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Workshop on wearable medical device data, 23 July, King's College London
Posted on May 31, 2018 July 6, 2018
Workshop on wearable medical device data
23 July 2018, 09.30-16.00
Great Hall, King's College London
The Health Archives and Records Group is hosting a free, day-long workshop on data collected by wearable medical devices. These range from simple blood pressure monitoring devices used by keep-fit enthusiasts to clinical equipment used in the more complex care of patients with chronic, difficult to manage conditions such as Type 1 diabetes and lung disease. This is a rapidly evolving technology with major sensitivity concerns, and so records managers and archivists with responsibility for health related data in the NHS, private health care, pharmaceuticals, university and other sectors may find this workshop particularly useful.
The day will include quick-fire talks from device manufacturers and service providers, records managers, researchers, policy advisors and others, and will cover the creation and management of data, ethical and legal concerns, storage, digital preservation and re-use of data for research or other purposes. There will also be practical sessions, discussion and debate around current issues, likely future developments and next steps for the implementation of appropriate and sustainable standards and protocols around this data.
Confirmed speakers to date:
Dr Natalie Banner ('Understanding Patient Data' project, Wellcome Trust)
Professor Patricia Grocott (Professor of Nursing Technology and Innovation, King's College London)
Dr Martyn Harris (Institute of Coding, Birkbeck University)
Tim Kendall (UK Caldicott Guardian Council and Chair of the London Caldicott Guardian Network)
Dr Rebecca Lynch (Research Fellow (Medical Anthropology), London School of Hygiene and Tropic Medicine)
Russell Joyce (Health Sciences Records and Archives Association)
Chris Robson (Entrepreneur and CEO of 'Living With…' condition management platform)
Full programme and further details to follow.
If you are interested in booking one of the remaining places at the event, please contact Clare Button at Clare.Button@ed.ac.uk
Workshop on handling sensitivity issues in scientific and medical collections
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and Health Archives and Records Group
Friday 17 July 2017, 09:30 to 16:15 (BST)
Report of Proceedings
Geoff Browell (Head of Archive Services, King's College London and HARG Chair)
Clare Button (Project Archivist, Centre for Research Collections, University of Edinburgh and HARG Engagement/Training Officer)
Chris Olver (Cataloguing Archivist, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, HARG Vice-Chair/Webmaster)
The workshop focused on handling various sensitivity issues surrounding scientific and medical records. Key themes identified at the outset were:
different types of record sensitivities (including personal data but also legal, commercial);
sensitivities around different record types: e.g. personal papers, institutional records, digital records, audio-visual material, datasets and databases;
contexts for sensitivity specific to science/medicine records (e.g. potential animal rights activity, IP around tech/biotech);
different stages of managing closure, restrictions and access (deposit, accessioning, appraising, cataloguing);
processes for recording, managing and reviewing sensitivity decisions (e.g. undertaking risk assessment matrix);
safeguarding medical data within big data repositories (e.g. anonymisation of data subjects)
The workshop aimed to create a forum for sharing experiences, discussing problems and moving towards formulating a clearer and more consistent set of guidelines for archivists and records professionals than currently exists.
Welcome and introductory remarks
Victoria Cranna, Archivist and Records Manager at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and Geoff Browell welcomed the delegates to the workshop.
A number of delegates shared a few preliminary observations and aims.
Kevin Mulley (The National Archives): professional guidance; issues around institutional sensitivity/vested interests in restricting access to records
Sue Onslow (King's College London): Issues of sustainability outwith the life of a project; ongoing process of access/curation in collections
Alexandra Eveleigh (Wellcome Collection): Would like to see greater consistency between UK and international (eg European) decision-making within the legal frameworks. Some are more risk averse than others, and in the absence of standardised guidance this can lead to a pretty wide range of closure/access decisions with regard to similar types of content.
Karim Hussain (British Red Cross): Understanding how existing legislation comes to bear on sensitive records. Current organisational practice is to destroy any records that our potentially liable, but it is necessary to make the case that the archives service have the security and expertise to retain them. However, current legislation is hard to navigate.
'Sensitivity in an era of Open Science: Reviewing Wellcome's policy and procedures on research access'
Alexandra Eveleigh and Jenny Shaw, Wellcome Collection
Introduction to the Wellcome Trust's policy 'Access to personal data within our research collections' (2014) aims to balance access with duty of care through a risk assessment process (e.g. when no permission from an individual exists) and consistent open/closed/restricted decision criteria
Creation of new Collections and Research Department at the Wellcome Collection (wide-ranging scope, moving towards accreditation)
A number of gaps identified with scope of the policy: commitment of public bodies (including Wellcome) to open access and the use of personal data for research; copyright; digitisation. Archive policies can seem out of kilter.
Development of new, wider policy of access to sensitive records: for example, corporate confidential
Clinical and distressing content. Issue of 'unidentified but identifiable human subject' (eg photographs of surgery) – potential lack of consent and context. Restrict access to some content to healthcare professionals?
Material relating to criminal/illegal activity such as drug-taking. Restrict due to potential to incite criminal activity? Though also risk making moral judgements
Cultural sensitivities practices and artefacts (e.g. totemic symbols) represented displayed outwith their originating society. Issue of Henry Wellcome's own collecting practices
Collaboration with depositors important
Re-review of closure periods ongoing
Scaleability and digital access are considerations
Increase level of clarity about grounds on which access decisions are made
Time-consuming nature of work – staff resources have to be considered
'To the Crick! Moving home after 100 years: the MRC National Institute for Medical Research archive project'
Geraldine Clement-Stoneham, Emma Anthony, Eleni Loli, Lara Nelson, National Institute for Medical Research (MRC)
NIMR archive represents an institutional history but also personal and scientific networks
3 types of sensitive records identified:
Directors' correspondence, personnel records, research, personal advice and information on behavior, medical records
Personnel files maintained after business use has expired, though rich in historical and contextual information
Data which provides evidence of research
How to sample? Issues around simply selecting high-profile people (directors, Nobel Laureates)
Sensitive to the organisation
Need to balance access to records which could pose a risk to MRC's reputation against MRC's mission to promote dialogue with the public and encourage transparency and openness.
Context is key – do we know enough? Potential for misinterpretation if material used out of context, e.g. films used by anti-vivisectionists.
Example of Wilhelm Feldberg (1900-1993) who had his Home Office license revoked after anti-vivisectionists gained access to the labs and revealed unnecessary suffering to animals was being carried out. Yet Feldberg's publications are explicit about the use of animals in his research. As the Royal Society has complementary collections, it was decided to transfer his papers there to ensure context
Sentiment and legacy
Staff investment and emotion, coming to terms with changes in the organisation
Issues of information professionals with no scientific background or emotional stake being seen as 'invaders' by staff
To manage this it was important to build relationships and trust. An Archives Advisory Group was formed comprising an archivist, librarian, historian, scientist, and Head Office staff.
This Group assessed risk, evidential and informational value of records and provided advice to MRC to inform decision-making process
'Protecting patients, respecting researchers – case note cataloguing at LHSA'
Louise Williams, Lothian Health Services Archive, University of Edinburgh
How to give researchers access to closed records?
Framework of Data Protection Act, Scottish Government guidelines
LHSA have 1 million+ case notes comprising different formats of documents (illustrations, pro forma documents, handwritten notes, personal items)
Underused and untreated, confidential information and complex clinical terms – written 'by clinicians for clinicians'
Wellcome Trust-funded project 'Cataloguing Norman Dott's Neurosurgical Case Notes (1920 – 1960)' to create a redacted public online catalogue to give access to case notes which would otherwise be closed
Confidential patient-identifiable catalogue available only to legitimate researchers
Scoping period of project ascertained key attributes of the records and their associated EAD elements for the catalogue structure
Catalogue created using EAD in XML editor <oXygen/>
Catalogue entries record gender, age, location, occupation, medical condition, treatment given
Indexing using Medical Subject Headings (MESH) to allow standardisation of clinical terminology
Using an xslt spreadsheet allows confidential attributes (e.g. names) to be redacted on the public catalogue
Anonymisation possible by using general terms – 'not revealing the jigsaw' (i.e. not giving enough details away so people can identify the person using other resources)
Now trialling project methodology on other collections, e.g. cardiothoracic and sexual dysfunction case notes
'Pathways to Research: cataloguing and indexing Tavistock and Portland NHS Foundation Trust Clinical and Corporate Archives'
Amy Proctor, London Metropolitan Archives
Tavistock Clinic: opened 1920 to treat nervous disorders incl. shell shock. Later made therapies more widely available with doctors offering services for free. Building destroyed in WW2 so few early records survive (most cover 1930s-1960s)
Portman Clinic: forensic psychoanalysis of adults and 'delinquent' children exhibiting violence and disturbed sexual behaviours. One of the first clinics to introduce play therapy. Series of closed clinician files (1933-1994)
Changing contexts: some behaviors now decriminalized, differently understood and categorised
High research value of records as both clinics were pioneers in their fields
Aims of project: to extract information from the case files (originally only indexed by name of patient) onto a database, anonymise data and use standardised terms
Poor recordkeeping of clinicians an issue
Lack of 'distance' historically due to recent date of some material
Working on further access protocols
'Laboratories, lawyers and love letters: diverse sensitivities in scientific collections'
Clare Button, Centre for Research Collections, University of Edinburgh
Projects to catalogue and conserve animal genetics and molecular biology collections (1890s-2010s) at the University of Edinburgh
Science intersects with a number of spheres – about people as much as research (health, careers, reputation, personal lives), with sensitivities beyond Data Protection
Range of record types: personal papers of scientists, institutional records, research data, oral histories
Range of sensitivities
Legal (disputes over patents and intellectual property, scientists as expert witnesses, range of documents collated for cases, but originally created for different purposes, issues of legal advice privilege
Commercial (patent documents, heads of agreement, contracts, intellectual property, commercial confidentiality)
Personal (employment/personnel records, recruitment and disputes, personal opinions and relationships, referee reports, nominations for awards, issue of career sensitivity)
Overlap of professional and personal material common
Context-based sensitivities: e.g. whether a document (e.g. grant application) is 'career sensitive' can depend on age/status of individual as much as personal data content
Issues around unpublished research data/papers/concepts: research data may remain 'current' over a long period of time
Subject may be deceased but content of records may remain sensitive for family members and colleagues
Access decisions spreadsheet created, drawing on guidance from Wellcome Collection, projects (such as Walter Bodmer cataloguing project, Oxford)
Screening carried out at file/item-level, though this is time-consuming and may not always be possible
Redacted access-copies made of oral histories
ArchivesSpace allows recording of access/closure decision by type and review/open dates – no prompt to automatically review records when restriction period ends, though potential to run reports on annual basis (under investigation)
'Medical Collections Project'
Louise Piffero, Leeds University Library Special Collections
Wellcome Trust-funded project to provide access to health and medical collections in Leeds through cataloguing, digitisation and conservation
Collections include Leeds School of Medicine, burial records, personal papers as well as structured data (eg nurse training records)
Early medical and surgical case histories (1800s) are not Data Protection-sensitive but still potentially distressing
Decision made to put a 'content warning' on digital images
Gypsy and Traveller collections also covered: these contain medical content in a non-medical context (e.g. references to physical and mental health, personal and domestic information)
References to racial origin carries specific cultural sensitivities in these communities
'ALSPAC (Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children) Administrative Archive Project'
Hannah Lowery, Michael Hunkin and Karen Anderson, University of Bristol Library Special Collections
Wellcome Trust-funded project (2015-2018) around the ALSPAC ('Children of the Nineties') longitudinal study which is still ongoing
Administrative rather than medical papers (1980s-2005), approximately 1002 boxes, 950 of which are within scope of the listing project.
Lack of records management prior to donation
ALSPAC project have a complex 'Data Matrix' based on document security markings but this is difficult to apply retrospectively
ALSPAC want blanket 'closed' status applied even to documents marked 'open' on their own Data Matrix
Making correspondence accessible through redaction and removal of sensitive data
Aims of original project are a consideration – participant anonymity guaranteed by ALSPAC though some participants have chosen to 'go public'
Decision to apply in-house open/closed access controls as well as ALSPAC data matrix.
Negotiating open access for non-sensitive material
Have been redacting individual files, but too time-consuming given the project timeline
Clear guidelines in places that records with participant data will be returned to ALSPAC
Attempting to determine appropriate closure periods for sensitive classes of records. Liaison with colleagues working on archives of other cohort projects.
'Whitehall Study: Sensitive records within a longitudinal health survey'
Chris Olver, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Longitudinal health study of 18,000 middle-aged male civil servants in London area. The study collected data during initial screening in 1967-1970, followed by occasional follow-ups and long term monitoring through the Office of National Statistics, which still goes on to this day.
The purpose of the study was to identify early signs of cardiovascular and respiratory conditions and refer these men to their GPs. Controlled studies were also run on at risk volunteers to reduce smoking levels, high blood sugar and weight.
The main impact of the study was that the risk of mortality increased further down the social gradient, where lower grade employees were a third more likely to die from the disease than the highest grade employees.
With over 60% of material being clinical medical data, conducting a sensitivity survey was a vital stage in the project methodology.
Record types include questionnaires and death certificates, electrocardiograms
Some records classed as medical data but specialist knowledge is needed to interpret records and to identify individuals
Various forms of personal data: addresses, jobs, marital status, medical and family medical history, prescribed medications
Death certificates – not covered by Data Protection as they are public records. However they record personal details, cause of death (often sensitive for family members, e.g. graphic descriptions of suicide method, hereditary diseases etc), coroner's verdicts, personal details of informants
Decision made to separate individual (problematic) questionnaires out from the rest of the file and store separately. Isolated material would then be reviewed by the Archive team at the end of the project, where a decision would be taken on the access status (open, closed, restricted).
Existing guidance tends to focus on providing a framework to looking at sensitivity, dealing with particular record groups and access restrictions as a whole (Data Protection, donor restrictions and conservation, rather than sensitivity itself)
Decisions often case by case basis, down to individual or institutional judgement and ideas of acceptable risk
More consistency needed
'"Why did you fight?" Narratives of the Rhodesian Bush War 1965-1980'
Sue Onslow, Institute of Commonwealth Studies
Oral history project aimed at gathering a ranks-level view of the conflict, to act as a corollary to Rhodesian Army Association archives then housed in the British Museum for Empire and Commonwealth. The RAA archive is now closed.
25 written questionnaires and 93 semi-structured oral history interviews produced
118 oral history transcripts of former white members of the Rhodesian security forces (2008-2010)
Interview process conducted by two interviewers: request for interview; consent and deposit forms; data capture and storage; clearance process; redaction/closure/withdrawal; amendment of audio recording; archiving
Interviewers not trained counsellors, but treated as such by a considerable number of interviewees
Legal advice sought on Data Protection issues, and intellectual property rights before the project began. Each interview and questionnaire transcript has a Consent and Deposit form, governing access and citation.
Sensitivities around counter-insurgency programme, pariah state, operation details, transgression of legal and cultural practices, war crimes and human rights abuses, references to chemical and biological warfare
Recurrence of 'jigsaw' concept – i.e. it is possible to piece together who people are using different sources now available via the internet. Consequently the oral history collection is currently closed for reassessment of interviews, to ensure strict compliance with DPA
Ownership/authorisation of recordings (e.g. consent of/contact details for family members)
Ongoing management, permissions and intellectual oversight needed, to prevent transcripts 'leaking' onto the internet.
Provenance of collections makes sensitivity-checking more challenging
Overseas origins presents particular sensitivity concerns along with contemporary records of still-living people in situations of regime change
Highlights how sensitivity reviews need to take place within changing (e.g. political) contexts
Health sector has lessons to learn from war studies, international relations and modern history processes relating to sensitive information
Panel session
Geoff Browell highlighted some key themes and questions:
How do we manage metadata through sensitivity in relation/relating to sensitivity decisions? i.e. we standardise sensitivity-related fields, grammar and key words across systems, institutions and archive practice.
How much risk do we want to bear?
Value judgements about cultural contexts
Commercial and legal dimensions of research (e.g. pharmaceutical and biotechnology contexts of scientific and medical collections)
How do we record sensitivity decisions over time?
Cost and sustainability are recurring themes: the recurring cost across time as sensitivity review is rarely a one-off but a periodical or occasional requirement, depending on changing cultural and institutional contexts (changes in sensibility or collections being transferred to other bodies) or new/unforeseen uses.
Context – e.g. campaigning videos, shifts in politics and attitudes, 'graphic' nature of records
Other points raised during the discussion:
People may give consent to take part in a medical study but not for their details to be used in historical research
Who do/should archivists work with? E.g. advisory committees, specialist and community groups, current investigators, charities (e.g. MIND) and originating bodies (who may have their own policies)
Working with scientists and academics to help interpret data, records, identify different sensitivities and make contacts. Though also a dual issue of working with other groups as there may be organization and personal stakes and biases
Clinicians can help to interpret health records to users accessing them
Consent and use. If researchers want to access oral histories they have to contact the interviewee. Importance of maintaining up-to-date contact details
Issue with idea of information professionals 'educating' other groups – these groups can in fact challenge and improve our own professional practice
What is a 'legitimate researcher'?
Subjectivity around record types themselves – e.g. sexual health records can be seen as 'pariahs' more so than tuberculosis or neurosurgical records
How do we define/who defines what is or isn't 'graphic'?
'Closeness' to a record in both personal and historical senses
Context needed to understand records and images
Managing a research archive while research data is held separately/elsewhere
During the afternoon session, delegates were asked to consider five questions within groups. Each group was given 10 minutes to record their responses to each question. After all the answers were submitted, a summary of the responses received for each question was presented by the workshop organisers. These can be seen below.
The delegates considered the following questions:
What processes do you use to record and review closures/restrictions (e.g. databases/spreadsheets, catalogue systems, in-house procedures)?
2. At what stages would you manage restrictions/access and how do they differ from each other (e.g. deposit/accession, cataloguing)?
3. What processes for managing hybrid or digital collections?
4. What are some of the biggest challenges you've faced around sensitivity and how have you tackled them?
5. What are some of the best forms of guidance/help/resources you have used to handle sensitive records?
Closing remarks/next steps
More training needed: not only existing legislation (and upcoming General Data Protection Regulation) but also broader sensitivity themes (i.e. sensitivity issues with donors, cultural sensitivity)
More consistency needed across metadata/standards
Need for a single repository for guidance on sensitivity
Wider communication and collaboration across the information management sector e.g. records managers and data managers
It was agreed that a follow-up event was necessary to investigate further some of the themes brought up in the workshop and would include input from the legal profession, big data, wearable technology, born-digital material and historians. The ICO will be invited to participate and further discussions with the Wellcome Trust to coordinate a joined-up set of guidance. It was also suggested that a set of user cases would be useful to act as benchmarks and practical guidance to inform and reassure internal audiences in an organisation about best practice.
Workshop on handling sensitivity issues in scientific and medical collections 17 July 2017
The Health Archives and Records Group (HARG), in collaboration with London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, are hosting a free, day-long workshop on various sensitivity issues surrounding scientific and medical records.This will be a forum for sharing experiences, discussing problems and moving towards formulating a clearer and more consistent set of guidelines for archivists and records professionals than currently exists.
Through individual case studies, practical 'drop-in' sessions and discussion, the workshop aims to cover the following topics: different types of record sensitivities (eg. personal data, commercial and legal); sensitivities around different record types (e.g. personal papers, institutional records, digital records, audiovisual material, datasets and databases); managing closure, restrictions and access and processes for recording, managing and reviewing sensitivity decisions.
Outline programme
9.00-9.30: Arrival and coffee
9.30-10.00: Welcome and introduction.
10.00-13.15: Case studies and panel session
Speakers: The Wellcome Trust; Medical Research Council; Lothian Health Services Archive, University of Edinburgh; London Metropolitan Archives; Centre for Research Collections, University of Edinburgh; Leeds University Library Special Collections; University of Bristol Library Special Collections; London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine; Institute of Commonwealth Studies, King's College London.
13.15-14.00: Lunch and 'drop-in' sessions
14.15-15.15: Practical work
15.00-16.15: Roundtable
Places are free but must be booked in advance. To reserve your place please visit our Eventbrite page:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/workshop-on-handling-sensitivity-issues-in-scientific-and-medical-collections-tickets-35400046492
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Something I've wanted to add to PasteMonitor for a while is HSTS (or HTTP Strict Transport Security), and today I actually got around to doing it. As of today, PasteMonitor is serving up Strict-Transport-Security response headers for all requests.
I've written previously about how the browser can be a valuable ally in securing your web applications, and HSTS is a great example of one of these mechanisms in action. But what is HSTS, and what does it offer that's missing with plain old https?
As we all know, https is great. Not only does it encrypt our connections to websites so that no one else can see the information we're sending and receiving, but it also verifies that the information we're sending and receiving is going to who we think it is, and coming from who we think it is. This is a universally good thing for consumers.
Occasionally someone will question the value of serving public resources over https. For example, why would a news website want to deliver its content over https? It's the same content for everyone, so where's the advantage in encrypting the traffic as it travels between the site and the end user's browser? Surely no harm can come in a situation like this from delivering content over standard old http.
The answer to why https is still important in a use case like this lies not in the encryption aspect of https, but in the verification it offers. Let's use the BBC News website as an example. Navigate to www.bbc.co.uk/news in your web browser, and you'll notice that there is no browser padlock. Your request to the site for the news homepage was sent in the clear, and the response received was also unencrypted. This is bad. What's worse still, is that if you attempt to establish an encrypted connection by visiting https://www.bbc.co.uk/news, the site will actively redirect your browser to the unencrypted http resource.
Not only does the lack of https mean the communication between you and the BBC website can be intercepted, but additionally because https wasn't used, there is no way for your browser to verify the content you receive, and so anyone who can see your communication can modify the response from the website before it gets to you, and you'll likely never know.
This is known as a man-in-the-middle attack (typically abbreviated to MITM), and maybe you're thinking "no one cares what I'm looking at on the BBC, and no one would bother to modify the pages it send back to me." Except that is exactly what happened to customers of a cable internet service provider in the US. When users visited popular websites such as apple.com, the ISP automatically intercepted and modified the web pages the sites responded with, surreptitiously injecting their own content and advertising into the pages. Naturally, users presumed that these websites had chosen to put ads into their pages. It's the sort of thing that can do massive damage to corporate identities and brands, especially for a company like Apple where design and aesthetic is such an important part of the product experience.
But it's not just site owners and operators who should be concerned. There have been various horror stories around ad networks that have been victim to malicious software injection, where instead of a site serving up a promotion, it instead inadvertently serves up viruses and other unpleasant baddies to visitors. Couple that with the ability for a third party, such as your internet service provider or a free wifi provider, to inject content into any unencrypted website you visit, and it begins to become clear that anything other than one hundred percent https one hundred percent of the time is just asking for trouble.
But if https is so great, then what is HSTS, and why is it needed? To answer this, we can go back to the news website example from earlier. Let's suppose for a moment that instead of redirecting secure requests to insecure requests, that the BBC news website did the exact opposite and redirected insecure requests to secure requests: imagine that a user visiting http://www.bbc.co.uk/news was redirected by the site to https://www.bbc.co.uk/news. This redirection means that the user's communication with the site is now encrypted and verifiable, i.e., no one can tamper with the response, to inject adverts (or change the headlines) before it gets to you.
This is great, and an enormous step forward with regard to the user's safety and the protection of the reputation of the BBC. But there's still a problem. When the user types www.bbc.co.uk/news into their web browser and hits enter, that first request (and response) is still unencrypted and unverifiable. There's nothing to stop a man-in-the-middle from stripping out the secure redirection response and replacing it with whatever they like. This is the problem that HSTS was created to solve.
When HSTS is set up on a website, all its secure responses contain the http header Strict-Transport-Security which means that requests to the site should only ever be made over https. When the web browser sees this header, it remembers that the site has set it, and if the user tries to visit the site again in the future, the browser will remember that all requests should be made over https, even if the user hasn't specifically typed https:// into the address bar. Using this mechanism, even the first request to a website is made securely if the user has visited it before.
This situation is a great improvement on what happens on a site without HSTS, because now the only insecure request that could potentially end up being sent to a site, is the very first time the user visits that website. But still, it seems kind of a shame to have come all this way and still leave open an opportunity for interception, even if it's only once.
Fortunately, there is a solution to this problem too, and it's called HSTS preload. Chrome maintains an HSTS preload list, which is used not only by Chrome, but also by other web browsers including Firefox and Safari (and Internet Explorer soon we're promised). By submitting a site to the preload list, browsers will know that the site has an HSTS policy in place before even the first user visit, and as a result, the very first request can also be made over https.
Implementing HSTS in an ASP.NET application is straight forward and can be accomplished from the web.config, as outlined in this Stack Exchange answer. It's important to note that the HSTS standard states that the Strict-Transport-Security header should only be sent over secure connections, and not over insecure http.
Preloading can be achieved by following the guidance on the HSTS preload submission site. This is something I can't currently do with PasteMonitor, because the site's certificate is only valid for www.pastemonitor.com, and preload submission requires a valid certificate for the root domain.


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Open Call for Feature Film "Poison Rose"
May 21, 2018 John Movie Auditions & Casting Calls, Movie Extras Auditions & Casting Calls 0
Casting Directors are looking for all types of actors and crew members to work on a new film called, The Poison Rose. This is a great opportunity to appear in a feature film starring John Travolta, Morgan Freeman and Forest Whitaker, filming in Atlanta.
The film is inspired by the original Noir movie and features an ex-football star turned private investigator. While he does his best to maintain a low profile on a tough case, he can't seem to shake the soft spot he has for a lady in distress. He takes on a routine missing persons case but eventually reveals a more complex web of crimes, spanning years and multiple bodies. It is a unique film about the trials of being a private investigator in a rough American city.
It features multiple well-known actors but is considered relatively low budget despite its all star cast. It is directed by George Gallo and written by Richard Salvatore. Gallo is known for directing Bad Boys and Salvatore is known for his work on The Big Wedding.
When: May 27th – July
Where: Savannah, Georgia
This is a great opportunity to be apart of a feature film with plenty of big named actors and writers. Not only will you earn money on this project, you will gain valuable experience working on a movie set with industry professionals that know what it takes to be successful. If you make a good impression on someone with connections, you will find new doors open for you in the future.
Music Video Casting Talent in Brooklyn
"Queen Sugar" Casting for Season 3 Finale

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TV ReviewsJane The VirginSeason 5
Jane The Virgin's best friend asks for her eggs in a sweet, nostalgic episode
Oliver Sava
Filed to:recap
All photos: The CW
Motherhood has always been very complicated for Jane, and the telenovela shenanigans she's had to deal with since fertilization have changed how she approaches being a mom. She was already a big planner and over-analyzer, but after having her son kidnapped and suffering multiple betrayals from people she thought she could trust, Jane holds on to whatever control she has and pays extra attention to the people in Mateo's life. So when Jane's best friend asks her if she would donate her eggs, Jane is left with a lot to unpack in regards to how she feels about being the biological mother of a child who would also be Mateo's half-sister.
Jane The VirginSeason 5
"Chapter Ninety-Five"
Lina (guest star Diane Guerrero) is back to help Jane with wedding planning, specifically dress shopping now that Lina is a student at the Fashion Institute Of Technology. Lina is shifty as the two of them get situated in her hotel room, and it doesn't take her long for her to spill her ulterior motive for visiting Jane. Lina and Danny are having trouble conceiving and because Jane has been such a positive influence in Lina's life, she's chosen as the ideal egg donor. Jane is honored, but she has a lot of questions about the specifics of the arrangement, which Lina hasn't gotten around to yet.
This egg donor storyline brings up a lot of feelings for Jane, who needs to know the boundaries of her relationship with this potential child because she wants them to know who their biological parents are as soon as possible. The situation intensifies when Mateo tells everyone at school that his parents are expecting, and when she explains the Lina situation to Mateo, Jane gains even more questions. This totally overwhelms Lina, who is still basically at step one: ask Jane. She's done that, but she's not prepared for all the things she needs to answer before Jane agrees.
Writers Liz Sczudlo and Madeline Hendricks explore both sides of this conflict with a lot of nuance. It's easy to sympathize with Jane's need for clarification given everything she's survived, and early on I felt like Lina should have thought about these follow-up questions once she posed the question. But like Jane, I haven't seen what Lina has had to deal with as she and her husband try to have a child. Jane donating an egg to them wasn't their first course of action, and seeing no results after trying multiple fertility avenues has taken a big toll on Lina's self-worth. She feels like she's failing herself and her husband, and Diane Guerrero's performance carries the full weight of that emotional burden.
In the middle of Jane and Lina's drama at the dress fitting, Rogelio has a heart attack on Instagram Live. Sorry, a "lone atrial fibrillation." After the lackluster River romance story, this show has given us some fantastic subplots for Rogelio with last week's tail challenge and this week's Instagram Live campaign to get a series order for This Is Mars. The comments feed on the video is hilarious, and like the tail, Rogelio's smartphone pops up when you least expect it to add a burst of humor to dramatic conversations. It's a lot of goofy fun with ridiculous hashtags, and then it takes a turn that reveals the role Rogelio plays in the Jane/Lina story.
Jane wants Lina's hypothetical child to know who her mother is as soon as she can understand because Jane remembers the trauma of learning who her father was when she was an adult. She doesn't want Lina's child to have those same feelings of betrayal, and the Rogelio heart scare awakens painful memories that have been buried under the good times the father and daughter have had since then. When Jane and Lina recommence their discussion, they're both more eager to listen to each other and work through their respective issues. Ultimately, Jane decides that she wants to donate her eggs because she loves Lina, wants to help her, and give her the joy Jane feels when she's with Mateo. If only Lina was interested. This entire experience has made her realize how extra sensitive she is to Jane's judgment, and she doesn't want a kid version of Jane judging her every day.
When Rogelio comes back from the hospital, Alba says a toast/prayer of gratitude to their good health and this reminder to appreciate what they have. It's an extremely powerful scene, taking me back to similar moments in my past when family members would give thanks to God after medical crises. The show has done such incredible work making Alba's connection to her religion something that empowers her, so it makes perfect sense for Jane and Rafael to choose her as the officiant of their wedding. I've resigned myself to the fact that every episode from this point on is going to make me cry, and this is the one that did it for me this week!
As we get closer and closer to the series finale, the writers are looking back at key character dynamics to show how far they've come over five seasons. "Chapter Ninety-Five" features a lot of flashbacks, with multiple montages that reinforce how these characters relate to both people and places. When Jane holds Mateo, she thinks back to being told she was pregnant, her teary "Milkshake" speech, and the first moment she saw him after his birth. When Petra shows Rafael his old office, he's flooded with memories of being in the room and reminded of the dedication he used to have to the hotel. But that was the past, not the present, and Rafael has to recognize that Petra plays a much larger role in The Marbella and will continue to play a much larger role.
I've been dogging on the hotel drama for what feels like years now, but "Chapter Ninety-Five" actually makes it engaging by toning down the telenovela exaggeration. This is a story about what The Marbella means to Petra and Rafael, which makes it much more emotionally satisfying. In the case of Rafael, going back to work at the hotel creates new complications with juggling his real estate gig and planning a wedding, but Jane recognizes how dedicated he is to their life and forgives him for any missteps along the way. When a priest questions Rafael's commitment because he misses an interview, Jane chews the man out for drawing conclusions when he has no idea what Rafael has been through.
Putting Rafael back at The Marbella gives him more opportunities to bounce off Petra, and they quickly butt heads over how to approach a potential partnership with chef Ludo Lefebvre. Rafael thinks he's back to being an equal partner, but he's there to use his connections to support Petra's executive decisions. He feels like Petra undermines his authority in a meeting when he's overstepping his bounds, and Petra has to put him in his place. She makes a very good point that she's responsible for rehabilitating the hotel's image, and she's doing Rafael a favor letting him back in on the business.
Just when it seems like the writers have found a good story for The Marbella, they bring back an old face responsible for most of the past drama. The episode ends with Magda showing up in the backseat of Petra's car, threatening her daughter before there's a sudden crash and fade to white, leaving us wondering if the women have survived. There's too much spin-off potential with Petra to kill her off, so I'm crossing my fingers that this is the end of Magda, giving us one last fake out instead of making us deal with her usual bullshit again.
Xo got into nursing school! You go, Xo!
I didn't know who Chef Ludo was before this episode but I knew he was a real chef because of his acting. You can always tell.
Putting adult faces on kid bodies is always so creepy. It only happens for a second in this episode but I am scarred.
I would like to see all of the writers' proposed comments for Rogelio's Instagram Live feed because it feels like users are interacting with each other. I would not be surprised if the writers crafted a whole narrative within that feed just for fun.
"That's the attitude I need from you, Barry. Earn that 10 percent!" I chuckled at this quick shout-out to the current standoff between the Writers Guild of America and Hollywood agencies.
Jane: "Do you want to go back to the hotel life? Back to whiskey and investors and tight shirts?" Narrator: "I can't imagine that shirt getting any tighter."
"Wow. That didn't go over easy."
"Lina was looking to poach Jane's eggs."
"They're really great eggs. I got pregnant literally the first time sperm even touched one."
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Love triumphs on a jubilant Jane The Virgin that ends on a musical high
Jane The Virgin moves on by clashing with "the man of the house"


Uwagi na temat sejmików szlachty sieradzkiej w Szadku na początku XVIII w. - na marginesie laudum z 8 czerwca 1716 r.
From the 14TH to the end of the 18TH century, Szadek was the place where political sejmiks of the Sieradz Voivodeship were held (exeptions were the election sejmiks, which took place in Sieradz). This article focuses on the reasons why Szadek was chosen as a place of Sieradz Voivodeship sejmiks. It also discusses the role which sejmiks played in local life and shows the political and economic situation of this land at the beginning of the 18TH century, connected with economic crisis, epidemics, political chaos and the Northem War. These were the reasons why Sieradz Voivodeship nobility joined the Confederetion in Targowica in 1716. The article also presents the resolution of the confederate sejmik of Sieradz Voivodeship Nobility, adopted in Szadek on 8111 June 1716. This source document, being part of the collection of the Bartoszewicz family, is kept in the State Archive in Łódź.


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	public float timeScale = 60f;

	private GameObject sun;
	private GameObject entities;

	void Awake () {
		entities = GameObject.Find("Entities");
		sun = GameObject.Find("Sun");
		Debug.LogWarning("DayCycleEvent not finished!");
	}

	void Update () {
		float rot = GameTimeController.deltaTime / 360f * timeScale;
		sun.transform.RotateAround(sun.transform.position, Vector3.forward, rot);
		EventManager.scene.FireEvent(EventStr.DAY_CHANGE_EVENT);
	}
}

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Senior Alliances Manager
SurveyMonkey - Company site
San Mateo, CA/Portland, OR/Seattle, WA/New York City, NY/US - Remote
Momentive (NASDAQ: MNTV) (formerly SurveyMonkey) is a leader in agile experience management, delivering powerful, purpose-built solutions that bring together the best parts of humanity and technology to redefine AI. Momentive products, including GetFeedback, SurveyMonkey, and its brand and market insights solutions, empower decision-makers at 345,000 organizations worldwide to shape exceptional experiences. More than 20 million active users rely on Momentive to fuel market insights, brand insights, employee experience, customer experience, and product experience. Ultimately, the company's vision is to raise the bar for human experiences by amplifying individual voices. Learn more at Momentive.ai.
Momentive is looking for a dynamic Senior Alliances Manager, who will be an essential member of our growing global alliances team. You will grow our existing strategic relationships across our GetFeedback, SurveyMonkey and Research pillars to guarantee a strong overall channel partnership. You will become the expert in our products and Salesforce, Crossbeam and Highspot, helping drive sales messaging motions, product alignment, co-selling, co-marketing, and organizational collaboration to promote healthy and successful partnerships.
You will be aligned with Momentive's sales team, to help them create a consistent flow of partner sourced and influenced pipeline. You will also collaborate with operations, marketing, product and legal departments to ensure we facilitate and join the right programs, to increase partner mindshare, helping build new business and partnership opportunities.
Be the expert in our product sales messaging, motion, and organizational understanding.
Create and communicate unique value propositions and messaging for Momentive's solutions among partners in the CX industry. Using all resources to position us as a leader/partner of choice.
Work with Senior Director of Global Alliances to Identify, and pursue new Alliance opportunities and integration opportunities.
Maintain relationships with partner account managers, marketing, and leadership teams.
Be a partner champion internally, and liaison between the partner and our teams to cultivate and grow trusting relationships.
Inform the develop, and monitor the daily processes and infrastructure required to grow and govern joint plans, GTM plans, and partner program requirements with partnerships globally.
Inform and manage partner enablement programs, co-marketing, events and related sales alignment to increase the number of "Momentive champions" across our partners that are recommending Momentive solutions to their peers and customers, so we are a favored partner.
Partner with the Momentive's brand and marketing organization to develop and continually refresh partner-facing materials and communications including newsletters, one pagers, first call decks, battle cards, etc.
Develop the process(es) for qualifying and nurturing the leads that Momentive receives from its Alliance marketplace listings and members.
You have 3+ years of experience in business development, channel management and partnerships within the SaaS industry and in customer experience (CX) and partner management .
You have experience implementing joint go-to-marketing programs with support and CRM providers like , Zendesk and Salesforce, including joint sales enablement, demand generation, lead tracking, deal registration, and joint sales reporting.
You have had success in establishing and developing long-term relationships with partners that are mutually beneficial with trust at the core of all activities.
You have experience working with teams including executives, sales, customer success, marketing, product, legal, operations, and more.
What we offer our employees
Momentive is a place where the curious come to grow and shape what's next. By embedding inclusion into our processes, policies, and culture for our 1,400+ employees across North America, Europe, and APAC, we're building a workplace where people of every background can excel. We've won multiple awards and received recognition for our forward-looking policies, including extended parental and bereavement leave, vendor benefits standards, and Take 4 sabbaticals.
Momentive is featured as a Glassdoor 2021 Best Place to Work and National Capital Region's Top Employer in Canada (2021). In 2020, Momentive was recognized as a top place to work by Glassdoor Best Places to Work, Fortune Best Places to Work in the Bay Area, Parity.org's Best Companies for Women to Advance, and National Capital Region's Top Employers in Canada. Momentive has consistently been recognized by Great Place to Work® and Fortune as a top workplace since 2018, and we have also won numerous awards as a leader in global survey software, including being named among the G2 Best Software Companies, CNBC's Disruptor 50, and the Forbes Cloud 100.
Our commitment to an inclusive workplace
Momentive is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to providing a workplace free from harassment and discrimination. We celebrate the unique differences of our employees because that is what drives curiosity, innovation, and the success of our business. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status, pregnancy, parental status, genetic information, political affiliation, or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate. Accommodations are available for applicants with disabilities.
Learn more about our diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts here.
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Q: Ory Kratos -> Oathkeeper -> Trino/Starburst I have deployed Ory Kratos, Ory Oathkeeper, Starburst and Apache Ranger. The goal is to allow users to create their accounts with Ory Kratos, then protect the Starburst UI with Ory Oathkeeper so that once the user is authenticated with Ory Kratos and hits the https://proxy.oathkeeper.mydomain.com/starburst/ we would send the user to the Starburst UI with a JWT in hand that can be verified against the jwks.json file that we have created with Ory Oathkeeper. Finally using the identity of the currently logged in user apply data access policies with Apache Ranger.
The Kratos UI is on https://kratos.mydomain.com
Kratos public is on https://public.kratos.mydomain.com
Kratos admin is on https://admin.kratos.mydomain.com
The jwks.json is on https://auth.mydomain.com/assets/well-known/jwks.json
The Ory Oathkeeper proxy is on https://proxy.oathkeeper.mydomain.com
The Ory Oathkeeper api is on https://api.oathkeeper.mydomain.com
Ory Kratos has the following configuration:
(Terraform code to be yaml encoded to be used in the values file in a helm chart)
config = {
  version = "v0.10.1"
  dsn     = "postgres://USERNAME:PASSWORD@${local.postgres_host}/kratos?sslmode=disable"
  courier = {
    smtp = {
      connection_uri = "SOME_URI"
    }
  }
  cookies = {
    domain    = "mydomain.com"
    path      = "/"
    same_site = "Lax"
  }
  session = {
    lifespan = "2h"
    cookie = {
      name       = "ory_kratos_session"
      persistent = true
      path       = "/"
      same_site  = "Lax"
      domain     = "mydomain.com"
    }
  }
  selfservice = {
    default_browser_return_url = "https://${local.kratos_ui_dns}/"
    methods = {
      password = {
        enabled = true
      }
    }
    flows = {
      login = {
        ui_url   = "https://${local.kratos_ui_dns}/login"
        lifespan = "10m"
      }
      error = {
        ui_url = "https://${local.kratos_ui_dns}/error"
      }
      settings = {
        ui_url                     = "https://${local.kratos_ui_dns}/setting"
        privileged_session_max_age = "15m"
      }
      recovery = {
        ui_url  = "https://${local.kratos_ui_dns}/recovery"
        enabled = true
      }
      verification = {
        ui_url  = "https://${local.kratos_ui_dns}/verification"
        enabled = true
        after = {
          default_browser_return_url = "https://${local.kratos_ui_dns}/"
        }
      }
      logout = {
        after = {
          default_browser_return_url = "https://${local.kratos_ui_dns}/login"
        }
      }
      registration = {
        lifespan = "10m"
        ui_url   = "https://${local.kratos_ui_dns}/registration"
        after = {
          password = {
            hooks = [{ "hook" : "session" }]
          }
        }
      }
    }
  }
  log = {
    level  = "debug"
    format = "text"
  }
  secrets = {
    cookie = ["SOME-COOKIE-INSECURE-VALUE"]
    cipher = ["32-LONG-SECRET-NOT-SECURE-AT-ALL"]
  }
  ciphers = {
    algorithm = "noop"
  }
  hashers = {
    algorithm = "bcrypt"
    bcrypt = {
      cost = 4
    }
  }

  serve = {
    public = {
      base_url = "http://${local.kratos_public_dns}"
      host     = ""
      port     = 80
      request_log = {
        disable_for_health = true
      }
    }
    admin = {
      base_url = "https://kratos-admin.dev.svc.cluster.local"
      host     = ""
      port     = 4434
      request_log = {
        disable_for_health = true
      }
    }
  }
}

This results in a good csrf cookie and a ory_kratos_session cookie in the browser after logging in with Kratos. But no JWT token.
The Ory Oathkeeper configuration looks as follows:
(Terraform code to be yaml encoded to be used in the values file in a helm chart)
config = {
  authenticators = {
    anonymous = {
      enabled = true
    }
    noop = {
      enabled = true
    }
    cookie_session = {
      enabled = true
      config = {
        check_session_url = "https://public.kratos.mydomain.com/sessions/whoami"
        preserve_path     = true
        extra_from : "@this"
        subject_from : "identity.id"
        only = [
          "ory_kratos_session"
        ]
      }
    }
    jwt = {
      enabled = true
      config = {
        jwks_urls = [
          "https://auth.mydomain.com/assets/well-known/jwks.json"
        ]
        scope_strategy = "none"
        target_audience = [
          "https://proxy.oathkeeper.mydomain.com/starburst/",
          "starburst-ui"
        ]
        trusted_issuers = [
          "https://proxy.oathkeeper.mydomain.com"
        ]
      }
    }
    oauth2_client_credentials = {
      enabled = false
      config = {
        token_url = "somesite/oath2/token"
      }
    }
  }
  authorizers = {
    allow = {
      enabled = true
    }
  }
  mutators = {
    noop = {
      enabled = true
    }
    id_token = {
      enabled = true
      config = {
        issuer_url = "https://proxy.oathkeeper.mydomain.com"
        jwks_url   = "https://auth.mydomain.com/assets/well-known/jwks.json"
        claims = jsonencode({
          aud = [
            "https://proxy.oathkeeper.mydomain.com/starburst",
            "starburst-ui"
          ],
          claims = {
            sub = "{{print .Subject}}"
          }
        })
      }
    }
  }

  serve = {
    proxy = {
      port = 4455
      cors = {
        enabled = false
      }
    }
    api = {
      port = 4456
      cors = {
        enabled = false
      }
    }
  }
}

The access rule looks as follows:
(json)
[
  {
    "id": "starburst-rule.app",
    "upstream": {
      "url": "http://starburst.app:8080/",
      "preserve_host": true,
      "strip_path": "/starburst"
    },
    "match": {
      "url": "https://proxy.oathkeeper.mydomain.com/starburst/<.*>",
      "methods": [
        "GET",
        "POST",
        "PUT",
        "DELETE",
        "PATCH"
      ]
    },
    "authenticators": [
      {
        "handler": "jwt",
        "config": {
          "jwks_urls": [
            "https://auth.mydomain.com/assets/well-known/jwks.json"
          ],
          "scope_strategy": "none",
          "target_audience": [
            "https://proxy.oathkeeper.mydomain.com/starburst/",
            "starburst-ui"
          ]
        }
      }
    ],
    "authorizer": {
      "handler": "allow"
    },
    "mutators": [
      {
        "handler": "id_token"
      }
    ],
    "errors": {
      "fallback": [
        "json"
      ],
      "handlers": {
        "redirect": {
          "enabled": true,
          "config": {
            "to": "https://kratos.mydomain.com/login",
            "when": [
              {
                "error": [
                  "unauthorized",
                  "forbidden"
                ],
                "request": {
                  "header": {
                    "accept": [
                      "text/html"
                    ]
                  }
                }
              }
            ]
          }
        },
        "json": {
          "enabled": true,
          "config": {
            "verbose": true
          }
        }
      }
    }
  }
]

The Starburst/Trino configuration looks as follows:
config.properties: |
  coordinator=true
  node-scheduler.include-coordinator=false
  http-server.http.port=8080
  http-server.authentication.type=JWT
  http-server.authentication.jwt.key-file=https://auth.mydomain.com/assets/well-known/jwks.json
  http-server.authentication.jwt.required-issuer=https://proxy.oathkeeper.mydomain.com
  http-server.authentication.jwt.required-audience=https://proxy.oathkeeper.mydomain.com/starburst/

  discovery.uri=http://localhost:8080
  usage-metrics.gathering.initial-delay=1m
  usage-metrics.gathering.interval=10m
  usage-metrics.cluster-usage-resource.enabled=true

The ory_kratos_session cookie looks like this: (json)
{
  "id": "1df8ddb5-9628-4c05-97f5-f32b42119748",
  "active": true,
  "expires_at": "2022-11-23T15:42:25.323749Z",
  "authenticated_at": "2022-11-23T13:42:25.323749Z",
  "authenticator_assurance_level": "aal1",
  "authentication_methods": [
    {
      "method": "password",
      "aal": "aal1",
      "completed_at": "2022-11-23T13:42:25.323746742Z"
    }
  ],
  "issued_at": "2022-11-23T13:42:25.323749Z",
  "identity": {
    "id": "844bbe95-5e16-4e8d-abe4-0f19578e17a4",
    "schema_id": "default",
    "schema_url": "http://public.kratos.mydomain.com/schemas/ZGVmYXVsdA",
    "state": "active",
    "state_changed_at": "2022-11-23T11:33:55.700664Z",
    "traits": {
      "email": "someuser@global.com"
    },
    "metadata_public": null,
    "created_at": "2022-11-23T11:33:55.702463Z",
    "updated_at": "2022-11-23T11:33:55.702463Z"
  }
}

I do get a 404 response code when i try to access https://proxy.oathkeeper.mydomain.com/foobar as expected.
The problem is that i am getting a 401 when i try to access https://proxy.oathkeeper.mydomain.com/starburst/
With the following error message excerpt from the Ory Oathkeeper Pod:
time=2022-11-23T15:29:45Z level=warning msg=Access request denied audience=application error=map[debug: message:Access credentials are invalid reason: status:Unauthorized status_code:401] granted=false http_host=proxy.oathkeeper.mydomain.com http_method=GET http_url=https://proxy.oathkeeper.mydomain.com/starburst/ http_user_agent=Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/107.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 service_name=ORY Oathkeeper service_version=v0.38.19-beta.1
time=2022-11-23T15:29:45Z level=error msg=An error occurred while handling a request code=401 debug= details=map[] error=The request could not be authorized reason= request-id= status=401 writer=JSON
time=2022-11-23T15:29:45Z level=info msg=completed handling request http_request=map[headers:map[accept:text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/avif,image/webp,image/apng,*/*;q=0.8,application/signed-exchange;v=b3;q=0.9 accept-encoding:gzip, deflate, br accept-language:en,sv;q=0.9 cache-control:no-cache cookie:Value is sensitive and has been redacted. To see the value set config key "log.leak_sensitive_values = true" or environment variable "LOG_LEAK_SENSITIVE_VALUES=true". user-agent:Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/107.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 x-forwarded-for:10.7.223.164 x-forwarded-proto:https] host:proxy.oathkeeper.mydomain.com method:GET path:/starburst/ query:<nil> remote:172.29.44.94:8063 scheme:http] http_response=map[status:401 text_status:Unauthorized took:433.335µs]

And no trace of a Authorization: Bearer <JWT...> or related logs in Starburst.
I am not sure if i have missed to configure something of if the configuraion is wrong and was hoping someone could review this and point me in the right direction.

A: Ok. I figured it out. Ory Kratos should be configured with Cookie Session, it doesn't provide JWT tokens. Ory Oathkeeper can translate the ory_kratos_session cookie to a jwt token, but it has to be configured for it.
Oathkeeper should have cookie authenticator enabled, noop authorizer (in my case) and id_token authenticator with an valid issuer url, jwks_url, ttl and the audience in the claims configured. As for the Oathkeeper rules, the cookie_session should be used, "allow" authorizer and the mutator of type id_token with the claims in its configuration, my mutator rule configuration contains the audience only, since the rest comes from the main configuration file.

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Every dream requires a hustle. Long before she became an inescapable pop presence and one of the industry's most in-demand songwriters, Bebe Rexha began quietly hustling hard towards a career in music during her childhood in Brooklyn, NY.
"I never wanted to take the easy way, and I was always willing to hustle," she declares. "I started grinding and writing songs back in high school. I was the girl that didn't go to prom or my graduation, because I was too busy working with producers and making music. I'd feel at home singing over hip-hop beats and rolling with the boys. It's where I still have the most fun, and it's where my personality comes through."
Following years of dedication and diligence, that grind paid off big time in 2013 after she penned "The Monster" in a Harlem studio. The single eventually became a worldwide hit for Eminem and Rihanna—going RIAA quadruple-platinum stateside. Bebe would write and feature on Cash Cash's "Take Me Home," an idea she envisioned back in her bedroom in New York. Relocating to Los Angeles, she'd go on to co-write and sing on Pitbull's "This Is Not A Drill" in addition to writing Tinashe's "All Hands On Deck." Her 2015 debut EP, I Don't Wanna Grow Up [Warner Bros. Records], boasted the singles "I Can't Stop Drinking About You" and "I'm Gonna Show You Crazy," which racked up over 52 million Spotify streams in only six months. That same year, she co-wrote and carried instantly recognizable hooks for the double-platinum "Hey Mama" by David Guetta, Nicki Minaj, and Afrojack as well as G-Eazy's 2016 Billboard Hot 100 platinum smash "Me, Myself, & I."
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2022 Hajj: Anyone above 65 years will not be allowed into Saudi Arabia, says board
May 18, 2022 May 18, 2022 umunnaComment(0)
The Katsina Pilgrims Board on Wednesday reminded intending pilgrims above the age of 65 year, that they would not be allowed into Saudi Arabia.
This is contained in a statement by the board's Public Relations Officer, Alhaji Badaru Bello-Karofi in Katsina.
The board made this known during orientation for intending pilgrims and Islamic scholars in the state ahead of the 2022 Hajj operations.
The exercise, organised in Kankia and Dutsinma Zonal Centres, was aimed at enlightening the intending pilgrims on how to purify themselves ahead of the Hajj.
"Saudi Arabia has indicated that people above 65 years must not be allowed to perform Hajj this year and also reminded all intending pilgrims that full COVID-19 vaccination is compulsory.
"By full vaccination I mean the three doses and of course PCR is mandatory," the Chairman said.
"Saudi Arabia has indicated that anybody above 65 years must not be allowed to perform Hajj.
"All intending pilgrims must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19. By full vaccination I mean the three doses and of course PCR is mandatory," he said.
Earlier, the Executive Director of the board, Alhaji Suleiman Nuhu-Kuki commended the smooth conduct of the ongoing exercise in Kankia and Dutsinma Zonal Centres of the state.
Nuhu-Kuki stressed the need for them to purify themselves ahead of the holy pilgrimage.
He said the National Hajj commission of Nigeria (NAHCON) has fixed N2.5 million as deposit from each intending pilgrim.
He said about 2,146 seats have been allocated to the state for this year's Hajj operation.
Nuhu-Kuki said that the increase on Hajj fare followed the hike in airfare and exchange rates of dollars.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that on April 10, Saudi Arabia set an age limit of 65 for those traveling to the holy city of Mecca this year.
NAN reports that Nigeria has been allocated 43,008 hajj slots for 2022 with the 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory getting 33,976 seats and private tour operators sharing 9,032 seats.
Kaduna State got the highest allocation of 2,491 seats while Abia got six with zero allocation to Akwa Ibom and Bayelsa.
The 2022 seat allocation was based on the performance of each state in the 2019 Hajj airlift. (NAN)
Maritime security: UN lauds Nigeria over successful prosecution, conviction of pirates
January 21, 2022 umunna
The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), has commended Nigeria for the first-ever successful prosecution and conviction of pirates in Africa. This is contained in a statement issued by the Head of Strategic Communication, Office of the National Security Adviser, Mr Zakari Usman on Thursday. He said the Executive Director of UNODC, Ghada […]
National Assembly passes 2022 Supplementary Budget of N819.5bn
December 28, 2022 umunna
The National Assembly on Wednesday passed the 2022 Supplementary Budget of N819.5 billion. President Muhammadu Buhari sought the passage of supplementary budget to be financed through additional domestic borrowing. The supplementary budget is to address food security following devastating floods across the country, as well as Damages to road infrastructure and water sector. The […]
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May 28, 2022 umunna
In July 2021, the Super Eagles suffered a 0-4 defeat to Mexico in an international friendly match in Los Angeles, a result, which extended the North Americans' dominance over Nigeria. It was their sixth game, with the Mexicans winning three, while Nigeria remain winless after three outings ended in draws. Another opportunity opens today for […]
Afreximbank, APPO urge establishment of African energy bank
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This version lacks the music of the final, along with other minor tweaks like the different default palette.
It's a game. That's as much as I'll say about it.
I really like the concept. It is a platformer where you have the time to calculate everything.
Yeah, I really wanted to toy with the idea of a turn-based platformer, and I tried to explore some of the possibilities both in enemy design and level design, mostly in level design though.
Ever play a valley without wind? That was the first time I head the phrase turn based platformer. Very cool concept.
I haven't heard of a valley without wind, I might look it up some time.
Well, you can bust through the roof. But it's neat.
Do you mean on the first level, or a later one?
On the first one, it's intentional, but on any other it isn't.
Tricky puzzle. Interesting idea. Reminds me of some work I did in Apple where I couldn't write an action game as the code ran too slow.
I wrote, "Idol Of The Nile." as a type of turn-based and gravity-oriented platformer.


Pushing 50, the iconic doll had lost her mojo. Richard Dickson is making her hot again.
As Barbie celebrates her 50th anniversary, middle age may be her time to shine (again).
(Fortune Magazine) -- Sitting on Richard Dickson's desk in Mattel's El Segundo, Calif., headquarters sits a 2008 Holiday Sparkle Barbie. Clad in a gold lam� dress, she looks like an aging, shrunken version of herself. "What she looks like," says Dickson, "is a cheap knockoff." Dickson keeps her around as a reminder of what not to do. Why? Because the 41-year-old new general manager of the Barbie franchise is staging an epic marketing makeover -- one that, if it works, could become a textbook case for how to turn around a brand.
Barbie's fall from grace has been spectacular. After being the top-selling fashion doll for most of the past half-century, she fell victim to changing tastes and to competition, most notably from Bratz, a line of edgier, more ethnically diverse dolls produced by MGA Entertainment. (Bratz's Yasmin Funk Out doll, dressed in a tank top and cropped jeans, has an urban look.) Mattel's own American Girl brand, meanwhile, has become a force among older girls. Barbie's worldwide sales peaked in 2002 at $1.52 billion and have plunged 28% since. Her market share, which stood in excess of 80% in 2000, now hovers at less than 50%, according to Needham & Co. analyst Sean McGowan.
Dickson's first move was to steep brand managers in the new aesthetic he envisioned for Barbie. He sequestered 12 senior executives for a weekend at the mod-baroque, Kelly Wearstler-designed Viceroy hotel in Santa Monica. "I wanted people to see what it was like to be surrounded by a signature style," he says.
Next, he mandated that all product fit the new Barbie image. No longer could the sales team assume they could order a custom doll to meet, say, Wal-Mart's specs. Letting retailers have such say over design was what had contributed to what Dickson calls "brand goulash": Barbie products used 17 shades of pink and six different logos. Today only one shade of pink, Pantone's No. 219, is allowed. Next up: whittling the number of licensees, which at one point numbered 1,000.
Then came an onslaught of PR: Dickson worked with decorator Jonathan Adler to stage a real-life Barbie dream house in Malibu and had designers including Diane von Furstenberg create life-size Barbie apparel for Fashion Week. To pay for it he cut back on traditional 30-second TV spots -- a hard sell to Mattel's board. "Let's just say there was a lot of pushback," he says.
His strategy seems to be working. Barbie's U.S. sales jumped 18% in the most recent quarter, the biggest gain in nearly three years. McGowan expects U.S. sales to total $370 million this year, posting their first significant increase since 2006. "Barbie is on a tear," says Gerald Storch, CEO of Toys "R" Us, noting that sales are up "significantly" over last year.
It hasn't hurt that Bratz was distracted by a copyright infringement lawsuit it lost to Mattel (MAT, Fortune 500) -- and that other competitors are having an off year. But McGowan says faltering competition alone wouldn't be enough to give Barbie this kind of lift. "Mattel," he says, "is giving girls a reason to buy the doll again." After stumbling for years, Barbie may finally be getting her groove back.


Now, suppose that Trans Am does not adopt the proposed capital structure. In this case, EPS will be $1.25, $2.50, or $3.75. The second part of Table 17.5 demonstrates how a stockholder who prefers the payoffs under the proposed structure can create them using personal borrowing. To do this, the stockholder borrows $2,000 at 10 percent on their own. Our investor uses this amount, along with the original $2,000, to buy 200 shares of stock. As shown, the net payoffs are exactly the same as those for the proposed capital structure.
How did we know to borrow $2,000 to create the right payoffs? We are trying to replicate Trans Am's proposed capital structure at the personal level. The proposed capital structure results in a debt-equity ratio of 1. To replicate this structure at the personal level, the stockholder must borrow enough to create this same debt-equity ratio. Because the stockholder has $2,000 in equity invested, the borrowing of another $2,000 will create a personal debt-equity ratio of 1.
This example demonstrates that investors can always increase financial leverage themselves to create a different pattern of payoffs. It thus makes no difference whether or not Trans Am chooses the proposed capital structure.
In our Trans Am example, suppose management adopts the proposed capital structure. Further suppose that an investor who owned 100 shares preferred the original capital structure. Show how this investor could "unlever" the stock to recreate the original payoffs.
To create leverage, investors borrow on their own. To undo leverage, investors must loan out money. In the case of Trans Am, the corporation borrowed an amount equal to half its value. The investor can unlever the stock by simply loaning out money in the same proportion. In this case, the investor sells 50 shares for $1,000 total and then loans out the $1,000 at 10 percent. The payoffs are calculated in the following table.


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Brendan Finan
Rewards of Long-Form
Posted on December 6, 2014 Author Brendan Finan
About halfway through Africa Express' joyous, humanistic new recording of Terry Riley's In C, the instruments begin to drop out one by one. Eventually, only a couple are left, playing fragmented, exploratory motifs. The music seems to float in space, drifting in almost-silence between the two halves. Then, without warning, a musician speaks.
It's such a surprising moment, so fresh and different. It's one of those moments that makes us fall in love with music. But here's the catch: without the preceding 20 minutes of music, without the following 15, it would just be storytelling with musical accompaniment. You can get that from a hundred audiobooks on Audible. The fact that it exists in the midst of an exuberant musical celebration is what makes it magical. The moment needs the context of the whole.
The first music recordings, for technical reasons, were limited to about three minutes' length: whence the three-minute pop song. When technology finally allowed for albums, they emerged as unimaginative collections of those songs. Only later did musicians—most famously the Beatles with Rubber Soul, Revolver, and Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band—start to think carefully about the order of the songs, about how the songs flowed into each other, how each fit and contrasted with those on either side of it, and functioned as a part of the whole.
This was new to pop, but it's been a strength of classical music for centuries. Musical flow has been paramount to connecting smaller parts of large works from the concertos of Vivaldi and Bach (and earlier) right up to the music of Ligeti and Reich. Although most people's introduction to classical music is through small pieces of larger works,1 good long-form music gives you something you can't get anywhere else. Listening takes more work, but the rewards are greater.
Take Beethoven's fifth symphony: the opening is probably the most famous four notes in music, the legendary (and probably apocryphal) "Fate knocking at the door," used in cartoons to signify doom, and as morse code by the Allied forces in World War Two to proclaim victory. But knowing only that movement (or just the motif) gives you just a fraction of the story. The tempestuous theme comes back again and again throughout the symphony, until a genre-defying moment where it's obliterated by a glorious C Major daybreak.
If you only know the first movement, you hear the challenge but not the triumph.
If you only know the fourth,2 it's an army charging onto an empty field.
Recently, I wrote about why I think streaming services are bad for many musicians, and why I'm optimistic about the future of music regardless. I think I'm right, but I also hope I am, and it's for moments like these. It doesn't matter whether you're listening to a symphony or a rock album: they're only possible in longer works.
For fans of long-form music, streaming services present a lot of problems: the intrusive ads, the relatively poor audio quality, the insistence on track shuffling. None of these problems is insurmountable. (On Spotify, two of them can be surmounted by paying for the service.)
But the breadth of choice alone discourages spending substantial time with any artist. You've just finished listening to the first movement of the fifth symphony, and you'd love to go on to the second, but Bolero is right there in recommendations. This isn't down to attention span, but to context.3 Streaming services benefit from showing you how broad their catalogue is, because that's what encourages people to stay. This is borne out in Spotify's recently-released numbers infographic: only two of the artists in their top albums (at numbers four and five) even figure in their top tracks (at one and nine).
Long-form music is a poor match for streaming on the musician's side too: a stream of a seventeen-minute symphonic movement4 pays out the same as one of a three-minute pop song. So if music were a simple game of financial incentives, musicians would "aim to maximise their profits" by releasing shorter and shorter works. Thankfully, many musicians are more interested in artistic incentives than financial ones—who gets into music to make money?—and they'll just carry on making music. Of course they still have to make a living, so in the long term I think a lot of them will decide that they're better off selling their music than letting people stream it.
Maybe it's true that streaming services will control the bulk of the music industry, but there'll always be musicians interested in making long-form music, and I think (and I hope) that there'll always be people willing to buy it, to pay the little extra it costs and to spend the extra effort to for a greater reward. They won't be mainstream, but then they almost never have been. The internet is an Eden for obscure interests, and for small, passionate communities to develop around them.
The first movement of the Moonlight sonata, the first movement of Eine Kleine Nachtmusik, the overture to William Tell, the first movement of Spring from the Four Seasons. You know the stuff I mean. ↩
Who only knows the fourth? ↩
I can't stand hearing people whinge about attention spans. Modern audiences have more than proved to possess attention spans at least as long as their predecessors. Years-long TV dramas like Breaking Bad and the advent of the three-hour blockbuster are testament to this. ↩
Or a twelve-minute prog rock ballad, if that's your thing. ↩
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import {LexAuthorInfo} from './lex-author-info.model';
import {LexMultiParagraph} from './lex-multi-paragraph.model';
import {LexMultiText} from './lex-multi-text.model';
import {LexMultiValue} from './lex-multi-value.model';
import {LexValue} from './lex-value.model';

export class LexExample {
  liftId: string;
  sentence: LexMultiText;
  translation: LexMultiText;
  translationGuid: string;
  customFields: { [fieldName: string]: LexMultiText | LexMultiParagraph | LexValue | LexMultiValue };
  authorInfo: LexAuthorInfo;
  guid: string;

  // less common fields used in FLEx
  reference?: LexMultiText;
}


In the distant future, all humans who reach the age of seventy-five experience the 'Click' and die. It's considered God's chronological death sentence intended to prevent overpopulation.
Narcissist, Oliver Hitchcock, who looks to be in his late fifties, is a retired C.I.A. operative, and handsome lady's man. He is also one of the lucky ones, a Beater. At seventy-eight he beat the Click and the aging process. His eleven-year-old grandson, Christopher, is not so lucky. The child is prematurely in the throes of the Click and will die within the year if Hitchcock can't save him.
As Christopher's impending demise clicks louder and louder and precious time evaporates before Hitchcock's eyes, he begins to unravel an ugly conspiracy and the truth about himself. In order to move forward and save his grandson he must overcome his own ego, and quite possibly sacrifice his youthful appearance—even his life.
In a pretty bleak future, in my opinion, life ends at seventy unless you can "pass" as younger or get condemned for looking too old. In this novel, we face both extremes in one family. The tension created is hard to deal with for those who can see an actual merging of all the institutions involved: government, medicine, religion.
Shear writes an action packed book.  I could not put the book down.  Book is based upon idea that everone dies at 75 years old.  People believe it has always been that way.  One man tries to discover if that is reality or a lie to control mankind.
A thought-provoking book full of action, suspense, intrigue and hope.  The reader of this book may take it on for a thrill ride - like you are watching a Bourne movie but there is more to this book than the action.  The resonating theme must be that any blind following is not the right path.  Those whose primary focus is to obfuscate and lie are not worth any loyalty.  These messages come from a book based three-hundred or so years in the future, but they ring true today.  The battle between good and evil, right and wrong and what is the right moral ground is the basis of this story.  Those who love the non-stop thrill ride of The Matrix or The Bourne Conspiracy will love this book.
For me the way the book kept me on the edge of my seat for the entire time was almost too much for me personally but I know that millions love that kind of story.
Get this book and get ready for the ride of your life.
Thankyou to NetGalley, Wild Rose Press and the author, Steve Shear, for the opportunity to read a digital copy of The Click in exchange for an honest and unbiased opinion.
What an interesting premise of a storyline! The author has delivered a really gripping read with this book.
I thought the storyline was well thought out and written. I was hooked.


Purchasing dog health insurance can provide you with a way to protect yourself against large veterinarian bills when you have a dog. Although this type of insurance coverage can be beneficial, in some cases you can be rejected for coverage. Here are some of the most common causes of dog health insurance rejection.
Perhaps the most common reason for dog health insurance rejection is that the animal has a preexisting condition. Dog health insurance companies do not want to cover an animal that already has a serious health problem. When the dog has a preexisting condition, the insurance company knows that they will have to start paying for veterinarian bills soon. Therefore, if they take only dogs that do not have any known medical conditions, they can improve their odds of not having to pay large bills. Overall, this lowers their costs as well as customer premiums. If you have a dog with a documented preexisting condition, you most likely will not be able to find an insurance policy for him or her.
Another common cause of dog health insurance rejection is advanced age. Each insurance company will most likely have a maximum age that they will stick to when it comes to offering policies to dogs. The insurance company knows that when a dog gets to a certain age, there is a high likelihood that he or she will have several health problems. This means that if your dog is past an acceptable age, the insurance company will most likely reject your application. Even if the dog is in good health, the insurance provider will still refrain from offering you a policy.
In order to qualify for a dog health insurance policy, you will need to be able to prove that your dog has had all of the necessary shots. Many people forget to take their dogs to the vet in order to get their shots. When this happens, it could effectively prevent you from purchasing health insurance for your animal. The health insurance company wants to work only with dogs that have had the best chance of being healthy. This is possible only if the dog has had all of the necessary shots throughout his or her life. You will also have to have the paper documentation that says the dog has received these shots.
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