Collaboration is a core element of how we work which requires the creation of extended teams on a project or long term engagement. Whilst the majority of our teams are internal staff, there is still a critical element of any project that requires the inclusion of our clients and/or external vendors. It is imperative that Microsoft Teams allows for the easy (but secure) inclusion of external parties for the length of any project or engagement.
This is why historically products like Groups etc. have not been adopted as widely as we would hope. If the tool only allows for 60-70% of a team to participate, it breaks. If a tool does not allow 100% of those who need to be involved to participate equally, if breaks and our users and clients have far too many alternative solutions that they can easily adopt (Slack etc.) to quickly and efficiently do their jobs.
Finally, making external parties sign up for a Microsoft account (such as Hotmail) to authenticate against any collaboration service does not work, and better approach is required and needed.
The #1 requested feature for Microsoft Teams is now here!
We're starting to roll out the ability to add anyone as a guest in Microsoft Teams. This means that anyone with a business or consumer email account, such as Outlook.com, Gmail.com or others, can participate as a guest in Teams with full access to team chats, meetings and files.
Thank you all for your feedback and support!
No big news on this topic. Just letting you know that we continue to work on this and progress is being made.
Hi everyone, thanks for your comments in this thread, tweets, emails and calls. Please don't hesitate to reach out to me with any questions at all; I'm here for YOU! I'll continue to update this ticket as we make progress towards MSA.
This is our first iteration of the feature, so we really want your feedback! Please post your feedback to UserVoice, this specific ticket, or on Twitter, or via email at sparavi (at) Microsoft (dot) com. Please include user logs if you encounter any bugs.
This has been the most popular and most voted on user requested item and we're so glad you gave us this suggestion. Thank you for your support of Teams!!
"We are actively working on guest access. Thanks for your patience and stay tuned for more."
I share in your frustration and promise we are dedicated to delivering this feature, and I promise to continue to advocate for you. I appreciate your investment in us and Teams' success.
If you have any questions, as always — just email or tweet.
Hi everyone, I know its been a couple months since my last update on this, so wanted to let you know where this stands.
We were aiming for June, as we had stated in our GA blog post, but we're facing some issues so it's looking like it will be just a tad bit longer (not too long). This is a top priority, so trust me when I say you will have it soon!
Thank you for your patience — we really appreciate it!
You may have already heard this because we announced this date at our public release of Teams last month, but I thought I'd email everyone just in case they didn't get the news. We've publicly committed to a date for this feature, and it is June!
Tried with my personal email address, instead of being directed to create a Microsoft Account for free, I get the error message "This is a personal email address" (which is definitely the target, isn't it ?).
This probably comes from the fact that my personal email address is already linked to an Office365 Home Edition. So it seems that case was not taken into account yet, which is due to causing issues with a number of guests until corrected.
The current service (3/2/18) is not fit for purpose for bringing together a group of people from different organisations to collaborate. THerefore I have just decided to use Slack :( This is a key area for improvements.
@Andreas - I recall reading it would be rolled out completely by the end of March. It starts rolling out next Monday (March 5th). So we'll see updates between 3/5-3/31 for this.
Before everyone starts complaining that it doesn't work, it's WITHIN TWO WEEKS not today.
Work with guests in Microsoft Teams—We're rolling out the ability to add anyone as a guest in Microsoft Teams. Previously, only those with an Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) account could be added as a guest. Starting next week, anyone with a business or consumer email address—including Outlook.com and Gmail.com—can participate as a guest in Teams with full access to team chats, meetings, and files. Guests in Teams will continue to be covered by the same compliance and auditing protection afforded to Office 365 subscribers, and can be managed securely within Azure AD.
Why would I read the FAQ? Nothing in their addresses this request.
Why are you so steadfast in telling the customer you know best?
I think it is disingenuous for the Teams devs to say that their product has guest access. Their implementation of guest access is at a minimum confusing as I feel like they are twisting the definition that most people would consider for the word guest. The nuance between a true definition of a guest account (communication with anyone with any email account and no Office 365 affiliation or paid Microsoft account) and the MS Teams definition (communication only with people with an Office 365 paid account) is lost to the casual person who looks at the features of Teams and is not really explained well enough.
This is a showstopper to many people who have to have a way to communicate with people outside of their company. Allowing this access would make Teams more sticky and more convenient, making it more valuable, not less.
I hope that they are moving in this direction and that it is corrected soon because, as the creator of this suggestion said, there are too many free alternatives to go to that have this ability and, once you get ingrained in using another tool, people will not switch back to Teams.
@pierre trudell. @angela size. The only way I'm able to use a Microsoft Account to invite a guest is if I first create a Azure AD Contact and then invite them. As far as i can see there are no difference in this matter between Web an MacOS.
But the major problem is that MS have such a big problem to use ordinary mail adresses as the authoritative owner. Rest of the world use it but MS havn't accepted the world order on this. If their are other demands from MS customers please let us as customer make that choice our self. Some customers accept guests in their teams/groups/sites based on email authority, other customers needs higher authority demands it could be federations, Office365 Work/Shool accounts, Microsoft Accounts, Gmail, facebook, twitter you name it. But please let me as a customer make that decision, and let your technical teams solve the issues in a more effective way, than you are dealing with it right now.
It now works for regular (free) Microsoft accounts. (Did not work 2 week ago). It only work in the web interface. The Mac application still insist on a 365 account. BTW it still does not work if your Microsoft account does not have a Microsoft e-mail address. So it is not perfect but at least we can see some progress. And I can now can invite external users without incurring any cost as long as they are willing to use or create a Microsoft account.
I was able to browse and edit files, post comment, switch to the sharepoint interface. WoW!
We need this capability as well. If you are sunseting Skype Business this needs to be a viable option to those of us using Skype Business.
I read the following news inside teams yesterday. And thought maybe, maybe MSFT is on it's way to fix such a basic function as inviting guest to a team by email without the need of a "Work and school account" but NO. You are now able to participate in a meeting within team as an anom user! 16 month after first release and still no progress in this basic, fundamental functionality Take a look at Cisco Sparc, Slack, competitors that just work out of the box but in MSFT world nothing works as expected and I wonder if the developers understand what we are asking for?
We are the same as the first comment in this article. Guest access does not appear in settings/services & add ins. Yet partners of ours are able to create external teams with us. Very frustrating.
I know this has been asked a dozen times, but where is true guest access to those without an O365 or hotmail account? I have enough emails, so do my clients, we can't set up emails for them just so that they can get into a product that I can replace for free.
Our company is using Slack because this feature is not available in MS Teams. Once a tool get's entrenched, it's hard to change. Is Guess Access for Non MS Office 365 users on the road map for delivery?
If it is not on the road map, what does a status of "working on it" imply for any potential delivery date?
Progress is being made on what Warren? It's clear that the crux of this thread is that current features are inadequate.
Great to hear you're working on them - but clearly there's a need to understand if they'll be fit for purpose.
How can I leave MS TEams as a guest? I am member of 4 different tennants as a guest. Can I leave them on my own?
Need IT control about the invitations, probably an accept-deny email to the IT team would be enough BEFORE the invitation sent out. Also a simple Microsoft account should be enough to be a guest.


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Remembering Albert Camus' "The Plague": It is US
January 4, 2017 ejcurtin
On this date, January 4, in 1960, Albert Camus died in a car crash at a point when he thought his true work had not even begun. He was 46 years old. He had already written The Stranger, The Fall, and The Plague, among other works. He had won the Nobel Prize for Literature. Yet he felt that in his writing he had to hide behind a mask that stifled him. After all these successes, as well as criticism from the left and right French intelligentsia, he was looking forward to a time when he would be able to speak his own truth without the mask of depersonalization – to enter a period of création en liberté.
He was finding a new voice beyond the prison of a classical form he felt he needed to escape. In his briefcase was the uncompleted manuscript of that effort, the autobiographical and posthumously published novel, The First Man, written in a new lyrical and powerfully emotional style. It is a beautiful book.
A true artist, Camus tried to serve both beauty and suffering. Quintessentially a man of his era, he was haunted by the image of the world as a prison, exemplified in his novel, The Plague, the tale of a town cut off from the world by a pestilence, whose residents lack the imagination to foresee. Even as it happens, they remain oblivious, for they "work hard, but solely with the object of getting rich." Bored by their habits, heavily drugging themselves with drink, and watching many movies to distract themselves, they fail to grasp the significance of "the squelchy roundness of a still-warm body" of the plague-bearing rats that emerge from their underworld to die in their streets. "It was as if the earth on which our houses stood were being purged of their secret humors; thrusting up to the surface the abscesses and pus-clots that had been forming in its entrails." To them the plague is "unthinkable," an abstraction, until all their denials are swept aside as the truth emerges from the sewers and their neighbors and families die from the disease. "Stupidity has a way of getting its way;" the narrator, Dr. Rieux tells us, "as we should see if we were not always so wrapped up in ourselves …. plagues and wars take people equally by surprise."
The Plague is often read as a metaphorical depiction of the German occupation of France during World War II. While this is true to the extent that Camus had lived through that experience as a member of the French Resistance and writer and editor of the underground newspaper Combat, his artistry makes it a revelatory read for today, especially for citizens of the United States, the greatest purveyor of the plague of violence in the world. We are all infected with the soul-destroying evil that our leaders have loosed upon the world.
For we live in plague time, and the plague lives in us. Like the inhabitants of the novel's French-Algerian city of Oran, the United States is "peopled with sleep walkers," pseudo-innocents, who are "chiefly aware of what ruffled the normal tenor of their lives or affected their interests." That their own government, no matter what political party is in power (both working for deep-state, elite interests led by the organized criminals of the CIA), is the disseminator of a world-wide plague of virulent violence, must be denied and divorced from consensus reality. These plague-stricken deaths visited on millions around the world – by Clinton, by the Bushes, by Obama, and potentially by Trump – must be denied by diverting attention to partisan politics that elicit outrage after outrage by the various factions and their minions. The true plague, the bedrock of a nation continually waging wars against the world, is avoided. Presently, it is the liberals that are "shocked" that Trump was elected President. These are the same people who went silent for the last eight years as Obama ravaged the world and lied about his cruel policies. Their shock over the Trump victory reeks of bad faith, with most of them supporting Hillary Clinton, Obama's presumed heir apparent and a neo-liberal war-monger par excellence. Further "shocks" will follow when Trump leaves office and the latest neo-liberal avatar succeeds him; conservatives will resume their harangues and protestations, just as they have done during Obama's reign. The two war parties will exchange insults as their followers are outraged and the American Empire, built on the disease of violence, will roll along. The plague will rage on and the main stream corporate media will play along.
For "decent folks must be allowed to sleep at night," says the character Tarrou sarcastically; he is a man who has lost his ability to "sleep well" since he witnessed a man's execution where the "bullets make a hole into which you could thrust your fist." He awakens to the realization that he "had an indirect hand in the deaths of thousands of people." He loses any peace he had and vows to resist the plague in every way he can. "For many years I've been ashamed," he says, "mortally ashamed, of having been, even with the best intentions, even at many removes, a murderer in my turn."
The rats are dying in the streets. They are our rats, diseased by us. They have emerged from the underworld of a nation plagued by its denial. Unconscious evil bubbles up. We are an infected people. Worry and irritation – "these are not feelings with which to confront plague." But we don't seem ashamed of our complicity in our government's crimes around the world. Camus knew better. He warned us, "It's a wearying business being plague-stricken. But it's still more wearying to refuse to be it. That's why everybody in the world looks so tired; everyone is more or less sick of plague. But that is why some of us, those who want to get the plague out of their systems, feel such desperate weariness."
Yet the fight against the plague must go on. Tarrou puts it thus, "All I maintain is that on this earth there are pestilences and there are victims, and it's up to us, so far as possible, not to join forces with the pestilences. That may sound simple to the point of childishness; I can't judge if it's simple, but I know it's true. You see, I'd heard such quantities of arguments, which very nearly turned my head, and turned other people's heads enough to make them approve of murder; and I'd come to realize that all our troubles spring from our failure to use plain, clear-cut language. So I resolved always to speak – and to act – quite clearly, as this was the only way of setting myself on the right track."
Camus, although his life and work were cut short by an absurd automobile accident with an unused train ticket in his pocket, stood with the victims. He was on the right track. He left us a living lesson in integrity in the face of violence.
Refuse it always. If not, you will be destroyed by your own complicity in evil. You will be plagued by your own hand, was his message to us.
On this date of his death, I wish to celebrate such a man, a great artist who tried to heal and "bear witness in favor of those plague-stricken people; so that some memorial of the injustice and outrage done them might endure; and to state quite simply what we learn in time of pestilence: that there are more things to admire in men than to despise."
That is surely true of the victims. Let us hope the supporters of the executioners cure themselves.
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On Saturday night, when 68-year-old Om Prakash was closing his confectionary shop near Kathmandi in Rohtak, two youths in early their 20s came to purchase cold drinks and cigarettes. After leaving, they returned few minutes later and attacked Sharma.
While leaving, the miscreants locked the door from the outside leaving injured Sharma inside the shop.He called his other son, Deepak, who broke the lock and shifted Om Prakash to a hospital.
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Based on the complaint, the police have registered a case against unknown miscreants under sections 342 and 379 B of the Indian Penal Code (IPC).
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The Great Hunger, Ireland 1845-50
We all know what it's like to be hungry, but there's a big difference between "I skipped breakfast this morning" hungry, and "I haven't had a proper meal in months" hungry.
Food is the most basic human need, and when there isn't enough of it to go around the devastation can be unimaginable.
What's even worse, though, is when there is enough food, and people starve anyway.
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The potato is a humble vegetable, a staple food in many parts of the world – and an annoying stereotype if you happen to be Irish. Well, actually, it's more than annoying; it's rather poor taste, considering that the potato was the trigger for a famine that killed around a million Irish people in the nineteenth century.
When the potato was first introduced into Europe in the sixteenth century, it was slow to catch on as a foodstuff. However, gradually people realised just how good it was; it adapted easily to different climates, was cheap and easy to produce, bulky enough to satisfy hunger, and nutritious too.
In Ireland, there were additional reasons for its eventual popularity, stemming from the country's traditions of land ownership and tenancy.
At the top of the social hierarchy were the landowners, who were largely Protestant thanks to punitive laws which had prevented Catholics from owning land for many years. They were also, in many cases, British, or had strong ties to England. This meant that they were frequently absentee landlords, leaving their estates in the hands of their agents or middlemen. Rents were collected, generally in the form of crops rather than cash, and shipped out of Ireland to feed other parts of the British Empire and return a tidy profit to the landlord's pocket.
Next in the hierarchy were the farmers; they ranked well in society and lived in some comfort in what were termed second-class houses. These had slate roofs, windows, several rooms, and furniture. They may even have had rugs on the floor.
Below them, there were the smallholders, whose share of the land could be less than an acre, or as much as fifteen acres. Their homes would often be categorised as third-class houses; stone built cottages which might have had more than one room, but often didn't, and which would only have had a few windows. Furniture was rare; the bedding was often just a pile of straw on the floor.
A contemporary lithograph by A.G. Stopford. Source: Views of the Famine
That may sound awfully impoverished compared to modern western civilisation, but there were fourth-class houses, too. These belonged to the cottiers, labourers who were practically landless and relied on very small garden plots for subsistence. They were given permission by smallholders to use little patches of their land, in return for a share of their labour and the crops they grew, in a system called conacre.
American social reformer Frederick Douglass, who sailed to Ireland in 1845 and spent two years there, described one of these houses.
"Four mud walls about six feet high, occupying a space of ground about ten feet square, covered or thatched with straw—a mud chimney at one end, reaching about a foot above the roof—without apartments or divisions of any kind—without floor, without windows, and sometimes without a chimney—a piece of pine board laid on the top of a box or an old chest— a pile of straw covered with dirty garments…—a picture representing the crucifixion of Christ, pasted on the most conspicuous place on the wall—a few broken dishes stuck up in a corner—an iron pot, or the half of an iron pot, in one corner of the chimney—a little peat in the fireplace, aggravating one occasionally with a glimpse of fire, but sending out very little heat—a man and his wife and five children, and a pig… Here you have an Irish hut or cabin, such as millions of the people of Ireland live in. And some live in worse than these."
In many cases, these farms had started off as large estates, but had been sub-divided by landlords and their agents in order to make more money. Often the land was then divided even more by the tenants themselves. Land was customarily split equally and sub-let to their heirs, who would eventually do the same for their heirs, and so on, so that plots became smaller and smaller. The landlords, if they knew, didn't generally care too much so long as their rents were paid.
What has all that got to do with the potato? Simple; the potato could easily be grown in small garden plots, and offered a much higher calorific value than, say, grain. Even a cottier with a tiny patch of ground to work could feed their family relatively well with potatoes to form the bulk of their diet. Those who had more land to work on still came to rely heavily on the potato; the less land they needed to feed their family, the more they had to grow more marketable crops which would actually pay their rent. They had, by the nineteenth century, grown accustomed to this subsistence level of existence.
Martha Blake, an English-born woman who married into an Irish landowning family, wrote of their tenants in "Letters from the Irish Highlands", dated 1823;
"If they have turf and potatoes enough, they reckon themselves provided for: if a few herrings, a little oatmeal, and, above all, the milk of a cow be added, they are rich, they can enjoy themselves and dance with a light heart, after their day's work is over."
At the beginning of August, 1845, newspapers reported favourably on the state of the potato crop, saying it was "more abundant this season than it has been for several years past".
By mid-August, however, reports of a blight in potatoes were coming in from the South of England. The Sussex Advertiser wrote, "The potatoes themselves are affected by becoming soft and pulpy on one side as if frost-bitten, and are rendered totally unfit for the food of even cattle."
For a while, Ireland seemed to be safe. On the 26th of August, 1845, the Dublin Evening Post reported that "We are happy to have such good accounts of the Potato Crop in all parts of Ireland, and that we have escaped the blight that appears to have visited that Crop in several Counties of England and in Holland."
However, just a few days later, on the 29th, the Dublin Evening Mail wrote that:
"The potato crop… is far from satisfactory. There appears everywhere a great abundance, but in several districts a rot has set in, and two-thirds of the tubers are found to be rotten within, though large and well looking without. It is remarkable that this blight prevails to an enormous extent about Crossdony and Ballynamore, where four men, it is said, would scarcely turn up a cart load of good potatoes in the course of a day's work."
A potato affected by Phytophthora infestans – the cause of the blight.
Across Ireland, the blight was reported to have affected between a third and a half of the total crop. For the labourers at the bottom of the pile, that meant they had between a third and a half of the food they needed for the rest of the year.
In some areas, this was seen as a serious problem, but not an insurmountable one. There had been crop failures before, and all they had to do was hang on until the next crop. Communities looked out for one another where they could, even in some cases leaving gifts of food on the doorsteps of the needy so that nobody would be embarrassed by having to accept charity.
However, many of the poorest were immediately affected. Landlords and their agents collected their rents as usual, despite the fact that this meant leaving the tenants with no food. Smallholders who had cottiers using the land under conacre were also hard-hit; they expected to get a share of the cottiers' crop, and if it failed they got nothing, but still had to pay the rent for the land the cottiers occupied.
Those with higher status in the community raised funds with which to buy food, and wrote letters to higher authorities to try and raise awareness of the dire circumstances which loomed that winter. Of course, it is worth noting that in a number of cases, those letter-writers were the same landlords who were receiving their tenants' crops and shipping them away. Perhaps they kept some aside to be sold to those tenants who actually had the cash, but little to none was given away.
In England, the Prime Minister Sir Robert Peel was said to have found the reports "alarming"; however, in a letter to Sir James Graham, the then Home Secretary, he also wrote;
"There is such a tendency to exaggeration and inaccuracy in Irish reports that delay in acting on them is always desirable."
Peel's main proposed solution was to repeal the Corn Laws, which imposed high tariffs on any grain imported from overseas. That would allow Irish landlords to import cheap grain from America with which to feed their tenants – and he strongly felt that the Irish should deal with their own problems. However, this move would eventually be defeated in parliament.
Irish Catholic leader Daniel O'Connell thought a lot more should be done. Amongst his suggestions were a ban on distilling and brewing, because it used huge amounts of grain that would be better used to feed people, a ban on the export of food from Ireland, and for Irish ports to be allowed to receive food imports directly, instead of having them go through British ports first. He also wanted the Government to provide direct relief for the destitute, to levy a higher tax on absentee landlords and use the revenue to fund relief, and begin public works projects immediately to provide Irish labourers with paid work so that they could buy food.
He led a delegation which included the Duke of Leinster and other notables to see Lord Heytesbury, the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, and presented his proposals. The delegation was heard politely and then they were practically hustled out of the door.
As circumstances deteriorated in Ireland – and Peel presumably realised that the reports were not inaccurate or exaggerated – a relief commission was appointed, first meeting in November of 1845.
They would not just give food to the starving, however. There was a belief that if they gave food to the Irish, they would never try to earn it again, and Britain would be stuck feeding them forever.
Instead, it was decided that relief committees would be set up, raising the taxes in individual areas to finance relief for that area. In terms of Government aid, it was agreed to loan the Irish Board of Works enough to set up public works projects to employ the destitute. Note the word "loan"; they were expected to pay it back.
The setting up of extra poorhouses and fever hospitals was also authorised, although again, the funds for them were only loaned and any area which built them would be taking on debts.
Finally, on his own initiative, Peel bought £100,000 worth of American maize, often known at the time as Indian corn. Not for free distribution; it was to be sold, at market price, and only if the local merchants had nothing to sell.
Recipes and hints for cheap cookery were distributed in Ireland in 1847
People in Ireland were already dying from hunger. Peel's "Indian corn" didn't arrive until February, and initially it didn't go down well either metaphorically or literally. Irish mills weren't equipped to grind it properly, as it was different to the wheat and corn they were accustomed to, and if not cooked very thoroughly indeed it made people unwell, one account stating it caused abdominal pain and diarrhea. However, once hunger kicked in – and once people began to understand how to properly cook it – it became very popular. When the depots opened to sell it, they were besieged, and many went away disappointed.
The process of setting up public works was also somewhat long-winded. There were strict criteria, and they weren't allowed to be profitable to anyone – so the labourers often ended up building roads that literally went nowhere.
The public works also depended on the cooperation of local landlords, some of whom were not inclined to help their tenants and wanted nothing to do with it.
Other landlords were worse than unhelpful; on the 13th of March 1846, a Mrs Gerrard of Ballinlass in Galway evicted some 300 tenants, because she intended to start a grazing farm on the land they occupied. Their homes were demolished by the police; they were even, according to Lord Londonderry, "driven from the ditches to which they had been taken themselves for shelter."
Homeless, and with those in the area who had avoided eviction forbidden to help them, there was little hope for those turned out. Eviction was described at the time as being "tantamount to a sentence of death by slow torture."
Despite this, Lord Brougham, former Lord Chancellor, defended the landlord's right to evict tenants in a speech at the House of Lords on the 23rd of March:
"Undoubtedly it is the landlord's right to do as he pleased, and if he abstained he conferred a favor and was doing an act of kindness. If, on the other hand, he choose to stand on his right, the tenants must be taught by the strong arm of the law that they had no power to oppose or resist… property would be valueless and capital would no longer be invested in cultivation of the land if it were not acknowledged that it was the landlord's undoubted and most sacred right to deal with his property as he wished."
Source: Views of the Famine
Tenants who protested that they couldn't pay their rent because of the blight received little sympathy from the bailiffs. A reply from one was quoted in the Freeman's Journal in April 1846:
"What the devil do we care about you or your black potatoes? It was not us that made them black. You will get two days to pay the rent, and if you don't you know the consequences."
A petition from the Templecrone parish in Northwest Donegal, dated the 27th of March, illustrates how bad things were in Ireland at that point. It stated that there were 500 families in the area with only five weeks of provisions left, and 200 families with nothing at all, completely reliant on charity for their survival.
And they weren't just hungry; disease was spreading. The Dublin Evening Mail, on the 18th of March, published "Abstracts of the most serious representations made by the several medical superintendents of public institutions (fever hospitals, infirmaries, dispensaries, &c.) in the provinces of Ulster, Munster, Leinster, and Connaught."
It took up almost half a page of the broadsheet; just a few examples:
"Diarrhoea to a considerable extent exists in this district produced from constant use of diseased potatoes."
"Fever, diarrhoea and dyspepsia have increased considerably, and are in many cases traceable to the use of unsound potatoes."
"Cottiers are without even tainted potatoes for food. Many unemployed poor of district are in a starving condition."
A further concern during this time was whether they'd have enough potatoes to plant for the 1846 crop, because potatoes are grown from other potatoes, rather than from seed. Could the hungry refrain from eating those needed for planting? Relief funds were, in part, diverted towards ensuring that a big enough crop could be planted to feed the people through to the next year.
Resources were stretched as thin as possible. Anything that could be sold – even beds, clothes, and heirlooms – was sold to buy food. Many of those who kept animals decided to eat them, rather than save them to pay the next rent.
Once the first crop of potatoes was planted, it was common for labourers from Ireland to travel to Scotland for work. However, Scotland too was affected, and was swamped with the destitute seeking work. For every man employed, there could be another nine disappointed, and as those men made their way home they often turned to begging. Others remained at home, their hopes raised by the prospect of public service works – but these were also swamped with applicants, and the Board of Works were understaffed and unable to supervise them properly.
Irish peasants en route to England for harvest work. Source: Views of the Famine
The summer was always a difficult time for the average Irish labourer. They lived so close to the edge that there was usually a period when food ran out and became scarce before the new harvest came in. However, for those who'd got this far, the potato crop in their fields promised that these hard days would soon be over.
Meanwhile, in England, many were still busy denying that there was any problem with the potatoes in Ireland at all. The London Daily News, on the 26th of March 1846, reported a few of these claims with some disdain:
"A practical farmer assures Mr. Shaw that (happy farmer of Cork!) "that part of Ireland had not in his memory experienced a better year than the last!" A clergyman of the Established Church, residing near Fermoy, declares "the potato famine in his part of the country to be vox et praeterea nihil!" [translation- a voice and nothing else!] The clergyman also adds, "my own potatoes are very good!"
Lord Bentinck, who had been instrumental in defeating Peel's attempt to repeal the Corn Laws, "affirmed that the famine in Ireland from the potato rot was a gross delusion" in the House of Commons.
Even if they did admit the potatoes were rotten, they could still deny the problem. The Duke of Cambridge, Queen Victoria's uncle, declared to an Agricultural Society meeting that,
"Rotten potatoes and sea-weed, or even grass, properly mixed, afforded a very wholesome and nutritious food. All knew that Irishmen could live upon anything and there was plenty grass in the field though the potato crop should fail."
In June of 1846, Peel resigned, and was replaced by Lord John Russell. His Whig government believed strongly in the idea of laissez-faire – effectively, leave things alone and they'll fix themselves – and felt that this should be applied to the Irish famine.
Under their direction, the relief and public works programmes that Peel had set up were to be stopped.
Sir Charles Trevelyan, the permanent head of the treasury, was effectively in charge of doing this, as any money spent on relief had to be sanctioned by the Treasury. On the 8th of July, he actually turned away a shipment of Indian corn, despite concerns already being raised about the new crop of potatoes. On July 17th, he told Sir Randolph Routh, who was in charge of distributing the Indian corn, that "the only way to prevent the people from becoming habitually dependent on Government is to bring operations to a close. The uncertainty about the new crop only makes this more necessary." The depots and public service works were ordered to be closed on the 15th of August.
On the 7th of August, Irish Catholic priest Father Theobald Mathew wrote a letter to Trevelyan.
"A bolt more destructive than the simoom of the desert has passed over the land, and the hopes of the poor potato cultivators are totally blighted, and the food of a whole nation has perished. On the 27th of last month, I passed from Cork to Dublin, and this doomed plant bloomed in all the luxuriance of an abundant harvest. Returning on the 3rd instant, I beheld with sorrow one wide waste of putrifying vegetation. In many places the wretched people were seated on the fences of their decaying gardens, wringing their hands and wailing bitterly the destruction that had left them foodless."
"An Irish Peasant Family Discovering the Blight of their Store" by Daniel MacDonald, 1847. Source: Wikipedia
Around Ireland, other accounts came in. Captain Mann, a Coast Guard officer who was working to distribute relief, wrote:
"I shall never forget the change in one week in August. On the first occasion, on an official visit of inspection, I had passed dover thirty-two miles thickly studded with potato fields in full bloom. The next time the face of the whole country was changed, the stalk remained bright green, but the leaves were all scorched black. It was the work of a night."
Unlike the 1845 blight, which had affected the crops unevenly and left at least some good crops for harvest, this time it was near total. The Times, on the 2nd of September, declared it to be "total annihilation."
Trevelyan's new plans for relief in Ireland were in two parts. Firstly, a new programme of public relief works would begin; however, this time the districts where they took place would have to bear the entire cost. The Treasury would give them an advance, but it had to be repaid with interest within ten years. The relief committees were now expected to provide lists of those eligible to work on these projects to make sure that only those who were truly in need could take advantage.
Secondly, the Government refused in general to supply any more food to Ireland, feeling that the reason private enterprise hadn't put enough on the market was the presence of the Government's Indian corn, which would be sold at cost price when released. That would undercut merchant's supplies, so why should they invest?
The only exceptions would be for parts in the east of the country, where reliance on the potato was so total that there was no trade in other foodstuffs.
This plan quickly fell apart in several ways. There were complaints about the depots closing just as the situation became more dire; Catholic Archbishop John MacHale told Lord Russell, "You might as well issue an edict of general starvation as stop the supplies…"
Trevelyan had expected a respite in August, when the second potato crop started to come through, but that failed as totally as the first crop. With need ever rising, and a few thousand tons of Peel's Indian corn remaining, permission was given to distribute it. In some places, Commisariat officers decided to give it out for free, in order to save lives. At least one was reprimanded by Whitehall as a result.
When they were told the works were to be closed, some labourers in Limerick tore up the road they had just built. 400 labourers in Cork marched on the town, demanding work – but were quietly dispersed. However, the need for employment was so clear that the new Lord-Lieutenant of ireland, Lord Bessborough, ordered that any incomplete works should be restarted.
The Board of Works, already understaffed, now had to deal with that as well as the new programme, and they were again swamped and unable to administer it properly.
By the end of December 1846, there would be around half a million Irish labourers working on public relief projects, but getting work didn't always mean that you were saved. Having starved for a year already, many of the destitute labourers were ill equipped for it, or too sick to withstand it.
One account described labourers going to work in December 1846 at Skibbereen:
"At daybreak, I saw a gang of about 150, composed principally of old men, women, and little boys, going out to work … At that time the ground was covered with snow, and there was also a very severe frost … In the course of the day, I went out to visit this gang, who were opening a drain inside the fence on the Marsh road … The women and children were crying out from the severity of the cold, and were unable to hold the implements with which they were at work, most of them declared that they had not tasted food for the day."
On the 19th of January 1847, the Southern Reporter described the deaths of two men on the works:
"his death was caused from dire necessity and want of food. His name was Denis Driscoll, and he worked on the Myross road to which he was obliged to walk three miles every day, and return at night to his family."
"a poor man named Paddy Whelton … died this morning near Myross demesne gate from the combined effects of cold and hunger … he was working on the Myross road.'
They weren't the first, nor the last. Thousands would die that winter. Sometimes, it was because they were too malnourished. Others died from disease, which quickly spread to epidemic levels because the works brought so many people into close contact.
The poor administration by the Board of Works also contributed to the pressure. Without enough pay clerks to manage the workload, labourers went unpaid – and starved.
As horrible as they had been to this point, accounts coming out of Ireland grew worse and worse. The Illustrated London News, apparently thinking that these reports had to be exaggerated, commissioned an artist to travel through the worst-hit areas, publishing both his drawings and his account of the journey:
"… we came to Clonakilty, where the coach stopped for breakfast; and here, for the first time, the horrors of the poverty became visible, in the vast number of famished poor, who flocked around the coach to beg alms: amongst them was a woman carrying in her arms the corpse of a fine child, and making the most distressing appeal to the passengers for aid to enable her to purchase a coffin and bury her dear little baby.
… we either met a funeral of a coffin at every hundred yards…
We proceeded to Bridgetown… and there I saw the dying, the living, and the dead, lying indiscriminately upon the same floor, without anything between them and the cold earth, save a few miserable rags upon them."
One of James Mahony's illustrations for the Illustrated London News. Source: Wikimedia Commons.
Other accounts told of people who have been eaten by their animals; fat dogs roaming where the people had nothing to eat, and a man who was thought, by the expression on his face, to have been eaten from the feet up by a pig before he passed away.
Another told of entering a cottage to encounter a terrible stench; when asked about it, the mother pointed to the remains of one of her children on the bed, so decomposed that it was described as "absolutely melted away". When asked why she hadn't buried him, she explained that she had no strength, and besides, her other child would die soon and she could bury them both together.
By the beginning of 1847, the British Government adopted a new approach; a combination of indoor and outdoor relief.
Indoor relief meant the workhouses. They were in some ways better than the public works projects, because at least people had shelter, but they were overcrowded, the work was still very hard, especially for those already in a fragile state, and the conditions of entry meant that the whole family had to enter, and then be split up. There were plenty of people who refused to enter the workhouses due to pride, preferring to die in their own homes.
Outdoor relief meant soup kitchens. This was announced in Parliament by Lord John Russell, saying that the purpose of distributing free soup was " so that labouring men should be allowed to work on their own plots of ground, or for the farmers, and thus tend to produce food for the next harvest and procure perhaps some small wages to enable them to support their families."
The soup, however, was not great stuff. In Vicarstown, Queen's County, the local schoolmaster described the soup they were provided as a "vile compound" – it had been made for less than a penny per quart, a quart being a little more than a litre. Thirty gallons – that's about 136 litres – had been made with one oxhead and 73.5 pounds – about 33kg- of vegetables and flour. The rest was just water.
French chef Alexis Soyer's soup kitchen in Dublin. Source: Views of the Famine
A famous French chef had made some equally economical soup recipes, and was invited to provide them to the people of Dublin. They expected to provide 5,000 meals a day; in practice, it was 8,750.
In many places, the soup kitchens simply couldn't keep up with demand. They were also, in some areas, controversial; it was widely claimed that many were run by Protestants, who required the starving people to accept the Protestant faith in order to receive their rations, and even served meat soups on Fridays – Catholics being forbidden to eat meat on Fridays – forcing the Catholic majority to choose between their faith and food. It's not clear how widespread this practice actually was, but the fear of it was certainly common.
Many of the soup kitchens, however, whilst run by religious groups like the Quakers or the Anglicans, were operated purely out of charity, and didn't come with any proselytising attached.
Evictions increased in 1847; it's not clear exactly how many, because the police didn't record figures until 1849, but in just one case three thousand people were evicted. In many cases, this was because the landlords were responsible for paying rates for their tenants; since many of those tenants were incapable of paying their rent, evicting them would reduce the landlord's debts.
The Bishop of Meath, Thomas Nulty, described evictions in his area:
"Seven hundred human beings were driven from their homes in one day and set adrift on the world, to gratify the caprice of one who, before God and man, probably deserved less consideration than the last and least of them … The horrid scenes I then witnessed, I must remember all my life long. The wailing of women—the screams, the terror, the consternation of children—the speechless agony of honest industrious men—wrung tears of grief from all who saw them. I saw officers and men of a large police force, who were obliged to attend on the occasion, cry like children at beholding the cruel sufferings of the very people whom they would be obliged to butcher had they offered the least resistance. The landed proprietors in a circle all around—and for many miles in every direction—warned their tenantry, with threats of their direct vengeance, against the humanity of extending to any of them the hospitality of a single night's shelter … and in little more than three years, nearly a fourth of them lay quietly in their graves."
When the famine struck, the only hope many Irish people had left was leaving Ireland. In a letter dated the 6th of September 1846, probably dictated and written by a priest as Mary was known to be illiterate, one couple wrote to relatives who had previously emigrated to Canada:
"Dear Father and Mother,
Pen cannot dictate the poverty of this country at present. The potato crop is quite done away all over Ireland. There is nothing expected here, only an immediate famine. If you knew what danger we and our fellow countrymen are suffering, if you were ever so much distressed, you would take us out of this poverty isle. We can only say, the scourge of God fell down on Ireland, in taking away the potatoes, they being the only support of the people. So, dear father and mother, if you don't endeavor to take us out of it, it will be the first news you will hear by some friend of me and my little family to be lost by hunger, and there are thousands dread they will share the same fate. So, I conclude with my blessings to you both and remain,
Your affectionate son and daughter,
Michael and Mary Rush
For God's sake take us out of poverty, and don't let us die with the hunger."
No record has been found of Mary leaving Ireland.
Prior to the famine, emigration from Ireland had already been happening, at a rate of around 50,000 people a year. However, it increased massively during the famine years, peaking at 250,000 in 1847.
Not all those who left would reach a new life in a new country. With demand rising so quickly, many of the ships taking the emigrants were overcrowded, under-provisioned, and highly unsanitary. Many of the emigrants taken on board were already sick with "famine fever" – typhus or relapsing fever – and the cramped conditions onboard ensured that it spread.
With as many as 40% of the passengers dying either on the way or shortly after arrival, they became known as coffin ships.
One passenger, Stephen De Vere, described the circumstances in which he sailed to America in 1847:
"Hundreds of poor people, men, women and children of all ages huddled together without light, without air, wallowing in filth and breathing a fetid atmosphere, sick in body, dispirited in heart; the fevered patients lying beside the sound, by their agonised ravings disturbing those around. The food is generally ill-selected and seldom sufficiently cooked in consequences of the insufficiency and bad construction of the cooking places. The supply of water, hardly enough for cooking and drinking, does not allow for washing. No moral restraint is attempted; the voice of prayer is never heard; drunkenness, with all its consequent train of ruffianly debasement, is not discouraged because it is found profitable by the captain who traffics in grog."
It was only in 1850 that the famine was considered ended. It's unclear to this day exactly how many died, however the most widely accepted estimate is around one million, with at least another million leaving for new shores. Deaths occurred due to both starvation and disease, since malnourishment made people far more susceptible to infection, and the resulting depopulation of Ireland had long-lasting consequences for the country.
A political cartoon from 1881. Source: Wikipedia
The unbelievable thing about this is, in the midst of all this hunger, the Irish were still harvesting thousands of tons of crops.
On Tuesday, the 1st of September 1846, the Cork Southern Reporter wrote:
"In the Corn Market, Limerick, on Saturday, there appeared about 4,000 barrels of oats and about an equal quantity of wheat. All this grain was purchased up principally for exportation, whilst the food of the people as exhibited in the potato market was a mass of disease and rottenness. This is an anomaly which no intricacies of political economy – no legal quibbles or crotchets – no governmental arrangements can reconcile. In an agricultural country which produces the finest corn for the food of man, we have to record that that corn is sold and sent out of the country, whilst the individuals that raised it by their toil and labour are threatened with all the horrors of starvation."
In 1849, English social reformer and poet Ebenezer Jones wrote; "In the year A.D. 1846, there were exported from Ireland, 3,266,193 quarters of wheat, barley and oats, besides flour, beans, peas, and rye; 186,483 cattle, 6,363 calves, 259,257 sheep, 180,827 swine; (food, that is, in the shape of meat and bread, for about one half of the Irish population), and yet this very year of A.D. 1846 was pre-eminently, owing to a land monopoly, the famine year for the Irish people."
Why would the people allow this? Why would the farmers not keep their oats or wheat to eat? This came back to the tenancy arrangements. Their rents were high, and they were paid in those crops. If the rents were not paid, the farmers and smallholders would be evicted; they would have no land to grow anything on, and would have neither food or shelter. They chose to pay their rent so that they at least still had a roof over their head, even though it meant having nothing to eat. In addition, these crops had been too expensive for the average labourer even before the famine, and the Government's laissez-faire attitude meant that they did nothing to change that.
That didn't mean that the Irish accepted it, though. The lingering animosity towards the British Government because of the way they treated the Irish during the famine was one of the factors that led to the campaign for Home Rule, leading up to the Easter Rebellion in 1916 and, eventually, the establishment of the current Republic of Ireland.
Irish Famine memorial in Dublin. Source: Wikipedia
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Death and Desire in Jeanette Winterson's "Written on the Body"
April 17, 2017 — Shahd Alshammari
Through a Disability Studies lens, Dr Shahd Alshammari of Gulf University for Science and Technology in Kuwait discusses Written on the Body, a 1994 novel by Jeanette Winterson, in terms of love and loss and the discovery of the failed and deformed body.
"Why is the measure of love loss?" asks Jeanette Winterson in her novel Written on the Body (1994). Winterson's novel is beautiful in its affair with language, typical of Winterson. For the sake of this commentary, I will briefly state that the novel's plot revolves around the ambiguously gendered narrator's love for Louise and the consequent loss that takes place. The narrator's fascination with love and loss is evident at the very beginning of the novel. Throughout the fragmented narrative, we are faced with a recurring answer: that there will never be closure and never a satisfying response to Winterson's question. Or was it a rhetorical question all along? What did she mean? Every time I mention the novel to my students, colleagues or friends, their first question is about the title. What does it mean? Having not read the novel, they are not (yet) aware that the driving force of the novel is loss, rather than love, and that loss writes itself in a very corporeal and concrete way on the body.
"What remains when the love disappears, when the body is hijacked by an alien, a foreign being?"
As a literature professor with research areas in Disability Studies, I am interested in the ways in which illness and vulnerability are connected to lovers and our sense of autonomy. Winterson has offered us groundbreaking novels throughout her literary career, but this text is invested in the discovery of the failed and deformed body. What remains when the love disappears, when the body is hijacked by an alien, a foreign being? The protagonist's love object, Louise, suffers from cancer. Cancer is the Antagonist, the anti-hero that our heroine must contend with. As loss is part of the grander narrative of cancer, the presence of loss is stronger than the love. Winterson sets love and loss as antithetical and simultaneously synonymous.
Theoretically, love has many definitions, often conflicting, psychological and philosophical understandings, abstract notions of its madness, its seductiveness, its pleasures and destructions. In love, there is a definitely a loss, or rather losses. In love you are immediately at risk of the loss of the self, the beloved, and an intense manifestation of jouissance and melancholy. Winterson's narrator is ultimately faced with the madness of love, the obsessiveness, the desire to keep his/her lover (Louise) healthy and alive. It is only through knowing love that the narrator is faced with mourning the loss of Louise. The sense of impending doom saturates the narrative. We know that Louise has cancer. We know that Louise will leave. When? How? All is uncertain, all is unknown. Louise disappears at some point in the narrative, leaving us, and the narrator, completely heartbroken, dislodged from the fantasy of love. Her absence accentuates her presence. The ghost of Louise is even more real than the corporeal Louise, the one that is touched and written on the body of the protagonist.
"The diseased character is dead the second she receives her diagnosis. There is no character arc, development, and certainly no resolution."
Louise is the phantom limb that haunts the narrative. Her ailing and failing body has been written on, it has been labelled as diseased. From a Disability Studies angle, this is a theme that can be further explored in light of the phenomenological implications of the disabled subject's identity. Louise is not granted any sense of agency, but rather the narrator writes on her body, Cancer writes on her body. She becomes an object and as such her illness is not claimed as hers; rather, she is written as the burdened body and the lover who becomes a burden, a lover who becomes unknown, invoking a sense of abandonment, agony, and loss. The disabled individual loses not only her sense of identity, but also her voice. She is robbed of her own voice throughout the narrative and we do not experience her body's journey of pain. Instead, we hear the lover's voice and the husband's voice. Elgin is a scientist, a successful cancer researcher who in the novel comes to symbolize the archetype of able-bodiedness and patriarchal ideology. Both our narrator and Elgin attempt to make sense of Louise's cancer. They are both unable to give her space or freedom to experience and express her own lived experience of illness.
Louise's body is regulated both by medicine and patriarchy. The husband is a scientist who can help her and save her from the narrative of disability and illness. Instead of listening to Louise's story, Louise's voice and illness narrative, we are presented with the reductive view of medicine. This denies the experience of illness as lived through the diseased body. Arthur W. Frank, in The Wounded Storyteller, argues that: "Observing what stories say about the body is a familiar sort of listening, describing stories as told through the body requires another level of attention" (Frank, 1997, p. 2). All characters speak of Louise's illness – everyone has a certain opinion, a desire to save her from death – but we do not know whether Louise in fact wants to die. We are not made aware of the extent of pain that has ravaged her body. The diseased character is dead the second she receives her diagnosis. There is no character arc, development, and certainly no resolution. If anything, Louise's illness is meant to disrupt the narrative. It stops the flow of love and instead shifts to a question of death and loss. The desire to resurrect Louise infiltrates the narrative, the desire to recover the diseased (and later deceased) body is the narrator's primary concern. Louise's cancer is the ending of desire in the narrative, and the very beginning of loss and death. This is problematic in the sense that disabled bodies are rendered invisible – she disappears from the narrative once illness enters the picture. At the same time, the protagonist's love for Louise intensifies once she is ill, invisible, gone.
"To measure love theoretically has failed all the great artists, philosophers, historians."
To measure love theoretically has failed all the great artists, philosophers, historians. It is immeasurable and that is the conclusion, if any, that the reader arrives at. Winterson's infatuation with language and its failure to describe, to write the body, the lived experiences of love, desire, and death, reminds us of Julia Kristeva's distinction of the symbolic and the semiotic (Kristeva, 1980, pp. 6–8). The semiotic is that which is in excess, outside the borders of rigid patriarchal language and embraces poetry, rhythm, and music. Winterson's work explores dualistic thought: male/female, absence/presence, real/imaginary, symbolic/semiotic, life/death, ability/disability, and love/loss. All of the dichotomies are resurrected to organize the randomness of existence, the chaos of love, and it is these very dichotomies that fail to provide a sense of completeness or wholeness for the narrator. Winterson attempts to break these boundaries and create a semiotic space where love and loss are not definable, not separate, but rather, interchangeable. There is a sense of nonsense and ambiguity being the uncertain answer. The narrator ends the affair, the lover's journey, by stating in the very last sentence of the text: "I don't know if there is a happy ending but here we are let loose in open fields" (Winterson, 1994, p. 190). And if we don't have answers, we go back to the first sentence, the very beginning of all lovers' stories, the question of love and "Why is the measure of love loss?"
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Frank, A. W. (1997). The Wounded Storyteller: Body, Illness, and Ethics. USA: University of Chicago Press.
Kristeva, J. (1980). Desire in Language: A Semiotic Approach to Literature and Art. Trans. Thomas Gora. New York: Colombia University Press.
Winterson, J. (1994). Written on the Body. London: Vintage International.
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Dr Shahd Alshammari is Assistant Professor of English at the Gulf University for Science and Technology, Kuwait. She has authored an academic monograph, Literary Madness in British, Postcolonial, and Bedouin Women's Writing (2016). Her latest is a collection of short stories Notes on the Flesh (2017) a biomythography that deals with gender, race and disability in Kuwait.
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The U.S. International Trade Commission (USITC) today determined that revoking the existing antidumping duty order on steel nails from China would be likely to lead to continuation or recurrence of material injury within a reasonably foreseeable time.
As a result of the Commission's affirmative determination, the existing order on imports of this product from China will remain in place.
Today's action comes under the five-year (sunset) review process required by the Uruguay Round Agreements Act. See the attached page for background on this five-year (sunset) review.
The Commission's public report Steel Nails from China (Inv. No. 731-TA-1114 (Review), USITC Publication 4442, December 2013) will contain the views of the Commission and information developed during the review.
Copies may be requested after January 9, 2014, by emailing pubrequest@usitc.gov, calling 202-205-2000, or writing to the Office of the Secretary, U.S. International Trade Commission, 500 E Street SW, Washington, DC 20436. Requests may be made by fax at 202-205-2104.
The five-year (sunset) review concerning Steel Nails from China was instituted on July 1, 2013.
On October 21, 2013, the Commission voted to conduct an expedited review. Chairman Irving A. Williamson and Commissioners Shara L. Aranoff, Dean A. Pinkert, David S. Johanson and Meredith M. Broadbent concluded that the domestic group response for this review was adequate and the respondent group response was inadequate and voted for an expedited review. Commissioner F. Scott Kieff did not participate in the adequacy determination.
A record of the Commission's vote to conduct an expedited review is available from the Office of the Secretary, U.S. International Trade Commission, 500 E Street SW, Washington, DC 20436. Requests may be made by telephone by calling 202-205-1802.


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Encrypted Fitbit data can be intercepted and manipulated, claim researchers
Fitbit fitness trackers vulnerable to data theft
All those health freaks wearing Fitbit fitness bands BEWARE, as vulnerabilities in your device that track heart rate, steps taken and calories burned could enable a hacker to steal your personal information and data.
To prove this point, a team at the University of Edinburgh carried out a detailed security investigation of two popular models of wearable fitness trackers, Fitbit One and Fitbit Flex, made by Fitbit.
Fitbit secures its devices with end-to-end encryption. However, when Fitbit One and Fitbit Flex were modified to bypass encryption system, the researchers were able to gain access to stored information proving that these devices provided no protection against the hack. In other words, such an access could allow illegal sharing of personal data with third parties such as marketing agencies and online retailers. Also, it will allow fraudsters to create fake activity records by manipulating the data in order to obtain cheaper insurance policies with lower premiums.
Researchers notified Fitbit, who has since updated its software to fix the vulnerabilities to improve the privacy and security of its devices.
"We are always looking for ways to strengthen the security of our devices, and in the upcoming days will start rolling out updates that improve device security, including ensuring encrypted communications for trackers launched prior to Surge [summer 2016]," the company said in a statement.
"The trust of our customers is paramount and we carefully design security measures for new products, continuously monitor for new threats, and diligently respond to identified issues."
Dr Paul Patras, of the University of Edinburgh's School of Informatics, who took part in the study, said: "Our work demonstrates that security and privacy measures implemented in popular wearable devices continue to lag behind the pace of new technology development. We welcome Fitbit's receptiveness to our findings, their professional attitude towards understanding the vulnerabilities we identified and the timely manner in which they have improved the affected services."
The findings will be presented at the International Symposium on Research in Attacks (RAID) on 18-20 September. The research was carried out in collaboration with Technische Universitat Darmstadt, Germany, and the University of Padua, Italy. The Edinburgh researchers were part-funded by the Scottish Informatics and Computer Science Alliance.
Source: EurekAlert


At the center of what was once some of Jamaica's prime sugarcane land, Morant Bay is a laid-back town with little action beyond the central market. Between Morant Bay and Port Morant, 11 kilometers to the east, there are a couple of basic accommodation options that make a convenient base for exploring the rivers and valleys that cut across the southern slopes of the Blue Mountains, as well as the isolated beaches and Great Morass on Jamaica's easternmost tip.
The parish of St. Thomas holds an important place in Jamaican history. In the early colonial period, its mountainous terrain played an important role in providing sanctuary to the runaway slaves who formed the Maroon settlements of eastern Jamaica. Later, it became an important sugar- and banana-producing region under British rule. And finally, with the slaves freed but not being permitted advancement in society, the parish erupted in a rebellion that gave birth to Jamaica's labor rights movement.


Pioneer took game one of two meetings between the Patriots and Woodland this season 16-8 Tuesday afternoon.
The Patriots led 10-2 through five innings before Woodland scored four in the bottom of the sixth to pull within 10-6. Pioneer responded with a six-run top of the seventh, with Tatum Wentworth, Hannah Carner and Ariana Pena picking up RBI base hits in the final inning.
Maddee Whitehair got the win for the Patriots, striking out a season-high 10 over seven innings.
Wentworth matched her single game career-high for hits set two weeks ago against Mesa Verde by going 5-5 with five RBIs. Carner was 2-4 with three RBIs and two runs, Pena was 2-4 with two RBIs and two runs, and Monica Puebla was 3-4 with two runs and an RBI to lead Pioneer.
The Wolves were led by Jessica Lawrence's three-hit day with two RBIs. Wendy Sanchez, Kerryne Moore Borges, Marina Montez and Jaylen Fernandez each had RBI base hits. Fernandez went 3-3 with two runs while Alyssia Torres went 3-5 with a team-high three runs scored.
Woodland played Dixon Wednesday afternoon and were scheduled to finish the week against Mira Loma on Friday.
The Patriots are tied for first in the GEL this season at 3-0 with Casa Roble. They'll see the Rams at Casa Roble on Friday and again at home on April 23rd.


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Zeljka Zorz, Managing Editor, Help Net Security
US health insurer Anthem suffers massive data breach
Anthem, the second-largest health insurer in the United States, has suffered a data breach that may turn out to be the largest health care breach to date, as the compromised database holds records of some 80 million individuals.
Not much is known about how the attack was discovered, how it unfolded and who might be behind it, but the breach has been confirmed by the company's CEO Joseph Swedish in a public statement, in which he says they were the victims of a "very sophisticated external cyber attack."
"These attackers gained unauthorized access to Anthem's IT system and have obtained personal information from our current and former members such as their names, birthdays, medical IDs/social security numbers, street addresses, email addresses and employment information, including income data," he shared, and added that, as far as they can tell for now, "no credit card or medical information, such as claims, test results or diagnostic codes were targeted or compromised."
"Anthem's own associates' personal information – including my own – was accessed during this security breach," he noted, and promised that they will notify each of the affected customers in writing (via a letter), and provide credit monitoring and identity protection services free of charge.
The breach impacted customers of all their product lines: Anthem Blue Cross, Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Georgia, Empire Blue Cross and Blue Shield, Amerigroup, Caremore, Unicare, Healthlink, and DeCare. But, the final number of affected individuals is still to be determined.
The company has notified the FBI, and has hired Mandiant to evaluate their systems and identify solutions to secure them.
According to Madiant's spokesman Vitor De Souza, the attackers are an "advanced group" that used custom malware, and the breach was spotted by Anthem employees within a few days after it happened.
"While Anthem claim there is no evidence that financial or medial data belonging to their customers has been exposed, the information compromised is enough for criminals to commit identity theft," Brian Honan, CEO of BH Consulting and Special Advisor to Europol Cybercrime Centre, commented for Help Net Security.
"Late last year the FBI warned US Healthcare providers that criminals were targeting healthcare data as criminals can abuse the personal details of individuals to make fake medical claims, purchase drugs or medical equipment which can then be sold. Recent analysis of the cybercrime underground market places shows that medical data is worth about $10 per record, which is roughly ten times more than credit card data."
Anthem spokeswoman Kristin Binns stated that the company has doubled its cybersecurity spending over the past four years.
"It is yet unclear who is behind the attack, but if the group behind that compromised Anthem and plans to sell that information on the black market, it means cybercriminals can buy access to the stolen data and use that information to drain your bank account, open new credit accounts and telephone accounts or even utility accounts. They can even obtain medical care using your information," pointed out Jaime Blasco, VP and chief scientist of AlienVault.
For more insight on what security professionals think on this breach, read out roundup.
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Multiplying light through science and art.
To commemorate a special occasion we were asked to create, in collaboration with artist and designer Sarah Wiestner, a one-of-a-kind installation using optical prisms and light.
Through refraction and projection the feature piece creates a spectacular light display on the wall of a private residence in Knightsbridge, London.
The bespoke light sculpture we designed and produced comprises 50 crystal prisms mounted on a circular background.
The overall disc-shaped frame was chosen for its softer geometry, making sure no other element of the sculpture dominates the light show. We purposely used aluminium for its lightweight property and a powder-coated matt white finish to provide the ideal canvas.
The location of each prism and three miniature light sources (within the frame) were carefully calculated to create the optimal pattern of light – culminating in the perimeter capturing shards of light and rainbows. To change the reflections and angles of light, for a different effect, we chose a light source with a flexible "eyeball" feature.
To secure the prisms into place, the base's top layer had triangular apertures laser cut and the bottom layer was finished with a hidden abrasive surface.


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Green's doubled £50million payout to plug £200million pension black hole
By City & Finance Reporter for the Daily Mail
Published: 17:04 EST, 5 March 2017 | Updated: 17:04 EST, 5 March 2017
Philip Green's company Arcadia is to double its annual pension scheme contributions in a bid to plug a £200m black hole.
It comes just days after the businessman transferred £363m of his own cash to help narrow the deficit in the pension scheme of retailer BHS, which collapsed last year.
Arcadia is the group behind High Street stores including Topshop and Burton and is wholly owned by Green's family.
Philip Green had previously not given any details as to how he would deal with the Arcadia deficit.
It has previously paid £25m a year into its pension scheme, but has now doubled this to £50m.
Green said: 'The company has signed a new contribution arrangement with trustees and has already started payments of an additional contribution over and above the previous £25m a year.'
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The businessman had previously not given any details as to how he would deal with the Arcadia deficit.
Separately, the Serious Fraud Office is winding down its probe into the businessman over the BHS collapse.
A spokesman said: 'The SFO is reviewing material. If the director considers there are reasonable grounds to suspect serious or complex fraud, he will open a criminal investigation.'
Green's doubled £50million payout


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Q: devstack/stackrc:833 Could not determine host ip address. See local.conf for suggestions on setting HOST_IP I tried installing openstack in Ubuntu/Virtualbox, but when i give the command ./stack.sh, i get this error : devstack/stackrc:833 Could not determine host ip address.  See local.conf for suggestions on setting HOST_IP. I already changed the HOST_IP to the Ethernet-Adapter VirtualBox Host-Only Network IPv4 Address using the command : gedit local.conf . Can somebody help me detect the problem please ? Thanks in advance!

A: Do you solve this? I encountered this today, and I found this: https://bugs.launchpad.net/neutron/+bug/1693689
I'm not so sure if this method correct, but after the method below I can install devstack ussuri.
The default IP of the VM on Virtualbox is 10.0.2.15, and the IPV4_ADDRS_SAFE_TO_USE in /opt/stack/devstack/stackrc is: 10.0.0.0/22.
try to modify /opt/stack/devstack/stackrc
change IPV4_ADDRS_SAFE_TO_USE=${IPV4_ADDRS_SAFE_TO_USE:-10.0.0.0/22}
into IPV4_ADDRS_SAFE_TO_USE=${IPV4_ADDRS_SAFE_TO_USE:-10.1.0.0/22}

A: try to check if you missed this  [[local|localrc]]
you should add it as in documentation:
[[local|localrc]]
ADMIN_PASSWORD=secret
DATABASE_PASSWORD=$ADMIN_PASSWORD
RABBIT_PASSWORD=$ADMIN_PASSWORD
SERVICE_PASSWORD=$ADMIN_PASSWOR

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