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What is Fordism?
Fordism is a concept that often crops up in academic reading and discussion. What what does fordism mean and what is it all about? In this article I will explain all…
Fordism – defined
Where the term Fordism comes from
Who was Henry Ford?
The three major principles of success
How Fordism changed the industry
The four levels of Fordism
Fordism in four dimensions
Fordism: an industrial paradigm
Fordism: a national accumulation regime
Fordism: a mode of regulation
Fordism: a form of 'social life'
Fordism and crisis
'Fordism' is a manufacturing technology term that is often referenced in academic discussion. It refers to a specific stage of economic development, which occurred in the 20th century. The term has links to the Ford Motor Company, which I will delve into further in this article.
According to Britannica, Fordism is a term widely used to describe (1) the system of mass production that was pioneered in the early 20th century by the Ford Motor Company or (2) the typical postwar mode of economic growth and its associated political and social order in advanced capitalism.
Mirriam-Webster goes a little deeper with their definition of Fordism, defining it as: a technological system that seeks to increase production efficiency primarily through carefully engineered breakdown and interlocking of production operations and that depends for its success on mass production by assembly-line methods.
Hopefully these definitions help answer the question of 'what is Fordism?'
So we know what Fordism is, but how did the term come about? Why is it in our vocabulary? The term actually gained prominence in 1934, when Antonio Gramsci wrote an essay called "Americanism and Fordism" in his Prison Notebooks. The term has since been used a lot over the years, generally in an academic sense, by economic and sociological writers. Academics and writers are always keen to label things, in order to make it easier to refer to a concept or timeline. This is why Fordism has a name! Of course, the name itself is thanks to engineer and car manufacturer Henry Ford…
We cannot answer the question 'what is Fordism' without a brief understanding of the man himself. Henry Ford, founder of the Ford Motor Company, was an American business magnate and industrialist. He was and is a prominent figure in the history of transport, as the Ford Model T was the first affordable automobile available to the American public. This revolutionised the world of transport, making car-travel accessible to the middle classes. The relatively low price was said to be, in part, due Ford's efficient fabrication, including assembly line production instead of individual handcrafting – which is a huge part of what we now refer to as Fordism.
Ford himself started as an engineer in 1891, and devoted a lot of his time to experimenting on and with gasoline engines. By 1896 he had created a self-propelled vehicle, which he named the Ford Quadricycle, and he vowed to improve it. He met and worked with Thomas Edison to produce automobiles, but these were of a lower quality and higher price than Ford was happy with – so they parted ways, and Ford went on to partner with various other engineers and businessmen before the Ford Motor Company was born in 1903.
The Ford Model T was launched just five years later in 1908, built by hand – and slowly. However, there was so much demand for the car that 11 cars built in one month were simply not enough. Production was refined, and the assembly-line production concept was born. This sped things up immensely, and by 1914 it took just 93 minutes to build a Ford Model T car. In the same year, Ford produced more cars than all other automobile companies combined!
When it comes to any type of manufacturing process – not just within the automobile industry – there are three principles of success. These were defined in the book The Automobile Industry and Its Workers: Between Fordism and Flexibility written by Steven Tolliday and Jonathan Zeitlin. They are:
The standardization of the product (nothing is handmade, but everything is made through machines and molds by unskilled workers)
The employment of assembly lines, which use special-purpose tools and/or equipment to allow unskilled workers to contribute to the finished product
Workers are paid higher "living" wages so that they can afford to purchase the products they make
The book came out in 1987, but these principles existed prior to this. Coupled with the fast-moving technological revolution taking place when Henry Ford was at the top of his game, these principles allowed Fordism to be born.
Henry Ford was not the very first person to utilise an assembly line. These had originally been used in slaughterhouses but Fordism modernised it, allowing this revolutionary type of labour to succeed. Ford broke complicated tasks into much simpler ones, using specialised tools to help with this. By using interchangeable parts, there was a level of adaptation and flexibility that formed a working assembly line. Components could be changed to specifically meet the need of whichever product was being assembled at the time. This enhanced the effectiveness of the assembly line method. As mentioned above, this made it much quicker to build each car. Obviously this method can be (and has been!) applied to any industry – food, fashion and more. As new industries were developed, this methodology was used and transformed time and time again.
Fordism also made production cheaper. Less manpower meant less wages, and therefore the end product (in Ford's case, the Model T) was able to be sold at an affordable price. This is why the demand was there, because people were actually able to buy the cars!
British academic Bob Jessop described four levels of Fordism in a paper called Fordism and post-Fordism: A critical reformulation. This was published in Pathways to Industrialization and Regional Development in 1992. He said they are:
Capitalist labour process: Through implementing highly organized, Taylorist methods of production, designed to produce higher output, output can be increased and workers fully utilized.
Accumulation regime: Under the adherence to a belief in a 'virtuous circle of growth,' by increasing productivity, wages rise resulting in higher productivity, demand, investment, and operational efficacy.
Social mode of economic regulation: Clarity is gained by analyzing the in/outflow of capital, both in micro- [wages, internal movement] and macro- [monetary body, commerciality, external relations].
Generic mode of 'societalization': Deciphering State's and company's roles in the day-to-day economic lifestyles and patterns of the workforce, their economic habits, and the regional impact.
(Or, Fourdism!) If we look back at the Britannica definition of Fordism, we can see a second definition. This is: the typical postwar mode of economic growth and its associated political and social order in advanced capitalism. Although it still refers to a revolution of a sort, it steps away from cars and industry and looks at wider life.
Here, Fordism has been analysed along four different dimensions. I'll look into each of these below!
Firstly, it is analysed as an industrial paradigm. This is Fordism as we know it, the original concept – mass production of standardised goods on a moving assembly line, using both semi-skilled labour and dedicated machinery.
Secondly, Fordism has been analysed as a national accumulation regime. An accumulation regime, as defined by Boyer and Saillard, is "the set of regularities that ensure the general and relatively coherent progress of capital accumulation, that is, which allow the resolution or postponement of the distortions and disequilibria to which the process continually gives rise". Fordism as an accumulation regime is said to involve an ongoing cycle of mass production and mass consumption, and so on.
Next, Fordism has been analysed as a mode of regulation. Here, it is made up of five parts:
An institutionalised compromise between organised labour and big business, where workers accept the desired of management in return for wages going up;
Competition between large firms, in a monopolised way, based on cost-plus pricing and advertising
Centralised financial capital, deficit finance, and credit-based mass consumption
State intervention in order to ensure full employed and establish what is known as a welfare state
Ensuring national economies are embedded in a liberal international economic order
Finally, Fordism has been analysed as a form of social life. Here, it is characterised by mass media, mass transport, and mass politics.
Fordism as a mode of growth (or accumulation regime) became the dominant way. During postwar reconstruction, capitalism was fuelled by Fordism. But later, in the 1970s, it became obvious that Fordism had 'crisis tendencies'. This means that as a model it is not sustainable, and can easily crash with devastating impact. There were and could be many potential reasons for this:
Working-class resistance to alienating working conditions
Declining profit rates
A fiscal crisis
Saturated consumer markets
Internationalisation, making state economic management ineffective and difficult to manage
American economic dominance under threat
Due to these reasons and the crisis nature of Fordism, people immediately started looking for the next big thing in order to replace this dynamic. That is not to say that Fordism no longer exists, but things are always evolving.
Forging Global Fordism: Nazi Germany, Soviet Russia, and the Contest Over the Industrial Order
The Fordism of Ford and Modern Management: Fordism and Post-Fordism
Are You Working Too Much? Post-Fordism, Precarity, and the Labor of Art


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When Casper English lands in her ER with amnesia, Dr. Ashley Drager learns he has a picture of her…and the same tattoo as her long-missing father. With a dangerous man after Casper, and his memories possibly holding the key to finding Ashley's father, she secretly whisks him away from the hospital. But can she keep him alive long enough to help him regain his memories?
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Faculty Welcome - 2017
We write to welcome all of you to a new academic year and to offer a special welcome to our new colleagues and to those who have been away on leave. As always, we look forward to greeting you at this year's opening events, which are listed at the end of our letter.
Even in today's competitive higher education environment, we had another exceptional admissions season this past year, receiving more than 6,300 applications from 46 states and 106 countries. Our talented Class of 2021 includes approximately 725 students, and it is among the most racially diverse classes in the College's history.
We are also pleased with how our recent graduates are performing beyond Gettysburg. Our "One-Year-Out" survey indicates that 98% of the Class of 2016 is now employed or attending graduate/professional school. This is a testament to the high quality education we provide here at Gettysburg College.
Our strategic plan, adopted last year by our Board of Trustees, builds upon this strong student preparation and is designed to equip Gettysburg graduates to tackle the challenges of our time. The Unfinished Work: A Strategic Direction for Gettysburg College focuses on three key themes—Impact, Inclusion and Internationalization, and Innovation—and thanks to the work of many, its influence is already being felt across campus. A great example of this is our most recent $800,000 grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. This grant will help us enhance our curriculum and improve the hiring and retention of diverse faculty in the humanities. As we move forward this academic year, we will also advance newly established strategic priorities in support of the student learning experience both within and outside the Academic Division. Specifically, we plan to expand opportunities for students to apply their academic experience through high-impact educational practices such as faculty-mentored research and creative activity, leadership and career development experiences, and community-based learning and research. Moreover, we will explore the best ways to provide our students with outstanding mentoring, advising, and support from our faculty, staff, alumni, parents, and peers. To support that effort we will establish a Mentoring Working Group, which will include members of the faculty and administration, to guide our efforts in this area.
As you know, fundraising continues to be a key priority for supporting academic strength and our overall health as an institution. Our Campaign enters its seventh and final year with tremendous momentum. Since the public launch of our Gettysburg Great Campaign three years ago, our alumni, parents, employees, and friends have embraced and advanced our five priorities: global initiatives, scholarships, faculty support, engaged learning opportunities, and annual giving. To date, we have raised more than $136 million of our $150 million goal. This is a tremendous accomplishment in which we hope all members of our community take great pride.
Certainly Gettysburg is on the move—and there's no greater visual representation of this progress than our current facilities projects.
Our new Admissions Welcome Center—a 4,500 square-foot addition to the Eisenhower House—is on pace to open this fall. The addition will provide a beautiful reception space for visiting families and our broader campus community, as well as much needed interview rooms and offices for our admissions staff.
This summer, we also kicked off a substantial renovation of our College Union Building (CUB), as we replace the old swimming pool and Bullet Hole with a 26,000 square-foot addition. The new space will allow us to provide a central location for the Center for Career Development and Garthwait Leadership Center—two programs that are attracting a substantial number of our students each year and that resonate well with prospective students and their families.
In the coming weeks, we will complete an addition to the west side of our Dining Hall that will serve as the temporary Bullet Hole while the CUB is under construction. Currently, we are also pursuing a number of smaller-scale facilities upgrades related to our inclusion and internationalization efforts. Specifically, we have relocated and enriched our International House, and we are working to do the same for our Office of Multicultural Engagement and Office of Religious and Spiritual Life.
We appreciate your patience as we make these important upgrades to our campus.
There is no doubt that freedom of expression will continue to be an area of focus on our campus and on campuses across the country. It seems important that we, as a community, review our current related statements and policies and work towards a new institutional statement on the freedom of expression. This process will involve collaboration among faculty, administration, staff, students, and trustees. More information will be forthcoming as we open the new year.
We are pleased to announce that over the next year, a committee of faculty, administrative, support staff, and student representatives will partner with an outside firm to redesign the Gettysburg College website, which is now 11 years old. The new website is scheduled to launch in January of 2019. In addition, the College will conduct a study this fall to gain further insights about how best to advance the College's academic reputation by helping us to articulate "who we are" as an institution. There will be many opportunities for members of our community to be involved with this important work, and we strongly encourage you to participate.
The College's First-Year Common Reading Program, titled'21 Reads: Circumstances, Choices, Challenges, enters its fourth year featuring Emily St. John Mandel's Station Eleven, a novel that delves into the power of art, fame, friendship, and love. Mandel will give a public presentation on Tuesday, September 12 at 7:30 p.m. in the CUB Ballroom, and the entire first-year class will engage in small group discussions about the book on Thursday, September 14. For more information on the novel and Emily St. John Mandel, please access the library's first-year reading website:
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Finally, we have some important dates for you to note as we prepare for the start of classes:
Convocation for the Class of 2021 will be on Wednesday, August 23, at 4:00 p.m. on the Beachem Portico of Pennsylvania Hall. This year's faculty speaker is McKinley Melton, Assistant Professor of English.
The First-Year Walk to the National Cemetery will depart from the Chapel at 6:45 p.m. on Thursday, August 24. Jennifer Bloomquist, Associate Provost for Faculty Development, Dean of Social Sciences and Interdisciplinary Programs and Associate Professor of Africana Studies, will deliver her reflections on the Gettysburg Address.
This year's opening faculty meeting will take place on Thursday, August 31, at 4:00 p.m. in Masters Hall, Mara Auditorium (Room 110), followed by a reception at the President's home at 243 West Broadway from 5:30 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.
Once again, we extend a warm welcome to all of you. We look forward to all that we will accomplish together this year!
Janet Morgan Riggs '77 Christopher J. Zappe
President Provost

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Jan 1, 2020 Issue
Patient-Oriented Evidence That Matters
Fasting and Nonfasting Lipid Levels Similarly Predict Cardiovascular Disease Risk
Am Fam Physician. 2020 Jan 1;101(1):53.
Are fasting lipid levels more predictive of cardiovascular outcomes than nonfasting lipid levels?
Guidelines recommend checking lipid levels in nonfasting patients. They are easier to obtain and are equally predictive of subsequent cardiac events. Although triglyceride levels may be higher in nonfasting patients, cholesterol levels will be similar whether the patient was fasting or not. (Level of Evidence = 2c)
This study looked at 8,270 patients enrolled in a clinical trial of cholesterol lowering. The patients were between 40 and 79 years of age with hypertension and a total untreated cholesterol level of less than 250 mg per dL (6.47 mmol per L) with three additional risk factors for cardiovascular disease. Nonfasting and fasting lipid levels were obtained four weeks apart during the baseline period of the study. The average fasting and nonfasting total cholesterol and high-density lipoprotein cholesterol levels were similar. Triglyceride levels were modestly higher (25 mg per dL [0.3 mmol per L]) when measured in nonfasting patients. The hazard ratios, which in this case measured the cumulative risk of having a major coronary event within 3.3 years, were similarly associated with fasting and nonfasting cholesterol levels. Results were similar for patients with and without previous cardiovascular disease and in treated and nontreated patients.
Study design: Cohort (retrospective)
Funding source: Industry and government
Setting: Outpatient (any)
Reference: Mora S, Chang CL, Moorthy MV, et al. Association of nonfasting vs fasting lipid levels with risk of major coronary events in the Anglo-Scandinavian cardiac outcomes trial-lipid lowering arm. JAMA Intern Med. 2019;179(7):898–905.
Editor's Note: Dr. Ebell is deputy editor for evidence-based medicine for AFP and cofounder and editor-in-chief of Essential Evidence Plus, published by Wiley-Blackwell. Dr. Shaughnessy is an assistant medical editor for AFP.
Allen F. Shaughnessy, PharmD, MMedEd
Professor of Family Medicine
POEMs (patient-oriented evidence that matters) are provided by Essential Evidence Plus, a point-of-care clinical decision support system published by Wiley-Blackwell. For more information, see http://www.essentialevidenceplus.com. Copyright Wiley-Blackwell. Used with permission.
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Batman and Robin #8
Writer: Grant Morrison	Artist: Cameron Stewart Publisher: DC Comics Release Date: February 10, 2010 Cover Price: $2.99 Critic Reviews: 12 User Reviews: 4
7.2Critic Rating
8.0User Rating
BATMAN AND ROBIN double-ships in February with part 2 and 3 of "Blackest Knight" guest-starring Batwoman, Knight and Squire! Only months into his new role as Batman, Dick Grayson faces perhaps the biggest threat of his life. In hopes of attaining his heart's desire, has Dick instead unleashed a terror the likes of which the world has never seen?Meanwhile, back in Gotham City, Alfred and a recuperating Robin are at the mercy of someone both fearsome and familiar
Critic Reviews (12)
Comics Bulletin - Chris Kiser Feb 14, 2010
Batman and Robin is more than an excellent series packed with fun and excitement. It's a successful reinvention of the modern Batman paradigm. Read Full Review
IGN - Tyler Parker Feb 10, 2010
All in all, it's tough to recommend the series more. Just when you think you've seen everything the Batman universe has to offer, Morrison is able to inject fresh and unique story arcs into the Batman mythos. If you jumped off the bandwagon after Final Crisis and R.I.P, then you are really missing the entire scope of Morrison's plans for the Batman legacy. Read Full Review
Comix 411 - David Torres Feb 18, 2010
The best Batman book out there today. Pick it up. Read Full Review
Chuck's Comic Of The Day - Chuck Feb 11, 2010
Despite the story's quirks (or perhaps because of it), this series continues to be a lot of fun to read - and there's certainly nothing wrong with a few challenging twists here and there. Read Full Review
Gotham Spoilers - Gotham Spoilers Apr 11, 2012
This issue played out pretty much how I'd expect it to. Get Damian out, heal him up, stern talking to. I was actually surprised Bruce wasn't as harsh as I expected him to be. Though predictable, this was a really great issue for the father/son moments that this first arc has been so heavy on. It wrapped up quite nicely. It'll be interesting to see where the story goes from here, now that the big "alright, this is how father and son work together" thing is out of the way. Read Full Review
Comic Book Resources - Chad Nevett Feb 10, 2010
A fun, action-oriented issue that propels the reader forward throughout, "Batman and Robin" #8 plays off the ground work set by Morrison in previous stories effectively and ends with some plot threads hanging for the conclusion of the story, which, thankfully, will be released in only two weeks. I, for one, cannot wait. Read Full Review
Comics Bulletin - Thom Young Feb 14, 2010
Editor's Note: The reviews in this week's slugfest have been written and/or edited in an attempt to not contain any spoilers about the revelation of the identity of the resurrected Batman corpse in Batman and Robin #8. Read Full Review
Comics Bulletin - Dave Wallace Feb 14, 2010
Even a middling issue of Batman and Robin is well worth a read, and I'd still call this an above-average comic. However, in the context of a run that has often provided far better issues than this, it doesn't feel like anything particularly special, and certainly isn't as dense or satisfyingly compressed as some of Morrison's issues have been. Read Full Review
Weekly Comic Book Review - DS Arsenault Feb 10, 2010
This is a solid Batman adventure with a lot of fun moments and some unexpected twists and turns. You should be following DC's flagship Batman book, especially at $2.99. Read Full Review
Comic Book Revolution - Rokk Feb 10, 2010
Batman and Robin #8 had the potential to be quite an enjoyable story. Unfortunately, the technical aspects of this issue were so poor that it made it difficult to enjoy the story to its fullest potential. Despite the parts of this issue that I greatly enjoyed, I simply cannot recommend Batman and Robin #8. Some action fans might get a kick out of the excellent brawl scene in this issue. However, there are plenty of other comic books that have a story that is much more new reader friendly and are easier to follow that offer up the same type of high octane action scenes. Read Full Review
ComicList - Brandon Borzelli Feb 13, 2010
This is a good comic book. I may not understand the Batwoman piece but there is a lot to like in this issue. Without the word balloon gaff this would be a four geek goggle comic book. I hope next issue doesn't have any more errors as I look forward to another great fight with Bat-clone. Read Full Review
The Weekly Crisis - Ryan Schrodt Feb 11, 2010
This series kicked off in a strong way with Grant Morrison writing like Classic Morrison. You know, the good one. Since the first arc it has quickly devolved, all culminating in this mess of a comic that should never have been approved by editorial. Of course, if interviews with Dan Didio are any indicator of DCs editorial approach to Grant Morrison, this was probably approved without anyone looking at it. Im thoroughly convinced at this point that Morrison isnt even trying to tell competent stories and more, which means that Im not even going to try to read the drivel he is producing. Im done. Im dropping this steaming pile of crap (which is too bad because theyve brought in some quality artists that deserve to be drawing better books than this). Save your money, True Believers. Avoid this one like the plague. There are better places to spend your cash, like root canals or paying someone to punch you in the face. Read Full Review
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Not only Yue Yang, even Yue Bing, Ye Kong and the Li Brothers were all listening intently with their ears perked.
Only Fatty Hai was still in his big dreams, snoring so loudly that his snores could be heard from the heavens.
Grandma Wu Teng didn't mind the sleeping Fatty Hai. Instead, she looked at Yue Yang, then at Yue Bing, before nodding her head slightly.
Ye Kong suddenly felt that it was because Yue Yang and Yue Bing were listening in class that Grandma Wu Teng had decided to talk about this secret. Otherwise, if it was only normal students, they wouldn't have had the chance to listen to such things.
"Then what about Divine Beasts?" Yue Yang was secretly curious in his heart. The Bloody Queen had intelligence and could speak Demon Abyss Language. Would she count as a Holy Beast? Or had she just reached the doorstep to the Holy Beast's realm, and was just starting to evolve into a Holy Beast?
"With regards to Divine Beasts, I don't know that much." Grandma Wu Teng paused for a while before talking about Divine Beasts. She then continued indifferently, "I've heard that Divine Beasts are the same as Holy Beasts, possessing a high intelligence. However, the largest difference between a Divine Beast and a Holy Beast is that Divine Beasts possess their own grimoires." Grandma Wu Teng words made Yue Yang's whole body jump with surprise.
Beasts that possess their own Grimoires are called Divine Beasts?
"Divine Beasts can possess their own grimoires? This, how could that be possible?" Ye Kong and the Li Brothers were extremely shocked, they completely couldn't believe that.
Yue Yang was a little bit worried, afraid that Grandma Wu Teng would see through his abnormal behaviour.
"Holy Beasts, other than possessing a high intelligence, they can also learn and speak. They also have another ability, and that is to turn into a human form. It doesn't matter if their initial body looked like a lion, an eagle or anything else, they can turn into a human. They would slowly evolve to look like humans, to speak our language, and study our martial art skills. The stronger the Holy Beast is the more perfect its evolution to human will be and the more they will look like us. If a Holy Beast can reach Ninth-tier, then they would become identical to us. They can even sit here with us and listen to lectures, without us being able to differentiate who are beasts and who are humans." Grandma Wu Teng's words completely shocked Yue Yang.
His Bloody Queen, Xiao Wen Li, Barbarian Cow Shadow and even Thorny Flower, as time passes, they were turning more and more like human.
Not only their abilities, even their intelligence and emotions were continuously rising.
Could it be that the method of cultivating a Golden Crown Thorny Flower Queen was a method to cultivate a Holy Beast? Could it be that Holy and Divine Beasts weren't as simple as 9 and 10 Star beasts, they could also be sub-divided into tiers?
Amongst Holy Beasts, how could we divide the strong and the weak?
Ye Kong and the others listened until their heads almost exploded. If First Tier Holy Beast already had a level 9 normal-ranked beast's strength, then how frightening would the powers of a Ninth Tier Holy Beast be?
Furthermore, above Holy Beasts, there were still Divine Beasts… No wonder they said that being a Holy Beast was only the starting point of reaching the ultimate strength. This, for a normal warrior, was indeed hard to imagine. No wonder Rankers who had reached the Ultimate Strength would think that warriors below level 6 were ants.
Could the lucky person that had not appeared in Soaring Dragon Continent for ten thousand years be him?
However, he wasn't someone from the Soaring Dragon Continent at all. He was a guy who had travelled dimensions. Even if the lucky person appeared, how could it be him, who was a guy from another dimension?
Yue Yang quietly decided that no matter what kind of existence Xiao Wen Li was, he would slowly cultivate her.
As for that Celestial Grimoire, he would definitely be able to open it when he had cultivated his Innate Invisible Sword Qi high enough.
At that time, he could look at the Celestial Grimoire's records.
He believed that all of his questions would be answered then.
"Yeah!" Yue Bing felt that it wouldn't be possible for her, but it should be possible for her brother, who owned a Bloody Queen. Due to her instinct, she listened to the lecture with keen interest.
"In order to cultivate Holy Beasts, it is best if they are Guardian Beasts, as they will never truly die or betray their master! If for some reason the Guardian Beast couldn't be cultivated, you can cultivate other beasts too. A Holy Beast cultivation method is simply to make your beasts level up continuously, increase their intelligence and evolve them to be more human-like. It is the same for every type of beast. In Tong Tian Tower, there is a World's Tree Quest that will give you a Wisdom Fruit as a reward. This is one way to increase a beast's intelligence. Refining a Magical Pill that will develop a beast's brain, increasing their intelligence, is another way. Also, in the first floor of Tong Tian Tower, at the Twelve Zodiac Temples, every time one finishes a challenge with one hundred percent completion rate, one will receive a reward from the Ancient Code. If one completed it with more than one hundred percent completion rate, he may be able to increase his beast's intelligence… Therefore, if one could complete all the challenges in the Twelve Zodiac Temples and successfully passes, he should be able to cultivate a beast with a Holy Beast's intelligence." Grandma Wu Teng's words suddenly made Yue Yang realize that those extremely difficult challenges were actually created to help people cultivate Holy Beasts… No wonder they were so abnormal!
"As long as one succeeded once in completing the challenge and acquired the higher intelligence rewards, then they would not be able to redo the challenge. They can only go to the next temple. If all twelve Zodiac temples have been completed, they can go to Tong Tian Tower's Second Floor and complete the Heaven, Earth and Humanity Halls. These Three Halls also have the same type of reward. On higher floors, there is also the continuation for the World's Tree Quest, and many other difficult quests… The older generation had passed down these wise words before, "Higher risks, higher returns!". If you want to cultivate a Holy Beast, you would need to go through countless difficult challenges, and experience many more arduous battles. Only then will your beast level up even higher. This cultivation depends on each individual's training – how many quests you can do, how many hardships you can stand, how many battles you can face, and how high you can cultivate your beasts – all these depend only on yourself, no one can help you with them. There's no shortcut to cultivation… Children, at your young age, it's the best time for you to learn and improve yourselves. Hence, you must treasure your youth and your chances!" Grandma Wu Teng's words opened a new door of knowledge for Yue Yang, Yue Bing, Ye Kong and the others.
Although they had not stepped into that realm, they now had the knowledge. They now knew that there was another realm at higher places, another wonderful world beyond what they had thought of.
The Soaring Dragon Continent was just the starting point.
The real place for strong Rankers was in the higher levels of Tong Tian Tower, that was the real world that belonged to the strongest.
For the next three days, Yue Yang and the others all came early for Grandma Wu Teng's lectures. Her knowledge was as deep as the oceans, supplementing Yue Yang's lack of basic knowledge and quenching all of Yue Yang's unanswerable questions. Yue Yang felt like he had learnt new things and improved every single day.
No matter if it was with regards to controlling himself or his beasts, or fighting against the opponent's beast's weaknesses, Yue Yang had remarkable improvements.
Equipped with this knowledge, he was like a tiger who had been bestowed with wings. He could soar up to the sky.
His next breakthrough should be very soon!
Grandma Wu Teng's words actually did not help Ye kong and the Li Brothers too much, because the difference in their abilities were too far. Their beasts' levels were also heaven and earth apart from becoming Holy Beasts. They were just like primary school kids who had gone to a university lecture. Although they had absorbed some knowledge, in reality, they couldn't understand much. Yue Yang, on the other hand, was the exact opposite. His abilities were the closest to what Grandma Wu Teng was lecturing about. Almost every speech that she said assisted his improvements greatly. A lot of things that Yue Yang was confused about initially, had dispersed like clouds being blown away by the wind, giving way to a clear and bright sunlight.
At the lecture, most of the time, it would be Yue Yang asking questions and Grandma Wu Teng answering them.
In other words, Grandma Wu Teng' lecture was mainly teaching Yue Yang alone. Almost all of the content of her lecture was structured in order to teach Yue Yang. For Ye Kong and the others, they could only remember it in their hearts, and leave it for later when their abilities had increased to understand it better.
"Today's lesson will stop here. In order to put the materials that we have talked about in class into practice, I have decided to arrange some homework for you guys. Go to the Despair Abyss and bring a Starlight Serene Indigo Grass back. If you guys succeed, I will bestow your beasts with one [Fortune] from my [Fortune] Inherent Skill." Grandma Wu Teng's quest was actually set up for Yue Yang. Ye Kong and the others, including Yue Bing, would not have the ability to go to the Despair Abyss to get a Starlight Serene Indigo Grass. Only Yue Yang had that kind of ability.
"Yes." Of course, Yue Yang had perfectly understood Grandma Wu Teng's intention. She wanted to help him improve!
"I'll give you guys one month. We'll meet here again in one month!" Grandma Wu Teng nodded her head lightly as she slowly left.
A month? Could it be that Grandma Wu Teng felt that he would need at least a month's time to pick a Starlight Serene Indigo Grass in the Despair Abyss? What kind of shithole was that Despair Abyss?
Even Yue Yang, who was already mentally prepared, was shocked by this.
Despair Abyss's name should be a hint to why she would give one month, Yue Yang!
Thanks for the new chapter! I kind of wish he would at least share with Yue Bing all his secrets.
I wonder if he'll bring his sister and/or his posse with him?
Yue yang got a private lesson fron a granma..
Does barbaric cow already considered a holy beast now? Since yue yang could teach her sone of humans martial arts skill.. and hui tai lang definitely learned a lot of shamelessness and sneakyness from yue yang..is he considered a holy beast too?
No, they are just getting closer to being Holy Beasts.
I wonder if Yue Bing would have a heart attack if she knew which beasts her brother had? And would she be the one to help her brother finally get laid?
"what kind of shithole…" lol this author….
Thanks for the chapter David Moore, Shiroyukineko, Krithika and Rango.
What a good student! Yue Yang are you going to embark on a scholarly pursuit and seal up your wolfy heart?
Im postive she already knows that he is in the innate realm….. I mean it sounds like yue yang is asking questions after questions and understanding them unlike the posse and probably yue bing as well which are considered to be fairly gifted and if he can tell that she is in it with his divine vision it should be childs play for her to notice him I mean he doesnt even know anything about it and his camo is only at rank 3. I swear the only reason why the other innate ranker couldnt get his name and such is because he is from another world so it got confusing as fck. I mean look at other xianxia where you are able to tell there rank just by feeling their aura and again his skills rank is only 3 which alows him to lie to a princess how would that compare with a strong nee-sama that has lived for hundreds of years?
The lady which gave him the crystal card said to her self 'even i can't see through he's strengh' and that was when he's counterfit skill was lv1.
And it was already mentioned that princess Qian Qian skill is strong, but when MC counterfit skill leveled up to 2, she got very confused and not sure 100% like before, only when the MC said lies he himself couldn't belive did she start reconising lies from the truth again clearly as before.
And the author himself said that is a cheaty skill… so i think that teacher doesn't know for sure, but she is able deduce that MC is more powerful than he lets on.
I think that's the true meaning behind the quest she gave him. If he succeeds, she'll know how strong he is, for now, she's doubting.
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Thanks for the chapter Shiroyukineko, Krithika and Rango!
Whats the Fortune skill from the grandma does?
So where are the fairies and angels?
Theory: MC was born in this world but was switched with the pitiful guy to protect him. It explains why the pitiful guy couldn't contract a grimoire.


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The Taqiyya of Tinseltown
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"Not to get political, but something that we all gravitated toward in the writers room was making this character Muslim."
If Hollywood were a religion of peace, this would be an example of Taqiyya. A lie intended to further their agenda. It was uttered by a television executive recently in an interview with Variety without any sense of shame or self awareness whatsoever. These people are like alcoholics. They'll never admit they have a problem.
Nothing that they do or say politically is ever delivered with the caveat that they might be influenced by at least a decent degree of political bias most of the time, and a fanatical fundamentalist adherence to left-wing doctrine the rest of the time.
None of their conclusions or beliefs are ever acknowledged as being politically motivated. Never. Merely as the enlightened opinions of enlightened people. Curiously, every one of these enlightened opinions of enlightened people; every last brain fart of any flaky actress, or thought bubble from a screenwriter, coincidentally aligns perfectly within the extremely narrow parameters of post-modernist groupthink.
Funny that. Not a single deviation. Not a one. It's a safe bet that anyone aping Johnny Carson's Carnac the Magnificent could ask just one political question of any Hollywood flunky, and from that single answer could correctly predict their opinion on 99 other political topics with a hundred percent success rate.
Imagine just for a second if a Hollywood personality said: "Hey, not to get political, but the economy seems more prosperous under Trump than Obama". Even something that innocuous. Would that ever fly? Would it ever get a pass as being apolitical in any realm of reality? Not only would they be called out as Republican, but blacklisted as well unless they enjoyed a hefty dose of star power.
These people are not apolitical. Nor are they unbeholden to a political agenda regardless of their claims of 'hey, I'm not getting political'. More disturbing is that while many of these Hollywood types are blatantly lying, practicing a kind of Hollywood Taqiyya as it were, many more are simply so thoroughly indoctrinated that they legitimately think that their views and willingness to subject others to them come from a place of decency rather than from a toxic and invasive culture of champagne socialism.
Nobody across the political spectrum would buy into the delusion that the opinions of Clint Eastwood or James Woods come purely from a place of deduction and reasoning with no political influence whatsoever. Why would anyone in their right mind think that the other 95% of Hollywood who are painfully progressive arrived at their worldview purely through critical thinking?
Don't buy into the narrative that their very overt political opinions and the overt political indoctrination in their films and television programmes is a kind of dutiful morality and has no political agenda or dog in the fight. Let's face it, stock and trade of these people is making stuff up. Why would they be honest and allow us to interpret their art and their opinions through the prism that the person making movies or tweeting has an axe to grind?
The average person may well be impressed and influenced by a Hollywood figure expressing concern about Trump's America. They might make a compelling case if they are viewed as a famous but impartial observer. But the average person would draw a very different conclusion if the Hollywood figure prefaced their comments by saying:
"O.K…full disclosure, I've never voted Republican in my life, and every Republican President since Lincoln was literally Hitler!"
Such an honest opinion might make shoehorning a Muslim character into a DC comic series appear cynical, contrived, and insidious as opposed to progressive, inclusive, and tolerant.
Make no mistake, these aren't the artistic interpretations of open-minded people evaluating the world around them, free of bias as they highlight genuine injustices. If that were the case, we'd have been falling over countless Hollywood dramatisatations about the Lewinsky affair, Obama's banker bailout, the destabilisation of Libya, the massacre at Benghazi, and the Clinton foundation pillaging of Haiti. But some injustices are never to be spoken of or Tweeted about by these Hollywood gatekeepers of morality.
It is crucial not only to the Hollywood agenda, but to the Cultural Marxist agenda by and large, that proponents are never identified as being aligned on the right (read: left) side politics, but instead as being on the right side of history. It's high time that we exposed them for what they are. Relentless fifth column socialists dripping with the hypocrisy of a bourgeoise lifestyle.
Don't allow these people to use their profile to dabble in social engineering while feigning ignorance and innocent impartiality. The Taqiyya of Tinseltown is a scourge on the entertainment industry.
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Q: Is it possible to intercept signals to another process? Is it possible to trap a signal on the way to another process (which I am not the parent) and instead invoke a local function?  In particular when a user sends SIGINFO to a specific process I'd like to trap it and send along a different signal instead.
Is this possible at all? would I have to use ktrace / ptrace? Do i need to 'attach a debugger' to it similar to how lldb behaves?

A: If you want to do that from userland, then yes, you would have to use ptrace(2) and implement a subset of debugger functionality. I.e. you will need to have appropriate privileges to attach to the process, intercept signals, possibly read and modify registers to change signal number, etc.
Another option would be to make changes to the kernel and implement the functionality you want there. Then you don't have to use ptrace, but the downside is that you'll need a custom kernel.


I will give a description of the linear scaling DFT code Conquest, which has been developed at UCL and NIMS. In particular, I will present recent results on the scaling of the code, and show that it scales perfectly to over 4,000 cores and 2,000,000 atoms on modern high-performance computers. This demonstrates the potential of DFT to address systems of millions of atoms.
I will also discuss the implementation of constrained DFT within the code, and give details of how this method can be used to calculate charge transfer and excitation properties of systems using DFT. I will discuss plans for the application and development of Conquest.


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Q: Can You Use MSVC 6.0's Debugger to 'Step Into' a Macro? I am using MSVC 6.0 to call a macro in the Win32API and I'm getting an access violation.  I know that the pointers I'm passing to the macro contain valid addresses, though they're evidently not pointing to the correct data.
The macro accepts multiple pointers, and I'm not sure which pointer is erroneous, so I'd like to use MSVC's debugger to 'step into' the macro to see exactly where the problem is.  When I've tried thus far, the debugger just throws the access violation error.
Is it possible to 'step into' a macro using MSVC 6.0's debugger?  If not, is there anyway for me to check what the macro expands to, so I can get a better idea of what I'm not doing correctly?

A: If you really need to trace the macro code, the only way would be to find the definition of the macro, manually "instantiate" the macro code (substituting the parameters) in place where it is "called", and then trace it in the debugger as ordinary code.
Alternative variant would be to step through the disassembly, if your skill level is sufficient to back-associate the disassembled code with the original macro code.

A: You cannot step into the macro because at the point compiler does its job, the macro is already expanded. However, you can step through a macro - if you just do "step", you will actually step through all code inside the macro as if it was expanded, line by line. If you to "step into", you will step into every function call made from that macro. If the macro is small enough, and/or you know it very well, you can do a "blind step through" that way.

A: You can step into functions that are called from the macro but as far as I know can not really step through the macro lines themselves. And yes if you code compiles - you can find the macro definition (use MSVC function/class browser to find where it is defined, some header file probably)

A: I'd just step into the disassembly - usually, even if you're not an assembly expert, short runs of code (a few lines) the assembly map back to the C/C++ code pretty readily (especially in non-Release builds). Hopefully the macro isn't so hairy that that isn't the case here.
Remember that plenty of debugging occurs even without source code, so having the source and the disassembly together usually isn't too bad. And if it's something you haven't much experience with, it's great experience to get.


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Is there a way to "train" Android to associate a certain spoken word with a certain result?
Oh, and it can't get "U2" or "REM" right either! I have been messing around with the new voice commands (after downloading the app and widget replacement), and I figured these would be popular enough (although oddly spelled) to be configured in. It got the Beatles, though!
I have a ListView that is populated using an XML file. However, I want each item, when clicked, to start a new Activity related to that item. I understand how to use OnItemClick to start a Toast that shows the selected item's text. However, since the ListView is populated from an XML there is not a specific Id for each item in the list. So, how would I associate an Activity with each item in the ListView when the items do not have Ids?
Just got my Droid today (formerly a storm 1 user). Is it possible to create a SMS group? I haven't been able to figure it out yet.
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Henrick (Harry) Hopman CBE
A world acclaimed champion tennis player and coach with numerous singles and doubles Grand Slam titles.
Henrick (Harry) Christian Hopman was born in Glebe on 12 August 1906 the second son of John Henry and Jennie Hopman He moved to Parramatta with his family and attended Rosehill Primary School where his father was headmaster and Harry later attended Parramatta High School where he played tennis and cricket.
At a young age, Hopman rose to prominence in tennis and in 1924 he was selected to represent NSW in the Australian Junior Championships. In the match against Tasmania he won the doubles in straight sets with A. Berkleman. It was noted that Hopman played attractive tennis and took a lot of risks, with favourable results. In December 1925, he and Jack Crawford were selected as NSW representative junior players in Adelaide for the Australian Tennis Championships, accompanying team members Daphne Akhurst, J.O. Anderson, Marjorie Cox and Norman Peach.
As a member of Western Suburbs Lawn Tennis Association he gained top rate match practice and competition with the likes of J.O. Anderson and Jack Crawford who became his men's doubles partner. The two juniors, Hopman and Crawford, were to become a
formidable partnership playing in a great many tournaments across the country. In the mixed doubles he was partnered by Nell Hall.
Harry Hopman represented Australia in Davis Cup competitions over many years and was captain of the Australian team for over twenty years. He was a member of the WSLTA. (Australasian Lawn Tennis, May 1927)
By 1930, the Hopman / Crawford combination in mixed doubles tennis was well known and they were lauded as Australia's greatest pair when they concurrently held the NSW, Victorian and Australian titles. They were the ultimate performers and drew enormous crowds when they played in suburban venues. At Pratten Park in January 1931 Hopman and Crawford came head to head in the finals of the County of Cumberland Singles Championship in a tense struggle. Hopman and Crawford provided a great exhibition of all-round tennis with Hopman coming to the net to volley after services, chopping returns to his opponent's back hand and frequently cross-volleying the returns for winners, the result of the game being Hopman, 1-6, 6-4, 6-1. Hopman moved to Victoria in 1931.
Eleanor (Nell) M. Hall married Harry Hopman in 1934 and they continued their on-court partnership in the mixed doubles. Nell was a very capable player herself and at the peak of her tennis career was runner-up for the Australian Open Singles title in 1939. She had begun her year on a high, winning the Victorian women's singles championship which was her first senior State singles title. She, like Daphne Akhurst, was an accomplished pianist.
Hopman won the Australian Open Doubles Championship in 1929 and 1930 and the Mixed Doubles Championship in 1930, 1936–37 and 1939. He also won the US championships in 1939. He represented Australia in the Davis Cup in 1928, 1930, 1932, 1938 – 39 and was captain of the team in the years 1938 – 39 and 1950 – 69.
Hopman was a sporting journalist and provided commentary in newspapers on tennis and wrote books on the game titled: Aces and Placesand Better Tennis. He also was sought after to write forewords for other tennis champions', such as Lew Hoad and Frank Sedgeman's, literary works on the subject of tennis. At age sixty-three he moved to the United States and became a successful coach to future champions Vitas Gerulaitis and later John McEnroe and opened the Hopman Tennis Academy in Florida. He did not approve of tennis professionals, wishing to keep the game with amateurs. He passed away on Dec 27th 1985 in Seminole United States of America.


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Star Wars Battlefront 2's Microtransactions Were Reportedly Pulled After Disney Expressed Concerns to EA
Disney chief executive Bob Iger was reportedly "alarmed" by the fan backlash.
byAlex Osborn
Posted Nov. 20, 2017, 12:44 p.m.
Electronic Arts' decision to pull microtransactions from Star Wars Battlefront II just before the game's launch reportedly came in the wake of concerns from Disney.
Bob Iger, Disney's chief executive, was "alarmed" by the backlash from fans over how Battlefront II's microtransactions were implemented, The Wall Street Journal heard from a "person familiar with the matter." As a result, Jimmy Pitaro, the head of consumer products and interactive media at Disney, contacted EA, detailing the company's concerns about the situation.
Star Wars Battlefront II received a lot of criticism from players because of the high costs to unlock the game's top-tier hero characters, like Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader. In response, EA lowered those costs before ultimately pulling microtransactions entirely from the game.
For our thoughts on the game, which launched earlier this week for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC, read IGN's Star Wars Battlefront II review. Also be sure to check out our comprehensive look at how the Battlefront II loot crate disaster got this bad over the past six months.
Alex Osborn is a freelance writer for IGN. Find him on Twitter at @alexcosborn.
Developer: DICE (Digital Illusions CE)
Release Date: Dec. 31, 2017
Platforms: PlayStation 4, Pc, Xbox One
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BeyondTrust CTO on using PAM in post-breach clean-ups
Jess Phillips | 8 January, 2019
While no organisation wants to respond to a security incident or a breach – particularly at the start of a new year – the reality is that preventing a cyberattack from landing is not always possible. Morey Haber, CTO at BeyondTrust, discusses the role of privileged access management (PAM) in a post-breach clean-up.
No one wants to respond to a security incident or a breach, particularly at the start of a new year. Instead the highest priority should be to stop a cyberthreat before it compromises the organisation. But in reality, preventing a cyberattack from landing is not always possible. The steps for incident or breach identification – from threat hunting to searching for explicit Indicators of Compromise (IoC) – are well established. While the processes will vary from organisation to organisation, malware, compromised accounts, lateral movement, etc. will all need to be addressed as a part of any formal clean-up plan.
If a breach is severe enough (for example, including the compromise of domain controllers), organisations may have no choice other than to reinstall the entire environment from scratch. While that is a worst-case scenario, it does happen. In many cases, businesses may choose to scrub servers as best as possible versus performing a complete reinstall. That is a business decision based on risk, feasibility and cost. It also represents a no-win scenario if the threat is a persistent presence that uses techniques to evade traditional identification measures. If you think that is far-fetched, just look at the history of threats like rootkits, Spectre and Meltdown that prove that there is always a way to attack a technology resource.
Threat actors are after your credentials
Regardless of your remediation strategy, you can be assured that, via some fashion or another, threat actors will have access to your credentials. This implies that any clean-up effort should not reuse any existing passwords or keys. If possible, you should change (rotate) all credentials across every affected or linked resource. This is where privileged access management (PAM) comes into play. The clean-up or redeployment needs to be protected from password reuse or from a threat actor regaining a persistent presence due to poor credential management, as remediation efforts begin.
Password management is a core aspect of PAM and includes the automatic onboarding, rotation, session management, reporting, and check-in and check-out of passwords from a password safe. While PAM technology is most prominently used for privileged passwords like administrator, root, service accounts and DevOps secrets, it can also be used as a least privilege solution to remove administrative rights for applications and tasks. This means that end users would no longer have, or need, a secondary administrator account to perform business functions.
PAM's role in clean-up after a breach
With this mind, how does PAM help with security breach clean-up? During a security incident or breach, you first need to investigate and address the following:
Determine which accounts were compromised and used for access and lateral movement
Determine the presence and resources using any linked, compromised accounts. For example, the same account that was compromised on asset X or application Y is also used on assets A, B and C for applications D, E and F so they can all communicate
Identify and purge any illicit or rogue accounts created by the threat actor
Identify, and remove or segment, any shadow IT, IoT or other resource that was part of the cyberattack chain, to protect against future threats
Analyse the accounts that have been compromised and determine the least amount of privileges needed for them to perform their functions. Most users and system accounts do not require full domain or local administrator or root accounts
Analyse how data was used/accessed by the attacker during the breach. Was any IoC data captured during abuse of the privileged account? If data was captured, did it help identify the threat? If data was not captured, determine what needs to change to monitor future misuse of privileged accounts. This includes privileged account usage as well as session monitoring and keystroke logging, where appropriate.
This analysis is not trivial. Tools are needed to discover accounts, identify resources, determine usage patterns and, most importantly, flag any potential abuse. Even if all the log data is sent to a security information and event management (SIEM), it still requires correlation or user behaviour analytics to answer these questions.
Once you have made the initial investigation, here are the five ways PAM can help after a breach and should be considered an essential component of your clean-up efforts:
After a discovery, automatically onboard your privileged accounts and enforce unique and complex passwords with automatic rotation for each. This will help ensure any persistent presence cannot repeatedly leverage compromised accounts.
For any linked accounts, have your PAM solution link and rotate them all together on a periodic schedule; including for service accounts. This will keep the accounts synchronised and potentially isolated from other forms of password reuse.
When applicable, remove unnecessary privileged accounts all the way down to the desktop. This includes any secondary administrator accounts associated with an identity. For any application, command, or task that requires administrative rights, consider a least privilege model that elevates the application – not the user – to perform privileged management.
Using PAM, look for IoCs that suggest lateral movement, either from commands or rogue user behaviour. This is a critical portion of the cyberattack chain where PAM can help identify whether or not any resources have been compromised.
Application control is one of the best defences against malware. This capability includes looking for trusted applications that are vulnerable to threats by leveraging various forms of reputation-based services. PAM can help here too. Decide on an application's run-time based on trust and known risks before it is allowed to interact with the user, data, network, and operating system.
Privileged access management should not only be considered for new projects and legacy systems to stop privileged attack vectors. It should be considered for forensics and remediation control after an incident or breach. PAM will help stop a threat actor from acting on some of the lowest hanging fruit within your organisation – poor password and credential management.
As a security best practice, privileged access should always be limited. When a threat actor gains administrator or root credentials, they do have the keys to your kingdom. The goal is stop them from obtaining them and 're-keying' the accounts via passwords on a frequent basis, so even if they steal a password, their usage can be limited and monitored for potential abuse.
Therefore, after an incident or breach, this helps ensure that any lingering persistent presence can be mitigated and represents a valuable methodology in the clean-up and sustainment process.
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Barty continues French Open title charge
TENNIS: Ash Barty's potential path to a French Open title has been blown wide open after Serena Williams and world No.1 Naomi Osaka both lost on the same day the Australian calmly booked a spot in the fourth round.
The eighth seed extended her career-best run in Paris with a calm 6-3 6-1 third round defeat of German Andrea Petkovic.
Her win came as Williams, Barty's scheduled next round opponent, lost to American countrywoman Sofia Kenin while projected quarterfinal opponent Osaka also lost.
"For me it's easy not to look ahead," Barty said.
"Obviously there's talk and it's unavoidable to hear what else is happening around the draw.
"But for me, I can't control any of that. I can't control what other girls are doing.
"I can only control how I prepare, how I play, and ultimately how we go about my next match."
Barty cruised past German veteran Petkovic to reach the final 16 without dropping a set in what has been an efficient and composed campaign from the 23-year-old.
"I've been able to close out matches well," Barty said.
"I've been able to win some matches in business-like fashion, but they're certainly not easy matches, that's for sure.
"I feel like I'm playing well and being able to execute to make the score lines look a little easier than the match actually is."
A string of high-profile exits leaves only defending champion Simona Halep (third seed) and last year's finalist Sloane Stephens (seventh seed) as higher-ranked women than Barty in the draw.
Yet Barty, who improved her season record to 26-5, is prepared to be tested against No.35-ranked Kenin.
"She's played an incredible match, obviously, to beat a world-class champion," Barty said of her next opponent.
"And the challenge will be just as great coming from her as it would have been if it was Serena."
Barty is aiming to become the first Australian to win the Roland Garros title since Margaret Court in 1973.
In other results, Jordan Thompson progressed to the third round of the Open, as Australia's last man standing after both Alex de Minaur and Alexei Popyrin were knocked out in the second round and John Millman in the first.
Thompson took on eighth seed Juan Martin del Potro but fell to the Paris semifinalist, 6-4 6-4 6-0.
Wildcard Priscilla Hon also made it through to the second round before being defeated by Madison Keys, 7-5 5-7 6-3.
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Clean sweep of gold on Day 8 of Samoa 2019
SAMOA 2019: Australia won gold in every medal-event contested on day 8 of the Samoa 2019 Pacific Games.
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It was a strong weekend for Aussie sport, with Olympians and Olympic hopefuls claiming nine medals on the water, 12 on land and a quota spot for Tokyo 2020.
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From Gippsland to Glasgow, Edmondson taking NRS in his stride
By Jono Lovelock 31 July 2013
Euride Racing hungry for another win
Alexander Edmondson (Team SASI Cycling) leans into a bend on stage three. (Image credit: Shane Goss)
Hsian Shihhsin (Action Cycling Team) beats Alexander Edmondson (Australia National Team) in the sprint finish (Image credit: Sonoko Tanaka)
Alex Edmondson salutes the crowd after a hard fought win in the points race. (Image credit: Mark Gunter)
Harry Carpenter at the head of the Euride Racing squad which took out the Patrick Jonker TTT at the inaugural Adelaide Tour (Image credit: Mark Gunter - markgunter.com.au)
Alex Edmondson during a sprint in the points race. (Image credit: Mark Gunter)
It's been a long time between drinks at the Subaru National Road Series (NRS) for Alex Edmondson. Fresh off the London Olympics, Edmondson stepped from track to road at last year's Tour of Tasmania and has been waiting to get back on Australian roads ever since.
Between NRS tours Edmondson has been racking up world championship titles on the track in Poland and gaining vital experience on the road in Europe and Asia. Having returned to Australia only last Thursday, Edmondson believes it's jet lag that he has to worry about first and foremost.
"Well I'm not sure how I'm going at the moment to be honest," he told Cyclingnews. "I've been on the track, and I've only just got back from overseas and I'm still struggling to sleep at night with the jet lag."
The team pursuit World Champion is hoping that if his track legs don't perform as he should hope, he is more than ready to work for one of his Euride Racing (Euride) teammates.
"I'm going there either for myself or to help the team," Edmondson said. "It's going to be one of those ones where we will go in with some objectives and hopefully we can come out with some stages here or there or someone up high on the GC."
In terms of competition, Edmondson is wary of the usual suspects, but believes that the field assembled deserves a lot of respect:
"As we've seen in the last few rounds, Huon-Genesys are going very strong and Drapac aren't coming so that's one less team," he stated. "But it's one of those things, with [teams like] Budget you can't just say there are only a couple of teams out there. Heaps of people have been putting their hands up so you can't rule out anyone."
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In the overall picture, the Tour of Gippsland is only a small card in Edmondson's pack. With bigger games in mind, however, it may yet prove to be a trump:
"For me this is all starting the base before the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow next year. But I think it will be awesome for my base and my development for the later part of the year."
And with these bigger goals in mind, it's the style of racing we will see this week that will play in Edmondson's favour.
"It's pretty good with the short, sharp racing [at Gippsland] and it's great to have this sort of racing in Australia. We're just hoping that the weather will be good to us and it's not bucketing down rain and freezing cold! "
With diplomatic prose comes the expectation that a rider is playing down his chances. Given Edmondson's hectic schedule over the last 18 months, that would be entirely justified. But for this 19-year-old another race means another chance to win. Despite a lack of sleep and a lack of road kilometres, Edmondson lacks no ambition. He is here to race.
"Of course I'm not just going there to putt along and be in the bunch, I've got a number on my back, I want to win!"


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Q: Change a header's position dynamically when activating drop down menu I have a drop down menu that sits inside a header that is set to position: fixed. When viewed on a mobile device, I want the header to remain fixed, but when the menu is activated, jQuery dynamically changes the header's position to relative. That works fine (see code below), but there are a few problems that I need to fix. If the menu-toggle link is clicked again (closing the menu), the header does not return to its previous state "relative". Is there a way to do this? I also notice a flicker, so let's say you scroll half way down the page, then click on the menu to open it, the page sort of jumps and does not scroll back to the top where the menu is located inside the header as it should. I would prefer a pure CSS solution, but that seems impossible. I COULD set the rules so that if it's less than 499 pixels wide, the header gets positions "relative", but then usability fails, as a user will have to scroll up to the top of the page to access the drop down menu.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Here is my code:
HTML

Menu

Link

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Link

Link

CSS
header[role="banner"] {
    width: 100%;
    background: #fff;
    display: block;
    margin: 0 auto;
    padding: 0;
    box-shadow: 0 2px 4px rgba(0,0,0,0.25);
    z-index: 10000;
}

@media all and (min-width: 500px) {
    header[role="banner"] {
        position: fixed;
        top: 0;
        left: 0;
        clear: both;
        height: auto;
        display: block;
    }
}

@media all and (max-width: 499px) {
    header[role="banner"] {
        position: fixed;
    }
}

JAVASCRIPT
$(document).ready(function() {

    $('body').addClass('js');
          var $menu = $('#nav'),
              $menulink = $('.menu-toggle'),
              $menuTrigger = $('.subnav > a');

    $menulink.click(function(e) {
            e.preventDefault();
            $menulink.toggleClass('active');
            $menu.toggleClass('active');
    });

    var add_toggle_links = function() {
        if ($('.menu-toggle').is(":visible")){
            if ($(".toggle-link").length > 0){
            }
            else{
                $('.subnav > a').before('Open');
                $('.toggle-link').click(function(e) {
                    var $this = $(this);
                    $this.toggleClass('active').siblings('ul').toggleClass('active');
                });
            }
        }
        else{
            $('.toggle-link').empty();
        }
     }
    add_toggle_links();
    $(window).bind("resize", add_toggle_links);

        });

        $(document).ready(function() {
            $('.menu-toggle').click(function() {
               if ($( document ).width() < 499)
                  $('header[role="banner"]').css('position', 'relative');
            });
        });

A: So you don't actually have any js code in there that will switch the position of your header between fixed and relative.
What I would do is maybe toggleClass on your header.
$(document).ready(function() {
  $('.menu-toggle').click(function() {
    if ($( document ).width() < 499){
      $('header[role="banner"]').toggleClass('active');
    }
  });
});

Then in your css
header[role="banner"] {
  position: fixed;
}
header[role="banner"].active {
  position: relative;
}

The screen jump you're getting is probably from changing the position from fixed to relative, because relative will add the header back to the normal page flow. So to fix this, you could also toggle the class of whatever is below your header, so when active, it has a margin-top of 0, and when inactive, it has a margin-top equal to the height of the header.