When creating a defensive plan against cyber attacks, knowing your adversary is paramount. Often after the shock has worn off from a breach, companies will ask, "Why us?" It's a valid question, but it's one that organizations should ask before an incident to help them prepare.
There are a multitude of reasons why an attacker might choose your organization, whether as a crime of opportunity or an assault on your specific firm. Below I've captured some of the more common ones.
Cyber attacks are typically based on a unique opportunity that makes your organization an easy target. Usually such opportunities are within an organization's circle of influence, where they can take steps to reduce risk.
Technology stack: Attackers use tools such as search engines (Google, Shodan.io) and job boards to map specific technologies known to have vulnerabilities or which are frequently misconfigured. This also provides attackers with the chance to try weak or default credentials to gain additional access.
Public information disclosures: Credential disclosures are commonly shared on the Internet and within hacker communities. For example, employees often reuse work passwords on outside services (such as personal accounts) that make it easy to perform credential stuffing attacks. Services such as haveibeenpwned.com allow organizations to effortlessly discover when a credential containing their domain has been disclosed.
Phishing: Many phishing campaigns permutate domains from lists or data crawled from the Internet. If an employee falls victim to a phishing attack, the hacker can take advantage of this newly gained access; if not, they continue on to the next potential dupe.
Targeted attacks are directed at the organization itself and often include detailed research and reconnaissance. Traditionally, attackers will utilize opportunistic attacks for quick access, but dive much deeper.
Industry Type: Often the type of industry will draw specific attention, such as financial institutions, government entities, or manufacturing companies. The attacker is looking for a specific asset or a technology that they use; or perhaps there's a controversial issue which has spawned hacktivism.
Target by proxy: Some organizations are simply a stepping stone to leverage a relationship to attack a partner, supplier, or customer.
Insider Threat: While not historically thought of as a way of targeting an organization, insider threats such as disgruntled employees or fraud are among the most common types of attacks, and need to be accounted for.
Each organization should already be having a conversation on why and how they may be targeted in the future. In many cases, a quick and easy change can prevent a drastic and costly security incident. Relatively simple steps such as conducting vulnerability scans, penetration testing, educational phishing campaigns, and updated patch management procedures can help to safeguard your systems and data.
With better knowledge-sharing and training, companies can avoid making themselves vulnerable to today's growing threat landscape, without having to make extensive and expensive investments in new technologies.


What a crazy beast Edinburgh is. It doesn't matter how much I prepare for it, I always find my best intentions broken; I struggle to know what day it is, I regularly run out of phone battery – not to mention sleep – and I fail to see most of the shows I plan to see.
This year wasn't much different. The Maydays performed two shows – 'Oh Boy! The Quantum Leap Show' at The Counting House, courtesy of Laughing Horse Free Festival and Alex Petty, who saved our skins after a tense month of venue uncertainty in June. We were chuffed to be offered the Ballroom, a 140-seater well-known venue in the heart of the Fringe with great technical facilities (compared to the usual 2 lights and PA of most free venues). The only problem? We were on at 12.15pm when most self-respecting niche-sci-fi fans are still tucked up in their beds. Our exit-flyering of similarly geeky evening shows, and the canny use of a Bluetooth speaker with the Quantum Leap theme tune on repeat did yield a reasonable walk up but we soon realised we were destined to smallish but perfectly formed and very appreciative audiences.
Talking of perfectly formed and appreciative, I managed to pull myself out of the 'what day is it?' revelry of Edinburgh to co-teach an improvisation workshop with a love bunch of bloggers midway through the month. The event was organised by our lovely friends Propellernet on behalf of Premier Inn.
This was an opportunity for the bloggers, along with their nearest and dearest, to experience the delights of Premier Inn (and if you read the blogs, you'll see there were many, not least the promised 'good night's sleep' but also the hearty breakfast, complete with a new purple sauce!) and for us Maydays to show them an improv-filled good time!
From reading some of the blog posts, I see there was some trepidation among the group and yet, despite a few nervous faces at the start, myself and my colleagues, Jinni Lyons and Yshani Perinpanayagam (on keys) were pleased to find everyone without exception was up for the challenge.
We started with some basics – a name game and some exercises to break the ice and get people thinking more creatively at 10am on a Saturday morning – but we were soon able to move on to more advanced games as the group became more confident. It's really exciting to see how the blogs reflect an understanding of how useful the power of 'yes, and' is in conquering confidence issues and creative blocks! Thanks to this lovely group for throwing caution to the wind and jumping in to the fun!
The Maydays Unplugged performed for the second half of the fringe, occasionally getting in the likes of Dan Attfield (RH Experience), Liam & Tony (TSOLT), Simon Lucakz (Upstairs Downton) and almost always our trusty honorary Maydays who did 'Oh Boy!' with us, Jonah Fazel and Lewis Harrison-Barker.
Some years at the fringe, I come away poorer, fatter and a little improv-broken. It's hard to do your best work when you're overtired, eating and drinking unhealthily and flyering for the hour and a half before your show. But this year I came away very happy and feeling that my improv had genuinely improved, not just through the number of shows I've been in, but also the opportunities I've had to perform with some awesome new improvisers, and the number of improv shows I've seen.
I'm still fat and poor though.
Flyer with a big grin, be polite, have a sense of humour about it and be prepared to have a bit of a conversation with potential audience members. DON'T arrange your theatre company on the floor wearing all black, looking moody, and then make them all hold flyers. Please.
Plan to see some shows you really want to see. Put them in a diary and/or book them. Otherwise you won't go.
Go to Baby Wants Candy (improvised musical from the US) at least once – they are masters of knowing how to REALLY play with each other.
See some things that ARE NOT IMPROV! Those are good too. And you'll be inspired to make something new (I was).
Have something to look forward to AFTER EDINBURGH FRINGE. Book something in beforehand because you'll be too tired or won't be able to afford it afterward.


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Q: Using For Loops To Initialize And Add JTextFields and JLabels to JPanel Using Arrays Causes Error I'm trying to make a program that takes input from the user for how many students they have in their class and their names/grades and calculate average and letter grades. I'm trying to get better with For Loops and Arrays and this is what I chose to do. The only problem is when the init() method is called to make the window. The class is extending JFrame
import java.util.Scanner;

import javax.swing.JButton;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JLabel;
import javax.swing.JPanel;
import javax.swing.JTextField;

@SuppressWarnings("serial")
public class GradesGUI_2 extends JFrame {

static Scanner s = new Scanner(System.in);
static int num;

public static void main(String[] args) {

    System.out.println("How many students are in your class?");
    num = s.nextInt();

    GradesGUI_2 window = new GradesGUI_2("Title");
    window.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);

}

//-------------------------------------------------

static JPanel p;
JTextField[] name = new JTextField[num], grade = new JTextField[num];
JLabel[] nlabel = new JLabel[num], glabel = new JLabel[num];
int height = 50;

//-------------------------------------------------

GradesGUI_2(String title) {
    super(title);
    this.init();
    this.setVisible(true);
    this.setLocationRelativeTo(null);
}

//-------------------------------------------------

void init() {
    //Create JLabel/JTextField
    for(int i = 0; i < num; i++) {
        nlabel[i] = new JLabel("Name " + i);
        glabel[i] = new JLabel("Grade " + i);
        name[i] = new JTextField(10);
        grade[i] = new JTextField(1);

        height += 25;
    }

    for(int i = 0; i < num; i++) {
        p.add(nlabel[i]);
        p.add(glabel[i]);
        p.add(name[i]);
        p.add(grade[i]);
    }

    this.setSize(350, height);
    this.add(p);
}

}
What the console displays:
How many students are in your class?
7
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NullPointerException
    at GradesGUI_2.init(GradesGUI_2.java:59)
    at GradesGUI_2.<init>(GradesGUI_2.java:40)
    at GradesGUI_2.main(GradesGUI_2.java:20)

The error happens when the components are added to the panel. Please answer. Thank you!

A: The exception stack trace points to this line:
        p.add(nlabel[i]);

So either nlabel[i] is null, or p is null. But nlabel[i] was initialised to a non null value in the previous loop, pointing to p as the culprit. One way to fix it is to change:
static JPanel p;

To:
JPanel p = new JPanel(); // with default FlowLayout

Tips

*

*Don't declare GUI components as static. Using the static modifier is rarely a good idea, and I've never seen a case where it is a good idea to use it for components - ever.

*You'll need to figure out how to understand and solve exceptions from the stack trace. As a programmer, we see many of them, in our code, or the code we are meant to maintain. To reiterate something I wrote above in comments: See What is a stack trace, and how can I use it to debug my application errors? & What is a Null Pointer Exception, and how do I fix it?

*Don't mix command line input with GUIs. In this case, one approach is to use a JOptionPane.showInputDialog(..); to query the number of students.

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This is a quick and dirty kind of project ya'll – isn't that the best? It's like chocolate in that it provides instant gratification. Instant crafti-fication. Take 5 minutes and whip up a few of these for New Year's.
As I mentioned, I was inspired by Room to Grow TV's Pull-String Piñata. I didn't want to risk the paper mâché not firming up, so I came up with a quick version we could use immediately. Elisa's design is amazing – it's a fun project we will be making when we have more time.
If you have just 5 minutes, you can make these. In fact, I made some more while I was writing up this article just to see how long it would take without standing behind my new, smarter than me camera. The result? Five minutes for a circle, 8 for a star. And that included hunting down additional scrap tissue paper because the little one absconded with it. Again.
2 of an identical-ish shapes, made from card stock or heavier. I used holographic star shapes we picked up in the Teacher's section of the Dollar Store and I also used a dog treat box where I traced two 4 inch circles.
Christmas cards or card stock for the sides.
candy or small toys, confetti (or any other type of glittery goodness). Go on, add the sparkle.
If you're using a star or other shape, roughly measure the length of each section of your shape. Roughly measure – remember, these guys are single use, so a Pinterest-worthy effort is a waste of time. Cut each section to fit and then fold down the long edges of your card stock.You will line up the edge of the folded edge with the edge of the shape. Tape the piece to the inside of the shape.
If you're using a circle shape, lucky you. Just cut out a strip of card stock a 1/2 inch wider than you want your cracker and about 2-2.5 inches shy of the circumference of the circle (diameter x π). Cut it into manageable strips (mine were about 1.25 inches each). Fold down each of the long edges of your strip by 1/4 of an inch and begin taping one of the folds to the inside of the shape, lining the next piece up with the previous.
On either shape, be sure to poke a couple holes at the top and thread a piece of string through them. I'd recommend doing it before taping the pieces together in the next step.
Keep attaching the pieces on one shape, and taping them to the piece before it (securing the ends to one another) and stop when you have a 2 to 2.5 inch opening. This is the where the candy or toys will fall through, so just match your opening size to whatever you're sticking in there. Easy peasy, lemon squeezy.
Cut a piece of tissue paper to about the size of the opening with a half inch added on all sides. You're going to thread a piece of jute or string through a small hole you cut in the tissue paper. Once the jute is threaded through the tissue paper, you will thread it through a small, rectangular piece of card stock. Then, tie a knot on the top of the card stock. The card stock will help to rip through the tissue paper, so don't skip this step. Add your candy, toys, or confetti.
Secure the top shape to the tissue with a few strategically placed pieces of tape. Fold the top shape down onto the 3D shape and tape the top shape to the card stock pieces.
Happy New Year, everyone. I hope you and your family have a safe, prosperous, and joy-filled 2015! If you think this quick craft is worthy, could you please share it to Pinterest? If you don't like Pinterest (oh, the horror!), I am grateful when my projects are shared on Facebook, too. Many thanks and the best to you in 2015.
OK Sarah I had to come looking for these after you left that sweet note on my post . . . and they're awesome! SO SO FUN! I'm pinning them and maybe if I ever decide to really celebrate New Year's Eve I will make them. You rock, lady!
Thanks so much, Bre, and thank you for the Pin.
Oh these look so fun! And love the 'happiness comes out of here' label.
Thanks, Lisa. I love the name of your blog and those photo tags: brilliant!
How awesome are these! Very cute and FUN!


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Traffic jams set to ease with new parking, street designs
By KIARIE NJOROGE January 5th, 2015 2 min read
Motorists are held-up in traffic at Ngara in Nairobi last month. The Kenya Urban Roads Authority plans to solve traffic congestion in the city through roads upgrade. FILE PHOTO | NAIROBI NEWS
Traffic congestion is set to ease in Nairobi with the review of road junctions, parking slots and street designs in the city centre and surrounding areas.
Kenya Urban Roads Authority (Kura) has advertised for a consultant to conduct a study funded by the African Development Bank (AfDB) as part of the loans provided for the expansion of Outer Ring Road.
Construction of key overpasses, interchanges to CBD to begin in 2021
Traffic snarl up expected as Allsopps interchange to be closed for two days
Kura to erect 3 footbridges on Ngong Road
CS Macharia confirms Silas Kinoti as Kura boss
The study is keen on solving traffic jams on routes leading to central business district (CBD), which is expected to worsen with the upgrade of a number of roads close to the city centre.
DUAL CARRIAGE
It could lead to the expansion of lanes at the junctions, making some streets one way and removal of parking bays on some roads, engineers at Kura said.
Works on the dual carriage of five main roads in Nairobi have started with release of Sh3.4 billion from the European Union.
The project that will turn Lusaka, Enterprise and Likoni roads as well as Ring Road (Parklands) and Quarry Road (Gikomba) into dual carriages.
The upgrade will also include extension of General Waruinge Road in Eastleigh to Thika super highway via Juja Road as well as building foot and cycling paths on Lusaka Road and Mumias Road in Buru Buru.
The expected increase in the flow of traffic to the CBD, prompted the review of road designs in the city centre that lacks space for street expansions.
A study by IBM Corporation in 2012 says Kenya loses Sh50 million daily due to time wasted on road.
A recent report by Japan International Cooperation Agency, which was commissioned by City Hall, showed that in 2013 the average speed of traffic in the capital was 40km/h, which is forecast to halve in the next 15 years without extra transport capacity.
REDUCING CONGESTION
Last year, according to the Economic Survey 2014, the number of new registered vehicles went up by 21 per cent.
The government has been working on reducing congestion by revamping the railway transport as well as expanding major roads. However, many Kenyans are yet to embrace railway transport.
Two commuter stations were commissioned last year in Imara Daima and Makadara where passengers would leave their cars and board trains bound for the city centre.
This was aimed at reducing traffic jams, especially in the morning when people report to work and in the evening when the majority of the workers return home.
The AfDB in 2013 approved a $120 million (Sh10.3 billion) financing for the upgrade of Nairobi's Outer Ring road. Ngong Road will also be expanded.
The study by Kura comes in the wake of delays by City Hall to release a report by a decongestion committee that completed its work months ago.
The 18-member committee was formed in January last year and was to release an interim report in 60 days and this is yet to be made public one year on.
Kenya Urban Roads Authority
Outer Ring road
Traffic jams
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Practice: Get Out of the Lab and Into the World
Posted on June 18, 2006 by cmadmin
In order to build a successful career in the IT industry, you have to be able to demonstrate your skills. It doesn't matter if you're an entry-level help-desk person, an advanced systems architect or a security specialist. The name of the game is, "Show us what you can do." That's part of what certifications are all about. With the increasing prevalence of performance-based testing, it's easier than ever for potential employers to gauge, using industry standards as a yard stick, whether or not you can perform in the way that they need.
Performance-based certification programs from vendors of all stripes include what Cisco refers to as "proof of concept" labs, simulations and other types of hands-on exercises to enable certification seekers to practice their skills in a safe, risk-free environment. Much like certification, lab work can be an integral piece in building or expanding an IT skill set.
Why Should I Get Into the Lab?
If labs are a key piece in the modern journey toward certification, it only makes sense that savvy IT professionals would want to jump in and get their hands dirty. If you're not buying the "learning for learning's sake" bit, consider that in addition to showcasing a candidate's proficiency within a certification or training environment, labs also are meant to show someone's proficiency in the real world.
"I could go out there and read a book, and providing we're smart enough and work diligently enough, we can sit down and take what is usually a multiple-choice examination. Assuming we hit the pass grade, then we're certified. That seems to be the way for the majority of examinations that are out there right now. One of the things that leaves hanging is practical experience and skill on the job," said Graham Bird, vice president, The Open Group.
The Open Group, which offers the IT Architect, Common Operating Environment Platform and Common Object Request Broker Architecture certifications, among others, recently introduced its first certification program with a skills and experience requirement as well as a knowledge requirement. Those attempting to earn the Open Group's IT Architect certification will have to demonstrate how they meet an established set of requirements related to full-lifecycle skills, developing an IT architecture and more.
"We don't have requirements to understand equipment or be able to do particular tasks," said James De Raeve, vice president of certification, The Open Group. "We're looking for an individual who has real experience doing the job in a way that we could feel confident to recommend to other people. We're looking to go far beyond what you can uncover in a multiple-choice exam. But instead of using a lab, we use peer group reviews. We're addressing the same issue, but we're using a technique that's applicable to our domain. They go through three one-hour interviews on the basis of descriptions of several years of work experience. They go through and discuss the processes they used, techniques they used, the decisions they made, the reasons for those decisions, justifying that and explaining that to an expert in the field, and they're doing it for three different experts."
Labs are essential, said Ralph Rodriguez, manager, curriculum, Red Hat Global Learning Services. "Labs are where students actually learn the material. Students need the lecture, they need to be given the overview, they need to be given the vision of what it is they're trying to accomplish. But until their hands actually touch the keyboard, I don't think it's going to be possible for them to really keep in their mind what it is that they've been trying to learn."
Almost every training course offered for Red Hat certifications contains a lab component. "I don't believe Red Hat offers a single exam currently that has a multiple choice or a written section in it. Every thing is performance based," said Joe Kirby, RHCE certification manager, Red Hat Global Learning Services.
"After my classes, especially an intense certification course, I always tell my students that 'I guarantee you 80 percent of the stuff we've covered, if you do not go home and work with it, you will not retain it,'" said Brad Smith, instructor, Red Hat Global Learning Services. "You can learn things just by virtue of listening to an instructor and doing a lab in a classroom, but it's not going to last unless you're giving yourself real-world practice with the material and go beyond the classroom material. The beautiful thing about free open-source software is that you do not need to have a professional situation in order to gain real-world experience."
Get Out of the Lab, Volunteer
If you don't have real-world experience, are not currently employed or are just out of school, you can still get experience a potential employer will find valuable by volunteering for charitable organizations, agencies and community networks. Many churches, schools, daycares and non-for-profits need computer support, and they usually can't afford to pay an IT consultant what he or she might want. This offers an IT pro with little to no on-the-job or practical experience a way to exercise systems administration and other types of skills.
"My daughter's daycare, a community-center daycare, was having some problems with the telephone system. I was talking to our guy who works for the company that will be making a bid for some new phone lines about the switch, and I told them to ask about using Asteric, which is an open-source PBX that you can put a machine in for just a few hundred dollars, then use Voice over IP for the telephone service, again Asteric is an open-source PBX that's freely available. Setting up and managing that, that's the type of opportunity that's sitting out there," Kirby explained. "You get a lot of great experience, and in the case of things like Asteric, it's a very marketable experience because there are a lot of companies that are interested in things like open-source PBX and Voice over IP."
Some say that although labs are an important piece to consider when attempting to demonstrate skill and aptitude with a certain technology, they are not necessarily the "it" piece that will guarantee you a job. Lab scenarios should be reflections of real-world problems, not made-up, unrelated scenarios that might or might not relate to situations that come up in a real business environment. IT professionals have to ensure that they're getting the best training no matter if they're taking a lab course in order to gain experience or to practice the skills needed to earn a certification.
"It turns out that, and we've been working on this for six years so we really understand, often the labs that people do are so non-realistic to make the problems simpler that they actually are not very valuable," said Alan Paller, director of research, SANS Institute. "We've made them realistic, for example, in our hacker class. You actually go to war. It's a 'capture the flag' environment. You're working, but you're under attack. We believe that if you're going to test whether or not somebody can do something, you need to put them pretty close to the real world, not close to a pretend version of the real world. We never differentiate between the two because we think it's the combination that gives your boss the ability to know that you've learned it. Talk to people who've been through a program and are now working to find out whether it actually makes a difference. Don't try to analyze (a lab) by sitting in it or reading a brochure."
"When we develop our certification programs, we're making specific claims and inferences about candidates' capabilities, should they earn that certification," said Drew Rosen, senior manager, learning and development, Cisco Systems. "Employers aren't really concerned with, 'Can you tell me the size of this packet or this protocol?' They want to know, 'can you run my busines


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Q: Proof with compact sets Prove the following: If $\Omega$ is open, then there are compact sets $K_j,j = 1,2,...,$ with
$$K_j \subset \mathring{K}_{j+1} \quad \text{for every j} $$
such that $$ \bigcup_{j=1}^\infty K_j = \Omega$$
Problem is that I have no idea how to chose these compact sets $K_j$; someone who can give me a hint? Thanks!

A: Assume $\Omega$ is non-empty.
Hint: Suppose you have constructed $K_j$, consider the Hausdorff distance of $K_j$ and $\mathbb{C} \setminus \Omega$ i.e. let $(X,d)$ is a metric space, $K$ is compact and $C$ is closed, the Hausdorff distance between $K$ and $C$ denoted by $D(K,C)$ is defined as
$$D(K,C) = \underset{x \in K, y\in C}{\min}(d(x,y)).$$
Use this to build the interior of the next compact set.

A: Let $\Omega$ be an open subset of $\mathbb{C}$. For simplicity, we will consider the bounded open subsets first.
(In fact, we may assume $\Omega\subseteq \mathbb{R}^n$. The same argument works.)  Take a countable dense subset $D=\{x_n\mid n\in\mathbb{N}\}$ of $\Omega$, that is, $\overline{D}\cap\Omega=\Omega$.
For each $n$, choose $r_n$ such that $\overline{B}(x_n,r_n)\subseteq \Omega$.
There is no reason to think $X=\bigcup_n \overline{B}(x_n,r_n)$ is $\Omega$. Hence we need a trick: observe that every subset of $\Omega$ is second-countable, so Lindelöf. Hence we can choose a collection of closed balls $\{\overline{B}(y_n,t_n)\mid n\in\mathbb{N}\}$ such that $\overline{B}(y_n,t_n)\subseteq\Omega$ and $\{B(y_n,t_n/2)\mid n\in\mathbb{N}\}$ covers $\Omega\setminus X$.
Now construct $K_n$ as follows: assume that $K_{n-1}$ is given. Consider a collection $\mathcal{X}$ of a countable cover of closed balls that covers $\partial K_{n-1}$. Now define $K_n:=K_{n-1}\cup \bigcup \mathcal{X}\cup \overline{B}(x_n,r_n)\cup \overline{B}(y_n,t_n)$. We can see that $K_n$ satisfies the desired properties.

Now consider the general $\Omega$. Assume that $\langle K_{mn}\mid m\in\mathbb{N}\rangle$ is a sequence of closed sets which satisfies $K_{mn}\subseteq K_{m+1,n}^\circ$ and $\bigcup_m K_{mn}=\Omega\cap B(0,n)$.
Then we can take $K_l=\bigcup_{m,n\le l} K_{m,n}$, and $\langle K_l\mid l\in\mathbb{N}\rangle$ is a desired sequence.

A: For $\Omega = \mathbb C$ it is trivial: Take $K_n = \overline{B_n(0)}$.
So let us consider $\Omega \ne \mathbb C$. For each $z \in \Omega$ define $r(z) =  \sup \{r > 0 \mid B_r(z) \subset \Omega \}$. Since  $\Omega \ne \mathbb C$ we have $r(z) < \infty$. Clearly $B_{r(z)}(z) \subset \Omega$.
Let $\Omega' \subset \Omega$ be the subset of all $z = x + iy \in \Omega$ such that $x, y \in \mathbb Q$. This set is countable since $\mathbb Q \times \mathbb Q$ is countable. Write $\Omega' = \{ z_1, z_2, z_3, \ldots ... \}$. Let us show that $\bigcup_{n=1}^\infty B_{r(z_n)}(z_n) = \Omega$.
Consider $z \in \Omega$. There exists $n$ such that $\lvert z - z_n \rvert < r(z)/2$. For $w \in \mathbb C$ with $\lvert w - z_n \rvert < r(z)/2$ we have $\lvert w - z \rvert \le \lvert w - z_n \rvert + \lvert z_n - z \rvert < r(z)/2 + r(z)/2 = r(z)$, thus $B_{r(z)/2}(z_n) \subset B_{r(z)}(z) \subset \Omega$. Hence $r(z_n) \ge r(z)/2$. But clearly $z \in B_{r(z)/2}(z_n) \subset B_{r(z_n)}(z_n)$.
Define
$$K_m = \bigcup_{n=1}^m \overline{B_{(1-\frac{1}{m})r(z_n)}(z_n)} .$$
These sets are compact. Clearly $U_m =  \bigcup_{n=1}^m B_{(1-\frac{1}{m})r(z_n)}(z_n)$ is an open set contained in $K_m$, thus $U_m \subset \mathring K_m$. Since $\overline{B_{(1-\frac{1}{m})r(z_n)}(z_n)} \subset B_{(1-\frac{1}{m+1})r(z_n)}(z_n)$, we see that $K_m \subset U_{m+1} \subset \mathring K_{m+1}$. Let us show that $\bigcup_{m=1}^\infty K_m = \Omega$.
Consider $z \in \Omega$. There exists $N$ such that $z \in B_{r(z_N)}(z_N)$. For sufficiently large $M$ we have $z \in B_{(1-\frac{1}{M})r(z_N)}(z_N)$, thus for $m = \max (N, M)$ we get $z \in K_m$.


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IRVING — A 1-2 record has never looked so good for the Dallas Cowboys.
It is certainly much better than the doomsday mood that could have engulfed the Cowboys for two weeks without that victory going into their bye weekend.
The Cowboys avoided their first 0-3 start since 2001, and their first three-game losing streak under coach Wade Phillips, by finally Sunday looking like the team that went into this season expected to be one of the NFC's best.
Dallas had a turnover-free game on offense, with Tony Romo throwing two touchdown passes to oft-criticized receiver Roy Williams. The defense had four sacks and finally forced some turnovers for the first time this season, with two interceptions and a fumble recovery.
Last season, the Cowboys went into the bye week after a 26-20 overtime victory at then-winless Kansas City. That made Dallas 3-2 instead of 2-3 for an extra week. The Cowboys won five of their next six games after their break and went on to win the NFC East title.
This time, they avoided being winless for an extended period.
Despite two losses, the Cowboys are within one game of NFC East-leading Philadelphia (2-1) while division foes Washington and the New York Giants are also 1-2. There are still 13 games left in the regular season.
The victory for the Cowboys came after some inspirational words the night before the game from special teams coach Joe DeCamillis, who is still recovering from the broken neck he sustained when the Cowboys' practice facility collapsed during a rookie minicamp in May 2009.
"I wasn't big on speeches last week, but Joe D was talking about when the facility collapsed and he was under the rubble and he had to make a decision whether he wanted to live or die. He didn't want to die. He basically had to do whatever he could to live," Sensabaugh said.


A single strand of electrified polytape will preserve deer out of the garden without harming you or your children. They are now well behaved animals and men and women are amazed that I can walk with these large dogs. I reside in a location where they just stare at you quizzically in the feed shop when you ask about electric fencing and I don't know anyone who has put one particular up. I have been desperately hunting for pictures of how to to get a very good goat fence up. Sadly, it really is also late for my apple trees, but I could still be able to save my other trees!
It can even traverse rocky hillsides or other rough terrain, although the installation costs may possibly be higher due to elevated labor expenditures and specialty tools. It also reduces the danger of injury that can be triggered by barbed wire fences or broken chain link fences with sharp edges. The cost of a trainer greatly depends on his knowledge, experience level, the disposition of the pet, and the area in which you reside.
Each garden fencing kit includes wire, posts, energizers and other fencing accessories, organized according to the size of the garden. This electric fence is ideal for maintaining smaller sized livestock like goats, sheep, alpacas, llamas and pigs. It's swift and uncomplicated to set up, so it can be used for both permanent and transportable electric fencing.
Electrical wire is the fastest fence to construct despite the fact that needs an electric fencer to produce electric shock. After all the corner posts are set and the steel fence posts and insulators are up it is time to place the wire by way of the insulators. You dog should be leashed or enclosed inside a fence (or in a dog park that is fenced in) or out in the nation. 1st time I met her when a I saw a cop with one of these big loops to control animals opening the fence to our backyard. The subsequent step is to test the fence with an electric fence tester to make certain it is charging nicely and then it is time to let the goats out!
Invest in a transportable horse enclosure that's straightforward to set up and take down with this Gallagher horse corral electric fence kit. When you have this figured out it is time to get a solar fence charger and any other accessories that it could come with. These electric fence posts are greate for cattle, equine, hogs, sheep, and wildlife. Hang the charger on the pole, then attach it to the earth rod, and cut a piece of wire as shown to attach to the lower electric fence wire and a piece to go from there to the top wire as shown.


I have lots of family & friends with dogs & cats mostly. Does anyone have any favorite pet product suggestions for gifts? I love these Chuckit products but have used them up in my friends and family circle. I would appreciate any suggestions. For cats also. Thanks!


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Performance audit 129
Assurance review 1
(-) Remove Employment filter Employment
Cross Government 45
Effective Cross-Agency Agreements
The audit objective was to assess whether agreements between Australian Government (Commonwealth) agencies reflect sound administrative practices. To meet this objective, the audit reviewed current government policy and a range of better practice guidelines, conducted interviews with agencies and examined cross-agency agreements, to formulate suitable audit criteria and subsequently develop better practice principles.
Application of the Core APS Values and Codes of Conduct to Australian Government Service Providers
The audit objective was to assess the extent to which Australian Government agencies ensure that service providers are made aware of the core Australian Public Service (APS) Values and Code of Conduct and these arrangements are monitored.
Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry; Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations; Department of Health and Ageing; Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs
Published: Thursday 19 November 2009
Administration of Youth Allowance
The audit objective was to assess the effectiveness of administrative arrangements for YA, including service delivery. The ANAO assessed DEEWR's and Centrelink's performance against three main criteria:
objectives and strategies for the ongoing management and performance measures for YA provide a firm basis for measurement against outcomes (Chapters 2 and 3);
YA services delivered are consistent with legislative and policy requirements, (Chapter 4); and
monitoring arrangements provide appropriate information for assessing service delivery performance (Chapter 5).
Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations; Centrelink
Published: Monday 28 September 2009
Confidentiality in Government Contracts - Senate Order for Departmental and Agency Contracts (Calendar Year 2008 Compliance)
The Senate Order for Departmental and Agency Contracts (the Senate Order/the Order) was introduced in June 2001. The Order is one of several measures that the Senate introduced in recent years, to improve public knowledge of information on procurement and the expenditure of public funds. The main principle that underpins the Senate Order is that the Parliament's and public's access to this information should not be restricted by the inclusion of confidential information in contracts unless there is a sound basis for doing so. Public knowledge of information on contracted goods and services delivered to the government, can lead to better results for the Australian Government and the public. The Senate Order requirements have been amended over time to improve agency reporting, for example, on grants.
Published: Monday 7 September 2009
Campaign Advertising Review 2008-09
As an element of the arrangements implemented to support the role of the ANAO in reviewing campaigns' compliance with the Guidelines announced on 2 July 2008, the ANAO advised the chair of the JCPAA that the ANAO will provide regular summary reports to Parliament. Section 25 of the Auditor-General's Act 1997 provides for the tabling of such reports.
Funding for Non-government Schools
The audit objective was to assess the effectiveness of the department's administration of general recurrent grants for non-government schools. The audit examined key processes in the department's administration ofgeneral recurrent grants for non-government schools for 2005–08 in accordance with the Schools Assistance (Learning Together—Achievement Through Choice and Opportunity) Act 2004.
Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations
Construction of the Christmas Island Immigration Detention Centre
The objective of the audit, in examining the construction of the CIIDC, was to assess:
the adequacy of the planning and delivery processes for the project;
the value-for-money achieved in the delivery of the project, including with regard to the suitability of the centre for its intended purpose; and
the extent to which the Public Works Committee Act.
Department of Finance and Deregulation
Settlement Grants Program
The objective of the audit was to assess the effectiveness of the Department of Immigration and Citizenship's management of the Settlement Grants Program. The ANAO assessed DIAC's performance in terms of how effectively it planned for funding rounds, assessed and allocated grants, monitored and evaluated the program, and managed relationships with its stakeholders. In doing so, the ANAO focused on SGP projects that received funding in the 2007–08.
Department of Immigration and Citizenship
Management of the Movement Alert List
The objective of the audit was to assess the effectiveness of DIAC's management of MAL. The scope was confined to DIAC's management and use of the system: it did not examine the work of others with an interest in the system, such as security agencies.
Management of the Australian Government's Action Plan to Eradicate Trafficking in Persons
The objective of the audit was to assess the arrangements for oversighting the Action Plan and whether the Plan's new measures have been administered effectively to deliver the intended results.
Attorney-General's Department; Department of Immigration and Citizenship; Australian Federal Police; Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs


A new MSP evaluation study has been published in Global Social Welfare! Here's the abstract, and please contact us via the Contact Form if you'd like to receive a copy of the article.
The Men's Story Project (MSP) is a scalable social and behavior change communication initiative that fosters critical reflection and dialogue about masculinities by creating public forums where men share non-fiction, personal narratives that challenge male norms and model healthy, gender-equitable masculinities. Via focus groups and in-depth interviews, this qualitative evaluation study examined impacts of the MSP for 20 MSP presenters and 31 college audience members who attended an MSP production at a public university in California in the Spring 2009 semester. Key thematic findings for MSP presenters included value placed on the men's group experience; having their stereotypes and prejudices challenged; empowerment and healing; reinforced commitment to cease/prevent men's violence; and expanded gender justice engagement. For audience members, key thematic findings included gaining an expanded conceptualization of masculinity; learning about intersectionality; having their stereotypes and prejudices challenged; and finding significant overall educational and social value in the MSP. The MSP's effects on audience members were facilitated by experiences of emotion, empathy, parafriendship and role modeling elicited by the first-person narratives, and the social learning environment fostered by the collective, public experience. Directions for further international research and practice are discussed.
The first academic evaluation study of the Men's Story Project was published online in July 2018 in Men and Masculinities, one of the world's leading masculinities journals. It can be found here.
Gender-transformative interventions have been found to help ameliorate gender-inequitable norms and improve health outcomes for women and men. While narrative-based strategies are increasingly being used in public health programs, no evaluation publications exist to date for gender-transformative programming that employs men's public narrative-sharing as a central means for promoting healthy masculinities. The Men's Story Project (MSP) creates live productions in which diverse men publicly perform personal narratives that challenge hegemonic masculinity, promote gender equality, and highlight intersections of masculinity with other social identities. This study draws upon six focus groups with thirty-one audience members (AMs), two weeks after an MSP production at a US public university. The MSP led AMs to reevaluate key pillars of hegemonic masculinity, including a singular conception of masculinity, essentialist notions of gender, restricted emotional expression, and use of violence; AMs also gained an expanded understanding of intersectionality. Directions for future research are discussed.
Below are written reflections from a group of MSP presenters. We asked them about what they gained or learned from their participation, as well as ways to strengthen the MSP moving forward. Below are some selected quotes and ideas.
Overall, how was it for you to participate in the Men's Story Project?
What, if anything, do you feel you gained or learned from writing your story and sharing it publicly?
What, if anything, do you feel you gained or learned from the playshop and run-through and your interactions with the other storytellers?
Congrats to Emory MSP director on 2015 Emory Humanitarian Award!
Hi all! Here is a downloadable document with a summary of the MSP's resource offerings. We look forward to exciting new collaborations this Fall!
This conference poster shows key findings of a qualitative evaluation study of the Men's Story Project. It was presented at the 2nd Global MenEngage Symposium in New Delhi (11/14). The findings were also presented at the International Conference on Masculinities in New York (3/15). The work is being written up as two journal articles; one will focus on effects of the MSP for audience members, and the other for MSP presenters.
University of Oregon Men's Center to create new MSP Production!
The Men's Story Project was honored to be invited to the Convening on Masculinity, Healing and Peacebuilding organized in Philadelphia by the American Friends Service Committee. Participants included scholars and activists/advocates who are doing evidence-based and innovative work in areas including violence prevention, promotion of healthy masculinities, economic empowerment and peacebuilding. Participants reflected on how to support healthy masculinities among young men facing structural oppression, learned from each others' work, and envisioned potential partnerships. We look forward to next steps!


Researchers are developing new image-analysis algorithms that yield actionable inferences from low signal-to-noise data gathered from different ground- and space-based observatories that might otherwise be discarded. Integrating these image processing and inference algorithms with constellations of small satellites, can provide a tool that is highly applicable to space security missions.
The 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded for the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the universe, thought to be driven by "dark energy," which has no explanation by known physical phenomena. Lawrence Livermore contributes leading roles in two next-generation dark-energy surveys: the ground-based Large Synoptic Survey Telescope in northern Chile and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's space-based WFIRST-AFTA (Wide-Field Infrared Survey Telescope and Astrophysics Focused Telescope Assets). Both surveys will image billions of galaxies, and for the first time we will be limited by systematics rather than statistical errors. We plan to improve dark-energy parameter constraints from these surveys by an order of magnitude with new image-analysis algorithms that synthesize many low signal-to-noise observations to reduce both systematic and statistical errors in the measurements of gravitational lensing effects on galaxy images. Our approach relies on numerical forward simulation of images, including source properties (e.g., brightness, morphology, and spectral features), observing conditions (e.g., atmosphere turbulence or telescope image aberrations), and detector response. These simulations are embedded into a Monte Carlo statistical framework, which relies on repeated random sampling to compute results, to characterize noise distributions and propagate maximal information about sources in compressed form. Because this characterization of images retains all statistical information, optimal combinations of information from multiple images is possible to derive new insights that are often unachievable with any single observation. Because many space surveillance applications face similar challenges, we will also develop the dual-use applications of our image reduction and analysis algorithms for key national security missions.
Traditional astronomical image analysis relies on point estimators of source properties extracted into a catalog for downstream processing. Such point estimators invariably become biased and sub-optimal as various systematic errors become important and as the signal-to-noise ratio of the measurements decrease. We expect our approach will change the way that most astronomical imaging is analyzed and improve the inferences about cosmological parameters and galaxy properties by an order of magnitude to enable distinguishing dark energy from modified gravity. With a statistically sampled forward-model of the sensor pixel data, our algorithms are less prone to biased inferences and can regulate measurements with arbitrarily low signal-to-noise. In some cases, our algorithms promise to significantly reduce risk in key science requirements. For space domain awareness, our program may create actionable inferences from low signal-to-noise data from different observatories that might otherwise be discarded. We expect to create new capabilities for integrating numerous economical sensors to replace a few conventional expensive facilities. Specific tasks include (1) scaling image analysis and hierarchical inference algorithms, (2) building an orbital debris catalog from optical transit surveys, (3) deriving new dark-energy constraints from initial dark-energy surveys, (4) preparing for the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope commissioning and testing our analysis methodology on next-stage dark-energy surveys, and (5) simulating an integrated space surveillance mission with multiple observatories. A successful project will establish a leading role for Livermore in the science analyses from the two dark-energy survey telescopes and enable new mission concepts for space surveillance.
The dual-use application of our image processing and inference algorithms will meet the research and development requirements in the development of constellations of small satellites to perform national security missions, including detailed modeling and simulation of constellations and design of algorithms to combine information from similar sensors. This effort supports DOE goals in science and security and the Laboratory's mission challenge area in space security. Our methodology is applicable to the Laboratory's core competency in high-performance computing, simulation, and data science.
In FY17 we (1) demonstrated image analysis components using both simulated and real data from a variety of input sources, including new detection algorithms and Bayesian probability models for characterizing sources in the images; (2) deployed computational tools on high-performance computing resources and tested the scalability of certain algorithms with input data size; and (3) developed algorithm modifications for data calibration and utilization of multi-epoch imagery to filter desired signals from background noise.
The cosmological matter distribution can be inferred from gravitational lensing distortions of background galaxy images by mass along the line-of-sight. (a) The Deep Lens Survey is a four-band optical imaging survey for which galaxy image moments have been measured to sub-percent accuracy enabling cosmological "mass mapping." (b) The lensing distortions and magnifications of galaxy images in a field such as in (a) are highly correlated, requiring specification of the covariance matrix of the lensing effects over the field—a potentially high-dimensional problem in spatial statistics. (c) Using a physics-based covariance model we can accurately separate "E-type" and "B-type" contributions to the lensing field (analogous to curl-free or gradient-free vector fields). (d) Our new mass mapping algorithm correctly reproduces the mass distribution in a known system of merging galaxy clusters (yellow peaks and white "x" symbols).
Dawson, W. A., Schneider, M. D., 2017. "The Design of Sensitive Optical Surveys for Space Situational Awareness." LLNL-TR-737015.
Schneider, M. D., et al. 2017. "Probabilistic Cosmological Mass Mapping from Weak Lensing Shear." Astrophys. J. 839. LLNL-JRNL-697380. doi:10.3847/1538-4357/839/1/25.


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Doctor Strange 2 Movie Hindi Dubbed
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness is an upcoming American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics character Doctor Strange. Produced by Marvel Studios and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, it is intended to be the sequel to Doctor Strange (2016) and the 28th film of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). The film is directed by Sam Raimi from a script written by Jade Halley Bartlett and Michael Waldron, and stars Benedict Cumberbatch as Stephen Strange, alongside Benedict Wong, Rachel McAdams, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Elizabeth Olsen, and Xochitl Gomez. In the film, Strange casts a spell that opens the door to the multiverse, including an alternate version of Strange. Doctor Strange 2 Movie Hindi Dubbed Release Date
After watching the trailer we can say that this is a good watchable movie. The trailer of the movie has been already released on youtube. And it's crossed over 3 million views on youtube. After seeing the audience's response as views. We can say that this movie will hit on the box office. The movie is going to release in the theater on 6 May 2022. You can watch this movie in the theater on 6 May 2022. Read below down all cast and crew members of the movie in detail.
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Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness Movie All Cast and crew Member
Movie Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
Genre Superhero
Cast Benedict Cumberbatch
Xochitl Gomez
Director Sam Raimi
Producer Kevin Feige
Production Company Marvel Studios
Release Date 6 May 2022
Release Language English, Hindi, and more multi-languages
Release Platform Theater
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Elizabeth Olsen as Wanda Maximoff
Xochitl Gomez as America Chavez
Rachel McAdams as Christine Palmer
Benedict Cumberbatch as Stephen Strange
Benedict Wong as Wong
Chiwetel Ejiofor as Karl Mordo
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This movie will release in multi-languages in the theater. You can watch this movie in the theater on 6 May 2022. The ott release date of the movie has not been confirmed yet. But this movie will release on the ott platform too. You can watch this movie on the ott platform after a 3-month release. We will provide you all updates about the ott release date on http://www.facefof.com
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Q: choose what column to include in select based on a second select statment i have a third party program that uses a data base table to display user created (within the app) fields on the screen so i have a table named User_Created_Fields that looks like
TABLE         FIELD_NAME          GROUP     LABEL
products      charge1             1         First Charge
products      begin_date1         1         Begin Date
products      end_date1           1         End Date
products      charge2             2         First Charge
products      begin_date2         2         Begin Date
products      end_date2           2         End Date

when the app sees this in the table it displays the following in the app
Group 1
First Charge   *text area for input*
Begin Date     *text area for input*
End Date       *text area for input*

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Group 2
First Charge  *text area for input*
Begin Date     *text area for input*
End Date       *text area for input*

The app saves the data for these fields to the table and field name specified in the User_Created_Fields table so the PRODUCTS.charge1  and PRODUCTS.charge2 fields (and same for the corresponding date fields).
now i need to create a report that selects the values that are stored in the Products table but... since the fields will be added by users i need the columns selected to come from the Table and field_name columns in the User_Created_Fields table.
so the output would look like
PRODUCTS.Begin_date, PRODUCTS.End_date, PRODUCTS.Charge1, User_Created_Fields.Group
the query would look (very roughly) like
select  (select Table ||'.'||field_name  from User_Created_Fields where Label='First Charge' and Group= (select Group from User_created_fields where label ='First Charge') ) from Products

this is going into a crystal report so i can't just use sql to generate sql like i normally would. There may be a more crystal esq way to do this as well but i am unaware of what it is. this info is going to be combined with sales detail obviously but i left that part out for simplicitiy since this part is un-godly complicated enough. i am using crystal 11 and oracle 10
if you have read all of this you deserve a reward.... thank you.

A: As far as I know Crystal Reports can access stored procedures instead of sql statments. So put your code for creating the sql statement in a stored procedure and use that as the source of data for the report.
You might have to determine a maximum number of columns to support and always return that number of columns in order to make crystal happy.


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American Civil Religion: a book review
American Civil Religion is not Christianity, nor is it any of the great world religions. The term 'civil religion' describes the way politicians use religious imagery and myth toward nationalistic ends. It denotes the way national symbols and political rhetoric comes to take on religious characteristics. Gary Laderman writes:
Americans live by common myths, or sacred stories that express the ideals and fears, moral imperatives, and shared themes that make sense of the world and orient the American nation in a larger, cosmic sense of providence, destiny, and God's designs. It is in this combination of myths, rituals, morality, God, and meaning that religious nationalism assumes form and acquires content as a religious culture generally under the public radar, but certainly a prime driver in American politics.(19)
American Civil Religion by Gary Laderman
Laderman is professor of American Religious History and Cultures at Emory University and a deft guide through the pseudo-religious landscape of American civil religion. His new E-Textbook from Fortress Press, American Civil Religion examines the intersection of religion, politics and culture. The e-book structure allows him to include images, link to relevant online media sources (i.e. YouTube) to present a text that is as dynamic as it is informative.
Laderman begins each of the three sections of this book with a case study from American history which explores a particular theme. In part one of this book he examines the past and present of civil religion in America. His 'case study' is the flag-waving after September 11th. Citing Robert Bellah, he argues that in times of social crisis Americans 'find solace in their sacred status (29).' The flag becomes a sacred symbol because of the ritiuals surrounding it which point to shared identity and transcendence. The American brand of 'civil religion' owes much to its protestant and Puritan heritage which affirmed the absolute transcendence of God and his involve in political affairs. This heritage, combined with the Deism of the founding of America also left an indelible mark giving Americans sacred principles to rally around (connecting God and national destiny, self-determination, religious freedom).
In part two Laderman describes how war and violence are sacramentalized by the body politic. The civil war is his case study and a prime example of how 'sacrifice for the union' took on a spiritual dimension. The death of Abraham Lincoln became a symbol of unity for the Union and the ritual surrounding his travelling embalmed body brought cohesion to a nation in need of healing. Certainly the civil war was not the only example of this: wars and rumors of wars abound in American history. Laderman examines a number of moments of crisis in American history where the rhetoric surrounding the death of soliders takes on a religious/transcendent dimension. Presidents from both sides of the aisle use religious imagery to justify wars and honor the dead.
Part three describes how the political leaders make use of sacred symbols in pop culture. Laderman's case study is Ronald Reagan's attempt to co-opt Springsteen's Born in the USA. However Reagan is not the only president to take hold of cultural images. Other presidents have made use of the media and new technologies to serve their ends (From FDR's Fireside chats to Obama's YouTube channel and beyond). In the last chapter Laderman discusses the plurality of "American Civil Religions" as each religion (Christianity in Protestant and Catholic varieties, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism etc) is used to serve national and cultural ends.
This is a meaty little book (93 pages with pictures). It offers an astute analysis of the religious character of American culture and institutions. Laderman is a historian and the chief value of this book is the way he illustrates 'civil religion' with examples from our history. If you are looking for a book which examines how religious metaphor has been co-opted in the American context, this book provides an insightful analysis. Laderman stops short of telling readers what their response should be to these trends. Clearly sometimes the religious dimension to American public life has served some good. However, sometimes the trends are somewhat troubling and American civil religion tends to over-promise. Reaching for transcendence will do that to you.
I enjoyed this book and the use of images and video clips enriched the text. I give this four stars: ★★★★☆
Thank you to Fortress Press for providing me a copy of this book in exchange for my honest review.
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Law student Herrittaccei Shabazz stands in front of the FAMU College of Law building in Orlando, Florida.
Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University (FAMU) College of Law achieved a 73.6 percent passage rate on the July 2014 Florida Bar Exam, besting the overall average for the second time within two years.
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The FAMU College of Law was founded in 1949 on the main campus in Tallahassee. After graduating 57 lawyers, the law school was closed by the State of Florida in 1968. The Florida Legislature voted to reopen the law school in 2000, and Orlando was selected as the location. The re-established FAMU College of Law opened its doors in 2002 and is now housed in a state-of-the-art facility in downtown Orlando. The FAMU College of Law received full accreditation from the American Bar Association in July 2009, and accreditation was continued in July 2014. The FAMU College of Law has been consistently recognized for its diversity efforts by U.S. News & World Report, National Jurist, and On Being a Black Lawyer – which also named the College of Law as the Best Bargain Law School in the Nation for black law students in 2013.
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Snap jumps after Goldman upgrades it to 'buy' on better-than-expected user growth
Daniel StraussJul 12, 2019, 18:30 IST
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Shares of Snap Inc., the creator of popular social media platform Snapchat, rose as much as 3.8% pre-market on Friday after Goldman Sachs upgraded the company from a "neutral" to a "buy" rating.
The Wall Street firm cited higher-than-anticipated user growth from the launch of Snap Games and widely popular gender swap lenses as the reason for the upgrade.
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Snap's winning streak in the markets could continue for the rest of the year, according to a new research report.
Goldman Sachs upgraded the social media company from a "neutral" to a "buy" rating on Friday lifting shares by as much as 3.8%. Snap's 12-month price target was also raised to $18 from $13.
The bank said Snap's upgrade was based on user growth surpassing expectations because of the company's updated Android app, the release of Snap Games, and the success of new Snapchat lenses.
Downloads of Snapchat hit a record 41 million in May thanks to the new updates, Goldman said. The previous record was set in mid-2016 with 30 million downloads.
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Hundreds of soldiers recreate air drop over northern France
Kevin Dougherty
• June 8, 2009
StripesEuropean edition, Monday, June 8, 2009
SAINTE-MÈRE-ÉGLISE, France — On a field not far from where Ralph Manley and thousands of other American paratroopers jumped into history 65 years ago, soldiers of a different era symbolically took their turn in Normandy.
Nearly 400 U.S. soldiers parachuted Sunday into field a couple of miles outside of Sainte-Mère-Église, France, capping off several days of activities commemorating the 1944 Allied invasion of northern France, commonly known as D-Day.
They were joined by more than 160 French, British and German soldiers.
Since 2004, Germany, whose military was vanquished in World War II, has played an increasing role in marking the end of Adolf Hitler's Third Reich.
On the Western Front, the dismantling of the German war machine began in Sainte-Mère-Église, the first French town liberated.
"I'm really honored to have jumped onto this drop zone," said Spc. Wesley Bird, a paratrooper with the 173rd Airborne Combat Brigade Team in Vicenza, Italy.
The parachute drop commenced despite strong winds and intermittent showers.
"It went really well," Bird said as he turned to reveal a soiled left shoulder. "The end was a little shitty," he laughed. It is, after all, a farmer's field where bovines roam.
A few jumpers had a bit rougher time of it.
Five American soldiers were injured and medically evacuated, and were treated at French hospitals. A German soldier apparently was stuck in a high tree. More details were still pending Sunday evening.
One Navy SEAL landed in the crowd, though no one on the ground was injured. One person jokingly observed that, as a SEAL, he was probably aiming for a small river. He made it. The large crowd appreciated the effort.
Conditions, however, were far, far dicier for Manley, who was with the 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division.
Imagine this: You are 20 years old, it's shortly after midnight and you are jumping out of plane in bad weather behind enemy lines.
And you weigh 417 pounds, with equipment.
Then the plane catches fire, maybe flak, because there was a lot of it the night of June 6, 1944, and you are one of five paratroopers to make it out of the plane alive. Thirteen weren't lucky; nor was the air crew.
"It was difficult until daylight," Manley said Sunday. "We were widely scattered. It kind of worked to our advantage because the Germans thought there were a million of us. We were everywhere, but not in large numbers."
Manley and other veterans who attended the various ceremonies are treated like royalty whenever they come to Normandy, though some waited until this year to return for the first time. At the drop zone Sunday, thousands of people from the region stood to watch the parachute drop.
Spc. Enock Nyaenya and Sgt. 1st Class Richard Schultz held out an American flag as they neared the ground. Upon landing, a woman handed both of them baguettes. "Mercì," Schultz said.
Taking it all in was Nancy Gamber of Hershey, Pa. Her 91-year-old father, Ralph, fought in the Battle of the Bulge in Bastogne, Belgium. Of more than 270 in his unit, only 18 survived the German counteroffensive in December 1944.
The reception that veterans, soldiers and Americans receive in this part of France astounded her. Most people in the States don't come close to responding this way to veterans and servicemembers, she said with chagrin.
"I just couldn't believe it," Gamber said of the French people in Normandy. "It blows my mind."
Sgt. 1st Class Robert Sciandra of the 75th Ranger Regiment would second that observation. He was part of the jump, struggled with the winds but arrived safely.
A brief conversation soon turned to the wristband he wears bearing the name of Sgt. 1st Class Dave L. McDowell.
"He was a good friend of mine," Sciandra said.
McDowell was shot and killed in Afghanistan on April 28, 2008. Sciandra has also lost two other friends, one in Iraq and another during training in Germany.
He was asked if he thought of McDowell on a festive day such as this.
"Absolutely," Sciandra said. "I think of all the guys we've lost over the years."
Stars and Stripes reporter Steve Mraz contributed to this report.
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Asparagus, that ancient and often expensive sprout, is at its best in late spring. By the most fortunate of coincidences, the legendary Vidalia onion appears at the same time. Consider pairing these two subtle, sweet vegetables with ham, a meat which is frequently accompanied by sweet flavors, in this elegant and visually appealing entree for a romantic dinner for two.
Virtually all the prep work for this meal can be done in advance. Keep the rest of the menu simple and straightforward. A light consomme or perhaps a chilled soup such as gazpacho or vichysoisse would make a suitable first course. For dessert, think fresh strawberries, also in season just now.
Prepare the coulis by simmering one medium Vidalia onion, sliced thinly, in 2 tablespoons unsalted butter until translucent. Keep the heat low, and do not allow the onion to brown. It should become a light golden color. Add 2 red bell peppers, seeded and chopped, and 1-1/2 cups chicken stock. Bring to a boil over high heat, then reduce the heat and simmer until the peppers are soft about 5 minutes. Transfer to a blender, allow to cool at least 15 minutes, and puree. Strain through a sieve and refrigerate until ready to serve.
Prepare the ham cakes. Heat a tablespoon of olive oil or unsalted butter in small skillet over medium heat. Add 2 tablespoons finely minced red bell peppers, 1/4 cup finely chopped scallions (white part only) and one clove of garlic, finely minced. When the vegetables are tender, transfer them to a bowl and allow to cool. Then add 3/4 cup chopped or minced ham. (Canned ham works well for this recipe. Drain well and shred with a fork before measuring. Exact amounts are not critical for this recipe.) To the ham and vegetable mixture, add 2 tablespoons mayonnaise, 1 teaspoon Dijon mustard, 2 tablespoons minced scallion greens, salt, pepper and enough beaten egg to thoroughly moisten the mixture. (This should take about half a large egg. Beat the egg well in a small bowl and add it by spoonfuls as you turn the mixture in the bowl.) Prepare about a cup of cracker crumbs by crumbling saltines in a food processor, or by hand. Add the crumbs in portions to the ham mixture, turning gently with a wooden spoon until the mixture holds together and starts to look a little dry. You may not need to add all the crumbs. Sprinkle a layer of crumbs onto a plate that has been lined with waxed paper. Using two spoons, form the ham mixture into small cakes, each about an inch and a half in diameter. Place them on the plate. When all of the cakes are formed (there should be about 6), sprinkle the tops with more cracker crumbs. Press gently with the back of a spoon to coat the cakes evenly with crumbs. Refrigerate, covered with another sheet of waxed paper, at least one hour, and up to eight hours, before continuing.
Prepare the asparagus by rinsing it thoroughly and breaking off the tough end of the stalk. You need at least eight stalks, each about six inches in length, for this recipe. Never buy asparagus, by the way, by simply picking up the bundle that the grocery displays. This will invariably contain some inferior spears that are either too small, too dehydrated, or have the tips damaged. Asparagus is one of the costliest vegetables, so I take the time to pick out top quality spears. Besides, paying for a whole bundle, usually slightly over a pound, when you only need a few spears makes no sense. Once you have cleaned and trimmed the asparagus, place it, tips upright in a large tumbler or jar. Add about an inch of cold water to the jar, and sprinkle in a pinch of sugar. Place the whole thing in the refrigerator for several hours. Refreshing the asparagus in this way restores some � but by no means all � of the freshly-picked taste.
Preheat the oven to 425�F. Drain the asparagus, blot dry with paper towels, and place it in a shallow roasting pan with a tablespoon of olive oil. Shake the pan to roll the stalks around, coating them with the oil and settling them into a single layer. Place the asparagus on the top rack of the preheated oven. Watch carefully, shaking the pan gently at least once to turn the spears during the cooking process. Be extremely careful not to splash your skin with hot oil. When the spears have turned bright green and many of them are beginning to develop a golden brown coloration near the tips, remove the pan from the oven, turn off the heat, and allow the asparagus to cool in the oil for a couple of minutes. It will continue to cook in the hot oil. Check for doneness by testing with a fork near the bottom of the stalk. Remove the asparagus to a plate lined with paper towels, and cover loosely with foil. In a nonstick skillet, melt 2 tablespoons of butter over medium heat. When the foam subsides, add the ham cakes, in batches if necessary, and brown them on both sides, turning once. As they are cooked, transfer the cakes to a plate and place in the warm oven.
Meanwhile, reheat the coulis over gentle heat until it is hot but not boiling. Ladle a pool of the coulis into the center of a warmed plate. On top of the coulis, arrange the asparagus like the spokes of a wheel. Place three of the ham cakes in the center. Garnish with minced fresh herbs, such as parsley, chives, basil or a combination.
The sweetness of the Vidalia onions, asparagus and peppers may make this dish hard to pair with a wine. Instead, try serving it with a top quality imported or microbrew beer that has a light character and not too much hops.