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MA 4+1 A.B./M.S. Program in Computer Science with a Concentration in Digital Arts
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We encourage Dartmouth undergraduates to consider staying on for a Computer Science M.S. degree with a concentration in Digital Arts.
Objective and Overview: A 4+1 program to provide Dartmouth undergraduate students an opportunity to acquire a broader and deeper education in Digital Arts through a combination of coursework and independent research under the direction of one of the program faculty. With integration of the courses and a substantial effort in the independent research carried out during the senior year, the M.S. can be obtained in one year directly after completing the A.B. at Dartmouth.
Prerequisite Courses: Students wishing to enter the program must demonstrate proficiency in each of the following areas: Computer Science and Digital Arts. Such proficiency will normally be demonstrated by completing the following Dartmouth College courses with at least a B grade prior to entering the Master's Program: COSC 1 (Introduction to Programming and Computation), COSC 10 (Problem Solving via Object-Oriented Programming), COSC 22 (3D Digital Modeling), COSC 24 (Computer Animation: The State of the Art), COSC 27 (Projects in Digital Arts). These five courses are the three that comprise the core of the Digital Arts Minor plus COSC 1 and COSC 10.
An interim evaluation will be made after each term and continuation within the Master's Program will be recommended for those students whose work demonstrates the capacity for satisfactory independent research.
Specific Requirements for the Master's in Computer Science with a Concentration in Digital Arts are as follows:
Course Distribution Requirements: This is a four-term program (fall, winter, spring, summer). In addition to the prerequisite courses described above, each student must pass with a grade of P or better six courses in the following distribution:
Two of the courses must be COSC 165 (Smartphone Programming), COSC 177 (Computer Graphics), or COSC 50 (Software Design and Implementation).
At least two of the following: COSC 183 (Computer Vision), COSC 31 (Algorithms), COSC 61 (Database Systems), COSC 76 (Artificial Intelligence), COSC 81 (Principles of Robot Design and Programming), COSC 170 (Numerical and Computational Tools for Applied Science), COSC 30 (Discrete Mathematics in Computer Science), or COSC 189 (Topics in Applied Computer Science).
At least one of the following: COSC 129 (Topics in Digital Arts), COSC 56 (Digital Electronics), ENGS 21 (Introduction to Engineering), COSC 73 (Computational Linguistics), MUS 102 (Music, Information and Neuroscience), or MUS 103 (Sound Analysis, Synthesis, and Digital Signal Processing).
Courses not listed may be approved by the program advisor as substitutes for courses above.
It is expected that the six courses be completed as early in the program as possible, with at least two courses per term.
Students must complete six research credits by passing a combination of COSC 297, COSC 298, and COSC 299 (Graduate Research, Thesis Research, Full-Time Thesis Research).
Thesis Requirement: Each student must complete a research project based on independent, original research. Students can work in a team as long as their work is easily identified and with the permission of the graduate advisor. The research project will result in a written thesis. The research/thesis must be approved by the graduate advisor and successfully defended in an oral presentation, according to the following guidelines:
The student must prepare a thesis acceptable to a faculty committee and give a public defense of this thesis.
The research/thesis should be of sufficient quality to merit publication or exhibition (with suitable revision) in a refereed venue. Projects will be suitable for distribution, use and/or exhibition.
The committee shall be formed for the purpose of guiding the student's research. The chair of this committee, who is the student's primary research advisor, must be a tenure-track or research-track faculty member in the Computer Science department. In addition to the chair, the committee must include at least one other tenure-track or research-track Computer Science faculty member. The committee must comprise at least three members, one of whom may be from outside the Computer Science department or outside Dartmouth, though an outside member is not required. This committee must be approved by the departmental advisor to M.S. students and by the Dean of Graduate Studies.
All members of the committee shall read and sign the thesis in its final form. We expect that the thesis, including a copy of the signature page, shall be published as a departmental Technical Report.
University requirements
A complete application includes the following: i. A current transcript; ii. Three letters of recommendation; iii. The name of the research advisor and a brief description of the area of interest for a research project. A fuller description of the research project is due by the end of the second term of the M.S. degree program.
Students are encouraged to contact the Program Director in the spring term of their junior year for advice on prerequisites, the program requirements, and application process, and they must apply for admission to the program no later than May 1 of their senior year. Having explored research opportunities with members of the faculty, the applicant is expected to reach an agreement on a specific project with one of the faculty. The program Admissions Committee will be responsible for reviewing applications and making offers of admission, to be completed by June 30.
Full scholarships are available to qualifying students.
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So it has been a while since my last big coding update, and I also know both Game 5 and Game 7 have been fairly stagnant.
That said, I did learn the lessons I needed to from those two games. Game 5 has pointed out a number of flaws with the UI in relation to large maps. I haven't found a fix yet, and I suspect some reworking of the way windows and positioning work will be needed to fix the Game 5 issues. As such, they're being shelved for now, to prioritize game functionality on 1-page maps and get toward a finished game.
Game 7 helped find and fix all kinds of bugs related to line of sight, flak, collisions, missiles, and I think was overall a success. There are probably still some lose ends, but overall I'd say the game is in a fairly playable state right now. One of the only gameplay features that I believe to still be missing is Friendly Fire, and before I can include that, I need to give the game the concept of teams. Teams, while useful, are a lower priority than letting you guys run your own games, though.
While 2 through 5 are probably more important, they are a lot easier (in my mind) than 1. Part 1 will likely take the most time. I also cannot commit that I'm going to get through all this in a short period of time, like I did for most major code updates; this is likely going to be a slow and drawn out phase, based on my real-world commitments.
You can access Phase 6 through http://www.agespast.org/avacar/phase6/phase6.php. As with all new phases, you can continue to access Phase 5. They both read the same database, and both will process the games just fine. If more combat related code updates do come up, I may make those changes on the Phase 5, and then, once tested, port them up to Phase 6, as appropriate. That said, Phase 6 should be perfectly safe for playing and testing.
To start working on Phase 6 Part 1, I have adopted a new plugin, jeditable. This jquery plugin has solved most of the initial challenges with doing the edit-in-place concept for ship editing. At the moment, I haven't updated any of the permission layers, nor have I hardcoded it so only I can see the new features. This means that anyone on Phase 6 can "cheat" and edit ships. I've done this on purpose to both make testing easier, and to allow you guys to see the new feature and test it without hassle.
At the moment, you can edit ships in any turn, at any time, but realize that editing a ship in a past turn is useless and won't carry forward. I'll likely just make the current turn editable in the future.
To edit any of the above, simply click on them on the popup window in Phase 6. At the moment, there is no indications that you can edit any of these fields, you "just need to know", but I plan to add either a tooltip or other reminder in the future to let people know they have editing powers.
In the case of "Dumb-Fire Missile x2" you could click on the 'x2' and a drop-down lets you pick how many missiles you want the ship to have. This has a problem, however. At the moment, when a ship runs out of a missile type, it simply drops it from the popup. To make this work, I'd have to add back in a "x0" to be clicked on for empty missile slots. This change would NOT be retroactive either, and would only apply to future turns.
I would have to say 1 is slightly easier to code than 2, but I could be wrong. 1 has a lot more 'behind the scenes' changes to make than 2, but is easier on the UI. 2 is a bigger UI change, but probably wouldn't impact the already-in-place missile firing code. Which would you prefer?
After I get missiles working, I'll try to tackle rotating ships, then moving/adding ships, then pilot associations, in that order.
Forgot to mention above that I also had chaff pods already working too.
I took about an hour today and also just got the PTC and AMG multi-turn counters to be editable with a click as well. Seems to work great. (Best demonstrated using Game 6).
Okay, I went with option 1 for missiles. Missiles will now list as x0 when empty, instead of dropping them. This will need some verification: I already know it works fine when I set the missiles to 0, but I need to verify that if we fire all our missiles empty, they will display as 0. This will also only work if the order to fire (and the processing of that order) is done using Phase 6, as I didn't make the change apply to the previous code branch.
I double-confirmed manually setting the missile count to zero works, but I dare not take over anyone's ship, so I left the ammunition-running-out test alone.
Ship rotation now works. You'll find rotation buttons available on all popups now. As always, this will eventually get hidden away again, and only be visible to "game managers/runners", but I've left it open for everyone to try, for now! Report bugs if you find them.
I pulled some creative commons licensed rotation symbols off the web to use, but they don't really fit in with the current motif. If anyone reading this has art skills and wants to provide some improved rotation icons that fit the scheme better (you could even offer Confed and Kilrathi versions...) I'd be more than happy to put your icons into the game!
As a suggestion for the future, I'd ultimately love for the rotation symbols to actually be on the map and appear on hover, but I think that's best left for a far future update after I've reworked the position system. For now, putting them inside the popups was easy, and a no-brainer as far as modifying existing code.
The arrows don't look that bad and the colours don't clash too badly with the red and blue. But certainly, if someone submits something nicer, it's probably worth making the switch.
The new code seems to work well - I just have a concern about possible over-flow, but as you say, it's not meant to be for regular users. I'm looking at Iron Duke's Left Claw and Right Claw ship pop-ups, as an example of the constrained space issue.
Good point and an excellent catch; those names were "long" I suppose, and definitely caused the overflow. At the moment they are positioned statically; I could switch them to relative, and put them on the bottom-right corner of the popup. Can you think of an example where this will interfere? The only thing I think it might overflow into at the moment, could be the 'orders' button in some cases. The 2nd column of data in the window doesn't usually change in length (whereas the left column is different ship-to-ship based on armament).
Bottom-right might be a better place for the time being. Again, I don't think it's worth worrying too much about if it's something regular users won't have access to.
I've moved the rotator icons to the bottom right, as discussed.
After moving a ship, all jquery seems to become unbound. It will not open the popup, won't show its dogtag, and it can't be moved again. Reloading the page fixes the issues (as the jquery gets rebound). My initial thoughts were to use the jquery .on() function to bind on the events, but I am not very familiar with it and despite using it as listed in its help file, the events don't seem to be binding to the future inserted instances of the new icons within the context of the same page load.
Indicators will not play nice with piles. At the moment, if you drop an indicator on another, it'll just supersede it until a reload. Upon reload, it should join the pile indicator. Additionally, the old pile will still be confused as to the existence of the previous position of the icon. This problem is more solvable, and I've roughed in some of the code to fix it (although it'll involve twisting my head around the issue again since those selectmenus are a pain to work with). I was aware of this problem before I was aware of problem 2, however I believe this is a moot issue as problem 2 will also apply to problem 3: i.e. even if I did re-write the code to do on-the-fly regeneration of the piles and have the icon put into a new pile (or removed from an old one) if the click/mouseover events aren't being properly re-bound, there isn't much point anyway as a page load solves both issues.
Problem 1 is going to be accepted as-is, and left for some nebulous future fix, I think, unless someone has a good suggestion. Problem 2 is an issue that I'm not pleased with, and I'll need to do more reading/research to address it. Problem 3 may be a bit of a pain, if more straightforward than 2, and I may leave it as a down the road polish update.
There are a number of customizable options we can mess with, so opinions are always welcome. For instance, at the moment, I have any open popups also-close temporarily while dragging, and then auto-open again after. Do people like this? There is also a minimum drag distance to trigger the move, currently set to 50px. Is this too long/too short? Finally, I have the ship on the cursor set to 70% opacity; should it be more or less opaque?
Feel free to mess around, and any feedback is appreciated.
I noticed the scripting seeming to stop after moving a ship. I'm treating this as an experimental feature - which it obviously is - so I'm not too concerned about this at the moment.
Dropping the pop-up while moving the ship is a good idea - the pop-up may be covering the spot you're wanting to move to. Am I right in thinking that it's only possible to move ships when the pop-up is active? Because I don't think I can just move ships as-is. The opacity while dragging seems fine, it's not too intrusive but still useful. I'm just wondering about what's the best drag-distance-to-trigger-move setting - if one is just intending to move to an adjacent cell, it almost seems as though you have to move beyond that to trigger the move. But too short a distance may not allow filtering of accidental drags. I haven't checked what the distance is between cells, but at the moment, I'm thinking it could be worth trying a more sensitive trigger.
Yeah, this is "problem 2" above in action. The other ships' scripts should still be working though.
Am I right in thinking that it's only possible to move ships when the pop-up is active? Because I don't think I can just move ships as-is.
Actually, you can (read: should) be able to move the ship with the popup closed. If not, let me know, because I am able to.
I'm just wondering about what's the best drag-distance-to-trigger-move setting - if one is just intending to move to an adjacent cell, it almost seems as though you have to move beyond that to trigger the move. But too short a distance may not allow filtering of accidental drags. I haven't checked what the distance is between cells, but at the moment, I'm thinking it could be worth trying a more sensitive trigger.
Okay, double-checked this one: yes, I can move without having the pop-up open.
I've dropped it to 40px. Does that feel better?
Not sure if I notice any difference, but it's probably good enough. I accidentally move an explosion and noticed it came up with an error message, although a reload will produce the right result. Moving asteroids does the same thing - presumably any non-ship object, but not sure about missiles.
Hmm, interesting. While I'm not too worried about explosions, asteroids are definitely something we'd want game makers/managers to move around when setting up. Among other changes I had to put in when I added the movement of ships, is that I changed all the icon tags from #ship_<databaseid> to #<object class>_<database_id>. In the past, even asteroids were contained in <spans> that had id='ship_<id>'. Now they would be in ones labelled id='environmental_<id>'. This helped me address issues with moving asteroids that didn't have popups, etc., but it may have introduced a few new bugs. Also, the way this was introduced, it will retroactively apply to all webpages that are generated on the fly; we may see things misbehaving during order-giving now in currently live test games.
Making sure we can move non-ships correctly will be what I work on next; this is even more important than fixing the "Problem 2" lack of scripts attaching after move.
I had 15 minutes today, so I fixed that error message for non-ship objects. I've confirmed it works for ships, flak fire, and asteroids. I haven't explicitly checked an explosion, but it should work. Missiles are another question; but I think they'll be fine, since they're pretty close to ships.
I had to update the database to create compliance for environmentals. There is a risk that while I updated the code, I didn't correctly set up the future entries; i.e. we might find that future flak and/or asteroids won't work, but the current ones do. This is a small risk though, as I was looking for this particular problem and tried to address it where I could.


Geocaching Maine > Geocaching > Maine Geocaching Milestones > Hiram357 Hits the 200 Find Milestone!!!!
View Full Version : Hiram357 Hits the 200 Find Milestone!!!!
200 caches? I'll drink to that... :p :D Congratulations!
Quick edit your post Dave.......copngrats?
Who ya got in mind?
It's about time Hiram. Um..... I mean CONGRATULATIONS!!!
You have some great hides too so thanks for those.
Congratulations, Hiram!! Did you ever find your wedding ring?
I asked him that very question this past weekend . . . the short answer is unfortunately no, according to Hiram.
Congrats Hiram! And that goodness for that wife 'o yours otherwise we'd never have seen those pics of you from the tressel.
Congrats Hiram. Maybe to celebrate you should start a 99 bottles of beer on the wall cache series. Sound like fun!
oohhh, ooohh and he could put them near his favorite bars and of course at Jokahs.
Oh come on Bruce...... Lighten up:p These would be easy one with no long hikes required. These could be done under any level of sobriety.
These could be done under any level of sobriety.
I don't have to worry about "level of sobriety" when we go caching. Do you? For all my talk about beer, I've never hosted a "beer" event. Have you? LOL!
It was a joke folks, just a joke.


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Why Do Ordinary People Commit Acts of Espionage?
2nd September 2018 Tags: attack, espionage, legal, Political, press, Spy, surveillance, Sweep, technology, tracking devices, TSCM, vulnerability Team Shapestones
Political ideology and money serve as motivators for some people to commit acts of espionage, but they're not the only factors involved.
By Jerad W. ALEXANDER
In mid-July, 2018, Mariia Butina, a 29-year-old assistant to the Russian central bank and long-time Vladimir Putin ally Alexander Torshin, was arrested in Washington, D.C., on a charge of "conspiracy to act as an agent of a foreign government," according to the U.S. Justice Department. Per the affidavit, Butina was allegedly involved in an operation lead by officials within the Russian government to infiltrate the Republican party, including members of the Trump campaign, and the National Rifle Association, for the purposes of aligning right-wing political interests with similar interests in Russia. Butina's actions dovetailed with continued efforts by Russian operatives to commit cyber espionage to influence U.S. elections.
According to the affidavit, two American citizens provided Butina intelligence and guidance on her efforts in the United States.
MI5, the intelligence agency of the United Kingdom, defines espionage as "the process of obtaining information that is not normally publicly available, using human sources (agents) or technical means (like hacking into computer systems). It may also involve seeking to influence decision-makers and opinion-formers to benefit the interests of a foreign power." As Butina and countless others throughout history, such as spies like Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, have discovered, espionage is a dangerous game, one that can lead to imprisonment or even death. What motivates people to commit acts of espionage is as important as the ramifications of their actions.
Naturally, simple ideology serves as a motivator to commit espionage, but it's not the singular cause. According to a Spring 2016 article of The Intelligencer: Journal of U.S. Intelligence Studies, ideology "is adopted by an individual to the degree that it reflects the individual's ego. In that sense, an ideology is like another motivation – money – in that it serves as a vehicle for the individual to express a personal value or belief; an ideology is chosen in order to confirm conscious or unconscious beliefs the individual has already internalized. In the case of espionage, a particular ideology may serve as either the actual motivation for a spy to breach the trust placed in them or simply as a means of rationalizing that behavior."
A Combination of Factors
Three concurrent elements need to exist within an individual to make them prone to acts of espionage — a personality dysfunction, personal crisis and opportunity.
According to Dr. Ursula Wilder, a clinical psychologist with the Central Intelligence Agency, four personality elements are essential to the entry into espionage: psychopathy, narcissism, immaturity, and grandiosity.
"A psychopathic person is a person whose approach to reality is ruthless and cold," she stated in an interview at the International Spy Museum in Washington, D.C. "They have no conscience, or they have very limited capacity to feel guilt. So, their whole approach to life is predatory. They're excitement seeking. They love to con people. It's a game. This is all they can do to connect with other human beings. So that kind of person will commit espionage either flat-out for self-interest or because it's fun, or both."
"The next is narcissism," she explained. "A narcissistic person is fundamentally ego-centric. They can only experience the world with themselves at the center. They are very much needy for and will provoke circumstances that will permit them to be at the center of attention. They believe that what they need, want and desire is the truth. They will get greedy for attention. That kind of person will commit espionage as a grab for fame. Someone like that will commit espionage because it makes them feel big and important."
Regarding immaturity, Wilder explained an individual prone to commit acts of espionage (in comparison to a professional intelligence agent), either for or against their nation, is "an adult who can only function as an adolescent. These people live their lives in a blend of fact and fantasy. They do have a conscience, they can feel deep guilt afterwards, but fantasy is much more real to them than it is to adults who are grounded to reality, so to them committing espionage is a bit of a game, a fantasy, and online they have this illusion that if they do it online, if they just turn off the machine it goes away. They have a fantasy about the implications of their actions, and although on some level they might grasp the reality of it, it's not real to them. The grandiosity applies to all three."
An individual must be up against some form of personal crisis that produces distress. According to a paper released by the CIA titled "Why Spy?", a survey of agency employees "identified emotional instability related to ambition, anger leading to a need for revenge, feelings of being unrecognized and unrewarded, and loneliness as the top vulnerabilities on the road to espionage. They ranked such problem behaviors as drug abuse and illicit sex as second, and various mental crises or stresses brought on by debt, work issues, or psychological factors such as depression as third." Regarding opportunity, access matters. An individual must have access to sensitive information of some caliber that could be of use to a foreign power. All three combined — the personality, the crises, and the access — serve as fertile soil for acts of espionage.
It's important to make the distinction between ordinary people who commit espionage and individuals who join intelligence services.
"People who join the intel community spent years preparing themselves — school, applying, screening — there's a huge amount of drive and ambition, identification, pride," says Dr. David L. Charney, a psychiatrist with the National Office of Intelligence Reconciliation, known as NOIR, a nonprofit dedicated to educating the intelligence community on the management of insider threats. This would include people with access to sensitive information who flip, such as Edward Snowden or Reality Winner. "They're not coming in to be spies; they join for loftier reasons. The question is what makes a person go bad. That's when you have to get more psychological."
According to Charney, at the core of espionage can be an intolerable sense of personal failure, and not necessarily a shifting ideology. "Going back to the ideological spies of the 1930s and '40s, we run across people all the time who you know have personal demons that are driving them, but they wrapped their demons into the current issue of the day to give it a higher-minded packaging. Any time you try to understand you have to dig a little deeper."
South Korean women demand equal justice for internet sex crimes amid 'spy-cam porn epidemic'
22nd May 2018 Tags: hidden camera, legal, press, technology Shapestones Team
Thousands of women took to the streets of Seoul over the weekend to demand that the police fairly investigate digital sex crimes involving hidden cameras.
Demonstrators among the 12,000-strong gathering claimed that the police would "speed up" their investigations if the victims of privacy intrusions of a sexual nature were men, while allegedly dragging their feet over abuse cases involving women, including ubiquitous "spy-cam" or "revenge porn."
The event on Saturday was one of the largest female protests in recent South Korean history. Many wore red as a symbol of their anger, while chanting "women are also citizens of Korea," reported the Korea Times.
The protest was sparked by the arrest of a female model, 25, for allegedly photographing a male colleague naked without his knowledge while he was posing for university fine art students, and uploading the picture online.
The young man was reportedly distraught after his picture went viral and he was ridiculed.
Women were surprised, however, by how quickly the police rushed to solve the case – taking under a week to do so. Over 400,000 people have now signed a petition to the presidential Blue House, demanding "equal justice" and claiming that the female suspect has been unfairly treated.
"Just because the victim is a man and the suspect is a woman this time, the country is investigating the case differently," wrote one petitioner, according to the JoongAng daily.
"Remember the cases of women who were victims of hidden camera crimes and went to the police for help?" wrote another. "They would be told, 'Well you had it coming to you, because you didn't dress modestly' or 'We can't catch the culprit. It's too hard'."
For years, South Korean women have been victims of what was described by the Korea Expose website as a "spy-cam porn epidemic". They have been secretly filmed in public bathrooms, changing rooms, or a camera has been pointed up their skirt on an escalator, and the footage is then posted online.
In 2016, the police closed down Soranet, one of the most notorious websites for hidden camera footage of female body parts, and which had over one million users. It reportedly took the authorities ten years to do so.
According to police data, almost 5,200 sexual harassment cases involving spy-cam footage were reported in 2016. Over 80 percent of the victims were women. The same year, more than 7,300 requests were made to remove revenge porn, which had often been illegally uploaded.
Petitioners to the Blue House also mentioned the case of five male swimmers who were charged for installing spy cameras in the female swimmers' locker room. They were pronounced innocent last year by a local court, citing lack of evidence.
The presidential office has proposed regulating hidden camera sales, imposing stronger penalties and providing a stronger support system for victims.
Source: The Telegraph
Spy agency NSA triples collection of U.S. phone records – official report
9th May 2018 Tags: business, Eavesdrop, espionage, legal, press, Spy, surveillance, TSCM, U.S. Shapestones Team
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. National Security Agency collected 534 million records of phone calls and text messages of Americans last year, more than triple gathered in 2016, a U.S. intelligence agency report released on Friday said.
The sharp increase from 151 million occurred during the second full year of a new surveillance system established at the spy agency after U.S. lawmakers passed a law in 2015 that sought to limit its ability to collect such records in bulk.
The spike in collection of call records coincided with an increase reported on Friday across other surveillance methods, raising questions from some privacy advocates who are concerned about potential government overreach and intrusion into the lives of U.S. citizens.
The 2017 call records tally remained far less than an estimated billions of records collected per day under the NSA's old bulk surveillance system, which was exposed by former U.S. intelligence contractor Edward Snowden in 2013.
The records collected by the NSA include the numbers and time of a call or text message, but not their content.
Overall increases in surveillance hauls were both mystifying and alarming coming years after Snowden's leaks, privacy advocates said.
"The intelligence community's transparency has yet to extend to explaining dramatic increases in their collection," said Robyn Greene, policy counsel at the Washington-based Open Technology Institute that focuses on digital issues.
The government "has not altered the manner in which it uses its authority to obtain call detail records," Timothy Barrett, a spokesman at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, which released the annual report, said in a statement.
The NSA has found that a number of factors may influence the amount of records collected, Barrett said. These included the number of court-approved selection terms, which could be a phone number of someone who is potentially the subject of an investigation, or the amount of historical information retained by phone service providers, Barrett said.
"We expect this number to fluctuate from year to year," he said.
U.S. intelligence officials have said the number of records collected would include multiple calls made to or from the same phone numbers and involved a level of duplication when obtaining the same record of a call from two different companies.
Friday's report also showed a rise in the number of foreigners living outside the United States who were targeted under a warrantless internet surveillance program, known as Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, that Congress renewed earlier this year.
That figure increased to 129,080 in 2017 from 106,469 in 2016, the report said, and is up from 89,138 targets in 2013, or a cumulative rise over five years of about 45 percent.
U.S. intelligence agencies consider Section 702 a vital tool to protect national security but privacy advocates say the program incidentally collects an unknown number of communications belonging to Americans.
Source: Yahoo News
(Reporting by Dustin Volz; editing by Grant McCool)
Swiss prosecutors charge Germans with industrial espionage – report
21st March 2018 Tags: espionage, Germany, legal, press, Spy, surveillance Shapestones Team
BERLIN/ZURICH (Reuters) – Swiss prosecutors are charging three Germans with industrial espionage and violating bank secrecy, a media report said on Tuesday, potentially stoking a simmering dispute between Germany and Switzerland.
Zurich prosecutors allege the individuals passed documents to German courts and authorities, several Swiss and German media reported, in the latest twist to a row pitting Switzerland's long-defended bank secrecy laws against a German tax clampdown.
The issue should be examined by the German government, said Lothar Binder, the financial policy spokesman for the Social Democrats in the German parliament.
"We need to ask what the legal basis the Swiss government is following here," he told the media groups behind the report. "Perhaps they are trying to set an example to deter others."
The Zurich prosecutor's office was not immediately available for comment, while a German foreign ministry official said it was familiar with the case but that it does not comment on ongoing judicial processes.
The Swiss justice ministry had empowered the Zurich state prosecutor to investigate the three people on possible charges of industrial espionage in 2015, the media report by German weekly newspaper Die Zeit, the Correctiv research group, German broadcaster ZDF and Swiss digital magazine Republik, said.
The report, a summary of which was released to German media, said the three individuals – a Stuttgart-based attorney for Mueller and two bank employees – have denied the charges.
German states have for years obtained details of bank accounts held secretly in Switzerland by Germans they say are trying to evade tax. Swiss authorities say this amounts to the theft of business secrets.
The Swiss Banking Act requires employees of Swiss-regulated banks to keep client information confidential, but a number of staff have leaked account details to foreign authorities in the past decade as Western governments crack down on tax evasion.
Such whistleblowers and new disclosure standards have proven costly for Swiss banks, which have suffered hundreds of billions of dollars in outflows as a result and more than a third of Swiss private banks have closed.
The latest case stemmed from a legal dispute between private Swiss bank J. Safra Sarasin and German investor Erwin Mueller concerning "Cum Ex" trades which made use of a capital gains tax loophole that has since been outlawed, according to the report.
Reporting by Andrea Shalal in Berlin, John O'Donnell in Frankfurt, and Silke Koltrowitz and Michael Shields in Zurich; Editing by Alexander Smith
Scientists claim 'sonic attacks' in Cuba were likely caused by poorly engineered eavesdropping devices
8th March 2018 Tags: attack, Eavesdrop, espionage, legal, Political, press, Spy, surveillance, Sweep, technology, TSCM, U.S. Shapestones Team
US embassy workers in Cuba fell ill after hearing high-pitch sounds
The 'sonic attacks' were experienced in their homes and hotel rooms
It was thought that 'sonic weapons' might have been used against them
Scientists at the University of Michigan believe that poorly engineered eavesdropping devices might've produced the painful sound
If true, the 'sonic attacks' on the workers would have been accidental
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Scientists believe the root of a 'sonic attack' that led to the US State Department recalling 21 employees and reducing staff from its embassy in Cuba could've just been 'bad engineering.'
In September 2017, the State Department pulled 21 diplomats and their families out of Cuba and stopped issuing travel visas to the country after embassy workers reported hearing loss, dizziness, speech issues, cognitive problems and other medical symptoms that appeared to stem from a 'sonic attack' in their homes or hotel rooms.
Some Canadian embassy workers also reported feeling ill from a high-pitched noise.
Doctors, FBI investigators and US intelligence agencies all tried to identify the source of the 'sonic attack,' with some people postulating that a sonic weapon or even a poisoning was being deployed against the embassy workers.
The effected workers — who had reported hearing agonizing, high-pitched noises in very specific areas of their rooms — were found to have had suffered mild traumatic brain injury, but doctors at the time were not able to determine what exactly had happened to the workers' brains.
By December, officials had stopped using the term 'sonic attack,' with sources implying to the AP that the noise that caused the workers to fall ill might actually have been a byproduct of something else, rather than what had been deemed a 'targeted attack.'
A new report from the University of Michigan now suggests the 'sonic attack' was actually the result of eavesdropping devices that were in too close proximity, which then accidentally set off an ultrasonic noise, the Daily Beast reports.
If true, that would imply that the 'sonic attack' was actually an accident, not something aimed at deliberately harming American or Canadian embassy workers.
'We've demonstrated a scenario in which the harm might have been unintentional, a byproduct of a poorly engineered ultrasonic transmitter that was meant to be covert,' Kevin Fu, a University of Michigan associate professor of computer science and engineering, told the Michigan Engineer News Center.
'A malfunctioning device that was supposed to inaudibly steal information or eavesdrop on conversation with ultrasonic transmission seems more plausible than a sonic weapon.'
Fu did note, however, that despite his team's findings, 'our results do not rule out other potential causes.'
Fu, who researches computer security and privacy, and the co-authors of the study were inspired to look into what might have caused the 'sonic attack' after the AP released an audio sample that an embassy worker had recorded of the painfully high-pitched noise in question.
Iran the most dangerous nation for cyberattacks, says Saudi foreign minister
20th February 2018 Tags: business, espionage, legal, press, surveillance Shapestones Team
The most dangerous nation for cyber threats is Iran, Saudi Foreign Minister Adel Al-Jubeir told CNBC on Sunday, saying that the country had been attacked "repeatedly" by its adversary.
Asked who he believed was the most dangerous nation in terms of cyber attacks and Al-Jubeir was unequivocal.
"The most dangerous nation behind cyber attacks? Iran," Al-Jubeir said.
"Iran is the only country that has attacked us repeatedly and tried to attack us repeatedly. In fact they tried to do it on a virtually weekly basis."
Speaking at the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference, the foreign minister repeatedly criticized Iran for what he called "mischievous behavior" in the region, with particular reference to its support for Shia militant group Hezbollah, which holds influence in Lebanon and elsewhere in the Middle East.
The Sunni monarchy's interests have for decades been diametrically opposed to Iran's, but the past year has seen tensions escalate against a backdrop of proxy conflicts in Yemen and Syria.
Given the mounting animosity between the Sunni monarchy and the Shia Islamic republic, Al-Jubeir's statement is perhaps not surprising. CNBC contacted the Iranian government for a response to Al-Jubeir's comments but has yet to receive a reply.
Al-Jubeir said his country was taking steps to combat the perceived cyber threat from Iran.
"We are taking all the steps necessary to provide defenses for our data banks and for our internet and so forth. And we are also taking steps necessary to train our own people in order to be able to engage in offensive operations to make it hopefully impossible for people to penetrate those systems," he said.
Cyber experts have also pointed to what they see as the country's seemingly increasingly sophisticated cyber-espionage capabilities.
Last September, the U.S. Treasury Department added two Iran-based hacking networks and eight individuals to a U.S. sanctions list, accusing them of taking part in cyber-enabled attacks on the U.S. financial system in 2012 and 2013, Reuters reported. Iran denied any role in the cyber attacks although it has also been linked to cyber attacks closer to home too.
Hackers believed to be linked to the Iranian government attacked Saudi state oil giant Aramco in 2012, successfully wiping 30,000 computers and paralyzing operations.
In addition, security experts have traced a number of subsequent attacks back to Iran, including hacks on Saudi and Western aerospace and petrochemical companies. Cyber security firm FireEye has said it detected coding containing Farsi references in the malware that hackers left behind.
Ever since the Stuxnet virus that destroyed the equipment controlled by computers in Iran's Natanz Uranium Enrichment Facility in 2011, Iran's cyber capabilities are said to have developed at an incredibly fast pace.
FireEye in September 2017 named a hacker group it believed was behind recent attacks on Saudi, U.S. and South Korean aviation and oil firms as "APT33" and said it was gearing up for attacks that might cripple entire computer networks. "Iranian fingerprints are all over this campaign, and government fingerprints in particular," FireEye's director of cyber espionage analysis was quoted as telling Reuters.
Iran neither confirmed nor denied accusations that it was behind the attacks.
Cyber security has been a major focus of the Munich Security Conference, which has brought together more than 450 senior decision makers and heads of state to discuss current and future threats to international stability.
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Malawi Suspends Sim Card Registration Due To Eavesdropping Fears
16th February 2018 Tags: business, Eavesdrop, espionage, legal, press, Spy, surveillance, technology, TSCM Shapestones Team
The Malawian government has suspended a weeks-long mass registration of sim cards due to public concerns, Minister of Information and Communications Technology Nicholas Dausi said in a statement, Xinhua reported here on Thursday
LILONGWE,(UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News – 15th Feb, 2018 )::The Malawian government has suspended a weeks-long mass registration of sim cards due to public concerns, Minister of Information and CommunicationsTechnology Nicholas Dausi said in a statement, Xinhua reported here on Thursday.
The Malawi National Assembly enacted a new Communication Act in July 2016, which requires all sim cards to be registered. The registration was scheduled from Jan.
1 to March 31. However, it triggered fears that the authorities would listen to private phone calls.
Dausi said the government has taken note of the concerns and has decided to defer the registration until the issues are addressed. The statement added that the Ministry of Information and Communications Technology would engage the Malawi Communications Regulatory Authority, telephone operators and other stakeholders in a mass awareness campaign to address the issues raised.
Source: UrduPoint
China's ZTE says is trusted partner after U.S. concern
16th February 2018 Tags: Android, business, China, Eavesdrop, espionage, Huawei, press, Spy, surveillance, Suspected, technology, TSCM Shapestones Team
BEIJING (Reuters) – Chinese telecoms equipment group ZTE Corp hit back on Thursday against concerns from U.S. lawmakers that it is a vehicle for Chinese espionage, saying it was a trusted partner of its U.S. customers, state news agency Xinhua reported.
China is trying to gain access to sensitive U.S. technologies and intellectual properties through telecommunications companies, academia and joint business ventures, U.S. senators and spy chiefs warned on Tuesday.
Republican Senator Richard Burr, chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said he was concerned about the ties to the Chinese government of Chinese telecoms companies like Huawei Technologies Co Ltd and ZTE.
"ZTE is proud of the innovation and security of our products in the U.S. market," Xinhua cited a ZTE spokesman as saying.
The company takes cybersecurity and privacy seriously, has always adhered to laws and remains a trusted partner of U.S. suppliers and customers, the company added.
"As a publicly traded company, we are committed to adhering to all applicable laws and regulations of the United States, work with carriers to pass strict testing protocols, and adhere to the highest business standards," it said.
Last week, Republican Senator Tom Cotton and Republican Senator Marco Rubio introduced legislation that would block the U.S. government from buying or leasing telecoms equipment from Huawei or ZTE, citing concern the companies would use their access to spy on U.S. officials.
In 2012, Huawei and ZTE were the subject of a U.S. investigation into whether their equipment provided an opportunity for foreign espionage and threatened critical U.S. infrastructure – something they have consistently denied.
Allegations of hacking and internet spying have long strained relations between China and the United States. In 2014 then FBI Director James Comey said Chinese hacking likely cost the U.S. economy billions of dollars every year.
China has strongly denied all U.S. accusations of hacking attacks.
Reporting by Ben Blanchard; Editing by Stephen Coates
U.S. senators concerned about Chinese access to intellectual property
15th February 2018 Tags: Android, business, China, Eavesdrop, espionage, Huawei, legal, press, Spy, surveillance, technology, TSCM, U.S. Shapestones Team
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – China is trying to gain access to sensitive U.S. technologies and intellectual properties through telecommunications companies, academia and joint business ventures, U.S. senators and spy chiefs warned on Tuesday at a Senate hearing.
Republican Senator Richard Burr, chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said he worried about the spread in the United States of what he called "counterintelligence and information security risks that come prepackaged with the goods and services of certain overseas vendors."
"The focus of my concern today is China, and specifically Chinese telecoms (companies) like Huawei (Technologies Co Ltd [HWT.UL]) and ZTE Corp, that are widely understood to have extraordinary ties to the Chinese government," Burr said.
Chinese firms have come under greater scrutiny in the United States in recent years over fears they may be conduits for spying, something they have consistently denied.
A Huawei spokesman said the company is aware of "U.S. government activities seemingly aimed at inhibiting Huawei's business in the U.S. market." He also said the firm is trusted by governments and customers in 170 countries and poses no greater cyber security risk than other vendors.
ZTE officials did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Burr said he worried that foreign commercial investment and acquisitions might jeopardize sensitive technologies and that U.S. academic research and laboratories may be at risk of infiltration by China's spies.
Several of the U.S. spy agency chiefs who testified at the committee's annual worldwide threats hearing cited concerns raised by what they called China's "all of society" approach toward gaining access to technology and intellectual property.
"The reality is that the Chinese have turned more and more to more creative avenues using non-traditional collectors," said FBI Director Christopher Wray in response to a question about student spies.
Senator Mark Warner, the committee's Democratic vice chairman, said he worried about commercialization of surveillance technologies as well as the close relationship between the Chinese government and companies.
"Some of these Chinese tech companies may not even have to acquire an American company before they become pervasive in our markets," Warner said.
Wray said the United States needed a more "strategic perspective on China's efforts to use acquisitions and other types of business ventures."
Under questioning from Republican Senator Tom Cotton, none of the Intelligence officials said they would use a Huawei or ZTE product.
Last week, Cotton and Republican Senator Marco Rubio introduced legislation that would block the government from buying or leasing telecoms equipment from Huawei or ZTE, citing concern the companies would use their access to spy on U.S. officials.
"Chinese cyber espionage and cyber attack capabilities will continue to support China's national security and economic priorities," said Dan Coats, the director of national intelligence.
Speaking in Beijing, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang said the United States was the world's most powerful country.
"If even the United States thinks it is surrounded by threats, what should other countries do?" Geng told reporters.
"I don't know where the United States' sense of insecurity comes from. But I want to emphasize that in this world there is no such thing as absolute security. One country's security can't be put before another country's security."
Reporting by Patricia Zengerle and Doina Chiacu; Additional reporting by Michael Martina in BEIJING; Editing by Frances Kerry, Rosalba O'Brien, Susan Thomas & Simon Cameron-Moore
Source. Reuters
Mexico presidential hopeful says he is target of government spying
15th February 2018 Tags: Eavesdrop, espionage, legal, Mexico, Political, press, Spy, surveillance, Suspected, TSCM Shapestones Team
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – A Mexican presidential candidate denounced on Tuesday alleged surveillance of his movements by the government and demanded an explanation, the latest in a series of accusations that Mexico is spying without due cause on its own citizens.
Ricardo Anaya, a former congressman in second place in many opinion polls ahead of July's election, published a video on Twitter that shows him confronting the driver of a vehicle following him on a highway who identifies himself as a member of the country's main intelligence agency, CISEN.
In the video, the smiling agent says he is following Anaya "so that there's no problem."
Government surveillance has raised major concerns in Mexico in recent months, with reports of journalists, NGO workers and opposition politicians being tracked. Fears about Russian attempts to influence the election have also made headlines.
Anaya, who is a critic of the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) of President Enrique Pena Nieto and leads a left-right opposition coalition, also posted photos of another vehicle he claims was following him.
"Instead of following criminals, they spy on opponents of the government," said Anaya, the former president of the conservative National Action Party (PAN), in a post on Twitter.
Anaya demanded in a statement that the government explain the criteria it uses to "spy on opposition politicians."
A government official denied that Anaya was a surveillance target.
"This is not a case of espionage or spying on opponents or clandestine measures," said Interior Minister Alfonso Navarrete at an event in Mexico City when asked about Anaya's comments.
"We follow up on all important activities that happen in the country."
Leftist presidential hopeful Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, the front-runner in polls, said last week that he and his family have also been targets of spying.
Last year, the Pena Nieto government was criticized by United Nations human rights experts over University of Toronto research findings that it had targeted activists and journalists using sophisticated spying software known as Pegasus.
The software is marketed by Israeli company NSO Group, which only sells it to governments.
The researchers said they had found a trace of the Pegasus software in a phone belonging to a group of experts backed by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. The group had investigated the 2014 disappearance of 43 students that marked one of Mexico's worst atrocities.
Reporting by Lizbeth Diaz; Writing by David Alire Garcia, Editing by Rosalba O'Brien

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The health systems governance collaborative - in conjunction with RESYST and CHESAI consortia - hosted a webinar drawing on a recent special series on health system governance in the International Journal for Equity in Health. The unifying theme of the papers in this series is a concern for understanding the everyday practice of governance in low- and middle-income country health systems.
The webinar focused on two case studies of sub-national governance in the series - devolution in Kenya and implementation of policies shaping provider-patient interaction in two South African hospitals. Through these cases the webinar drew attention to:
Governance as distributed within health systems, and not just the property of national spheres
Influences on sub-national governance, and the complex interplay of hardware and software
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The role of embedded research in documenting the 'hidden dynamics' of governance within health systems
Rather than seeing governance as a normative health system goal addressed through the architecture and design of accountability and regulatory frameworks, these papers provide insights into the real-world decision-making of health policy and system actors. Their multiple, routine decisions translate policy intentions into practice – and are filtered through relationships, underpinned by values and norms, influenced by organizational structures and resources, and embedded in historical and socio-political contexts.


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A Sacred Journey Chronicles the Impact of ALS on a Lincoln Heights Family
A Sacred Journey, Fernando Barragán 2008, exterior wall, Sacred Heart Elementary
Ernesto Quintero entered the world a year-and-a-half behind his brother Juan. Of the six children born to Micaela and Roberto Quintero, they were the nearest in age. "Growing up, we did everything together," says Quintero, an independent filmmaker from Lincoln Heights, the cornerstone East Side community his family has called home since 1966. "We played on the same [Little League] baseball team… Pop Warner football… basketball… we were inseparable."
There, nestled below Flat Top, Montecito Heights and Elephant Hill—hilltop vantage points the pair of brothers explored as a duo—the Quintero family grew and prospered in the wake of the Chicano Movement and the fervent tide of cultural arts expression it spawned. As a result, the brothers would come of age in an era and an environment that validated their heritage and their identity even as their devoutly Catholic parents strove to ensure all of their brood understood the value of education, integrity and hard work.
"He wasn't just my brother, he was my best friend," says Quintero. In 2005, his brother—by then a contractor married to his high school sweetheart and the father of two—was diagnosed with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) and given three years to live. Commonly known as "Lou Gerhig's Disease," ALS destroys the neuro-motor cells which control voluntary and involuntary muscle function. And it is an illness for which there is no cure. Juan's family was understandably devastated by the news. Still in shock, Ernesto did the only thing he could. With permission from Juan, his other siblings, his parents and the extended Quintero clan, he turned his camera around 180°, training the lens on them and on himself. If he could do nothing else, Ernesto resolved, he would preserve as many shared moments and memories as possible in the time still left to the brother who had been his closest childhood companion.
Quintero is gracious during a short break in preparations for three screenings of A Sacred Journey: The Transformative Power of Caring, the documentary made from many of those moments and memories, presented over the course of a recent weekend at the Downtown Independent Theater in the Los Angeles. Fourteen years in the making, the film is a profoundly personal testament to the miraculous, life-saving power of love. But it is also "a bigger story about care-giving and the role of care givers in this country," says Quintero. Organized as benefit fundraisers for East L.A. Rising, formerly Boys & Girls Club of East L.A., the screenings sold out.
"I wanted to make something his kids could remember him by, something we could watch when the family got together," Quintero continues. He sits at a table in the restaurant and bar that has replaced Le Blanc, an old-school cantina on N. Broadway at Griffin, nursing a glass of water. Word has it that the new spot—favored by East Side Latinx Gen-Yers and millennials—was financed by a settlement won in a lawsuit against Johnny Depp. The irony is unavoidable if you recall What's Eating Gilbert Grape, the film starring Depp as a beleaguered grocery store clerk and primary caregiver to a brother (Leonardo DiCaprio) with special needs.
A producer on Pancho González: Warrior of the Court, a documentary on the legendary world tennis champion from South Central Los Angeles aired on Spike TV in 2005, Quintero and his Higher Ground Entertainment partner Danny Haro four-walled their way into the industry with live theater. Co-producing a successful 65-city tour of The Last Angry Brown Hat, a one-act stage play by Alfredo Ramos, from 1996 through 1999, he followed up with Veteranos: A Legacy of Valor, a touring production recognized with an award for "Outstanding Stage Production" by the Imagen Foundation a year later. Despite the professional achievement represented by the Spike TV broadcast of the tennis pro story, Quintero confides, he was privately battling addiction and substance abuse. (Photo: Brothers Juan, left, and Ernesto Quintero. Courtesy of Ernesto Quintero, Higher Ground Entertainment)
"I couldn't deal with was happening to Juan. I felt like I wasn't doing enough. It was easier to get high and not feel anything," he says, alluding to a subject in the film not broached in the half-hour, work-in-progress version of his movie introduced in 2013 at Plaza de la Raza, the renowned Lincoln Heights Chicano cultural arts mecca. "It finally hit me… when I visited him in the hospital… and… as I was about to leave, he asked… if I could… scratch his ear," Quintero says. The abrupt encounter with his brother's deteriorating condition intensified his pursuit of sobriety. "I even got down on my knees at one point and prayed to God for the strength to quit using, so I could be there for my brother," he confesses.
Growing up, Juan had been a model of responsibility, he recounts. Throughout childhood and adolescence, Juan had tempered Ernesto's rebelliousness with affection and patience. "I was the brother who would sneak out at night and run wild… a troublemaker always looking for approval on the streets from the homies caught up in that life," Quintero recalls. "He would stay awake until I made it back to our room because he wanted to be sure I was okay."
Two-and-half years after his brother was diagnosed with ALS, the opportunity to demonstrate his love and appreciation was occasioned by Juan himself, Ernesto offers. A builder by trade, Juan had voiced a wish to leave a legacy or a gift of some kind to his neighborhood while he still had use, albeit limited, of his limbs. Even as he committed to helping his brother realize one last, vital dream, Quintero reveals, he was taking the final steps on a path toward his own recovery. At family meetings held to discuss Juan's immediate health concerns, the Quinteros welcomed Juan's desire to contribute in a substantial manner with enthusiasm.
That impulse to leave a permanent endowment behind—rooted in generosity and the quiet, unassuming spirit of nobility which had earned the Quinteros widespread admiration and respect—became the genesis of a mural project at Sacred Heart Elementary, where Juan's daughter and son were enrolled. "It was his way of giving something back," Quintero says. Enlisting artist Fernando Barragán, the "Picasso of Lincoln Heights" and long-time family friend, to transform ideas and images developed with input from Sacred Heart faculty as well as community residents into a cohesive visual narrative, Ernesto and Juan were once again united as part of a team.
A Sacred Journey, the public art installation coordinated by the ad hoc three-man mural squad—a Lincoln Heights home team if ever there was one—and commissioned by Juan Quintero, went up in 2008 on an exterior wall at the primary school. The mural depicts area history from before the dawn of mankind to the ancestral Tongva village of Yangna, and from early Sonora Town settlement preceding the establishment of Sacred Heart Catholic Church in 1890 to the centennial commemorated by parishioners in 1990. Rendered in the vivid hues and bold lines imbued with passionate humanity—hallmarks of the figurative expressionism Barrágan is renowned for—the mural remains as a glittering reminder of "muralismo angelino" at its best.
Arming a crew of Sacred Heart students with paintbrushes, Barragán incorporated discreet visual references to historical events and places unique to Lincoln Heights. "It's like a treasure hunt. If you're from here or if you really care about this place, you'll be able to spot 'em pretty quick," the artist says with sly grin. "But if you don't know, well, then you don't know."
The mural project provided a focal point for an assemblage of memories and stories intended to serve as a family keepsake and an elegy to friendship and brotherhood, Quintero continues. To that end, he began splicing footage from before and after learning his brother had ALS, with family photos, and clips from old home movies on Super 8mm. In 2012, he was hired as part of production team tasked with documenting the first-ever Jennifer Lopez world tour as a musical artist. After traveling to 40 cities in four months, he returned to Lincoln Heights. (Photo: Juan Martin, left, lends artist Fernando Barragán a hand on the mural project. Courtesy of Highter Ground Entertainment)
"I was exhausted. It was a great gig, but it wasn't really me. I was just glad to be home," Quintero says. "I realized how much I'd missed my brother Juan, and I started looking through what I'd already edited. I knew right away that it was what I'd needed to get back to all along." Yvonne Jimenez, a colleague with whom he shared that preliminary edit, insisted he had the makings of a feature-length documentary, one which she would gladly help develop as a co-producer.
The 2013 Plaza de la Raza event held not long after was highlighted by a standing-room only screening of the half-hour rough-cut and the presence of Juan Quintero, who had defied the medical prognosis delivered by physicians eight years before. The venue, established at Lincoln Park over half a century ago, was the ideal setting for a public celebration of the mural from which the film takes its title and an appeal for financial support to complete production. A Sacred Journey, Quintero explains, more than simply an inspirational reprisal of the love and faith with which his family faced the tragic reality of ALS, is also the centerpiece of a campaign to honor the 66 million people currently working as caregivers in the U.S.
Only 5% of all patients, according to Quintero, continue living with the aid of a ventilator. Juan, he proudly reports, is one of them. Confined to a wheel chair, his brother's respiratory system is regulated by a ventilator device which pumps oxygenated air into his lungs since his diaphragm, the muscle that makes breathing automatic, is inert. Although he is completely paralyzed and dependent on 24-hour care, he is alert and engaged. He communicates with a wireless keyboard that senses the exact focus of his eyes to select a keystroke, allowing him to type. "There are very few people trained to provide care for ALS patients," Quintero explains. "It's a very specialized field. My mom sold her flower shop on Mission to pay for nursing school, so she could be qualified take care of him.
There are close to 5000 new cases of ALS diagnosed annually, notes Quintero, and approximately 60,000 U.S. residents with ALS at any given moment. Paraphrasing former first Lady Rosalynn Carter, all of us fall into one of four categories, he says. "You have either been a caregiver, are a caregiver, will be a caregiver, or someone who needs to be cared for." He would like the film to be a catalyst for the creation of a Latino ALS registry and highlight the urgent need for adequate nursing care focused on ALS patients. He also hopes it will raise awareness about the important role of caregivers in our society and pave the way for policy changes that improve the quality of life for caregivers themselves and provide them with the resources to live happy, healthy lives.
On August 9th, A Sacred Journey: The Transformative Power of Caring will be screened on opening night as an official selection at the annual Compassionate Film Festival in Carbondale, Colorado. Locally, the film will be shown for students and alumni at Cathedral High, alma mater for both Juan and Ernesto. Although he's submitted the film to several festivals for consideration, he is equally interested in exploring synergistic collaborations with educational, community and humanitarian organizations that make health and care-giving central to their mission and programming priorities.
"We have several networks reviewing the film as we speak. In November, we'll head to Philadelphia for the American Public Health Association annual conference," Quintero adds. "And there are talks about taking it to NCLR and LULAC as well as interest from AARP. But for me, just the fact that we were able to finish making the film and that my brother is still with usbecause he chooses to be mean more to me than any of that stuff."
For more information, visit https://asacredjourneyfilm.com and to book a screening, call 323-286-2011.
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One hurt after shooting in North Lubbock, police said
by: Caitlyn Rooney
LUBBOCK, Texas — One person was moderately injured after a shooting in the 2600 block of North Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, according to the Lubbock Police Department.
LPD said the call came in at 9:38 p.m. No arrests were immediately made, according to police.
This is a developing story. Check EverythingLubbock.com for updates.
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Local businesses in Lubbock are feeling the impact of construction delays on 19th Street, with many reporting a decline in customers.
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Q: Oracle apex functionality to send users option to set password I am developing a ticketing application and using custom authentication using below function.
create or replace FUNCTION f_val_leave_user_issue(p_username IN VARCHAR2,
                                            p_password IN VARCHAR2)
  RETURN BOOLEAN IS
  lv_char CHAR(1);
  lv_cnt NUMBER;
BEGIN
  SELECT 'x'
  INTO   lv_char
  FROM   p_it_people
  WHERE  upper(p_username) = upper(person_username)
  AND    p_password = person_password;
  apex_util.set_authentication_result(0);
  RETURN TRUE;

EXCEPTION
  WHEN OTHERS THEN
    apex_util.set_authentication_result(4);
    RETURN FALSE;
END f_val_leave_user_issue;

As of now it takes username and password from p_it_people table, which i use in my login page.
Can i customize it further so that whenever there is a new user created in p_it_people, that user is prompted to set his own password and after setting,that password is automatically stored in p_it_people table??

A: You need to make sure not to save passwords in the database as clear text.
I recommend reading this blog post: https://blogs.oracle.com/apex/custom-authentication-and-authorization-using-built-in-apex-access-control-a-how-to
You only save the hash value of the password in the database and every time a user login you need to hash their password and compare the two hashes.
Resetting the password is simply allowing the end-user to change his saved hash password.

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Justin Langer
Justin Langer hints at Steve Smith, David Warner's potential return against Pakistan
Smith and Warner were handed year-long bans by Cricket Australia from international cricket and Australia's domestic Sheffield Shield and Big Bash League for their role in ball-tampering scaldal in South Africa.
Image Credits: Twitter/@cricketcomau
Dec 24, 2018, 12:44 PM IST
Australian coach Justin Langer has hinted at potential return of tainted former skipper Steve Smith and former vice-captain David Warner in the one-day series against Pakistan, which is slated to begin just two days after the expiry of their year-long suspensions in March 2019.
Smith and Warner were handed year-long bans by Cricket Australia from international cricket and Australia's domestic Sheffield Shield and Big Bash League for their role in ball-tampering scaldal in South Africa that sent shock waves across cricket world in March.
The duo's suspension is slated to expire on March 29 and Pakistan have proposed hosting Australia in ODI series from March 31 to April 13 at the UAE.
In case the series go ahead according to the proposed dates, Smith and Warner could possibly make a comeback to the national squads within two days of their suspension lifting.
Reflecting on the same, Langer said that the five-match ODI series against Pakistan could prove to be valuable in reintegrating the banned players ahead of the 2019 International Cricket Council (ICC) World Cup.
"There's potential for that, but that's part of the process (to work through to reintegrate the banned players).There's lots of conversations going on about what's best for our bowlers, for the guys returning, and we'll work through that," cricket.com.au quoted Langer as saying.
"We'll get the best outcome for Australian cricket and for them personally, but there's been no decisions made at this stage," he added.
However,if Pakistan and Australia decide to head into the series before the duo's bans are lifted, Smith and Warner are unlikely to represent the national side before the World Cup warm-up matches in England.
With Smith and Warner are all set to play in the Pakistan Super League (PSL) and Bangladesh Premier League (BPL), respectively, the former skipper belives the T20 tournaments would surely offer them with adequet preparation ahead of the World Cup.
"These days, the way the one-day game is played it's almost an extended T20 so T20 cricket is a good way to prepare," Smith told reporters last week in his first media appearance since the Cape Town saga," Smith said.
"The IPL is one of the best (T20) tournaments around the world and from what I've heard about the Pakistan league, it's high quality, so I think that will be adequate preparation.I've been working hard at my game, I've been concentrating on a few weaknesses, I want to come back better," he added.
Admitting that the last nine months was a big learning curve for him, Smith said that he is looking forward to start afresh and showcase a better batting performance than the past.
"This past nine months has been a big learning curve for me, and having a year out of the game to mentally refresh and get myself in a good headspace to go again, hopefully I can play at a better standard than I was when I got banned," Smith signed off.
Besides the duo, Cameron Bancroft was also imposed a nine-month suspension from international and state cricket for attempting to artificially alter the condition of the ball during the four-match Test series against South Africa. His suspension is all set to end on December 29
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LILLEY: Trudeau's carbon tax: a hose by any other name
Brian Lilley
Whatever you do, don't call it a tax!
That seems to be the dominant and consistent policy from Justin Trudeau and his team when it comes to discussing the carbon tax.
Or should I say, "output-based pricing system."
That's the latest way Trudeau's team has sought to avoid calling their tax, a tax.
It was in response to an order paper question from the Conservatives seeking information on the impact of the carbon tax on the airline industry.
The response, tabled and signed off on by Joel Lightbound, the Parliamentary Secretary to the minister of finance, took obfuscation to a whole new level.
"The fuel charge has not been imposed as a tax," the response reads. "The fuel charge is an integral part of a comprehensive regulatory approach to reduce greenhouse gas emissions that includes the output-based pricing system."
So see, it's not a tax.
It's an "output-based pricing system."
Trudeau rarely utters the phrase carbon tax, he tries to get around using those words for a variety of reasons, from not wanting scare taxpayers to trying to win a court challenge.
For the longest time he used the phrase "price on carbon" until some marketer told him "price on pollution" would sell better with the public.
Regardless of his choice of words, his goal is always the same. Hide the truth and sell you on something you would likely reject if he was being straight up.
It's no wonder.
A poll taken by Ipsos in the middle of the last Ontario election where the province's cap and trade system, a carbon tax by another name, was central to the campaign showed most opposed it.
In that poll 72% of voters agreed that carbon taxes, "Are simply a tax grab." That included 54.3% of Liberal voters.
In fact, in that poll, 68% agreed with the statement that carbon taxes, "Are a pointless symbolic gesture that will cost Ontarians a lot of money and do little for the world's climate."
No wonder Trudeau won't use the term tax and has dropped carbon in favour of pollution.
In one of the court battles currently underway, the feds spend 49 out of 60 pages of their legal defence of the carbon tax arguing that the tax is not a tax. Then suddenly they turn on a dime and argue that if the court finds it is a tax they must allow it because the feds have taxing power.
Basically, Trudeau wants your money but doesn't want to be honest with you.
As an aside, in the court case launched by the Government of Saskatchewan, the Trudeau Liberals asked the court to block both the Canadian Taxpayers Federation, the Agricultural Producers Association of Saskatchewan and Alberta's United Conservative Party from intervening in the case. They didn't want the court hearing dissenting opinions.
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Of course they supported allowing the David Suzuki Foundation, Ecofiscal Commission and Environmental Defence to intervene.
Thankfully a judge saw fit to tell Trudeau to go pound sand and on Monday allowed all three groups to voice their dissent.
Right now the United Nations is holding a meeting in Poland on climate change. The Canadian delegation, led by Trudeau's environment minister Catherine McKenna, was part of the group of countries that tried to have a report "welcomed" by the conference.
The report called for a carbon tax as high as $5,500 a ton by 2030, or 110 times higher than the carbon tax proposed by Trudeau. So does Canada support a tax that high?
That might be an important question to ask the government since they support the report that calls for it.
But Trudeau and his team are about talking a good game and avoiding tough questions and clear language on this file.
They can call it a "price on carbon" or a "price on pollution" or even an "output-based pricing system" the end result is the same.
Trudeau wants to put his hand in your pocket and take more money out, while making you think it is all for your own good.
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Co-op Funeralcare tackles loneliness with community bereavement group
PRESS RELEASE: Co-op Funeralcare tackles loneliness with community bereavement group
6 February 2018 by the Co-operative Funeralcare
Honeysuckle bereavement group launches in Port Tenant
Rees Davies & Son Funeralcare in Port Tenant launched its Honeysuckle bereavement group over a year ago and has since been supporting members of the local community through the loss of a loved one.
By giving local residents an opportunity to meet new people, learn new skills and support charities close to their hearts, the Honeysuckle Group has been able to tackle loneliness whilst raising money for a number of charities, including Guide Dogs who the group recently raised £611 for.
Research from the Co-op has found that loneliness is one of the biggest issues facing communities across the UK. With the support of the British Red Cross, Co-op continues to work closely with local communities to help tackle loneliness, and the development of bereavement groups is another means of confronting the issue.
Gaynor Gage, Co-op Funeral Arranger, who set up the group commented: "People can be wary of bereavement groups and expect it to be a sombre affair. The reality is that the majority of the time the conversations are so varied and very often the room is filled with laughter.
''The group gives individuals a chance to take their mind off of things, meet people who are quite often in the same situation whilst learning new skills. Members of the public who have suffered a loss, whether a friend, family member or even a pet, are welcome to join us."
The organisers of the group are always on the lookout for other local businesses who could get involved. As such, on Wednesday 7th February the British Red Cross will be attending the group to give a talk about first aid and on 21st February local florist, Victoria Jane Flowers, will be coming along to teach the group how to make floral displays.
Honeysuckle Bereavement Group is held at the St Thomas Church hall in Swansea every Wednesday between 10am and 12pm. For more information about attending the group local residents should contact the funeral home directly via email reesdavies.swansea@letsco-operate.co.uk or call them on 01792 456976.
Claire Newmarch
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Home > News > Have your say on healthcare and become a shadow public governor at North Cumbria's hospitals
Posted on Monday 12th May 2014
People across north Cumbria are being urged to have a greater say on shaping the future of their local healthcare services by becoming a shadow public governor of North Cumbria University Hospitals NHS Trust.
As part of the forthcoming acquisition by Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust – a Shadow Council of Governors has been elected to represent the views of local people, as well as staff, in North Cumbria.
North Cumbria currently has 20 shadow public governors, elected by local people who have signed up to become members of the Trust. Elections are now being held to appoint a further four shadow public governors to cover Allerdale (one vacancy), Copeland (two vacancies) and Carlisle (one vacancy), as well as two further shadow staff governors at West Cumberland Hospital.
Every NHS Foundation Trust has a Council of Governors which gives its views to help develop priorities and influences any proposals for change. North Cumbria's Shadow Council of Governors will be fully constituted when the acquisition with Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust completes and will help give local communities a voice in how services are developed and run in the future and ultimately help hold the Trust Board to account.
North Cumbria is also encouraging all patients, families, carers and members of the public to join the 3000 local people who have already signed up to become a 'member' of the Trust in order to keep informed about the work of North Cumbria's hospitals.
Gina Tiller, chair of North Cumbria University Hospitals NHS Trust, said: "This is a very exciting time for North Cumbria's hospitals as we continue to work towards the acquisition with Northumbria Healthcare and improve the safety and quality of care for our patients.
"I would encourage all local people to join the Trust as a member and also to consider putting themselves forward for our remaining shadow governor vacancies.
"Our Shadow Council of Governors forms a key part of the acquisition process with Northumbria Healthcare and will ultimately mean we are much more accountable to the communities we serve."
People must be a member of the Trust before they can put themselves forward as a candidate to become shadow public governor. Becoming a member is straightforward, open to everybody and can be done by completing an online application form at www.ncuh.nhs.uk/about-us/acquisition/membership.aspx , calling 0191 203 1296 or completing a membership form and posting in one of the boxes which can be found in our hospitals.
Nomination forms to become a shadow public governor of North Cumbria University Hospitals NHS Trust are available from the Electoral Reform Service by calling 0208 889 9203, emailing john.box@electoralreform.co.uk or texting 2FT NH and your name and address to 88802. All completed governor nominations must be received by 5pm on Tuesday 27 May.
Anyone interested in becoming a member or having out more about the important role they could play as a shadow public governor can get in touch with the foundation team for an informal chat on 0191 203 1296.


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Issue: Fall/Winter 2012
Courage, Education & Hope
A Running Start
The Vintage Appeal
The Changing Library
Campaign Update
T-Bird News
David Michael Mills Goldie, BCom'46
Michael Goldie
Michael Goldie passed away peacefully in Vancouver in his 88th year on March 21, 2012. Predeceased by his beloved wife of 58 years, Lorraine Catherine Conway Goldie, BA'44, Michael is survived by his children: Diana, David (Suzan Ross), Mary (Peter Voormeij) and Christopher (Nada Darwiche); grandchildren, Michael, Tessa and Laith; and his sister-in-law Jill Conway.
Michael was born in Toronto in 1924, arriving in BC three years later where he grew up very happily on Bowen Island. After graduating from Kitsilano High School, he attended UBC in 1941, but left to join the Army in 1943. Following his service he completed his BCom and attended Harvard Law School.
On March 27, 1948, Michael and Lorraine were married in New York with Tony Scott as best man and subsequently returned to Vancouver where Michael began practicing with MacDougal, Morrison & Jestley.
He later joined BC Power, became General Solicitor for BC Electric, and in 1961 joined Russell & DuMoulin, where he began a stellar career as a counsel spanning 30 years. He became the professional leader of the firm and reached national prominence as counsel in a number of the leading constitutional cases respecting the division of powers and the patriation of the constitution in the 1980s. Much of his work was in the BC Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court of Canada, where he argued dozens of cases following his first appearance in 1953.
In 1991, Michael was appointed to the BC Court of Appeal and after retiring from the court at age 75, he returned to Fasken Martineau DuMoulin. Michael was a founding governor of the Law Foundation of BC, a valued participant in the Cambridge Lectures of The Canadian Institute for Advanced Legal Studies, a member of the Canada-US Legal Exchange, and a fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers.
Away from work Michael was an avid sailor and enjoyed long walks and hikes at home and abroad. He took pleasure in his large library, music, and, particularly in more recent years, a good day on Bowen surrounded by his children and grandchildren. Michael was a scholar, sailor, soldier and a gentleman who had the respect and admiration of his peers and colleagues. His children and grandchildren are indebted to him for his wisdom, generosity and love. He will long be remembered.
In Memoriam: William (Bill) Muir Osborne, BA'41, BASc'47
In Memoriam: Richard (Dick) Edward Hadland, BSc'47
Don Chutter says:
Sincere condolences to the Goldie family.
Not often mentioned, but Mike was also the RSM of the UBC Contingent, Canadian Officers Training Corps (COTC). As the Regimental Sergeant Major, his role was to boss all of the NCOs and make the officers look good! Col. Shrum relied on him heavily. I was a Platoon Sergeant and was awarded the most un-military editor of the student newspaper as my officer, so I appreciated all that Mike did! He could have remained at UBC until he graduated but chose to enlist instead. I followed suit the next year. Some time in the 1980s I received a letter in my Ottawa office from a lawyer named DMM Goldie and he confirmed that he was my old RSM. (At the time I was a consultant and organized seminars across Canada on Construction Law and Claims Resolution with Peter Blaikie et al). Amongst other things, we concurred that there were not many three initial men left and that we should stick together! I have nothing but good memories.
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