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World Player of the Week: Roda Antar - Lebanon
Join Goal.com in saluting another player worthy of global recognition
Welcome to Goal.com's regular feature: Goal.com World Player of the Week. Each week our worldwide team of editors will put forward a selected candidate, as chosen by Goal.com International, who deserves recognition for achieving something special that matchday. It won't necessarily be the best player in the world - at least not usually - but whoever we nominate will have accomplished something amazing. It might be for a particularly awesome performance or for something praiseworthy off the pitch - either way, the person in question deserves special attention...
Goal.com World Player of the Week #131: Roda Antar
Club: Shandong Luneng
Role: Midfielder
Achievement: Inspired his nation to victory over South Korea
Lebanon registered a shocking 2-1 win against South Korea in the third phase of qualification for the 2014 World Cup finals in the Asian zone in Beirut on Tuesday, and at the heart of this extraordinary triumph was Roda Antar.
The Shandong Luneng midfielder was involved in the first goal as it was his blocked shot that Ali Al Saadi eventually lashed home after five minutes.
Antar continued to pose problems for the Koreans and on 65 minutes came close to etching his name on the scoresheet when his header came off the woodwork.
The victory means that Lebanon now only need a draw against the UAE to book their place in the fourth stage of qualification.
The result sparked wide-scale celebrations in the country, leading the nation's Prime Minister, Najib Mikati, to take to Twitter and enthuse: "Delighted and proud of our national football team. Congrats to all."
Congratulations to Roda Antar, Goal.com's 131st World Player of the Week!
Adriano - Corinthians
Adriano has been out with injury for most of the year but looks revitalised to some extent. The Brazilian striker scored the winning goal in Corinthians' 2-1 victory over Atletico Mineiro at the Pacaembu stadium on Sunday with a delightful finish from an acute angle inside the penalty area. It was the 29-year-old's first goal for the Brazilian giants since joining them in March 2011.
Enam Mendomo Alexis - Club Africain
Club Africain secured a vital 1-0 win over Maghreb Fes in the Caf Confederation Cup final first-leg thanks to an early strike from Enam Mendomo Alexis. The inspired Cameroon international opened the scoring in the eighth minute and it remained 1-0 until the final whistle. Enam rose to meet a cross on the edge of Fes' box and sliced home a superb volley to secure a narrow advantage going into the second leg.
Landon Donovan - LA Galaxy
Landon Donovan was the star performer for Los Angeles Galaxy as they defeated Houston Dynamo 1-0 in the MLS Cup final on Sunday. Not only did the USA international score a brilliant winner at the Home Depot Center in Carson, California, but he also worked hard throughout the encounter.
Mats Hummels - Borussia Dortmund
Borussia Dortmund registered a 1-0 victory over Bayern Munich at the Allianz Arena in the Bundesliga on Saturday, and their star performer was Mats Hummels. The Germany international defender stopped everything that the hosts threw at him and was always at the right place at the right time to frustrate the Bayern attackers.
Cristiano Ronaldo - Portugal & Real Madrid
Cristiano Ronaldo turned on the style for Portugal in the second leg of their Euro 2012 play-off tie against Bosnia & Herzegovina last week, scoring twice in their 6-2 win at home to lead his nation to the finals in Poland and Ukraine next summer. Then on Saturday the 26-year-old was crucial in Real Madrid's 3-2 away win against Valencia, netting what proved to be the decisive goal.
Robin van Persie - Arsenal
Robin van Persie continued his great goalscoring form for Arsenal as the Gunners captain netted a brace in their 2-1 victory over Norwich City at Carrow Road in the Premier League.
Leave your notes of congratulations for Roda Antar below, or discuss who else deserves a place in the spotlight this week...


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May the schwartz be with you: Sheen Wars: Darth Sheen is Winning
March 1, 2011 July 25, 2020 Soeren KamperMay the schwartz be with you
Youtube User DarthBaleDotCom has busted out a mashup of Charlie Sheen's now-historic rants (with a little vocorder added) with Darth Vader's historic entrance in the Star Wars saga.
I was expecting to hate this. But it's a wonderfully refreshing way to relive all those classic Sheen soundbites from so long, long ago.
See our bi-winning superstar playing as the Darth Vader. Darth Sheen has tiger's blood and Adonis DNA.
Darth Sheen argues with his henchmen and orders stormtroopers about saying: "We are high priest Vatican assassin warlocks!""
He also has a confrontation with Princess Leia which finishes with Darth Sheen blasting: "I'm done, it's on, bring it!""
Darth Sheen also has an argument with one of the commanders of the Death Star.
In the Two-and-a-Half Men star's unmistakable voice the masked figure shouts: "I'm so tired of pretending my life isn't b****ing and perfect and winning.
"I'm just going to hang around with these smoking hotties and fly privately around the world.
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Nigeria's economy is in crisis. The naira has fallen over 50% in the last year alone. Oil revenues, the mainstay of Nigeria's foreign earnings are at their lowest in the last two decades. An economy in crisis requires urgent measures and in the light of this, the government needs to address the situation with the urgency required.
The ongoing economic crisis in Nigeria has literally crippled all activities and revenue base of several government agencies and parastatals, including the NYSC Scheme. Over the years, the NYSC has depended solely on government funding and generates little or no revenue for its own sustenance nor for government.
Therefore, considering the economic situation of the country, it has become highly imperative for the NYSC to explore alternative ways of generating revenue and reducing the financial burden on the Federal government.
Agriculture still remains a veritable source of income for most people, but it is appalling to know that it is still largely untapped in Nigeria. NYSC can make use of its teeming youth population scattered across the various states of the Nation to bring awareness back to Agriculture.
Since Agriculture is not something that can go into extinction in Nigeria, all states should have their own plantations according to the food and crops that can be cultivated in each state. It should be noted that Agriculture here is all encompassing (livestock, fishing, farming, forestry, food processing etc) and on a fairly large scale.
Manpower should not pose a problem as corps members are always at NYSC's disposal. These plantations may be CDS units, and corps members (as well as others) who are specialized in Agriculture (and other synonymous fields) can be engaged for better results. Funding for this could be sourced from Bank of Industry, Agricultural Development Banks and other institutions that support Agriculture.
This way, food can be made available to communities at cheaper rates and other raw materials can be produced, processed and marketed on a large scale. The advantage of this is two pronged, on one hand, proceeds are marketed and sold and the revenue goes into NYSC account, on the other hand it will help drive the attention of the youths towards agriculture, instead of pursuing white collar jobs.
In other to generate revenue, NYSC can engage in rapid investments across various sectors of the economy. It should venture into small scale enterprises across all the states of the federations. These ventures may include restaurants and bakeries where food, bread and pastries can be made and sold on a large scale. Supermarkets where groceries, provisions and other utilities can be sold.
NYSC can also go into hospitality and tourism business, like having its own hotels and also transportation. Buses can be procured to ply both intra and inter-state routes.
These ventures, if properly managed, will create turnover and profits can go into NYSC account thereby boosting its revenue base.
The NYSC should call for more private sector involvement and funding for all its programmes. NYSC is a veritable avenue to reaching out to thousands of young people in the country, hence a fertile ground for youth friendly firms to partner with NYSC. The involvement of the Private sector brings funds into the NYSC and this way, it relieves the scheme of some of its financial burdens as they will be taken care of by the respective organizations coming on board to partner with it.
The NYSC should engage in regular fund raising events that can help its revenue base. For instance, once a year, NYSC should hold a public lecture and fund raising event where the crème de la crème in the Nigerian society would be invited to speak and also support the NYSC scheme financially. Also, the scheme should embrace several philanthropists and organizations both within the country and outside (e.g UNICEF, UNESCO, IMF and other foundations) to raise funds, access grants and other benefits.
More innovative ideas should be introduced to the scheme which can help generate revenue, attract sponsors and yield returns. The whole process from registration, mobilization and orientation should be made more dynamic and easy for funds to be made. Also, the SAED programmes should be redesigned, with proper promotion and product packaging. Exhibitions should be organized at state levels and products sold en masse.
With the economic situation of the country, the NYSC is in grave danger of being scrapped as a result of the huge funding it receives from government, its sole financier, which is facing a hard time presently.
The suggestions given above, if properly harmonized and planned, can help the NYSC remain afloat and relevant in the country.


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Black 1933 Ford Sedan – Group Effort
Written by Eric Geisert on May 1, 2013
Scott VanSteenwyk's '33 Ford sedan
Most car projects take longer than you expect and nearly always cost more in the end, too. Even using the old adage "multiply what you think it will cost or take in time by three" can get you somewhat of a reasonable working schedule and budget together, but not always.
Scott and Cheryl VanSteenwyk live in Rossmoor, California (just southeast of Los Angeles), and have been working on their black 1933 Ford sedan for almost 15 years. It's been a long process for them because, as it often does, life gets in the way. Raising children and surviving what life throws at you takes precedent over the cars in the garage but, when the time is right, it's great when you can finally get a project done.
Now 51, Scott remembers being about 10 years old when he started doing some of the repairs on the family cars. His family had moved from the Midwest to California in 1965, and by the time he was in fifth or sixth grade, one of his dad's friends had started working on a '33 Ford three-window, which got him hooked on the Ford's Model 40 body style.
When looking through Hemmings Motor News one day, he spotted a '34 sedan outside of Tucson, Arizona, and went to check it out. Though the firewall was cut up pretty badly (someone had used an arc welder to fill the holes) and there was an 1/8-inch plate welded to the backside of the dash, it wasn't too far gone. It was on a rolling chassis, but without a motor, trans, or steering. Undeterred, Scott brought it home.
To get the project rolling, Scott contacted Geoff Mitford-Taylor of GMT Metalworks in Huntington Beach. Mitford-Taylor had previously spent a few years working at Dan Fink Metalworks, and was well known in the SoCal region as an accomplished metalman himself.
Mitford-Taylor, along with coworkers Steve Morrow and Brett Mabray, got the ball rolling and, by 2005, got the car into a raw metal but driveable state. To get all the kinks worked out before paint and final construction, Scott drove his '33 around for three years while he thought about what he liked and what he didn't.
Unfortunately during that time, GMT decided to shut its doors and move to New Zealand (opening up GMT Hot Rod Parts in Napier on the coast of North Island). But luckily for Scott that's when Aaron Broughton came into the picture. Scott had met Broughton when he was working for Mitford-Taylor during the time when Scott was out tooling around in his raw car. Broughton hadn't worked on the '33, but he was familiar with it and, after GMT closed, Broughton opened his own shop, Foothill Fabrication in Corona, California. Scott was comfortable with having Broughton and his team (Scott Howard, Matt Bryant, and Rex Williams), as well as Ryan Reed, oversee the final construction, paint, and assembly on the car, and soon that work began.
The '33 sits on a FoMoCo frame that GMT step-boxed, bobbed in the front and rear, narrowed and raised the rear, and added double X-members. Out back a Currie 9-inch (equipped with Mark Williams axles) with fully adjustable stainless steel four-link and Bilstein coilover shocks went in, and Foothill Fabrication simplified the look of it by shaving the logo off the aluminum rearend housing. Up front a stainless steel independent suspension from Rods by Reid (Tauranga, New Zealand) was then installed along with a Dodge Omni power rack-and-pinion. GMT also made the 25-gallon gas tank, and each corner received Wilwood disc brakes (11-inch with Line-Loc in the front, 13-inchers out back) and 15-inch Real Wheels (5.5-inch fore, 10-inch aft) shod in Hoosier rubber (25×7.5 and 29×12.5).
GMT also performed most of the metal fabrication done on Scott's ride, which includes the 2-inch chop and filling the roof (thinning it out over the windshield area). The center door hinges were removed, and both the rear fenders and apron were shortened. GMT also added tubs for the wider wheels, and added a section of metal to the front fenders so they may be bolted together forward of the peak in the Dan Fink stainless steel grille insert. The dash, modified with the lower section from a '32 Ford, was moved back a 1/2 inch, and a power gas lid door was grafted into the rear corner of the body.
Scott gave Mick Jenkins the call to cover the ride with PPG black paint, and Jenkins (with help from Paco Castel) obliged, coating the original Henry steel body and fenders with the inky hue. Foothill also fabbed a graceful-looking nerf bar to guard the grille from possible damage, and created a curved spreader bar for the rear that gently follows the shape of the apron.
One of the challenges in the build was stuffing a big-block Chevy into the limited space of a '33 Ford, but it worked out fine. A '99 502 long-block came from Chevrolet Performance, to which the owner added COMP Cams roller rockers, an Edelbrock reverse-rotation water pump, and an 850 Holley carb to the GM manifold. A spun aluminum air cleaner (and K&N filter) tops the carb while Mooneyes finned aluminum valve covers help keep the oil inside the motor.
Ignition is supplied by an MSD 6AL system coupled with Taylor wires and a Pro Billet distributor. Cooling is handled by a Mattson brass triple-flow radiator, a 3,000-cfm SPAL electric fan, and a pair of custom elliptical-shape recovery tanks fabbed by GMT. Scott then turned to Rod Sexton for one his custom stainless steel exhaust systems, which included the 1-7/8-inch headers, 2.5-inch exhaust tubing, and the 4×30-inch mufflers. Foothill Fabrication also smoothed out the block and heads before figuring out what the color combination for the engine would be.
Mike Hoy, from Torrance Transmission, assembled the 4L80E trans with a Compushift unit from HGM Electronics, a Pro Torque 2,400-rpm stall converter, a heavy-duty second sprag, and a billet forward hub. Shifting will be accomplished with a B&M shifter topped with a Lokar handle.
Foothill also cut and reshaped the Glide Engineering bucket seats so they would fit the owner before the interior of the Tudor was covered in tan leather by Raymond Miller, who also created rear seating of his own design. Controls for the Vintage Air system as well as the Alpine head unit are located in an underdash console, and the Alpine and Crossfire amplifiers and CDT Audio speakers are hidden speakers throughout. A set of Stewart-Warner Wing gauges occupy a SO-CAL engine-turned insert, with wiring linking everything together from Eclipse Engineering's Steve Sbelgio.
Once everything was done, almost 13 years to the day he bought it, Scott was able to take his finished hot rod down the road, but it took the fabrication skills of GMT, the design and fit 'n' finish quality from Foothill Fabrication, plus a handful of other artisans to complete the project.
Scott's 13-year-old son, Zachary, might also be catching the hot rod bug and maybe he and his dad might work on a Hemi-equipped Model A—something Zach can drive to high school once he gets his license! But for now Scott is happy with his '33, and has taken it to a few Goodguys shows in California (where he happened to win Builder's Choice and Top 5 awards along the way). But he's mostly interested in just driving the wheels off of it, commenting "That's what they're for, right?" And you just can't argue with that kind of logic!
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From the depths of despair after the Southampton loss, to the highs of a Monday night win at Crystal Palace.
Football is a funny old game.
With the three points at Selhurst Park comes a fresh wave of renewed optimism that the Black Cats can survive this season.
It was far from pretty but it was effective.
And that is what Allardyce was brought in to do. With him at the helm, Sunderland have every chance of survival.
Sunderland lined up in a 3-5-2 formation, not seen since the 6-2 hammering at Everton.
But what was pleasing for the sold-out away end to witness, was that Sunderland seem to have learned from their mistakes.
At Goodison, Sunderland were gung-ho. At Palace they were more measured.
They didn't just sit back and let Palace dictate play, but they did hit them on the counter-attack after soaking up an awful lot of second-half pressure.
Before the game Palace boss Alan Pardew praised Allardyce, admitting he finds it hard to play against his sides.
Was it mind games? If so, there was only one winner. And it was Big Sam.
When the team sheets arrived it seemed Sunderland would be lining up in a 3-5-2 formation.
But Allardyce threw in a red herring during his pre-match media commitments, revealing it was to be a 4-4-2 with John O'Shea at left-back.
It was all mind games. Come kick-off, Sunderland were 3-5-2.
Allardyce had got one over Pardew.
Victory over Palace was a landmark for Allardyce, his 150th win in the top flight.
And he got his tactics spot on in the televised win.
With his shot spell in charge disrupted by two international breaks, it is perhaps understandable that Allardyce doesn't yet know his best team. Or formation.
Or at least didn't, until Monday night.
Five changes were made and the players that came in all made an important contribution.
The side looked balanced, defended in numbers and broke with purpose late in the second half.
Allardyce had spoken recently of the fitness levels of the Sunderland squad not being at the required level.
Well, on the evidence of the Palace display, it looks like the coaching staff have spent the past two weeks working the players hard.
Sunderland looked fitter than they have done all season, match-winner Jermain Defoe alluded to it post-match.
And it paid dividends with the winner coming in the 80th minute.
Sunderland lack the quality of other Premier League sides in some areas, so they need to continue to make sure they work harder than the opposition.
It was an important night for Defoe and Steven Fletcher as a heavy defeat against Palace would probably have ensured they didn't play together again.
But Sunderland got it right at both ends of the pitch. For once. It was their most rounded performance of the season.
3-5-2 can work if the right players are available. Against Everton Allardyce pitched Wes Brown and Billy Jones alongside Sebastian Coates.
They were torn to pieces. John O'Shea, Coates and Younes Kaboul formed a much more resilient back line.
If those three are fit, the system can clearly work.
6) Duncan Watmore best used as a super-sub?
The 21-year-old has been the subject of a lot of column inches in recent weeks.
Watmore made his full debut against Southampton, inspired England Under-21s to victory in a stunning cameo and has signed a new four-year deal.
He came off the bench at Palace, alongside Jeremain Lens, and helped Sunderland to only their second win of the season.
Watmore struggled when starting against the Saints though and perhaps Monday night showed, for now, he is best served coming on as an impact sub?
When sides are tiring, unleash Watmore on their defence.
He is raw, but direct. And he scares defenders with his pace and clever runs.


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Continuing Resolutions Impose Considerable Cost on Military
Frederico Bartels / @FredericoBF / February 07, 2018
The House-passed continuing resolution would fund the Department of Defense at a level in line with the National Defense Authorization Act. (Photo: iStock Photos)
Frederico Bartels / @FredericoBF
Frederico Bartels is a policy analyst for defense budgeting at The Heritage Foundation's Davis Institute for National Security and Foreign Policy.
The continuing resolution recently passed by the House of Representatives includes a full fiscal year of appropriations for the Department of Defense.
That's good news for anyone that cares about our nation's defense.
Assuming the Senate passes the bill, it will be the fifth continuing resolution for fiscal year 2018, which began on Oct. 1.
Continuing resolutions are a funding mechanism designed to fill the gap between the time yearly appropriations end and when Congress is able to craft a new budget for the fiscal year.
Continuing resolutions impose a considerable cost on the military's readiness levels through loss of training time, delayed maintenance, and delayed availability of new ships.
If lawmakers want to avoid those negative impacts, they need to make special provisions in the legislation called "anomalies," which provide exceptions to ongoing funding rules that allow the military to start up new programs or modify existing ones.
Unfortunately, in the previous four continuing resolutions, lawmakers included almost no defense anomalies, which compounded the problems already created by the use of continuing resolutions. Lawmakers did very little to relieve the military from these problems.
This is why this fifth continuing resolution, as proposed, would be a substantial departure from this year's norm.
The language contained in the House-passed continuing resolution would fund the Department of Defense at a level commensurate with the plans laid out by Congress in the National Defense Authorization Act—a little above $659 billion for fiscal year 2018, which includes war funding.
This would be a considerable increase over President Donald Trump's budget request and would be aligned with the well-considered plans first outlined by Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, in his proposal to rebuild the nation's defenses.
>>> Trump Has Vowed to Rebuild the Military. More Short-Term Spending Bills Won't Achieve That.
Since the 2018 budget discussions started, there has been broad bipartisan agreement on the need to increase the defense budget as well as to increase end strength and investments in modernization. The National Defense Authorization Act, which includes those aspects, passed both the House and the Senate with strong bipartisan support.
The disagreement came when lawmakers attempted to address domestic spending priorities. This has led Rep. Mac Thornberry, R-Texas, chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, to state that the military is being held hostage to unrelated political issues.
Now, in its fifth continuing resolution, Congress has wisely separated defense spending from the broader discussion, demonstrating its willingness to stop holding our military and our defense hostage to political whims.
We as a nation can continue to debate important domestic issues that shape our society without the threat of a government shutdown hanging over our collective heads. Congress can act on the elements it already agrees on while leaving more contentious issues to a day when the debate won't cost our military its readiness.
The Senate should embrace the House-passed continuing resolution, which demonstrates the substantial bipartisan consensus that exists around the defense budget and the need to rebuild our military. Doing so would be a positive step forward that would show our commitment to rebuilding our military.


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Business faculty can choose to work at only one business school in York. The trends in York's business academic community can be evaluated by looking at the statistics and graphs below, which includes business training at the business bachelors degree level.
Exactly 720 of Nebraska's 24,680 business professionals work in York. Between 2006 and 2010, the number of business professionals in York has shrunk by 6%. As the number of business professionals in York has decreased, overall employment in York has increased.
Salaries for business professionals in York have increased. York business professionals made $90,130 per year, on average, in 2010. The average salary for business professionals in York was $62,021 per year, four years earlier in 2006. This growth is faster than the salary trend for all careers in York.
York business professionals earn a median yearly salary of $78,826. The difference in pay between the business professionals in the lowest pay bracket and those in the highest pay bracket is approximately 171%. Those in the lowest 10% of the pay bracket earn less than $42,868 per year, while those in the highest 10% of the pay bracket earn more than $116,352 per year.
On average business professional salaries in York are higher than salaries earned by their professional counterparts in related professions.
There is only one accredited business school in the city. Many of York's business professionals are graduates of this school.
York's business schools offer 3 business degree and certificate programs.
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Insurance companies see rental properties differently than owner-occupied properties. Even if you currently live on site, rent out only a portion of your home, or only rent when traveling, it's crucial to have home insurance for your rental property.
Depending on how often you rent out your property, your homeowner's insurance may consider this activity a small business. It's important to understand your policy, because the company may not cover any small business activity associated with your home. In this case, you'll need to add an endorsement to the policy or take out a business insurance policy.
Finding affordable full-coverage insurance for a rental property is essential to the stability of your financial future as a landlord, even if you only rent your home for short periods of time.
If you rent a home, apartment or condo even occasionally, consider the value of the appliances, fixtures and furniture. Insurance for a landlord's property may cover everything from window treatments to the washing machine. If a tenant spills red wine on your living room carpet, you may need to have the stain professionally treated or replace the floor covering. If they break the television, you'll want to replace it as soon as possible.
These are common problems that people who rent out their property experience. Shouldering the financial burden of these not-so-pleasant surprises can eat into your profit or even make renting your property an expensive endeavor.
When you explore options for insuring your home as a rental property, be sure to find out if the coverage includes insurance for the replacement value of your property or the depreciated value. The difference could determine whether you can afford to fix or replace the damaged item.
Even a small fire can cause thousands of dollars in smoke damage, so as a landlord, you want to know that if there's an accident or disaster, you'll be able to repair the affected structure as soon as possible without worrying about your finances.
If your tenant's personal property is damaged while they are renting from you, there may be confusion about who bears the responsibility for replacing or repairing those things. Some landlords require their renters to provide proof of renter's insurance. You may want to discuss how insurance companies handle this scenario with your broker.
Whether you require your renters to carry insurance on their personal property or not, it's important to clearly state your expectations regarding who will pay for the replacement of their things in the event of an accident or natural disaster.
If you depend on income from rental property, consider how you'd handle not having access to income from tenants if a covered event renders the home uninhabitable. Even a short period of time without rent can cause a great deal of financial strain.
Rental income insurance can help ease the burden by reimbursing you for lost rent while your property is undergoing necessary repairs related to a covered event.
Working with a full-service insurance brokerage company gives you access to many insurance companies. We'll gather your information, speak with you about the coverage you prefer, and shop for the best possible policy on your behalf. You'll have one point of contact, but still have all the advantages of choosing from the best insurance companies.
BST Insurance brokers have the experience and expertise you expect when shopping for rental property insurance. We'll put together a package tailored to your individual needs with coverage levels that put you at ease.
If you have a rental property insurance policy in force, make sure to have this information ready when you speak with a broker so that you can compare quotes with your current policy.
When you rent out a property with the goal of making money, you want an insurance brokerage that is on your side. Insuring your property, building and personal possessions against accidents, theft and natural disasters shouldn't be complicated or confusing.
Since BST insurance doesn't represent a specific insurance company, we are free to recommend the policy with the best mix of optimal coverage and lowest cost.
Our brokers are committed to exceeding our client's expectations by putting their interest first. If you'd like to find out more about the types of rental property insurance we offer and how a customized policy can help you rent your property with the least amount of risk, contact us today for a quote!


when ordering that part, Steve. Does it come with wires on it already?
So Im sure one of you guys will know. I want a indicator lever that self returns and a wiper lever that doesn't go on every time I turn the steering wheel! Lets say from rogertii, which ones will fit my European Right hand drive 1973 tii. All replies respected!
This is such a simple solution. I put mine on the '75 last week and have a couple tips.
I used a Dremel to open up the rearmost mounting hole of the bracket and was able to push the new fixture up tight and making good contact all around. No need to epoxy. You don't have to remove much material and could likely do it with just a round file.
Secondly, the new fixture has two black wires. The US bulb has a big filament for blinker (brighter) and a small filament for running lights (dimmer). Wouldn't you know... I attached both of mine backwards and had to re-do it. (you couldn't see the blinker when the driving lights were on) I'd suggest twisting the wires together to test the circuit before crimping them.
Great tip for Euro lights... takes no time at all and cheap!
^ glad it helped Ed!
I did this exact mod in 2009. Works fine to this day!
Does it matter which wire you attach to which lead?
Yep. Of the 2 elements in the bulb, the brighter one is for turns.
I'm finally getting around to putting my flat euro signals in. I ordered the dual-filament adapter. Any idea which of the 2 wires ( grey vs duo-colored in my '74) is for which lead? Do I just trial and error it? is there any risk of harm if I get it backwards? Thanks for any help!


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Trekking Around The World With Ira
Wish you were here! Ira gives us a little taste of local science as he travels the world.
by Ira Flatow, Alexa Lim, Lauren J. Young, on February 4, 2019
For three weeks, Ira is temporarily leaving the host chair and traveling to Southeast Asia. Never fear, he's still on the lookout for local science—from critters in caves to diverse ecosystems—and sending us audio postcards along the way.
Hạ Long Bay, Vietnam
Ira gives us an update from Hạ Long Bay in the northern part of Vietnam. The area is known for the giant limestone karsts that dot the turquoise water, but it's also rich in biodiversity with 507 species of plants, 19 varieties of mangroves and 71 bird species.
In downtown Ho Chi Minh City, also known by its former name Saigon, Ira came across a tribute to famous scientists at the Central Post Office. The names of Luigi Galvani, Ben Franklin, Michael Faraday, and others circle around the French colonial designed building.
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Apsara Authority was counting on tourists and tour providers to be aware of park rules and respect religious and cultural customs, Kosal added.
The Angkor park includes the remains of various capitals of the Khmer Empire dating from the 9th to 15th centuries, according to UNESCO.
The park is the home of the renowned Angkor Wat as well as the multi-faced Bayon Temple and hundreds of other religious monuments.
Nuon Mony, Siem Reap provincial environment department director, told the Khmer Times that the new ban would help keep the park pristine.
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Q: Getopt and Optarg Hi I am working on a Program in a book. The Program is working almost as it is supposed to, except for one mistake. Every time I try to use the "-l" case I get a Segmentation Fault. Any Ideas?
#include <stdio.h>
#include <unistd.h>

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
    char *lieferung = "";
    int knusprig = 0;
    int zahl = 0;
    char ch;

while ((ch = getopt(argc, argv, "l : k")) != EOF){
    switch (ch) {
        case 'l':
            lieferung = optarg;
            break;
        case 'k':
            knusprig = 1;
            break;
        default:
            fprintf(stderr, "Unbekannte Option: '%s'\n", optarg);
            return 1;
    }
}
argc -= optind;
argv += optind;

if (knusprig)
    puts("Knuspriger Rand.");
if (lieferung[0])
    printf("Zu liefern: %s.\n", lieferung);

puts("Zutaten:");
for (zahl = 0; zahl < argc; zahl++)
    puts(argv[zahl]);
return 0;
}

Thanks in advance.

A: The third argument get getopt shouldn't contain any spaces.  Because there are spaces, it reads this argument as "-l takes no argument, -(space) takes an argument, -(space) takes no argument, and -k takes no argument.
Since getopt doesn't expect -l to pass an argument, optarg is set to NULL, which you then subsequently assign to lieferung.  You then dereference that variable, resulting in the segfault.
Git rid of the spaces in the format string:
while ((ch = getopt(argc, argv, "l:k")) != EOF){

A: I think the format is incorrect. Replace "l : k" with "l:k".

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Home » BYOD » EXCLUSIVE: Protecting the cyber environment
EXCLUSIVE: Protecting the cyber environment
by Nick Ismail 22 January 2018
The threat of cyber attacks continues to grow, even to the point where it has been reported that nuclear arsenals are vulnerable. Critical national infrastructure needs more investment from a cyber-security perspective.
The warning signs have been there for a long time. Ever since the Ukrainian power grid attack, cyber defences must be improved.
Chairman of Glasswall's UK Advisory, General John Holly, discussed the threats posed by attacks in the all-encompassing cyber environment with Information Age. He is a recognised expert in the research, development and acquisition of complex Department of Defence systems.
How are nuclear arsenals vulnerable to cyber attacks?
There is not a very clear answer to this, because governments are not going to be traditionally forthcoming on that, because of the sensitivity of the subject.
What you have is reasonably forward looking people in positions of responsibility within the government domain, and they're continuing to take all of the responsible actions that one would expect them to take.
>See also: Need to 'improve' the cyber security in industrial control systems
I think they're having to, like everybody else, to adapt to a new environment that we're facing in the cyber world. I would argue that it's no longer the cyber world. Cyber is an integral piece of the business and operations of any activity, whether it's government that is focused on nuclear weapons or whether it is a business activity in the medical industry. If you continue to treat cyber as a standalone function or technical issue, then you're creating your own inherent vulnerabilities. Cyber now is part of the business and operations, it's all one thing.
In terms of motives, why would hackers target a nuclear arsenal?
The motive would be one of two different vectors. One to prove that they can do it, because that is probably the single most challenging arena that hackers could attempt to attack. And second, you've got state actors as well non-state actors that would like to gain access for their own malicious use, via the information they could attempt to gain there.
The cyber environment is a conflict environment on a day-to-day basis, whether you're in business or in government. The enemy's motivation and goals are to penetrate systems, and they're changing their approach every single day, every minute. There were 22 million different malware samples in the first quarter of 2017, so the growth of attack methods is dramatic, and cyber criminals are developing at a breakneck speed, new approaches every single day. So we have to be protecting our information, and our data in way that is routine, adaptive and continuously addressing the changing threat.
Chairman of Glasswall's UK Advisory, General John Holly
Who are the main culprits associated with state-sponsored hacking?
ISIS and Isil were using cyber attacks as a way of sponsoring some of their terror activities. It is an open book in terms of who can do, because everyone is operating in that environment today. To think that you can say only these three countries are the ones you should be worried about, or this particular type of criminal activity is the one that you need to address – I think that is inadequate in every measure, because you've got virtually a large number of people that are motivated to try and penetrate the civil sector, hold people and institutions to ransom.
>See also: 10 ways cyber security will evolve in the face of growing threats
Hackers are just taking advantage of the environment, and the inability of people to be operating in an adaptive environment is the root of the problem. Most people are not proactive in their approach to dealing with the cyber threat, and that's where we need to get to. We need to be ahead of the timeline that the cyber criminals are pursuing.
Our decision logic on what needs to be done to protect an organisation's data has to be ahead of where the criminals are operating, otherwise we're going to be just catching up every single step of the way and we're going to be reactive in nature. The techniques that are employed need to be non-traditional in many respects – the traditional serves a function, but they're inadequate in the aggregate – and innovative. They will be the ones that lead the way in the next decade, in how businesses create the proper environment in which to operate, as opposed to being in a reactive, defensive, technical cyber response.
What types of attacks can be expected?
I think the types of attacks are changing, and I think it's the approach to defence that we have to be very intune with. We're no longer in a static environment when it comes to business and operations inside government. We're in a very dynamic environment.
One of the highest threats that remains is an individual clicking on an email. Around 90% – according to one of the Verizon latest studies I read – of malware attacks started with an employee clicking on an email. Of those 90%, 65% said that was the result of opening an attachment. If we continue to use very traditional approaches to set up defences against malware and people with malicious practices, then we're going to end up in a situation where you're not going to be able to come up with an effective defence.
What businesses and governments have to do is get into more innovative and non-traditional, dynamic kinds of responses. Businesses in particular – at the board level – have to change their thought process. Many people today look at cyber and assume that it's another functional area, and I don't think that's the case. What we're facing right now is a situation where the cyber environment is the business environment. And this is the environment in which governments are operating. You have to turn the old approaches on there head, and look at it through a different lense. As you move into the Internet of Things there are more windows of vulnerability that are created. My fundamental premise is; cyber is no longer a technical issue, it is a environment in which business and operations exist and reside, and we have to adapt our thinking to create systems that are resilient inside that environment.
>See also: The importance of creating a cyber security culture
Public and private organisations have to have a full spectrum response, rather than looking at individual vulnerabilities. They've got to change the way they think about cyber and think of it as the environment in which they operate.
How can business and government keep up with the ever-changing cyber threat?
I think the new technical developments from a machine learning and artificial intelligence standpoint will be a huge asset. As they continue to evolve going forward, it will enable businesses to look at much of the information that is gained from a defensive posture, to help predict attack trends and vectors.
We are never in a satisfactory state, we are always having to adapt and respond going forward. If you think you have everything in place then you have an instant vulnerability, because people are trying to find new ways everyday and are being very successful in penetrating systems. Organisations have to recognise that it is a dynamic environment, not a static one. You can't put in place point solutions today, and expect them to be effective in the next decade, and not to be continuously adapted and changed with new solutions brought in to compliment them. That's one of the areas that corporate governance needs to focus very specifically.
Moving forward what are your closing thoughts on the cyber environment and the threats that exist there?
Governments need to look at critical national infrastructure, and critical national economic infrastructure. What happens if a major corporation is penetrated by a cyber attack, and what happens is very dramatic in terms of the financial cost in containing that particular penetration. There are costs regarding jobs and loss of intellectual property, and these different aspects from a commercial and industry-perspective feed into the critical national economic infrastructure.
>See also: Cyber risks are 'leaving IT in the dark'
Governments and businesses, therefore, need to be looking at more than just the power grid – as an example. We need to look at the power grid, in addition to threats posed by malware to the economics of a country. The economics of a country are part and parcel to the overall power and strength of that nation at an international level. Cyber can no longer be treated as a technical issue, it is the environment in which we are operating all of our business and government activities.
Then there is the issue of time. The longer it takes to identify a threat, the more difficulty you are going to incur, because that means the threats are active inside a system and given free reign. The identification of the new threats is extremely important, along with the corrective action taken against those threats.
Finally, the Internet of Things is going to open significant windows of vulnerability moving forward. However, taking advantage of machine learning – in particular – and as you look at some of the newer technologies, like quantum computing, organisations will see more opportunities to apply these to the cyber environment and defend it. We are gaining and creating tools everyday that are taking advantages of breakthroughs in technologies to combat the threat.
Tagged: Cyber Attack, Cyber Criminals, Cyber Threat, Machine Learning, State-Sponsored Hacking
Nick Ismail
Nick Ismail is the editor for Information Age. He has a particular interest in smart technologies, AI and cyber security. More by Nick Ismail
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St. John's has for many years thought of itself as a center of religious renewal. This means that it is itself a worshipping community, coming together twenty-six times a week for prayer made up almost exclusively of scripture, especially the pslams. Because the liturgy is so much a part of our lives we have been involved in the liturgical movement since about the early twenties. Along with the strictly prayer dimension of worship we have been concerned with the artistic and architectural dimension of liturgical prayer.
The whole sacramental system is modeled after the mystery of the Incarnation, that is, the invisible Son of God took visible, palpable flesh in Jesus Christ showing us the way to the invisible God. Therefore, through the visible to the invisible. This sacramental principle, which is at the foundation of liturgical prayer, teaches that it is through the forms of beauty, in stone, cloth, wood, and sound (music and poetry) that we are able to relate to the God, absolute beauty. The beauty and grandeur of God leave their traces, footsteps, in the forms which we create. We are convinced of the vital importance of beauty of form. With Frank Lloyd Wright we believe that first we form buildings and then the buildings form us. That is true also of other art forms. But if we are convinced of the sacramental principle we will see vestiges of God's beauty also in secular art. The church and the sanctuary are not prisons for God.
When I was in Zimbabwe for the meeting of the World Council of Churches in December 1998 I met a young twenty-seven year old sculptor by the name of Andrew Mabanji, and also a co-worker Lloyd Chkede. I saw immediately that they were not making what I call "airport art" for the tourist trade, but were using authentic African forms to create in stone works of the highest merit. Andrew was born in 1974 in Kadoma, Zimbabwe, and he completed his education in 1991. He began working in leather in 1992. But he was inspired by a group of African artists calling themselves the Gota Rochisuma Affiliates who work out of an educational center called Silveira House on the outskirts of Harare, Zimbabwe. Now working mostly in stone he, and his affiliates, such as Lloyd Chkede, have a variety of finished stone works. They also make batiks.
Andrew Mabanji explains the context of the groups' work. "We use as our theme the explosion of negative silence, the voice of the voiceless. As members of the Shona tribe we want to release from the stone the hidden strengths of indigenous Shona culture." The Gota group prefers to work in hard stones as steatite, spring stone, serpentine, verdite, and granite so there will be a living witness to the culture of their Shona community. From the context of that African culture they want to produce religious and non-religious art. The Gota group is not a factory. It does not turn out copies, but wants to create original pieces of art. It is eager to get commissions to create authentic African art on themes which are common to our humanity and to our Christian heritage. It is working on creches, crucifixes, statues of persons (e.g. the prophet Jeremiah). The Gota group would be glad to accept commissions on saints or national heroes.
If a client wishes to have a copy of a statue on the same theme of one of Andrew Mabanji's other works of art he or she has seen, he can do that. He only needs to respect the demands of the piece of stone he will be working with. So it would not be an exact copy. Mr. Mabanji and the other artists are also very much interested in turning out original pieces of art on themes suggested by the client.
The telephone number is: 011 263 491066 or 491067.
On the next page is a display of some work I bought from Andrew Mabanji and Lloyd Chkede of the Gota group. By American standards the prices are very reasonable. Photos by Hugh Witzmann, OSB.


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#include <kernel/task.h>
#include <kernel/page.h>
#include <asm/context.h>
#include <lib/firstfit.h>
#include <error.h>

struct task init;
struct task *current = &init;

int alloc_mm(struct task *new, size_t size, unsigned int flags, void *ref)
{
	if ((new->mm.base = kmalloc(size)) == NULL)
		return -ENOMEM;

	if ((new->mm.heap = kmalloc(HEAP_SIZE_DEFAULT)) == NULL) {
		kfree(new->mm.base);
		return -ENOMEM;
	}

	/* full descending stack */
	new->mm.sp = new->mm.base + (size / WORD_SIZE);
	new->mm.sp = (typeof(new->mm.sp))
		BASE_ALIGN((unsigned int)new->mm.sp, STACK_ALIGNMENT);
	new->mm.base[0] = STACK_SENTINEL;

	/* initialize heap for malloc() */
	heap_init(&new->mm.heaphead, new->mm.heap,
			&new->mm.heap[HEAP_SIZE_DEFAULT / WORD_SIZE]);

	if (flags & STACK_SHARED) {
		new->mm.kernel.sp = ((struct task *)ref)->mm.kernel.sp;
		new->mm.kernel.base = ((struct task *)ref)->mm.kernel.base;
	} else {
		if ((new->mm.kernel.sp = kmalloc(size))) {
			new->mm.kernel.base = new->mm.kernel.sp;
			new->mm.kernel.base[0] = STACK_SENTINEL;
			new->mm.kernel.sp = &new->mm.kernel.base[size /
				WORD_SIZE];
			new->mm.kernel.sp = (typeof(new->mm.kernel.sp))
				BASE_ALIGN((unsigned int)new->mm.kernel.sp,
						STACK_ALIGNMENT);
		}
	}

	if (new->mm.kernel.sp == NULL) {
		kfree(new->mm.base);
		kfree(new->mm.heap);

		return -ENOMEM;
	}

	return 0;
}

void set_task_dressed(struct task *task, unsigned int flags, void *addr)
{
	set_task_flags(task, flags);
	set_task_state(task, TASK_STOPPED);
	set_task_pri(task, DEFAULT_PRIORITY);
	task->addr = addr;
	INIT_IRQFLAG(task->irqflag);

	task->parent = current;
	links_init(&task->children);
	/* FIXME: lock before adding to parent children list */
	links_add(&task->sibling, &current->children);
	links_init(&task->rq);

	INIT_SCHED_ENTITY(task->se);
	task->se.vruntime = current->se.vruntime;

	lock_init(&task->lock);

	link_init(&task->timer_head);
}

struct task *make(unsigned int flags, size_t size, void *addr, void *ref)
{
	struct task *new;
	void *entry = wrapper;

	if (flags & TF_ATOMIC) {
		entry = addr;
		flags &= ~TF_ATOMIC;
	}

	if ((new = kmalloc(sizeof(struct task)))) {
		if (alloc_mm(new, size, flags, ref)) {
			kfree(new);
			new = NULL;
		} else {
			set_task_dressed(new, flags, addr);
			set_task_context(new, entry); /* get dressed first */
			new->name = NULL;
		}
	}

	return new;
}

#include <kernel/interrupt.h>
#include <kernel/lock.h>

static volatile void *zombie;

/* NOTE: A task can kill only itself. Otherwise a task would be destroyed while
 * being in a waitqueue or somewhere else. Others only can send a signal to
 * request to be killed by itself voluntarily. */
void sys_kill_core(struct task *target, struct task *killer)
{
	unsigned int irqflag;

	if (target == &init)
		return;

	if (killer->mm.base[0] != STACK_SENTINEL)
		error("stack overflow %x(%x)" , killer, killer->addr);

	irq_save(irqflag);
	local_irq_disable();

	lock_atomic(&target->lock);
	assert(is_locked(target->lock));

	set_task_state(target, TASK_ZOMBIE);
	/* safe to unlink again even if it's already removed from the runqueue
	 * since its links become empty on once unlinked */
	runqueue_del_core(target);

	/* Clean its relationship. */
	/* FIXME: hand its own children to the grand parents if it has any */
	/* TODO: is this kind of relationship amongst tasks really needed? */
	if (!links_empty(&target->children)) {
		links_del(&target->children);
	}
	links_del(&target->sibling);

	/* wake init() up to do the rest of job of destroying a task */
	if (killer != &init) {
		/* boost the init task priority up to the task's so that the
		 * memory used by it can be free as soon as possible */
		assert(!is_locked(init.lock));

		runqueue_del_core(&init);
		set_task_pri(&init, get_task_pri(killer));
		go_run_atomic_if(&init, TASK_SLEEPING);
	}

	/* add it to zombie list */
	target->addr = (void *)zombie;
	zombie = target;

	irq_restore(irqflag);

	if (killer == current) /* called directly or called by sys_kill() */
		resched();
}

static void destroy(struct task *task)
{
	if (!task || task == &init)
		return;

	kfree(task->mm.base);
	kfree(task->mm.heap);

	if (!(get_task_flags(task) & STACK_SHARED))
		kfree(task->mm.kernel.base);

	/* TODO: free the static tasks as well
	 * not possible to free the static tasks at the moment as its memory
	 * region is not managed by buddy. */
	if (!(get_task_flags(task) & TASK_STATIC))
		kfree(task);
}

unsigned int kill_zombie()
{
	struct task *task;
	unsigned int cnt, irqflag;

	for (cnt = 0; zombie; cnt++) {
		irq_save(irqflag);
		local_irq_disable();
		task = (void *)zombie;
		zombie = task->addr;
		irq_restore(irqflag);

		destroy(task);
	}

	return cnt;
}

struct task *find_task(unsigned int addr, struct task *head)
{
	struct task *next, *p;

	if ((unsigned int)head->addr == addr)
		return head;

	if (links_empty(&head->children))
		return NULL;

	/* FIXME: lock. link can be broken while searching */
	next = get_container_of(head->children.next, struct task, sibling);

	if ((p = find_task(addr, next)))
		return p;

	head = next;

	while (head->sibling.next != &head->parent->children) {
		next = get_container_of(
				head->sibling.next, struct task, sibling);
		if ((p = find_task(addr, next)))
			return p;
		head = next;
	}

	return NULL;
}

#include <kernel/systick.h>

static void __attribute__((noinline, used)) wrapper_info()
{
	debug("[%08x] New task %x started, type:%x state:%x pri:%x rank:%s",
	      systick, current->addr, get_task_type(current),
	      get_task_state(current), get_task_pri(current),
	      get_current_rank() == TF_USER? "Unprivileged" : "Privileged");
}

static void __attribute__((noinline, used)) wrapper_info_dtor()
{
	debug("[%08x] The task %x done", systick, current->addr);
}

void __attribute__((naked)) wrapper()
{
	__wrapper_save_regs();
#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_TASK
	__wrapper_jump(wrapper_info);
	__wrapper_restore_regs_and_exec(current->addr);
	__wrapper_jump(wrapper_info_dtor);
#else
	__wrapper_restore_regs_and_exec(current->addr);
#endif

	kill(current);
	freeze(); /* never reaches here */
}

void syscall_delegate_return(struct task *task, int ret)
{
	assert(!is_locked(task->lock));

	__set_retval(task, ret);
	/* FIXME: it messes up calling sum_curr_stat() when make() */
	//sum_curr_stat(task);
	go_run(task);

	/* time to die as the delegated job is done. */
	sys_kill_core(current, current);

	freeze(); /* never reaches here */
}

#include <string.h>

/* It must be kept as noinline function because of inline assembler placed in
 * the wrapper function, clone(). Otherwise `__save_curr_context()` macro will
 * not make the right register set and the current context will be ruined. */
static int __attribute__((noinline)) clone_core(unsigned int flags, void *ref,
		struct regs *regs, unsigned int sp)
{
	struct task *child;

	if ((child = kmalloc(sizeof(struct task))) == NULL)
		return -ENOMEM;

	if (alloc_mm(child, STACK_SIZE_DEFAULT, flags, ref)) {
		kfree(child);
		return -ENOMEM;
	}

	/* copy stack */
	unsigned int base, top, size;
	unsigned int *src, *dst;

	/* A user task starts from the next instruction of `fork()` in the user
	 * context, not from `clone()` in the handler mode. */
	if (flags & TF_SYSCALL)
		sp = __get_usp();
	else
		flags |= TF_CLONED;

	base = (unsigned int)current->mm.base;
	top  = base + STACK_SIZE_DEFAULT;

	if (flags & TF_HANDLER) { /* if handler mode */
		base = (unsigned int)current->mm.kernel.base;
		top  = base + STACK_SIZE_DEFAULT;
	}

#ifdef ARMv7A
	if (!(flags & TF_HANDLER))
		sp  -= NR_CONTEXT * WORD_SIZE;
#endif
	size = top - sp;
	src  = (unsigned int *)sp;
	dst  = (unsigned int *)((unsigned int)child->mm.sp - size);
	memcpy(dst, src, size);

	child->mm.sp = dst; /* update stack pointer */

	if (!(flags & TF_SYSCALL)) { /* if not syscall */
#ifdef ARMv7A
		if (!(flags & TF_HANDLER)) {
			child->mm.sp += NR_CONTEXT;
			size         -= NR_CONTEXT * WORD_SIZE;
		}
#endif
		unsigned int *p = (unsigned int *)regs;

		set_task_flags(child, flags);
		set_task_context_hard(child, NULL);

		/* set status register to default */
		p[INDEX_PSR] = child->mm.sp[INDEX_PSR - NR_CONTEXT_SOFT];

		memcpy(child->mm.sp, p + NR_CONTEXT_SOFT,
				NR_CONTEXT_HARD * WORD_SIZE);
		size += NR_CONTEXT_HARD * WORD_SIZE;
	}

	set_task_context_soft(child);
	memcpy(child->mm.sp, regs, NR_CONTEXT_SOFT * WORD_SIZE);
	size += NR_CONTEXT_SOFT * WORD_SIZE;

	/* without MMU virtualization needs to manipulate stack to rearrange
	 * the addresses to point out the right ones, not addressing
	 * the original(its parent) address space. this way doesn't seem
	 * charming and probably leads problems or bugs in the future. */
	unsigned int i;
	unsigned int limit = (unsigned int)child->mm.base + STACK_SIZE_DEFAULT;
	for (i = 0; (i < size / WORD_SIZE) &&
			((unsigned int)(child->mm.sp+i) < limit); i++) {
		if ((child->mm.sp[i] > base) && (child->mm.sp[i] < top))
			child->mm.sp[i] = limit - (top - child->mm.sp[i]);
	}

	__set_retval(child, (int)child);

	set_task_dressed(child, flags, NULL);
	set_task_pri(child, get_task_pri(current));
	set_task_state(child, TASK_RUNNING);
	runqueue_add(child);

	return 0;
}

#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_CLONE
int clone_overhead;
#endif

int clone(unsigned int flags, void *ref)
{
	struct regs regs;
	int result;

	__save_curr_context((unsigned int *)&regs);

	if (get_task_flags(current) & TF_CLONED) {
		set_task_flags(current, get_task_flags(current) & ~TF_CLONED);
		return get_task_tid(current);
	}

#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_CLONE
	clone_overhead = get_sysclk();
#endif
	result = clone_core(flags, ref, &regs, __get_sp());
#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_CLONE
	clone_overhead -= get_sysclk();
#endif

	return result;
}

#ifdef ARMv7A
int sys_fork()
{
	int tid = clone(TASK_SYSCALL | STACK_SHARED |
			(get_task_flags(current) & TASK_PRIVILEGED), &init);
	if (tid > 0) /* the newly forked task never gets back here */
		sys_kill_core(current, current);

	/* schedule to give chance for child to run first */
	resched();

	return tid;
}
#else
/* TODO: remove architecture dependent code under `/arch` directory */
void __attribute__((naked)) sys_fork_finish()
{
	__asm__ __volatile__(
			"push	{r0}		\n\t" /* save return value */
			"tst	r0, 0		\n\t"
			"ittt	gt		\n\t"
			"movgt	r0, %0		\n\t"
			"movgt  r1, %0		\n\t"
			"blgt	sys_kill_core	\n\t"
			"bl	resched		\n\t"
			:
			: "r"(current)
			: "r0",
			"r4", "r5", "r6", "r7", "r8", "r9", "r10", "r11",
			"memory");

	__asm__ __volatile__("pop {r0, pc}" ::: "memory");
}

int __attribute__((naked)) sys_fork()
{
	__asm__ __volatile__("push {lr}" ::: "memory");

	__asm__ __volatile__(
			"and	r0, %0, %1	\n\t"
			"orr	r0, r0, %2	\n\t"
			"orr	r0, r0, %3	\n\t"
			"mov	r1, %4		\n\t"
			"bl	clone		\n\t"
			"b	sys_fork_finish	\n\t"
			:
			: "r"(get_task_flags(current)), "I"(TASK_PRIVILEGED),
			"I"(TASK_SYSCALL), "I"(STACK_SHARED), "r"(&init)
			: "r4", "r5", "r6", "r7", "r8", "r9", "r10", "r11",
			"memory");
}
#endif

static void do_sys_kill(struct task *task)
{
	sys_kill_core(task, current->parent);
	sys_kill_core(current, current);
	freeze(); /* never reaches here */
}

int sys_kill(void *task)
{
	struct task *thread;

	if ((struct task *)task != current) {
		warn("no permission");
		return -EPERM;
	}

	if ((thread = make(TASK_HANDLER | STACK_SHARED, STACK_SIZE_MIN,
					do_sys_kill, current)) == NULL)
		return -ENOMEM;

	syscall_put_arguments(thread, task, NULL, NULL, NULL);
	syscall_delegate(current, thread);

	return 0;
}

/* NOTE: all the already allocated memory will be lost */
int heap_new(size_t size)
{
	void *new;

	if ((new = kmalloc(size)) == NULL)
		return -ENOMEM;

	kfree(current->mm.heap);
	current->mm.heap = new;
	heap_init(&current->mm.heaphead, current->mm.heap,
			&current->mm.heap[1024 / WORD_SIZE]);

	return 0;
}

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Former GA Gov. Sonny Perdue tapped for Ag Secretary
President Donald Trump announced the weekend of Jan. 22 that his choice for Secretary of Agriculture is former Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue, and the selection has thus far met with positive response from the produce industry.
If confirmed, Perdue will oversee some 100,000 Department of Ag employees and approximately $140 billion in ag programs. He will also have a major role in the Farm Bill that comes up for reauthorization in 2018.
Response from the produce/onion industry to Perdue's appointment has been positive. United Fresh President and CEO Tom Stenzel said in a prepared statement, "We congratulate Gov. Perdue on his selection as the next Secretary of Agriculture. We have high regard for his past work with our Georgia fruit and vegetable industry, and are confident he will bring a passion and commitment to supporting agriculture, and helping us deliver healthy foods to all Americans. We anticipate meeting with Gov. Perdue soon and working with him on critical issues such as securing an adequate workforce through immigration reform and a new guest worker program, bolstering free and fair trade, serving the neediest Americans through federal feeding programs, and more."
National Onion Association Executive Vice President Wayne Mininger said Perdue promises to be an advocate for agriculture.
"Sonny Perdue is the son of a Georgia farmer and a veterinarian by training," Mininger said. "I believe it is a positive that he has top-level political management experience in a state that includes substantial specialty crop production, marketing, and international trading activity. It's fair to say he understands the challenges, and he knows who producers are and what they face. I'd say that's got to be a plus in expecting that he'll make a good secretary that has the potential to be an exceptional advocate for agriculture."
Fellow Georgian Susan Waters, executive director of the Vidalia Onion Committee, commented, "We're excited to have such a distinguished candidate from Georgia be nominated as Secretary of Agriculture. Having grown up on a farm, Sonny Perdue has not only a good understanding but also the right qualifications to assist and support farms. We think he'll be a great asset for the agricultural industry."
Waters' enthusiasm was echoed by Cliff Riner, Vidalia Onion and Vegetable Research Center coordinator and area onion agent. He said having Perdue head up the Department of Ag is "a very big deal from a lot of standpoints." Riner went on to say, "He has good experience with water matters, and that will be a great help. Water is going to be a big issue in agriculture. Also, Sonny Perdue has a career-long record of being farmer-friendly, and I think it would have been hard to find anyone better for this job. He is a doctor of veterinary medicine, and he also has experience in ag chemicals."
And from his office in Nyssa, OR, Kay Riley of Snake River Produce weighed in, noting, "I'm concerned about immigration, and I'm not too encouraged about his stand." Riley said the nomination of a Georgian was somewhat of a surprise. "It seems as though the Secretary of Agriculture is usually from Iowa or Kansas, and we were hopeful when Idaho Gov. Butch Otter was mentioned. I was a bit surprised to see the Georgia nominee."
The 70-year-old Perdue served as the 81st Governor of Georgia from 2003 to 2011, the first Republican governor of that state since Reconstruction. He currently serves on the Governors' Council of the Bipartisan Policy Center in Washington, DC. He is a veteran of the U.S. Air Force and was a registered Democrat prior to moving to the GOP in 1998.
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ArchitectureFeaturedNew York
Five of NYC's Former Asylums Converted into Apartments, Classrooms, Churches, and More
wesley yiin
If you found out that the building you lived or worked in was once an asylum, would you move out? Or would you stay, and risk going crazy yourself at the hands of the ghosts of former patients? Today, we're rounding up some of New York City's former asylums. Some are extremely creepy; others you would never expect to have once housed the clinically insane.
5. The Octagon (888 Main Street, Roosevelt Island)
This high end apartment complex on Roosevelt Island was so beautifully restored that it's hard to believe it was once the decrepit New York City Lunatic Asylum, which opened in 1841. In fact, this was the very asylum that journalist Nellie Bly notoriously checked herself into and then slammed in her exposé Ten Days in a Mad-House. This iconic building, which has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places, was constructed at this site because its pleasant island location was thought to be soothing to the mentally ill patients. Ironically, as explained by Bly, the hospital's poor conditions probably nullified any environmental healing that occurred.
4. Buell Hall at Columbia University (515 W 116th Street, Morningside Heights)
The Bloomingdale Insane Asylum once occupied much of what is now the Columbia University Main Campus. In 1821, the asylum opened its doors, and twenty years later, when the New York City Lunatic Asylum opened for the destitute, Bloomingdale essentially became reserved for wealthier patients (although it failed to offer better treatment). The hospital grounds eventually became filled with gardens and walkways to assist with the patients' recuperation. In the 1880's, the asylum's properties were sold off to different institutions in Morningside Heights, including Columbia University. Today, the only remaining building from Bloomingdale is Buell Hall, which houses the university's Maison Française French cultural center and some architectural galleries.
3. Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine (1047 Amsterdam Ave, Morningside Heights)
Did you notice the peacock?
One of the institutions that purchased property from the Bloomingdale Asylum was the Leake and Watts Orphan Asylum on West 112th Street. The original building of this asylum, which could house 300 children, was completed in 1843. In 1891, the orphanage moved to Westchester County, leaving the site open for construction of the Cathedral, which took over one hundred years to finish. Today, the original orphanage building stands behind the monumental Cathedral, serving as a "textile lab," according to a nearby security guard.
The orphanage building, located behind the church.
The facade of the Cathedral.
2. Bellevue Homeless Shelter (462 First Ave, Kips Bay)
Since it is located near many of NYU's medical buildings, this building from 1931 might be mistaken for a university facility. It was actually once the Bellevue Psychiatric Hospital, part of the oldest public hospital in the United States: the Bellevue Hospital Center. Though not technically an asylum, many of the city's criminally insane were unceremoniously dumped here. Often, they were readmitted, signifying the severity of their cases. Perhaps because of this, the hospital building slowly transformed into a men's homeless shelter, completing the metamorphosis in 1998. In recent years, there have been plans to redevelop the building into a hotel and conference center, but they went unrealized.
Some of the courtyard's windows are painted as well.
1. Renwick Smallpox Castle Ruins (Southern tip of Roosevelt Island)
Not functionally an asylum, the Renwick Smallpox Hospital on Roosevelt Island opened in 1856. It mostly served those afflicted with smallpox, but also held some clinically insane patients. In 1886, the building transitioned into a nurses' residence and hospital training center. Soon after the island was renamed Welfare Island, the hospital was deserted. Since then, the building has fallen into ruin. Despite this, the structure was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1972 (becoming the city's only landmarked ruin), and plans were made to restore it. Not much progress has been made as the ruin currently sits behind a fence on the grounds of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms Park.
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Individual factors and beliefs determining COVID-19 vaccination willingness
Pauly, Laure; Paccoud, Ivana; Satagopam, Venkata; Ghosh, Soumyabrata; Fritz, Joëlle; O'Sullivan, Marc; Rommes, Basile; Wilmes, Paul; Krüger, Rejko; Leist, Anja;
Background: High vaccination coverage rates are necessary to reduce infections and transmissions of the SARS-CoV-2 virus causing COVID-19 and to allow successful mitigation of the current pandemic. To date, we are still lacking information to explain the hesitancy in Luxembourg towards uptake of the available COVID-19 vaccines. The present study explored motivations for and against vaccination in a population-representative sample of residents across Luxembourg to identify hesitant groups and develop strategies to increase population immunity against SARS-CoV-2. Methods: In the framework of the nationwide, representative longitudinal CON-VINCE study, a sample of 1589 respondents (49.6% women, 84.3% Luxembourg nationality) ranging from 18-84 years, participated in the survey in spring 2021. The protocol of the CON-VINCE study has been described in detail elsewhere (Snoeck et al. 2020). Results: 52% of the respondents had at least partial vaccination at time of assessment between April to June 2021. The most common reasons for vaccination of those willing to be vaccinated (81.2%) were altruistic motivations. Prevalent reasons against vaccination for those undecided (8.7%) or reluctant (10.2%) to be vaccinated were that the vaccine had not been tested sufficiently and the fear of long-term vaccine side effects. Only very few of the vaccination-hesitant or -reluctant respondents reported that they did not believe in vaccination in general. Conclusion: The present study identified motivations for and against COVID-19 vaccination and determined demographic and socio-economic factors associated with vaccination willingness. To increase vaccination rates, public health communication needs to target those unsure or unwilling to be vaccinated. We will continue to study the vaccination uptake in the Luxembourg population, as CON-VINCE is now part of the H2020-funded international ORCHESTRA project (https://orchestra-cohort.eu), research into comparing these results on a Pan-European level.
Small States and the 'Corona crisis'
All papers are available open access on the journal's website.
Other research product . Lecture . 2021
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Elena Rodica Danescu; Itzel, Constanze; Douglas, Mccarthy; Delepine, Ludovic; Deschamps, Étienne;
Although the idea of Europe dates back to ancient times and was crystallised in the Enlightenment, the plan for European unification emerged in the second half of the 20th century as a consequence of an economic process based on a single market and a single currency. European integration is therefore a recent chapter in the history of Europe, one which has been written before our very eyes, but it remains fragmented into disparate national histories. In the 21st century, those writing the history of Europe find themselves confronted with a threefold challenge: they must meet the demands of the digital age, adjust to the paradigm shift within the historical discipline and navigate the geopolitical upheavals that the continent has been experiencing since 1989 (the fall of communism; the enlargement of the European Union; the many crises the EU has faced, including Brexit; the divide between institutions and citizens; the socio-economic consequences of the global crisis, including the COVID-19 health crisis; the new nature of transatlantic relations, etc.).
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Sölter, Jan; Proverbio, Daniele; Baniasadi, Mehri; Bossa, Matias Nicolas; Vlasov, Vanja; Garcia Santa Cruz, Beatriz; Husch, Andreas;
Our working hypothesis is that key factors in COVID-19 imaging are the available imaging data and their label noise and confounders, rather than network architectures per se. Thus, we applied existing state-of-the-art convolution neural network frameworks based on the U-Net architecture, namely nnU-Net [3], and focused on leveraging the available training data. We did not apply any pre-training nor modi ed the network architecture. First, we enriched training information by generating two additional labels for lung and body area. Lung labels were created with a public available lung segmentation network and weak body labels were generated by thresholding. Subsequently, we trained three di erent multi-class networks: 2-label (original background and lesion labels), 3-label (additional lung label) and 4-label (additional lung and body label). The 3-label obtained the best single network performance in internal cross-validation (Dice-Score 0.756) and on the leaderboard (Dice- Score 0.755, Haussdor 95-Score 57.5). To improve robustness, we created a weighted ensemble of all three models, with calibrated weights to optimise the ranking in Dice-Score. This ensemble achieved a slight performance gain in internal cross-validation (Dice-Score 0.760). On the validation set leaderboard, it improved our Dice-Score to 0.768 and Haussdor 95- Score to 54.8. It ranked 3rd in phase I according to mean Dice-Score. Adding unlabelled data from the public TCIA dataset in a student-teacher manner signi cantly improved our internal validation score (Dice-Score of 0.770). However, we noticed partial overlap between our additional training data (although not human-labelled) and nal test data and therefore submitted the ensemble without additional data, to yield realistic assessments.
Physical Activity and Lifestyle Habits of Adolescents during School Closures due to Covid-19 Pandemic: Results of the SUGAPAS-Project
Gruodytė-Račienė, R.; Čapkauskienė, S.; Pokvytytė, V.; Avgerinos, A.; Thrasyvoulos, T.; Douka, S.; Heck, Sandra; García-Roca, J.A.; von Seelen, J.;
The lifestyle of children and adolescents during the COVID-19 pandemic has been affected dramatically by restrictions, causing a substantial decrease in physical activity (PA) and extensive increase in sedentary activity time (Xiang et al. 2020). The purpose of this study was to investigate PA and lifestyle habits of adolescent students in a sample of European countries involved in the SUGAPAS project (Supporting Gamified Physical Activities in & out of Schools), an Erasmus+ funded project aiming to design and implement mobile games which should trigger students' health-related habitual behavior.
Sex, Drugs and the City: Questioning Drugs in Affective or Sexual Relationships.
Germes, Mélina;
This text is a report about the "Sex Drugs and the City" Event. // Only the half of the "Sex, Drugs and the City" event could take place. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we had to cancel the participative discussion planned for the broader public in the evening. The academic afternoon took place on October 22, 2020, in Bordeaux under the title "Alcohol and drugs in affective or sexual relationships: transactions, consent, grey zones?" A video recording of the event is available in French via the Narcotic City webpage. "Alcohol and Drugs in Affective or Sexual Relationships: Transactions, Consent, Grey Zones?"
Supporting findability of COVID-19 research with large-scale text mining of scientific publications
Welter, Danielle; Vega Moreno, Carlos Gonzalo; Biryukov, Maria; Groues, Valentin; Ghosh, Soumyabrata; Schneider, Reinhard; Satagopam, Venkata;
When the COVID-19 pandemic hit in early 2020, a lot of research efforts were quickly redirected towards studies on SARS-CoV2 and COVID-19 disease, from the sequencing and assembly of viral genomes to the elaboration of robust testing methodologies and the development of treatment and vaccination strategies. At the same time, a flurry of scientific publications around SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 began to appear, making it increasingly difficult for researchers to stay up-to-date with latest trends and developments in this rapidly evolving field. The BioKB platform is a pipeline which, by exploiting text mining and semantic technologies, helps researchers easily access semantic content of thousands of abstracts and full text articles. The content of the articles is analysed and concepts from a range of contexts, including proteins, species, chemicals, diseases and biological processes are tagged based on existing dictionaries of controlled terms. Co-occurring concepts are classified based on their asserted relationship and the resulting subject-relation-object triples are stored in a publicly accessible human- and machine-readable knowledge base. All concepts in the BioKB dictionaries are linked to stable, persistent identifiers, either a resource accession such as an Ensembl, Uniprot or PubChem ID for genes, proteins and chemicals, or an ontology term ID for diseases, phenotypes and other ontology terms. In order to improve COVID-19 related text mining, we extended the underlying dictionaries to include many additional viral species (via NCBI Taxonomy identifiers), phenotypes from the Human Phenotype Ontology (HPO), COVID-related concepts including clinical and laboratory tests from the COVID-19 ontology, as well as additional diseases (DO) and biological processes (GO). We also added all viral proteins found in UniProt and gene entries from EntrezGene to increase the sensitivity of the text mining pipeline to viral data. To date, BioKB has indexed over 270'000 sentences from 21'935 publications relating to coronavirus infections, with publications dating from 1963 to 2021, 3'863 of which were published this year. We are currently working to further refine the text mining pipeline by training it on the extraction of increasingly complex relations such as protein-phenotype relationships. We are also regularly adding new terms to our dictionaries for areas where coverage is currently low, such as clinical and laboratory tests and procedures and novel drug treatments.
The CORONA Business in Modern Cities
Vitello, Piergiorgio; Capponi, Andrea; Klopp, Pol; Connors, Richard; Viti, Francesco; Fiandrino, Claudio;
As a response to the global outbreak of the SARS-COVID-19 pandemic, authorities have enforced a number of measures including social distancing, travel restrictions that lead to the "temporary" closure of activities stemming from public services, schools, industry to local businesses. In this poster we draw the attention to the impact of such measures on urban environments and activities. For this, we use crowdsensed information available from datasets like Google Popular Times and Apple Maps to shed light on the changes undergone during the outbreak and the recovery
Crunch time for EMU
Elena Rodica Danescu; Thygesen, Niels; Sapir, André; Santer, Jacques; Miedma, Douwe;
As we mark the 50th anniversary of the Werner Report, it is well worth analysing the role of Economic and Monetary Union at a time of uncertainty as to the wider European project, via an interdisciplinary approach that draws on historical and archive research and takes into consideration the theoretical debates in the literature and the various methodological challenges.What are the multifaceted future provocation facing Economic and Monetary Union? What steps still need to be taken to complete the project? How can we strengthen the international role of the euro and bolster Europe's economic and financial autonomy? How can we best tackle technological developments in the field of money and finance? And how is the COVID-19 crisis testing the boundaries of the European integration?
The origins of the Schengen Area - historical scrutiny
Elena Rodica Danescu; Goebbels, Robert;
The Schengen Area is one of the pillars of the European project. But it has been affected by several difficulties: the serious consequences of the global economic and financial crisis (2008-2018), growing concerns over external migratory pressure and the question of enlargement, fears of social dumping and, since March 2020, the COVID-19 crisis. Identifying these obstacles is vital so that pragmatic solutions can be found without jeopardising the founding principle.


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On Monday 2nd September Fg Off Batty presented Cpl Matthew Reid with Silver Gliding Wings during final parade. This was in recognition of him achieving his first solo flight at the Scottish Gliding Centre at Portmoak.
The Regional Gliding Liaison Officer (RGLO) Wing Commander Wallace authorised the special award of Silver Wings to Cpl Reid who is self funding his gliding training at a civilian club. Cadets are usually awarded Silver Wings for successfully completing the fully funded Air Cadet Gliding Scholarship Course with a solo flight.
This is an excellent achievement and a significant milestone for Cpl Reid, who is now well on his way to achieving his ambition of joining the Royal Air Force as a fast jet pilot.