyware are considered.
Bio: Dr Diarmaid Harkin is an Alfred Deakin Postdoctoral Research Fellow and Senior Lecturer in Criminology at Deakin University. His current active research interests include the use of private security companies in the context of domestic violence, the consumer spyware industry, and the challenges of cyber-policing.
23 July 14:00Deploying Differential Privacy for the 2020 Census of Population and Housing / Simson L. Garfinkel, Senior Computer Scientist for Confidentiality and Data Access, U.S. Census Bureau
When differential privacy was created more than a decade ago, the motivating example was statistics published by an official statistics agency. In theory there is no difference between theory and practice, but in practice there is.
In attempting to transition differential privacy from the theory to practice, and in particular for the 2020 Census of Population and Housing, the U.S. Census Bureau has encountered many challenges unanticipated by differential privacy's creators. Many of these challenges had less to do with the mathematics of differential privacy and more to do with operational requirements that differential privacy's creators had not discussed in their writings. These challenges included obtaining qualified personnel and a suitable computing environment, the difficulty of accounting for all uses of the confidential data, the lack of release mechanisms that align with the needs of data users, the expectation on the part of data users that they will have access to micro-data, the difficulty in setting the value of the privacy-loss parameter, ε (epsilon), and the lack of tools and trained individuals to verify the correctness of differential privacy, and push-back from same members of the data user community.
Addressing these concerns required developing a novel hierarchical algorithm that makes extensive use of a high-performance commercial optimizer; transitioning the computing environment to the cloud; educating insiders about differential privacy; engaging with academics, data users, and the general public; and redesigning both data flows inside the Census Bureau and some of the final data publications to be in line with the demands of formal privacy.
Simson Garfinkel is the Senior Computer Scientist for Confidentiality and Data Access at the US Census Bureau. He holds seven US patents and has published more than 50 research articles in computer security and digital forensics. He is a fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), and a member of the National Association of Science Writers. His most recent book is The Computer Book, which features 250 chronologically arranged milestones in the history of computing. As a journalist, he has written about science, technology, and technology policy in the popular press since 1983, and has won several national journalism awards.
Garfinkel received three Bachelor of Science degrees from MIT in 1987, a Master's of Science in Journalism from Columbia University in 1988, and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from MIT in 2005.
https://simson.net/bio/
07 May 15:00rust-vmm: Building the Virtualization Stack of the Future / Andreea Florescu, Amazon
rust-vmm is an open-source project, born in January 2019 with ambitious goals:
1) design and implement a set of safe, secure and efficient virtualization building blocks,
2) reduce code duplication across existing Rust based Virtual Machine Monitors (VMMs) and
3) improve the security and quality of existing Rust based VMMs.
The purpose of rust-vmm is to provide a foundation of virtualization crates that other projects can use for rapidly developing virtualization solutions. The rust-vmm project empowers the community to focus on their product key differentiators rather than re-implementing common virtualization components like KVM API wrappers, Virtio based device models and Virtual Machine memory libraries.
In this talk we go over the fundamentals of building VMMs and why we believe Rust is the right programming language for this project. We look at how different open source projects use rust-vmm crates to build virtualization products and prototypes while outlining both the advantages and the trade-offs. In the end we try to answer the controversial question: "Does the world need more VMMs?"
07 May 14:00Firecracker microVMs - How to Securely Run Thousands of Workloads on a Single Host / Diana Popa, Amazon
Serverless computing offers increased agility and scalability for users, in part since the cloud providers own the management of the underlying infrastructure. Services such as AWS Lambda and Fargate leverage hardware virtualization to provide strong isolation between multiple tenants. Until recently, this was based on full EC2 instances, which run stateless, short-lived serverless workloads at suboptimal densities. To break out of the status quo, we developed Firecracker as a fundamental building block for multi-tenant container and function-based services.
Firecracker is a security focused virtual machine monitor written in Rust, that runs on top of KVM and is amenable to CPU and memory oversubscription. It implements a minimalist device model, boots blazingly fast, and only incurs a very low memory overhead. Firecracker is already used to run production workloads, and its development continues as an open-source project.
30 April 14:00A Promise Is A Promise: The Effect Of Commitment Devices On Computer Security Intentions / Alisa Frik, International Computer Science Institute (ICSI), University of California Berkeley
Commitment devices are a technique from behavioral economics that have been shown to mitigate the effects of present bias—the tendency to discount future risks and gains in favor of immediate gratifications. In this paper, we explore the feasibility of using commitment devices to nudge users towards complying with varying online security mitigations. Using two online experiments, with over 1,000 participants total, we offered participants the option to be reminded or to schedule security tasks in the future. We find that both reminders and commitment nudges can increase users' intentions to install security updates and enable two-factor authentication, but not to configure automatic backups. Using qualitative data, we gain insights into the reasons for postponement and how to improve future nudges. We posit that current nudges may not live up to their full potential, as the timing options offered to users may be too rigid.
Dr. Alisa Frik is a postdoctoral researcher at the International Computer Science Institute (ICSI) and the University of California, Berkeley. She works with the Usable Security and Privacy research group, under the direction of Dr. Serge Egelman. Her current projects are about usable security for emerging healthcare technologies for older adults, increasing users' computer security compliance by reducing present bias, personalised security nudges, bystanders' privacy, privacy concerns of domestic workers, privacy expectations regarding always listening voice assistant devices, and the effects of ad-blockers on consumers' welfare. She has obtained a Ph.D. degree in Behavioral and Experimental Economics and Social Sciences from the University of Trento, Italy. She also spent 1 year visiting the Carnegie Mellon University, where she worked with Prof. Alessandro Acquisti. She has done research on the the impact of risk tolerance and need for control on the privacy related behaviors, and implicit measurement of privacy risk attitudes; factors affecting consumers' trust with respect to how e-commerce websites will treat their personal information and subsequent intention to purchase from such websites. Dr. Frik's preferred methodological tools include lab and field experiments, surveys, focus groups, interviews, and participatory design.
21 March 14:00Securing Systems with Insecure Hardware / Kaveh Razavi, Systems and Network Security Group, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Recent years have shown that the basic principles on which we rely on for building secure computing systems do not always hold. Memory is plagued with disturbance errors and processors leak sensitive information across security boundaries. In this seminar, I will show the true impact of these flaws in real-world systems and discuss our efforts in mitigating them.
12 March 14:00"Doing more" to keep children safe online – why the tech sector can only do so much / Andy Phippen, University of Plymouth
In this talk Prof Phippen will explore current and emerging policy positions on online safeguarding and argue that while the tech sector is placed under extreme pressure, and legislative threat, to make sure children can using online systems safely, this approach results in increasingly prohibitive technology that negatively impacts on children's rights while not addressing the concerns that governments claim they wish to tackle (for example, preventing access to pornography, stopping young people from sending indecent images, and making sure they can't "cyberbully").
Using recent case studies, such as the tracking of children and the BBFC age verification of pornography services in the UK, Prof Phippen, a computer scientist by training, will take these policy positions to task using extensive empirical work with young people, to highlight how these technical approaches are doomed to fail, and distract from the need for more responsible policy making with a wider stakeholder group.
19 February 14:00Thunderclap: Exploring Vulnerabilities Operating System IOMMU Protection via DMA from Untrustworthy Peripherals / Theo Markettos, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge
Note: This is a practice talk for NDSS (~20min)
Direct Memory Access (DMA) attacks have been known for many years: DMA enabled I/O peripherals have complete access to the state of a computer and can fully compromise it including reading and writing all of system memory. With the popularity of Thunderbolt 3 over USB Type-C and smart internal devices, opportunities for these attacks to be performed casually with only seconds of physical access to a computer have greatly broadened. In response, commodity hardware and operating system (OS) vendors have incorporated support for Input-Ouptut Memory Management Units (IOMMUs), which impose memory protection on DMA , and are widely believed to protect against DMA attacks.
We investigate the state-of-the-art in IOMMU protection across OSes using a novel I/O-security research platform, and find that current protections fall short when faced with a functional network peripheral that uses its complex interactions with the OS for ill intent. We describe vulnerabilities in macOS, FreeBSD, and Linux, which notionally utilize IOMM Us to protect against DMA attackers. Windows uses the IOMMU only in limited cases. and it remains vulnerable. Using Thunderclap, an open-source FPGA research platform that we built, we explore new classes of OS vulnerability arising from inadequate use of the IOMMU. The complex vulnerability space for IOMMU-exposed shared memory available to DMA-enabled peripherals allows attackers to extract private data (sniffing cleartext VPN traffic) and hijack kernel control flow (launching a root shell) in seconds using devices such as USB-C projectors or power adapters. We have worked closely with OS vendors to remedy these vulnerability classes, and they have now shipped substantial feature improvements and mitigations as a result of our work.
29 January 14:00Keeping authorities honest with verifiable append-only logs, and making backdoored software updates detectable / Mustafa Al Bassam, Department of Computer Science, University College London (UCL)
Transparency is important in services that rely on authoritative information, as it provides a robust mechanism for holding authorities accountable for their actions, or making those actions publicly auditable. A number of solutions have emerged in recent years that provide public auditability in the setting of public key infrastructure (such as certificate and key transparency), and cryptocurrencies provide an example of how to allow for public verifiability in a financial setting.
In this seminar, we explore the technical mechanisms for building transparent, auditable or verifiable systems, including verifiable data structures, append-only logs and blockchains. We discuss how such systems can provide extra security assurances to users in the context of compelled software backdoors (e.g. via the Investigatory Powers Act), by enforcing transparency mechanisms in software distribution.
22 January 14:00Evil on the Internet / Richard Clayton, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge
This talk introduces the audience to a wide range of 'evil' websites that aim to defraud you of your money, with live examples presented to explain how they work and what is currently known about the criminals who operate them. There are many types of fraud ... you will see "phishing" sites which collect banking credentials; fake escrow sites defrauding the winners of online auctions; fake banks which hold cash for fake African dictators; Ponzi scheme websites where almost (but not quite) everyone knows that they're a scam; booters where you can buy a DDoS attack on your game playing opponents; ecommerce shops where you should not spend your money and various other types of evil including some very cute pictures of (non-existent) puppies.
Please note that, very regrettably of course, there's so much to see that this talk doesn't fit into a one hour slot.
Dr Richard Clayton is the Director of the Cambridge Cybercrime Centre based in the Computer Laboratory. He has been studying online fraud for decades and is currently heading an initiative to not only study online wickedness in Cambridge, but to collect extremely large cybercrime datasets and make them available to other academics so that they can contribute their expertise as well.
15 January 14:00Trustworthy and Accountable Function-as-a-Service using Intel SGX / Andrew Paverd, Microsoft Research Cambridge
Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) is a recent and already very popular paradigm in cloud computing. The function provider need only specify the function to be run, usually in a high-level language like JavaScript, and the service provider orchestrates all the necessary infrastructure and software stacks. The function provider is only billed for the actual computational resources used by the function invocation. Compared to previous cloud paradigms, FaaS requires significantly more fine-grained resource measurement mechanisms, e.g. to measure compute time and memory usage of a single function invocation with sub-second accuracy. Thanks to the short duration and stateless nature of functions, and the availability of multiple open-source frameworks, FaaS enables non-traditional service providers e.g. individuals or data centers with spare capacity. However, this exacerbates the challenge of ensuring that resource consumption is measured accurately and reported reliably. It also raises the issues of ensuring computation is done correctly and minimizing the amount of information leaked to service providers.
To address these challenges, we introduce S-FaaS, the first architecture and implementation of FaaS to provide strong security and accountability guarantees backed by Intel SGX. To match the dynamic event-driven nature of FaaS, our design introduces a new key distribution enclave and a novel transitive attestation protocol. A core contribution of S-FaaS is our set of resource measurement mechanisms that securely measure compute time and memory allocations within an enclave.