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Cotton Campaign
Uzbekistan's Forced Labor Problem >
Chronicle of Forced Labor
Photos/Video
Turkmenistan's Forced Labor Problem >
Reports of Forced Labor in Turkmenistan's Cotton Sector
Forced Labor Cotton in Other Countries
Governments >
What the Uzbek government can do
What the Turkmen government can do
What other governments can do
International Organizations >
What the World Bank and Asian Development Bank can do
What the International Labor Organization can do
What companies operating in Uzbekistan or Turkmenistan can do
What companies that use cotton can do
What investors can do
EU Approves Textiles Trade Agreement with Uzbekistan; Activists Protest
The European Union is facing accusations of tacitly supporting child labor after the European Council, the EU's main decision-making body, approved a trade agreement with Uzbekistan on textiles, the InterPress Service (IPS) reported.
Soon after Uzbek President Islam Karimov visited Brussels in January, the European Council approved a protocol granting various tariff and customs privileges and free access to European market for Uzbek textiles
Rights groups are protesting the move due to the use of forced child labor in the Uzbek cotton industry:
Rachel Denber of Human Rights Watch (HRW) told IPS:
There are serious questions about how this could have come to happen. It may be a case of brazen cynicism or it may be an example of a very worrying lack of co- ordination within the EU.
Denber said she found it "mind-boggling" that even after the EU's talks with Karimov, where concerns about child labor were expressed, the EU went ahead with textiles agreement.
HRW sent a letter to Jose Manuel Barroso, president of the European Commission, outlining concerns about human rights violations in Uzbekistan, including the use of child labor to pick cotton.
Uzbekistan is the world's third largest cottent dealer and sells about $1 billion in cotton in year, shipping about 850,000 tons, says IPS.
Jean-Paul Delmotte, UNICEF's representative in Uzbekistan, told IPS that as many as one million children were mobilized, mainly 13-18 years in age, but some younger. With the high price of cotton in the last harvest -- then $1/lb and now $2/lb -- pressure was put on farmers to use child labor.
The European Council declined to comment when contacted by IPS.
CONTACT: Cotton Campaign Coordinator - c/o International Labor Rights Forum, 1634 I Street NW, Suite 1000, Washington, DC 20006.
+1 202-347-4100, cottoncampaigncoordinator [at] gmail.com


To enable poor and ethnic minority children in Yunnan to attain access to improved primary school education, we will improve the quality of learning environments in basic education by building the capacity of children and teachers on child-centred methodologies and awareness of child rights and protection.
poor and ethnic minority children in Yunnan will attain access to a improved primary school education.
The project is situated in Dali, which is an autonomous prefecture situated in the northwest of Yunnan with a population of 3 million people, 33% of which are Bai minority. Nine counties in the Dali prefecture are listed on the national list of extremely poor counties in China.
Due to the economic and social situation the quality of basic education in Yunnan is poor, and the formal school curriculum lacks relevance to the local context in Yunnan. Ethnic children often graduate with few directly applicable skills to help them in their lives after schools. Their parents, who are mostly undereducated, need support on effective parenting and providing a supportive home environment for children. Furthermore, the capacity of the local government to provide quality education services for children is low.
This is done by teaching life skills in schools and training parents to support their children's education. The project will also support the local authorities' efforts in introducing long-term policies to improve the quality of primary school basic education in poor and ethnic minority areas in Yunnan.


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Butterflies as a symbol of transformation is the meaning behind the creation and design of my 'You Can Fly' glass butterfly pendant collection. I believe all women are butterflies emerging from their chrysalis into their full story of life, and the world needs our healing stories. Each woman who purchases one of my 'wings' has an opportunity to share a story of transformation.
I am so excited and honored to launch my first 'Chrysalis Moment' interview featuring Karen Mason. Her story of courage in the face of life-threatening circumstances will inspire all.
I love creating with color, sparkle and joy using butterfly wings as my symbol of transformation. Are you a butterfly emerging from your chrysalis into your full story of life? If wearing one of my 'wings' is a rich celebration of how far you have traveled and all that is possible, then my dream has come true!
I design in the moment using music and movement. No two pendants are alike and they are named by women providing the first name, emotion evoked by the design. The name given is heart-felt and perfect for each pendant. Using 4000 year old Egyptian fused glass techniques and hours of attention to detail, I create extraordinary results to reflect the sparkle inside you!


Has anyone seen or fabricated a small portable soil screener that I could use as a start for designing my own?
I have seen comercial units parked on job sites, but never looked at one up close, seems like it would be a simple matter to fabricate a small version.In my case i would use an electric motor for power.
There are several threads on this subject.
I tried giving you the info but your PM hasn't been activated.
Sorry I can't post it here.
If you PM me I will give you the info.
My dad made one of hardware cloth (galvanized 1/4 x 1/4" welded wire mesh used for rabbit cages) that was a 3' diameter x 12' long rotating cylinder. The input end was elecvated about a foot higher than the other end. We hand-fed compost through it, but a chute of sorts would have helped. This type of screener is called a "trommel" or "rotating drum". These are not high-volume machines but are effective. The spoils or debris are eventually rotated or tumbled out of the drum in a neat pile. The high-voulme machines you see on construction sites may be a sifter or shaker type, which use a conveyor to shred or pull apart soil in small amounts as it goes up a conveyor. Then it goes drops through 4-5 vibrating "screens" or sets of parallel wires that form a screen which sift out the soil and debris. This type of screener typically has topsoil that looks like little balls from the rolling action of the conveyor and the wire screens.
what I like is no moving parts no oil to check or things to grease!!!
I'm thinking of making it 4' wide by 5 or 6 feet long using a 2x4 frame around the out side edges and a 2x4 in the center ran length ways from top to bottom.
Instead of resting the top on fence post I plan on using 2 folding 2x4 legs hinged at the top on each side.
When not in use the legs will fold down and run flat along side the long outside 2x4 frame.
By shrinking the size a little and using only 5 two by fours instead of 9 two by sixes it will greatly reduce the weight making it much easier to handle & far more portable.
The folding legs allow it to be folded into one rectangular shape making it easier to store by simply standing it on edge and leaning it against a wall.
If one were to use treated two by fours it could be stored outside by leaning it against a tree or what ever else may be out there handy.
When we were building out a course in the islands they had made up a small screen for cleaning up a little topsoil that had been contaminated with gravel and stuff.
It was a rectangular steel frame on tall legs, like a big table with no top on it. A chain in each corner suspended a smaller rectangular frame that had a steel mesh bottom. There was a hydraulic motor attached to the hanging frame that spun an off-center cam, that caused a vibratory / shaking action depending on the speed the motor turned.
It worked well, but it sure looked like an explosion in a structural steel plant.
with a large bed suspended in between, With a washing machine motor & agitator shaking the screen.
Nice but I don't used quite that much compost!
The size and style Ibrown59 has in mind will suite me.
and my little orange BX23.


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using System;

namespace IronPython.Runtime {
    [Flags]
    public enum CompileFlags {
        CO_NESTED = 0x0010,                     // nested_scopes
        CO_DONT_IMPLY_DEDENT = 0x0200,          // report errors if statement isn't dedented
        CO_GENERATOR_ALLOWED = 0x1000,          // generators
        CO_FUTURE_DIVISION = 0x2000,            // division
        CO_FUTURE_ABSOLUTE_IMPORT = 0x4000,     // perform absolute imports by default
        CO_FUTURE_WITH_STATEMENT = 0x8000,      // with statement
        CO_FUTURE_PRINT_FUNCTION = 0x10000,     // print function
        CO_FUTURE_UNICODE_LITERALS = 0x20000,   // default unicode literals
        CO_FUTURE_BARRY_AS_BDFL = 0x40000,      //
        CO_FUTURE_GENERATOR_STOP = 0x80000,     // StopIteration becomes RuntimeError in generators
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}

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Warrior Men's Basketball Playoff Preview
Posted by Taylen Alexander on Mar 4, 2020 in Basketball, Men's Sports | 0 comments
Quincy Minor drives to the hoop (Photo from Waldorf Athletics).
By Taylen Alexander
On Feb. 22, the Waldorf Warrior men's basketball team left it all on the court. They were fought to host a playoff game—only to see their hopes bang off the rim at the final buzzer.
The Warriors had a chance at hosting the first round of the North Star Athletic Association (NSAA) basketball tournament at home in the next week, but Viterbo University put a stop to that. Leading up to the playoffs, the Warriors will have to win on the road to keep their NAIA tournament hopes alive.
With a 10-17 record, they will need to win every game from here on. They have been very competitive team all season long, but could not get over the hump.
Injuries have played a big part of their production on the court this year. Key players were out for a big chunk of the season.
The Warriors will have a fourth seed in the conference tournament and will face Dickinson state.
In the last meeting, the Warriors fell to Dickinson State 79-73 in a hard-fought battle. Dickinson State rallied from five points down in the final minute, forcing overtime where the Blue Hawks prevailed 79-73 over the Warriors in NSAA play.
Waldorf led most of the game at last meeting—they had a chance to win late in the game, but Dickinson State proved too dominate.
Looking forward to their next match up, there are a lot of positives for the Warriors.
The Warriors will be on the road for the first round of the NSAA playoffs as the fifth seed. Waldorf plays Tuesday night at 8 p.m. at four-seed Dickinson State with the winner advancing to the NSAA's final four in Watertown, S.D., on Feb. 29 and March 1.

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I couldn't help doing one more scene from the Super Mario All Stars rendition of Super Mario Bros 3. I love how clean the artwork is, especially in this throne room after Mario rescues the king of Sky Land. Everyone seems to be in such good spirits! Are any of these kings actually related to the princess in the first place? Who knows!
This glass-framed shadow box measures 10x12.5 inches and the viewport matches the 4:3 aspect ratio of the original scene. All of the images are printed on high-quality gloss cardstock and laser cut for precision. The sprites are layered and raised to create a three-dimensional image that brings the scene to life. Pictures do not do it justice!


THE word "atonement" is essentially an Old Testament word, where it occurs some 70 times or more. It is found but once in the Authorized Version of the New Testament; the Revised Version, however, translates it "reconciliation," as also in Rom. 11. 15 and 2 Cor. 5. 18, 19. We may ask, how is it that although the atonement lies at the foundation of our Christian faith, the word itself never occurs in the New Testament ? Here it is necessary to define our terms, for words change their meaning with the passing of time. The Biblical use of the word "atonement" differs from its present theological use. When we speak of the atonement in the New Testament we mean the sacrificial and redemptive work of the Lord Jesus Christ, but this work is so great and varied in its aspects, both Godward and manward, that it cannot be compressed into one word.
The Basis of Atonement. Atonement has, as its foundation, the idea of sacrifice, and from time immemorial whenever man thought of approaching Deity, he invariably did so through sacrifice. In so doing he often acted far wiser than he knew. The Bible makes it very clear and plain that sin against a holy God must be atoned for, and only when this has been accomplished can man approach God. The Hebrew word "atonement " means " to cover up," and the very first occurrence of the word is in Gen. 6. 14, where we arc told that Noah's Ark was covered with pitch within and without, and so made proof against the judgment waters of God. When Jacob was about to meet his brother Esau, whom he had angered and wronged, he sent a present on before and said, " I will appease him with a present that goeth before me, and afterwards I will see his face ; peradventure he will accept me " (Gen. 32. 20). The present was intended to cover the face of the offended person of Esau, so that he could no longer see the offence. Thus in the atonement of the Lord Jesus, sin is so completely covered that God's anger is no longer operative against it. In the words of the apostle, " once in the end of the world (age) hath He appeared to put away sin (not merely cover it) by the sacrifice of Himself " (Heb. 9. 26). Blood was sprinkled on and before the mercy-seat in the holy place of the Tabernacle, that satisfaction may be given to Jehovah. The mercy-seat hid the two tables of stone, evidence of Israel's guilt. In like manner, there was in the death of the Lord Jesus that which satisfied the righteous anger of a holy God. More than this, in the work of Christ on the Cross there was nothing temporary or partial; His work docs not overlook or pass over sin, but " takes it away " (Jn. 1. 29; Col. 2. 14 ; Heb. 10. 4 ; 1 Jn. 3. 5). In the Levitical offerings provision was made for stated sins and, apart from a few exceptions, there was no atonement for sins of wilfulness, David knew this, and in sorrow cried : " Thou desirest not sacrifice, else would 1 give it " (Psa. 51. 16). His sin was deliberate and wilful, for which no provision had been made. Notwithstanding, the Lord was merciful to him. But the sacrifice of Christ provides for all sin.
The Author of Atonement. Of this atonement which has its basis in sacrifice, God is the author. " The Lord hath laid on Him the iniquity of us all " ; " we did esteem Him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted " ; " it pleased the Lord to bruise Him, He hath put Him to grief " (Isa, 53. 4, 6, 10). " For God so loved the world that He gave His only-begotten Son " (Jn. 3. 16) ; " In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent His only-begotten Son into the world that we might have life through Him. Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins " (1 Jn. 4. 9, 10). " When the fullness of the time was come, God sent forth His Son, made of a woman, made under the law, to redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons " (Gal. 4. 4, 5). Atonement has its source in God - in God's love. Infinite wisdom fashioned it, infinite power accomplished it, and infinite love prompted it. It was " love unbounded led Thee thus, to give Thy well-beloved for us."


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Medieval and Early Modern Greek Manuscripts : Gospels, Act and Epistles book

This manuscript, copied in 1315/16, contains almost the entire New Testament, combining the normal content of a Gospel book and an Acts and Epistles book. The text is unusually significant for a copy of such late date, containing numerous unusual variant readings, and it has been used as a witness for many New Testament editions.

There are an unusual number of brief supporting texts included along with the main content. Most of the individual books are preceded by their own supplementary materials. For each Gospel and Epistle there is a standard introductory hypothesis, describing the circumstances of its composition. For each Gospel, further information of this sort is provided by an excerpt from a 6th-century geographical work, the Topographia Christiana of Kosmas Indikopleustes, which was not infrequently used for this purpose in Gospel books. Each is also preceded by a poetic epigram and a chapter list.

The one exception to this is the Gospel of Matthew, the first text to appear in the sequence. The same prefatory texts are provided for this as for the other Gospels, but rather than preceding it they appear towards the end of the manuscript. This suggests that the inclusion of the supporting materials was a revision to the original plan of production, introduced very early in the process of copying, after Matthew had been begun but before the scribe had continued to the Gospel of Mark. Rather than insert additional folios for the supplementary texts to Matthew, they became an appendix after the end of the main content. A hypothesis to the Acts of the Apostles, presumably another afterthought, also appears late in the manuscript.

There is also an array of more general supporting texts. Before and after the Gospel of John are two epigrams on the four Evangelists as a group. And the end of the Gospels and of the Acts and Epistles is a table of lections identifying the passages to be read in church through the year, a very common feature. There are also, at the end of the manuscript, an array of less usual texts: further guidance on the lection cycle and other liturgical matters, additional brief historical excerpts on the authors of biblical books, a list of lesser disciples and apostles, some prayers, and a canon law selection drawn from the canons attributed to the apostles and from the decrees of various ecumenical and early provincial councils.

The scribe provided a colophon recording the completion of the manuscript. This appears at the end of the Gospels (f. 160v), but refers also to the Acts and Epistles as forming part of the content. This suggests that the scribe returned to add the colophon in blank space remaining between the texts, rather than that the project was originally only supposed to contain the Gospels but expanded later, or that the work was originally divided into two volumes but subsequently bound together. He gave the year, identified himself as the hieromonachos (priest and monk) Iakovos and indicated that he did the work on Mount Sinai. It cannot be assumed from this that he was a monk established there, as this is not specified, and Sinai was a pilgrimage destination.

The scribe goes on to record that he sent the manuscript to a monastery on the island of Chios, dedicated to the Theotokos of the Cave, which was perhaps his home monastery. This part of the colophon was later crossed out, probably by a subsequent owner wishing to cancel the indication of its former ownership. Such deletions of ownership notes are common. A final portion of the colophon has been more emphatically cancelled by erasure. Traces of surviving letters and the typical conventions of notes of ownership suggest that this text pronounced a curse on anyone who deprived the monastery of the book. Presumably the later owner was more particularly concerned to remove this disturbing content, and went to greater lengths to render it entirely illegible.

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Q: How do you implement multi-tenancy on CouchBase? Can it be performant? I'm considering an app which will store customer data. Given the way buckets work in CouchBase, all customer data will be in one bucket.  It appears that I have two choices:

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*Implement multi-tenancy in views, by assigning a field to each record that indicates the customer it belongs to.

*Implement it by putting a factor on every key that is a customer ID.
It seems, though, that since I will be using views, I'll really want to do both.  In case number 2, I need to have the data in the record so that it can be indexed on (or maybe I can pull out part of the key in the map phase and index on customer)  and in option 1, I'd want it to be part of the key as a check when retrieving data to make sure I don't send the wrong customers data down the line.
The problem is, this is a service where multiple customers will interact, and sometimes one customer will create some data and the other will view it, at the first customers request.  But putting an ACL on each record that lists everyone who's authorized to view it would be problematic, to say the least.
I bet there is a common methodology or design pattern to answer this question, and would appreciate some pointers to best practices.
I'm also concerned about the performance if the indexes are indexing both on the particular piece of relevant data, and the customer id... a large number of different customers would presumably make the indexes much less efficient. (but maybe not.)

A: Here are my thoughts on your questions:

[Concerning items #1 and 2] - It seems, though, that since I will be using views, I'll really want to do both.

This doesn't seem to make sense to me. In Couchbase, the map phase can include content from both the key and the value. It makes little sense to store the data in both the key and the value, as you are guaranteed to have 1:1 duplication there.  Store it wherever it makes the most sense to store it; in this case, probably the value.

The problem is, this is a service where multiple customers will interact, and sometimes one customer will create some data and the other will view it, at the first customers request. But putting an ACL on each record that lists everyone who's authorized to view it would be problematic, to say the least.

My site also has muti-tenant data stored in a single database. In my case, I use object unique identifiers as my keys. By default, customers can access all objects that belong to them (I have a user object, and the user is associated with a customer account).  Users may also have additional permissions assigned to them, whereby a single object from another customer could be added to their user account, and they would thereby be granted access to view the object.
The alternative is "security through obscurity" and use guids as a random identifier, giving customers access to view any object that they have the guid for.
I would not, however, try to store the permissions on the objects themselves. That would quickly become unwieldy. You need to think about your specific use case, and decide what simple approach would work for the majority of the cases, and just not support the other 1-2% of the cases.

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Yeah, thought that too, so decided to leave it out lest it be taken in offense.
Nice, but may be you should take a black shirt.
and then use a deeper blue. Just my thoughts!
When I will get one I will donate it to another forumner.
It's all I wear... T-shirt n jeans, and of course this time of year! I also wear a warm jacket.n jumpers.
When summer comes, I am to enjoying the warmer weather, I'll be wearing g t-shirt (longer version to cover belly!) And shorts, with sandless.
Two more stellar designs right there @elmo41683 I'd happily wear both of them!
@AnkerOfficial can I get a high-quality version of the community logo, please?
I love the nautical themes of these and I think it looks great on the red shirt too.
I created a vector version of the Anker logo saved in PMS 2995 C. I just created a live trace from a high-resolution version of the logo, so it's not 100% perfect, but it's close enough for this purpose. Hope this can help some of you! I love seeing all these designs!
@TheCharneco Your method is way easier than mine, I literally sat there for an hour deleting pixel by pixel of the white background so all I was left with was the logo. Then I resized it to fit my shirt and adjusted it from there.
Thanks, glad y'all like them. I was thinking since Anker means Anchor I went for the nautical theme.
The problem I see with these designs, is although anker is called "anker" they have never done anything with anchors before. Not that I'm saying they shouldn't, but I do t know that they'll use a design based around them.
Anker is German for anchor.
Chinese like German names I suppose.
There is no enlightenment why they gave the company a German name.
May bee the "big boss" was studying here.


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Copy this driver to your WINDOWS\SYSTEM\IOSUBSYS-Directory.
Then restart Windows and have fun! This driver is only to read CD´s. Not for writing it. To write a cd you can take win on cd 3.5. there is an driver in for it.


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Q: Steam Install problems 14.04 LTS I've got a new pc yesterday, installed 14.04lts and had some problems with my graphics card driver (now fixed I believe). Now I've tried installing steam through various methods and can't get it to work. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Gtx 950
i7 4790k

A: Install steam via steam's hompage will work with file .deb.

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*Clear any remains of steam you have installed
sudo apt-get purge steam

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sudo apt-get install steam

*Click start key (or click search icon) and type in "steam"

If that does not work try the following:
sudo apt-get purge stream
sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386
sudo apt-get install ia32-libs && sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install Steam

This should install any 32 bit libraries needed (although this should be done automatically by sudo apt-get install steam if needed.

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Major groups of countries are engaged in preparatory talks among themselves prior to the opening of the Meetings of the Subsidiary Bodies of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change on Monday, May 16. These groups include the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS) and the Group of 77 (G77) and China. The Member States of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) are Members of these two groups. The Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre is being represented at the meetings by Carlos Fuller, the International and Regional Liaison Officer who is the Chairman of the Subsidiary Body on Scientific and Technological Advice (SBSTA). Mr. Fuller has met with several of the negotiating groups over the past three days to advise them on how he proposes to conduct the SBSTA session. These include the Least Developed Countries (LDCs), the African Group, AOSIS, and the Like Minded Developing Countries (LMDCs). He also met with the Chairman of the G77. On Saturday, May 14th, he met with Members of the Bolivarian Alliance (ALBA) and the Arab States. The pre-sessional meetings will continued on Sunday.
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Blast in Pak hospital where Masood Azhar is admitted: Twitterati
Rawalpindi: A Pakistani Twitter user has claimed that there was a blast at a military hospital in Rawalpindi where Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) chief Masood Azhar has been admitted.
"Huge blast at Military Hospital in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. 10 injured shifted to emergency.
Jaish-e-Mohammad chief Maulana Masood Azahar is admitted here," Ahsan Ullah MiaKhail, a social activist and human rights worker, tweeted on Sunday night.
Trump slams Obama over Turkey's Russia missile…
"Completely media blackout by Army. Media asked strictly not to cover this story," he added.
Along with his tweet, the activist also posted a video where smoke is seen coming out of a building.
There were no other details of the news.


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GLENN DOMAN founded The Institutes for the Achievement of Human Potential to which parents from every continent have been finding their way for more than a half-century. It is difficult to know if Glenn and The Institutes are better known for their pioneering work in the treatment of brain-injured children, or for their work in the early development of well children.
Glenn dealt intimately with more than twenty-five thousand families over the last fifty years and strongly influenced millions of families through the book What To Do About Your Brain-Injured Child, and the creation of the groundbreaking Gentle Revolution Series of books and materials that teach parents how to teach their babies at home.
Did Glenn Doman create The Doman Method?
It is certainly true that people sometimes call The Institutes work "The Glenn Doman Method", it is equally true that Glenn himself very much disapproved of this term. He never used this term and discouraged others from doing so whenever he could do so.
He believed that using the term "Doman Method" did not properly acknowledge the significant contributions of the many staff and parents that have helped to make the work of The Institutes the dynamic and highly successful program that it is today. He also believed that the term "method" was not an appropriate description of the philosophy, program and techniques developed by The Institutes.
The Institutes for the Achievement of Human Potential is proud to follow in the footsteps of Glenn Doman and to teach thousands of parents of brain-injured and well children worldwide.
I heard that the "Doman Method" can be used to help brain-injured children, including children diagnosed with cerebral palsy, autism, Down syndrome, developmental delay and learning problems. Is that true?
Glenn Doman and The Institutes are internationally known for pioneering work in child brain development and for its programs to help brain-injured children achieve wellness.
Historically, children diagnosed with developmental delay, cerebral palsy, autism, Down syndrome, attention deficit disorder, hyperactivity, learning problems, dyslexia, and a host of other symptomatic diagnoses have been considered hopeless. These are symptomatic labels, not a proper diagnoses. A proper diagnosis describes where the problem exists in the brain, the degree of the problem, and the extent of the problem in the brain.
Thousands of parents have come to The Institutes to learn how to help their children at home. Those parents have proven beyond any doubt that brain-injured children are not hopeless, but instead have tremendous potential. The Institutes exists to insure that all brain-injured children have a fighting chance to be well.
The objective of The Institutes is to take brain-injured children, however severely hurt, and help them to achieve normality physically, intellectually, physiologically, and socially.
I heard that I can use the "Doman Method" to teach my baby or young child at home. Is that true?
Glenn Doman wrote _How To Teach Your Baby To Read_ in 1963, and this was the beginning of a gentle revolution which continues to this day. Millions of mothers and fathers have read this book, and countless babies and young children have been started on a pathway to intellectual excellence as a result. For a half-century, mothers and fathers have been teaching their babies to read, to do math, to gain encyclopedic knowledge, as well as to become physically excellent.
For over a half-century, families have found their way to The Institutes from more than 120 nations. While there is a great diversity of background, language, and culture among the families, they have in common an extraordinary devotion to their children. Their children are their first priority in life. They are committed to doing everything in their power to help their children realize their full potential.
I know a therapist, school, or center that claims to practice the "Doman Method." Are they qualified to be teaching this program?
There are those around the world who claim to do "The Doman Method." When someone claims that they are experts in "The Doman Method," they certainly are not. First of all, if they knew Glenn Doman and understood his philosophy they would know better than to use the term "Doman Method," which he strongly disliked. Instead, it is highly likely that they have little or no knowledge about the work of Glenn Doman and The Institutes. We spend a great deal of time evaluating and programming each child. But sadly they do not. Often they take bits and pieces and create their own version of what they think the program would be. Usually their version is a pale shadow of our program and, as a result, the child does not progress as he should. Sometimes they do _the opposite_ of what we teach and use the name Glenn Doman. This is harmful to children and parents everywhere. It is also harmful to The Institutes.
The Institutes for the Achievement of Human Potential serves children from all over the world. The international headquarters is located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. Qualified branches of The Institutes are The Doman Kenkyusho in Tokyo, Japan. The Institutes have offices in Aguascalientes, Mexico, and Belem, Brasil. The Institutes presents courses for parents in Philadelphia, Japan, Mexico, and Singapore.
Are there members of the Doman family who continue to carry on Glenn Doman's life work?
Katie Doman worked side-by-side with Glenn from the first day of The Institutes in 1955 until his death in 2013 and then continued until her last day in December of 2017. Katie answered every letter written by mothers and fathers who read one of our books and wrote to us. She also saw children from all over the world and taught Mothers how to teach their children to read. Katie also traveled to Asia and South America and Europe to see children with the staff there.
Janet Doman, the daughter of Glenn and Katie Doman, has been the director of _The Institutes_ since 1980. She grew up at The Institutes and was pitching in to help brain-injured children by the time she was nine years old. She was directly involved in The Institutes groundbreaking work in early reading. Janet and her father updated and revised Glenn's international best-selling books. She co-authored How To Teach Your Baby To Read, How To Teach Your Baby Math, How To Multiply Your Baby's Intelligence, How Smart Is Your Baby?, How To Give Your Baby Encyclopedic Knowledge. Janet spends most of her day teaching the parents of hurt and well children and helping them to discover the vast potential of their babies and their own potential as teachers.


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Pata Yamaha with Brixx WorldSBK Completes Pre-Season Testing at Aragón
Yamaha's young rider line-up of Toprak Razgatlıoğlu and Andrea Locatelli signed off their 2021 FIM Superbike World Championship preparations with two constructive days of testing at MotorLand Aragón, in picture-perfect weather conditions this week.
Completing a combined total of nearly 350 laps, both 24-year-old riders put the finishing touches on their Yamaha R1 WorldSBK machines ahead of the season-opener at the Alcañiz venue, due to take place on 21-23 May.
The third Aragón test came as an additional fixture on the Pata Yamaha with Brixx WorldSBK planner, following inclement weather for Locatelli last week and Razgatlıoğlu's absence from the team test programme in April following his diagnosis with Covid-19.
An eager Razgatlıoğlu re-joined his crew ahead of his second season on the #54 Yamaha R1 WorldSBK with a clean bill of health after undergoing precautionary medical checks in Barcelona on Monday.
For 2020 WorldSSP Champion Locatelli, the test was an important opportunity to take another step forward in his understanding of the R1 WorldSBK before his first race start in the premier class later this month.
The team worked on a mixture of race-length simulations, outright pace and final developments to end pre-season testing in an optimistic frame of mind ahead of the first round of the campaign. Locatelli and Razgatlıoğlu will next don their Pata Yamaha with Brixx WorldSBK leathers, race helmets, boots and gloves for Free Practice 1 on Friday 21 May.
Toprak Razgatlıoğlu: 1'49.763 / 175 laps
"I was excited to be back on my Yamaha R1 after a long wait! Day one was ok, I enjoyed riding a lot, but day two was a positive improvement after we tried some new parts to find a good set-up for the first race. I felt the lap times were coming really good on the race tyres, but as always we will have to see what happens in the races. I think this year I am more strong, last year I was not fast at this track but this time I have improved physically and mentally. The conditions have been quite hot, and to test some new parts in these conditions and find some improvements is good preparation. Now we must put together the best package, but I am happy to be back and I feel ready for the first race."
Andrea Locatelli: 1'50.702 / 174 laps
"It was better on day two compared to day one and in general, the feeling of my R1 is good. We have worked a lot and tried different set-ups, we also did a long run to understand the performance over a race distance. It was very good for me to do this because it's important, but also it has not been easy for Yamaha on this track in the past so I want to work and push to understand where I can improve. The last test here was not so good for me, but now the feeling is better, like I had at Barcelona or Misano. I know my first race in WorldSBK will not be easy, this I expect, but I want to learn and to improve. During the race weekend we have a lot less track time, but maybe I can follow other riders and learn more – and then maybe on Saturday during the first race I can be in a position to fight a little bit. The weekend of the first race, with the emotion and energy, for sure will push me more compared to testing!"
Paul Denning - Team Principal, Pata Yamaha with Brixx WorldSBK
"Aragón's weather was much kinder for this test, we had two beautiful sunny days and the opportunity to put in over 1,750 kilometres and improve our performance at this circuit. It was really good to have Toprak back on the bike after his enforced absence and immediately he was able to find his rhythm and significantly improve his performance potential at MotorLand Aragón compared to last year's race event, both on the Pirelli SC0 race tyre and the SCX sprint race tyre. The race simulation this afternoon wasn't quite as good as we had hoped, but was still an improvement on 2020 and has given us some really important information for the next steps. It was great to have Toprak around the team again, in positive spirits and we can't wait to see him perform under race conditions again on the Yamaha R1. As a rookie in the WorldSBK class, there's a lot to learn for Loka and his third visit to Aragón was the best test so far. It's a tough balance when a rider has to learn how to get the best from the superbike in terms of technique, and also improve the machine from a technical point of view. Finally this afternoon, the guys found some points that helped him to improve his style and the race simulation was quite encouraging in terms of pace and consistency. We know that Aragón is going to be a challenging event to start the 2021 WorldSBK Championship but, with the great support of Yamaha and the whole group around the team, every possible effort has been made and we're looking forward to getting back here to see what we can achieve!"
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This is Lunn's most desireable book, published as a Centenary tribute to the Alpine Club from the Swiss Foundation for Alpine Research. Lunn knew many of the prominent figures in mountaineering and provides fascinating insight into world mountaineering at the time. The binding matches the Club's usual red cloth.


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September 2016 LSAT Section 4 Question 14
Psychology researchers observed that parents feel emotion while singing to their infants. The researchers hypothesize...
Cameron on March 19 at 06:09PM
Choice A
The passage says that parents feel more emotion when singing to their kids, but the experiment simply tests if adults have more emotion when singing to their kids vs. to an empty room. Someone could easily say that there was more emotion not because they were singing to their kids but because they were singing to a person. Choice A combats that weakness in the argument. I do not understand why it is wrong.
Jeremy on May 17 at 10:56PM
Same question here. Please explain.
My best guess at an explanation: The thrust of the argument is that the "psychologists were able to correctly identify, by listening alone, which recordings were of parents singing to their children." As such, we can conclude that the premise that would most strengthen the argument would tell us something about the aural qualities of the singing in question. A does not do this and as such does not strengthen the argument in question. Nor do B, C, or E. D - "When a person feels emotion, the emotion provokes involuntary physiological responses that affect the vocal cords and lungs" - by contrast does.


In this op-ed for the Australian Financial Review, O'Neil, Taylor and Tow explore Australia's position in the upcoming summits on the Korean Peninsula.
Peter Van Ness, 'Saving Face on the Korean Peninsula', East Asia Forum, 5 May 2017.
If you missed out on a ticket to this sold out event, don't worry, you can watch it on Facebook Live - livestreamed on our ANU Coral Bell School Facebook page from 3.45pm Mon 30th April.
The United States and Asia in 2013: From Primacy to Marginalization?
Published in Asian Survey, 54(1) 2014: 12-21.


Oasis Hot Springs Mobile Home & RV Park is located on Dillon Road, just outside of Desert Hot Springs, at the northwest corner of the Coachella Valley in Southern California.
We are just minutes from Palm Springs, in Desert Hot Springs, and within 20 minutes to a half an hour from Cathedral City, Palm Desert, Rancho Mirage, Indian Wells and La Quinta. Plus, we are a two hour drive either from Los Angeles via 1-10 or from San Diego via 1-15 and 1-10. We are located on the direct route from Los Angeles to Phoenix.


Well this was incredibly weird seeing this line-up, because I had only seen the Yeswest line-up before and I was a huge Squire fan and now I was seeing this "classic Yes" group with no Squire! Only a year and a half before in the same place I saw Anderson singing all these Yes songs with totally different guys!
The first thing that struck me was "Man has Jon got Balls" (referring to his "casual" stroll to the stage singing a wonderful rendition of TAAW). After seeing the subsequent appearence of each of the principal band members I thought to myself "Man, do these guys have balls"! I mean, what other band could start off a concert with 4 solos, lasting in all about 35 minutes? They went on to play the same set list as "an Evening of Yes Music Plus" with the addition of "Sweet Dreams". The pedal steel in AYAI was tremendous, as were Jon's vocals. Wakeman blew me away... I do have one question though, How does Bill play an entire concert and not break a sweat? I was in the audience just listening (and occassionally chiming in with off-key singing)!


A bit of news from a while back (Christmas).
Whilst on her trip back home to Ubeda in Jaen, Spain at Christmas, TRAIN ESR Miriam Ruiz Cantos at beneficiary Queen Mary's University of London took the opportunity to talk science at different primary and secondary schools in the area, as well as appearing onl ocal radio to describe her experiences working as an international researcher.
In particular, she gave two talks on careers in science and talked about her experience to kids about to choose a university career this summer at her former high school San Juan de la Cruz, and at a nearby school Los Cerros, .
For her former primary school, Miriam gave a very simple talk about stem cells, obesity and cancer to 11-12 years old kids about to go to high school.
The radio interview was broadcast in Cadena Ser ( this is an audio of the interview and a summary post (in Spanish). In the interview Miriam explained about TRAIN and how we are 15 PhDs across Europe (not only UK) and how they collaborate to work with TRIB proteins and determine their metabolic role. All in all a very positive and rewarding outreach experience.


Download Taskbar Button Manager 2.3 - Easily move your taskbar buttons.
Taskbar Button Manager is a simple utility that helps you arrange the buttons on your Windows taskbar in any way you want by using drag and drop. Moving your task buttons is very easy, no hotkey needed. In addition to drag and drop you can also use a special program window for moving the taskbar buttons. You can hide running programs too, so they don't show on your taskbar. The program works in all situations - even when the taskbar buttons are grouped or when the taskbar is not located in the standard bottom area of the screen.
A few minor bugs were solved.


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Cybersecurity Effectiveness Podcast
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Budgets, Bureaucracies, and Behaviors
Cylance Chief Security and Trust Officer Malcolm Harkins reflects on his core leadership philosophies and the processes he implements to cultivate a professional culture of excellence. He walks us through his transition from working as the Chief Security & Privacy Officer at the multinational corporation, Intel, to joining the cutting-edge cybersecurity start-up, Cylance.
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I have a core belief that when you're choosing a company, manager, a job, you've got two basic choices: you're either running away from something or you're running toward something.
Malcolm Harkins is responsible for Cylance's information risk, security, public policy, and customer outreach to help improve understanding of cyber risks.
Brian Contos:
Welcome to the Cybersecurity Effectiveness Podcast, sponsored by Verodin. The Verodin Security Instrumentation Platform is the only business platform for security that helps you manage, measure, improve, and communicate security effectiveness.
I'm your host, Brian Contos, and we've got a really special guest today. Joining me is Malcolm Harkins. Welcome to the podcast, Malcolm.
Malcolm Harkins:
Thanks Brian. Happy to be here.
Hey, Malcolm before we get going, could you give the audience a little bit of background on who you are and what you do?
Yeah, Malcolm Harkins, I'm currently Chief Security and Trust Officer with Cylance Corporation. So, I manage all of our internal controls and security risk and compliance activities along with dabbling in corporate social responsibility and some of our ethical work internally.
Previous to that, spent 24 years almost with Intel Corporation, so a little bit of an oddball, worked for two companies in 27 years. My last job at Intel was Worldwide Chief Security and Privacy Officer, where I oversaw everything from corporate emergency management, all aspects of information risk and security, product security, not the features for sale, but the development processes and practices to try and minimize vulnerabilities in technology.
Well, just a few hats in there, of course, in that 27 years of time, I'm sure. So, Malcom let's dive into this, this juxtaposition of these very, very different companies and not just based on size, but what was it like leaving Intel after 24 years and joining Cylance? And when you joined, I'll just mention to our listeners, this wasn't the Cylance we all know and love today, this was a very early stage start-up. Just kind of getting out there and getting moving. You had left this behemoth of Intel to go to this relatively unknown [company]. That must have been an interesting journey.
It was. It was exhilarating, and I get asked this question a lot. To be honest, other than the size and complexity and stuff like that, it wasn't much of what I'd say substantial change for me. I mean, both companies are in the tech industry. My role, by and large, is very similar other than for a smaller company. But, I kind of have a core belief when you're choosing a company, manager, a job, you've got two basic choices: you're either running away from something or you're running toward something.
If you're running away from something, it's only out of dumb luck, you end up in a destination and if you're running toward something, there's purpose, passion, curiosity, something that propels you. I ran at things for 24 years at Intel, and Cylance was the next thing I needed to run towards because of what Stuart McClure and Ryan Permeh had created, why they had created it, what the product was capable of doing, and my core belief system in terms of what's been wrong with the industry and how to manage risk.
So, first rule of choosing a job and a company and a manager, run toward something. Then you always have to find three things when you get to an organization to really be in your ideal state. I think it's a leadership philosophy that I have, but it's also something that I seek for myself. I think people need to routinely be able to say to themselves six words: I believe, I belong, I matter. They need to believe in the mission, they need to believe in their management, they need to believe in themselves and their team. They need to feel like they belong, because frankly we all want to know that the organization we are a part of, people frankly give a shit about us, and then the work that you do and the work that your group and the organization does has to matter.
For me, because I've always thought that way. I've managed myself that way, and tried to create that environment and culture for the teams that I've run. It wasn't that much of a transition, because I felt more strongly in Cylance that my belief structure and my ability to have an impact would be greater, and I think has been greater than anything I ever did at Intel.
Yeah. You know, that's what I've always respected about you, Malcom. You take a very personal, heartfelt approach to what you do, where you're doing it, who you're doing it with. It's not squarely based on hey this is awesome tech, and I think there could be a great upside here. There's a lot more to it, which I think makes you the leader you are today.
But let's talk a little bit about the differences. What's the difference — and maybe there's no difference at all, I'm guessing maybe there's some — but what's the difference between running a small team at a smaller company versus the hundreds of employees that you used to have reporting up to you in a company with well over 100,000 employees?
Yeah. There is a significant amount of difference there. Because again, when you look at the span that I had and the governance and oversight that I had, there was several hundred folks, and cross-secting 100,000 employees. Email volume was high, because of the size of the organization, the size of the team that I managed. Budget complexity was greater, because I had tens of millions of dollars I was responsible for, making decisions around.
That aspect of it, there was what I'd say, I've always said there's kind of two battlefields a CISO or a Chief Security Officer faces, the external one that we all talk about, and then the internal one of budgets, bureaucracies and behaviors. Let's just say in a large company, and with what I had to deal with, that internal battlefield was much more significant to go navigate and work through. That's a big difference that I don't have at Cylance.
The team dynamics of managing a small team is, I miss sometimes running a large organization, because I liked being able to do that. But the ability to have one to one interaction is much greater with a small team, which I also really like, because it creates a stronger personal connection.
So, you've got those type of differences by and large, and then the fact that I've worked for somebody who can still deconstruct malicious code when the last time I wrote code was in Fortran in the 90s. There's dynamics like that, that are dramatically different than Intel, considering some of the folks that I've reported to, even though we were in a technical company, didn't have hands on technical competencies like the leaders at Cylance do. Like I said, a variety of different organizational dynamics, but by and large, the allocation of time is a little bit different. I spend the vast majority of my time external facing, and that's because we're a third party provider to folks, so I have to engage with our customers on their assessment of us as a potential risk to them, explain the privacy dynamics, what we do from a compliance perspective, and then help drive the business and do public policy related stuff. At Intel, I spent maybe 5%, 10% of my time external facing. So that's also a big mix change of my time allocation.
Wow, wow. I didn't realize there was that big of a difference. That does make sense. Let's take two of those Bs, budget and bureaucracy. When it comes to you and your team being more effective, do you find it more challenging dealing with a large bureaucracy where you have a much larger budget, as opposed to a lot less bureaucracy, more streamlined, smaller company, but maybe not the budget that you had before? Which paradigm leads to, at least in your experience, a CSO being able to be more effective?
It's a great question, and like I said, that is an internal battlefield. If I'd looked back in my early days, getting into security more out of accident in post 9/11 and Code Red and then when I was asked to go run security and business continuity in the IT organization, Doug Bush who was the CIO, he hired me because of my prior background in finance, procurement, project management, business operations. He knew I knew how the company ran, which was different than the technical security competencies of the small security team Intel had. So, he knew I would win on that internal battlefield and learn from the security team, and they would learn from me.
So, in those early days, because I knew all those mechanisms and I knew how to win on that internal battlefield, it was actually for me, quite easy. But as Intel evolved, executives changed, their belief structure on what to do and how to do it versus mine differed. That became, in many ways, much more problematic and challenging. The budget bureaucracy dynamic shifted a lot come 2012, 2013 and going forward. And Cylance, it's pretty simple. I report to the CEO, he gets it. Our general counsel, the finance team get it. Again, the budget's smaller, but by and large, I can tell you with 100% certainty, having a smaller budget and a smaller team with people with the same mindset on what to do to actually best manage and mitigate the risk, my life is a lot easier. I'm not playing Whack-a-Mole with malicious code. I'm not getting woken up at two in the morning routinely because of an incident or an issue.
So having a culture of controls that puts you in a better spot to manage and mitigate risk makes that easier internally at Cylance than it was at Intel.
Yeah. I always find it's great when a non-technical, non-security leader, business decision maker, whether it's a board or a CEO, clearly you have a very technical and security savvy CEO in Stuart, but others kind of get it. They're on board with always having to fight that battle.
Let's go into a little bit of your leadership and management practices that you have. Have they fundamentally stayed the same, or did they have to morph sort of along the way, and as you grew in this new role?
You know, they've in essence stayed the same. When I was back at Intel, when I went from running kind of a smaller security team to larger organizations, one of Intel's CIOs had told me at one point my leadership style and approach would have to change for me to scale. I basically said, "I don't want to change. You're right, I'm going to have to deal with how I interact with people differently," because I make a lot of personal connections, and I like having that one-to-one relationship with folks. As I went from managing dozens to managing hundreds, that had to change a little bit, but I also did not hide away from any engagement or dialogue that any employee wanted to have with me.
That sometimes became a calendar challenge, but I've always kind of... there's a book called The Leadership Challenges that Kouzes and Posner wrote back at least 10 years ago or so. I used to teach The Leadership Challenge Workshops before. There's a quote in the book that I love, that "leadership is the art of motivating others to want to struggle for shared aspirations." That to me is one of the best definitions of leadership I've ever seen. I subscribe to that philosophy, which is why that culture of I believe, I belong, and I matter is important to me.
Then it just becomes how you engage with people to deal with it. But by and large, I think my management style is the same both as it was at Intel as it is at Cylance, and I have some former Intel employees that were part of my team that are at Cylance, and they came because of that and because of Cylance. They've told me that I'm pretty much the same person, the same way. I think I'm relatively consistent, good or bad, from that perspective.
Yeah. That's refreshing to hear, because often you'll find people that say, "Oh I could never work for a start-up or a smaller company. I'm just so accustomed to working in the large organization." While I think there sometimes is some truth to that, just in terms of the pace at which individual operate. If you're okay with that pace, the fundamentals don't necessarily change. You're a great example of someone that's been through that. And you've also done it with multiple titles. Let's kind of switch gears and talk about that a bit.
What are the differences from your experience between being a CISO, a Chief Security and Privacy Officer, as well as a Chief Security and Trust Officer. How do these roles and titles differ?
It's interesting. I've always had the same picture of what I'll [call] "the kaleidoscope of risk." Whether I was the CISO, a Chief Security and Privacy Officer or a Chief Security and Trust Officer,,, so I've got a picture that I've put in my first and second book, I've used it in speeches, of all the dynamics of risk that have to be seen. I think though in the industry, CISO primarily means I report into IT, and my scope is IT and that's it. I always thought when I was CISO at Intel, that my scope was actually larger than the CIO's, regardless of whether or not I reported to them, because information risk in many ways was well outside the scope of what most CIOs had accountability for, because there were things in factories, there [were] other aspects of intellectual property that were tied in with business units. You had e-discovery issues. You had international traffic and arms regulations. You had export control.
There [were] a bunch of different dynamics to things, and other interdependencies with aspects of the business and other compliance things that I always thought as my role as CISO. Now, when I became Chief Security and Privacy Officer, that was when I also picked up more direct responsibility for product security at Intel, versus indirectly influencing it.
Malcom Harkins:
To be honest, the job title was going to be something like Chief Trust Officer, but Intel's Chief Technology Officer didn't want another CTO, so it became Chief Security and Privacy Officer. I had always had, from the early 2000s, the privacy team underneath me, that partnered with the legal team, who had the legal privacy acumen to interpret the law and do stuff like that. Just like at Cylance, Chief Security and Trust Officer, like I said, by and large, my scope is about the same, and I dabble in a variety of things like ethics and compliance, much like I did at Intel. Corporate social responsibility, much like I did at Intel. But I have, at Cylance, a little bit of a smaller team, it's easier to do it rather than at Intel there was somebody in a whole group that owned social responsibility, that I kind of plugged into and worked with. There was a Chief Compliance Officer that reported in to legal that ran the ethics and compliance oversight committee that I was one of the senior managers steering that ship on.
So, like I said, the dynamics of how you govern that stuff are a little bit different, but by and large, for me, the governance structure that I've always tried to put my fingers into are the same, because I see security and privacy as a social responsibility. I see it as an ethical issue in addition to just the compliance and risk aspects of it. So, like I said, there's a lot of similarities, just the nuances of the structures are a bit different.
Yeah, yeah. I love your statement, and sometimes it's just because the CTO doesn't want the same acronym.
Malcom, you mentioned a couple of your books. Why don't you give a quick little shout out the titles and what those are about real quick for everybody?
Yeah. So, I've got two editions of basically the same book out. Managing Information Risk and Security with my tagline, Protect to Enable, because I've long believed that the security teams' mission is protect to enable people, data and business. If you're not protecting to enable that, it's protection for protection's sake, which is a waste of time, a waste of money, which means you really have to understand the mission objective of the particular business unit or broader organization, and make sure that you are protecting to enable that mission and those business outcomes.
So, the second book was published about two years ago, it was August, September of 2016. First edition was in late 2012. Between the two of them, there's been over 200,000 downloads and probably 75,000 hard copy sales. You can get it from the publisher, Apress. If you like electronic books, both versions are available for free, both in Kindle as well as the other e-book versions on the publisher's site, or you can get it on Amazon if you want a hard copy.
That's great. That's great, and congratulations on those numbers, those are fantastic.
That term, protect to enable, I really think it resonates today as we see the maturation of our space, and nobody ever opens up, let's say a bank, for example, and says, "Boy, I'm going to open up this bank. It's going to be the most compliant and most secure bank in the world." That's not your business mission. So having security enabling that, I think is really where everyone who wants to go, whether or not they're moving there at the same pace is a different question. But, as we wrap things up here, Malcolm, and we like to ask this of all our guests. Who's your favorite superhero or super villain and why?
It's interesting you talk about heroes. I had been doing a quick video thing last week at our user conference, and one of the folks asked me for some closing comments, and some stuff just came out of my mouth. It was because I really see Cylance customers as heroes. They took a leap of faith with a start-up a few years ago, and changing the dynamic and really going with a prevention first control philosophy. They're seeing the benefits out of it, certainly fueling Cylance's growth.
The comment that I made is, "Heroes help us realize and see that hope is real." So for me, I'm a hopeful person and for me, my superhero is one that's driven by principle: it's Captain America. And I love the character because it's principles over politics. There's a focus on equality and justice. You have focus on honor and doing the right action. So, there's a moral compass so to speak, to that character that strongly resonates for me. So, Captain America is my favorite superhero.
I love it. I love it. I think that's an awesome choice. And I love your perspective on the customers as well. I was in Texas earlier this week, meeting with a number of oil and gas companies. Some of them happen to be Cylance customers as well, and they mentioned the point in time when they said, "Well, there's this new company coming on board a few years ago, their name is Cylance, and they've got this really cool approach to end point, and we've already got this legacy control, and maybe we'll run the two together side by side." So many of them have talked about, "Yeah, we just run Cylance now, and we've just had so many issues with the other stuff, whether it's product A, B, or C." So I really think it's a kudos to Cylance and the team and the technology and the feedback from customers and how the product has evolved over the years to be sort of the powerhouse it is today.
Malcolm, thanks so much for joining us on today's podcast, and thanks to our listeners for joining. Be sure to check out other versions of the Cybersecurity Effectiveness Podcast, sponsored by Verodin.
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Кратер Гельмерт () — небольшой ударный кратер в восточной экваториальной области видимой стороны Луны. Название присвоено в честь немецкого учёного-геодезиста Фридриха Роберта Гельмерта (1843—1917) и утверждено Международным астрономическим союзом в 1973 г.

Описание кратера

Ближайшими соседями кратера являются кратер Кисс на западе-северо-западе; кратер Видманштеттен на северо-западе, кратер Као на севере, кратер Суэзи на северо-востоке, кратер Бруннер на юго-востоке, кратер Хоутерманс на юге и кратер Крейкен на юго-западе. На севере от кратера располагается Море Смита. Селенографические координаты центра кратера , диаметр 26,7 км, глубина 1,9 км.

Кратер перекрывает южную часть кратера Као. В месте соединения валов кратеров имеется широкий проход соединяющий кратеры, дно чаш обоих кратеров заполнено лавой и имеют один уровень. Вследствие заполнения лавой дно чаши кратера Гельмерт имеет такое же низкое альбедо как и Море Смита на севере. Средняя высота вала кратера над окружающей местностью 870 м, объем кратера составляет приблизительно 440 км³.

Сателлитные кратеры
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См. также
 Список кратеров на Луне
 Лунный кратер
 Морфологический каталог кратеров Луны
 Планетная номенклатура
 Селенография
 Минералогия Луны
 Геология Луны
 Поздняя тяжёлая бомбардировка

Примечания

Ссылки
 Цифровой фотографический атлас Луны
 Топографическая карта окрестностей кратера

 Andersson, L.E., and E.A. Whitaker, NASA Catalogue of Lunar Nomenclature, NASA Reference Publication 1097, October 1982.

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Q: Can Windows Authentication be used with PHP on IIS for ODBC connections? Is it possible to use the users windows authentication (setting in iis) for database connections in PHP?
This is possible in the .NET world through a technique called "impersonation". Does this also exist in the PHP/IIS world?
EDIT: The Database I am using is MS SQL Server 2005.

A: If you can authenticate the PHP application with Keberos, you can use kerberos Delegation to pass the credentials to the secondary server.
Ken Schaefer has a whole series of blogs on Kerberos, including this article on delegation.

A: Impersonation through Kerberos is the most secure answer, as well as the simplest to administrate. Having separate 'synthetic' users when accessing resources like databases means you basically bypass all possibilities for database authorization, get duplicate points of access administration, and that you get zero traceability at the database level (you just see that MySyntheticUser tried to access something, not who was behind it).
Having said this, I should warn you that Microsoft's Kerberos isn't always as straightforward as you would expect. We've had significant trouble getting it to work between pure .NET solutions, IIS, SQL Server 2005, AD domains and Internet Explorer. Most of it was down to getting trust configured exactly right. Also, while I'm not a PHP developer myself, I find some indications that you may have trouble accessing Kerberos library functionality. Find out what support you can get for SSPI. Also, your PHP process must have the necessary permissions to impersonate users, which I believe can be administered through IIS.
I would not necessarily expect all of this to be straightforward or easy, particularly as Microsoft has few incitaments to support non-Microsoft languages and platforms.

A: Must each user be verified separately? If not, you can set IIS to impersonate one person.

A: I know that you can supply the login name and password that you want associated with your ODBC connection if you create it through System DSN.  I assume that the login un/pw can be windows user accounts.
Doing it that way seems to limit you to a predetermined account.
It might be possible to create a group, add the desired users, password protect the directory and only allow the group access to the directory.
You didn't say which database you're using though.  If you are using MS Access, I know you can hide your database passwords.  See my comment on another post.

A: Which way are you running IIS on PHP? As a standalone CGI or ISAPI?
My preferred solution would be to have a separate user on SQL Server for the access, instead of trying to force the IIS to run as an impersonated a user which is fine for development machines but not so good later on for production or even staging.
But if you're using FastCGI, it is possible to impersonate a user that the process is run by with the configuration file from what I remember, which passes the user logged in's credentials.


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Just two places remain for Stanley's Ride to the Light
Only two places remain for Stanley's charity cycle ride from the Wham Stadium to Sunderland
Luke Pearson
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Following a great response, there are now just two places remaining for Accrington Stanley's Ride to the Light charity cycle ride to Sunderland ahead of the fixture between the two sides on Saturday 25th April.
After the announcement was made just four days ago, five Stanley supporters have already committed to taking on the approximately 200-mile charity cycle ride.
There are now just two places remaining and should you wish to participate, then you will also be helping to raise a target of £5,000 for the Official Accrington Stanley Supporters' Trust (OASST).
The money raised for the OASST will then be spent on improving the experience for fans at the Wham Stadium.
Stanley's Ride to the Light will take place across three days and the charity cycle ride will begin on Thursday 23rd April, with further details below:
Thursday 23rd April - Stanley to Penrith (circa 75-80 miles)
Friday 24th April - Penrith to Hexham (circa 75-80 miles)
Saturday 25th April - Hexham to Sunderland (40-45 miles)
The route of the ride would take the best cycleway to Penrith from the Wham Stadium and then follow Hadrian's Wall Cycle Route to Sunderland.
Those taking part will need to pay for their bed and breakfast, food and each cyclist would be asked to raise a minimum of £500 on top of their personal costs to do the ride.
There will be a service vehicle available to transport food, drinks, clothing and spares.
You do not need to be an Olympic-standard cyclist to take part, all you need is a decent bike, a helmet, cycling clothing and a big heart!
Training rides will be organised for those who need to get some extra miles in before the event.
With 10 weeks until the start of the ride Stanley's Managing Director, David Burgess stated: "We have had a tremendous response from supporters within the first week of the launch of the charity cycle ride and we are now looking to add two more team members before the end of February to step up and cycle with us from Stanley to Sunderland.
"Last season's trip to Portsmouth was a great experience and this year we are looking to make it even better by taking in the scenic route along Hadrian's Wall, arriving at the Stadium of Light for the final away game at Sunderland around lunchtime on Saturday 25th April."
If you want to register for the Ride to the Light or for further information, please contact David Burgess via one of the following:
Email - david.burgess@accringtonstanley.co.uk
Mobile - 07730 691243
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The closing date for entries is Saturday 29th February.
Support the club and get fitter in the process!
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It's time to play the war card
Chet Nagle Former CIA Agent
Everyone has suddenly noticed an elephant in the room: Play the War Card! So right after Daniel Pipes' column in National Review Online last week, "How to Save the Obama Presidency: Bomb Iran," pundits from Arnaud de Borchgrave, to Pat Buchanan, to Sarah Palin rushed to approve or disapprove of the idea. They all bring their agendas to the debate, but they all agree a U.S. attack on Iran's nuclear facilities would significantly raise Obama's disastrous approval poll ratings. Like politics, all warfare is domestic.
Even with the issue finally out in the sunlight, questions remain like: Why attack Iran when sanctions and ballistic missile defenses are available? Would an attack be effective anyway, and what about the Muslim response? Examination of those key points is timely.
First, no serious observer doubts Iran's intentions except Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair, who told Congress last week he did not know whether Iran has decided to produce nuclear weapons. Although this has been the posture of the Bush and Obama administrations for years, officials now publically concede that Tehran's huge uranium enrichment program is designed to build nuclear weapons. In addition, the German newspaper Sueddeutsche Zeitung just reported that with the help of a Russian expert in advanced warhead design, Iran is developing a nuclear warhead small enough to fit in their Shahab 3 intercontinental ballistic missile. The paper added that Western intelligence agencies and diplomats confirmed the report; other reports suggest Iran already has a warhead but it is too large for their missile.
Whatever the status of Iran's program, the Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu gave a thinly veiled warning to Iran on Jan. 27 (Holocaust Memorial Day) saying, "From this site, I vow as the leader of the Jewish state that we will never again allow the hand of evil to destroy the life of our people and the life of our state. Never again!"
Tempo increased with a statement on Feb. 9 by Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, that his country would "punch" the western powers during the annual celebration of the revolution on Thursday, Feb. 11. He said: "The Iranian nation, with its unity and God's grace, will punch the arrogance (western powers) on the 22nd of Bahman (11 February) in a way that will leave them stunned." (Agence France-Presse).
What might that "punch" be? If Iran tests a nuclear device the calculus of terror in the Middle East changes dramatically, and things will surely happen on several fronts. Such a test is unlikely, however, and the "punch" is probably some new conventional armament. Nevertheless, Iran's promise to wipe Israel off the face of the earth would spur that nation to action should Iran demonstrate a nuclear arsenal. And Israel is not the only concerned Middle East nation. A nuclear arms race is already under way in the region and would accelerate. The purchase of Pakistani nuclear weapons by Shiite Iran's fearful Sunni neighbors cannot be ruled out.
With China refusing to endorse an embargo on gasoline sales to Iran, and with Russia dragging its feet, the peaceful option of sanctions is a dead horse. Ineffectual promises of sanctions and vague threats were hallmarks of the Bush presidency. To that Obama has only added lapsed deadlines and the offer of ballistic missile defenses (BMD) to Iran's neighbors. Why does Washington follow such failed policies? The answer is that a nuclear-armed Iran is a distant threat to the United States, and even if Iran somehow landed a missile on American soil we would absorb the blow and completely incinerate them. So Washington delays action, counsels patience, and hopes that something will happen soon—even if that something is an Iranian nuclear capability. Israel does not have the luxury of distance or land mass, and a single Iranian nuclear missile slipping through the Aegis or Patriot BMD systems would be a catastrophe. Into this mix comes the debate of whether or not American military action against Iran would bolster poll standings of president Obama. I believe U.S. military action is a moot point, since there is absolutely nothing to indicate that Obama would consider playing the war card.
White House meetings on the subject of Iran must be interesting. If we attack Iran we face a tsunami of condemnation while Islamic leaders whip the 'Muslim Street' into a frenzy. Terror attacks on Americans will take place here and abroad. And if Israel attacks Iran instead, we will be named a co-conspirator and face the same tidal wave. Damned if we do, and damned if we don't. Meanwhile, the military ball is in Israel's court.
The world knows the U.S. military can destroy any target in the world without using nuclear weapons. But what about Israel? That country, with a population less than that of New York City, has developed a "triad"—the capability to launch a nuclear strike from aircraft, missile silos, and submarines. Besides Israel, only the US, Russia, and China have that deterrent power. But would Israel use nuclear weapons in a pre-emptive strike on Iran? I suggest that is unlikely because, as we will see below, it is unnecessary in the usual sense. As for a non-nuclear pre-emptive strike, Israel cannot successfully attack Iran with conventional weapons or aircraft. The distance is great, the defenses formidable, and the casualties would be very high. Instead, I believe Israel will use an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) weapon. What's that?
In 1962 the U.S. conducted an atmospheric test called Starfish Prime. In it, a 1.4 megaton weapon was detonated 400 kilometers above Johnson Island in the Pacific. The EMP from that test knocked out street lights in Hawaii, 900 miles away! The Soviets held similar tests and discovered EMP effects can penetrate far underground. If Israel used one of its Jericho III missiles to detonate 400 kilometers above north central Iran there would be no blast or radiation effects on the ground. In fact, if the strike was at noon on a sunny day the people below would not know it happened except their lights would go out, cars stop, fridges die, power line transformers short out, refineries shut down, and yes, those uranium enrichment centrifuges in caverns stop spinning. This bloodless annihilation, coupled with a selective cyber attack, would freeze Iran for decades.
What could be Iran's response to such an attack? If they can find a working radio they can announce they have mined the Strait of Hormuz. Because of depth, width, and its hydrographic features the Strait cannot be mined, but if Iran says it is mined it would have the same effect. Lloyds will cancel insurance for any tanker transiting the Strait. Then we revisit "Tanker War" tactics of 1985, and the U.S. Navy would escort any ship anxious to cash in on the crisis. If shore missile batteries were somehow still operational, a battle group in the area together with bombers from Diego Garcia would reduce them to rubble, along with associated infrastructure like military harbors. A rain of missiles from Hezbollah in Syria would have to be endured by Israel, unless another EMP weapon was used. Terror attacks would be made on Israelis and Americans, but those can be dealt with by law enforcement and military forces, especially if they are forewarned. Of course the price of oil and gold would spike for a while. On the positive side, Iranian "Green" opposition forces would have an opportunity to take to the darkened streets of Tehran and rid themselves of the corrupt clerical regime.
So it seems the "war card" is in the hands of Israel, and the card has "EMP" on it.
Chet Nagle is the author of IRAN COVENANT.
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For making voice-activated computer interface a part of everyday life
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Alexa, what's the weather? Alexa, set a timer for 3:30. Alexa, what year did Brazil host the World Cup? Alexa, play "Purple Rain" by Prince.
In homes around the world, the voice-activated assistant Alexa has become ubiquitous, integrated into a million everyday moments. Amazon has sold over 100 million Alexa-enabled devices—and sparked a frenzy of efforts to develop skills for the voice assistant to perform. There are now some 70,000 skills available through the device, each one making the technology more valuable—and more mainstream.
Alexa's runaway success and influence started in a shroud of secrecy. In 2011, when Amazon bought voice-recognition startup Yap, former vice president of research Jeff Adams and his team of engineers were flown to Amazon's headquarters with no advance details. Only once on-site was the team briefed on Amazon's top-secret project idea: create a voice recognition system that would let users interact with a smart speaker from anywhere in a room with no screen involved.
"My first response was, 'I'm sorry, it can't be done,'" says Adams. Amazon wasn't deterred. "They knew it was a moonshot," Adams goes on. "I was told to spend whatever it took to make it happen."
A project that sponsors originally hoped would be completed in nine months ultimately took three years and a budget that's estimated to exceed US$200 million for the voice technology alone. The high price tag didn't dissuade Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos. "To Amazon's credit, once we proved it could be done with a lot of work, they committed the resources," Adams says. "They understood that it was a problem worth solving." The journey proved to be a memorable one.
"To Amazon's credit, once we proved it could be done with a lot of work, they committed the resources. They understood that it was a problem worth solving."
Jeff Adams
former vice president of research at voice-recognition startup Yap
The Noise and the Signal
Within Amazon, the Alexa effort was referred to as Project D. "No one knew what we were up to," Adams says. The company had previously greenlighted three top-secret initiatives, with results ranging from the hit Kindle e-reader to the phenomenal flop of the Fire Phone smartphone. A public misstep might have prompted some companies to rethink their innovation labs, but Amazon took the phone failure in stride, says Ahmed Bouzid, former head of product on the Alexa project team.
"It was the culture at Amazon that failures are learning opportunities," explains Bouzid, now CEO of Alexa skills development company Witlingo. "The people on that team felt like they did what they could, and they were ready to tackle the next project." Many of those team members were moved over to Alexa.
Anyone who has set a voice-activated timer while stirring a simmering pan and listening to music might be hard-pressed to remember that, in the early days of speech recognition, the technology couldn't interpret human language from more than a short distance away. "So many echoes are created that the mic gets eight or nine copies of a sound at different delays," Adams says. It would become muddled and impossible to interpret.
To solve that challenge, Adams assembled a team of 60 of the best speech and language scientists and engineers. For nearly a year, his team fine-tuned machine-learning technologies capable of parsing out human speech from background din and ambient echoes. Then, to train the technology to actually interpret that language, the team fed it massive amounts of voice data. They rented spaces across the country and spent a year hiring temporary workers—with different accents, speech patterns and vocal cadences—to read scripts at various distances from the microphone. (Adams left Amazon just before Alexa launched to found voice-tech firm Cobalt Speech and Language.)
By the end of its third year, the Alexa team had created speech technology capable of recognizing and interpreting speech from more than 5 feet (1.5 meters) away. At the same time, parallel teams were developing the hardware for the Echo speaker, creating Alexa's voice and developing applications, like reporting the weather and time, turning on music, and setting reminders and alarms. The final Echo device includes a speech-recognition tool that only listens for its name and, once heard, triggers a second, cloud-based speech recognition tool that interprets what the user says, gets the answer and responds.
Allowing third parties to build applications for the platform was a vital part of Amazon's strategy to grow Alexa's reach and boost the overall voice assistant marketplace, says David Attwater, a user experience expert at Enterprise Integration Group. While most people still use Alexa for only a handful of applications, they have an enormous range to choose from. "From a project perspective," Attwater says, "the team thoroughly considered the aspects of what would make it useful and delivered a well-thought-through solution."
When the project began, Amazon estimated an Echo Dot—a smart speaker module with Alexa technology—would retail for US$50. By launch, project costs had driven the consumer price close to US$200. Amazon rolled out the product as an invitation-only pilot in November 2014. "By June, it was clear the product was going to be a success," Bouzid says.
Since then, Alexa hasn't only moved into the mainstream—it's become integrated into everything from home stereo systems and electrical outlets to cars, vacuum cleaners, tabletop lamps, bathroom mirrors, televisions, smoke detectors and thermostats.
"We are just beginning to see how voice-first technology can help people in their daily lives," says David Hakanson, vice president, chief information officer and chief innovation officer at Saint Louis University, which hosts a competition for students to develop Alexa skills in St. Louis, Missouri, USA. Says Bouzid: "We didn't just create a platform. We helped create a whole new voice-first industry."
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