SEATTLE, WA -- You've heard the saying about dogs, "His bark is worse than his bite." The half-a-million dollar lawsuit sparked by a barking dog in Seattle really bites.
Cawper is the dubious dog whose bark is costing owner Denis Norton some big bucks.
In a 36-page complaint, Norton's neighbor, Woodrow Thompson, says Cawper is known for, "Raucously, wildly bellowing, howling and explosively barking," calling the dog an outrage, with intentional infliction of emotional distress. Thompson also claims Cawper is capable of barking at 128 decibels through double pane windows. That would make the dog's bark almost as loud as the takeoff of a military jet.
So, how did Thompson win the $500,000 lawsuit? Despite being served with papers, Norton didn't show up in court.
Norton says, "In my head, everything was so bogus that he'd been doing, I don't know why, I just didn't think it was real or something."
So, Thompson was given a default judgement. Norton's finally making her courtroom debut because the lien is official, and she's now trying to unravel the judgement. The suit is now on hold because the family has poured most of its savings into hiring lawyers.
Come on, somebody throw this family a bone!


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Porto Cervo, in the hamlet of Arzachena, is the symbol of luxury vacations in Sardinia, where hotels offer amazing suites of hundreds of square meters. Porto Cervo Marina is also one of the biggest tourist ports of the Mediterranean Sea.
Between July and August Porto Cervo's square, fashion boutiques and above all the yachts and sail boats host celebrities and VIPs, filling newspapers with summer gossip.
Porto Cervo is also full of exclusive nightclubs. Its close proximity to Baja Sardinia and Porto Rotondo make it an ideal starting point for your holidays in Costa Smeralda.
There are many attractions that make it one of the most exclusive holiday destinations in the world: the Esmerald Bazar, Harrods' temporary shop opened in June 2013 and designed by Gio Pagani inside the old harbor, Porto Cervo's Wine & Food Festival, Rossana Orlandi's design studio, exhibitions dedicated to Andy Wharol.
In the splendid scenery of the Costa Smeralda in 2013 was founded the beautiful Reef Beach & Restaurant.
Could you imagine sipping a cocktail at sunset in the surrounding of the bay of Cala di Volpe, one of the most exclusive places in the world and to be lulled by the sea breeze after a relaxing day enjoying the sea. After then to taste the culinary fish specialties, by tasting of the excellent made in italy and international wines.
All this is possible at the Reef Beach & Restaurant.
The Reef is located in the beautiful bay on the white sandy beach of Cala Petra Ruja overlooking the sea. The name of the Restaurant is due to the granite red rocks. Here the sea is crystal blue. The seawaters are transparent and shallow. To the north of the beach Petra Ruja is located the beach called the Long Beach, while to the south the beach Razza di Junco.
The Reef Restaurant is reachable in two different ways: by walk through a path passing the beach of Petra Ruja or by the sea thanks to the tender Reef Beach starting from the pier of Cala di Volpe. The journey takes 15 minutes and during the path, you will admire the beautiful landscape and the crystalline sea of this bay.
This marvelous place is the perfect oasis of peace and tranquility glamour.
From early in the morning you can use the beach service, there are at the disposal of the guests, umbrellas and sun loungers and free beach towels. The Beach Bar offers refreshing drinks, ice creams, delicious cocktails and snacks accompanied by the enjoyable music.
Other available services at the disposal of the guest: free Wi Fi, showers and locker rooms for those who want to prepare for a sunset aperitif and then for an unforgettable dining experience in the evening.
The beach assistance is available from 9 am to 19 pm and provide a daily towel change and accessibility for the disabled.
The Restaurant offers a refined menu in a unique and fascinating setting. Mediterranean flavors surrounded by the wild nature will make you lives unforgettable atmosphere of a real dream.
Suitable and recommended for couples who want to celebrate an anniversary or special occasion, also perfect for exclusive events such as weddings or private and theme parties, all in total privacy with the highest standard of service.
Whatever it's, a delicious lunch based on seafood and fish, an aperitif by the sunset or a romantic dinner, the Reef Experience is for sure an unforgettable experience to try at least once in a life.
With the most prestigious boats, our crews will guide you on memorable days to discover the La Maddalena Archipelago and the South of Corsica. Exclusive service on board.Poseidon is also specialized in fishing trips and provides you with the best equipment to cope with any type of capture together with the experience of experienced local fishermen.
The activities:- Fishing trips;- Organization of "all inclusive" fishing weekends;- Whale watching (sighting large cetaceans);- Internships dedicated to the deepening of the various techniques. We think of everything:Equipment, baits, lunch, fuel, expert crew to guide you in the most fishy waters. In addition there is the possibility of Luxury Yacht rental to choose from a wide range of proposals.Service available in all the ports of Northern Sardinia.
Latest generation American Fisherman with every comfort on board: air conditioning, hi-fi, refrigerator, kitchenette, microwave and colour TV. Designed for fishing and equipped with the best professional instruments as well as a professional SONAR 360 ° scanner.
This model also features the most sophisticated fishing gear and electronic equipment available on the market. Spacious and stable 14-metre boat with an elegant, sporty design, suitable for any type of deep-water fishing.
Perfect solution for the maximum comfort. This boat has all the prestigious optionals.
If you are on holiday will children, Porto Cervo boasts of the best amusement parks, Gregoland just a stone's throw away form Porto Cervo Marina.
During the summer Costa Smeralda offers exclusive concerts often followed by gala dinners in the most luxurious hotels such as Cala di Volpe: in previous years Elton John, Mika, Anastacia, Zucchero, Jamiroquai and Mary J. Blige played here, just to name a few.
Porto Cervo's Food Festival in September and Porto Cervo's Wine Festival in May are two not-to-miss gourmet events, where one can taste the best of Sardinia's enogastronomy.
Other events that attract enthusiasts from all over the world are the Costa Smeralda Rally and, for sailing lovers, Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup regatta.
For those who love windsurfing and kitesurfing, at Liscia di Vacca they offer lessons and rent out equipment to sail across the water carried by the wind.
Enjoying an aperitif at sunset at the Phi Beach Bar is one of the top 10 things to do in Porto Cervo. According to Vanity Fair and the New York Times this is one of the 10 best beach bars in the world.
Porto Cervo is not only a destination for shopping and celebrity spotting, but also one of Costa Smeralda's main attractions: the style, the forms, the architecture have created what would come to be known as "Mediterranean Style".
The architects of Costa Smeralda are Luigi Vietti, Jacques Coüelle and Michele Busiri Vici.
Among the works of art to see in Porto Cervo we recommend Porto Cervo's square, the Curch of Stella Maris designed by architect Michele Busiri Vici, the Dolce Sposa complex and the Starwood hotels: the Cervo Hotel, the Cala di Volpe Hotel, the Pitrizza Hotel and the Romazzino Hotel.
Visiting the Church of Stella Maris you can marvel at the Mater Dolorosa dating back to the 1400s by El Greco (Domenico Theotocopulos), Greek Renaissance artist, and at the sculptures by Pinuccio Sciola.
Porto Cervo is Costa Smeralda's main tourist port. The coast is a series of small coves and beaches, some of which only accessible by boat or via a path.
In front of the island which shares its name, Portisco beach has a shallow seabed, emerald water and thin and pleasant sand. There is a wooden kiosk and the possibility to rent beach chairs and umbrellas, perfect for families with children.
In Sardinian language Rena means sand, and with its white sand and shallow waters this beach is perfect for children.
Razza di Giunco derives its name from the soft rush which protects the beach and make it one of the best in Northern Sardinia. From an environmental standpoint, in 2012 and 2013 this beach received the 4 Sails award of Legambiente's Blue Guide, thanks to the pristine nature that surrounds it.
It consists of four different coves facing north after the Rena Bianca beach. For this reason on maps it is often referred to as Giunco beach, Northern or Southern Giunco Beach.
Just a bit further north, Petra Ruja is a small sandy cove protected by the vegetation typical of Sardinia, the Mediterranean maquis: mastic, juniper and arbutus. At the edge of the cove there are red granite rocks.
These are the longest beaches of Costa Smeralda, made of white sand. During the summer, the Long-Beach Cafè is open, an ideal spot for a romantic aperitif at sunset.
Accessible on foot via a path, this is most certainly Costa Smeralda's most beautiful beach, a protected cove. The colors of its sand and water will amaze you.
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Electric Wizard by Electric Wizard (Album; Rise Above.
Wizard Bloody Wizard isn't a bad album, ELECTRIC WIZARD probably couldn't make a bad album if they tried, but it's a very forgettable and by the numbers. Unfortunately, it's a case of a genre's pioneers sounding like their many followers. There's very little that separates this album from every other stoner and doom outfit on the street, that's not something.
Information on Electric Wizard. Complete discography, ratings, reviews and more.
UK doom legends Electric Wizard. just wrapped up a short, rare run of US shows, their first in this country since releasing 2017's great Wizard Bloody Wizard.The mini-tour began at Austin's.
Find Electric Wizard song information on AllMusic. Heavy metal innovators who rewrote the book with the sheer volume and distortion of their downtuned, grinding, monolithic doom metal.
Import double vinyl LP pressing. 2010 album from the British Doom Metal band. Still the heaviest band on the planet, this time around there is a stronger emphasis on song structure and musicianship than on previous outings. Black Masses is an encyclopedia referencing the history o Heavy Metal from the Kinks to right through to Bathory, thematically governed by occult knowledge passed down from.
Best Electric Wizard Albums show list info. Electric Wizard is an English doom metal band from Dorset. The band formed in 1993 and have recorded eight studio albums, two of which are now considered to be genre landmarks: Come My Fanatics. and Dopethrone. Electric Wizard's brand of doom metal incorporates stoner and sludge traits, with lyrics focusing on the occult, witchcraft, H.P. Lovecraft.
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Electric Wizard CD discography A trip through every aspect of everything that's cool about underground drug-rock from the head-spinning Satanic Psychedelia of 'Patterns Of Evil' through to the NWOBHM on LSD churning of 'Turn Off Your Mind', Black Masses is the album Artist always threatened to make. Black Masses is an encyclopedia referencing the history o Heavy Metal from the Kinks to right.
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Avandia Case Flunks Warning Causation
By Stephen McConnell on January 3, 2018
Posted in Causation, Learned Intermediary, Warnings
We're now into the New Year but aren't completely done with the old one. The name of the first month of the year, January, is conventionally attributed to Janus, the Roman god of beginnings, gates, transitions, and doorways. (We say "conventionally" because some sources report that January is actually named after its tutelary deity, Juno.) Janus, like some of our opponents, is two-faced. Janus looks both forward and backward. Bexis last month took a couple of long looks backward at 2017's best and worst cases. We're still scrolling through the various Ten Best of 2017 culture lists for ideas, confirmations, and occasional outrages. An in-house lawyer we endlessly respect pointed us to The New Yorker's list of top tv programs. It's hard to quarrel with Emily Nussbaum's choice of The Leftovers, a fever-dream about love and loss (and a lion sex boat) as the best drama. She was also right to praise American Vandal, the show that made us laugh out loud the most. (The Good Place came in second on that score.) Nussbaum also gave honorable mention to Halt and Catch Fire, an AMC show that really did seem to catch fire after its first, flawed season. HACF stopped acting like a Mad Men, difficult-guy retread, shifted focus to the female protagonists, and successfully steered us through the digital revolution – from PC clones to gaming to community chat boards to security to the web to PayPal to Yahoo to something even sexier than a lion sex boat: the Next Idea. In seasons 2-4, HACF managed to show us (rather than merely tell us) how "computers aren't the thing; they are the thing that gets us to the thing." That 'thing' is human connection. But you already knew that, right? There is an episode after the death of a major character that is the best depiction of grief and its clumsy toggling between the transcendent and the quotidian that we've seen. The dead leave a lot behind. Some of it goes to Goodwill. Some of it survives in silly stories. Some of it gets caught in our throats and some of it squeezes our tear ducts hard. If you are looking for something to binge, consider The Leftovers, American Vandal, and Halt and Catch Fire (and maybe Patriot, The Americans, and Mindhunter). You might also want to set aside an hour to take in episode 8 of Twin Peaks: The Return because you need to relive your college experience of attending a midnight showing of something arresting and supremely weird.
Today's post takes us back to 2017 for a case that is neither particularly arresting nor even a little bit weird. Rather, the result seems inevitable. In Siddoway v. GlaxoSmithKline LLC (In re Avandia Mktg., Sales Practices & Prods. Liab. Litig.), 2017 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 203885 (E.D. Pa. December 12, 2007), the plaintiff alleged that he sustained a heart attack from taking Avandia, and that the label did not warn him adequately. The facts here, both regarding the plaintiff's use and the regulatory backdrop, lead ineluctably to the defendant's victory on summary judgment. The plaintiff was initially prescribed Avandia from 2001 through 2002. In 2003, the plaintiff suffered two heart attacks, and ultimately underwent a successful heart transplant operation. He blamed Avandia for those heart attacks. Following the heart transplant, a different doctor prescribed Avandia to the plaintiff. The plaintiff continued to take Avandia from December 2003 through June 2007, and did not experience any other adverse cardiovascular condition.
Let's go backward for a moment. When Avandia was initially approved by the FDA in 1999 to treat Type II diabetes, the drug's label contained no warning of an increased risk of heart attack. But in 2007 – four years after the plaintiff's heart transplant — the FDA issued a safety alert for Avandia, notifying consumers that "data from controlled clinical trials have shown that there is a potentially significant increase in the risk of heart attack and heart-related deaths in patients taking Avandia." The FDA directed that a boxed cardio warning be added to the Avandia label. So there's your lawsuit, right?
Not quite. Now let's go forward. After the label change and after the plaintiff filed his lawsuit, the manufacturer and the FDA conducted extensive research on Avandia's safety. In 2013, the FDA ultimately concluded that there was no increased risk of heart attack associated with Avandia use compared to alternative diabetes medications. Thus, in 2014, the FDA approved an updated Avandia label that removed the boxed warning for a potential increased risk of heart attack. Good science led to good news for patients, but not such good news for this particular patient's lawsuit. All of the plaintiff's nine causes of actions essentially boiled down to failure to warn theories, and the facts on the ground had removed all support for that theory. Even putting aside the question of whether the original label was inadequate because it lacked a warning that had now been repudiated by the FDA, the plaintiff's case failed for inability to show that the alleged failure to warn was the proximate cause of the plaintiff's injuries. To the extent that specific claims bumped against the learned intermediary doctrine (Utah law governed, so the learned intermediary doctrine was alive and well), the plaintiff faced a huge problem when it came to posing the usual question to the prescriber: knowing what you know today, would you still have prescribed this medicine to the plaintiff? From his deposition testimony, it is clear that the prescriber's "understanding of Avandia's risk profile today is the same as it was when he prescribed Avandia to [the plaintiff]—that Avandia is not associated with an increased cardiovascular risk compared to other diabetes drugs. He also testified that, if the current package insert were in place when he was prescribing Avandia to [the plaintiff], he still would have prescribed it." That is pretty inescapable logic. John Adams once said that "facts are stubborn things." So is science. So are label changes.
But the plaintiff did try to escape the facts, the science, and the label changes. He pointed to the prescriber's testimony that he "quit using" Avandia for patients after 2007. But that same prescriber's testimony made clear that even when the 2007 data on which the plaintiff based his claims is considered along with the other Avandia risk data available today, he would still prescribe Avandia to the plaintiff, just as he had in 2001 and 2002, when there was no heart attack risk warning in the Avandia label. It is as if the plaintiff tried to preserve his case by seizing upon one favorable moment in time and excluding any other, subsequent facts that might prove inconvenient. Don't look forward, and don't look backward. Just look at the evidence in that nanosecond that might support a claim. But no decent doctor would do that. Nor would any sensible court. Hence, the Siddoway court held that the plaintiff had failed to establish a genuine issue of material fact as to whether the prayed-for warning would have deterred the doctor from prescribing Avandia to the plaintiff before he suffered the 2003 heart attacks. The court looked at all the evidence, forward and backward, and saw its way clearly towards complete dismissal of the case.
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using System;
using Azure.Core;
using Microsoft.Azure.Cosmos;
using Microsoft.Extensions.Azure;
using Microsoft.Extensions.Configuration;

namespace Microsoft.Azure.WebJobs.Extensions.CosmosDB
{
    internal class DefaultCosmosDBServiceFactory : ICosmosDBServiceFactory
    {
        private readonly IConfiguration _configuration;
        private readonly AzureComponentFactory _componentFactory;

        public DefaultCosmosDBServiceFactory(
            IConfiguration configuration,
            AzureComponentFactory componentFactory)
        {
            this._configuration = configuration;
            this._componentFactory = componentFactory;
        }

        public CosmosClient CreateService(string connectionName, CosmosClientOptions cosmosClientOptions)
        {
            CosmosConnectionInformation cosmosConnectionInformation = this.ResolveConnectionInformation(connectionName);
            if (cosmosConnectionInformation.UsesConnectionString)
            {
                // Connection string based auth
                return new CosmosClient(cosmosConnectionInformation.ConnectionString, cosmosClientOptions);
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        }

        private CosmosConnectionInformation ResolveConnectionInformation(string connection)
        {
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            {
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            if (!string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(connectionSection.Value))
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                {
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            public CosmosConnectionInformation(string connectionString)
            {
                this.ConnectionString = connectionString;
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            {
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            public TokenCredential Credential { get; }
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An exciting announcement from Ekonic as they unveils the Trinity Art Series designed power bank and now its available via pre-order.
It is a limited edition power bank with the art of one of DC Comics' most prolific artists in high-quality print.


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I am thankful for the warmth of my home. It's my refuge from the arctic chill that's fallen upon us after a very mild winter. Yet, another blessing for which I am grateful to Him for providing.
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The rendition of 90s songs has become the new fashion in Bollywood. It's a perfect recipe for marketing and luring people to watch the movies. From A. R. Rahman's "Humma Humma" to the Iconic "Tamma Tamma" has been recreated, not even that the old "Kala Chasma" and "Laila Main Laila" has also been roped in the lists of remixes and recreations of the songs.
Of course, people have loved most of them till now but Twitter saw a series of disappointments when the word got out that the iconic number "Tu Cheez Badi Hai Mast Mast" from Akshay Kumar and Raveena Tandon starrer Mohra is going to be revamped for the upcoming film Machine.
Taran Adarsh tweeted and broke the news:
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As soon as Twitterati heard the news, a long trail of tweets started opposing the decision. Some were totally against it and some were really tried to justify their "No' with the sarcastic pun.
Machine is releasing in March and we just hope that they don't ruin that iconic number for us.
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By Alex Coop
PIPEDA's updates a step in the right direction, still lack clarity, says channel community
Channel StrategyCloudInfrastructureManaged ServicesSecurity & Privacy
After sitting on mandatory data-breach disclosure rules for three years, the federal government quietly pushed them through in March and gave impacted organizations a six-month lag period to prepare, but members of the Canadian channel community remain concerned about the vagueness within the laws that, to this day, haven't been thoroughly explained.
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The Digital Privacy Act amended some parts of Canada's Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA), including introducing a new data breach notification requirement that will come into effect on Nov. 1. Earlier this year, the Standing Committee on Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics asked to make significant amendments to PIPEDA – which was introduced in 2000 before Facebook but after Google was incorporated, targeting the commercial sector – in order for the legislation to reflect today's digital age.
The update will require organizations to report to affected individuals and the Office of the Privacy Commissioner (OPC) regarding any security breach involving personal information that creates a "real risk of significant harm."
But the OPC considers a wide-range of concepts when describing significant harm, including bodily harm, humiliation, damage to reputation or relationships and identity theft. Notification to affected individuals and reporting to the OPC, according to the legislation as it's written now, is required "As soon as feasible after an organization determines that the breach has occurred."
Matthew Tyrer, Commvault's senior manager of solutions marketing for Americas.
That's not good enough, says Matthew Tyrer, Commvault's senior manager of solutions marketing for Americas.
"These terms are still very vague, and they don't even have a definite timeline for when a response has to be made," he told CDN. "They'll have to tighten that up."
Theo Van Wyk, chief technology officer of security at Scalar Decisions, agrees.
"We're anxiously waiting to see exactly how these terms will be interpreted," he tells CDN.
Until Nov. 1, breach reporting will remain voluntary, and while the updates to the Digital Privacy Act and PIPEDA are a step in the right direction, Tyrer suggests they should have been in place for years.
He's not alone. Michael Geist, a University of Ottawa law professor, blasted the federal government for dragging its feet on the file. In an op-ed for the Globe and Mail back in March, Geist wrote that "The failure to expedite security breach disclosure rules is an embarrassing failure for successive Conservative and Liberal governments, placing the personal information of millions of Canadians at risk and effectively giving a free pass to companies that do not adequately safeguard their customers' information."
PIPEDA also doesn't put enough emphasis on cloud infrastructure that helps better protect data, says Richard Losier, executive vice-president of technology for BriteSky Technologies, an Ottawa-based Commvault partner. He suggests the legislation should lean more into voluntary international standards, such as ISO 27001 and 27018, that set out best practices for personal information held by public cloud service providers.
"I'd like to see it combined with an ISO 27018 that puts it in a more tightly squeezed environment where the provider and the owner of data is able to do the right thing to protect the data before it actually leaves," he says.
But despite the uncertainty around the latest amendments to privacy legislation in Canada, Losier says BriteSky and the larger enterprises it serves remain well-versed in providing flexible and secure enterprise cloud services and solutions for Canadian businesses.
Handing over the keys
BriteSky enterprise clouds and managed cloud services are built on the company's modular Portable On-Demand Data Centre (PODD) cloud architecture, allowing organizations to scale that architecture and maintain complete control of their data at all times. Sometimes enterprises will have multiple networks that don't necessarily communicate through a firewall, says Losier. That doesn't fly.
"We sit there and say 'no that's not good enough' so we're going to give you extra visibility into your networks and force all the networks to flow through a firewall no matter what," he explains.
Enterprises in Canada increasingly have their own security teams with personalized security tools and procedures, and they're often good enough where BriteSky can hand over the keys to their data and cloud environments and simply layer on added visibility and search functions – enhanced by Commvault – to better meet Canadian legislation that, in November, will require a quick turnaround time for requested data. At this point, however, the enterprise customer, not BriteSky, is on the hook for data requests through PIPEDA, the European Union and its General Data Protection Regulations or a single customer.
"If [BriteSky] is doing managed services then yes, 100 per cent, the customer is telling me that they want us to take care of their backups for them, we have access to the data and we sit their at our 24/7 by 365 help desk and have the ability to recover that data anytime they want, very rapidly," says Losier.
BriteSky's close work with enterprises around cloud security and visibility has made them Commvault's largest cloud provider in Canada, according to its president Joey Harrison.
For most larger enterprises, the Nov. 1 deadline is more of an opportunity to revisit procedures and make sure that they're well-equipped to protect data, monitor threats and respond to them accordingly, says Scalar Decisions' Wyk. Smaller organizations who deal with personally identifiable information may be further behind.
"When we work with our customers to prepare them, we look at their incident response plans and make sure they incorporate a public relations and a legal element into their incident response plan for notifying the appropriate parties," Wyk explains, pointing to a common occurrence where the legal team and PR team are at odds with each other in terms of messaging around a data breach. "Then make sure you practice that response plan. Too often we find that customers have a response plan but it sits in the corner collecting dust."
Tags: briteskycloud securityCommvaultdata privacyGDPRPIPEDA
Author: Alex Coop
http://www.itwc.ca
Editorial director for IT World Canada and its sister publications, and former community reporter. Also a great pick up basketball player. acoop@itwc.ca
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TEHRAN – Researchers at the School of Marine Science and Ocean of Khorramshahr, southwestern Iran, have invented nano-mulch to deal with dust storms.
The environment-friendly product is based on sugarcane extract and is biodegradable. Nano-mulch improves soil resistance to erosion and increases its fertility, IRIB reported on January 1.
The dust storms descend on Iran from the deserts and dried-up ponds of Iraq and Saudi Arabia.


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Sensient is Tim Larner from Melbourne, Australia. His music is deep, intelligent, progressive and absorbs the influence of many other musical styles (minimal, techno, breaks, glitch, jazz fusion). He has released 4 solo albums plus many compilation tracks on respected labels like Iboga, Plusquam, Flow, Plastik Park, Tatsu, ZMA and more.
He also has made remixes for some of the big names in the scene including Ace Ventura, Perfect Stranger and BigWigs. In 2003 Sensient created Zenon Records which has now developed into one of the world's best and most respected psytrance labels. Zenon has formed an entire musical movement which has heavily influenced the Psytrance Music/Festival scene worldwide.
Sensient has played at some of the biggest international festivals including Boom, Voov, Universo Parallelo, Glade, Rainbow Serpent, Sonica, Fusion and more.


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Q: How to tap on a button under a Spacer SwiftUI I have a ZStack in which there are separate 2 VStacks. The First VStack has a  Navlink, and a Second one has a ScrollView to enable scrolling over that button. Also Second VStack has a dynamic Spacer on top (that changes based on scrolling).
When I put VStack with a Navlink over VStack with a ScrollView, problem is seemed to be solved (Navlink work), but then on scroll they are visible and tapable on ScrollView.(button has to be under)
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How to tap on the Navlink if they are in the First VStack and the second one has a ScrollView on VStack with Navlink ?
My code:
@State var scroll:CGFloat = 350

ZStack{
    VStack(spacing: 0){
        ScrollView{
            Spacer()
                .frame(height: scroll )
            VStack{
                Text("123")
            }
        }
    }.background(.black)

    // second
    VStack{
        Spacer()
            .frame(height: 200)
        HStack{
            NavigationLink(destination: TransferView()){
                VStack (spacing: -10){

                    Image("transferBlack")
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                        .frame(width:100, height: 100)
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Q: How can I hide particular words in a PDF on Android? I am trying to implement reading a PDF within an Android app. I want to hide particular words from it.
I have downloaded a PDF viewer library. It opens properly but am not sure whether it is possible to hide words in that document.
Is there any library available that can do this?
Please help me!
Thanks in advance.

A: May be you are using muPDF Library and seriously muPDF or other libraries which renders PDF uses Images for rendering data they are not in text format so the modifications you want will be pretty hard to do so.
You may use iText Library for this, itext Library can extract the text from PDF and then you show the text as you want.


The new Xcellis(R) next-generation shared workflow storage system from Quantum will make its debut at CCW 2015. Introduced to the market in October, this new system empowers users to boost their efficiency, productivity and creativity in delivering the products and services that drive their business. Consolidating media and metadata management, extending connectivity options and supporting hosted applications, Xcellis integrates the most important components of workflow storage into a single compact hardware solution that runs on the powerful Quantum StorNext 5 media workflow platform. This solution supports online work in process, ingest and delivery, and archive through Quantum's portfolio of Lattus(R) object storage, LTO tape and Q-Cloud(R) services, all running on StorNext 5.
Optimized for end-to-end workflows, Xcellis provides flexible configuration of performance and capacity through a number of production and archive options, ranging from multistream 4K editing to extended online storage utilizing object storage technology to cloud- and tape-based archiving. The new system also delivers the exceptional performance and reliability critical to meeting extreme production and delivery deadlines. In addition, because Xcellis provides continuous scalability, it reduces the cost and complexity of storage deployment and maintenance while enabling future expansion in an intelligent, sophisticated manner.
"Today's high-resolution media workflows demand the highest levels of performance in support of collaborative workflow, as well as cost-effective long-term retention of media in an easy-to-access archive. Xcellis meets all of these requirements by combining the power of SAN and the low-cost connectivity of NAS in a single continuously scalable system that simplifies overall storage architecture and streamlines operations. CCW 2015 offers us a great opportunity to demonstrate these powerful benefits and show attendees how Xcellis takes workflow storage to the next level."


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Maggie Valley: 'It's been a good year'
Maggie Valley officials are beginning to see the light at the end of the tunnel after experiencing several tumultuous years.
Town officials took time to revel in their 2014 accomplishments while setting goals for 2015 during a recent retreat. While 2013 marked a tough year for the town with a divided board of aldermen, some big staff changes, unhappy residents and businesses and a struggling local economy, 2014 was far more productive.
"The board is now able to come to consensus with or without being in complete agreement," said Alderman Saralyn Price. "We have positive attitudes and we're moving forward."
She then read off a long list of accomplishments that included hiring a new town manager and a new town attorney, not raising taxes while providing excellent services, treating businesses and residents equally and keeping a full festival grounds schedule without a director in place.
Legislative goals
A majority of decisions that came before the board ended in a 2-to-2 deadlock because the three members and the mayor couldn't agree on a vacancy appointment for more than a year. It wasn't until the November 2013 elections that the board was able to fill the position and move forward.
Mayor Ron DeSimone said during the planning meeting that he wanted to put a safeguard in place to prevent that from happening again. It would require an update to the town's charter, which would have to get legislative approval.
"The board would be given an amount of time to fill a vacancy, and if they can't agree on one, we'll kick it to the county commissioners and let them appoint someone," DeSimone said. "In my mind it's better than the position we were in with the stalemate."
DeSimone said he spoke to several commissioners who seemed receptive to the idea, but his real hope is that with the safeguard in place, the board would be more inclined to agree on an appointment before it ever reached that point. He said the UNC School of Government said another option was to let the Superior Court make the appointment because it is nonpartisan.
"But a local board seat isn't partisan anyway, and I think the commissioners have more insight into the dynamic of the town and board," he said.
The board will work on drafting language for the charter amendment to present to legislators.
The other legislative priority the town wants to pursue is getting the Legislature to allow municipal employees to be eligible for the state insurance plan. DeSimone said he spoke to Sen. Jim Davis, R-Franklin, about it and he said there had already been some discussion about such a move.
"That would be a huge budget saver if we can do it," said Alderman Janet Banks.
Alderman Mike Eveland agreed that being able to offer the state plan to the town's employees would make the annual budgeting process a lot easier. With new health care guidelines and increasing premium cots each year, small municipalities like Maggie Valley have a hard time maintaining the same level of coverage each year. Last year, the town switched from Blue Cross Blue Shield to a plan with Coventry Health Care to avoid a 26 percent increase in health care costs.
"It would allow us to offer a good benefit package without the budget stress every single year," he said.
Festival grounds progress
Another challenge in late 2013 occurred when the town board fired festival grounds director Audrey Hager and accepted the resignation of Town Manager Tim Barth following financial misconduct with an event at the festival grounds.
The board chose not to replace the festival grounds director position, and Town Clerk Vickie Best has taken over booking. To avoid similar problems at the festival grounds, the board updated its festival grounds policies. The board also has started cutting back on festival ground expenses and set stricter rental fees in an effort to make the grounds more self-sustaining.
While the town is still responsible for the maintenance and booking of events, it will no longer act as a promoter of any events other than its Fourth of July celebration. Board members seem pleased with how things ran at the festival grounds in 2014.
Best said she was still working to finalize the 2015 festival grounds schedule. A few dates are being held for some signature events, but Best is still waiting on applications from several promoters, including Hillbilly Woodstock, Thunder in the Smokies, PlottFest and Oktoberfest.
"We still have them penciled in and we're willing to work with them — they just need to get their applications in," said Town Manager Nathan Clark.
The board also is looking toward the future by setting more goals for 2015. Price said she was looking forward to continuing beautification projects in the valley, putting more focus on promoting Maggie's history and heritage, creating a master plan for the town, remodeling the town hall board room and completing the second phase of leveling out the festival grounds.
Banks agreed that creating a master plan is a major priority for 2015. The board approved a $25,000 contract with J.M. Teague Engineering in November to develop a town center master plan. A community project team will collect data and start putting together proposals before holding public meetings to collect feedback.
"I think the board has led this community as well as Haywood County into thinking more positively … and as a result we've gotten a whole lot better press," she said. "The year before we were on the front page every day, but not any more."
As for long-term planning, Banks said she would like to see the town establish a historical museum to help preserve the valley's heritage. She said residents would probably have plenty of items to donate.
Alderman Phillip Wight said he would like to open up committee seats to business owners instead of limiting appointments to town residents only.
Clark said that is a possibility except for the planning and zoning board. The zoning board has to follow state statutes, which require members to live in the town.
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Do you ever look around and realize just how much concrete is covering our earth? To some degree, urban growth has decimated some of our natural wonder, and concrete plays a vital role in that, which can have a negative spin. But it also is the base for many of our needs on this planet. Below are some interesting facts about concrete (hard as that may be to imagine) that might just surprise you.
1. The Romans used concrete for the first time. It was a more crude version than what we have today and was made by mixing lime, volcanic ash and water and was called "pozzolana." The Pantheon, one of the most famous Roman buildings in the world, features the largest dome made from this type of concrete.
2. The largest concrete building in the world is the Trump International Hotel. It stands 1387 feet above ground and features huge amounts of concrete in its composition.
3. Although concrete is very hard and durable, it can be shaped very easily. Concrete is poured into a mold and hardens accordingly. For this reason, many curved structures are made from concrete.
4. Without concrete, it would be hard to travel anywhere. It is used in the construction of bridges, sidewalks, roads and curbs. Together with asphalt, they comprise most of the ways of travel in the United States.
5. Concrete is very easy to make as it is comprised of water, sand, gravel and air. Air comprises about 6-8% of concrete. Contrary to popular belief, cement is different than concrete and a small amount of cement is needed to create concrete.
The next time you are driving down the road, look around you and take notice of the structures all around. Chances are, concrete was used in the development of them. Our world would be a much different place without it and although it's not something we think about, it's something we need.


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Román Calvo (n. París, Francia, 6 de junio de 1989), es un futbolista francés-costarricense. Juega como delantero y su actual equipo es el Olympique Girou FC de la Regional 1 de Francia.

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My UX Process is Simple.
I listen and translate. I research and analyze. I strategize and create. I delight and design.
My mother is 77 years old. She often has trouble accomplishing daily tasks such as checking the weather, ordering food and remembering doctor's appointments. My mother is no Luddite. She LOVES her tablet. Yet, she doesn't own a smartphone. Doesn't like typing on her computer and prefers haptic commands over text. At the same time she's fiercely independent. She often uses discovery to figure out how to use her tablet. She presents a unique design challenge: Create a digital product for an analog user.
I decided to use my Capstone project for my M.S. in HCI at DePaul University to design a product made specifically for users such as my mom who use technology but not in a traditional way. My challenge was to find a way to use technology to help seniors accomplish daily tasks with minimal real-time help from caretakers. The result is Homebase.
I created Homebase along with two teammates from DePaul University, Nick Aleck and John O'Connor, both seasoned experience designers. They were both interested in creating digital products for seniors and I am so thankful for their guidance and participation.
HomeBase is a tablet application that helps seniors in assisted living facilities or who have a home caretaker accomplish daily tasks. The application also offers a simple way to communicate with friends, family, medical professionals and caretaker staff.
Since we were dealing with a population that had very little usability research in the literature review, I decided we should do a contextual inquiry with seniors of various ages, and familiarity with technology but lived in an assisted living facility or who had a caretaker. We recruited seniors at assisted living facilities, a local senior center and within our own families to get a broad-based sampling of seniors who use assistive technologies. We wanted to see how they use technology and come up with a mental model of what they thought a tablet application should look like and how it should work. In addition, I attended a series of educational courses taught at a local senior center on Chicago's south side to observe how seniors used technology in a classroom setting. In addition I did expert interviews with caretakers and senior tech instructors.
Once we conducted six contextual interviews we transcribed them and uploaded our data into Saturate app, an application that allowed us to quickly dissect our participant responses into thematic categories. I came up with six categorical patterns that were seen across all participants in their execution of daily tasks and their pain points or struggles with those daily task executions. We used those themes to create an affinity diagram on Stormboard. We also used these interviews to develop a mental model that explained the behavior, attitudes and motivations of this user group when it came to using technology and accomplishing their routine daily tasks. This helped us formulate their expectations and limitations they placed on technology to help them with the daily tasks.
Current seniors do not have the lifelong experience with technology that younger people will have when they are seniors. The instructor told us that she observed seniors have a literal physical barrier when it comes to technology. Many of them think in analog ways. The are comfortable with the telephone and the television because they can physically see how they work. But they become a bit confused in the metaphorical world of computers including concepts such as "the cloud," and file transfers via USB ports. One senior interviewed even said she didn't "have a need" for technology.
So how do you design a digital product for people with an analog mental model?
The affinity diagram became the foundation for must have design framework and our task flow creation. We used these interviews to develop a mental model that explained the behavior, attitudes and motivations of this user group when it came to using technology and accomplishing their routine daily tasks. This helped us formulate their expectations and limitations they placed on technology to help them with the daily tasks. When creating the task flow we made sure to incorporate the design principles stemmed from the insights in our data analysis. For example, we found that seniors have no concept of "the cloud." They don't really get what it means to store information elsewhere. They have a literal interpretation of technology use. They also do not like to make mistakes. It frustrates them when they can't get back to where they started. So we translated this into design principles of lots of feedback needed, simplified IA, simplified functionality, one task per screen and prominent "out" buttons.
Once we had the main pain points/frustrations our participants said they had accomplishing daily tasks we set out to design a low-fi user interface that would use technology to address some of the pain points.
For example, participants said they had a tough time making that daily "I'm alive," call to the front desk. Sometimes they forgot, other times they couldn't find the call button. So we created a user interface that would allow them to call the front desk with a "one-click," or "one voice request," ala Alexa method on the tablet app.
Usability tests were conducted with the original Contexual Inquiry participants as well as others including caretakers and a random sampling of seniors.
We conducted a usability test with the original contextual inquiry seniors so we could run statistical tests on our design. We also asked caretakers and staff at senior centers to do an expert evaluation of the design. We are pleased to note that seniors found using our application much easier or as easy as their previous methods of accomplishing daily task. This let us know that our design was spot on as it met their needs without confusing or frustrating them. Homebase was definitely a home run!


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news Trump Swamp
What Were Jared, Ivanka, And Tucker Doing With Trump In The DMZ?
By Matt Shuham
As President Donald Trump's impromptu DMZ meeting with North Korean ruler Kim Jong-un turned into an hour-long conference featuring first family members Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump on Sunday, one could almost hear diplomatic experts on the region sighing in unison.
"John Bolton's in Mongolia, for God's sake," Mitchell Lerner, director of The Ohio State University's Institute for Korean Studies, told TPM Monday. "But Ivanka, with all of her common sense and fashion design ability, she's the advisor."
Trump's administration, Tuft University's Sung-Yoon Lee wrote in The Hill, has reached "new heights" of "hubris and ignorance of history."
"[Ivanka's] presence undermines the professional look of the Trump delegation, both to other countries and to national security professionals in the Trump administration," former ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul told The New York Times.
Even the U.S. government was unable to explain the staffing for the President's improvised summit with Kim. Jared and Ivanka attended the conference at the building known as Freedom House, steps from the North-South border, as did Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney, among others. Fox News host Tucker Carlson was "in the room" as well, the Wall Street Journal's Jonathan Cheng noted. Whether there were regional experts in attendance on the American side remains unclear.
Asked for the attendance list, the State Department sent TPM the public phone number for the White House switchboard.
"We refer you to the White House," a spokesperson wrote.
The White House wouldn't comment for the record. Recently resigned press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders tweeted of Ivanka Trump and her father that they "actually created millions of new jobs and continue to make the US stronger on the global stage."
"What this is, is kleptocracy," said Vicky Ward, author of Kushner, Inc. "And what they are signaling to the entire world is that they are open for business."
Ward called the summit "the most extreme example we've ever seen of take your children to work day."
Seemingly lacking the weeks of planning that would normally precede such a high-stakes meeting — the Times reported that Trump's steps into North Korea "forced an extraordinary scramble to arrange logistics and security" — the weekend's events also highlighted Trump's own view of who belongs in his inner circle.
Yes, Bolton, the national security advisor, was in Mongolia. He had only Twitter as a platform to strenuously deny that the administration was softening its stance on denuclearization.
Pompeo, too, was sidelined somewhat by the Trump kin: Ivanka Trump, for some reason, posted a video read-out from the G20 summit and then upstaged Pompeo at Osan Air Base in Pyeongtaek, South Korea.
Also on the rise: Fox News' Carlson, who broadcast from Japan for the week and accompanied Trump at the DMZ, alongside pool reporters whose work would usually represent the total contemporaneous media accounting of such an event, aside from state news networks. Fox News did not respond to a request for comment on Carlson's weekend.
"It clearly crosses a line," Lerner said of Carlson's exclusive access. He referenced the Fox News host's comment that "you've got to be honest about what it means to lead a country. It means killing people."
"If you're going to get privileged White House access and be allowed into diplomatic functions and then go and defend it and shape the narrative, you're not a journalist anymore," Lerner said. Carlson has reportedly also recently advised the President on Iran.
The familial, inner-circle nature of the President's DMZ jaunt, Ward told TPM, "is how Trump wants it to work. That's all he knows."
"The danger of the media is to cover this at face value," she said. "They should not be covering this at face value. They should see it for what it is" — in her words, "a very visceral reminder that they're a family, and that they're a family business."


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Q: What is the point of using `-L` when there is `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`? After reading this question, my first reaction was that the user is not seeing the error because he specifies the location of the library with -L.
However, apparently, the -L option only influences where the linker looks, and has no influence over where the loader looks when you try to run the compiled application.
My question then is what's the point of -L? Since you won't be able to run your binary unless you have the proper directories in LD_LIBRARY_PATH anyway, why not just put them there in the first place, and drop the -L, since the linker looks in LD_LIBRARY_PATH automatically?

A: It might be the case that you are cross-compiling and the linker is targeting a system other than your own. For instance, MinGW can be used to compile Windows binaries on Linux. Here -L will point to the DLLs needed for linking and LD_LIBRARY_PATH will point to any libraries needed by linker to run. This allows compiling and linking of different architectures, OS ABIs, or processor types.
It's also helpful when trying to build special targets. I might be case that one links a static version of program against a different static library. This is the first step in Linux From Scratch, where one creates a separate mini-environment on the main system to become a chroot jail.

A: Setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH will affect all the commands you run to build your code (including the compiler itself).
That's not desirable in general (e.g. you might not want your compiler to run debug/instrumented libraries while it compiles - it might even go as far as breaking your compiles).
Use -L to tell the compiler where to look, LD_LIBRARY_PATH to influence runtime linking.

A: Building the binary and running the binary are two completely independent and unrelated processes. You seem to suggest that the running environment should affect the building environment, i.e. you seem to be making an assumption that the code build in some setup (account, machine) will be later run in the same setup. I find this assumption rather strange.   I'd even say that in most cases the building and the running are done in different environments. I would actually prefer my compilers not to derive any assumptions about future running environment from the environment these compilers are invoked in. Looking onto the LD_LIBRARY_PATH of the building environment would be a major no-no.

A: The other answers are all good, but one nobody has mentioned yet is static libraries. Most of the time when you use -L it's with a static library built locally in your build tree that you don't intent to install, and it has nothing to do with LD_LIBRARY_PATH.

A: Compilers on Solaris support the -R /runtime/path/to/some/libs that adds to the path where libraries are to be searched by the run-time linker. On Linux the same could be achieved with -Wl,-rpath,/runtime/path/to/some/libs. It passes the -rpath /runtime/path/to/some/libs option to ld. GNU ld also supports the -R /path/to/libs for compatibility with other ELF linkers but this should be avoided as -R is normally used to specify symbol files to GNU ld.


Trinny and Susannah were once the nation's favourite fashionistas, best known for a no-nonsense style which saw them manhandling women all over the UK. But after several years in the TV wilderness, Trinny and Susannah think they deserve another chance. In a bid to revamp their careers they've allowed the cameras into their daily lives in this warts-and-all docu-drama which follows the few highs, and many lows, as the duo endeavour to get another big break.