C O-PREMIER Prince Norodom Ranariddh's call for local technocrats to investigate the possibility of a Cambodian stock exchange is, according to some in financial advisory circles, a little premature.
"You can't be serious," said one Western analyst when asked what problems might yet have to be overcome.
"There is no infrastructure, no relevant laws, most of the companies that might be big enough aren't even privatized yet, let alone being able to be listed on a stock exchange.
"Vietnam is only now considering a stock exchange and that economy is vibrant and robust compared to this, and even the Vietnamese are still looking at 18 months down the track. Cambodia should look to get a half-way decent commodities exchange first."
Sok Hach, an adviser at the Ministry of Economy and Finance, confirmed Prince Ranariddh had asked for a stock exchange study to be done. He said though it was a good idea, there were "many, many things to do first."
There had to be a code of commerce and an accounting law, "then we have to have private companies in Cambodia" and laws and regulations for those, he said.
When asked if there were any companies that might be able to list on a new stock exchange, Sok Hach said "that might be a little too soon."
Cambodian companies do not yet compile and produce end-of-year annual accounts. Therefore indicators such as profitability, reserves, income, expenditure, stockholding, trading and worth could not be known.
Former Finance Minister Sam Rainsy had decreed that for the first time companies should report their 1994 result in annual accounts early next year. Sok Hach said new minister Keat Chhon was likely to continue that policy.
Under Cambodia's economic restructuring program with the International Monetary Fund, the government's 100 or so state-owned enterprises(SOEs) should be privatized by 1996.
The country's real potential wealth and candidates for listing under some future stock exchange lie among them.
For instance, the Public Works ministry has 14 SOEs, employing 2,262 people. Included are Phnom Penh Construction and Kampong Cham Construction.
5,388 people are employed by nine SOEs in transportation, including 2,308 in the railways.
The Agriculture Ministry is one of the biggest employers, having 17,390 workers and the lucrative rubber plantations in its portfolio.
Possibly the wealthiest SOEs might come from the Ministry of Commerce.
Potential private companies include CKC, which imports and exports fuel; Kampexim, which trades rubber; and other large trading companies in food, agriculture and forestry.
At present, there might only be few private companies - perhaps in hotels, cigarette manufacture and the food industry - sophisticated enough to consider public trading, sources say.
Sok Hach said while a stock exchange was a very good idea, many things would have to be sorted out over the next two years and foreign help and expertise was vital.
Another Western analyst said that Cambodia did seem to be committed to the idea of a stock exchange, but it was unlikely to be realized for between eight to 10 years.
"They need to prove political stability first, then solve their security problems," he said.
Only after that could Cambodia look to begin the lengthy processes that would eventually lead to a stock exchange, he said.
"There will have to be at least two years of 'good news' coming out of Cambodia before any trading confidence from foreign businesses is engendered," he said.


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Apple Photos: An Under-Appreciated Post-Processing Software Powerhouse
A Post By: Simon Ringsmuth
As the market for digital cameras has intensified in recent years, the options available for post-processing software has exploded as well. There are dozens of great options for casual, enthusiast, and professional image-makers who are looking to get the most out of their images.
Programs like Lightroom, Luminar, CaptureOne, Affinity Photo, GIMP, DarkTable, and AfterShotPro, are all highly capable photo editors. It can be a daunting proposition to try and pick one that's right for you.
Fortunately for Mac users, there is a fantastic option already available to you for free sitting right on your own computer. Apple Photos is a program you might have overlooked in the past, but with steady improvements over the years, it is now a serious contender when it comes to post-processing your pictures.
The story of Apple Photos starts in 2002 with Apple's late CEO Steve Jobs introducing an all-in-one program to let users catalog, edit, and share their digital pictures. This new software called iPhoto was revolutionary at the time, giving casual users a way to manage all their digital imaging assets in a way that was fast, simple, and easy to understand.
I used iPhoto from the first version that was released and even now it's kind of amazing how well that initial offering worked, though it was clearly lacking many features we take for granted today. A few years later Apple waded into the professional photo editing market with Aperture, a program that was like iPhoto on steroids and was seen as a direct competitor to Adobe Lightroom.
Merger of Aperture and iPhoto
As the decade wore on and Apple saw how much people were using their mobile phones for taking and editing pictures it decided to kill off Aperture and iPhoto and replace them with a single program called Photos. This new application offered users a way to manage, edit, and share their photos much in the same way iPhoto and Aperture functioned, but also gave people the ability to sync their photo collections and even individual photo edits across all their devices.
With Photos, it was possible to crop a picture on your iPhone and then have that same cropped version of the picture show up on your Apple desktop a few seconds later – a syncing nightmare that was virtually impossible using the panoply of programs previously available from Apple.
Evolution of Photos
One significant tradeoff when consolidating apps and enabling cross-device editing with Apple Photos was a lean feature set that, compared to Aperture, was downright anemic and even came up short when compared to iPhoto. Photographers hopeful for a fresh new program with all of their favorite features were dismayed and abandoned Apple Photos in droves only to rush headlong into the welcoming arms of Adobe, Macphun (now called Skylum), Corel, and other developers.
However over time, Apple has delivered on its promise to improve Photos and with each iteration, the program becomes more capable, not to mention speedier, than ever before. It can now hold its own against many of the other post-processing software options available on the market. It's safe to say that if you haven't used Apple Photos in a while you might be surprised at how good the current version is, and if you have never even tried the program you are in for a real treat.
Photo management simplified
The core principle of Apple Photos has always been simplicity. Even back to the original days of iPhoto, Apple's philosophy has been to make their image-editing programs as easy to use as possible. I can personally attest to this with my dad as an example.
He is a retired railroad mechanic who prefers working on small engines in his garage instead of tinkering on the computer. But he is perfectly capable of connecting his Canon Rebel T4i to his Mac, offloading his images into Photos, and post-processing them using the tools provided. Underlying that simplicity is a powerful set of editing tools that started out all too basic but have grown to be quite competent over time.
One library
The Photos app is built around the concept of a unified photo library, such that any photos you take on your phone automatically sync with your computer and vice versa. Because of that, the interface looks much the same whether you're on a desktop, laptop, iPad, or iPhone.
Your pictures aren't stored in the cloud per se, but Apple does use its cloud-based infrastructure to sync all your pictures while keeping the actual image files stored on your individual devices. To enable this all you have to do is click a checkbox in Apple Photos on your desktop and flip a slider on your iPhone and the program will take care of the rest.
Photos organizes your images based on time data and does its best to group pictures into what it calls Events based on time and location data. Scroll through your library and you will see images grouped by categories such as People, Places, Favorites, and Memories as well as Albums which are collections of photos that you create manually or automatically using metadata (i.e. all photos with the keyword "Vacation" and "Kansas".)
Unlike Google Photos and some other cloud-based services, none of your images are analyzed by Apple for the purpose of gathering data that can be used in advertising. A boon to privacy advocates and others who just want to keep other companies away from their pictures.
Sorting and viewing images
However, some degree of machine learning is present in Photos, as the software attempts to group your images automatically with Memories based on time and location data. It also automatically looks for faces which it uses to populate the People category.
If you have ever scrolled through your near-endless Lightroom Library you might be surprised at how well Photos handles the presentation element of photo management. You can use the options buttons at the top of the screen to organize your images by Photos, Moments, Collections, or Years. All your images are available in each view, but the Photos app groups them dynamically so as you scroll up and down you will see them grouped together in specific ways. If you click Moments your images are grouped almost like day-to-day activities, whereas Collections shows photos in larger groups and Years literally displays an entire year's worth of images at once.
Grouping options for how to display your thumbnails – Moments, Collections or Years (shown here).
All this is fairly simple and intuitive, and if you have a trackpad on your Mac you can mimic the pinch-to-zoom feature found on iPhone and iPad devices to zoom in and out of your entire photo library. Longtime Lightroom users will note several deficiencies in this design methodology, though, and a host of missing features like Compare, Survey, and fine-grained sorting criteria not to mention Lightroom's far superior Library Filter.
This illustrates the point that Apple Photos is not intended to be a full-on replacement for Lightroom. Nevertheless, it can be a good starting point for amateurs or even enthusiasts looking to get a little more control over their image organization.
Powerful post-processing editing features
Image management is one thing, but post-processing or editing is a whole other matter entirely. Unfortunately, this is where Apple Photos has traditionally fallen flat. The first version of Photos had an editing feature set that was positively anemic and downright infuriating to longtime users of Aperture. They felt they had been hung out to dry by Apple, and it was not even worth comparing to programs like Lightroom, Photoshop, and others.
But like the fabled tortoise racing against the hare, Apple has steadily injected an ever-growing list of editing tools into Photos. It's now not only competent but worth considering for anyone who wants to dive deeper into more professional-style editing.
Basic and advanced tools
Select a photo and click the Edit button to open up a cornucopia of editing tools. They cover all the basic options you would expect to find in any prominent image editor and even a few surprises. Of course, you can perform basic edits like Crop, Red Eye Removal, and White Balance and if that's all you want then you're good to go.
There are also highly advanced tools like RGB Levels and RGB Curves in which individual color channels can be edited, Selective Color that lets you adjust Hue, Saturation, and Lightness for Red, Yellow, Green, Cyan, Blue, and Magenta colors. Also present is a Noise Reduction option that allows for Luminance and Color noise, and even a Lightness tool with the freedom to adjust seven different parameters including Exposure, Brilliance, Highlights, Shadows, and Contrast.
Apple Photos also has a nice array of filters. They work just like those in Instagram or other programs like Luminar, with one-click presets such as Vivid, Dramatic, Mono, Noir, and more. Add to this a pretty good auto-enhance option and the ability to undo edits one at a time or revert to the original with one click, and you can see how this program might be worth a second look. I remember using it when it first launched and was immediately put off by its overly-simplistic workflow and lack of features. But now I would honestly recommend it to anyone who is considering buying a subscription to Lightroom or investing in any other image editing post-processing software options on the market.
Apple Photos is not perfect, but it could suit your needs better than you might realize. The best part is it's absolutely free if you own a Mac computer, iPhone, or iPad. There's something special about editing a picture on your desktop, picking up your phone and seeing all your changes automatically synced, and then realizing it's all happening without any monthly fee or another type of additional payment.
All of this editing and organizational finesse comes with a rather large asterisk or two, as there are some significant drawbacks to Apple Photos that savvy photographers need to be aware of.
The most important is that this is an Apple-only program, so if you use Windows or Linux you're out of luck. The mobile version is firmly ensconced in Apple's infamous walled garden which means it never has been, and never will be, available for Android phones.
Also despite the lack of a subscription model, if you want to take full advantage of the iCloud-based storage options you will need to shell out some cash for iCloud Drive. Apple only gives users a paltry 5GB for free. Fortunately, iCloud plans are quite reasonable, and I am perfectly happy with my 50GB plan that only costs 99 cents per month.
If you want to take full advantage of Photos' cloud-based options, you might want to purchase additional storage. Fortunately, this is optional and it's entirely up to you whether you want to do this, and how much storage to buy.
Finally, there are some notable features missing from Apple Photos that users of Lightroom, Luminar, and other apps will likely bemoan – and rightly so. There's no history panel, no brush adjustments, no radial or graduated filters, no way to share presets, no plugin architecture for third-party expandability, no way to sync edits across multiple photos, and the list goes on.
Even simply exporting a photo can be frustrating. You only have a few options available by default like sharing to online social media sites or setting an image as a desktop background. These can be customized albeit not nearly to the same level as many other programs. It's safe to say that if you want to give Apple Photos a chance it's best to keep your expectations in check.
Unless you want to post images directly to Facebook or Flickr, you might get a little frustrated with the default sharing options.
I hesitate to make a solid recommendation regarding Apple Photos because it really is dependent on the needs of each individual user. Other than to say a once low-end unimpressive program without much going for it has now been transformed to the point that I think it could really be useful for a lot of people.
While it's still not up to par with its Aperture ancestor and continues to lag behind a lot of other options on the market in terms of features and capability, it's a free, powerful, highly effective photo manager and editor that just might surprise and delight you if you give it a chance.
Simon Ringsmuth is an educational technology specialist at Oklahoma State University and enjoys sharing his enthusiasm for photography on his website and podcast at Weekly Fifty. He and his brother host a monthly podcast called Camera Dads where they discuss photography and fatherhood, and Simon also posts regularly to Instagram where you can follow him as @sringsmuth.
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Importance of Data Security and Ways to Prevent Privacy Breaches
Data is "the new oil" and organizations or businesses need to take the steps necessary to adequately protect it. What counts as adequate protection? That depends on the type of data being stored, whose data it is, and any relevant jurisdictions. In this post you will know about Preventing Credential Theft from Becoming a Breach.
Governments and international bodies have certainly been making an effort recently to improve enterprise data security. With new regulations like the European Union's General Data Privacy Regulation (GDPR) and the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), protection of personal data is in the spotlight, and the potential costs of a breach have risen significantly. A breach of GDPR-protected data can cost an organization 4% of global revenue, and an administrative error (like failing to keep proper records) can cost 2% of turnover even if no breach occurred.
When thinking about data breaches, most people picture something out of a spy thriller with hackers finding loopholes in an organization's network defenses and building a clever exploit to gain access. The reality is often a bit less sexy.
A major risk to enterprise security is their passwords. Hackers steal them in a variety of different ways, including phishing and hacking other organizations. Do you really think that your employees never use the same password for work also for personal purposes? Think again. A recent survey by LogMeIn found that 62% of people reuse passwords between personal and work accounts.
In other words, the most recent password leak could be the cause of your next data breach.
The Costs of Data Breaches
Data breaches are pretty common these days. It seems like a new breach is reported every week at the least, with many weeks featuring multiple large-scale breaches. Everyone thinks that "it won't happen to me", but when it does, it definitely costs them.
According to a study conducted by the Ponemon Institute, the average data breach costs an organization between $2.2 million and $6.9 million for breaches that aren't "headline-worthy" (<50,000 records) and $39.49 million for those that are (over a million records). The average cost of the breach is $148 per record. Think of the number of customers that you have. Multiply that by $148. Can your organization survive that? It's important to consider that this is only the measurable financial cost of the breach. Other potential costs are reputation, loss of customers, civil or criminal charges, and lost productivity.
Stolen Passwords and Credential Stuffing
As mentioned above, one of the biggest threats that an organization has to deal with is poor password management. People commonly use truly awful passwords (12345, qwerty, etc.) for multiple applications. This practice is what makes "credential stuffing" attacks so effective. Instead of devising some brilliant way of hacking past your firewall, a hacker will simply put together a list of potential usernames and passwords and start trying them. Lists of common passwords are available for free or for sale on both the open Internet and the Dark Web.
And usernames? Your organization probably has a standard format for generating them (first name last name or first initial followed by the last name are common favorites), which would be easily learned from any email address from your company. Even without knowledge of internal usernames, common defaults like admin and root are a good option to try. The Mirai botnet demonstrated that people don't change the default credentials on their smart devices and network appliances. Hackers use credential stuffing attacks because they work.
Protecting Against Stolen Credentials
A hacking attempt that uses stolen credentials has two stages: finding legitimate credentials and using them in an attack. For the first stage, there honestly isn't much that you can do to prevent it. Even if your organization has a good password policy that disallows any easily guessable passwords, it can't detect password reuse. If your employee reuses the same password on some other site, you'll never know until it's breached.
When protecting against attacks using stolen credentials, detection is where the money's at. You don't need to be impervious to an attack as long as you can figure out the holes in your defenses before a hacker can. One simple way to determine your vulnerability to credential stuffing attacks is to do what the hacker does: collect a big list of weak passwords and try them against your users' accounts. If you find a match, force a password reset, check their history for signs of anything suspicious (in case a hacker beat you to it), and sign them up for remedial training.
Another advantage that you have over an attacker is that authorized use is "normal" and unauthorized use typically isn't. If a user's account has multiple failed sign-in attempts? Probably worth looking into. If you're based in Boston and a user is trying to sign in from a European IP address? Might want to block that. Many security appliances can use machine learning to detect and block these types of attacks. And limits on failed password attempts before an account is locked are always a good idea.
Securing Your Sensitive Data
With the rise in new privacy regulations, the cost of a data breach can be significant. While brute-force password guessing attacks may not be super-complex, they're still effective and a significant threat to your organization's cybersecurity. Taking proactive steps to detect and prevent attacks from succeeding can mean the difference between lecturing a user on poor password hygiene and a major incident response operation.
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Australia is an optimum spot to create geothermal energy projects due to our geologically stable conditions and vast resources. This section is made to present visitors with a summary of the projects at the moment underway.
Turbines are readily available with either back-pressure (atmospheric) or condensing exhausts. Condensing systems are additional efficient but atmospheric exhaust turbine systems are easier and more affordable. In a condensing program the condensate is generally reinjected into the ground, not necessarily into the aquifer. In an atmospheric program exhaust steam may be released to the atmosphere or employed for other heating applications.
Geothermal power has been utilised for thousands of years in some nations for cooking and heating. It is basically power derived from the Earth's internal thermal power is contained in the rock and fluids beneath Earth's crust. It can be found from shallow ground to many miles under the surface, and even farther down to the really hot molten rock referred to as magma.
By 2014 much more than 80 nations applied geothermal energy either directly or in conjunction with GHPs, the leaders being the United States, China , Sweden, Japan, Turkey, and Iceland. The total worldwide installed capacity for direct use in 2010 was about 50,000 megawatts thermal (MWt) utilizing about 120,000 gigawatt-hours per year (432,000 terajoules per year), producing an annual utilization factor—the annual power developed by the plant (in megawatt-hours) divided by the installed capacity of the plant (in megawatts MW) multiplied by 8,760 hours—of 28 % in the heating mode.
Nesjavellir Geothermal Power PlantGretar Ívarsson kind of power conversion in which heat power from within Earth is captured and harnessed for cooking, bathing, space heating, electrical energy generation, and other makes use of.
Geothermal plants are somewhat capital-intensive, with low variable costs and no fuel expenses. Commonly financing is structured so that the project pays back its capital costs in the initially 15 years, delivering energy at 5-10¢/kWh. Costs then fall by 50-70 percent, to cover just operations and maintenance for the remaining 15-30 years that the facility operates (World Bank Group, 2004).
The production of electricity from geothermal power sources can be a extremely powerful and effective use, but the location is a key element for fantastic station geothermal power. There are only a handful of areas around the planet who can produce viable and efficient levels of electricity from geothermal energy sources. As a result, from 2007, less than 1% of planet electrical energy provide comes from geothermal sources.
Isotopes are types of an element that have a different number of neutron s than standard versions of the element's atom. Potassium, for instance, has 20 neutrons in its nucleus. Potassium-40, however, has 21 neutrons. As potassium-40 decays, its nucleus changes, emitting huge amounts of power (radiation). Potassium-40 most typically decays to isotopes of calcium (calcium-40) and argon (argon-40).


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Having natural light in the morning does a lot for your mood. It relaxes you, so you can take on the challenges of the day. Frameless glass shower doors let in a great deal more light than 'standard' shower doors, perfect for when you need a rejuvenating boost before work.
This isn't the only reason to install a glass shower door. There are four other benefits that these doors provide that enhance your bathroom and showering experience.
The rooms that sell a house are the kitchen and the bathroom. By having a frameless shower door installed, you enhance the overall look, and thus value, of your bathroom.
Although you wouldn't think it, frameless glass shower doors are tougher than their standard counterparts. The thickness of the glass means that it will last 3-4 times more than traditionally designed doors. There is also little to no metal used in its construction, which means corrosion won't be an issue.
Door frames allow dust to settle and mold to set in, but this isn't the case with smooth glass doors. You won't need professionals to clean your shower door, unless it needs an entire makeover. As already mentioned, there is little to no metal, meaning you won't have to worry about removing rust.
The simple design of a frameless glass door imparts a chic and stylish look to your bathroom. It also gives your bathroom the appearance of being more spacious, and spa-like. These doors come in different finishes—clear, frosted and patterned, so its look can be tailored to your aesthetic tastes.
If you're planning on revamping the style of your bathroom or shower, then consider installing a frameless glass shower door. The four benefits mentioned above make it an excellent investment.


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Cents & Sensibility, Inc. has developed a Business Continuity Plan on how we will respond to events that significantly disrupt our business. Since the timing and impact of disasters and disruptions are unpredictable, we will have to be flexible in responding to actual events as they occur. With that in mind, we are providing you with this information on our business continuity plan.
If after a significant business disruption you cannot contact us as you usually do at 925-225-1135 you should email us through this website at info@centsinc.net .
If you cannot access us through either of those means, you should contact our broker/dealer, Private Client Services at 800-966-9347 for processing any account related request, such as, but not limited to: prompt access to funds and securities, order entry, processing of other trade-related, cash or security transfer transactions or temporary address changes.
Our Business Continuity Plan- We plan to quickly recover and resume business operations after a significant business disruption and respond by safe guarding our employees and property, making a financial and operational assessment, protecting the firm's books and records, and allowing our customers to transact business. In short, our business continuity plan is designed to permit our firm to resume operations as quickly as possible, given the scope and severity of the significant business disruption.
Our business continuity plan addresses: data back up and recover; all mission critical systems; financial and operational assessments; alternative communications with customers, employees, and assuring our customers prompt access to their funds and securities if we are unable to continue our business.
Varying Disruptions- Significant business disruptions can vary in their scope, such as only our firm, a single building housing our firm, the business district where our firm is located, the city where we are located, or the whole region. Within each of these areas, the severity of the disruption can also vary from minimal to severe. In a disruption to only our firm or a building housing our firm, we will transfer our operations to local site when needed and expect to recover and resume business within 24-48 hours. In a disruption affecting our business district, city, or region, we will transfer our operations to a site outside of the affected area, and recover and resume operations shortly thereafter. In either situation, we plan to continue in business and notify you through this website: www.centsinc.net which will give updated instructions on how we can be notified. If the significant business disruption is so severe that it prevents us from remaining in business, we will assure our customer's prompt access to their funds and securities.
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It has been almost a year since Woody made the move to nearby Pennsylvania. In addition to working with me on the upcoming Baking Bible, a near full time job, and organizing the office and new baking kitchen resulting from my move to New Jersey, he has also followed one of his other great passions: music. He began by donating to the local public radio station WNTI which resulted in his being invited to be a guest DJ on a show. In the late summer, WNTI public radio holds a three day music festival, "WNTI Stage," along the Delaware River in northwestern New Jersey. The music fest is their major fund-raiser and to showcase various local and regional musical artists. I volunteered this summer to be on their "Street Team" to help promote the station and assist at various events. Melanie "Dawnbird" Thiel, the station's morning DJ and WNTI's Management/Development Director informed me that along with helping at the event, it would be great if I could bring some cakes for the backstage tent. Last June, I was able to be a guest DJ on her morning show, for which I also brought several treats from The Baking Bible. Food and beverages are provided by some of the vendors and volunteers at the music fest, but desserts are generally lacking. On the night before the first day of the fest, there was a meeting of the volunteers and WNTI staff to go over details and to enjoy some delicious pulled pork, roasted corn on the cob, and my offering--The Golden Lemon Almond Cake from Rose's Heavenly Cakes. My assignment was to be on the parking lot attendant crew, on which I volunteered to help out for two days. Friday's headliner was the Slambovian Circus of Dreams, a folk rock band that is a favorite of WNTI listeners. I was able to hear them from my parking lot post with my flashlight and flag in hands to direct cars. I made another favorite especially for them and the rest of the backstage seekers: The Deep Chocolate Passion frosted with Chocolate Ganache, also from Rose's Heavenly Cakes.
Saturday started off with WNTI's very own "9 of a Kind," consisting of several WNTI DJs and station volunteers. Covering a mix of rhythm and blues and classic rock with several great solo rifts, they had the dance floor in front of the stage filled with dancing fans. I brought another sheet cake, The Tropical Banana Cake, again from Rose's Heavenly Cakes, to offer another dessert to join the great spread of Italian dishes catered by the Belvidere Diner and killer sausages provided by Melanie Thiel. Then to the parking lot for my afternoon shift, at which Carol Lichtenbaum, Mrs. Winkerdoodles as she likes to be called, let me be the greeter to welcome the day's music lovers and direct them to the parking lot crew. After a few hours off which, of course, was over at Rose and Elliott's to work with Rose, I returned to give Carol a needed break from her greeting cars duty, and then to see the music festival's main headliner, Martin Crenshaw and his band. Martin Crenshaw was a very popular classic rock songwriter and performer in the 80's and 90's, and still records and has airplay on stations today. He and his band had the dance floor going non-stop to end the night with many memories. I had never had the chance to see him before and was glad that I could still experience him in person, singing with his distinctive voice and great guitar playing. On, Sunday, the music festival continued without my directing cars, as Rose and I had a full day of beginning the Perlis wedding cake preparation, a birthday cake for their grandson Owen, and, as always, addressing blog questions to research and answer.


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The Extortion is a common practice in the cyber criminal ecosystem
April 10, 2014 By Pierluigi Paganini
According principal security firms, extortion, ransom and blackmail are pillars of illicit activities, cyber criminals are adapting them to the cyber context.
Extrotion is becoming a worrying inclination in the cyber criminal ecosystem, the number of targeted attacks that request money in change of a suspension of the hostilities and to give back to the victims the abused resources is increasing in significant way. Ransomware and DDoS attacks are the most common forms of attack, victims are informed of ongoing activities and stressed by an incessant mafia-style extortion tactic that keep victims in hostage paralyzing their services or making inaccessible the user's data.
"It sounds exactly like something out of the 1920s and the extortion racket. Now it's being played out in cyberspace," this is a new form of racket like declared by Carl Herberger, vice president of security solutions at Radware.
The main problem is that in many cases the attacks could have a serious impact on the business, a DDoS attack knocks offline for hours or days a targeted website impacting on millions of users. Cyber extortion is not a new concept, it has been carried out at various levels and by different kind of actors, including small group of criminals and also international crime organization like the syndicate of crime like the Russian Business Network (RBN). The Russian Business Network has long been known for botnets such as Storm used extorting activities against hosting services. In DDoS attacks finalized to extortion the attackers flood victim's websites or web services knocking out them, of course the criminals then offer to block the attack in exchange for a fee.
Recently, many companies were hit by criminals for extortion, social networking site Meetup.com was one of them, the criminals requested to the company CEO $300 to arrest the attack against its servers. Another case is related to company who manage online project management software Basecamp, also in this case the attackers have opted for a DDoS extortion that shut down access to official website.
The experts suggest to don't pay any fee to avoid further requests from criminals, despite the alert of law enforcement many victims are paying to restore normality.
"What choice are companies left with that don't have a lot of resources or time?" "The number is fairly non-objectionable to the victim so they just pay it. They are trying to get the victim to run a cost-benefit analysis in their head." said Herberger.
Insurance groups are starting to seriously approach also the cyber extortion, they basically manage the cases that could harm their customer's business, causing loss of reputation and money.
The recent rise of ransomware has created serious problems to enterprises and government agencies, malware like CryptoLocker are specifically designed for cyber extortion purpose. A survey conducted at the revealed that 41% of UK respondents who were infected by Cryptolocker claimed to have agreed to pay the ransom, a figure much larger than official estimates provided by Symantec (3%) and by Dell SecureWorks (0.4%). The average amount per infection is $300.
"Ransomware attacks grew by 500 percent in 2013 and turned vicious" according 2014 Internet Security Threat Report (ISTR), which propose an analysis of the techniques adopted by cybercriminals to conduct sophisticated, as dangerous, cyberattacks.
Malware like CryptoDefense destroys the key if the ransom isn't paid within one month, for this reason victims are scared by this malicious code.
It's my opinion that attacks for extortion purpose will increase, I afraid that they could also impact high-sensitive environments, but what could be an element of innovation in the future strategies is the inclusion of the blackmail within the sources of income.
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Q: Number of distinct near-squares primes dividing an odd perfect number I'm curious about if the following question is in the literature or what work can be done about it.
Denote the number of distinct primes dividing an odd perfect number $N$ with the arithmetic function $\omega(N)$. Wikipedia has this section dedicated to near-square primes from the article Landau's problems.
Under the assumption that there exists an odd perfect number $N$, we denote the number of distinct  near-squares primes dividing $N$ as $\omega_{\text{nsp}}(N)$, thus $\omega_{\text{nsp}}(N)\leq \omega(N)$.
Here I add as general reference that a near-square prime is a prime number of the form $p=n^2+1$, that's the sequence A002496 from The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences.

Question. I would like to know if we can improve the previous lower bound and/or the upper bound, in this way $$\text{lower bound}<\omega_{\text{nsp}}(N)<\text{upper bound}\tag{1}$$
being these bounds functions of $N$, that's $\text{lower bound}=\text{lower bound}(N)$ and $\text{upper bound}$ denotes a function $\text{upper bound}(N)$. Many thanks.

I can to deduce obvious improvements for particular cases of Touchard's theorem, or when I consider Euler's theorem for odd perfect numbers. Also I know bounds for the radical of an odd perfect number, bounds for the Euler's totient function $\varphi(N)$, and I know the product formula representation for these arithmetic functions.

A: In general, very few prime factors in an odd perfect number can be of the form $n^2+1$.
In particular, if N is an odd perfect number then $\frac{\sigma(N)}{N}=2$, and for any $m$ (perfect or not), $\frac{\sigma(n)}{n} \leq \prod_{p|n}\frac{p}{p-1}$ with equality if and only if $n=1$.
Thus, for any perfect number, one needs $ \prod_{p|N}\frac{p}{p-1}>2$. However,
$$\prod_{p, p =i^2+1}\frac{p}{p-1} <   \prod_{i=1}^{\infty} \frac{(2i)^2+1}{(2i)^2}  < 1.4$$
So, only a small fraction of the primes can be of the form $n^2+1$. Turning this into a bound on $\omega(N)$ directly is going to be very difficult, because one cannot rule out that one has an odd perfect number with a few primes not of this form, and then a lot of very big primes of the form $n^2+1$ that contribute very little to the product.
Note that similar remarks would apply to almost any class of primes of the form $p=Q(n)$ for some polynomial $Q$. There's very little content here dealing with the fact that we're looking at $n^2+1$ at all.

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Q: File sharing broken after installing Security Update 2017-001 I've spent all day so far trying to resolve this. File sharing just doesn't work any more!
I am now fairly certain that installing Security Update 2017-001 for macOS High Sierra to fix the "root" vulnerability problem (see: https://www.imore.com/macos-has-root-bug), is the cause of my file sharing problem! C'mon Apple, where's your quality control!
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Abraxas expectata is a species of moth belonging to the family Geometridae. It was described by Warren in 1902. It is known from Australia.

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O Free State Project, sigla FSP, (Projeto Estado Livre) é um movimento político fundado em 2001, para conseguir, pelo menos, 20.000 propensos libertários para se mudarem para New Hampshire, com o intuito de tornar o estado um reduto das ideias libertárias.

Aqueles que se juntam ao Free State Project assinam uma declaração de intenção de mudar para New Hampshire no prazo de cinco anos do grupo, atingindo 20.000 participantes. Aqueles que se mudarem para New Hampshire antes da FSP atingir 20.000 participantes são referidos como "os pioneiros".

Em 14 de março de 2010, havia 10 mil participantes, dos quais 797 se mudaram para New Hampshire. O movimento alcançou uma vitória em 2006, quando um de seus participantes, Joel Winters, foi eleito para o New Hampshire General Court. Winters concorreu pelo Democratas. Em 2008, seis participantes foram eleitos para a Câmara dos Deputados de New Hampshire, incluindo Winters, de acordo com os participantes do grupo.

Vários participantes do projeto também pertencem à New Hampshire Liberty Alliance.

Missão e valores
O movimento se identifica como apoiadores do livre mercado e do federalismo constitucional. A missão, adotada em 2005, declara:

História
O Free State Project foi fundado em 2001 por Jason Sorens, um estudante de Ph.D. na Yale University. Sorens publicou um artigo na The Libertarian Enterprise destacando a falha dos libertários em eleger um candidato para cargos federais e delineando suas ideias de um movimento de secessão, além de convidar as pessoas a responderem se estivessem interessadas. O movimento tem, desde então, enfatizado com menos força o secessionismo. Sorens inclusive escreveu uma nota para este efeito no jornal, em 2004. Sorens afirmou que o movimento continua uma tradição americana, de política de migração, que inclui grupos como os colonos Mórmon em Utah e a comunidades religiosa Amish.

O grupo começou sem um estado específico em mente. Uma revisão sistemática foi iniciada para definir os estados alvo em potencial, aqueles com população inferior a 1,5 milhões, e onde os gastos combinados, em 2000, pelos partidos Democrata e Republicano tivesse sido inferior a US$ 5,2 milhões, o gasto total nacional do Libertarian Party naquele ano. Hawaii e Rhode Island foram eliminados por serem propensos a governos centralizados.

A votação, em Setembro de 2003, foi realizada para escolher um estado para concentrar os esforços do movimento. A cédula usou o método de Condorcet para escolher o estado de destino. New Hampshire foi o vencedor, com Wyoming vindo em segundo. Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Vermont, e as Dakotas também estiveram na lista.

O estado de New Hampshire foi escolhido porque a cultura individualista de New Hampshire ressoa bem com ideais libertários. O movimento, entretanto, recebeu diversas críticas dos moradores de New Hampshire, a maioria democratas e aqueles em cidades com problemas de gastos, preocupados com a pressão da população e da oposição ao aumento de impostos. Republicanos, por outro lado, reagiram de forma mais favorável ao projeto, por causa do apoio ao governo mínimo.

Crítica
Pam Martens, uma escritora free-lance para CounterPunch.org, afirma que a formação da organização foi em grande parte devido a uma agenda corporativa para aumentar os lucros das empresas, limitando a regulação governamental. Vários participantes do FSP criticaram seus artigos como totalmente imprecisos e mal pesquisados. Afirmam que o antagonismo de Martens deriva de uma disputa pessoal com um de seus vizinhos, um participante do Free State Project.

Veja também
Secessão
Free West Alliance
Free State Wyoming
Paulville, Texas

Referências

Links externos
 Site do Free State Project
 NHfree.com
 New Hampshire Liberty Alliance
 A Candid World, um documentário sobre o FSP
 Artigos do Free State Project na wiki FTL

Migrações humanas
Nova Hampshire
Organizações dos Estados Unidos
Libertarismo


American voters support 63 – 30 percent a Democratic proposal to reopen parts of the government that do not involve border security while negotiating funding for the Wall, according to a Quinnipiac University National Poll released today. Every party, gender, education, age and racial group supports this idea except Republicans, who are opposed 52 – 39 percent.
Voters oppose 63 – 32 percent shutting down the government to force funding for the Wall, the independent Quinnipiac (KWIN-uh-pe-ack) University National Poll finds. Again, Republicans are the only listed group supporting the shutdown, 67 – 24 percent.
The GOP is losing the battle as 56 percent of American voters say President Donald Trump and Republicans in Congress are responsible for the shutdown, while 36 percent say Democrats are responsible.
Voters remain solidly opposed to a wall on the Mexican border, 55 – 43 percent, and reject every argument for the Wall. The 55 – 43 percent opposition compares to 54 – 43 percent opposition in a December 18 survey, just before the partial government shutdown.
? 52 percent say the wall is against American values as 41 percent say the wall is consistent with American values.
There is a security crisis along the Mexican border, American voters say 54 – 43 percent, and voters say 68 – 26 percent there is a humanitarian crisis.
"'Mr. President, it's on you,' voters say about the government shutdown, blaming President Donald Trump and Congressional Republicans more than Democrats," said Tim Malloy, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Poll.
"And while they believe there is both a humanitarian and a security crisis along the southern border, they absolutely don't think a wall will solve the problem," Malloy added.
American voters support 61 – 32 percent a bill to fund new border security measures without funding the Wall. Republicans are the only listed group opposed to this idea, 57 – 36 percent.
American voters believed Pelosi/Schumer more than Trump 46 – 36 percent, including 48 – 33 percent among independent voters.
Only 2 percent of voters say the TV address changed their mind, while 89 percent say it did not change their mind about building the Wall.
"When it comes to the televised arguments for and against the need for a border wall, President Donald Trump flunks the fact meter, but House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer don't fare much better," Malloy said.
Voters disapprove 65 – 32 percent of President Trump using emergency executive powers to fund the Wall.
By a narrow 49 – 44 percent American voters trust Democrats in Congress more than Trump on the issue of border security.
Voters say 63 – 29 percent that undocumented immigrants are not more likely than American citizens to commit crimes.
American voters say 73 – 16 percent, including 57 – 28 percent among Republicans, that immigration is good for the country.
From January 9 – 13, Quinnipiac University surveyed 1,209 voters nationwide with a margin of error of +/- 3.3 percentage points, including the design effect.


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Q: Which method of password storage is more secure Which is the more secure method of storing passwords?  I lack the mathematical background to determine the answer myself.
Let's please for the sake of argument assume that all passwords and usernames generated for each of the following methods are randomly generated 6 characters known to be exactly six alpha-humeric-special-character fields and that each are using the same hashing algorithm and the same number of passes.

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*The standard way. UserName stored in plain text and only the password is to be discovered. Hash(PlaintextPassword + UniqueRecordSalt) = Password stored in DB.

*One field recognized as LoginInfo = Hash(Encryption(UserName, Password) + Shared Salt). Neither the UserName nor the Password are ever stored in any other format EVER.
Does the forced cross attempting of username/password combinations offset the weakness of a shared salt as opposed to a unique record salt? This is of course completely IGNORING all affects on usability and focusing entirely on security.
Can anyone point me to any software to help me answer this question myself since I lack the cryptography and mathematical knowledge to arrive at the answer myself?
Please feel free to move this to a more appropriate forum.  I didn't know where else to put it.  However, I don't feel that it is a topic irrelevant to programmers overall doing their everyday job.

A: As you say option 1 is the standard way to store passwords. As long as you use a secure hash function (eg. NIST recommend PBKDF2) with a unique salt, your passwords are secure. So I would recommend this option.
Option 2 doesn't really make sense. You cant 'undo' a hash function, so why encrypt its contents? You would then also have to store the encryption key somewhere which is different issue entirely.
Also what do you mean by a shared salt? If you always use the same salt then that defeats the point of salting your hashes. A unique salt per row is the way to go.
I would say that combining the username and password into a single hash is overcomplicating things, and limits your options in development, since you can't get a row from the DB given a username.
Say you want to lock out a user after 5 incorrect password attempts. With a standard plain-text username and hashed pw, you can just have a 'login_attempt_count' column and update the row for that user each time their password is incorrectly entered.
If your username and passwords are hashed together, you have no way of identifying which row to update with a login attempt count, since a hashed correct username with a wrong password wont match any hash.
I guess you could have some kind of mapping function to get a row_id given a username, but I would say its just needlessly complicated, and with greater complication you have a bigger chance of security flaws.
As I said, I would just go with option 1. It's the industry standard way to store passwords, and its secure enough for pretty much any application (as long as you use a modern secure hash function).

A: Please read How to securely hash passwords? first.  To summarize:

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*Never use a single pass of any hashing algorithm.

*Never roll your own, which is what your example 2 is (and example 1 as well, if + means concatenation).

*Username stored in the clear

*Salt generated per user, 8-16 random bytes, stored in the clear

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*in pure binary or encoded into Base64 or hex or whatever you like.

*Use BCrypt, SCrypt, or PBKDF2

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*Until some time after the results of the Password Hashing Competition, at least.

*Use as high an work factor/cost/iteration count as your CPU's can handle during expected future peak times.

*For PBKDF2 in particular, do not ask for more binary output bytes than the native hash produces.  I would say not less than 20 binary bytes, regardless.

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*SHA-1: output = 20 bytes (40 hex digits)

*SHA-224: 20 bytes <= output <= 28 bytes (56 hex digits)

*SHA-256: 20 bytes <= output <= 32 bytes (64 hex digits)

*SHA-384: 20 bytes <= output <= 48 bytes (96 hex digits)

*SHA-512: 20 bytes <= output <= 64 bytes (128 hex digits)

*For PBKDF2 in particular, SHA-384 and SHA-512 have a comparative advantage on 64-bit systems for the moment, as 2014 vintage GPU's many attackers will use have a smaller margin of advantage for 64-bit operations over your defensive CPU's than they would on 32-bit operations.

If you want an example, then perhaps look at PHP source code, in particular the password_hash() and password_verify() functions, per the PHP.net Password Hashing FAQ.
Alternately, I have a variety of (currently very crude) password hashing examples at my github repositories.  Right now it's almost entirely PBKDF2, but I will be adding BCrypt, SCrypt, and so on in the future.


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Joo Named Senior Associate Dean of Medical Education at UCR SOM
Author: UCR SOM Staff
Pablo Joo, M.D.
Pablo Joo, M.D. has been named the new senior associate dean for medical education at the UC Riverside School of Medicine following a national search. The appointment was effective on Nov. 7, 2022.
Joo joined the UCR SOM as associate dean for clinical medical education and professor in the Department of Family Medicine in February 2021, having previously served in several education leadership roles at Albert Einstein College of Medicine. In addition, he has served as interim senior associate dean for medical education since February 2022.
"In both of these roles, he has demonstrated exceptional leadership in our LCME preparations, in improving relationships with affiliates and re-organizing clerkships and in many other areas critical to our education mission," said Vice Chancellor for Health Sciences and Mark and Pam Rubin Dean Deborah Deas, M.D., M.P.H. "Pablo has dedicated much of his career to medical education and to serving the underserved. I am certain that his strong alignment with our mission combined with his vision to advance medical education at the SOM will allow us to continue to strive for excellence."
Deas expressed her gratitude to Professor of Biomedical Sciences Monica Carson, who chaired the search committee, and to "all of the faculty, staff and students who participated and provided feedback on this search."
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Five Big Name Wide Receivers that could be available this offseason
Could the Bears find themselves a new WR1?
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It's no secret, Justin Fields needs more people to throw to. I think many of us hoped that Darnell Mooney and Chase Claypool wouldn't really be a WR1/WR2 combo, but perhaps they could become a WR1.5/WR1.5 combo, and even if they didn't have an elite target for Fields, they would have two very good ones.
With every offseason comes wide receiver drama. This offseason should be no different. Over the last couple of years, there are wide receivers that everybody assumed wouldn't be on the move, but suddenly Tyreek Hill is on the Miami Dolphins, and Davante Adams is on the Las Vegas Raiders.
Who could be those types of wide receivers on the move this offseason? Here are five receivers that teams could be looking to move.
Hopkins is the most obvious one on this list. With a new GM and coach in Arizona, they may want to go another direction in 2023 than try to placate a 31-year-old receiver coming off a PED suspension.
Hopkins has two years left on his deal. The compensation that Arizona receives will probably depend on how much money the acquiring team is willing to absorb. Obviously, the Chicago Bears have significant cap space and could absorb most or all of his contract and push the compensation down to perhaps as low as a fourth-round pick.
Acquiring Hopkins absolutely comes with risk, but he's a dynamic target that Fields could really utilize on those 3rd and 8s when you just need a receiver that can go get the ball and keep the chains moving.
Tee Higgins
The Cincinnati Bengals will have some decisions to make with Higgins. They have already said they are prioritizing a contract extension for Joe Burrow this offseason, and they absolutely should do that. Higgins is also available for a contract extension this offseason, and as a second-round pick, there is no fifth-round option to utilize, which means Higgins could be an unrestricted free agent after 2023.
The Bengals are also going to have to make Ja'Marr Chase the highest paid wide receiver in the NFL after 2023 when he becomes a free agent.
How will the Bengals make this work financially? They could extend Burrow this offseason, extend Chase after 2023 and keep Higgins and tag him after 2023. If they do that, they'll almost certainly have to let Higgins walk for no compensation because they just won't be able to afford to pay all three.
If the Bengals don't want to eventually lose Higgins for nothing, moving him this offseason is what makes sense. Higgins will almost certainly demand a first-round pick, and the Bears obviously aren't giving up the number one pick for Higgins, but after maneuvering in the draft, nobody knows exactly what other picks Ryan Poles will pick up along the way.
Higgins could absolutely become available and would be a great option for the Bears.
Aiyuk is another guy that goes into a similar category to Higgins. Aiyuk is a key part of the 49ers' offense, but with so many players due big contracts in San Francisco, could Aiyuk find himself on the trade block?
First of all, nobody knows what's happening at the QB position for San Francisco. Could Jimmy Garoppolo be back? Will they commit to Trey Lance as a starter again? Could they go out and get Tom Brady? It will be interesting to see what John Lynch and Kyle Shanahan do there.
Christian McCaffrey and George Kittle already have large contracts, as do Trent Williams and Deebo Samuel. Nick Bosa is also going to be due a big chunk of change as well. At some point, you just can't fit everyone under the cap.
Could the 49ers move on from Aiyuk? It's something that Lynch will have to consider. Aiyuk is another player that is going to have a pretty steep price tag. Would Ryan Poles be willing to pay that hefty of a tag? If he wants a big time target for Fields, he may not have a choice.
Mike Evans has stated that he loves it in Tampa and doesn't want to leave. But it appears that the Tampa Bay Buccaneers are on the verge of a massive teardown. Tom Brady is almost certainly not going to be back, and the team has a lot of aging veterans that may not fit into the rebuild that they may have to take on.
Evans will be 30 when the 2023 season starts up in September. His consistency is unmatched, going over 1,000 yards in every one of his nine seasons with 81 TDs as well.
Evans loves it in Tampa, but will he want to stay in a rebuild with potentially Kyle Trask throwing him passes? Would he be tempted to have a QB with a beautiful deep ball like Fields that can utilize Evans' skillset every game?
Evans has just one year remaining on his contract. He's the exact type of player that the Bucs should be looking to trade and get back what they can. With only one year left on his deal at the age of 30, his compensation shouldn't be astronomical, and he would be a fun player to watch play with Fields.
The availability of DJ Moore may depend directly on what the Carolina Panthers decide to do at quarterback. With the 9th pick in the draft, they currently sit within striking distance to go up and get one of the top three QBs in the draft (Bryce Young, CJ Stroud, Will Levis). They could even strike a deal with the Bears and go up to number one.
Could including someone like Moore in a deal like that make sense for Carolina? When teams trade up, rarely is a player included in a trade like that as judging compensation becomes murkier when trading a player and not just draft choices.
If the Panthers decide to go the veteran route and try to bring in someone like Derek Carr, they almost certainly would keep Moore, but if they are looking to hit the reset button and draft a QB, they may look to move Moore and start loading up draft picks around their new QB. If they decide to keep Moore to give their rookie QB a reliable target (which is sensible), Moore would become a free agent again about the time the Panthers would be ready to start competing for a Super Bowl around their new QB.
This is a critical offseason for Poles and the Bears. You can make the argument that this is the most important offseason in the history of the franchise. Poles may be content to roll with Mooney and Claypool and add further depth to the group by signing someone like Jakobi Meyers or spending a day one or day two pick on drafting a wide receiver.
But if Poles wants to go out and get a true WR1, he's going to have to be willing to trade some draft capital. The price on these five is wildly different. Some will require a first-round pick, others could be a day-two pick or perhaps even early on day three. But Poles knows he needs to give Fields more weapons, and if he wants a top guy, any of these could bring significant value to the offense.


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UNIJOS Student Allegedly Killed By Soldiers For Violating Lockdown Order
Tragedy struck in Jos as a 300 level student named Rinji Peter Bala was allegedly killed by one of the soldiers attached to the task force monitoring lockdown in the state, TheCable reports.
Confirming Bala's arrest by the task force, the state police spokesman, Ubah Ogaba said:
"He was arrested by the Special Task Force (STF). That's all we know about the case. If you want to get further clarification, contact the STF spokesman. Meanwhile, on our own part, we are doing an underground investigation into the matter," he said.
The secretary-general of Unijos, Liberty Wilson while confirming the death of Bala who until his death was a student of the university said:
"Yes, he's our student. He is a student of the faculty of arts. He was shot by a military personnel for violating the lockdown order imposed by the state government. So far, that is the information available to us.
"There was nothing like arrest in this case. He was simply shot dead by a soldier this morning."
"It is rather unfortunate, this is the second time we are experiencing this. This is the second time a military personnel would kill our student," he said.
"And the truth is, we are conversant with the executive order of the state government guiding lockdown in the state. There is no clause in the law that if anyone violates lockdown, he should be killed.
"At the SUG level, we would try our best. We are calling on the government to bring the soldiers to book as soon as possible because we are tired of all this.
"The other time it happened, that was how the issue died down. But to be frank, this one is not going to die down like the other. We are calling on the government to do the needful as fast as they can."
Bala, better known by friends as Bobo, was — until his death — a student of history and international studies at UNIJOS.
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Best Universities - Mathematics
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United States Established: 1789 Scholars: 8
Best Scientists Overview
Position in the ranking is based on each scientist's D-index using data compiled from Microsoft Graph by December 6th 2021.
This ranking lists all the best researchers from the Mathematics discipline and affiliated with University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. There are a total of 8 researchers included with 6 of them also being included in the global ranking. The total sum for the D-index values for the best scientists in University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is 419 with a mean value for the h-index of 52.38. The total sum of publications for the best scientists in University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is 1,592 with the mean value for publications per scientist of 199.00.
The values for h-index, citations, awards, and publications used in this ranking were last updated on Dec 6th, 2021.
This ranking includes all leading researchers affiliated with University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. There are a total of 8 researchers listed with 6 featured in the ranking of top scientists. A top scientist is one with a h-index >= 30 in the field of Mathematics.
The total sum for the H-index values for all top scholars in University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2021 is 419 with a mean value for the h-index of 52.38.
The total number of all publications by leading scientists in University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2021 is 1,592 with a mean value for publications per scholar of 199.00.
The total number of citations by prominent scholars at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2021 is 126,407 with a mean value for citations per scientists of 15,800.88.
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is at the moment ranked as no. 48 in our Mathematics university ranking. It is also ranked 33 in the university ranking for United States.
Researchers from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have received a total of 8 awards and recognitions.
Please consider that the research institution or university for a scholar is based on the affiliation information displayed on a variety of sources, such as their personal website, Google Scholar profile, MAG profile, and LinkedIn.
Biology and Biochemistry Business and Management Chemistry Computer Science Earth Science Ecology and Evolution Economics and Finance Electronics and Electrical Engineering Engineering and Technology Environmental Sciences Genetics and Molecular Biology Immunology Law and Political Science Materials Science Mathematics Medicine Microbiology Neuroscience Physics Psychology Social Sciences and Humanities
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D-index D-index (Discipline H-index) only includes papers and citation values for an examined discipline in contrast to General H-index which accounts for publications across all disciplines.
143 World 77 National
James Stephen Marron
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D-index 68 Citations 19,069 169
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323 World 173 National
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D-index 42 Citations 6,773 159
1320 World 579 National
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