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Climbing S.F.'s beloved staircases with a guide who's vowed to conquer them all
Local // Heather Knight
Heather Knight
Sep. 21, 2020 Updated: Sep. 22, 2020 8:29 a.m.
1of3Alexandra Kenin climbs the Greenwich Street steps in Telegraph Hill neighborhood of San Francisco, Calif., on Wednesday, August 12, 2020. Kenin has climbed all 900 outdoor staircases in San Francisco and logged them online.Scott Strazzante / The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
3of3Alexandra Kenin waits for two people to pass while climbing the Greenwich Street steps in Telegraph Hill neighborhood of San Francisco, Calif., on Wednesday, August 12, 2020. Kenin has climbed all 900 outdoor staircases in San Francisco and logged them online.Scott Strazzante / The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
Many of us have developed unusual pandemic hobbies. For Alexandra Kenin, it's finding and climbing every public staircase in San Francisco. As of Monday morning, her tally was 837. But it might have changed by now. The number, like Kenin, just keeps climbing.
She invited me to ascend with her on a recent afternoon, and we picked three of San Francisco's best hills: Telegraph Hill, Russian Hill and Forest Hill. Each one has numerous staircases and breathtaking views. Breathtaking in the literal and metaphorical sense.
"We've got a big day ahead of us," she said enthusiastically.
Kenin spends much of her free time climbing staircases. The short, nondescript ones. The little-known, tucked-away ones. And the long, famous ones like the Greenwich Steps that amble up Telegraph Hill through lush, bohemian gardens to Coit Tower.
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It's hard not to cut our flawed city a whole lot of slack when you're walking up the Greenwich Steps. Each pause to catch your breath finds glorious vistas of the bay, quirky art installations like a purple parking meter with no parking space, and beautiful flowers, birds and butterflies.
"Isn't it incredible?" Kenin asked, her huffing and puffing far less labored than mine since she does this sort of thing all the time. "This is one of the best stairways in the entire city."
She would know. While some San Franciscans have obsessed these past six strange months over baking sourdough bread or watching every show there is to watch on Netflix, Kenin has obsessed over staircases. She's created a spreadsheet documenting each one she can find, rating them and posting photos.
Alexandra Kenin poses on the Greenwich Street steps in Telegraph Hill neighborhood of San Francisco, Calif., on Wednesday, August 12, 2020. Kenin has climbed all 900 outdoor staircases in San Francisco and logged them online.Scott Strazzante / The Chronicle
She knows of 968 public staircases in San Francisco and has personally walked up 837 of them.
"There are staircases everywhere, really, when you're looking," she said. "I'll go out to photograph one set of stairs and find five more. The project just won't die."
And that's a good thing. San Francisco remains in a strange purgatory between open and closed, and there's still not a whole lot to do here. We can't go to live sporting events or concerts or movies. We can't eat inside restaurants or go to friends' houses for dinner or even drop our kids off at school. Sadly, we can't even do that most quintessential of San Francisco activities: ride a cable car.
But the beautiful, weird, whimsical city is still there, and nothing's stopping us from exploring it. Now is a great time with beautiful fall weather, relatively smoke-free skies and few tourists. Whether you're peacefully strolling to savor the views or rage-climbing to cope with the country's crushing frustrations, the stairways of San Francisco offer a great opportunity.
Online extra: To view Alexandra Kenin's map and list of San Francisco staircases, visit urbanhikersf.com/sfstairmap.
The 41-year-old Kenin lives in the Mission with her fiance and their toddler. She works part time for a marketing company and is the founder of Urban Hiker SF, a hiking tour company that helps residents and tourists explore the city. She's written two books, "Urban Trails San Francisco" and "Urban Trails East Bay." The company's public tours are on hold due to the pandemic, but it's offering private tours. And Kenin is exploring more than ever by herself.
"During the pandemic, I thought, 'I need a new project. I'm going nuts,'" she said with a laugh.
She fell in love with the city's staircases after her dad gave her a copy of the beloved tome "Stairway Walks in San Francisco" by Adah Bakalinsky, a book that was published in 1984 and has been revised nine times since then. She put all the staircases in that book into a spreadsheet and set out to find any the book had missed, including short, purely functional ones a guidebook wouldn't include.
"They're all so different," Kenin said. "It's such a fun way to navigate a neighborhood."
We walked all over Telegraph Hill, which Kenin says has more than 30 stairways if you count the cement ones built into sidewalks as well as the famous ones like the Greenwich Steps and the Filbert Steps. On her rating system, those both get a 5 — the best score, known as the "Scheherazade category" for stirring the imagination and delighting the senses.
Alexandra Kenin descends stairs in Telegraph Hill neighborhood of San Francisco, Calif., on Wednesday, August 12, 2020. Kenin has climbed all 900 outdoor staircases in San Francisco and logged them online.Scott Strazzante / The Chronicle
The short, nondescript staircases get a 1.
"It may be so boring that you'll fall asleep on the first landing," she warns in the rating system explanation.
Exploring the city on foot means finding little corners you'd never notice in a car. Like Jack Early Park, a tiny swath on the north side of Telegraph Hill named after a neighbor who spent 25 years turning the rocky slope into a garden escape with a viewing platform to take in the bay. According to Kenin, it's a make-out spot of choice for San Francisco teenagers.
From there we wandered over to Russian Hill's Montclair steps. The steps themselves are not particularly noteworthy, but where you wind up at the top certainly is: smack dab in the middle of the curvy part of Lombard Street. Then we walked down the famous, twisty road on different staircases.
"It's bright and cheery and bloom-filled. Lombard Street is a sight to behold," Kenin said, noting it's even better with few tourists in their rental cars zipping down. "There are usually so many cars in your photos, but not now. It's prime photo time."
From there it was on to Macondray Lane. The stairs leading up to it only rate a 2 on Kenin's scale, but they're worth it to walk through the oh-so-San Francisco street at the top. The charming brick lane lined with trees feels like an artist's retreat, and it was Armistead Maupin's inspiration for Barbary Lane in "Tales of the City."
We ended the day in Forest Hill, a far less touristy part of the city that even some locals will never visit. Kenin counts more than 20 public staircases there, six of which rate a score of 5. Bakalinsky called the grand Pacheco Stairway "by far the most elegant in all of San Francisco" with its huge urn of flowers at the base and its placement among forests and lawns.
The neighborhood itself is grand and stately, and some of its staircases lead to great views of nearby Sutro Tower.
Finally we were done. My health tracker said we walked 7.4 miles, took 16,744 steps and climbed 140 floors or nearly 3,000 stairs. I was tired but proud — of myself for making it without collapsing and of San Francisco. It's a troubled city, yes. But it's also beautiful and full of surprises just around the corner — or up the next staircase.
San Francisco Chronicle columnist Heather Knight appears Sundays and Tuesdays. Email: hknight@sfchronicle.com Twitter: @hknightsf Instagram: @heatherknightsf
Heather Knight is a columnist working out of City Hall and covering everything from politics to homelessness to family flight and the quirks of living in one of the most fascinating cities in the world. She believes in holding politicians accountable for their decisions or, often, lack thereof - and telling the stories of real people and their struggles.
She co-hosts the Chronicle's TotalSF podcast and co-founded its #TotalSF program to celebrate the wonder and whimsy of San Francisco.


So I've just started a contract working 2 days a week and then 1 day a week I work for myself. This means that my eldest who is 4 and half has to join his brother at the childminders after school at least 2 days a week until 5.30pm or 6pm.
So last week I went to pick them up and I noticed he was a little upset about a Halloween bag my childminder had kindly got them both for a present. He didn't want his and he was very upset when I insisted on taking his brother's one home because he didn't want him to have one either!
The bags had pictures of bats and spiders on, and I sensed this may be scaring him. As we were walking to the bus in the dark and the rain he got upset and told me he didn't want the bag at home and I should throw it into a bush. I said no and told him that the bags just had pictures of bats and spiders on just like the pictures he drew of bats at home. He said no they were real and the rats he saw were real and everything was real, real, real!!!


The transformation of becoming more like Jesus is called "sanctification."
Part of this process is choosing each day to walk the path He would have us walk. As we journey, we are to spend time in the Bible and in prayer, to learn more about Him and grow in our faith, to gather with fellow believers, and to get involved in service to others. Look around. Where do you see God working? Join Him!
It is our prayer at FCCM that each attender who spends one hour listening to the message on Sunday mornings would also spend at least one hour in personal Bible study, one hour in Biblical community with fellow believers (small group/group Bible study), and one hour in service to the local church (volunteering) each week.
At FCCM, we have many opportunities to help you on this walk.
8:45 - Discipleship with teacher Mark Black in Room 2.
9:30 - Seasoned Seniors with teacher Rich Burton in Room 28.
10:00 - Philotheans with teacher Dave Snyder in Room 2.
10:00 - Ambassadors with teacher Scott Vincent in the Library.
10:00 - Family Connections with leaders Tom Chain & Rob Miller in the Fellowship Hall.
10:00 - Young Adult Class with leaders Billy & Stacie Wilson in the Office Conference Room.
11:30 - Bereans with teacher Mark Black & Troy Vincent in Room 2.
11:30 - Young Adult Class with leaders Billy & Stacie Wilson in the Office Conference Room.
In the book of Acts, we see the early church doing life together in homes and in the temple courts. These early small groups worshiped together, ate meals together, took communion together, prayed together, learned together, bore each other's burdens together, and spread the Gospel together. It was a way of life.
Today, we live in an increasingly disconnected world. However, God never intended for us live the Christian life apart from others. Did you know that there are 59 "one another" statements in the New Testament? Scripture tells us to "love one another," "serve one another," "carry one another's burdens," "admonish one another," "encourage one another," and to "offer hospitality to one another." Biblical community is vital to our faith journey.
The goal of our small groups and Bible studies is to help people engage in relationships that help them become more like Jesus. Small groups and Bible studies foster a loving, personal environment where members can do life together. We have a variety of small groups and group Bible studies. Click the link below to discover one that meets at a time and day that's convenient for you.
The FCCM Adult Ministry is especially designed to minister to adults who are culturally considered seniors – specifically those seniors of the church and the community. The purpose of the church is to Go and Make Disciples. This never stops in our journey of life. Even as seniors, we strive to take as many people as possible with us to heaven whether that be our children, grandchildren, friends, or loved ones.
Because we are to love the Lord our God with all our heart, soul and mind, we will seek ways to serve God and one another in all three areas. There are so many activities and acts of kindness that seniors can do for one another and other age groups within the church and the community. The Adult Ministry will provide such opportunities. This can be accomplished by teaching the word through Bible studies, encouraging fellowship through interactive activities, and helping to minister to one another through service projects. Seniors have much to give to FCCM and the community.
Click below to go to our 55+ Calendar and Download page.
Have you heard the saying, "Many hands make light work"? Well, at First Christian Church of Malvern, it takes many hands getting involved in order to provide worship each week, to reach out to the community, and to be the hands and feet of Jesus in this world.
If you have further questions concerning ways to get involved, simply click the button below and get in touch with us!


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'Surprise' that Chilwell has highest Covid cases in Nottingham, but residents staying calm
Most residents aren't worried but will remain taking safety precautions
Keimae Blake
Malcolm Graham, 70, has said that 'nothing surprises me anymore' regarding Chilwell East having high Covid cases (Image: Malcolm Graham, 70, has said that 'nothing surprises me anymore' regarding Chilwell East having high Covid cases)
As Covid cases rise, Prime Minister Boris Johnson has told the British public that there is a 'Omicron tidal wave' coming.
In Nottingham, Chilwell East and Attenborough currently has the highest number of Covid cases and, in the last week, there have been 65 new Covid cases reported.
That fits into a figure of more than 70,000 cases reported nationwide on December 15.
Nottinghamshire Live went to Chilwell to get residents' reactions on how they felt about the news.
Some residents in Chilwell were 'quite surprised' that the area is currently topping the list in Nottingham but said they were being vigilant and were hopeful things would improve.
Audrey Clarke, 64, retired and from Chilwell, told Nottinghamshire Live:
"I'm quite surprised it's the highest Covid cases in Chilwell but in the same breath, I'm not surprised.
"If there's new rules, people won't follow them as it's one rule for some and another for others. After the Downing Street party people have lost faith in the government and because of that, I bet cases will keep climbing."
Malcolm Graham is from Beeston but goes to Chilwell often. The 70-year-old said:
"Everybody's changing their mind on a daily basis, all these politicians are doing is deflecting. I'm quite surprised [Chilwell has the highest Covid cases] but then again, nothing surprises me anymore."
George Carr, 60, is self employed and from Chilwell. He said he didn't think the area would be at the top of the list for long due to how the situation is developing.
"I'm quite surprised but I'll continue to wash my hands and wear my mask," said Mr Carr. "You would have thought it would be the city centre with the highest cases but it's Chilwell now and soon, it'll be somewhere else so I'm not that worried. You just have to be careful and safe."
Away from Chilwell, the Prime Minister is also pushing for more people to book their booster jabs amid more Covid cases rising.
He said: "We're jabbing in hospitals, we're jabbing in surgeries, we're jabbing in pharmacies and in pop-up centres, we're jabbing in shopping centres and on high streets and in football stadiums. We're throwing everything at it. Wherever you are, we'll be there with a jab for you."
For more information on how to get your vaccination, please see the NHS information here.
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German court refers Nokia-Daimler connected car clash to European Court
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FILE PHOTO: A cyclist rides past a Nokia logo during the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona
By Matthias Inverardi and Douglas Busvine
DUESSELDORF/BERLIN (Reuters) - A German court on Thursday referred a patent licensing dispute between Finnish telecoms equipment maker Nokia and German carmaker Daimler to the European Court of Justice to clarify the law as it applies to supply chains.
The Duesseldorf Regional Court said it would suspend proceedings in Nokia's fight against Daimler over royalties for technology used in navigation systems, vehicle communications and self-driving cars.
The long-running row revolves around standard technologies used in 4G mobile networks that provide information to vehicles known as connected cars, and whether Nokia is licensing them on fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory (FRAND) terms.
The dispute has raised concern in Brussels, where the European Commission has proposed a mechanism to establish whether certain patents are essential to a technology standard and to reduce arguments over their use.
"It's a welcome development that the European courts will pronounce on these very tricky questions," Commission Vice-President Margrete Vestager said in Brussels. "As you know we have tricky cases exactly in this area."
Thursday's referral to Luxembourg effectively freezes the status quo in which Daimler uses Nokia's patents for free - a blow to the Finnish firm that earns 1.4 billion euros ($1.7 billion) a year from licences. The judgment can be appealed.
"Daimler has been using Nokia's technology for 14 years and has looked for every avenue to avoid payment. In light of today's decision, we will now consider our options," Nokia said in a statement.
The Stuttgart-based carmaker welcomed the Duesseldorf court's referral, saying it would make it possible to clarify questions on standard essential patents "on a fundamental and Europe-wide level".
ABUSE OF DOMINANT POSITION?
Nokia has said that it has discretion to determine the point in the supply chain at which it issues licences, the Duesseldorf court said in a statement following Thursday's ruling.
Daimler has countered that, under European Union single market rules, Nokia is obliged to offer unlimited licences for all uses relating to standard patents.
In its ruling, the court found Nokia had the right to seek an injunction against Daimler for patent violation. But it also raised the question over whether doing so would represent an abuse of Nokia's dominant market position.
It suspended proceedings pending clarification of a list of related questions it put to the European Court.
The Duesseldorf case is one of several between Nokia and Daimler that are working their way through German courts - a typical feature of patent litigation as parties seek a ruling that can establish a favourable precedent.
With the latest decision, Daimler has pulled level with Nokia on two wins each.
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(Additional reporting by Foo Yun Chee and Philip Blenkinsop in Brussels; Writing by Douglas Busvine; Editing by Thomas Seythal, Edmund Blair, Emelia Sithole-Matarise and Barbara Lewis)


The latest adventures of Pacman are due to arrive in the UK next year.
41 Entertainment and UK licensing agent Lisle International has announced the UK debut of the Pacman and the Ghostly Adventures TV series.
The new series will air in the UK from the beginning of 2014, following the series' debut in the US and Canada earlier this year.
UK broadcaster SKY will host the first two seasons of the series on its stereoscopic 3D channel, while kids channel Disney XD will also host the show.
Namco Bandai will also launch the licensed Pacman and the Ghostly Adventures video game from March 7th across Xbox 360, PS3, Wii U and 3DS.
The new franchise will also be supported by a variety of other products including toy ranges, apparel and trading cards, alongside an official magazine and annual.
Lee Kirton, marketing and PR director at Namco Bandai Games UK added: We know that there are legions of PAC-MAN fans of all ages that are anxiously waiting for this new game on XBOX 360, PS3, WiiU and Nintendo 3DS".


Individual language is significantly impacted by what we hear, and a team of researchers from New York University used various imaging methods to determine that our brain's pathways play a central role in speech development.
The researchers believe their algorithm could help pathologists classify the histologic patterns of lung adenocarcinoma—the most common form of the disease—and potentially lead to more accurate staging.
The American College of Radiology (ACR) is asking for comments to be submitted by April 15.
Olivia Mueller is one of 14 kids who have received a 3D-printed model of their own brain as a thank you for participating in an MRI study at the University of Calgary in Alberta, Canada, according to a story from the university.
Educating radiologists on ACR-recommended follow-up for incidental adnexal lesions and incorporating such guidelines into normal workflow significantly improved the rate of adherence, reported authors of a Feb. 26 study published in the American Journal of Roentgenology.
The sensors, detailed in a study published online March 1 in Science, provide data as accurate as that from traditional, and often wire-heavy monitoring systems. They also have adhesives that are gentler on a newborn's skin and allow for more physical bonding between the baby and parent.
Patients diagnosed with colorectal cancer prior to turning 50 were often misdiagnosed, which may result in a diagnosis at more advanced stages of the disease, according to the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR).
Google and its sister company Verily announced on Monday, Feb. 25, the development of an AI-based algorithm that can screen eye imaging exams for diabetic retinopathy and diabetic macular edema—two of the leading causes of preventable blindness in adults with diabetes, according to a recent report by CNBC.
"Our results show that worklists organized by relative individual interpretation times can decrease the overall group interpretation time in a multireader setting," wrote authors of a Feb. 26 study published in the the American Journal of Roentgenology.
DBT also identified more cancers and lowered recall rates in patients of all ages and breast density types.


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About Rita Pappas, MD
Rita M. Pappas, MD, FAAP, FHM is the Medical Director, Hospital Operations within the Division of Medical Operations at the Cleveland Clinic. She has direct oversight of the following areas within Hospital Operations: Admission and Transfer Center (Main Campus, 9 regional hospitals, and Florida) and Bed Management. Dr. Rita Pappas is a Staff physician in the Department of the Pediatric Hospital Medicine, located on the main campus of Cleveland Clinic. She was appointed in 2004.
Dr. Rita Pappas has been appointed as a fellow in the American Academy of Pediatrics and Society of Hospital Medicine. She is board-certified in Pediatrics. She currently serves as a member of the Corporate Compliance Committee, and Strategic Space Committee. Her specialty interests include medical operations, patient flow, pediatric hospitalist medicine, residency education, patient safety, and care paths.
She is committed to family-centered care and is a physician leader in family-centered rounds - listed as a "Best Practice" by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO). Since 2007, she has been awarded the recognition as a physician recognized in Best Doctors in America. Dr. Rita Pappas participates readily in resident education and medical education at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University. She is a co-investigator of the 4 year grant from the Macy Foundation (Interprofessional Learning Exchange in Practice) to refine, implement and test a scalable model for interprofessional clinical education. She is also the coach for the ACGME Pursuing Excellence in Clinical Learning Environments Grant for the Cleveland Clinic.
Residency - Rainbow, Babies & Childrens University Hospitals
Medical Education - Wright State University School of Medicine
Dayton, OH USA
Undergraduate - Ursuline College
B.S.N.
Pepper Pike, OH USA
Distinguished Educator Level 1 Certificate
"Certificate of Distinguished Development" Graduate Medical Education Program Directors
Best Doctors in America, 2007-present
America's Top Pediatricians, 2007-present
Cambridge Who's Who Among Executives and Professionals in Pediatrics, 2007- present
Leading in Health Care Participant 2008-2009
Chairman's Recognition for Safety Award 2009
Scholarship in Teaching Award 2010
pediatric hospitalist medicine, residency education, patient safety, care paths
America's Top Pediatricians, 2007 -present
REALL Resident Development Award 2008
Award of Excellence, World Class Ideas, Cleveland Clinic
Children's Hospital No Hit Zone Wish List for Pediatric Patients, Cleveland Clinic ResidencyOutstanding Resident Teaching Award, 2003-2004
Neonatology Clinical Excellence Award, 2003-2004
Science Day Research Project Award, 2004Medical SchoolDepartment of Pediatrics Award, 2001
Dr. Roy Arm Scholarship, 1998
Chester E. Finn Scholarship, 1997 Undergraduate SchoolSumma Cum Laude, Graduate of Ursuline College
National Nursing Honor Society, Sigma Theta Tau
National Collegiate Nursing Award Winner
Cleveland Clinic Foundation Nursing Education Grant
Archbishop Hoban Scholarship
Beaumont-Seymour Scholarship
Fellow of American Academy of Pediatrics
Academic Pediatric Association
Association of Pediatric Program Directors
Society of Hospital Medicine
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Sisters Kathleen and Anita love spending time with their large family of local Colombian children they raised between 1984 and 2008.
In serving the Lord, they also open the doors of their home in Colombia to a wide variety of people; from drug lords and addicts to ex-guerilla warriors, devout catholics, evangelical pastors, divorcees, new-agers, Satanists, ex-paramilatary, rebellious tenagers, the gender-confused and the suicidal.
What would bring these people with vastly different life experiences to the home of a couple of Christian women not from their local area?
Most of them are at a crisis point in their lives and are looking for answers, guidance and direction. Kathleen and Anita counsel and mentor them, teaching them from the Bible. To these sisters, mission work is not just confined to a Sunday or to a church building – it is a long term project of care and time given towards people who reach out for help.


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I've known Lam, and most importantly, his steady musical output for a number of years now. He resides in the sunny state of California; a spot I'm the least familiar with among all of the artists I've worked with. Luckily, Lam. personifies all that LA has to offer. Yes, the emcee loves hip hop, and can lyrically match the best of the best; but his forte is feel good music that challenges your temptation to put music, and artists, into a box.
I have the honor of premiering his latest and greatest – Kno U. The 3 and a half minute epic will give you feels based on the production alone. Yondo found a way to make an instrumental that will awaken you, AND lull you back into a hypnotic dream. On top of the beat, Lam uses a free-verse style, making inflections, tone switches, and abstract melodics with his voice. As we get further into the groove, Lam spits one of the most memorable flows I've heard in years.
Kno U is a dynamite collaboration, and an escape from one of the worst years of my adulthood. Stream and share above.


Chinese athlete, highly acclaimed center for the NBA's Houston Rockets.After playing five seasons with the Shanghai Sharks, Yao (his last name) joined the Rockets as the number one draft pick in the 2002 NBA season.The drama premieres next week with an English title of , but the Chinese title 杉杉来了(Shan Shan Lai Le which translates into Shan Shan is Coming) is a riff on the leading lady's name of Xue Shan Shan.
Prince William (a perfectly impressive 6ft 3in) appeared positively ornamental as he shook Yao's gigantic paw, craned his neck to say 'hello' and tried to ignore the fact that the top of his head barely reached the knot in Yao's tie.
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Afterwards brother-sister are rather indebted to her but rather than use Feng Teng's typical method of paying her off, his sister suggests sending her nutritious packed lunches so she can recover from the blood loss and make the thank you more personal.
Shan Shan loves to eat and her enjoyment of the lunches along with general bright sunny personality slowly melts cold Feng Teng's heart and he falls for her.
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Landry excelled in 7-on-7 and 11-on-11 drills, catching passes from Ryan Tannehill and Matt Moore. And he continued to work after practice ended.
Coming out of LSU, Landry drew praise as a polished route runner. Still, he ran extra routes after practice with a coach, working on getting out of cuts and looking back for the ball.
Then, Landry jogged to the JUGS machine so an assistant could fire passes at him. Landry's big, reliable hands are also a strength, but he still works to improve them.
Suffering in the heat, Landry paused to take off his pads but did not stop practicing. Sixty times the machine slung a ball at Landry — high, low, left and right — and 60 times Landry corralled it. Sling, pop. Sling, pop. Sling, pop.
After catching the final ball of the day, Landry returned to his pads and kneeled over. For 30 seconds, he did not move.
Landry had talked about the South Florida heat with a smile Friday, but there was no smile Sunday as he crouched, motionless.
"I was praying that I would make it off the field from the heat," he explained, still out of breath.
Eventually, Landry gathered himself and trudged toward the shade. His work was done.
During the draft process, the biggest knock on Landry was his average speed. But that has not stopped him from quickly getting noticed in Davie before Monday's off day.
First, owner Stephen Ross raved about Landry after Day 1 of training camp Friday.
A day later, coach Joe Philbin complimented the rookie.
On Sunday, the fans showed their approval after Landry displayed some speed by beating Will Davis and the Dolphins secondary for a long reception from Tannehill in a 7-on-7 drill. After making the catch, he kept running until he entered the middle of a linemen drill on the other end of the field.
At 5-11 and 205 pounds, Landry does not have the size or speed of a prototypical receiver, but he still manages to get the job done.
Landry's biggest obstacle this season might be the other receivers on the roster, as the position is one of the team's deepest. Mike Wallace and Brian Hartline lead a group that includes Rishard Matthews, Armon Binns and Damian Williams, all of whom have experience starting in the NFL, as well as converted running back Marcus Thigpen.
Brandon Gibson will contribute, too, though he is still limited by last season's knee injury at this point.
For now, though, Landry said the depth benefits him.
"It's definitely a high level of competition in that room with each and every guy, and that's one of the things that I thrive on," he said. "Those guys push each other and compete and also help each other get better.
• The Dolphins released lineman Michael Philipp and receiver Gerald Ford on Monday to make room for offensive tackles Steven Baker and Tony Hills.


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Q: Syntax error in xpath in selenium code in python I am trying to select the date using Selenium in Python. The HTML code looks as below:

For selecting a date, I am using following code:
import selenium
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys
from selenium import WebElement

driver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path=r"C:\Users\cssaxena\Cardboard\chromedriver.exe")
url = 'https://cardboard.aka.amnz.com/#/businessGroups?app=$0c58c79c8a3280f4e953da2206007a9592499252-0'
driver.get(url)

WebElement dateBox = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//div[@name='daterange']"));

dateBox.sendKeys("20 Mar 2020, 12 AM - 03 Apr 2020, 11 PM");

and getting following error:

  File "C:/Users/cssaxena/Cardboard.py", line 15
    WebElement dateBox = driver.find_element_by_xpath("//div[@name='daterange']");
                     ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

A: This looks like a Java line of code you tried to copy in to a Python script. Python is a dynamically typed language, and you don't declare the type of a variable. Just lose the WebElement and you should be OK:
dateBox = driver.find_element_by_xpath("//div[@name='daterange']");

A: You're using the java selenium.
Replace
WebElement dateBox = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//div[@name='daterange']"));

With
dateBox = driver.find_element_by_xpath("//div[@name='daterange']")

Also Noticed that you're using the following
dateBox.sendKeys("20 Mar 2020, 12 AM - 03 Apr 2020, 11 PM");

Which is also the java selenium, replace with the line below
dateBox.send_keys("20 Mar 2020, 12 AM - 03 Apr 2020, 11 PM");

Full Script
import selenium
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys
from selenium import WebElement

driver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path=r"C:\Users\cssaxena\Cardboard\chromedriver.exe")
url = 'https://cardboard.aka.amnz.com/#/businessGroups?
app=$0c58c79c8a3280f4e953da2206007a9592499252-0'
driver.get(url)

dateBox = driver.find_element_by_xpath("//div[@name='daterange']")
dateBox.send_keys("20 Mar 2020, 12 AM - 03 Apr 2020, 11 PM");

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Rhychard Bartlett returns as the wielder of the Guardian Sword in this long-anticipated sequel to Reaping the Harvest, not only to face a runaway elf, a ghost, and visions of flames that actually burn his body, but also another member of the Void wanting to open a Gateway to the Nether. Add to that a mysterious dark elf that just walks up and says hello, and it's been one hell of a Monday for our hero.
"We did not launch the arrow, Mephalus," Kendalais said as he gestured to the hill to the south.
Mephalus turned and saw the townspeople lined up along the hill's ridge to the south of the stone fortress. Torches lit the night sky as their cries of outrage and anger filled the air, a mob bent on retribution. They held swords, pitchforks, sickles, and even bows and arrows as they marched to encircle the one who wished to subjugate them.
Whistling filled the air as flaming arrows launched from the townspeople, aimed at Mephalus—or rather, in his vicinity. Fire blazed trails of light through the black night, streaking their way toward the bodies that littered the earth around Mephalus' feet. The arrows pierced the ground, the flames catching the dry earth and the bodies that lay dead on the ground. The flames flickered, sparking fires that engulfed all around the elven Warrior. More arrows sliced the air, igniting even more fires. The fiery rain continued.
"Cowards!" The flames caught everything in their wake, sending up smoke and flames in suffocating heat. Mephalus started to have problems breathing, the heat singeing his mouth and throat. He could no longer see past the flames, which grew to reach over his head. More arrows hit the ground around him, one piercing his chest, knocking him backward, the flames setting his hooded cloak on fire. The roaring flames drowned out his anguished cry. More arrows assaulted him, some hitting the ground, others piercing his body. "Kendalais!" His voice, a mere gurgle of boiling blood, faded away.
The pain of the flames seared his flesh, scorched him, and made it unbearable. He gripped the sword, trying to use its magic as a barrier against the agony, trying to hold the inevitable off as long as possible. However, the Warriors inside his sword screamed at him as they united against him to bar his path to the sword's magic, cheering his death, even though they dreaded being locked inside the sword with him for eternity. The townspeople cheered as his screams filled the night. Yet, all Mephalus could hear was the roar of the flames, the sizzling of the blood on his cheek from where the arrow struck him. He fought to breathe, but only drew in heated air which scorched his lungs, devouring his oxygen. Then everything went black and he felt himself falling. He never felt himself hit the ground, however.
The pain disappeared. So did the sky and the ground, even the townspeople and those insufferable Sidhe Warriors. He glanced around and all he saw was darkness. He looked down, but not even his hands or arms were visible.
Robbie lives in sunny Florida where he spends his days where he can usually be found tucked away on his back porch with a cup of coffee while working on his latest manuscript. He has enjoyed a freelance career writing for several magazines, sharing some of his interesting viewpoints on life and those around him. While he enjoys traveling with great friends and their family. Most often, he can be found at home grilling out and sharing a laugh with those who matter most to him.
After publishing his first book in 2013, Robbie realized he is not satisfied writing in one genre. Robbie is the author of the Warrior of the Way series, an urban fantasy that takes place along the Indian River in Florida, and several contemporary romance series, such as the Rutherford series, Fangirls, and the Harper Twins. He also has written a paranormal romance, Come Halloween, as well as a Christmas story, Ribbons & Bows. While currently finishing his Warrior of the Way series, Robbie has enough works-in-progress to keep him writing for the next fifteen years in all genres.


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One of Grimsby Town's worst football hooligans banned for another five years after Port Vale violence
'Litany' of football disorder lands one of Grimsby Town FC's worst fans with another five year ban
Grimsby Town fan Lewis Ward who has been banned from attending any football matches (Image: Humberside Police)
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One of Grimsby Town's worst hooligans has received yet another five year ban from all football matches.
Lewis Ward has a significant history of disorder at football matches spanning nearly 10 years, Grimsby Crown Court heard.
Most of that time he has been under football banning orders.
Ward 28, of Parris Place, Cleethorpes admitted disorder at the notorious Grimsby Town v Port Vale game.
A total of 26 fans were arrested after Grimsby scored an equaliser toward the end of the match on Saturday, March 10 last year and Vale supporters climbed onto the pitch to taunt the home fans.
Ward has convictions for four previous offences, including being locked up for 15 months at Stafford Crown Court in 2010 and given a six-year football banning order.
Violence broke out at Grimsby Town's Blundell Park during their clash with Port Vale
He breached the order in 2012 by attending a game at Liverpool.
Ward also had a conviction in 2017 for assaulting police and in July last year for being drunk while trying to enter a sports ground.
He had been fined £796 with £620 costs by Cambridge magistrates and given a three-year football banning order.
At court, Judge Roger Thomas QC said: "This history is concerning."
Prosecuting Charlotte Baines said Ward's actions were caught on a YouTube video taken by another fan which showed the defendant holding a metal pole item above his head.
"A few seconds later he returned back from the hoarding (pitch side)," she said.
Police try to 'kettle' Port Vale fans after fighting broke out at Blundell Park during the Grimsby Town game
For Ward, Richard Lunn told the court there had been no repetition of that behaviour. He is self-employed and has a home life.
The judge imposed a two month prison sentence suspended for 12 months and ordered him to carry out 160 hours unpaid work.
He also ordered costs of £1,800.
Judge Thomas QC said: "He needs to be kept away from football. When he is there he misbehaves."
He said it was "a litany of football-related disorder."
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Addressing Ward, the judge added: "It is difficult to understand when you are a fit young man, of 28 years, in work. You like football. There is nothing wrong with that. At football games people get excited about a match and their team. What is wrong with that? But with you it then spills into violence . Your behaviour at football matches is appalling and it happens time and time again."
He said: "It crosses the line from football enthusiasm into criminal behaviour."
The football banning order bars him from attending home and away games, and from a designated area of town when there is a match on.
The ban further applies to international matches at home and abroad.
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President wants to clarify budgetary issues and waits for home affairs to complete preparations
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The Electoral Commission of SA (IEC) said this week that it had briefed President Cyril Ramaphosa on its readiness to implement the Party Political Funding Act six months ago and is awaiting his decision for when the act will be implemented.
Parliament passed the act in 2018 and Ramaphosa assented to it January 2019. Before it could be put into operation, the IEC, which will administer the act, was required to establish structures and business systems, after which an implementation date could be set.
The act provides for the establishment and management of two funds to finance activities of political parties, prohibits certain donations and determines funding rules, including mandatory disclosure of all donations exceeding R100,000. It is an essential component of preventing corruption by requiring disclosure and transparency by donors and political parties.
In reply to questions this week, the IEC said it had finalised regulations required for implementation, had developed an online party-funding platform to be used by donors and political parties for declarations and was conducting training among political parties on how to use the system.
"The commission has met with the president on the 17 March 2020 in order to apprise him [of] its state of readiness to implement the legislation in question. The date of the implementation of the act, however, remains the prerogative of the president and it remains indeterminate," said head of political party funding George Mahlangu.
Ramaphosa's spokesperson, Tyrone Seale, said on Monday that Ramaphosa would implement the act once various tasks were completed by the department of home affairs, which is responsible for the IEC.
"We can only implement once the IEC is ready to implement. There are outstanding issues to do with regulations and budget," said Seale.
Siya Qoza, spokesperson for home affairs minister Aaron Motsoaledi said that the minister had written to parliament to reconsider one of the regulations it tabled formerly. He did not elaborate, but it is believed that there is a technical error in the regulations which the minister tabled on behalf of the president.
Qoza said that immediate budgetary issues had been taken care of and the Treasury had allocated R72m over two financial years to help the IEC to establish the party funding unit within its structure and pay for other preparatory costs.
The two biggest political parties, the ANC and the DA, resisted the introduction of legislation to regulate party funding. The drafters of the constitution made provision for specific legislation on party funding.
But other than campaigns by civil society organisations for legislation to be made there was little progress until 2018 when Valli Moosa, an ANC drafter of the SA constitution, successfully lobbied key ANC MPs to initiate a bill from parliament, bypassing the cabinet. Led by then chief whip Jackson Mthembu, the bill was passed amid the turmoil of the Jacob Zuma presidency, receiving little attention.
Moosa, writing in the Sunday Times last week, said he was concerned that there was still nothing stopping SA political parties from accepting money from anyone, including foreign governments, corporations, lobbyists and dodgy donors.
"Unfortunately, the act, even though it is on the statute books, is of little value because it has not been brought into operation. A wonderful law, sorely needed to deal with the toxic relationship between money and politics, is still on the shelf. This will remain one of the lasting legacies of the current president," said Moosa.
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The Structures of Informational Warfare: Bot Network Topologies
Written by Swetabh Changkakoti
"And how did that make you feel?"
This infamous question is, undoubtedly, the go-to for parodying psychologists in pop-culture. It's low-effort, implicitly demeaning, and kind of crude when taken out of context, but it's still the hallmark of Rogerian psychotherapy. The reason? It seems to be genuinely effective. In 1964, Joseph Weizenbaum, Rogerian skeptic and one of the fathers of modern AI, set about developing ELIZA [1], a program that reflected the user's statements back as questions a psychologist at the time would ask. In doing so, he hoped to highlight the superficiality of human-machine interactions (and make fun of an all-too-common trope). The actual results of his experiment, however, were surprising, to say the least. Several users, including his own secretary, attributed human-like feelings to the program, some even going as far as being convinced of its intelligence! While ELIZA cemented itself in history for several reasons, a particularly crucial one was it showing that while a bot might not pass an elaborate Turing test, it might still bypass humans interacting with it superficially.
What makes ELIZA ever-more relevant today is the industrial cornucopia of surface-level humanity we find in social media. With more than 500 million Tweets every day, it's fair to expect that most interactions on Twitter are limited to short, bite-sized declarations or endorsements (via likes and retweets). Borges's The Library of Babel poses the central question of how we filter valuable information from torrents of questionable data. Today, the same dilemma stands: what– and who– is real in our gargantuan social networks?
The Power in Numbers
Acquiring a Twitter bot is easy. For smaller-scale operations, all you need is a developer account, which doesn't require a lot of effort. Larger networks with more malicious operations, on the other hand, often need to bypass Twitter's terms and conditions for developers. Unfortunately, this isn't hard either. There are massive online marketplaces for buying and reselling deactivated Twitter accounts, which, naturally, makes the search for bots harder too. Overall, a 2017 study showed that probably ~15% of all Twitter accounts are bots [2], and since then, the number has only gone up.
While the bots themselves aren't particularly intelligent, the fact that companies had lost 12 billion dollars in 5 years due to phishing and Business Email Compromises proves that there's a certain power in numbers [3]. Here are a few facts illustrating just how impactful Twitter bot networks can be:
Two-thirds of tweeted links to popular websites are posted by automated accounts– not human beings [4]
Nearly half of the accounts tweeting about the coronavirus and about reopening the USA are bots [5]
During the 2016 elections, 1/3rd of pro-Trump tweets and 1/5th of pro-Hillary tweets came from bots.
In the wake of the Citizenship Amendment Act discussions in India, a single Twitter user found 160,000 bots created to reinforce certain political parties in the country.
The prevalence and influence of Twitter bots necessitate an appropriate response, the ability, and action of identifying and removing malicious bots from the platform. However, as ELIZA showed so effectively, this isn't a simple task.
Blade Runner 2020: Identifying the Replicants
The most important point of discussion when it comes to identifying bots lies in their origin. By nature, bots are automated accounts, the programs for which are written by humans. This could mean two things– (1) low-effort bots are pretty clear in what they are, and (2) publicly available bot detection methods are generally prone to hard-coded workarounds from bot creators. The former point often informs design decisions that are overcome by the latter.
What do simpler Twitter bots generally look like? On an individual level, people tend to identify bots by analyzing specific features of their accounts. For example, bots are more likely to tweet or retweet at higher frequencies than normal humans, they usually have stock, non-human, or stolen profile pictures, their tweets are prone to typos, they tend to reuse certain phrases, or spam certain hashtags, among other things.
A typical bot account on Twitter. Notice the numerical jumble in the username and lack of profile picture.
While the example here is clearly identifiable as a bot by the features I've listed, there's a problem in using merely these features for identification. The people over at Twitter put it best:
As mentioned, an account with a strange handle is often someone who was automatically recommended that username because their real-name was taken at sign-up. An account with no photo or location maybe someone who has personal feelings on online privacy or whose use of Twitter may expose them to risk, as an activist or dissident. Don't like to add much of a bio or your location to your account? Some of us at Twitter don't either. Even if all of these public details are put into a machine learning model to try to probabilistically predict if an account is a bot, when they rely on human analysis of public account information, that process contains biases — from the start. [11]
Programmers aware of these biases can use them as workarounds to create Twitter bots that are harder to detect, which causes problems for both the platform and the real people using the platform by manipulating the apparent public opinion.
Future-Proofing Identification: Motivating Network Topologies
As a species, we humans have definitely changed over the years. We've experienced changes in how we behave, how we speak, and even, in some ways, what we need to thrive. Over our millennia of evolution, though, there's one thing that hasn't fundamentally changed– how we interact. Social network theory has been a cornerstone of anthropological research since the 1970s [6], and ever since computing has innovated and scaled up, more researchers, like Alvin Wolfe, have come to utilize social network models in investigating large-scale relationships. Patterns of human interactions vary with scale and context, but they're still consistent for a given situation, and these interaction patterns aren't easy to code into bots.
What makes interaction patterns hard to emulate?
Psychology. Thanks, ELIZA.
Several human behavioral tendencies weave together to facilitate the creation of complex social structures. People don't form social relations at random; rather, the establishment of connections has local biases, like the fact that people with more relations are more probable to receive more relations (this is called preferential attachment or the Matthew effect). At first glance, it seems easy to circumvent this by programming a bot to prefer people with more followers or connections, but that doesn't change how the humans on the other end interact! Of course, the complexity of this topic is beyond the scope of one article, but here's a small example:
Assume that a bot follows a person on Twitter. How does the person react?
The person ignores it: This is the more likely option, assuming it's possible for a human to tell an account is a bot by examining its account and looking at mutual connections.
The person follows the bot back: This is not as unlikely as it seems at first glance. Ghosh et al. [7] highlighted the effect of 'social capitalists', i.e. people who tend to follow accounts back without further inspection. However, this would show up clearly, upon further inspection, as an exceedingly dense, large network associated with the bot.
This motivates the use of a given account's network of connections, i.e. its network topology, as a feature in identifying whether or not it is a bot.
Exploring Network Topologies
The most common method of exploring the network topology centered at a given user (called the ego of that exploration) is crawling, i.e. examining all of a user's connections and mutual connections to a given degree of separation. A crawl has two defining parameters– its direction (friends or followers) and the number of steps (denoted by K). The ratio of the number of friends to followers is often a useful indicator of the general behavioral pattern of a user, and hence, is of interest to researchers. A ratio of ~1 would describe the user as a "social capitalist", as defined earlier.
Most crawls are restricted to K = 1 or 2, which might seem small on paper, but start looking much larger when you consider the 'small world phenomenon'. As determined by social psychologist Stanley Milgram in 1967, this states that any two people in the world are six, or fewer, social connections away from each other (check out this Veritasium video for a great explanation). A crawl of K = 3 is impractical on Twitter as this could theoretically crawl the entire network with a median distance of 4.12 [8, p. 594]. Cornelissen et al [9] found that a K-2 crawl on a mixed dataset of bots and humans (the Varol dataset [2]), when subjected to the appropriate unsupervised clustering algorithms (the AGNES algorithm paired with the Spearman distance measure [CITE]), managed to identified bots with a 70% accuracy. By proving that merely the social network topology of a user is sufficient in determining whether or not the user's a bot, they validated our intuition of network topology is an effective measure.
Of course, 70% accuracy probably isn't good enough for more large-scale or commercial exploits, but it suggests topology is an extremely useful feature, which when paired with other content-based features can lead to much better predictions.
Information Propagation and Network Structures
We've seen how bot networks can have distinct network topologies, and how difficult it is to emulate human networks on their own. Emulation, however, isn't always the goal. Accounts that are conspicuously automated exist all over Twitter– some benign, others not so much– and how these bots behave varies according to their purpose. A bot meant to comment suicide hotline numbers on posts indicating suicidal intent, for example, is likely to behave simply, mainly replying to posts and not engaging with other bots. Contrary to this, when the primary goal is to spread an opinion or spark controversy, bots need to build significant followings of their own, and their behavior is likely to include more interaction with other accounts.
In late 2019, India was rife with protests in the wake of the extremely polarising Citizenship Amendment Bill. As with any movement in today's age, both government officials and protestors took to Twitter to garner support for themselves. However, seeing the fact that the former could get pretty much anything trending was cause for suspicion, and looking deeper into its support revealed entire swarms of Twitter bots contributing to these trends. Platform manipulation, though against Twitter's policies, was tangible in the Indian political sphere, and Reddit user u/onosmosis conducted a data analysis that revealed the same, for both the majority and opposition [10].
A figure depicting the network associated with Congress's agenda.
A figure depicting the structures of networks associated with BJP's agenda.
The pictures above seem vastly different– and they are– but the fundamental organizing principle behind either network is the same: a group of seeds, or prime sources of trends or information, feeding multiple amplifying groups and accounts that retweet and proliferate this information.
The main differences in the topological structures of the two networks are highlighted below:
What's most interesting about this analysis is how the clear difference in both network topologies correlates with both the intentions and effects of their respective political origins. BJP's network was far more complex and productive than the INC's, which signified both technical prowess and (1) the unwillingness to pull back on the network in any case due to the absence of a single "off switch", given its non-linearity, and (2) a different attitude towards abuse and platform manipulation, both of which it was far more successful (and intentional) at causing. This example clearly depicts the integral role of graph topology in the effectivity of a bot network too.
By nature of its bite-sized information structure, Twitter is thoroughly representative of a general social media dynamic. Trends, memes, and ideas from Twitter spread like wildfire, and in my opinion, so does its composition. Accordingly, the issue of prevalent bots isn't unique to Twitter, but the notions of a profile picture, bio, or retweet might be. Looking towards the future, we need to be vigilant of the how we identify bots, and the one feature from this example of Twitter bots we can abstract out and apply to almost any social network out there is, by nature, that of interactions, and consequently, that of network topologies. Going into the future, it's therefore imperative to be conscious of network topology both as an identifying feature for bots and as a marker of their method of proliferation. In the end, it's eerily comforting to say that our interactions, our relationships to each other– for better or for worse– are what define us, even in a sphere that we usually consider devoid of intimacy.
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Secure single page in a site if site is hacked?
I've been tasked with trying to find a way to secure a single page in our site if somehow, a hacker gets access to our files. This "single page" will be run on a different server.
Show the user something that lets them know they are definitely viewing the right page
That's about it actually.
The idea being that during a process in our site, the user would navigate to this page, see something that lets them know "you are really at the page you want". That "something" could even be a url that points to a specific server running SSL.
However, I can't really think of any full-proof system to handle this. If somehow a hacker has access to what our website is serving, I feel like they could change anything, even going to an https: url in a new browser window for that page could be spoofed couldn't it? (edit: This is an important question. Could they somehow spoof the url "https://secure.ourwebsite.com" if they hack the main website at "http://main.ourwebsite.com"? Would the browser inform the user that they were actually going to the wrong url?)
Is this an impossible task?
One potential idea would be something like this:
Client opens "http://main.ourwebsite.com". In an iframe, we load: "https://secure.ourwebsite.com". On that secure page, we have a key sent from the server. That page then uses Ajax to send that key BACK to the server, which verifies that the key was correct and shows a shiny image. This allows the user to visually see that they have a secure connection. Then when the user submits the form (on secure.ourwebsite.com) we encrypt the information and send it back over the SSL to secure.ourwebsite.com.
Is that a viable option?
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The principle of SSL is that when the client browser displays https://secure.example.com/whatever.html then the URL bar in the browser shows that exact URL and the human user can be confident in the fact that what he sees is really what the server which genuinely owns the name secure.example.com decided to send at that time. This is completely unrelated to whatever happens with any other site, be it main.example.com.
And that's all.
This means that if you use an iframe then there is no URL bar, and therefore no guarantee. From the point of view of the user, when he connects to main.example.com then he sees what that server wishes him to view; if the server is under complete control of the attacker, then the user sees what the attacker wants the user to see. In particular, the attacker will not want the user to see the iframed version of https://secure.example.com/; instead, the attacker will server a picture which looks like the secure page, but is not the real thing. Since that's an iframe, the user cannot see the difference. The URL bar is the foundation of HTTPS security. Otherwise, it's just pictures, which are easily counterfeited.
There's really no salvation for a hacked site. No amount of SSL, Ajax or iframes will fix that.
Tom LeekTom Leek
SSL only protects the transmission and authenticity of the server/client connect. It doesn't help with protecting the content on the server in question.
To solve your problem, you need to create a hash of the content and sign it with your corporate private key. The user can now use your public key to verify that the content has not been tampered with.
As long as you keep your private key, well, private, then this approach is extremely safe.
You can use something like GnuPG to implement it.
Update: If someone hacks your "main" site, they can put up whatever content they like, including faking the content of your "secure" iframe. There is nothing you can do about that, except making sure your site is not compromised in the first place. Sorry. The approach signing content with gnupg still works, but it requires your user to check it themselves using your public key.
Martin WickmanMartin Wickman
Just to make sure, this solution would involve 2 servers. main.ourwebsite.com and secure.ourwebsite.com. The regular content comes from "main" while this specific page would be served from "secure". The worry is that if "main" gets hacked, they can redirect what should be coming from "secure". Make sense? I'll have to look into the public/private key stuff. I don't quite understand that yet. – James P. Wright Mar 8 '13 at 16:06
I don't think trying to hide a breach is the best approach, you should probably focus on doing a security review first, maybe hire a professional pentester if your company is really worried about security rather than in their public image.
Having said that, I see 3 different problems that you need to solve if you still want to take this route:
Figure out if the main page has been hacked.
How to fail over to the secondary server.
Not getting your secondary server hacked.
What I would do for 2 is probably a DNS approach, when you detect the page has been changed you modify your main domain name to point to the address of the secondary server, you will need some DNS provider that offers an API to do this programatically.
For problem 3 you need to have the secondary server on a complete different network/hosting provider, just to be on the safe side, and only have a single static page.
Problem 1 might be the hardest, since there is so many ways to modifiy a site, or the attacker might just not modify it at all.
matugmmatugm
I think you misunderstood my question. We aren't trying to hide anything, in fact we want the exact opposite. If on some random chance our main server gets hacked, we want our users to know when they go to a page that points to the second server (not secondary, second...it has a completely different purpose from the main server) that they are viewing a page that cannot have its data intercepted. – James P. Wright Mar 11 '13 at 16:16
I recall years ago there was a vendor that provided a hardware solution to the problem you describe.
It was an inline networking device. You would generate a checksum for the page you wanted to protect and the device would validate the checksum before it would allow the content to be served.
You could also create stop & go words. (most WAF's today will do this)
I don't know if the company is still around or not... I'll do some digging. I don't remember their name.
EDIT: I dug through some old business cards and the company was called Vericept. I hit the website and they appear to be Trustwave and are in the DLP space. They may still have a device that does what I mentioned above.
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It seems strange and suspicious that Bin Laden would resurface to bing up the Danish cartoon issue of 2005 so long after the whole thing has been forgotten by the rest of the world.
"Bin Laden's message was entitled "The Response Will Be What You See, Not What You Hear," according to the password-protected Ekhlaas Web, which carries messages and statements from al Qaeda-affiliated groups around the world."


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A Gail (friuli nyelven Zelia, ) folyó Ausztria déli részén, a Tirol tartományhoz tartozó Kelet-Tirolban és Karintia tartományban, a Dráva jelentős jobboldali mellékfolyója.

Fekvése
Hossza 122,2 kilométer, vízgyűjtő területe 1403 km², átlagos vízhozama 45,08 m³/s.

Kelet-Tirolban, a Karni-Alpokban, a 2094 m magas Tilliachi-hágóban (Tilliacher Joch), Obertilliach község fölött. Innen nyugatról kelet felé halad, a karintiai Gail-völgyön (Gailtail) és Lesach-völgyön (Lesachtal) keresztül, előbb az osztrák–olasz, majd az osztrák–szlovén államhatárral párhuzamosan. A Gail folyó völgyét két hegylánc fogja közre: északról a Lienzi-Dolomitok (Lienzer Dolomiten), majd a Gail-völgyi Alpok (Gailtaler Alpen), délről a Karni-Alpok (, ), amelynek főgerincén fut az államhatár.

A Villach városához tartozó Maria Gail falunál ömlik a Drávába.

Fordítás

Ausztria folyói
Karintia
Kelet-Tirol
A Dráva mellékfolyói

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This is my first entry to densho.blog as the newest member of the Densho staff, having taken over as Technical Director when Geoff departed after 8 years with Densho.
Coming onboard, I have to say I am very impressed with the use of technology and resourcefulness that went into creating the backend infrastructure supporting the collection, processing, organization, and dissemination of the oral histories. Visitors to Densho's public website and archive collection see the formatted transcripts, videos, photos, and audio streams, but what they don't see is all the work that goes on behind the scenes to create the collection.
I can't help but also be impressed with the scope and vision of Densho's mission when it was first formulated more than 12 years ago, long before YouTube. The decision to create an all-digital video collection of oral histories and to carefully transcribe and catalog everything from the very beginning was not only insightful but instrumental in making Densho's collection a tremendous valuable legacy for future generations.
It's interesting to compare what Densho is compiling with something like Google's recent release of historic LIFE magazine photographs, which was strongly criticized in a NYTimes article for its lack of historical context.
This contrast highlights an important aspect of the uniqueness of Densho's archive in that it captures and preserves the personal stories of those who experienced or witnessed the incarceration firsthand. Rather than simply "making it available," Densho provides framework and context so that many of these firsthand accounts have a face and a voice.


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Melissa L., 1754 è un genere di piante Spermatofite Dicotiledoni appartenenti alla famiglia delle Lamiaceae, dall'aspetto di piccole erbe aromatiche dal tipico fiore labiato.

Etimologia
Il nome del genere deriva dal greco e secondo la mitologia fa riferimento ad una ninfa che avrebbe inventato l'arte dell'apicoltura.. Joseph Pitton de Tournefort (Aix-en-Provence, 5 giugno 1656 – Parigi, 28 dicembre 1708), un botanico francese, è stato il primo a nominare queste piante ("melissa" in greco è l'ape).

Il nome scientifico è stato definito da Linneo (1707 – 1778), conosciuto anche come Carl von Linné, biologo e scrittore svedese considerato il padre della moderna classificazione scientifica degli organismi viventi, nella pubblicazione "Genera Plantarum ed. 5 - 1754" del 1754.

Descrizione
Le piante di questo genere hanno un portamento erbaceo perenne. Sono più o meno rizomatose e aromatiche.

Radici
Le radici sono secondarie da rizoma.

Fusto
La parte aerea del fusto è eretta e ramosa. I fusti sono a sezione quadrangolare (a causa della presenza di fasci di collenchima posti nei quattro vertici).

Foglie
La disposizione delle foglie lungo il fusto è opposta a 2 a 2 e ogni coppia è disposta a 90° rispetto a quella sottostante. Sono picciolate con lamina a forma ovata. I margini sono provvisti di alcuni denti arrotondati per lato. La superficie è sparsamente pelosa. La consistenza delle foglie è lievemente membranosa, sono inoltre cosparse di cellule oleifere.

Infiorescenza
Le infiorescenze è formata da verticillastri più o meno distanziati composti da 2 - 16 fiori peduncolati all'ascella di foglie normali. I fiori, a volte unilaterali, sono sottesi da bratteole a forma lanceolata, contorno intero e portamento patente.

Fiore
I fiori sono ermafroditi, zigomorfi, tetraciclici (con i quattro verticilli fondamentali delle Angiosperme: calice– corolla – androceo – gineceo) e pentameri (ogni verticillo ha 5 elementi). Il pedicello fiorale a volte è incurvato.

 Formula fiorale. Per la famiglia di queste piante viene indicata la seguente formula fiorale:
X, K (5), [C (2+3), A 2+2] G (2), supero, 4 nucule

 Calice: il calice ha una forma tubuloso-campanulata, è gamosepalo ed è zigomorfo, ossia le fauci terminano in modo bilabiato con cinque lobi con una struttura 2/3. Il calice è percorso da 13 nervature longitudinali.
 Corolla: la corolla è bilabiata, ossia gamopetala con struttura 2/3, inoltre la corolla è zigomorfa. Il labbro superiore è formato da due lobi lievemente ripiegati all'insù e ravvicinati; il labbro inferiore, più grande di quello superiore, è formato da tre lobi (quello centrale è più grande di tutti ed è concavo). All'interno il tubo corollino è privo dell'anello di peli caratteristico delle labiate; il tubo inoltre è dilatato verso la gola. Il colore è giallastro, bianco, rossastro o rosa.
 Androceo: gli stami sono quattro (un quinto stame è atrofizzato) e tutti fertili e con filamenti paralleli (non convergenti) e sporgono dal tubo corollino. Gli stami sono didinami: i due posteriori sono più lunghi di quelli anteriori e sono avvicinati alla parte superiore della corolla. Le teche sono divergenti (confluiscono alla base). I granuli pollinici sono del tipo tricolpato o esacolpato.
 Gineceo: l'ovario è supero (o semi-infero) formato da due carpelli saldati (ovario bicarpellare) ed è 4-loculare per la presenza di falsi setti divisori all'interno dei due carpelli. La placentazione è assile. Gli ovuli sono 4 (uno per ogni presunto loculo), hanno un tegumento e sono tenuinucellati (con la nocella, stadio primordiale dell'ovulo, ridotta a poche cellule).. Lo stilo inserito alla base dell'ovario (stilo ginobasico) è del tipo filiforme e più o meno lungo come gli stami. Lo stigma è bifido con lobi subuguali. Il nettario è un disco (a 4 lobi) alla base e intorno all'ovario più sviluppato anteriormente e ricco di nettare.

Frutti
Il frutto è un tetrachenio (composto da quattro nucule) racchiuso nel calice persistente. La forma è più o meno ovoidale. I semi sono sprovvisti di endosperma.

Riproduzione
 Impollinazione: l'impollinazione avviene tramite insetti tipo ditteri e imenotteri, raramente lepidotteri (impollinazione entomogama). I fiori sono apprezzati specialmente dalle api.
 Riproduzione: la fecondazione avviene fondamentalmente tramite l'impollinazione dei fiori (vedi sopra).
 Dispersione: i semi cadendo a terra (dopo essere stati trasportati per alcuni metri dal vento – disseminazione anemocora) sono successivamente dispersi soprattutto da insetti tipo formiche (disseminazione mirmecoria).

Distribuzione e habitat
L'habitat tipico per queste piante sono le zone boscose. La distribuzione è eurasiatica.

Tassonomia
La famiglia di appartenenza della specie (Lamiaceae), molto numerosa con circa 250 generi e quasi 7000 specie, ha il principale centro di differenziazione nel bacino del Mediterraneo e sono piante per lo più xerofile (in Brasile sono presenti anche specie arboree). Per la presenza di sostanze aromatiche, molte specie di questa famiglia sono usate in cucina come condimento, in profumeria, liquoreria e farmacia. La famiglia è suddivisa in 7 sottofamiglie: il genere Melissa è descritto nella tribù Mentheae (sottotribù Salviinae) appartenente alla sottofamiglia Nepetoideae. Nelle classificazioni più vecchie la famiglia Lamiaceae viene chiamata Labiatae.

Il numero cromosomico delle specie del genere è: 2n = 32, 34 e 64.

Elenco delle specie
Per questo genere sono classificate 4 specie:
 Melissa axillaris (Benth.) Bakh.f., 1965
 Melissa flava  Benth., 1830
 Melissa officinalis  L., 1754
 Melissa yunnanensis  C.Y.Wu & Y.C.Huang, 1965

Sul territorio italiano è presente solamente la specie M. officinalis.

Note

Bibliografia

Altri progetti

Collegamenti esterni
 Melissa eFloras Database
 Melissa IPNI Database
 Melissa The Plant List - Checklist Database
 Melissa EURO MED - PlantBase Checklist Database

Lamiaceae
Taxa classificati da Linneo


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Q: get facebook likes count in iphone-sdk I don't want to show Like button... I just want to get the Number of count that has been liked for particular link... Just Cont.. No like button No dialogue Nothing

A: Just do a simple url request to the Graph API:
http://graph.facebook.com/[FULL URL]

Example:
http://graph.facebook.com/http://www.stackoverflow.com

Edit: (an example with "LIKES")
http://graph.facebook.com/http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117500/

Awesome, isn't it?

A: Just wanted to mention that if your URL has any question marks or ampersands in it, you will need to use a different notation:
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For example:
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