What's So Important About a Bar Website?
Every business, big and small, needs to have a website—even a cocktail bar needs to have an online presence. Your cocktail bar or tavern is no exception.
New Customers. People use the internet today the way they used telephone books in the old days. When looking for something to do or a new place to go, people turn on the computer and browse online. To attract the attention of these folks, you must have a presence on the internet.
Existing Customers. Having a website helps keep you in the minds of people who have already visited your bar. Next time they are looking for a place to go, encourage them into coming back by reminding them about you via your website or social media efforts.
Potential Employees. People look for jobs online. Even if you are not currently hiring, a bartender may find you while searching for different cocktail bars in the area. He or she may stop in with a resume, just in case. If you are hiring, you are well-advised to include that information on your website in addition to advertising in online classifieds, such as Monster.com or on Craigslist.
Potential Business Partners and Potential Investors. You never know who you might impress. By being a presence on the internet you give other business people the opportunity to find out about you unobtrusively. They might like what they see!
What Should be on a Cocktail Bar's Website?
A professional look and feel. Your website must look professional. If it looks thrown together or as if you don't take yourself seriously, no one that clicks on your website will take you seriously, either.
Logo. Any logo that you have on your menus or in the bar should be at the top of the website. Logos help people recognize and remember you, which assists in the idea of "branding" your cocktail bar.
Photographs. Choose some photographs that display the ambiance in your cocktail bar. Make sure everything in the photo looks sparkling clean, and any bartenders or other people are smiling. The photographs should make people want to visit.
Basic information. Include at the bottom of your homepage the bar's street address and mailing address, telephone number, and email address. Include hours of operation.
About your bar. Give some interesting historical information about your bar on the website's homepage. Are you in an interesting building? Why? How long have you been there? What drinks and snacks do you offer? Are you going to have any promotional events soon?
The homepage should be short and to the point. It is your opportunity to make a good first impression and encourage people to browse your site without overwhelming them with too much information on one page. Other pages to consider adding to the site include employment opportunities, a contact us form,and about us page, and information on special occasions.
Perhaps most important to having a useful bar menu—keep your bar website up-to-date!


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Canada's Nick Taylor 5 shots back at Sony Open after firing 8-under, 62 in 3rd round
By eliza grace On Jan 15, 2023
Hayden Buckley started and ended the back nine at Waialae with eagles Saturday for a second straight 6-under 64, giving him a two-shot lead and creating some separation going into the final round of the Sony Open.
Buckley holed out a wedge from 133 yards on the 10th hole. He finished his day with an approach to two feet on the par-5 18th hole.
He was at 15-under 195, and his two-shot lead might have been the biggest surprise in a third round that at one point featured an eight-way tie for the lead.
Even now, Buckley has a long road ahead of him. In his second year on the PGA Tour, he had never had the lead after any round. And five players are within three shots of the lead on a tour where it seems no lead is safe. Only last week, two-time major champion Collin Morikawa lost a six-shot lead on the back nine at Kapalua.
Nine of the leading 15 players at Waialae have never won on the PGA Tour.
Buckley led by two over Chris Kirk (68), Ben Taylor (65) and David Lipsky (66), the Californian who has spent the majority of his career in Asia.
Nick Taylor of Abbotsford, B.C., is tied for ninth at 10-under after firing a sizzling 8-under in the third round. Andrew Putnam and Taylor each had a 62, the low round of the tournament. Corey Conners of Listowel, Ont., is tied for 32nd at 7-under, and Adam Svensson of Surrey, B.C., is tied for 51st at 5-under.
Kirk began the third round with a one-shot lead and good vibes because of his runner-up finish two years ago that enabled him to keep full status on tour. His first shot sailed toward the houses down the right side of the first fairways, out-of-bounds and leading to a double bogey.
WATCH | B.C.'s Adam Svensson hits hole-in-one at Sony Open:
B.C.'s Svensson hits hole-in-one at Sony Open in Hawaii
Adam Svensson of Surrey, B.C., aces the seventh hole during the second round of the Sony Open in Hawaii. Svensson is headed into the weekend action after making the cut at 2-under par.
He was otherwise solid from there, though he missed a 6-foot birdie putt on the 18th that would have put him in the final group.
Lipsky knows the feeling. His opening drive went left, and bounced along the cement path right of the driving range until it settled outside the white stakes. He managed to limit the damage to a bogey when he made a 25-foot putt. He followed that by taking two chips to get onto the second green for another bogey, and then he had seven birdies the rest of the way.
"It's never ideal when your ball goes 50 yards down the path OB," Lipsky said. "I'm pretty happy with how I played and how I handled those first two holes."
While the third round wasn't a bizarre as Friday — Jordan Spieth went from a share of the lead to missing the cut, Rory Sabbatini was one off the lead until three straight double bogeys — there was enough to realize 18 more holes might feel like a marathon to those trying to win for the first time.
S.H. Kim, the rookie from South Korea, ran off four straight birdies to take the lead at the turn. And then on the 10th hole, the third easiest at Waialae, he had 124 yards from the middle of the fairway and made double bogey — an approach that bounded over the green, a chip to 30 feet and three putts.
Byeong Hun An had a 66 and was tied for 16th, six shots behind. That includes his quadruple-bogey 8 on the 10th hole after his drive was in the middle of the fairway, 87 yards from the hole. An went long going after a back pin, muffed a chip, twice had a wedge slide under the ball sitting in thick grass. It was a mess.
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In the second quarter of 2012, a total of 7,763 homes sold for a million dollars or more in California, up 18.5 percent from the second quarter of 2011. Ranked by total sales per zip code, Hillsborough/Burlingame (94010) sat atop the list with 134 million-dollar-plus sales in the second quarter, up from 118 last year, and with a top sale of $5.28 million.
Eleven other Bay Area zip codes made the top 25 in terms of sales. In fact, combining Los Altos zip codes 94022 and 94024 would top the list of California communities with 167 million dollar sales in the second quarter of 2012, up from 147 the year before and with a top sale of $6.15 million.
A combined 95030 and 95032 would rank Los Gatos third with 129 sales, up from 75 the year before and with a top sale of $4.66 million. The only San Francisco zip code to make the top 25 list was 94114, ranked number 19 with 65 sales last quarter, up from 50 in the second quarter of 2011 and with a top sale of $3.25 million which was 350 Hill Street.
Also of note, leverage has increased as 31.0 percent of the million-dollar-plus buyers in the second quarter paid cash, down from 37.7 percent in the first quarter, down slightly from 31.9 percent in the second quarter of 2011. In the five million dollars or more segment, 59.4 percent of the purchases were cash.
La Canada Flintridge? Was not aware of that area.
What I want to know is does this mean the 1% in the Bay Area are doing very well, or the entire Bay Area is as healthy as this shows for high priced sales.
94010 is not only Hillsborough. It is Hillsborough and Burlingame.
Hillsborough alone could not possibly have over 100 sales in one quarter.
They seperate out Corona Del Mar from the city of Newport Beach even though it is a neighborhood within Newport Beach. If they had not seperated the entire city of Newport Beach into two listings it would have ranked number one.
Top end doing VERY well right now.
Prestige home index (I remember when that was featured here..)rose 3% in last quarter, up 4.2% YOY – the biggest increase since 2006.
Palo Alto has slowed down in the past few months.
Yeah well SF saw 327 such sales in the same quarter, last year. It's up nearly 31 percent yoy.
Sales of single-family, re-sale homes were up 6.8% year-over-year.
Sales are being impacted by the lack of inventory. As of today, there are only 234 homes for sale in the city. That's down from 379 in June! That's just over one month of supply. There are 337 condos/lofts for sale, about one and half months supply.
The beneficiary of low inventory has been prices.
The median price for condos gained 10.4% year-over-year. Sales were up 22% from last July.
This is an extraordinarily tough market for buyers. It's important to be calm and realistic.
The top 25 zip codes accounted for ~27% of all sales (2129 of 7763). The report is ranked by number of transactions so it is surprising that even 94114 made it on to the list. Pretty interesting. I wouldn't have guessed there were that many transactions there. I would bet that the percentage of transaction over $1M in that zip is pretty high. And as a whole, I would bet that SF has a much higher % of homes sold over $1M. Those zips just don't have the volume required to make it on to this somewhat arbitrary list.
Statewide, 188 homes sold for $5 million or more last quarter, while 122 were in the $4-$5 million range, 316 were in the $3-$4 million range, 909 were in the $2-$3 million range, 5,100 were in the $1-$2 million range.
I'd like to see the same analysis on the data set for homes above $2M.
I absolutely love the current trend for 94114.
Zillow's Zestimate has crawled back over 1M for 94114, reflecting the higher volume of 1M+ sales.
I don't think FB employees are crying too much.
FB doubled employees from 2010 when GS investment valued the company at $50B. 2,000+ employees are crying/underwater at $46B cap.
Who cares about a few FB employees when the whole Bay Area take a giant step backwards to the days of radical UNaffoardability for the millions of other residents.
The working homeless of Palo Alto was a cautionary tale just a few months ago now, it looks like its rapidly becoming the reality for every one else.
Unless salaries for ALL workers rise rapidly, which is unlikely, or Bay Area communities lift their anti-density zoning policies, even more unlikely, this tale of a boom is going to turn into a bust as workers and employers leave the area in search of lower costs.
Badlydrawbear's implicit claim, that the Bay Area in general and San Francisco in particular should be hosting a much larger population in less expensive, more densely built homes and that the reason they aren't is due to "their anti-density zoning policies" really gets deployed a lot around here.
I'd ask commenters or the ss editor: give us a few examples of said "anti-density zoning policies". Really. The post on It's All About Density in 2007 was pegged to an academic talk and it appears that the slides aren't on-line.
It seems to me that some people have decided, in an ex post facto manner, that because construction of housing units in the Bay Area isn't keeping up with other MSAs where wages are lower, that it must be bad, bad government regulations (and of course the ever-present NIMBYs) that are keeping construction down and prices up.
But they never seem to be able to point to a concrete set of policies, or even policy, that is at fault. They never compare zoning laws here to some higher-growth, lower-cost MSA of similar starting point population around 1990, say, and then conclude that the lack of Bay Area housing growth and admittedly skyrocketing prices since that time is due, even in large part, to the difference in regulations.
Instead, it seems like they are assuming the conclusion and saying that because housing growth isn't up to what they think it should be, that public policy must be at fault.
Here's my respectful request: next time you assert that "Bay Area communities must lift their anti-density zoning policies", please point out at least one policy which should be "lifted", and then try to explain when it was put into place, thus artificially limiting housing density.
Or if the Bay Area policy has been in place for a long time (I suspect this is most often the case), explain how your favored higher-growth, higher density yet-comparable population municipality elsewhere changed their policy to enable the building of higher density housing, thus encouraging housing affordability.
Sad for Goldman, but not sad to the 2100+ employees that worked there at the end of 2010.
As for Palo Alto, pricing has jumped so quickly ($1.5M for lots? Crazy), it's the market that's equalizing. If you want to call that slowing down, that's up to you.
There is no doubt that building regulations have kept down the number of units built. The Eastern Neighborhood building moratorium, for example, blocked the conversion of warehouses to residences (for example, the graffiti-covered plywood warehouse on Harrison). However, there are a number of sites that have been approved for higher density construction but high rises have not been built. This is due to the financial climate, rather than regulations.
San Franciscans are not eager for dramatically higher density in the more established residential neighborhoods, so the bulk of any construction would have to be downtown and in the eastern neighborhoods. It is not clear whether building many more high rises there would bring housing prices down. Vancouver has built more high rise condos that SF possibly could, yet housing prices there are as expensive as SF (to buy; renting is cheaper there). One thing Vancouver has that SF doesn't is high-rise clusters in the suburbs. High rise construction around BART stations, for example, would be a good place for growth.
We estimate that an aggregate of approximately 273 million shares underlying Pre-2011 RSUs will vest and settle between October 15, 2012 and November 14, 2012.
setbacks shall be a minimum of 15 feet from the street side of a corner lot.
total lot width at the front property line. In no case shall this distance be less than fifteen feet.
and a main building located on an adjacent property shall not be less than twenty feet.
Note that doesn't make Menlo Park unusual. It's instead quite typical for suburban America except for the fact that it's smack dab in the middle of a booming sector of the American economy. But this all amounts to a statutory cap on the population of the Silicon Valley area. Not only is most of the developable land reserved exclusively for large single-family detached houses, but even the small amount of land that has been set aside for denser dwellings can't be developed very densely at all. What's wrong with a building of over 35 feet? Why is it important to restrict building footprints to 30 percent of the lot?
A good way to see why this is wrong is to compare San Francisco to New York, another city that's severely constrained by geography. A friend kindly crunched the numbers and sent me the results by email. He points out that if San Francisco were half as dense as Manhattan, it would have 1.1 million people instead of 805,000. And if San Jose were half as dense as Brooklyn, it would have 2.3 million people instead of 945,000. The peninsula between the two could also be much denser.
SF and SJ should be having construction booms, employing thousands of workers building new homes and businesses, expanding infrastructure, and generating millions in commissions for the RE industry (not to mention the tax revenue for the State) simply by allowing the already urban centers of the Bay Are to be, well, a little more urban.
… a Craigslist ad for one half of a queen-sized bed for $450 a month on Nob Hill.
Much of the western side of San Mateo County is green belt, which lowers density relative to Bergen County.
I'm not commenting to provide a data-driven argument here, but at least on the Peninsula, we have a somewhat unique situation where there are major employers (FB, Google, Apple, etc) smack in the middle of suburbia. If you spend any time up and down the Peninsula, you will easily see that the same housing patterns exist: lots of 2-4 story apartment/condo units between 101 and El Camino Real, then huge swaths of SFH's either interspersed in those regions, or in the areas west of ECR. Once west of 280, it's either open space or very low density, high cost land (Los Altos Hills, Portola Valley, Woodside, Hillsborough).
So the only easily developable land is that aforementioned 101 to ECR corridor, as well as some stuff east of 101, which if you pay attention, is actually seeing a fair amount of development. San Mateo, RWC, even Palo Alto have significant higher-density housing developments being built right now. The one major anti-development struggle on the Peninsula right now is the Cargill Saltworks area in RWC.
My point being, there is development going on, but keep in mind this is in the background of a swath of geography that just 50 years ago was mostly orchards and low-density suburbs.
The Bergen County analogy is a bit of apples to oranges, as those communities are much more established NYC bedroom communities, and they've had lots of time to infill. Moreover, I don't know the referenced stat of San Mateo being 40% the density of Bergen County, but keep in mind San Mateo County includes everything west of Crystal Springs Reservoir, including the hills above Woodside, La Honda, and all the coastal areas from Pescadero through Half Moon Bay up to Pacifica – extremely low density where the cows probably outnumber the humans.
In the 19th Century, the most innovative cities tended to also be the fastest growing. New York, Chicago, and Detroit all grew by an order of magnitude in the late 19th and early 20th centuries as key American industries grew in them. Skyscrapers sprang up in these cities' downtowns. In New York and Chicago especially, developers built dense, walkable neighborhoods to accommodate the surging demand for housing. And this, in turn, helped keep supply in balance with demand and avoided large price increases.
This isn't happening in Silicon Valley. If Wikipedia is to be believed, the tallest skyscraper in San Jose, the self-styled capital of Silicon Valley, is a pathetic 22 stories tall. Silicon Valley continues to be dominated by low-density, suburban patterns of development, even as housing prices have skyrocketed.
The link he provides to a list of tallest buildings in San Jose names The 88, at 286 ft.
But you can buy 2 Bed, 2 Bath condos in The 88 on the resale market quite easily for < $485 per ft.². Are pro higher density/supply-side advocates saying that price level represents a "large price increase"?
Perhaps the housing credit bubble collapse didn't make the effect on the price level easy to discern.
An equivalent condo in a similar building in San Francisco would be about $710 per ft.² (although I am not a real estate agent, and I'm willing to be corrected on that).
One alternative explanation (I'm not particularly attached to) is that perhaps most Silicon Valley workers just want to live in an environment akin to what the slate.com blogger describes as "quite typical for suburban America" and be car-dependent and not live in a "dense, walkable neighborhood to accommodate the surging demand for housing".
Is downtown SJ a dense walkable urban environment???
Can condo dwellers walk to a grocery store nearby, drop off dry cleaning, do some shopping, run other errands without a car on the evenings and weekends?
badlydrawnbear: Yes, it is. Just looking at the WalkScore for any unit at The 88(since we're talking about that building as an example), generates a score of 98: Walker's Paradise.
Even if you don't trust that metric, I can say from personal experience when I lived in Downtown SJ in the late nineties (not in a high-rise), that I could easily walk to neighborhood coffee shops, restaurants and stores, including dry cleaners and the post office, without incurring the hassle and cost of getting into, driving and re-parking my car.
And that was during a time when downtown SJ was what would be referred to by the hoity toity types that usually comment on socketsite as "a sketchy area". I assume that things have improved dramatically since then (both in terms of increased neighborhood amenities and decreased "sketchiness"), if only because there's been a lot of new residents introduced to the area because new condo buildings like The 88, City Heights, Axis, etc. have been built and attracting residents (even if not at the demand level that their developers would have liked).
The reason that downtown SJ caps out below thirty stories is that it is right on the approach path to the SJC airport. There's even an art installation atop the Adobe HQ that responds to the noise of incoming air traffic.
But downtown San Jose doesn't need to be super tall to become dense. Most of the infill projects completed in the last couple of decades are much taller and denser than what gets built in the less dense parts of San Francisco.
badlydrawnbear – The downtown SJ grocery scene has been on a roller coaster. Currently there are OK options and in the recent past it has been both better and worse. You can live car free in downtown SJ pretty easily though most people have cars since parking is bundled with housing so why not?


I have a Nokia E61 (Symbian Series 60 3rd Edition – v9.1). I usually take backups on my memory card in the phone (I've three of them) and restore them in case it's necessary. However, today when I tried to do it, it wouldn't restore and always ask for a "Restart" after flashing "Restoring…" screen for a split second. I tried all my other backups made during last 1 year and it just won't work. I even hard-reset/formatted the phone by pressing *,3 and call key and then starting the phone, assuming that maybe there's some issue with the firmware. It just didn't work. I'd my latest backup available on my memory card and I couldn't use it. After spending more than a few hours, I managed to retrieve information, more importantly my contacts.
Here's how I retrieved all the Contacts. It assumes you have a Backup.arc with you. If you've taken backup on the memory card and view the contents of the memory card on computer, you'll see a Backup/ folder in which the Backup.arc would be there. If not, tough luck.
It works only on Windows. I used Windows XP.
Install NbuExplorer from http://nbuexplorer.sourceforge.net – it requires .Net Framework 2.0 which I downloaded from Microsoft website, so install the framework prior to opening NbuExplorer.
Now open NbuExplorer and point it to the Backup.arc file. It should show the contents in it including pictures, sounds etc.
You need to locate the file having the name Contacts and ending with the extension .cdb. In my case the name was DBS_100065FF_Contacts.cdb and it was under C: -> private -> 100012a5 within the NbuExplorer interface. Once you locate it, right-click on the file name and select 'Export selected file(s)'. It'll ask you for a location – you may select "Desktop". Keep that file safe – it has all your contacts.
Now close NbuExplorer and start Symbian Emulator. It would open a Symbian interface – you need to add a new contact in there. You can add anything. We just want it to build a contact database of its own which we'll eventually replace with our own contact database. Once done, close the Emulator.
Next step is to replace the contact database created by the emulator by our actual database which has our contacts. In my case I went to C:\Symbian\9.1\S60_3rd\Epoc32\winscw\c\private\100012a5. The file DBS_100065FF_Contacts.cdb was already present. I replaced it with my actual file which I'd retrieved via NbuExplorer.
Let's start the Emulator now. If you go to contacts, if all goes well you should be seeing all your contact listing. Hurray! Step 1 done.
Now we'll need to transfer the contacts to the memory card. Mark all contacts and then select "Copy to memory card" from within the emulator interface. It should say that it has copied them to the memory card.
Now go to the "e" drive created via epoc.ini, that is, in C:\Symbian\9.1\S60_3rd\Epoc32\winscw\e. There would be a folder called "Others" inside which there'd be "Contacts". If all goes well, you should see a lot of .vcf entries inside it. Those are your contacts. Copy them to an actual memory card of the phone – in the same directory (Others\Contacts). Now put the memory card in your phone.
In your phone, open "Contacts", and then select the option Copy -> From memory card. The contacts would be copied. For me it retrieved all information with precision.
I had evaluated Nokisoft.com's Noki Explorer application. There were two things I wasn't sure of, (a) it retrieved 30 contacts in the trial version, but the data that was retrieved was not complete; and (b) it seemed to be a tad expensive for one time use. Nokisoft's explorer may be easier to retrieve contacts – that you can decide.


Vacationers did not all enjoy summer in the same way, of course. Each and every one had his or her own preferences and means.
There were the buzzing bee-like tourists who, with only a few days or weeks to explore new destinations every year, wanted to get all they could out of a too-short stay. The hotels met their needs.
Then, there were the summer residents. Like migrating birds, they would return each summer to the same place. Like their neighbours, they came to know every nook and cranny for their homes-away-from-home.
A house in the country was a must for the most fortunate. If the head of the family was early in his career and did not have the means to buy or build a country estate, he might rent a room in a boarding house or a hotel with his wife. Over their stay, they might search for the ideal spot for their future villa or meet locals willing to rent out their home for a few weeks or even the whole summer. This was how traditions were born.
Vacationing was an art de vivre. Some summer residents built veritable palaces just to host their visitors. Most, however, were looking for a simple existence, free of the worries of city life. They used their wealth to adapt their villa or cottage—elegant, but more rustic than the villa—to their vision of a happy, healthy life close to nature.
Did you know? The word "tourism" comes from Grand Tour, the custom of sending young British aristocrats on round-trip excursions to the European capitols in the late 18th and 19th centuries. The Tour was viewed as being educational for the heirs of wealthy families.
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Web Application Security Executed at the Endpoint
Katie Teitler | December 16, 2019
It's no secret that users and endpoints are great targets for cyber attacks. One errant click, one opened file, one redirect to a malicious website where the user enters valid credentials, and the attacker has all the information he needs to execute an exploit. The primary interface for these attacks, web applications, earned the top spot for attack vectors in the 2019 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report[i]. What's more, a new report by Venafi[ii]—released just in time for holiday shopping season—revealed that fake retail websites outnumber legitimate sites by 4-1.
Online shopping is easier than ever, and using a mobile device to tackle holiday errands while on the go helps reduce the hassle and hustle of the holidays. That said, these factors combined highlight an important cybersecurity problem: Security teams need better ways to stop attacks at the browser before they reach web applications and propagate, affecting sensitive data or transactions in a substantive way.
With identity management platforms, web application firewalls, bot mitigation tools, dark web intelligence, geolocation data, and the countless cookies and agents heaped on users' systems, security practitioners have no shortage of technology to help prevent web-based attacks or stop the spread of an attack if the user has accidentally triggered an exploit. But, according to Malcolm Harkins, Chief Security and Trust Officer at Cymatic, the problem with these technologies is that they're siloed. And this is why web applications continue to be the top attack vector and why human actions are the initiation exploit in 90% of breaches.
Removing silos
The issue with security silos, Harkins told me during a call, is that "there are a bunch of disparate tools that work, but each has its own interface, reporting, configuration management, integration capabilities, licensing, and levels of complexity for use. There's no in-line, real-time streaming between them, so it's up to the security team to try and stich these together to hopefully create the right correlations. It does nothing to smooth the user experience. Siloed products, on top of the credential defenses, captchas, cookies, and forced MFA, amplify user friction and increase complexity, cost, and (ultimately) risk to IT teams and organizations."
Friction has long been a sore spot with users based on the legacy security approaches. Yet, security teams still employ outmoded solutions. While users care about the privacy and security of their devices, actions, and data, they care more about ease of use and overall experience. This is why password reuse is rampant, MFA hasn't gained traction inside enterprises as broadly as it could, and DevOps continues to fly past security teams without their input. Executives will almost always side with productivity and efficiency over kludgy security, thus security teams must look for solutions that are invisible to the user as much as possible.
Control at the beginning of the kill chain
Harkins told me he joined Cymatic after a long and impressive career because the founders, Jason A. Hollander and Paul B. Storm, demonstrated to him that their platform could deliver frictionless results, at the beginning of the kill chain, and answer the fundamental questions he and fellow chief security officers had been asking for two decades: Who are my users? Which ones pose a risk to my business? How can I ensure my web application (and thus my business) is secure?
Cymatic "does for WAFs what Apple did for smartphones—it reimagines and ultimately rearchitects the way we think of and use WAFs to deliver better overall security," said Harkins. "It offers web application security at the client and in the browser, without agents or cookies, and without proxy or network changes. It is one line of code that a web developer adds into a web page."
Here's the high-level overview of how it works: When a user hits a website, Cymatic's SDK[iii] automatically deploys, regardless of device, OS, or browser is use. This architecture achieves a few things: First, an automatic scan of the device in use is executed. The scan determines the device's "cyber hygiene" and answers questions such as: Is the device vulnerable? Are the credentials vulnerable? Is this a person or a bot? Have passwords been re-use across multiple domains? Were passwords part of previous credential breaches? What is the physical location of the user and device?
Next, depending on the results of the scan (which happens in microseconds), adaptive controls can take action by, say, blocking a device to avert a bot attack or account takeover, or invisibly issuing step-up multifactor authentication. If the data and activity fall within the risk parameters the organization has set, controls can simply allow the user to continue.
While the above is happening, the behavioral engine analyzes user keystrokes and mouse movements in real time to determine if the user is who they say they are. Cymatic uses behavioral biometrics with machine learning and heuristics to detect in-session hijacking and kill commandeered connections before they can reach into a company's web application or internal data and transactions.
Privacy and next steps
All of this might sound a bit sketchy from a privacy perspective, so I asked Harkins how the company deals with privacy issues, given that part of their message is focused there. "From a privacy point of view," he told me, "there is no persistence on the device and all data sent to our cloud is encrypted, then anonymized. The capability activates when a device lands on a web application but dissolves as soon as the device leaves. And without cookies and agents pushed to the device, privacy risks are reduced. "
The description of the product sounds promising, and though I've yet to see a demo to see how this all ties together technologically, Harkins tells me that new Cymatic employees are asked to test the product for themselves. He was shocked—in both a good and bad way—at how many vulnerabilities the platform's cyber hygiene tool revealed about his personal devices. That's a good first step! So I am excited to see and hear more from this promising new company.
If web-based attacks are a concern and you're looking for ways to block attacks at the endpoint, give the team at Cymatic and shout and schedule a demo for yourself.
[i] https://enterprise.verizon.com/resources/reports/dbir/
[ii] https://www.venafi.com/blog/holiday-shoppers-beware-look-alike-domains-are-targeting-your-wallet
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Common practise between divorcing couples is to divide their property and debts amongst themselves sometimes with or without a mediator rather than leaving it entirely to the courts. But in case where decisions cannot be reached amongst spouses, they can submit their property dispute in the court, which divides property according to the state laws.
The division of marital property essentially depends on which state you are living in that is a community property state or an equitable property state. In the former scenario are included states like Alaska, California, Arizona, Louisiana, Idaho, New Mexico, Nevada, Texas, Washington, Wisconsin and Puerto Rico which categorise all property of a married individual as community property or property that is equally owned by both the spouses. Thus this property is equally divided between both of the spouse. While on the other hand are states where the principle of equitable property distribution is followed and thus the assets and earnings accumulated during marriage are divided fairly but not necessarily equally. The court may also award each spouse a percentage of total value of property that is each person will get personal assets and debt whose worth adds up to his percentage.
When it comes to dealing with marital debt it is important to make decisions regarding who is responsible for which debt, during settlement negotiations. Best thing is paying off all debt before filing for divorce allows for a financially clean break and doesn't keep you worrying whether your ex is making loan payments that still have your name.
In a community property state, you are going to be accountable for debts acquired during the marriage despite your name being on them or otherwise. The best example is home mortgage where both the spouses are going to be responsible. While on the other is an equitable distribution state, where you are only accountable for debts with your name on them. So when buying property make sure you both should be responsible for it. If you haven't cleared all your debts before beginning of divorce proceedings then the court will divide the debt during the process by determining who incurred the debt and also benefitted most from this. Usually only joint marital debt will be divided by the court in which both spouses benefitted from such as home, car or any other debt incurred for establishment of marital property.


The Customer Service Team Lead plays a critical role in managing the daily operation of a local team of 10+ professionals servicing U.S. based clients.
Manages team productivity and utilization, focused on Client Specific KPIs and Goals set by AUXIS Management.
Designs and implements process improvements.
Monitor overall team workload and reallocate / delegate tasks as necessary to ensure optimal team efficiency.
Build morale, establish an atmosphere of team camaraderie, and promote a common team identity.
Conduct weekly team meetings to discuss and identify issues of interest and concern, as well as weekly 1 : 1 check-ins with each team member.
Interview candidates for open positions and provide feedback on feasibility / team fit.
Communicate and enforce local office policies, including time tracking requirements.
Assign mentors to new hires and monitor progress of both mentors and mentees.
Creates and distributes Daily Status report.
Responsible for performing Quality evaluations per agent. (5 calls per month).
Responsible for performing Ecommerce evaluations.
Assess team talent, identifying stronger and weaker performers. Creates PIPs and defines supportive actions on low performers.
Team Leads will take a minimum of 1 hrs of calls per week (Sunday to Saturday).
Previous experience leading teams / personnel.
Two years of work related experience required.
Leadership courses and workshops will be considered an asset.
Possess strong leadership skills, including the ability to influence others, develop team members and manage conflict.
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Q: R aggregate data.frame column for 3 days In R I frequently aggregate daily data (in a zoo) by month, using something like this:
result <- aggregate(x, as.yearmon, "mean", na.rm=TRUE)

Is there a way that I can do this by per 3 day basis?

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Q: Type error when using existential types Haskell I am having an experiment with Existential Types in Haskell. I am building a very short Json library and am trying to construct a fold.
I am getting error in the code that uses the forall quantifier!
class (Show m) => JsonValue m

instance JsonValue Int
instance JsonValue Double
instance JsonValue String
instance JsonValue Bool

data Json = JObject [(String, Json)]
          | JArray [Json]
          | forall a . (JsonValue a) => JValue a

foldJ :: ([(String, b)] -> b) -> ([b] -> b) -> forall a . (JsonValue a) => (a -> b) -> Json -> b
foldJ object array value (JObject xs) = object $ map (bimap id (foldJ object array value)) xs
foldJ object array value (JArray xs)  = array $ map (foldJ object array value) xs
foldJ object array value (JValue x)   = value x -- ERROR HERE

I am using -XExistentialTypes -XFlexibleInstances -XRank2Types
The error looks like this:
Json.hs:335:47: error:
    • Couldn't match expected type 'a' with actual type 'a1'
      'a1' is a rigid type variable bound by
        a pattern with constructor:
          JValue :: forall a. JsonValue a => a -> Json,
        in an equation for 'foldJ'
        at Json.hs:335:27-34
      'a' is a rigid type variable bound by
        the type signature for:
          foldJ :: ([(String, b)] -> b)
                   -> ([b] -> b) -> forall a. JsonValue a => (a -> b) -> Json -> b
        at Json.hs:(333,1)-(335,47)
    • In the first argument of 'value', namely 'x'
      In the expression: value x
      In an equation for 'foldJ':
          foldJ object array value (JValue x) = value x
    • Relevant bindings include
        x :: a1 (bound at Json.hs:335:34)
        value :: a -> b (bound at Json.hs:335:20)
    |
335 | foldJ object array value (JValue x)   = value x
    |                                               ^
Failed, one module loaded.

This is really confusing me. Ive used typed holes and everything seems like it is the correct type but when I put it together nothing works

A: As always, signatures are parsed right-associative, i.e. it is
foldJ :: ([(String, b)] -> b)
         -> ( ([b] -> b)
              -> ( ∀ a . (JsonValue a)
                      => (a -> b) -> (Json -> b)
                 )
            )

Not that the ∀ quantifies over the result of the second application. It is thus in covariant position, meaning that whoever uses the function gets to pick what type a is. In fact your signature is equivalent to
foldJ :: JsonValue a
  => ([(String, b)] -> b) -> ([b] -> b) -> (a -> b) -> (Json -> b)

But that's not what you want to express: the caller can't pick the type, because it's hidden in the json structure!
What you actually want is to have the quantor only run over the a -> b argument, i.e. the caller has to provide an argument that works for any type a.
foldJ :: ([(String, b)] -> b)
         -> ( ([b] -> b)
              -> ( (∀ a . (JsonValue a) => (a -> b))
                    -> (Json -> b)
                 )
            )


It would be great if we could move the camera angle down just a bit, I feel we are missing some really nice art details that have been put in. Also being able to remap the camera button would be great. That is all, continue the purge.
Being able to re-bind the camera to Q and E (for me) would be wonderful.
The "ship" map is the one with the door ways that are obscured. I think colored silhouettes would be good. If it has a red dot on the mini map it should have a silhouette you can see through a wall?
Camera needs a complete rework. It would suffice if it was a purely melee slasher, but we have ranged weapons and most of time you can't see well even after rotating it to convenient angle. Just take a look at other games: draw and outline for every enemy that is obscured by terrain from player, but in LOS of character. Ignore walls and columns above certain level or too close to camera: why the heck my gun tries to shoot at the ceiling when I am in fact targeting that fellow in next room? Why most objects properly become transparent (although too late) when they obscure view, but some doors and elements won't no matter what?
Agreed. It would also be nice if the camera floated and followed you to point in the up position. I find myself constantly rotating the camera so the enemies are in front of me.


You'd probably think that it's the most obvious thing in the world, but it's a fact worth repeating. Little girls become women. The types of role models they see as powerful, important, and impressive figures around them and in public positions are often the same examples that they strive to be just like. So it's important to remind our kids of women's history, with its long list of smart, beautiful, female role models.
So many of the portrayals and costumes for women and little girls involve some variation on the fairy-tale or movie-character themes. There's the princess, the evil queen, or some other cutesy figure from the big screen or a favorite TV show. While there's nothing really wrong with dressing up as a favorite or villainous character, there's the reality that little girls need better role models. They need to see what they can be and become, and the powerful women from current and past history embody the perfect examples of what we want our kids to strive toward.


The 5 Tibetans exercises come from a British officer who traveled the world and returns after a long stay in a Tibetan monastery new vitality to his home.
The five Tibetans are a very holistic way of referring dowels gently procedure that both trains the mind and the soul alongside the body.
The Five Tibetans - the exercises are stressed-out people to bring back the energy and bring you back him a balance and well-being!
The `5 Tibetans' are not exercises in modern times, they are from the late Neunzigerner already on the book` The five Tibeter'von Peter Kelder.
A fixed order of exercises to be performed 5 1x daily succession.
Yoga-like positions are taken, the correct breathing also occupies an important role.
Course was the rejuvenation effect of the 5 Tibetan exercises will never be scientifically proven, and almost actually can do one, you should not quite as bitter seriously and his conduct then but a holistic approach, this is about physical exercise, proper nutrition and who would like meditation!


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Soros and the EU Commission are now against the free Internet
With his investments, Soros has become a billionaire. Unfortunately, for many years he has been interfering in the political and demographic developments in Europe and has been financially promoting ethnic replacement. Now he is turning against CSU, Facebook and Twitter because they are endangering his leftist revolution.
Like every year, Soros gave his speech on the state of the world at the World Economic Forum in Davos (see movie).1)George Soros says "Facebook and Google are finished", Davos World Economic Forum Speech Jan-26-2018, youtube.com.The neo-liberal quasi self-made sage spoke to his heart's content, while the open, freedom-loving society he invited soaked in each of his words like a sponge. Now hardly anyone noticed that Soros was trying to take away their freedoms.
In the beginning Soros spoke about Russia, which he describes as a mafia state, which adopted nationalist ideology and then he said that the US under Trump's presidency will become similar in this respect. He now also included Hungary in the axis of evil. It is nothing new because he has always been hostile towards governments that are trying to protect their citizens from the consequences of open borders policies and the idea of an open society. What was new was that he scourged social networks. Soros maintains that since they have grown into powerful monopolies, they influence our behaviour and consciousness (especially during election time) too much.
They deceive their users by manipulating their attention and directing it towards their own economic interests and (…) making them dependent on their services (…) The platforms resemble casinos (…) and force people (…) to renounce what John Stuart Mill called the freedom of thought. Is that why Facebook and Twitter are banned in countries like China, Afghanistan and North Korea? Are people really allowed to think freely without access to the internet and the opportunity to post their opinions? No, Soros couldn't care less about our freedom of expression; he simply doesn't want us to be able to defend ourselves on these communication platforms against his manipulations, against the propaganda of his NGO network. Soros's frontal attack sounds all the more hypocritical if one knows that he owns shares of the big tech companies worth 113 million dollars. These are peanuts compared to the $14 billion he has spent in the last 30 years on destabilizing many countries, especially in Eastern and Central Europe, with the purpose of installing open societies there.
Soros continues to declare war when he says: "It is only a matter of time before the global dominance of the US IT monopolists is broken. Davos is a good place to announce that their days are numbered." This should be brought about by regulations and taxation. Taxation, because Soros is besides himself with anger that we can spread our free thoughts for free. He cited EU Commissioner Margrethe Vestager as an example of how to proceed. The head of the anti-trust authority took exception to Google and imposed a fine of 2,424,495,000 euros on the search engine company for its mastery of the market for product search. In 2016, she said: "We believe that Google's behavior has harmed consumers because they only get the results Google wanted, but they are not the most relevant ones."2)Von Macht und Ohnmacht, Deutschlandfunk, 2016-07-27.If you google the keywords "EU Criticism", then the search results and the contents of the websites you can access are certainly not relevant for the EU Commission; they are dangerous for them. Next she delivered a blow to the I-Phone manufacturer Apple The verdict? 13 billion euros as tax. Vestager is thus an important domino in the trade war between Europe and the USA. It is also an element in the puzzle of the cultural struggle carried out on the Internet between the two continents. She will also play a crucial role as the EU's most powerful woman – chief investigator, prosecutor and judge in one person, responsible for monopolies, mergers, cartels and state aid – in Soros's private(?) war on freedom of expression. No wonder, then, that the social liberal politician would like to be the successor to Jean-Claude Juncker, the President of the Commission.
The question arises: is Vestager in its full power sufficiently controlled by the European Parliament?
Soros also said in Davos that American technology companies are posing a threat: "There could be an alliance between the authoritarian states and these large high-tech monopolies, whereby the resulting control systems within the large corporations would be linked to the existing state supervisory authorities. This can lead to the emergence of a system of totalitarian control that even Aldous Huxley or George Orwell never dreamed of." Huxley or Orwell also did not dream that in the age of the most developed democracies, a private network of NGOs within sovereign states would be allowed to conduct hostile policies and harm them: Soros financially supports NGOs that smuggle migrants to Italy on an industrial scale.
Finally a quote from our sage, our savior: "The owners of the Internet platforms consider themselves to be the rulers of the universe. In fact, however, they are slaves who will do everything they can to keep their dominant position." The ruler of the "free thinkers" is now facing a difficult fight against the treacherous American big tech companies that want to conquer Europe, against the nationalist Russian Mafiosi, against the worthless Polish nationalist politicians who defend their right to self-determination within the EU, against the Trump republicans who are building a closed society, against Orban's Hungarian nationalist insurgents who are busy making fences. Hopefully, in this fight he will lose his dominant position.
References [ + ]
1. ↑ George Soros says "Facebook and Google are finished", Davos World Economic Forum Speech Jan-26-2018, youtube.com.
2. ↑ Von Macht und Ohnmacht, Deutschlandfunk, 2016-07-27.
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Q: Thermodynamics of Irreversible process I'm a  high school student with introductory knowledge about thermodynamics. I'm confused
 regarding irreversible processes. I was told that in irreversible processes we cannot define intermediate states of the undergoing process. For example if the initial state is $(P_1, V_1, T_1)$ and the final is $(P_2, V_2, T_2)$, I can't say what's the pressure when it's going through that irreversible expansion. Then how can we plot this curve for irreversible process?
Thanks in advance.
EDIT :- The graph represents an isothermal expansion processes the first being irreversible and the second one being reversible. In my opinion I just can't plot the irreversible curve because I don't know the internal pressure of the gas at the instants it's undergoing the process.What I interpret out of the first graph ( if I'm not given the description that it's an irreversible isothermal process) is that the pressure is slowly decreased from P1 to P2 and then the volume is expanded slowly from V1 to V2 (by slow I mean slow enough to reach the reversible limit). What I mean to say is that I think that only equilibrium states can be plotted on the graph. Thanks to all for extending a helping hand.

A: I think what you are really asking is that, if the initial gas pressure is $P_1$ and the final gas pressure is $P_2$ in an "irreversible isobaric" process, how can we call the process "isobaric?"  Well, if, in an irreversible process, we suddenly change the externally applied pressure on the (massless, frictionless) piston from $P_1$ to $P_2$ and then hold it at that value until the system re-equilibrates, we define this as an irreversible isobaric process.  Under such circumstances, the work done by the gas on its surroundings is $P_2(V_2-V_1)$.  If we wanted to illustrate this on a P-V diagram, what we would do would be to show a discontinuous change in pressure from $P_1$ to $P_2$ at the initial volume $V_1$, after which the pressure would be plotted as constant at $P_2$.  That's what your first diagram implies.
So, in calculating the work, you use the externally imposed pressure acting on the boundary of the system and multiply by the volume change. Even if the pressure of the gas within the system is not uniform, at its boundary (such as a massless frictionless piston), the gas pressure matches the externally imposed pressure.

A: It is not true that we cannot define a path on a thermodynamic state space for an irreversible process. As long as the process is quasi-static it will be a succession of equilibrium states and it will have a definite path. On the other hand it can be quasi-static and irreversible (Is there a quasistatic process that is not reversible?). For example, consider an idealized thermal engine working between two sources and following Diesel or Otto cycle. Although those cycles are well defined they are irreversible since there are heat being exchanged through finite temperature difference (therefore they have less efficiency than Carnot cycle).

A: On a thermodynamic diagram you can plot only equilibrium states.

I was told that in irreversible processes we cannot define intermediate states of the undergoing process.

The meaning is that you cannot plot all the intermediate states, simply because not all the intermediate states are equilibrium states. It is possible that the system, in going from initial to final state, hops between intermediate equilibrium states. These intermediate equilibrium states can be plotted on the thermodynamic diagram. But a string of intermediate equilibrium states no matter how numerous does not necessarily result in a path, because a thermodynamic path is understood to be continuous curve on the thermodynamic diagram with no gaps in between. You obtain a reversible path only in the limit as the number of intermediate equilibrium states goes to infinity in such a way that you obtain a continuous curve on the thermodynamic diagram.

A: Here is what Moran et al, Fundamentals of Engineering Thermodynamics (incidentally, a wonderful thermodynamics text in my opinion) has to say about this issue:
"There is no requirement that a system undergoing a process be in equilibrium during the process.  Some or all of the intervening states may be non equilibrium states.  For many such processes, we are limited to knowing the state before the process occurs and the state after the process is completed.
Typically, at a non equilibrium state intensive properties vary with position at a given time.  Also, at a specified position intensive properties may vary with time, sometimes chaotically.  In certain cases, spatial and temporal variations in properties such as temperature, pressure, and velocity can be measured or obtained by solving appropriate governing equations, which are generally differential equations."
I would add that a system that is not passing through a continuous sequence of equilibrium states during a process is experiencing an irreversible process.


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The site's proximity to the PGEO Group-run palm oil refineries at Pasir Gudang enables VISB to benefit from a secure and constant supply of quality assured palm fatty acid.
Volac has recently worked in partnership with VISB and Wilmar International Ltd to establish a manufacturing plant in Tianjin, China.
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The joint venture will become a global leader in animal feed fats, supporting the dairy farming industry through deep nutritional expertise, by marketing an expanded "MEGA" branded range of feed fat products which are responsibly sourced through a leading sustainability approach and by maximising operational efficiency.


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Q: ReactJS delay update in useState from axios response I am new to react js and I am having a hard time figuring out how to prevent delay updating of use state from axios response
Here's my code:
First, I declared countUsername as useState
const [countUsername, setUsername] = useState(0);

Second, I created arrow function checking if the username is still available
const checkUser = () => {
    RestaurantDataService.checkUsername(user.username)
      .then(response => {
        setUsername(response.data.length);
      })
      .catch(e => {
        console.log(e);
      })
  }

So, every time I check the value of countUsername, it has delay like if I trigger the button and run checkUser(), the latest response.data.length won't save.
Scenario if I console.log() countUseranme
I entered username1(not available), the value of countUsername is still 0 because it has default value of 0 then when I trigger the function once again, then that will just be the time that the value will be replaced.
const saveUser = () => {
  checkUser();
  console.log(countUsername);
}

Is there anything that I have forgot to consider? Thank you

A: usually there is a delay for every api call, so for that you can consider an state like below:
const [loading,toggleLoading] = useState(false)

beside that you can change arrow function to be async like below:
const checking = async ()=>{
toggleLoading(true);
const res = await  RestaurantDataService.checkUsername(user.username);
setUsername(response.data.length);
toggleLoading(false);
}

in the above function you can toggle loading state for spceifing checking state and disable button during that or shwoing spinner in it:
<button onClick={checking } disabled={loading}>Go
i hope this help

A: .then is not synchronous, it's more of a callback and will get called later when the api finishes. So your console log actually goes first most of the time before the state actually saves. That's not really something you control.
You can do an async / await and return the data if you need to use it right away before the state changes. And I believe the way state works is that it happens after the execution:
"State Updates May Be Asynchronous" so you can't really control when to use it because you can't make it wait.
In my experience you use the data right away from the service and update the state or create a useEffect, i.g., useEffect(() => {}, [user]), to update the page with state.
const checkUser = async () => {
    try {
     return await RestaurantDataService.checkUsername(user.username);
    } catch(e) {
      console.log(e);
    }
  }

const saveUser = async () => {
  const user = await checkUser();
  // do whatever you want with user
  console.log(user);
}


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Dave Mustaine Reveals Guest Solo on Upcoming Body Count Album
Chad Childers Published: January 13, 2017
Frazer Harrison, Getty Images / Charles Epting, Loudwire
The new Body Count Bloodlust album is getting more interesting by the day, with one more key detail just being revealed about the forthcoming disc. Not only does Megadeth's Dave Mustaine make a guest turn on the effort, but he says in a recent social media post that it's "by far my fave guest appearance."
During a chat with fans via Twitter, Mustaine was asked about his recent time in the studio and whether or not he had been doing any writing. He responded by revealing that he had recently recorded a solo for the next Body Count album.
At that point, Ice-T chimed in via Twitter, revealing that Mustaine "killed it." The rocker responded, "I had to. The song is badass! Glad you dig it! By far my fave guest appearance. Thanks again." Mustaine went on to add, "The track I played on is great! Not because of me though...because of Ice-T!" See all three tweets below.
In addition to the guest turn, Mustaine and Megadeth will be touring with Body Count in 2017. Mustaine had high praise for Body Count in an interview last year, stating, "I always thoughts that Body Count, while if not for everybody, I thought it was great. It's not your normal metal band, it's cool to see somebody crossing over from the hip-hop world into the metal world. I think it's great to be open-minded about different people from different backgrounds."
Right before the end of the year, Ice-T teased the new song "No Lives Matter," revealing that they were shooting a video for the likely lead single. "When I say 'Black Lives Matter' and you say 'All Lives Matter,' that's like if I was to say 'Gay Lives Matter' and you say 'All Lives Matter,' if I said 'Women's Lives Matter' and you say 'All Lives Matter,'" explained the frontman. "You're diluting what I'm saying, you're diluting the issue. The issue isn't about everybody, it's about black lives at the moment. But the truth of the matter is they don't really give a f—k about anybody if you break the s—t down to the low f—king dirty ass truth."
Ice-T recently revealed on Twitter that more details about the new Bloodlust album will start to be revealed beginning Jan. 20 and leading all the way up to the disc's March street date.
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package com.thoughtworks.go.server.newsecurity.filters;

import com.thoughtworks.go.domain.NullUser;
import com.thoughtworks.go.domain.User;
import com.thoughtworks.go.server.newsecurity.SessionUtilsHelper;
import com.thoughtworks.go.server.newsecurity.models.AuthenticationToken;
import com.thoughtworks.go.server.newsecurity.utils.SessionUtils;
import com.thoughtworks.go.server.service.SecurityService;
import com.thoughtworks.go.server.service.UserService;
import org.junit.jupiter.api.BeforeEach;
import org.junit.jupiter.api.Nested;
import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
import org.springframework.mock.web.MockHttpServletRequest;
import org.springframework.mock.web.MockHttpServletResponse;

import javax.servlet.FilterChain;
import javax.servlet.ServletException;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpSession;
import java.io.IOException;

import static org.assertj.core.api.Assertions.assertThat;
import static org.mockito.Mockito.*;

class AbstractUserEnabledCheckFilterTest {
    private MockHttpServletRequest request;
    private HttpServletResponse response;
    private FilterChain filterChain;

    private AbstractUserEnabledCheckFilter filter;
    private UserService userService;
    private SecurityService securityService;

    @BeforeEach
    void setUp() throws Exception {
        userService = mock(UserService.class);
        securityService = mock(SecurityService.class);
        filter = spy(new AbstractUserEnabledCheckFilter(userService, securityService) {

            @Override
            void handleFailure(HttpServletRequest request,
                               HttpServletResponse response,
                               String errorMessage) throws IOException {

            }
        });
        request = new MockHttpServletRequest();
        response = new MockHttpServletResponse();
        filterChain = mock(FilterChain.class);
    }

    @Nested
    class SecurityEnabled {
        @BeforeEach
        void setUp() {
            when(securityService.isSecurityEnabled()).thenReturn(true);
        }

        @Test
        void shouldClearAuthFromRequestOnFindingDisabledUser() throws IOException, ServletException {
            SessionUtilsHelper.setCurrentUser(request, "loser");
            User disabledUser = createUser("loser", 1L);
            disabledUser.disable();

            when(userService.findUserByName(disabledUser.getName())).thenReturn(disabledUser);

            filter.doFilter(request, response, filterChain);

            assertThat(SessionUtils.getAuthenticationToken(request)).isNull();
            assertThat(SessionUtils.getUserId(request)).isNull();
            verify(filterChain, never()).doFilter(request, response);
            verify(filter).handleFailure(request, response, "Your account has been disabled by the administrator");
        }

        @Test
        void shouldAllowNormalChainingOfRequestIfUserEnabled() throws IOException, ServletException {
            SessionUtilsHelper.setCurrentUser(request, "winner");
            final AuthenticationToken<?> actualAuthenticationToken = SessionUtils.getAuthenticationToken(request);
            final User enabledUser = createUser("winner", 1L);

            when(userService.findUserByName(enabledUser.getName())).thenReturn(enabledUser);

            assertThat(SessionUtils.getUserId(request)).isNull();

            filter.doFilter(request, response, filterChain);

            assertThat(SessionUtils.getAuthenticationToken(request)).isSameAs(actualAuthenticationToken);
            assertThat(SessionUtils.getUserId(request)).isEqualTo(1L);
            assertThat(SessionUtils.getAuthenticationError(request)).isNull();
            verify(filter, never()).handleFailure(any(), any(), anyString());
            verify(filterChain).doFilter(request, response);
        }

        @Test
        void shouldNotSetUserIdInSessionIfAlreadySet() throws IOException, ServletException {
            final HttpSession session = mock(HttpSession.class);
            request.setSession(session);
            when(session.getAttribute("GOCD_SECURITY_CURRENT_USER_ID")).thenReturn(1L);

            final User enabledUser = createUser("winner", 1L);
            when(userService.load(1L)).thenReturn(enabledUser);

            filter.doFilter(request, response, filterChain);

            verify(session, never()).setAttribute("GOCD_SECURITY_CURRENT_USER_ID", 1L);
            verify(session, never()).removeAttribute("GOCD_SECURITY_CURRENT_USER_ID");
            verify(filterChain).doFilter(request, response);
            verify(filter, never()).handleFailure(any(), any(), anyString());
        }

        @Test
        void shouldNotSetUserIdInSessionIfUserServiceReturnANullUser() throws IOException, ServletException {
            SessionUtilsHelper.setCurrentUser(request, "winner");
            final AuthenticationToken<?> actualAuthenticationToken = SessionUtils.getAuthenticationToken(request);
            when(userService.findUserByName("winner")).thenReturn(new NullUser());

            assertThat(SessionUtils.getUserId(request)).isNull();

            filter.doFilter(request, response, filterChain);

            assertThat(SessionUtils.getUserId(request)).isNull();
            assertThat(SessionUtils.getAuthenticationToken(request)).isSameAs(actualAuthenticationToken);
            assertThat(SessionUtils.getAuthenticationError(request)).isNull();
            verify(filterChain).doFilter(request, response);
            verify(filter, never()).handleFailure(any(), any(), anyString());
        }

        @Test
        void shouldNotLoadUserFromServiceWhenSecurityIsDisabled() throws Exception {
            SessionUtilsHelper.setCurrentUser(request, "anonymous");

            filter.doFilter(request, response, filterChain);

            verify(filterChain).doFilter(request, response);
            verifyNoInteractions(userService);
            verify(filter, never()).handleFailure(any(), any(), anyString());
        }

        @Test
        void shouldNotLoadUserUsingUserServiceWhenUserIsGoAgentUser() throws IOException, ServletException {
            SessionUtilsHelper.setCurrentUser(request, "anonymous");

            filter.doFilter(request, response, filterChain);

            verifyNoInteractions(userService);
            verify(filterChain).doFilter(request, response);
            verify(filter, never()).handleFailure(any(), any(), anyString());
        }
    }

    @Nested
    class SecurityDisabled {
        @BeforeEach
        void setUp() {
            when(securityService.isSecurityEnabled()).thenReturn(false);
        }

        @Test
        void shouldContinueFilterChain() throws IOException, ServletException {
            filter.doFilter(request, response, filterChain);

            verifyNoInteractions(userService);
            verify(filterChain).doFilter(request, response);
            verify(filter, never()).handleFailure(any(), any(), anyString());
        }
    }

    private User createUser(String name, long id) {
        User user = new User(name);
        user.setId(id);
        return user;
    }
}

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require "spec_helper"

describe "MAYBE rule" do
  include Wongi::Engine::DSL
  let(:engine) { Wongi::Engine.create }
  let(:maybe_rule) {
    rule {
      forall {
        has 1, 2, :X
        maybe :X, 4, :Y
      }
    }
  }

  it "passes with existing facts" do
    production = engine << maybe_rule

    engine << [1, 2, 3]
    engine << [3, 4, 5]

    expect(production.size).to eq(1)

    expect(production.tokens.first[:X]).to eq(3)
    expect(production.tokens.first[:Y]).to eq(5)
  end

  it "passes with missing facts" do
    production = engine << maybe_rule

    engine << [1, 2, 3]

    expect(production.size).to eq(1)

    expect(production.tokens.first[:X]).to eq(3)
    expect(production.tokens.first[:Y]).to be_nil
  end

  it "passes with pre-added missing facts" do
    engine << [1, 2, 3]

    production = engine << maybe_rule

    expect(production.size).to eq(1)

    expect(production.tokens.first[:X]).to eq(3)
    expect(production.tokens.first[:Y]).to be_nil
  end

  it 'passes with retracted facts' do
    prod = engine << maybe_rule

    engine << [1, 2, 3]
    engine << [3, 4, 5]
    engine.retract [3, 4, 5]

    expect(prod.size).to eq(1)

    expect(prod.tokens.first[:X]).to eq(3)
    expect(prod.tokens.first[:Y]).to be_nil
  end

  it 'works with repeated activations' do
    prod = engine << maybe_rule

    engine << [1, 2, 3]
    engine << [3, 4, 5]
    engine.retract [3, 4, 5]

    10.times {
      engine << [3, 4, 5]
      expect(prod.size).to eq(1)
      expect(prod.tokens.first[:Y]).to be == 5

      engine.retract [3, 4, 5]
      expect(prod.size).to eq(1)
      expect(prod.tokens.first[:Y]).to be_nil
    }
  end

  it 'works with with overlays' do
    prod = engine << maybe_rule

    engine << [1, 2, 3]

    engine << [3, 4, 5]
    expect(prod.size).to eq(1)
    expect(prod.tokens.first[:Y]).to be == 5

    engine.with_overlay do |overlay|
      overlay.retract [3, 4, 5]
      expect(prod.size).to eq(1)
      expect(prod.tokens.first[:Y]).to be_nil
    end

    expect(prod.size).to eq(1)
    expect(prod.tokens.first[:Y]).to be == 5
  end

  it 'handles retracted parent tokens' do
    prod = engine << maybe_rule

    engine << [1, 2, 3]
    engine << [3, 4, 5]
    engine.retract [1, 2, 3]

    expect(prod).to have(0).tokens
    expect(engine.base_overlay.opt_join_results_for(wme: engine.find(3, 4, 5))).to be_empty
  end

  context 'should handle retracted parent tokens with overlays' do
    specify 'variation 1' do
      prod = engine << maybe_rule

      engine << [1, 2, 3]
      engine << [3, 4, 5]

      engine.with_overlay do |overlay|
        engine.retract [1, 2, 3]

        expect(prod).to have(0).tokens
        expect(overlay.opt_join_results_for(wme: engine.find(3, 4, 5))).to be_empty
      end

      expect(prod).to have(1).tokens
      expect(engine.base_overlay.opt_join_results_for(wme: engine.find(3, 4, 5))).not_to be_empty
    end

    specify 'variation 2' do
      prod = engine << maybe_rule

      engine << [1, 2, 3]
      engine << [3, 4, 5]

      engine.with_overlay do |overlay|
        engine.retract [1, 2, 3]
        engine << [3, 4, 5]
        engine.retract [1, 2, 3]

        expect(prod).to have(0).tokens
        expect(overlay.opt_join_results_for(wme: engine.find(3, 4, 5))).to be_empty
      end

      expect(prod).to have(1).tokens
      expect(engine.base_overlay.opt_join_results_for(wme: engine.find(3, 4, 5))).not_to be_empty
    end
  end
end


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Man arrested after death of 27-year-old in Whitefield
Officers were called to a property on Ripon Avenue, in Whitefield, Bury, on Wednesday afternoon
Alexandra Rucki
Police have launched an investigation following the death of a 27-year-old man in Bury.
Officers were called to a property on Ripon Avenue, in Whitefield, on Wednesday afternoon.
A 25-year-old man was arrested and remains in police custody.
An investigation into the circumstances behind the man's death is under way.
Greater Manchester Police has confirmed they've launched an investigation, but no further details have been released.
Watch as a driver ploughs into an ambulance rushing a critically-ill child to hospital
A tweet from the GMP Whitefield account said: "We are investigating the death of a 27 year old male on Ripon Avenue Whitefield today. A 25 year old male is in custody and enquiries ongoing."
A man was seen being held on the ground by police outside a property on Ripon Avenue in Whitefield
An image shared by an eyewitness shows a man being held on the floor by police and a property surrounded by police tape.
The witness, who wishes to remain anonymous, said: "It took a number of them to get him into the van. He was crying in the van."
One neighbour, who asked not to be named, told the M.E.N: "I thought it was quite a quiet flat.
"I've seen ambulances and what have you there before.
"Yesterday an ambulance came first then the police came almost straight away.
"They had the whole area around the front door taped off.
"They were here for most of the day.
"No one can quite get their head around what's happened.
"Everyone's in a bit of shock really."
Flowers left at the scene
Forensic officers in white clothing could be scene combing the area for clues.
Anybody with further information is urged to call GMP on 101 or Crimestoppers, anonymously, on 0800 555 111.
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Regus hands global media account to UM to work across 100 countries
By Stephen Lepitak-06 February 2014 11:01am
Regus has appointed UM to handle its global media account, which will include the creation of a global media communications plan across 100 countries.
The appointment of the IPG Mediabrands agency follows a competitive pitch process, and will see it work alongside the global workspace provider.
Sylvain Valeix, managing director of UM International, said that the agency was excited to work with Regus as it continued to grow in response to "fundamental changes" taking place and develop a plan which would reflect the ambition of the brand.
"As we enter a crucial stage in the development of our business, it was important for us to find a partner that we felt understood our vision and shared our passion for innovation. UM fit the bill on all levels, and we look forward to working with them over the coming months and years," added Rick Vlemmiks, chief marketing officer, Regus.
Regus works with global companies around the world such as GlaxoSmithKline, Toshiba and Google.
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Wine grapes grow again in Israel's Negev desert
Susan Phillips
Using desert-taming techniques the ancients mastered, farmers in Israel's Negev desert are growing wine grapes. (Image courtesy of Ben-Gurion University)
Far from the sandy beaches of the Mediterranean and the nightlife of Tel Aviv, Israel's Negev desert stretches for about 4,700 square miles south toward the Red Sea, comprising about half of Israel's land. The dry, crusty soil is dotted with an occasional oasis, or wadi, where the rare rainfall pools enough to support a patch of green in the otherwise stark, brown landscape.
For readers of the Old Testament, it's where Moses sent his spies to scout out the Promised Land. And it was part of the ancient "Spice Route," where 2,000 years ago the Nabateans brought frankincense and myrrh from the East, to Mediterranean ports.
Along the way, the Nabateans, and the Byzantines, established vineyards. Today, Israeli farmers have taken advantage of advanced water infrastructure to develop new wineries in this dry environment.
Aaron Fait is an associate professor at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, and he led a visitor around an experimental vineyard where he does his research. The sun was blistering, there was no shade anywhere, and the hot wind blew relentlessly.
"You can see how majestic this landscape with vineyards [is] in the middle of the desert," he said as he proudly showed off the vineyard.
Fait said viticulture — or growing grapes for wine — began in this region thousands of years ago even though the area gets almost no rain, just about four inches a year.
"What do you think is a challenge to growing grapes in a desert environment?" he asked. "Water? The Nabateans didn't have water, and still they were making a lot of wine here."
The Nabateans were a nomadic tribe that lived in this area about 2,500 years ago. They built stonewalls or terraces to capture what little rain fell during rare downpours. That way, the water was absorbed by the ground instead of bouncing off of the tough, salty soil.
Today, the farmers have access to advanced irrigation systems. To improve efficiency, plastic sheets hug the plant's stems and cover the ground to prevent evaporation.
"Now, another challenge of a desert environment is sunlight," said Fait. "Sunlight is a bad beast indeed."
Fait is originally from Italy, where, he said, wine is often grown with the vines stretched out in a T-formation. But using that method would create problems in the desert.
"This exposes the berries to too much radiation, to sun radiation in the morning, in the evening, [the grapes] are always battered by the sun."
That makes for pretty bad wine, he said.
"The fruit becomes brown," said Fait. "Sunburns start to develop in both red and white varieties, and you lose acidity. So you get these red wines that sit on your tongue like a stone. It's not fun to drink them."
So instead, he encourages farmers to grow the vines in a way that the leaves create a canopy of sorts and help shade the grapes.
Aaron Fait, an associate professor at Ben-Gurion University, does research in Israel's Negev desert on vineyards. (Image courtesy of Ben-Gurion University)
The other challenge to making good wine in this desert is the salty soil. Israelis wouldn't drink it, he said: "You can sell it to German tourists and maybe also some Americans in Venice."
So the solution is making sure the drip irrigation flushes the salt farther down into the ground, beyond the root system.
The desert has its advantages. The lack of rain means farmers don't have to battle fungi, pests and weeds with toxic herbicides and pesticides. The high temperatures are good for the fruit.
"The Nabateans knew that," said Fait. "They were exporting wine throughout the Mediterranean from this very region."
His research has value beyond the Negev, Fait said.
"Researching viticulture in the desert is not just for the sake of the local farmers, but actually it's kind of a worldwide mission," he said. "We are in the era of climate change. Eventually, if you feel it, the farmers feel it."
The vineyards of the Mediterranean basin, including those in the south of France, Italy, and Slovenia, are already dealing with the impacts of climate change, which could include droughts as well as heavy rains, he said.
"The grapevine is not adapted for these sudden changes in climate, and this is what climate change is. The [weather] becomes more and more unpredictable. Sometimes, you have water; sometimes, you don't have water. So the desert can become a model to study how climate change can affect the wine industry worldwide."
In a historic land, modern-day challenges
In Israel's Negev desert, Fait has collaborated with Eran Raz, a farmer who owns Nana Estate Winery, a 60-acre vineyard near the town of Mitzpe Ramon. It's about a 10-minute drive from the Egyptian border.
Raz's vineyard looks like a river of deep green that snakes through a valley of tan, desolate earth. There are no trees in sight, aside from those planted near an arbor that shades a wine-tasting area. The trees are watered with irrigation, like the vineyard.
"The first year was quite tough because when I came here there was nothing here," said Raz. "Just desert. No roads, no water system, I needed to do everything by myself."
But there were other people using the land. Raz said nomadic Bedouin tribes had turned the ancient Spice Route into a path for modern-day drug smuggling. The new vineyard blocked their way and exposed them.
"They broke the water system again and again, they burned the compost and were smashing the vines all the time."
Raz decided to sleep out in the vineyard overnight to protect his new crops.
"And they tell me that I need to [leave]. But I didn't think for a minute to go away from here."
Raz said the Bedouins offered him a deal: For the price of just 3,000 Israeli shekels, or about $850, they would protect him and his new vineyards. He didn't take the deal. When a border fence went up to block migrants from crossing the border, it also cut off the drug smuggling route, which freed him up to grow grapes.
As Raz began to cultivate the land, he found history everywhere he looked, including the remnants of the ancient terraces built by the Nabateans. And he said he learned from them. One day after a heavy rainfall replenished a wadi, or dry streambed, he realized how important those terraces were for the Nabateans.
He said he watched as the water carried away the soil through the broken parts of the ancient terrace. Without those stonewalls blocking the flow, and pooling the water, the rain bounces off the hard, dry soil.
"So I understand how important it is to build terraces. So I built all the terraces here again," he said.
Since then, he hasn't had any problems with runoff.
Eran Raz, a farmer, owns Nana Estate Winery near the Egyptian border with his wife, Shahar Raz. (Image courtesy of Ben-Gurion University)
But unlike the ancient Nabateans, Raz can tap into a pipeline that brings desalinated seawater from a plant on the Mediterranean about 185 miles away. And that gives him a surprising advantage over other wineries. He gets so little rain that he has almost complete control over how much water his grapes get.
During a wine tasting, Aaron Fait said it's that water control that makes the wine here so good.
"And, by the way, you are testing now the best Shiraz I ever tasted," said Fait. "I mean just close your eyes and taste this Shiraz.
"Think about it. Is there another crop where you can control conditions and get such a deep diversified feeling? I mean, there is no other crop like wine. Apples for apple juice or applesauce? Whatever. Tomatoes? Meh."
Raz said he was drawn to grow grapes in this desolate environment because of its legacy, which he finds just walking through his vineyards.
"It's got history," he said. "You can find in the Bible that people grow grapes and drink wine."
And it's that history that drives him to turn the desert into wine.
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