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IBM Continues to Bet on Big Data and IoT Space
By Anne Shields
IBM's Cleversafe acquisition enhances its portfolio for data capacity-intensive workloads
In the prior part of this series, we looked at IBM's recent launch of Power Systems LC aimed at Big Data and the HPC market. IBM's recent acquisition of Cleversafe on October 5, 2015, is also expected to enhance IBM's footing in the Big Data space. Cleversafe offers a scalable, cheaper storage option that's required for data capacity-intensive workloads in various areas such as healthcare, science, insurance, and financial services. These features will enhance IBM's capabilities, as its portfolio can now support unstructured data in NoSQL databases and IoT (Internet of Things).
Cleversafe, with its 350 patents related to object-based and on-premise storage, enables customers to scale deployments to manage exabytes of data. IBM believes that companies interested in Big Data space that owe their increased adoption to IoT networks will benefit from this low-cost, scalable form of storage.
Other technology players are also targeting Big Data space to fuel growth. Hewlet-Packard (HPQ) feels that Big Data will drive growth after its split in November 2015. In April 2015, Oracle (ORCL) announced an addition of an integrated module, Oracle Data Integrator, specifically for its Big Data suite of offerings.
Object-based storage is about to witness huge growth thanks to Big Data revolution
IDC (International Data Corporation) expects object-based storage to be a $28 billion market by 2018. Citing IDC estimates, IBM stated that 80% of the new cloud applications are expected to be Big Data–intensive. The rapid increase in data-intensive cloud applications will give rise to a demand for storage that will in turn drive interest in the object storage space. IBM, which doesn't want to be left behind in this scalable opportunity, has added Cleversafe to its portfolio at an opportune time.
Commenting on IBM's Cleversafe acquisition, Maynard Um, a senior analyst with Wells Fargo (WFC), stated, "While Cleversafe's revenues are unknown, it has noted in the past that it generates tens of millions in annual revenues and experienced triple-digit revenue growth in (the first half of) 2015 and 2014." He went on to say, "We believe the acquisition aligns with IBM's Big Data strategy."
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Ransomware attacks drive ZTNA adoption
Organizations with recent direct experience of a ransomware attack have considerably higher adoption of zero trust network access (ZTNA) technology than those that haven't fallen victim.
Written by Sally Adam
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A study of 5,400 IT professionals has revealed a correlation between direct experience of ransomware and adoption of a zero trust approach.
Organizations that had experienced a ransomware attack in the previous year (defined as multiple devices being impacted but not necessarily encrypted) reporting considerably higher levels of awareness of the zero trust approach and were more advanced in their implementation of zero trust network access (ZTNA) solutions than those that hadn't experienced an incident.
It is likely that these organizations' direct experience of ransomware accelerated the implementation of a zero trust approach to help prevent future attacks.
The findings result from an independent survey of 5,400 IT professionals in organizations with between 100 and 5,000 employees that was conducted by research house Vanson Bourne on behalf of Sophos in 2021.
The role of ZTNA in preventing ransomware attacks
Breaching the victim's network is one of the first steps in a ransomware attack. The rapid increase in remote working over the last two years has hugely increased the opportunity for attackers to exploit vulnerable VPN clients to get a foothold in an organization. Once inside, they are often free move laterally throughout the network, escalating privileges and progressing the attack.
By eliminating vulnerable VPN client software, granularly controlling access based on device health and identity, and micro-segmenting applications, ZTNA stops attackers from both breaching the organization and from moving around it, even if they obtain legitimate credentials.
[To learn more about the role of lateral movement in ransomware attacks, read the Sophos research report Windows Services Lay the Groundwork for a Midas Ransomware Attack that details how adversaries exploited remote services and access tools to hold a technology company to ransom.]
Finding one: Ransomware victims have much greater familiarity with the ZTNA approach
IT professionals in organizations that had been hit by ransomware in the previous year are almost 50% more likely be 'very familiar' with the ZTNA approach than those whose organizations hadn't experienced an incident (59% vs 39%). This rises to 71% among those whose organizations had been hit and they paid the ransom.
Further illustrating this point, just 10% of ransomware victims have little or no familiarity with ZTNA, compared with 21% of those whose organization hasn't fallen victim.
Finding two: Ransomware victims are more advanced in their adoption of the zero trust approach
One quarter (25%) of those whose organization experienced a ransomware attack in the previous year have already fully adopted a zero trust approach, rising to 40% of those whose organizations were hit and paid the ransom. In comparison, just one sixth (17%) of those that hadn't experienced an attack have already fully migrated to this approach.
Finding three: Ransomware victims have different motivations for adopting a zero trust approach
Respondents were asked about their motivations for adopting a zero trust approach and, while there were several commonalities, there were also clear areas of difference.
'To improve our overall cybersecurity posture' was the most common motivator among both victims and non-victims
The second most common motivator among ransomware victims was the desire to 'simplify our cybersecurity operations' (43%), potentially reflecting that complex security had contributed to their previous attack
Ransomware victims are also heavily motivated by 'supporting our move to increased use of the cloud' (42%). This dropped to 30% amongst those that hadn't experienced a recent attack
Similarly, ransomware victims were also much more likely to say that 'to move from a CAPEX to an OPEX model´ was one of the main factors behind their zero trust approach adoption (27% vs. 16%, and rising to 34% among those that had been hit by ransomware and paid the ransom)
Finding four: The pandemic was more likely to positively impact the zero trust adoption plans of ransomware victims
For many organizations the pandemic had a positive impact on their plans for adopting a zero trust approach. For many, it created a need for zero trust that they didn't have before. This is understandable: many companies and public bodies were previously wholly office-based and so didn't have a need to provide secure remote access.
Half (50%) of ransomware victims and 36% of non-victims reported that the pandemic enabled them to move budget to adopting a zero trust approach, while many also reported that it enabled them to divert people and/or money from other activities to the move to zero trust.
The survey findings highlight that organizations that fell victim to ransomware and paid the ransom were most likely to experience a positive pandemic impact on their zero trust adoption. It seems that pain of the ransomware attack might have concentrated minds and resources on effectively mitigating a future incident.
Introducing Sophos Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA)
Sophos ZTNA is a much more secure and easy-to-manage remote access solution that delivers a transparent, frictionless experience for end-users.
By removing the need for VPN clients, Sophos ZTNA reduces the attack surface, making it harder for ransomware actors to get on your network
Sophos ZTNA constantly checks user and device security, delivering continuous high-level of controls and preventing attackers from exploiting a previously authenticated user's access
Granular access controls enable you to easily restrict access to specific resources to those who need them, preventing adversaries from moving laterally across your network
Sophos ZTNA uses the same agent as Sophos Intercept X endpoint protection, enabling customers to enhance their protection without adding device overhead
It is managed from the cloud-based Sophos Central platform, enabling customers to manage all their Sophos solutions via a single interface for enhanced day-to-day management and control
With the average cost of ransomware remediation now $1.85 million for small and mid-sized organizations, moving to secure remote access via Sophos ZTNA is a sensible investment.
If you'd like to try Sophos ZTNA for yourself, start a no-obligation test drive:
Complete the short form on our website. You'll be up and running in no time!
Existing Sophos Central users can click on the Free Trials link in the bottom left corner of the console and select Sophos ZTNA
Sally Adam
Sally is a Marketing Director at Sophos and responsible for many of Sophos' external research-based reports and educational resources. With over 13 years' experience in cybersecurity, Sally combines deep knowledge of both adversary trends and Sophos technologies to help organizations optimize their protection.


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National Theatre of Greece Drama School
Ανωτέρα Σχολή Δραματικής Τέχνης Εθνικού Θεάτρου
Neo Faliro-Piraeus, Athens
http://www.n-t.gr/en/education/dramaschool
The National Theatre of Greece Drama School (GNT Drama School) was founded in 1930, since when it has operated in tandem with the National Theatre of Greece. In its 75-year history a number of its graduates have gone on to become major actors and stars of the National Theatre.
Former students of the Drama School include Dimitris Horn, Mary Aroni, Vasso Manolidou [el], Nikos Tzogias, Melina Mercouri, Thanos Kotsopoulos [el], Alexis Solomos [el], Stelios Vokovic [el], Nikos Kourkoulos, Anna Synodinou and Zozo Zarpa.[1] Many of them went on to teach at the School, which has always been renowned for the extremely high level of its teaching. Other great names that have taught at the school include Dimitris Rondiris, Katina Paxinou, Takis Mouzenidis [el], Angelos Terzakis, Antigone Valakou, Tassos Lignadis, Giannis Sideris [el], Emilios Hourmouzios and others.[2]
The purpose of the Drama School is to train and provide guidance to young people intending to enter the acting profession. The course lasts three years and is free of charge. Its classes come into three categories:
Acting is taught by professional actors and directors. It has three teachers a year.
Theory Dramatology, History of Theatre, Modern Greek Literature and History of Cinema are taught by experts in each subject
Technical Dance and Gymnastics, Dance and Expressive Movement, Greek Dancing, Stage Combat, Musical Speech Training, Theatrical Song and Set, Costume and Make-Up Design are taught in each of the three years.[3]
The school is located in Pireos 52, 185 47, Neo Faliro - Piraeus, in southern Athens in the recently renovated building of "Scholion tis Athinas - Irini Papa".
^ "Actress Zozo Zarpa Has Passed Away". Greek Reporter. 2012-04-19. Retrieved 2012-05-19.
^ http://www.n-t.gr/en/educ/dramaschool/
National Theatre of Greece Drama School Official Site
Drama schools in Greece
1930 establishments in Greece
Education in Athens


The San Luis is part of an unspoilt realm, expressing a simplicity of style through the use of natural elements and great attention to detail. Nature is on display here, in energy-rich materials: wood, glass and clay alternate to welcome and protect. Our service, discreet and invaluable, is always ready to hear and respond to the needs of our guests, fully respecting their privacy. This is a retreat in which to listen to yourself. A setting in which to find yourself.
Welcome to the boutique Hotel Principe di Salina, the jewel of Salina Island, in the heart of the Aeolian Islands. The breathtaking views of Stromboli, Panarea and the limitless Aeolian Sea set the tone for your stay – an oasis of refinement in a rugged natural setting. A luxurious refuge to return to after a day spent exploring all the islands have to offer.
The boutique Hotel Principe di Salina was built in 2005 to take advantage of the tranquil beauty of Salina, the most luxuriant, green island of the Aeolian archipelago. Nestled among the vineyards of malvasìa (local sweet vine), this charming boutique hotel was designed in the traditional Aeolian style influenced by Sicily invasions during history.
It is the ideal setting for your holidays, weddings, events and celebrations, with manicured grounds including an indoor living area with computer, libraries and fireplace, extra spacious terraces and solarium and the outstanding restaurant "della casa" that allows you to dine intimately, or cater your gathering.
Each of the 12 is elegantly appointed and features a private terrace overlooking the picturesque landscape and sea. Luxe amenities, boutique hospitality and classic Sicilian touches welcome you, and the infinity pool and geothermal spa tub transport you to pure bliss.
Castello di Postignano is an historic medieval fortified hamlet that had languished abandoned for decades. A passionate and dedicated team has given it a new lease of life, seeing this remarkable restoration project through while paying meticulous attention to detail. The Castello di Postignano is a hamlet founded between the 9th and 10th century A.D. on the slopes of a hill along the road connecting Spoleto, Foligno, Norcia and Assisi. The hamlet was of triangular shape, topped with a watchtower and was built by its dwellers, farmers and craftsmen. Foligno and Spoleto contended for its possession over centuries. Between the 14th and 15th century A.D. the hamlet thrived on a flourishing economy based on agriculture, forestry, textile and metal crafts. Starting from the 18th century its population began dwindling and the beginning of the 19th century a large number of inhabitants emigrated, mainly to the US.
Revered Milan-based architect and designer Patricia Urquiola achieves a stylish modern look at Il Sereno, moving away from the Faux Renaissance and Neo Classical designs that dominate the area. The New York Post, who predicted that Il Sereno "will bring a dose of highly contemporary style to the shores of Lake Como", placed the hotel among the World's Top 19 Hotels to Visit in 2016. Urquiola worked with the exquisite scenery and complements the natural surroundings with a flawlessly simple, yet contemporary design.
Joining Urquiola on the project is esteemed botanist Patrick Blanc, whose two delicately-crafted vertical gardens and awe-inspiring sculptures can only be described as living works of art. This unique creation is made up of three different aspects, Le Mirroir Vert du Lac, Le Canyon and Les Racines Echasseesm, which is particularly noteworthy, as it makes Il Sereno the only place in the world where Blanc has done three distinct pieces in one project. Inspired by the colours and movement of the lake, this stunning artwork ensure that the hotel blends effortlessly with its backdrop. Key to the design has been to instil the same principles that have made Le Sereno St. Barths a success. Sereno Hotels strive to ensure guests feel a strong sense of place, a well-developed design sensitivity and a feeling that the challenge of exclusive, sophisticated and high-end services in a relaxed and simple manner has been achieved. A central brand promise is that no matter how luxurious or well-designed, there is no substitute for space and a view.
Guido Coffa (the owner) says: "In 2007, by chance, I stumbled upon this place, I fell in love with it and decided to devote my life to its resurrection, which means bringing this place, previously chosen by the monks of Saint Anne's order for its special energy and extraordinary charm, back to life.
The estate Monaci delle Terre Nere is located at the slopes of Mount Etna, the biggest active volcano in Europe, on the border of the Etna National Park, at 500mt above sea level.


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Learning to Love Giant Steps Again
For a long time now I've skipped ahead when John Coltrane's Giant Steps comes on. Scandale, you say? Not really. I've heard the song so many times it's internalized. Skipping it is pretty instinctual.
I do the same with most any tune I once loved and then listened to too much. Sometimes I'll even skip a song I currently love in an attempt to save it for future listening. I know if I listen now I won't appreciate it as much later. If I over-listen, I'll be bored when I really want to listen. Songs become mundane.
Language suggests something more violent. We kill things by loving them too much. I listened to a song to death.
Music brings joy. Much of it through elements of surprise. This could be a melodic, harmonic or rhythmic change or something else altogether unexpected… until, that is, you've listened to and internalized the song to such a degree that what previously delighted becomes pedestrian. The release relieving a song's tension no longer releases. Instead, it fizzles. The funk stops being so funky.
This happened to me long ago with Giant Steps. It doesn't make me appreciate the song less. I still know the song is a seminal work. There's no denying it. Here's a wonderful breakdown of why courtesy of Vox Earworm.
A Song's Half Life
Greatness aside, songs have a certain half life beyond which they become uneventful. Basically, they become too known. The better the song, the longer it takes to happen but it happens nonetheless.1 So, last summer's quick hit peters out by about August. Songs like Giant Steps after a number of years. Even in its greatness – or, perhaps, because of its greatness – a song eventually becomes a monument. Awesome, sure. But static, stuck in a place, a time, a no longer present feeling.
Until you can hear it anew.
Which is what happened to me when Camille Bertault's poppy, vocalese cover of Giant Steps somehow landed on my laptop.2
Quick, give it a watch and a listen. She layers lyrics she wrote over the song's melody and then onto Coltrane's initial solo.
I find this fun. Really fun. It's not important to me whether the cover is actually "good" in a critical sense. Instead, this joyful performance re-presents the song as something fresh and new which is enough for me. It made me start listening to Giant Steps again.
And again.
And, good God, it's a monster of a song. (YouTube | Spotify) Which I've known, and have always known, even though my ears detuned and stopped listening.
An anodyne conclusion to be sure but sometimes that's where we end up in the journey from there to here. Area man likes song again after hearing a somewhat gimmicky cover.
This happens to me a lot though.
Ladies and Gentlemen, Some Covers
On Spotify I keep a covers playlist that's resurrected songs I'd given up on. It's also introduced me to songs I never gave a chance in the first place. Some current favorites: a bluegrass version of Queen's Under Pressure and a neugrass version of the Smashing Pumpkins' 1979.
(Songs mentioned from here on out are linked to on Spotify and YouTube down below.)
I like covers. They help me hear things I haven't heard before. Or, I should say, I like covers that reimagine the original. At the extreme this includes musicians owning the original by completely reworking them. Think Jimi Hendrix's version of Bob Dylan's All Along the Watchtower, Joe Cocker's take on The Beatles' With a Little Help From My Friends, The Scissor Sisters' disco rendition of Pink Floyd's Comfortably Numb or Devo's jagged and jangly cover of The Rolling Stones' Satisfaction.
Less extreme is a modulation of the original. Perhaps the song is slowed down (M. Ward with David Bowie's Let's Dance), the instrumentation is modified (The Jolly Boys with The Rolling Stones' You Can't Always Get What You Want) or the vocal is drastically different than on the original (Annie Lennox with Neil Young's Don't Let it Bring You Down).
If you're feeling sentimental, listen to Sleeping at Last bringing The Proclaimers' I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles) to a heart-tugging crawl.
Cassandra Wilson is a personal favorite when it comes to covers. She both owns and modulates. Take a listen to her versions of The Monkees' (!) Last Train to Clarksville or Cyndi Lauper's Time After Time. Her covers are gorgeous.
Genre shifting is fun too. Reggae artists have covered rock and pop for years. See Little Roy's cover of Nirvana's Come As You Are, Peter Tosh's take on Chuck Berry's Johnny B Goode, Toots and the Maytals version of Richard Berry's Louie Louie.
Some contemporary jazz musicians are crossing genres and doing covers well. The Bad Plus twists pop and rock songs into jazz pretzels. The result are sonically challenging and delightful whether they're covering Nirvana, Tears for Fears or Black Sabbath. Brad Mehldau does the same. Here's his version of Radiohead's Paranoid Android. (Spotify | YouTube… you're welcome).
"Elvis was a hero to most but he never meant shit to me" – Chuck D
Absent here is the long racial and racist history of covers; of white appropriation and "taking" of black originals; of black artists having to cover white artists in an attempt to "cross over" and get played on white-owned radio stations.3 Good entry points to that important, unfortunate history include How Rock and Roll Became White, by Jack Hamilton, and The Truth About Elvis and the History of Racism in Rock, by Stereo Williams.
See also, Steve Knopper's brief history of Jim Crow era concerts. It begins like so:
One night in the late 1950s, the Flamingos' bus pulled up to a concert hall in Birmingham, Alabama, and a row of 30 to 50 police officers holding rifles and billy clubs was waiting for them. The cops escorted the six-member doo-wop group, famous for "I Only Have Eyes for You" and "The Ladder of Love," to its dressing room and gave strict instructions: As black performers, they were to make eye contact with only the black fans, who were confined to the balcony, and not with whites on the floor.
"It was ridiculous," recalls Terry Johnson, now 78, a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame–inducted group. "The cops were up there making sure we did not look at any white person. It was a rule when we came in: 'I don't want to see any of you darkies looking at the white women out there. If you do, your ass is mine.' Cruel things like that."
Segregated Paul Robeson concert at Naval Training Station, Great Lakes, Illinois, 1943. (US Navy)
The cover is a rabbit hole. Listen to a good one and it makes you ponder the song – and music – more closely.
What is it that makes Giant Steps so monumental? Coltrane's power? Sure. His dexterity? Definitely. The cadence of the melody before Coltrane takes off with his first dizzying solo? Yes, again. The Art Taylor/Paul Chambers rhythm section propelling everything along? Absolutely.
But music is ephemeral. Try to pin it down and it wisps away. It's the individual parts and the collective whole. It's the vibe. Again, like above, a somewhat anodyne conclusion. Then again, area man rediscovers love of song again after hearing a somewhat gimmicky cover.
Songs Mentioned
Here are the songs I reference above. If you use Spotify, my ongoing covers playlist is here.
Cornbread Red, Under Pressure. (Spotify | YouTube)
Darlingside, 1979. (Spotify | YouTube)
Jimi Hendrix, All Along the Watchtower. (Spotify | YouTube)
Joe Cocker, With a Little Help From My Friends. (Spotify | YouTube)
The Scissor Sisters, Comfortably Numb. (Spotify | YouTube)
Devo, Satisfaction. (Spotify | YouTube)
Annie Lennox, Don't Let it Bring You Down. (Spotify | YouTube)
M. Ward, Let's Dance. (Spotify | YouTube)
The Jolly Boys, You Can't Always Get What You Want. (Spotify | YouTube)
Sleeping at Last, I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles). (Spotify | YouTube)
Cassandra Wilson, Last Train to Clarksville. (Spotify | YouTube)
Cassandra Wilson, Time After Time. (Spotify | YouTube)
Little Roy, Come As You Are. (Spotify | YouTube)
Peter Tosh, Johnny B Goode. (Spotify | YouTube)
Toots and the Maytals, Louie Louie. (Spotify | YouTube)
I think all art has a natural half life. For whatever reason, the work becomes so enmeshed in the ambient culture that it becomes somewhat of a token. Think Warhol's soup cans, Led Zepplin's Stairway to Heaven or Grandmaster Flash's White Lines. back
Vocalese is a singing style where were the vocalist sings words over the melodies originally performed by an instrumentalist.
In this case, Bertault wrote the lyrics to match up note of note with John Coltrane's original solo. back
Easy example from above: while Toots and the Maytals cover Richard Berry's Louie Louie it's the all white Kingsmen who are typically associated with the song. back
Thoughts? Feedback? Let me know on Twitter, or send me an email.
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Here's how it actually feels to have this mental disorder.
Hi, my name is Stacey Grant. I'm turning 24 years old this October and was diagnosed with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder when I was 14. It's been brought to my attention this week is National Suicide Prevention Week, and I'd like to share my story with you about a mental disorder that seems to get put on the backburner. I'm here to shed some light on a topic that's consumed my life for the past 10 years.
Let's get this out of the way first: I probably don't wash my hands any more than you do. While that is a common compulsion associated with OCD, that doesn't mean every single person with OCD does it. I do carry hand sanitizer with me everywhere I go, but I also take the subway daily — which is a breeding ground for germs, and we're getting close to flu season. Yes, I count things in my head. No, I don't need to have things lined up justtttttt right before I can move on and do something else.
OCD has two main parts (obsessive and compulsive), yet people really only see one side of it on television. I think I know why this is. For starters, the "obsessive" part heavily involves the mind. Anyone who's taken an Intro to Screenwriting class will know you can't really "show" thoughts on screen. There are creative ways filmmakers have done it, but it's definitely not the norm. It's much easier to show the "compulsive" part: having characters excessively wash their hands, repeat phrases a specific number of times or refuse to wear a certain outfit on Thursdays. All this does is present people with OCD as neurotic individuals. We are not.
I started to realize something was seriously wrong with me the summer before 8th grade. I got these "bad thoughts," as I called them. These included killing my family, becoming pregnant, eating poison, feeding poison to my dog, sleepwalking and accidentally jumping out of a window and most importantly, killing myself in various ways. Obviously, these thoughts scared the s--t out of me. Some of you may be thinking, "So what? Everyone has bad thoughts," and you're 100% accurate.
However, do your bad thoughts make you afraid to pet your dog, for fear you have poison on your hand, for whatever reason, and will inadvertently kill your best buddy? "Bad thoughts" don't always have to make rational sense, and they especially don't when you have OCD. Just typing out the words makes me embarrassed to admit I've had these thoughts. I know how ridiculous it sounds. I realize that's just not how things work. But honestly? It doesn't matter. OCD doesn't have to "make sense" to you, but for some reason, it seems logical in my mind.
My thoughts slowly started to consume me. I suddenly never wanted to stay home alone, afraid I'd kill myself while my parents were out. For the record, I never actually wanted to kill myself, but I was terrified I'd turn into a type of zombie and just do it if no one was there to stop me. One evening, I watch an episode of "Without a Trace" with my mom. I only watched it because the little brother from "Lizzie McGuire" was a guest star. To this day, I still cannot watch that episode. All these horrible things happened to his character and he ends up hanging himself. The cops were able to save him (spoilers) but the damage on my psyche had been done.
Over the years, I've tried to explain what having OCD feels like to people who've asked me. I've never able to do it, but I'm going to try here. It feels like a hoard of demons seeking me out, latching their claws onto my mind and starting to pull random wires. With every wire they pull, I feel a little less in control. Since they're constantly yanking wires, I'm always losing more and more control of my mind. I'm definitely not crazy — yes, that's probably something a crazy person would say — but there have been plenty of times when I felt like I was just psychotic.
My parents and Jesus Christ were a godsend for me; I never would have gotten through that chapter of my life without them. I remember trying to tell my mom what the hell was going on in my head, but I just couldn't get the right words out. After a few months, I was taken to a child psychiatrist and diagnosed with OCD. I began taking medication, which helped some. However, I was terrified to tell my friends I had OCD. One day, I finally told a few about my diagnosis and medication use. Honestly? It didn't bother them; they liked me for me, which included everything about me. After that, I started trying to own my OCD. But then, two popular phrases began to emerge.
1. "So, like, do you wash you hands all the time?"
2. "I think I have OCD, too! I gotta have all my books lined up in a certain order or I can't relax."
Let me tell you right now: Never, EVER tell someone who legitimately has OCD phrase No. 2. I'm certainly not a psychiatrist, but that just sounds like a quirk to me. If you literally can't focus on anything else, you're constantly thinking and rethinking about your improperly lined books, and it begins to affect your daily life, then that's OCD. Wanting things a certain way is being Type A. There's nothing wrong with that, but OCD makes it where you can't do a thing; it consumes your whole being. No one actually wants OCD.
I wrote an article a year ago, hoping to express my annoyance at how lots of people view OCD. As per my custom, I used humor in the post, which apparently didn't resonate well with some individuals. The comments were mixed. One woman wrote in and said how much she loved the article and was glad someone could accurately describe OCD. However, most of the other comments were along the lines of, "This author doesn't know what she's talking about. This isn't OCD. Do some research." It occurred to me that many people probably felt this way because they'd never seen an accurate representation of what it feels like to have OCD. But still. I did my research, thanks.
Unfortunately, there are still a myriad of people who believe OCD is just a figment of the imagination, that it's not a legit thing. I was actually told this twice by someone who I thought was a dear friend. Mental illness is real. You can choose to believe it doesn't exist, but you're only demonstrating ignorance. Plus, you're probably truly hurting your loved ones who have it. Here's something big I learned in the past 10 years of battling this mental disorder: My OCD does not control me.
I'll have OCD until the day I die, but I won't let it stop me from living my life. I already seriously challenged it by moving 1,400 miles away from home, with no one to "watch me" and make sure I don't do something dangerous. Moving to New York was probably the biggest middle finger I could ever give my OCD. It was a long road for me. But you know what? I'm finally OK. I still have "episodes," but I've found healthy and productive ways to handle them when they emerge. If I can do it, you can do it, too. Don't give up.


KANPUR – Of all the things that went right in the test series opener against New Zealand, Cheteshwar Pujara's transformation from an obdurate accumulator of runs to a free-scoring batsman when needed must be the most pleasing for India captain Virat Kohli.
In a team teeming with flamboyant strokemakers, Pujara's batting, built on a watertight defence and an unflappable temperament, is almost an anachronism.
India's test number three feels he has no obligation to quench the boundary-thirst of the home fans, shuns the aerial route like a man inflicted with the fear of flying and believes defence is the best offence.
Rather unsurprisingly, the 29-year-old went unsold in the players' auction for the Indian Premier League (IPL), and his strike rate, currently under 49 in tests, led to his exclusion from the third test against West Indies last month.
First in the domestic Duleep Trophy and now in the first test against New Zealand, Pujara's batting has been something of a revelation.
Batting at what is arguably the most important position in a test lineup, Pujara's form will be key to India's success in their bumper 13-test home season and Kohli was glad the right hander took the advice in right spirit.


Detective Abrahams and Detective John James were shot and killed during a riot in the city's Rosedale section.
Two officers from the Johnstown Police Department also died as a result of wounds sustained during the riot. Detective Otto Nukem died on September 12, 1923, and Captain Otto Fink died on November 2, 1923.
The officers were attempting to stop a disturbance involving several men when one, crazed from drinking moonshine, opened fire with a revolver. Other officers arriving on the scene shot and killed the suspect.
Rest in peace and Olav Hashalom Detective Abrahams. Your courage will never be forgotten.


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Matt Laminated CD Case for Ancient Ascendant, first run of the machine cut/creased cases with a second opening for a booklet (to be provided by the band). Artwork by Richey Beckett, run of 300, machine cut/creased, hand assembled.


Under £50 Festival Outfits with Boohoo!
Well, Festival season is almost over!
Heading to a festival in August/September? Need an affordable but comfortable outfit?
I've got ya back guuuuurl! I've teamed up with Boohoo to put together a festival outfit for under £50!
FULL outfit! (plus added extras) Check out the pictures below to see what you think of my bargain outfit!
Fancy seeing what it's like shooting my blog photos?
Check out my vlog from the weekend! Jam packed with backstage footage.
I've styled up a rather toned down outfit!
Plenty of neutral colours combined together to make a festival friendly outfit.
I absolutely loved this khaki vest dress. It's so light weight! The price is AMAZING too.
The dress comes in lots of other colours too, in case Khaki isn't your thing!
This dress will look fab either with or without a belt, have fun & experiment with different looks!
How damn cute is this kimono?
The aztec print is absolutely gorgeous! I'm loving the length too.
Being 5 ft 2 it can be a little tricky when it comes to long kimonos! So this was perfect for me.
It's super light weight which is always a bonus. I loved the flared arms too.
The basic layers of just dress and the kimono means that there is plenty of room for accessorizing!
I'm in LOVE with both of these tusk necklaces.
The shorter one is by The Moon Child - I was super excited when they said they wanted to gift me some pieces of theirs, I've been looking for a tusk choker like this for SO long!
These Primark metallic temporary tattoos are a must have for festivals this year!
Super easy to apply- at the BEST price! A whole sticker pad of these are just £1.50.
When it comes to festivals I have to be comfortable!
This is why I chose this light and easy matching outfit with Boohoo.
Who's my Festival style inspiration?
I've loved Vanessa Hudgens' Festival style over the past few years!
She seems to transform into some cute festi-goddess which I just can't get enough of!
Lately I cannot get enough of these Public Desire lace ups!
These have been my go-to shoe SO much in the past month. So much so that I had to get my hands on the white pair too!
They're unbelievably comfortable and the sizing is super true to fit.
Big big LOVE for this Boohoo fringed bag!
Fringed bags are becoming one of my absolute favourite things right now.
& Boohoo have this amazing one available for only £15!
That kimono is absolutely amazing, I love this look! Your shoes are awesome!
I love festival outfits. You look great!
Loving your outfit once again girl! And those shoes! WANT! <3 Definitely given me a lot of inspiration from this outfit!


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from south.v2 import SchemaMigration
from django.db import models

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    def forwards(self, orm):

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Is cyber security mandatory?
Written by: Geir Hørthe
The most common question we get from customers about cyber security requirements is quite simply "Is this mandatory"?
The simple answer is yes. But, as with everything else, there are details, and these details are rapidly changing. Let's take a quick look at what is mandatory today, and what is expected to be mandatory going forward.
Many interpret the absence of a mandatory certification scheme as absence of mandatory requirements. Of course, this is not so, and we can take the Low Voltage Directive in Europe as an example. There is no requirement of certification, yet the directive and the standards it lists are still mandatory for a product to comply with.
Let's look at the different regions:
GDPR - General Data Protection Regulation Mandatory
RED- Radio Equipment Directive Mandatory, but...
EU Cyber Security Act Mandatory, but...
UK law on IoT Soon to be mandatory
Finnish cyber security label Voluntary
Not thought of as typically "cyber security", but information security is an integral part of cyber security. For the protection of e.g. personal information, cyber security is a prerequisite, and cyber security standards like the European norm for Consumer IoTs specifies a set of requirements concerning handling of various types of personal information. Using a product that does not comply to these requirements would jeopardize your GDPR compliance.
RED - Radio Equipment Directive
Again, this directive is not what many think of as cyber security, but the RED includes provisions on protecting network and personal information. However, these provisions have not been put into effect yet, but the work is ongoing.
EU Cyber Security Act
This act describes certification schemes for products, services and processes. A draft scheme for product certification was published in July 2020 and a final version is expected by Q2 2021. This certification will initially be voluntary, but the requirements will not. For consumer grade IoT products the expected standard is ETSI/EN 303 645, which is already in use by Nemko.
The UK is implementing a mandatory cyber security regulation that will apply to all in-scope connected consumer-products made available in the UK. Products must comply with specific security measures, outlined in legislation through security requirements or designated standards. The recently published EN 303 645 is one such standard on the 'designated list' and it is anticipated that the list will grow over time to help firms streamline their efforts. Ironically, considering Brexit, the UK regulation is much more in line with the typical directives than the EU Cyber Security Act. The UK regulation has two alternative routes – either implementing the security requirements as detailed in the legislation or meeting the requirements of a listed standard. As the UK has been instrumental in the development of the ETSI/EN 303 645, this standard is mentioned in particular. Also, an enforcement body will be equipped with powers to investigate and to take steps to ensure compliance.
The Finnish authorities, represented by Traficom, has introduced a labelling scheme for IoT consumer products. This is done both to demonstrate security, but also as a tool of raising general awareness. The labelling scheme uses ETSI/EN 303 645 with some additions. Nemko is currently completing a pilot project for Traficom to accept the Nemko IoT cyber certification scheme as basis for the Finnish cyber security label.
The IoT Cybersecurity Improvement Act Soon to be mandatory
California law Mandatory
Oregon law Mandatory
The IoT Cybersecurity Improvement Act
In December 2020 the US president signed the IoT Cybersecurity Improvement Act setting out requirements for IoTs used by federal organizations. As federal organizations can basically use any IoT, this will be a de-facto requirement for the USA. The regulation is now only pending NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology) to finalize standards and guidelines. This means we can expect US cyber requirements in the same way that we today have safety requirements.
As the fifth largest economy in the world, California, introduced requirements for connected consumer products on 1 January 2020. The Nemko cyber certification, using the ETSI/EN 303 645 standard, will cover this law.
The state of Oregon introduced similar requirements to IoT products, also on 1 January 2020. Just like for the California law, the Nemko scheme will cover these requirements.
Singapore Mandatory
China Mandatory
Mandatory requirements were introduced for all new residential gateways/routers in Singapore by Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA) on 12 April 2021. From 12 October 2021 all such products on the market must comply to these requirements, IMDA TS RG_SEC. These products are chosen because they are particularly important when it comes to security, as it is the first line of defence connected directly to the internet. Such products have been the target of several malicious and worldwide attacks, for instance the infamous Mirai worm.
The Singapore scheme has similarities to the European standard ETSI/EN 303 645.
In China there are a number of schemes, both mandatory and voluntary, depending on the products, their specifications and their use. To mention one mandatory scheme, there is the CNCA-CCIS-2018, "The Safety Certification implementation rule for Network Key equipment and cybersecurity specialized product" run by the Chinese accreditation authorities CNCA. This scheme covers essential security components such as routers and switches, firewalls and IDS/IPS's to mention a few. This scheme also carries the ISCC certification mark.
What should manufacturers do?
The focus on and knowledge of cyber security differs very much between manufacturers, but the vast majority do not meet the cyber security standards of today. These standards are not mandatory everywhere today, but standards will be required in most markets within the lifetime of products being designed now.
Depending on the maturity of the manufacturers, there are several entry points to the structured work of cyber security standards. Those new to the area could choose to have simple introductions to the standards or maybe workshops where their products are the basis for the presentation of the standard.
More mature manufacturers can choose to go directly to evaluating their product to the standard. In doing such an evaluation it will be beneficial to involve a standards expert such as Nemko. This is both to have knowledgeable experts with experience in evaluating according to the standards and to be able to show customers that the evaluation is done by an independent third party.
For more information, please contact info@nemko.com
Tag(s): Cyber security , Product certification , International Approval
Geir Hørthe
Geir Hørthe is responsible for the Nemko cyber security initiative. He has worked at Nemko for more than 30 years, in the capacity of test services, lab manager of safety, ATEX and medical departments. He has also been Managing Director at the Nemko office in London for two years. After he returned to Norway, he held...
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Prestigious research grants for research on European amateur theatre's impact on social change
Meike Wagner, Professor of Theatre Studies at the Department of Culture and Aesthetics, receives an Advanced Grant to the proposed project "Performing Citizenship. Social and Political Agency in Non-Professional Theatre Practice in Germany, France, Britain, Sweden and Switzerland (1780-1850)".
awarded the prestigious ERC Advanced Grants
Two alumni nominated for The European Union Prize for Literature
The alumni Balsam Karam and Johanne Lykke Holm, from the Department of Culture and Aesthetics, have been nominated for The European Union Prize for Literature.
Winners are announced on May 18.
Literary debut by alumnus from the Department of Culture and Aesthetics
Johanna Hedman, author of the new novel Trion (en. The Trio), holds a Bachelor's Degree in Comparative Literature and International Relations from Stockholm University.
With atmospheric and beautifully observed Stockholm exteriors
Seeking proof for Viking identity in DNA
In a new study Anna Källén, Associate Professor and researcher in Heritage Studies at the Department of Culture and Aestetics and Daniel Strand, Uppsala University, have conducted interviews with fourteen persons who have taken DNA tests, and asked them about the desire to "be a Viking". Did they see themselves as related to Vikings, to have a Viking heritage, or to be Vikings themselves? And which characteristics did they connect with their Viking identity?
The use of genetic ancestry tests to identify as "being a Viking"
Code Narrative History: Critical Perspectives on Ancient DNA
International symposium at the Department of Culture and Aesthetics, Stockholm University, 11 May 2021.
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New book series: Critical Editions in Culture and Aesthetics
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A book series for products of scholarly achievements
Exploring the unfinished encyclopedias
Linn Holmberg, researcher in History of Ideas at the Department of Culture and Aesthetics, and Maria Simonsen researcher at Aalborg University are the editors of Stranded Encyclopedias, 1700–2000, a new anthology published by Palgrave Macmillan in the series "New Directions in Book History".
Stranded encyclopedias gives a new perspective on the historiy of learning
The creative collaboration between Giorgio Armani and Robert Wilson
In a chapter for the new publication Staging Fashion: The Fashion Show and Its Spaces (Bloomsbury), professor of theater studies at Stockholm University Dirk Gindt and professor of art historiy John Potvin (Concordia University, Montreal), write about the the creative collaboration between Giorgio Armani and Robert Wilson.
Article in the new publication Staging Fashion
"Entangled memories of violence", new article by Victoria Fareld
In a new article in the journal Memory Studies (16/2 2021), Victoria Fareld, associate professor in History of Ideas, Stockholm University, analyzes how the Austrian writer Jean Améry formulates his memories of the Holocaust in the contemporaneous situation of decolonisation.
Read the whole article in Memory Studies
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Literature Professor Boel Westin contributes to the second edition of the book Keywords for children's literature, with the article "Nostalgia".
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April 24, 2016 in environment.
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• With our modern technology, it's easy to find different versions of the song to listen to. I think it's best to listen to a few versions of whatever song you're trying to learn first. You should really "know" the song already in your ear. Then it will be much easier to learn to play it on guitar. You can find several versions on youtube, iTunes, "P2P" or bittorrent, etc.
• In the performance video I do a trick to make it a little easier to play: I tuned the guitar down a whole step (D, G, C, F, A, D), which makes the strings slacker. Then I put a capo on the 2nd fret, which puts it back in regular tuning (E, A, D, G, B, E), and has the effect of making all the frets closer together. It's also easier to play near the "nut." Capos are our friends!


I think that the usual system, at least it is what I have done, is to wire both X Axis switches in series - both Y Axis switches in series and both Z Axis switches in series etc.(for normally closed contact switches). Each pair of switches then has its own input to the parallel port.
For homing - Mach homes in a set direction, and order of axis, until it finds the switch which will act as both 'home' and 'limit' for that axis. Mach then homes the next axis the same way etc etc.
The 5Volt needs to come from your 4 axis interface or breakout board, not from the parallel port.
Do you know if your stepper motor is Bipolar or Unipolar ? (how many connection wires does it have).
A very interesting and ambitious project you are describing there.
Is the shrinkage rate a known constant for all the materials you will use or will it vary from one project to the next ?.
No problem. I do have another question though, is there a way to trigger a script when an input goes high?
This thread, I think, answers your question here.
If you post your question under the General Mach Discussion topic I am sure you will get a swift response.
Here's a Dragonfly if you are interested in making a set of these puzzles.
At least 1 relay must be reserved for the 'Beer Dispenser'. Essential for good CNC work.
Seriously though, be careful what you switch with mechanical relays.
Anything which may cause a spark across the relay contacts such as a mains voltage inductive load (spindle) must be adequately suppressed (the type of RC device found across the switch inside mains operated power tools work well) otherwise the resulting spike may well cause a systems crash.
General Mach Discussion / Re: 4th Axis Steps per Inch?
The best solution, maybe, is to work in degrees - they are constant (steps/degree) no matter what diameter/circumference cylinders you are working with.
Although mentioned before the mass of my X Axis is such that my machine is not really suitable for raster use with the laser. However, having just tried the 'Impact/Laser engraving' plugin http://www.machsupport.com/plugins.php I was surprised to find that it includes feed / power compensation (the slower you go the less the power and visa versa) . My results are not that stunning but with a bit of practice with 'setting up' I am sure that reasonable results can be achieved.
Initial setting up was done using paper and this is my first attempt with an off-cut piece of teak.


When preparing for an exam, there are some certain foods and drinksyou can consumethat can help you stay focused during an exam. Additionally, these foods are good for your health. Also, they can act as determinants in your performance. Hence, you need to wary or cautious of what you consume before an exam. There are some papers you can sit for,and they may take long hours. Thus, you need to be comfortable and ready for theexam despite the amount of time it will take. Tips prepared by https://essayzoo.org/ will help you to choose right food.
Not many students can endure a long exam. Nutrition expertsemphasize the essence of embracing healthy eating habits,especially during exams. They state that the right choice of foods and drinks will augment your focus, energize your system, and sustain you during the whole exam period. So, you need to know what to eat before an exam. When you have to write essay, scholarship paper, entrance paper, research paper, speech. It's all demand constant focus.
Some students tend to skip meals when they are tense or nervous. These make them not work efficiently as they do not have enough energy. It is crucial that you make an attempt and consume something albeit your nervousness. Not only will it give you the strength to study and stay productive during the day but also keep your mental focus in check.You will focus on your exams and aim at performing well. If you do not want to have stomach food, you can have a smoothie as a breakfast brain food for exams. But, you need to ensure it is good for your health.
Brain-boosting foods, as the name suggests, are foods which can help you stay alert and focused. Theyincludeyoghurt, nuts, cottage cheese, and eggs. You can have porridge, oatmeal, cerealswith low-fat milk, or eggs for breakfast. Fish, dried fruits, sunflower seeds, prunes, walnuts, and blueberries also fall under the list of brain food for exams. Additionally, you can have fruits such as oranges, bananas, and strawberries, or vegetables such as spinach, raw carrots, broccoli, and sprouts. These are good foods for the brain as they help fuel it andcan help you thinkfast and remember things with ease.
When the exam day approaches, ensure you stay away from brain blocking foods such as muffins and cookies. These foods require more time and energy for digestion. Additionally, you need to avoid chocolates and candies. They contain high levels of refined sugar which is not good for your health. Avoid a combination of protein and starch foods. Digesting the mixture can be stressful.Carbohydrates are goodbrain foods for exams. They help you feel less nervous andrelaxed during the exam preparation period. However, do not consume carbs during the exam period. Carbohydrates such as potatoes or rice when eaten in large quantitiescan make you feel sleepy.
What water brain does not like?
Drinks such as alcohol are not good for you during an exam.It is evident that you will not perform well when drunk as you will have headaches or feel nauseous. Thus, you need to avoid drinking alcohol at all costs during the exam period. Additionally, you need to avoid sugary colas and sodas. Drink coffee or tea instead when getting ready to do an exam. But, do not have a lot of coffee. Get something healthy to eat along with your coffee. Also, do not take tea with a lot of sugar. It can easily make you feel dehydrated. Drinking water can also help in that your body stays hydrated for a while.
You do not need to eat to your fill before an exam. Eating to your fill can make you feel heavy hence invite sleep. Your focus will not be on doing well on your paper but rather getting some rest. Your body energy needs to be devotedto helping you stay focused during an exam instead of digesting the meal you have had. Try easy meals which will help improve your alertness. You can try a banana before an exam. It is not difficult to digest,and it can help you concentrate on doing well on your exams.
The body can adjust quickly to any changes you make to it. And, these can have positive or negative effects on you. You do not need to try out new meals during the exam period. Your body might not respond well to them,and this can affect your concentration and performance negatively. Your family, relatives, or friends may decide to prepare something special for you. You do not have to take those meals if your body is not accustomed to them. Gove your body what it is used to.
Many college students rarely consume a balanced diet. They either do not want to cook or are too occupied with school activities. Hence, they opt to consume unhealthy meals such as junk foods, coffee, and pizzas. The body thus lacks vitamins and minerals which help it function properly. You need to eat healthyfoods to concentrate and allow your body tooperate efficiently and have the ability to handle stressful situations.
Some institutions grant students a short break during long exams. When in such a school, you can bring along brain food snacks for examswith you. For instance, walnuts or protein bars. These will help keep your energy levels high. Refrain from consuming chocolates and candies.
In conclusion, eating healthily during an exam will help you concentrate and aim at performing wellon your exam. You need to be cautious and know thefoods to eat when studying for exams. These will determine your performance.


Wildfire hazard is not constant across the landscape. Wildfires are driven by weather, topography and fuels. Where these elements come into alignment, (example: when a dry wind blows up a steep, sunny, brush-covered slope) fire behavior is the most dangerous. Conversely, if lightning starts a fire in a lone tree atop of a barren mountain on a rainy day, it is not likely to spread rapidly downhill. Living safely with wildfire requires that we understand the dynamics of wildfire.
At Deer Creek Resources, we couple our real-world knowledge of wildfire with modern computer modeling and mapping technologies. We use maps, graphics, aerial and ground photography, and interviews with knowledgeable locals to study, learn, and develop stratgies and tactics to reduce the wildfire hazard to people and property. This section describes some of the techniques that we use, and projects that we have done.
Our staff are experts in the development and application of the FARSITE and FLAMMAP fire behavior models. These programs use fuels, weather, and topographic information to create graphical portrayals of potential wildfire spread patterns, rates of spread, and burn intensities. The resulting maps are very useful for communicating big-picture wildfire hazard issues to a lay audience.
Fire modeling analyzes the factors that contribute to fire spread and intensity, and can be used to highlight high-hazard areas. Perhaps the greatest utility in fire behavior modeling is that it provides an excellent way for fire behavior experts to express their understanding of wildland fire behavior in easily understood graphic forms.
Fire behavior modeling draws upon all facets of what we know about fire. It uses observations of past fire behavior, historic weather data, and empirical observations from laboratory experiments. For example, much of what we know about the fire intensity of different types of surface fuels comes from people carefully sorting, weighing, and stacking different sizes of pine needles, sticks, and logs, and then burning them and recording the results. One researcher burned different types of ornamental shrubs like Oleander, Juniper, and Rosemary in a laboratory burn-chamber to develop data on potential fire behavior in common Wildland Urban Interface fuel types.
Modelers use the accumulated science and a lifetime of personal wildfire experience to make inferences about what types of fire behavior are possible for a given area. For example, the map below shows the actual observed spread during the first day of the Poe Fire, which burned in 2001 in Northern California's Feather River Canyon. Fire behavior modelers working in similar areas would use these spread rates to calibrate their models.
Fire managment challanges occur at a variety of scales. Starting with the big picture, or the landscape-scale, we may want to look for places a fire could start, get large enough to escape control, and then threaten a community or "asset-at-risk". At the more local scale, we may be concerned about how to protect a community from a large fire approaching from the wildlands.
The graphics below highlight examples from a 2004 fire hazard assessment conducted for Plumas County. These tools and images below were developed by DCR staff, and our partners at Wildland-Rx, as part of a project that set priorities for hazarous fuels reduction projects for all of the private lands around communities in Plumas County. A major objective of this project was to create a library of reference photos showing potential fire behavior for each major forest type in the county. For more information on this project, visit the Plumas County Firesafe Council's Website.
Fire hazard describes the likelihood that an area will burn with a dangerous intensity. The map below shows crown fire potential in the area around Quincy, CA. Crown fire potential is an important metric because it describes the fire's resistance to control.Surface fires are often easy to suppress with local resources. Torching fires are more difficult to suppress as each torching tree can cause many spot fires in nearby areas. There is very little that firefighters can do to stop a crown fire other than to get out of the way and wait until weather conditions moderate, or for the to fire run out of fuel. In the following image, Green areas are predicted to experience low-intensity surface fire,Yellow areas will have scattered torching of the overstory trees, and Red areas will experience running (active) crown fire – where fire will leap from tree to tree.
The fire behavior model (FLAMMAP) looked at the surface fuel type, slope and aspect, and determined potential surface flame lengths if the area was burning under historically high-hazard fire weather. If the flame lengths from the surface fuel were high enough to catch the overstory trees on fire, then this meant there was "crown fire potential". If there was sufficient tree crown density to carry a fire from tree to tree, the area was rated as having "active crown fire potential".
DCR staff have developed mobile mapping tools for assessment of fuels hazard in the wildland urban interface (WUI). These tools allow field mapping crews to quickly assess fire-hazard attributes for individual structures. We then analyze this data with slope, weather, and remotely-sensed fuels data to classify the risk that wildfire poses to each structure. The photos and parcel maps below show wildfire hazard in the community of Cameron Park – in the Sierra Nevada Foothills. For this project we collected information for each of 7,300 parcels to assess those parcel's suceptability to wildfire ignition.
In the photo and map below, a fire starting at the red icon would have the potential to destroy many homes. Contributing factors to this high level of risk are: location on a steep slope, flammable construction details like overhanging decks or shake roofs, uncleared brush and flammable ornamental vegetation like juniper or rosemary directly adjacent to the structures, and poor or unsafe access for firefighters.
Map below shows area in photo above.
Similarly to the landscape-scale assessment above, we analyzed our parcel survey data to look at places where there was potential for a fire to run uphill thru heavy fuels and with the prevailing winds. A key consideration in modeling fire behavior in the WUI is that – while the fuel loads are often very similar to undeveloped brushlands in surounding areas – the first fire suppression resources on-scene will likely be busy protecting structures and less available to actually halt the spread of the fire. What this means is that a fire that might easily be suppressed in undeveloped brushlands has greater potential for growth if structures are present.
While the scales differ in the two examples above, both of these modeling exercises allow the end user to identify high hazard areas, and to prioritize these areas for hazard mitigation – either thru fuels reduction projects, community outreach, or code enforcement.
Effective fuels projects increase the effectiveness of fire suppression. Toward this end, all fuels treatments should be implemented with the objective of reducing the surface fuel loading within the treated areas. Projects must reduce potential fire intensity to a level which allows firefighters to safely work in the area during extreme fire weather conditions (when most large wildfires occur). Fire behavior modeling allows us to assess what kinds of vegetation managment will be necessary to accomplish this goal for a given area.
After priority areas have been established, terrain modeling and satellite fuels mapping data developed to run the models are also useful in the development of fuels treatment prescriptions. In the case of the Quincy, California area examples above, the Firesafe Council wanted to estimate how many acres of each type of fuels treatment were possible around each community in Plumas County. Slope steepness, vegetation type and percent canopy cover were used along with buffers drawn off of the community boundaries to generate the map below.
View data table created from this map data.
More maps from this project.


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Alamoment: How the Daughters Felt on Receiving Audit Request
July 1, 2010 October 19, 2013 postcardsfromsanantonio5 Comments
Alamoment:
The instant when you realize that you are about to be completely and monumentally screwed.
Love this great word coined by a new blog, Portmanteau: The Compoundium, self-described as the:
compilation of several portmanteaus, or "blend[s] of two (or more) words or morphemes and their meanings into one new word." (Wikipedia)
The Compoundium describes that special Alamoment feeling:
A bright, crisp morning greeted James Whitesides (not to be confused with the Irish poet) as he rose from his post at the mission near San Antonio de Bexar. Texas had been good to him; the land was cheap and the humidity made his hair very manageable. The war with Santa Anna hadn't even wrinkled his disposition. He took a deep breath and open his sleep-filmed eyes.
And then he looked to the south….
Alamoment: The feeling experienced by the member of the Daughters of the Republic of Texas who first spied the Texas Attorney General's fax requesting volumes upon volumes of information to audit the guardians of the Alamo.
While it might seem as though it has been some time since I returned to issues plaguing the Alamo and Alamo Plaza, I secretly have been adding updates at the bottom of older posts. For example, in older posts about the Alamo and its plaza you can find out that Sam's the man currently working on sandwich boards on Alamo Plaza; view the Texas Historical Commission's reactions to the expansion plans the Daughters have for the Alamo grounds; or link to recent news stories and editorials. I should probably be creating new posts or at least posting these as comments, but then it would seem as though I am talking to myself (which, of course, is what blogging is).
After all, I do not want to seem Alamobsessed (one for The Compoundium?).
July 3 Update: The big, bad bully Express-News is picking on the Daughters again:
The Daughters also issued a release Friday, accusing the San Antonio Express-News of directing "unrelenting attacks" on the DRT through its articles and editorials.
And while looking for a full copy of the Daughters' release online, came across the unfortunate news of a setback in fundraising for Alamo preservation in the Dallas Morning News.
Update Added on July 4: Amazing what Sam Perez has accomplished. Drove through Alamo Plaza yesterday, fully expecting every single sandwich board (see photos here) to be back in place in the face of every single one of the 50,000 AA conventioneers in town. After all, Sam would not be out there enforcing the code over the Fourth of July holiday. But all the sandwich boards were gone, even the ones at the Houston Street establishment next to the Indigo, save one exception: the monster-sized one outside Pat O's. Way to go Sam! We are still saddled with the unsightly clutter outside Fuddrucker's and Pat O's, but this is a remarkable step forward.
Now, if only the City Manager can charge an equivalent miracle-worker to enforce the multitude of signage violations filling every window pane along the west side of the plaza….
Update on July 7: As this blogger is but a sophomoric soul, the following represents a comprehensive summary of the "do not do this" lessons one could learn in P.R. 101:
And the follow-up story in the Dallas Morning News.
Second Update on July 7: Brian Myler of KSAT-TV has been working on a story on Alamo Plaza signage violations for weeks and reports the City has been issuing citations. A feature will air during the 10:30 p.m. newscast on Friday, July 9.
Update on July 9: The Wall Street Journal
Update on July 10:
Phew! The Daughters made the Attorney General's deadline for mountains of documents.
State Representative Leticia Van de Putte weighs in.
KSAT-TV Defenders cover illegal signage on Alamo Plaza.
Update on July 14: The "daughter" they wish they never had….
Update on July 20: KSTX Radio interviews Express-News' Scott Huddleston; president of DRT unable to find time in her schedule to join them.
Update on July 25: These updates tacked onto this blog entry are getting downright cumbersome. Might have to risk being labeled sophomoricly Alamobsessed and do a full-fledged post soon. Scott Huddleston writes online: "Alamo Workers Reassured about Jobs."
Update on July 26: State wants its just desserts à-la-mo-de; opposes DRT trademark application.
Update on July 27: Follow-Up Alamo Trademark Story
Update on August 1: This thread keeps going, but it seems so convenient to provide access to the related news reports in one post. Engineering report returned, and editorial on trademark.
Trademark Update on August 24: Dallas Morning News
Update on September 11: Another linguistic portmanteau from The Compoundium:
Obscenery – "The hotel on the strip was fine, but the view was just awful."
So we guess we are Alamobsessed with the obscenery dominating the plaza.
Posted in Alamobsession, History of San Antonio, San Antonio Parks, Written WordTagged alamo, alamo plaza, alamo trademark, alamoment, audit, blogging, daughters of the republic of texas, scott huddleston, texas historical commission
Guarding the Guardians
May 2, 2010 October 19, 2013 postcardsfromsanantonio3 Comments
Reporter Scott Huddleston of the San Antonio Express-News dropped this gem near the end of his story about the Daughters of the Republic of Texas efforts to trademark "The Alamo:"
Along with the "Allies" campaign, which raises money for Alamo preservation, operations and educational programs, the DRT hopes to collect funds for a new library building on the grounds that eventually could stand seven stories high.
Seven stories high? And I have been blogging over a banner blocking the entrance to the grounds and the pop-up on the plaza?
Surely San Antonio's viewshed ordinance protects us from these guardians in need of guarding:
The purpose of a Viewshed Protection district is to establish regulations to protect, preserve, and enhance views and vistas. The City of San Antonio has many views and vistas of historic places, landmark buildings, and other sites of cultural importance which have always been important to the city. These views will continue to be amenities and assets of great value to the city, its people, and its economy.
New development in the vicinity of these important places is usually beneficial, but when construction becomes too tall and begins to overwhelm or intrude, in scale and mass, the main view or vista of a smaller place of significance, then the viewshed located behind the significant property should be protected.
Viewshed Protection districts are overlay districts that will be used primarily for unique situations regarding views and vistas that are not adequately covered by the standard zoning districts. No part of a new structure, sign, tower, roof top equipment, or other appurtenance shall be permitted to encroach into any designated viewshed as set forth in this ordinance unless an encroachment was approved legally before the effective date of the Viewshed Protection ordinance. If the maximum height allowed in any zoning district within the city differs from the height permitted by a protection district, the more restrictive height limitation shall apply.
San Antonio currently has one (1) Viewshed Protection district: Alamo Viewshed (VP-1). This Viewshed Protection district lies behind the main entrance to the front door of the Mission San Antonio de Valero (The Alamo), a local Exceptional Landmark and a National Historic Landmark. A brass disc monument named VP-1, Alamo Viewshed, has been set to mark the viewpoint origination in Alamo Plaza in front of the Alamo Chapel….
(see Ch. 35-337 of the Unified Development Code for full boundary description).
If not, fix it quickly.
May 13 Update: "Another Battle Brews at The Alamo"
June 1 Update: The Texas Historical Commission's response to DRT's plans: page 1, page 2 and page 3
October 28 Update: The Daughters of the Republic of Texas are only $40 million away from building a three-story addition to the Alamo grounds….
Posted in Alamobsession, History of San Antonio, San Antonio ParksTagged alamo trademark, alamo viewshed, daughters of the republic of texas, the alamo, viewshed ordinance


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Marcella Hazan has a nifty trick in making tomato sauce and it really works. You take you sauce pot, add a nice plug of oil, add some garlic, as much or as little as you like. You can also add red chili peppers if you like a little kick. Sauce the garlic for a few minutes on medium heat until it browns but don't let it go till it burns as it can make the dish bitter. Once browned you can add your tomatoes and then you take an onion, peel the skin off, cut it in half and toss into the sauce. Bring the sauce to a boil and then reduce to simmer. Let it cook for 45 minutes, taste and here you will add in your salt and if you feel it needs it you can add some sugar. Some people don't like sugar and the San Marzano tomatoes typically don't need them but I won't call the police if you use some sugar.
Now your sauce is set, you have tasted and adjusted your seasonings. Boil a pot of water with 3 big pinches of salt, make sure your water is salty. Cook your pasta 2 minutes less than the package asks for. Pull your pasta out, and toss it in a pan with the sauce and allow them to cook together at medium for 1 minute. Pull the pan off the heat, throw in a handful of grated parmigiano and you have a meal for the gods. Buon Appetito!
Does it get any better than a Spaghetti with Tomato Sauce & Basil?


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PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Officials have set the date for a special election to fill the seat of a newly-elected Rhode Island state representative who resigned over a nonexistent campaign mailer.
The secretary of state's office said Monday the election for District 68, which includes parts of Bristol and Warren, will take place March 5. A primary will be held Feb. 5, if necessary.
Democratic Rep.-elect Laufton Ascencao submitted a resignation letter to the secretary of state's office Monday.
The 25-year-old previously said he wouldn't take his seat after he acknowledged providing a fake invoice to prove he sent a political mailer that was never sent.
Candidates who have expressed interest in the seat include Bristol Town Councilman Andrew Tyska and Libertarian Bill Hunt.


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Georgia Ex-President Saakashvili Says Abused in Prison, Fears for Life
Georgia Ex-President Saakashvili Says Abused…
Georgia's jailed ex-president and opposition leader Mikheil Saakashvili, who has been on hunger strike for weeks, said on Monday he feared for his life after prison guards assaulted him.
Saakashvili, who served as president between 2004 and 2013, was arrested on Oct. 1 on his return from exile in Ukraine.
He has refused food for 39 days to protest against his imprisonment, which he says is politically motivated.
His jailing has exacerbated a political crisis that erupted last year after the opposition denounced fraud in parliamentary elections won narrowly by the ruling Georgian Dream party.
The guards "abused me verbally, punched me on the neck, dragged me on the ground by my hair", Saakashvili said in a letter released through his lawyer, adding that his controversial transfer to a prison hospital was "aimed at killing" him.
Hunger-Striking Saakashvili a Headache for Georgian Government
He was moved on Monday to a prison hospital that rights officials say fails to ensure his proper treatment.
The flamboyant pro-Western reformer's arrest provoked the largest anti-government demonstrations in a decade.
Chanting Saakashvili's name, about 40,000 demonstrators flooded on Monday evening into the central Freedom Square in the Georgian capital Tbilisi, AFP reporters saw.
"A mass, permanent protest movement begins in Georgia and will not stop until Mikheil Saakashvili is set free and snap elections are called," Nika Melia, the chairman of Saakashvili's United National Movement party, told the crowd.
"We will not disperse, our protest will be relentless and peaceful, we will not let the regime provoke us to a civil confrontation."
Protesters then marched through downtown Tbilisi towards the prime minister's office, vowing to blockade the building.
Prime Minister Irakli "Garibashvili will not be able to leave or enter his office," Melia said.
One of the demonstrators, businessman Niko Mgeladze, 46, said: "Saakashvili is a victim of political vendetta, we will not stop until he is liberated."
Ukraine's protest
The pro-opposition Mtavari TV station aired footage of hundreds of riot police being deployed outside government buildings.
On Monday morning, doctors who examined Saakashvili said he was "at high risk of multi-systemic complications and needs to be urgently treated in a high-tech clinic."
Georgia's rights ombudswoman Nino Lomjaria said the prison hospital failed to meet the doctors' criteria.
Doctors have said Saakashvili faces an imminent risk of death as he has an underlying blood disorder that makes his hunger strike particularly dangerous.
Ukraine protested against Saakashvili's transfer to a prison hospital, saying the move "creates additional risks."
"We call on the Georgian side to transfer Mikheil Saakashvili to a civilian medical facility without delay," the foreign ministry said in a note of protest sent to Tbilisi.
Saakashvili, who was stripped of his Georgian passport in 2015, is now a national of Ukraine, where he headed — until his arrest — a government agency steering reforms.
'Right to suicide'
Saakashvili's lawyers have expressed concerns that his "security will not be guaranteed in the prison hospital where convicted criminals are employed as paramedics."
The independent Pirveli TV channel reported that inmates in the prison hospital staged a noisy protest against Saakashvili, shouting profanities at the man who led a relentless campaign against organized crime during his tenure as president.
Lomjaria, who visited Saakashvili in custody, said he was moved to a prison hospital against his will and was misled that he was to be transferred to a civilian clinic.
Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili sparked an uproar recently by saying that Saakashvili "has the right to commit suicide" and that the government had been forced to arrest him because he refused to quit politics.
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Not all players on board with boycott, per ESPN
Player: "If we were 9-0, this wouldn't be happening."
By Bruno Vernaschi and Alec Lewis
Football Boycott
Not all of the Missouri football players are supporting the team's boycott, according to ESPN.
After a tumultuous day within the Mizzou athletic department in which the football team announced their boycott in support of Jonathan Butler, it was reported that some players side with the opposing view.
"Not everyone agrees with the decision (to stop all football activities)," an unnamed white player told ESPN College Football Insider Brett McMurphy. "Most people are pissed, including the black guys (on the team) … If we were 9-0, this wouldn't be happening."
Multiple players have tweeted in support of the protest, including starters Anthony Sherrils, Clarence Green and Charles Harris. No one on the roster has expressed opposition on social media.
After meeting for hours early Sunday, coach Gary Pinkel expressed support in a Tweet, which portrayed coaches and players — all with locked arms — in a photo.
Coach Gary Pinkel and athletic director Mack Rhoades issued a statement shortly thereafter, saying that there practice would be cancelled for the day and that "it is clear (the players) do not plan to return to practice until Jonathan resumes eating."
While it seemed that a majority of the team was united in the decision to protest, the player told ESPN that "half the team and coaches — black and white — are pissed" about the situation.
"(The player) basically said that the team is not united over the decision to stop practicing until Jonathan Butler ends his hunger strike," McMurphy said on SportsCenter. "It's not that they don't support Butler — they certainly don't condone any racial harassment with the various things that have been going on. Their issue is that the football team is having to stop practice, is not allowed to participate in any kind of football activity."
Saturday night, senior running back Russell Hansbrough tweeted, "There is no racial tension between the team and coaches. We are a family." In contrast, Sherrills specified a certain group of players, saying, "The athletes of color on the University of Missouri football team truly believe 'Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.'"
Following the release of ESPN's report, junior linebacker Michael Scherer took to Twitter to reiterate the team's unity and disputing the source.
"Just because everyone wasn't in the picture doesn't mean that we don't all stand together as a family," he wrote. "Whoever is speaking against our Unity as a family and team is not apart of the same family that I am. By that I am saying that I don't believe that anyone in our locker room would ever say that and the 'mystery informant' isn't reliable."
The UM Board of Curators is scheduled to meet on Monday at 10 a.m., and Mizzou players and coaches are scheduled to hold their weekly media appearances on Monday at 3:30 p.m.
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