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A "Big Data" View of the U.S. Economy: Introducing the Brave-Butters-Kelley Indexes
By Scott A. Brave , Ross Cole , David Kelley
We describe a new set of indexes—the Brave-Butters-Kelley Indexes (BBKI)—constructed from a large panel of monthly macroeconomic time series and quarterly real gross domestic product (GDP) growth. Through August, these indexes suggest that real GDP growth was somewhat below its long-run trend to start the third quarter and that its business cycle component had declined noticeably in recent months despite some indications of improvement in its leading indicators.
Earlier this year, a new "big data" activity index was introduced in an Economic Perspectives article.1 This index was constructed from 500 monthly measures of growth in U.S. economic activity and quarterly U.S. real GDP growth. To recap that work, the authors developed what is referred to as a mixed-frequency collapsed dynamic factor model2 that allowed for the estimation of the unobserved monthly evolution of quarterly U.S. real GDP growth based on the variation in a panel of 500 monthly time series. Included in this panel were the coincident, leading, and lagging monthly real activity indicators commonly used to assess the state of the business cycle for the United States. Using this model, the authors then decomposed monthly real GDP growth into three separate components: trend, cycle, and irregular components. The big data activity index represented the cycle component of this decomposition and was shown to have several highly desirable properties, including being 99% accurate in aligning with historical U.S. recessions and expansions as defined by the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) since 1960.3
In this Chicago Fed Letter, we provide updated estimates based on their model and discuss the implications for the current state of the U.S. economy. On November 4, 2019, we will begin releasing these new measures of monthly real GDP growth and its components, constituting what we are now calling the Brave-Butters-Kelley Indexes, on a monthly basis. Through August, BBK Monthly GDP Growth suggests that real GDP growth was slightly below its long-run trend to start the third quarter, with its cycle component declining noticeably in the past few months. However, recent improvements in the cycle's subcomponent attributable to its leading indicators also suggest that some of the weakness in growth may be expected to abate over the next few quarters.
Monthly real GDP growth
Figure 1 shows an updated estimate of BBK Monthly GDP Growth, which is indexed to the quarterly estimates of real GDP growth from the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis. It is decomposed in the figure into its trend, cycle, and irregular components since 2017. The trend component captures slow-moving changes in average real GDP growth over time and, as such, is shown in figure 1 on an annualized (log) percent change basis to be about 2.3% in August 2019.4 In contrast, the irregular component captures short-run deviations around this trend that are highly mean-reverting, or short-lived.5 Meanwhile, the cycle component captures more persistent medium-run deviations characteristic of the business cycle.6
1. Decomposition of Brave-Butters-Kelley Monthly GDP Growth, 2017−19
Source: Authors' calculations based on data from Haver Analytics.
To highlight the persistent components alone (i.e., after the irregular component is removed), we plot in figure 2 the sum of the estimated trend and cycle components for BBK Monthly GDP Growth over a longer time period. Through August 2019, these two components were consistent with an annualized (log) real GDP growth rate of 2.1%, representing a fairly significant decline from the 3.8% rate observed in early 2018, but still well above the negative growth rates historically associated with U.S. recessions as seen in the figure. This point is made even clearer by figure 3, which instead focuses on only the cycle component. Here, we refer to it as the BBK Coincident Index, reexpressing it in standard deviation units from trend real GDP growth and noting its rule-of-thumb threshold value for identifying business cycle turning points as a dashed red line.7 At –0.3 standard deviations, the current value of this index is still well above the –1 value that has historically been associated with an elevated likelihood of a recession.
2. Brave-Butters-Kelley Monthly GDP Growth: Trend and cycle components
Notes: GDP refers to gross domestic product. Shaded periods correspond to U.S. recessions as defined by the National Bureau of Economic Research.
3. Brave-Butters-Kelley Coincident Index
Notes: GDP refers to gross domestic product. Shaded periods correspond to U.S. recessions as defined by the National Bureau of Economic Research. The dashed red line shows the threshold for historical U.S. business cycles described in the text.
The subcomponent of the cycle attributable to its leading indicators is shown separately in figure 4, where it is also expressed in standard deviation units from trend real GDP growth and is referred to as the BBK Leading Index. In addition, its own rule-of-thumb threshold value at a lead of eight months relative to business cycle turning points is shown in the figure as a dashed red line. It is readily apparent from figure 4 that using this leading index to predict recessions is likely to produce many more false positive and false negative signals than the contemporaneous signal provided by the BBK Coincident Index (see figure 3). The BBK Leading Index's current value remains well above the –1 standard deviation threshold that has historically tended to signal an elevated likelihood of a recession eight months hence. Furthermore, after reaching this threshold value at the end of 2018, the BBK Leading Index has improved considerably in recent months.
4. Brave-Butters-Kelley Leading Index
Relationships with respect to the business cycle
The threshold values shown in figures 3 and 4 stem from a receiver operating characteristic (ROC) analysis of the BBK Coincident and Leading Indexes. ROC analysis is a nonparametric classification method used to assign a score (the area under the ROC curve, or AUC) to a business cycle indicator based on its ability to correctly classify expansions and recessions. In other words, a highly accurate indicator will have many values observed during only recessions or expansions—not during both. The more overlap that exists for a given value of an indicator, the worse it performs. A purely random indicator is assigned a score of 0.5, reflecting that it is likely to be accurate 50% of the time in distinguishing between expansions and recessions. An AUC significantly above 0.5 (for procyclical indicators, or those that rise in expansions and fall in recessions) or below 0.5 (for countercyclical indicators, or those that fall in expansions and rise in recessions) then characterizes an improvement in classification.8
Figure 5 plots AUCs for the BBK Coincident and Leading Indexes at leads (negative horizontal axis values) and lags (positive horizontal axis values) of up to nine months with respect to U.S. recessions. From panel A of the figure, one can see that the BBK Coincident Index is highly accurate contemporaneously in matching the NBER recession classifications. Its AUC of 0.99 at a lead or lag of zero months indicates that it is 99% accurate in aligning with historical U.S. recessions and expansions. This is 13 percentage points higher than the accuracy indicated by the 0.86 AUC that we observe for BBK Monthly GDP Growth (not shown). (The trend and irregular components of BBK Monthly GDP Growth, which are also not shown in figure 5, both have AUCs close to 0.5.) Also of note is the performance of the BBK Leading Index in panel B of the figure: Its peak AUC of 0.86 at a lead of eight months relative to recessions puts it on par with the Conference Board Leading Economic Index for the U.S.—a closely followed composite index intended to forecast future U.S. economic activity.9
5. AUCs at leads and lags
Notes: Area under the receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve values (AUCs) correspond to leads (negative horizontal axis values) and lags (positive horizontal axis values) with respect to U.S. recessions as defined by the National Bureau of Economic Research since 1960. The 95% confidence intervals (CIs) are bias-corrected from 500 bootstrap replications. The horizontal and vertical dashed red lines correspond to the peak AUC and associated lead/lag in each panel. See the text for further details.
To conclude, we next summarize the model's current results by decomposing in figure 6 quarterly real GDP growth since 2017 into estimated contributions from its trend, cycle, and irregular components. One can see from the figure that much of the above-trend growth in real GDP in 2017 and 2018 is attributed by the model to the cycle's lagging subcomponent, with both the irregular component and leading subcomponent of the cycle often instead serving as drags on growth. The drag from the cycle's leading subcomponent has since waned, and the contribution of the irregular component has pushed up growth so far in 2019.
6. Decomposition of real gross domestic product growth, 2017–19
Notes: The black dots show the sum of the trend and cycle components for July and August 2019, consistent with annualized (log) real gross domestic product growth of 1.7% and 2.1%, respectively. The black line is equivalent to the quarterly estimates produced by the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis.
The model estimates through August 2019 suggest that GDP growth is likely to be similar in the third quarter. Given the short-lived nature of the irregular component and its current downward trajectory, its positive effect on growth is not likely to persist for much longer, although we cannot verify this until we are able to observe its realized value when third quarter GDP is released on October 30, 2019. That said, August's slightly smaller negative contribution from the cycle's lagging subcomponent and the now slightly positive contribution from the cycle's leading subcomponent suggest that real GDP growth in the third quarter is likely to be similar to what it was in the second quarter.
On November 4, 2019, updated estimates (through September 2019) of the Brave-Butters-Kelley Indexes (including BBK Monthly GDP Growth and the BBK Coincident and Leading Indexes) will be made available online, as will future monthly release dates.
1 Scott A. Brave, R. Andrew Butters, and David Kelley, 2019, "A new 'big data' index of U.S. economic activity," Economic Perspectives, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, Vol. 43, No. 1. Crossref
2 A mixed-frequency collapsed dynamic factor model is a convenient statistical method of summarizing the correlation structure of a large panel of mixed-frequency (e.g., quarterly and monthly) time series into a small number of common "factors" explaining their evolution over time. For more information, see Brave, Butters, and Kelley (2019).
3 Brave, Butters, and Kelley (2019) compare the "big data" activity index to similar indexes such as the Chicago Fed National Activity Index and the Aruoba-Diebold-Scotti Business Conditions Index maintained by the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, and find that it aligns with historical U.S. recessions and expansions more accurately than both of these alternatives.
4 This feature is inherent to the way that the trend component of real GDP growth is modeled statistically as a "random walk," where the best guess of what the trend will be in the next period is whatever it is currently.
5 We model this component as an independent and identically distributed (i.i.d.) normal random variable.
6 The cycle component is modeled as the sum of two subcomponents (leading and lagging), each with dynamics that are captured by stationary first-order autoregressions.
7 This threshold value is calculated by trading off the ratio of true positive and false positive classifications in exact proportion to the relative occurrence of expansions and recessions since 1960. This criterion equally penalizes false positive and false negative classifications of the business cycle. For further details, see Brave, Butters, and Kelley (2019).
8 For further explanation and additional examples of ROC analysis applied to business cycle indicators for the United States, see Travis J. Berge and Òscar Jordà, 2011, "Evaluating the classification of economic activity into recessions and expansions," American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, Vol. 3, No. 2, April, pp. 246–277. Crossref
9 This can be seen in panel B of figure 9 of Brave, Butters, and Kelley (2019).
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The County Seat of Washington County, Hillsboro is a vibrant government and business center for the wider region and one of greater Portland's most rapidly developing cities. Hillsboro was originally a small agricultural town, but thanks to the recent high tech boom it is now a growing community of over 100,000 residents. Attractive homes, excellent schools, award-winning public transport, and a thriving economy steadied by large employers makes Hillsboro an increasingly attractive place to make a home.
Appealingly, Hillsboro has been able to remain true to its small town roots and is still a community characterized by neighborliness and civic pride. Parades, family picnic days, high school sporting events and the like still rank high in citizens' priority lists.
About 18 miles directly west of Portland and about 12 miles northwest of Beaverton, Hillsboro is in northern Oregon's Tualatin Valley, not far south of the county line.
Hillsboro covers about 22.8 square miles and sits in the Tualatin Valley, which is largely flat and used for farming. The pretty Tualatin River forms part of the southern city limits.
The Tillamook State Forest is about 20 miles west of Hillsboro and the Pacific coast about 65 miles. To the east is the Columbia River and Mt Hood.
One of Oregon's earliest western settlements, Hillsboro has long been an agricultural and timber center, and while it remains so, recent years have seen a high tech and manufacturing boom. Intel has its largest site in Hillsboro and employs over 15,000 people here and in neighboring Aloha. The Intel Technology Center offers monthly courses and roundtable events on the latest technology and how to use it in the workforce. Sun Microsystems has its High-End Operations headquartered in Hillsboro and Fujitsu, Epson, NEC and Tri-Quint Semiconductor all have factories here. In March of 2006, San Francisco biotech giant Genentech announced plans to build a state-of-the-art product packaging and distribution facility.
New business centers and industrial parks have kept pace with Hillsboro's rapid economic development over the last decade. Currently the city has 35 business parks here, some (Dawson Creek, Westmark and Tanasbourne Commerce,) as large as 300 acres.
The surrounding Tualatin Valley has a small diary industry and several good wineries known for their world-class pinot noir, Chardonnay and Riesling. Farms grow a variety of crops including hazelnuts, apples, grains, vegetables and flowers, and plant nurseries supply sellers around the world. Timber remains a viable business, with the Stimson Lumber Company in nearby Gaston hiring the most employees.
Hillsboro has an exceptionally low unemployment rate, many major employers, and a high rate of entrepreneurial success (over 88% of local businesses employ less than 10 workers).
Thanks to its long history as an agricultural center and recent economic success as a high tech center, Hillsboro is an attractive mix of old and new. While many neighborhoods have been built in the last 10 years and benefit from careful town planning and modern construction, Hillsboro's historic downtown and surrounding neighborhood is charming, full of character, and close to downtown commerce and industry.
Buyers can choose from a good range of single-family homes, condominiums and apartments, many of the latter built over the last decade. Most are close to public transport and the new industrial parks, and are well serviced by shopping centers, restaurants, and theaters. There are several residential communities in Hillsboro, including Orenco Station, Jones Farm, Jackson School, Stonebrook, Orenco Gardens, and the upcoming South Hillsboro.
Careful town planning has complimented Hillsboro's rapid economic growth and the City has 16 parks and recreation centers, including the state-of-the-art Hillsboro Sports Park (which includes a large stadium) and the Hillsboro Aquatic Center (a full aquatic and fitness center with sauna and spa facilities). Ball fields and courts abound and there are 9 golf courses in the area. The city libraries and the Shute Park Aquatic Center is an excellent public resource for community classes and fitness.
The beautiful Tualatin River winds through the southern section of town and Rood Bridge Park has mooring for canoes; also on the southern end of town is the Jackson Bottom Wetlands, a stunning 700-acre wildlife preserve that supports countless species of waterfowl and migrating birds. Hagg Lake is just 15 miles southwest of Hillsboro and a great place to go fishing, boating or hiking, and the Tillamook State Forest is about 20 miles west of Hillsboro.
Increasing numbers are moving to Hillsboro, drawn by the thriving high tech economy. While the changing demographic is bringing commerce and development to the city, the community's identity remains true to its small town roots. There's always a parade, festival, or fair on the calendar, and the Washington County Fair in late summer draws visitors from across the county. The outdoor Hillsboro Farmer's Market runs all summer long, with local farmers, craftspeople and artisans selling their wares from their truck beds and great local bands providing the live music. Locals are proud of their cultural heritage and see it preserved in the excellent Washington County Historical Museum.
Hillsboro takes its name from David Hill, who founded the settlement in 1842. Originally named East Tualatin Plains, it was changed to Hillsborough and then Hillsboro after Hill's death.
Hillsboro was Hillsboro was incorporated in 1876.
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The National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START) engages talented undergraduate students pursuing degrees in the social and behavioral sciences in research related to understanding origins and/or responses to terrorism through a national fellowship.
The Susan Zoukis Fellowship for Graduate Research in Mandatory Sentencing is given to students in the Political Science Department with a minimum GPA of 3.0 who are interested in research on the effects of mandatory sentencing.
The Bailey M. Wade Fellowship is given to a first-year graduate student who has demonstrated outstanding coursework, individual research and scholarship, financial need and departmental service.
The Doctoral Fellowship in Trauma Intervention is awarded to students whose program of study prepares them to provide assistance to people who have experienced traumatic events.
The Paul Bowles Graduate Student Fellowship in Fiction Writing is awarded to an incoming or current graduate student who is studying fiction writing.
The Jacqueline Boles Graduate Teaching Fellowship recognizes outstanding sociology graduate instructors. The scholarship is honor of Jackie Boles, a sociology faculty member of more than 30 years.
The David W. Boykin Fellowship recognizes an outstanding medicinal chemistry Ph.D. student. The fellowship was established in 1999 in honor of former chemistry chair David W. Boykin.
The Ambrose H. Pendergrast Fellowship is awarded to an outstanding, medicinal chemistry/biochemistry doctoral student. The fellowship is named in honor of former chemistry Professor Ambrose H. Pendergrast.
The Neurobiology and Behavior Graduate Fellowship is awarded to a senior graduate student for outstanding research and scholarship in the neurobiology and behavior program.
The Donald Ahearn Endowed Fellowship in Applied and Environmental Microbiology was established in honor of Dr. Ahearn becoming a Research Professor Emeritus. The fellowship recognizes his contributions in instruction, research and service in the development of applied and environmental microbiology programs at Georgia State University.
The Outstanding Position Paper Award recognizes Model UN students who successfully convey knowledge of their assigned country and provide effective recommendations to address global problems. Position papers are submitted before the Model UN Conference and are a critical component of students' pre-conference preparation. Six Georgia State University students were recognized with the award this year.
The Ethel Illges Woodruff Fellowship in Southern History is awarded to a graduate student who intends to pursue the masters program with a concentration in southern history.
The Jenny Thurston Fellowship and Award in Heritage Preservation is an annual award and internship with the Atlanta Urban Design Commission. The fellowship is given to an outstanding historic preservationist in Atlanta.
The Ralf F. Munster Fellowship is given to an outstanding philosophy graduate student. The award honors Ralf F. Munster, philosophy chair from 1955 to 1976.
The Sally Monsour Graduate Fellowship in Music Education recognizes a music education graduate student. The fellowship was created in honor of Dr. Sally Monsour, one of the founding professors of music education in the School of Music.
Rachel Luu, a Geosciences major in the Georgia State University Honors College presented her research at the Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting in Chicago this spring.
Graduate students in the areas of criminal justice and criminology, economics, public management and policy, and social work presented poster displays highlighting their research, internship and capstone experiences at the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies' Public Service Research End Event, May 5, 2015.
Congratulations to the 2015-16 Urban Fellows, who were selected to participate in the Urban Fellows program as a result of their academic and professional achievements, level of community service, and interest in urban and environmental issues.
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Three Georgia State University undergraduate students presented their research on March 28, 2015 at the SYNAPSE conference held at University of North Carolina Asheville.
More than 150 undergraduate students presented their research at the Georgia State Undergraduate Research Conference (GSURC) on Tuesday, April 14. Students from a wide variety of disciplines shared their findings through oral presentations, posters, artistic displays and performances. Eleven students received awards.
More than 150 undergraduate students presented their research at the Georgia State Undergraduate Research Conference (GSURC) on Tuesday, April 14. Students from a wide variety of disciplines shared their findings through oral presentations, posters, artistic displays and performances.
The Dean's Fellowship is awarded annually to an outstanding student or students pursuing a doctoral degree in the Andrew Young School. Established in honor of Ambassador Andrew Young by The Coca-Cola Foundation, each fellowship awarded provides support for three years of doctoral study.
The Dan Sweat Dissertation Fellowship supports doctoral students in completing dissertation research that addresses an urban, community or education issue and has policy relevance. It was established in honor of civic leader and Georgia State alumnus Dan E. Sweat.
This fellowship is awarded annually to a deserving graduate student with academic and research interests in public finance, financial regulatory policy impact on national, regional and local economics, or public management. It honors the former state banking commissioner and alumnus E. D. Dunn.
Atlanta Legal Aid Society fellows are MPA or MPP students selected annually to work with the organization to get a well-rounded introduction to the nation's critical legal issues - from public benefits to complex mortgage litigation. They assist in researching and developing program administration and policy development.
The Legislative Budget Fellowship, in partnership with the Georgia Senate Budget and Evaluation Office (SBEO), combines a paid internship opportunity with a graduate assistantship through the Department of Public Management and Policy. This fellowship is awarded to a deserving student competitively.
St. Vincent De Paul fellows gain an opportunity to work at a nonprofit organization whose mission is to empower people, regardless of their background, ethnicity, or faith, to achieve self-sufficiency.


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"I want kids to know that there are no limits to what they can accomplish," said Blige.
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Legendary songstress Mary J. Blige has used her artistry as a source of edification and empowerment, tapping into the power of storytelling and drawing upon her life experiences to deliver musical masterpieces in which individuals can see themselves reflected. For her latest project, the Queen of Hip-Hop Soul is using literature as a vessel to empower youth through the creation of a children's book, People reported.
The book—titled Mary Can!—will explore the concept of self-confidence. Pulling inspiration from the award-winning singer and actress' childhood, it chronicles the journey of a young girl named Mary who has dreams of pursuing a career in music but is surrounded by individuals who try to limit her aspirations. She doesn't let the naysayers deter her from bringing her vision to fruition, exemplifying a powerful lesson about protecting your dreams and believing in yourself.
The book features vibrant illustrations created by artist Ashleigh Corrin.
Blige says she hopes the book encourages youth to believe in the beauty of their dreams. "I want kids to know that there are no limits to what they can accomplish," she shared in a statement. "My wish is for my nieces and nephews to feel they can achieve anything they imagine. Growing up, I was constantly told that my dreams were too big, too bold, and too far out of reach. I think we need to reinforce that nothing is impossible."
Corrin says it's been an honor to work with Blige on the project stating, "she has given herself to generations, and now today's youth get to be touched by her courage and strength."
Mary Can!—released under HarperCollins—is slated to hit shelves in March 2023.
2022 has been a banner year for Blige. In January, she was named one of TIME's 100 Most Influential People of 2022. She also released the album Good Morning Gorgeous and delivered an electrifying performance during the Super Bowl LVI Halftime Show.
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Raytheon conducts static test of DeepStrike missile rocket motor
24 April 2019	(Last Updated June 30th, 2020 14:37)
US-based Raytheon Company has completed a critical static test of the new DeepStrike missile rocket motor.
Raytheon's DeepStrike missile rocket motor during a static test at the Allegany Ballistics Laboratory in West Virginia, US. Credit: Raytheon Company / PR Newswire.
With the completion of the trial, the maiden flight test of the advanced surface-to-surface weapon is expected to be conducted later this year.
Raytheon, based in Waltham, Massachusetts, is offering the DeepStrike missile for the army's Precision Strike Missile (PrSM) programme to replace the Army Tactical Missile System.
Raytheon advanced missile systems vice-president Thomas Bussing said: "Testing shows us how initial data assessments line up and validates them for the next phase in development.
"This test confirms our design for the DeepStrike propulsion system is solid and moves us one step closer to extending the army's reach and doubling the load-out of long-range fires."
"The DeepStrike missile features a two-in-the-pod design and will fly farther than existing systems, giving the army double the firepower at half the cost per missile."
Raytheon conducted the rocket motor test at Allegany Ballistics Laboratory in West Virginia. It has recently concluded a preliminary design review for the DeepStrike missile.
The new long-range DeepStrike missile has exceeded US Army requirements. It is capable of striking fixed land targets from 60km to 499km away and will reach the targets faster than current systems.
Furthermore, the long-range precision strike missile is more manoeuvrable than existing weapons. It has a modular, open architecture that simplifies system upgrades.
Bussing said: "With our expertise in advanced weapon systems, Raytheon is best positioned to provide an affordable, low-risk solution that gives the army an overwhelming advantage over our nation's adversaries."
The defence contractor provides command, control, communications, computers, cyber and intelligence (C5I), electronics, mission systems integration, sensing, effects and mission support for clients in more than 80 countries.
Raytheon recorded sales of $27bn in 2018 and has 67,000 employees.
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Die Deutsche Botschaft Tegucigalpa ist die diplomatische Vertretung der Bundesrepublik Deutschland in der Republik Honduras.

Lage
Die Kanzlei der Botschaft befindet sich in dem Stadtteil Colonia Lomas del Guijarro der honduranischen Hauptstadt Tegucigalpa. Als Straßenadresse wird angegeben: Avenida República Dominicana, Sendero Santo Domingo # 925, Col. Lomas del Guijarro, Tegucigalpa, M. D. C.

Auftrag und Organisation
Die Botschaft Tegucigalpa hat den Auftrag, die deutsch-honduranischen Beziehungen zu pflegen, die deutschen Interessen gegenüber der Regierung von Honduras zu vertreten und die Bundesregierung über Entwicklungen in Honduras zu unterrichten.

In der Botschaft bestehen die Arbeitsbereiche Politik, Wirtschaft sowie Kultur und Bildung.

Das Referat für Rechts- und Konsularaufgaben der Botschaft bietet deutschen Staatsangehörigen konsularische Dienstleistungen und Hilfe in Notfällen an. Der konsularische Amtsbezirk der Botschaft umfasst ganz Honduras. Die Visastelle erteilt Einreisegenehmigungen für in Honduras wohnhafte Bürger dritter Staaten. Honduranische Staatsangehörige benötigen für Einreise und Aufenthalt im Schengen-Raum kein Visum, sofern sie nicht länger als 90 Tage pro Halbjahr bleiben.

Ein Honorarkonsul der Bundesrepublik Deutschland ist in San Pedro Sula bestellt und ansässig.

Geschichte
Die Bundesrepublik Deutschland eröffnete die Botschaft Tegucigalpa am 26. Januar 1961.

Die DDR und Honduras unterhielten keine diplomatischen Beziehungen.

Siehe auch

 Liste der deutschen Botschafter in Honduras
 Liste deutscher Auslandsvertretungen

Quellen

 Website der Botschaft Tegucigalpa
 Verzeichnis der Vertretungen der Bundesrepublik Deutschland im Ausland

Fußnoten

Tegucigalpa
Deutsch-honduranische Beziehungen
Tegucigalpa
Gegründet 1961
Botschaft in Honduras

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What is a Shared Workstation?
Shared workstations are corporate business trends that are commonly used in workplaces with staff that work during different shifts throughout the day. A common example of a shared workstation is a hospital. Hospitals operate 24/7, but each nurse works approximately 40 hours a week. Therefore, hospitals establish day and night shifts where some nurses work during the day and then swap with the nurses working during the night. Because day-shift nurses and night-shift nurses work at different times, their schedules do not collide, and they can work at the same desk. Other known examples such as libraries and call centers operate in a similar manner. They are all large contributors to the growth of shared workstations.
Roving Users
Employees who work through shared workstations have been coined the term, "roving users". Roving users refer to the service model where employees will constantly be on the move instead of being stationed at one location. Common cases of roving users are librarians and nurses because during their shift, they will be continuously on the move. For one, librarians will be continuously move around the building, restocking returned books, maintaining the quiet environment of the library, and helping customers finding the book that they want.
Similarly, roving users also symbolize that employees will never be stationed at the same desk as call centers where employees are assigned to use a different cubicle every shift.
There are benefits to having a shared workstation:
Works best in small officers with frequent verbal communication.
There is no need for emails, phones, or walking to other desks. There is easier collaboration and networking.
It creates friendliness and camaraderie.
It saves space and money on office product expenses, so two employees can share the same stapler, phone, and computer.
There are also detriments to having a shared workstation:
With unnecessary conversation and interaction, employees might not complete projects and assignments on time.
There is little privacy among the employees, and there are security issues.
There is a lot of noise pollution, and plenty of distractions because even though everyone has light and heavy days, not everyone will have them at the same time.
Personal belongings could be missing.
Shared Accounts
As aforementioned, shared workstations allow two or more employees to work at one computer. Therefore, instead of having two or more computers per employee, the one computer will have as many accounts as necessary. Shared Accounts are self-explanatory; they are accounts that are shared among the employees, and there are different types of shared accounts.
For one, libraries setup anonymous and guest accounts for visitors to log in to the system and use a computer. These accounts have access to an external server to download files or programs, and there is no password required. However, anonymous and guest accounts are big risks for a company. Although guest accounts have limited access to the server compared to an administrator, they allow anyone into the system, and this is risky because the default access for most guest accounts allows them to access data that they should not have access to view.
For two, any company may set up temporary employee accounts for employees that will be with the company temporarily. Generally titled, "temp_1", these accounts are set up so that the temporary employee has access to the server once they are in the office. The largest risk with temporary employee accounts is that the new employee will have access when they should not. If a salesman goes on vacation, a temporary employee will fill in and have access to the files that the vacated salesman has including past records, downloaded files, etc.
For three, companies must establish administrator accounts which are accounts shared among all higher-up employees and IT professionals when necessary. These administrator accounts have access to the entire server and have no limitations. They can access all the accounts and the files on those accounts as well as create new accounts and change the configuration settings. If a new employee joins the staff, the administrator account can add their information into the system and set them up with a password. There are large risks with the administration accounts because these accounts can corrupt data within the system or even delete the information from other administrators.
Shared Workstations Security Practices
Because the largest number of risks is based on the access of the Domain Administration Group, there are plenty of security practices that protect the system and the company.
Primarily, there should be no day-to-day access to Administration accounts. Only higher-ups and administrators within the company should have access to the Administration accounts when necessary, but general employees should not have access. The problem is that it is gotten easier for attackers to obtain user credentials through keystroke logging and pass-the-hash. When an attacker has access to a general employee's account, they plan to move laterally within the network to obtain access to the Administration account.
Secondarily, companies should use two types of accounts: an account with minimal permissions to get the job done and an administrative account. Imagine a salesman within the company who has administrative access has a very simple password. An attacker through keystroke logging discovers his user credentials, and logs into the account. Because the salesman has administrative access, the attacker now has administrative access meaning company-wide access to any file within the entire system. However, if the salesman only had general access, the attacker only has access to his files, and can only perform minimal and limited damage.
Lastly, companies should do anything that they can to secure the administrative account. Even though passwords are out-of-date, passphrases and biometric technology have played a large part in protecting the administrative account.
Biometrics and Roving Workers – Shared Workstations
Roving workers are common in banks as tellers move from one station to another, or as supervisors authorize transactions. Roving workers are also common in warehouse environments. It's tempting for employees to share passwords or be exposed to the password of a colleague. Biometric authentication eliminates the risk and temptation associated with password sharing or stealing. Additionally, the static free one-touch authentication enabled by ones biometric, compliments workflow and delivers the best user and customer experience.
Shared workstations, common in call centers and shared POS systems, common in retail also present high-security risks. Users in these environments are often part-time employees that are associated with high turnover and a minimal commitment to the organization, thus increasing the threat of theft or rogue behavior. Transactions can be fast paced in these environments opening the door for short-cuts and risk to the overall process. Biometric authentication eliminates the need for swipe / ID cards in retail, which are vulnerable to sharing and easily lost or misplaced – adding to the cost of operations. In call centers where agents work in close quarters, it's relatively easy to see a fellow agent enter their password. By nature, call centers have many agents, which only increases the risk of password fraud. When call centers add biometric sign-in they positively identify the agent using something the "are" rather than a random password. Biometric sign-in is ideal for crowded – fast-paced work environments.
https://activedirectorypro.com/active-directory-security-best-practices
https://douron.com/shared-workstations-benefits/
https://www.allbusiness.com/are-shared-workstations-a-good-idea-4113418-1.html
https://www.rocketspace.com/tech-startups/what-are-the-pros-cons-of-shared-office-space
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Q: Showing real memory used on Windows 10 I bought a lenovo ideapad 330s laptop. It has 4GB of ram. When I turn on the computer after I bought it, I could play call of dutty black-ops 2. It stopped working then I gave it to the seller to fix it. When the seller gave me back the computer 2 days ago, they formatted the disk and install another windows 10. When I turn on the computer without executing my own programs,  I can see it using 50% of the 4GB ram. But Task manager cannot give me information about the memory usage. If I execute just Google Chrome, the ram usage get to 67%. executing any Ide like Visual studio code or netbeans, it goes to like 98%.
I just get paranoia that maybe they installed a virus on the computer that I can't know about. I'm using AVG antivirus but no virus has been detected.
Is there any program that can show all the ram usage by all executed processes?
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Q: Add Overlay to Mapview I have been doing iOS dev for a few months. I already have a map view with a couple of annotations pinned to it and can show the users current location.
I haven been trying to read through the docs to implement a simple overlay using a set of CLLocationCoordinate2D to draw out a line (simple static route). Its has been a struggle
My MkOverlayRenderer method doesnt seem to be running at all. If I am not mistaking i shouldn't need the MKMapViewDelegate. I am trying to implement MKOverlay delegate and have "@synthesize boundingMapRect;".
Here is my code for trying to implement the Overlay
- (void)drawLineRoute
{
    CLLocationCoordinate2D purplePoints[2];
    purplePoints[0] = CLLocationCoordinate2DMake(28.541944, -81.382936);
    purplePoints[1] = CLLocationCoordinate2DMake(28.538447, -81.383096);

    MKPolyline *purplePolyline = [MKPolyline         polylineWithCoordinates:purplePoints count:2];
    purplePolyline.title = @"Citrus Bowl Connection";

[self.mapView addOverlay:purplePolyline];
}

- (MKOverlayRenderer *)mapView:(MKMapView *)mapView viewForOverlay:  (id<MKOverlay>)overlay
{
if([overlay isKindOfClass:[MKPolyline class]])
{
    MKPolygonRenderer *polyRender = [[MKPolygonRenderer alloc] initWithOverlay:overlay];
    polyRender.lineWidth = 2;
    polyRender.strokeColor = ovoPurple;
    return polyRender;
}

return nil;
}

Any help or guidance is greatly appreciated. Thank you all in advance.

A: There are two different delegate methods:

*

*mapView:rendererForOverlay:, which was introduced in iOS 7, and returns a MKOverlayRenderer; and

*mapView:viewForOverlay:, which was deprecated in iOS 7, but it returns a MKOverlayView, not a MKOverlayRenderer.
It is incorrect to implement a viewForOverlay that returns a MKOverlayRenderer.
Bottom line, if you need to support iOS versions prior to iOS 7, implement viewForOverlay that returns a MKOverlayView, not a MKOverlayRenderer. If you don't need to support iOS versions prior to 7, then do not implement viewForOverlay at all, but rather implement rendererForOverlay that returns a MKOverlayRenderer.


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Man pages sections > man1 > ccguess
ccguess - search for ccrypt encryption keys
CCGUESS(1) Encryption CCGUESS(1)
ccguess [options] file...
The ccguess program attempts to guess ccrypt(1) encryption keys by searching the relevant part of the key space. This is done by prompting the user for an approximate key and then trying many variations of this key. This is intended to assist ccrypt users in recovering mistyped or forgotten keys, provided that they remember at least part of the key.
Note that ccrypt provides strong cryptographic security: there are no special back doors or shortcuts to recovering forgotten keys. Therefore, the ccguess program does not have any special powers. It simply works by trying different keys until a possible match is found.
A search of the entire key space is not usually a practical option. ccguess therefore works by prompting the user for an approximate key. It then tries all variations that can be obtained by applying a small number of changes. Here, each change is either a deletion of one letter, an insertion of one letter, a replacement of one letter by another, or a transposition of two adjacent letters. By default, ccguess searches all keys that differ from the approximate key by up to 5 changes. The number of changes searched can be adjusted with the --depth option.
The mechanism by which ccguess determines whether a key is a "possible match" is the same as that used by ccrypt to reject non-matching decryption keys. There is a small chance of a false match, i.e., ccguess may find a key that turns out not to be the true encryption key and does not decrypt the file correctly. A false match happens approximately once for every 4.3 billion keywords tried, so the longer your search goes on, the higher the likelihood that a false match is found. Normally, ccguess stops after the first possible match is found, but the -c option can be used to search for additional keys. The possibility of a false match can be further reduced by supplying multiple files that have been encrypted with the same key. In this case, ccguess will search for keys that match any of the files, but will print a warning for keys that do not match all of the files.
The following options are supported:
-h, --help
Help. Print usage information and exit.
-L, --license
Print license info and exit.
-V, --version
Print version info and exit.
-K key, --key key
Specify the approximate key on the command line, rather than prompting the user for it.
-d n, --depth n
Search keys that contain up to n changes. The default is 5.
-c, --continue
Keep trying more keys even after the first match is found. By default, ccguess will stop after the first key is found that matches all input files.
-t chars, --chartable chars
Specify the list of characters to try for replacements and insertions. By default, ccguess will try all printable ASCII characters. If you know, for example, that your key only used lowercase letters and numbers, you can speed up the search by specifying a list of characters explicitly. This option is mutually exclusive with -n.
-n, --non-printable
Allow non-printable characters in keys. By default, ccguess will only try printable ASCII characters. Note that the use of this option slows down the search significantly. This option is mutually exclusive with -t.
The name of a file that has been encrypted with the unknown key. This file is only read from, not written to. The special filename "-" is used to denote standard input.
If multiple files are specified, ccguess will search for keys that match any of the files, but will print a warning for keys that do not match all of the files.
Suppose the file myfile.cpt has been encrypted with the key "gardenhouse", but the user remembers "gardenhose". The command
ccguess -K gardenhose myfile.cpt
will find the correct key after 2318 guesses.
EXIT STATUS
The exit status is 0 if at least one possible match is found, 1 if no matches are found, and >=2 if an error occurred.
Peter Selinger <selinger at users.sourceforge.net>
Copyright (C) 2000-2012 Peter Selinger
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. See also http://www.gnu.org/.
October 2012 Version 1.10


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You must have been aware of the much hyped and talked about the issue, these days, which is the Panama leaks. Panama leaks that oozed out in the month of April have shaken the entire world. However, seems like the leaks will surely lead to a conclusion related to the current government of Pakistan as the prime minister, Nawaz Sharif's family is being blamed to have used the general public's money into making off shore companies abroad. The latest development in the story is that Chaudhry Amir Idrees, who is the Consulting Editor and Chairman of The Lahore Times, has come up with quite a valid suggestion for the prime minister. He has suggested him to choose one of the two options and work on them in order to get rid of the current controversies. These options include either stepping down from the position or coming up with elections before the actual date.
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Q: Undergo/undergone?(verb tenses) Let's say a girl had undergone surgery of the her lips. Then you compare her look before and after, could you say:(you're holding 2 photos)

This is/was her original look, before she undergo lip surgery.

Or

This is/was her original look, before she undergone lip surgery.

From the bold letters, which is the correct tenses?

A: Since you're talking about how she looked before the surgery, it stands to reason that all this (the way she looked and her lip surgery) was in the past. So, I'd say go for the past-tense verbs for the entire sentence, though This is her original look before she underwent lip surgery is certainly possible. The only problem with it is that it just sounds a little bit clumsy.
And please remember that with third-person singular subjects you should always use third-person singular verbs. What's the third-person singular form of the verb to undergo? It's undergoes and not undergo or undergone. Take a look at this little chart if you tend to forget that (that's all the forms English verbs can ever take):
infinitive:            to undergo  She is to undergo lip surgery.
bare infinitive:       undergo     She will undergo lip surgery next year.
third-person singular: undergoes   She undergoes lip surgery every year.
past simple:           underwent   She underwent lip surgery yesterday.
past participle:       undergone   She has undergone lip surgery two times in her
                                   life.
present participle:    undergoing  She is undergoing lip surgery. The surgeons
                                   are working on her lips right now.

But if I were you, I would rewrite your sentence completely:

This is how she looked before she underwent lip surgery.

Possibly, an even better way to say that would be this:

This is how she looked before her/the lip surgery.


I am writing now from Freetown, Sierra Leone, and on Monday, November 3rd I will get off the plane at Ben Gurion Airport. Have you bought into the Ebola hysteria? Will you be afraid to be in my company? Do you think I should be quarantined before I am set free to walk the streets of Haifa, my home town?
Have I been nervous being here? Yes, to a degree. Am I sorry I came? Heck no! I am in the eye of the epidemic, part of an IsraAID humanitarian team, all of us contributing what we can to help "kick the Ebola virus out of Sierra Leone," to quote one motto on a street sign here. And I want you to know that Sierra Leone is a lot more than Ebola. I want you to be open to coming here as a tourist when the epidemic will have been conquered and life can slowly start to return to normal. I want you to understand that the remarkable people of Sierra Leone were still licking the wounds of civil war as they made their way into democracy, optimistically seeing prosperity within grasp, when they were suddenly hit with this tragic epidemic. Most of all, I want you to know that the vast majority of people who come here to help do not get the dreaded virus.
This is a country with a well-educated population, many of them Sierra Leoneans who grew up abroad and returned home from the Diaspora a few years ago to contribute to the building of a modern nation. At the same time, about half the adult population is still illiterate and not yet joining the world of today.
The Ebola epidemic has everyone here justifiably scared. People live with a fear that has changed everything about the way they need to go about their daily lives. Signs everywhere tell people not to touch: no handshakes, no hugs, not even brushing up casually against people as you walk down the street as happens in any normal place in the world. Before you enter any building, whether it is a restaurant, hotel, office or government building, store or supermarket, you must wash your hands with either chlorine solution or medicinal strength sanitizing soap. In many places, your temperature is taken before you gain entrance. You should not travel by public transportation or even taxi because you have no way of knowing who sat in the seat before you, nor what they touched in the vehicle.
Kids are home from school, probably due to the fact that they get there by public transport or school buses and because it would be hard to keep them from playing contact sports or getting into fights. They cannot play with a ball, because it passes from one person's hands to another's and sweaty palms can transmit the virus. You do not send your kids to play with friends in another house because you cannot be sure all parents are as careful as you are regarding following the rules reducing the chances of infection. However, it is difficult to keep kids indoors all the time and you will see many children out in the streets unsupervised, and these children are usually from the lower uneducated classes.
I can get infected if I run my hands along the banister I use to help me climb up or down a flight of stairs in a public building – if that banister was likewise touched by an infected person who also was already showing symptoms of being sick. In fact, I can catch it if I touch anything that was recently touched (or vomited on, or bled out on, or spit on) by someone who is actively contagious,. And then, only if I have an open sore where I touched the contaminated object, or if I rub my eyes with my now-infected finger or put that finger into my mouth. That is why people here wash their hands and have their temperature taken repeatedly ad nauseum. Just in case.
However, I want to make it clear that the virus has spread not because it is so easy to catch — because it is NOT — but because it was not contained well when the outbreak began. I remember that there was an Ebola scare in Uganda when I was in South Sudan in 2012. In that case, containment was achieved after only 24 people contracted it, and 17 died. That was because Uganda was already well-practiced in responding to the disease and acted quickly.
The fact that the virus has grown to epidemic proportions in Sierra Leone (and I suppose this is partly true for the other West African countries as well) can be attributed to two main dynamics. On the one hand, there is a great deal of suspicion of the government due to still unhealed scars from the civil war. This means that people in outlying areas believed for a long time that rumors of Ebola were just that: rumors, a conspiracy on the part of the government to punish the opposition. That meant that they did not accept the reality of the threat and did not comply with prevention imperatives. This is only now beginning to change.
Secondly, because the culture and traditions that provide meaning and security for the population are in direct conflict with prevention practices, compliance is handicapped. Let me give one simplified example of this (the situation is far too complex to be fully described in a short article): funeral rituals are central to Sierra Leonean societal structure and spirituality. Out of respect, family members lovingly wash the body and prepare it for burial. However, the virus is most virulent in the body fluids of the recently deceased. Therefore handling of the body for traditional burial practices is rife with danger for all involved. Families are supposed to call an official burial team to come and collect the body (if the person died at home) so that it can be handled in a way that prevents spread of the virus. This leaves families, however, unable to mourn according to tradition, putting them into a kind of spiritual limbo, and so many resist. Furthermore, due to serious lapses in communication, families are often not notified of the location of the (unmarked) grave of a loved one buried by authorities. Since visits to family graves comprise an important part of their spiritual lives, there is resistance to cooperating with this decree and some families continue to bury their own dead, thereby falling easy victim to infection.
In Liberia, where rates of infection have supposedly declined, it is theorized, in fact, that people are reporting fewer sick relatives and deaths because Liberia has begun cremating bodies (the best way to handle deceased Ebola patients), something that is abhorrent to West Africans regardless of their religion. Sierra Leone will not take the chance of instituting cremations as the population would be in an uproar against that. It is hard enough to get them to comply with calling for the burial teams.
Furthermore, initial response time was slow because there is little medical or administrative infrastructure in the areas outside the major cities and towns. One positive outcome of this epidemic is that by the time it will have been contained there will potentially be well-functioning medical and mental health service networks throughout the country (IsraAID is here to provide support regarding the psychosocial response to the epidemic and, therefore, to the design and implementation of mental health infrastructure).
I have not been anywhere near an Ebola isolation unit, treatment center or home where families were caring for Ebola-infected relatives; I have not attended a traditional burial ceremony. Therefore, my friends, you do not have to keep me in either official or unofficial quarantine for 21 days after my return home. I promise to go to hospital (it is only a 5-minute walk from where I live) should I have a fever. I will not try to second-guess any fever within that 21-day window, will not assume it is just the flu and take the chance of putting anyone (including myself) at risk. I will consider it good practice if the health ministry sends someone to take my temperature every day during that time; in fact, I would welcome it. That would give me the feeling that proper respect is being given to this deadly virus, without being hysterical about it.


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It Follows review
Adam August 4, 2015 July 30, 2015 Movies
Note: This review had been previously published on my old blog. It's been out of theaters, but recently came out on DVD, so I figured now would be a relevant time to re-post. Also, I love this movie. It is amazingly crafted, and it's important. It Follows also fits into this summer's hit or miss season of feminist commentary (as a definite hit).
It Follows is a strange and dense horror film. While I wouldn't necessarily call it scary I would say that it's terrifying. The plot is this: Jay and Hugh are dating and end up sleeping together. Jay is then knocked out by Hugh and when she comes to is tied to a chair where she's told the concept of the movie. That is there is a creature. It knows where you are at all times and can look like anyone. It is always walking toward you and when it gets to you it will kill you. You can make it target someone else by sleeping with them but if it kills them before they pass it on it will go back to the previous target. Oh, and it's invisible (but corporeal) to anyone who has not been a target. So on the surface you get a sexually transmitted slasher film. But there's so much more to it.
Right away there is a reason given for a very common horror trope: that a killer is coming after teenagers and the virgin will be the one to survive. That alone is nice but there's a lot more genre deconstruction happening in this film. On a surface level the production is a spot on homage to 70s and 80s slasher movies. The soundtrack is a nearly painful orchestration of simple synth music. The killer is often seen slowly plodding through the suburbs en route to its current victim. If you're getting a strong Halloween vibe you would not be wrong. But I hate Halloween and really respect this movie.
That is because I find early slasher films exercises in form with nothing to offer in terms of content. They're more explorations on how to make movies in a different way than good films unto themselves. What It Follows does is picks up the construction of Halloween and the like and spends its creativity on deconstruction and metaphor. Like Babadook and depression, It Follows is an exploration of the emotional impact of rape. While Jay does consent to sex with Hugh (and tells the police and therefore the audience this explicitly in an interview) the metaphor still holds. While she consented to sex she didn't consent to the entire situation that Hugh was forcing on her. She never agreed to be stalked by a killer, have her privacy taken away, and be constantly paranoid about how people she recognizes may hurt her at any moment. The sexual act that Hugh does to her is clearly something done to turn her into a victim.
As the movie goes on the It of the title appears in a number of guises and is often nude. It's strange how infrequently nudity is used as non-titillating in horror films. Even in another horror deconstruction, Cabin in the Woods, the nudity is sexy and done as a nod to the juxtaposition of sex and gore. In It Follows the nudity itself is disquieting. The creature is not often a teen so the naked body is usually that of someone in their 40s. It's also not the main victim. Jay isn't topless during her sex scene so the sex act and the nudity are actually separated. Often times the nudity is used to make It seem more out of place and surreal. Sex is also used for similar purposes to make the viewer uncomfortable. We are aware that whomever she sleeps with will most likely die and therefore sex becomes a bargaining chip for time to think rather than an expression of affection or even pleasure. There's a particularly disturbing scene in which Jay is on the run and desperate for time and distance from the creature. She comes out of some woods to a beach and sees three men on a boat just off shore. She strips down to her underwear and begins to swim out. The next shot is of her driving home, soaking wet. It was at that moment I felt what the movie had accomplished. It made me cringe at the thought of sex. What would normally be the sexist scene in a film, a bunch of attractive teenagers or 20-somethings having sex at the beach, became the point of anxiety and disgust. Instead of seeing sex and then being made to cringe at the slaughter ensuing after. It Follows made me cringe at the sex itself. Suddenly I realized how much in the head of Jay I was.
And that was incredible. At no point in Halloween have I ever felt like Laurie (Jamie Lee Curtis). I doubt people feel like the main girl at most horror movies. People roll their eyes as the characters ignore red flags, people shout at the screen for the characters not to do things and how dumb they are. But in It Follows I was cringing and trying to look away during sex. I felt anxiety over how Jay was going to cope with the aftermath of her night with Hugh. I felt pissed off when Jay's friend Paul keeps mooning over her even as she's trying to put herself back together each day after not being able to sleep or trust people. That's the amazing thing that It Follows did to me and why I love it as a movie. It takes a throwback slasher film, breaks it down into its constituent pieces, and puts it together with enough logic to make the pieces fit. But then it keeps going. It slows the killer and makes the threat long lasting to give the emotions more impact on the characters. It's not about finally believing towards the end and then running for your life. It's knowing the truth early on and dealing with convincing your friends why you're different and why you can't just go back to the way things were. It's having the titular It always escapable but always there. Death is avoidable but inescapable. It looms by taking its time.
And it's cruel. When first showing Jay the creature, now her creature, he says that it's slow but not dumb. At first it seems to be dumb. It approaches in broad daylight from in front. It doesn't hide and it doesn't sneak. But it doesn't have to. Over the course of the movie other behaviors emerge. Rather than always appearing as family members in order to walk right up it reserves these visages for moments when it seems sure that this will be a final kill. It scares the victim with strangers but in an act that I can only interpret as cruelty it aims to hurt you the most while wearing the face of people you trust. And its method of murder makes this all the more horrific when it's finally revealed. So not only is the killing blow as awful as possible but in the interim it makes the victim wary of even the most well-meaning of friends and family.
The movie ends with Jay and Paul sharing the burden of the creature. Both can now see it and both can watch out for the other. But both also know that it is always coming, right behind them and in no rush to end their torment. They just have to find ways to deal with life while evading it.
On a scale of -5 to 5 I rate It Follows a 4.5
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There are a lot of episodes which faced the Granada Plus (Or "Granada Minus") treatment, which removed certain scenes to appease censors/cut down for time so more ad breaks could be inserted. But I was wondering are there any moments we wish had been cut differently for more artistic/creative reasons?
One scene i'd have to change would be Bodie punching the car door, Kung Fu style, in 'Wild Justice'.
The way the door crumples is so false, makes me laugh everytime.
All of the annoying kid's scenes in 'The Gun'.
The car going over the edge in Slush Fund - a cut before we see the dummy's head falling off wouldn't go amiss.
The crowd scenes in 'Looking After Annie' it looks pretty cheaply done which just doesn't help a fairly poor episode anyway.
Being an animal lover, I'd take out the horse getting killed in 'Weekend In The Country' and maybe the pet deaths in 'You'll Be Alright', although they were more sensitively done.
Now normally on a show as cool as The Professionals I'd say ... in an instant: NOTHING.
However two that stand out for me are the dodgy windscreen continuity AND the unknown boats in the Capri in 'Everest Was Also Conquered'. It's criminally edited and a shambles of a production... when Mrs jno spots 'em on viewing 1 and looks at me with a 'why are you making me watch this amateur hour production?' look, then that confirms it for me ... clearly a re-edit is on the to-do list.
Yes, that needs to be edited down to have a running time of 5 minutes. 'The Gun' should be down to just the opening titles.
All joking apart, the one that really needs it, as others have mentioned, is 'Klansmen' so that it can be broadcast. It would need major work.
Four too many words there Chop.
About 25 minutes into the episode there should be a "WTF is Happening?" break whereby a Pro's expert tells you what the hell is going in the silly plot so far. After that, the action can then continue until the end when the expert then explains the last half of the unintelligible nonsense we have just watched.
The same can be said for that piece of stock footage , of the wrecking ball , knocking down the same piece of building .
up with an early 1950s Bedford truck , in the Allegro panda car , so had to use this method .
& ITV 4 repeats , but is usually left in , in box set episodes .
YOU LL BE ALRIGHT - The brief scene where Bodie s Capri , appears , with the registration belonging to Cowley s Granada .
Also , the badly edited sequence , where the two kids nearly get run over by the Merc .
The scene where the RAF jets are chasing the aeroplane of the baddies has never sat right with me. Even upon my first viewing of this excellent episode around 25 years ago on video it just didn't sit right in the episode.
Gordon Jackson never gives a bad performance but I think even he is struggling with this one. I rate it as the worst of all.
I would have cut the scenes of the girl huffing and puffing and desperately sniffing her coke in The Female Factor. No offence to the actress who played her, but they added nothing to what was a very good episode.
I would also have cut the scene of Van Niekerk murdering The Cookie Girl in Slush Fund. Best leaving that stuff to the imagination really. They could have cut straight to another scene after she lets him in and then when Bodie came to search the hotel and found her in the bathroom, our worst fears would be confirmed.
I also found the main Russian bad guy's voice in Need To Know rather irritating. In his case, perhaps they should have dubbed him with a better, more convincing voice.
As much as I like her, Pamela Salem did go a bit OTT in Fall Girl when she kept screaming and warning Bodie that they were trying to kill him. They could have trimmed that maybe.
That would be Sara, played by Felicity Dean, who turned up at Bob's event at the Cinema Museum last year. (I believe she might be going again this year?) I think in 1977/78 seeing hard drugs used on screen was somewhat of a novelty/had some shock value to audiences, which is probably one of the reasons why Private Madness, Public Danger and The Female Factor were the first two episodes screened. The only issue with removing those scenes is that her character's main motivation throughout the episode is to obtain her fix; infact just before the climax the blackmailing KGB agent and his associate figure out where she's going because they know that she is dependent upon her pimp for her coke, ergo she's going to his flat to find some having failed to find any at their place. If you cut out her sniffing the coke then you just have several scenes of her moaning about wanting her "stuff"; there has to be at least one scene of her using otherwise her addiction is merely talked about by herself and other characters; it's a fairly important plot point that should be shown, not just told to the audience IMO.
I've always liked the episode 'Close Quarters' - the locations, the bl*ody violence, the car chase.
But I've never really liked the bit where Bodie strikes Julia around the face - that could be edited out fairly easily. Even without the 'PC' element of it, Gabrielle Drake's character strikes me as pretty good back-up for Bodie right the way through the episode - rowing the boat and driving the car during the escape, closing the shutters while being shot at at the house, bandaging Bodie's hand, steadying the gun while on the roof, and finally shooting Inge dead to save Bodie's life. I reckon her character deserves a little better than that.
I agree that Gabriel Drake (Julia) doesn't really deserve the smack round the face that she gets. But it's a necessary character moment that works for me; Julia isn't coping with the situation and is starting to question Bodie's sanity, and Bodie lashes out rather instinctually; He feels he can no longer assert himself verbally so he resorts to violence. it's a very physical way of showing that their relationship has been pushed past breaking point. It doesn't add much to the plot (Other than showing Myer successfully sowing discord amongst Bodie's group) but it's a really important character moment. The entire episode shows us a situation where Bodies' usual charm and authority over a situation is challenged; nobody laughs at his jokes, his machismo doesn't make an impact, and throughout there is a sense of him losing control; he starts off being proactive by recognising and capturing Myer, but thereafter he is constantly on the backfoot, reacting to what Inge and co. are doing as they back his group further and further into a corner. It's a controversial moment and you can either side with Bodie because Julia was being hysterical and needed to snap out of it in order for them to survive, or you can side with Julia because Bodie went too far and could have handled it better. It would've been very interesting to see the conversation afterwards between Julia and Bodie; I suspect Julia would be quite justifiably pissed off and dump Bodie because he didn't really appreciate her enough. But on the other hand Bodie had to focus on staying alive; you can argue Bodie was right to do it to end the conflict quickly as immediately afterwards he spots David Bradley (Kristof) sneaking around on the roof and shoots him through the window. If he had spent a few seconds longer comforting Julia it could well have been disastrous for both of them.
I don't feel it's like Klansmen where Bodie is just a full on racist out of nowhere; Bodie's reaction makes sense for his character; he has a few rough edges that make him interesting and I think if you took that scene away it would make him seem a little less flawed, and a bit less human. That said, Doyle in other episodes was pretty critical of Bodie in some dire situations, yet Bodie never lashes out at him...Infact the one time Bodie and Doyle do have a fight it's Involvement, where it's Doyle who strikes first and Bodie who takes the high road, making Doyle feel instantly regretful. ("Feel better now, don't you?") I feel like his relationship with Doyle is on the whole a lot stronger than his one with Julia; that's not a bad reflection on her, but I think it highlights some flaws in Bodie's character that only a scenario like this can expose.
Thanks for your reply, Edster. I'm going to re-watch 'Close Quarters' again over the weekend after what you've written here.
There's a point in the car chase in the episode (I think at about the point where the rubber boat comes off the roof of the stolen Cortina estate) where Bodie has an enormous grin on his face, as if this is all he really wants out of life. Julia, meanwhile, looks much more pensive in the driving seat. As you say, as the episode goes on and Bodie finds himself forced into a tighter and tighter corner, it obviously dawns on him that those around him don't feel the same way, and with no Doyle around to laugh at his jokes. I've always thought that when Bodie shoots Kristof dead on the roof, it is possibly one of the coldest killings in the entire series.
This isn't the only episode where you get the feeling that, when things are going badly, Bodie needs Doyle emotionally more than Doyle would need Bodie in the same situation.


November saw the release of Chromebit: a computer not much larger than a memory stick running Chrome OS. It's only mini but it's a great piece of kit for mobile working, and one that has begun to create waves in the market.
In the past we've assumed we'd all replace computers with our phones, which to some extent has happened. We use them for email, video, social networking and with Google Apps we can even open up and edit docs and sheets. A huge amount of work can be done from our phone, so why the need to champion a wholly new device?
Well there's always been a lot of love for miniature hardware so we can see why stick PCs would pique people's interest. By comparison have you seen the iPhone 6? You could surf on it! Rather than size however, we posit that the interest surrounding Chromebit is about cost, as it so often is with such things. Consider big organisations like schools and universities; how many leftover monitors are there sitting in storage? Without the funds to update to a swish, new system, they're left to take up space. That is until Chromebit which revitalises old monitors by simply plugging in to an HDMI slot, adding a keyboard/mouse and you've got yourself a ChromeOS computer. While it might not challenge Macs or Dells in terms of speed and storage, they're perfect for organisations looking to utilise the Cloud where the budget just isn't there for significant IT spend.
In the same way imagine the potential for these devices in developing countries. Lightweight and portable, the fact that they cost south of $100 means they can easily travel to startups and organisations learning on their feet without masses of financial support. Easy access to Chrome allows them to interact with other businesses and compete in an arena that would otherwise be out of reach. A vote for Chromebit is a vote for equal opportunities!
So Google for Work allows us to work at any time and in any place, right? Then essentially Chromebit is built for purpose, just with the extra mouse weight shaved off. Still some detractors have taken issue with this lack of equipment, deeming access to the Cloud not enough to make the stick PC relevant. However, as the team at C Net so succinctly put, 'the argument for the utility of an online-only computer is a persuasive one'. For the price, access to Chrome seems enough of a win.
We can't yet call it but we're fascinated to watch the trajectory of USB-based OSs.They'll either be the future of the modern workforce or gone in a year's time. Place your bets now.


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The Link Between Carbs, Gut Microbes, and Colon Cancer
Reduced carb intake among mice protected them from colon cancer.
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Colorectal cancer is a scourge of modern times, killing 50,000 Americans every year. It's responsible for a heavier death toll than any other cancer besides lung cancer and, when it comes to women, breast cancer.
And new research, which was published last week in Cell, has provided insights into the dangerous link between colorectal cancers and modern diets heavy in wheat, rice, and other complex carbohydrates—diets that became possible with the advent of agriculture.
University of Toronto scientists led research that suggests a common type of gut-dwelling bacteria breaks down carbs into certain metabolites that can lead to cancer. These metabolites appear to cause cells that line the colon to divide and proliferate rapidly, forming polyps. These polyps, which can grow into a cancer, are the abnormal growths that your doctor is probing for when they subject you to a colonoscopy.
"The microbiota in our gut play an important role in our physiology, so wiping out a specific phylum of bacteria is probably not a healthy thing to do."
The scientists found that they could protect specially bred mice from the cancers in two ways. In some mice, they used targeted antibiotics to kill off the clostridia bacteria that convert carbs into the metabolite butyrate. In other mice, they reduced the amount of carbs in their diets.
"We know it depends on bacteria, and we know it depends on carbs," says Alberto Martin, an associate immunology professor at the University of Toronto and one of the authors of the study. "This is the part of the study that's still not solid, but we think that butyrate is somehow fueling the hyperproliferation of colon epithelial cells." Other metabolites of carbohydrates might also be involved, he says. "It would be naïve to think it's only butyrate."
The phyla of bacteria inhabiting mouse guts resembles that in human intestines, which suggests the findings could be relevant for human health. And that suggests that you could protect yourself from colon cancer by taking the same potent cocktail of targeted antibiotics, including ampicillin, metronidazole, neomycin, and vancomycin, that were fed to the mice.
But Martin definitely doesn't think you should do that. Colorectal cancers tend to crop up in older people, meaning 30 or 40 years' worth of antibiotics might need to be taken before they would do any good. Meanwhile, the clostridia would likely become resistant to the drugs, and the antibiotics could do more harm during those years than good.
"The microbiota in our gut play an important role in our physiology, so wiping out a specific phylum of bacteria is probably not a healthy thing to do," Martin says. "We're investigating whether probiotics can modulate colon cancer, but we don't have any answers on that yet."
A change in diet would be a better approach than taking prophylactic antibiotics.
"Reducing carb intake might be an approach to reducing the incidence of this type of colon cancer," Martin says. But "before we declare war on carbs," he warns that it would be important to undertake similar studies in humans—not just mice. "We're really only beginning to learn about these things."
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Monday friends and family at the Fort Wayne BMX track sat silently on the track as they listened to an announcer commemorate what was essentially a final ride.
Stoffel's uncle, Joel Stoffel was in attendance. He said his nephew was a kid who always made others smile, and worked hard every day to perfect his craft. "There's not enough time in the day to say all the wonderful things about this kid," said J. Stoffel.
Stoffel's friends shared with Fort Wayne's NBC the type of person the teen was. "He was just so positive all the time and he was so goofy and made everyone laugh," said Colten King, Stoffel's friend.
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"My family and I would like to thank the BMX community and our extended family and friends for their outpouring of love and support during our most difficult days. We have confirmed that our son, Carson, passed away on June 16, 2019, as a result of a heart aneurysm which occurred during his race at the Midwest Nationals in Rockford, IL, resulting in the crash. Unfortunately, this incident brought to light an unknown health condition.
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The limitations of education in a remote town such as this caused Bandura to become independent and self-motivated in terms of learning, and these primarily developed traits proved very helpful in his lengthy career.Social cognitive theory is how people learn through observing others.An example of social cognitive theory would be the students imitating the teacher.He married Virginia Varns (1921–2011) in 1952, Bandura's introduction to academic psychology came about by a fluke; as a student with little to do in the early mornings, he took a psychology course to pass the time, and became enamored of the subject. His inclusion of such mental phenomena as imagery and representation, and his concept of reciprocal determinism, which postulated a relationship of mutual influence between an agent and its environment, marked a radical departure from the dominant behaviorism of the time.Bandura graduated in three years, in 1949, with a B. from the University of British Columbia, winning the Bolocan Award in psychology, and then moved to the then-epicenter of theoretical psychology, the University of Iowa, from where he obtained his M. Bandura's expanded array of conceptual tools allowed for more potent modeling of such phenomena as observational learning and self-regulation, and provided psychologists with a practical way in which to theorize about mental processes, in opposition to the mentalistic constructs of psychoanalysis and personology.
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