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Asiacell: Delivering reliability and customer-centricity with digital transformation
Amir Abdelazim, CTIO at Asiacell discusses the company's digital transformation, and the role it is playing in the digitalisation of the Iraqi economy...
Iraq is a nation on the mend. Decades of civil unrest, compounded by war with the US coalition in the early 2000s and the ascendance of the Islamic State in 2014, put the country on the back foot for much of recent history. Now, however, things are changing rapidly.
"The powers of darkness that took over this country and put it into survival mode are gone," says Amir Abdelazim, Chief Technology and Information Officer at Asiacell, Iraq's largest telecom operator.
Abdelazim, who joined the Asiacell team early in 2019, adds that the process of rebuilding Iraq is underway. For Asiacell, he believes that this historic period of time not only represents a significant opportunity for growth, but also a debt of responsibility that Asiacell owes to the people of Iraq. "You can't rebuild a great nation in 2020 without putting the telecom sector at the heart of your efforts," he explains.
"Asiacell is at the heart of that effort. We're the number one player in the Iraqi market. There's a kind of inherent loyalty that its customers and employees have to the brand. Customers believe in what Asiacell is delivering, but they also expect the very best from us."
In order to capitalise on new opportunities, expand its footprint and live up to the expectations of its customers, Asiacell is undergoing an accelerated digital transformation project of a magnitude so far unprecedented in the history of the company and the country as a whole.
"Our customers are hungry for digital revolution," Abdelazim explains. "If you want to maintain your position as number one, and make sure that your subscribers are actually happy with you and growing in number, you have to actually give them the very best of the digital services they are hungry for." We sat down with Abdelazim to discuss how Asiacell is radically overhauling its digital infrastructure, reprogramming its culture, and delivering the best possible range of services to its 14mn customers.
Defining the journey
"As the leading provider in the market, your customers are already expecting the impossible from you. You should be ready to deliver the impossible to them," says Abdelazim. In order to deliver on its customer promises, Asiacell has established two core pillars of its transformation. First, Asiacell is working to ensure that its services are as reliable as possible. And second, those services must be customer-centric. Abdelazim stresses that, "Every step we've taken has been on these two legs."
Digital transformation is more than just a buzzword at Asiacell. For Abdelazim and his team, digital transformation is a powerful problem-solving tool. "We made it our mission to use our digital transformation to deliver a reliable service and to bring the customer inside our business," he adds. "So we started an ambitious program of restructuring everything we do to become the digital partner that every Iraqi customer looks for." In order to use its digital transformation to deliver this reliable, customer-centric service, Asiacell is reimagining three core elements of its business.
Infrastructure for a digital revolution
The first step for Abdelazim and his team was to assess the company's infrastructure capabilities in order to identify the changes needed for it to be capable of supporting Asiacell's goals. As a result, Asiacell has begun a radical redistribution of its core network, from three sites in major Iraqi cities to 18 locations across the country.
"When you're approaching digital transformation, you can't ignore your connectivity," Abdelazim continues. With this in mind, Asiacell has reevaluated its connectivity capabilities from the ground up in preparation for the move to 4G and beyond. In order to better meet the expectations of a new generation of mobile users, Abdelazim explains that significant changes are needed. "Our customers view mobile data as a bread and butter solution these days," he says. "The expectations of millennials regarding how long a website takes to load, for example, have required a lot of transformation from us to be able to deliver the kind of speeds and availability they expect." Over the course of 2019 and 2020, Asiacell has made blanket 3G available across its entire network, as well as laying the groundwork for total 4G penetration.
In order to deliver a faster, more stable network experience for its customers, Asiacell is also undergoing an expansion of its fibre infrastructure. "We're taking fibre very seriously. We started an ambitious program with a first phase rollout of more than 2,000km of fibre inside Iraq's metro areas," Abdalazim explains, adding that by 2023, Asiacell plans to introduce more than 10,000km of new fibre into its network.
"In any other market, this would have been a five to 10-year journey to accomplish. With the amazing team and amazing partnerships we have here in Iraq, we are more than halfway through the project already," he notes. "We've had network expenditure of more than $500mn in the last year alone. We've deployed the latest technologies across our operations like artificial intelligence and the automation of functions like monitoring and optimisation of the network."
Becoming a first-choice digital partner
"We want to be the best choice for every organisation and digital partner in Iraq," says Abdelazim. He notes that this aim requires Asiacell to capture two different segments of the market. On the one hand, there are end users and on the other are corporate and SME clients.
"Those enterprise customers demand reliability and trust, and one of the best ways to earn that trust is through international certifications and global acknowledgement of your infrastructure," Abdelazim explains. Asiacell's data centre portfolio is expanding massively across the entirety of Iraq. In the past two years, the company has added 12 new data centres to its portfolio. Two of these facilities have already received Tier III certification from the Uptime Institute, with three more soon to follow.
"It's very important to use to make sure that our data centres are built to the highest standard of technology," insists Abdemazim. "By the end of 2021, we will have at least one data centre in each of the Iraqi governorates and five of them will be Tier III certified."
Hand-in-hand with culture and process transformation
Introducing new technology and revitalising infrastructure can only be a successful part of a digital transformation if the human element is also taken into account. "Change management is probably the most important angle of this transformation. Now that we are delivering a lot of new technologies and investments into our network, we need to get our people ready for it," says Abdelazim, saying that cultural change management must go hand in hand with technological transformation. Asiacell has, he explains, started a complete restructuring of its internal processes and operating model.
"We're using different restructuring programs, different skill injections, different retraining programs and different partnerships in order to ensure that our team is working harmoniously with the new infrastructure and modes of service delivery."
He notes, however, that this isn't a simple case of throwing out the old and adopting a new blanket system across the whole organisation. "It's about applying the right style to the right team. We deploy agile methodology to the teams that need agility. We deploy stricter, more process-oriented transformation within the teams that need that approach." With a diverse new range of strategies tailored to the different needs and functions of the business, Abdelazim believes that Asiacell is in the process of deeply embedding fact-based decision-making tendencies and an operational excellence mindset into its teams.
Abdelazim adds that the transition, from a company working hard to stay operational during the hellish three year reign of the Islamic State over the region, to one working to usher in a new era for Iraq's digital economy, undoubtedly requires an attitude adjustment.
"You have to bear in mind that Iraq is coming out of some tough times, when the mindset of the organisation was more focused on just surviving," he says. "The kinds of obstacles and issues that our team was facing on a day-to-day basis were unique. We're talking about the disturbance of war and, in the middle of a conflict, still delivering a service. That survival mindset is fit for the purpose of that time. Now, if we want to be a part of the rebuilding and transformation of the whole country - not just the telecom industry - we're going to have to change from our side."
The right partner for every problem
In the modern business landscape, no enterprise can succeed without strong partnerships. "Partnerships are the way you do business nowadays. You cannot do things alone," says Abdelazim. He adds that it's important to remember, however, that there is no such thing as a good or bad partner, just the right partner at the right time to solve the right problem. "The way we slice up our business into the service delivery, infrastructure and operational segments, we make sure that we choose the right partner for us in each domain," he explains.
"When you're looking for a partner for your core business, you want a reliable partner. But when you're looking to do things based around agile, fast-moving digital entertainment services, you need an agile, fast moving partner. We're very careful in our choices of partners and suppliers to make sure that the mix is right and that our chosen partners harmonise with our team."
The third step in Asiacell's digital transformation is the introduction of new offerings to its customers. "We're reimagining the services we provide to also become an entertainment partner to our customers - we're going to be the go-to one-stop-shop for our customers when they want any digital service," says Abdelazim. He notes that, when you account for the disruptive impact of COVID-19, Asiacell's two decision pillars of reliability and customer-centricity have proven themselves to be sound footing.
"With the sharp increase in e-learning, e-health, e-government - all of which have to be reliable - we were lucky that reliability was one of our core goals from the beginning," he adds.
The transformative effects of COVID-19
Despite the painful effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on people across Iraq, Abdelazim reflects that that crisis actually accelerated Asiacell's digital transformation. By taking both short and long-term measures, Asiacell has weathered the pandemic's first year, and is preparing for a world that will never return to the way things were before March 2020.
"From my point of view, COVID-19 is here to stay - not as a virus, hopefully, but in terms of its impact on peoples' lives," he explains. "I think we have a lot to learn about the shape of a post-COVID-19 world. Customer behaviours will change, demand will change, and we will need to be more agile than usual to adapt."
Into the digital revolution
The road ahead for Asiacell is being paved by the digital transformation underway today. The company's infrastructure rollout will lead to mass 4G adoption; the transformation of its culture and processes will grant it the agility and commitment to fully utilise its new digital capabilities; and its new channels and services will help capture new customers and ensure that its existing ones remain satisfied.
"The next phase of our digital transformation is about microservices for our customers. It's about making sure that we're closer to our customers with our distributed network core. It's about making sure that our metro infrastructure keeps growing. And it's about making sure that it is reliable," says Abdelazim.
"2021 is about 4G. It's about metro. And it's about digital transformation. 2022 will be more about conquering the enterprise business in the country and becoming the no-brainer choice for our customers in that space. Beyond 2022, we're looking at 5G, automation, smart cities, the introduction of IoT into the market. Given the accelerated development that we are doing here, by then the market will be ready for those innovations. We are persistent. And we will always remain in the lead."
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One Small Step for Asiacell, But One Giant Step for Iraq


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Q: Has a degree of convexity ever been defined? My question is motivated by the definition of electoral districts.
One way of making gerrymandering more difficult would be to require that districts be convex. A broader approach to the problem was asked at Mathematics solution for Gerrymandering problem?
However, this is probably too restrictive and difficult to achieve in face of other restrictions.  So, a better solution would be to have districts "as convex as possible". For that to make sense, one would like to have a measure of how close to convex a non-convex set is, and then try to optimize some total non-convexity of a district subdivision. Has any such measure ever been studied?
The application I am interested in is $2$-dimensional, so specialized definitions would be welcome.

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package com.navercorp.pinpoint.web.cluster;

import com.navercorp.pinpoint.common.server.cluster.ClusterKey;
import org.apache.logging.log4j.LogManager;
import org.apache.logging.log4j.Logger;
import org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions;
import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;

import java.util.List;
import java.util.Set;

/**
 * @author Woonduk Kang(emeroad)
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public class CollectorClusterInfoRepositoryTest {

    private final Logger logger = LogManager.getLogger(this.getClass());

    @Test
    public void test() throws Exception {

        CollectorClusterInfoRepository info = new CollectorClusterInfoRepository();

        final ClusterKey clusterKey1 = new ClusterKey("app", "agent1", 0);
        final ClusterKey clusterKey2 = new ClusterKey("app", "agent2", 1);
        final Set<ClusterKey> profilerInfos = Set.of(clusterKey1, clusterKey2);

        ClusterId clusterId = new ClusterId("/path", "/collectorA", "appName");
        info.put(clusterId, profilerInfos);

        List<ClusterId> collectorList = info.get(clusterKey1);
        logger.debug("{}", collectorList);
        Assertions.assertEquals(clusterId, collectorList.get(0));

        info.remove(clusterId);
        Assertions.assertTrue(info.get(clusterKey1).isEmpty(), "Not found");
    }

}

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Staff Sgt. Adam Ross performs maintenance on concertina wire Dec. 12, 2013, at Transit Center at Manas, Kyrgyzstan. Concertina wire has razor-sharp edges, placed in coils as a barrier to deter anyone trying to breach a perimeter. Ross is a 376th Expeditionary Security Forces Squadron patrolman. (U.S. Air Force photo/Senior Airman George Goslin)
Pararescuemen with the 82nd Expeditionary Rescue Squadron are hoisted into an HH-60G Pave Hawk Dec. 20, 2013, during a joint search and rescue exercise off the coast of Djibouti. The exercise was designed to test joint service communication and expand mission capabilities among units based at Camp Lemonnier, Djibouti. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Staci Miller)
Senior Master Sgt. Eric Sabatino interacts with a child following the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum holiday concert Dec. 15, 2013, at the Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Va. Sabatino is a harpist with the United States Air Force Band. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Carlin Leslie)
The United States men's bobsled team completes a run during the men's bobsledding World Cup Dec. 7, 2013, at Utah Olympic Park in Utah. The team of Steven Holcomb, Curt Tomasevicz, Steve Langton and Chris Fogt earned a gold medal during the event. (U.S. Air Force photo/Airman Taylor Queen)
Airmen from the 455th Expeditionary Aerial Port Squadron load a C-17 Globemaster III Dec. 29, 2013, at Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan. The aircrew and aerial port Airmen downloaded and uploaded vehicles and cargo during the snowstorm. (U.S. Air Force photo/Capt. Brian Wagner)
A de-icing team works to prepare an A-10 Thunderbolt II for a mission during a snowstorm Dec. 29, 2013, at Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan. The airfield received approximately three inches of snow during the storm. (U.S. Air Force photo/Capt. Brian Wagner)
Airman 1st Class Tyler Wentworth services an F-15E Strike Eagle engine Dec. 19, 2013, at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, N.C. Aerospace propulsion specialists are responsible for diagnosing, maintaining and repairing aircraft engines. Wentworth is a member of the 4th Component Maintenance Squadron. (U.S. Air Force photo/Senior Airman John Nieves Camacho)
Members of the Air Force Entertainment Group perform for deployed service members Dec. 24, 2013, at Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan. The holiday tour includes 15 performances at 10 locations throughout Southwest Asia. (U.S. Air Force photo/Senior Airman Kayla Newman)
The Royal Netherlands air force F-35A Lightning II lifts off for its first flight Dec. 18, 2013, from Eglin Air Force Base, Fla. Maj. Laurens Vijge became the first RNLAF pilot to fly the joint strike fighter and the flight marks the first sortie for the RNLAF here. (U.S. Air Force photo/Samuel King Jr.)
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Propulsion technicians service an F-15E Strike Eagle engine Dec. 18, 2013, at Mountain Home Air Force Base, Idaho. Proper and frequent maintenance is essential to sustain the aging Strike Eagle fleets, and 366th Maintenance Group Airmen ensure F-15Es are ready to fly at a moment's notice. (U.S. Air Force photo/Master Sgt. Kevin Wallace)
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Diddy Goes Crazy After Getting An Iced Chain From Yung Miami: 'We're Going To Make Love'
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Diddy was jumping over the moon after receiving a diamond chain from Yung Miami for his 53rd birthday. Surrounded by many of the biggest names in Hollywood for his birthday party at his Los Angeles mansion, Diddy unveiled the lavish gift he received from Yung Miami, Bossip reports.
A video posted to social media shows the crowd cheering with Diddy as he showed off the chain.
"Somebody put this on," Diddy can be heard saying.
The elated birthday man showed his gratitude with a kiss for Yung Miami.
Diddy appeared to be in shock for the entire night after getting his gift. One video posted to Twitter shows the "I Need A Girl" rapper shouting in disbelief after looking at his chain in the mirror.
"Ain't nobody loving me like this," Diddy said before looking in the mirror. "She loving me like this. That's what's up. That's what the f*** is up. That's what I f*** with."
The Bad Boy CEO expressed himself with expletives when he saw a reflection of his chain.
"Oh s**t!" he shouted repeatedly.
Diddy then fell to his knees and pressed his palms together to once again show gratitude for the "Take Yo Man" rapper.
With multiple cameras still taking flicks of the emotional moment, Diddy opened the door to another room and followed behind Miami.
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A steep decline in deforestation—the main cause of GHG emissions in Brazil—and a quick growth in the energy sector`s emissions has meant that total emissions in change of land use and energy sectors are now almost equal. Traditionally a leader in renewable energy, it is imperative that Brazil's Intended Nationally Determined Contribution (INDC) for the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement goes beyond mitigation on forestry and includes bold moves in the energy sector. This report reviews a range of modelling scenarios for future GHG emissions, identifies opportunities and recommends lines of action to harmonise energy policy objectives with climate goals that meet the needs for a limited global carbon budget.
Key abatement opportunities in energy-related GHG emissions exist primarily in the transport, industry, and power-generation sectors.
Until recently Brazil's greenhouse gas emissions have been dominated by deforestation and land use change. But good progress in reducing deforestation and rapid growth in energy use have shifted this balance so that emissions from land use change and energy are roughly equal. This is leading to a greater focus on the potential role of mitigation actions for energy-related GHG emissions in Brazil's transition to a low carbon economy.
Emissions from power generation in Brazil have traditionally been low due to strong reliance on hydroelectricity. But recently, even while renewable-sourced energy continues to grow in absolute terms in both electricity and energy mixes, fossil based energy has been growing much faster, leading to a strong upward trend in emissions. The good news is that Brazil can reverse this trend. With nearly half of Brazil's energy-related GHG emissions now coming from transportation, the report finds that Brazil can make significant headway by tapping its vast renewable energy potential (especially on wind and solar), modernizing its vehicles, and encouraging mass electrification and hybridization of its transportation fleet. Such efforts would not only make a major contribution to Brazil's mitigation efforts, they would also deliver health co-benefits to its citizens and increase the livability and competitiveness of its cities.
Recent research from many countries around the world has shown that a bold shift towards a low carbon economy need not involve large incremental costs. On the contrary, done right, it can lead to accelerated technological change, more jobs, a better quality of life, and faster economic growth. Brazil can position itself as a leader in this historic transformation.
It also provides recommendations to improve integration between climate and energy policies in Brazil.
Como o sétimo maior emissor de gases do efeito estufa, o Brasil tem as ferramentas e políticas necessárias para assumir a liderança no combate às mudanças climáticas. Esta oportunidade chega em um momento crucial para o país: seu Plano Nacional do Clima - Contribuições Pretendidas Nacionalmente Determinadas (INDC, da sigla em inglês) – deve ser apresentado daqui há alguns dias como parte das negociações climáticas globais, quando uma crise econômica, seca e incerteza energética afetam suas decisões domésticas.


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Girl Names That Start With H
Hello, H names! We've got hundreds of baby girl names that start with the letter H, for your happy and hilarious daughter-to-be.
Hope is a sweet and simple "virtue name" (along with Charity and Grace) that has been a perennial favorite among parents...
This name was so trendy in the 70s and 80s, that there was even a movie named after it (Heathers starring Winona Ryder.)...
English: Holy or holly tree; a beautiful seasonal name for girls born at Christmas, and the name of Audrey Hepburn''s memorable character...
English: Variant of Halley and Hayley
Scandinavian: Heroine, brave one
A girl's name meaning "dweller in the hay meadow," Hailey is spelled over 10 different ways—Haeley, Hayleigh, Hayley, etc.—but...
What used to be considered a boys name in the 1800s, Harper gained mainstream popularity when author Harper Lee published...
Latin: Light. Variant of Helena.
If you're looking for a botanical name that's not too flowery, try Hazel. Hazel has a lovely, vintage feel and retains a...
Helena, the Latin version of Helen is a name fit for a goddess (or baby). In Greek mythology, Helen was the daughter of Zeus...
Simply Hannah without the final H, Hanna is a fresh spelling alternative to the tried and true classic.
Thanks to former First Lady and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Hillary will forever be associated with strong, go-get-'em...
English: Variant of Halley or Hayley
English: Rules her household; feminine form of Harry (from Henry)
French: Variant of Helen; In mythology, the abduction of Zeus'' mortal daughter Helen sparked the Trojan War.
German: Light. German form of Helen, Helena.
English: Cheerful; derived from the Latin Hilarius
Latin: Cheerful, joyful; derived from the Latin word hilarius
German: Keeper of the hearth, rules her household; feminine form of Henry
German: Blessed, holy
Norse: Blessed, holy
English: From the meadow near the hall (implying large estate or home); a surname also used as a variant of Hayley
Hanah
French: Rules her household; feminine form of Harry (from Henry)
French: Keeper of the hearth
Latin: Unity, concord, musically in tune; Harmonia was the mythological daughter of Aphrodite.
English: Algerian political leader Ferhat Abbas, Khedive of Egypt Abbas Hilmi, Arabic poet Abbas Ibn Al Ahnaf
German: Sweet or noble; a short form of Adelaide and Adelheid
Haven is truly a contemporary name—it didn't start showing up on baby names lists until 1990s. It was barely a blip on...
Latin Origin
Arabic: Bliss
Persian: Shrub henna
English: From the heath or heather-covered meadow; a surname now used as a given name
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Jamie Priest
Bluetooth headphone hacking: paranoia or a genuine cause for concern?
The US Vice President believes wireless headphones are a security risk – and she might be right.
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US Vice President Kamala Harris made waves recently, when an article from Politico's 'West Wing Playbook' reported that she refuses to use Bluetooth headphones, believing them to be vulnerable to attack by malicious hackers. The article described the Vice President as "Bluetooth phobic", but is there more than paranoia at play here? Is Bluetooth headphone hacking really a thing?
Bluetooth technology has streamlined our gadgets, stripping away most of the troublesome wires and jacks that are forever getting tangled in the bottoms of our bags and in the far reaches of our drawers. But it does come with a cost – limited by a short operational range, and designed to be used only between devices in close proximity, Bluetooth technologies have tended to create a lackadaisical attitude towards security.
What do experts say about Bluetooth headphone hacking?
"The risk is significant," says Christophe Doche, Associate Dean at the Australian Institute of Business Intelligence. "Bluetooth is one of these technologies that was initially designed without too much concern for security."
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This is particularly true for innocuous add-ons, such as headphones.
Different devices are generally equipped with different security features, with the most stringent protections found where you'd expect them – in computers and laptops. But in headphones? Not so much.
"Bluetooth headphones are typically fairly 'dumb' devices," says Paul Haskell-Dowland, Professor of Cyber Security Practice and Associate Dean for Computing and Security in the School of Science at Edith Cowan University.
We don't tend to bother encrypting devices such as headphones, he says.
"Most headsets can be simply connected by pressing a button on the headset to initiate the 'sync', or may even be selectable directly on the phone with no further interaction required," he says.
Even so, it's not particularly likely that our headphones will provide the 'crack' through which attackers can directly infiltrate, and we generally have little to fear from enjoying a wireless groove session.
"When simply listening to music, such headphones don't really represent any significant risk," says Haskell-Dowland.
Instead, their biggest vulnerability stems from their susceptibility to eavesdropping.
How can others eavesdrop on your Bluetooth headphones?
This is because we do much more than listen to our favourite tunes on our headphones – they are routinely used for phone calls, and increasingly for remote conferencing. As a radio-frequency device, there are opportunities to capture the radio signals and eavesdrop into communications.
"A competent and determined attacker could take advantage of Bluetooth headphones and protocols, to implement, for instance, a man-in-the-middle attack, effectively intercepting all the traffic coming in and out the headphones," says Doche.
Haskell-Dowland expresses similar concerns, but reiterates that much of the threat is context-dependent.
"Given that a lot of Bluetooth headset use is undertaken in public settings, the concerns are perhaps no different to being overheard by the person sat next to you on the train – although capturing the Bluetooth audio would include all parties in the call," he says.
This means that any sensitive information divulged is only ever as secure as the weakest point in the chain. You can take measures to guard security at your end, but it only takes one group member wearing Bluetooth headphones to open the whole conversation to prying ears.
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In some very rare instances, a more sophisticated attack known as privilege escalation might be executed. This involves moving from the wireless communication channel to accessing the data on the device itself.
"Privilege escalation to your phone or tablet can be even more destructive, because there we have credentials for our online services and possibly sensitive financial and medical data as well," says Kim Crawley, cybersecurity researcher for Hack The Box and author of the book 8 Steps to Better Security: A Simple Cyber Resilience Guide for Business (Wiley Tech).
Does this mean Harris's caution is warranted?
Crawley believes Kamala Harris is right to be cautious about Bluetooth headphone hacking, given her position.
"There's not much that I agree with Vice President Harris on, but I definitely agree with her use of wired earbuds and microphones," she says.
"She is a prominent cyberattack target who is very often privy to highly classified information. Removing the possibility of wireless interception from the device-to-peripheral level does what we in cybersecurity call 'reducing your attack surface'."
Doche agrees, but notes that just because Harris might be justified in her cautious approach, this doesn't mean we all need to be similarly worried.
"The everyday person faces exactly the same issues," he says. "However, the likelihood that a competent and determined attacker would try to breach their headphones is less, just because they are not a high-profile target. It is fair to say that they face a smaller risk."
While the risk from Bluetooth headsets is small and generally focused towards specific individuals, being aware of risk and minimising vulnerabilities is always a good idea.
"Absolutely nothing that we do with computer technology is zero risk," says Crawley. "It's all about deciding what level of risk is acceptable to us.
"Every new Bluetooth standard features stronger encryption and more secure cryptographic implementation. But the technology cyberattackers use to crack or bypass encryption is always getting stronger, too. Encryption and decryption is a constant cat-and-mouse game and digital arms race."
What are the best ways to safeguard your privacy?
The first step comes at the point of purchase. Buying a headset that requires a PIN code to connect to your phone or computer is a good start, but you can also look for headsets that support stronger levels of security through the use of encryption. If possible, change the PIN code to a unique value – when headsets share a common default code, it is easy to track down the code in online manuals.
Try to use headsets supporting the most recent versions of Bluetooth.
Only leave your Bluetooth in 'discoverable' mode when you're pairing new headphones with your phone or laptop. Once linked, your device will retain the headset's unique identifying code – there is no need to replicate the linking process each time you use the same headphones.
Turn off Bluetooth when not in use (though this may be challenging in countries where COVID track-and-trace apps use Bluetooth).
Originally published by Cosmos as Bluetooth headphone hacking: paranoia or a genuine cause for concern?
Jamie Priest is a science journalist at Cosmos. She has a Bachelor of Science in Marine Biology from the University of Adelaide.
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RICHARDSON, Texas, July 24, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Texas (BCBSTX) has reached an agreement with Baylor Scott & White Quality Alliance (BSWQA), Baylor Scott & White's accountable care organization (ACO) to deliver high-quality and lower cost care to more than 140,000 BCBSTX members in North and Central Texas.
"This agreement is a major step forward as we shift from a fee-for-service to a fee-for-value healthcare model," said Dan McCoy, MD, president of Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Texas. "We now have more than 1 million lives under value-based-care arrangements. It goes without saying that aligning with a health system with Baylor Scott & White Health's reputation means our members and their patients will receive high-value, coordinated and quality care."
The BCBSTX agreement represents BSWQA's largest value-based arrangement with a commercial insurance company. BSWQA, one of the largest ACOs in Texas, now has more than 600,000 covered lives. Value-based care focuses on improving quality of care and the member experience while reducing medical costs for a specific group of patients.
BSWQA is composed of over 6,000 primary and specialty care physician members, 50 hospitals, more than 95 post-acute care facilities and other healthcare stakeholders that agree to be accountable jointly for improving quality, enhancing the patient experience and reducing healthcare costs. BSWQA has earned National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) ACO accreditation. NCQA's ACO accreditation rates the level of preparation by ACOs to improve healthcare quality and efficiency while reducing costs.
"This opportunity aligns with our strategy to provide quality, value-based care, an improved customer experience and increased affordability for those we serve," said James H. Hinton, CEO, Baylor Scott & White. "Members enrolled in this new ACO arrangement have access to BSWQA's comprehensive network of primary and specialty care doctors and facilities with a proven track record for accountability and delivering quality care that is efficient and affordable."
An ACO is a healthcare collaboration that, among other things, ties payments to quality measures and the cost of care. ACOs are formed by a group of providers, hospitals, payers and other health care stakeholders committed to being accountable to patients and payers for the quality, appropriateness and efficiency of healthcare services. ACOs strive to ensure that patients get the right care at the right time and at the right cost.
The relationship between BCBSTX and Baylor dates to 1929, when the then-superintendent of Dallas schools, Justin Ford Kimball, became a Baylor University official. Wanting to improve the quality of healthcare for educators, Kimball devised a plan that allowed teachers to contribute to a fund that would guarantee up to 21 days of hospital care at Baylor Hospital. The program became the first Blue Cross and Blue Shield plan in the U.S.
Over years, the relationship between BCBSTX and Baylor Scott & White has grown, with the BCBSTX/BSWQA ACO arrangement – effective this month – further linking the two healthcare organizations and serving as an evolution in their professional collaboration.
As the largest not-for-profit health system in the state of Texas, Baylor Scott & White Health promotes the health and well-being of every individual, family and community it serves. An integrated care delivery network, the system includes the Scott and White Health Plan, Baylor Scott & White Research Institute and Baylor Scott & White Quality Alliance. Through 48 hospitals and more than 1,000 access points including flagship academic medical centers in Dallas and Temple, the system offers the full continuum of care, from primary to award-winning specialty care, throughout Texas, and via virtual touchpoints. If its service area were a state, it would be the eighth largest, providing care to a population larger than that of the state of Georgia. Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White is proud to honor its century-long legacy through its commitment to improving accessibility, affordability and the customer experience for all. For more information, visit BSWHealth.com.


Jubilant Journeys is an inspiring and fascinating account of travels across the globe.
Connie Spenuzza's enthralling memoir Jubilant Journeys features moments of wanderlust, spirituality, and learning.
Spenuzza and her husband have been traveling across the globe for the last fifty years, driven by their mutual love of discovery. Spenuzza's interest in travel began in her childhood, during a stop in Miami on her way to Los Angeles. Advised that "curiosity makes you a world traveler," the eyes of the girl from Quito, Ecuador, opened wide. Later, her husband would share in her passion; together they've seen over a hundred countries, visiting shrines for unborn children in Kyoto, walking miles of the Great Wall of China, riding camels close to the pyramids of Giza, and crashing a wedding in Italy. These experiences culminate in Jubilant Journeys, a wonderful reflection on different cultures.
An attitude of wonder and a desire to learn more run throughout the book. Spenuzza assumes an objective tone, refraining from personal judgments in her travel accounts and learning as she goes. In Aguas Calientes (close to Machu Picchu), an art historian finds her comments insulting; Spenuzza hears him and develops new respect for local attitudes.
Spenuzza's are relatable stories that elicit excitement with their infectious enthusiasm: "We have been enchanted by forests of otherworldly gifts." The text is conversational and entertaining, and its tone is inviting and warm, but it is also informative. Facts arise during interesting conversations with locals, as when an Egyptologist engages the couple using quizzes; they each try to outdo the other, and bits of Egyptian history are revealed in the process.
Beyond the magic of its wanderlust, there are moments of fun. Spenuzza pokes at her superstitions and fears, imagining the growls of jaguars in Palenque, an archaeological site in Mexico, and noting the suspicious-looking macaques at Angkor Wat. Experiences that felt scary to her still feel so in the text, and the book is all the more engaging for them.
Spenuzza's travel accounts are not arranged chronologically, and some portions of the book move more slowly than others, taking care to include more details; other trips take a faster route, summarizing experiences instead. The less detailed accounts feel rushed through; here, more information makes for more absorbing reading.
A fascinating account of travels across the globe, Jubilant Journeys is inspiring— both in its appreciation for other cultures and because of Spenuzza's hunger to learn more.


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The VIP experience also provides front-row seating at all shows and increases the chance that one of your kids might be selected to participate onstage. Once you're finished with one park, your VIP Tour Guide zips you over to your next adventure in air-conditioned comfort (the highest of luxuries on a hot Orlando day).
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We have tried to include here all the coronavirus information received by the Parish Council that is relevant to people in the community. If you have anything that you think would be useful to add to the website, please email Rose Edwards, the Clerk - yeohead@dorset-aptc.gov.uk or telephone 01963 220491
You can also find guidance and local information on the Dorset Council website. https://www.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk/home.aspx
Dorset Police website also has useful information with many questions answered in the Frequently Asked Questions section. This includes guidance about window cleaners and self employed gardeners who can continue to work as long as social distancing measures are observed. https://www.dorset.police.uk/covid-19-coronavirus/
"We have had another successful week vaccinating our local residents against Covid 19 . Last week we vaccinated over 1000 local residents over 80 years old. This week we have administered 1800 vaccines, amongst the over 80's , residents and staff of local care and nursing home and also Frontline Health Care workers. A massive thank you to all the staff and volunteers who have helped to make this happen.
We are awaiting notification of our vaccine delivery for next week. We shall next be targeting the elderly housebound and the cohort aged 75-79. We are on schedule to vaccinate our most vulnerable residents by the middle of February.
However if you are over 80 and registered with either The Apples Medical Centre, Yetminster Health Centre or The Grove Medical Centre and are not housebound and for some reason HAVEN'T already been invited for a Covid Vaccination, please get in touch with your surgery to arrange one.
Please remember that vaccination is by appointment only and we will get in touch with you to arrange a vaccination date and time. It is important that we have your up to date details so that we can get in touch with you. We will make increasing use of mobile phones and texting to make contact, so please ensure we have your latest mobile phone number. Visit your surgery website to find out how you can easily update your contact details. Do not be concerned if you do not have a mobile phone as we will still reach you by landline.
Covid infections locally still remain much higher than in the first wave and there are still a significant number of new cases locally each week, so please follow the rules and stay at home, protect the NHS and save lives.
Please ensure this message reaches those who may not have seen it.
Covid vaccination Lead for Sherborne Area Network
We are delighted to report that our first Covid vaccination clinic running at the Digby Hall in Sherborne is going very well. By the end of tomorrow we will have vaccinated 1200 of our over 80s and health and social care staff.
Our care homes residents and staff will start receiving their vaccinations from next Monday and we will be running further vaccination clinics at the hall by appointment only, on Wednesday and Thursday next week. Please do not contact us for your appointment, we will contact you when it is your turn for the vaccination.
All three practices are working extremely hard at the moment to ensure that we get as many patients vaccinated as soon as we can, but we are still open on our practice sites. If you have any other health concerns, please contact your surgery as normal.
22.12.20 - Coronavirus Vaccinations Sherborne Area
Dr Rob Childs has published the following message today to all patients of the Sherborne Area Primary Care Network (the Grove and Apples Medical Centres and the Yetminster Health Centre)
We are all concerned by the variant of Covid that is spreading in the South East of England. Rates of infection locally however remain below the national average and if we follow guidance on Hands, Space and Face and the rules on gathering at Xmas, we should be able to keep the rate of infection low.
Some sites in Dorset and Somerset have commenced vaccination and we have a site in Sherborne identified, which is awaiting authorisation and delivery of vaccine and equipment. The logistics of delivering a vaccine that has to be stored at -70 degrees is considerable but we have learned from the first wave sites as how best to manage this. It is also anticipated that the Oxford vaccine will become available shortly, which will ease logistic issues and increase our capacity to vaccinate you.
We anticipate commencing our local vaccination campaign, during the week commencing 4th January 2021. We will be vaccinating those who are most vulnerable first ( over 80 and those in care homes) and those recommended nationally by the JCVI.
The clinics will be by appointment only and we will get in touch with you to make appointments. Please do not call us, we will contact you.
We plan to vaccinate at least 1000 patients per week when vaccine supplies will allow this so that we can protect all of you who may be vulnerable to this illness and in as short as time as possible. This will be a considerable challenge for the local surgeries to deliver and I ask you to understand that we may need to prioritise some work so that we have the capacity to deliver this programme as we would like.
I wish you all a Happy and Safe Christmas
GP lead for Covid Vaccination in the Sherborne Area Network
Dorset residents encouraged to use NHS Test and Trace service
From this week, Dorset Council has developed its messages, asking people to "Respect our communities"
Park considerately
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Don't have BBQs or fires
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No overnight stays
Sherborne HRC (tip) will reopen on Tuesday 2 June, however, there will be different measures in place for visitors to follow. All visitors wishing to use Sherborne HRC will need to first proceed to the Terrace Playing Fields car-park (situated on the southern edge of Sherborne at Dancing Hill). Here, you will take a paper ticket (like a supermarket deli counter) and join the queue for the HRC. When the queue at the HRC becomes short enough, you will be directed by on-site staff to travel to the HRC to drop off your waste. Visitors without a ticket will not be able to enter the recycling centre. Further details on the Dorset Council page in the link below.
https://www.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk/emergencies-severe-weather/emergencies/coronavirus/changes-to-services/bins-recycling-centres-and-other-waste-services.aspx
Dorset Council press release - visitors, coronavirus in Dorset and car parks - re-opening and payment methods
Dorset Council Press Release regarding easing of lock down restrictions
https://news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk/2020/05/12/our-message-to-visitors-thinking-of-visiting-dorset-now-please-think-twice/
The Grove Medical Centre and The Apples Medical Centre, Sherborne have sent the following important message for patients.
Update on advertising planning applications in the former North Dorset area and part of the former West Dorset area
We have been notified that the Blackmore Vale Magazine has suspended publication for a temporary period due to the Covid-19 situation. Any planning applications requiring press advertisements that would normally be advertised in the Blackmore Vale Magazine will be publicised in the Western Gazette instead from 24 April onwards. This affects the former North Dorset area and part of the former West Dorset area only.
Dorset's latest co-ordinated community response briefing is here: https://www.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk/emergencies-severe-weather/emergencies/coronavirus/co-ordinated-community-response-brief.pdf
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Dorset Council have set up a community shield helpline for the public – this is available to all those qualifying for shielding under the government criteria of shielding for vulnerability, and for their carers and supporters. (Patients who qualify will have been sent a letter advising them to shield).
Contact: 01305 221022 communityresponse@dorsetcouncil.gov.uk
No problem is too small to ask for help with – calls so far have asked for meds delivery, pet food collection, an isolation phone chat, info on Govt. food parcels etc.
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Waste services: Important new rubbish and recycling guidance for all Dorset residents
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New guidance from NHS Dorset - see information in the Covid-19 drop down menu above
From the end of Friday 27 March, Dorset Council waste services (previously known as the Dorset Waste Partnership) will be suspending all Garden Waste kerbside collections
https://news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk/2020/03/27/garden-waste-kerbside-bin-collections-to-be-suspended/
Recycling and rubbish collections press release from Dorset Council - link below and text on the Recycling tab above.
https://www.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk/emergencies-severe-weather/emergencies/coronavirus/bin-collection-disruption-and-waste-guidance.aspx
Message from Dorset Police to the community about coronavirus
https://www.dorset.police.uk/news-information/article/9787


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The ObserverTilda Swinton
Ice queen Tilda Swinton is swept away by passion as she breaks free from the Milanese upper classes in a film that covers territory once explored by Antonioni, writes Philip French
Tilda Swinton and Mattia Zaccaro in I Am Love. Photograph: Rex Features
Philip French
Sat 10 Apr 2010 19.07 EDT
Tilda Swinton is a beautiful, coldly intelligent presence who was born to play the chilly White Witch, icy winter queen of Narnia in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. She is less obviously cast as Emma, the passionate Slavonic daughter of a Russian art dealer, brought to Italy as the wife of Tancredi Recchi, the uptight heir to a rich Milanese industrialist. I Am Love (aka Io sono l'amore) takes place in territory once explored by Bolognini, Visconti and Antonioni as the appeal of neorealism faded.
It begins well in wintry Milan where Emma is organising a birthday dinner for the family at her grand, 1930s style town house. The guest of honour is her elderly father-in-law and the meal ends with his surprise announcement that he's decided to hand over the family firm jointly to Emma's husband and handsome younger son, Edo.
This patriarch is played by Gabriele Ferzetti, the weak, handsome, upper-class hero in Antonioni's Le amiche and L'avventura, and also the brutal railroad tycoon in Sergio Leone's Once Upon a Time in the West. In fact, this movie might well have taken a cue from the title of an earlier Leone film and been called "A Fistful of Dallas", because it develops into a glossy Italianate version of an Aaron Spelling soap opera, reminiscent of the sagas of the Ewings and Carringtons.
After Ferzetti's death, the family start fighting over the sale of the business via its London contacts and Emma, perhaps spurred on by the discovery that her art student daughter is a lesbian, is swept into an affair with Antonio, a handsome young chef with whom son Edo has a close, seemingly homoerotic, friendship and with whom he intends to open a country restaurant. All of nature – fauna, flora and meteorology – joins in when Emma and Antonio set about their lovemaking in the hills above Sanremo.
When Edo finds out about his mother's amour, events mount to a violent, guilt-ridden climax with an accidental death, resembling a distaff version of Louis Malle's Damage. Accompanying the action is portentous music by John Adams, not all of it appropriate, none I think composed specifically for this picture, and sometimes used to drown the dialogue. Some reputable critics have acclaimed as a masterpiece what seems to me a rather shallow film.
Drama films
I Am Love (Io Sono L'Amore)


Lanna Young, a member of the charity Phoemale, paints the kitchen of a mother whose home was in need of repair. Phoemale will host its fourth annual Phire & Ice fundraiser Feb. 1 at the Bayview Yacht Club in Detroit.
Thus was born Phoemale, an all-female grassroots charity based in the Grosse Pointes. Pronounced "female," the term is a merger of "female" and "phoenix," because it's about enabling women to rise up and out of bad situations, like the phoenix of myth rose anew from the ashes.
At 7 p.m. Feb. 1, Phoemale will hold its fourth annual Phire & Ice fundraiser at Bayview Yacht Club, 100 Clairpointe Street in Detroit. It was given the theme Bootlegger Bash this year in acknowledgement of Detroit River history, and it will feature live music, a silent auction, food and a cash bar. Tickets cost $50 per person. Phoemale President Jenelle Lefief, of Grosse Pointe Park, said the silent auction will feature original artwork donated by leading local artists, including encaustic painter Birgit Huttemann-Holz.
Phoemale works with social service agencies to find women in need of assistance who are survivors of sexual assault, homelessness, domestic violence or human trafficking. Communications Director Nancy Derringer, of Grosse Pointe Woods, said the group votes on each case, and while the vote doesn't have to be unanimous, thus far, they've always all agreed on each candidate.
"We're looking for the diamonds in the rough — the women who want to change the trajectory of their lives," Lefief said.
Derringer said Phoemale doesn't replicate what other social service agencies are already doing.
Not everyone can turn to family or friends for financial assistance.
"If you're poor and you need $500, it might as well be $5 million," Derringer said.
In some cases, they've given women a laptop computer, paid for traffic tickets or fixed up a house in disrepair. For a woman who had to take multiple buses to get from Detroit to Ann Arbor so that her infant daughter could be treated for a heart defect, they purchased her a used car.
The 12-member Phoemale considered expanding, but the members realized there were advantages to remaining small.
Additional volunteers have assisted with projects such as home repair, and new volunteers are always welcome.
Since its founding, Phoemale has helped about a dozen women and has distributed more than $33,000, Lefief said. The charity's members say their recipients have reported back about how important Phoemale's gifts have been in their new lives.
"If she's given that chance, if she's given that boost up, that's all she needs," Lefief said.
For Bootlegger Bash tickets or more information, visit www.phoemale.org.


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Иосиф (Жозеф) Марша́н (, ) — святой Римско-Католической Церкви, священник, миссионер, мученик.

Биография

В 1821 году Жозеф Маршан поступил в семинарию епархии Безансон. В 1828 году после рукоположения в диаконы подал прошение в Парижское общество заграничных миссий, которое занималось распространением католицизма на Дальнем Востоке.

4 января 1829 года был рукоположен во священника и был направлен в католическую миссию в Макао, куда прибыл в марте 1830 года. В 1833 году китайскими властями был издан указ, предписывающий арестовывать всех европейских христианских миссионеров. находясь во Вьетнаме, в 1835 году Жозеф Маршан был арестован во время проведения святой мессы и отправлен в тюрьму, где он повергся жестоким истязаниям и посажен в небольшую клетку. 30 ноября 1835 года Жозеф Маршан был заживо изрезан на куски в Сайгоне.

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Иосиф Маршан был беатифицирован 27 мая 1900 года папой Львом XIII и канонизирован 19 июня 1988 года папой Иоанном Павлом II в составе группы 117 вьетнамских мучеников.

День памяти в католической Церкви — 24 ноября.

См. также
 Список святых, канонизированных папой римским Иоанном Павлом II

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Литература
 Our Sunday Visitor's Encyclopedia of Saints by Matthew Bunson, p. 459. ISBN 1931709750
 John Paul II's Book of Saints by Matthew Bunson, Margaret Bunson, p. 61. ISBN 0879739347

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Chen, H., Zhang, X., Wu, R., & Cai, T. (2020). Revisiting the environmental Kuznets curve for city-level CO2 emissions: based on corrected NPP-VIIRS nighttime light data in China. Journal of Cleaner Production, , 121575.
Abstract: With the increasing trend of global warming, the Chinese government faces tremendous pressure to reduce CO2 emissions. The purpose of this study is to accurately measure CO2 emissions at the city scale in China and examine the environmental Kuznets curve, thereby providing a reference for decision-making. Corrected NPP-VIIRS nighttime light data were used to accurately estimate carbon dioxide emissions at the provincial and city scales in China. Then, based on the STRIPAT model, 291 cities in China were used to verify the environmental Kuznets curve. Our results show that on the provincial scale, the R2 between the estimated value and the statistical value of carbon dioxide reaches 0.85. Western cities in China emit more CO2, as do economically developed cities and industry- and mining-dominated cities. There are two CO2 emission hot spots in the north and one cold spot in the south. It was found that the environmental Kuznets curve on the city scale exists. This study has practical value in utilizing NPP-VIIRS data for the estimation of city CO2 emissions. The results also have academic value for determining factors that contribute to carbon dioxide emissions and can provide a reference for relevant decision makers. This study could be considered the first to simulate CO2 emissions at the provincial and city levels in China based on a NPP-VIIRS nighttime light model to explore the associated geographical distribution characteristics and potential influencing factors.
Keywords: Remore Sensing; China; carbon emissions; CO2 emissions; night lights; NPP-VIIRS; VIIRS-DNB; VIIRS-DNB; Kuznets curve
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Elvidge, C. D., Baugh, K. E., Dietz, J. B., Bland, T., Sutton, P. C., & Kroehl, H. W. (1999). Radiance calibration of DMSP-OLS low-light imaging data of human settlements. Remote Sensing of Environment, 68(1), 77–88.
Abstract: Nocturnal lighting is a primary method for enabling human activity. Outdoor lighting is used extensively worldwide in residential, commercial, industrial, public facilities, and roadways. A radiance calibrated nighttime lights image of the United States has been assembled from Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) Operational Linescan System (OLS). The satellite observation of the location and intensity of nocturnal lighting provide a unique view of humanities presence and can be used as a spatial indicator for other variables that are more difficult to observe at a global scale. Examples include the modeling of population density and energy related greenhouse gas emissions.
Keywords: Remote Sensing; DMSP; DMSP-OLS; satellite; night lights; light pollution
http://alandb.darksky.org/show.php?record=930
Elvidge, C. D., Erwin, E. H., Baugh, K. E., Ziskin, D., Tuttle, B. T., Ghosh, T., et al. (2009). Overview of DMSP nightime lights and future possibilities. In Joint Urban Remote Sensing Event. IEEE.
Abstract: The Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) Operational Linescan System (OLS) has a unique capability to collect low-light imaging data of the earth at night. The OLS and its predecessors have collected this style of data on a nightly global basis since 1972. The digital archive of OLS data extends back to 1992. Over the years several global nighttime lights products have been generated. NGDC has now produced a set of global cloud-free nighttime lights products, specifically processed for the detection of changes in lighting emitted by human settlements, spanning 1992-93 to 2008. While the OLS is far from ideal for observing nighttime lights, the DMSP nighttime lights products have been successfully used in modeling the spatial distribution of population density, carbon emissions, and economic activity.
Keywords: Remote Sensing; DMSP; DMSP-OLS; Night lights
Fan, J., He, H., Hu, T., Zhang, P., Yu, X., & Zhou, Y. (2019). Estimation of Landscape Pattern Changes in BRICS from 1992 to 2013 Using DMSP-OLS NTL Images. J Ind Soc Rem Sens, 47(5), 725–735.
Abstract: Nighttime light data from the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program's Operational Linescan System are widely used for monitoring urbanization development. Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS) countries have global economic and cultural influence in the new era. It was the first time for the researches about BRICS countries adopting nighttime light data to analyze the urbanization process. In this paper, we calibrated and extracted annual urbanized area patches from cities in BRICS based on a quadratic polynomial model. Nine landscape indexes were calculated to analyze urbanization process characteristics in BRICS. The results suggested that China and India both expanded more rapidly than other countries, with urban areas that increased by more than 100%. The expansion of large core cities was dominant in the urbanization of China, while emerging and expanding small urban patches were major forces in the urbanization of India. Since 1992, urbanization declined and urban areas shrunk in Russia, but core cities still maintained strength of urbanization. Due to economic recovery, urban areas near large cities in Russia began to expand. From 1992 to 2013, the urbanization process in South Africa developed slowly, as evidenced by time series fluctuations, but overall the development remained stable. The degree of urbanization in Brazil was greater than that in South Africa but less than that in Russia. Large-sized cities expanded slowly and small-sized cities clearly expanded in BRICS from 1992 to 2013.
Keywords: Remote Sensing; BRICS; Brazil; India; China; South Africa; nighttime light; night lights; DMSP-OLS
Huang, X., Wang, C., & Lu, J. (2019). Understanding Spatiotemporal Development of Human Settlement in Hurricane-prone Areas on U.S. Atlantic and Gulf Coasts using Nighttime Remote Sensing. Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, , 1–22.
Abstract: Hurricanes, as one of the most devastating natural disasters, have posed great threats to people in coastal areas. A better understanding of spatiotemporal dynamics of human settlement in hurricane-prone areas is demanded for sustainable development. This study uses the DMSP/OLS nighttime light (NTL) data sets from 1992 to 2013 to examine human settlement development in areas with different levels of hurricane proneness. The DMSP/OLS NTL data from six satellites were intercalibrated and desaturated with AVHRR and MODIS optical imagery to derive the vegetation-adjusted NTL urban index (VANUI), a popular index that quantifies human settlement intensity. The derived VANUI time series was examined with the Mann-Kendall test and Theil-Sen test to identify significant spatiotemporal trends. To link the VANUI product to hurricane impacts, four hurricane-prone zones were extracted to represent different levels of hurricane proneness. Aside from geographic division, a wind-speed weighted track density function was developed and applied to historical North Atlantic Basin (NAB)-origin storm tracks to better categorize the four levels of hurricane proneness. Spatiotemporal patterns of human settlement in the four zones were finally analyzed. The results clearly exhibit a north-south and inland-coastal discrepancy of human settlement dynamics. This study also reveals that both the zonal extent and zonal increase rate of human settlement positively correlate with hurricane proneness levels. The intensified human settlement in high hurricane-exposure zones deserves further attention for coastal resilience.
Keywords: Remote Sensing; hurricanes; cyclones; Weather; natural disasters; DMSP-OLS; nighttime light; night lights; vegetation-adjusted NTL urban index; VANUI


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Kamala Harris appointment of all senior staff members as women
US Vice President-elect Kamala Harris announced her senior staff members, as women especially the top three positions in the office.
The newly elected Vice President of USA, Kamala Harris is a feminist and also the woman of color becoming the first South Asian American and woman to hold the position so obviously, expect a lot of history-defying moments from her.
Kamala Harris said in a statement that "Together with the rest of my team, today's appointees will work to get this virus under control, open our economy responsibly and make sure it lifts up all Americans, and restore and advance our country's leadership around the world,".
Today I announced Tina Flournoy as my Chief of Staff, @RohiniKos as my Domestic Policy Advisor, and Nancy McEldowney as my National Security Advisor. Their leadership will be critical as we overcome the unprecedented challenges facing our nation.https://t.co/RZql1KGb69
— Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) December 3, 2020
Earlier US President-elect Joe Biden approved an all-female communications' staff few days ago. Now, another move has been taken by VP Harris and that is the appointment of all senior staff members as women including Hartina Flournoy as chief of staff, Nancy McEldowney is named as her national security adviser and Rohini Kosoglu, is going to serve the office as her domestic policy adviser.
President-elect Joe Biden and Harris have made a point of making historic appointments to staff jobs and cabinet positions, pledging to build a team "that looks like America." It stands in contrast to the cabinet and staff for President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence, which is largely White.
Following Biden-Harris victory in the 2020 elections, this all-women team will be serving under the first woman of Indian-origin and the first woman ever to be elected as US Vice President.
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Michael Thomas dials up celebration to Saints' past after clinching touchdown against Rams
New Orleans Saints' Michael Thomas runs for a touchdown during the fourth quarter against the Rams on Sunday.
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By Sam FarmerStaff Writer
Reporting from new orleans —
After the touchdown throw, a throwback.
In a nod to a New Orleans receiver of yesteryear, Saints wideout Michael Thomas celebrated his 72-yard touchdown catch Sunday by fishing a cellphone from the base of the goalpost pad and pretending to make a call. It was a celebration Joe Horn famously performed 15 years earlier.
"You got to have fun," said Thomas, who had stashed the phone there and was flagged for a 15-yard penalty enforced on the ensuing kickoff. "All these guys are catching touchdowns and celebrating and having fun and getting the crowd involved. I felt like I had an opportunity to make it happen, put the game away and make the call."
The Saints couldn't have been too angry, as it punctuated a tremendous day for Thomas, who attended Taft High in Woodland Hills and is a nephew of former USC and NFL receiver Keyshawn Johnson. Thomas, who had 12 catches, set a Saints single-game record with 211 receiving yards.
"I wasn't all fired up about the penalty," Saints coach Sean Payton said. "We'll get that figured out and handled, but he had a good game."
Horn, who played for the Saints from 2000-06 and still ranks as the third-leading receiver in club history, was touched by the celebration.
"When I saw him bring out that cellphone, I teared up," Horn told Jeff Duncan of the New Orleans Times-Picayune, who reached him by phone after the game. "That's something that some kids don't do, to pay homage to an old soul. For him to do it on a national stage took a lot of courage. When I saw him bring out that cellphone, I teared up. I'm humbled."
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Winner of California Sportswriter of the Year and first place for beat writing by Associated Press Sports Editors, Sam Farmer has covered the NFL for 25 seasons.


I admit I'm pretty new to this beer-reviewing game, but one thing I do know is that I love India Pale Ale. Recently, I tried an IPA that was absolutely delicious and smooth and today I'll be reviewing a beer that's almost equally as good. That beer would be Saranac India Pale Ale. Being an appreciator of craft beers and especially of IPAs I can honestly say I really like this brew. It is extremely tasty and smooth, but I can't help but think something's missing.
Saranac IPA pours perfectly with absolutely no air gulps straight from the bottle. Its color is a clear shade of lcopper and forms a nice size head. The head does linger throughout the drink and leaves a lot of lacing on the glass which I always find impressive.
The aroma, upon close inspection, is a distinct hop and floral scent, but not quite as strong as most IPAs.
For a beer, Saranac IPA is well above other brews in the taste department. It's very hoppy and has a well-balanced tart and bitter flavor. The only bummer is the flavor is not quite as potent as I was hoping for. It's as if they followed the same recipe for other IPAs and added a tad too much water.
At least the brew is silky smooth and finishes clean. It does have something of a tingle on your palate if you let it linger, but this is by no means a detriment. I wouldn't consider this a flat beer.
It's not surprising that an IPA would be a bit heavier in body than your typical ale because it's made with extra hops. Saranac India Pale Ale is somewhere in the middle of medium and full-bodied beers at 5.8%. It's certainly not a lightweight, quick-chugging beer, but it's also far from being quickly filling. It's a good beer to accompany a meal, or to drink on its own.
That a mid-level brewery from upstate New York could make an India Pale Ale this good is nothing short of amazing. As an inclusion to the Saranac "Adirondack Trail Mix" it's a wise choice and the first beer in the case you'll want to try. And who wouldn't want to drink a tasty beer that's also smooth?


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An actuary is a mathematician responsible for estimating risks, primarily in the insurance and financial security industries. The Butler program helps to prepare students for the professional examinations administered by the Casualty Actuary Soceity and the Society of Actuaries. In addition to the departmental requirements below, a student must complete the University Core Curriculum, the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences language requirement, and other general requirements, including a writing intensive course.
Additional information for Actuarial Science may be obtained at the following websites: Society of Actuaries, Casualty Actuarial Society, and Be An Actuary.
If you would like to see courses offered, please visit the Course Catalog.
Actuarial Science majors should complete the following business courses: AC 203, 204 (Introduction to Accounting I, II), MS 100 (Basic Excel Skills for Business Applications), MS 265 (Information Technology), EC 231, 232 (Principles of Micro/Macroeconomics), FN 340 (Corporation Finance) and FN 347 (Investments). CS 142 (Introduction to Computer Science and Programming) is also recommended. In addition, Actuarial Science majors are strongly encouraged to pass the CAS/SOA Exam P (probability) and FM (mathematics of finance), and obtain a summer internship while still an undergraduate.
Students will be required to submit to SOA grades of B- or better for FN 340, AC 203, EC 231, EC 232, and MA 362 to validate educational experience (VEE) for all of these courses.


Using the name of NSA, a hacker has put up for sale on the Dark Web some data that contains the personal details and driver's license information of over 290,000 US citizens which he had stolen after breaching the networks of several Louisiana organizations. The hacker has uploaded these data in The Real Deal, a underground marketplace. NSA says he extracted the driver's license details from the stolen databases that contained information on driving violations. Also he claims the databases also held information about more serious crimes like murders.
Lot of personal information has been stolen and accessed which includes driving offense, fine total, first name, middle name, last name, date of birth, driver's license number, state in which the driver's license was issued, address, city, state, ZIP code, phone number, and email address. The hacker added that the most common dates of birth are from 1983, but the data also includes information on teenagers and senior citizens.
"Disregard the price on this listing. Make me an offer that you and I can both agree to and I'll create a private listing that you can use to purchase this database", the beginning of the hackers ad states. It is noted the 'NSA' hacker has no history of selling on The Real Deal – and without the reputation or positive feedback from the users there the hacker may find it difficult to shift the data dump.


Early in December 1952, a cold fog caused Londoners to burn more coal than usual. When the resulting pollution was trapped by the dense mass of cold air, concentrations of pollutants built up dramatically. By the time it lifted, the smog had caused or advanced the deaths of thousands of people—most of whom were very young or elderly or had pre-existing respiratory problems—leading to a new focus on the dangers of air pollution. Even indoor events were cancelled during the Great Smog. Why?
Possibly inhabited more than 100,000 years ago, the Bhimbetka Rock Shelters are a series of caves in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh that exhibit traces of early human life. Bhimbetka was first recorded in 1888 as a Buddhist site, and since archaeologists began visiting it in the 1950s, more than 700 rock shelters have been identified. They are mainly painted in red and white and depict many everyday activities, such as hunting, dancing, and worshipping. What is "Zoo Rock"?
Christina Rossetti was one of England's most important female poets of the Victorian era. It is little wonder that she became a poet, given her lineage. Her great-grandfather was a poet, her grandfather was a writer and scholar, and her father was the famous poet and scholar Gabriele Rossetti. Her three siblings followed similar paths. Religious themes dominate her poems, which run the gamut from romantic to devotional to children's poetry. What popular Christmas carol did she pen?


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Upcoming Zone Changes for U11 to U17 Players:
Zone Boundary Changes in effect for Indoor 2020-21 Season
For Community Association and Zone Registration Details, click on the Zone Map PDF to see which area of the city you live in. Then click on the appropriate area on the map where you live and you will be directed to a webpage with all the registration and contact information for the Zone and Community Associations within your area.
Mini U5 to U9 players are not bound to zone boundaries. Mini players register with any Community Association (although mini players are encouraged to register with a community that falls under their future youth Zone) **Please note that any player in the U9 age group that wishes to tryout for U11 soccer must do so in their zone of residence** Click here for How to Register & Zone Contacts.
Youth U19 players are not bound to zone boundaries ~ these players can register with a zone of their choosing.
Valley Soccer Association Boundaries - click here
Players residing within 100km radius of the city of Saskatoon who are part of the SYS District or who are released by any other SSA recognized Member Organization to play within SYS are treated as follows :
Players who reside outside the city limits but are between the South Saskatchewan River south of the City SYSI and Highway 16 North are deemed resident in Zone 1 - SUSC.
Players who reside outside the city limits but are between Highway 16 North and the South Saskatchewan River north of the City deemed resident in Zone 2 - Hollandia.
Players who reside outside the city limits but are between the South Saskatchewan River north of the City and Highway 5 extended due east deemed resident in Zone 3 - Aurora.
Players who reside outside the city limits but are between east of Highway 11 and south of Highway #5 are deemed resident in Zone 4 - Lakewood.
Players who reside outside the city limits but are between Highway 11 South and the South Saskatchewan River south of the City are deemed resident in Zone 5 - Eastside.
Under-19 youth players are exempt from the above residency rules for the exception of acquiring a release if they are resident of any other SSA recognized Member Organization
Feb. 12, 2021 to Feb. 20, 2021
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