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SolarWinds Hack Likely Assisted by AI, Suggests Microsoft's Smith
The massive security breach known as the SolarWinds hack was a nation-state attack likely assisted by AI in the estimation of Microsoft President Brad Smith. (Credit: Getty Images)
The massive attack on US government agencies and US businesses that is a suspected Russian espionage operation was a nation-state attack compounded by the trend of augmenting human intelligence with AI, according to experts.
The attack surfaced in December when security experts discovered hackers had inserted a backdoor into software from SolarWinds called Orion, which was used to update software widely across the federal government and a number of Fortune 500 companies.
Perhaps unfairly, SolarWinds was originally considered to be the hackers' main avenue of attack. However, close to a third of the victims were later found not to run the SolarWinds software, according to a recent account in The Wall Street Journal.
Brandon Wales, acting director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency
The attackers "gained access to their targets in a variety of ways. This adversary has been creative," stated Brandon Wales, acting director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, adding, "It is absolutely correct that this campaign should not be thought of as the SolarWinds campaign."
Similar conclusions have been reached by corporate investigators. The computer security company Malwarebytes has said that a number of its Microsoft cloud email accounts were compromised by the same attackers who pulled off the SolarWinds hack, using that the company called "another attack vector." The company does not use SolarWinds software.
SolarWinds itself is investigating whether Microsoft cloud was the initial entry point of hackers into its network, one of several theories being pursued, according to a person familiar with the SolarWinds investigation.
John Lambert, the manager of Microsoft's Threat Intelligence Center, stated, "This is certainly one of the most sophisticated actors that we have ever tracked in terms of their approach, their discipline and range of techniques that they have."
SolarWinds has said that it first traced activity from the hackers to September 2019, and that the attack gave the intruders a back door into up to 18,000 SolarWinds customers.
The departments of Treasury, Justice, Commerce, State, Homeland Security, Labor and Energy all suffered breaches.
From the point of view of the government, "We continue to maintain that this is an espionage campaign designed for long-term intelligence collection," stated Wales of CISA. "That said, when you compromise an agency's authentication infrastructure, there is a lot of damage you could do."
Microsoft's Smith Sees Attack Likely Compounded by Use of AI
Brad Smith, President of Microsoft, said in a blog post published on Dec. 17, "The attack unfortunately represents a broad and successful espionage-based assault on both the confidential information of the U.S. Government and the tech tools used by firms to protect them." Investigations are continuing into the attack, which he said is ongoing, and "is remarkable for its scope, sophistication, and impact."
He said more than 40 Microsoft business customers were targeted, 80% of them in the US but also in Canada, Mexico, Belgium, Spain, the United Kingdom, Israel, and the UAE in the Middle East.
The attack was not "espionage as usual," Smith stated. He added, ominously, "These types of sophisticated nation-state attacks are increasingly being compounded by another technology trend, which is the opportunity to augment human capabilities with artificial intelligence (AI). One of the more chilling developments this year has been what appears to be new steps to use AI to weaponize large stolen datasets about individuals and spread targeted disinformation using text messages and encrypted messaging apps. We should all assume that, like the sophisticated attacks from Russia, this too will become a permanent part of the threat landscape."
He cited a second evolving threat, the growing privatization of cybersecurity attacks through a new general of private companies he calls "private sector offensive actors" (PSOAs).
"This is not an acronym that will make the world a better place," Smith stated. As an example, he cited NSO Group, an Israeli-based software company now involved in US litigation, accused of violating US anti-hacking laws due to its technique of installing itself on mobile devices without permission of the user. The software company WhatsApp filed the suit, which maintains that Pegasus accessed more than 1,400 mobile devices.
Other companies are rumored to be joining the PSOA market in what Smith said has become a new $12 billion global technology market. "This represents a growing option for nation-states to either build or buy the tools needed for sophisticated cyberattacks," Smith stated, adding, "An industry segment that aids offensive cyberattacks spells bad news on two fronts. First, it adds even more capability to the leading nation-state attackers, and second, it generates cyberattack proliferation to other governments that have the money but not the people to create their own weapons. In short, it adds another significant element to the cybersecurity threat landscape."
CISA Pursuing Attack Repercussions
Meanwhile, the CISA is pursuing the repercussions of the massive hack. "An advanced persistent threat (APT) actor is responsible for compromising the SolarWinds Orion software supply chain," CISA states on its website dedicated to information on the attack.
Following a Presidential policy direction, the FBI and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence have formed a Cyber Unified Coordination Group (UCG) to coordinate a whole-of-government response.
CISA guidance to federal agencies that ran the SolarWinds software is to run forensic analysis and harden platforms still running the Orion software. In a directive issued on Dec. 13, "CISA determined that this exploitation of SolarWinds products poses an unacceptable risk to Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies and requires emergency action."
FireEye, the security software company that revealed the theft of some 300 of its proprietary cybersecurity tools five days before SolarWinds announced it had been hacked, posted countermeasures in its GitHub repository.
Read the source articles in The Wall Street Journal, from Brad Smith on the Microsoft blog, and on the CISA website, See countermeasures posted by FireEye in its GitHub repository.
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Vitamins don't reduce risk of lung cancer
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Contrary to what some smokers may hope, antioxidants and other vitamins seem to offer no protection against lung cancer, new research suggests.
In an analysis of eight previous studies, researchers found no evidence that vitamins A, C, E or folate lower a person's risk of lung cancer.
Across the studies, which followed thousands of adults for up to 16 years, people with the highest intakes of the vitamins were no less likely to develop lung cancer than those with the lowest intakes.
There has been a popular notion that even smokers can ward off lung cancer by taking vitamin supplements, Dr. Eunyoung Cho, the lead author of the new report, told Reuters Health.
"This is not true, and our study confirmed that," said Cho, an assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston.
She and her colleagues report the findings in the International Journal of Cancer.
Vitamins C and E are antioxidants, which means they help neutralize cell-damaging substances in the body called free radicals. Vitamin A and folate, a B vitamin, also help maintain normal, healthy cells.
All of these vitamins have been hypothesized to cut lung cancer risk, according to Cho's team, but the research evidence has been spotty. In particular, most prospective studies - those that follow people over time - have found no clear protective effect.
But because these studies have included only a small number of lung cancer cases, their findings are less reliable. So Cho and her colleagues pooled data from eight prospective studies that followed a total of 430,281 adults in Europe and North America, including 3,206 who developed lung cancer.
After the researchers factored in smoking habits and other variables, like overall diet, weight and education, there was no evidence that vitamins A, C, E or folate reduced lung cancer risk.
There was initially some evidence that vitamin C from food, but not supplements, was protective. But that connection disappeared when the researchers accounted for beta-cryptoxanthin, a plant chemical that gives color to oranges, red peppers, carrots and other red-orange fruits and vegetables.
Because many vitamin C-rich foods contain beta-cryptoxanthin, the latter nutrient may help explain the link some studies have found between vitamin C and lower lung cancer risk, the researchers speculate.
In fact, it is still possible that nutrient-rich fruits and vegetables, if not individual vitamins, help protect against lung cancer, Cho said.
These foods, she explained, might confer benefits through components other than vitamins, or through their unique combinations of nutrients - though, she added, there is still much to be learned in this area.
SOURCE: International Journal of Cancer, February 15, 2006.
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Love In Shakespeare's As You Like It
Love in As You Like It
Throughout the centuries, men have pondered many great questions. Among these is the question: "What is love?" There is no doubt that the greatest name in English literature, Shakespeare, sought to answer this question for himself. Indeed, Shakespeare recorded his answer in many of the sonnets and plays he wrote, including As You Like It. As Shakespeare learned in seeking to answer this question, love is many things, which in this play he observes through the characters of the play, but most directly through Silvius:
It is to be all made of fantasy,
All made of passion and all made of wishes,
All adoration, duty, and observance,
All humbleness, all patience and impatience,
All purity, all trial, all observance ... (V.ii).
In this play, Shakespeare associates love with many characteristics. Love is often associated with selflessness in this play. Part of the answer to the question of love is also selflessness. And an important part of love is truth. Love embodies all of the greatest characteristics of a person: truthfulness, selflessness, and faithfulness.
Part of love is selflessness. Throughout the play, many of the characters demonstrate selflessness which in turn reflects their love for one another. Orlando is one such character. He and the ever-faithful Adam are wandering through the forest of Arden, for Adam had warned Orlando of certain death. Orlando's elder brother, Oliver, had harbored a deep hatred towards Orlando, a hatred which had grown to immense proportions. If Orlando had his home, he would have been killed. Adam was able to persuade Orlando to flee, and now they are in the forest. Once here, though, Adam can go no further, for his is but an old man. "I die for food! Here I lie down and measure out my grave" (Adam II.vi). Orlando leaves Adam and finds a camp about to eat. Risking his own life, he tells them not to eat any food, then explains why:
There is an old poor man,
Who after me hath many a weary step
Limp'd in pure love: till he be first sufficed,
Oppress'd with two weak evils, age and hunger,
I will not touch a bit (II.vii).
Orlando is not merely being selfless, he is being selfless to help out a servant, a member of a lower social class. There are few names with such a reputation, and one of them is the legendary Robin Hood. In this way Shakespeare shows the selflessness of love.
Shakespeare through Orlando again shows selflessness, this time not for a loving subordinate, but for his hateful brother. Orlando is walking through the forest, and catches a glimpse of "a wretched and ragged man, o'ergrown with hair" asleep at the base of an old oak tree (IV.iii). A snake crawls down from the man, then slithers under a bush, where a lioness crouches, ready to leap at the first movement of the man. Orlando see the man to be none other than his elder brother. "Twice did he turn his back and purpos'd so [to leave him there]/ But kindness, nobler ever than...
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Great news! More levels for Hitman GO have just been released!
The airport update adds 15 new levels set in an airport and includes a bunch of new features. There's new guards, new features like Civilian Mode and moving walkways (just like the ones you get in airports!) that change up the way you play.
For ALL the details, head over to www.hitman.com and then come back here to let us know what you think.
AWESOME news! Can't wait to rack up "frequent flyer" miles (hits, that is). Would love to see more previous Hitman stages / levels converted like "Curtains Down", but anything additional and new is just as good. Keep it up!
Any news on the Airport Update for Android? It has been 2 weeks since the update came for iOS.


Ghana's announced friendly against Mauritania has been canceled, according to media reports.
Instead, the Black Stars will face Rwanda on March 26 after playing Kenya in a 2019 Africa Cup of Nations qualifying on Saturday.
Last week, the Mauritania Football Federation claimed a friendly fixture has been agreed with Ghana and will come off after an AFCON qualifier against Burkina Faso on Friday, going on to name a 24-man squad for the double-header.
Goal, however, reported that the Ghana Football Association has gone silent on any such scheduled game as various communications on the entity's official website concerning the Fifa international break have made no mention of a tie against Al-Murabitun.
It has now emerged that the Black Stars have instead lined up a friendly against Rwanda after Saturday's Kenya engagement.
Ghana will visit the Amavubi for the fixture, which is set to mark the start of preparations for the AFCON in June/July.
The game will be the last for the Black Stars before coach James Kwesi Appiah announces his squad for the tournament in Egypt.


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Had a good long look at the terraced border this weekend.
It's not bad for a first attempt, but could do better.
Some of the plants are too tall for the space. Like the dark pink astilbes. As soon as they finish flowering I'll chop them back and shift them up to the Precipitous Bank. Their proportions will be better suited up there.
Second, the border is flagging already. The hot weather hasn't helped, but it's in need of a few plants that will look fresh now and go on to extend the season.
Finally, the colour scheme was intended to be pink/purple, white and blue. It's somewhat lacking in the blue. Once you have orange crocosmia, it would seem, you may have it forever. The middle level was completely choc a bloc with the stuff and I thought I had cleared it all out. Obviously not.
A border this close to the house should always impress. So I've decided to pick up on an idea from Jo at The Good Life. It's simple and effective. Jo aims to visit a plant nursery every month of the year and pick out something that provides interest there and then.
This time around though there would need to be rules. Uncompromising rules. Any plant purchased to be less than 50 cms in height. And blue.
A dwarf variety. 30 cms.
It'll find a home. Somewhere.
Thanks Alex. Thank goodness the long shots hide the weeds!
I like it Jessica, but then we are so critical of our own gardens aren't we? I see the weeds here, others see the flowers! I like your choice of blue flowers, they will all look lovely, and your last photo, maybe this is the one to break your rule of blue, under 50 cms!
I think being self critical comes with the territory of being a gardener Pauline, it's what keeps our gardens getting better year by year.
Wow to the echinacea! I'd pop it in with the blues, just to get the 'WOW!' reaction! A good tip, though, from Jo.
It's gorgeous isn't it? Love at first sight. I'll put it up on the bank, with some blues for company perhaps!
I love how that bed looks so well established.
We have the crocosmia issue. That and Japanese anenomes. We're also going for the blue, pink, purple, white theme, but it does mean done plants are for the chop.
The bed is a mixture of inherited plants and new, so it does look quite mature already. I like the process of tinkering to get the combinations right. But the biggest part of the learning curve is dealing with the different levels and respective plant heights. A few years of tinkering still to come methinks.
I think you're being too hard on yourself, it looks smashing, but as Pauline says we are all too critical of our own efforts, plus it is so lovely to have an area of the garden to work on. Love all the new plants and the contrast with the orange one is fab.
The devil is in the detail, which doesn't show up so well on the images. It's very tempting to lob the orange one into the mix, but it will create quite a splash on the bank too… certainly draw the eye! Thanks CT.
Great new purchases. Especially love the Eryngium, wonderful colours, but I always thought that grew much larger, must be a special kind, lovely nam as well 'blue hobbit'.
Finally I must say, your terraced border doesn't really look that bad to me.
I bought an Eryngium last year that came with no indication of height on the label. It just about shows up in the second photo, towering up at the front of the bottom bed. This one, I am assured (!) is a dwarf variety. The original will get shifted elsewhere!
Wow! I have just stumbled across your blog and glad I did. Your photos are amazing of the work that you have already done. We are always critical when it comes to ourselves but for someone coming in and seeing this for the first time, it truly looks amazing.
Hi Chel, thank you and welcome to rusty duck.
We are doing something similar to what you did with your thatched cottage and garden. Hard work isn't it!
It's those little bulbs it grows from.. leave one behind and it's back! It must have been growing intertwined with Iris sibirica. When the leaves came up in Spring they were almost identical.. it's only now that the brute has made itself apparent.
At first I carefully replanted it in other spots around the garden. Now there is so much of it I am throwing it out!
The red crocosmia, Lucifer, is to my mind more spectacular and far less invasive. So far anyway..
All the hard work you put into the terraced garden is paying off .. it looks amazing.
Thanks. Enjoy your time with your family!
It is coming along. Your at the point now where you've got it under control , kept some of the original plants hoping they would all play nice together. Now it's edit time. The fun part. I like the idea about shopping for plants and buying what's in bloom each month. Sometimes the plants are brought in to the nurseries from other areas and bloom earlier than they normally would. Taking photos at other gardens in your area if possible a good idea. Seeing them growing in the garden is a better indicator or height and width once planted. Plants at the nursery are usually a bit leggy from being grown in pots.
Late blooming low blue plants like gentian and the dwarf platycodon are nice. Perhaps some blue foliage sedums?
Editing is the fun part!
That's a good tip re nurseries bringing in stock from elsewhere. I love visiting local gardens and must carve out the time to do more of it. Gentian is a great idea. It would be very happy here today, they don't mind the wet!
What a wonderful space you have there, and so many fantastic plants. And that echinacea is amazing, it would have come home with me too I think! I'm hopeless at garden design, so I don't have any tips I'm afraid. Except to say don't forget to spend some time sitting on those lovely benches just soaking it all up!
The echinacea is a superb colour. Even more intense than in the photo, if anything. Looking forward to having a good strong clump of it!
I forgot to mention that I've nominated you for a Liebster Award. Apologies if you'd rather not take part, but I just wanted to say how very much I enjoy your blog.
Well I think it's gorgeous and you're being far too critical with yourself….how about a slide down the slope with a watersplash at the bottom, to be taken daily at 7a.m…..that'd get you going!!!
Your crocosmia may yet flower, especially if it's in a shadier spot.. some of mine are only just starting.
I've been taking out lots of plants that have overwhelmed our small (English) garden or plan to move them. My husband, being the veggie grower, likes to pop his plants in here and there so some of my plans do not happen! I suppose ours is a cottage garden.Your terrace is lovely and I can understand why you got the 'Tomato Soup' echinacea. Gorgeous colour.
I hate having to remove plants, unless I have somewhere else to put them, but sometimes there is no choice!
I like the drifts of plants and different heights in the border and I agree that you're being hard on yourself. I photographed my border one summer with thoughts of studying it over the winter to improve it with new planting but in the photo it looked much better than reality and I convinced myself nothing needed doing to it – until the following summer.
I like the drifts, and the different heights. It's just that some of the plants have assumed giant sized proportions. But I'll enjoy tinkering with it to get it right. Taking photos is a good idea!
Thank you for the link. I have to mention though that the idea to visit a nursery each month of the year and buy something in flower came from Geoff Hamilton, always full of great advice, he's missed by many gardeners. It will be fun seeing what you purchase, I wonder if we'll come back with anything the same. I love that verbena, and the echinacea is stunning, such a wonderful name for it too.
I bet we do end up with the same thing sooner or later. Especially in the cold dark days of winter when the choices will be limited to say the least!
It looks good to me – I think you are beinng too critical!! I like the idea of plant buying each month – I was a great fan of Geoff Hamilton and his style of gardening.
OK, 7 out of 10. As it's a new garden. But that's as far as I'm going..
Some lovely plants here. I have some too tall plants overshadowing others & just recently extended the planting so now they have something in front of them ….and so it goes on !
For some reason I can never fathom, plants always grow taller than I expect. What happens when you run out of lawn?
Your border is looking terrific but I understand wanting to freshen up a garden up this time of year (especially after the all the heat we've had). I think I'll be using up several months' visits to nurseries this week alone; my village nursery is (sadly) having to close – and for this week only all the plants are being sold off very cheaply.
It is really sad to see a plant nursery having to close. I much prefer them to the big garden centres and there are few enough left. A good opportunity though.. Get in there while you can!
They are brilliant together aren't they? They've been sitting on the patio awaiting planting and the more I look at it the more I realise it has to be done. Just not in the pink garden..
I have that "tomato soup" cone flower and I just LOVE LOVE LOVE it!
A new flower has just unfurled. It's quite a powerful colour. Will need careful placing, but it should look great!
I have one of mine next to a sort of lime-green hosta. I love that combo but it's quite bold!
I just planted it yesterday. A hosta would go well there too, thanks for the idea! Bold is good, especially in a large area where you need something to draw the eye.
I think I am in love with "Tomato Soup", which is doomed, as I don't have anywhere it will fit in. All those blues will look lovely with the alchemilla mollis. I just got free seed for "hobbit", so I hope I manage to get it to germinate, what a smashing little plant. As for getting rid of crocosmia, well, good luck. I thought I had done a really good job of digging it out of my front garden, but it keeps popping up again and laughing at me.
I've spent all day on the crocosmia, winkling it out and replanting it on the bank. Can't help feeling I'll be doing it all again next year..
Lovely border – but you know I quite like the pops of colour – stops it from being boring. And that Echinacea – wow – it would look great in my hot border.
There's a lipstick pink azalea in there. My first thought was to have it out, but it certainly provided a pop in Spring. So it's got a stay until next year and see how I feel about it then.
You've been away, you have an excuse! I've always wanted a garden that looked good all year round but it's a difficult thing to achieve. It will be an interesting experiment.


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The backstory of a front-page aviation story
There's a story behind every story, as they say. Here's how an intended bearing360 .ca blog post ended up morphing into a front page story in the Toronto Star.
Early last January I stumbled upon a tweet posted by Canada's Transportation Safety Board, which is an arms-length agency established by the federal government. The tweet, which included a link to a video, read as follows:
My interest was immediately piqued. Here is the TSB, as its known, stating its concern on social media. And the news value — that Canada's rate of runway overruns is twice the world average — hit me immediately. I thought it would make excellent discussion material for bearing360. I had a look at look at the accompanying video and there was more news value, including this nugget: That runway overruns in Canada were four times the world average when runways were wet. The natural question, of course, was why? Moreover, I quite surprised at how straightforward and forceful the language was in the video. Quotes like:
"This … issue is one that can no longer be left unaddressed. The bottom line is if we don't do anything to prevent landing accidents and runway overruns, passengers, crew and aircraft will continue to placed at unnecessary risk of injury or damage."
Here's the overall thing I found striking: The TSB wasn't just sitting back, issuing reports. It was taking to social media to apply pressure. So, again. Why? One way to interpret that decision is it just wants to fulfill its mandate and make transportation in Canada safer. Another interpretation is that the TSB was growing exasperated with the amount of time it was taking Transport Canada to implement changes that the TSB recommended. I know enough about human nature to know that no one likes not to matter, and there is no reason to think the TSB would be happy with simply issuing recommendations and not seeing a payoff in the form of safer travel. At the very least both questions deserved an exploration.
So about a week late, with some time available, I started in on the story. I contacted TSB media relations official John Cottreau, who was kind enough to set up an interview with one of their senior aviation investigators and subject matter experts, Mark Clitsome.
Mark confirmed and echoed the concerns expressed in the tweet and video, that the TSB was concerned about the number of overruns in Canada and had been for some time. He didn't say explicitly that the TSB was frustrated with Transport Canada — it's not his job to start a battle with Transport Canada — but he did say that the runway overrun issue had been on the TSB's watch list for some time and concern was growing. It's easy enough to connect the dots and infer frustration with the pace of change.
I then started in on the research, looking for documentation about the state of runway overruns in Canada and what Transport Canada was doing to remedy. If you're a journalist today, the web makes things so much easier than it was before documents were available online.
Of some interest to me was a Transport Canada document TP14816, Transportation in Canada 2011, which stated "Transport Canada is proposing regulations that will require certain designated certified aerodromes to install and maintain a Runway End Safety Area (RESA)." In the same publication TC said it was "revising TP312 — Aerodrome Standards and Recommended Practices in cooperation with industry experts."
I also armed myself with current international runway standards. The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) governs international rules on air travel. The TSB had said to be on the phone that Canada was not in compliance with ICAO rules on runways. Hmm. Why?
So I contacted Transport Canada's media relations office, reaching a staffer I had dealt with on a story last summer, and asked a series of questions, among them:
What is the status of proposed runway regulatory revisions? Are they in force or no?
Are revisions to TP312 complete. If not, what is their status?
Why, in the opinion of TC, have overruns not significantly decreased since 2010?
Why does Canada not require airports to be in compliance with ICAO standard?
I received an immediate reply but was informed there would be an undetermined wait for the answers. I expected this. Government agencies will spend a great deal of time and energy shaping their message so as cause the least amount of harm to the agency and its political master. Every few days I'd check in to find out what the status was of my query.
After nearly three weeks I was beginning to think an answer wasn't going to come, so I politely informed TC that I was going ahead with a story anyway and would be happy to include their response when they were able. My thinking was I'd fall back on that journalistic maxim: Go with what you have and fill in later if you can. My contact at TC appreciated the heads up and said she'd do what she could.
To my surprise, a couple of days later, just as I was about to post a story on bearing360,ca, I got a response.
Some questions had been answered and some hadn't. It was clear to me, however, that I had a story. The concerns raised by the TSB were still being addressed, Canada was not in compliance with international standards, and it would be some time before a policy change would take place.
At this stage I realized I had a story that a newspaper would likely find worthy. Not only was there a news peg — that Canada lagged in runway safety standards and unsafe incidents were higher than the world average — but aviation stories generate quick interest among editors and readership because when something goes wrong with an airplane, the outcome is often ugly. Runway overruns, in particular, are a hot-button issue in Canada with the 2005 episode at Toronto's Pearson International, when an Air France jet ran off the runway in wet weather and burned — precisely the scenario of growing concern stated by the TSB in its video. It also stood to reason that because of this episode, there was pressure on Transport Canada to take action.
So I wrote a story and then contacted a former Globe and Mail colleague who, as luck would have it, happened to now be the national editor at the Star. I pitched the story in a short, bright, couple of paragraphs. He was immediately interested. We worked out freelance payment terms and I filed the story.
A day later he wrote and asked if there was any reason he couldn't hold the story and put it on A1 (front) for Sunday. I said no reason whatsoever. I knew from my days working as the front-page editor at the Globe and Mail what he was thinking: Weekend papers, specifically the news cycle of Saturday-to-Sunday and Sunday-for-Monday, can be slow. Offices are closed, government departments closed, so it's difficult to generate news.
My story happened to have a not-bad news peg and it could sit for a few days without undo harm. In other words, it was perfect for a weekend paper.
Low-and-behold, it showed up on front.
I got the much-appreciated heads up of its publication on Sunday morning from the aerial photographer for whom I work as a pilot. Something entirely appropriate about that, I thought.
I then spent the following day building a follow-up package for bearing360.ca based on the Star story. My days as deputy sports editor at the Globe taught me the value of packages. They're a way to stoke interest and flesh out an issue. This blog post is part of that package. You can find my related side-bar here.
This entry was posted in Airports, Industry News & Commentary, Safety and tagged front page, journalism, overruns, runways, Star, Transport Canada, Transportation Safety Board, TSB on February 11, 2013 by Craig Daniels.
Time for government to fund runway safety improvements
There are still several issues left outstanding in the wake of my Toronto Star story of Sunday, Feb. 10, 2013. ("Watchdog warns of risky runways")
Transport Canada declined to answer several of the questions I posed to them regarding runway overruns and the steps they're taking to bring Canada into compliance with ICAO standards. Among the questions left unanswered:
Why, in Transport Canada's view, runways overruns have not decreased since 2010.
Why it was taking so long to introduce changes to policy.
Transport Canada said it is "collaborating with industry stakeholders to discuss approaches to RESA at Canadian airports," however it declined to say what the status was of those collaborations.
If it was within Transport Canada's authority to simply mandate that airports install ICAO-standard runway end safety area (RESA).
In the absence of answers, it's worth speculation and discussion.
I exchanged some observations with an airport operator over the weekend and he pointed out that there is resistance at airports to install runway end safety areas and engineered material arresting systems (EMAS) because of lack of space and cost. Understandable.
No doubt this is behind the delays in implementing change in policy. The conundrum faced by Transport Canada is how to achieve compliance without downloading financial hardship on airports. If a given airport were unable to comply due to lack of money and was forced to close because it was not in compliance, the outrage from people and communities who depend on that airport would no doubt be considerable — and the government would feel the full brunt of that outrage.
In fact, I've read, in particular, that northern airport operators are resisting changes because they don't have the space or the money. Just this point is made on the very good Aviation Law Blog provided by the B.C. law firm Alexander, Holburn, Beaudin & Lang LLP. They state:
"This proposal has encountered strong opposition from the Northern Air Transport Association ("NATA"), which argues the unsuitability of the proposed RESA regulations for northern airports. NATA argues that the cost of building RESAs at some northern airports would be prohibitive, resulting in a reduction of air services to communities already receiving limited service. NATA points out that aircraft using many northern airports land at speeds far below those of larger aircraft operating in the south. In the north, where many runways have gravel surfaces, NATA urges that the priority for limited capital expenditures should be the paving of existing runways, not the construction of new RESAs."
However, the airports at which improved RESA and EMAS facilities are most required are the larger airports with the most number of aircraft movements: Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver prime among them. These airports primarily handle the larger aircraft which require longer runways and these airports are far better able to absorb the costs because their landing fee revenue is so much higher than smaller facilities.
What needs to happen, of course, is that the federal government, in the name of meeting the recommendations of the Transportation Safety Board, should authorize the release of funds in conjunction with Public Works in the form of infrastructure projects. Jobs would be created and public safety improved.
Transport Canada would then be free to make its runway policy changes quickly and effectively and enhanced safety would be the payoff.
This entry was posted in Airports, Industry News & Commentary and tagged overruns, runway, Transport Canada, Transportation Safety Board, TSB on February 11, 2013 by Craig Daniels.


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Chez Meme Baguette Bistro. Courtesy photo.
What looks like a suburban house on Kio Loop in central Kihei is actually Chez Meme Baguette Bistro.
The restaurant opened in late December 2012 and serves breakfast and lunch Tuesday through Saturday from 8 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. and Sundays from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.
The chef/owner takes Mondays off to spend with his infant daughter and wife.
Breakfast runs from $9 to $14 and is available all day. The menu offers French toast, a modified loco moco with pork, and a variety of omelets such as the Montagnarde (Black Forest ham, onions, potatoes, and raclette cheese), Forestiere (seasonal mushrooms and fresh herbs) and Beef Bourguignon (beef short ribs, caramelized onions, mushrooms, and sour cream).
Lunch offerings range from $8 to $15 per person with daily soup and salad and sandwich specials in the $10 range.
Non-sandwich options include French Onion soup as well as a smattering of salads such as goat cheese, Caesar or country-style.
The baguette in the name makes a prominent appearance on the lunch menu with a variety of sandwiches available.
Options include the Cordon Bleu (Black Forest ham, chicken, Emmenthal and Dijon mustard), From 'ton (Brie, warmed pears, and toasted walnuts) and Cocktail (shrimp, lettuce, fresh tomatoes, and homemade cocktail sauce).
The restaurant is actually the second Chez Meme Baguette Bistro location, the first being located on Hastings Street in Vancouver, BC.
Johnny B owners Tom and Pam Leary last January. Susan Halas photo.
In contrast, Johnny B's Burger Shack in Paia has suddenly closed up shop.
Owners Tom and Pam Leary took over the lease a few years back with the hopes of creating a wedding destination.
After hitting some hurdles there, they opted instead to open Johnny B's in late January of last year.
They went with a burger joint concept modeled after the popular mainland Five Guys chain, and served mostly burgers, hot dogs, and milkshakes. The Learys focused on local ingredients, utilizing Komoda Bakery buns, Big Island cattle beef, and Maui-made Roselani ice cream.
To outsiders, Johnny B's seemed to be enjoying relative success.
Online reviews ranked them consistently as "very good" or "excellent" and rumor had it they were cooking up some of the best fish and chips on the island.
Attempts to contact the Learys – the website and Facebook pages have been removed and the phone number goes to a fax machine – were unsuccessful.
Local fans hope they'll resurface in another location soon.
***Special thanks to Tom K., Daniel Legare, and Charly Espina Takahama for the tips.***
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Swara: ok… bhai there is a cultural program in our college the week after next… will you come???
Ragini: laksh do me a favour… i forgot my wallet in home itself… i have to go to my frd house… will you drop me???
Laksh: which frd without knowing to me???
Laksh: whats ur frd name???
Adi: straight away i am coming to point… will u help me???
Ragini: sure… but what help???
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surprised to see ragini as zoya's friend n music teacher.now to impress zoya adi is going to learn dance.that's cool.waiting to see who will be the person who will come to teach adi dance.adi swara scenes were so cute.i am seeing this combination 4 the 1st time.did zoya see adi's sorry note?whats her reaction?


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In the Isle of Man, the Department of Education, Sport and Culture (DESC) operates the Island's state schools. DESC undertakes the role of Government Department and that of the Local Authority, a dual function which is surely unique to the Isle of Man. Earlier this week I was visited by an officer of DESC for a "quality assurance" visit to one of my schools. These meetings are always planned in advance and usually have one or two particular foci which are held up to the spotlight and discussed, challenged and assessed. This week's QA visit was no different in that respect – although something unusual did happen.
The officer had asked if the meeting could be filmed via an iPad. The camera would be firmly on the quality assurance officer and would not capture a visual record of me. The purpose was so that after the meeting the officer could review the meeting, and self-reflect on how the meeting had gone: what was the balance of conversation between participants, did body language help draw out a better quality of interaction, were questions open, were key challenges made and given constructively? Did the school feel sufficiently supported, sufficiently challenged and ultimately in a better place to move forward with key improvements and developments?
Although filming a meeting was a new idea to me, the concept of self-reflection using video was not. In fact, it was something that I had worked on and introduced at my schools as part of the "lesson observation" process some years ago – and over the years this idea has been refined, tweaked and honed to get us to the position we are in today.
If you're honest with yourself, how do you feel about lesson observations at your school?
Are teachers confident about letting people observe their lessons?
Are observations always centred around performance management or are they ever used for CPD?
Does lesson observation feedback consist of tick boxes against criteria or a more contextualised meaningful discussion?
Do teachers get an opportunity to see all of the great practice from around the school like the observer?
Is there a fear of risk-taking or experimentation?
Are there pockets of outstanding practice, but a difficulty in sharing this across the school?
Are there opportunities for peer and self-review?
I found myself thinking about the BBC television programme "MasterChef." This is the show where talented cooks are shown labouring over a recipe and preparing fantastic meals as they are watched and quizzed by the judges at every stage. Finally, the meals are finished and tasted by the judges who give their feedback. What is interesting though about MasterChef is that although the feedback can be difficult, and the responses it draws from the contestants can be emotional, it is always presented from both sides – judge and contestant – as a constructive process. The judges want the chefs to learn. The chefs, even when faced with what could be considered as negative feedback, are interviewed afterwards where they almost always self-reflective and start talking about what they need to do next time to improve their practice.
Now obviously there is TV drama and a huge dose of the theatrical in MasterChef. But it does show me that a process of observation and feedback can be motivating and developmental. If we apply these musings to the world of education it is not hard to see that lesson observation has traditionally been geared towards performance management. However, paradigms are shifting and the importance of observation for development needs to be increasingly recognised.
I came away from listening to Mark and Andy with an inner-commitment to shift the culture in my school from using observation as a summative assessment towards an open, constructive and collaborative approach. No longer did I want negative feelings from my staff towards the lesson observation process, where observations are perceived as an imposed activity which add to stress and anxiety levels. No longer did I want feedback to be "within 5 days, or 24 hours, or whatever time-frame had been set out. I wanted it to be immediate and meaningful – not just through a series of tick boxes. And no longer did I want lesson observation to be something done TO you – where are the opportunities for teachers to undertake self review and see themselves as others do in the way that a chef frequently tastes his own food?
Lesson observations can be one of the most powerful ways to raise standards of teaching and learning but only when teachers become empowered in the process. That's why I've worked so hard to advocate developmental lesson observation at my schools and move us from a "done to" to a "done with" model.
I wanted to establish a way of helping teachers to use the observation process as a means of CPD and the first step was to gather them together and tell them about my plan for lessons to be filmed. There were caveats, of course: only the teacher could watch the video – never the observer; the video would be deleted by the teacher after they had watched it – it would never be stored or kept as "evidence" by the observer. We started out with lessons being filmed onto iPads – the observer would watch the lesson in the room, the teacher would deliver the lesson and watch it back later that day. Feedback was replaced with a developmental conversation between two people who had both watched the same lesson – one of whom had actually taught it!
The premise was that teachers seeing themselves as their students and an observer sees them helps them to gain much more insight into the impact they have as a teacher. Using video is like holding a mirror up to your teaching practice and is a very powerful tool for teacher reflection, and helps frame professional discussion and development conversations.
There was initial worry and anxiety from the teachers – I had expected as much. To help, I offered to be the first teacher to go through the process and asked a member of the staff to observe me whilst I filmed my lesson and then give me feedback in a professional and reflective conversation.
We've got over those initial worries now, and teachers can see that I'm a man of my word and videos remain in the complete ownership of the teacher: they are there to allow staff to watch their lessons back, allowing them to look their teaching, including other aspects of teaching and learning which may not have been the original focus of the observation; turning that one lesson into multiple learning opportunities. And all with the aim to improve their practice.
Crucially, the whole process has nothing to do with performance management. It is not linked to targets, appraisal or anything else like that. It is entirely focused around CPD.
We've moved a lot since those early days of rudimentary videos on iPads.
An app has been developed for my school. The app has our school-specific learning and teaching foci built in so we can use it to hone in onto a specific aspect in an observation. The app utilizes technology to records snapshots of features of teaching and learning within lessons – and that can be still-photo images, short video footage, written notes and audio files. The app will then generate a short report, using our in-house competencies and the footage collected, which is shared with the teacher who has been observed. This happens immediately with the report arriving in the teacher's email inbox when the observer taps "end" at the end of the lesson.
The app removes the need for lesson observation to require an "observer" to be sat at the back of a classroom with a clipboard and pen. It makes the whole process more interactive and practical for the observer, who can move around the class, ask the pupils questions, look at their learning in books and capture meaningful examples of practice – both good and developmental. And the app has made the video footage much more refined, too. Instead of the whole lesson being filmed from one angle – as was the case when we initially started this journey – the app captures short "clips" of up to 1 minute in length. And with the app being on a mobile device the filming can be from multiple places in the room – focused on the teacher or the learner. The app has added an extra element of sophistication to what is captured and why.
So, video footage, self-reflection and a non-performance management use of lesson observation: it has made my teachers even better and the culture of observation is very different to what it was – much more positive. Worth a try? I'm convinced.
I am the Executive Headteacher of two schools in the Isle of Man (Dhoon School and Laxey School) which form the Laxey / Dhoon Federation. The schools are on the mid to north east coast of the Isle of Man and are roughly 5 miles apart.


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Q: Pseudorandom sequence whose values can be computed directly for given seed? Wikipedia says that Blum Blum Shub is a pseudorandom generator whose ith value can be computed directly for a given seed.  Wikipedia also says that this generator is too slow to be practical for simulation applications.
Is there any standard generator with the direct computation property that is fast enough for Monte Carlo?  Is there a reason this cannot exist?

A: Judging from the comments, is there any reason you can't just put a semaphore around a standard PRNG plus a counter? For example:
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Assuming your Monte-Carlo simulations take any substantial amount of time to run, the time spent waiting on the semaphore should be relatively insignificant.

A: Although it is not a pseudorandom sequence but rather a low discrepancy sequence, I have been using the Halton sequence for precisely the desired property, i.e. you can calculate the $n$th number in the sequence independently of any others. My motivation for this was also multi-threaded random number generation. Aside from this feature, you may also prefer quasi-Monte Carlo for its faster rate of convergence.
Another approach to consider depending upon the number of random numbers you need is unrolling whereby you pre-generate the random numbers in a large static array which is linked at compile time. Then you can easily random access the $n$th number in the sequence and performance is pretty hard to beat!

A: Based on this thread: https://scicomp.stackexchange.com/a/1281/5065
it is possible to advance to the Nth seed value of a Linear Congruential Generator in O(lg N) ops.  So the LCG is close to a random access PRNG.  Unfortunately its random quality is poor, not good enough for most Monte Carlo, but it can be used for some things...
Alternatively, there seems to be a move towards using strong hash functions for parallel generation; these are inherently randomly addressable.  It's not the simplest method to meet my constraint of being able to match a sequentially generated sequence, but it's doable.

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Within the trans community there are different factions, cliques, gender identities and opinionated people. Today Cate O'Malley writes about how all those different types of people need to get along and that everyone who identities outside cisgender norms is entitled to full membership in the trans community. Also, they need they need the support of that community.
Sophie Lynne has a simple message today that is often overlooked by those who think there are "rules" for being transgendered. "Judge not lest ye be judged," sayeth Ms. Sophie. Whatever segment of the TG community you identify with don't exclude those who are different.


SEO moves faster in travel than in any other industry and at times getting everything right can feel like spinning plates - Keith Hodges, SEO analyst in travel for London-based SEO agency Polaris, has some tips on some of the key mistakes to avoid.
Understanding the 'user journey' - the way people interact with the website - is the key for better SEO. Not taking the time to understand users' psychology and their behaviour is a huge mistake, as there are clear stages within the consumer search that travel companies must look into, from research to buying for example. Investigate Google's User Journey Tool to identify where users arrive and leave your website and why.
In April, Google released its Mobile Update, virtually forcing all websites to become mobile-friendly, as those not optimised for mobile are at risk of dropping significantly in rankings. Mobile internet use has surpassed laptop use for every day search (33% to 30% according to Ofcom) and the luxury market is not immune to the mobile search trend, so must invest in this area. Having a mobile-responsive website is not only essential for rankings but also for 'cross-device user journeys' (switching from one device to another during a search). Apps are becoming an integral part of search marketing, so staying ahead of competitors by adapting websites and your online offering to the consumer's devices could pay off hugely.
Google Places display businesses' information such as address and opening hours on search listings, maps and more, and this should now be a key component of a travel company's tool kit. Hotels can see benefits for people looking for hotels in particular areas or locally and finding their business on the map. Google's own Hotel Ads is now more widely available and in some regions, hotels can even be booked within Google itself, so users need never navigate off page.
As luxurious as your product may be, it's a mistake to only have 'description tags' (the little description under your page title on search engine listings) that describe things such as 'opulence' and 'luxury'. More important is to explain or demonstrate what the brand is really about, or what the business is offering, as that's the information users really want to know in the search phrase. Across the website, 'meta data' (giving information on your website's data) needs to reflect the brand and show what a website offers. For a luxury travel brand this data should reflect what makes a hotel, flight option or destination attractive to customers specifically looking for a luxury holiday online. This is the first thing they will see on search engines so the description needs to engage them.
Highlight your key information in 'rich snippets', to provide a sample of your website's content for search engines to find. The title, website URL and description generally underline the key products, services and features of a company. Marking up your pages with potential rich snippets sends clear messages to all search engines as to what can be expected from your website and will improve its visibility within rankings.
SEO specialists and web managers must deal with technical elements of your travel website and conduct an analysis on a regular basis, to monitor crucial factors such as page speed and performance. Only with such analysis can you have a clearer idea why a customer leaves your website early for example. An SEO team can then report on changes that need to be added to your site, such as a new booking system, or flight updates. A successful travel site must keep up with increased demand, so it is highly beneficial to improve the ways information is delivered to your customer and keep up with new options.
Travel SEO in the luxury market is unique in the levels of products and keywords that can potentially be sold and targeted. This doesn't mean targeting 2,000 keywords is always the right answer though. In fact, initially targeting as few as 50 can transform a business. Having thousands of rankings is great if they are all highly competitive terms (generic and sought after), but understanding what really makes people buy and ranking for the words they search is much more powerful.
Not targeting keywords in foreign languages reduces potential bookings dramatically. Using 'language tags' and, if possible, translated versions of a website will help your luxury travel site rank globally. If people are looking for flights or travelling to the country where you are located, it makes sense to create an immediate connection with your brand and service in their language.
Often overlooked are little words and codes called 'heading tags' (which inform users and search engines what the page is about) and 'alt tags' (which give information about your images or videos on search engines). The visual element of the luxury travel industry can often sell a location or room to a user. Correctly using these tags to notify a search engine of what is in a picture or on your overall page can be highly beneficial for your business. Place tags on key points such as accommodation or flight details, local attractions and booking portals. On-page SEO is much more than just having the content - there is a need to present this content to a search engine in the right way.
The scale of the travel industry means that any one company has to compete on a global scale and it can be easy to give the popularity of your brand too much credit. Focusing too much on branding within SEO can result in page titles and on-page content that's not diverse enough and as such will not rank well in those key terms where sales and revenue increases can be sought.
Polaris is a London-based SEO agency with a specialisation in travel.