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'Inspiring' event as Health Minister and Champions celebrate our second birthday
Time to Change Wales celebrated its second birthday with a showcase event at the Pierhead building in Cardiff, in which Health Minister Mark Drakeford delivered a keynote speech and TTCW Champions…
7th February 2014, 11.23am | Written by: Time to Change Wales
A generation's work to end the stigma around mental illness
As Time to Change Wales celebrated its second birthday with a showcase event at the Pierhead building in Cardiff Bay this week, campaign manager Ant Metcalfe said that the campaign had established a foundation for changing attitudes towards mental illness and was seeing real progress, but ending the stigma faced by people with mental health problems in Wales was the work of a generation.
The event highlighted the campaign's successes, including the creation of a network of two hundred Champions, people with experience of mental health problems actively campaigning in their own communities and workplaces to change attitudes and break the taboo surrounding mental health problems, which affect one in four people each year.
Time to Change Wales Programme Manager Ant Metcalfe said:
"As we heard directly from TTCW Champions speaking at our event at the Pierhead building, stigma and discrimination remain huge issues for people with mental health problems in Wales. Stigma can make it harder to do everyday things such as maintain an active social life or find work, as well as stopping people from getting help and making a recovery.
There's real progress being made to end mental health stigma and discrimination, driven by our Time to Change Wales Champions who are active in communities around Wales, within organisations and online, forming a real movement for change. It will take a generation to end mental health stigma and discrimination but by sharing their experiences, Time to Change Wales Champions are starting conversations about mental health right across Wales and bringing us closer to a point where people talk as openly about mental health problems as they would a broken leg.
Seeing so many people, including Champions, Assemby Members and business leaders at the Pierhead gives me confidence that we will achieve this goal."
Minister for Health and Social Services Mark Drakeford AM delivered a keynote address at the Pierhead building event, in which he paid tribute to the campaign and spoke of the need to challenge stigma in the workplace.
Speaking afterwards, he said:
"Today's event focusses on the lived experience of those suffering from mental health problems, how they face overcoming stigma and discrimination in the work place and in their personal lives. This first hand experience is rightly at the heart of everything that Time to Change does, and is a potent tool in fighting discrimination.
"The work carried out by Time to Change over the last two years to tackle the stigma that still exists around mental ill-health is crucially important for the progression of an understanding, healthy society and they deserve credit for all their efforts towards that aim."
The work of Time to Change Wales Champions featured prominently in the event. The speakers included Mark Smith, who has worked with the campaign for almost two years. Speaking after the event, he said:
"For me, it was a unique event because of the coming together of so many people whose lives have been touched in some way by mental ill health. Yet, despite that, many of those present have taken it upon themselves to become part of this social movement. I was honoured to share the stage with some amazing people and to have the opportunity to share my involvement in the campaign. I shared a number of positive conversations with people, you felt as though it could have gone on much longer.
It was also a pleasure to meet the Health Minister, Mark Drakeford, and to briefly tell him about the project that Time to Change Wales is funding with Making Minds - a mental health arts organisation that I'm helping to develop.
It's difficult to briefly state the difference that Time to Change Wales is having, because it's moving at such a pace and is breaking new ground all the time. It's definitely changing people's attitudes towards mental health, educating and informing people along the way. Mental health is becoming a more socially acceptable topic of conversation in Wales."
Kate Macnamara is a Champion who featured in the most recent Time to Change Wales advertising campaign. Speaking after the event, she said:
"The event was amazing! It was wonderful to see so many people who are passionate about ending stigma coming together. Listening to the stories of those who spoke was really moving and I have come away feeling inspired and motivated to get as involved as I can!
Time to Change Wales has made a huge difference to my life and that of many other champions I know. It's a ripple effect - through my work with TTCW I have become much more open about my condition, which has helped build my confidence and self-esteem. I think seeing this change has given those around me, colleagues and friends, the courage to start talking about their own experiences more. They have then gone out and talked to others - it just keeps growing! The potential for the message to spread is huge."
You can see photos from the event at our Flickr page.


We used to have just a ball at the Morningside Cleaners, working evenings after school and Saturdays, during the day. We even had our own groopies. Yes, we had it GOIN' on. And, in looking back, I'm so very glad that my parents instilled a work ethic in me. I took a crummy job at the cleaners and, well, I was to make the best of it. And, I did. Getting up on Saturday morning and going to work at 7 am when the rest of my friends were in bed (Robin included..after all, she was the boss...) set forth my lifelong love of the mornings. To this day, I'm happiest in the morning.


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Acting On The Future of Gender Data
Krista Jones Baptista December 15, 2022
As 2022 comes to an end, I am thinking a lot about momentum and creating pathways for innovation and action in a time of global uncertainty. This year, Data2X celebrated 10 years of working in partnership to put gender data at the heart of gender equality under the theme, A Decade of Progress, A Future of Action. And with 2023 marking the midpoint for the Sustainable Development Goals, the imperative to act is greater than ever.
In that sense, we are at an inflection point, for Data2X as an organization and for the world. In both cases, our mandate is the same—to incubate, replicate, and scale the gender data solutions that will help us make progress faster and smarter. In particular, the need to drive gender data use in policy will be key to unlocking unrealized financial, social and health outcomes for women, girls, and other vulnerable communities. That is why I could not be more honored to be leading the organization at such a pivotal moment. I want to express my gratitude to the Data2X Board of Advisors, our funders, our staff, and our network of partners for welcoming me and joining me in this new and urgent chapter.
A Strong Foundation—2022 Highlights
Thankfully, our shared agenda is built on a strong foundation. In 2022, Data2X continued to deliver on our mission, advocating for greater donor and domestic resources for gender data, supporting national champions to strengthen core gender data systems, incubating new models of data ownership, and demonstrating the catalytic power of gender data to drive women's financial inclusion to name just a few:
Measuring Gender Data Progress: Data2X launched our flagship initiative called The State of Gender Data. The initiative, to be updated regularly, provides a global snapshot of progress to date. The State of Gender Data examines the state of funding for gender data, explores promising solutions to fill gender data gaps, and highlights key commitments from stakeholders which accelerate the collection, analysis, and use of gender data.
A Gender Data Network to Drive Gender Equality and Build Resilience: In 2022, Data2X in partnership with PARIS21, Open Data Watch, and the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA), formally committed the Gender Data Network as a technical assistance partner to the W20 to help elevate gender data within the W20 agenda and inform policy best practices that foster economic inclusion and strengthen resilience.
Piloting Collaboration for Citizen-Directed and Big Data: With support from the Rockefeller Foundation via the 17 Rooms initiative, Data2X worked closely with the Aapti Institute and SEWA to develop and pilot an in-country "data cooperative," a model of citizen participation whereby women and girls collect, own, and benefit from their own gender data.
Using Gender Data to Accelerate Women's Financial Inclusion: The Women's Financial Inclusion Data (WFID) Partnership released six country diagnostic reports (Bangladesh, Honduras, Kenya, Nigeria, Pakistan, and Turkey) which offer detailed assessments of the availability and use of gender data for achieving women's financial inclusion, including opportunities to intervene, close data gaps, and expand access to financial services.
Advancing the Global Advocacy Agenda: Data2X engaged in the Commission on the Status on Women (CSW), conducting direct advocacy with key bilateral donors, and working in coalition to ensure prioritization of gender data. Our recommendations were upheld in the final agreed conclusions, including retention of language on data use; strengthened language on the link to policy; and new language on financing for gender data.
The Road Ahead—2023 Priorities
As I chart the way forward, I walk shoulder to shoulder with all of you who are addressing gender data gaps and building bridges among stakeholders all along the data value chain to make a real difference in communities around the world.
In 2023, the Data2X strategy will continue to evolve even as it remains rooted in collaboration, rigorous research, and evidenced-based advocacy. As we approach the 2023 SDG midpoint, we will be asking ourselves: How can we best collaborate and scale to truly impact lives? As a global partner, how do we amplify stories of change across geographies? And how do we accelerate learning and sharing about gender data—including closing the data to policy gap—in a values-driven, participatory way?
As we refresh our strategy in the context of evolving global events, priorities within the sector, and complementarity with our partners, we see a need for embracing the synergies between gender data and digital. Our flagship State of Gender Data Initiative and tracking of gender data financing will remain priorities alongside the Women's Financial Inclusion Data Partnership, the Women's Economic Empowerment Measurement Learning Collaborative, and the Gender Data Network. We also see a need to explore ways to broaden definitions of gender, working closely with national and global partners to bring an intersectional lens to gender data research and advocacy. Throughout, we will identify bold new innovations in gender data that can expand and build on progress to date.
Thank you once again for your support and I look forward to acting with you on the future of gender data and the movement for gender equality and dignity for all.
Krista Jones Baptista
Executive Director, Data2X
A Gender Data Network to Drive Gender Equality, Accelerate Economic Recovery and Build Resilience
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Towards Women's Financial Inclusion: Gender Data Diagnostics of Six Countries
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Women's Financial Inclusion Data Partnership: Partnership Principles
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Developing a thriving learning culture may not seem like a top priority for the boardroom in today's tough financial climate, but a strong learning framework can play a major role in promoting company strategies – at least that's the view of supporters.
One such is Nick Brooker, managing director of Wentworth Training & Research. He says companies that do not have an embedded culture of learning tend to lapse into an annual appraisal routine, which means they can become inflexible and unresponsive. He believes that companies with integral learning structures are "more focused on the key things that matter in business" and on achieving them through highly competent and effective employees.
For Simon Callow, managing director of consultancy Personnel Decisions International UK, a learning culture represents the glue that connects employees.
"If you're going to have a successful learning intervention you have to have the culture there," he says, adding that the existence of an embedded framework helps to encourage progress, improving the availability of training and developing capability.
While a culture is unique to a particular organisation, Callow outlines certain success factors, including openness, giving good feedback and giving clarity about what people learn.
"You don't buy a learning culture like it's a tangible product – you really live the model of learning," he says. Senior management buy-in is a crucial cog in the wheel, with learning cultures starting at the top and individuals participating in leadership programmes talking about what they've learned, he says.
For Bob Bannister, managing director of iManage Performance and a speaker on developing a meaningful learning culture at this month's World of Learning conference, a learning culture has certain key elements. These include: management sponsorship exemplary management behaviour rewards for outstanding behaviour the measuring of behaviour in appraisal processes a formalisation of the learning process, making learning an organisational value and having a clear and accessible funding route. Learning and development (L&D) should also have its own internal marketing plan, according to Bannister.
Brooker also believes that coaching and mentoring, with encouragement, support and frequent constructive feedback is a major part of the process.
"In my experience, organisations that adhere to the Investors in People standard tend to have an extremely well-embedded learning and development culture – as long as they keep it fresh and aligned with the business," he says.
Callow agrees and adds that the centres of excellence that are being created around the L&D department are becoming critical in terms of upholding learning.
"L&D needs to reinforce learning culture in an organisation, and then drive the content," he says.
"This means giving people an insight about learning and what they're expected to learn. It's about driving the accountability for learning – holding people to account for being good learners, making sure that people are clear about what they need to learn and then making them accountable for knowing that content.
"There should be an expectation that you should be learning in that organisation," Callow adds.
Creating a thirst for learning within your organisation is a key part of embedding a learning culture, according to Cathie Wright, HR business partner at the Volkswagen Group.
Until two years ago, learning and development was very much seen as an individual's responsibility within the group, with a small centre available for learning and career progression and development advice. That has evolved into an L&D-driven learning culture that focuses squarely on the business's priorities and individual goals.
Wright says this culture is supported by regular opinion surveys, which takes people's learning preferences into consideration. L&D found, for example, that people within VW valued face-to-face interventions over e-learning.


WASHINGTON (August 7, 2017) – Following through with Administrator Pruitt's commitment to eliminating the backlog of new chemical cases that were stuck in EPA's review processes upon his confirmation, Administrator Pruitt is reporting that the backlog is eliminated.
The Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA), amended by the 2016 Lautenberg Chemical Safety Act, ensures that EPA must make an affirmative safety determination before a new chemical can come to market. EPA can request more information from chemical companies if it needs more information to make a safety determination.
When Administrator Pruitt was confirmed, over 600 new chemicals were 'stuck' in the EPA review process. The current caseload is back at the baseline and now in line with the typical active workload. Administrator Pruitt committed to being a partner in the regulatory process, and ensuring safety for health and the environment, while also seeking ways to allow new chemicals to enter the market quickly, once EPA is assured that the chemical is not likely to present unreasonable risk for the intended and reasonably foreseen uses.
In addition to announcing the elimination of the backlog, EPA Administrator Pruitt is committing the Agency to a more predictable and transparent process for making safety determinations through a commitment to following operating principles; continuously improving; and, increasing the transparency in the decision-making for new chemical safety determinations.
"Not only do I support reducing the backlogs that have built up at this Agency, I also encourage continuous improvement and increased transparency," said EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt.
Where the intended uses in premanufacture notices (PMNs) or other Section 5 notices (such as low volume exemption (LVE) requests) raise risk concerns, EPA will work with submitters, and, if the submitters submit timely amended PMNs addressing those concerns, EPA will generally make determinations based on those amended submissions.
As described in the risk evaluation rule EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt signed on June 22, 2017, identification of reasonably foreseen conditions of use will be fact-specific. It is reasonable to foresee a condition of use, for example, where facts suggest the activity is not only possible, but, over time under proper conditions, probable.
Redeploying staff to increase the number of Full-Time Equivalent (FTE) staff working on new chemicals.
Initiating a LEAN exercise to streamline work processes around new chemicals review.
In Fall 2017, EPA's Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxics (OPPT) intends to release, for public comment and stakeholder engagement, draft documents that will provide the public with more certainty and clarity regarding how EPA makes new chemical determinations and what external information will help facilitate these determinations.
EPA will facilitate a public dialogue on the Agency's goal of continued improvement in the new chemicals review program.


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Wyntersea Productions Inc – a virtual travel experience
Travel Documentaries
Wainwright's Coast to Coast Walk
Bath, England – A Roman Experience
Costa Rica – A Wee Taste
Cornwall – A Cornish Interlude
A Victorian Christmas
The Dance of Polynesia
Fiji – The Islands of Viti
French Polynesian Islands
In The Same Boat
Marsters' Palmerston – Cook Islands
NEWFOUNDLAND – Canada's Vinland
New Zealand – the land of the long white cloud
Niue – The Rock of Polynesia
Pacific North-West Sailing South of 49
Tonga – The Friendly Islands
Wyntersea Sails Mexico
Great Poets
Shakespeare's Stratford-upon-Avon
Thomas Hardy's Wessex
Wordsworth's Lake District
PACIFIC OCEAN – the sea of life
Historical Documentaries
AUSTRALIA – the southern continent
Belize – The Maya of Yucatan
New Caledonia – The Archipelago of Kanak
Francis Mawson Rattenbury – the architect
Nicaragua – land of Nicarao
Princess Louisa Inlet – British Columbia
Vancouver's Island
Ripablik blong Vanuatu
UFO Sighting – San Blas Mexico 2007
Diamond Jack and the Remittance Men
Wyntersea Blog
Author L.M. Wasylciw aka Professor Scry
Thomas Hardy, born in Dorset, England in 1840, was a novelist. He is best known for his work set in the semi-fictionalized county of Wessex including, Tess of the d'Urbervilles and Jude the Obscure. He was also an accomplished poet.
Wessex is the ancient name for the south-west part of England, the stronghold of the old kings of Anglo-Saxon England. The modern name for this county is Dorset; a county of outstanding natural beauty, with rolling hills, craggy coastlines and soft sandy beaches. It owes much of its charm to its numerous picturesque villages. Cerne Abbas, nestled in the valley of the River Cerne, is a quintessential English village with a ruined abbey and of course the famous Cerne Abbas Giant carved into the chalk hillside above the village, the largest hillside figure in Britain, which stands 180-foot high.
This documentary takes the viewer to the birth place of Thomas Hardy and the home that he built for his first wife, Emma Gifford. Hardy is known for his richly characterized, controversial, novels "Tess of the d'Urbervilles" and "Far From The Madding Crowd". After "Jude The Obscure" he never wrote another novel and devoted the rest of his life to poetry. This documentary is set against the magnificent backdrop of the region where he lived while extracts of Hardy's bleak, introspective but moving poetry can be heard, some of which was about his failed marriage with Emma Gifford and his remorseful feelings after her death. Even following his marriage to his second wife, Florence Dugdale, he remained preoccupied with his first wife's death and tried to overcome his remorse by continuing to write poetry about her.
Buy 'Thomas Hardy's Wessex'
"Then who is digging on my grave,
My nearest dearest kin?"
— "Ah, no: they sit and think, 'What use!
What good will planting flowers produce?
No tendance of her mound can loose
Her spirit from Death's gin.'" Thomas Hardy
Thomas Hardy birthplace – Higher Bockhampton, Dorset, England
Thomas Hardy grave – St. Michael's churchyard, Stinsford, Dorset
Thomas Hardy statue – Dorchester, England


When it comes to new office spaces with solid clean lines and all glass offices and conference rooms while it looks great overall they do not function well. We at Brooklyn Insulation & Soundproofing(BIS) receive hundreds of inquiries a year from customers that are looking to cut down the echo in the space and not so much cut down what will bleed out from the space. Now is there a difference between how you treat these two issues. Yes of course there is. Why is that? Lets think about this for a second there are similarities between sound waves and water. Water sits in its vessel until it is reacted upon. It has no shape or form and can be moved with outside forces. If you throw a rock in a pond the waves ripple outwards these waves just like sound can be muted or completely stopped. If you stop a wave it will bounce off the object back towards itself which creates "echo". You would also mute the wave so it does not bounce back into the space but gets absorbed like if the wave just washed away on shore. So what is the difference between soundproofing and sound absorption lets walk you through this.
There is a different way to approach if you need to keep the sound in your space versus if you need to help the acoustics or how the room sounds internally. For this one needs to understand the difference between both problems and their solutions. How to you keep sound from bleeding into adjacent spaces vs how do I keep people on my conference calls from hearing an echo in my space. The difference between these is one you have to block the sound and the other you have to absorb the sound. Now you are thinking well if I absorb the sound isn't that soundproofing as well... not necessarily. We will explain why later.
Soundproofing involves several factors that have to be used in conjunction to one another to work at its best to prevent noise from either entering or escaping the space. You need to do 4 things correctly to get a proper soundproofed space. These 4 items are as follows decouple, absorb, add mass and dampen. The materials used for soundproofing when done properly help the sound from entering or leaving the room, makes sense right. Well again, if you had the best materials but the worst installers that had no clue what they were doing in such a technically challenging solution you would end up with no gain in the long run. So watch out for something that might be too good to be true because sometimes it turns out to be that way in the long run. Now that your space is soundproofed you might experience more bounce back or echo than before so you would need to soften the space. For this you could bring back in all your furniture and add some rugs or curtains if you are a residential client.
So sound absorption we are looking to reduce the echo into the space. So for this products are designed to be soft, light, and full of voids and air gaps. The goal is to soften up the surface within the room from glass and concrete to something with less solid, and reduce the echo in that space internally. The room is now pleasing to be in and more inviting but your calls can still bleed into neighboring spaces but at a lower level at times.
Summary Soundproofing Vs Sound Absorption?
While the sound is being absorbed it is not close to being soundproofed because its just like adding a sponge to a wall or ceiling. The vibrations are still happening in the room which are in turn are shaking the other end of the glass or wall. These vibrations are just like a drum you hit one end the other end shakes but if you put a pillow in a drum it does dampen the sound but there is still sound transmission. You did something to minimize the vibration but not to the level of having a soundproofed room. So controlling noise through absorption is a great way to cut down the echo inside the space. In an office setting people end up going this route since sound absorption is less invasive which means a quicker turn around time on getting their room back into a working and usable order. This might be the case as well if you were originally looking to soundproof your office but couldn't afford the higher cost to retrofit the space for that need.
Contact one of our specialist to see how we can help.


I had the pleasure of Skyping into a rehearsal for one of my compositions a few days ago. The musicians were four Indiana State University students who are preparing my saxophone quartet "Mechanical" for an upcoming performance. Their wonderful director/teacher, Paul Bro was gracious enough to allow me to listen and offer some comments to the group during their rehearsal.
I asked the students if they were enjoying the piece, and they enthusiastically answered in the affirmative. I truly intend for my compositions to be gifts to the musicians who perform them as much as to the listening audiences. Interacting with these musicians is always rejuvenating for me. It makes me want to continue composing — to keep giving, especially to young musicians who are eager to explore and learn new music.
Being a part of the rehearsal process, or even just observing that process, is a wonderful experience. These young musicians are doing a spectacular job tackling a very tough piece! I am honored and humbled by their attention to detail and their musical interpretation. Thanks Paul & Co., for allowing me to sit in with you for a bit!


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Capacity Expansion of Tenax Carbon Fiber
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Toho Tenax Co has decided to add a new carbon fibre production line at Toho Tenax Europe (located at Wuppertal, Germany, with a target operation start-up date of August 2009.
Demand for this product is expected to grow at a rate of about 15% between 2005 and 2010 as applications for civil aircraft and industries increase. Demand in 2010 is anticipated to exceed 40,000 tons.
With this announced increase in production capacity, plus capacity from lines that are currently under construction, the Teijin Group's carbon fibre production capacity is scheduled to reach 13,500 tons per year.


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Q: Istio WorkloadEntry sidecar a requirements? I'm interested in putting a vendor provided application running in an AWS EC2 Instance behind my Istio gateway. It sounds like the ideal scenario is to use a WorkloadEntry to define the endpoint and make it easy to flex should I ever get this into the cluster, etc.
In the documentation I've read, there is mention of using a sidecar in the VM to enable this. What I've failed to find is how to use a sidecar in a VM. There's lots of good stuff about sidecars in a pod, but I'm not sure what it takes to implement on the VM and how I would even go about doing that. Maybe the integration needed for the sidecar would be to complex to implement in a 3rd party app? Maybe I can do this better without a Sidecar?
How do I find details on VM Sidecars and getting them integrated into the mesh?
When do you decide between implementing this as a WorkloadEntry vs simply a MESH_EXTERNAL ServiceEntry?

A: If you want to integrate a VM into your k8s Istio environment, you need to setup Istio on your VM :
https://istio.io/latest/docs/ops/deployment/vm-architecture/

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Q: XML Minify in .NET I'd like to read in the following XML:
<node></node>

And then write it out, minified, like this:
<node/>

Obviously this has the same meaning, but the second file is smaller for sending across the wire.
I'm trying to find a way to do this in .NET. I can't seem to find an option or setting that would drop unnecessary closing tags.
Suggestions?

A: You can copy the XML into a new structure.
public static XElement Minify(XElement element) {
    return new XElement(element.Name, element.Attributes(),
        element.Nodes().Select(node => {
            if (node is XElement)
                return Minify((XElement)node);
            return node;
        })
    );
}

Here is another solution but LINQ-less http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/xmlandnetfx/thread/e1e881db-6547-42c4-b379-df5885f779be
XmlDocument doc = new XmlDocument();
doc.PreserveWhitespace = true;
doc.Load("input.xml");
foreach (XmlElement el in
   doc.SelectNodes("descendant::*[not(*) and not(normalize-space())]"))
{
  el.IsEmpty = true;
}
doc.Save("output.xml");

A: If you use LINQ to XML, you can call XElement.RemoveNodes() which will convert it to the second form. So something like this:
var emptyTags = doc.Descendants().Where(x => !x.Nodes().Any()).ToList();

foreach (XElement tag in emptyTags)
{
    tag.RemoveNodes();
}

Then save the document in the normal way, and I think it will do what you want...

A: Take a look at the XmlElement IsEmpty property.

A: I didn't test this myself, but have you tried experimenting with the XmlWriter's XmlWriterSettings.OutputMethod Property?
The following page gives you the options you can use:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.xml.xmloutputmethod.aspx

A: Try a WebMarkupMin XML Minifier with the option "Collapse tags without content":
    const string xmlInput = "<row RoleId=\"4\" RoleName=\"Administrator\"></row>\n" +
        "<row RoleId=\"5\" RoleName=\"Contributor\"></row>\n" +
        "<row RoleId=\"6\" RoleName=\"Editor\"></row>"
        ;

    var xmlMinifier = new XmlMinifier(
        new XmlMinificationSettings{ CollapseTagsWithoutContent = true });

    MarkupMinificationResult result = xmlMinifier.Minify(xmlInput);

    Console.WriteLine("Minified content:{0}{0}{1}",
        Environment.NewLine, result.MinifiedContent);


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Q: Windows: Rufus: `ENV['TZ'] = 'Continent/City' Error I want t schedule a job running every hour on my windows machine and used rufus-scheduler for this. However, I am not able to proceed due to the timezone error explained below.
require 'rufus-scheduler'

require 'rufus-scheduler'
require 'tzinfo/data'

ENV['TZ'] = 'Asia/Chennai'

scheduler = Rufus::Scheduler::singleton

scheduler.every '1h' do
  # job here
end

I am constantly thrown with this error.
 C:/Ruby22/lib/ruby/gems/2.2.0/gems/rufus-scheduler- 3.3.4/lib/rufus/scheduler/zotime.rb:41:in `initialize': cannot determine timezone from nil (etz:"Asia/India",tnz:"Asi",tzid:"constant") (ArgumentError)
 Try setting `ENV['TZ'] = 'Continent/City'` in your script (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tz_database_time_zones)
    from C:/Ruby22/lib/ruby/gems/2.2.0/gems/rufus-scheduler-  3.3.4/lib/rufus/scheduler/zotime.rb:206:in `new'
    from C:/Ruby22/lib/ruby/gems/2.2.0/gems/rufus-scheduler- 3.3.4/lib/rufus/scheduler/zotime.rb:206:in `now'
    from C:/Ruby22/lib/ruby/gems/2.2.0/gems/rufus-scheduler-3.3.4/lib/rufus/scheduler.rb:561:in `start'
    from C:/Ruby22/lib/ruby/gems/2.2.0/gems/rufus-scheduler-3.3.4/lib/rufus/scheduler.rb:109:in `initialize'
    from C:/Ruby22/lib/ruby/gems/2.2.0/gems/rufus-scheduler-3.3.4/lib/rufus/scheduler.rb:116:in `new'
    from C:/Ruby22/lib/ruby/gems/2.2.0/gems/rufus-scheduler-3.3.4/lib/rufus/scheduler.rb:116:in `singleton'
    from scheduler.rb:9:in `<main>'

Can anyone help on this?

A: According to the Wikipedia article linked in the error message, the only valid timezone for India (and thus IST) is Asia/Kolkata.
Thus, if you set
ENV['TZ'] = 'Asia/Kolkata'

you should get the correct timezone.
That said, it is probably a good idea to setup your operating system to set the correct local timezone in the first place. This allows other software to work correctly out of the box without requiring specific timezone configuration in every one separately.


Way of Life's Advanced Bible Studies Series is a serious set of Bible studies, equivalent to a complete Bible College curriculum. We don't believe that you will find better quality, more truly life-changing Bible courses from any other source.
The courses are based strictly upon the King James Bible and the powerful word studies assist in the understanding of the KJV but do not cast doubt upon it. They are thorough and comprehensive, yet they are laid out in outlines that are easily taught. They are very practical and have the objective of producing well-equipped Christian soldiers that have a solid understanding of the Bible and God's perfect will.
They stress holy and obedient Christian living and separation from worldliness and error. They magnify evangelism and the New Testament church and promote world missions. They emphasize the essential differences between law and grace, the church and Israel, positional and practical sanctification, and they continually fortify the student's understanding of the life-changing doctrines such as justification, substitutionary atonement, and eternal security.
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Biotechnology and sustainability: the role of transatlantic cooperation in research and innovation
Alfredo Aguilar,
Laurent Bochereau,
Line Matthiessen-Guyader
Life sciences and biotechnology are increasingly providing sustainable solutions in a wide range of areas from medicine to industry, agriculture and the environment. The United States and Europe are the two largest regions in which the revolution in life sciences and biotechnology has been taking place. Established in 1990, the EC–US Task Force on Biotechnology Research has provided a fruitful forum for the exchange of information, for the discussion of ideas and for the joint sponsoring of research activities between the US and the European Union.
Computational fluid dynamics for improved bioreactor design and 3D culture
Dietmar W. Hutmacher,
Harmeet Singh
The complex relationship between the hydrodynamic environment and surrounding tissues directly impacts on the design and production of clinically useful grafts and implants. Tissue engineers have generally seen bioreactors as 'black boxes' within which tissue engineering constructs (TECs) are cultured. It is accepted that a more detailed description of fluid mechanics and nutrient transport within process equipment can be achieved by using computational fluid dynamics (CFD) technology. This review discusses applications of CFD for tissue engineering-related bioreactors – fluid flow processes have direct implications on cellular responses such as attachment, migration and proliferation.
Novel therapies for scar reduction and regenerative healing of skin wounds
J. Matthew Rhett,
Gautam S. Ghatnekar,
Joseph A. Palatinus,
Michael O'Quinn,
Michael J. Yost,
Robert G. Gourdie
Fibrotic scars deposited during skin wound healing can cause disfiguration and loss of dermal function. Scar differentiation involves inputs from multiple cell types in a predictable and overlapping sequence of cellular events that includes inflammation, migration/proliferation and extracellular matrix deposition. Research into the molecular mechanisms underpinning these processes in embryonic and adult wounds has contributed to the development of a growing number of novel therapeutic approaches for improving scar appearance.
Engineering custom-designed osteochondral tissue grafts
Warren L. Grayson,
Pen-Hsiu Grace Chao,
Darja Marolt,
David L. Kaplan,
Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic
Tissue engineering is expected to help us outlive the failure of our organs by enabling the creation of tissue substitutes capable of fully restoring the original tissue function. Degenerative joint disease, which affects one-fifth of the US population and is the country's leading cause of disability, drives current research of actively growing, functional tissue grafts for joint repair. Toward this goal, living cells are used in conjunction with biomaterial scaffolds (serving as instructive templates for tissue development) and bioreactors (providing environmental control and molecular and physical regulatory signals).
Computer-aided biotechnology: from immuno-informatics to reverse vaccinology
Sandro Vivona,
Jennifer L. Gardy,
Srinivasan Ramachandran,
Fiona S.L. Brinkman,
G.P.S. Raghava,
Darren R. Flower,
Francesco Filippini
Genome sequences from many organisms, including humans, have been completed, and high-throughput analyses have produced burgeoning volumes of 'omics' data. Bioinformatics is crucial for the management and analysis of such data and is increasingly used to accelerate progress in a wide variety of large-scale and object-specific functional analyses. Refined algorithms enable biotechnologists to follow 'computer-aided strategies' based on experiments driven by high-confidence predictions. In order to address compound problems, current efforts in immuno-informatics and reverse vaccinology are aimed at developing and tuning integrative approaches and user-friendly, automated bioinformatics environments.
Tendon tissue engineering using scaffold enhancing strategies
Yang Liu,
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Tendon traumas or diseases are prevalent and debilitating lesions that affect the quality of life among populations worldwide. As a novel solution, tendon tissue engineering aims to address these lesions by integrating engineered, living substitutes with their native counterparts in vivo, thereby restoring the defective functions in situ. For such a purpose, competent scaffolding materials are essential. To date, three major categories of scaffolding materials have been employed: polyesters, polysaccharides, and collagen derivatives.
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Sujit K. Bhutia,
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Peptide-based therapies offer the potential for non-genotoxic, genotype-specific alternatives, or adjuvants, to the current range of traditional cancer treatments. Such a patient-tailored cancer-cell-directed therapeutic approach should have fewer side effects and could well be more effective than the current drug- or combination-based regimens. Here, we review the potential of novel natural anticancer peptides such as necrotic peptides, apoptotic peptides, function-blocking peptides, antiangiogenic peptides and immunostimulatory peptides in the context of their ability to induce tumor regression.
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Yi Ge,
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Molecular imprinting involves the synthesis of polymers in the presence of a template to produce complementary binding sites with specific recognition ability. The technique has been successfully applied as a measurement and separation technology, producing a uniquely robust and antibody-like polymeric material. Low molecular weight molecules have been extensively exploited as imprint templates, leading to significant achievements in solid-phase extraction, sensing and enzyme-like catalysis. By contrast, macromolecular imprinting remains underdeveloped, principally because of the lack of binding site accessibility.


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Q: WEB API C# - Filter parameter validation I am trying to create an API using best practices  with a simple validation by example.
public class ClientController
{
       [HttpGet]
       [Authorize]
       public IHttpActionResult Clients([FromUri]string Initialdate,[FromUri] string finalDate)
       {
           return _clientRepository.GetClients();
       }
}

public class ClientRepository
{
        //some code that access data layer
        public IEnumerable<Client> GetClients(string initialDate,string finalDate)
        {
             //HERE IS WHAT IM LOOKING FOR
             //HERE I WANT TO VALIDATE THE DATE PARAMETER PROVIDED IN REQUEST AND RETURN
             //VALIDATION LIST WITH ERROR DESCRIPTION IN JSON

             _daoClient.ExecuteProcedure(initialDate,finalDate);
        }
}

public class Client
{
    public int Id {get;set;}
    public string Name {get;set;}
}

So, how can i build this simple validation of parameters in request with action like a parameter filters?

A: You have to do validate explicitly like this then:
[HttpGet]
[Authorize]
public IHttpActionResult Clients([FromUri]string Initialdate, [FromUri] string finalDate)
{
         bool isInitialDate = DateTime.TryParse(Initialdate, out DateTime tempInitialdate);
         bool isFinalDate = DateTime.TryParse(finalDate, out DateTime tempfinalDate);

         List<string> _errorMessage = new List<string>();

         if (!isInitialDate)
              _errorMessage.Add("Initial date is invalid");

         if(!isFinalDate)
             _errorMessage.Add("Final date is invalid");

         if(isInitialDate && isFinalDate)
         {
                //your business logic
                return _clientRepository.GetClients();
         }

            return Json(new { success = false, error = _errorMessage });
}


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How Loud Is That Bus Outside My Window?
Posted on Thursday, May 27, 2010 by doug
How loud is that diesel (or natural gas) city bus? Too loud: about 93 decibels (peak volume) measured from a bus stop when the bus is pulling away from the curb. On the sound scale, that is more than four times louder than a vacuum cleaner (70dB) and more than twice as loud as an alarm clock (80dB). That makes the MBTA's city bus Boston's noisiest neighbor. No wonder why people have a hard time adapting to living near a bus stop. Just don't open the windows.
The only thing louder? Interestingly, riding in the back seat of the bus is as much as four times louder than staying at the stop. My handy Radio Shack meter clocked a very impressive 112dB (peak volume) when the bus was accelerating at moderate to high speeds. That puts riding on the back seat of the bus on par with … sandblasting or attending a loud rock concert! Better change seats after 15 to 30 minutes; sitting in that back seat much longer could exceed OSHA's daily permissible noise level exposure. Incredibly, standing ten feet away from an MBCR locomotive accelerating through an underpass did not beat that peak from the interior of the bus, although the locomotive may have sustained a higher average noise level.
It probably would not exaggerate much to guess that the MBTA's diesel and natural gas bus fleet has become Boston's de facto alarm clock. Of course, it didn't have to be that way. Years ago, the diesels replaced whisper-soft trackless trolleys. Trolleys of the trackless variety still operate through Harvard Square on overhead lines, and still barely make a sound over the background traffic. Sure beats having a double-volume alarm clock for a neighbor.
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Marc Ebuna on Thursday, May 27, 2010 at 8:11 am said:
Yes, the MBTA's buses and MBCR's diesel operations are both loud and polluting. I recently moved to Boston from New York after having lived on various parts of Long Island for most of my life until I moved up to Troy for college.
With that, it became glaringly apparent how noisy, slow, and unreliable commuter rail operations are in the area, having come from an area served by one of the original commuter railroads who electrified their lines in the early 1900s and have benefited from those investments in terms of operational reliability, air quality, and noise pollution.
Something I never got to see in the City during my residency there was the recent introduction of a set of turbine hybrid-electric buses to the MTA Buses fleet (http://secondavenuesagas.com/2009/08/28/transit-debuts-turbine-bus-of-the-future/). These buses literally run silent (as silent as the electric trolley buses that still run between Watertown, Somerville, and Cambridge) when its batteries are charged. When the charge becomes low, the turbine engine kicks in and merely serves as an electric generator, so the engine doesn't rev up when the bus accelerates. I commented on the use of these in the system to MassDOT in regard to the recently acquired hybrid bendy buses, funded by an ARRA grant: http://transportation.blog.state.ma.us/blog/2010/04/mbta-launches-hybrid-buses.html?cid=6a0105367f07d8970b0133ed0bf9f1970b#comment-6a0105367f07d8970b0133ed0bf9f1970b
As Ben mentions over at the SAS blog, NYCTA is still in the process of doing structural testing, but there's a wealth of HD YouTube videos available by people who have gone bus fanning for these buses. I'll probably get one of those nifty meters and bus fan myself next time I'm in the City and post my results on my blog.
Herzog on Thursday, May 27, 2010 at 11:43 am said:
I must say, the trackless trolleys are far from silent — especially inside. At least they don't sound like a fighter jet taking off.
I remember the old ones (eliminated about 6 years ago) made this wailing noise that could be heard for a mile. Loved those.
Liz Bolton on Friday, May 28, 2010 at 11:23 pm said:
I work on Huron Ave and while I love the quiet electric trolleys I'm floored by how loud buses are – trucks too for that matter. It really makes it unpleasant to be anywhere near the street. Even inside, with windows closed, the roar can be overpowering. Do our ears get more sensitive as we get older or are vehicles much louder nowadays?
boblothrope on Friday, June 11, 2010 at 1:30 pm said:
Which model of bus are your measurements for? The sounds coming from each model of T bus are very different.
I love the New Flyers, since they have great acceleration. But they are rather loud, especially in the lower frequencies.
The NABI CNGs make a lot of noise as well. A few of them make unusual noises that could indicate problems, like a high-pitched whistle coming from the exhaust.
doug on Saturday, June 12, 2010 at 4:56 pm said:
The bus was one of the ubiquitous low-floor models, I believe running on diesel.


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title: DLL Proxying
excerpt: This post will be the first part in a series on DLL Security covering topics such as DLL Proxying, DLL Injection, and IAT Hooking.
categories:
  - Application Security
tags:
  - DLL
  - Proxying
  - Stuxnet
---

This post will be the first part in a series on DLL Security covering topics
such as DLL Proxying, DLL Injection, and IAT Hooking. Stay tuned :)

In this post we'll focus on the theory of a technique known as DLL Proxying,
also known as DLL Redirection or DLL Reflection. In a next post we'll focus on
implementing the technique!

## Tools and Prerequisites

The following software is used to examine the PE Header of an executable:
[CFF Explorer](http://www.ntcore.com/exsuite.php)

This post is rather technical, and as such, assumes knowledge of C++ and Windows
Programming using Visual Studios. A basic understanding of DLL's and how to
implement one in C/C++ is a bonus.

## Introduction

When studying the PE Executable Format, I ran into an explanation of how the
computer worm Stuxnet used a technique known as DLL Proxying, which is made
possible by a PE feature called *Forward Exports*. DLL Proxying was used in
Stuxnet's attack phase to control and monitor communication to Programmable
Logic Controllers (PLCs), specifically targeting the centrifuge rotors at a
too-low or too-high frequency. The study of Stuxnet is fascinating on its own,
I deeply encourage readers to read more at:
[The Stuxnet Worm](https://www2.cs.arizona.edu/~collberg/Teaching/466-566/2012/Resources/presentations/2012/topic9-final/report.pdf).

Absolutely fascinated by how Stuxnet used DLL Proxying in its attack phase, I
wanted to consider how exactly this technique is done, and in turn, implement
such a technique (in a non-malicious way of course).

This post will focus on how exactly DLL Proxying works. We'll first begin with
an overview of this technique and then explore how it is made possible with
features of the PE executable format.

Please note this post is related to a project I created which automates much of
this technique. The project with its details can be found here:
[DLL Wrapper](https://github.com/kevinalmansa/DLL_Wrapper)

## DLL Proxying Overview

DLL Proxying is a technique in which an attacker replaces a DLL with a Trojan
version, renaming the original rather than deleting it. This Trojan DLL
implements exclusively the functions which the attacker wishes to
intercept/modify, while forwarding all other functions to the original DLL, thus
the name "Proxy". The attacker can then *Man in the Middle* the functions
they're interested in, and forward the rest to the original DLL, minimizing the
amount of work needed while ensuring functionality is not reduced or broken.

The entire attack is conducted in a six-step process:
  1.	Analyze the original DLL, from here referred to as "*target DLL*"
  2.	Identify functions to intercept/modify
  3.	Implement intercepted functions in Trojan DLL
  4.	Forward all other functions to the *target DLL* (the original DLL)
  5.	Rename the *target DLL*
  6.	Place Trojan DLL with original name of target DLL

While the entire attack is a six-step process, this process can be grouped into
two phases:
  1.	Creation of the Trojan DLL
  2.	Implementation of the Trojan DLL

In the first phase, the Trojan DLL must be coded, with intercepted functions
implemented and exported. All remaining functions must make use of the PE
formats *Forward Exports* to export to the original DLL.

In the second phase, write permissions will be required at the target DLLs
location to rename the original DLL, and write the Trojan in its place.

This technique has several advantages:
  1.	It's simple to implement
  2.	We have full control over intercepted functions, including the ability to
  monitor calls to the original
  3.	We do not directly modify the target application or DLL

This technique relies on the ability to forward non-implemented functions to the
original DLL (which has been renamed). The next section will give an overview of
what an exported function is, followed by an overview of the PE executable
format, specifying how it can be leveraged to implement such a technique.

## DLL Exported Functions

Let's begin by reviewing what is an exported function. A function that is
exported by an executable can be called and used by other applications.
Retrieving an exported function is done through two functions in Windows:
  -	LoadLibrary – Returns a handle for an executable
  -	GetProcAddress – Returns a function pointer to the exported function

An exported function can be retrieved by name, or by ordinal. The name would be
the function name given by the developer, and the ordinal is a unique numerical
value given to each exported function. It's important to note that giving a name
to an exported function is optional, an ordinal value on the other hand is not.
If an ordinal value is not explicitly given, the linker will assign one of its
choice.

Despite the name being optional, most developers export functions with a name,
and retrieve it with a name as the ordinal value can be changed from one update
to the next. Also, frankly, names are much easier to remember and identify.

Finally, the last detail to know about exported functions; the function does not
have to be implemented in the DLL that is exporting it!

Wait, what?

This is known as a *Forward Export*, and, although not commonly used, is used by
Windows NTDLL.dll, Kernel32.dll, etc.

A Forward Export allows a developer to export a function from one module to be
handled by another. This is very useful for backwards compatibility
(for example), and of course, was very useful for Stuxent when implementing it's
attack phase.

We'll detail what a Forward Exported Function looks like in the next section.

## PE Executable Format

The PE Executable Format is used for all windows executables, including DLLs,
System Files (kernel drivers), Control Panel files (.cpl), and even Screensavers
(.scr). It is used by the Windows Loader to manage the executable code,
detailing where execution should start, the size of the image in memory,
code/data sections, Thread Local Storage information, Imports, Exports, etc.

The PE Executable format is far too large of a topic to cover thoroughly in this
post, rather, we will see how we can use *CFF Explorer* to parse the PE format
for us, and of course, how to find the exported functions.

Let's begin by defining two terms:
  -	RVA – Relative virtual address. This is the file offset in bytes (usually
  represented in hexadecimal), and the offset relative to where the file is
  mapped in memory.
  -	VirtualAddress – The address of an item after it is loaded into memory.
  Equal to the offset + base address of image.

Let's now take a look at a DLL, *Attacker_Example.dll*, using CFF Explorer. This
is a DLL I specifically made for this purpose, it contains Exported Functions as
well as a Forward Exported Function.

**CFF Explorer DOS-Header:**
![DOS Header](/assets/images/DLL_Proxying/PE-DOS-Header.PNG)

The PE Header, for legacy reasons, always starts with a DOS Header. The value we
care about in this header is ```e_lfanew```. This specifies the file offset
where the PE Header can be found.

**CFF Explorer NT Header**
![NT Header](/assets/images/DLL_Proxying/PE-NT-Header.PNG)

Inside the PE Header (also called the NT Header) we have a few key elements:
-	Machine: Architecture of the executable. This file is a x64 DLL, thus it's AMD64.
-	Characteristics: We can see this is a DLL.

**CFF Explorer NT Optional Header**
![NT Optional Header](/assets/images/DLL_Proxying/PE-NT-Header-Optional.PNG)

The NT Header contains an Optional Header (which ironically is not optional).
The key elements are:
  -	**Magic**: Confirms whether x32 or x64 executable. Here it's PE64, confirming we
  have an x64 file.
  -	**AddressOfEntryPoint**: RVA of where code will start executing once loaded by
  the Windows Loader. If debugging an unknown file, this is a good place to set
  a breakpoint.
  -	**DllCharacteristics**: A few interesting values to note:
    - DLL can move: Supports ASLR
    - Image is NX Compatible: Supports DEP
  -	**DataDirectories**: An array containing a *VirtualAddress* and *Size* for
  each directory. Directories include: Export, Import, Resource, Debug, etc.
    - Note: The section it is located in must be manually computed. CFF Explorer
    did it for us.

**CFF Explorer DataDirectories**
![NT DataDirectories](/assets/images/DLL_Proxying/PE-Data-Directory.PNG)

Now, to find the Export Directories location in the file, we need to use the
following formula:

```
File Offset = Section.RawAddress + (DataDirectory.VirtualAddress - Section.VirtualAddress)
```

In this case:
  -	Section = rdata
  -	Section.RawAddress = 8000
  -	Section.VirtualAddress = 19000
  -	DataDirectory.VirtualAddress = 1B8F0

Our file offset is A8F0.

This step is necessary because CFF Explorer will not show us if an exported
function is a Forward Export or not.

**CFF Explorer Export Directory**
![Export Directory](/assets/images/DLL_Proxying/PE-Export-Directory.PNG)

As we can see, we have three functions, exported by name. These are the names
used when calling ```GetProcAddress``` to get a function pointer. Again, we
cannot tell just by this screen that ```print_dll_name``` is a Forward Export.
To do so, we must open the Hex Editor and go to offset A8F0.

**CFF Explorer Hex Editor**
![Hex Editor](/assets/images/DLL_Proxying/PE-Hex-Editor.PNG)

We can see the name of ```print_dll_name``` follows a different format than the
others; it begins with a DLL name.

```
Target_DLL2.dll.print_dll_name
```

This is telling us that although this DLL is exporting a function named
```print_dll_name```, the function is actually located in ```Target_DLL2.dll```.

When calling Forward Exported functions, the Windows Loader will check if the
DLL referred to (here ```Target_DLL2.dll```) is loaded. If the referred DLL is
not already loaded into memory, the Windows Loader will load it, and finally,
will retrieve the address of the function (here ```print_dll_name```) so that we
may call it.

## Conclusion

As we saw, DLL Proxying is made possible by a feature of the PE executable
format known as Forward Exports. The Trojan DLL simply replaces the original,
renaming the original DLL rather than deleting it, and forwarding to it all
non-implemented functions.

Detection of such a technique is simple. The signature of the Trojan DLL will be
radically different to the original, and upon manual static analysis, will
contain a lot of forward exported functions.

Thanks for reading!

## References

This post was made possible thanks to [intercept_apis_dll_redirection](https://dl.packetstormsecurity.net/papers/win/intercept_apis_dll_redirection.pdf)
which I used as a reference when implementing this technique. I highly encourage
readers to take a look, it's amazing.


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Tradition is a bad word in today's culture where nothing much is sacred. The unique and novel are the new custom of our day. Those who hold to tradition are tolerated at best and rejected and ridiculed at worst.
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What are some of the traditional ways your family celebrates Christmas? A favorite practice at our house is to attend the Christmas Eve service together and then enjoy a Cajun meal. Our sojourn in Louisiana for seminary produced a great love of Cajun recipes that our children have also embraced.
Last year, I started a new tradition. I spent many days seeking the Lord for a word and verse of Scripture to support it to give as a gift to Polla and our kids. It would be a verse I would pray for each of them throughout the year. After all the presents had been opened, I told them I had one other gift to give. I shared a word and verse with each that would set the tone for the new year. I then prayed over each one and asked God to bring about in their lives the meaning of the word and the verse I had given them. It took Christmas to a new level. I am already seeking God for this year's word and verse gift for our Christmas celebration.
Perhaps the longest-held tradition in our family centers around giving. We love to give gifts to one another, but our greatest joy comes in giving to the Lottie Moon Christmas Offering. Each year, we seek to make this our largest gift. Nothing could bring more joy than knowing that our gift carries the message of the Christ of Christmas to the world.
Today, 5,200 missionaries serve in our behalf in some of the darkest places on Earth. They shine the light of the Gospel into some of the last frontiers where the name of Jesus has never been heard. Long after the clothes are worn out, the tie is out of style or the game has stopped working, our missionaries will still be telling a lost world about Jesus. Come to think of it, so will I-through them.
So join my family in a time-honored and blessed tradition. Make your gift through your church to the Lottie Moon Christmas Offering. Turn the lights on in a dark place. Tradition! It is a good thing!


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IRMS at Saint Barnabas - Clark (Claim this profile)
100 Walnut Avenue, Suite 104, Clark, NJ 07066
2 mi - Clark, NJ
IRMS at Saint Barnabas - Clark
IRMS at Saint Barnabas is a fertility clinic in Clark, New Jersey that provides advanced fertility treatment options in a caring, responsive environment. The New Jersey fertility clinic maintains office locations in Livingston, Long Branch, Clark, East Windsor, Hoboken, Jersey City, and Westfield....
IRMS at Saint Barnabas - Westfield (Claim this profile)
560 Springfield Ave, Suite 102, Westfield, NJ 07090
2 mi - Westfield, NJ
IRMS at Saint Barnabas - Westfield
IRMS at Saint Barnabas is a fertility clinic in Westfield, New Jersey that provides advanced fertility treatment options in a caring, responsive environment. The New Jersey fertility clinic maintains office locations in Livingston, Long Branch, Clark, East Windsor, Hoboken, Jersey City, and Westfiel...
IVF New Jersey (Claim this profile)
636 Morris Turnpike, Suite 2D, Short Hills , NJ 07078
4 mi - Short Hills , NJ
IVF New Jersey is a New Jersey fertility clinic with five practice locations in Somerset, Hamilton, Freehold, Short Hills and New York City, N.Y.
Diamond Institute for Infertility (Claim this profile)
89 Milburn Avenue, Millburn, NJ 07041
5 mi - Millburn, NJ
Diamond Institute for Infertility
The Diamond Institute is an independent, private center devoted to the diagnosis and treatment of infertility, with locations in New Jersey, New York, and Bermuda. Since 1968 the Institute has offered, in one comprehensive setting, sophisticated state of the art laboratories, operating rooms, consul...
Reproductive Medicine Associates of New Jersey (Claim this profile)
MAC II Women's Center, 11 Overlook Rd, Suite LL102, Summit, NJ 07902
5 mi - Summit, NJ
Reproductive Medicine Associates of New Jersey
At Reproductive Medicine Associates of New Jersey (RMANJ) our passion for excellence is demonstrated in our IVF success rates, which set us apart from other fertility programs in New Jersey, as well as the nation. Our contributions and advancements in reproductive medicine have brought success to ma...
IRMS at Saint Barnabas - Livingston (Claim this profile)
94 Old Short Hills Road, Suite 403, East Wing, Livingston, NJ 07039
7 mi - Livingston, NJ
IRMS at Saint Barnabas - Livingston
IRMS at Saint Barnabas is a fertility clinic in Livingston, New Jersey that provides advanced fertility treatment options in a caring, responsive environment. The New Jersey fertility clinic maintains office locations in Livingston, Hoboken, Clark, East Windsor, Jersey City, and Westfield....
Island Reproductive Services (Claim this profile)
1110 South Avenue, Suite 305, Staten Island, NY 10314
7 mi - Staten Island, NY
Island Reproductive Services
Island Reproductive Services provides treatment for patients with a range of reproductive needs. We treat patients with infertility, irregular or heavy menstrual cycles, polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS), hirsutism (excess body hair), uterine fibroids, endometriosis, ovarian cysts, as well as many ...
Genesis Fertility & Reproductive Medicine-Staten Island (Claim this profile)
1855 Richmond Avenue, Staten Island, NY 10314
Genesis Fertility & Reproductive Medicine-Staten Island
GENESIS Fertility & Reproductive Medicine is the Division of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility at Maimonides Medical Center. Our mission is to help patients realize the dream of parenthood in an environment that addresses the personal needs and privacy of every patient. We deliver compassio...
Damien Fertility Partners - Newark (Claim this profile)
Military Park Office Building, 60 Park Place, Suite 210, Newark, NJ 07102
9 mi - Newark, NJ
Damien Fertility Partners - Newark
Miguel Damien, M.D., is a New Jersey fertility doctor (reproductive endocrinologist) and Medical Director of Damien Fertility Partners, the New Jersey fertility clinic is located in Shrewsbury, Newark and Freehold NJ and serves infertility patients in Monmouth County and Ocean County. Damien Fertili...


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The Architectural Review Board met today and approved the demolition of a historic building. However, citizens were not given the opportunity for public input. It is the goal of my administration that no final decision such as this is made without public input.
Therefore, I will ask the ARB to meet again and conduct the meeting properly with a period for public input.


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Ausma may refer to:

 Ausma (given name), a Latvian given name
 Dawn (2015 film), a Latvian film, released as Ausma in Latvia
 Ausma, a former association football club in the Latvian SSR Higher League; see 1968 Latvian SSR Higher League for example
 KA-07 Ausma, a Latvian Naval Forces coastal patrol boat which entered service in 1994
 SS Ausma, a cargo ship sunk in World War II; see List of shipwrecks in August 1941

See also
 Ozma (disambiguation)

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Critical Infrastructure Security , Endpoint Protection Platforms (EPP) , Endpoint Security
How to Measure and Communicate the Value of Your Security Program
ReliaQuest's Colin O'Connor on Communicating Security's Effectiveness Tom Field (SecurityEditor) • April 30, 2020
Colin O'Connor, COO, ReliaQuest
In trying economic times, it's more important than ever to be able to measure and communicate the effectiveness of one's cybersecurity program. Colin O'Connor, COO of ReliaQuest, offers a new alternative to traditional metrics.
In a video interview with Information Security Media Group, O'Connor discusses:
Why measuring cybersecurity is so hard;
How traditional metrics fail to translate;
New ways to look at visibility, metrics and context.
O'Connor is the Chief Operating Officer for ReliaQuest, one of the fastest-growing companies in the global cybersecurity industry. Over the past 11 years with ReliaQuest, he has played a key role in nearly every area of the company, helping to architect and enhance ReliaQuest's solutions for its customer base of Fortune 1000 companies. He is an active member of the technology and information security community and has held roles with the Tampa Bay Technology Forum, ISSA, BSides, and InfraGard.
For more information please visit www.reliaquest.com.
The New Normal and Deception Technology's Role
Darknet Markets Push Fake Coronavirus Vaccines, Test Kits
Tom Field
Senior Vice President, Editorial, ISMG
Field is responsible for all of ISMG's 28 global media properties and its team of journalists. He also helped to develop and lead ISMG's award-winning summit series that has brought together security practitioners and industry influencers from around the world, as well as ISMG's series of exclusive executive roundtables.
Board Members: Mitigating Their Security Risks
Hybrid IT-OT Security Management
A Smarter Approach to Insider Threat Protection
Using the MITRE ATT&CK Knowledge Base to Improve Threat Hunting and Incident Response
Zero Trust and the Role of Internet Isolation
Manufacturing System Protection from Cyber Attacks
Top 10 Use Cases for User and Entity Behavior Analytics
The SIEM Buyer's Guide for 2021
OnDemand | 5 Keys to Resolving Security & Operational Incidents Before They Happen
https://www.databreachtoday.com/how-to-measure-communicate-value-your-security-program-a-14211


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Building Capacity
THE BAHÁ'ÍS OF ST. JOHN'S
The Bahá'í community of St. John's dates back to Confederation when three Bahá'ís from mainland Canada settled in the new provincial capital in 1949.
Today, the local community numbers about 60 believers of diverse backgrounds. The Bahá'í Faith has no clergy. Instead, members aged 21 and older elect a nine-person Local Spiritual Assembly each year to govern the community's affairs.
The central tenet of the Baha'i Faith is progressive revelation.
Bahá'ís believe that God periodically sends messengers to guide humanity through its development.
These messengers stretch back beyond recorded time. They include Abraham, Moses, Buddha, Krishna, Zoroaster, Jesus Christ and Muhammad. The most recent of these messengers, Bahá'u'lláh, founded the Bahá'í Faith in Persia in the 19th century.
Since then, the Bahá'í Faith has grown into the youngest of the world's independent religions. Every day, Bahá'ís work to spread Bahá'u'lláh's message that humanity's next step is to organize itself into a global society committed to universal peace. These activities are co-ordinated by National Spiritual Assemblies and the Universal House of Justice in Haifa, Israel.
Bahá'í life in St. John's
Life in the local Baha'i community flows through a 19-day cycle, with community meetings called Feasts happening at the beginning of each Bahá'í month. These meetings combine devotional services with discussions of community affairs.
Bahá'ís take an active interest in the wider community in which they live. They strive to contribute to community development through a series of core activities:
Devotional Gatherings, which bind the hearts of people of all faiths in common worship;
Study Circles, in which Bahá'ís and others learn to apply spiritual principles in striving to make the world a more just and unified place;
Junior Youth Spiritual Empowerment Programs, which seek to instill a strong sense of purpose among youth aged 11-15 by strengthening their powers of thought and expression and by giving them an opportunity to carry out their own community service projects.
Children's classes, which nurture the spiritual knowledge and development of our most precious resource.
Bahá'ís take an active part in the discourses of society. In the past, for example, Bahá'ís in St. John's have contributed to public consultations about education and the integration of immigrants and refugees into Newfoundland and Labrador society.
Two Bahá'ís share a laugh at a holy day commemoration in St. John's.
A Bahá'í speaks at a celebration of the Festival of Ridvan in St. John's in May 2017.
The Bahá'í Faith places special emphasis on the arts as a means of expressing sprituality. Bahá'u'lláh writes that God has "made music as a ladder for your souls, a means whereby they may be lifted up unto the realm on high."
The Bahá'í Faith
Bahá'í Community of Canada
Bahá'í International Community
Email: bahais.st.johns@gmail.com
AN INTRODUCTION TO THE BAHÁ'Í FAITH
https://youtu.be/wHpOy7vgqtI
Copyright © 2017. The Local Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of St. John's. All Rights Reserved


While TCP based applications consume a larger percentage of the internet's bandwidth, DNS queries/responses are typically sent over User DataGram Protocol (UDP). UDP is popular amongst many real time applications due to its simple nature and ability to minimize transmission delay. While UDP poses many benefits in its application, a specific feature plays a big role in the behavior of systems where it is applied. Retransmission is defined as a behavior in which a response/request is resent due to packet loss. UDP's lack of delivery confirmation makes having retransmission policy a key tool in application success. Of course this policy can be modified to fit the efficiency needs of an application. Internet traffic is known to be unpredictable therefore policy will vary as needed. An optimal approach would be to determine retransmission interval figures based on prior data.
A standard query was made to ns1.ns1monitoring.com at (159.203.187.64) from the resolver (45.79.187.48). Since the server had been spun down, the resolver hadn't received a response and a retransmit was issued to once again determine the address of ns1.ns1monitoring.com.
However, it is important to note that the destination is slightly different this time around. After not receiving a response, the resolver decided to retransmit to ns2.ns1monitoring.com to determine the address of the ns1.ns1monitoring.com.
ns2.ns1monitoring.com responds with the full information for both name servers on the network in a timely fashion. This shows just how helpful DNS retransmissions can be in a situation where latency is high and/or a server is unreachable.
Although retransmission holds great benefits, there are negative connotations that pursue in its implementation. An overly aggressive retransmission value has the potential to increase latency for the community as a whole. In contrast, a passive value may lead to excessively packet loss with a low rate of recovery. A typical Retransmit interval is between 2 - 5 seconds. The hot and cold behavior of UDP retransmission makes finding a neutral balance very important in its implementation. When it comes to DNS, retransmission may also have a strong effect in an ongoing Distributed Denial of Service attack (DDoS). These malicious attacks aim to render a victim's domain inaccessible by overwhelming it's authoritative DNS server using a high amount of faulty traffic. Unfortunately this process can be assisted by taking advantage of the UDP retransmission policy. A high volume attack with many dropped packets may lead to a sharp increase in duplicate queries in quick a succession.
The following screen shot contains an example of how retransmission can affect an ongoing DDoS attack.
As you can see there is a broad list of source IP addresses. Many of these addresses appear more than once in the "Source" column and are attempting to reach the same destination. These duplicate queries increase the amount traffic during an attack exponentially in turn making the attack even more aggressive than it was to begin with.
Well configured authoritative servers understand that legitimate DNS clients do not send duplicate queries at a rapid rate even during significant packet loss. As a DDoS mitigation strategy, many DNS servers will drop duplicate queries coming from same IP to the same destination. All though this may not bring the attack to a complete halt, it serves as a trusted strategy to aid the mitigation process.
Retransmission is a crucial part of any TCP/UDP enabled application. It's implementation is vital to system health and should be configured cautiously. Although many modern day attacks have a variety of ways to inhibit the functionality of authoritative name servers. Dumping malicious traffic based on retransmission policies still remains a valid weapon in the fight against cybercrime.


Our July meeting is scheduled for Saturday, July 15th. It is our summer picnic lunch so the meeting starts at 1:00pm and goes until 3:00pm. Bring a covered dish if you are attending.
Thanks to those that attended the meeting on June 17th. Here are the notes from the meeting.
We covered some recent Apple news – Today at Apple Launches & the App Store.
The World Wide Develop Conference was held on June 5th and there was plenty of new things announced and previewed. We did a quick review of these. The new iPads, iOS 11 coming this fall, Apple's new Homepod, updates to the iMac, Macbook and Macbook Pro line, the all-new iMac Pro, the next MacOS High Sierra and the new WatchOS 4. You can watch the entire keynote here.
We did a quick session on working in the Mac OS Finder – download the MacLife Cheat Sheet here for those tips.
Marilyn reviewed some cool iPad software – Lumyer, Vont and Affinity Photo.
We also had fun experimenting with VR visors and software. We looked at the new Facebook Spaces. Apps that we used on our iPhones for the visors were – Cedar Point VR, Jaunt VR, Cardboard, Discovery VR, VR Diving and Mojo VR.


SAN ANTONIO, TX - San Antonio Professional Fire Fighters Association Local 624 announced Thursday its continued support of the San Antonio Police Officers Association (SAPOA), which approved a new contract with the City of San Antonio.
SAPFFA Local 624 is involved in a lawsuit similar to the lawsuit SAPOA members are facing.
"We support our brothers in blue and are looking forward to the City of San Antonio dropping its lawsuit against us so we can sit down at the negotiating table," said Chief Mark Black, the 1st Vice President and Negotiating Chair of SAPFFA Local 624.
As SAPFFA Local 624 has frequently stated in the past, its members are committed to moving forward and sitting down at the negotiating table within 30 days of the City dropping its lawsuit.
"Regardless of whomever is on City Council now or in 2017, we look forward to working with them on a contract that is not only fiscally responsible for the City of San Antonio, but beneficial to the men and women who have sworn to protect its citizens," said Black.
"We swore an oath that we will serve and protect this city regardless of the lack of a contract," said SAPFFA Local 624 President Chris Steele.


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Warriors' Steve Kerr tempering expectations for…
Warriors' Steve Kerr tempering expectations for James Wiseman: 'You can't rush it'
James Wiseman has wowed the Warriors with highlight-worthy plays, but they are being cautious about his expectations.
Golden State Warriors center James Wiseman talks with a coach before the team's NBA basketball game against the Portland Trail Blazers in San Francisco, Friday, Jan. 1, 2021. (AP Photo/Tony Avelar)
PUBLISHED: January 3, 2021 at 5:26 p.m. | UPDATED: January 4, 2021 at 3:10 a.m.
When rookie center James Wiseman curled around a screen and drilled an open jumper with near-textbook form on the first play of Friday's loss to the Portland Trail Blazers, he impressed more than just Warriors coaches and teammates.
"Everybody can see that he's a very talented young man," said Trail Blazers head coach Terry Stotts before Sunday night's rematch at Chase Center. "He's going to be a very good player in this league for a long time."
These glimpses of Wiseman's skillset has emerged as the feel-good story of the young Warriors' season. Despite blowout losses to NBA title contenders and preseason injuries to Golden State's core, Wiseman — the No. 2 pick in November's NBA draft — is providing hope for the future.
Still, head coach Steve Kerr is cautioning onlookers not to expect too much out of the 19-year-old who played just three college games at Memphis before leaving the program because of a dispute over his eligibility, and didn't get to take advantage of the typical run-up to his rookie season because of the pandemic-shortened offseason.
Without summer league, and having had missed training camp and all three preseason exhibitions because of a positive coronavirus test, Wiseman on Sunday plays in just his sixth game in 13 months.
While the 7-footer has flashed remarkable skills — such as making 3-pointers with ease or dribbling down the length of the court to finish with SportsCenter-worthy dunks — he's often caught out of position on defense and is slow to react to opposing offenses.
"The speed of the game is the whole issue for every rookie, and even more so for big guys," Kerr said. "I'm going to keep reminding people that James is so young, so raw and is seeing all this stuff for the first time."
As Kerr preaches patience, he and other coaches praise Wiseman for his humble approach and willingness to learn and process concepts. Before Friday's loss to Portland, Kerr said he planned to add more plays designed for Wiseman.
A few minutes later on the first play of the game, two-time MVP Stephen Curry was setting a screen to get Wiseman open. But as Wiseman hurried through the play, his right foot was on the line. Instead of three points, he got credit for only two.
"There's just a process that every rookie has to go through and ultimately the game does slow down," Kerr said. "It's just a matter of when that is, but you can't rush it."


Arts Program on Feb. 24.
design, communication, theatre and ASL interpreting.
to answer any questions the prospective students might have.
573.592.4221 or go to www.WiliamWoods.edu/Visit. The deadline to RSVP is Monday, Feb.


Preheat frying oil in a deep-fryer or 8-inch deep saucepan to 375 degrees F.
Bring a saucepan of lightly salted water to a boil and cook the whole cauliflower until tender, about 10 minutes. Drain well and break into small florets.
Place the meat, onion, cinnamon, parsley, tabil, salt, and pepper in a food processor, in batches if necessary, and process until well blended. Remove to a bowl.
Have a bowl of water handy to keep your hands wet while making meatballs. Meatballs are formed by flattening a lemon-sized portion of meat into a thin patty and wrapping the patty around a cauliflower floret to completely enclose. Form into an oval shape, then dip into the eggs and dredge in flour, tapping off any excess flour.
Cook the meatballs in oil until golden, about 4 minutes, without crowding the fryer. Remove with a slotted spoon to paper toweling to drain.
Heat the extra-virgin olive oil over medium-high heat in a large saucepan. Dissolve the tomato paste in the water, and add to the pan along with harisa and ground red chili. Add the meatballs and cook covered until most of the liquid evaporates, about 25 minutes. Add a little water to rehydrate sauce if it is dries out before that time. Serve meatballs covered with sauce.


Clients often ask me how to buy a short sale. Buying a foreclosure or a short sale is substantially different than buying a home from a homeowner that is not a distressed sale. The procedure, the negotiations, and the entire process from making an offer to closing is quite different, and this is why the question how to buy a short sale is so relevant. I just sold a short sale, and I'll explain the process below.
Banks only accept a loss and approve a short sale if certain conditions are met. Sequim short sales require that sellers complete an extensive application, and they must persuade the bank that they have little or no assets to their name, no financial resources from any other source, and their income must be insufficient to continue to make the full mortgage payments. The sellers have to provide written third party proof with bank statements, tax returns, and often a great deal of additional documents. There is more to the question about how to buy a short sale than meets the eye at first.
I just sold a short sale in Sunland in Sequim, and here's the process. The home is being sold by a widow. Her husband passed away not long ago. The sales price was $180,000. The first bank loan has a balance of about $180,000, so the bank will take a loss to sell this home at that price, but not as large a loss as many banks have had to take. But there is a second for about $50,000. The risk of a second is that you may not get paid if there is a foreclosure or the market goes down. That's the case here. And there is a third for $100,000, which is an IRS tax lien. The IRS will waive their lien since there will be no proceeds from the sale for the IRS. Under the law, the IRS has 45 days to make a claim or waive their lien. This is one of the reasons a short sale often takes a long time. Procedurally, all of this must be handled precisely under the relevant law and agency guidelines.
The process can be quite involved. Few Realtors know how to buy a short sale, and handling a short sale is not for the feint of heart. I'm glad my background includes practicing real estate law for 20 years as that now redounds to my clients' benefit on short sales. Now you know more about how to buy a short sale.


Camphor oil is an extract from the wood of camphor trees. Camphor tree (camphorwood or camphor laurel), lat. Cinnamomum camphora, is a large evergreen tree that grows up to 20–30 m. The leaves have a glossy, waxy appearance and smell of camphor when crushed.
Cinnamomum camphora is native to China, southern Japan, Korea, and Vietnam.
Camphor tree contains volatile chemical compounds in all plant parts, and the wood and leaves are steam distilled for the essential oils. Camphor laurel has six different chemical variants called chemotypes, which are camphor, linalool, 1,8-cineole, nerolidol, safrole, or borneol (cineole fraction of camphor laurel is used in China to manufacture fake "Eucalyptus oil").
Camphor is commonly used in creams, ointments, and lotions to relieve pain, irritation, and more.