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Q: Should "if (argc < 2 || argc > 2)" be fine with 2 arguments? & terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::out_of_range' error Solution: Use if (argc !=3) and getline(row_as_stringstream, substr, ';')
This is a continuation of my previous question: error: no matching function for call to, which allowed the code to compile without any errors
I am new to C++ and I am trying to debug this code from my supervisor.
The original code took a csv file as input, containing rows and columns of integers
   and strings. Now we're reading in a txt file having the shape:
TEXT
       0; INT; INT; INT; INT; ...
       0; INT; INT; INT; INT; ...
       18 more lines of the above numbers and semicolons
In that file I replaced in one instance the semicolons by line breaks and in another by empty spaces, because I was not sure which we needed. Solution: Use the txt file with the semicolons, but with the semicolons at the end of the lines removed.

*

*It seems to have an issue with if (argc < 2 || argc > 2) . It throws the "Usage: ./a.o <> <>" error message. However, both are strict inequalities. Shouldn't this if be fine with 2 arguments? In the original code it read if (argc < 2 || argc > 3) , which I changed it back to. EDIT: As john pointed out the "program name is an argument" as well, so I want actually 3 not 2.

*Both txt files (line breaks & spaces) seem to produce the same error message below
Error message: (For the int threshold I tried various values)
Registering only edges shorter than int.
terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::out_of_range'
what(): vector::_M_range_check: __n (which is 1) >= this->size() (which is 1)
Aborted (core dumped)

Ideas:
I am aware what this error message means when we have a simple case, for example:
#include <vector>

int main()
{
    std::vector<int> v;
    v.push_back(123); // v has 1 element  [0 to 0]
    int x4 = v.at(3); // exception
}

We get an exception, because v has 1 element and element 3 does not exist.
However, in my code I am not sure what exactly to look for.
The original code read a csv with lines and columns, but in this case a matrix form with empty spaces in between is probably causing issues. Does that mean that I just want a txt file looking like a column vector? That is one file I tried, so it might be that the code is not happy with the amount of columns?
Relevant function:
int main(int argc, char** threshold_and_distanceMatrixfilename)
{
    if (argc < 2 || argc > 3)
    {
        std::cerr << "Usage: ./distanceMatrixToSageGraph.o <threshold>

            <distanceMatrix_file_calculated_fromDGEsingleCell_data>" << std::endl;
            return -1;
    }
    string distanceMatrixfilename = threshold_and_distanceMatrixfilename[2];
    int threshold = std::stoi(threshold_and_distanceMatrixfilename[1]);
    std::ifstream distanceMatrixFile(distanceMatrixfilename);

    if (!distanceMatrixFile)
    {
        std::cerr << "Error opening distanceMatrix file: " << distanceMatrixfilename << std::endl;
        return -1;
    }
    string row;
    std::getline(distanceMatrixFile, row); // discard the first row, which specifies the format of the file.
    vector<vector<int>> the_entries;

    while (std::getline(distanceMatrixFile, row))
    {
        std::stringstream row_as_stringstream(row);
        int i; i = 0;
        vector<string> row_as_vector;

        while (row_as_stringstream.good())
        {
            string substr;
            getline(row_as_stringstream, substr, ',');
            row_as_vector.push_back( std::stoi(substr) );
        };
        the_entries.push_back(row_as_vector); //LINE 104
    };
}

Whole code:
// Convert distanceMatrix tables of protein interactions to SAGE graph.
///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
#include <iostream>
#include <fstream>
#include <sstream>
#include <math.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <list>
#include <vector>
#include <tuple>
#include <algorithm>
using namespace std;

void writeGraphInSageFormat(string name, std::vector<std::vector<int>> TheEdges)
{
    //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
    // Write out the edges in SAGE format.
    ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
    int edgeNumber = TheEdges.size();
    ofstream d1sageFile(name, ios::out);
    d1sageFile << "g = Graph([" << endl;

    for (int n = 0; n < edgeNumber; n++) {
        d1sageFile << "(" << TheEdges[n][0] + 1 << "," << TheEdges[n][1] + 1 << ")," << endl;
    }
    d1sageFile << "])" << endl;
    d1sageFile << "g.show()" << endl;
    d1sageFile.close();
    std::cout << "SAGE graph written into the file " << name << std::endl;
}

std::vector<std::vector<int>> ConvertEntriesMatrixToEdges(vector<vector<int>> the_entries, int threshold)
{
    ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
    // Construct the edge-vertex incidence matrix (d_1) from the distanceMatrix entries matrix:
    ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
    std::vector<std::string> proteinNames;
    std::vector<std::vector<int>> TheEdges;
    std::cout << "Registering only edges shorter than " << threshold << "." << std::endl;
    int thisDistance;
    for (int i = 0; i < the_entries.size(); i++)
    {
        for (int j = i + 1; j < the_entries.size(); j++)
        {
            // we could use the_entries.size() instead of the_entries.at(i).size(), because this is a square matrix.
            thisDistance = the_entries.at(i).at(j);
            if (thisDistance < threshold)
            {
                std::vector<int> CurrentEdge(2);
                CurrentEdge[0] = i;
                CurrentEdge[1] = j;
                TheEdges.push_back(CurrentEdge);
            };
        };
    };
    return TheEdges;
}

///////////////////////////////////////////
// Main Program: Extract edges from a distanceMatrix file.
///////////////////////////////////////////
int main(int argc, char** threshold_and_distanceMatrixfilename)
{
    if (argc < 2 || argc > 3)
    {
        std::cerr << "Usage: ./distanceMatrixToSageGraph.o <threshold> <distanceMatrix_file_calculated_fromDGEsingleCell_data>" << std::endl;
        return -1;
    }
    string distanceMatrixfilename = threshold_and_distanceMatrixfilename[2];
    int threshold = std::stoi(threshold_and_distanceMatrixfilename[1]);
    std::ifstream distanceMatrixFile(distanceMatrixfilename);
    if (!distanceMatrixFile) {
        std::cerr << "Error opening distanceMatrix file: " << distanceMatrixfilename << std::endl;
        return -1;
    }
    string row;  //LINE 88
    std::getline(distanceMatrixFile, row); // discard the first row, which specifies the format of the file.
    vector<vector<int>> the_entries;

    while (std::getline(distanceMatrixFile, row))
    {
        std::stringstream row_as_stringstream(row);
        int i; i = 0;
        vector<string> row_as_vector;
        while (row_as_stringstream.good())
        {
            string substr;
            getline(row_as_stringstream, substr, ',');
            row_as_vector.push_back( std::stoi(substr) );
        };
        the_entries.push_back(row_as_vector); //LINE 104
    };
    ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
    // Now we assemble the entries to an edges matrix, and write it into a Sage file:
    ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
    std::vector<std::vector<int>> TheEdges = ConvertEntriesMatrixToEdges(the_entries, threshold);
    char outputFilename[60]; strcpy(outputFilename, distanceMatrixfilename.c_str()); strcat(outputFilename, "AtThreshold"); string thrshld = std::to_string(threshold); strcat(outputFilename, thrshld.c_str()); strcat(outputFilename, ".txt");
    writeGraphInSageFormat(outputFilename, TheEdges);
    return 0;
}

A: First question. What you're missing is that the program name is an argument, so
program arg1 arg2

is three arguments and argc will equal 3 not 2. You could have found this out for yourself by either using a debugger (you really need to learn how to use one, much better than asking here) or at the very least adding cout << "argc=" << argc << '\n'; to your code.
Second question, your original code was written for comma separated values, see the comma here getline(row_as_stringstream, substr, ','); so obviously you need to change it for semi colon or space separated values.
Above all though you need to learn to use a debugger. Trying to debug programs by looking at code is not easy.

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Home » DHS FOCUSES ON SECURING SURFACE TRANSPORT
DHS FOCUSES ON SECURING SURFACE TRANSPORT
The Federal Aviation Administration instituted the first universal screening of airline passengers in 1973 in the wake of a series of skyjackings. But in the intervening 47 years, despite a rising number of attacks, securing surface transportation seems little more than an afterthought.
Until now. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is testing a layered security approach aimed at securing surface transport although it won't talk about test results or if and when its technologies will be deployed.
Periodically, especially after surface transport attacks around the world, reporters have asked why airport-like security efforts can't be imposed on surface transportation – buses, rail and cars.
After all, it is 17 years since coordinated bombings against the Cercanias commuter rail system killed 193, wounding about 2,000 in Madrid and the 14 years since the 2007 attack in Mumbai that killed 203. But it is not just transit sites at risk. As seen with the Boston Marathon, IEDs have been used on the street which is also included in surface transportation.
Rising Attacks
A recent report by Mineta Transportation Institute's National Transportation Safety and Security Center said terrorists continue to see surface transportation as soft targets where they can and do cause high casualties. 2014 was a tipping point when there was an acute rise, coinciding with a similar increase in vehicle ramming attacks as outlined in a previous TSI story in the inaugural issue: https://www.tsi-mag.com/vehicle-ramming-attacks-global-domestic-terrorists-learn-from-hamas-by-kathryn-b-creedy/.
The institute, with more than 40 years of data on more than 4,000 attacks, found many attacks target infrastructure, including pipelines while anti-nuclear and environmental extremists in Europe opposing high-speed rail systems committed a spate of attacks on surface transportation.
"Data also reveals that, over the long run, terrorist attacks on surface transportation targets are becoming more successful," the report revealed. "That is, the most effective terrorist bombers are delivering more bombs to their targets while delivering more lethal results. That lethality is increasing in attacks carried out both by jihadist and non-jihadist groups, although attacks by jihadist groups are generally more lethal. A higher percentage of attacks are directed against buses and are usually the most lethal. A lower percentage of attacks are directed against trains, including subways."
Most attacks, according to the report, were confined to conflict zones in Africa, the Middle East and South Asia committed by jihadist networks, but jihadists recruited about 20,000 foreign fighters, including more than 3,000 from Europe, North America and Australia.
"One recent development is the growing number of attacks by 'lone loons' – highly suggestible individuals with criminal backgrounds or mental problems, possibly inspired by jihadist calls for attacks or by the media coverage of attacks elsewhere," said the report.
Josh Lipowsky, senior research analyst, Counter Extremism Project, noted IEDs used in the US are not necessarily targeting surface transportation and include Molotov Cocktails.
"Transportation authorities must be vigilant about the potential for IEDs," Lipowsky told Transportation Security International. "Over the last several years we have seen IEDs hidden inside dumpsters and pressure cookers in backpacks. Mass transit vehicles such as buses and trains can be harder to monitor because of the number of people constantly coming on and off, but they should be thoroughly inspected before beginning service for the day and again at the end of the day's service. It is incumbent on everybody – the general public as well as transportation authorities – to remain vigilant and point out anything that appears suspicious. It is far better to inconvenience people a few minutes for a false emergency than to have a real one. In some other countries you see guards at parking garages checking under vehicles for sticky bombs. Such checks may be viewed as an inconvenience and added expense in the United States, but it takes only one major incident to shift the paradigm."
Setracon President Jeffrey A. Slotnick, CPP, PSP noted U. S. bombers do not hold the same values for life and ideology as foreign suicide bombers and thus attacks are designed for survival.
"What we've seen in the U.S. is pipe bombs, back-pack bombs," he told TSI. "The Unibomber mailed his devices and even the Boston Marathon was a backpack left behind as was the Atlanta bombing. The Spokane bombing in 2011 was white supremacists wanting a distraction during an MLK event so they could rob banks."
Slotnick also questioned what increased security will do to ticket pricing. In aviation, there is government-imposed security fees on each leg of a trip increasing the cost of trips, but it was more security hassles, imposed post 9/11, than costs that caused the near destruction of services under 500 miles because, given security, delays and other factors, it was often faster to drive.
As for how other countries handle such issues, some – such as the Middle East – have zero tolerance often making offenses freer societies take for granted a capital offense. In Italy paramilitary police patrol transit centers.
"We need a change in culture, not new devices and technology," Slotnick suggested. "Look at Israel's amazing behavioral profiling, not racial profiling which is different. They ask questions and listen carefully to the response to detect deception in speech. We have to get more adept at that. Human behavioral analysis is the most efficient means of determining ill intent."
Slotnick said the most efficient security against bombs are dogs with handlers which now patrol bus, rail and airport terminals. "Dogs smell at the molecular level and are between 10,000 to 100,000 times more sensitive than humans," he explained. "They walk up and down aisles on trains sniffing for explosive materials. We already use sniffer technology in airport screening devices. Sniffer tech can be mounted on walls tied into security system to sense and sample the air on a regular basis."
Surface Vs Air Transport Security
An explanation on why airport-like security measures have not been imposed on surface transport comes as the DHS's Transportation Security Administration (TSA) rolls out a new surface security initiative – Surface Transportation Explosives Threat Detection (STETD) Program.
"With an average passenger throughput of 100 – 200 people per minute and the inherent openness of the surface transportation environment, traditional checkpoints (like those at the airport) are not an effective way to screen the millions of commuters entering those systems daily," said the agency on its website describing the new program. "Maintaining security on the nation's surface transportation systems takes significant resources and manpower, both of which tend to be in short supply. It's impossible for law enforcement officials to be everywhere at all times."
While DHS may be right about the manpower needed to secure ground transportation the number of entry points to a train or bus station should not matter since airports, too, have numerous entry points – parking areas, tunnels, numerous terminals and doors, airside, groundside and drop-off locations – all before passengers are funneled through a security system.
Slotnick, a member of ASIS, the world's largest membership organization for security management professionals, noted major bombings occurred on the ground side at airports – the El Al counter at LAX in 2002, the international arrivals hall at Domodedovo in Moscow in 2011, in the check in area at LaGuardia in 1975 and in the baggage area at Fort Lauderdale where a gunman killed five in 2017. A 2016 ISIL attack in Brussels targeted both the airport and the train station killing 32 civilians. That same year, ISIL armed gunman uses assault weapons and bombs to kill 45 civilians at Atatürk airport.
"Even airports are not treated as protected areas," he said. "The first security is well inside terminals. They were built in the 1960/70s and designed for rapid movement from curb to gate. Until we get to a point where we design facilities for security, it will always be an inconvenience. We should treat the entire airport as a security facility screening as people enter the airport, diverting them to special areas where vehicles can be inspected and travel papers but that is a trade-off between efficiency and security."
TSA also cited the volume of passengers and diversity of facilities for mass transit and passenger rail environments as making checkpoint-style screening unfeasible.
"Subway ridership in New York City is approximately six million passengers per weekday," a TSA spokesperson told TSI. "The Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) ridership, not counting regional passenger rail totals about two million riders each weekday. On average, a total of 2.5-3 million passengers were screened daily at TSA security checkpoints nationwide."
But Lipowsky makes a different argument. "More small towns are connected to bus terminals than to airports," he explained. "Before covid, the Port Authority Bus Terminal in New York served about 225,000 people on an average weekday and more than 65 million people a year. In 2019, JFK airport served just under 59 million people. Port Authority was also the target of an unsuccessful terrorist attack in 2017 when Akayed Ullah attempted to detonate a pipe bomb in an adjoining subway tunnel. Yet the security situation at the bus terminal and subway tunnels do not compare at all to the extended process at JFK. Part of this is because of the sheer volume of people using the bus and subway systems on a daily basis and the congestion added security procedures would cause. There has to be a middle ground to add another layer of security beyond 'see something, say something.' Going to a bus or train station is much less involved than an airport, but also much more vulnerable. We should take steps to secure our ground transportation terminals before we are faced with a mass attack, not after."
Slotnick agrees. "It is difficult to secure multiple transit centers because they are open systems incorporating many intermediate stops," he said. "You could probably secure a train or bus station, but how do you do it at bus and subway stops? Americans like freedom and it becomes a trade-off. If it becomes too restrictive to use public transit, people drive at a time when we are trying to encourage public transit. Americans, if they know they are being surreptitiously scanned will create an outcry. In the private sector, employees have pushed back on surveillance monitoring and companies have dismantled it."
But that's the question. The American appetite for privacy may have shifted and become more schizophrenic than privacy/security trade-offs blurring the lines between security and personal freedom.
American's have not-so-blithely accepted airport security along with a host of new surveillance systems to cameras mounted to every traffic light or Britain's CCTV, all uncomfortable big-brotherish solutions many legal scholars argue exchanges privacy for security.
Consumers are even part of those systems, enthusiastically adopting Ring doorbells, Amazon Echo and smart TVs, with camera and audio devices providing unprecedented access to the most private spaces.
"Unfortunately, the world we live in requires us to be constantly aware so we can quickly react to anything out of the ordinary and hopefully prevent a bigger catastrophe," Lipowsky concluded.
DHS agrees. "Currently there are very limited solutions to solve this challenging problem," said DHS on its website. "This is why the Science and Technology Directorate (S&T), is developing an integrated capability to detect potential threat items at the speed of the traveling public. S&T is developing these tools to serve as a force-multiplier, assisting security personnel in keeping the public safe."
Security at the Speed of Life
The systems developed enable a layered, curb-to-platform detection system "without the need to stop and divest bags at a fixed checkpoint" which, for air travelers, is the holy grail.
But even here, Lipowsky pointed out, non-invasive security technologies, still require a human component.
S&T, along with university and industry researchers, tested several screening technologies enabling "rapid screening of people and carried items from a distance," said the directorate on its website. "It assures privacy will be maintained by using automated anomaly detection which does not capture an individual's image."
One piece of technology, developed in partnership with MIT's Lincoln Laboratory, the millimeter wave imager screens for potential threat items as people pass by without slowing them down. The technology consists of a set of antennas installed on flat panels that can be mounted on walls, columns, gates, turnstiles and ceilings. The panels send out and receive low-power radio signals that can penetrate clothing and backpacks where it then reflects off certain items. It was deployed in a three-day developmental test and evaluation in 2017 with the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority emergency training center in Boston which, said the agency, providing a realistic electromagnetic environment. This distance screening enabled screeners to detect various simulated threat items and different distances on the rail platform as people moved in and out of the radar field. The result provided real-time, high-resolution images that don't slow anyone down.
Another is the Intelligent Video algorithm designed by Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory. It enables detection of a leave-behind item while reducing the number of false alerts.
A third, is Forensic Video Exploitation & Analysis (FOVEA). "FOVEA, developed by MIT's Lincoln Laboratory, is a 'user-in-the-loop' tool, said S&T on its website. "The ability to quickly scan hours of video provides better response times to suspected incidents. It is capable of quickly capturing the surrounding circumstances of a leave-behind event, allowing security personnel to clear 30-50% of suspicious packages without necessitating an emergency response."
Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA), which averages about 712,000 trips per weekday, was another test site. Other such "unstructured environments," as S&T characterizes them, are stadiums, convention centers, schools, concert venues and public demonstrations which are ideal targets for expanding the use of this technology.
The tools were also installed in Amtrak's Emergency Management Agency and WMATA's Security Operational Control Center and resulted in 500 arrests and the closure of more than 200 cases. It also helped secure the Pope's visit in 2015.
"The goal," said S&T Program Manager Don Roberts on the website, "is to make millimeter wave technology as seamless as possible. We want to take advantage of the video information that facilities use on a daily basis and seamlessly dovetail the millimeter wave sensors with the video systems,"
TSA did not respond to TSI questions about whether or not these technologies have been deployed. Nor did it answer questions on whether technology being tested for ground transport will be used to reduce airport hassles in the future. However, Slotnick is doubtful. "Explosives are only one threat," he said. "There are knives and firearms which need to be screened for, so you'll still have to x-ray bags and walk through a metal detector."
Securing Roads
If bus and rail stations are problematic, securing the complex spider web of roadways carrying cars across continents would seem impossible, especially given the unexpected road rage incidents of people shooting in cars.
Forensic Video Exploitation & Analysis (FOVEA) gives users the ability to quickly scan hours of video and provides better response times to suspected incidents. MIT Lincoln Laboratory image.
"This comes down to a numbers issue as well," said Lipowsky. "The United States has 70 interstate highways spanning the contiguous 48 states. Technology can aid in securing the roadways through video surveillance and sensors set to detect explosive compounds. While such technology is in development, the question then becomes one of deployment. We can deploy around high-value targets, but individuals and smaller businesses and houses of worship have to take steps as well to boost their own vigilance, whether that means hiring security guards, volunteers, or investing in Jersey barriers, metal detectors, or security cameras. We don't want to militarize the country, but there are many soft targets such as houses of worship or bus stations that can take steps to harden their security without overly inconveniencing their clientele."
Millimeter wave technology consists of a set of antennas installed on flat panels. The antennas send out and receive low-power radio signals that can penetrate clothing and backpacks but will reflect off of certain items. Screening commuters from a distance, the technology produces high resolution images in real time, without negatively impacting the speed of travel, and will alarm operators if someone is concealing potential threat items. DHS image.
"The primary lesson is to always be vigilant about your surroundings, whether flying, taking the bus, or even driving your own car," Lipowski advised. "When driving, you always have to consider what the other drivers are doing and watch out for somebody who may cut you off or make an illegal u-turn against the flow of traffic."
Slotnick pointed to law enforcement and public training as one of the best tactics against terror attacks.
"We get a lot of protection with such training," he said. "People are trained when they see something, they say something. The process of information gathering, intelligence and target choice is complex making attacks vulnerable to detection. Social media is one of the bread crumbs painting a picture. Some want to take credit. Others want to become famous. It's another bread crumb."
Surface Transportation Explosive Threat Detection (STETD) Program is aiming for a holistic, curb to platform approach. They are developing techniques that will automatically highlight possible threat items and then cue security staff. DHS image.
The Mineta Institute study concurs. "We see vigilance works. Between 2005-2015, 14% of all bomb attacks were stopped primarily because intelligence and law enforcement, security officials citizens and transit crew and staff were alert. A number of plots in the United States were foiled by ordinary citizens noticing unusual purchases or other requests that just seemed 'off' or 'out of place.' These can unravel plots. Of these stopped attacks, passengers, citizens and employees can be credited with detecting at least 25%. Another 24% can be credited to those managing or carrying out security functions – be they military, police, or security or intelligence officials. Everyone also must support reasonable security programs. This underscores not only the importance of 'see- something-say-something' programs, but also of the investments in good, sensible security."
While terrorists are becoming more lethal, employ more tactics designed to create terror such as automatic weapons assaults and executions, the Mineta Institute put attacks in perspective.
"First, everyone must put the risks of terrorist attacks in general, and terrorist attacks on mass transit, into the perspective against all the risks of normal life," said the report. "Statistically, Americans are significantly more likely to die of accidental or criminal means than at the hands of terrorists. The United States and most countries around the world are not in the same situation as [conflict zones], and they will not become the next Syria anytime soon. Second, the United States has suffered higher levels of terrorist activity than it faces today. In the 1970s, the nation experienced 50-60 terrorist bombings each year. Although much of this was symbolic violence compared with the determination of today's terrorists to kill in quantity, more people were killed at that time than in the decade following the September 11 attacks. Third, to the extent that terrorism is theatre, it is the obligation of members of free, democratic societies not to overreact, but instead to go about their business. They certainly should not give in to unreasonable fears whipped up by the media or by others with a particular agenda. Whether people 'soldier on' or 'carry on,' they should never give in to fear."
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Mr. Hefti has a background that encompasses Congress, the Executive Branch, and private industry. He provides his clients with comprehensive representation in the Federal marketplace. He has more than 40 years in the legislative and public affairs areas of defense, aerospace, energy, space, and aviation, and is admired for his ability to affect policy, secure funding, develop new Federal business, and build industry partnerships. Before becoming a Vice President at Van Scoyoc Associates in 2002, Mr. Hefti was Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Legislative Affairs, providing legislative advice to both the Secretary and Deputy Secretary of Defense.
During his career as a U.S. Marine Corps artillery officer, Mr. Hefti, served as Liaison Officer to the U.S. House of Representatives while on the staff of the Secretary of the Navy from 1977 through 1980. Before that, he spent three years as Director of National News Media for the Marine Corps. He retired as a lieutenant colonel in 1981. Between tours of duty at the Pentagon, he worked in private industry and on Capitol Hill, where he was National Security Advisor to U.S. Sen. John Warner, R-Va.
For 14 years, Mr. Hefti was Vice President of Government Relations at Honeywell International (and AlliedSignal/Bendix). He was responsible for handling the legislative strategies of three businesses with more than $10 billion of sales. He also managed legislative support for major programs in the Department of Defense, NASA, Department of Energy, and Federal Aviation Administration for five years as a defense lobbyist for The Boeing Company.
As a Vietnam veteran, former Marine casualty assistance officer, and occupant of the Pentagon on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, Mr. Hefti knows the sacrifices of American military families, and is active in several organizations that seek to lighten their burdens. He sits on the Board of Directors of the Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors (TAPS) and for the past six years has been Chairman of the Annual TAPS Honor Guard Gala helping raise over $6 million. He is on the Advisory Board of Our Military Kids, an organization that provides grants to children of deployed or severely injured Guard and Reserve service members. He also sits on the Board of Directors of the Marine Corps Association Foundation and the Center for Security Policy.
Mr. Hefti holds a Master of Public Administration degree from the University of Southern California, a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Iowa, and he completed the Leadership Strategies for Senior Executives program at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government.
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The small and frozen world of Kansu was only settled in the second half of the 24th century. The icy world's flora was unique in that it stored energy as frozen methane rather than as fat. The original colonists discovered this by accident after trying to use the plants as a traditional wood fuel source. Eventually they learned not to put the plants into a high-heat environment, but only after many people had lost limbs in explosions. The colonists later refined their technique, gathering the plants via remote drone systems and using them as a renewable energy resource.
During the Fourth Succession War the planet fell under control of the Federated Suns. The AFFS built a base on the continent known as "Fetid", likely for training its troops in hazardous environments as well as for defense. This isolation of the military forces left the natives of Kansu free to extract the radioactive ores from the main continent, Matawan.
When the Word of Blake invaded during the last two weeks of October 3069, the militia defending the world used artillery strikes to disable many of the invaders as they traveled through Kansu's forests. The high explosive rounds caused the methane stored in the trees and other plants to explode, inflicting serious losses on the Blakists. In retaliation, the Blakist fanatics detonated a nuclear weapon, apparently hoping to cow the defenders and destroy their morale. Instead the thermonuclear explosion ignited all the methane stored in the native flora for kilometers, triggering massive secondary explosions across the world. These explosions also triggered the release of methane stored in the undersea ice sheets and Kansu's polar regions. The resulting explosions created a runaway greenhouse effect that forced humans to live completely underground for more than a decade. The formerly arctic world has had its ecosphere completely disrupted, with temperatures at the equator exceeding the boiling point of water. Most of the population remains underground, with some relocating to Kansu's moon.
- At this point in time, the Liberators where at 95% of full strength, with 100% of their equipment featuring upgraded technology.
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Applications for 2016 NIA now closed
Applications have now closed for the 2016 NHS Innovation Accelerator (NIA). Further to an extensive shortlisting and interview process, successful applicants will be notified at the beginning of October. This will be followed by an official launch event on the 9th November 2016. All applications to the NIA are additionally being considered for the new Innovation and Technology Tariff.
The NIA, now in its second year, is seeking the best healthcare innovators with evidence-based innovations to help improve health outcomes and give patients access to the latest products, services and technology.
2016 applications focussed on three population health challenges: prevention, earlier interventions, and long term condition management.
In its first year, the NIA supported 17 Fellows in taking their high impact innovations to more than 345 NHS Providers and Commissioners, raising over £17 million in funding and winning a total of 12 awards.
Successful applicants selected to participate in the second year of the programme will have access to a range of benefits, including mentorship from a range of experts; pairing with an Academic Health Science Network; peer-to-peer learning and support; plus access to a bursary of up to £30,000.
The NIA is committed to continued sharing of the learning experiences of the 2015 and 2016 Fellows, ensuring a system-wide benefit from the programme.
To keep up to date with the latest news from the NHS Innovation Accelerator, follow them on Twitter at @NHSAccelerator or visit www.england.nhs.uk/ourwork/innovation/nia


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Jada informed me of staying logged in also. I'll investigate phpbb.com for a fix. The problem is most likely session related.


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ControlSpace Remote enables integrators to offer remote control of networked systems to end-users with full, expanded customization options in version 2.0.
New Bose® Professional ControlSpace® Remote 2.0 Offers Custom Features and Broader Device Support
Framingham, MA, February 9, 2016 – As part of its ongoing commitment to provide system integrators with the most comprehensive and intuitive tools, Bose® Professional announces significant enhancements to their ControlSpace® Remote software with new version 2.0. Available as a free download from pro.Bose.com, ControlSpace Remote allows integrators to distribute remote control of Bose Pro networked systems in any venue, for any user, across multiple devices. "ControlSpace Remote is a good control solution for integrators and offers an easy-to-use end-user experience," says Trevor Donarski, Product Manager for Bose Professional. "Audio systems can be complex but the end-user control should not be."
ControlSpace Remote (CSR) has been updated across all three of its main components: CSR Builder, CSR App and the newly-released CSR Admin. Starting with CSR Builder, the templated-GUI approach has been expanded with full customization options. Users can now create custom layouts, insert images, or create navigation between GUI collections and panels. Donarski remarks, "The new CSR Builder really brings the best of both worlds – templates for the get-it-done jobs, or custom elements where the GUI can be customized and branded for the client." Preset configurations make it easy to render the design to each end-user's device.
CSR App is available for mobile phones and tablets on both the Apple and Android platforms, and new to CSR App 2.0 is a revamped user interface and support for Apple OSX and Windows PC-based clients. Lastly, based on direct feedback from end users and integrators, ControlSpace Remote now offers an Admin tool for both Apple and Windows machines, where facility owners and managers can self-distribute the app to staff devices.
Together with the new version of ControlSpace Remote, Bose also updates their ControlSpace Designer software to version 4.4. This new version includes support for 32 x 32 Dante™ expansion cards (for use with Bose ControlSpace ESP-880/1240/4120/1600 engineered sound processors) and new signal processing blocks including a new gain-sharing automatic microphone mixer and a newly-enhanced parametric equalization block.
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Ransomware Attacker Sentenced to 5.5 Years in Prison
The attacker was also ordered to pay $36 million in restitution.
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An Estonian man who participated in at least 13 ransomware attacks has been sentenced to 5.5 years in prison, the US Department of Justice has announced(Opens in a new window).
ZDNet reports(Opens in a new window) that Maksim Berezan was arrested in Latvia in November 2020 and extradited to the US. He pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud affecting a financial institution and conspiracy to commit access device fraud and computer intrusions in April 2021.
The DOJ says a "post-extradition investigation determined that Berezan had participated in at least 13 ransomware attacks, seven of which were against US victims, and that approximately $11 million in ransom payments flowed into cryptocurrency wallets that he controlled."
Berezan seemed perfectly willing to spend that money: The DOJ says he "used his ill-gotten gains to purchase two Porsches, a Ducati motorcycle, and an assortment of jewelry," and that more than $200,000 worth of an unspecified currency was recovered from his home.
Investigators also found "electronic devices storing passphrases to bitcoin wallets that contained bitcoin worth approximately $1.7 million, which has been forfeited," the DOJ says. (It's not clear if that's what the Bitcoin was worth at time of extradition or time of sentencing.)
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The ransomware attacks Berezan participated in caused an estimated $53 million in losses, the department says, and he was ordered to pay $36 million in restitution as part of his sentence. All told, that essentially means the attacks will have cost Berezan $25 million out of pocket.
Not that most of that money will ever be repaid. "This is not meant to be harsh but to give victims a realistic view of restitution," the DOJ says(Opens in a new window) on its website. "It is quite likely that a victim may not receive any or may receive only partial restitution."
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- Upon formation, what should be the name of this State? Who would be the Premier? Who would be the two Senators who represent this State? Who would be the Senator that represents the super-State for the Antarctica?
The CSIRO has regions for projecting the impact of Climate Change. See https://www.climatechangeinaustralia.gov.au/en/climate-projections/futur... This state, Nyabing State (Q), is one of the clear projections in a CSIRO cluster called "Southern & South-Western Flatlands region". CSIRO's Southern & South-Western Flatlands region coincides with BloggerMe's N,P,Q, and a tiny bit of X and a tiny bit of R.
"Unlike in the Arctic, where sea ice has suffered a drastic decline in recent years, a Dutch study has shown that sea ice in the Antarctic has expanded significantly since 1985 ..."
"When it comes to climate change, temperature is only part of the story. Climate gases released by human activity are dissolving into the oceans, and the increased levels of COâ'' are making the waters more acid. This process threatens marine life from coral reefs to fragile polar ecosystems. It seems likely that the polar oceans will be the first to feel the full force of ocean acidification. These cold seas may provide an important lesson for Australia's warmer waters."
Enviro minister Tony Burke has announced new Antarctic ice core drilling mission, in the Aurora Basin. Traces 2000yrs of #climate history.
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New Year: New David Hockney?
Posted on: January 1st, 2012
The Royal Academy London will open the new year with an exhibition on David Hockney's British landscapes. Olivia Weinberg from the Royal Academy suggests the exhibition may change how we think of Hockney as a painter. A Bigger Picture is the first exhibition in Britain devoted to Hockney's landscapes. The idea came from the 2007 Summer Exhibition when Hockney submitted Bigger Trees near Water, a canvas more than 12 metres (40ft) wide. The Royal Academy subsequently approached Hockney about creating an exhibition to fill the main galleries at Burlington House with similar works.
Rather than a retrospective exhibition, the show highlights Hockney's new works, new locations and new use of technology. Most of the works are recent, although there are a few earlier works included to provide context. Some of Hockney's earlier works include landscapes from his time in California which form an interesting contrast with the vivid, multi-canvas paintings inspired by the East Yorkshire which capture the beauty of the changing seasons.
As well as new works, Hockney has embraced new technologies and used several new media in his art production. Armed with his iphone and ipad with the app Brushes, Hockney has produced over 94 ipad drawings, 51 of which will feature in the exhibition. Another new use of technology includes his video project where multiple cameras were attached to a 4×4 vehicle, with a monitor in the back, so that Hockney could 'draw' an image by adjusting the angle and aperture of each camera.
The exhibition begins the 21st January and runs until the 9th April 2012. For further information visit the Royal Academy website.
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APS is pleased to announce that it has finalized an agreement with Specialized Petroleum Technologies LLC to serve as APS' authorized channel partner and representative in the Republic of Azerbaijan. In this very important role, SPT will supply customers with critical equipment, workshop tooling and spare parts for a wide range of APS's MWD / LWD and RSS product lines.
"We are extremely pleased to form this new relationship with SPT as it will help to solidify our presence in the Azerbaijan region and facilitate the superior product support and technical expertise that APS customers have come to rely on" said Denis Biglin, Executive Vice President of APS.
As the first point of contact for APS's Azerbaijani customers, SPT will coordinate with APS for warranty support and prompt technical support for field engineers and service technicians. Additionally, SPT will work with APS for the provisioning of "tool passports", and other required import documentation.
Specialized Petroleum Technologies, LLC is a Delaware USA based company that provides a wide variety of oil and gas related products and services to clients throughout the Caspian Sea region. SPT has partnered with APS to serve as APS' authorized channel partner and representative in the Republic of Azerbaijan.


Hi Gareth Hardy, how did you break into the creative industry?
I graduated from the University of Wolverhampton in 2006 and soon learned that it is extremely difficult to get a job in the real world. My course was really broad, so I had a lot of skills in various design disciplines, but I wasn't really a specialist in anything. A jack of all trades, master of none so to speak. A year later I landed a job as a Graphic Designer at a small design company in Warwickshire.
I was the only designer in the company (surrounded by programmers) so there was a bit of pressure from the very start. I spent about 18 months there, mainly designing websites, before realising that if I was really going to make a decent career out of my artistic abilities that I had to work for myself. My employers at the time didn't really match my ambitions, so I decided to put a plan into action of how I could achieve my dream of being a full-time self-employed designer.
All the work I had previously completed was the property of my previous employer so of course, I had no portfolio of my own, which is a massive drawback if you want to start landing your own gigs! To overcome this, I took on small freelance logo design and print jobs for local businesses and started to amass a portfolio of identity work that I would publish at Logopond. This is where I really honed my skills and learnt from some great designers with much more experience than myself. When I wasn't designing, I was working full-time in the day as a Thermal Insulation Engineer to help pay the bills.
That was five years ago now. I eventually felt confident that I was getting enough enquiries to make freelance a full-time possibility in 2009, and I've been doing it ever since. If you've got a dream, you really have to go for it no matter what sacrifices you have to make. You can't make a giant leap forward without taking a step back first.
In your opinion, what exactly is a brand?
A brand is an identity given to something to help differentiate it from others. And that 'something' can be 'anything'.
What are your top three favourite brands?
How did your book, "Smashing Logo Design: The Art of Creating Visual Identities" come to fruition?
It was a classic case of being in the right place at the right time. As I've already mentioned, when I first started out I didn't really have an online portfolio as I was completing small freelance jobs and working full-time in the day so I didn't have the spare time to make one! I was however, trying to get traffic by voicing my views on current design issues. I like to think I don't hold back and speak my mind and this seemed to go down quite well In 2010 Smashing Magazine put a tweet out asking their followers if anyone knew of any topics that they think should be covered. I got talking to Vitaly of Smashing Mag and ended up writing an article entitled 10 Common Mistake in Logo Design. From there, a publisher at Wiley spotted the article and loved my writing style and so asked me to put a pitch together for a book as part of the Smashing series.
Is there anyone in particular who has inspired you within the creative community?
My favourite designers are those that push the boundaries, break the rules and don't follow the crowd like headless chickens. I love Salvador Dali, Herb Lubalin & Banksy for those exact reasons. Getting to interview Milton Glaser for my book was a very inspiring moment. I'd have loved to have been able to speak to Paul Rand too.
On the Behance network you are the most appreciated designer in Birmingham, how do you feel the network has aided in furthering your creative endeavours?
I didn't know that, thanks! 🙂 Behance has been a massive help as I was lucky enough to get a logo design collection featured and so that brought with it a lot of traffic and enquiries. Recently, though, I haven't been getting as many from there as I think they changed their algorithm so that search results are by default the most recently most appreciated rather than the most appreciated of all time. So it just goes to show how important it is to keep your portfolio current and fresh.
Hopefully still alive and possibly working with bigger clients. I work in partnership with my brother who is a web developer so I'd eventually like to revisit my roots and do some more web design work than I currently do now. My sister is a phenomenal artist at just 18 years of age so to collaborate with her on some projects one day would be a dream come true.
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The snow falling image used is not mine and can be found here, thanks to the lovely mimose-stock, though I doctored it up a lot. Alayne Snow is a character that is copyright of George R.R. Martin and from his series A Song of Ice and Fire.
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Age of Homes: Construction circa 1992 - 2003 within Boulder Heights; Within El Paseo, construction commenced in 2006 with new construction opportunities available.
Below is a collection of photographs from the Boulder Heights & El Paseo Neighborhood in Boise, Idaho. Click to view homes for Sale in Boulder Heights & El Paseo.


It is difficult sometimes to write the blog when the sun is shining, the beach is Ten Metres away and one is having a good time. It was easy to write in Morocco as there is not a lot to do in the evenings. But in Spain, with the temperatures rising and the beach bars seductively beckoning, it has been a struggle. We are writing this as we plan to move to inland and away from what has been a great time in some under-developed stretches of the Spanish coastline. Stretches of coastline you currently cannot enjoy thoroughly without a motorhome. Whether this will last I am not sure.
We finally managed to pull ourselves away from this beautiful coastal hamlet and head for our next wild camp. The journey along the seaboard was spectacular in places with rises up over rugged cliffs before diving down to sandy beaches. We also went through the town of Vera. According to our new confidant Viv, Vera is the European capital of naturism. Unlike the rest of Spain such is the demand from nudie types that the house prices here are rising. So if you have a few spare quid in your back pocket and like to run around without wearing trousers with a back pocket, or any trousers at all then Vera is the place. Here are some pictures of the journey northwards to Aquilas, and none of naked people.
We are having a little break in tradition here by not telling you where we parked. It was complete virgin coastline without a single building. Wonderful. And a cherry on the cake was: a beach bar on the next bay to enjoy a couple of sundowners. The weather was great, wall-to-wall sunshine and little wind allowing the Kayak to make a more stable return to the water.
So for four days we got up, had fruit for breakfast, sat on the beach, played in the kayak, went for sundowners, had a Barbie.
If this is retirement then give me years of it. Beats the back-stabbing rubbish of the corporate world hands down.
While in Aqua we came across or should I say we were come across by an overtly chatty chap from Bristol by the name of Vivian who was giving a wonderful multi-dimension impression of that other great Bristolian, comedian Justin Lee Collins, right down to the jokes that do not quite work and associated long hair.
So one day we had just finished an impressive whack around the bay in the Kayak when a man giving a fine multi-dimension impression of Robinson Crusoe addressed us in a thick West-Country accent, it was Vivian. We went for a sundowner.
Moving on up is now the nature of our trip as we head steadily homewards and La Azohia was to be our last stop on the coast. La Azohia is at the end of the road with a westwards facing beach, unusual for the East coast of Spain. The sunsets it delivered on a nightly basis were spectacular and with our van parked in a dry riverbed facing out to sea we were able to sit and take in nature's lightshow every evening. We were also opposite a café with WiFi and before the town of Azohia had woken on our first morning a complete series of Midsomer had been downloaded.
We were getting to like our tranquil spot when the peace was broken by the chugging of a familiar sounding vehicle. And out popped someone doing a multi-dimensional impression of Peter Stringfellow, granted the accent was more Wurzel Gummige than the Yorkshire steel of either Sean Bean or Stringfellow himself, but leaving that aside it was spot-on. It was Vivian.
But we will not remember La Azohia for chumming with Viv and sharing our food over evening BBQ's and fires on the beach. No we will remember this delightful place for the friendship we struck up with our new found pet; Toodles the dog. Why toodles? This dog looked like a cross between an Alsatian and a Dachshund. Do not imagine how that might have happened, just take my word for it. So Tracy wanted to call it Tyson and I chose Strudel, so we compromised on Toodles. Toodles followed us everywhere, to the bar, to the restaurant for lunch, to the sewer to empty our waste. He was there every morning when we awoke. We fed him with tins of stuff we had bought from Blighty and didn't want, we put water in a bowl for him, we gave him a mat to lie on. This was a full-on holiday romance with Toodles being the hot date of the Hacienda.
We were now getting into a routine where we cycled or walked every morning, barbeid on the beach every evening and just genuinely chilled, and all with Toodles at our side. As an aside once Viv stopped doing his impersonations of aging northerners he was found to be an all-round good egg.
On the morning of the Fourth of May we had arranged to go on our bikes into the town of Mazarron for some provisions. As I went round the back of the van to unlock the bikes I noticed the police had turned-up and we were being told we could not park here and we needed to be moving on up the coast. I must say the police were very polite and very friendly. We agreed with Viv to move to the Mar Menor near La Manga.
We spent the next hour getting the van packed away and ready to go. There was one last thing left to do, say goodbye to Toodles. This we did and whether there was a language barrier or Toodles was just plain thick he did not seem to understand we were off.
He followed the van as we turned around, he followed us as we pulled slowly into the street, he stood in the middle of the road with his ears erect and sported his best doey eyes look. We gently increased the revs and started to move. Then there was a pure Hollywood moment as Toodles was in the middle of the street looking at us. We could see him in the rear view mirrors, we looked at each other, we knew in the movies we would stop, open the door, Toodles would run and jump in and the credits would roll. But this isn't Hollywood, we shrugged and agreed; dumb Spanish Mutt and drove off with the pedal fully on the floor.
We originally planned to head for the town of Los Alcazares where we had sourced a place to park. I am not going to say a lot about this place apart from we didn't stay. I think this piece of graffiti sums it up.
We moved on up to Cabo de Palos, parked up, got the Barbie out and had one last evening with Viv as we are now going to move in-land for our final few days in Spain. Here are some pictures of our final night.
Tracy and Peter Stringfellow. Arp.
Viv, it was great to meet you and we had a great time in your company. However, for the record, it was easier to say goodbye to you than to a dumb animal. Be safe in your travels, keep in touch and let's try and meet-up when we cross paths in September.
Keep the blogs coming might even make it to some of these places myself when I escape!!


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Mile Oak churchyard; a nice place to spend Eternity
Yesterday morning the low Winter sunlight hit this gravestone at just the right angle; for the first time I could read the inscription. I've read William Kerr's name before, but not the rest. I would go on my way wondering what might have brought a Scotsman to a Sussex village in the Nineteenth Century, to lie with all these generations of Buckolls and Borrers, Blakers and Patchings.
Now I know. He seems to have had no heirs, so I wonder if his fellow parishioners arranged his memorial. He was clearly much-loved, and it reads like an Honourable Discharge.
Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold of eternal life.
In memory of WILLIAM KERR who died March 25th 1854 Aged 75
William Kerr was for eighteen Years a Private in the 12th Light Dragoons and served in Egypt, Spain and Flanders under Abercrombie and Wellington. He was present at the Battles of Alexandria, Salamanca, Vittoria and Waterloo.
He resided thirty six Years in this Parish and was remarkable during the latter part of his life for his gentleness of disposition and general good conduct. He died hoping and praying for mercy in the name of his Redeemer.
The battles Pte Kerr fought in were some of the bloodiest of the Napoleonic Wars: Alexandria 1801 where Sir Ralph Abercrombie died chasing Napoleon out of Egypt; Salamanca 1812 and Vitoria 1813, where the Duke of Wellington chased the French out of Spain, and Waterloo 1815 where Wellington chased Napoleon out of Europe for good, ending twenty years of war. He was a lucky man to survive such long service; his retirement to Portslade was well-deserved.
Old Portslade, the area between the A27 and the Old Shoreham Road now known as Mile Oak, still feels like a country village, not yet swallowed up by the City of Brighton and Hove. William Kerr would recognise the streets round St Nicolas's church, though in his day the Norman Manor house behind the church was still standing.
High Street with cottages c.1800 and Southdown Brewery 1881 (founded c.1850)
Kemps, originally 16th Century with later facade; you can just make out the late-17th Century chimney with brick pilasters.
Portslade Manor, 12th Century, converted to almshouses in the Nineteenth Century before being demolished to make rubble to build a folly-ruin nearby.
When I'm eating my sandwiches in the churchyard I always think it must a rather good place to spend the rest of time.
Buckoll Graves, 1740s Photos (c)JM
A couple of days after writing this, I discovered that two medals belonging to William Kerr, his Military General Service medal with Egypt and Vittoria clasps and his Waterloo medal, had been auctioned recently by Dix, Noonan Webb, Orders, Medal, Decorations and Militaria December 12th – 13th 2012 lot 1338, sold for £3,100.
The catalogue entry, which gives some additional biography, reads:
Pair: Private William Kerr, 12th Light Dragoons
Military General Service 1793-1814, 2 clasps, Egypt, Vittoria (William Kerr, 12th Light Dragoons) ex Gray Collection 1911; Waterloo 1815 (William Kerr, 12th Reg. Light Dragoons)
William Kerr was born at Woodman, Kent, and served for 3 years in the Lanark and Dunbarton Fencible Cavalry before enlisting at Sandwich into the 12th Light Dragoons on 20th March 1800. A note sold with his medal states that he was 'wounded in the left thigh on 21st March 1801', but this is not recorded on his discharge papers which state only that he 'Served in the Peninsula & Waterloo'. He was discharged to Pension on 16 February 1819.
William Kerr died at Portslade, East Sussex, in March 1854, and was buried in the parish church where his headstone still survives.
Sold with photograph of his headstone and copied death certificate and discharge papers.
I'm glad that the lot included a photo of his gravestone. I'm glad too that the medals have been reunited after being in separate collections earlier last century. William Kerr was born in England, then. But he must've had strong links to Scotland to join a Scottish fencible regiment at the start of the Napoleonic War. Fencibles (from 'defensible') were raised for home defence; clearly by 1800 he fancied the adventure – and better pay – of serving overseas.
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Peikko signed an agreement with the City of Lahti, Finland, to promote low carbon construction
Peikko Group has signed an agreement with the City of Lahti regarding cooperation with Carbon Neutral Construction Development Center. The center has been created to continue the city's work for environmental protection and development. It aims to find new ways and technical solutions to reduce the carbon footprint of construction and enable the related pilot projects to take place in Lahti.
As part of this cooperation, Peikko will continue to develop its DELTABEAM® Green product offering. Peikko's goal is to manufacture at least half of the Finnish DELTABEAM® production as low carbon products and thus, decrease the amount of emissions by 25% by 2025. In addition, the parties will be the main organizers of the Construction Goes Circular conference, to be held in Lahti in October 2021. The conference is part of the official program of the Lahti Green Capital year.
"We are pleased to start cooperation with the City of Lahti and its Carbon Neutral Construction Development Center. Peikko wants to do its share to reduce CO2 emissions and promote circular economy related innovations. This kind of cooperation in our home city is a fantastic opportunity that meets well our goals", says Topi Paananen, CEO of Peikko Group Corporation.
"We are excited to start cooperation with Peikko, a company that is firmly rooted in our city but at the same time very international. We are looking forward to a very practical cooperation as simple solutions are the ones that change the world for the better", says Juhani Pirinen, Director, Carbon Neutral Construction Development Center.
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Juhani Pirinen, Director, Carbon Neutral Construction Development Center, the City of Lahti
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Cartwright  ist eine Gemeinde (Town) in der kanadischen Provinz Neufundland und Labrador. Port Hope Simpson wurde 1775 gegründet. Die Gemeinde wurde nach George Cartwright benannt, einem englischen Armeeoffizier und Pelzhändler.

Lage
Die Gemeinde befindet sich am Nordostufer der Sandwich Bay im Südosten von Labrador.

Cartwright besitzt einen kleinen Flugplatz (IATA: YRF). Die knapp 95 km lange Route 516 verbindet Cartwright mit dem Trans-Labrador Highway. Außerdem existiert eine Fährverbindung nach Rigolet und Black Tickle.

Geschichte
Zwischen 1953 und 1968 wurde bei Cartwright im Rahmen der Distant Early Warning Line die Radarstation Cartwright Air Station betrieben.

Einwohnerzahl
Beim Zensus im Jahr 2016 hatte die Gemeinde eine Einwohnerzahl von 427. Fünf Jahre zuvor waren es noch 504. Somit nahm die Bevölkerung in den letzten Jahren ab. Die Bevölkerung besteht überwiegend aus Métis und Inuit.

Weblinks

 Cartwright bei Natural Resources Canada

Einzelnachweise

Ort in Neufundland und Labrador

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Bank of Carthage Building #2 (former), now Jasper County Sheriff Office, 231 South Main Street,
Looking to expand its banking facility in 1959, the Board of the Bank of Carthage (301 South Main Street) swapped properties with the heirs and owners of the Caffee Building located across the street to the north. The new Bank of Carthage facility was built in 1960 and featured limestone from Carthage Marble Corporation on its exterior facade and various foreign marbles on the interior that were supplied by Locarni Marble Company. Most notable on the building's southern facade along West Third Street are the round sculptures featuring coins from Carthage, Tunisia. This address is within the Carthage Courthouse Historic District on the National Register of Historic Places.
Former Bank of Carthage #2 building in 2017.
Bank of Carthage #2 Building, circa 1960. Photo in collection of Powers Museum.
Except for 1887 check and 1920 deposit book in this grouping, all other items are associated with the second Bank of Carthage building and were on display in 175th Anniversary of Carthage Exhibit at Powers Museum in 2017.
Former Caffee Building that housed the Caffee Drug Company and other drug stores through the years before being torn down for the building of the 1960 Bank of Carthage #2 building. This image is circa 1900.
One of several stone sculptures on the West Fourth Street side of the former Bank of Carthage building.
Brochure Bank of Carthage published about the coin sculptures on the building written by Richard Ferguson.
Second page about the coin sculptures on the building written by Richard Ferguson.
Digitization on CLIO is part of Powers Museum's "Digital Carthage" project in honor of Carthage's 175th Anniversary Celebration (March 28, 2017 through March 27, 2018).
Funding for the Walking in the Wards tour was made possible by a grant from the Missouri Humanities Council and the National Endowment for the Humanities, Spring 2017.
This building is also known as the Jasper County Courthouse Annex II as seen on the facade. Entrance for other county offices housed on the second floor in this building is found on the back of the building.
Hansford, Michele. Image of America: Carthage Missouri. Charleston SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2000.
Utter, Wade and Hansford, Michele. Image of America: Carthage Missouri 1940-1990. Charleston SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2013.
1897 Sanborn map of Carthage Courthouse Square including site of former Caffee Drug Company building
Find-a-grave link for Dr. Amos Caffee.
Carthage Courthouse Historic District National Register pdf.
Created by Ryan Waggoner, Missouri Southern State University Intern, Spring 2017, (Powers Museum) on September 14th 2017, 7:11:07 pm.
Last updated by Michele Hansford on December 19th 2018, 8:28:05 pm.
Carthage Courthouse Square Tour (Wards 1 & 2)
This "Neighborhood of History" tour features selected addresses on East 4th, Grant, East 3rd and South Main Streets that face the 1894-95 Jasper County Courthouse, the tour's starting point. The addresses featured here (along with the remaining buildings surrounding the courthouse and extending for a couple blocks) are listed on the National Register of Historic Places and citations to those nominations are cited as links in the Clio listings. Most of the buildings or sites featured in this tour were selected because they were locations of objects displayed (whether manufactured, sold and/or used at a particular location) in the Powers Museum's 2017 exhibit focusing on businesses and industries of Carthage. It was the intent of the original project to create a vehicle that could show those objects as they related to physical locations that current residents and tourists can view by walking or driving by today. The digital sites on this Clio app were originally created by a special grant project funded by the Missouri Humanities Council and the National Endowment for the Humanities in 2017-18 as part of the Powers Museum's observation of Carthage's 175th anniversary. Other addresses around the courthouse square may be added in the future by volunteers. Contact the Powers Museum for further information. www.powersmuseum.org


Fallout: Equestria Resource • What descended on Maripony?
chapter 41.txt(572): I did the math. Both Calamity and Pride had referred to an Enclave "regiment" as four Raptors and accompanying troops -- the amount that could be carried and deployed by a Thunderhead. A full regiment had descended on Maripony just before the bomb went off, bringing a member of the High Council with them. Probably the regiment attached to the High Council's own personal Thunderhead. Hundreds of ponies, Commander Winter had said.
To me that says four raptors, were over maripony when the balefire bomb went off. There was no thunderhead there.
Thoughts? Statements of fact, Kkat?
Re: What descended on Maripony?
This discussion came up in the chatroom a week or so ago.
This is correct. Calamity says at one point there are 4 Thunderhead-class mobile siege platforms in existence; two of them are are shown "on screen" in FoE—the Glorious Dawn appears in Manehattan to level Horseshoe Tower, the Overcast appears at the Battle of the Citadel in the Everfree Forest (where it gets taken out by the cyberdragon, IIRC).
The one that's permanently stationed at Neighvarro and the personal Thunderhead of the Enclave High Council are not named (Word of Kkat on that one). We know the one at Neighvarro was still there, with its regiment, when Littlepip and company made their strike at the climax of the story, and the High Council as a whole (Harbinger himself notwithstanding) wouldn't have been caught dead below the cloud curtain under any circumstances, especially near the Goddess.
That's what I thought. That is also what I wrote. Lets just say another fanfiction is taking liberties I disagree with yet again.


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