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There are so many ways in today's crazy world to make money…and I will be sharing a handful of my favorites over the next couple of weeks. Why? Well because this is the year of beautiful opportunities! I'm feeling that wonderful buzz all through my veins for 2019!
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Read Chance the Rapper's important message to white people about Donald Trump
Isha Aran
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Between doing Arthur covers, writing sketches for SNL, stumping for Hillary Clinton, singing "Jingle Bells" with President Obama, and also being an insanely uplifting and talented rapper, it's no surprise that Chance the Rapper is one of the ultimate celebrity icons of our generation. And he has some advice for those who are peering into this impending gaping void of uncertainty and fear that is the Trump presidency.
While telling GQ in a recent interview why he's not afraid to be a boring good guy because "the good usually wins," he explained why he also wasn't afraid of the next four years under Trump:
You gotta just understand, like, shit has been fucked-up, right? Like, "Make America Great Again," that's not a real thing because shit ain't really switched up for them. It's not really going that bad for you. If you feel like you're the under-represented, under-appreciated side of Middle America that is white—quote me—you need to, uh, toughen up, nigga! Somebody gotta punch you in the chest, because shit is sweet for you. You know what I'm saying?
Again, as people of color, particularly black people, have noted before (for instance, the creators of this week's episode of Black-ish, or the woman who got death threats for making the "America Was Never Great" hat), Trump's election is certainly tragic, but it doesn't change the fact that the status quo for marginalized people in America hasn't exactly been a bed of roses up till now.
There is plenty to worry about when it comes to those affected by Obamacare, which is in the process of being repealed, as well as basic human rights for women, people of color, immigrants, the LGBTQ community, and basically anyone who isn't a rich white man. But overcoming fear doesn't mean ignoring the issues we've already been facing. Luckily, people are already getting educated and fighting back.
Of course, Chance did a little charming self-plugging in his GQ interview:
I would say the main reason not to be afraid is that I'm making music for your kids now. I'm coming so clean-cut with the message of hope and understanding, and the Word, that it's like: What could you be fearful of?
Obviously Chance's music isn't going to singlehandedly save us, but it'd certainly make some good background music while we save ourselves.
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www.fantasticfiction.co.uk A young European girl, unaware of the Nazi threat, has her life transformed by a red-haired magician who challenges the complacency of her village. "Turns the hidden world of Eastern European Jews during the 1940s into a world of wonders, then transcends the Holocaust with magical optimism."--The New York Times.
THE RED MAGICIAN sounds like both a magical and challenging book; live with the reports of exceptionally frightening times and lightened by the trials of thinking positively in defiance of that darkness. Inundated with books I'm passing this on unread. Originally planned for a Christmas 2015, BookCrossing surprise RABCK, a family accident intervened and the parcel was instead posted close to Valentine's Day in February 2016 .
Hoping Bookcrosser Haugtussa you find some intrigued readers to get well and truly gripped by these books, kind regards rainbow3.
Got this book ages ago, but due to some fiddling about with the BCID I did not get round to register it until today. It is currently the book which I read as I walk to work.
Quite a nice read. The horrors of the Nazies camouflaged in a magicians world.
Took it with me to germany.


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Спалах коронавірусної хвороби 2019 в Уругваї — це поширення пандемії коронавірусної хвороби 2019 на територію Уругваю. Перший випадок хвороби в країні зареєстровано 13 березня в столиці країни Монтевідео. Більшість з перших випадків хвороби в країні завезені з Італії та Іспанії, з незначною кількістю випадків місцевої передачі вірусу. Значна частина ранніх випадків хвороби в країні також пов'язані з весіллям на 500 осіб у Монтевідео, на якому був присутній уругвайський модельєр, який повернувся з Іспанії, в якого пізніше підтверджено позитивний результат обстеження на коронавірус. Низка карантинних обмежень для стримування поширення коронавірусної хвороби запроваджено в середині березня, більшість обмежень щодо пересування людей та транспортного сполучення запроваджено наприкінці березня. Уругвай є однією з небагатьох країн Латинської Америки, яка успішно стримувала епідемію коронавірусної хвороби завдяки великій кількості тестувань на коронавірус. Станом на 25 червня 2020 року Уругвай мав четвертий показник у світі за співвідношенням виявлених випадків коронавірусної хвороби до кількості тестувань.

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Перші чотири випадки хвороби в країні, всі завезені з інших країн, зареєстровані 13 березня 2020 року. Один з перших хворих відвідував весілля на 500 осіб, двоє інших здійснили шестигодинну поїздку на автобусі з Монтевідео до Сальто. Пізніше частина пасажирів цього автобуса звернулася за медичною допомогою, і при огляді в них виявлені симптоми коронавірусної хвороби.

14 березня повідомлено, що двоє хворих, які їхали в автобусі 8 березня, мали контакт з близько 200 осіб, які були взяті на спостереження як підозрілі випадки, та направлені на домашній карантин.

Місцева передача вірусу підтверджена 15 березня після виявлення двох хворих, які не виїжджали за кордон. У перших хворих у країні спостерігались помірні симптоми коронавірусної хвороби. За попередні дні в аеропортах та морських портах Уругваю обстежено та виключено понад 60 підозр на коронавірусну хворобу. Однією з головних причин пізнього поширення коронавірусної хвороби в Уругваї фахівці вважають незначну кількість прямих авіарейсів між Уругваєм та країнами, які найбільше постраждали від коронавірусної хвороби: Китаєм, Німеччиною, північною Італією, Іраном та Південною Кореєю.

15 березня підтверджено позитивний результат тесту на коронавірус у лікаря, який працював у двох медичних закладах, після чого для обстеження викликані всі пацієнти, яких він перед цим оглядав, та співробітники закладів, де він працював.

16 березня стало відомо, що один із інфікованих побував на весіллі в Парагваї, а пізніше, у п'ятницю 6 березня, побував на передматчевій зустрічі з уболівальниками одного з клубів уругвайської прімери, унаслідок чого виникли щонайменше 20 підозр на коронавірусну хворобу.

17 березня повідомлено, що позитивний тест на коронавірус отримали 3 студенти приватного університету, які були на весіллі, яке відвідували інфіковані коронавірусом особи, після чого всі троє були присутні на очних заняттях у своєму навчальному закладі. Інших студентів з їх групи відправили на карантин.

З перших 29 підтверджених випадків 26 зареєстровані в столиці країни Монтевідео, де проживає близько третини населення країни. Два випадки зареєстровані у Сальто, та один у Мальдонадо. 9 з цих випадків завезені з-за кордону, а решта 29 інфікувались після контакту з одним із підтверджених випадків хвороби. Значна частина цих ранніх випадків були пов'язані з весіллям 7 березня в Карраско, на якому були присутні 500 осіб, серед яких один чоловік, який приїхав з Іспанії, у якого пізніше з'явилися симптоми хвороби та підтвердився позитивний результат тесту на COVID-19. З перших 55 випадків у країні 44 мали зв'язок з цим весіллям. Згодом один з подорожуючих, який повертався з Іспанії, стверджував, що на його питання, чи проводились в аеропорту якісь заходи, оскільки він приїхав з Європи, йому відповіли, що ні.

Уругвайський лікар Мартін Стриєвський заявив, що для подолання епідемії хвороби необхідні культурні зміни. В Уругваї часто зустрічають людей поцілунком у щоки, натомість Стриєвський рекомендував людям вітати одне одного, не торкаючись. Він також рекомендував не користуватися однією соломинкою кільком людям при традиційному спільному вживанні місцевого тонізуючого напою мате. Стриєвський також радив, щоб люди обробляли дезинфікуючим засобом поверхні, до яких вони часто торкаються.

На початку квітня в лікарні Вілардебо виявлено спалах коронавірусної хвороби, після чого лікарню закрили та помістили на карантин.

Заходи для боротьби з епідемією
Після підтвердження перших випадків коронавірусної хвороби в країні запроваджено низку карантинних заходів. Скасовані усі громадські заходи, закрито більшість громадських закладів. Спілка уругвайських таксистів закликала пасажирів не сідати на переднє сидіння біля водія. Широкий фронт тимчасово призупинив політичну агітацію, а кандидат від Багатоколірної Коаліції Лора Раффо повідомила, що вона призупинить передвиборчу агітацію в закритих приміщеннях. Кінотеатри почали вимагати від відвідувачів розсідатися з вільним місцем між відвідувачами. Католицькі єпископи внесли деякі зміни в церемонії богослужіння. 17 березня закрито всі торгові центри в країні. Газета «El País» повідомила 18 березня про те, що міністр Хорхе Ларранага порадив жителям країни якомога більше залишатися вдома.

Республіканський університет приупинив заняття в аудиторіях 13 березня, а пізніше повідомив про перехід на дистанційне навчання до кінця семестру. 14 березня уряд оголосив про припинення занять у державних та приватних школах на два тижні. Школи мали залишатися відкритими, щоб забезпечувати харчування учнів, проте заняття не повинні були проводитися. Призупинення занять у навчальних закладах спочатку продовжено до 13 квітня, пізніше неодноразово продовжувалось. 21 травня президент країни Луїс Альберто Лакальє Поу оголосив програму повернення учнів до навчальних закладів на добровільних засадах, починаючи з червня 2020 року. Студенти перейшли до онлайн-занять за допомогою комп'ютерних програм та інтернет-ресурсів, які вже були створені в рамках проекту Сейбал. Приватні навчальні заклади, як не приєднались до проекту Сейбал, розпочали навчання на навчальних платформах Zoom, Webex, WhatsApp, Google Classroom та Moodle.

16 березнявидано урядове розпорядження про закриття всіх пунктів пропуску на кордоні, крім міжнародного аеропорту Карраско. 17 березня опівночі закритий кордон з Аргентиною. Зупинено також транскордонне річкове та авіаційне сполучення. Президент країни також сказав, що закриття кордону з Бразилією буде трохи складнішим, оскільки цей кордон є суходільнимй, і багато людей, які мешкають біля кордону, живуть «двонаціональним життям». Президент також порадив людям похилого віку залишатись удома. 18 березня призупинено авіасполучення зі США, а 20 березня опівночі з Європою, цього дня аеропорти повинні закритись.

Уряд рекомендував більшості громадян перейти на надомну роботу, та не їздити до інших міст і країн, та запровадив безкоштовну лінію для медичної консультації по телефону. Для звільнення лікарняних ліжок дозволено перенести планові операції. Міністерство внутрішніх справ повідомило, що відправить групи патрульних з гучномовцями на вулиці міст, щоб попереджувати громадян не збиратися великими групами. У в'язницях запроваджено вимірювання температури тіла, а трудова діяльність в'язнів обмежена.

17 березня міністерство економіки та фінансів країни опублікувало перелік цін на такі товари, як антисептик для рук, спирт-ректифікат та захисні маски, на які встановлюються фіксовані ціни, з метою запобігання спекуляції. У цьому переліку були вказані місця, де можна було придбати ці товари, та ціни на них у кожному місці.

18 березня представники уряду повідомили, що в них на столі знаходяться кілька планів заходів боротьби з поширенням коронавірусної інфекції. при чому вони виключили можливість введення загального жорсткого карантину. Оскільки в країні різко збільшилась кількість подань на виплату страхування на випадок безробіття, уряд оголосив про виплату субсидій та інші заходи для пом'якшення негативного впливу епідемії на економіку.

Медичний синдикат Уругваю закликав до введення суворого карантину в країні (зокрема закриття всіх закладів та секторів економіки, які не є життєво важливими). Станом на 19 березня цей захід обговорювався в уряді, проте не був реалізований через побоювання щодо його економічних наслідків.

Наприкінці березня уряд Уругваю закрив кордони країни для іноземців, за винятком жителів Уругваю, транзитних пасажирів та жителів міст на кордоні з Бразилією.

30 березня уряд країни повідомив, що з 1 по 12 квітня будуть вжиті заходи щодо обмеження транспортного сполучення в країні напередодні Страсного тижня. Мешканцям країни рекомендовано не користуватися автофургонами та не подорожувати з мисливською зброєю, на території всієї країни закрили кемпінги. Громадянам рекомендовано залишатися вдома і уникати відвідування місць зі скупченнями людей, у тому числі кемпінгів.

Вплив епідемії
Кількість подань на виплату допомоги по безробіттю різко зросла в середині березня 2020 року, дещо зменшилась до кінця місяця, а потім знову зросла на початку квітня. У березні місяці було подано 86 тисяч заяв про допомогу по безробіттю, тоді як у середньому за місяць подавалось лише близько 11 тисяч таких заяв. Більшість (близько 85 %) подань надано у зв'язку з тимчасовим закриттям закладів та підприємств, і лише 3 % у зв'язку зі звільненням.

На початку квітня за повідомленням державної телекомунікаційної компанії «Antel» використання домашнього Інтернету збільшилось на 32 %, а використання мобільних пристроїв на 44 %.

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Time to continue my countdown to Halloween with some more horror film reviews and maybe recommendations. Here is The Witch Blu-ray review.
Set in New England during the 17th century, William (Ralph Ineson) finds himself threatened with exile from the plantation along with his family over a difference in interpretation with regards to the New Testament.
He decides to leave and makes a new life by settling in a remote area at the edge of a large wood. Here the family build a farm and a new life.
Both Katherine (The mother) and William (Father) tell their children never to venture into the woods.
With Katherine giving birth to Samuel all seems well. However one day when Thomasin, the eldest daughter is looking after Samuel, she loses sight of him for a split second and he disappears without a trace.
With everyone distraught a full search is carried out even venturing into the woods.
No trace is found. From here on in things go from bad to worse with failing crops meaning very little to eat. Furthermore the remoteness of their new home means they are a least a day's ride from the nearest village.
Caleb the oldest son wants to help improve the family's desperate plight and heads off into the woods hunting. Thomasin makes him take her with him but things go horribly wrong!
With the family seemingly imploding accusations from the two youngest children that Thomasin is a witch only add fuel to the fire.
William a devout Christian is being torn apart along with Katherine who blames Thomasin for the loss of Samuel.
Who or what lies in wait in the woods I'll let you find out for yourself.
The look of the film is pretty much perfect in capturing the period and location. It really is pleasing on the eye.
Style wise the director does a terrific job of creating a sinister eerie feel, constantly ramping up the uneasy feeling. With some nice camera work and a perfect location everything is in place to create something special. This is a slow burner, building the tension little by little until the inevitable release.
So it has all the visual style needed, all that's required is a similarly eerie score.
The music and sound whilst not memorable in their own right is perfect for creating tension and that eerie feel I mentioned earlier.
For most of the film there is just the family, consisting of just six people.
Ralph Ineson plays the father William and does a really good job as we see his whole world fall apart. Plus his accent seems to really suit this kind of film. Some might remember him from the BBC television series, The Office in which he played David Brent's mate (or not) Chris Finch. In any case he puts in a strong performance.
There are two standout performances, the first comes from Anya Taylor-Joy as Thomasin, the eldest daughter. I have to say I thought she was brilliant in this role. For it's her role in which (the correct spelling) a large part of the film revolves around.
The other great acting performance comes from Harvey Scrimshaw as Caleb the oldest son. He shares some of his best scenes with Ralph Ineson but also the ones with Anya Taylor-Joy are outstanding in a uncomfortable way.
Films like these rely heavily on top acting as it's pretty much all story driven and this one really delivers.
This is not your typical horror film. Don't expect lots of action, killings from the start. This is a tension building horror that's story driven.
It looks and sounds fabulous creating that perfect unnerving feeling a horror film should have. Top acting makes this one film you should definitely check out this Halloween.
The film looks amazing so Blu-ray is the only way to go for me. Unless you don't have Blu-ray of course. There are no extras not even a trailer. It would of been nice to of had a short 20 min documentary from behind the scenes but it's no real problem.
My movie rating for The Witch (2015) is?
The Witch (2015) is available now on Blu-ray.
The Witch Blu-ray Review (2015) is just one of our Blu-ray horror reviews this October.
A truly unnerving supernatural tale that will leave you shaken to the core.


At the Laguna Seca Recreation Area, visitors can camp on the surrounding hillsides for a serene view of the Salinas Valley. Both RV and tent camping are available in a clean, friendly environment. The park is just a short drive from the Monterey Peninsula, Salinas Valley, Carmel Valley and Big Sur.
In addition to great camping facilities, Laguna Seca Recreation Area has a Rifle and Pistol Range. The Hospitality Pavilion is available for rent and is a beautiful venue for weddings, retirements, corporate dinners, conferences, etc. The Laguna Seca Recreation Area is also home to WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca and Sea Otter Classic Sports Festival.
Laguna Seca is operated by the Sports Car Racing Association of the Monterey Peninsula (SCRAMP). See their website (www.WeatherTechRaceway.com) for camping, ticket sales, event and track rental information.


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Bosanka (en bosnien : les femmes de Bosnie) est un affluent droit de la Vrbanja rivière. Il se lève sur les versants sud de la montagne Uzlomac (environ  d'altitude) dans quatre cours d'eau.

Les sources se situent entre Rapno Brdo (nord) et Matrakova Kosa (sud). La longueur est d'environ . Circulant à travers Petrovići, et sa bouche entre les villages de Dabovci et Dudići. La bouche est en aval de Vrbanjci, le long de l'autoroute M-4 (Banja Luka – Doboj). La longue histoire du nom était Plitka rika et un village à proximité, à cet égard - Plitska (aujourd'hui Vrbanjci).
Le seul affluent important (gauche) de Bosanka est Vodalka.

Sur les pentes d'un des sommets sud de Uzlomac (environ ) séparant les confluences de Vrbanja et Velika Usora. Sur le côté est de Vodalka se trouvent des flux d'eau de Zmajevac, Pirizevac et Breska, et à l'ouest: Jelovac, Pušića potok, Svinjara et Jošavka.

Au cours de la Guerre en Bosnie, les habitants de la confluence de Bosanka ont été expulsés et assassinés. Cela est particulièrement vrai dans le village de Vrbanjci, Večići, Hrvaćani, Garići et Rujevica.

Voir aussi

 le Vrbanja
 la Save
 le Danube
 Vrbanjci

Notes et références

Cours d'eau en Bosnie-Herzégovine
2Vrbanja


1.) Malkin needs to be better.
2.) Goaltending was inconsistent early on.
3.) The Penguins battle level was inconsistent early on.
4.) Derick Brassard hasn't lived up to expectations.
5.) The blue line without Justin Schultz has been average.
Anybody tweeting about going to play for another team?
Anyone throw shiiiiiz off of a balcony?
The Penguins haven't been perfect, but they haven't had drama. That's not to suggest that there isn't drama elsewhere around the NHL.
The Senators were filmed in the back of an Uber complaining about Guy Boucher. The Leafs had to deal with the William Nylander contract dispute.
The Penguins have had a little bit of it with Kessel and Sullivan, but it's never reached critical mass. Phil Kessel is up over a point per hockey game.
Do Rutherford and Sullivan get along all the time? Probably not. Is it a big deal? No, it's healthy.
There were questions about whether or not Kris Letang could be the same player again. He's been sublime.
There was a question as to whether or not Murray could be the guy. That lasted about a month.
The Penguins go about their business. They win. It's pretty quiet.
They're refreshing. Even when they struggle, it's about what's happening on the ice.


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Q: FastAPI responding slowly when calling through other Python app, but fast in cURL I have an issue that I can't wrap my head around. I have an API service built using FastAPI, and when I try to call any endpoint from another Python script on my local machine, the response takes 2+ seconds. When I send the same request through cURL or the built-in Swagger docs, the response is nearly instant.
The entire server script is this:
from fastapi import FastAPI
import uvicorn

app = FastAPI()

@app.get("/")
async def root():
    return {"message": "Hello World"}

if __name__ == '__main__':
    uvicorn.run(app, host='0.0.0.0', port=8000)

I then call it from a test script using HTTPX. I also tried with the requests package, and it is the same result.
import httpx
r = httpx.get('http://localhost:8000/')
print(r.elapsed)

This prints something like: 0:00:02.069705
I then do the same thing using cURL:
curl -w "@curl-format.txt" -o /dev/null -X 'GET' 'http://localhost:8000/'

This prints:
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100    32  100    32    0     0    941      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--   969
     time_namelookup:  0.006436s
        time_connect:  0.006747s
     time_appconnect:  0.000000s
    time_pretransfer:  0.006788s
       time_redirect:  0.000000s
  time_starttransfer:  0.034037s
                     ----------
          time_total:  0.034093s

The issue isn't what the endpoint does, but rather that it doesn't even start executing for 2 seconds. I have a debugger running on the endpoint, and the first line only gets executed after those 2 seconds.
I tried to inspect the request to see whether there are any headers or similar in the request that could slow it down, but nothing. When I try again with the headers generated by HTTPX, it still executes fast:
curl -w "@curl-format.txt" -o /dev/null -X 'GET' \
  'http://localhost:8000/events' \
  -H 'accept: */*' \
  -H 'host: localhost:8000' \
  -H 'accept-encoding: gzip, deflate' \
  -H 'connection: keep-alive' \
  -H 'user-agent: python-httpx/0.20.0'

Here is a screenshot of the request in PyCharm, it unfortunately can't be dumped to JSON directly.

I'm starting to think that it has something to do with Uvicorn and how it runs the app, but I can't figure out why.

A: Try using "127.0.0.1" instead of "localhost" to refer to your machine. I once had a similar issue, where the DNS lookup for localhost on windows was taking half a second or longer. I don't have an explanation for that behaviour, but at least one other person on SO seems to have struggled with it as well…

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WildFire – 106 S. Cayuga St.
This month marks the debut of an exciting new music + art monthly series: First Fridays @ WildFire. Hosted by local electronic and experimental music collective, Deep BeatZ and Gallery Night, the event promises to showcase underground and emerging talent, all in a relaxed, intimate setting. This month's happy hour show (from 5pm-9pm) will feature the musical stylings of David Ezra Brown (live electronics), Luddite Machine (experimental, DJ), and Laika (minimal electronica, DJ). In addition, an eclectic mix of local artists will be showing their work via projection: Maciej Wojtkowiak (photography), Meredith Towsand (photos/ stills), James Spitznagel (digital stills), and Sophia Goehner (photos/ stills). WildFire is also offering a drink special for the evening. This is definitely a stop on the Gallery Night trek not to be missed!
This entry was posted in MISC and tagged deep beatz, gallery night, ithaca ny, photography by meredith towsand on February 5, 2010 by Meredith C. Bullock.


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Ontario PC Leader Doug Ford was booed and interrupted when he told members of Toronto's Somali community that he supports resurrecting a controversial police unit disbanded in 2017.
Ontario Progressive Conservative Leader Doug Ford was booed and interrupted this weekend when he told members of Toronto's Somali community that he supports resurrecting a controversial police unit disbanded in 2017.
The Toronto Anti-Violence Intervention Strategy, known as TAVIS, was set up in 2006 to curb violence in high crime areas determined by police. Its formation came in the wake of the summer of 2005, the so-called "summer of the gun" in the city.
TAVIS was disbanded in January 2017, according to police, two years after the province cut the unit's annual funding nearly in half.
Critics of TAVIS say it increased tensions between police and residents of targeted neighbourhoods, many of them people of colour, because officers often used carding as a policing tool. The much-maligned practice is now prohibited in many circumstances under provincial law.
At a meeting dedicated to ending violence in Etobicoke on Saturday, Ford said he supports the creation of a similar initiative.
"I'm in favour, 100 per cent, as a premier, to get involved with the TAVIS program as well. The TAVIS program was good, but then it was cut," Ford said on Saturday at the event organized by the Somali Canadian Forum.
Ford added that the TAVIS program meant extra funding for community policing.
One audience member immediately interjected.
"I actually disagree. The TAVIS program actually has traumatized many community members," said Walied Khogali in a video posted to YouTube on Saturday.
Khogali is a community organizer and activist in Toronto.
"TAVIS was a racist police division. The amount of youth that I talked to, that told me about their experiences, Mr. Ford, you have to listen to these young men. There is no way we should go back to that," he said.
Ford replied that he would put additional money into community policing and the unit could be renamed.
In a scrum with reporters following his remarks on Saturday, Ford said he supports the kinds of services that were provided by a program like TAVIS.
"As premier, I'll make sure we have a task force. I'll make sure that we have TAVIS involved in police community services that the Liberals cut," Ford said.
Ford added that the issues of the Somali community in Etobicoke are very important to him.
"There is no politician in this entire country that has more interaction with the Somali community than Doug Ford. I live here, right down the street."
City Coun. Shelley Carroll sat on the Toronto Police Services Board when the controversy over carding reached fever pitch in 2014. According to her, carding and TAVIS "became linked" in the eyes of many residents.
"It turned very quickly into what felt to them like, 'We're all being rounded up, based on whether or not we're known, often based on whether or not we'd been carded previously.' And it became a very toxic thing," said Carroll, who is running as a Liberal candidate in Don Valley North.
She added that the very community Ford was addressing was instrumental in ending TAVIS.
"They certainly want to see a reduction in guns, but TAVIS didn't actually result in that. TAVIS was about rounding people up, holding them for 48 hours and putting them back out on the street angrier than before," Carroll told CBC Toronto.
On Sunday afternoon, Ford reiterated that the PCs will restore funding for anti-gang and anti-gun task forces in Toronto.
"Gun violence is a serious problem that needs to be addressed in Toronto, and community policing plays an essential role in keeping our communities safe," Ford said.
"I was proud to be the only provincial leader to attend the event hosted by the Somali-Canadian Forum. It was an opportunity to hear first-hand about the concerns of the community, listen to ideas, and to share some of my own," he continued.
According to the Tory leader, he followed up with Khogali at the event and the two agreed that "nobody should ever feel unfairly targeted by the police because of race."
Khogali later told CBC News that was not true and that he simply invited Ford to meet with youth impacted by TAVIS, an invitation he says Ford accepted.
The Somali Canadian Forum, a coalition of mosques, community leaders and advocates, held the meeting with the aim of finding solutions to ongoing gun violence in the community.
After months of consultations with residents hosted by the organization, one idea that has emerged is the formation of a task force that would be focused on youth violence.
Hundreds, including Mayor John Tory, attended the meeting at Kipling Collegiate Institute.


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ALM Évreux Basket is a French professional basketball club based in Evreux, France. The team plays in the LNB Pro B, the French second division.

Season by season

Notable players

 Isaia Cordinier
 Joseph Gomis
 Filipe da Silva
 Ruphin Kayembe-Tshiabu
 Kenny Atkinson
 Bruce Bowen
 Joe Burton (basketball)
 Samme Givens
 Jeremiah Wood
 Frank Aron Booker

External links
Eurobasket.com Team Page

Basketball teams established in 1962
Evreux
Sport in France


Vigorous exercise reduced the risk of both cataracts and age-related macular degeneration, U.S. researchers said.
Two studies by the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory tracked approximately 41,000 runners for more than seven years. "The studies suggest that people can perhaps lessen their risk for these diseases by taking part in a fitness regimen that includes vigorous exercise," study leader Paul Williams said in a statement.
A cataract -- a cloudy opacity of the eye lens -- is the leading cause of blindness and more than one-half of U.S. adults 65 and older suffer from some form of cataracts. Age-related macular degeneration -- damage to the retina -- is the leading cause of irreversible vision loss in older white Americans, affecting 28 percent of people age 75 and older, Williams said. Williams analyzed data collected in the National Runners' Health Study, which he established in 1991 to determine the health benefits of running.
He tracked some 29,000 male runners and 12,000 female runners for more than seven years and of these 733 men reported being diagnosed with cataracts. Too few women reported cataracts to track.
The studies, published in Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science, found men who ran more than 5.7 miles per day had a 35 percent lower risk of developing cataracts than men who ran less than 1.4 miles per day.


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Q: Java, weka LibSVM does not predict correctly I'm using LibSVM with the weka in my java code. I am trying to do a regression. Below is my code,
public static void predict() {

    try {
        DataSource sourcePref1 = new DataSource("train_pref2new.arff");
        Instances trainData = sourcePref1.getDataSet();

        DataSource sourcePref2 = new DataSource("testDatanew.arff");
        Instances testData = sourcePref2.getDataSet();

        if (trainData.classIndex() == -1) {
            trainData.setClassIndex(trainData.numAttributes() - 2);
        }

        if (testData.classIndex() == -1) {
            testData.setClassIndex(testData.numAttributes() - 2);
        }

        LibSVM svm1 = new LibSVM();

        String options = ("-S 3 -K 2 -D 3 -G 1000.0 -R 0.0 -N 0.5 -M 40.0 -C 1.0 -E 0.001 -P 0.1");
        String[] optionsArray = options.split(" ");
        svm1.setOptions(optionsArray);

        svm1.buildClassifier(trainData);

        for (int i = 0; i < testData.numInstances(); i++) {

            double pref1 = svm1.classifyInstance(testData.instance(i));
            System.out.println("predicted value : " + pref1);

        }

    } catch (Exception ex) {
        Logger.getLogger(Test.class.getName()).log(Level.SEVERE, null, ex);
    }
}

But the predicted value I am getting from this code is different than the predicted value I am getting by using the Weka GUI.
Example:
Below is a single testing data that I have given for both java code and weka GUI.

The Java code predicted the value as 1.9064516129032265 while the Weka GUI's predicted value is 10.043. I am using the same training data set and the same parameters for both Java code and Weka GUI.
I hope you understand my question.Could any one tell me whats wrong with my code?

A: You are using the wrong algorithm to perform SVM regression. LibSVM is used for classification. The one you want is SMOreg, which a specific SVM for regression.
Below is a complete example that shows how to use SMOreg using both the Weka Explorer GUI as well as the Java API. For data, I will use the cpu.arff data file that comes with the Weka distribution. Note that I'll use this file for both training and test, but ideally you would have separate data sets.
Using the Weka Explorer GUI

*

*Open the WEKA Explorer GUI, click on the Preprocess tab, click on Open File, and then open the cpu.arff file that should be in your Weka distribution. On my system, the file is under weka-3-8-1/data/cpu.arff. The Explorer window should look like the following:

*Click on the Classify tab. It should really be called "Prediction" because you can do both classification and regression here. Under Classifier, click on Choose and then select weka --> classifiers --> functions --> SMOreg, as shown below.

*Now build the regression model and evaluate it. Under Test Options choose Use training set so that our the training set is used for testing as well (as I mentioned above, this is not the ideal methodology). Now press Start, and the result should look like the following:

Make a note of the RMSE value (74.5996). We'll revisit that in the Java code implementation.
Using the Java API
Below is a complete Java program that uses the Weka API to replicate the results shown earlier in the Weka Explorer GUI.
import weka.classifiers.functions.SMOreg;
import weka.classifiers.Evaluation;
import weka.core.Instance;
import weka.core.Instances;
import weka.core.converters.ConverterUtils.DataSource;

public class Tester {

    /**
     * Builds a regression model using SMOreg, the SVM for regression, and
     * evaluates it with the Evalution framework.
     */
    public void buildAndEvaluate(String trainingArff, String testArff) throws Exception {

        System.out.printf("buildAndEvaluate() called.\n");

        // Load the training and test instances.
        Instances trainingInstances = DataSource.read(trainingArff);
        Instances testInstances = DataSource.read(testArff);

        // Set the true value to be the last field in each instance.
        trainingInstances.setClassIndex(trainingInstances.numAttributes()-1);
        testInstances.setClassIndex(testInstances.numAttributes()-1);

        // Build the SMOregression model.
        SMOreg smo = new SMOreg();
        smo.buildClassifier(trainingInstances);

        // Use Weka's evaluation framework.
        Evaluation eval = new Evaluation(trainingInstances);
        eval.evaluateModel(smo, testInstances);

        // Print the options that were used in the ML algorithm.
        String[] options = smo.getOptions();
        System.out.printf("Options used:\n");
        for (String option : options) {
            System.out.printf("%s ", option);
        }
        System.out.printf("\n\n");

        // Print the algorithm details.
        System.out.printf("Algorithm:\n %s\n", smo.toString());

        // Print the evaluation results.
        System.out.printf("%s\n", eval.toSummaryString("\nResults\n=====\n", false));
    }

    /**
     * Builds a regression model using SMOreg, the SVM for regression, and
     * tests each data instance individually to compute RMSE.
     */
    public void buildAndTestEachInstance(String trainingArff, String testArff) throws Exception {

        System.out.printf("buildAndTestEachInstance() called.\n");

        // Load the training and test instances.
        Instances trainingInstances = DataSource.read(trainingArff);
        Instances testInstances = DataSource.read(testArff);

        // Set the true value to be the last field in each instance.
        trainingInstances.setClassIndex(trainingInstances.numAttributes()-1);
        testInstances.setClassIndex(testInstances.numAttributes()-1);

        // Build the SMOregression model.
        SMOreg smo = new SMOreg();
        smo.buildClassifier(trainingInstances);

        int numTestInstances = testInstances.numInstances();

        // This variable accumulates the squared error from each test instance.
        double sumOfSquaredError = 0.0;

        // Loop over each test instance.
        for (int i = 0; i < numTestInstances; i++) {

            Instance instance = testInstances.instance(i);

            double trueValue = instance.value(testInstances.classIndex());
            double predictedValue = smo.classifyInstance(instance);

            // Uncomment the next line to see every prediction on the test instances.
            //System.out.printf("true=%10.5f, predicted=%10.5f\n", trueValue, predictedValue);

            double error = trueValue - predictedValue;
            sumOfSquaredError += (error * error);
        }

        // Print the RMSE results.
        double rmse = Math.sqrt(sumOfSquaredError / numTestInstances);
        System.out.printf("RMSE = %10.5f\n", rmse);
    }

    public static void main(String argv[]) throws Exception {

        Tester classify = new Tester();
        classify.buildAndEvaluate("../weka-3-8-1/data/cpu.arff", "../weka-3-8-1/data/cpu.arff");
        classify.buildAndTestEachInstance("../weka-3-8-1/data/cpu.arff", "../weka-3-8-1/data/cpu.arff");
    }
}

I've written two functions that train an SMOreg model and evaluate the model by running prediction on the training data.

*

*buildAndEvaluate() evaluates the model by using the Weka
Evaluation framework to run a suite of tests to get the exact same
results as the Explorer GUI. Notably, it produces an RMSE value.

*buildAndTestEachInstance() evaluates the model by explicitly
looping over each test instance, making a prediction, computing the
error, and computing an overall RMSE. Note that this RMSE matches
the one from buildAndEvaluate(), which in turn matches the one
from the Explorer GUI.
Below is the result from compiling and running the program.
prompt> javac -cp weka.jar Tester.java

prompt> java -cp .:weka.jar Tester

buildAndEvaluate() called.
Options used:
-C 1.0 -N 0 -I weka.classifiers.functions.supportVector.RegSMOImproved -T 0.001 -V -P 1.0E-12 -L 0.001 -W 1 -K weka.classifiers.functions.supportVector.PolyKernel -E 1.0 -C 250007

Algorithm:
 SMOreg

weights (not support vectors):
 +       0.01   * (normalized) MYCT
 +       0.4321 * (normalized) MMIN
 +       0.1847 * (normalized) MMAX
 +       0.1175 * (normalized) CACH
 +       0.0973 * (normalized) CHMIN
 +       0.0235 * (normalized) CHMAX
 -       0.0168

Number of kernel evaluations: 21945 (93.081% cached)

Results
=====

Correlation coefficient                  0.9044
Mean absolute error                     31.7392
Root mean squared error                 74.5996
Relative absolute error                 33.0908 %
Root relative squared error             46.4953 %
Total Number of Instances              209

buildAndTestEachInstance() called.
RMSE =   74.59964


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Gaggan Anand to conduct a digital inspirational session at Tomorrowland Around the World this weekend
Mumbai Mirror / Updated: Jul 24, 2020, 08:52 IST
Gaggan Anand. Image source: Instagram
INDIA-born and Bangkok-based Gaggan Anand has had a tumultuous year, and Covid is not even part of it.
This time last year, the restaurateur had a fallout with the partners of his eponymous restaurant, Gaggan, causing him to lose the space, his Michelin stars as well as his own name. He wanted to move to Japan and start a new restaurant there, but his team of 65 had moved out with him, and he had to pay their salaries.
In the midst of this, he got divorced.
But Gaggan maintains his cheer and his passion for life. He will be conducting an inspirational session at the Tomorrowland Around the World music festival this weekend, that sees many international DJs and electronic stars perform digitally.


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Q: ASP.net Gridview Itemtemplate Dropdownlist I am using C# ASP.net, and relative new to it, and need to accomplish below.
In my VS2010 web application project I have webform with a Gridview which fetches the data from a table.
In the Grid, I have Commandfiled Button (column1) and Item template with Dropdownlist (column2).
Use case is, user first selects one listitem from 3 list items (H, L and M) and then selects command button.
I am not able to figure out how to extract selected listitem from a selected row
protected void GridView2_SelectedIndexChanged(object sender, EventArgs e)
{

    GridViewRow row = GridView2.SelectedRow;
    Label4.Text = "You selected " + row.Cells[4].Text + ".";
    Label5.Text = "You selected this list item from dropdownlist " + ???? ;
}

Thanks in advance.

A: The GridViewRow object provides the method FindControl (as do all container controls) to get access to a control in the row by its id.  For example, if your DropDownList has an id of MyDropDown, you could use the following to access its selected value:
GridViewRow row = GridView2.SelectedRow;
DropDownList MyDropDown = row.FindControl("MyDropDown") as DropDownList;
string theValue = MyDropDown.SelectedValue;
// now do something with theValue

This is the recommended method for accessing all controls in your GridView.  You want to avoid doing things like row.Cells[#] as much as possible, because it easily breaks when you re-arrange or add/remove columns from your GridView.


Time: Doors open at 11 both days – FREE ENTRY!!!!!!!
And there will also be various prints not related to either comic and original art. And much of it will be Sci-Fi themed!
I hope I see some of you this weekend! I can't wait!


It was a radical shift in perspective when Ms Lee Yee Wen, a former YMCA of Singapore special needs client, made the decision to step up and serve as a volunteer back at YMCA of Singapore.
She first joined Y Camp Challenge as a client in 2013. Back then, she had little self-confidence, but through interactions with other volunteers who showed care and patience, her confidence slowly grew.
"I decided to step up to become a volunteer because I like to help people, to do what I can to help those in need, to inspire people to become independent and grow," said Yee Wen.
As a shy person by nature, the transition from client to volunteer was not easy at the start as Yee Wen had to converse with her buddy in order to build relational bonds. However, once that barrier was broken, she gained even more confidence and now considers herself an outspoken person.
Last year, she went one step further and joined the organising committee for the September run of Y Camp Challenge, an outdoor adventure camp that seeks to strengthen special needs clients in overcoming their preconceived limits through various confidence building activities.
Being a part of the organising committee continually challenged her to look beyond her perceived limitations and it strengthened her growth through the process.
In recognition of her efforts and dedication, Yee Wen received the Volunteer Excellence Award at the annual YMCA-Lim Kim San Volunteer Awards Night on 1 February 2019.
"Here at YMCA, we strengthen our clients by helping them reach their fullest potential. We believe that if given the right opportunity and encouragement, they can be empowered to give back to others through volunteering," said Mr Steve Loh, General Secretary & CEO of YMCA of Singapore.
As a volunteer-based organisation, volunteers are the bedrock of YMCA's community initiatives. In 2017 alone, YMCA mobilised over 8,000 volunteers to take part and support our local and international community service programmes, reaching out to over 23,000 beneficiaries.
Specially created to thank and appreciate YMCA volunteers, YMCA-Lim Kim San Volunteer Awards Night recognises all individuals, corporations and educational institutions who have made significant and outstanding contributions through their voluntary service. Awards include the YMCA-Lim Kim San Volunteer Long Service Award and Volunteer of The Year Award. Some 89 recipients, including corporate representatives from Credit Suisse & Citibank, attended the event.


Ronkonkoma, NY, June 25, 2015 -- Hawthorne Global Aviation Services today announced that Greg Brinkman was named president of ExcelAire, its private jet charter and management company, headquartered at MacArthur Airport. Previously, Brinkman held the position of COO, ExcelAire for more than 14 years.
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Section 71G of the Customs Act 1901 (Cth) deals with Goods Not to be Entered While an Entry is Outstanding and is extracted below.
(1) If goods have been entered for home consumption under subsection 68(2) or (3), a person must not communicate a further import declaration, a further RCR or a warehouse declaration in respect of the goods or any part of the goods unless the import declaration or RCR that resulted in the goods being entered for home consumption is withdrawn.
(2) An offence for a contravention of subsection (1) is an offence of strict liability.


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New Faculty Spotlight: Thomas Schutzius
Meet the newest edition to the Department of Mechanical Engineering's faculty, Dr. Thomas Schutzius! Dr. Schutzius joins us as an Assistant Professor in January 2023.
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GSI Spotlight: Lisa Anne Torres
The Graduate Division and Graduate Student Instructor (GSI) Teaching and Resource Center recently presented Lisa Anne Torres with the Outstanding GSI Award in Engineering. The Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award honors over 200 UC Berkeley GSIs each year and recipients are nominated from within their teaching department. She received this award for the E295: Communications for Engineering Leaders course.
ME Alum Spotlight: Archie F. Williams
By Professor Jim Casey & Emmalyn Chen Among the many distinguished alumni of our department, a special place must be reserved for Archie Williams, who as a young black man, arrived at Cal in the fall of 1935, aspiring to be an aeronautical engineer. Gifted with extraordinary athletic ability, this same young man went on …
New Faculty Spotlight: Alexis Kaminski
The Department of Mechanical Engineering would like to introduce you to one of our newest faculty members: Assistant Professor Alexis Kaminski.
Professor Kaminski joined the department in the Spring of 2021. Click to learn more about Professor Kaminski and her research into geophysical and environmental fluid dynamics, focusing on waves, instabilities and turbulence in stratified flows – in many cases inspired by ocean observations.
ME Undergraduate Spotlight: Gissell Jimenez
Meet Gissell Jimenez, a third-year undergraduate student here in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at UC Berkeley.
Click to learn to more about Gissell's interest in biomechanical engineering, and her passion for tutoring and the ME Scholars program.
ME Undergraduate Spotlight: Bryant La
Meet Bryant La, a third-year undergraduate in the Department of Mechanical Engineering here at UC Berkeley with a 4.0 GPA.
Bryant is a first generation student and he is proud to be from Oakland. He is a valuable member of our community, serving as the president of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. He grew up just east of Lake Merritt and is an alum of Oakland High School.
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Meet Dr. Pamela Eibeck, a former professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering here at UC Berkeley. After working in gas systems design at Pacific Gas and Electric and attending grad school, Dr. Eibeck was a professor in the department from 1985 to 1995. Since then, Dr. Eibeck went on to become the Chair of …
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Howard McKenzie was named vice president and chief engineer for Boeing's Global Services business unit in May 2020. He is responsible for leading the alignment of 7,000 engineers into one cohesive engineering function that supports commercial and government customers worldwide.
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Debbie G. Senesky is an Associate Professor at Stanford University in the Aeronautics and Astronautics Department and by courtesy, the Electrical Engineering Department. In addition, she is the Principal Investigator of the EXtreme Environment Microsystems Laboratory (XLab). Her research interests include the development of nanomaterials for extreme harsh environments, high-temperature electronics, and robust instrumentation for …
New Faculty Spotlight: Michael Gollner
The Department of Mechanical Engineering would like to introduce you to one of our newest faculty members: Assistant Professor Michael Gollner.
Professor Gollner joined us here in Etcheverry Hall in the Spring of 2020. Click to learn more about Professor Gollner and his research into how fires spread, how emissions from fires are generated and how buildings ignite, with the goal of reducing their devastating effects in the future.
ME Alumni Spotlight: Andrew & Mark Ansell
"I'm Andrew Ansell and my twin brother Mark and I graduated from Cal, each with simultaneous degrees in Mechanical Engineering and Business Administration, in December 2019. Funnily enough, we now both work at Microsoft, as Mechanical Engineering Program Managers for different Surface products. We're also considering attending Stanford University, where we both got in as …
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Martin Sanchez Sendiz (ME 19′) was born in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. Martin immigrated to the U.S. when he was four years old, arriving in South Lake Tahoe. Martin's mother and father both worked in the hospitality industry in the resort town. Martin's mother cleaned hotel rooms and his father worked multiple jobs as a prep …
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ISACA > Journal > Archives > 2010 > Volume 5 > Mitigating IT Risks for Logical Access
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Tommie W. Singleton, Ph.D., CISA, CGEIT, CITP, CMA, CPA
Unauthorized access can lead to devastating effects. Entities can become victims of malicious activities such as identity theft, financial fraud, theft of data (e.g., credit card data) and attacks on systems (e.g., denial of service), which can be especially harmful for online businesses. All of these harmful effects have been the subject of various news reports in the past.
Criminals, especially IT-savvy ones, have become expert at recognizing weaknesses in access and have become knowledgeable about the tools necessary to successfully exploit weak systems. In fact, experts say more and more criminals are focusing on IT crimes rather than traditional street crimes. Statistics from the Computer Emergency Readiness Team (CERT) and industry security analysts show that about 80 percent of all malicious activities come from current or former employees.1
Thus, more than ever, one of the prime concerns in any audit, and for management, is the logical access to computer systems and data. The proliferation of IT, and the Internet in particular, has caused the risks associated with systems and data to explode. In fact, this topic has made the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA)'s Top Technology Initiatives every year since 2005 and is ranked first on the 2010 list.2 Some level of audit risk and business risk exists in virtually every audit because of a variety of IT-related vulnerabilities, but especially access controls.
Earlier this year, this column identified five areas of IT general controls (ITGC) that should be examined in every financial audit.3 Logical access was one of those five. This article adds further information, in a broader sense of audits, about logical access.
To mitigate the risks associated with access control, it is necessary to identify the risks associated with access controls and to assess the level of those risks. An entity must then establish sound policies and procedures for granting authorized users access while simultaneously protecting itself from unauthorized access. This area of concern is generally considered a subset of identity and access management (IAM). One method for addressing these risks is through the perimeter for authorized access, the process of granting access on only a need-to-know basis (including admin rights) and the process of terminating employees.
Mitigating Logical Access Risks
On the perimeter, best practices include authorization and authentication of users in the access rights policies and procedures.
Authorization access controls are those with an objective to ensure that the person seeking access is authorized. This control is most often associated with login credentials and procedures, e.g., requiring an ID and password. However, the hacker world has developed sophisticated tools that can break fairly easily into systems with unsophisticated passwords (names, words found in the dictionary, etc.). Therefore, over the years, best practices have been expanded to include "strong" passwords, frequent changes to passwords and multifactor access controls, as appropriate. The greater the risk, the greater the need for more sophisticated and secure access, and the greater the need for additional layers of access controls. The more of the following elements a password includes, the stronger it is considered to be:
It is at least eight characters long.
It includes at least one special character.
It includes at least one number.
It mixes cases for alpha characters.
It uses an incoherent phrase (i.e., not an address, etc.).
The purpose of these elements is to thwart existing hacker tools that can guess passwords. Weak passwords and PINs are the major cause for security breaches, according to IT consulting firm Frost & Sullivan.4 Usernames and passwords/PINs are usually static or shared across multiple accounts by users, making them relatively easy prey to hackers and crackers. The security profession and financial institutions have responded with temporary PINs and other tools and procedures.
Authentication controls have a different objective. They attempt to ensure that persons logging in to the system are who they say they are. One classic illustration of this extra layer is biometrics. That is, controls are not sufficient where risks are relatively high and the access controls consist of only an authorization control with one layer—ID and password.
Most savvy IT managers add tools such as USB tokens, smart cards, temporary PINS and biometrics on top of ID and password. A USB token, such as one from Entrust or Aladdin, is a hardware device that must be connected to the remote computer in a USB slot before access will be granted. Smart cards are swiped on a reader—similar to the way credit cards are used—on the computer and are combined with the ID and password to grant access. Temporary PINs are numbers sent back to a prearranged device, such as a text message to a cell phone or a small pager device, in which, to gain remote access, users have a limited time to enter the PIN along with their ID and password. The greater the risk, such as a remote login to sensitive data, the greater the need for strong controls for authentication.
However, it is not enough to protect the perimeter. According to CERT in a white paper titled "An Introduction to Insider Threat Management," over the last 10 to 15 years, organizations have spent billions of dollars building stronger defenses to protect their data and systems from hackers and external malicious parties. On average, more than 75 percent of corporate IT security budgets is directed toward protecting against outsiders, even though the annual Computer Security Institute/FBI Computer Crime and Security Study continues to show that insiders were responsible for just as many incidents as outsiders. A 2009 Information Security Magazine survey shows the biggest increase in IT spending is in the area of IAM, with the biggest driver being preventing unauthorized access of sensitive information by employees.
Once logged in, even an authorized user should be constrained from having access to all data and applications. Employees should have access to only those applications necessary to do their particular job. That limitation also includes data access rights of read-only, read/write or no access, where applicable (i.e., need-to-know access). For instance, a good security policy would be to have a strong logical access system on the network to log in to the system (e.g., Active Directory applied effectively on Microsoft SQL Server). But then, where risks are high, the entity should have another system of login credentials and access granted for each key application. Some application systems, such as Microsoft Dynamics, provide their own access control as a separate layer of security over data access via the applications. If both of these access control systems are managed properly, someone's ability to break through the perimeter can be mitigated by strong access controls in the "back office" system—that is, a strong pair of controls to prevent unauthorized access. This need-to-know approach to applications is a key element of sound access controls.
Administrative access rights are a critical area that need controls because of the broad access rights "admin" has once logged into the system, and they are included as part of "need to know." Adequate access controls should provide for the application of best practices for the administrator function of databases or database management systems (DBMS), such as DB2, Oracle and SQL Server. They include, but are not limited to, not using a default ID/password for admin, minimizing the number of employees with admin access and establishing some modicum of segregation of duties. Admin rights are especially critical for operating systems in which root access can be granted, giving someone "the keys to the kingdom." Obviously, this area is another that should be examined during most IT audits of any nature.
Lastly, when employees are terminated, there should be effective controls in place to terminate the employee's access to the systems. At termination, entities sometimes forget about logins and access rights formally granted to employees. All entities need an effective control or set of controls to ensure that all terminated employees lose all access rights.
An effective and logical approach is to tie access control to human resources (HR) procedures. When an employee is hired, transferred or leaves the organization, the HR procedures should include the requisite changes to that employee's access rights. When a new employee is hired, that person's "need to know" should be assessed and access rights should be granted to only those applications and data necessary for that person's job responsibilities. Either the application or the network software should have the means to limit access appropriately. If an employee is transferred, those access rights may change because of the different responsibilities involved in the transfer. Thus, the HR transfer process should include a review of and a change, if necessary, in access rights. When an employee leaves the organization for any reason, but especially if the employee is fired, access rights should be terminated as close to the person's termination as possible, but no later than the person's last day on the job.
The IT auditor should consider the previously disclosed procedures in an audit to ensure that access controls are adequate to mitigate the risks associated with access, including limiting the access of legitimate employees to need to know, and mitigating the risk of an unauthorized intrusion.
1 Hirschhorn, Karen; "Hacker Activities," IT Defense Magazine, December/January 2007, p. 12-15. See also the Insider Threat Research web page at www.cert.org/insider_threat/.
2 Per the 2010 AICPA Top Technology Initiatives Survey conducted mid-2010. Question: "Which top ten technology considerations are driving your business or practice today?" Number one answer: "Security of data, code and communications/data security and document retention/ security threats." See http://infotech.aicpa.org.
3 Singleton, Tommie; "The Minimum IT Controls to Assess in a Financial Audit (Part II)," ISACA Journal, vol. 2, 2010
4 Ayoub, Robert; "An Overview and Competitive Analysis of the One Time Password (OTP) Market" (White Paper), Frost & Sullivan, June 2009, http://whitepapers.techrepublic.com.com/abstract.aspx?docid=1016477
Tommie W. Singleton, Ph.D., CISA, CITP, CMA, CPA
is an associate professor of information systems (IS) at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (USA), a Marshall IS Scholar and a director of the Forensic Accounting Program. Prior to obtaining his doctorate in accountancy from the University of Mississippi (USA) in 1995, Singleton was president of a small, value-added dealer of accounting IS using microcomputers. Singleton is also a scholar-in- residence for IT audit and forensic accounting at Carr Riggs Ingram, a large regional public accounting firm in the southeastern US. In 1999, the Alabama Society of CPAs awarded Singleton the 1998-1999 Innovative User of Technology Award. Singleton is the ISACA academic advocate at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. His articles on fraud, IT/IS, IT auditing and IT governance have appeared in numerous publications, including the ISACA Journal.
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This module can be used by either passing an api key and version directly or by specifying both in a configuration profile in the salt master/minion config.
Send a message to a Pushover user or group.
user -- The user or group to send to, must be key of user or group not email address.
message -- The message to send to the PushOver user or group.
title -- Specify who the message is from.
priority -- The priority of the message, defaults to 0.
expire -- The message should expire after N number of seconds.
retry -- The number of times the message should be retried.
sound -- The sound to associate with the message.
api_version -- The PushOver API version, if not specified in the configuration.
token -- The PushOver token, if not specified in the configuration.
Boolean if message was sent successfully.


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We are currently working on home office products for a very large manufacturer. They are really great to work with and we can't wait to see our stuff in the big box stores next year. Staples, Office Max and Office depot will be carrying the new line. I am including a sneak peak of some of the patterns that we are working on. Of course as soon as they hit the stores you will be the first to know.
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"Then Peter stepped forward with the eleven other apostles and shouted to the crowd" (Acts 2:14 NLT).
When Jesus was arrested and taken to the high priest's house for questioning, Peter denied three times that he even knew Jesus. Yet, fifty days later, after witnessing the risen Lord Jesus and seeing His ascension into heaven, Peter and 120 other believers received the Holy Spirit on the day of Pentecost. It was on that day that Simon Peter finally became the "rock" (Greek "Petros" means "rock"), which the name Jesus had given him implied. For Peter went from fearfully denying Jesus in the dark to boldly proclaiming Him in the light of day.
This same invitation is still being offered today, "Let us go into the house of the Lord!" Will you join the happy throng?
The first century church "continued steadfastly" in four devotions: 1) the apostle's doctrine, 2) the fellowship, 3) the breaking of bread and 4) in prayers. And there was a rhythm to their days as they worshiped in the temple and met in one another's homes (Acts 2:46). Following this pattern, the early church grew miraculously as God added to their number daily "those who were being saved" (Acts 2:47). We would do well to devote ourselves to this same pattern in our churches today.
and to prayer" (Acts 2:42 NLT).
The first century church was devoted to four things: 1) the apostle's teaching, 2) the fellowship, 3) the sharing of meals and 4) prayer. And there was a rhythm to their days as they worshiped in the temple and met in one another's homes (Acts 2:46). Following this pattern, the early church grew miraculously as God added to their number daily "those who were being saved" (Acts 2:47). We would do well to devote ourselves to this same pattern in our churches today.
The central truth of Christianity is the resurrection of Christ. This is the message that Peter preached at Pentecost that pierced the hearts of his hearers. Peter was an eye witness of this resurrected Christ. Our faith rests on the historical evidence of the resurrection.


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Open Money plans to make the Ethereum ecosphere go mainstream
Dennis Lewis blogs for Open Money, a multinational blockchain initiative based in San Francisco and Toronto.
By Dennis Lewis
October 18, 2017 08:01 BST
Everybody in the cryptocurrency world knows about Ethereum. With a market capitalisation of over $28bn (£21.2bn), they are the second biggest fish (after Bitcoin) in a cryptocurrency pond of over $142bn. However, chances are if you mention their name outside the cryptocurrency and financial sectors, people will likely respond with a perplexed, confused look on their faces.
Open Money, a multinational blockchain initiative based in San Francisco and Toronto, has set their sights on remedying this lack of mainstream understanding. They believe that for cryptocurrencies to achieve widespread consumer adoption, they have to be useful to average people in their daily lives, and they're convinced they've found the formula for making that happen.
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By opening the $142bn plus pool of liquid digital assets to be leveraged in software applications of all types, the project foresees a massive expansion of mainstream use of cryptocurrency - from banking to games to e-commerce. Providing a solid suite of tools based around industry best practices is the key to enlisting the world's 18 million software developers, who already command a user base that reaches over 3.5 billion people.
"The cryptocurrency promise can't be realised until people can effortlessly pay for a coffee or invite their sister to lunch with their crypto funds," explains Ken Sangha, COO of Open Money. "App developers are some of the most creative and innovative people in the world and with our tools, they are positioned to open the floodgates of mainstream adoption."
The project's team certainly has the track record to back up its vision. With over 100 million combined downloads on the iTunes and Google Play app stores, they have developed digital projects for major brands like Toyota and Adidas, and have lead the Asia-pacific deployment of the billion dollar software company Pivotal Labs.
"Very soon you'll be using your cryptocurrency funds to pay for your child's tuition or to sign a smart contract with your bank. It will be as easy and seamless as using PayPal or your credit card, and will usher in a new reality where crypto transactions are measured in trillions of dollars instead of millions," concluded Sangha.
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Q: Can message grouping do what message segmentation does? I'm working on a microservice in java that puts messages on a queue. Since I use JMS, message segmentation isn't possible to use to handle big messages. I was wondering, does message grouping also allow me to handle big messages? By big messages I mean messages bigger than the MaxMsgLength.

A: JMS itself has no support for "message segmentation." However, JMS implementations can implement functionality which goes beyond the specification. For example, ActiveMQ Artemis supports arbitrarily large messages whereby it takes a single, large message and breaks it up into chunks which it streams over the wire and onto disk so that the message is never held in memory at once. Of course, all this is done behind the scenes. The client application just works with the JMS API like it normally would.
Now, if you wanted to break the large message up manually and send it as many smaller, individual JMS messages then I could see where message grouping would help in reassembling the message because each message in the group would be consumed serially by a single consumer. However, it's also possible that the consumer might fail part-way through consuming the whole group so you'll need to ensure you consume all the messages in the group before you acknowledge any of them otherwise you risk losing pieces of the large message which you can never get back. In any case, the consumer will have to know how to reassemble the message once it gets all the pieces together but that could be as simple as appending the bytes of each message in order into a buffer.

A: Large message processing and message chunking intersect product limitations and practical best practices. IBM MQ has a product limit of 100MB for a message size. JMS does provide an option to Stream data with the StreamMessage type, but that is not recommended for anything distributed-- which is your use case. Timeouts, reconnects and any other non-happy path scenarios make it difficult to work with.
Try compressing the data. Text data has a high compression rate and you may be able to fit under the 100MB IBM MQ product limit.
IBM MQ does have unlimited browsing of a queue and the ability to do paging-like behavior. If you do native MQI API MQGMO match options (and not JMS) you can seek and access messages using the sequence numbers of a message group (you get kafka-like consuming with better durability!).
Breaking up messages in Message Groups is tricky to re-assemble, b/c a lot of code presumes the messages are received in order. To handle it correctly, you'll need to get back to seek()'n file positions and tracking if there is any 'chunks' that don't make it.


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The arterial blood flow, or the blood going into the limb, is reduced up to 80 percent, while the venous blood flow, which is the blood flowing out of the limb, is reduced by 100 percent. This restriction minimizes the oxygen that flows into the limb and its muscles. In this state, the individual is then put through relatively easy exercises where their muscles become active, with very little oxygen. In doing so, the patient can increase strength in that limb with little or no resistance, generating the same effect as heavy weightlifting without causing any pain to their joint. Feel free to contact us if you'd like to learn more about Blood Flow Restriction.
For example, an individual who has had a knee injury or surgery and cannot apply significant pressure to their knee can increase the strength of their muscles through BFR. BFR uses a computerized tourniquet system that restricts the blood flowing in or out of either the arms or legs. A specialized tourniquet cuff is attached to the upper part of the legs or arms where pressure is then applied and restricts the blood flowing in and out of the limb. This cuff needs to be wide enough to use the exact amount of pressure the person needs to reduce blood flow without harming the nerves. The pressure required for safe and successful training depends on the particular person. Blood pressure; the size of the limb being treated; how much muscle mass is there; where the tourniquet cuff is placed; and how wide the cuff is all need to be taken into account.


Unlike the fireplace inside the house, the fireplace on your deck or patio is an exciting and pleasurable experience. The warming orange flame in the dark cool crisp air, the crackle of the fire and the smell of the burning hardwood is a memorable experience for your family and friends. An experience you will repeat over and over again.
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Press a button, flame on … Press another button, flame off.
A natural gas fireplace will give you ambiance and hours of enjoyment without the work of wood. No purchasing of wood, no kindling and no cleaning of ashes.
A wood fireplace is more work but a more exciting experience.
A wood fireplace has the larger flame generating warmth for the cool or cold crisp air. A gas fireplace has a limited or restricted flame.
A wood fireplace has the snap, crackle, pop of the burning hardwood.
A wood fireplace has the smell of the burning wood with no smoke. All the smoke goes safely up the chimney and not in your face.
Whether you choose a gas or wood burning fireplace, it will add ambiance, excitement, and a memorable experience for you, your family and friends.
Do you want the enjoyment of the fireplace but want to hold down the investment dollar. Go to a fire pit.
The fire pit is substantially less of an investment than a fireplace. Although it will be a substantial savings, the fire pit will still have many of the same benefits of a fireplace.
Just like a fireplace, we can install a natural gas energized fire pit. Since a natural gas fire pit has a controlled flame, we do not have to install a hearth. The natural gas fire pit will give you ambiance and hours of enjoyment without the work of wood. No purchasing of wood, no kindling and no cleaning of ashes.
A wood burning fire pit is more work but like the wood burning fireplace, it is more exciting. With a wood burning fire pit, you can generate larger flames . Because a wood burning fire pit generates sparks, we have to install a 24" hearth around the perimeter of the fire pit.
With the wood burning fire pit you will enjoy the snap, crackle, pop of the burning hardwood and you will enjoy the smell of the burning wood. Unlike the fireplace, there is no chimney to direct the smoke up and out. The smoke will chase you like a campfire. The campfire style experience, toasting marshmallows and singing campfire songs is a terrific addition to your deck or patio.


You never know where you are until you know where you have been. As we discussed in the £752.00 Tax and Payroll Deductions Calculations, understanding your salary and payroll deductions is essential. In this suite of salary calculations we review and compare historical tax deductions with a view to providing insight into how tax and payroll deductions have influenced the take home pay of a £752.00 annual salary since 2009.
The percentage breakdown of an employee with an annual salary of £752.00 in the 2019/20 Tax Year.
The historical salary and payroll deductions made against a fixed salary of £752.00 per annum from 2009 to 2019.
The associate inflation rates and examples of how a £752.00 salary would have been achieved if it had grown at the annual inflation rate since 2009.
Chart 1 uses a flat 12 split, that is the £752.00 and associated payroll deductions are calculated as 12 even splits. Not all employers pay an exact 12th of a salary each monthly, some prefer to pay a monthly split based on the number of days in the month, this is typically achieved by dividing the salary by the number of days in the year and then multiplying by the number of days in each month. Chart 2 illustrates how this affects the relative salary deductions and income tax streams to the treasury.
Chart 2 shows each amount payroll deduction per month in 2019 as calculated within the UK Tax Calculator 2019/20 based on a normal PAYE Employee earning £752.00.
Chart 3 provides a historical comparative analysis of an annual salary of £752.00. Below the chart are the comparative deductions and net pay amounts.
Chart 4 illustrates how home of their gross income an individual earning £752.00 has historically received as take home pay (the money you receive into your bank after tax and payroll deductions have been made).
It is interesting to consider how your salary compares against previous years. The best approach to understand a £752.00 Salary and what it can buy you is to compare the salary against the annual inflation rate. The table and chart below provides historical salaries equivalent to a £752.00 Salary in 2019.
This PAYE Calculation provides an annual example of Salary Calculation for an Employee earning £752.00 per annum and is designed to provide a graphical illustration of the seperate Tax and Payslip elements. If you would like to see a periodic breakdown of the PAYE Calculation or view specific details of how each element of Tax, PAYE and NIC were calculated, please select one of the relevant calculations below.
A simple payslip example for an annual salary of £752.00. A quick tool that allows you to compare your own payslip. Select specific months to see how your future payslips will look including total earnings and deductions. Useful for understanding your total income and deductions for financial planning such as mortgage calculation or loan affordability etc.
Provides a periodic breakdown (Day, week, month etc.) of the calculated payroll deductions relevant to a £752.00 annual Salary. Includes links to supporting information which explains each tax and payroll deduction and what you can do to reduce the amount of PAYE tax and National Insurance you pay. Everyone who pays tax can reduce the amount of tax they pay but most don't take the few minutes needed that could save them £££'s. Don't be a fool, it's your money, make sure you get what you are entitled to, make 2019 the year that you get your finances in order.
We believe that tax and payroll calculations should be transparent. This tool provides the calculations and breakdown of results that are used to produce the PAYE, National Insurance, Pension, Dividend, Student Loan, Salary Sacrifice, etc. calculations used in our Tax, Payroll and Salary Calculators. If you don't understand how your wages are calculated and have no idea what goes on in the background behind your payslip, this is the perfect tool for building your understanding. We believe that it is important to understand how your tax is calculated so that, when the Chancellor of the Exchequer announces new Income Tax rates and changes to PAYE Tax Thresholds, you understand how that will affect your £752.00 Salary.
As an employer it is important to understand your holistic employment costs when taking on new staff or increasing / decreasing salaries. The employer payroll calculation for an employee on a £752.00 salary illustrates you Employer National Insurance Contributions (ENICs) and associated Pension costs to provide a cost of employment calculation. The employer payroll calculation also includes historical information so you can understand how employment costs have changed over the years as payroll taxes have been adjusted and new employer legislation introduction.
The Dividends calculator allow you to adjust the split of your £752.00 income by using a slider to alter the percentage split you take as salary or via a dividend. This tool allows you to understand which solution is best for your circumstances. The £752.00 Dividend calculator will automatically calculate Corporation Tax, Dividend Tax and all associated payroll deductions so you can make an informed decision on the most appropriate income stream. This is a great tool for contractors and company directors and popular with those who and looking at the benefits of setting up their own limited company rather than working as a sole trader or as an employee looking to start their own business.
With property prices constantly on the rise it can seem as though your will never save a large enough deposit to buy your dream home on an annual salary of £752.00 (you could borrow between £2,256.00 and £3,384.00). Our £752.00 salary mortgage calculation allows you to understand how much you could borrow, the deposit amount you may need and is supported with information and advice to help you secure the best mortgage product. We also provide affordability and budgeting tools to help you make the right financial planning and decisions to allow you to secure the right mortgage for your financial situation.