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Raising the 'Beatrice's Goat': The Indian Experience in Microcredit
Asalatha, B. P. and Vijayamohanan, Pillai N. (2010): Raising the 'Beatrice's Goat': The Indian Experience in Microcredit.
Empowerment of the poor entails three basic inter-linked dimensions – generation of employment (and income), reduction of poverty, and erasing inequality. The perspective has now undergone a basic change from the collective care mechanism of a paternalistic state intervention meted out from the top to bottom to a people-centered and participation-oriented bottom up approach. With this new perspective, new practices have emerged through integrated community participation of the poor. Thus the basis of the concept of micro finance is self-mobilization and self-organization of the poor at the community level driven by an ardent desire backed by an unfaltering trust in their own inherent capacity to improve their living conditions by themselves, given an enabling environment. An active realization of such self-mobilization is found in self help groups (SHGs), formed for distributing the microcredit benefits, inspired by the success of the Bangladesh Grameen experiment. This approach has already taken strong roots across the lengths and breadths of India as an effective and viable channel to take the poor to a new domain of economic empowerment and social upliftment. Microcredit, which synergies the thrift and credit habits of the poor in a participatory and informal setting, is now widely acknowledged as a strategic tool in all poverty alleviation programmes. This paper discusses the Indian experience in microcredit.
Microcredit; Indian experience; empowerment; financial inclusion
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Officials Identify City Heights Woman Found Dead in Apartment
By Wendy Fry and NBC 7 Staff	• Published June 18, 2018 • Updated on June 18, 2018 at 7:28 pm
A woman found dead in a City Heights apartment was identified Monday by San Diego police.
Jossie Marilyn Ruiz Lopez, 21, of San Diego was found by her father inside the apartment near 45th and Dwight streets, south of University Avenue after 5 p.m. Saturday, police said.
The woman was found with apparent traumatic injuries, police said.
Lopez had gone out with friends Friday night and returned home around 5:45 a.m. Saturday, Lt. Matt Dobbs said.
After her father, Pedro Ruiz, scolded her for coming home after dawn, she immediately went to bed.
Everyone in the house went to work leaving Lopez alone in the apartment.
Ruiz said he came home mid-afternoon and didn't notice anything suspicious.
He said her door was closed and he assumed she was asleep inside.
Ruiz said he took a nap then made something to eat and jumped into the shower.
When he got out of the shower, he said Lopez' door was ajar.
He didn't notice anything wrong until he could not find his car keys.
That's when he went into her room and made a discovery that he said will shock him for the rest of his life.
No suspects have been identified.
An online fundraising page has been created to help her relatives with funeral expenses.
Anyone with information about this incident can call the Homicide Unit at (619) 531-2293 or Crime Stoppers at (888) 580-8477.
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From Bear to Zendaya, here are the noteworthy names of 2017
The noteworthy first names of 2017 include that of a soon-to-be royal plus that of a disgraced movie mogul.
Dec. 29, 2017, 7:53 PM UTC / Source: Nameberry.com
By Linda Rosenkrantz
What were the most noteworthy names of the year? To pick the Top 10, Nameberry looked at not only baby names, but beyond to include the names that had a significant impact on the culture. So here are our top selections — some representative of major trends — along with a few others that were pulled along in their wake.
1. Bear
2017 was clearly the year of fierce boys' names, embodied by a menagerie of wild-animal names that were domesticated onto birth certificates. Bear was the leader of the pack, ranking at No. 133 on Nameberry (and in the Top 10 for dog names). Bear seemed like a surprising pick when Alicia Silverstone named her son Bear Blu in 2011, but it became gradually normalized when there were bear cubs in the cribs of other celebs like Kate Winslet and Liam Payne. Also in this once aggressive animal category are Wolf (No. 208 on Nameberry) and the fast-rising Fox, which entered the US Top 800 last year.
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2. Rumi
Rumi, the daughter of Beyoncé and Jay-Z born this year, represents two strong 2017 baby name trends. As the name of an illustrious 13th century Sufi mystic — and the celebrated couple's professed favorite poet — it is the spiritual reverse of the aggressive boy names. And by using the male poet's name for their daughter (who has a twin, Sir), it's also an illustration of this era's growing emphasis on gender fluidity. Rumi could see increased use in 2018, fitting in with such popular names as Romy and Remy.
3. Bodhi
Bodhi took those trends to the next level, rising over 500 spots in the last four years to its current rank of No. 363. Over 900 parents were beguiled by the name's mystical meaning — it's a Sanskrit name signifying enlightenment, related to the Buddhist state of nirvana — and by its appealingly upbeat sound. A celebrity fave in recent years, Bodhi too was subject to gender- bending when actors Ian Somerhalder and Nikki Reed used it for their baby girl.
4. River
Nature names have been a growing trend for decades — from flower and tree names to birds and beasts and bodies of water. River, this year, surged to just outside the Top 200, and was used by dozens of celebs, including Keri Russell and Jeff Goldblum. Goldblum had established that theme with his son Charlie's middle name of Ocean, possibly the next rising wave, and also associated with hot singer Frank Ocean. Also coming into full bloom: Wren, Maple and Marigold.
5. Greta
As one of the rising number (finally!) of women directors cracking the glass ceiling in Hollywood, Greta Gerwig made her solo directorial debut with the acclaimed film "Lady Bird," starring the influentially named Saoirse Ronan. Greta, a Hollywood Golden Age glamour girl name via the exotic Garbo, is coming back into favor, now at No. 632 in the US, No. 287 on Nameberry and No. 8 in Italy.
6. Harvey
Harvey was enjoying a nice, steady six-year surge as a revived semi-classic when it was slammed by two devastating events. First there was Houston's Hurricane Harvey, one of the most destructive storms on record. Then there was the Harvey Weinstein sexual-harassment scandal, which opened the floodgates to a massive #MeToo movement on social media denouncing sexual assault. With all this, the name Harvey's prospects of recovering are extremely dim.
One of the most enduring byproducts of the Harry Potter phenomenon, the luminescent Luna entered the US Top 100 this year — a distinction it also enjoys around the world, from England to France, Sweden to Spain, and Chile to Croatia. Luna is one of many ancient deity names that were super-popular with parents in 2017, as were other names with the Loo-sound.
8. Meghan
In its various spellings, the name Megan/Meghan was enjoying a well-deserved rest after peaking in the 1980s. And then along came Meghan Markle, the American actress and humanitarian who became engaged to Britain's Prince Harry on Nov. 17, rendering her name suddenly inescapable (hers was the most googled name of 2016). With the wedding set for May, Meghan may well become the 2018 name of the year. Time will tell as to whether this Welsh diminutive of Margaret will become popular for babies again and regain its Top 65 status, but the future royal certainly makes an attractive and worthy namesake.
9. Olympia
When Serena Williams gave birth to her daughter Alexis Olympia in September, she made a bold and somewhat unusual naming choice. First of all she made the baby girl a junior sharing her father Alexis Ohanian's name. Olympia referenced Serena's Olympic championships — and the initials AO were a sly nod to the Australian Open she'd won when already pregnant. The Greek name Olympia, with its relation to Mount Olympus, home of the Greek gods, has a powerful, goddess-like aura and is one of the classic O girl names — Ophelia, Odessa, Octavia — now ready to join Olivia and Olive on the popularity parade.
10. Zendaya
This intriguing African name, which means thanks, is ensconced in the Top 1000 (No. 142 In New York City and No. 18 on Nameberry!) solely due to one-time Disney Channel star Zendaya. The entertainer is having a breakout year, starring opposite Hugh Jackman in "The Greatest Showman" and attracting 46 million Instagram followers. She has been active in charities raising money for feeding hungry children in Haiti and for women's empowerment.


On behalf of the ISLA Board of Directors, we would like to thank everyone who reached out to us, or joined us in person at the first listening session, to share your feedback and questions pertaining to the Hopkins proposal. We recognize that many of you have lots of unanswered questions, and we appreciate your patience as we work through this together.
As we stated during Wednesday's listening session, a task force committee has been assembled to work through the feedback and questions we are receiving pertaining to this proposal from Hopkins. The task force committee members are myself, Jaiah Kamara (Task Force Lead, ISLA Parent & Board Director), Martin Hoff (ISLA Parent & Board Director), Claudia Holzbauer (Kindergarten Teacher), Sarah Devers (6th Grade Teacher), Jason Grais (ISLA Parent), and a PTO representative (who has yet to be named).
The purpose of this task force is to be a liaison between the ISLA community, ISLA Board, and the Hopkins representatives. It is important to clarify that this task force is not a decision-making body as it pertains to the Hopkins proposal. Our objective is to listen to the feedback and questions of our community, and work diligently to provide intelligent and sensible answers for our community.
After processing all the feedback we have received from our ISLA community, there are very clear themes in which most of the feedback can be organized into. In the interest of not presenting you only with the questions, and the full intention of providing you with more details in the near future, I will attempt to provide brief responses below.
Given the unprecedented nature of Hopkin's proposal (a district absorbing a charter school), we are unable to answer all your questions immediately. Please rest assured that we are committed to diligently and intentionally responding to all your outreach in an organized, community focused way.
As we continue to work through the many questions we have already received, our task force plans on providing regular communication in the ISLA newsletter. I would like to encourage you all to continue to reach out to us with your feedback and questions, and we will do our best to respond to them in an organized, community focused way. All communications pertaining to the Hopkins proposal should be sent to proposal.feedback@isla.school.
As we continue to evaluate if this is a good fit for ISLA, and encounter a growing list of things to do, we absolutely welcome your effort. If are interested in being more involved, please do send us your name and best contact information. We will put you on a list and be certain to reach out when we have a need.


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Casius Pealer
Architect/Attorney
Casius Pealer is trained as an architect and an attorney with 15 years of community development experience. His professional experience uniquely combines building design and planning with time spent as legal counsel for public agencies and nonprofits engaged in affordable housing development. Casius was the first Director of Affordable Housing for the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC), and he continues to specialize in using green building as a tool to achieve long term affordable housing goals. Casius spent four years in private practice as legal counsel for public housing authorities in the United States, implementing redevelopment projects with a variety of public and private financing structures. Casius also worked in-house at the District of Columbia Housing Authority (DCHA) as the Assistant General Counsel for Real Estate and Development. And he is currently engaged as a consultant with the Affordable Housing Institute (AHI), a non-profit consultancy that focuses on creating healthy housing ecosystems worldwide, with an emphasis on the Global South. With a background in architecture, Casius has worked directly in building design and planning and these experiences informed his early interest in green building. Casius is a LEED Accredited Professional and one of less than 100 green building professionals in the U.S. to be approved by USGBC as a LEED Faculty. As a native of Florida who has worked extensively in the Gulf Coast and the Caribbean, Casius has focused much of his green building work on hot and humid climates. He recently received certification as a Pearl Qualified Professional (PQP) through the Estidama Rating System created by the Abu Dhabi Urban Planning Council in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Casius has been published in the ABA Journal of Affordable Housing and Community Development Law as well as the AIA Journal of Architecture and Architectural Record, and is a regular speaker at professional conferences nationally and internationally. In the past two years, Casius has presented at the USGBC Greenbuild International Conference and Expo, the American Institute of Architects (AIA) Annual Convention, the United Nations World Urban Forum, and the International Quality and Productivity Center (IQPC) Affordable Housing Development Summit, Middle East. In addition to the above work, Casius currently serves on the American Institute of Architects (AIA) Housing Committee (2008-2012), including as the 2011 National Chair. And Casius is an Adjunct Lecturer at Tulane University School of Architecture, coordinating the capstone research class for the Master of Sustainable Real Estate Development program. Casius holds a J.D. cum laude from the University of Michigan Law School and a Master of Architecture from Tulane University School of Architecture.
David Heap
Energy/Finance Consulatant
David Heap is an energy consultant, focused on solutions in renewable power generation and energy efficiency. His expertise covers energy project management, technology development, and tech investment consulting. He has over 15 years of experience in the energy and construction industries, with successful engagements in North and South America, Europe, and the Middle East. David holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Louisiana State University, an M.B.A from the Thunderbird School of Global Management, and a M.S. in Environmental Technology Management from Arizona State University. He is a LEED AP, and a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the Power and Energy Society, Engineering for Change, and the U.S. Green Building Council.
Michael Ben Eli
Mgmt. Consultant
Michael Ben-Eli is an international consultant on management and organization. His work has focused on strategy development, organizational design, sustainability, and change management. He graduated from the Architectural Association in London and later received a Ph.D. from the Institute of Cybernetics at Brunel University, where he studied under Gordon Pask. He was a close associate of R. Buckminster Fuller, with whom he collaborated on projects involving research on advanced structural systems and exploration of issues related to the management of technology and world resources for the advantage of all. Dr. Ben-Eli pioneered applications of Systems Thinking and Cybernetics in management and organization. Over the years he worked on synthesizing strategy issues in many parts of the world and in diverse institutional settings, ranging from small high technology firms to multinational enterprises, manufacturing companies, financial institutions, health care and educational organizations, government agencies, NGOs, and international multilateral organizations. In recent years, he has been working primarily on issues related to sustainability and sustainable development, focusing on helping inspire leaders in business, government, community, and youth accelerate a peaceful transition to a sustainable future. He is founder of the Sustainability Laboratory, established in order to develop and demonstrate breakthrough approaches to sustainability practices.
Mark Venczel Ph.D.
Environmental Engineer
Mark Venczel moved to New Orleans in 1997 to study engineering at Tulane University. He studied Chemical Engineering, including coursework in biology, biochemistry, and bioengineering. After earning an MS in 2003, Mark became interested in green building principles as well as alternative energy technologies. In 2006, he moved to upstate New York to conduct research related to alternative energy production in agriculture. Mark received his PhD in 2010, having conducted mathematical modeling of energy and environmental benefits of biogas production from dairy farm waste. During that time, Mark also took part in the construction and operation of a pilot-scale anaerobic digester, and used his own research topic to develop and teach a 5-week curriculum on environmentally sustainable transport for a high school environmental science class. Since returning to New Orleans, he has become involved with sustainable development projects in the city. Mark is a board member of Friends of Lafitte Corridor (FOLC), a non-profit group advocating for the development of the Lafitte Greenway – a 3 mile linear greenspace being designed to promote more non-motorized transport in the city. The Lafitte Greenway could also become a pilot project as part of the Integrated Water Management Strategy currently in development. In the latter half of 2011, Mark worked for a solar installation company, becoming familiar with the installation, operation and maintenance of various types of solar photovoltaic systems.
Don Blancher
Systems Ecologist
Don is CEO and Chief Scientist at Sustainable Ecosystem Restoration, LLC, located in Mobile, Alabama and New Orleans, Louisiana. Dr. Blancher received his bachelor's in Biology from University of New Orleans (1972), his masters in Zoology and Physiology from LSU (1974) and his Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering Sciences from the University of Florida (1979). He is a Systems Ecologist who has applied various techniques, including energy synthesis, for evaluation of systems of nature and man. He has worked on numerous planning projects throughout the Gulf Coastal area evaluating the ecological impacts for a variety of landscape changes. He is also an expert in the discharge of contaminants in aquatic and marine environments, and their subsequent impacts to biota and habitats (including wetlands impacts).


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Dear St. Andrew's and Emmanuel family,
FROM BISHOP GOFF
There is not any new information to share from Bishop Goff this week. For the moment, we seem to have reached a new "normal" (nothing about this is normal of course) and things are no longer changing as quickly.
I hope you enjoyed the Easter service with the National Cathedral. It is a testament to the fact that we, ourselves, are the church. Despite the difficulties around us, we're able to adapt and find new ways to join together for support, comfort and worship.
SUNDAY MORNING PRAYER SERVICE
10:15 a.m. on Zoom and Facebook Live followed by a Coffee Hour on Zoom. (Click the Zoom link to join, the password is embedded. For Facebook Live, click the link to be taken to our Facebook page to view the live stream.) The bulletin is coming soon on our website. Please note the time change: It is has been changed slightly because times on the hour/half hour seem to face more challenges with the live streams being overwhelmed.
So you're aware, all participants' video and audio are muted upon logging on to Zoom in order to eliminate outside noise. You're welcome to share the Zoom information with friends and family, but please do not share it publicly so that we can maintain security. Anyone is always welcome to attend via Facebook Live.
Please be aware that we are doing our best — Audio and video may not always be as clear as we'd like, delays may occur and last minute changes to fix unexpected issues do occur. We're all doing our best with what is available during a situation we never anticipated to be in.
Every week, I am leading:
Mondays, 9 a.m. Morning prayer on Zoom and Facebook Live
Tuesdays, 5:30 p.m. Evening prayer on Zoom and Facebook Live
Wednesdays, 12 p.m. Noonday prayer on Zoom and Facebook Live
Fridays, 7:30 p.m. Bedtime story with Mother Kathy, invite your friends! Zoom and Facebook Live
DROP-IN OFFICE HOURS
I am holding virtual drop-in office hours every Thursday from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Zoom. Pop in to say hi, chat or ask any questions you may have.
KIDS MEETUP
Every Thursday, 2 to 3 p.m., the kids of the parish are meeting up via Zoom to hang out together.
NEW 2020 DIRECTORY
The new 2020 directory is available on our website. Printed copies will be available later, once the offices are reopened. To download the PDF, a password is needed. It was included in the Weekly Update email.
FACEBOOK GROUP FOR PARISHIONERS
If you haven't joined yet, please check out the Facebook group Melissa has set up for parishioners so that we may go there to share recipes, amusing anecdotes, prayers, calming photos, support, resources — the types of things we share in person. To join the group, click on this link, click "join group," answer the security questions and submit. Melissa or I will then approve and you can begin posting. You must have a Facebook account to join the group.
The vestries and I thank everyone for sending in your pledges so that we can continue to fulfill our mission as the church and exemplifying Christ's love for the world. Please continue to send pledges, either via mail to churches or electronically (remembering to include in the memo the church's name and location). Mailing directly to the church is preferred, but please do whatever is easiest for you. You are appreciated!
Emmanuel Episcopal 122 E. Court Woodstock VA 22664
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MAKING MASKS
For those sewing masks, if you are able, Emmanuel's Table Food Pantry would appreciate any donations you can spare to distribute masks to pantry clients. We understand that the primary focus at this time is those health care workers on the front lines, so appreciate this may not be possible. If you have any to donate, they can be dropped off in a bag at the office door at Emmanuel. The pantry volunteers can pick them up Mondays or Tuesday afternoons to distribute in the food packages.
SAFER SHOPPING
I encourage folks to utilize grocery pickup. In our area, Walmart offers curbside pickup through their grocery app. Going farther out, Martin's and Aldi are offering pickup as well. To help our local restaurants, please consider using curbside pickup to show your support. Many are offering this service, including some who provide meals that last multiple days. When you do go out for essentials, remember to wear your mask, covering mouth and nose!
If you know someone facing an urgent issue shopping, please let me or Melissa know.
FOOD PANTRY UPDATE
If you are facing hardship accessing food but are hesitant to use the food pantry for whatever reason, please reach out to me, Melissa or one of the wardens privately. We can arrange for you to receive pantry assistance in a more private way than the usual Tuesday pickup.
The pantry fed 262 people (78 families) this week. The need for the pantry continues to abound — we served 18 new families this week alone. Next Tuesday, it is open at the usual 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. with the modified process we have implemented. If you know of anyone in need, please share the information with them. Folks are welcome to make pickups at the pantry for others who can't get out. The person picking up only the name of the person they're picking up for and number of people in the family.
CONTACTING MELISSA AND ME
Melissa and I are both working from home for the foreseeable future so are not going in to either office. You may contact us via email. For urgent pastoral matters only, call my cell phone.
Keep in mind, I observe the Sabbath Friday and Saturday while Melissa is off Thursday after 1:30 p.m., Friday, Saturday and Sunday. So, we may not reply until Monday. We promise we are not ignoring you, care very much about everyone, miss you all, and will respond.
For now, the prayer list can be found online (scroll to the bottom of the page). Melissa is updating it as names are added or removed so it stays current.
I hope you are personally adjusting and have been able to find a sense of peace and calm among the uncertainty. This crisis has shown us that despite uncertainty in the world, our parish is able to find positivity and hope while supporting one another. Thank you for continuing to be the church.
Mother Kathy+
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A phase I trial of recombinant human interleukin-1β (OCT-43) following high-dose chemotherapy and autologous bone marrow transplantation
M. Elkordy, M. Crump, J. J. Vredenburgh, W. P. Petros, A. Hussein, P. Rubin, M. Ross, C. Gilbert, C. Modlin, B. Meisenberg, D. Coniglio, J. Rabinowitz, M. Laughlin, J. Kurtzberg, W. P. Peters
We studied the effects of escalating doses of recombinant human IL-1β in patients receiving high-dose chemotherapy and ABMT for metastatic breast cancer or malignant melanoma. Sixteen patients received IL-1β, 4 to 32 ng/kg/day administered subcutaneously for 7 days beginning 3 h after bone marrow infusion. Three patients at the highest dose level also received G-CSF following completion of IL-1β. All patients completed the 7 days of therapy. The majority of patients experienced chills and fever following one or more injections, and seven had severe pain at the injection site. There was one episode of hypotension and one episode of transient confusion at the highest dose level; other significant toxicity was not identified. Recovery of neutrophils to > 0.5 x 109/l and platelet transfusion independence occurred at a median of 23 and 22 days, respectively, which was comparable to historical controls. The mean number of bone marrow colony-forming unit granulocyte-macrophage (CFU-GM) per 105 mononuclear cells on day +21 post-ABMT was more than twice that of control patients or patients receiving G-CSF or GMCSF. A linear correlation was found between the dose of IL-1β and endogenous concentrations of several cytokines. These patients also displayed significantly higher concentrations of endogenous G-CSF compared to historical controls receiving GM-CSF. While IL-1β was moderately toxic and had no effect on recovery of peripheral blood counts after ABMT, the increased number of bone marrow CFU-GM suggests that the addition of G- or GM-CSF to a short course of IL-1β may accelerate hematologic recovery.
https://doi.org/10.1038/sj.bmt.1700633
Published - Feb 2 1997
ABMT
High-dose chemotherapy
IL-1β
10.1038/sj.bmt.1700633
Dive into the research topics of 'A phase I trial of recombinant human interleukin-1β (OCT-43) following high-dose chemotherapy and autologous bone marrow transplantation'. Together they form a unique fingerprint.
serine(71)-interleukin-1 beta Medicine & Life Sciences 100%
Autologous Transplantation Medicine & Life Sciences 51%
Bone Marrow Transplantation Medicine & Life Sciences 47%
Granulocyte Colony-Stimulating Factor Medicine & Life Sciences 18%
Granulocyte-Macrophage Progenitor Cells Medicine & Life Sciences 14%
Bone Marrow Medicine & Life Sciences 12%
Elkordy, M., Crump, M., Vredenburgh, J. J., Petros, W. P., Hussein, A., Rubin, P., Ross, M., Gilbert, C., Modlin, C., Meisenberg, B., Coniglio, D., Rabinowitz, J., Laughlin, M., Kurtzberg, J., & Peters, W. P. (1997). A phase I trial of recombinant human interleukin-1β (OCT-43) following high-dose chemotherapy and autologous bone marrow transplantation. Bone Marrow Transplantation, 19(4), 315-322. https://doi.org/10.1038/sj.bmt.1700633
Elkordy, M. ; Crump, M. ; Vredenburgh, J. J. ; Petros, W. P. ; Hussein, A. ; Rubin, P. ; Ross, M. ; Gilbert, C. ; Modlin, C. ; Meisenberg, B. ; Coniglio, D. ; Rabinowitz, J. ; Laughlin, M. ; Kurtzberg, J. ; Peters, W. P. / A phase I trial of recombinant human interleukin-1β (OCT-43) following high-dose chemotherapy and autologous bone marrow transplantation. In: Bone Marrow Transplantation. 1997 ; Vol. 19, No. 4. pp. 315-322.
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Q: Is it necessary to store SPKI hash securely in android? I'm trying to enable public key pinning since I don't want to release updates for every certificate renewal provided I'll use the same CSR every time.
I generated the hash with this script.
#!/bin/bash
certs=`openssl s_client -servername $1 -host $1 -port 443 -showcerts </dev/null 2>/dev/null | sed -n '/Certificate chain/,/Server certificate/p'`
rest=$certs
while [[ "$rest" =~ '-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----' ]]
do
 cert="${rest%%-----END CERTIFICATE-----*}-----END CERTIFICATE-----"
 rest=${rest#*-----END CERTIFICATE-----}
 echo `echo "$cert" | grep 's:' | sed 's/.*s:\(.*\)/\1/'`
 echo "$cert" | openssl x509 -pubkey -noout |
     openssl rsa -pubin -outform der 2>/dev/null |
     openssl dgst -sha256 -binary | openssl enc -base64
done

Hope it'll not change!
I'm using okhttp3 certificatePinner to embed this in retrofit.
private CertificatePinner getCertificatePinner() {
    return new CertificatePinner.Builder()
            .add("<api base URL>",
                    "sha256/<the key>")
            .build();
}

My ask is like should we store it in the application securely with NDK or something? Since everyone can generate this key if they know the API base URL.
Not sure if this is a dumb question.
Thanks

A: It's not a secret, you can store the certificate pin freely.  But most advice is against using Certificate Pinning unless you know what you are doing and what your security team certificate policy is.  Getting it from a live server is asking for trouble for when they rotate certificates or switch to backups.

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Gettext: How to dump string variables?
text="`eval_gettext "Teenage smoking prevention video"`"
echo $"Teenage smoking prevention video"
How to code the script so as to prevent the duplication of the strings?
Apparently, bash --dump-po-strings is deprecated.


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Recreational shopping has always been one of my biggest money drains. I can turn a quick stop at Target for a necessary item into a $40 splurge more easily than I want to admit. It's a problem that I acknowledge, and I've been working to correct it.
We have a lot of things on the "to-do" list for our house – new furniture, a garage door opener, an epic garden, a riding lawnmower, and decorating to name just a few. All of these things are going to cost money. Since our mortgage payment is a bit higher than our rent used to be, our budget is a little tighter these days. Not to mention, I always promised myself that once we bought a house I'd finally buckle down and divert more money toward our student loan debt, so that's definitely on my mind.
The point is, I certainly can't afford to walk into Target or sign into Amazon and drop $40-$50 on crap I don't need. When it comes to money drain, prevention is key. The trick is to avoid your triggers. Here are my main money drains, and how I combat them.
Signing up for email updates from your favorite stores and websites can help save money, because it will alert you of sales. It can also be a major money drain. If I receive an email about a big sale, I'm always tempted to buy something because "it's such a great deal!" – even if I don't really need anything. If you're on a tight budget and unnecessary spending is an issue, unsubscribe to all of those emails. If an occasion rises that requires you to buy something, be purposeful about your shopping and seek out sales or coupon codes.
This is a tough one for me, because browsing is one of my favorite frugal ways to get out of the house in extreme hot weather. I take a walk around a store or mall to enjoy being out and around without sweltering in the heat and humidity. Unfortunately, it usually leads to buying things – or seeing things that I want to buy, which just makes me feel deprived when I have the will power to refuse. I'm still looking for an alternative to this activity when the weather is too hot to get outside. Any suggestions?
I've amassed quite a stockpile of toiletries and hygiene items thanks to the "drugstore game" – matching coupons with weekly deals at CVS and Walgreens. I'm guilty of buying things I don't need just to get a deal. Even if it's a great price, any money you spend to buy things you don't need is a waste, especially if you're acquiring more items than you can reasonably use. Remind yourself that there will be deals in the future, and you can stock up again when your supply runs low. Use that money to pad your savings or pay off debt instead.
Plan a menu – and skip boring recipes.
If dining out is a big spending trigger for you, it's time to get organized and get excited about eating at home. The two biggest reasons people spend unnecessary money on dining out is poor planning and lack of excitement about meals at home. If you frequently head to a restaurant or drive thru because there's nothing else to eat, try creating a menu plan at the beginning of the week and hanging it on the refrigerator to remind you of what's for dinner each night. If you plan meals, and still find yourself heading out to eat because tonight's dinner doesn't sound appealing, it's time to shake things up. Try new recipes, recreate your favorite restaurant meals, or add new flavors to old foods. My favorite recipe sites are AllRecipes, Real Simple, and Food Network.
Make your favorite treats at home.
I've made no secret about my terrible little Starbucks habit. But when I realized my weekly fancy coffee allowance was turning into a two or three times a week habit, I decided to find another way to indulge. I make iced coffee and smoothies at home now for a fraction of the cost. If there's an expensive treat you indulge in, find a way to satisfy your cravings at home for less money. Alcoholic drinks are usually way overpriced in restaurants and bars. Mix your own cocktails at home or buy a case of beer or bottle of wine and invite friends to your place instead of going out.
One thing I absolutely cannot stand: losing money due to poor organization. Even if it's just a 25 cent overdue fine at the library, it is such a waste, because I get no value out of the money. I'm paying for a stupid mistake. Overdraft fees (which do still exist in some situations), late charges for bills, overdue library fines, and expensive repair bills for things that could have been avoided with better care and maintenance all fall into this category. Create a system for reminding yourself of due dates and service appointments for the car and home. Keep a close eye on bank accounts and statements to avoid charges. Keep your emergency fund healthy so you can afford to make repairs before small problems become expensive emergencies. Every penny you avoid losing is a penny in your pocket.
What are your biggest money drains? And how do you avoid them?
ME TOO. I can be really good, and then I can be really, really bad with splurges and walking into Target and walking out with a lot less money. It can stink.
You can still browse if you leave your debit card/whatever in your glove box or at home maybe! You can think about a thing and go to the car or home to get your money if you really neat it.
Or, there's always the cash budgeting system for certain budget items. I fail at that regularly, but sometimes it can be helpful for blow-it money.
Also, you really x100 need to go to thrift stores! Some are dirty and gross. Some are amazing. I am willing to bet there are some truly great stores in your area. You can find some great furniture and refinish it and make it better than a new piece, for isntance. And craiglist your way to a riding lawnmower. Time to get creative!
You could try visiting the library.
Our biggest drain is probably at the grocery store. We buy pop (soda) and beer on a regular basis and sometimes convenience foods like frozen pizza. About 1-2X per week we like to "cheat" since neither of us feel like cooking after a long day of work.
Great tips. I need to find a good recipe to replace the frappuccinos at Starbucks, as those are my weakness, esp. now that it is hot. I also find that making a specific list before I go to stores really helps.
I definitely second going to thrift stores if you feel the need to browse without spending a lot (like at Target). There's much more interesting stuff to look at there, and even if you do buy one or two little things, it'd probably be at a much more reasonable price. You can always barter on flea market things, too, which is kind of fun.


Urinary retention, also known as ischuria, is a lack of ability to urinate. It is a common complication of benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH), although it can also be caused by nerve dysfunction, infection, or medications (including anticholinergics, antidepressants, COX-2 inhibitors, amphetamines and opiates). Diagnosis and/or treatment may require use of a catheter or prostatic stent.


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One of the assumptions underlying the programmable user model approach is that it is possible to provide an algorithm to describe the user's behaviour in interacting with a system. Taking this position to the extreme, choose some common task with a familiar interactive system (for example, creating a column of numbers in a spreadsheet and calculating their sum, or any other task you can think of) and describe the algorithm needed by the user to accomplish this task. Write the description in pseudocode. Does this exercise suggest any improvements in the system?


For advertising information, on the AutoGuide. Are you asking how to flip the 2nd row seat or how to remove the plastic cover that covers the fusebox? This will cause the vehicle to not start because the computer thinks it is in gear and not allow power to the starter. A mechanic stated that the control fuse box caught fire. The fuse will be dependant on the ignition and various power supplies. Almost caused a crash on another expressway on way home from having the airbag sensor and a complete brake job done and all fluids changed.
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UK R&D investment: value for money, but too little money?
Graeme Reid is the former head of research funding at the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, a position he left earlier this year to take up a professorship at UCL. In his inaugural lecture, entitled 'Why Should the Taxpayer Fund Science and Research?', he pointed to a highly skilled and scientifically informed labour force as "probably the largest benefit of all".
He went on to remark that although public investment in science and research amounted to "£3 a week for each person in the UK", this is "basically an unremarkable level of expenditure" when compared to rival nations and "strikingly below some of the countries we like to emulate".
He concluded his talk by asking whether it was "time to reappraise the level of scientific funding in the UK", perhaps boosting it by one-third or even half to match our American and German competitors.
When asked by a member of the audience about the potential impact of any significant future cuts in science funding, Professor Reid responded that "we would need to think if we could continue to be excellent in everything – because we can't afford to be average in everything".


Aspiration met perspiration in Balclutha on Saturday, as the nation's top shearers and woolhandlers battled it out for Otago honours.
Conditions for competitors at the Otago Shearing and Woolhandling Championships were at the challenging end of the spectrum in the town's War Memorial Hall, as temperatures topped 28degC.
"I'll be spending more time looking after my family, and I'm looking at giving real estate a go.
"I've been lucky to be able to do what I love for a long time. It's a good life in the shed. I've been great places and met great people.
The afternoon's open shearing finals were a more competitive affair, but paralleled the woolhandling for excitement.
There was nothing separating Invercargill's Troy Pyper and Mataura's Brett Roberts as the contest entered its last stages, as both men jockeyed for out-and-out speed.
"The industry's feeling the squeeze [of lower wool prices] a bit, and that's perhaps reflected in lower numbers of entrants at the top level.
"We're lucky to have some amazing sponsors, but shearing as a whole in New Zealand needs the industry to step up and show its support.


Fascinating article about knitting as a code during the war….blogged about on "Chris and Shana Craft shack". I've often thought that knitting patterns are a kind of code! Here the knitting itself might have been! check it out here!


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Mahindra Atom EV To Be Priced Around 3 - 4 Lakhs
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The much awaited all-new electric Mahindra Atom EV is soon to be launched in four variants K1, K2, K3, K4. The K1 & K3 will get a 7.4kWh battery pack, while the K2 & K4 will get an 11.1kWh pack. This EV should boast a top speed of 70 kmph with a range of around 100 km and peak power output is rated at 11PS. The price of this vehicle in India is expected to be around 3 to 5 lakh.
Mahindra Atom Electric's launch is getting nearer as its variant and description details have been revealed by RTO documents. It will be an all electric quadricycle, aimed towards shared mobility. The company first showcased its all-new electric Atom EV quadricycle concept at the 2018 Auto Expo, and then in near-production form at the 2020 Auto Expo. It was originally supposed to go on sale in 2020, but its production and launch plans were delayed due to the pandemic.
Mahindra says that the Atom is India's first all electric quadricycle with two doors. The four seater will primarily be aimed at the fleet segment for first and last-mile connectivity.
The Atom will be a very unique vehicle as currently there is nothing similar to it that exists in the Indian market, Atom combines the practicality of a two wheeler, but still has the benefits and safety of a four-wheeler.


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Bernie Sanders' Position on the Clean Power Plan
His proposals would require withdrawing the rule and would increase its legal vulnerability
In an interview with Grist last week, Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders provided details about his views on the Clean Power Plan, the Obama administration's rule to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from existing power plants. Sanders said two things of note: the first is that he would change the CPP to increase incentives for renewable fuels; the second is that he would change the rule to regulate methane emissions as well as carbon dioxide. These changes are presumably part of Sanders' overall climate plan, which includes imposing a carbon tax on emitters.
The odds of getting a carbon tax through Congress don't seem high. But as President, Sanders would have executive authority to make changes to the currently finalized Clean Power Plan, presumably by withdrawing it, reissuing a new proposed rule, putting it through the required notice and comment period and then finalizing it in response to the comments. It's an interesting position for Sanders to take: on the one hand, he wants to make the Clean Power Plan more ambitious. Being more ambitious on climate policy than President Obama and, presumably, than Hilary Clinton (who has said she'll defend the Clean Power Plan), is a not surprising strategy for him (and makes clear that he 's not a single issue candidate). But the strategy also raises pretty starkly the dilemma raised by a strategy that elevates principle over pragmatism. Revising the Clean Power Plan would cause significant delay in its implementation simply because of the procedural requirements of notice and comment (ignoring for a moment the increased controversy it would ignite against an already controversial plan). And delay in reducing greenhouse gas emissions is problematic on at least two fronts: the longer we delay implementation, the more expensive reductions become, and delay makes it more difficult to achieve our Paris commitment to achieve 26 to 28 percent reductions in our emissions by 2025. Sanders would sacrifice these practicalities to get greater reductions in emissions over the long run. He would also probably lose the D.C. Circuit panel of judges currently hearing legal challenges to the CPP, a panel that includes at least two judges likely to accord the administration significant deference in its choice about how to regulate greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act.
Sanders' changes would also almost certainly mean more legal vulnerability for the Clean Power Plan, especially his proposal to regulate methane emissions through the Plan. Here's why. The CPP, issued under Section 111d of the Clean Air Act and explained in much more detail here, requires EPA to issue emissions guidelines to states to regulate existing sources using the "best system of emission reduction". EPA's CPP does so for electric power plants by developing guidelines for electric power plants that set an overall amount by which each state must reduce its greenhouse gases. What is controversial about EPA's plan is that in setting the rates, EPA determined the state "budgets" by using not just the reductions that could be achieved from installing traditional controls placed on individual power plants, which is a more traditional way of regulating. EPA also included emissions reductions states could achieve by having its electricity sector switch from using coal to natural gas and by having the electricity sector increase its reliance on renewable and nuclear energy. The latter two elements go "beyond the fence line" of the power plants and it is this "beyond the fence line" element of the CPP that is the subject of much of the legal challenge to it. Opponents argue that EPA should only be requiring states to reduce emissions based on the reductions it could achieve by regulating individual power plants. Such an approach would achieve far fewer reductions than the Obama CPP.
One of Sanders' proposals — to increase the incentives for renewable energy by extending the Clean Energy Incentive Program– should probably not alter the legal vulnerability of the current plan. The program provides extra credit to states during the early years of the CPP and Sanders would extend the program to 2030.
But the second of Sanders' proposals — to use the CPP to regulate methane emissions, would extend the CPP far "beyond the fence line," to include the transport (and possibly the extraction) of natural gas through pipelines. The CPP's legal defense of the current CPP is based on an important factual premise: that the electricity system is one giant machine and therefore a "system" under the phraseology of Section 111d. Sanders' proposal is apparently to also regulate emissions caused by leaks in the the vast system of natural gas pipelines in the country that bring natural gas to power plants. It may extend even further to include methane released from hydrofracking, though it is unclear from Sanders' statements if he means to be so inclusive. Sanders is clearly focused here on public opposition to fracking and worries about methane leaks, exacerbated by the recent fiasco involving a massive methane leak from a Southern California Edison storage site. And methane is a potent greenhouse gas, more than 20 times more intense than carbon dioxide. But it is a curious choice to use the Clean Power Plan, focused on emissions from the electricity sector, to go after methane emissions from the natural gas sector. The CPP would then stray so far past the fence line that even judges who are predisposed to defer to EPA rulemaking might refuse to do so. Moreover, the Obama Administration has already issued proposed rules to regulate methane emissions from the oil and gas sector under the Clean Air Act (rules that have been criticized by some environmentalists as too weak for focusing on new sources, though Obama has also moved to reduce methane leaks from existing sources on public lands). Why Sanders wants to use the CPP to do so — delaying its implementation and increasing its legal vulnerability — is unclear.
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5 Replies to "Bernie Sanders' Position on the Clean Power Plan"
Dear Ann,
Bernie has to beat Hillary and then Trump before we can seriously consider what he would do about the CPP (ha ha). We should be talking about Trump's plan for the CPP, that's what really matters.
Thanks to our dedication, moral imperative and overall good work, the CPP is on hold and suffering a slow ignominious demise, never to be implemented, it is almost forgotten. Cry now or cry later. The climate doesn't care and Bernie doesn't matter. The CPP is effectively dead and gone, we're happy about that and so is our next President Trump.
[a whole new way of looking at the world]
David Driesen says:
The Clean Power Plan contemplates actions beyond the fenceline, but all of these actions reduce emissions within the fenceline. Renewable energy, for example, reduces emissions at power plants by allowing them to be run less often. Actually, all rules regulate behond the fenceline. When a power plant installs a scrubber or burns clean coal, the somebody makes the scrubber or mines the coal beyond the fenceline in order to produce emission reductions within the fenceline. A regulation of methane emissions from fracking or coal mining, however, actually regulates emissions in another industry and therefore should be done in a separate rule. It realizes emissions reductions only outside the fenceline of the regulated power plants.
Michael Wara says:
Would you mind adding the link to the grist article. I'd love to see it.
-MW
David said;
"…..The Clean Power Plan contemplates actions beyond the fenceline, but all of these actions reduce emissions within the fenceline….."
The CPP contemplates reducing carbon dioxide emissions, but it is a well understood fact that the CPP will not change the climate back to where it used to be, nor will it have any perceptible measurable effect on climate at all.
The CPP is a very expensive and complex boondoggle for garnering tax dollars to fund climate practitioners such as the Emmett Institute on Climate Change and other members of the California Environmental Bar. These practitioners fully understand that the CPP is not capable of actually modulating the global climate, and that is why the CPP cannot offer taxpayers any performance guarantees (climate practitioners do not care whether or not it works as intended).
Climate practitioners have long employed sophisticated emotional excesses to deceive the public and rip-off taxpayers, but their guile has reached an intellectual dead end, their last hope is Bernie and Hillary. Let California pay their salaries but not the rest of us. Hurry November, lets get this over with.
It's not clear to me why Sanders would have to withdraw the current CPP regulation. Seems to me that the current regulation could stay in place while he added methane regulation to it. If the methane regulation fails legal review, then the CPP could still survive.
Maybe Ann can elaborate.
Also, I went to Grist and looked for an interview but didn't see it.
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Johann Ulrich Stähelin (* 1802 in St. Gallen; † nach 1874) war ein Schweizer Maler, der in München tätig war.

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Johann Ulrich Stähelin, Sohn eines Mathematiklehrers, sollte ursprünglich das Flaschnerhandwerk erlernen. Da er aber als bester Schüler der Zeichenschule galt, wurde es ihm ermöglicht, ab dem 4. Dezember 1824 Historienmalerei an der Königlichen Akademie der Künste in München zu studieren. Nach dem Studium war er in München als Porträt- und Landschaftsmaler tätig. Er malte auch biblische Szenen. Auf der Suche nach einträglichen Aufträgen zog er als "Wandermaler für billiges Honorar und Kost" über Land.

Werke
 Schleusinger Marktplatz mit Festumzug zum Schützenfest 1874, Naturhistorisches Museum Schloss Bertholdsburg, Schleusingen

Literatur
 Georg Kaspar Nagler: Neues allgemeines Künstler-Lexicon; oder Nachrichten von dem Leben und den Werken der Maler, Bildhauer, Baumeister, Kupferstecher etc. Band 17, Fleischmann, München 1847, S. 205 (Digitalisat).
 Traugott Schieß: Stähelin, Johann Ulrich. In: Carl Brun (Red.): Schweizerisches Künstler-Lexikon Band 3. Huber, Frauenfeld 1913, S. 210 (Digitalisat).

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