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Kimbahune, Vinod Vijaykumar, Arvind V. Deshpande and Parikshit N. Mahalle. "A Novel Key Management Scheme for Next Generation Internet: An Attack Resistant and Scalable Approach." IJISMD 9.1 (2018): 92-121. Web. 21 Jan. 2020. doi:10.4018/IJISMD.2018010105
Kimbahune, V. V., Deshpande, A. V., & Mahalle, P. N. (2018). A Novel Key Management Scheme for Next Generation Internet: An Attack Resistant and Scalable Approach. International Journal of Information System Modeling and Design (IJISMD), 9(1), 92-121. doi:10.4018/IJISMD.2018010105
Kimbahune, Vinod Vijaykumar, Arvind V. Deshpande and Parikshit N. Mahalle. "A Novel Key Management Scheme for Next Generation Internet: An Attack Resistant and Scalable Approach," International Journal of Information System Modeling and Design (IJISMD) 9 (2018): 1, accessed (January 21, 2020), doi:10.4018/IJISMD.2018010105
A Novel Key Management Scheme for Next Generation Internet: An Attack Resistant and Scalable Approach
Vinod Vijaykumar Kimbahune (Department of Computer Engineering, Smt. Kashibai Navale College of Engineering, Savitribai Phule Pune University, Pune, India), Arvind V. Deshpande (Department of Computer Engineering, Smt. Kashibai Navale College of Engineering, Savitribai Phule Pune University, Pune, India) and Parikshit N. Mahalle (Department of Computer Engineering, Smt. Kashibai Navale College of Engineering, Savitribai Phule Pune University, Pune, India)
Source Title: International Journal of Information System Modeling and Design (IJISMD) 9(1)
DOI: 10.4018/IJISMD.2018010105
The computational complexity of the next generation internet (NGI) is increasing at a faster rate. Due to the large scale of ubiquitous devices, effective and secure communication and addressing mechanism is vulnerable to several threats. Apart from resource constraints of the devices, the unknown topology of the network and the higher risk of device capture make the key management a more challenging task in NGI. In this context, a novel attack resistant and salable key management scheme must be in place to enable end-to-end secure communication. In the first part of the article, is a detailed analysis of various threats along with behavioral modeling of attack. Further, this article presents comprehensive literature survey and the gap analysis. The proposed key management scheme has been evaluated in two scenarios viz. centralized and decentralized and its formal security analysis also proves that it is safe from replay attack. The proposed key management scheme has been evaluated with a performance metric like delay and the results shows that it is salable in nature.
Today's Internet suffers from its own success. Fortunately, researchers believe that new technologies, protocols, and standards can be developed to meet tomorrow's demands. These advances will start to put us on track to a Next Generation Internet (NGI) offering reliable, affordable, secure information delivery at rates thousands of times faster than today's rate. Achieving this goal will require research and testing. It is appropriate that the research community is participating in this research activity to achieve all the vision of NGI technology. The emergence of the NGI is mainly oriented toward a series of serious challenges that cannot be solved through limited improvement under the current network architecture.
Figure 1 shows that many mobile devices located within radio range of each other. Few of them can be access points which provide connectivity to the other devices. This paper discusses two addressing schemes: IP addresses which have global acceptance, and MAC addresses used at the local level. These addresses are assigned to all the devices uniquely.
In this scenario, a particular device advertises its information using Neighbor Advertisement message and can request information about its neighbors by a Neighbor Solicitation. In this example, we have to make sure that no two devices use the same addresses for avoiding the duplication of address. IP can be assigned manually or by using local authority.
Assume an attacking device has compromised a legitimate device of the local network. An attacker can either gain control of the relevant device to cause more chaos in the network or creates Denial-of-Service attacks (DoS). It can also try to combine these two attacks to organize and initiate flooding DoS attack. Enemy device redirects as many traffic flow as possible towards a given victim device, in such a way that the latter is overwhelmed.
Reference Use Case Related to Attacks
In Figure 1 devices which are shown in dark colors are the Sybil devices. When these devices want to communicate to their neighboring device they use any one of the identities. When packets transfer at the time these multiple identities will respond as a result it will confuse and collapse the network.
There are several ways by which an attacker can initiate these attacks. An attacking device can spoof a Neighbor Advertisement message; it can cause packets to the legitimate device to be sent to some other link-layer address. Another attack possible is to interrupt Duplicate Address Detection protocol in which the attacking device responds to every Duplicate Address Detection message attempt made by an entering device so that the device is unable to obtain an address.
As mentioned above each device is assigned a unique address, to avoid ambiguity. An attacker can try to break address ownership and uniqueness by initiating a Sybil attack. (Zhang & Shen, 2014) Many networks, like a peer-to-peer network, rely on assumptions of identity, where each device represents one identity. A Sybil attack happens when an insecure device is hacked to claim multiple identities. An attacker with many identities can use them to act maliciously, by either stealing information or disrupting communication. In the case of wireless networks, Sybil attacks are a crucial concern, as the attacker can hack the device and initiate the replication attack.
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The rapid escalation of the coronavirus pandemic led to the cancellation of hundreds of Pride events around the world. Even now, despite restrictions gradually easing, events are still being disrupted. Brighton Pride has announced its cancellation for the second year in a row. As one of the biggest and most popular Prides in the country, this has come as a blow to members of the community.
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Falling in love with a country: Visit Malta
Malta is a small country with a long, rich history, a place like no other in this world, daintily perched on the periphery of Europe; it lies south of Sicily, north of Africa, a strategic position which made the archipelago a contested region during the Second World War. That being said, it is the country's military history which initially embedded it into the lives of my family. Prior to its independence in 1964, Malta was occupied by Great Britain, and the British armed forces retained a presence in Malta until 1979.
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Ready, Set, GO: 'Green list' countries revealed
Yesterday, on Friday 7th May, Transport Secretary Grant Shapps revealed which countries will appear on the 'green list' as foreign travel restrictions gradually begin to be eased. The twelve countries on the list do not require holidaymakers to quarantine, but they must take a coronavirus test both before and after their trip. This news was bound to be an exciting moment as many people around England eagerly awaited the news of where they could escape to, and whether the dream of a summer holiday abroad will come true.
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What Unites and Divides Urban, Suburban and Rural Communities
By Kim Parker, Juliana Menasce Horowitz, Anna Brown, Richard Fry, D'Vera Cohn and Ruth Igielnik
Survey methodology
The American Trends Panel (ATP), created by Pew Research Center, is a nationally representative panel of randomly selected U.S. adults recruited from landline and cellphone random-digit-dial (RDD) surveys. Panelists participate via monthly self-administered web surveys. Panelists who do not have internet access are provided with a tablet and wireless internet connection. The panel is managed by GfK.
Data in this report are drawn from the panel wave conducted Feb. 26 to March 11, 2018, among 6,251 respondents. The margin of sampling error for the full sample of 6,251 respondents is plus or minus 1.9 percentage points.
Members of the ATP were recruited from several large, national landline and cellphone RDD surveys conducted in English and Spanish. At the end of each survey, respondents were invited to join the panel. The first group of panelists was recruited from the 2014 Political Polarization and Typology Survey, conducted Jan. 23 to March 16, 2014. Of the 10,013 adults interviewed, 9,809 were invited to take part in the panel and a total of 5,338 agreed to participate.6 The second group of panelists was recruited from the 2015 Pew Research Center Survey on Government, conducted Aug. 27 to Oct. 4, 2015. Of the 6,004 adults interviewed, all were invited to join the panel, and 2,976 agreed to participate.7 The third group of panelists was recruited from a survey conducted April 25 to June 4, 2017. Of the 5,012 adults interviewed in the survey or pretest, 3,905 were invited to take part in the panel and a total of 1,628 agreed to participate.8
A supplemental sample of respondents from GfK's KnowledgePanel (KP) was included to ensure a sufficient number of interviews with adults in rural communities. The KP rural oversample was comprised of panelists in predefined rural ZIP codes. Rural ZIP codes were defined as those having 127 or fewer households per square mile.
The ATP data were weighted in a multistep process that begins with a base weight incorporating the respondents' original survey selection probability and the fact that in 2014 some panelists were subsampled for invitation to the panel. Next, an adjustment was made for the fact that the propensity to join the panel and remain an active panelist varied across different groups in the sample. The final step in the weighting uses an iterative technique that aligns the sample to population benchmarks on a number of dimensions.
Gender, age, education, race, Hispanic origin and region parameters come from the U.S. Census Bureau's 2016 American Community Survey. The county-level population density parameter (deciles) comes from the 2010 U.S. decennial census. The telephone service benchmark comes from the July-December 2016 National Health Interview Survey and is projected to 2017. The volunteerism benchmark comes from the 2015 Current Population Survey Volunteer Supplement. The party affiliation benchmark is the average of the three most recent Pew Research Center general public telephone surveys. The internet access benchmark comes from the 2017 ATP Panel Refresh Survey. Respondents who did not previously have internet access are treated as not having internet access for weighting purposes.
An additional raking parameter was added for Census Division by Metropolitan Status (living in a metropolitan statistical area or not) to adjust for the oversampling of rural households from KnowledgePanel. The Division by MSA benchmark comes from the U.S. Census Bureau's 2016 American Community Survey. Sampling errors and statistical tests of significance take into account the effect of weighting. Interviews are conducted in both English and Spanish, but the Hispanic sample in the ATP is predominantly native born and English speaking.
The following table shows the unweighted sample sizes and the error attributable to sampling that would be expected at the 95% level of confidence for different groups in the survey:
Sample sizes and sampling errors for other subgroups are available upon request.
In addition to sampling error, one should bear in mind that question wording and practical difficulties in conducting surveys can introduce error or bias into the findings of opinion polls.
The February 2018 wave had a response rate of 78% (6,251 responses among 7,996 individuals in the panel). Taking account of the combined, weighted response rate for the recruitment surveys (10.0%) and attrition from panel members who were removed at their request or for inactivity, the cumulative response rate for the wave is 2.2%.9
Secondary data sources and methodology
Most of the analysis in Chapter 1 and the secondary analysis in the overview is based on information collected in the 2000 decennial census and the 2012-2016 American Community Survey five-year file. The data are available on the Census Bureau's American Factfinder web page.
The components of population change, natural increase and net migration are derived from the Census Bureau's population estimates program. The analysis combines two separate series of population estimates. The 2000-2010 series comes from the Census Bureau's 2010 vintage evaluation estimates, which was the last vintage to be based on the 2000 decennial census. The 2010-2014 series comes from Census' 2017 vintage population estimates, which is based on the 2010 decennial census. Both series include an estimate of each respective county's population on July 1, 2010. The historical trend was created by calculating the difference (either positive or negative) between these two estimates in each series and adding it to the residual change. After this correction, the 2014 population estimate equals the 2000 estimates base plus each year's components of change for all counties. The 2014 population estimates were used in order to maximize comparability with the analysis based on the 2014 midpoint of the five-year American Community Survey file.
There are 3,142 counties and county equivalents in the U.S. We analyzed 3,130 individual counties or county groups, which encompass the entire U.S. resident population. We aggregated some individual counties into county groups in order to have geographic units that are consistent from 1990 to today. Since 1990, some states have changed their county boundaries. For example, in 2001 Colorado created Broomfield County from parts of four other counties: Adams, Boulder, Jefferson and Weld. In order to analyze the population change in these counties we examine the aggregate Broomfield group, which is the sum of the population of the five counties. Additional boundary changes occurred in Alaska and Virginia.
Counties are classified on the basis of the 2013 National Center for Health Statistics Urban-Rural Classification Scheme. In our analysis, a county's classification does not change over time. Counties that were once non-metropolitan and were reclassified as metropolitan under subsequent U.S. Office of Management and Budget designations are considered to be metropolitan in all time periods in this report.
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When data collection for the 2014 Political Polarization and Typology Survey began, non-internet users were subsampled at a rate of 25%, but a decision was made shortly thereafter to invite all non-internet users to join. In total, 83% of non-internet users were invited to join the panel. ↩
Respondents to the 2014 Political Polarization and Typology Survey who indicated that they are internet users but refused to provide an email address were initially permitted to participate in the American Trends Panel by mail, but were no longer permitted to join the panel after Feb. 6, 2014. Internet users from the 2015 Pew Research Center Survey on Government who refused to provide an email address were not permitted to join the panel. ↩
White, non-Hispanic college graduates were subsampled at a rate of 50%. ↩
Approximately once per year, panelists who have not participated in multiple consecutive waves are removed from the panel. These cases are counted in the denominator of cumulative response rates. ↩
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Today is Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year and the first of the High Holy Days. To be more precise, Rosh Hashanah actually begins this evening, since the Jews have traditionally begun a new day at sunset. This holiday takes place on the first two days of the month of Tishrei in the Hebrew calender. Because the Hebrew calendar is a lunar calendar, the dates wander a bit in our Gregorian calendar. This year it takes place on September 9-11. The New Year is celebrated for two days because of the difficulty of determining the precise day of the new moon.
Today is Yom Kippur or the Day of Atonement, the holiest day of the Jewish calendar. On this day Jews ask for forgiveness for the sins they have committed against God and their fellow men over the past year. They fast for 25 hours on this day, starting about 20 minutes before sundown the previous day and continuing until evening of the day. Jews also attend Synagogue services for much of the day and there are five services in contrast to the usual three prayers on most days and four on Sabbaths. After the last service, they recite they Shema, "Hear, O Israel, the Lord is our God, the Lord is One", and blow the Shofar.
Here is the Biblical description of the Day of Atonement.
1 The LORD spoke to Moses after the death of the two sons of Aaron who died when they approached the LORD. 2The LORD said to Moses: "Tell your brother Aaron that he is not to come whenever he chooses into the Most Holy Place behind the curtain in front of the atonement cover on the ark, or else he will die. For I will appear in the cloud over the atonement cover.
6 "Aaron is to offer the bull for his own sin offering to make atonement for himself and his household. 7 Then he is to take the two goats and present them before the LORD at the entrance to the tent of meeting. 8 He is to cast lots for the two goats—one lot for the LORD and the other for the scapegoat.[b]9 Aaron shall bring the goat whose lot falls to the LORD and sacrifice it for a sin offering. 10 But the goat chosen by lot as the scapegoat shall be presented alive before the LORD to be used for making atonement by sending it into the wilderness as a scapegoat.
29 "This is to be a lasting ordinance for you: On the tenth day of the seventh month you must deny yourselvesand not do any work—whether native-born or a foreigner residing among you— 30 because on this day atonement will be made for you, to cleanse you. Then, before the LORD, you will be clean from all your sins. 31 It is a day of sabbath rest, and you must deny yourselves; it is a lasting ordinance. 32 The priest who is anointed and ordained to succeed his father as high priest is to make atonement. He is to put on the sacred linen garments 33 and make atonement for the Most Holy Place, for the tent of meeting and the altar, and for the priests and all the members of the community.
Since the Temple was destroyed in 70, the ceremonies pertaining to the Most Holy Place cannot now be performed. Instead Jews remember the Temple ceremonies in the Avodah service. Orthodox and most Conservative Synagogues have a detailed recitation of the Temple Ceremony.
Here is a detailed description of the Yom Kippur Services.
Yesterday evening at sunset Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year and the first of the High Holy Days began. This holiday takes place on the first two days of the month of Tishrei in the Hebrew calender. Because the Hebrew calendar is a lunar calendar, the dates wander a bit in our Gregorian calendar. This year it takes place on September 13-15. The New Year is celebrated for two days because of the difficulty of determining the precise day of the new moon.
This evening at sunset Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year and the first of the High Holy Days begins. This holiday takes place on the first two days of the month of Tishrei in the Hebrew calender. Because the Hebrew calendar is a lunar calendar, the dates wander a bit in our Gregorian calendar. This year it takes place on September 24-26. The New Year is celebrated for two days because of the difficulty of determining the precise day of the new moon.
I have been negligent in not mentioning that Rosh Hashanah, or the Jewish New Year, began at sundown yesterday. This year the holiday falls on September 16-18. I wrote about the origins of Rosh Hashanah last year here.
It is a little late but here is the shofar blowing.


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Practice: Tuesday 7.00 pm
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Postcode: CA11 7YA
Mrs Valerie Bowen, 9 Carleton Hall Gardens, Penrith, CA10 2AL
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Entry is normally by the South door, which is locked around 7.45 pm, however there is also a doorbell on the West door which you can use if the South door is locked.
A66 from west
Cross the M6 to the next roundabout (Kemplay Bank), turn left (A6) to town centre. The Church is to the east of the main route (old A6) through the town centre, most easily approached using the third turning to the right after the mini-roundabout (Langton St, becoming Frairgate). Follow the road round to the left and try to park in the spaces just past the Job Centre (if there are no spaces, see further parking ideas below). The Church is now ahead and to your left. From the car park walk back in the direction you have come and the church is accessed via a set of steps opposite you across the main road.
M6 from North or South leave at A66 Junction 40
Follow signs for Brough/Scotch Corner to next roundabout (Kemplay Bank A66/A6/A686 junction) turn left to town centre. Then follow more detailed instructions, as above.
A66 or A688 from east
Turn right at Kemplay Bank roundabout into Penrith (A6) going north. Then follow more detailed instructions, as above.
West Coast mainline station in Penrith, though not all through trains from south or north stop.
There is a mixture of Disc and Pay parking. Penrith is a very busy town (particularly in school holidays) and spaces are not easily guaranteed near the Church, even in the evening. The largest car park, where you should easily find a space, is at Sainsbury's supermarket (free for three hours), which is around 10-15 minutes walk from the church. When you come into the town centre from the South side (as directed above), you will find a signpost for the supermarket to your left around half a mile from the main A66/A6/A686 roundabout.
Toilets are available in the church and are usually kept locked. The disabled toilet can be opened by a "Radar" key; the bellringers have a key for the other toilet.
Parish website: St Andrews Penrith
A church coffee shop is available at certain times in St Andrews House to the south of the church.
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The United Nations 21st Conference of the Parties (COP21) is meeting this December in Paris, where nations are expected to ratify a new universal climate change agreement that will lower carbon emissions. For the first time since the Kyoto Protocol in 1997, the world will be coming together to adopt a healthy, sustainable future.
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Yes, the 110G had leading edge slats like the other 110 models.
RLM is not brand of paint. RLM colors were the standardized paint shades to be used by the Luftwaffe. RLM specifically refers to Reichsluftfahrtministerium, the German Ministry of Aviation (1933-1945).
I assume it will be this scheme. You need RLM 02, 04, 65, 70, 71 for the exterior and either RLM 66 or 02 for the cockpit.
Yes. That would work for Jg 1. Have a look at Heinz Bär's Fw 190A-8.
I imagine that the red Jg 1 used is close to the shade that Jg 301 had on their tail bands. I would try to get close to that.
Great model and brilliant display stand.
Wait, there's an A/B model TCS pod is in the D kit as well?
There are plenty of great schemes for the F. I'm sure you'll find more than a couple that will merit a build.
Yes, but some F's also had glass only on the left side. More importantly, the canopy frames changed from the F to the G. G models have thick frames on the windscreen and tilting portion. Armored windscreen glass was added to the outside on the F and was mounted inside the frame on the G. Other key differences between the F models and the G-2. The position of the fuel filler hatch is under the canopy on the F and on the left side of the upper fuselage aft of the canopy on the G. There is a round hatch on the left fuselage of the F, just aft of the supercharger intake. Most F models had a shorter oil cooler fairing under the nose. The F-4(Trop) and F-4Z had oil coolers which became the standard on the G. The same applies to wider chord prop blades - G standard on F-4(Trop) and F-4Z. Wheel wells are perfectly round on the F-4 but the F-2 and all G models had strait outboard edges for doors which were never used. Supercharger intake is thinner on the 109F-2. G models had 4 small scoops on the nose aft of the spinner, 2 per side. Some F models have a thin scoop on the right cowling aft of the engine crank access hole. Many F models have external strengthening plates(2 per side) over the join between the tail and rear fuselage.


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Again CSB: Divergences cast doubt on March 2017 profit
September 6, 2018 CL Jose 0 BENCHMARK,
THRISSUR: At last, for Catholic Syrian Bank (CSB), which is waiting for its rich suitor, is its proverbial 'island of profit in the sea of red ink' is being challenged?
The bank that has left behind a trail of loss-making years and quarters during the past three years has drawn solace from the small profit of Rs1.55 crore it posted for 2016-17, with the immediately preceding and succeeding years having been loss making periods.
But of late, this Rs1.55 crore profit itself could be interpreted as loss after the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has made a clean breast of the divergences in asset classification and provisioning for non-performing assets (NPAs) in the 2016-17 financials.
RBI has brought out a divergence in provisioning to the tune of Rs9.10 crore with respect to NPAs for the period. And after providing for NPAs inter alia other divergences, it has been concluded that the adjusted (notional) net loss after tax is Rs13.40 crore against the Rs1.55 crore profit the bank announced for 2016-17.
When one takes stock of the performance of the bank, rarely could one see islands of profits within the sea of losses – which is always marked in red ink.
A cursory view will show that among the past three years, the bank has posted profit only once, for March 2017, with March 2016 posting a loss of Rs149.72 crore and March 2018 closing with a Rs97.47 crore loss; and now that profit itself is under suspicion.
Even the half years and quarters were no different for the bank, which is all set to more than double its equity capital. While the bank has ended the first quarter of the current year with a loss of Rs15.54 crore, the loss posted for the second half (H2) of 2017-18 was Rs84.34 crore and that for the first half (H1) was Rs13.13 crore.
However, Fairfax has reportedly acknowledged the 'good work' done by the management to improve the overall performance of the bank during the past couple of quarters and that has reportedly led to the Canadian company improving the offer price for the CSB shares to Rs140 per share from about Rs95 it offered in May last in the process to acquire a majority stake in the bank.
The bank is said to be sprucing up its operations and books in preparation to embrace a new era once the Fairfax investment of Rs1200 crore enters the bank's book in the near future itself.
A scramble for shares is building up in the grey market for CSB shares in the hope that the top investors, whose holding would get diluted by almost half once Fairfax investment is effected, will try to rebuild that towards the five per cent mark, taking the price further upwards.
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I'm sure that most everyone has or does something others might consider a complete waste of time. Eric gave me an i pad for Christmas and I use it almost exclusively for gaming. It is a great help when I have to fly. I enjoy puzzle games and haunted anything. One of my favorites so far is Baskervilles. Little too wordy but you can skip through that. Another is Phantasmat. It's about a haunted hotel and a sunken city. One I just finished was one of the harder ones called Gypsy's Tale, full of goblins and magic. Mr. sports fanatic man o' mine actually said that he thought I was becoming obsessed. I just said par, birdie, birdie, par, dear. Sometimes I actually enter a room saying things like "I need to find the oven that will heat the coal hot enough to turn it into a gem so I can put it in the gazebo in order to get my rope so I can climb down into the chasm to get the elixir to turn the ghost in the cottage into a human so she can battle the witch who happens to be her mother's sister".
These are games I have finished and really like.
It was especially exciting when I fixed and tuned the harpsichord that played at the engagement ball for Lydia and Vlad. It was just before Lidia pushed her sister off of the second story landing for dancing with Vlad. I had to fix the railing that broke. And I did more dusting in the Haunted House of Mirrors than I do at home. Oh my God…I am obsessed.
Oh dear…. you should not have shown these to me. I got sucked into a minor obsession with Pocket Frogs. Raising and breeding cute frogs of all colors and patterns. Taking them to the pond where they hop and croak and eat flies.
Allison – run away from the light!
I'm sure I would get sucked in to these as well, just like I do to a good science fiction/fantasy novel. I must refrain or I will get nothing else done. I even got sucked into the Disney Fairies web game with Emily and Marie once upon a time. It was great for Emily, since it helped her improve her reading abilities by leaps and bounds. Not so great for me though.
I've been thinking about this post and all the things people enjoy that also to many would seem a waste of time. I've decided to let myself enjoy some more. And Allison, if you're really interested Phantasmat is a great starter. I think I'll go kill some more time dead. Craig's going to go nap so we can both waste time together.
I loved computer games as a kid, but it's been a long time since I've played one. However, the iPad has been good at getting me back into it. When we were in Costa Rica, I found the old Monkey Island games on the iPad, all redone in beautiful graphics and sound. The kids and I had a lot of fun playing those together, and it brought back some fun memories.


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July 10, 2019 July 10, 2019 by L.P.
Interview: Grey Aura
Often, mystery is mistaken by depth, which makes it all the more refreshing to find artists whose ideas only get richer upon dissection. Such is the case with the idiosyncratic way that Utrecht based outfit Grey Aura approaches black metal, combining it with literature, jazz, flamenco, and audio theater. Earlier this year, on March 4, the band released «2: De bezwijkende deugd» through Tartarus Records, the second installment in a series of demos based on «De protodood in zwarte haren», a novel written by the band's guitarist and vocalist Ruben Wijlacker, which was released around the same time. Broadly speaking, the novel tells the story of Pedro, "a young painter who is engulfed by radical modernism and an unquenchable desire for abstraction." The quote is taken from this location, where you can find a longer description of the novel.
Cover art of «2: De bezwijkende deugd» by Sven Signe den Hartogh.
While the core of the interview below focuses on both demos and associated book, we touch upon the previous stages of the band's career. With that in mind, let us briefly establish that context. Grey Aura was formed in 2010, released the «Candlesmoke» EP in 2012 and followed that with the «Waerachtighe beschryvinghe van drie seylagien, ter werelt noyt soo vreemt ghehoort» full-length in 2014, an historical representation of final voyage to Asia by Willem Barentsz in 1596 that has subsequently been added to the Dutch National Library in The Hague in 2016, the same year it saw a physical release by Blood Music. A more extended biography can be found here, whereas the story behind the full-length release can be read at this location.
We sat down in an Utrecht cafe with two of the band's members, namely, Wijlacker and guitarist Tjebbe Broek, and began by asking about the starting point for such an ambitious project. "It was supposed to be both a book and a recording right from the beginning," Wijlacker tells us, further expanding on the concept's inception "I kind of started having the idea of writing a book about an artist or an artistic movement when we were still busy with our first album," before precising that the work on the book and subsequent releases began around 2015. Two years later, the band released «1: Gelige, traumatische zielsverrukking», at first independently and later through The Throat. By that time, "the main story was done and we knew what the songs were going to be about, but it wasn't fully done." In fact, he was still working on the final chapter and general editing by the time «2: De bezwijkende deugd» went to press.
Given that we are considering music very closely tied together with another artistic medium, we wondered how they approached songwriting for these songs. Broek tells us that "the first idea is to think about what kind of atmosphere and story we want. For each song, we think what part of the story we want to express and the next step is playing riffs and writing guitar parts," with Wijlacker adding that "we barely ever jam. We always start by thinking that we want to write about something specific or to channel a certain atmosphere. That's the first part, getting into the right atmosphere, getting the story right." The suggestion of a story-board like approach to songwriting is then confirmed, first by Broek stating that "even more concrete than the atmosphere is to say, for example, this is the part where Pedro comes to Paris and is entering the hotel," and then explicitly by Wijlacker, "we're basically writing scenes."
Both novel and records begin in Jerez de La Frontera, Spain, in 1924, with Pedro fleeing "north after his family is brutally murdered by a loan shark. He joins a seemingly joyful French couple he meets on a train to Bobadilla and travels to Paris," (source) the setting of the second demo. At the inception of «1: Gelige, traumatische zielsverrukking», we are treated with mournful flamenco singing by Falu de Cádiz. While that led us to imagine a sort of funereal representation of the main character's recent loss, Broek explains that "in general, this kind of flamenco style that the singer is using tends to deal with those kinds of themes, but what is being sung is not necessarily related to the assassinations of the story," with Wijlacker adding that "we included it because we already knew that this particular style of flamenco is relatively dark and we wanted to get the whole dark, Spanish atmosphere across. We didn't necessarily connect it to the murders." This atmosphere driven approach, connected with the album's lyrics, suggests that the music represents the story as it unfolds in Pedro's mind, with the first demo ending at the point of the novel in which he is on a train directed to Paris. Wijlacker tell us that "it basically starts off with him getting on the train, right after his family is murdered, trying to escape and feeling very confused and scared. Then, it is more about his feelings, but there are multiple layers so it's hard to explain. It was written intentionally like that. On the one hand, there is the direct story, just the separate scenes, and then on the other hand there is a certain flow of emotional, spiritual, and artistic abstraction. We wanted to use the story to get the undercurrent in there."
Cover art of «1: Gelige, traumatische zielsverrukking» by Sven Signe den Hartogh.
The centerpiece of that first release, whose underlying story can be found here, «Dialoog & Improvisatie: Ontmoeting met het roofdier», contains a passage of audio theater depicting the meeting of Pedro and Béatrice Charron, in which this emotional undercurrent comes to the fore with Pedro lying about himself, "he is a bit paranoid because his parents were murdered by a loan shark and he is worried that he's coming after him and therefore tries to alter the story a bit," Wijlacker explains, before we ask him why is it that, already on the second demo, Pedro seems scared of Claire Sophie Petit, a Wallonian poet he meets in Paris (a summary of the story behind the second demo can be found here). This leads to our conversation finally centering on the «Black Square», the 1915 suprematist painting by Kazimir Malevich. "The whole story is about the Black Square, that's the focus point both in the book and the album. It's a representation of abstraction and dematerialisation, not just for art, but for everything, it's the ultimate form. In a way, Pedro is pulled towards this void by the different women he encounters along this journey. The first one, Béatrice, is very intimidating in a way. She's very open, very sexual, very loud and present, and it kind of frightens him. After a while, he meets Chauchat," the in-story nickname of Claire Petit, whose more introverted personality makes her "more interesting to him, so he feels more at ease with her." There is an overarching ambiguity about whether or not these characters are "puppets of the black square, pulling him towards this intensity of the void. I'm leaving it open whether or not that is the case or if he's just being paranoid and loosing in mind. In his eyes at least, Béatrice was a first test of the Black Square aspect that he was gravitating towards."
As things currently stand, there is a stark transition between demos, from Broek's flamenco on «Bulería (aftiteling)» to a sample of an interview of George Bataille in «Sonate», whose translation you can see below and which Wijlacker had stated represents a lot of Grey Aura's philosophy. He answered our request for elaboration in a personal sense, "to me, what the whole quote represented and how it connects with our mentality with writing music is that it is very much a way to get something out of there, a cathartic experience, a self-cleansing so to speak. It's not so through the topics you're singing about, as I don't believe in singing a sad love song to get over a heartbreak, but in this case it's more about doing something really intense in order to feel something as intensely as possible and that way, somehow, rising over it, or maybe becoming one with it and taking it with you to grow. The music itself, and that applies to writing the lyrics too, is very much about getting a sort of intensity across in order to feed of it. The intensity itself becomes a thing."
Interviewer: "It seems that happiness, for you, the greatest happiness is associated with the greatest intensity of perceived sensations."
Bataille: "Well, let me just explain my thinking on that quickly: intense sensation is what destroys order. It's essential that people manage to totally destroy the servile state they're kept in, due to the fact that they built their world, the human world, a world I live in… A world that I live off, but which either way has a kind of charge to it, something infinitely heavy, that is found in all our anxieties, and that needs to be removed, one way or another. Certainly, I'd much more prefer to hear a sonata to having a gun being fired right next to my ear. The intensity is however even greater if I get an enormous noise like that in my ear, on purpose, just to annoy me. It appears to me then that it's something invariable; that extremely intense sensations are very valuable, as long as we can tolerate them."
It seems as if the story told through the music has been stripped down of most of the events and focuses on the feelings experienced by the character, particularly those that overwhelm him. thereby overloading the story to a point that it is the sequence of overwhelming events that becomes overwhelming in an of itself.
Having discussed the Bataille influence, we pressed Wijlacker to elaborate on the four other artists cited as influences to both book and records, beginning with Gustave Flaubert. "A lot of themes in the book and in the music are about the love, the addiction to love and the intensity that it brings with it. Specially in «Madame Bovary» by Flaubert, the protagonist of the story, Emma, has a lot of very strong urges and desires, and thereby looses herself in these desires and in the end dies due to them. It was very inspirational to me to read about a person who's very much drowning in this intensity of love and actively seeking it out, feeding off it, but at the same time making the experience so overwhelming that she can't bear it anymore. In a way, that's what Flaubert brought to the table, that and the title of the second demo, which I also took from him." This idea of being consumed by one's desires seems to be at the heart of «Sierlijke schaduwmond», the last song of «2: De bezwijkende deugd», which he confirms, "absolutely. It's funny because I hadn't read Flaubert prior to starting the book. I was at about 75% of the writing when I read «Madame Bovary» and I thought it was perfect, that in a way there was a similar idea behind that story, and I liked it a lot."
Another 19th century writer whose influenced is felt throughout Grey Aura's work is Arthur Rimabud, who "is a very good example of someone who sought out limits and totally transgressed them in every possible way; not just in his work, but in his life as well. It's something that is very much in common with what our protagonist, Pedro, does. He's someone who's very much obsessed with these notions of intensity. What I took from Rimbaud is this frantic, almost sickening urge to transgress. I still think that his work packs a punch today, but when it came out in the nineteenth century it must have been absolutely crazy, which I think is very inspiring."
When we move on towards inquiring about the impact of painter and art theorist Wassily Kandinsky, he laments that the novel has not yet been translated into English, "because I laid it out there. I integrated his philosophy into the story itself. It's not so much like Flaubert or Rimbaud, who are more external influences that low-key crept into the lyrics. Kandinsky is much more of a central figure on the story told in the novel. He is, once again, about transgressing, going past limits that have been set by academic traditions. During his time, he was one of the first fully abstract artists. His ideas were in that sense very revolutionary and he added a spiritual element to art that I think had been lost at some point. He was one of the people that pointed out that we were loosing this spiritual element in art and proposed making it a central point of art again. This spiritual element is, on the one hand, secular, but on the other hand he does see art as a divine thing in itself." It is indeed at this junction between art and connecting oneself with the sublime that Kandinsky's work ties with the novel, "what he did was sort of a spiritual triangle, at the bottom of which were the masses and artists could rise up. There were various regions and at the very top was a seer like person, who would be enlightened by art and feed the people down the pyramid his spiritual bread. Pedro has this idea that he is a seer, that he is rising to the top, but that at the same time, he is not, it's all an illusion. He's reading Kandinsky, going crazy about it, thinking he might be some sort of messiah figure and he ends up in a really bad way. It's something that lives in his mind."
Malevich's Black Square (source).
Due to the importance of the Black Square in the story, we asked about Malevich's influence in the end, particularly focusing on if an eventual increment in abstraction should be expected in the adaptation of the novel's latter stages. "As I said earlier, there is a sub-current of abstraction going on but it does not really come into the surface until later in the story, particularly in its second half, which is basically Pedro going insane and will be the subject of demos three and four." At that point, we turn to Broek to ask how can a guitarist approach trying to conveying someone's mental breakdown due to an obsession with abstraction, "it's quite hard and a big difference between these demos and this story and what we did in the previous album, because that was just an historical event that we were portraying." In that sense, it was as if they were scoring a film, "it was way more clear what we had to do, this is much more abstract."
One way we can discern to tackle the issue is the progressive distortion of a motif, with certain passages sounding more and more tortuous. Wijlacker expands on the idea, saying it's "also shifting compositionally, making certain transitions a little awkward or out of place. «Parijs is een portaal» is an example. Suddenly, it goes to this jazz environment and it gradually gets more disturbing and dark." On that song, the same holds with regards to sudden shifts in vocal tone, as it flows towards a more anguished tone by the end. It highlights another element of this second demo, which is of an increment of performativity in the vocals, which Wijlacker tells us "was a conscious decision, to experiment more. I must also admit that we have more quite parts in this demo, and that they lend themselves more to a juxtaposition with anguished vocals and a more dynamic approach."
By the end of the second demo, Pedro is dreaming about Chauchat, whom he is idealizing and ascribing the word 'perfect', all while using the word 'nothing' over and over again when contemplating himself. This led us to ask Wijlacker to explain what seemed to us to be a loss of sense of reality or beginning thereof. "What is happening is that as he gets more and more obsessed, first with Béatrice, but specially with Chauchat, because she's the one that gets him, he is starting to transform her in his mind into this divine being, someone that is almost identical to the Black Square in itself. It's this non-being, this something spiritual, something you cannot see but think about, dream about, and lose yourself in. That last part of the song is really about two things. It's about the factual sequence of actions, him meeting her and loosing his mind over her, but it's also about his experience and the way he experiences meeting her. He sees her as perfect but, at the same time, in reality, he is being chained, growing more and more into nothing."
There is a concept connecting the band's approach and Pedro's fate, one that appears often in connection with Grey Aura, namely, immersion. We wondered whether the incorporation of Flamenco in the first demo and of French music in the second were a function of this notion. As Wijlacker explains, we missed the mark there, "not so much the regional influences, specially the Spanish-influenced parts, as Tjebbe plays flamenco guitar, so that came quite naturally. With regards to the French parts, we both like French music and appreciate that whole atmosphere, so that was something that was already inside of us and it was quite easy to get out. The immersion part – and I can only speak for myself here – had to do with an emotional immersion, getting to the mindset we wanted to get across. It might sound fake, but the immersion was about getting into a specific mindset in order to write the songs, to get it going."
In the press release for «2: De bezwijkende deugd», it is explained that Pedro gets a hold of and furiously reads copies of «De Stijl», a magazine founded in 1917 by the movement of the same name, which was comprised of artists and architects advocating for abstraction and universality. We asked Wijlacker if, amidst his immersion period, he went through the same experience. "Absolutely, and that was one of the reasons why I wanted to write about it. I think abstract art is something that can be seen in the early manifests and amagazines that these artists wrote and participated in. They were also very obsessive and intense, they were pushing themselves beyond their own limits in order to reach this abstraction. Malevich in particular, wrote several manifests that are really intense. They are only a few pages long and reading them feels like someone is punching you and himself while doing it."
Artwork for «Waerachtighe beschryvinghe van drie seylagien, ter werelt noyt soo vreemt ghehoort» by Thomas Knopper.
Another aspect that is impossible to ignore is the jump in songwriting between «Waerachtighe beschryvinghe van drie seylagien, ter werelt noyt soo vreemt ghehoort» and the last two demos. As Wijlacker explains, writing the former "had a lot to do with the story and very much the story as a movie in a very historical and factual manner. When we started writing, we went from scene to scene to scene, discussing very small details, such as the part where they walk down from the boat. It was more about the story and, after that, we were a bit bored with just doing the story. We wanted to add something of an emotional layer to it and so we started to think how else can we express the story through music. The first thing that happened in the demos was that we thought about changing textures and focused more on the emotional side instead of the factual one. In between the demos, we were lost on the chaos of sound textures, so this time around we went back to writing songs while integrating certain aspects from that first demo."
Regarding the way they weave contextual music elements such as flamenco and jazzy passages into black metal, Broek states that the challenge resides in "doing it in a good way, to actually combine different music styles. It's easy to do a little sidetrack, a lot of bands add some strange bit to the music but do not change the basics, but to actually combine all these things is quite hard." As Wijlacker puts it, there was a conscious effort to avoid this easier route, "we tried to avoid the little sidetracks, the little field trips into other musical styles. In general, we just tried to get elements of jazz and get feelings of the urban Paris in the 20s to creep into the music itself. Of course we also did it separately on a couple of parts because we thought it was necessary there."
Looking ahead to this material coalescing into a full-length record, we asked them how they intend to approach this process. Wijlacker points out that while they are "still thinking about that", illustrating the subtlety by pointing out that "the first part of the album is going to end with the flamenco guitar and transition into the second with the Bataille interview. There might even be some new transitional songs to make it more of a smooth transition between the Spanish and French vibes," with Broek noting that this integration "is the biggest challenge. We will change a lot, I think, and we have to change a lot of things, because musically, the atmosphere of «1: Gelige, traumatische zielsverrukking» is quite different from that of «2: De bezwijkende deugd». We also want to dive deeper into the field recordings that we used, for example, in «Dialoog & Improvisatie: Ontmoeting met het roofdier». In general, we want to try to develop this incorporation of monologues, dialogues and music, all reacting on each other, it would be nice to get this aspect better." This of course, brings the question of what will happen to the contributions by guest musicians Johan (Terzij de Horde and Black Decades, vocals on «Dialoog & Improvisatie: Ontmoeting met het roofdier») and S. (Laster and Nusquama, bass on «Sierlijke schaduwmond»). "I would probably change the compositions for a lot of parts, but it would still be ncie to include Johan and S. on the records, to keep the guest contributions in there," Wijlacker tell us before expanding on their evolution in the incorporation of audio theater between demos, "on the first one, there was a clear line between the dialogues, the audio theater so to speak, and the music. The goal on this record, and we are still not there yet but will hopefully be once the full album is recorded, was to really integrate those two things in a way where the music reacts to the voice actors and vice versa. For instance, there's a dialogue with two people arguing and someone starts shouting, the music itself reacts to it and you get a dynamic interchange between these different elements."
As for the root underlying this drive to incorporate dialogues into the music, Wijlacker explains that "we were playing around with this idea of combining audio theater and music maybe even as early as 2010 or something. Then we did the «Candlesmoke» EP that had a different kind of vibe and started thinking of that idea again. It was on the first full-length that we decided to make it part of what Grey Aura is. We felt like a cinematic atmosphere would be beneficial to the music. After it was done, we were not very satisfied with how the music and the dialogues sounded separated from each other and decided that on the next release we should integrate the parts more, make them flow better." As things stand, it is clearly an ongoing process within the band, as is the incorporation of disparate music styles within black metal. The scary thing, and both the studio version of «2: De bezwijkende deugd» and its live interpretation as we witnessed at Roadburn are testaments thereof, is the idea that despite how far they've gotten so far, there is much, much more to be expected from them in the future.
You can follow Grey Aura on Bandcamp, Facebook, and at Grey-Aura.com.
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J'ai decouvert la nourriture indienne a Londres, il y a plus de dix ans…Comme quoi les indiens d'Angleterre ont l'air de bien faire la cuisine!
J'ai decouvert la nourriture indienne a Londres, il y a plus de dix ans…Comme quoi les indiens d'Angleterre ont l'air de bien faire la cuisine!
chances that i visit leeds again is small. at least i know what a wonderful city leeds is!
back to the indian food. indian food is so underdeveloped in switzerland and it would be so delicious. as an example i take my hometown bern. we have three different places to go. one is way too much expensive, one is not bad but still to expensive. just a bit! and the third one is actually doing a good job. but in the two acceptable once, the variety is very small. i was in india too and there is so much to offer.
about the price i remember a person who visited bern and she said, all over the world asian food is cheap except in switzerland!
My Dad just tells me that he ate at Maliks again and it was just as good! He also said the owner sends his thanks for my post (wow) and he got a voucher for two free meals 🙂 — AND I'm invited there for a free meal too next time I go to Leeds. Nice, and… you're welcome!


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Progress Since the California Future Health Workforce Commission
State Policy and Budget Actions on Priority Recommendations
Launched in December 2017, the California Future Health Workforce Commission was charged with developing a strategic plan for building the future health workforce of California and identifying practical short-, medium-, and long-term solutions for education, employers, and the state to address both immediate and longer-term workforce gaps. In February 2019, the Commission issued its final report, endorsing 37 recommendations, including 10 priorities for immediate action and implementation. This presentation outlines the significant state budget and policy actions that have been enacted to advance the Commission's priority recommendations since the report was published.
During a tumultuous period in which the state has had to grapple with the significant health and economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, the state has invested over a quarter of the nearly $3 billion recommended by the Commission for its 10 highest priority recommendations. Most of the investments are occurring in the 2021–22 budget year, with funds to be expended over multiple years.
California lawmakers expanded scope of practice for nurse practitioners and created several new reimbursable provider types, such as community health workers. California has also invested heavily in the mental health workforce, including creating new types of behavioral health positions for children and youth.
California also made substantial investments in physician residencies, with an emphasis on psychiatry. This recommendation constituted approximately half of the estimated Commission costs for needed investments by 2030.
The budget also invested in elevating locus of management and oversight for state-supported health workforce programs from the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development (OSHPD) to a newly established Department of Health Care Access and Information (HCAI).
If similar levels of state investment in the health workforce are made through 2030, the Commission's priority goals could be met. However, investments to date across the Commission's 10 priority recommendations have been uneven, and some recent state investments advance other Commission recommendations.
In his proposed budget for FY 2022–23, Governor Newsom would build on the investments described in this report with an additional $1.7 billion for health and human services workforce efforts, including many that would advance the Commission's priority recommendations.
Investments and actions to advance the health care workforce taken by the federal government and others are largely beyond the scope of this review. It is worth noting, however, that the American Rescue Plan Act invests $7 billion in expanding the nation's public health infrastructure.
The presentation goes through each of the Commission's 10 priority recommendations, noting specific state budget or policy actions taken on each. It also includes an overview of other notable health workforce investments, including those in Governor Newsom's 2022–23 budget.
Progress Since the California Future Health Workforce Commission: State Policy and Budget Actions on Priority Recommendations (PDF)
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Agriculture is the cornerstone of Uganda's economy, which is similar to the situation in most African countries. To be more specific, over 85% of the population is activating in this area. At the very same time, the poverty is severe and widely spread across the entire country. Farmers, especially women and youth, have a very low income, which does not cover even their basic human needs. One of the most realistic and reachable goals in the fight against poverty would be to promote and implement agro-processing. With some support and budgeting from the government and NGO's, farmers would have the chance to earn much more with just a bit of extra effort.
The term of agro-processing refers to the practice of transforming primary agricultural products into secondary or even tertiary commodities, which can be sold on the market for a much higher price. In other words, it means turning raw materials into more complex and expensive merchandise, instead of selling it cheap after the first step of production. Obviously, this would require a certain level of skills and technology, but it would also bring higher profits. Besides the direct financial benefits, agro-processing would also bring a series of other advantages. First of all, it would supply the community with a wider variety of locally produced thus cheaper goods. Furthermore, it would increase the level of life thanks to the increased access to secondary and tertiary agricultural products. Second, it would extend products' shelf-life, thus decrease waste. Since farmers would no longer be desperate to sell their products as soon as possible and avoid them becoming spoiled, they would be able to analyze more offers on the market and choose the most convenient one. Third, agro-processing would require additional workers. This would allow young inexperienced farmers to be involved in this area and would extend the amount of people earning income from this activity. Moreover, processing of raw materials would most probably also increase food safety and improve the reputation of Uganda's agriculture.
However, in order for this to happen, it is important to improve the agriculture policy of the country. It is also vital to attract adequate budgeting, not only in the form of donations, but also regular business investments. This can be done through a proper investment policy created at the official level. Agro-processing also requires extensive training of farmers, especially the young ones. Implementation of the use of technologies could also be done through the local youth, as this would increase the speed and quality of the process.
In other words, there is still much to be done in this area. But the important thing to remember is that once local farmers and their government will understand the importance of agro-processing development, the entire society will start moving towards a brighter tomorrow, free of poverty and abuse.


The Daily Mail today condemned the "supreme arrogance" of The Guardian as Edward Snowden suggested he did not read all the documents he leaked to the paper.
The latest attack comes days after the Mail accused The Guardian of "psychotic hatred of the commercially viable free press" after it carried Nick Clegg's proposals for a UK version of the US first amendment.
Snowden released an estimated 200,000 stolen National Security Agency documents to The Guardian and other newspapers in 2013.
Speaking on US television, Snowden was asked how many of the documents he had read.
Interviewer John Oliver said: "You've read every single one?"
Snowden: "I do understand what I turned over."
Former First Sea Lord and security minister Lord West told the Daily Mail: "Since the revelations of the traitor Snowden, terrorist groups have changed how they communicate and talk to each other.
"His actions have made us all less safe. No doubt people will die who would not have died had he not been so irresponsible."
Robin Simcox of the Henry Jackson Society told the paper: "This interview seemed to show how little Snowden had thought about the potentially deadly consequences.
"Snowden stole a huge amount of sensitive documents an as a result terrorists and other serious criminals have adapted their methods accordingly."
The Daily Mail said in a leader column today: "Sir David Omand, ex-head of GCHQ, described it as 'the most catastrophic loss to British intelligence ever'.
"But with supreme arrogance, the Guardian dismissed these concerns, insisting that Snowden and its journalists had vetted all the documents and rejected anything which might endanger life.
"Yesterday he was forced to admit this was a lie. Not only did he fail to read documents before handing them over, he also confessed in an interview that his treachery had 'carried dangers'.
"So did he sound the slightest note of regret or contrition? Not a bit of it. With breathtaking complacency he merely said: 'In journalism some mistakes will be made. This is a fundamental concept of liberty.' What absolute cant!
"Snowden has made us all less safe and the Guardian, in its self-righteousness, has been his willing accomplice.
"In reporting his interview, the Guardian changed its original website headline from 'Edward Snowden [says] he did not read all leaked NSA material' to the less damning 'Snowden pressed on whether he had read all leaked NSA material'.
"But such attempts at damage limitation are all too late. Security minister Lord West said yesterday that because of the Snowden revelations, 'people will die who would not have died'. Those who gave him the platform for his deadly treachery should hang their heads in shame.
Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger has defended the Snowden coverage on numerous occasions and said he has yet to see any evidence of harm caused.
Speaking in October 2013 he told Radio 4: "Of course if you are on the security side of the argument you want to keep everything secret and you don't want to take part in any debate and you don't want the press or anyone else writing about it.
"You would have to be a terrorist who didn't know how to tie his shoelaces not to believe that people were watching things on the internet and scooping up telephone calls. I don't think some of this will come as a great surprise to terrorists.
"What is significantly new about what we have been revealing is the extent that entire populations are potentially being put under surveillance."


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Robert De Niro questions former employee's spending
By IANS Jan 6, 2022
Los Angeles (IANS) - Veteran star Robert de Niro is seeking $6 million in damages from a former employee, Graham Chase Robinson, for allegedly misusing a company credit account to fund luxury hotel rooms and lavish meals that had nothing to do with work. He has also accused her of taking 7 million of his frequent flier miles worth US $300 000.
In newly-filed court documents, the 78-year-old actor has included a 2019 letter from his lawyer to his former employee, who worked her way up from his personal assistant to Vice President of Production and Finance at the De Niro's production company, Canal Productions, before she resigned, which detailed what he believed she bought with the credit card.
According to RadarOnline.com, the lawyer wrote: "I was asked to respond to your recent emails addressed to Bob. Please note that Bob does not wish to communicate with you. As such, please direct correspondence regarding this matter to me."
The letter went on to accuse Robinson of going on a four-year spending spree and using the company credit card to buy food, Uber trips, dog sitting, groceries, cameras, iPhones, pilates classes, dry-cleaning and flowers, and also alleged she had "helped herself to petty cash", reports femalefirst.co.uk.
Robinson was also accused of having converted more than 7 million Delta SkyMiles over a two-year period, using three million for personal travel and transferring an additional 4.5 million to a personal account.
The letter also claimed she improperly used Canal's credit cards to hire taxis and cover her food costs while on vacation in London, and alleged she charged $2,600 for a stay at the Montage Hotel on a trip to Los Angeles, as well as $156 for dinner at Nobu, $604 on a second meal at an upmarket eatery, $729 on a rental car and several hundred dollars more on cabs, despite having the rented vehicle at her disposal.
Robinson has denied she improperly used the credit cards and calls into question whether she made all the purchases mentioned.
She is also suing her former employer for $12 million, accusing him of gender discrimination.
In her own court documents, she alleged that De Niroforced her to endure a toxic workplace where he branded her a "b****" and spoke to her in a "hostile, abusive and intimidating manner."
Both suits are ongoing.
--IANS


Vitamin B-12, also called cobalamin, makes up an essential part of your diet -- your body can't produce it on its own, so you rely on the vitamin B-12 from foods to prevent a deficiency. Generally, you don't need to take vitamin B-12 supplements to maintain healthy B-12 levels, and a well-rounded diet provides all the vitamin B-12 you need. However, if you consult a doctor to take vitamin B-12 supplements, they can recommend a dose that will prevent B-12 deficiency.
Your body uses vitamin B-12 to produce heme, the active component of hemoglobin. Each red blood cell comes packed with hemoglobin protein, and the heme found in each hemoglobin molecule allow your red blood cells to bind oxygen in your lungs and carry it throughout your body. You also need vitamin B-12 for proper nerve function -- low B-12 levels negatively affect your nervous system, interfering with your brain function and sense of touch, and can cause permanent nerve damage.
Most women need 2.4 micrograms of vitamin B-12 each day to prevent a deficiency. However, pregnancy and breastfeeding increase your intake requirements -- pregnant women should consume 2.6 mcg of vitamin B-12 per day, while lactating women need 2.8 micrograms daily.
You may need a vitamin B-12 supplement if you have a deficiency, but only take dietary supplements under your doctor's supervision to reduce your risk of side effects and negative interactions with medications. If you have trouble absorbing the vitamin B-12 from foods, your doctor might recommend a moderate dose of vitamin B-12 -- around 100 to 400 micrograms, according to the Linus Pauling Institute at Oregon State University. Under other circumstances your doctor may recommend that you take up to 2,000 mcg of vitamin B-12 per day.
Although dietary supplements can be advantageous over food sources when you have a specific vitamin B-12 deficiency, foods with vitamin B-12 tend to be more nutrient-dense and contain other important healthy substances such as fiber, according to the Office of Dietary Supplements. Unless your doctor suggests that you take a supplement, you should be able to reach your daily vitamin B-12 goals as long as you include milk, milk products, beans, eggs, meats, poultry, nuts and fish in your diet.


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Smoke the donkey, beloved Marine mascot dies
By James Sanborn on August 15, 2012 Animals, Battle Rattle, Iraq
Smoke gets his first shower in the United States in May of 2011 at a bar-b-que in his honor in Warrenton, Va. James K. Sanborn/Staff
Smoke the donkey, beloved Marine mascot and wounded warrior therapy animal passed away last night of natural causes, according to his Facebook page.
After a harrowing, years-long journey that took him from the desert of Iraq to Nebraska via Kurdistan, Turkey, Germany and the glitz and glamor of New York, Smoke the Donkey has moved on to greener pastures.
He was first adopted by the Marines of 1st Combat Logistics Battalion out of Camp Pendleton, Calif., in 2008 as a moral booster after they found him wandering injured at Camp Taqaddum near Fallujah, Iraq. A sergeant caught him roaming the base and tied him up outside now-retired Col. John Folsom's tent. Folsom, then the camp commandant developed an immediate bond with Smoke, so named because of his color and love for cigarettes which he would snatch out of the hands of Marines and eat — lit or not. Although war-zone regulation banned pets, Marines were able to skirt regulations after a Navy lieutenant endorsed designating him as a therapy animal. The Army's top veterinarian flew in from Baghdad, did a blood workup and cleared Smoke as healthy.
But when Marines pulled out of Iraq, they were forced to leave him behind. He ended up in the hands of a local family. Folsom became determined to track down Smoke and eventually found him, although a local Sheik initially asked for $30,000 compensation, on behalf of the family. Folsom scoffed at the amount, and the sheik eventually agreed to obtain the animal free of charge.
It took months more to wrangle Smoke who had escaped and was wandering the desert countryside. Once caught, the real trials and tribulations began. Folsom partnered with Terri Crisp, of SPCA International to navigate red tape in Iraq and Turkey. Crisp has for years helped to bring dogs and cats to the United States under a program called Operation Baghdad Pups, but said Smoke was the largest animal she had ever worked to transport. Smoke got held up at the Kurdish border awaiting clearance from Turkish authorities and was refused entry several times. He also had to clear customs in Germany and quarantine in New York, before finally being cleared to enter the United States. In all the final 6,000 mile journey took months and cost more than $18,000, Crisp said. The bill was picked up by SPCA International.
Once in the United States, Smoke made the rounds on cable news, attended parades in New York and eventually settled at Take Flight Farms in Nebraska, an equine therapy facility where horses are used to help people with varying ailments, including wounded warriors. Smoke's final duty station was to be an 80-acre retreat — The Wounded Warriors Retreat — which is a planned facility for returning service members and their families.
"It is with great sadness to tell you that Smoke The Donkey died last night from natural causes," reads a final post on his Facebook page. "Smoke touched the lives of so many people around the world who followed his incredible journey from war torn Iraq to his new home in the United States. We will all miss him."
For more photos of smoke, check out our past coverage of his journey from Iraq to the United States.
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James Sanborn
J Madvay on November 4, 2014 8:58 pm
It was 2nd laad bn out of cherry point that caught him. Not 1st lcb


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Tiny Iron started his vision to transform himself into a superhuman living version of the Incredible Hulk from a young age. He quickly became our modern day Mr T with the ability to charm and shock people everywhere he travelled.
Tiny Iron started to build his body in proportion to a superhero when he joined the Bodyworks gym and within a few years became one of the most recognised individuals ever seen.
Soon after he started a security business looking after A-list superstars such as jay-z, 50cent, Beyonce, Black eye peas, just to name a few. Knowing a lot of celebrities from the Hollywood industry, actor Vinny Jones offered him a movie role that changed his life, and from that moment Tiny's career has snowballed into various multi-talented roles.


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Lewis Rhodes Labs
Neuromorphic Solutions
NPU SEARCH
Lewis Rhodes Labs applies neuromorphic processing solutions to unsolved problems. Inspired by how the sensory cortex processes data, LRL developed NPUsearch, a search in storage system with unparalleled precision, speed, and low power consumption.
The resulting state-of-the-art pattern matcher allows content search at dramatically higher speeds, lower operational overhead, ultra-low power consumption, and cost.
NPUsearch technology brings a unique approach to search in part because it originated from research into the underlying mechanisms of developmental brain injury. Early work in the labs included computer models created to theoretically analyze neurological mechanisms of developmental brain recovery, previously described in animal models. Over time LRL's co-founders realized features of the model were broadly applicable to a wide range of critical data analysis applications.
Working closely with Sandia National Labs, including a highly successful Grand Challenge, LRL was able to reduce the theory of neuromorphic computing to practice, demonstrating high resolution scanning of streaming data. More information here. More recently, Lewis Rhodes Labs has rolled out the initial version of NPUsearch on FPGA, integrated into computational SSD to generate fully-scalable, self-searching storage.
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Apple to Delay CSAM Detection for iCloud Photos as It Aims to Make Improvements First
Sep 3, 2021 10:15 EDT
Just last month, Apple announced a new CSAM detection feature that would scan your iCloud photos in an attempt to introduce new child safety features. The announcement was a controversial one, and it looks like Apple has put a brake on this rollout as it aims to improve the service before releasing it.
Apple Says That It Has Taken This Decision Based on the Feedback From Various Groups
Apple has provided 9to5Mac with the following statement, saying that it received feedback from various groups, forcing it to put its CSAM detection on hold for the time being.
"Last month we announced plans for features intended to help protect children from predators who use communication tools to recruit and exploit them, and limit the spread of Child Sexual Abuse Material. Based on feedback from customers, advocacy groups, researchers and others, we have decided to take additional time over the coming months to collect input and make improvements before releasing these critically important child safety features."
Apple's CSAM detection would have launched as an additional feature of iOS 15, iPadOS 15 and macOS Monterey later this year. With the delay, the company has only said that it will continue to improve the service but has not provided a timeline on when it intends to release the refined variant of CSAM detection. To bring you up to speed, stated below is how the feature would work, according to 9to5Mac.
"Apple's method of detecting known CSAM is designed with user privacy in mind. Instead of scanning images in the cloud, the system performs on-device matching using a database of known CSAM image hashes provided by NCMEC and other child safety organizations. Apple further transforms this database into an unreadable set of hashes that is securely stored on users' devices.
Before an image is stored in iCloud Photos, an on-device matching process is performed for that image against the known CSAM hashes. This matching process is powered by a cryptographic technology called private set intersection, which determines if there is a match without revealing the result. The device creates a cryptographic safety voucher that encodes the match result along with additional encrypted data about the image. This voucher is uploaded to iCloud Photos along with the image."
The decision was met with severe criticism from privacy advocates, but Apple remained firm on its decision, saying that this feature would have more privacy than the tech used by giants such as Google and Facebook. With the latest update, Apple has put a brake on its decision and there is no telling when we will see the refined version of CSAM detection. Regardless, we will keep you in the loop, so stay tuned.
News Source: 9to5Mac
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Cardi B Leaves New York Fashion Week Party With Knot On Her Head After Attack On Nicki Minaj!
Cardi B has tried to keep it classy but last night she had enough. She attempted to confront Nicki Minaj for allegedly lying, sneak dissing and criticizing her abilities as a mother. Nicki had instructed her security to keep Cardi B out of her vicinity and that's exactly what they did. Check out the brawl that took place at the Harper's Bazaar ICONS event last night in the video below.
Here's another video angle from close up.
Cardi was escorted out of the party by security after the attack. She had a noticeable knot on her head and her dress was ripped. Cardi also wasn't wearing any shoes because she attempted to throw one at Nicki but apparently missed. Reportedly the lump on Cardi B's head came from a security guard's elbow as he tried to hold her back.


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