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Volume XVI - Issue #81
Government Says Accessing Foreign Servers Without a Warrant is Legal
Bruce Schneier, CTO of Incident Response Startup, Says Incident Response is Failing In All Areas
THE REST OF THE WEEK'S NEWS
UK Police Say Some Smartphones Have Been Remotely Wiped After Seizure
Microsoft Will Release Nine Security Bulletins on October 14
MBIA Acknowledges Customer Data Compromised
Whistleblower Alleges Northrup Grumman Falsified GPS Tests
Australian Broadcasting Corporation Hit With Ransomware
Adobe Collects eReader Data and Transmits it in Cleartext
Tyupkin Malware Infects ATMs
Half a Million Systems Infected with Qakbot
Alleged Key-logging Scheme Ringleader Arrested
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Government Says Accessing Foreign Servers Without a Warrant is Legal (October 7 & 8, 2014)
The US Justice Department maintains that the government can break into servers outside the country without a warrant. The statement is part of a response to a motion from the legal team of alleged Silk Road mastermind Ross Ulbricht, which claimed that the government's activity violated their client's Fourth Amendment rights and that all information the government gathered when it accessed Silk Road servers should be suppressed.
-http://www.forbes.com/sites/katevinton/2014/10/08/feds-say-that-even-if-the-fbi-
hacked-silk-road-ulbrichts-rights-werent-violated/
-http://www.wired.com/2014/10/feds-silk-road-hack-legal/
-http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/10/us-says-it-can-hack-into-foreign-base
d-servers-without-warrants/
[Editor's Note (Honan): If this is upheld I believe it will be a very slippery slope as it could give law enforcement a blank cheque to access systems they "believe" to be conducting illegal activity. ]
Bruce Schneier, CTO of Incident Response Startup, Says Incident Response is Failing In All Areas (October 9, 2014)
In a keynote speech at the IP Expo conference in London, Bruce Schneier said that while preventing and detecting attacks is necessary, organizations need to pay more attention to incident response, because attacks are inevitable, and the ability to recover quickly is essential to an organization's integrity.
-http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/10/09/your_security_defences_are_going_to_fall
_get_over_it_schneier/
[Editor Comment (Paller): These are specialized skills. Organizations that believe they can contract for them when needed, with Bruce's start up or any other firm, can look forward to being the next Target. Financial leaders and other smart organizations call these key on-staff people "threat analysts" and pay them among the highest salaries in security. One great "ah ha" those leaders shared with me is that a bunch of security people call themselves threat analysts but do not have the advanced forensics and technical mastery of exploits and mitigations to be useful. Relying on non-technical threat analysts is dangerous. Get them technically skilled, or get them out. ]
(Northcutt): Organizations need to consider having a response coach on retainer. There are several qualified groups such as Mandiant and Dell Secureworks:
-http://www.mandiant.com/resources/downloads/
-http://go.secureworks.com/lp-incident-response-preparedness]
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3) In Case You Missed It: Hardening Retail Security: Why and How to Prevent Breaches and Attacks - Thursday, September 25 at 1:00 PM EDT (17:00:00 UTC) with John Pescatore and Erick Ingleby: http://www.sans.org/info/167667
UK Police Say Some Smartphones Have Been Remotely Wiped After Seizure (October 9, 2014)
Police in the UK have reported that several mobile phones in their possession as evidence have been remotely wiped. The feature is designed to prevent owners' data from being exposed if a phone is stolen.
-http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-29464889
-http://www.zdnet.com/smartphones-remotely-wiped-in-police-custody-as-encryption-
vs-law-enforcement-heats-up-7000034521/
[Editor's Note (Pescatore): Since remote wipe is an important security feature, this piece should really be titled "UK Police Forget to Protect Seized Smartphones from Remote Wipe."
(Honan): Let this be a lesson for all incident response handlers and forensic investigators that just because the device is physically in your possession does not necessarily mean it is in your total control. Remember to take appropriate steps to ensure the integrity of the evidence you are dealing with, whether this be faraday cases/bags or examining the devices when they are totally disconnected from a network. ]
Microsoft Will Release Nine Security Bulletins on October 14 (October 9, 2014)
On Tuesday, October 14, Microsoft plans to release nine security bulletins to address issues in Internet Explorer (IE), Windows, SharePoint Server, and Web app development tools/kit. Three of the bulletins have been given a critical rating, five an important rating, and one a moderate rating.
-http://www.zdnet.com/microsoft-to-issue-nine-security-updates-to-windows-office-
7000034524/
-http://www.computerworld.com/article/2824556/microsoft-slates-critical-windows-i
e-fixes-for-next-week.html
-https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/security/ms14-oct.aspx
MBIA Acknowledges Customer Data Compromised (October 7, 8, & 9, 2014)
US bond insurer MBIA has acknowledged that a misconfigured server was exposing customers' personal information, including account numbers and balances. The company took down the affected site. Google had already indexed more than 200 pages of account statements.
-http://krebsonsecurity.com/2014/10/huge-data-leak-at-largest-u-s-bond-insurer/
-http://www.scmagazine.com/mbias-client-data-may-have-been-accessed-illegally/art
icle/376195/
Whistleblower Alleges Northrup Grumman Falsified GPS Tests (October 8, 2014)
A Northrup Grumman employee has accused the military contractor of falsifying tests of its LN-100 Inertial Navigation System/Global Positioning System (INS/GPS), which is used in the company's aircraft, missiles, and submarines. Although the case was filed in September 2012, it was only just made public after a judge in Utah ordered it unsealed on Friday, October 3. Each LN-100 unit was tested, with each test taking 10 minutes, according to the complaint, because they often failed the test, technicians were told to "manually key in positive responses" so that the test printouts would indicate that the units had passed.
-http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/10/whistleblower-suit-accuses-northrop-g
rumman-of-fudging-gps-systems-testing/
Complaint:
-http://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Todd-Donaldson-Vs-Northrop
-Grumman.pdf
[Editor's Note (Murray): One would like to think that engineering ethics, industry and corporate culture, and enterprise controls would be sufficient to avoid this kind of failure before the False Claims Act kicks in. Industry must learn that the FCA is a very expensive control. ]
Australian Broadcasting Corporation Hit With Ransom-ware (October 8, 2014)
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation's (ABC) 24-hour news programming was disrupted for less than an hour after the organization became the victim of a ransom-ware attack. The malware gained purchase in the system after an employee clicked on a link provided in a phishing email that appeared to be from Australia Post and which claimed to contain information about a package that could not be delivered. The attack also targeted Australia Post customers.
-http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-10-07/fake-auspost-emails-used-in-crypto-ransomw
are-attack/5795734
-http://www.cnet.com/au/news/crypto-ransomware-scam-email-brings-down-abc-news-24
-http://www.scmagazine.com/ransomware-phishing-campaign-takes-australian-station-
off-the-air/article/376190/
-http://www.nextgov.com/cybersecurity/threatwatch/2014/10/unauthorized-use-system
-administrator-privileges/1601/
[Editor's Note (Murray): "...an employee clicked on a link provided in a phishing email..." must not be sufficient to compromise mission critical systems. Think restrictive access controls, multi-party controls, layering, and end-to-end encryption. (Honan): A prime example of why you should not have critical networks interfacing or connected in any way with non-critical networks, especially those connected to the Internet. ]
Adobe Collects eReader Data and Transmits it in Cleartext (October 7 & 8, 2014)
Adobe has acknowledged that its Digital Editions ebook reader gathers information about users' reading histories and sends the data back to the company unencrypted. Adobe maintains that the feature is designed to prevent piracy. The company says the information it collects, which includes user, device and app IDs; IP addresses; duration of reading; and percentage of book read is data that could be demanded by publishers. Adobe now says it plans to issue an update to the software to address the cleartext data transmission.
-http://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/adobe-issue-software-fix-after-report-leaki
ng-user-reading-habits-n220506
-http://arstechnica.com/security/2014/10/adobes-e-book-reader-sends-your-reading-
logs-back-to-adobe-in-plain-text/
-http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/10/08/adobe_says_it_slurps_ebook_data_in_plain
_text_because_privacy_is_important/
-http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/10/07/adobe_digital_editions_4_caught_snooping
_into_ebook_collections_of_users/
-http://the-digital-reader.com/2014/10/06/adobe-spying-users-collecting-data-eboo
k-libraries/#.VDSA0r4XkzD
[Editors Note (Pescatore): I think I see a connection: Adobe was building in spyware capabilities into its ebook reader software at the same time it has been unable to prevent its Acrobat PDF software from being compromised by attackers. Adobe needs to change its business values to focus on privacy and security of the users of their software. Just adding encryption when the spyware capabilities in their ebook software talks to the Adobe Command and Control server does *not* do that. ]
Tyupkin Malware Infects ATMs (October 7 & 8, 2014)
ATMs around the world are being infected with malware known as Tyupkin that allows thieves to steal piles of cash. The scheme requires physical access to the targeted ATMS, both to inject the malware and to retrieve the money. Tyupkin is active only during certain times, which makes it more difficult to detect the attacks. The money is gathered by so-called "mules," who obtain one-time-use codes to enter to access the machines from the ringleaders. The targeted machines are running on Windows 32-bit platforms.
-http://www.zdnet.com/atm-malware-dispenses-cash-to-attackers-7000034416/
-http://arstechnica.com/security/2014/10/dozens-of-european-atms-rooted-allowing-
criminals-to-easily-cash-out/
-http://www.scmagazine.com/new-tyupkin-malware-has-spread-to-atms-in-the-us-and-o
ther-countries/article/375948/
-http://www.darkreading.com/hackers-steal-millions-in-cash-from-atms-using-tyupki
n-malware/d/d-id/1316421?_mc=sm_dr
-http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/10/08/atm_hack_report/
[Editor's Note (Pescatore): Putting any computer in unattended public spaces *without* physical alarms/tamper protection is pretty much like *not* putting covers on manholes/utility vaults in streets. Whitelisting has been used quite successfully on ATMs to prevent remote malware installs, but physical access that allows root-kitting/reboot of ATM machines means game over. ]
Half a Million Systems Infected with Qakbot (October 7, 2014)
A group of cyber criminals has reportedly infected more than half a million systems around the world with malware known as Qakbot. The malware seeks access credentials of online bank accounts. The group behind the attack is being called Northern Gold. The malware was spread through compromised WordPress sites.
-http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/10/07/monster_banking_trojan_botnet_claims_500
000_victims/
-http://www.scmagazine.com/banking-credentials-targeted-by-russian-cybercrime-gro
up/article/375914/
Alleged Key-logging Scheme Ringleader Arrested (October 6 & 7, 2014)
Authorities have arrested a man who allegedly orchestrated a scheme in which California high school students placed keystroke loggers on teachers' computers so he could change students' grades. Timothy Lance Lai, a tutor, disappeared after the scheme came to light, but was arrested earlier this week in Los Angeles. The scheme resulted in 11 students being expelled from the school.
-http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/10/high-school-tutor-accused-of-planning
-keylogging-ring-finally-arrested/
-http://www.ocregister.com/articles/lai-637551-police-students.html
--Pescatore First Take - Symantec publicly announced that it would split into two companies: one will be focused on security and the other on data and storage. Symantec had underperformed in the security market ever since acquiring Veritas in 2005 and then Altiris in 2007 while pursuing a strategy that treated security the same as storage management or desktop management. Over that same timeframe, threats continued to evolve and trends like BYOD and cloud/everything as a service drove changes in the security market that Symantec failed to address in its products and services.
Overall, Symantec abandoning this failed approach and having a business focused on security is a positive move. For users of Symantec's varied security products and services, however, there will be near term impacts that will not all be positive. The security-only part of Symantec will need to look at its security product offerings and make decisions on what survives and what is discontinued. On the endpoint security product side, in 2013 Symantec announced a strategy that combined the security and non-security desktop product teams. If Symantec will truly focus on security, the split will require major changes to that strategy and those product areas.
CSAM: You better start listening when servers start talking IRC
-https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/CSAM+My+servers+started+speaking+IRC+and+that+
is+when+I+started+to+listen+/18799
HongKong Protest Websites Spread Malware
-http://www.volexity.com/blog/?p=33
NCSAM: Your ISP is Calling.
-https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/CSAM+Month+of+False+Positives+-+Our+ISP+Says+W
ere+Hosting+a+BotNet/18785
Security Vulnerability in Bugtracker Bugzilla
-http://www.checkpoint.com/blog/bug-bug-tracker/
RSA 1024 Bit Key Update: Not quite broken yet, but still weak
-https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/Confusion+over+SSL+and+1024+bit+keys/18775
Belkin Routers Block Internet Access after "Heartbeat" server goes offline
-https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/Belkin+Router+Apocalypse+heartbeat+belkin+com+
outage+taking+routers+down/18779
Cookoo Sandbox Vulnerability
-http://cuckoosandbox.org/2014-10-07-cuckoo-sandbox-111.html
Odd "Window Size 6667" traffic
-https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/Shellshock+More+details+released+about+CVE-201
4-6277+and+CVE-2014-6278+Also+Does+Windows+have+a+shellshock+problem+/18769
CSAM: Patching leaves system more vulnerable
-https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/CSAM+Patch+and+get+pw0ned+not+OR+/18771
Manuel's nmap tips and tricks
-https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/Detecting+irregular+programs+and+services+inst
alled+in+your+network/18763
-https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/Testing+for+opened+ports+with+firewalk+techniq
ue/18761
iWorm Infection Method
-http://www.thesafemac.com/iworm-method-of-infection-found/
JPMorgan Update
-http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2014/10/03/hackers-attack-cracked-10-banks-in-major-
assault/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=0
Details About two more bash vulnerabilities
-http://lcamtuf.blogspot.com/2014/10/bash-bug-how-we-finally-cracked.html
The Editorial Board of SANS NewsBites
John Pescatore was Vice President at Gartner Inc. for fourteen years. He became a director of the SANS Institute in 2013. He has worked in computer and network security since 1978 including time at the NSA and the U.S. Secret Service.
Shawn Henry recently retired as FBI Executive Assistant Director responsible for all criminal and cyber programs and investigations worldwide, as well as international operations and the FBI's critical incident response. He is now president of CrowdStrike Services.
Stephen Northcutt teaches advanced courses in cyber security management; he founded the GIAC certification and was the founding President of STI, the premier skills-based cyber security graduate school, www.sans.edu.
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Ed Skoudis is co-founder of CounterHack, the nation's top producer of cyber ranges, simulations, and competitive challenges, now used from high schools to the Air Force. He is also author and lead instructor of the SANS Hacker Exploits and Incident Handling course, and Penetration Testing course.
Michael Assante was Vice President and Chief Security Officer at NERC, led a key control systems group at Idaho National Labs, and was American Electric Power's CSO. He now leads the global cyber skills development program at SANS for power, oil & gas and other critical infrastructure industries.
Mark Weatherford is a Principal at The Chertoff Group and the former Deputy Under Secretary of Cybersecurity at the US Department of Homeland Security.
William Hugh Murray is an executive consultant and trainer in Information Assurance and Associate Professor at the Naval Postgraduate School.
Sean McBride is Director of Analysis and co-founder of Critical Intelligence, and, while at Idaho National Laboratory, he initiated the situational awareness effort that became the ICS-CERT.
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I'm convinced that music can heal the world. More than simply easing the tribulations and suffering of humans. Music is among the oldest of human activities. It predates warfare by so long that it's almost funny. Before language, before written words, before private property and totalitarian agriculture our ancestors' ancestors' were driven by a desire to communicate with the natural world by imitating the sounds they heard. So we sang, clicked, hummed, tapped, plucked. Music is the activity that is the antidote to war. You can't kill other humans while making music.
Okay we've had drummers on the battlefields, but they couldn't carry guns and drums at the same time and those poor buggers, like the flagbearers, were the first and easiest targets. I'm talking about music that has changed the course of history. Music that emerged from pure spirit and endured to the Modern Age to sing in the face of oppression. The kind of music that never asked for a following but found one through energy, truth and simplicity. In my lifetime, music brought down apartheid in South Africa. Antonio Carlos Jobim wanted to be an architect but his words and melodies changed the course of the history of Brazil standing out. Ringing truths in an outrageous context.
So where is that powerful healing force right now? Not that the sixties are going to blow in and save us like a mighty wind. No, we need something for today. With a few notable exceptions like Ani di Franco and Ben Harper, the so called 'new folk' movement is about as political as Brittney Spears. The corporatization of popular music is a death knell for the oral tradition just as electronic voting machines spell the death for democratic elections. Corporate music has obscured the real legacy of Woody Guthrie with issues of royalties and licensing. The man believed music was not to be owned but to be given away. There's very little of the significance of a quarter million years of human oral history to be found shrink-wrapped at Border's Books and Music.
Connecting the dots of my musical journey, you'd find me picking up glimpses of oral history in the sacred music at Pine Ridge Reservation, Pilgrim Baptist Church and Philly Folk Fest. It's been said that the only truly unique American contribution to musical history is the Elvis Presley movie. I always liked the moment in Elvis' movies when life just spontaneously bursts into pop music. Lately I'm beginning to think that other than maybe the thrum of a Harley Davidson, the only unique contribution America has made to the history of sound is the sound of two atomic bombs vaporizing tens of thousands of people. Most of the musical styles claimed as American music are derived from the music of people enslaved, conquered or otherwise oppressed.
So we better sing our little hearts out. For better or worse. If the ancestors are listening. Maybe a song we have not yet heard will come into our consciousness. Just maybe we can alter the tragic course of our American government.
I dreamed the world had all agreed to put an end to war.
And makes us all part of the patriot game.
My humanity lost to a patriot game.
With the home of the brave and the land of the free.
As the world pays the cost of our Patriot game.
It's just the first taste of the patriot game.
I dreamed of a world where all people lived free.
I stood up for justice and true liberty.
Where we all went wrong in our Patriot's Game.
All players beware the new Patriot game.


If you are like most Americans living in the 1990s, chances are that you or someone you know has had a personal experience with alternative therapies. Indeed, according to a Harvard survey conducted by David Eisenberg, M.D., and reported in The Journal of the American Medical Association, 42% of Americans used alternative therapies to improve their health and well-being in 1997.
The burgeoning interest taking place in the United States in these therapies is a continuation of what historian and philosopher Eugene Taylor calls the 'American visionary tradition,' a characteristic of our culture that reflects Americans' attraction to inner transformation. From the Shaker and Quaker communities to the 19th-century Mind-Cure Movement and Transcendentalism to the counter-cultural exploration of Eastern meditative techniques and psychedelics in the 1960s, Americans have sought ways to dive deeply inward to find meaning and purpose in life and to forge a relationship with the sacred. Out of this historical trend has evolved a consciousness movement that today ranges from alternative medicine to Zen Buddhism.
Within this movement, there are a multitude of rich and disparate healing modalities, the most popular category of which is mind-body studies. The disciplines that make up this broad field--which also encompasses alternative and complementary medicine and holistic health--include body therapies; chiropractic; homeopathy; Oriental medical systems such as acupuncture and acupressure; and subtle-energy methods such as therapeutic touch, among others. Some of these methods were derived from ancient Eastern healing traditions; others have a more modern and scientific ancestry. Some were developed over a millennia ago, while others have been 'discovered' only in the last 20 years. With such a wide variety of lineages, it is incorrect to assume that the philosophies behind these techniques are similar simply because they share an 'alternative' status. What these disciplines do share, however, is a concern for the health and well-being of the whole person, an understanding that the mind, body, and spirit not only are inseparable and interdependent, but also contribute, alone and together, to health and well-being.
This summary was adapted from The Common Boundary Graduate Education Guide, which was published in 1994. A broader, updated version, Soul Work: A Field Guide for Spiritual Seekers, authored by Anne and Charles Simpkinson was published by HarperPerennial in 1998.


Are you teaching about Earth Day? Your littles can use this Earth Day story starter to share what they have learned about Earth Day. They just fill in the sentences and then copy their story by following the numbers on the boxes on the story starter for a perfectly ordered paragraph.


Linking to House Teams, our children will be asked to wear their House Team colour T-shirts for sports.
Nursery children are not compulsory school age and will not be required to wear the school sport kit.
From Reception onwards all children are required to wear the sports kit. Learning to change out of uniform and into PE kit is an important learning task for young children. It also creates a growing self-awareness of what is appropriate in different settings.
Uxendon Manor Sports kit has been chosen to be practical, easy to wash, cotton rich and economical to purchase. The School uniform is available from Ace Clothing School Outfitters.


This bestselling introduction to art therapy brings theory to life through case material and examples of real artwork produced during therapy sessions. Practising art therapist, Dave Edwards, explains key theoretical ideas - such as symbolism, play, transference and interpretation - and shows how these relate to practice.
All forms of psychotherapy deal with the limitations of our awareness. This book offers a comprehensive overview of the ways in which these discourses employ a rich variety of concepts to address the limits of our everyday consciousness.


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Play's, Well, With Others
By Lavender December 16, 2010
Tags: Issue 406
Recently, I celebrated the first birthday of my semiautobiographical play.
That's certainly no rare event in the Twin Cities, the undisputed world capital of unproduced, unasked-for, appallingly-bad, small-town-based play scripts.
But when I bought a birthday cake for my play, and decided to throw it a party, my friends reached for their therapists' business cards quicker than you can say "Fringe Festival."
Patiently, I explained to friends that my script was an extension of me, and that it was only fair I do something for it after the year it had been through.
For example, the first time I let a friend read it, she said she liked it, but wanted to see the main character die a horrible, painful death by the third page.
Undeterred by this "constructive criticism," I began sending the play around town, hoping some big-shot producer/artistic director (Joe Dowling of the Guthrie) would whip out his checkbook, and make me a very wealthy woman.
Instead, I received even more profound feedback from many of the Twin Cities's fine creative theater assistants, such as: "I fell asleep reading it"; "The stage manager's dog threw up on it"; and "How the hell did you get Joe Dowling's cell phone number?"
The topper was when one friend who read my script—a romantic drama about a suave Welshman and a strong woman falling hopelessly in love—told me he deeply suspected both characters were gay.
That night, I asked for the opinion of my best friend, Jeff. Frowning, he looked up from a Cosmopolitan quiz he was taking concerning the many shortcomings of a best friend.
Jeff said, "Well, I didn't think the characters were gay, but are you sure you don't need to come out as a lesbian?"
This, of course, came as a rather stunning query (pardon the expression), and caused an acute identity crisis. Even worse, I also felt as if I'd failed as a writer. I contemplated cheerfully heaving my play off the Hennepin Avenue Bridge.
But when I arrived at the bridge, I found another playwright doing the same thing.
"Couldn't think of anything original, huh?" he sneered, as he fed to the fishes his action-adventure play about a sarcastic, wisecracking cop stuck on an escalator with a deranged gang-member from Anoka.
So, I kept my script, deciding that maybe it simply needed more love, attention, and—most importantly—a birthday party.
I ran straight to the nearest bakery, where, without even blushing, I asked the lady behind the counter what cake would be best for a play's birthday party.
"Something layered," she replied, without batting an eye.
Thrown, and in desperate need of any kind of attention, I asked if she thought it weird that I was throwing a party for my play's script.
"Honey," she said, "I just did a Bundt cake for an actor celebrating the 11th anniversary of his audition for a Preparation H commercial—and he didn't even get the part."
Returning home with my layered cake, I tracked down a few agencies, and invited them to bring their scripts over for a little celebration.
After they arrived, we sat around like a bunch of old ladies talking about our grandchildren's achievements—or, in this case, the lack of them.
One friend, whose play will soon be 12, even pulled a photo from his wallet showing him and his script, which he had named Dennis, on vacation in Mexico.
"Dennis and I were celebrating out 17th rewrite," he said, getting misty-eyed.
Later, looking around the table at all our plays, each wearing a party hat, I experienced a tinge of pride that might have had something to do with the half-bottle of Wild Turkey I had just consumed.
Jeff sat patiently watching this spectacle unfold, as we playwrights traded war stories about how our scripts were conceived (interestingly, mostly on city buses); the nights our printers gave birth ("my DeskJet was in labor for eight hours"); and our scripts' first trip to Kinko's ("Dennis got stuck in the copier—it was so embarrassing").
Later, after everyone left, Jeff volunteered to vacuum up the mess, which amounted to pushing cake crumbs around with his very old Hoover. I reminded him that the vacuum had never been that great in the first place, and that Sears was probably having a sale.
"Not interested", he said. "I've had this vacuum since I was 23, and I'm going to have it when I'm 73."
Consider the source here, but I know how he feels.
Bye for now.
Kiss, kiss. Julie Dafydd

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Blackboards Everywhere: Atemporality And The Idea Of The Future
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Russell Davies shares some thought-provoking ideas about the current state of science fiction and future thinking in general.
In an interesting new post on his blog, Russell Davies laments the 'lack of futureness' in modern times — how there does not seem to be a traditional 'futuristic,' fantastic vision being evoked and applied in areas such as fashion, design and fiction. Observing a more pervasive modern throwback culture where the vintage and rustic is revered, he wonders what will become of the classic idea of 'the future.'
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It's hard to miss the missing future in science fiction. Zero History feels like it's set in the past, actually last year, when we were all obsessed with tactical pants and I was still updating EBCB. I went to see Mr Gibson talk last night and he said it might be true that his last three books were a pinhole portrait of the first decade of the 21st century. And it struck me that maybe all his books are that, he's been approaching them from a long way in the past, imagining what they might be like. Now he's in them, capturing portraits of the now. Soon he'll be doing history.
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Ten Things To Do In Phuket, First, are you presently acquainted with where Phuket can be found in Thailand? It's southern Thailand, in the west coast. Can you plan on visiting any other areas of Thailand while you're there? You'll want to know where those locations have been in proximity to Phuket and how you plan on getting around. Now, let's take a look at those activities you want to do while you're there.
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After you're done shopping, it's time for you to hit up some attractions. We'll talk specific beaches here within a minute, but first take into account the specific beach adventures you could have. By way of example, while vacationing in Phuket, you may go on different scuba and snorkeling adventures. A very common place is Simba Sea Trips, and there is Super Divers, Aussie Divers Phuket plus more. You can even continue on different boat tours, offered by Two Sea Tour, Phuket Sail Tours plus more. Simba Sea Trips offers both boat tours and also the diving and snorkeling adventures.
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Season 1, Episode 8 - The Final
It's the grand final, and all seven heat winners are up against each other to fight it out for the title of 'Best Up-And-Coming Artisan'.
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In this final heat, four food producers with fledgling bakery businesses come to test out their products on the locals in Malhamdale, in the heart of the Yorkshire Dales. They have two days in the shop to promote and sell their products.
Season 1, Episode 6 - Drinks
In the penultimate heat, four food producers with fledgling drinks businesses come to test out their products on the locals in Malhamdale, in the heart of the Yorkshire Dales.
Season 1, Episode 5 - Meat
In this heat, four food producers with fledgling butchery businesses come to test out their products on the locals in Malhamdale, in the heart of the Yorkshire Dales. They have two days in the shop, to promote and sell their products.
Season 1, Episode 4 - Sauces
In this fourth heat, four food producers with fledgling sauce businesses come to test out their products on the locals in Malhamdale, in the heart of the Yorkshire Dales. They have two days in the shop to promote and sell their wares.
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In the third heat, four food producers with fledgling sweets businesses come to test out their products on the locals in Malhamdale, in the heart of the Yorkshire Dales. They have two days in the shop to promote and sell their wares.
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In this second heat, four food producers with fledging cheese businesses come to test out their products on the locals in Malhamdale, in the heart of the Yorkshire Dales. They have two days in the shop to promote and sell their wares. Gillian is a scientist from West Yorkshire, and is a goat's cheese purist. She makes unpa...
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Four food producers come to test out their products on the locals in Malhamdale, in the heart of the Yorkshire Dales. They have two days in the shop, to promote and sell their wares. This time it's makers of preserves, pickles, and spreads battling it out for one place in the final.


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India-Pak border to soon have 'smart fencing': Rijiju
February 2, 2017 by shameen
New Delhi: With the testing process already in final phases, the government today expressed hope that work on installing 'smart fence' along 3,323-km-long the Indo-Pak border will begin soon.
The testing for the fence is in final stages and soon work for erecting it along the Indo-Pak border will begin, Minister of State for Home Kiren Rijiju said here today.
The new fencing is likely to have a multi-tier security ring comprising an alarm to security force personnel in case of any infiltration bid or attempts to cut the fence.
"The testing for the smart fencing is in the final stage.
Pretty soon it will be done and it will be soon erected at the India-Pakistan border," Rijiju told reporters here.
He said the testing is being done at many places and its details can't be divulged now due to security reasons.
"We will have smart fencing at all our borders in phases but priority would be Indo-Pak frontier," he said.
A Comprehensive Integrated Border Management System (CIBMS) is also being worked out by the government where the security of Indo-Pak and Indo-Bangladesh borders, both sensitive and difficult terrain, will shift from the regular troops patrolling system to a quick reaction team pattern where guards strike once they notice a blip of infiltration on their surveillance radars.
There have been several attempts of infiltration by terrorists who cut the fences to enter into India from Pakistan side.
India's border with Pakistan runs through four states, Jammu and Kashmir (1,225 km which includes 740 km of Line of Control), Rajasthan (1,037 km), Punjab (553 km) and Gujarat (508 km).
The government has set a target of completely sealing the India-Pakistan border by December 2018.
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Microsoft this week issued its second preview of Visual Studio 2017 15.5, with several new features introduced to improve C++ development in particular.
New C++ functionality in this second preview (read about new features in the first preview here) includes support for the C++ 17 standard being added to the Standard Template Library and the Visual C++ compiler.
According to the release notes, 13 different tweaks were made to the Standard Template Library to match up with C++ 17, ranging from deprecating several features to various fixes and other changes.
The compiler, meanwhile, received several of its own tweaks, so it now matches up with about 75 percent of the C++ 17 standard. Some of those include structured bindings, constexpr lambdas, if constexpr, inline variables, fold expressions, hexfloat literals, and the addition of noexcept to the type system.
Other C++ components were also improved, including the Visual C++ optimizer, the C++ Core Guidelines checker and the Test Explorer, which now has built-in default support for the Google Test framework.
Christine Ruana, principal program manager, Visual Studio, detailed these changes in a blog post yesterday.
"We're also shipping new C++ Core Guidelines checks in C++ code analysis, which will help ensure your C++ code is robust," Ruana said. "In this release the Test Explorer supports the Google Test Framework, which enables you to write, discover, and run your Google Test C++ unit tests from within the context of Visual Studio. Lastly, we've improved the Linux C++ Workload by introducing support for cross compilation targeting ARM microcontrollers and capabilities to run remote tasks."
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Various bug fixes were also announced, along with an updated error dialog to provide more information about installation problems, with community help for problems being provided if it's available.
The VS team noted this release is not "go-live" and isn't intended for use on production computers or for creating production code. It is intended for testing and soliciting developer feedback, which can be sent in by clicking on the Report a Problem option in the upper right-hand corner of the installer or Visual Studio itself. Feature suggestions can be relayed via the UserVoice site.
"You'll be able to track your issues in the Visual Studio Developer Community where you can ask questions and find answers," "You can also engage with us and other Visual Studio developers through our Visual Studio conversation in the Gitter community (requires a GitHub account)."


Speak the language of your target audience - in person and on the internet. That's the only way they will know what you sell.
This sounds intuitive because marketing is all about understanding the consumer. But with the rise of digital advertising there became nuances in the ways we advertise that demand our attention - specifically the need to align our google search campaigns with our target audiences' actual search queries. This blog details why this is so important and offers some tools to help marketers learn from their consumers.
If this interests to you, view our webinar on doubling customer acquisition through paid search.
You've created the next big thing. And you want to sell it as such. However before you can sell anything, you need to tell the market about it. As marketers, what's our next step?
We have a clear image of how we want our product to be perceived. So we start advertising this product with the description that we think best communicates this new idea and its branding, what we want our customers to feel when encountering it.
Let's say our new product is a ready-made, light meal to satisfy young professionals until dinner. It's not quite a snack so we don't want to brand it as such. So we start advertising this new product as a "light meal" online. Sounds good, sounds healthy. But here's the thing - people don't search for light meals when looking for something to tide them over until dinner. They search for snacks.
We see here that people don't really search for "light meal", they never really have, and maybe they never will. But snacks? Oh yeah, people search for snacks.
Put more specifically, we didn't use the right words in our blogs, website, and advertisements for google to recognize that we were indeed selling what the consumer was looking for. So we didn't turn up in their google search.
This is a high-level and somewhat obvious example of how not to structure your customer acquisition efforts. But it's important to keep this in mind at the beginning of any campaign launch. And it can be difficult to know from the outset how to select keywords, structure ad groups, and build out campaigns.
How do I find out what consumers are actually searching?
Google Ads, Neil Patel Ubersuggest, and DemandJump Traffic Cloud® are all tools to consider.
As referenced above, Google Trends and Google Keyword Planner are great tools to see what some common searches are. They'll even show you metrics on suggested keywords you could use in your campaign.
Ubersuggest is a great tool to use if you're looking to inform your advertisement's wording or draw inspiration from related words people are searching. Simply type a word or phrase into the search bar and Ubersuggest populates a list of recommendations based on their search volume, cost per click, and competition for the word on google ads.
The DemandJump Traffic Cloud® populates a list of keyword recommendations based on the keywords that are driving traffic to your competitors' and their success with those keywords. It will even go a step further and predict how much increased traffic should be generated if you optimize for those keywords.
These tools all give insight into how to structure your ad campaigns. Whether it's by checking the volume of search queries, competitors' use of the words, or costs per click, these sites are a great place to start when informing your ad campaign strategy. If you're having trouble acquiring customers online, always ask yourself: Am I providing the answers to questions actually asked? Is this based on data? Or am I simply making advertisements based on what I think describes my product?
If you'd like to learn more about building your ad campaigns around market dynamics, be sure to view our on-demand webinar led by Brennan Walker, a Strategic Marketing Advisor here at DemandJump.


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In the Studio there are: queen sized bed with luxury linen, complimentary toiletries in a modern ensuite, bathrobe and slippers, hair dryer, heater, heated towel rack. Also reverse cycle air conditioning system, electric blankets, flat screen TV/DVD, Wi-Fi, in-room safe, table and chairs and plenty of power points, alarm clock, intercom to hosts, additional blanket and pillows.
Queen sized bed with luxury linen, modern ensuite with complimentary toiletries, bathrobe and slippers, hair dryer, heaters, heated towel rack. Also reverse cycle air conditioning system, electric blankets, flat screen TV/DVD, free Wi-Fi, in-room safe, small computer desk with lamp and plenty of power points, alarm clock, intercom to hosts, additional blanket and pillows, carpeted floor, direct access to guest-only kitchenette.
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This bedroom has a very comfortable queen bed with luxury linen, air conditioning (evaporative), fan, electric heater and electric blankets, small computer desk, desk lamp, a number of power points, flat screen TV/DVD, free Wi-Fi, in-room safe, intercom to hosts, additional blanket and pillows.
Modern bathroom with shower, bath and toilet (SHARED WITH OTHER GUESTS) as well as a separate toilet is just down on the corridor, so you can walk there in the complimentary bathrobe and slippers provided. This room has access to the guest-only kitchenette.


He wandered into the kitchen.
He suddenly looked wary and glanced at the clock.
He took a startled step backward.
She gave him a snack bowl full of peanuts and he dejectedly shuffled away with his starvation rations.
Thirty minutes later she walked into the TV room carrying a plate. The plate contained a bowl of chicken pasta salad, a juicy cluster of grapes, and a napkin wrapped fork. In her left hand she had a tall glass of minty iced tea.
He glanced up, saw the lunch bounty and his eyes brightened with delight.
Her shoulders sagged and she looked at him sadly. She said, "No, honey, I told you, it's salad. If you wanted soup you should have said so!" She reached to take the plate away from him.
She loves him, too, but sometimes he is very confusing.
Polona — that would have worked as the title, too.
I'm confused with the soup as well 🙂 Oh well…and before you say it pfffft…..
Thom — I don't understand how anybody could get soup and salad mixed up.
You guys are just CUTE!
Thanks, Melli. That is better than silly, right?
Silly and cute…thanks for sharing this moment with us!
There's a group one of my elderly friends belongs to at her church. They call it "Souper Tuesday." They meet at various homes for Bible Study fellowship and serve soup. It's especially popular in the winter time. Because of the soup, they've attracted all ages of people so the group has a lot of life.
She moved in with her grown daughter in a different part of town after her husband died and was pretty lonely until this group found her. Now she has a purpose and a destination every Tuesday evening! Isn't that lovely?
Kelley — we have Souper Thursday at our church! Actually, it is the Community Bible Study, but since our church is central and has enough room for the 30+ people who show up every week, we have it there.
I'd just like to say that I can fully tell soup and salad apart from one another. Go Me!
Teresa — leave both set on a counter for a few days and I bet you won't still be able to say that ….
Melissa — if I were a peach Amoeba would love me with ice cream!
Too bad y'all don't have Souper Salad, a restaurant we have down here!
Linda — we had the restaurant in Vegas, too, and it was one of my fave places to eat.
He is confusing? He? You turn super into soup and he is confusing?
Doug — I made pasta salad. He turned it into soup. You need to have your glasses and/or your pay-attention checked.


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2016 has been a phenomenal year in terms of sustainable developments. Whilst global warming isn't going to stop, neither are designers going to stop developing solutions. Let's take a look at some of the most inspiring topics of the year.
Oil Rigs Turned Sea-Life Supporting Skyscrapers?
Oil rigs are not typically associated with sustainability, which is why this project is so inspiring. Noah Oasis have designed a concept that transforms oil rigs into vertical bio-habitats. The current reaction to oil spills is slow and inefficient, inflicting severe damage upon the entire marine ecosystem. These floating structures are intended to pop up all over the globe, soaking up the oils to offer immediate aid.
But it's not just an ocean clean-up taking place. This project would collect the oil from the surface of the sea and take it to their internal processors. Here the oil would be converted into a type of plastic that can be used as a building material in the creation of coral reefs. The concept somewhat resembles a hybrid between an oil rig and a tree. Pipes attach the rig to the bottom of the sea, like the roots of a tree. Whilst it will offer habitat to all kinds of life, bringing bio-diversity and shelter back to the oceans.
Solar Energy: The Future is Bright
This year has seen a huge leap of development in the department of solar energy. Whilst we are used to seeing big clunky solar panels atop of roofs, perhaps soon it will be unnoticeable. New Energy Technologies are developing windows that generate electricity. Not only do these surfaces collect energy from direct sunlight, but also from shady conditions as well as artificial lighting! The implications are enormous; the technology could be fitted across the glass surfaces of today's high-risers.
Another innovation in the realm of solar harvesting comes from Tesla. Earlier this year Elon Musk gave a presentation on their latest technologies. The most fascinating development revealed was camouflage solar tiles. These 'tiles' come in four different styles and merge the line between sustainable and stylish. Solar Roof aims to make going green the most desirable action possible.
Koen Olthuis
An architect we covered earlier this year, Koen Olthuis is one of the most cutting-edge thinkers in the industry. With Waterstudio he strides from project to project, totally transforming the way we think about the built environment. As the name of his firm suggests, they predominantly work with water. That means just about every project he completes is floating, whether it be out in the ocean, or connected to a city.
But all this water business isn't just for fun and games; there's a vision behind it. Koen believes that a sustainable future lies in the development of water architecture. From floating hotels with fully fledged golf courses, to portable schools place in the slums of Bangladesh, his projects will inspire you.
An example of one such project is in the Maldives, where not one of the 1200 islands are more than 6 feet above sea level. In efforts to stay above water, the whole country has become carbon neutral, all children are now students of environmental science, and retaining walls have been built around every island.
Their latest strategy comes from Waterstudio and consists of star-shaped islands which are tiered with lush green roof terraces, complete with pools and beaches. No matter how high sea levels rise, the islands will simply float upon the water.
There you have it, the three most inspiring topics of 2016. We look forward to a whole new year of sustainable innovations.
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The evolution of plants and animals generally has been thought to occur through the passing of genes from parent to offspring and genetic modifications that happen along the way. However, the new research has documented another avenue, through the passing of genes from plant to plant between species with only a distant ancestral kinship.
How this happened is unclear but the researchers show that not only did a grouping of grasses pass on enzymes key to photosynthesis multiple times over millions of years, but that some of the genes that were transferred became integral cogs to the plants' photosynthetic machinery. This is a critical distinguishing feature in C4 plants, which dominate in hot, tropical climes and now make up 20 per cent of the earth's vegetational covering.
"As far as we know, this is the first case where nuclear genes that have been transmitted between plants have been incorporated into the primary metabolism and contributed to the evolution of a new trait, in this case C4 photosynthesis," said Pascal-Antoine Christin, a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Brown University.
In a paper published today (16 February 2012) in Current Biology, the researchers from Sheffield, Brown and other universities in the United States, United Kingdom, and France investigated the ancestry of two genes encoding enzymes important in C4 photosynthesis — phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase (ppc) and phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase (pck) — and these enzymes' historical presence and function in a common and well-studied grass, Alloteropsis.
The biologists initially studied the genes in closely related species, three C4 plants (Alloteropsis angusta, Alloteropsis cimicina, and Alloteropsis semialata) and one C3 plant (Alloteropsis eckloniana). The goal was to learn the evolutionary history of the ppc and pck genes, which were present in their C3 common ancestor and were thought to have been adapted to aid in photosynthesis in the offspring C4 plants.
"People were wondering how these genes evolved. The global assumption was that an ancestor had the genes, but they weren't involved in photosynthesis, and so were later modified to become C4 photosynthetic agents," said Christin, the paper's corresponding author.
To test the hypothesis, the scientists took a wider view, surveying C4 plants in which the ppc enzyme was integral to photosynthesis and plants where the enzyme was present but had no photosynthetic role. They figured the ppc enzymes used in C4 photosynthesis would be closely related to the non-photosynthetic genes from closely related C3 plants, given their common ancestry.
Instead, the ppc genes involved in C4 photosynthesis were closely related to ppc genes of other C4 species with no close relation in the phylogeny, or family tree. Closer analysis also revealed these plants sharing photosynthetic ppc enzymes had diverged as many as 20 million years ago; the new finding is that despite these ancestral divergences, they exchanged genes.
In all, the researchers documented four instances in which the ppc enzyme or the pck enzyme found in the Alloteropsis C4 plants popped up in other C4 clades – Andropogoneae, Cenchrinae and Melinidinae. These clades include such diverse species as corn, foxtail millet, and guinea grass.
"What is so exciting here is that these genes are moving from plant to plant in a way we have not seen before," said Erika Edwards, Assistant Professor of Biology at Brown University and the second author on the paper. "There is no host-parasite relationship between these plants, which is usually what we see in this kind of gene movement."
Scientists call this evolutionary event "lateral gene transfer." The question is, how are the plants passing their genes? At this point, the researchers presume that genetic material carried airborne in pollen grains land on a different species and a small subset of genes somehow get taken up by the host plant during fertilization.
The team think gene-swapping among plants continues today which means that plants can adapt to new environments by taking genes from others.
Dr Osborne added: "It seems pretty unlikely this is an isolated phenomenon - we've just been able to pick it up in these plants because they're so well studied."


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Brad's Blog: Beyond the Philomath located in Oregon
Georgia, Indiana, Nigeria and even Benjamin Franklin have connections to "Philomath"
by Brad Fuqua, Philomath News December 19, 2022 December 19, 2022
A sign along Highway 20 at Newton Creek Park welcomes passing motorists to Philomath — the one in Oregon. (File photo by Brad Fuqua/Philomath News)
It's become common knowledge around Philomath that the city's name is derived from two Greek words — "Philos" meaning "love" and "math" meaning "learning." This reference to Philomath and "love of learning" pops up at special events, public speeches and here at Philomath News is the name of a column that former mayor Eric Niemann writes.
Greater Oregon, an Albany-based newspaper, in 1963 wrote about Philomath's name: "No community was better named. While the people struggled to clear their lands and scratch livings from the soil, they taught and studied furiously."
The city got its name from Philomath College, which the United Brethren Church opened in 1867. Today, Philomath has a reputation as a timber town but back in those very early years, life in town particularly revolved around religion, education and agriculture.
There are a couple of other "Philomath" communities in the world — two here in the United States and a college in West Africa.
Philomath is the name of a very small, unincorporated community in Oglethorpe County, Georgia. As you might expect because of the name, the Georgia community also has a strong connection to learning.
Here's an excerpt from a short history written in the 1970s:
"The name Philomath, which means 'love of learning,' was suggested by Alexander H. Stephens, a frequent visitor in the John W. Reed Academy of Oglethorpe County's Woodstock. Reed Academy was a famous boarding school for boys, and much of the early history of Woodstock, now Philomath, centered around the school."
Philomath Presbyterian Church was built sometime around 1840 and still stands.
In the Midwest, Philomath sits in Union County near the eastern border of Indiana. The unincorporated community is located within the township of Brownsville. A post office operated at Philomath from 1837 to 1907.
In north-central Nigeria, Philomath University serves as a private learning institution located in what is called the Federal Capital Territory. It plays on the "love of learning" meaning in its marketing.
"Philomath University is, therefore, envisioned to stimulate students with a deep appetite and hunger to learn seamlessly while achieving excellence and top-class performance."
Here are a few other uses of "Philomath":
• Philomath was once used as a term to describe an astrologer or prognosticator, according to the definition listed in the Oxford English Dictionary. The term in that usage has become obsolete.
• Benjamin Franklin and Jonathan Swift at times both used Philomath as a pen name.
• James Charles Stuart (1566-1615), king of Scotland as James VI and king of England and Ireland as James I, created a character called "Philomathes" in a dissertation.
• The Philomaths was the name of a Polish secret student organization at the Imperial University of Vilnius in Lithuania from 1817-23.
• Various societies in the United States have used the name, including the Philomathean Society at the University of Pennsylvania, the Philomathean Literary Society at Erskine College (South Carolina) and the Philomathean Society at New York University.
• The Philomathean Club, which dates back to the 1890s, is a women's club in Stockton, California that met at the historic Philomathean Clubhouse, which is on the National Register of Historic Places.
So there you go. More than you may want to know about "Philomath."
(Brad Fuqua is publisher/editor of the Philomath News. He can be reached at News@PhilomathNews.com).
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After one week out of the top spot in the national ranking of university football teams, the Laval rouge et or are back on top of the weekly Canadian Interuniversity Sport football Top 10.
Laval began the year ranked No. 2 to defending national champion Montreal, but a 12-9 victory over the Carabins—on a last-play field goal before a crowd of 15,000 Saturday night in Quebec City to open the Quebec conference season—convinced 20 of 30 panelists on the University Football Reporters of Canada panel to put Laval at the top of their ballots.
Laval's victory avenged a 12-9 loss to Montreal in last year's conference championship game, a defeat that ended both a 70-game home winning streak for the rouge et or, and an 11-year run as Quebec champion.
This week's poll is perhaps the first one that's actually relevant, since Week 1 was tallied before three of the country's four leagues began play.
Calgary, perennially strong in Canada West, rose from No. 4 to No. 2 after defeating seventh-ranked British Columbia 49-16.
In the other match of ranked teams, No. 10 Manitoba defeated No. 8 Saskatchewan 34-28 in Saskatoon. As a result, the defending Canada West champion Bisons climbed the most of any team, four spots to No. 6.
UBC, ranked artificially high because panelists didn't know what to make of its 41-16 preseason win over Laval, fell the most—three spots to No. 10, a place perhaps more reflective of the amount of progress that can be expected of a team that was 2-6 a year ago, even one now coached by former Saint Mary's and Calgary coach Blake Nill.
Reputation was probably also a factor in Western, a team that didn't make it out of the conference semifinals a year ago, being ranked third to open the season, but its two lopsided victories to start the current campaign are good enough to keep the Mustangs in third place, and the top-ranked team from Ontario University Athletics.
• Guelph, 2-0—and a team that handily beat Western the last time they met—rose one spot, from sixth to fifth, but is still two spots behind the Mustangs.
• McMaster, which didn't play, paid for the schedule maker's whim by falling two spots, from fifth to seventh.
• Mount Allison, the defending Atlantic champion, lost an exhibition game to St. Francis Xavier but climbed one spot, from ninth to eighth.
This week's marquee match will pit No. 2 Calgary against No. 6 Manitoba in a rematch of last year's Canada West final, a game won by the Bisons.
1. Laval (2), 1-0, 285, beat No. 1 Montreal 12-9; next: Saturday, at Sherbrooke.
2. Calgary (4), 1-0, 241, beat No. 7 British Columbia 49-16; next: Friday night, at No. 6 Manitoba.
3. Western (3), 2-0, 239, beat York 74-10; next: Saturday, at Wilfrid Laurier.
4. Montreal (1), 0-1, 235, lost to No. 2 Laval 12-9; next: Friday night, vs. McGill.
5. Guelph (6), 2-0, 156, beat Wilfrid Laurier 30-19; next: Saturday, at York.
6. Manitoba (10), 1-0, 144, beat No. 8 Saskatchewan 34-28; next, Friday vs. No. 2 Calgary.
7. McMaster (5), 1-0, 144, did not play; next: Saturday, vs. Ottawa.
8. Mount Allison (9), 0-0, 52, lost 29-14 to St. Francis Xavier (exhibition); next: Friday night, at Saint Mary's.
9. Saskatchewan (8), 0-1, 43, lost 34-28 to No. 10 Manitoba; next: Friday night, at Alberta.
10. British Columbia (7), 0-1, 41, lost 49-16 to No. 4 Calgary; next: Saturday, vs. Regina.


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Q: How can I tell if a smart contract on RSK is an NFT? Given an address of a smart contract deployed to RSK, how can I tell if it is an NFT or not? Is there a "standard" way to do this?

A: Yes there is a definitive way to do this,
if the smart contracts implement well-known token standards for NFTs,
which in turn implement the well-known EIP165 Standard Interface Definition.
(1) The easiest way to do this is to simply look up the address on the RSK block explorer.
If the smart contract address is 0x814eb350813c993df32044f862b800f91e0aaaf0, then go to
https://explorer.rsk.co/address/0x814eb350813c993df32044f862b800f91e0aaaf0
On this page, you will see a row for "Contract Interfaces",
and in the case of this smart contract,
displays ERC165 ERC721 ERC721Enumerable ERC721Metadata.
Since this contains ERC721, we know that it implements that token standard for non-fungible tokens.
(2) The more programmatic/ DIY way to do this is to use the function defined in the EIP165 standard, whose interface is copied below:
interface ERC165 {
    /// @notice Query if a contract implements an interface
    /// @param interfaceID The interface identifier, as specified in ERC-165
    /// @dev Interface identification is specified in ERC-165. This function
    ///  uses less than 30,000 gas.
    /// @return `true` if the contract implements `interfaceID` and
    ///  `interfaceID` is not 0xffffffff, `false` otherwise
    function supportsInterface(bytes4 interfaceID) external view returns (bool);
}

Without going too much into the math of how this is calculated,
(read the EIP-165 standard for the full description/ explanation)
if invoking  supportsInterface returns true, then you know
that that this smart contracts (claims to) implement that particular interface.

*

*If you wish to test if a particular smart contract implements the
"Non-Fungible Token Standard":

*

*call supportsInterface(0x80ac58cd)

*If you wish to test if a particular smart contract implements the
"Multi Token Standard",
which is presently the 2nd most popular NFT standard:

*

*call supportsInterface(0xd9b67a26)
(Note that while both of the above values are stated in their respective standards,
you may also wish to calculate them yourself, and the EIP-165 standard includes  section on how to do this.)

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San Francesco d'Assisi ("Saint Francis of Assisi") is a 16th-century-style church dedicated to Saint Francis of Assisi, located in Alcamo, province of Trapani, Sicily, southern Italy.

History
Though according to the historiographic tradition the church had been built between the years 1224 and 1226 by the Blessed Angelo Tancredi of Rieti, one of Saint Francis' fellows, the document of the church's acquisition by the Sicilian province, sealed by Pope Clement VI, dates back to 1348.

Between 1379 and 1380 it was reconstructed.

Since the 16th century, Saint Francis' church gave the name to one of the oldest quarters in Alcamo, together with the other three of San Giacomo de Spada, San Calogero and Maggiore Chiesa.

The church was rebuilt for the second time between 1608 and 1648: in this period it was first demolished and later rebuilt, then it was enlarged and embellished in 1716.
After the 1968 Belice earthquake, in order to repair the damages suffered by the Church and the convent, there was another restoration which lasted from 1975 to 1976.

The Conventual Franciscans
The Conventual Franciscans were in Alcamo from 1348 to 1866 and came back in 1962.
Thanks to a decree of Pope Innocent III dated 1250, they called Conventual the Franciscan Fathers who observed a less rigid Rule of Saint Francis and wore a brown sack and shoes instead of sandals.
The friary, which in 1612 expanded to the part of Corso 6 Aprile adjoining the Church and north of it, was rebuilt where it is placed now.

In 1866 it was confiscated by the municipality and became the residence of the Boarding School for the Young Artisans in 1871, then the Carabinieri's Post and in 1946–47 the junior school "Nino Navarra"; later these premises were used by a Vocational School of Agriculture, and today they host a unit of the primary school  "Luigi Pirandello".
When the Franciscan Fathers came back in 1962 they were assigned the Church, which became a Parish in 1969, and some rooms.

Description
The church is with a nave with a barrel vault and a side chapel dedicated to the Immaculate Conception. The adjoining bell tower and the main portal are the only parts which have remained unaltered as to the original project.
Next to the Church there are the Franciscan cloister and the Immacolata Brotherhood's Oratory, founded in 1596 and formed by  "respectful people", "teachers and priests".

Works
Works in the church include:
 St Francis of Assisi asking for the Indulgence of Porziuncola (1677) main altarpiece by Andrea Carrera.
 First left altar: marble ancona called "Madonna with the Child", probable work of Giacomo Gagini (1568)
 Second left altar: Purity, a wooden statue by an unknown author
 Third left altar: saint Francis of Assisi, wooden statue made by Giuseppe Ospedale in 1933
 Fourth left altar: Saint Mark, a white marble statue by Antonello Gagini (1520).
 Fifth left altar: the wooden Crucifix of the "Very Precious Blood" (by an unknown 17th century author) with an oval painting below it and representing Our Lady of Sorrows, assigned to Giuseppe Renda from Alcamo.
 On the right side of the apse: a 17th-century painting with the Virgin of Mercy talking to a cardinal with a group of black people around him
 First right altar (after the Chapel of the Immaculate Conception): a bronze statue of Saint Maximilian Kolbe
 Second right altar: St Anthony of Padua, a wooden statue by an unknown author
 Third right altar: a painting dedicated to Madonna della Salute, made by , a priest, in 1942
 Fourth right altar: a marble statue of Mary Magdalen carved by Antonello Gagini in 1520; below it there is the coat of arms of the Scalisi family, which got it to be realized. At first it was placed inside a chapel on the right, entering the church, where they built the chapel of the Immaculate, then it was moved.

Besides, high on the nave's walls, there are four paintings: two of them represent saint Francis and two saint Clara and saint Bonaventura.
Inside the friary there are two oval paintings with Ecce Homo and Our Lady of Sorrows, probable work of the 18th century.

In the Immacolata's chapel there is a painting of the Immaculate, made by  in 1610 and restored in 1980. In the same chapel until 1884 there were 34 pictures of saints, which had been added in 1613 thanks to the Confraternity of Immacolata Concezione's brothers, who had their names written on them. In a niche of the chapel there is also the wooden statue of Immaculate Conception, carved in 1695 by Ignazio Ingrassia, a wood-carver from Trapani.

The chapel is also home to four paintings realized by Rosalino la Mattina, representing the most important moments of the Virgin's Conception and a marble altar made in 1951 by Giovan Battista Di Girolamo from Castellammare del Golfo.

Inside the Confraternity's oratory there is a painting of Saint Benedict Joseph Labre realized in 1888 by Nicolò Pizzitola, a painter from Alcamo.

See also

 Alcamo
 Compagnia dell'Immacolata Concezione
 Order of Friars Minor
 Order of Friars Minor Conventual

References

Sources

Saint Francis of Assisi

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HomeLatest News & PoliticsI am coming to Nigeria – Nnamdi Kanu
I am coming to Nigeria – Nnamdi Kanu
February 21, 2019 Yomie Latest News & Politics, Today's Trending.... 2
The leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu has said the postponed presidential election for Saturday may not hold.
The IPOB Leader said this on Wednesday night in a live broadcast.
Describing election as 'sham', Kanu said Saturday polls may not hold because 'Jubril of Sudan' will be chased out of Nigeria.
Kanu lamenting about killings of Igbos spearheaded by some South east governors, further revealed that he is coming back to Nigeria soon.
He said: "There's no government in the world that doesn't know about IPOB and fortunately I met most of them, we don't publish all on social media.
"All these saboteurs you see online don't exist. Check their profile and you'll understand they're fake. Just ignore them.
"I'm coming to Nigeria, in power and glory. I'm coming fully prepared, whatever Nigerian government wants, we will do it there.
"We called for boycott of the Zoo. Nigeria was vibrating, we called it off they ran astray. That's how powerful IPOB is.
"No amount of intimidation, arrest, killings will stop us from marching.
"Im not sure that their Sham election will hold on Saturday 23rd Feb; because Jubril will be chased back to Sudan, then you will know that Buhari is dead.
"There is no way Jubril can survive an election in this zoo."
Further lamenting on Killings of IPOB members, Kanu called out Governor Willie Obiano of Anambra state, blaming him for orchestrating the genocide.
"As I am speaking now, IPOB members are being parked and taken to DSS custody in Abuja, masterminded by Obiano and others.
"Now that Obiano, Okezie Ikpeazu and other Igbo governors are hunting down and killing IPOB members, everyone is keeping quite.
But any day we decide to retaliate, everyone will start talking rubbish."
Buhari declares Friday public holiday
INEC reveals what will stop Saturday election
Buhari behind Nigeria's election postponement – Atiku
The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, has said that the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has only made the defeat of President Muhammadu Buhari and the All Progressives Congress, […]
Fayose alleges INEC, APC, and some members of PDP rigged Ondo elections
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Ekiti State Governor, Mr Ayodele Fayose has alleged that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) connived with the All Progressives Congress (APC) and some members in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to rig the Saturday's […]
Ekiti governor-elect, Fayemi given certificate of return by INEC
The Governor-Elect of Ekiti State, Dr. Kayode Fayemi has been given a certificate of return by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC. His deputy, Chief Bisi Egbeyemi, also received his Certificate of Return at the […]
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Piri piri also spelled peri peri or pili pili, also called African bird's eye chili, is a cultivar of Capsicum chinense, one of the sources of chili pepper that grows both wild and domesticated. It is a small member of the Capsicum genus.
Clean, wash and fry portions and place in sprayed oven dishes (easier to clean) and drizzle with olive oil and let stand while making your marinade.
Whizz all the marinade ingredients EXCEPT the bay leaves, using a food processor or blending stick.
Transfer to a pot, add the bay leaves and boil on medium heat for about 15 minutes, stirring occasionally.
Pour the hot marinade over the chicken.
Bake (cook) for approximately 1½ hours – check to see that the chicken doesn't dry out and you have more than enough sauce to keep basting and to use as a gravy.
This is really very simple.
Do your rice as you normally would and just add, according to how much rice, some brown onion soup powder. Let it all boil together.
This gives it the salty, onion taste so no need to add extra salt unless you like it very salty.
An alternative also is to add sliced mushrooms into it. Stunning.
These we only really do on Rosh Hashanah as they take ages to soften.
Place margarine, carrots and the orange juice into a decent size pot and bring to a boil.
Keep watching as the carrots will develop their own water.
Make sure they don't burn.
When carrots have started getting really nice and soft – not too soft, add your syrup.
This depends on how sweet you want it so I don't give quantities.
Just keep tasting but the whole idea is to have them glazed in the syrup and sweetened by it.
It is a very long process but worth it in the end.


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Best Value Cities 2011: 1. Omaha, Neb.
A hot business climate, cool amenities and cheap-and-easy living earn Omaha our top spot.
By Bob Frick, Senior Editor
Omaha? Omaha natives are sick of the question mark. And given the work this vibrant prairie town has done revitalizing itself over the past ten years, its low cost of living and its remarkably low unemployment rate, we're naming it our top Great Value City for 2011, without question.
Money has never been an issue. This city of less than a half-million people is home to five Fortune 500 companies and arguably more millionaires per capita than any other U.S. metro area, thanks in part to native son Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway. What the city needed was to revamp its downtown and waterfront, and create economic room for a fresh generation of entrepreneurs, who had been fleeing Omaha like it was Egypt during the exodus. And so the city set to work, rallying the big money to reclaim moribund blocks sucked of life by migration to the suburbs. New businesses such as Paypal moved to the area to take advantage of vast, cheap broadband access and the vaunted midwestern work ethic.
"Self-serving" cliques of business interests are yielding to more cooperative networks that nurture innovation and spur business creation, says Mark Hasebroock, a venture capitalist and Omaha native. Such networks play a key role in many places renowned for their business vitality and job-creation prowess, such as Austin, Tex., and Silicon Valley, Cal. Many organizations have signed on to help develop business networks, from the Greater Omaha Economic Development Partnership to others at the grass-roots level.
Silicon Prairie News is one of the key players. It started as a blog and has evolved into an online news source for entrepreneurs, not just in Omaha but also in Des Moines, Iowa, and Kansas City, Mo., and so is helping to develop a powerful regional network.
Omaha, of course, has its problems. Chief among them is the area known as North Omaha, which once was dependent on a thriving meat-packing industry. When the plants moved out 50 years ago the community was left with high unemployment -- and now with a high crime rate. City leaders, including mayor Jim Suttle, promise that bringing businesses to North Omaha has now, finally, become a priority for the city.
Still, Omaha as a whole has impressive economic momentum. The question "Omaha?" has yielded to another question: "Why not here?" Hasebroock says. A generation of young Omaha professionals who have chosen to stay or return to take advantage of new opportunities agree.
Why It's Affordable
Cheap tickets, free movies and concerts, and really reasonable housing.
Omahans insist on value. And when it comes to housing, they get it. A brand-new, 3,800-square-foot home with four bedrooms and three baths in a western suburb (still just 20 minutes from downtown) runs $275,000, for example. But a lot of amenities -- especially in the arts -- are cheap or just plain free. Consider free Jazz on the Green at the new Midtown Crossing condo/retail development and free movies at the Holland Performing Arts Center. Tickets at the center, by the way, are subsidized by corporate and philanthropic donors. That's one reason you'll pay $25 for a seat at a Broadway-quality show that would cost four times as much in a big city. Oh, and the huge annual rock concert at Memorial Park: free.
Why It's Fun
True, Omaha's architecture is kind of boxy and glitz-free, as suits midwestern sensibilities. And that includes the Holland Performing Arts Center, arguably the centerpiece of the city's rich arts scene. But inside, the Holland is a sleek, acoustic marvel. And it's balanced by the ornate, circa-1920s Orpheum Theater just a few blocks away. Both are packed with everything from Broadway shows and ballet to zydeco, funk and jazz.
Omaha is also rich with entertainment away from its big venues, from community theaters to small clubs. Local label Saddle Creek Records has morphed to include live rock/indie music venue Slowdown in a development that includes shops, restaurants and apartments. The epicenter of nightlife has become the Old Market district, a complex of former warehouses sliced into restaurants, bars (try the IPA at brewpub Upstream Brewing Co.) and upscale shops. Sophisticated dining spots have sprouted in recent years, with the arrival of top restaurants such as The Grey Plume, a locavore haven owned by 25-year-old wunderkind chef and Omaha native Clayton Chapman (try the fries cooked in duck fat). Plus, Omaha's zoo is world-class.