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Nutana is a primarily residential neighbourhood located near the centre of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. It includes the business district of Broadway Avenue.  It comprises a nearly even mixture of low-density, single detached dwellings and apartment-style multiple unit dwellings. As of 2009, the area is home to 6,261 residents. The neighbourhood is considered a middle to upper-income area, with an average family income of $67,657, an average dwelling value of $206,830 and a home ownership rate of 51.3%. First established in 1883, Nutana was the original settlement of what now makes up the city of Saskatoon.

History

The first permanent settlement was established by the Temperance Colonization Society, a group of Toronto Methodists, under John Neilson Lake. The group moved into the area in 1883, a year after Lake and a scouting party had looked for a suitable colony site. The site chosen by Lake was on the suggestion of Chief Whitecap of the Dakota tribe.  The land for the settlement was located in the Treaty 6 region. Saskatoon was officially settled on August 18, 1883. The name is thought to be derived from the Cree word "missaskwatoomina", referring to the saskatoon berry shrubs that grew along the riverbank. By 1884, ferry service across the river began, making Saskatoon the crossing point for the busy Regina – Battleford Trail. It brought more commercial traffic and business, as well as more settlers to the region.  The first post office was established October 1, 1884, with J. H. C. Willoughby as the first postmaster. By 1886, there were 29 homes constructed, and the community boasted a variety of professionals and tradesmen.

Still, the planned temperance colony failed for several reasons: the group was not able to obtain a contiguous block of land; the river was too shallow to ferry supplies and settlers; the nearest railway was  away in Moose Jaw; land routes were small, often unmarked trails; and fears of hostility from indigenous peoples during the 1885 North-West Rebellion dampened enthusiasm from potential settlers. Without a rail link and enduring years of drought from 1885 to 1890, the economy consisted of little but subsistence farming. The first agricultural fair, later to become the Saskatoon Exhibition, was held on October 13, 1886, at the "Louise Grounds" (now Nutana Collegiate's schoolyard). The exhibition was staged there until 1903, when it was moved to the City Park neighbourhood and later the city's exhibition grounds further south.

The original Victoria School was built in 1888 by stonemason Alexander (Sandy) Marr as the first school house of the temperance colony. Located at the Five Corners crossing at Broadway Avenue and 12th Street, the school yard would eventually be home to three school buildings as the population grew, the last of which being the present-day École Victoria School. The first Victoria School was dismantled and reassembled on a site at the University of Saskatchewan campus in 1911. The building is often referred to as the Little Stone Schoolhouse.

When the Qu'Appelle, Long Lake and Saskatchewan Railway reached Saskatoon in 1890 and crossed the South Saskatchewan River, a settlement on the west bank of the river (Saskatoon's future downtown) was established, saving the existing settlement from extinction. The area now had railway links to both Regina and Prince Albert; however, the commercial centre shifted across to the west side of the river.  Broadway Avenue remained the commercial and social center for the east bank.  By 1901, the west bank's population had reached 113 and it incorporated as the Village of Saskatoon.  Stripped of its original name, the east bank settlement renamed itself "Nutana", a scrambled inversion of "Saskatoon".  It incorporated as a town on October 3, 1903, as Saskatoon had done earlier that year on July 1.

A heavy influx of people into the area over the next three years put a strain on the two new towns, as well as the new neighbouring village of Riversdale. Despite the advantages of amalgamating into a single settlement, Nutana's residents demanded that a traffic bridge be built to link the two sides of the river. Up to then, the only way across the river was an unreliable ferry, or a difficult and sometimes dangerous walk across the railway bridge. In 1906. the provincial government committed to building a bridge, and Nutana ratepayers came onside. A city charter was drawn up, and Nutana merged with the town Saskatoon and the village of Riversdale to become the city of Saskatoon on July 1, 1906. The following year on October 10, 1907, the promised bridge was opened and called the Traffic Bridge. In the following decades, three more traffic bridges would link Nutana to the downtown: University Bridge (1916), Broadway Bridge (1932), and the Idylwyld Bridge (1966), which replaced the original CN railway bridge.

The period between 1910 and 1912 were particularly prosperous for Saskatoon, and many of Nutana's landmark buildings were built in this time. The economic boom turned to bust by 1913, just prior to World War I, but rebounded during the Roaring Twenties.  The Great Depression saw another economic downturn, followed by another period of prosperity after World War II.  However, by the end of the 1950s, the advent of newer subdivisions, chain stores and shopping malls drew commercial activity away from the traditional businesses in Nutana.  Home construction also slowed during this period. The neighbourhood went into decline for several decades, as exemplified by the Broadway Theatre becoming an "adult" movie theatre. In the mid-1980s, Broadway merchants and community groups began to organize in an effort to turn the area's fortunes around. In 1984, the Broadway Theatre was turned into repertory movie house and live performance venue. With the establishment of the Broadway Business Improvement District in 1986, a revitalization program was launched to refurbish the streetscape and reintroduce the area's historic identity. These events spurred a period of gentrification in Nutana; today, Broadway Avenue is again an active commercial district and the Nutana area is again considered desirable.

Historic buildings

 Trounce House (1883) – The oldest structure in Saskatoon and the last of the original houses from the temperance colony founded by John Lake. It was purchased by Henry and Bessie Trounce in 1883 from John J. Conn. In 1920 the house was moved to the back of the lot and converted into a garage while at the front, the Gustin Residence was built. Designated a municipal heritage property on April 10, 1989.
 Marr Residence (1884) – Built by Sandy Marr, it is the oldest building in Saskatoon on its original site. It was one of several houses requisitioned as a field hospital to treat wounded soldiers during the North-West Rebellion. Designated a municipal heritage property on January 11, 1982.
 Garrison House (1886) – Built entirely of fieldstone by George Wesley Garrison. Between 1891 and 1894, Garrison leased rooms to the North-West Mounted Police – presumably in this building – thus giving rise to its nickname "the jail" and to stories of cells in the basement. It was dismantled to its stone foundation in 1918 and rebuilt in concrete and brick.
 Victoria School (three buildings; 1887, 1905, 1909) – The original stone one-room schoolhouse, built by Alexander Marr, was relocated to the University of Saskatchewan campus in 1911. It was designated a municipal heritage property on May 17, 1982. A second school, now demolished, was built in 1905. The third and final school, designed by Walter W. LaChance, was opened in 1909 and remains to the present day.
 Bell House (1910) – A luxury riverbank house designed by noted Regina architects Edgar Storey and William Van Egmond. While the building was divided into suites in 1942, it has now been returned to single family use.
 Nutana Collegiate (1910) – Originally named the Saskatoon Collegiate Institute when it opened in 1910, Nutana collegiate was the first secondary school in the city. At first, Nutana Collegiate housed university and normal school (teacher training) as well. Storey and Van Egmond designed the building in a French Renaissance style.
 Fire Hall#3 (1911) – A two-storey structure of yellow brick banded by a heavy bracketed wooden cornice, it served as a fire hall until 1956. From 1959,  at the height of the Cold War, it was used by the Department of Civil Defence as a radiation proof communications centre. It is now a bar and restaurant featuring mementos from the now-demolished Capitol Theatre. Designated a municipal heritage property on February 25, 1991.
 Thirteenth Street Terrace (1911) – Classical in design and novel in its day, this two-storey row housing was an alternative to owning a single family home in boom-time Saskatoon. It was built in 1911-1912 by Henry A. Cook, liveryman, farmer, real estate salesman and owner of the Waldorf Café. Designated a municipal heritage property on December 12, 2000.
 Arrand Block (1912) – Neo-Classical style apartment block built by cousins Richard and Walter Arrand, noted Saskatoon contractors. Designated a municipal heritage property on April 10, 1989. Richard Arrand is credited with inventing the first power cement mixer, but failed to patent his design.
 Calder House (1912) – A luxurious three-storey riverbank house built for Truman Frederick Calder, apparently to replicate a similar house in Toronto that his wife Adella liked. Unfortunately Mr. Calder was struck by lightning in 1914 and killed. The house changed ownership several times and was converted into apartments in 1942. It is now a bed & breakfast.
 Sommerville/Petitt House (1912) – It was designed by Frank P. Martin in 1912 and commissioned by Herman Pettit, about whom extremely little is known. A dentist, Dr. George Sommerville, bought the house in 1918. Designated a municipal heritage property on May 16, 1988.
 Gustin Residence (1920) – The home and studio of internationally renowned piano teacher Lyell Gustin. Designated a municipal heritage property on April 10, 1989.
 F.P. Martin House (1926) – Two-storey Cottage Vernacular house was built by architect, Frank P. Martin, to be his private residence, with a semi-detached unit available for rental purposes. Noted for its high-pitched roof with double shed dormers, interlocking tile and stucco cladding, and Gothic doorways. Designated a municipal heritage property on March 3, 1997.
 Grace-Westminster United Church – David Webster designed this church for the congregation of Grace United, which originated from the original Methodist church of the temperance colony. The tower was added in 1949, and the present name adopted as the result of a 1968 merger with the congregation of Westminster United.
 St. Joseph's Catholic Church – Designed to a Romanesque style by G. Verbeke. The taller of the towers was intended for bells which were never installed.
 St. Joseph's School (1928) – Designed by David Webster, this was built at the same time as the church of the same name. The high school was established in 1980 in an agreement between the provincial government, the school division and the Kitotiminawak (parent advisory) Council. The name was changed in 1989 to Joe Duquette High School, and again in 2007 to Oskayak High School.
 Main Street Electrical Substation (1929) – Built to satisfy increased demand for electricity, it was constructed of Redcliffe brick and Claybank dark brick in a mix of Modern Classical and Prairie styles. After being decommissioned in 1973, the building fell into disrepair until being rehabilitated and turned into an office building. Designated a municipal heritage property on December 4, 2000.
 Davis Dairy (1930) – Built by architects Webster and Gilbert in 1930 for the Davis Dairy Company, then situated on Main Street. It served as a dairy until the 1970s but went through several owners – Purity Dairy, Silverwood Dairy, and finally the Dairy Pool. In 1994 the later exterior stucco was replaced by a fine brick facade in the style of the original and the interior was completely renovated.
 Broadway Theatre (1947) – This Art Deco style movie theatre was Broadway's entertainment destination during the post-World War II years. After falling into disrepute as an "adult" movie theatre, it was restored as an arthouse cinema and live performance venue during the 1980s. Designated a municipal heritage property on April 14, 1997.

Government and politics
Nutana exists within the federal electoral district of Saskatoon—University. It is currently represented by Corey Tochor of the Conservative Party of Canada, first elected in 2019.

Provincially, the area is within the constituency of Saskatoon Nutana. It is currently represented by Cathy Sproule of the Saskatchewan New Democratic Party, first elected in 2011.

In Saskatoon's non-partisan municipal politics, Nutana lies within ward 6. It is currently represented by Councillor Cynthia Block, first elected in 2016.

Institutions

Education

Oskāyak High School - separate (Catholic) secondary, associate school of Greater Saskatoon Catholic Schools. Opened as Native Survival School in 1980 and renamed Joe Duquette High School in 1989 after the school's first elder. The school was renamed Oskāyak High School in 2006.
 Nutana Collegiate – public secondary, part of the Saskatoon Public School Division. Nutana Collegiate was Saskatoon's first public secondary school.
École Victoria School - public elementary, part of the Saskatoon Public School Division

Other
 Cosmo Seniors' Centre – community hall for special events, operated by the Saskatoon Yellowhead Cosmopolitan Club

Arts and culture
The Broadway Theatre is one of Nutana's cultural cornerstones. A designated municipal heritage property, the Broadway Theatre is Saskatoon's only community-owned and operated cinema and live performance venue.

Originally the parish hall of St. James' Anglican Church, the Refinery Arts & Spirit Centre is a multi-purpose facility that hosts arts and wellness classes and workshops, meetings and conferences, and live performances.

Annual events
 Bikes on Broadway (May) – the largest road bicycle race in Saskatchewan
 Broadway Art Encounter (June) – a weekend exhibition where local artists display their works inside businesses of the Broadway Avenue business district
 Saskatoon Fringe Theatre Festival (August) – a fringe theatre festival at various venues around Broadway Avenue, as well as free outdoor performance artists and street vendors
 Broadway Street Fair (September) – a festival that includes a sidewalk sale, silent auction, art show, live music, and children's games
 Flicks International Film Festival for Young People (September) – children's film festival at the Broadway Theatre

Parks  and recreation

 Poplar Crescent Park –
 Albert Rec. Unit –
 Idywyld Park –
 Massey Park –
 Rotary Park –
 Cosmopolitan Park –

The Nutana Community Association organizes leisure, social, and recreational programs and works with the municipal government to address a variety of local issues.

Commercial
Nutana is anchored around the business district of Broadway Avenue, which was the main street in its early days as a town. Today, Broadway Avenue is home to mainly independently owned local businesses.  Some businesses are located on side streets adjacent to Broadway, in particular Main Street, 10th Street and Dufferin Avenue.  A few businesses within the 8th Street commercial district lie inside Nutana's southern boundary.  There is also a small mini-mall with a grocery store at the corner of 12th Street and Clarence Avenue, and two small commercial developments at Victoria Avenue and Main Street. 87 home-based businesses exist in Nutana.

Location
Nutana is located within the Core Neighbourhoods Suburban Development Area.  It is bounded by 8th Street to the south, Clarence Avenue to the east, and the South Saskatchewan River to the west.  Roads are laid out in a grid fashion; streets run east-west, avenues run north-south. Some roads close to the river are laid out in rough parallel to the riverbank. All three operational road bridges into the downtown core are located in or immediately adjacent to Nutana; a fourth bridge, the historic Traffic Bridge, was closed and decommissioned in the late 2000s; a replacement bridge opened on the same site in the late 2010s.

The original 1883 layout of Saskatoon/Nutana was similar to today's boundaries, except it extended south of 8th Street to a then-unnamed road allowance (now Taylor Street), incorporating what is today the neighbourhood of Buena Vista and half of today's Haultain community. Some reference books erroneously refer to the small residential area west of Idylwyld Drive and north of 8th Street (which has always been physically separated from the rest of Nutana by either a rail line or a freeway) by the name, "Idylwyld".

References

External links

 Nutana neighbourhood profile – 2007
 Nutana Local Area Plan
 Nutana Community Association
 Broadway Business Improvement District
 Broadway 360

Neighbourhoods in Saskatoon

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While short-polling would be preferred (our application get's proxied/cached via Cloudflare which does not like long standing requests) I would welcome long-polling as well.
Backstory:
We have an system that does a lot of batch processing of products to and from our system. Now we use synchronous Symfony commands either manually via SSH or run via CronJobs, but this is not very scalable.
We wanted to switch to an event dispatcher of some kind and looking at Symfony Messenger it mostly fits the bill for scaling out our batching system. But I can not figure out how to implement polling to/for it, so both us and our customers have an indication of progress.
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*every 30 seconds or so we poll all workers regarding of how many items have been completed of x amount assigned for this specific batch job

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Other then making a message for every item needed to be processed I can't think of a manageable way to achieve both scalability and polling, which would yield not much benefit over doing it synchronously. Is there some kind of pattern I should be looking at or a tool better fit to do this job?

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Guillaume Arnell, né Guillaume-Jacques Arnell le , est une personnalité politique française de Saint-Martin.

Biographie
En 1995, avec le soutien d'autres jeunes Saint-Martinois engagés, Guillaume Arnell et Alain Richardson forment Ensemble pour Saint-Martin.

Aux élections cantonales de 1998, il est élu conseiller général de Guadeloupe  et prend la succession de Robert Weinum, conseiller général de Guadeloupe pendant 19 ans. Guillaume Arnell est réélu en 2004.

En 2007, le MAP choisit Alain Richardson pour conduire la liste Rassemblement Responsabilité Réussite (RRR) aux premières élections territoriales. La liste RRR obtient 42,2 % au second tour. Guillaume Arnell devient conseiller territorial (l'un des six de la liste).

En 2008, il est candidat pour le groupe RRR aux sénatoriales, mais est battu.

Aux élections territoriales de 2012, il est élu à nouveau sur la liste RRR, conduite par Alain Richardson. La liste ayant gagné les élections, Alain Richardson devient président de la collectivité et Guillaume Arnell vice-président du conseil. Il assure la responsabilité du pôle développement durable, qui dispose également des compétences en habitat, construction et urbanisme.

Guillaume Arnell se présente aux élections législatives de 2012 à Saint-Barthélemy et Saint-Martin sous l'étiquette du RRR. Il obtient 25,67 % au premier tour et peut se maintenir au second, lors duquel il obtient 47,77 %, étant battu par Daniel Gibbs, tout en ayant eu le meilleur score dans la collectivité de Saint-Martin (53,30 %).

Candidat lors des élections sénatoriales de septembre 2014, il est élu au second tour de scrutin avec 11 voix, contre huit à Alain Gros-Desormeaux (sans étiquette) et quatre à Dominique Aubert (UMP). Il succède ainsi à Louis-Constant Fleming, qui a démissionné de la haute chambre le , provoquant la vacance du siège durant neuf mois. Sa suppléante est Aline Hanson, présidente du conseil territorial. Il siège sur les bancs du groupe Rassemblement démocratique et social européen (RDSE).

Notes et références

Voir aussi

Bibliographie

Articles connexes
 Conseil territorial de Saint-Martin
 Canton de Saint-Martin-2
 Élections législatives de 2012 à Saint-Barthélemy et Saint-Martin

Liens externes

Sénateur de Saint-Martin
Candidat aux élections législatives françaises de 2012
Sénateur de la Cinquième République française
Conseiller territorial de Saint-Martin (Antilles françaises)
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import cromwell.engine.backend.jes.JesBackend.{JesInput, JesOutput, JesParameter}
import cromwell.engine.backend.jes.Run.{Failed, Running, Success, _}
import cromwell.engine.db.DataAccess._
import cromwell.engine.db.{JesCallBackendInfo, JesId, JesStatus}
import cromwell.engine.workflow.BackendCallKey
import cromwell.logging.WorkflowLogger
import cromwell.util.google.GoogleScopes
import org.joda.time.DateTime
import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory

import scala.collection.JavaConverters._
import scala.concurrent.duration._
import scala.language.postfixOps

object Run  {
  val JesServiceAccount = new ServiceAccount().setEmail("default").setScopes(GoogleScopes.Scopes.asJava)
  lazy val MaximumPollingInterval = Duration(ConfigFactory.load.getConfig("backend").getConfig("jes").getInt("maximumPollingInterval"), "seconds")
  val InitialPollingInterval = 5 seconds
  val PollingBackoffFactor = 1.1

  def apply(pipeline: Pipeline): Run = {
    val logger = WorkflowLogger(
      "JES Run",
      pipeline.workflow,
      otherLoggers = Seq(LoggerFactory.getLogger(getClass.getName)),
      callTag = Option(pipeline.key.tag)
    )

    if (pipeline.pipelineId.isDefined == pipeline.runIdForResumption.isDefined) {
      val message =
        s"""
          |${logger.tag}: Exactly one of JES pipeline ID or run ID for resumption must be specified to create a Run.
          |pipelineId = ${pipeline.pipelineId}, runIdForResumption = ${pipeline.runIdForResumption}.
        """.stripMargin
      throw new RuntimeException(message)
    }

    def runPipeline: String = {

      val rpr = new RunPipelineRequest().setPipelineId(pipeline.pipelineId.get).setProjectId(pipeline.projectId).setServiceAccount(JesServiceAccount)

      rpr.setInputs(pipeline.jesParameters.collect({ case i: JesInput => i }).toRunMap)
      logger.info(s"Inputs:\n${stringifyMap(rpr.getInputs.asScala.toMap)}")

      rpr.setOutputs(pipeline.jesParameters.collect({ case i: JesOutput => i }).toRunMap)
      logger.info(s"Outputs:\n${stringifyMap(rpr.getOutputs.asScala.toMap)}")

      val logging = new Logging()
      logging.setGcsPath(s"${pipeline.gcsPath}/${JesBackendCall.jesLogFilename(pipeline.key)}")
      rpr.setLogging(logging)

      // Currently, some resources (specifically disk) need to be specified both at pipeline creation and pipeline run time
      rpr.setResources(pipeline.runtimeInfo.resources)

      val runId = pipeline.genomicsService.pipelines().run(rpr).execute().getName
      logger.info(s"JES Run ID is $runId")
      runId
    }

    // Only run the pipeline if the pipeline ID is defined.  The pipeline ID not being defined corresponds to a
    // resumption of a previous run, and runIdForResumption will be defined.  The Run code takes care of polling
    // in both the newly created and resumed scenarios.
    val runId = if (pipeline.pipelineId.isDefined) runPipeline else pipeline.runIdForResumption.get
    new Run(runId, pipeline, logger)
  }

  private def stringifyMap(m: Map[String, String]): String = m map { case(k, v) => s"  $k -> $v"} mkString "\n"

  implicit class RunJesParameters(val params: Seq[JesParameter]) extends AnyVal {
    def toRunMap = params.map(p => p.name -> p.gcs).toMap.asJava
  }

  implicit class RunOperationExtension(val operation: Operation) extends AnyVal {
    def hasStarted = operation.getMetadata.asScala.get("startTime") isDefined
  }

  sealed trait RunStatus {
    // Could be defined as false for Initializing and true otherwise, but this is more defensive.
    def isRunningOrComplete = this match {
      case Running | _: TerminalRunStatus => true
      case _ => false
    }
  }
  trait TerminalRunStatus extends RunStatus
  case object Initializing extends RunStatus
  case object Running extends RunStatus
  case class Success(events: Seq[ExecutionEventEntry]) extends TerminalRunStatus {
    override def toString = "Success"
  }
  final case class Failed(errorCode: Int, errorMessage: String) extends TerminalRunStatus {
    // Don't want to include errorMessage or code in the snappy status toString:
    override def toString = "Failed"
  }

  // An event with a startTime timestamp
  private case class EventStartTime(name: String, timestamp: DateTime)

  def getEventList(op: Operation): Seq[ExecutionEventEntry] = {
    val starterEvents = eventIfExists("createTime", op, "waiting for quota") ++ eventIfExists("startTime", op, "initializing VM")

    val eventsList: Seq[EventStartTime] = if (op.getMetadata.containsKey("events")) {
      op.getMetadata.get("events").asInstanceOf[java.util.ArrayList[AnyRef]].asScala map { x =>
        val entry = x.asInstanceOf[ArrayMap[String, String]]
        EventStartTime(entry.get("description"), DateTime.parse(entry.get("startTime")))
      } toSeq
    } else Seq.empty

    // The final event is only used as the book-end for the final pairing (see below) so the name is never actually used...
    // ... which is rather a pity actually - it's a jolly good name.
    val finaleEvents = eventIfExists("endTime", op, "cromwell poll interval") ++ Seq(
      EventStartTime("The Queen flying around with a jet-pack, with Winston Churchill cheering and waving a huge Union Jack in the background", DateTime.now))

    // Join the Seqs together, pair up consecutive elements then make events with start and end times.
    ((starterEvents ++ eventsList ++ finaleEvents).sliding(2) toSeq) map { case Seq(a, b) => ExecutionEventEntry(a.name, a.timestamp, b.timestamp) }
  }

  private def eventIfExists(name: String, op: Operation, eventName: String): Seq[EventStartTime] = {
    val metadata = op.getMetadata
    if(metadata.containsKey(name))
      Seq(EventStartTime(eventName, DateTime.parse(metadata.get(name).asInstanceOf[String])))
    else
      Seq.empty
  }
}

case class Run(runId: String, pipeline: Pipeline, logger: WorkflowLogger) {

  lazy val workflowId = pipeline.workflow.id
  lazy val call = pipeline.key.scope

  def status(): RunStatus = {
    val op = pipeline.genomicsService.operations().get(runId).execute
    if (op.getDone) {
      // If there's an error, generate a Failed status. Otherwise, we were successful!
      Option(op.getError) map { x => Failed(x.getCode, x.getMessage) } getOrElse Success(getEventList(op))
    } else if (op.hasStarted) {
      Running
    } else {
      Initializing
    }
  }

  def checkStatus(backendCall: JesBackendCall, previousStatus: Option[RunStatus]): RunStatus = {
    val currentStatus = status()

    if (!(previousStatus contains currentStatus)) {
      // If this is the first time checking the status, we log the transition as '-' to 'currentStatus'. Otherwise
      // just use the state names.
      val prevStateName = previousStatus map { _.toString } getOrElse "-"
      logger.info(s"Status change from $prevStateName to $currentStatus")

      // Update the database state:
      val newBackendInfo = JesCallBackendInfo(Option(JesId(runId)), Option(JesStatus(currentStatus.toString)))
      globalDataAccess.updateExecutionBackendInfo(workflowId, BackendCallKey(call, pipeline.key.index), newBackendInfo)

      // If this has transitioned to a running or complete state from a state that is not running or complete,
      // register the abort function.
      if (currentStatus.isRunningOrComplete && (previousStatus.isEmpty || !previousStatus.get.isRunningOrComplete)) {
        backendCall.callAbortRegistrationFunction.foreach(_.register(AbortFunction(() => abort())))
      }
    }

    currentStatus
  }

  def abort(): Unit = {
    val cancellationRequest: CancelOperationRequest = new CancelOperationRequest()
    pipeline.genomicsService.operations().cancel(runId, cancellationRequest).execute
  }
}

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Trial of El Chapo Highlights Failure of U.S. War on Drugs, But Will U.S. Ever Be Held to Account?
StoryFebruary 05, 2019
Christy Thornton
assistant professor of sociology and Latin American studies at Johns Hopkins University.
"El Chapo and the Narco-Spectacle"
Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán, the notorious Mexican drug kingpin, has been on trial in New York City for 11 weeks. A federal jury headed into deliberations yesterday after more than 200 hours of testimony at the Federal District Court in Brooklyn revealing the inner workings of the Sinaloa Cartel, the major drug trafficking organization run by El Chapo. Fifty-six witnesses took to the stand with stories of murder, violence, spying, widespread corruption and even one tale of the drug lord escaping arrest in 2014 by climbing naked through a sewer alongside a former lover. El Chapo faces 10 charges, including leading a criminal enterprise, and could receive life in prison in the U.S. if convicted. The trial concludes as Donald Trump continues to call for a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border, which he claims will help combat drug trafficking. However, government data shows most of the hard narcotics seized by Customs and Border Protection come at legal ports of entry, not from people trying to secretly cross the southern border. We speak with Christy Thornton, an assistant professor of sociology and Latin American studies at Johns Hopkins University, who says El Chapo's sensational trial is obscuring the truth about the so-called war on drugs.
StoryJan 12, 2016Mexican Writer Elena Poniatowska on the Missing 43 Students, 1968 Massacre & U.S.-Backed Drug War
AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!, democracynow.org, The War and Peace Report. I'm Amy Goodman, with Juan González.
JUAN GONZÁLEZ: We end today's show with the trial of Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán, the notorious Mexican drug kingpin, who has been on trial in New York City for 11 weeks. A federal jury headed into deliberations yesterday after more than 200 hours of testimony at the Federal District Court in Brooklyn that revealed the inner workings of the Sinaloa Cartel, the major drug trafficking organization run by El Chapo. Fifty-six witnesses took the stand with stories of murder, violence, spying, widespread corruption and even one tale of the drug lord escaping arrest in 2014 by climbing naked through a sewer alongside a former lover. El Chapo faces 10 charges, including leading a criminal enterprise, and could receive life in prison in the United States if convicted.
Before being extradited to the U.S., Guzmán had escaped from jail in Mexico twice. More than a dozen of his former associates struck deals to cooperate with U.S. prosecutors, who say Guzmán trafficked tons of cocaine, heroin, marijuana and methamphetamines into the United States over two decades. The trial also implicated the Mexican government in the cartel's corruption, with one witness alleging that former Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto accepted a $100 million bribe from drug traffickers. Peña Nieto has denied the claim.
AMY GOODMAN: The trial concludes as President Trump continues to call for a wall on the U.S-Mexico border, which he claims will help combat drug trafficking. However, several former Sinaloa Cartel members testified during the trial they primarily smuggled drugs through the legal ports of entry, in trucks, cars, trains and fishing boats. U.S. government data also shows most of the hard narcotics seized by Customs and Border Protection come at legal ports of entry, not from people trying to secretly cross the southern border.
Well, for more, we're joined by a guest who says El Chapo's sensational trial is obscuring the truth about the so-called war on drugs. Christy Thornton is an assistant professor of sociology and Latin American studies at Johns Hopkins University. Her recent article in Jacobin is headlined "El Chapo and the Nacro-Spectacle." In it, she writes El Chapo's trial is, quote, "a last-gasp effort to salvage the reputation of a failing war that has cost hundreds of thousands of lives."
Professor Thornton, welcome back to Democracy Now! Talk about the revelations in the trial and how you feel they've been misrepresented or distorted by the media.
CHRISTY THORNTON: Well, I think it's a really interesting question. In the early parts of the trial, we saw a situation in which both the prosecution—that is, the U.S. government—and the judge really worked hard to try and keep evidence of the U.S. government's complicity with the Sinaloa Cartel and its activities out of the courtroom. Over the course of the trial itself, many of the documents that reveal some of those communications, between, for instance, the DEA and the lawyers for El Chapo and the Sinaloa organization, have come out, have been unsealed. And that's largely thanks to the really diligent work of journalists, such as those from Vice News and from The New York Times, who have worked really hard to get that information out from under seal.
But one of the important things is that it was made very clear to the jurors, who now are entering their second day of deliberation, that, as the prosecution put it, the U.S. government is not on trial, the Mexican government is not on trial. They are there to decide the guilt of El Chapo. And so, these questions about the complicity of U.S. government actors, the complicity of Mexican government actors, those are sort of off the table. And that is, I think, a much broader question than the one that's being considered by the jury right now, as we speak, in that courtroom in Brooklyn.
JUAN GONZÁLEZ: And, Christy Thornton, what are some of those revelations, in terms of the complicity of the United States with the Sinaloa Cartel?
CHRISTY THORNTON: Yeah, there are things that will not be a surprise to people who have been Mexico watchers. There are things that have been revealed in the Mexican media, particularly by the investigative journalist Anabel Hernández for some time. We know, for instance, that lawyers for the Sinaloa organization met with the DEA, over a period of more than a decade, and agreed to give information about rival traffickers. The question that arises is whether those agreements to provide information on rival organizations also included promises of immunity from prosecution. And one of the main cooperating witnesses of the Zambada family, who is the son of the partner of El Chapo, the son of "El Mayo" Zambada, testified, and he was under the impression, when he was finally arrested, that he had been given immunity from the DEA. The courts and the DEA denied this. They said that that had never been the case. But in the course of making that argument, it was entered into the court record, these documents that showed that Sinaloa lawyers were meeting with the DEA for more than a decade, from at least 2005 to 2015. And so, in that way, U.S. officials have been very much aware of the trafficking activities. Now, there have been Mexican investigations published that allege, essentially, that the DEA allowed Sinaloa to continue its activities as long as it was providing information on rival kinds of drug trafficking organizations. That remains unclear, but those allegations were out there and were stricken from the record that the jury will see. And so, that won't be part of the case against El Chapo but is definitely part of the context here. And that's in addition, of course, to the vast collaboration with aspects of the Mexican state, the federal security forces, local security forces, and this allegation all the way up to the presidency itself.
JUAN GONZÁLEZ: And those allegations, if true, would not be the first time, because, decades ago, when the drug war was focused on Colombia, there were allegations back then that U.S. government officials cooperated more with the Cali Cartel as long as they were able to go after the Medellín Cartel and Pablo Escobar, so that there's always sort of been, it seems, a history of U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency's seeking to play one cartel off against another in this so-called war on drugs.
CHRISTY THORNTON: Yeah, I think that's really important. And the reason that that's the case is because the prosecution's strategy in a case like this is to prove a conspiracy. So they are trying to prove a conspiracy to traffic drugs, to commit murder, all of the various charges. And in order to prove that conspiracy, they have to build a case about the structure of these cartels, to come up with a story about the structure of these cartels, that they are vertically integrated, that there is a kingpin at the top, the idea that if they take out the kingpin, they will decapitate the organization and therefore make it no longer function. That whole story comes from that prosecutorial strategy.
And so, we see the intelligence gathering—right?—aligned to that strategy. And that tells a particular kind of story about drug trafficking, about how drugs are moved into the United States, that I think actually completely obscures what modern-day drug trafficking looks like. We're not talking about the kind of vertically integrated family, Al Capone structures that we get from kind of mafia stories anymore. We have instead these very flexible, ad hoc networks that are able to come together and come apart based on market opportunities and threats. And so we really see a kind of neoliberal, just-in-time organization of these drug trafficking organizations that just doesn't comport with this prosecutorial strategy that revolves around the kingpin and the conspiracy. So, in order to prove the case, they have to continue to tell an outdated story about how drug trafficking works. And in order to make that case, they have to do this kind of intelligence gathering that gives them the story that they need in order to get a conviction.
AMY GOODMAN: Well, according to one of the witnesses who testified at El Chapo's trial, former Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto accepted a $100 million bribe from drug traffickers, the allegation coming from a former associate of El Chapo, the Colombian drug lord Alex Cifuentes Villa. Peña Nieto has not responded to the claim but has previously denied charges of corruption. What's your response to this?
CHRISTY THORNTON: Well, you know, it's hard to know if this bribe actually happened. There have been allegations that Mexican presidents have been on the payroll of this drug trafficking organization four decades now. When El Chapo escaped from federal prison, supposedly being wheeled out in a laundry cart, the investigative journalist Anabel Hernández says that, you know, the former president, under the PAN, Vicente Fox, he knew about this, he authorized this, this release. So, allegations against—going all the way up to the Mexican president, are something that have been a part of the drug war, you know, since it really began. And so, that, in itself, is not especially surprising.
The question is what it says about the structure of the Sinaloa Cartel. The defense for El Chapo has tried to make the case that it was not El Chapo who gave this bribe, because if he did that, then obviously it didn't work—he was captured and extradited—but, instead, El Chapo's partner, El Mayo Zambada, who is still at large, who has never been imprisoned. And that is noteworthy, according to the defense of El Chapo. If this $100 million bribe to the Mexican president did indeed happen, it's noteworthy that the other partner in the Sinaloa drug trafficking organization is still at large, is still theoretically in charge of the organization and still trafficking drugs.
JUAN GONZÁLEZ: And what do you make of the fact that El Chapo's attorneys mounted virtually no defense, other than cross-examining the prosecution witnesses? It was a record-short defense portion of this trial.
CHRISTY THORNTON: Yeah, it was a very lopsided defense portion of the trial. After you said—after about three months of the prosecution laying out their case, we got basically a day of testimony in the defense. The case that the defense is really trying to make is that El Chapo is not sort of the singular kingpin of the Sinaloa Cartel, that he is one in a group of people who have led this drug trafficking organization, and that, in fact, he has been set up by his partner, El Mayo Zambada, to sort of take the fall. And so, in the closing arguments, we saw El Chapo's lawyer make this argument again and again, almost to the point of reproach from the judge, because this case also relies on—he very much intimated things about the cooperation between the Mexican government, the U.S. government and the Sinaloa organization, that rely on the fact that El Mayo is still out there at large. And so, that has very much been the strategy of El Chapo's defense, to just say, "He's not the only kingpin. He's not the only guy there at the top. You shouldn't let him take the fall for this broader sort of structural set of circumstances that involve both governments and other traffickers within Sinaloa."
AMY GOODMAN: During the trial, the jury heard testimony blaming El Chapo's sons for the murder of the Mexican journalist Javier Valdez, who died in May of 2017 after he was dragged out of his car and shot 12 times, less than a block from the office of the newspaper he co-founded in the Mexican state of Sinaloa. A former lieutenant in the Sinaloa drug cartel testified at El Chapo's trial that Valdez was murdered after he ignored death threats by El Chapo's sons against publishing an interview. In March of 2017, after one of his colleagues was assassinated, Javier Valdez said, quote, "Let them kill us all, if that is the death sentence for reporting this hell. No to silence." Valdez would be assassinated just two months later. Christy Thornton?
CHRISTY THORNTON: Javier Valdez is among—he's among this whole group of journalists who have lost their lives in Mexico. It's a really terrifying situation. What journalists in Mexico tell me is, yes, of course, they fear the narcos, but even more than that, they fear this complicity between the narcos and the government. And so, reporting on especially questions of the way in which local, state and federal actors might be involved in the drug trade and involved with the narcotraffickers has been a really difficult point of contention. We've just seen dozens and dozens of Mexican journalists lose their lives and have to go into exile here in the United States and in other places for reporting on this. So, that is a really serious repercussion of the continuance of this drug war, and one that we absolutely need to think about when we're thinking about what the strategy is here from the United States, the way that we are perpetuating precisely that kind of violence against journalists in Mexico.
JUAN GONZÁLEZ: And I'd like to ask you, in about a minute that we have left, what your sense is the outcome will be of the trial, and what would the impact of a guilty verdict have on the "war on drugs."
CHRISTY THORNTON: Well, the impact of a guilty verdict is basically nil. It's not—I don't think a guilty verdict is a foregone conclusion. There are many who assume, because of the lopsided nature of the prosecution, because so much of the defense was so short, and because there is such a preponderance of evidence, that this will be a sort of open-and-shut case. I think that there is some possibility that there might be jurors who question the overall structure of this, who buy the defense's argument about El Chapo not being the kind of singular head of this.
But, honestly, if he is convicted, he spends the rest of his life in jail here in the United States, and literally nothing changes about how drugs are coming across the border. We just saw this week this huge interdiction of fentanyl coming through a legal port of entry. And so, the drug cartels will continue to meet the demand that comes from the market here in the United States. We spend $100 billion on illegal drugs here in the United States every year. That demand and the price premium that comes from our prohibitionist policies from the militarization of the border, those things will continue to be a massive incentive for not only the remaining parts of the Sinaloa Cartel, but all of the factions that have fractured from it, and the competing drug trafficking organizations, to continue to bring this to the United States.
AMY GOODMAN: And very quickly, as President Trump is about to give his State of the Union address and demand the wall on the southern border, just as you said, with the fentanyl caught going through a legal port of entry, the big message of this trial, that it's legal ports of entry that the drugs are coming through?
CHRISTY THORNTON: I think that's something that will be ignored, that Trump has continued to ignore the evidence there is. The idea that we can argue with Trump about the wall with sort of fact- and evidence-based policy has been shown to be untrue. The wall will absolutely not stop the vast majority of drugs from coming into the United States. It's an ineffective policy. But increased border militarization as the compromise, as the thing that the Democrats are offering—not a wall, but further militarization, more personnel, more surveillance technology—
AMY GOODMAN: We're going to have to end it there.
CHRISTY THORNTON: —that's not the answer, either.
AMY GOODMAN: Christy Thornton, thank you for joining us. I'm Amy Goodman, with Juan González.
Mexican Writer Elena Poniatowska on the Missing 43 Students, 1968 Massacre & U.S.-Backed Drug War


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After George H.W. Bush died, I learned that he'd had a long correspondence with a child he adopted in the Philippines through Compassion International. I Googled them. They've got a good reputation. I was strangely moved by this. If $37 a month could change some child's life, who was I not to follow this example? (I signed up before I could overthink it. I know myself. I can talk myself out of a noble impulse in no time.) Today, I'm sponsoring Brayan, a second-grade Mexican boy. His likes chicken, soccer, and the color yellow. His teacher recently congratulated him on learning his multiplication tables. He dreams of becoming a policeman, as any level-headed second-grade boy would.
Then, last Saturday morning, I showed up at Fletcher's Boathouse for a hastily organized volunteer cleanup. It's been a year of high water on the Potomac and one of the worst fishing years in recent memory. The floods of the last few months deposited tons of silt and debris on what was once a grassy shore. The walkway to the dock gave out under the weight of all that mud. The Friends of Fletchers Cove website said to bring a shovel, but the mud was too much to attack at this stage. Still, the organizers looked happily flabbergasted by the number of folks who showed up. There must have been 150 of us, about five times what was expected. We set to work collecting and piling up sticks and small logs into big piles. It's hoped that the Park Service will dispatch the heavy equipment needed to move these piles into the woods at the far end of the parking area. We couldn't handle the whole trees that lay about the picnic area near shore. We did make at least a dozen chest-high piles of driftwood, any one of which could have roasted several whole cows. We accomplished more than I'd have thought possible.
What struck me was how cheerful everybody was as we bent to the work. There were grizzled old anglers and people who come to Fletchers to walk their dogs. There were dads with their own second-graders, one of whom I watched as he tried to lift a 1,000-pound log on his own. I went over to clap the boy on the shoulder, saying I wish we had 100 more boys just like him. There were ladies in gardening hats. It felt good to be doing unpaid physical labor in a town that runs on intellect, good to be doing something to help the river we loved, good to be among other people who felt good doing the same thing.
I don't know whether the sudden rash of selflessness I'm currently scratching will continue, but it's an interesting turn. Life, once again, shows itself to be endlessly surprising.


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The pursuit of home happiness
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For those who do like to keep up with the latest technology and trends, doing so comes at a cost. Aussies are spending an average of $504 on home décor and $751 on technology every year. Nation-wide, this cost blows out to a whopping $9.4 billion and $14.2 billion per year respectively.
They say money can't buy happiness, and that is very true for the vast majority who say a happy home is about the people in it (95.5%) and more than half (56.6%) say it's the things they do together that bring joy.
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While it's common to worry about home safety and security, there are a number of efforts that can ease these qualms. Whether it's sticking with more traditional 'lock and key' methods, relying on trusted neighbours and family, or stepping into the future with the latest tech, there is something for everyone.
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Connecting Active Living Research and Public Policy: Transdisciplinary Research and Policy Interventions to Increase Physical Activity
Schilling, Joseph M.; Giles-Corti, Billie; Sallis, James F.
Journal of Public Health Policy;2009 Supplement 1, Vol. 30, pS1
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National and international organizations recommend creation of environments that support physical activity where people live, work, play, study, and travel. Policy changes can lead to activity-supportive environments and incentives. Research on environmental and policy influences on physical activity is well underway in many countries. An important use of the research is to inform policy debates, but the "translation" of research to policy is an emerging science. The papers in this supplement were presented at the 2008 Active Living Research Conference whose theme was "Connecting Active Living Research to Policy Solutions." The papers include evaluations of policy initiatives and research that suggests promising new policies. Commentaries propose principles for improving the translation of research to policy. Improving the rigor of research, asking policy-relevant questions, presenting country-specific data, and effectively communicating findings to policy makers are likely to contribute to greater impact of research on policy processes.Journal of Public Health Policy (2009) 30, S1–S15. doi:10.1057/jphp.2008.59
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Q: How to drawImage(); repeatedly onto canvas using "mousemove" I'm running into a roadblock with my code. I need to be able to draw random sized images (of whatever) onto the canvas on "mousemove".
This is some example code from my teacher that I've cherry picked together in order to get the circles to appear randomly, but I don't want circles, I want an image with an src.
I feel like this should be an easy tweak?
var canvas = document.getElementById("canvas"), context = canvas.getContext("2d");
    var circleSize = 200;

canvas.addEventListener("mousemove", drawPumpkin);

function drawPumpkin(e){

    var loc = windowToCanvas(canvas, e.clientX, e.clientY);

    console.log("Mouse location: "+loc.y);
    context.beginPath();

    context.arc(loc.x,loc.y,randRange(5,40),0,Math.PI*2,false);

    context.fill();
    context.stroke();

    }

Here is the .html:
<DOCTYPE!>
<html>
    <head>
        <title>Pumpkin Emulator!</title>

        <style>
            body {
                background: #858585;
            }
            #canvas {
                margin: 10px;
                padding: 10px;
                background: #c5eaf0;
                border: thin inset #aaaaaa;
            }
        </style>
    </head>

    <body>
        <canvas id="canvas" width="600" height="300">
        Canvas not supported
        </canvas>

        <script src="script.js"></script>
    </body>
</html>

    function windowToCanvas(canvas, x, y){

        var bbox = canvas.getBoundingClientRect();
        return {x: x - bbox.left * (canvas.width/bbox.width),
                y: y - bbox.top * (canvas.height/bbox.height)
               }
        }

    function randRange (min, max) {
        return Math.floor(Math.random() * (max - min + 1)) + min;
    }

A: Easy
To create an image
var myImage = new Image();   // creates an image element
myImage.src = "myimage.png"; // set image.src to the URL pointing to the image
// the image will now load and we will assume that there are no errors finding and loading the image. ie wrong / malformed URL.

Now replace the drawPumpkin function with
function drawImage(e){
    var loc, imageSize;      // declare the variables you will use
    if(myImage.complete){    // check that the images has finished loading
        // get the location of the mouse on the canvas
        loc = windowToCanvas(canvas, e.clientX, e.clientY);
        imageSize = randRange(5,40);      // get the size to draw the image
        loc.x -= imageSize/2;             // we want the image to be centered on the mouse
        loc.y -= imageSize/2;             // so offset the image by half the draw size
        // now draw the image
        context.drawImage(myImage,                  // the image to draw
                  0,0,myImage.width,myImage.height, // what part of the image to draw
                                                    // in this case all of the image
                  loc.x,loc.y,imageSize,imageSize   // where and how big it should be on the canvas
        );
    }
}

Don't forget to change the event listener to the new function.
And that is it.

A: jsFiddle : https://jsfiddle.net/CanvasCode/dLoh4fxf/
var c = document.getElementById("myCanvas");
var ctx = c.getContext("2d");

function windowToCanvas(canvas, x, y) {

    var bbox = c.getBoundingClientRect();
    return {
        x: x - bbox.left * (canvas.width / bbox.width),
        y: y - bbox.top * (canvas.height / bbox.height)
    }
}

function randRange(min, max) {
    return Math.floor(Math.random() * (max - min + 1)) + min;
}

function drawPumpkin(e) {

    var loc = windowToCanvas(c, e.clientX, e.clientY);

    console.log("Mouse location: " + loc.y);
    ctx.beginPath();

    ctx.drawImage(img, loc.x, loc.y);

}

var img = new Image();
img.src = "http://orig09.deviantart.net/314c/f/2011/218/7/2/nyan_cat_sprite_by_pincers1066-d45od59.jpg";

c.addEventListener("mousemove", drawPumpkin);
ctx.fillStyle = "#000";
ctx.fillRect(0,0,c.width,c.height);

All you need to do is simply load an image and then just draw that using the context.drawImage.


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Yury Zhdanov commented on deepfakes
Yury Zhdanov commented on deepfakes Елизавета Овчинникова
Written by Ivan Petrov
11 February 2021. Rossiyskaya Gazeta – Federal Issue No. 30(8381)
Signs of Deception
The Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation has announced a tender offer for the IT project enabled to recognise a new threat – video containing face substitution
Currently, deepfakes are used exclusively for entertainment. However, very soon, according to experts, scammers will arm themselves with this technology. And then, by answering a video call, a person will see his relative or friend, who will ask, for example, to urgently help with money. Only then it will turn out that the close person did not call anyone at all. This is just one way that scammers will use in the future.
Deepfakes have become very popular in recent years. This technology is widely used to create realistic pornographic videos featuring celebrities in which they have never been filmed or fake speeches by major political figures.
One of the most popular deepfakes on the Internet was a video with the founder of SpaceX, Elon Musk. On this clip, he allegedly sings 'The Grass of Home.' The song is actually performed by the group 'The Earthlings.'
The media has already made its way to television. While the real actor Leonid Kuravlev, distraught by the death of his wife, disappeared from the public and stopped contacting anyone, his rejuvenated copy starred in a video advertising. Georges Miloslavsky, performed by Leonid Kuravlev in the 1973 film 'Ivan Vasilievich Changes Professions,' walks around Moscow in the commercial, rides the train and taxi, goes shopping, participates in a concert with modern stars. It is clear that another actor played this role, and the young Kuravlev's face was superimposed on the computer later. But the advertisement was shot professionally so it is impossible to recognise a fake by eye.
With the help of this technology, it is easy to substitute an inconvenient person by inserting his image on a video, where an immoral act or even a crime is committed
'With the help of this technology, it is easy to substitute an inconvenient person by inserting his image on a video, where an immoral act or even a crime is committed. That is why it is important to learn to quickly and effectively detect such fakes as soon as possible,' an employee of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia (MVD RF) 'Office K' (specialising in solving crimes committed with the use of modern technologies) commented on the MVD's tender offer.
By the way, the implementation of the deepfake tools are prohibited now by the largest websites, including Reddit and Twitter.
China has already adopted a law that prohibits the publication of deepfakes without a special warning mark. The law came into force on 1 January 2020. In the near future, the use of this technology will definitely be regulated around the world. In the most high-tech state – California – it was decided to ban deepfakes as part of political campaigns at the legislative level. There are no legislative initiatives to ban deepfakes in Russia yet.
Therefore, the police are determined to get ahead of the scammers in the near future and develop a tool for detecting such fake clips.
According to the tender terms published on the public procurement website, the winner will have to write on the topic 'Research Into Possible Ways to Identify Signs of Intra-Frame Video Editing Performed Using Neural Networks.' In addition, the contractor should draw up a technical task for the development of a hardware and software complex that will be able to detect fake elements not later but while watching a video.
The contracting authority is the Federal Government Institution 'Scientific and Production Association "Special Equipment and Communication." This is a structural subdivision of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation responsible for the development of all technical innovations. The initial contract value is 4,790,357 roubles.
The system is given the codename 'The Mirror (The Camel)'. It is assumed that the work will be carried out in two stages and will be completed on 30 November 2022.
It is noted that the new enterprise should increase the level of scientific and technical support for forensic units of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation through the video technic expert examination and research.
Yury Zhdanov, Lieutenant-General of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, President of the International Police Association Russian Section, Doctor of Law:
– The deepfake technology has existed since 2017. But until recently it was most often used in architecture, cinema, design and video game creation. With the development of digital technologies and artificial intelligence, the popularity of deepfakes is growing, which can be used not only in entertainment and marketing formats. Fraudsters will be able to use a deepfake in cyber attacks – to simulate the required image or voice and use them to convince a person to send money or provide personal data.
Biometric identification allows to radically change the customer experience and increase the convenience of using the widest service spectrum, including bank service. At the same time, any tool is associated with cyber security risks. In the context of the rapid development of artificial intelligence techniques (image and speech synthesis), the risks of efficient attacks on systems using biometrics are increasing. Therefore, for critical operations or services, biometrics is used in the bank sector as one of the authentication factors, not the only factor.
In general, this technology poses a huge threat, and it is extremely difficult to fight it. It is becoming more and more difficult to figure out where the truth is and where the fake is. So here powerful systems of protecting people from scam materials created with the help of a deepfake should come to the rescue. On 1 September 2020, Microsoft announced its new tool – Microsoft Video Authenticator, a software that allows to detect interference in video.
IT giants are developing anti-deepfakes mechanisms: train algorithms that would be able to qualitatively determine video clips. Last autumn, Facebook organised the Deepfake Detection Challenge – a competition for the best deepfake recognition programme. The prize fund is ten million dollars. The results will be announced in June 2021.
In addition to voice and image synthesis, fraudsters can soon set up and master tools for substitution or intercepting a retinal pattern or fingerprint.
A deepfake can be used to make fake news and malicious deceptions. Now there are dozens of applications on the market allowing anyone to make a deepfake. The most famous are Zao, DeepFaceLab, Deepfakes web, FakeApp, which uses TensorFlow.
Sergey Shipilov, IT Specialist:
– Today, when the capabilities of the deepfake technology that appeared in film studios not so long ago have become available to ordinary smartphone users, it would not be an exaggeration to say that the world (in every sense of the word) is on the verge of major upheavals. For the first time, they began talking about deepfakes (from the blending of 'deep learning' and 'fake') in 2017. But it turns out that the ancestor of such attempts can be considered, perhaps, 2013. Then, Audrey Hepburn appeared in a video advertisement despite being deceased for many years. The actress advertised the Galaxy chocolate in front of scenery reminding the Italian Amalfi coast from the film called 'Roman Holidays.'
Since then, as they say, a lot of water has passed under the bridge. And technology has progressed incredibly far. Now we are no longer talking about one programme but about entire neural networks based on artificial intelligence. In their turn, they compete with each other for image quality. This algorithmic model is called generative-adversarial neural networks (GAN). Two algorithms create two pictures of a person. At the same time, one algorithm works with a person's photo or video, relatively speaking, encodes the actor Kuravlev to 'live' and 'act' in a bank advertisement and another algorithm tries to decode this image to the original one. And such competition of networks continues until the second programme begins to confuse the generated 'fake' image with the authentic one.
In addition to voice and image synthesis, fraudsters can soon create and master tools for the retina or fingerprint pattern substitution.
This is being perceived as a game so far. But the prospects for the development of such technologies are already clearly visible. Both citizens and states can be engulfed by a crime wave in almost all social spheres. For example, with the help of a compromising deepfake video, you can put an end to the political career of a public figure or contribute to his loss in the elections. It is possible to falsify evidence in an administrative or criminal case. Now there are recurring instances when valuables left by citizens disappear from the bank boxes. It is already difficult to prove that a citizen left real money and not cut paper in the box. The surveillance cameras only show that a person puts something in the box, not visible what exactly. Now imagine that a fraudster bank will present a deepfake video from its cameras to the court. And on this record, the citizen not only put, but a few days later 'came back' again and 'took' everything from the box. That is, the victim should already be tried for fraud against an 'honest bank.' It is not excluded that facts, both historical events and modern ones, are distorted with the help of deepfakes, especially in such sensitive and explosive spheres of life as interethnic and interreligious. Relatively speaking, when suddenly, out of nowhere, by chance, allegedly 'archival' photos and videos of any state's army crimes appear.
Real actors can lose jobs or certainly their extra fee. Instead of them, the celebrities of bygone eras will begin to play in future films.
But if it becomes possible to see, say, Elvis Presley or Michael Jackson performing the part from 'La Traviata,' then, most likely, it will not be very soon. Oddly enough, but in all the latest high-tech fake activity, voice reproduction remains and will remain for a long time the most difficult thing. However, it is quite possible that with the development of technology, this problem will also be solved.
The list of possibilities for the malicious use of deepfakes can go on and on. So it is necessary for legislators to pay attention to this problem. And quickly decide on the responsibility for ordering, making and distributing deepfakes.