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Former MLB Players Killed in Car Accident
Former MLB infielders Luis Valbuena and Jose Castillo were killed in a car crash in Venezuela on Thursday. Their club, Cardenales de Lara, confirmed the deaths of Valbuena and Castillo. Both played Thursday night prior to the accident. At some point after the game, the vehicle they were in either hit a rock or swerved [...]
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Washington Nationals Sign Patrick Corbin
The Nationals have agreed to a six-year deal $140 million contract with free-agent Patrick Corbin. The deal, which is pending a physical, was first reported by the Washington Post and will include deferrals. Both the Yankees and Phillies had made offers to Corbin, but these were for 5 year contracts unlike the Nationals who offered [...]
Dodgers' Jansen is Doing Well After Heart Surgery
Los Angeles Dodgers' Kenley Jansen is expecting to return to baseball this spring after undergoing a five-and-a-half-hour heart surgery on Monday. The procedure he underwent is known as an ablation. It involves scarring or destroying tissue that sends incorrect electrical signals to cause an abnormal heart rhythm and according to Jansen it went "fantastic." He [...]
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Adrian Beltre Retires After 21 Seasons
Texas Ranger Adrian Beltre has announced his retirement after 21 seasons. "After careful consideration and many sleepless nights, I have made the decision to retire from what I've been doing my whole life, which is playing baseball, the game I love," he wrote. "I have thought about it a lot and although I appreciate all [...]
NY Mets' Jacob deGrom Wins NL Cy Young Award
On Wednesday, New York Mets' Jacob deGrom received 29 of 30 first-place votes to take home his first National League Cy Young Award. Despite a season marred by narrow defeats, the Mets ace wasn't penalized for his lack of wins, and he blew away Max Scherzer in the voting. DeGrom had the fewest victories, only [...]
Minnesota Twins to Hire Rocco Baldelli as Manager
On Thursday, during a press conference, the Minnesota Twins are expected to announce the hiring of Rocco Baldelli as the club's new manager. Baldelli will become the 14th manager in Twins history and has previously served as the field coordinator for the Tampa Bay Rays. Rocco predominately played as an outfielder for the Rays, but [...]
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Dodgers' Kike Hernandez Calls Out Fans For Booing
Los Angeles Dodgers' Kike Hernandez was upset with fans at Dodger Stadium. Not only was he upset with how they played during Monday's 4-0 loss to the Milwaukee Brewers, but also with how Dodgers fans supported the home team during the Game 3 defeat. "We had no energy," Hernandez told the Los Angeles Times. "The [...]
Cubs' Kris Bryant Turned Down $200M Extension
According to ESPN, the Chicago Cubs approached 2016 National League MVP Kris Bryant about a contract extension worth north of $200 million and he turned it down. Bryant and his agent Scott Boras preferred to proceed on a year-by-year salary increase through arbitration before Bryant becomes a free agent after the 2021 season. Should Bryant [...]
Minnesota Twins' Miguel Sano Won't Face Criminal Charges
Minnesota Twins third baseman Miguel Sano will not face charges after police said he struck an officer outside a nightclub in the Dominican Republic on Sunday. Sano accidentally backed his pickup truck into Argenis Emilio Gillandeux breaking the officer's leg in the process. He was later detained by police for several hours, but was then [...]
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Texas Rangers Fire Jeff Banister
The Texas Rangers have fired manager Jeff Banister after four seasons with the team. Bench coach Don Wakamatsu will take over as interim manager for the remaining 10 games. Under Banister, the Rangers went 325-313 and reached the ALDS in consecutive seasons, losing to the Toronto Blue Jays both times. Banister was also named American [...]
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Jane Esther Dunning
1856 - 1945 (Age: 89) Has no ancestors but 16 descendants in our family tree.
Birth 1855 Tetbury, Gloucestershire, England
Died 1893 Tetbury, Gloucestershire, England
Family Jane Esther Dunning
b. 1856, Wellington, Somerset, England
Married 1877 Tetbury, Gloucestershire, England
1. Eliza Jane Smith
b. 1878, Tetbury, Gloucestershire, England
2. Hannah Smith
3. Charles Smith
4. John Henry Smith
Eliza Jane Smith
Father George Smith
Mother Jane Esther Dunning
John Henry Smith
Frederick Robert Cleaver
Christened 8 May 1859 Horsley, Gloucestershire, England
Died 2 Dec 1931 Tetbury, Gloucestershire, England
Buried 2 Dec 1931 St Saviour's Church, Tetbury, Gloucestershire, England
Father Matthew Cleaver
b. 1830, Avening, Gloucestershire, England
Mother Mary Teagle
b. 1831, Didmarton, Gloucestershire, England
Married 1 Sep 1850 Horsley, Gloucestershire, England
Married 13 Apr 1895 Tetbury, Gloucestershire, England
+ 1. Victor Robert Cleaver
b. 22 Dec 1899, Tetbury, Gloucestershire, England
+ 2. James Redvers Cleaver
b. 16 Jun 1901, Tetbury, Gloucestershire, England
Victor Robert Cleaver
Birth 22 Dec 1899 Tetbury, Gloucestershire, England
Christened 15 Apr 1900 Tetbury, Gloucestershire, England
Died 12 May 1984 Tetbury, Gloucestershire, England
Buried St Saviour's Church, Tetbury, Gloucestershire, England
Father Frederick Robert Cleaver
Family Elizabeth May Ayres
b. 30 Apr 1899, Cirencester, Gloucestershire, England
James Redvers Cleaver
Birth 16 Jun 1901 Tetbury, Gloucestershire, England
Christened 6 Oct 1901 Tetbury, Gloucestershire, England
Died 28 Mar 1982 Cirencester, Gloucestershire, England
Family Beatrice Maude Francis
b. 1 Jun 1902, Tetbury, Gloucestershire, England
1. Sylvia Jean Cleaver
Name Jane Esther Dunning
Born 1856 Wellington, Somerset, England
Census 5 Apr 1891 Tetbury, Gloucestershire, England [1]
Sch 156, Twelve Acres
Occupation 5 Apr 1891 Tetbury, Gloucestershire, England [1]
Census 31 Mar 1901 Tetbury, Gloucestershire, England [2]
Sch 45, Northfield
Occupation 31 Mar 1901 Tetbury, Gloucestershire, England [2]
Died 26 Oct 1945 Tetbury, Gloucestershire, England
34, Northfield Road
Buried 30 Oct 1945 St Saviour's Church, Tetbury, Gloucestershire, England
Tetbury, Gloucestershire, England: St Saviour's Church
Tetbury, Gloucestershire, England: St Mary's Church
Probate 28 May 1946 Winchester, Hampshire, England
Probate: CLEAVER Jane Esther 19460526
Headstones Submit Headstone Photo
CLEAVER, Frederick Robert with his wife Jane Esther.
This photograph was taken in Gosport, Hampshire
Person ID I461 Mitchell Families
Family 1 George Smith (ID:I15957)
d. 1893, Tetbury, Gloucestershire, England (Age 38)
1. Eliza Jane Smith (ID:I15958)
2. Hannah Smith (ID:I15959)
3. Charles Smith (ID:I15960)
4. John Henry Smith (ID:I15961)
Last Modified 21 Jan 2011 14:41:07
Family 2 Frederick Robert Cleaver (ID:I195)
d. 2 Dec 1931, Tetbury, Gloucestershire, England (Age 72)
+ 1. Victor Robert Cleaver (ID:I462)
d. 12 May 1984, Tetbury, Gloucestershire, England (Age 84)
+ 2. James Redvers Cleaver (ID:I463)
d. 28 Mar 1982, Cirencester, Gloucestershire, England (Age 80)
Last Modified 13 Apr 2008 10:43:39
Born - 1856 - Wellington, Somerset, England
Married - 1877 - Tetbury, Gloucestershire, England
Census - Age: 35y - 5 Apr 1891 - Tetbury, Gloucestershire, England
Occupation - Laundress - 5 Apr 1891 - Tetbury, Gloucestershire, England
Married - 13 Apr 1895 - Tetbury, Gloucestershire, England
Census - Age: 43y - 31 Mar 1901 - Tetbury, Gloucestershire, England
Occupation - Laundress - 31 Mar 1901 - Tetbury, Gloucestershire, England
Died - Address :
34, Northfield Road - 26 Oct 1945 - Tetbury, Gloucestershire, England
Buried - Address :
St Mary's Church - 30 Oct 1945 - St Saviour's Church, Tetbury, Gloucestershire, England
Probate - 28 May 1946 - Winchester, Hampshire, England
[S6222] Census 1891 Tetbury, Gloucestershire, England RG12/2030/24 (George Smith) (RG12/2030/24).
[S6221] Census 1901 Tetbury, Gloucestershire, England RG13/2445/29/7 (Jane Esther Dunning [Smith][Cleaver]) (RG13/2445/29/7).
[S6225] Census 1911 Tetbury, Gloucestershire, England RG14/15413/60 (Frederick Robert Cleaver) (RG14/15413/60).

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Q: How Would I input a variable in a javascript script that posts data to a php script? Here's my code:
  window.setInterval(function(){
  new Image().src = 'http://urltophp/p.php?
  c='+somevar;'&log_owner=testing&client_site='anothervar;
    somevar = '';
    anothervar = '';
  }, 1000);

How would I go about inserting a javascript variable ("somevar" and "anothervar"), into the url that I'm calling?
I can get it to work like...
'http://urltophp/p.php?c='+somevar;

But I can't get it to work with two vars at different locations in the script.

A: Concatenate your javascript variable to, url string, as
new Image().src = 'http://urltophp/p.php?c='+somevar
                   +'&log_owner=testing&client_site='+anothervar;

A: You need to use + to connect all the parts that make up the url, i.e., between each variable and string literal, and don't put a semicolon in the middle of the statement like you have after somevar. So instead of:
new Image().src = 'http://urltophp/p.php?
c='+somevar;'&log_owner=testing&client_site='anothervar;

Try:
new Image().src = 'http://urltophp/p.php?c=' + somevar +
                  '&log_owner=testing&client_site=' + anothervar;

Also you can't put a line break in the middle of a string literal like you have right after php?, but maybe that's just a typo in your question? You can put line breaks after operators like +, or after variable names.

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CAIRO – The leader of al-Qaida has called on Muslims to kidnap Westerners to exchange for imprisoned jihadists.
Ayman Al-Zawahri also urged support for Syria's uprising and called for the implementation of Islamic Shariah law in Egypt.
Al-Zawahri also called upon ultraconservative clerics in Egypt to ensure clear mention of Shariah in the new constitution. The role of Shariah is hotly contested between liberals, ultraconservative Salafis, and the country's best organized political group, the Muslim Brotherhood.


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Employers use social media to answer the questions they can't ask.
Don't want to answer that? Looks like your Facebook page just answered it for you. Some job interviewers use social media to answer questions they shouldn't ask.
Job interviewers use social media to answer questions they shouldn't be asking.
During the interview process there are certain question that aren't allowed to be asked, but job interviewers have discovered a digital loophole to avoid breaking the law. Digging up dirt on their job candidates, employers use social media to find answers to personal questions they aren't supposed to inquire about.
Students fresh out of college are experiencing this phenomenon—after going on a job interview their interviewers will request to be their "friend" or become on of their followers. Putting students and job candidates in between a rock and a hard place, they fear not accepting the request or the follow might put them at a disadvantage for getting the job.
Selfie360 app puts a new spin on selfies.
It's simple: flip the view on your smartphone, hold it at a high angle, turn to your best side, and with a click of your button there you have it, your own piece of social media's most popular brand of self-indulgent narcissism — the selfie. Just when you thought the age of the selfie had reached its apex, Selfie360 puts a new spin on last year's most popular digital trend.
Taking your selfie to a whole new dimension Selfie360, the newest development from Egos Ventures, transforms any selfie from dull to animated. Slightly narcissistic and even more ingenious, welcome the latest addition to apps capitalizing on our selfie obsession.
From the makers of Cycloramic, an app that automatically rotates your phone hands-free, Ego Ventures used this same technology to create Selfie360 an innovative app for photographing your best side from every side. This app brings your digital self-portraits to life by showing yourself in 3D or in a full 360 degree panorama of your surroundings.


What is the PlaceBag Feature?
PlaceBag is an online ordering system used by leading restaurant brands, enabling easy website, mobile, and Facebook orders for customers. The PlaceBag Feature is a great way to allow users of your app to place food orders while inside your app! If you would like to learn more about PlaceBag you can do so at their website here.
What is a great use case of the of the PlaceBag Feature?
When creating an app for your restaurant, users can place an order for food to arrive now, or at a later date without needing to exit out of the app.
What is the PlaceBag Feature's primary function and what are the steps to accomplish it?
The PlaceBag Feature provides easy website, mobile, and Facebook orders for customers inside your app!
Congratulations! You're done! As long as your PlaceBag URL is valid, you're good-to-go! It's that easy.
You can set up everything in PlaceBag and bring it all into your app with the PlaceBag Feature! It allows users to save their orders for a later date, and gives them the option to have their payment information remembered for a more streamlined experience when placing future orders!


We will drive to Pushkar at a young hour toward the beginning of the day. On entry, check in at the inn. After crisp n-up, rest of the day is free for relaxation or you can take joy of recreational exercises in the lodging. At night, we will go for a camel or tractor ride to the adjacent town and desert. Afterward, we will return to the inn to appreciate social occasion including neighborhood Folk moves pursued by supper and a medium-term remain.
Pushkar is known for its incredible Pushkar sanctuary, the main sanctuary of the maker of the world and its well known Cattle reasonable.
Toward the beginning of the day, we will visit the well known Pushkar Lake that is accepted to be the unrivaled love place of Lord Brahma in the entire universe. We will likewise visit the Lord Brahma sanctuary and Cattle reasonable ground where the world well known Pushkar Cattle Fair held each year. After breakfast, whatever remains of the day is free for relaxation or you can visit the nearby market or appreciate lodgings recreational offices. A medium-term remain at the inn.
Toward the beginning of the day after breakfast, we will drive back to Jaipur. On landing in Jaipur, we will drop you at your very own coveted place.


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Alternative protein's potential: Q&A with foodtech entrepreneur Jade Gray
Jade Gray discusses Auckland's potential as a hub for the export-focused production of alternative proteins.
Jade Gray has spent more than two decades in China, where he launched a series of businesses, including Gung Ho! Pizza. In the process, he gained deep insight into New Zealand's trade with Asia. Having recently returned to New Zealand – starting a family was a strong drawcard – Jade is now making and promoting alternative proteins through his brand Off-Piste Provisions.
Tell us about your journey into foodtech?
It was cattle farming that first took me to China in 1997, working in meat processing and supplying supermarkets. Later, I went out and started my restaurant group – that was 18 years ago. We then founded the Gung Ho! pizzeria chain in 2010.
Since 2016, I'd been watching the movement around alternative proteins. There was a lot of buzz coming out of the west. Meanwhile, I was eating at Buddhist restaurants in a country where imitation meats have been on the menu for centuries. We started looking at options for our pizzeria, thinking about how we could integrate plant-based meat and cheese. I was really excited about bringing that back home and taking it forward, to help New Zealand transition to alternative proteins.
What do you think about New Zealand's move away from traditional sheep and cattle farming towards alternative proteins?
We are definitely moving too slow. I appreciate why that's so, given our reliance on animal proteins but there is a huge opportunity – and economic threat – building offshore in our key markets. Since we rely so much on exports, let's focus on what is going into the consumer basket internationally. It's about creating a whole new revenue stream while the opportunity exists. Look at what happened to the wool industry, for instance, which collapsed due to the disruption caused by plastic and synthetic fibres in the 1960s. We need to make sure dairy and meat don't suffer the same fate.
What is the future for alternative protein in Auckland and other main centres five years from now?
I'd like to see Auckland become an international food technology hub, based around the processing plant. Palmerston North will be the R&D centre, Canterbury the base of our arable pasture and Auckland the hub and logistical HQ. I envision two revenue streams: one from ingredients or consumable goods, and the other from the technology. We can be a service provider and export the IP, all of it relating to food tech.
I also see us manufacturing and processing food in cities. It's founded on the perfectly reasonable idea that we can produce food on demand: a client places an order, and it's fulfilled within 24–48 hours. That represents a real-time matching of supply with demand in just two days – compared with two or three years in the live animal process.
And how about the wellness and nutraceutical aspect to the economic potential of alternative protein?
Our company is looking at New Zealand's point of difference internationally with alternative proteins, and we see an opportunity around fortified or enriched foods drawing on New Zealand's existing supplement industry. It would be of interest particularly for people following a plant-based diet. There's a trend taking place, with people moving away from popping pills to buying fortified food. We are playing into that movement and working with New Zealand nutraceutical companies.
How do you see COVID-19 affecting consumer dynamics with alternative proteins and are there ways we could turn this crisis into opportunity?
COVID-19 is transformational in every aspect, not least food. From a geopolitical point of view, governments are focusing intently on the security of food supply chains. This is the result of disrupted logistical channels, growing tension between the US and China, and the ability to work with different trading partners. We're seeing countries move towards growing and making a greater percentage of nutrition inside their borders.
Also, people increasingly want to know where products come from. Asia and South America are moving away from wet markets towards a cool chain approach – involving refrigeration, traceability, and avoiding cross-contamination of wild foods. This equates to more awareness around food safety, which plays to New Zealand's strong reputation in that field. Another reason why people are choosing alternative protein over meat is because it contains fewer microbes – which translates to fewer export barriers.
What has been your personal experience of New Zealand–Asian trade dynamics, how has it evolved over the last 10–15 years, and where do you see it going?
If we look at the time I was in China, from 1997 onwards, New Zealand's relationship with Asia has been one of the great success stories. When Britain joined the EU in 1973 and we lost much of our key market overnight, we had to fight for decades to restore our exports, and Asia is now our most important market. Having worked with NZ INC. over there, I know we can punch above our weight. Fellow entrepreneurs were amazed at the level of support I got as a small Kiwi business in China. New Zealand is efficient and focused on its goals.
As to where we are going, the looming tension between the US and China has already added stress into our relationships. To maintain a good relationship with China, we need to deftly navigate the dynamics. Right now, we are doing it relatively well. In Asia, things are generally looking good – we have very positive agencies and companies who are competent – but we can't lose our edge. One current drawback is that we don't have enough people who speak Asian languages
28 per cent of Auckland residents are of Asian descent and we need a more formalised approach to tap into that talent. Greater government effort will encourage our young people to learn Asian languages and support the Asia New Zealand Foundation and others that have been pushing this key message for decades.
What can give New Zealand IP and innovation an edge in Asian markets, where there is increased demand for food security and traceability and a move towards the urbanisation of food production?
We're going to struggle to compete with the urbanisation of food. We are so focused on pasture that New Zealand – compared to say, Singapore or Shenzhen – doesn't have the motivation to develop the technology. Our advantage could lie in developing the ingredients that go into these markets – Asian countries need raw ingredients to make urbanised food – rather than trying to compete with them. For instance, Singapore's stated goal is '30 by 30' (creating 30 per cent of its own food by 2030 – currently it imports around 95 per cent), and it is driven to achieve this, which is why we may never beat Singapore on the tech side with the urbanisation of food. There are many ways for New Zealand to compete in this space –z by leveraging the deep knowledge we have in agriculture.
Where would you like to see local and national government focus to facilitate and safeguard our agricultural leading edge?
It's happening with the Emerging Proteins NZ network. There is movement in Auckland around foodtech. I believe it will be the scale piece. We'll have the science, the R&D and the expertise but will we have substantial capital expenditure rapidly enough to manufacture food at scale and make use of the opportunity? If the government keeps ramping up its support through grants, partnerships, land and plant, it will enable the fledgling industry to hit the ground running.
What's your vision for New Zealand reducing its 'carbon foodprint' to zero, and how can Auckland contribute to that goal?
There's an exciting opportunity here for New Zealand. We have already largely decarbonised the energy sector, and around 85 per cent of our energy consumption is from renewable sources, which is an impressively high figure. Our production processes and international marketing position – such as carbon-neutral / positive future foods – give us an advantage when it comes to food processing. In that regard, we're at least 10 to 15 years ahead of Asia, where low-cost manufacturing is fired by fossil fuels. As long as we produce high-value goods and compete internationally, we will retain that advantage.
Where in the market do you see the most need for investment and the greatest opportunity for investors?
The greatest opportunity lies in midstream processing, injecting capex into all our hardware needs, to expand Auckland's food manufacturing facilities. With backing from local and central government, offering incentives to commercial property landlords, we could build world-class facilities that make New Zealand a hub for future food production. There is also plenty of opportunity further upstream in supporting R&D, in particular, funding startups to work with our top research bodies, and tapping into world-class talent beyond our shores, which will be key as we build the sector. There are plenty of great ventures that need funding currently being championed through organisations such as the Emerging Proteins network, Future Food Aotearoa and the Food Innovation Network. The talent and drive are there; we just need the capital to make these global ambitions a reality.
Contact Investment Specialist Yan Zhang to learn more about food and beverage investment opportunities in Auckland, New Zealand.
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Het Arsenaal van het Kremlin (Russisch: Оружейная палата) is een van de oudste musea van Moskou, opgericht in 1851 en gelegen in het Kremlin van Moskou.

Van oorsprong was het Arsenaal sinds 1508 een arsenaal. Die functie verviel bij de verhuizing van de hofhouding naar Sint-Petersburg. Tsaar Alexander I Pavlovitsj van het Keizerrijk Rusland besloot het toenmalige Arsenaal in te richten als een museum in 1806. De Brand van Moskou in 1812 ontstoken om Napoleon Bonaparte te verhinderen Moskou binnen te vallen, vernielde het Arsenaal grotendeels, nog voor het museum effectief voor het publiek geopend was geweest. Het werd herbouwd en deels nieuw gebouwd naar plannen van keizerlijk architect Konstantin Thon van 1844 tot 1851.

Tot de oudere stukken van de collectie behoren onder meer de Kroon van Monomach en de Orlovdiamant. De collectie werd uitgebreid na de Oktoberrevolutie onder meer met kunstschatten uit de kathedralen van het Kremlin waaronder de Aartsengel Michaëlkathedraal en de Twaalf Apostelenkerk maar ook uit het Hemelvaartklooster. Recenter werden ook een aantal Fabergé-eieren waaronder het Pamjat Azova-ei, het Standart-ei, het Ruiterstandbeeld van Alexander III, het Klaverblad-ei en de Witte lelieklok aan de collectie toegevoegd.

Het Arsenaal is tegenwoordig een onderdeel van de Moskou Kremlin Musea waar ook een aantal kerken zoals de Kathedraal van de Ontslapenis van de Moeder Gods, de Aartsengel Michaëlkathedraal, de Verkondigingskathedraal, de Twaalf Apostelenkerk en de Kleedafleggingskerk toe behoren evenals de Klokkentoren van Ivan de Grote.

Het bouwwerk is als onderdeel van het Kremlin en Rode Plein sinds 1990 toegevoegd aan de UNESCO werelderfgoedlijst als cultureel werelderfgoed.

Museum in Moskou
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The First50 podcast with Podie Lynch and Carol Brown
The latest in the "First50" podcast series, which celebrates the first 50 years of women's athletics at Princeton, was released today.
This one features two of the great early women athletes at Princeton, Podie Lynch of the Class of 1971 and Carol Brown of the Class of 1975. The podcast series is moderated by Ford Family Director of Athletics Mollie Marcoux Samaan, with some help from TigerBlog.
Lynch, who played tennis, was the only letterwinner in the first class to participate in women's athletics.
She went from Concord Academy outside of Boston to Bennett College, which was a two-year college in Millbrook, N.Y., that has since closed, in 1967. Lynch played field hockey, basketball and tennis there, serving as team captain for field hockey and tennis. She also was the president of the student government, not to mention the top student in her class.
From there she was part of the first group of women to attend Princeton, in the fall of 1969.
There were 39 women in her class, along with 840 men. With five younger brothers (including her brother Vinnie, who was a soccer and hockey player in the Class of 1972), she was fairly well prepared.
Brown's own story is also fascinating.
She came to Princeton from Illinois, where there was an actual state law that prevented girls from competing in high school sports. Her only athletic experience pre-Princeton was as a summer swimmer at a local club, and she spent most of her high school time in the musical world, playing four instruments.
What happened when she came to Princeton? She became part of the first rowing team and the first swimming and diving team.
She'd end up winning a national championship as part of the 1973 200-freestyle relay, setting an American record in the process. She did even better in rowing, where she went from never having been in a boat to winning a bronze medal at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal.
So that's the fourth edition of the podcast.
Tomorrow is obviously Thanksgiving Day. This one is a bit different than most years, like everything else in the COVID world.
Hopefully everyone has the best – and safest – Thanksgiving possible, and hopefully at this time next year, things are back to normal.
As with every other year, TB offers you his thoughts on his favorite holiday:
As holidays go, you can't do much better than Thanksgiving. It's got it all, really: a huge meal (with turkey, no less), football, family, history (dates back to 1621), start of a four-day weekend for most people, leftovers. It's even a secular holiday, so every American can dive right in, regardless of religion.
The Lions and the Cowboys, obviously, always play at home on Thanksgiving, and the NFL has now added a third game (maybe a little too much). Beyond watching football, how many out there have played their own Thanksgiving football games, all of which, by the way, are named "the Turkey Bowl?"
The holiday may lag behind Christmas in terms of great Hollywood movies, and "A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving" is no match for "A Charlie Brown Christmas" or "It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown." Still, there are some great moments in movies and TV shows around Thanksgiving.
Rocky and Adrian had their first date on Thanksgiving – "To you it's Thanksgiving; to me it's Thursday," Rocky said romantically – as did Meadow and Jackie Jr. on "The Sopranos" (it didn't quite work out as well as it did for Rocky and Adrian). "Everybody Loves Raymond" had two pretty good Thanksgiving episodes, the one where Marie makes a low-fat dinner and the one where Debra makes fish instead of turkey. As an aside, TigerBlog's Aunt Regina once made Cornish game hens instead of turkey, so he knows how they all felt. And of course, there was the Thanksgiving episode of "Cheers," which has the big food fight at the end.
The Woody Allen movie "Hannah and Her Sisters" starts and ends on two different Thanksgivings. "Miracle on 34th Street" is a Christmas movie, but it does start with the Thanksgiving parade in New York City.
And of course, there is the best of all Thanksgiving movies: "Planes, Trains and Automobiles." It'll make you laugh a lot and cry a little, and it ends on Thanksgiving.
TB wishes everyone a great holiday and hopes that maybe you take a few minutes to think about what you really are thankful for these days.
Happy Thanksgiving, Tigers.
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Home→Courses→Critical Thinking and Strategic Action 1.0→Thinking about Policy
When you read about complex local or national issues, you may feel like a puppy lost in the political woods. But using this set of ten questions will help you think productively about current policies or help you create or advocate better policies.
So, most of these questions can be used four different ways:
1) You can be a citizen who just wants to make up his or her mind about a policy that in operation.
2) You can be someone who is deciding whether or not to support a proposed policy.
3) You can be someone who is comparing proposed policies, or a policy change.
4) You can be someone is taking the lead in designing or promoting a new policy, a new solution to some problem.
What follows are a summary of ten key questions called 4P-6Q. It may be that just using these 10 questions can help you get a much better sense about a policy. After that, there's a more detailed set of questions that are still organized around the 4P-6Q questions, but they provide more depth. Probably only the people who are designing new policies or who have a huge stake in one policy will need the more in-depth questions.
The 4P-6Q Policy Method
The four "P's are:
1. Who are the players? (And what players can be added or subtracted?
2. What are the precedents (the past actions that have worked or been tried)?
3. What are the politician's interests?
4. Who has the power? (And how can the power structure be changed?)
The other six questions (the 6-Q) come from a policy method developed in Quebec. (Thank you, Canada!) The questions are in two groups. The first three questions have to do with policy effectiveness, and the second three have do with policy implementation.
[Effectiveness]
5. How effective is the policy on the target problem?
6. What are the unintended consequences?
7. What is the impact on the various groups and players involved?
[Implementation]
8. What are the costs of the policy? (financial and social)
9. Is the policy feasible and realistic?
10. Is the policy acceptable to all the players?
The following section gives more details on the ten areas. By the way, it probably helps to think of policy as drama. Successfully implemented policies are stories with happy endings. Poorly designed policies are tragedies, even if they just waste time and money.
1. Players
A love triangle drama has three main players. But a policy drama can have a dozen or more! Here's a list of potential players that influence government policy dramas. Some of the players are hidden, and not even people! Sometimes the word "stakeholders" is used instead of players, but sometimes groups that don't have a stake in the outcome still influence policy. Use this as a checklist to make sure you've thought of all the players related to the policy or issue you're thinking about.
The politicians that are involved – both in the decision and in the appropriations (who pays for it.)
Their constituencies
The politician's senior staff
Public opinion, prevailing morality, and culture
Their stockholders
Union leadership (may have other interests than the union members)
Media impact (corporate, alternative, blogs) and the messaging about the issue
The nonprofit sector
The state of the economy and market
Natural events such storms, droughts, earthquakes
The laws made / and regulatory bodies / standard procedures
Other urgent issues that compete for attention or money
The law of cause and effect.
Entropy (the tendency for things to fall apart or become disordered without maintenance.)
The players' deeply-held or unchangeable beliefs about some of the other players or about the issue. For instance, deep-seated racial prejudice becomes a player, a force, almost independent of the people who have it. It can become "the elephant in the room" that affects things and is not mentioned. We also mention it separately from culture and prevailing morality because it only needs to be in one or more key players, not necessarily in the whole culture.
2. Precedents
a. What has been done in the past? What is the history of this issue?
b. What has been tried elsewhere that has worked well or poorly in other cities or countries?
3. Politician interests (and other decision-maker interests)
Ideally, politicians should be asking questions like, "How does this help my constituents, the people who elected me?" and "How does this impact the rest of the country?" But in addition to these questions, a politician is usually asking other questions:
"Will this help me get re-elected?" In other words, will this please the lobbies that will donate to my re-election campaign? Or, "Will this help me in a run for a more powerful position?"
"Will this displease the people who I will work for once I am out of office?" Often these are lobby groups.
"How will my peers and the House or Senate leadership react? Will it increase my power and prestige in the House or Senate?
"How will this play in the media?" [And if it's not likely to be popular: "How can I spin this?]
"Do I owe any group or individual a favor? Is this the time to pay back?"
[Regardless of what the majority of constituents want] "Is this what I'd like to make happen?"
4. Having answered the previous questions about players, precedents and politician interests…
A. Who has the power over the decision?
B. Who controls the implementation?
C. Is there still time and possibility to change the power dynamics to either change the momentum completely, or make adjustments in the policy implementation?
[Effectiveness — the next three steps]
5. Impact on the Target
A. If it's a current policy, what is the data about impact? What are the trends?
B. If it's a new policy, is there any data from a trial run of the policy, or from a similar policy on a similar group of people. If so, how relevant is the data to the proposed population of people?
6. Unintended Consequences and side effects
Trying to foresee consequences and their costs is sometimes difficult – or it can be as easy as asking people with experience and expertise. Many policies that look good at first, have many hidden costs that make them either counterproductive, or "two steps forward in one area, and two steps back in another."
A. What are the impacts on other programs coming out of the same budget? In other words, is this a good use of funds relative to how the money could be spent?
B. Similarly, will working on this prevent other worthy projects from getting enough time to be done right?
C. What are the likely impacts on the environment, the local or national economy, the political power structure and communication channels? You can also foresee some consequences if you study similar policies in other cities or countries.
7. People often look at the impact on the target group and they forget that almost all the players are somehow affected. Most players have gained or lost: credibility, or time, or money, or some other form of power. Different policies may also have economic, social, or environmental impacts as well.
You sometimes foresee many of the unintended consequences by just going down the list of players and thinking about how they will likely be affected. Or you can contact some of the players or their staff.
[Implementation — the next three steps]
8. Costs.
A. What are the costs? When do they have to be paid? (In other words, are the major costs up front, at the end, or distributed over time?)
B. Who pays? Are the costs shared appropriately?
C. How do the costs compare with other policies that might address the problem differently?
D. If this policy is meant to be ongoing, will the funding be there for the long term?
E. If there is a delay to this project, will costs become excessive? – This might be because the problem is growing fast.
9. Feasibility
A. Are there any technological obstacles? Are there any obstacles to getting any materials needed to implement the policy?
B. Are there manpower obstacles? In other words, do the people in charge of implementation have enough workers with the needed skills?
C. Are there legal or regulatory obstacles?
D. If a coalition is needed to implement the policy, how stable is it? Are their any foreseeable weaknesses in the coalition? Whether or not there are, is their some plan B or reserve funds to deal with unexpected problems?
E. If it is a long-term policy is some form of ongoing assessment and "in-flight correction" built into the plan?
10. Acceptability
In the feasibility section, you estimated whether or not you would have the people needed to implement the policy. These are some of the players. Now you want to find out for sure if the policy actually is acceptable to them and to all the other players. This is finding out if people will buy-in, and if not what the obstacles are. There are different variations:
A. If the policy is already in operation, you or someone is surveying the players to get their judgments and reaction to the various aspects of the policy (effectiveness, unintended consequences, fairness, implementation, cost, feasibility, etc.)
B. If the policy is being proposed or designed, then the feedback of the players can be used to negotiate the details of the policy. For instance, if some key group won't buy in without certain concessions, these might drive up the estimated cost. Then that new higher cost might affect whether or not some other players buy-in.
Another example: Talking to certain players might make you aware of some unintended environmental consequences that will drive up the cost of the program and also slow down implementation. Then you must revise the policy plan and show it around again.
C. If you are designing policy, some kind of strategy should be developed to minimize the number of drafts of the policy plan, and to minimize the cost and time needed to develop the policy. For instance, you should first determine if there are any "deal-killers" or things that would make the policy unfeasible from the start. This might be some regulation in place that precludes the approach, or some key player who is dead-set against the policy. Then you approach some of the most powerful players who can influence or bring along others.
Method for Synthesizing Knowledge About Public Policies, Authors: Florence Morestin, François-Pierre Gauvin, Marie-Christine Hogue and François Benoit. National Collaborating Centre for Healthy Public Policy, Quebec, Canada; September 2010.


Earlier this month, Wolter Consulting Group (WCG) were excited to attend the Bremer Catchment Association (BCA) first monthly meeting of 2019. Both teams were able to share their programs and technical insights.
In attendance from WCG were Natalie Rayment (Director), Brendan Massy (Manager Environment Services) and Sophia Saint-Forrester (Environmental Consultant).
At WCG, the issues of environment, community and sustainable development in our cities and regions are important to us. Through our projects, we continue to support the endeavour of sustainable development in Queensland.
Restoration of environmentally significant areas and corridors is an activity of upmost importance. However, it is generally performed by community members themselves, who volunteer their time and expertise to their local groups. These groups require ongoing support and adequate resources to be able to implement their projects and programs.
After launching our company's internal sustainability program "Orange is the New Green" mid-2018, WCG Team were able to raise $1,000 through our reusable coffee cup (KeepCups) initiative, which we proudly donated to the BCA Team on the night.
"It is important that we minimise our environmental impact as a business, both on the inside and out," said Sophia Saint-Forrester, who initiated "Orange is the New Green" program at WCG.
"After considering various charities and community groups, WCG Team thought that the work of Bremer Catchment Association offered a great opportunity to contribute to the enhancement of environmental value of the region that our company is directly involved with through our projects," said Natalie Rayment.
Bremer Catchment Association (BCA) are an overarching group that assists various catchment areas within the Ipswich Region. BCA are instrumental in supporting established and prospective sub-catchment groups that carry out local environmental projects and monitoring programs. They assist catchment groups operating in Bundamba Creek, Bremer River, Purga Creek, Reynolds Creek, Warrill Creek and Western Creek. Their tasks range from tree planting through to weed management and so on.
"It is important to understand that the continuation of community endorsed environmental activities is integral to sustainability of our regions," said Sophia.
At Wolter Consulting Group, we commend all who volunteer their time to improving environmental health and we aspire to assist in facilitating these efforts in the future.


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Here's How Manchester Locals Feel After Monday's Terrorist Attack
"We are British, we are staying strong. We're not going to change our lives."
by Gabriel H. Sanchez
BuzzFeed News Photo Essay Editor
Following Monday night's suicide bombing at an Ariana Grande concert in Manchester, England, which left 22 dead and injured dozens of concert goers, many locals have returned to their daily lives with a heightened awareness of their surroundings and safety.
Magnum photographer Matt Stuart took to Manchester's streets the morning after the attack to document the feelings of its locals as they attempt to restore a sense of normality.
1. Emma, 18, from Manchester.
Matt Stuart / Magnum Photos
"Some of my friends were at the concert and one of them said she was trampled over, but they're all doing well now. We were at university this morning and now we're going shopping. You can't give up on living."
2. Aaron, 32, from Manchester.
"When I heard the news this morning, I was shocked. I wanted to come into the city to get an idea of what had happened. It feels different, emptier than usual. The police have said to avoid the city center, and it's clear that many people have taken this advice. Many shops are closed too. You can feel that many people have been affected. It's like a bad dream."
3. Ben, 20, from Manchester.
"I am shocked. The attack felt close to home. I am proud of my city; everyone is helping each other. I came to the city today to take photos for my Instagram account. I want to show the world that we're still laughing."
4. Jonathan, 36, from Manchester.
"It is shocking, so many kids. It's pure brutality — these people know no limits. I have a 2-and-a-half-year-old. I can imagine what other parents must be feeling. I am a little concerned, but as we say: don't let them win."
5. Rhianne, 18, from Manchester.
"I found out about the attack this morning, after waking up. My mother cried, my father had shrunken into himself. It could have happened to me or my little sister. I know people who wanted to go to the concert. The atmosphere in Manchester is pretty heavy, but the city has good community spirit. You can feel something has happened."
6. Ayax, 18, from Manchester.
"My family moved here from Somalia when I was ten. We left to avoid the bombs. We wanted safety and a friendly life. And now a bomb goes off here. It changes our perception of the country. At some point I will die, but I don't want to die from a bomb. It should make people furious, that a bomb has gone off here."
7. Owen, 34, from Manchester.
"I know a few people who were at the concert; some colleagues from my bar on Canal Street. I also thought about going. Luckily nothing happened to them. It was probably some crazy one-time offender, a madman. And the media are doing him a favor by making it a big deal. We should stay cool and continue living our lives."
8. Abdullah, 19, from Manchester.
"It is really very scary. These kinds of things happen in the news, but not in your own city. I'm not afraid, but I think others are. I would never have gone to the concert, it's not my kind of music."
9. Joshua, 22, from Manchester.
"I wasn't expecting an attack, even though we are constantly being reminded that we should be. People are worried, the city is not as lively as usual. As I was travelling into the city this morning, many people suggested against it. As the Arndale Shopping Centre was being cleared, I immediately called my mother. But I am glad, that this city is pulling through. Everyone is offering rooms, taxi drivers have been taking people for free. That is why I love this city so much. We are British, we are staying strong. We're not going to change our lives."
10. Emily, 21, from Manchester.
"I actually wanted to go to the concert with a friend, but then she decided to go on holiday instead and so we didn't end up going. I live around the corner from the Arena and heard the explosion. I didn't think anything of it at first, not even when the ambulances arrived. I was constantly hearing sirens in the area. But then came the texts, friends were asking if I was okay. I started reaching out to friends on social media too. Ariana Grande is an icon of the LGBT community, and I have lots of friends there. It's really heartbreaking that it happened here."
11. Paolo, 30, Italian, has lived in Manchester for 5 years.
"On Tuesday morning I was at my Phone Shop in the Arndale Shopping Centre, when suddenly people started running towards me. They were screaming for everyone to get out. Even the security personnel were shouting. I left everything and joined them. Outside, I asked a Policeman what had actually happened. He said, a suspicious bag was found. In the end it was nothing. We do an evacuation drill twice a year, but I had never experienced a real emergency. I'm very afraid that something else will happen after yesterday night's attack."
12. Chloe, 18, from Manchester.
"It's terrifying. It's not right to do something like that to kids. I never would have thought that that could happen here. Those kinds of things happen in London. When I heard the helicopters circling, I thought, 'Oh my god, this is real.' I still can't quite believe it."
Quotes by Spiegel in coordination with Magnum Photos.
Contact Gabriel H. Sanchez at gabriel.sanchez@buzzfeed.com.


In Parker's ears that is...he had tubes placed in his ears last Tuesday. I was a bit nervous for him to be taken away, but before I knew it, he was done and screaming for some breakfast. We now have a new baby.
He is sleeping and napping better and an all around happier kid. All thanks to a tiny piece of plastic and a 15 minute procedure, modern medicine is just amazing.


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Discussion in 'Ducks' started by Laineyy, Aug 16, 2018.
I have been having trouble with one of my Male Muscovy, his name is Miracle (we though he was a girl but the name stuck). I have 2 full grown males, 1 full grown female, 3 females that are about 3-4 months old, and 3 baby ducks. Miracle is about 5 months old, he has almost all of his carbuncles (little red things on his face). I had another full grown female but she sadly passed away of natural causes.
My main alpha Drake is Donald and he is a sweetheart and keeps a close eye on all the girls and make sure everything is good. But Miracle has picked a fight with Donald (Miracle's Dad) and has also become very violent to my fully grown female, she is missing a lot of feathers so we caged him up and got some medicine for the female.
We let him back out a few days later and everything was fine. But then he started to chase our geese and seemed like he was trying to mate with them. It got so bad the geese are scared to go in the water. We caged him up again.
Well my Mom let him back out today and he flew (We clipped his feathers but I'm scared to cut anymore) into the fended in pen where I have the 5 week old duck. He attacked one of the babies and he has some feathers missing. I pretty sure he is a male just because of his size.
Is there anything I can do to try to calm this duck down? Has anyone ever had problems like this?
You have to cull or rehome him. You have too many Drakes anyway.
He is young and his hormones are high. He might not calm down. I never keep the aggressive Drakes.
Yes..My Pal kept his Muscovy in separate pens from all his other waterfowl.


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Info World - Fri, 01/27/2023 - 16:22
Oracle's 2023 per-employee pricing for standard Java is raising concerns about its potential impact on Java licensing costs for customers. The pricing is based on total employee counts, not the number of employees using Java.
Published January 23, Oracle's price list covers the new Java SE Universal Subscription program. The pricing starts at $15 per employee per month for as many as 999 employees, and drops as low as $5.25 per employee per month for 40,000 to 49,999 users. Oracle cited an example in which a company with a total employee count of 28,000, including full-time and part-time employees and agents, consultants, and contractors, would be charged $2.268 million per year.
Categories: Technology
Microsoft published a beta release of TypeScript 5.0, the company's strongly typed JavaScript variant, on January 26. The new release aims to modernize decorators for class customization.
Decorators, an upcoming ECMAScript feature, allow for customizing classes and their members in a reusable way, Microsoft noted in a blog post announcing the release. Decorators can be used on methods, properties, getters, setters, and auto-accessors. Classes can be decorated for subclassing and registration. While TypeScript previously supported experimental decorators, these were modeled on a much older version of the decorators proposal.
The new release of Steampipe is all about relationship graphs. Our blog post shows how these graphs provide contextual awareness for devops and security pros who can now see all the resources related to an EC2 instance, or determine at a glance whether the permissions related to an IAM role are properly scoped. As always, developers can explore and remix the code that builds these graphs, and adapt the idioms for their own purposes in any data domain.
These relationship graphs are driven by SQL queries that define nodes and edges. Such queries can use any column of any table provided by any Steampipe plugin to form nodes, and then edges between nodes. If you want to see connections among the people and objects represented by diverse APIs, you can now use SQL idioms to graph them. The only limit is your imagination.
A recent study by Gartner predicts that by 2025 more than 95% of application workloads will exist on cloud-native platforms (up from 30% in 2021). I tend not to believe these kinds of predictions because adoption is never linear. We run out of applications that are easy to convert to new development approaches (in this case, cloud native) and thus adoption slows down or ceases much earlier than most understand.
If you're still a bit confused by what the heck "cloud native" means, you're not alone. Here's my best explanation:
Info World - Thu, 01/26/2023 - 18:00
Google has released Flutter 3.7, an update to the company's open source, cross-platform development framework that adds custom menu bar support and previews a new rendering engine for iOS apps. The company also unveiled an alpha preview of Dart 3, a new version of the programming language used with Flutter.
Flutter 3.7 can be used to build menu bars and cascading context menus. Developers can design a Material Design menu providing cascading menu bars or standalone cascading menus triggered by another user interface element. These menus are customizable and menu items can be custom widgets, or developers can use new menu item widgets including MenuItemButton and SubmenuButton.
Canonical security subscriptions for Ubuntu Linux now available
Canonical's Ubuntu Pro, a Linux security maintenance subscription service covering thousands of applications and toolchains in the open-source ecosystem, is generally available as of January 26.
Released in beta in October, Ubuntu Pro helps users of Linux desktops and servers get CVE (common vulnerabilities and exposures) patches, harden their systems at scale, and stay compliant with standards such as FedRAMP, HIPPA, PCI-DSS. Ubuntu Pro covers an additional 23,000 packages beyond the main OS, providing protection against critical, high, and selected medium CVEs for applications and toolchains ranging from Ansible and Apache Tomcat to Node.js, Puppet, PowerDNS, Redis, Rust, and WordPress.
The tip of the data science iceberg
Far more than a trendy buzzword in the business world today, data science is redefining how companies interact with their customers.
No matter the sector or industry—retail, insurance, manufacturing, banking, travel—every large enterprise has its own way of dealing with data science. They have to. Data is everywhere. It's the new gold, and mining that data is critical to the success or failure of any business.
Data gives access to the kind of information that separates competitors. Data-driven companies provide better service to their customers and make better decisions—all because those decisions are backed by data.
Data science is the next evolution in the business world, and those that fail to adapt to this new reality will cease to exist. The alternative is extinction.
How to build a neural network in Java
Artificial neural networks are a form of deep learning and one of the pillars of modern-day AI. The best way to really get a grip on how these things work is to build one. This article will be a hands-on introduction to building and training a neural network in Java.
See my previous article, Styles of machine learning: Intro to neural networks for an overview of how artificial neural networks operate. Our example for this article is by no means a production-grade system; instead, it shows all the main components in a demo that is designed to be easy to understand.
Krebs on Security - Wed, 01/25/2023 - 12:58
On Dec. 23, 2022, KrebsOnSecurity alerted big-three consumer credit reporting bureau Experian that identity thieves had worked out how to bypass its security and access any consumer's full credit report — armed with nothing more than a person's name, address, date of birth, and Social Security number. Experian fixed the glitch, but remained silent about the incident for a month. This week, however, Experian acknowledged that the security failure persisted for nearly seven weeks, between Nov. 9, 2022 and Dec. 26, 2022.
The tip about the Experian weakness came from Jenya Kushnir, a security researcher living in Ukraine who said he discovered the method being used by identity thieves after spending time on Telegram chat channels dedicated to cybercrime.
Normally, Experian's website will ask a series of multiple-choice questions about one's financial history, as a way of validating the identity of the person requesting the credit report. But Kushnir said the crooks learned they could bypass those questions and trick Experian into giving them access to anyone's credit report, just by editing the address displayed in the browser URL bar at a specific point in Experian's identity verification process.
When I tested Kushnir's instructions on my own identity at Experian, I found I was able to see my report even though Experian's website told me it didn't have enough information to validate my identity. A security researcher friend who tested it at Experian found she also could bypass Experian's four or five multiple-choice security questions and go straight to her full credit report at Experian.
Experian acknowledged receipt of my Dec. 23 report four days later on Dec. 27, a day after Kushnir's method stopped working on Experian's website (the exploit worked as long as you came to Experian's website via annualcreditreport.com — the site mandated to provide a free copy of your credit report from each of the major bureaus once a year).
Experian never did respond to official requests for comment on that story. But earlier this week, I received an otherwise unhelpful letter via snail mail from Experian (see image above), which stated that the weakness we reported persisted between Nov. 9, 2022 and Dec. 26, 2022.
"During this time period, we experienced an isolated technical issue where a security feature may not have functioned," Experian explained.
It's not entirely clear whether Experian sent me this paper notice because they legally had to, or if they felt I deserved a response in writing and thought maybe they'd kill two birds with one stone. But it's pretty crazy that it took them a full month to notify me about the potential impact of a security failure that I notified them about.
It's also a little nuts that Experian didn't simply include a copy of my current credit report along with this letter, which is confusingly worded and reads like they suspect someone other than me may have been granted access to my credit report without any kind of screening or authorization.
After all, if I hadn't authorized the request for my credit file that apparently prompted this letter (I had), that would mean the thieves already had my report. Shouldn't I be granted the same visibility into my own credit file as them?
Instead, their woefully inadequate letter once again puts the onus on me to wait endlessly on hold for an Experian representative over the phone, or sign up for a free year's worth of Experian monitoring my credit report.
As it stands, using Kushnir's exploit was the only time I've ever been able to get Experian's website to cough up a copy of my credit report. To make matters worse, a majority of the information in that credit report is not mine. So I've got that to look forward to.
If there is a silver lining here, I suppose that if I were Experian, I probably wouldn't want to show Brian Krebs his credit file either. Because it's clear this company has no idea who I really am. And in a weird, kind of sad way I guess, that makes me happy.
For thoughts on what you can do to minimize your victimization by and overall worth to the credit bureaus, see this section of the most recent Experian story.
Categories: Technology, Virus Info
What developers should do during a downturn
Info World - Wed, 01/25/2023 - 04:00
Many young developers today do not remember the time of the shedding and cold rocks, let alone the dotcom bomb (or its associated fansite). Before each of these collapses, the fat times felt like they would never end. But fat times always give way to lean times and layoffs. Even if you are in a stable position, it is wise to prepare for the unexpected.
Companies started enticing employees with free drinks just before the 2000 dotcom bomb. Silicon Valley started serving employees free food before the 2008 recession. Granted, free food and drinks are enticements to stay in the office, but in lean times… there are layoffs. These perks go away, or you're encouraged not to use them.
Instance-qualified Mastodon URLs
In Lists and people on Mastodon I showed how I added a list column to the following tab of the Mastodon browser I'm building. That was a step in the direction of easier and more powerful list management. It enables me to see whether the people I follow are assigned to lists, and to consider who should be on a list (or perhaps on a different list).
Today, as I began to use that new affordance in earnest, I discovered a new challenge. In order to assign someone to a list, or change a list assignment, I clicked the link in the account_url column to open that person's profile in the Mastodon web app. That was fine for accounts on my home server, mastodon.social. An account URL like Shelley Powers' https://mastodon.social/@burningbird brings me to Shelley's profile on my home server where the list manager is available.
SN 907: Credential Reuse - iOS 16.3, ChatGPT creates malware, Bitwarden acquires Passwordless.dev
Security Now - Tue, 01/24/2023 - 20:15
Picture of the Week.
PayPal Credential Stuffing.
iOS 16.3 : Cloud encryption for all.
InfoSecurity Magazine: "ChatGPT Creates Polymorphic Malware".
CheckPoint Research: OPWNAI : Cybercriminals Starting to Use ChatGPT.
"Meta" fined for the third time.
Bitwarden acquires "Passwordless.dev".
Closing the Loop.
SpinRite.
Credential Reuse.
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How to work with Action, Func, and Predicate delegates in C#
Info World - Tue, 01/24/2023 - 17:44
While passing objects as arguments is a standard and familiar way to invoke methods, providing methods as arguments to other methods is less so. Nonetheless, we often must pass a method as a parameter to another method when working with event handling in C#. We do this using delegates.
I provided an overview of delegates in an earlier article here. In this article, we'll examine how we can work with Action, Func, and Predicate delegates in C#. To work with the code examples provided in this article, you should have Visual Studio 2022 installed in your system. If you don't already have a copy, you can download Visual Studio 2022 here.
Google pulls the plug on Optimize
Google's Optimize and Optimize 360 website testing and analytics tools will no longer be available after September 30, 2023. Customers' personalizations and experiments on Optimize and Optimize 360 can continue to run until September 30, but any still active on that date will end, the company said.
In a bulletin published January 20, Google said it remains committed to enabling businesses of all sizes to improve user experiences and is investing in A/B testing in Google Analytics 4. Introduced July 31, 2019, Google Analytics 4 is an analytics service for measuring engagement and traffic across websites.
How to use Python dataclasses
Everything in Python is an object, or so the saying goes. If you want to create your own custom objects, with their own properties and methods, you use Python's class object to make that happen. But creating classes in Python sometimes means writing loads of repetitive, boilerplate code to set up the class instance from the parameters passed to it or to create common functions like comparison operators.
Dataclasses, introduced in Python 3.7 (and backported to Python 3.6), provide a handy, less verbose way to create classes. Many of the common things you do in a class, like instantiating properties from the arguments passed to the class, can be reduced to a few basic instructions.
Administrator of RSOCKS Proxy Botnet Pleads Guilty
Krebs on Security - Tue, 01/24/2023 - 12:00
Denis Emelyantsev, a 36-year-old Russian man accused of running a massive botnet called RSOCKS that stitched malware into millions of devices worldwide, pleaded guilty to two counts of computer crime violations in a California courtroom this week. The plea comes just months after Emelyantsev was extradited from Bulgaria, where he told investigators, "America is looking for me because I have enormous information and they need it."
A copy of the passport for Denis Emelyantsev, a.k.a. Denis Kloster, as posted to his Vkontakte page in 2019.
First advertised in the cybercrime underground in 2014, RSOCKS was the web-based storefront for hacked computers that were sold as "proxies" to cybercriminals looking for ways to route their Web traffic through someone else's device.
Customers could pay to rent access to a pool of proxies for a specified period, with costs ranging from $30 per day for access to 2,000 proxies, to $200 daily for up to 90,000 proxies.
Many of the infected systems were Internet of Things (IoT) devices, including industrial control systems, time clocks, routers, audio/video streaming devices, and smart garage door openers. Later in its existence, the RSOCKS botnet expanded into compromising Android devices and conventional computers.
In June 2022, authorities in the United States, Germany, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom announced a joint operation to dismantle the RSOCKS botnet. But that action did not name any defendants.
Inspired by that takedown, KrebsOnSecurity followed clues from the RSOCKS botnet master's identity on the cybercrime forums to Emelyantsev's personal blog, where he went by the name Denis Kloster. The blog featured musings on the challenges of running a company that sells "security and anonymity services to customers around the world," and even included a group photo of RSOCKS employees.
"Thanks to you, we are now developing in the field of information security and anonymity!," Kloster's blog enthused. "We make products that are used by thousands of people around the world, and this is very cool! And this is just the beginning!!! We don't just work together and we're not just friends, we're Family."
But by the time that investigation was published, Emelyantsev had already been captured by Bulgarian authorities responding to an American arrest warrant. At his extradition hearing, Emelyantsev claimed he would prove his innocence in an U.S. courtroom.
"I have hired a lawyer there and I want you to send me as quickly as possible to clear these baseless charges," Emelyantsev told the Bulgarian court. "I am not a criminal and I will prove it in an American court."
RSOCKS, circa 2016. At that time, RSOCKS was advertising more than 80,000 proxies. Image: archive.org.
Emelyantsev was far more than just an administrator of a large botnet. Behind the facade of his Internet advertising company based in Omsk, Russia, the RSOCKS botmaster was a major player in the Russian email spam industry for more than a decade.
Some of the top Russian cybercrime forums have been hacked over the years, and leaked private messages from those forums show the RSOCKS administrator claimed ownership of the RUSdot spam forum. RUSdot is the successor forum to Spamdot, a far more secretive and restricted community where most of the world's top spammers, virus writers and cybercriminals collaborated for years before the forum imploded in 2010.
A Google-translated version of the Rusdot spam forum.
Indeed, the very first mentions of RSOCKS on any Russian-language cybercrime forums refer to the service by its full name as the "RUSdot Socks Server."
Email spam — and in particular malicious email sent via compromised computers — is still one of the biggest sources of malware infections that lead to data breaches and ransomware attacks. So it stands to reason that as administrator of Russia's most well-known forum for spammers, Emelyantsev probably knows quite a bit about other top players in the botnet spam and malware community.
It remains unclear whether Emelyantsev made good on his promise to spill that knowledge to American investigators as part of his plea deal. The case is being prosecuted by the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of California, which has not responded to a request for comment.
Emelyantsev pleaded guilty on Monday to two counts, including damage to protected computers and conspiracy to damage protected computers. He faces a maximum of 20 years in prison, and is currently scheduled to be sentenced on April 27, 2023.
Can AI replace cloud architects?
As I mentioned a few times in this blog, I've been working with and teaching about artificial intelligence since the start of my career. This drove much of my interest in cloud computing because AI was not economically viable or accessible until "the cloud" came along.
Interest in AI and its applications inflected about five years ago. Then the pandemic happened and some budgets shifted to speedy cloud migrations. Now that things are returning to normal, AI is back. Most enterprises grasp the fundamental possibilities of AI and are looking to weaponize the technology for their own business.
The technology got way more impressive along the way. Generative AI, for example, went from PhD dissertations to an accessible and free reality with the advent of generative AI services such as ChatGPT.
The mark of a healthy engineering culture
When you hear leaders talk about the power of great cultures, you often hear talk of communication, integrity, and openness, and these are all important dimensions. Of course, there are as many definitions of healthy cultures as there are opinions about Kubernetes.
Even though we can't define them precisely, we all want great cultures.
So when we hire CTOs, we put all the important things we want into the job post. Things like "technically skilled, hires well, ships software." You rarely find anything about culture in the job post, and that's disappointing.
Because it turns out that if you don't have a great culture, you can't ship software on time with high quality. At least not predictably. And predictable engineering output is essential to a healthy business. Predictability is, surprisingly, something that comes from a great culture.
CodeSandbox adds Rust support
Info World - Mon, 01/23/2023 - 16:51
Developers now can build Rust applications in the CodeSandbox cloud development platform.
Newly added Rust support in CodeSandbox allows developers to spin up a Rust development environment within two seconds, the company announced on January 18. A Rust starter template helps developers kickstart their projects.
CodeSandbox is positioned as an environment for anyone to code, collaborate, and produce projects of any size from any device, quickly. Every sandbox has a public URL that can be shared. Sandboxes that get too large can be exported to GitHub, with developers able to commit to GitHub while using CodeSandbox.
Google V8 API bridges WebAssembly and asynchronous web
The developers of Google's V8 JavaScript/WebAssembly engine have introduced the JavaScript Promise Integration (JSPI) API, allowing WebAssembly applications that assume access to external functionality is synchronous to smoothly function in asynchronous environments.
Currently in an experimental stage, JSPI should not be used in production applications yet, the developers said. Eventually, it will become a standard, for implementation across major browsers, they said.
Introduced in a V8 blog post on January 19, JSPI bridges synchronous WebAssembly applications and asynchronous web APIs. This is done by suspending the application when it issues a synchronous API call and resuming when the asynchronous I/O operation is concluded. And JSPI does this with very few changes to the application itself.


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Information technology has evolved immensely in just the last 20 years. The world of telecommunication is not only advancing rapidly but is also constantly reinventing itself with new changes and ways of thinking says Paul Haarman. Some of the most innovative business technologies have been developed in the field of communications, which includes telephones, cellular phones, pagers, fax machines, etc.
The first telephone was introduced by Alexander Graham Bell in 1877. It still took several decades for this revolutionary invention to find widespread use among consumers and businesses alike. In 1904, New York City had 144,000 telephone lines while only 36 percent (6 million) were residential customers (landlines). As such 'besides the telegram' became a popular phrase for describing something that came secondary to another.
However, due to advances in both technology and widespread competition, by the time of the first handheld mobile phone was released (Dyna TAC 8000X) there were nearly more than 300 million landlines in usage worldwide. The pager industry also experienced tremendous growth over the span of 60 years where it increased from 10 early adopters in 1946 to 2.5 million people using this service by 1994 which allowed instant messaging between users. By 1996 only 20% of US residents did not own a telephone making it unlikely that they will ever be late for an important appointment or work meeting again!
The telecommunications industry has evolved in recent years, making it easier for companies to communicate with customers and each other.
Here is some notable advancement in business communications technology that has had an impact on businesses.
Computer-to-Computer Technology
Some of the most significant developments in business communications came in 2005 with the introduction of computer-to-computer technology. This new type of interconnectivity allowed employees at different locations to collaborate via computer networks without needing to be connected by phone lines or traditional phone systems says Paul Haarman. This meant workers could share files instantly, hold virtual meetings and talk face to face via webcam without needing additional hardware or software. As this technology quickly gained popularity, it became possible for more people within a company using different types of computers, devices and operating systems to communicate with each other.
Cloud-Based Communications Technology
Around 2012, technology advancements allowed businesses to switch from using their own phone systems to cloud-based communications. Cloud technology is a business data storage process that uses software applications over the Internet rather than on company servers, which means businesses can access it anywhere they have Internet access. Cloud-based call forwarding allows employees who are working remotely or travelling to make and receive calls on their smartphones via the Internet instead of regular cellular service, meaning they are still reachable in case of an emergency even if they don't have access to traditional phone lines. Video conferencing is another example of cloud-based communications because it allows anyone with an Internet connection to connect with other people in a virtual meeting from the convenience of their smartphones, tablets or laptops.
Big Data in Communications Technology
In 2013, breakthroughs in data storage technology made it possible for companies. To store large amounts of information about their customers and employees without sacrificing speed or functionality. This advancement means that when workers need access to customer lists, sales data, or other important records. They can retrieve them quickly instead of waiting hours for them to be deliver via mail or courier service. Big data capabilities also allow managers to monitor how well different groups within an organization are performing. Giving businesses more tools to help them improve operations and increase productivity says Paul Haarman. The use of big data has grown exponentially since its introduction because companies recognize its usefulness as an informational.
Cell Phone Apps That Enhance Communications
In recent years, mobile apps have become a big part of how workers communicate with each other and their customers. These apps make it easier to work from anywhere. Allowing employees to use phones for business even when they're not around a computer with Internet access. They also allow companies to conduct surveys or collect customer feedback from virtually any location. Without leaving employees stranded miles away from the office. Workers can also keep track of social media activity that mentions their company using these new types of smartphone applications. So they don't miss out on important marketing opportunities and leads.
As communications technology continues advancing. It's likely we'll see more ways businesses will be able to interact. With each other and with customers in real-time. What do you think is next?
Even though the original article is a bit long, I did not mind. Because I really enjoy learning and writing about technologies and how these impact our lives says Paul Haarman. As we all know, technology has made work more fun and even easier to do for many of us.
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