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"A pseudo-scientific Jewish assault on White European racial consciousness and identity…
As of the time I post this, if you search Google for "Boasian Anthropology," at the top of the page you get this:
For those who know about the history of Boasian anthropology, the irony – and the insult – that is contained in both the website, and in Google's decision to feature that as their "snippet," is almost beyond bearing. While the utility of Boasian thought today might be questioned by a few, Boas had a historic role in combatting "respectable" racism in the United States that is undeniable.
Now, I don't think that Google is a hub of white supremacy. But I'm sure that the people at the corporation that had "don't be evil" as a motto will try to hide behind an algorithm, hoping that this launders their moral responsibility. It doesn't. An algorithm is just another agent or factor (in the old sense of the term), and what this algorithm does they have to own. And best way to take ownership is to remove this as a snippet view, and sit down and discover what went wrong.
I'm hoping that by the time you see this, the snippet offered by the search term will have been corrected. But then, I remember that Google long ago left their motto by the wayside…
UPDATE: The search now yields something quite different – a wikipedia page for Franz Boas. The Verge put out a piece on this, which included the following statement from Google:
Google does not endorse or select responses manually. This content comes from the third-party sites that we do not control. The feature is an automatic and algorithmic match to the search query. We welcome feedback, as we're always working to improve our algorithms. Users and content owners can give feedback on incorrect information through the "Feedback" button at the bottom right of the WebAnswer.
I'll leave it to you to decide if this is a case of Google taking moral responsibility, or sloughing it off. I've certainly made my mind up on the issue. All I have to say on the topic right now is, to quote a friend of mine, algorithms are social, too.
French Anthropology and Ethnography under threat?
June 28, 2013 12:06 am / Leave a comment
While a great deal of this situation that seems unclear to me, Dejan Dimitrijevic from the University of Nice has been circulating a petition (the English version of which is below) which suggests that 'ethnology-anthropology' is in danger of being stricken from this list of possible diplomas in France. For those interested in find out more, there are other resources available on this issue.
A ministerial proposal for a nomenclature of headings of license diplomas removes the mention "ethnology-anthropology". The aim of this page of exchange and discussion is not only to defend this field of production of ideas and knowledge, but also to take advantage of this harmful project to promote public awareness of the program of this discipline to a much wider audience than the usual academic teaching space's one. In the first place, the scheduled
elimination of ethnology-anthropology would be an intellectual and scientific impoverishment: one only has to look through the great debates of the 20th century to measure the importance of our discipline in the construction of the modern values. The greatest ethnological and anthropological works were all linked to the great societal debates of their time, and they are still relevant.
In the first half of the 20th century, the issues of exchange and gift as questioned by Marcel Mauss (The Gift: forms and functions of exchange in archaic societies) did not only intend to produce academic knowledge but also stimulate the social reforms of modernity for a more fair and equitable redistribution of the produced wealth. After the tragedy of the Second World War, the work of Claude Lévi-Strauss was the driving force for the foundation of a new humanism, after the disaster of the exclusively biological design of the Man who legitimated the racialist attempts for hierarchization of human
groups, leading to the extermination of some of them. The cultural conception of the Man allowed a new momentum, universalist and egalitarian, from which comes the formulation which remains the identity and politics of our discipline "unity of man, diversity of cultures," that Claude Lévi-Strauss developed in a text entitled "Race and history" to the broad public of the UNESCO.
The period of the decolonisation saw the emergence of the figure and the work of Georges Balandier, many still view as one of the founders of modern anthropology, so strong was his call against any anachronistic or exotic drift for the comprehension of non Western societies, African in the first place. Whether in an era marked by the decolonization, or today, while new antagonisms of domination and resistances grow, the need for thinking all the existing human societies as contemporary from/to each other is an unsurpassable anthropological truth.
In a period of reorganization of the world and redefinition of a thought on human potential, in new modernity, characterized by unprecedented globalization (in the sense it is coextensive to all the territories of the planet), ethnology-anthropology remains an essential resource to produce knowledge on the Man, we absolutely need . The desire to eliminate this jewel of modern knowledge can be explained only by the political distrust towards any
space where can be developed a free thought and a universal conception of equality of individuals and human groups.
Ethnology-Anthropology offers students a wide range of formations and specialties, but it also promotes the development of adult and informed citizens. Moreover, maintaining the words "ethnology-anthropology" in the nomenclature of the headings of license diplomas is not enough. An awareness of ethnological and anthropological knowledge should begin in primary school and its teaching should gradually grow in college and high school. It is urgent to engage via this page a constructive action against the scheduled elimination of our discipline:
1°) By demonstrating by a massive petition our firm refusal of the suppression of the mention Ethnology-Anthropology from the nomenclature of license diplomas;
2°) By informing the Ministry about the reality in Ethnology-Anthropology teaching and
the diversity of local situations.
Nice, Juin 23th 2013
Dejan Dimitrijevic, Université Nice Sophia Antipolis
The text is supported by :
Jean-François Gossiaux, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociale
Bernard Formoso, Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense
Jacky Bouju, Université Aix-Marseille
Olivier Leservoisier, Université Lumière Lyon 2
Jean-Yves Boursier, Université Nice Sophia Antipolis
Octave Debary, Université Paris Descartes
Abderrahmane Moussaoui, Université Lumière Lyon 2
Philippe Chaudat, Université Paris Descartes


When it comes to baby names, the trends are always changing. Whether you prefer old school baby names or lean towards brand new names, celeb baby names are always a good way to find some inspiration. But looking at the US Social Security site's (oh, so official!) Top 10 Baby Names of 2015 for both boys and girls, we're surprised some of these monikers belong to some of the biggest A-listers of the moment themselves and not just their little ones (though some definitely still belong to some well-known celeb kids).
1. Emma: Emma Stone may be about to play Cruella, but IRL her name and look invoke a fairytale like character.
2. Olivia: Olivia Wilde is surely searching for a baby name for her second bundle of joy on the way, but her own name is a perfect choice for anyone expecting a little girl.
3. Sophia: Both top-earning Hollywood actress Sofia Vergara and Nasty Girl boss Sophia Amoruso have their own takes on the name, but it works just as well for both of them.
4. Ava: Ava Phillippe (daughter of Reese Witherspoon and Ryan Phillipe) and Ava Dash (daughter of Damon Dash and NOT Becky-with-the-good-hair Rachel Roy) are bringing in the next generation of Hollywood with their shared name.
5. Isabella: Isabella certainly saw a surge in popularity after Twilight, but it's a name that's still going strong. Just ask celebs like Bella Hadid and Bella Thorne (who obviously shorten it a little).
6. Mia: Soccer star Mia Hamm may be taking her skills to the field instead of the screen, but that's just fine by us. We love it, in fact!
7. Abigail: Abigail Breslin, the actress who was once Little Miss Sunshine, is all grown up and a great choice for baby name inspiration.
8. Emily: Who wouldn't want to name their little one after the new Mary Poppins, Emily Blunt?!
9. Charlotte: With Princess Charlotte making the entire world swoon, it's an easy (and royal) name choice.
10. Harper: The Beckham's nabbed this one for their little girl, and before that To Kill a Mockingbird author Harper Lee established the name as a literary force.
1. Noah: While Noah Wylie isn't exactly at the top of the celebrity food chain at the moment, this happens to be the name of Miley Cyrus' little sister. Yes, sister.
2. Liam: Hemsworth. Need we say more?!
3. Mason: The most famous Mason at the moment might also be the tiniest. Mason Disick, son of Kourtney Kardashian and Scott Disick, is a six-year-old who is as cute as he is stylish.
4. Jacob: It's working for little Jacob Tremblay, star of Room and Oscar-attendee.
5. William: If it's good enough for Prince William, then it's good enough for us.
6. Ethan: Ethan is a name that '90s kids will still swoon over as they remember Ethan Hawke in Reality Bites.
7. James: James Franco, James Bay, James McAvoy… we could go on!
8. Alexander: If you loved the first Hunger Games then you'll also already love Alexander Ludwig, and if you check out Vikings you'll see why his character, Bjorn, would be the perfect inspiration for a loyal son.
9. Michael: It's a name that's workin' for Michael B. Jordan and Michael Fassbender.
10. Benjamin: Both Ben Affleck and Ben McKenzie go by the shortened version, but it still works.
Do you (or anyone you know) share a name with someone famous? Tweet us @BritandCo!


How Can I Know I'm Saved?
This question, I think it is true to say, is probably on the minds of many more Christians than we would like to admit. What must I do to be saved? How can I know I am saved? And although I know some would not have us focus so much on this question (citing the morbid introspective individualism of our times) I would go so far as to say that this inherent heart-cry of the human soul before God, and the answer proclaimed in the gospel, lies at the very center of the Christian faith!
Oh, and the answer goes against every bone of contention in our body, every seeming rule of nature, and every preconception about reality. And yet that answer is so wonderfully, beautifully, joyously, and rapturously simple.
Below is an account of one Archibald Alexander, who later went on to become the first professor at Princeton Seminary. He describes the great labor and anguish in which he wrestled with this understanding. The context is during the great awakenings, where the common expectations, in some places, was that you needed an 'experience' in order to be sure of your salvation. People were urged to look inwards instead of outward to Christ. This only lead to deep spiritual confusion. Please read.
Being much dissatisfied with my state of mind, and now sensible of the corruption of my heart, I resolved to enter on a new course, and determined to give up all reading except the Bible, and to devote myself entirely to prayer, fasting and the Scriptures, until I should arrive at greater hope. My life was spent almost entirely in religious company, but our conversation often degenerated into levity, which was succeeded by compunction [regret]. Telling over our private exercises was carried to an undue length, and instead of tending to edification, was often injurious. But reserve on this subject was considered a bad sign; and on meeting, the first inquiry after salutation was concerning the state of each other's souls.
A young women of my acquaintance, who, with others, had gone over to Bedford, appeared more solemnly impressed than most of the company. All believed that if any one had experienced divine renewal, it was Mary Hanna. One afternoon, while reading a sermon of Tennent's on the need of a legal work preparatory to conversion, she was seized with such apprehensions of her danger, that she began to tremble, and in attempting to reach the house, which was distant only a few steps, fell prostrate, and was taken up in a state of terrible convulsion. The news quickly spread, and in a short time most of the serious young people in the town were present. I mention this for the purpose of adding that I was at once struck with the conviction that I had received an irreparable injury from the clergyman who had persuaded me that no such conviction as this was necessary. I determined, therefore, to admit no hope until I should have the like experience.
I read all the religious narratives I could procure, and laboured much to put myself into the state in which they described themselves to have been, before enjoying hope. But all these efforts and desires proved abortive, and I began to see much more of the wickedness of my own heart than ever before. I was distressed and discouraged, and convinced that I had placed too much dependence on mere means, and on my own efforts. I therefore determined to give myself incessantly to prayer until I found mercy, or perished in the pursuit.
This Resolution was formed on a Sunday evening. The next morning I took my Bible and walked several miles into the dense wood of the Bushy Hills, which were then wholly uncultivated. Finding a place that pleased me, at the foot of a projecting rock, in a dark valley, I began with great earnestness the course which I had prescribed to myself. I prayed, and then read in the Bible, prayed and read, prayed and read, until my strength was exhausted; for I had taken no nourishment that day. But the more I strove the harder my heart became, and the more barren was my mind of every serious or tender feeling. I tasted then some of the bitterness of despair. It seemed to be my last resource, and now this had utterly failed.
I was about to desist from the endeavour, when the thought occurred to me, that though I was helpless, and my case was nearly desperate, yet it would be well to cry to God to help me in this extremity. I knelt upon the ground, and had poured out perhaps a single petition, or rather broken cry for help, when, in a moment, I had such a view of a crucified Saviour, as is without a parallel in my experience. The whole plan of grace appeared as clear as day. I was persuaded that God was willing to accept me, just as I was, and convinced that I had never before understood the freeness of salvation, but had always been striving to bring some price in my hand, or to prepare myself for receiving Christ. Now I discovered that I could receive him in all his offices at that very moment, which I was sure at the time I did. I felt truly a joy which was unspeakable and full of glory.
Charles Hodge, in his Memoir, comments.
There is another lesson of a different kind suggested by the account above given. How different are theory and experience! What becomes of the boasted power of man – of his ability, plenary or natural, to repent, believe, and change his own heart? Had any miserable sophist gone to the youthful subject of this memoir, lying on the ground in his agony in the depths of the forest, and told him, 'You can if you will', would it not have been as much a mockery as when Satan said to Adam and Eve, 'Ye shall be as gods'? It is well enough for men in their studies to split hairs and quibble about ability and inability, can and can't; but when it comes to the death-struggle, these distinctions are all discarded, and a solemn, fearful consciousness of absolute helplessness is produced. And until in one form or another this sense of impotence is experienced, there is no real apprehension of the help of Christ.
Then, again, when men tell us that conversion is effected when the soul summons all its powers and determines to make God its portion, or purposes the general good, how does this agree with the experience of God's people? Is conversion, so far as it is a conscious process, a self-determination, [as] much as it is a beholding the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ, as that glory is revealed to it through the word and by the Spirit, taking the whole soul captive in admiration, gratitude, love, and submission? Men do not create themselves; they do not come forth from the darkness of spiritual death, to behold the light of God's countenance and the glories of the new creation, by any energy of their own. The whole change is one of which man is the subject, rather than the agent.
I've been thinking a bit lately about justification as well as other doctrines which I believe are at the heart of the Christian faith and gospel. One of these is the doctrine of the imputed righteousness of Christ unto the believer. This is where Christ's perfect righteousness, shown in his perfect obedience to God the Father during his life on earth, is given (gifted) to those who believe in him. All of Christs good works, get credited to the sinner, who hasn't done any good works, but merely looks to Christ alone in faith.
Now let me ask you. Do you find this idea and easy one? Is it something you would just pass by and say "Yeah, I've heard that along time ago. It's no big deal"? Or do you find that you've overlooked this concept, and that upon further investigation find it a bit out of the ordinary? Extravagant maybe? Amazing grace, maybe?
If the Son of God, who is beyond all things glorious and beautiful, who's life alone is worth more to God then all the galaxies combined, who's one drop of blood was enough to pay for the sins of the whole world, who's works of righteousness deserve glorious rewards of riches in heaven along with eternal life; if he offered to you, with outstretched hand, all the merit of his righteousness (though you have done nothing for it, and in fact have done everything to deserve the opposite); if he offered it to you, all of this, would you take it? Would you accept it?
Or would you wait until you had offered up enough good works of your own – your own obedience?
Well Let me tell you right now, if you attempt to work towards righteousness yourself, your efforts will prove futile though you live to be a thousand years old. Your righteousness will never work. It will always fail. You may try and try again. But it will be useless. Why? Because you're a sinner. I'm a sinner. We're all sinners. And what's that got to do with anything, one may ask? It means we've been infected with a disease which makes all our efforts contaminated and faulty. What's more, most of the time we don't even want to do good things, let alone doing them for the right reasons. And it's a fatal disease, with 100 percent mortality rate, which we've all been infected with from birth. So basically, (I know it sounds fatalistic) but we're doomed. We're hopeless and helpless. All going to die!
But this is where Christ's work comes in. In the same way that Adam's disobedience (when he ate the forbidden fruit in garden of Eden) infected all his children with with sin and thereby brought death to them all, Christ's OBEDIENCE has been imputed to all his children by grace and thereby brings life to them all!
"The free gift of righteousness." WOW! That is just huge!
So let me ask you again? If Christ were to offer to you his obedience (with all it's worth) free of charge — all of grace — and all you would have to do is accept the gift — would you do it? Would you open and outstretch your hands to receive this precious gift? Or would you deny him this generosity. Would you believe the Son of God, when he says he has "given up his life as a ransom for many," rr would you turn away in unbelief, thinking there may be another way. Would you recognize God's righteous declaration that you are a sinner deserving eternal death in hell and that your only hope for salvation is in the righteousness of another — namely Jesus Christ, or would you scorn this free offer of salvation. Let me put it to you as seriously and yet as lovingly and yet as truthfully as I can… Your life depends on it.
But now to you who have believed in Christ, who have trusted in him alone for your righteousness and salvation, let me tell you take heart. For just as surely as in your physical birth you inherited your sin nature (which I'm sure you are somewhat familiar) with all it's debts which bring about death, so too in your spiritual birth (upon believing in Christ) you have now inherited the righteousness of Christ with all it's merits which lead to eternal life.
This is the gospel! And this is the grace of God to us in Jesus Christ.
"Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God.
"Let us rejoice in the hope of the glory of God" and in this way glorify Him who has done these things for us, and who alone deserves praise forevermore. Amen.
As an addendum to my previous post "Salvation by Grace, Judgment by Works", here are some excerpts I found on the web on the subject which I think are quite helpful.
"Salvation — the salvation of Paul and the penitent thief — is entirely of grace, the rewards of the heavenly state are all purchased by the merit of Christ alone; but the proportion in which the rewards will be administered to individuals will be determined by fatherly justice in accordance with the fidelity of the saints on earth.
In this paternal rule over God's own house there is no element of retribution. The government is wholly disciplinary. Punishment gives way to chastisement. The Ruler and Judge is both Father and Saviour.
"While it makes void the gospel to introduce works in connection with justification, nevertheless works done in faith, from the motive of love to God, in obedience to the revealed will of God and to the end of his glory are intrinsically good and acceptable to God. As such they will be the criterion of reward in the life to come. This is apparent from such passages as Matthew 10:41; 1 Corinthians 3:8-9, 11-15; 4:5; 2 Corinthians 5:10; 2 Timothy 4:7.
This future reward is not justification and contributes nothing to that which constitutes justification.
This future reward is not salvation. Salvation is by grace and it is not as a reward for works that we are saved.
The reward has reference to the station a person is to occupy in glory and does not have reference to the gift of glory itself. While the reward is of grace yet the standard or criterion of judgment by which the degree of reward is to be determined is good works.
This reward is not administered because good works earn or merit reward, but because God is graciously pleased to reward them.
Therein do we receive the complete 'pardon and forgiveness of our sins,' Rom. 4:6, 7; Eph. 1:7; 4:32; Acts 26:18.
But what seems principally pointed at by the opening of this book, is the opening of that part of it which determines the reward of men's works. Now the law promises life, upon perfect obedience: but none can be found on the right hand, or on the left, who will pretend to that, when once the book of conscience is opened. It threatens death upon disobedience, and will effectually bring it upon all under its dominion. And this part of the book of the law, determining the reward of men's works, is opened, only to show what must be the portion of the ungodly, and that there may be read their sentence before it is pronounced. But it is not opened for the sentence of the saints; for no sentence absolving a sinner could ever be drawn out of it.
The law promises life, not as it is a rule of actions, but as a covenant of works; therefore innocent man could not have demanded life upon his obedience, till the law was reduced into the form of a covenant, as was shown before. But the saints, having been, in this life, brought under a new covenant, namely, the covenant of grace, were dead to the law as a covenant of works, and it was dead to them. Wherefore, as they shall not now have any fear of death from it, so they can have no hope of life from it, since 'they are not under the law, but under grace' (Rom. 6:14).
I found these excerpts here on a blog called "Reformation Faith Today".
So here I will attempt to delve just a little bit into an issue which is perhaps somewhat confusing to many Christians. And here it is: If salvation is by grace, how then is the final judgment based on works?
To some, these two assertions seem somewhat, if not entirely, contradictory. How do we make sense of them? Furthermore, how can we understand such doctrines (as election, justification, salvation etc) in such a way that we can have confidence that we have understood them aright and henceforth walk in assurance that we are pleasing to God in both our actions and intentions? I think that is the question on the minds of many.
"Am I saved by grace? Yes/no? I've always thought it to be so.
Let us look at a passage of scripture which has come up. Romans 2.6-11.
Well, I will (and must) answer flat-out and unequivocally NO. The Bible's teachings about rewards does not in any way contradict the Bible's teaching about justification by faith alone. For it is impossible for the the Word of God to be contradictory. But in order to better understand how this is not the case here, let us look into the doctrines a little deeper.
So what is Justification? For clarification I will return to the Westminster Larger Chatachism question 70.
I think it is also helpful to look at the verses that come after this. Such as 12 and 13.
And later in Romans 3 it is made abundantly clear that none will be justified be works.
And right there, in verse 21, perhaps the most beautiful two words ever penned "But now" come into view.
OK then. Since it is established that we are justified uniquvicially by grace alone through faith alone in Christ alone, what is the point about judgment by works?
Returning to our original passage in Romans, let us look again at the first verse.
Furthermore, read the note written (I believe) by the editor.
"It has appeared to some difficult to reconcile this language with the free salvation which the gospel offers, and to obviate the conclusion which many are disposed to draw from this passage — that salvation is by works as well as by faith. To this objection Pareus [I'm not entirely sure who that is] answers, that the Apostle speaks here of salvation by the works of the law, not indeed as a thing possible, which he subsequently denies, but as a declaration of what it is, that he might thereby show the necessity of a gratuitous salvation which is by faith only. And this is the view which Mr. Haldane takes.
So then it is clear that we don't have to explain away judgement by works, as if it were merely a hypthetical situation that could happen if indeed anybody could possibly do good works. No, the judgement is a real thing that will happen and will be based on ones works. For those whe are not justified by faith, their works will condemn them. But to those who have been justified, they will be rewarded.
So what is the point? What benefit is there in stressing both salvation by grace and judgment by works? We must recognize that there is much benefit in every way.
To bring the case further we can look at other passages where Paul deals with the final judgment.
From the last part it is clear that there will be rewards from God ("commendation" or praise from God).
Thus, for the believer, who has drawn "near with a true heart in full assurance of faith" and has had their heart "sprinkled clean from an evil conscience" (Heb 10.22) this view of the final judgment will bring with it only anticipation of future glory.
From the way Paul talks about the judgment, it is clear that his attitude is on of anticipation.
The Christian has been saved by grace and not by works. But he has also been saved unto good works. The difference being, now he gets to do good works. Where as before (without justification), he couldn't even do a good work if he wanted to. Of course, he didn't want to at that time. And yet now, being justified by faith, he finds that he was indeed created in Christ Jesus, before the foundation of the world, to do good works, which God has prepared in advance for him to do (Eph 2.10).
So we see then that Salvation by grace, and judgment by works are not contradictory at all. The one is the foundation for the other. The former makes possible the later. And the later is built upon the former. They are in agreement with one another and thus complementary. If however, we don't see this connection, if we don't see how these two things work together, we open ourselves up to so many foul speculations and doubts upon which we will be hard pressed to find any sense in the matter.
"We believe that this true faith, produced in man by the hearing of God's Word and by the work of the Holy Spirit, regenerates him and makes him a "new man," (2 Cor. 5:17) causing him to live the "new life" (Rom. 6:4) and freeing him from the slavery of sin.
So then, it is impossible for this holy faith to be unfruitful in a human being, seeing that we do not speak of an empty faith but of what Scripture calls "faith working through love," (Gal. 5:6) which leads a man to do by himself the works that God has commanded in his Word.
These works, proceeding from the good root of faith, are good and acceptable to God, since they are all sanctified by his grace. Yet they do not count toward our justification — for by faith in Christ we are justified, even before we do good works. Otherwise they could not be good, any more than the fruit of a tree could be good if the tree is not good in the first place.
Yet we do not wish to deny that God rewards good works — but it is by his grace that he crowns his gifts.
So we are saved by grace, and now get to do good works — which God created us to do in the first place.


VANCOUVER, British Columbia – A $1 million purse that Google has offered to hackers who can produce zero-day exploits against its Chrome browser appears to be safe after the first day of its three-day Pwnium hacking contest, which yielded just one contestant and one successful zero-day attack.
The absence of competitors has made for a very quiet contest, particularly since the sole competitor in the Google competition so far didn't even show up for the event. The successful attack code, which actually exploited two vulnerabilities in Chrome, was developed by Russian university student Sergey Glazunov, who lives somewhere outside Siberia and sent in his code via a proxy who was present at the contest event.
Glazunov earned $60,000 from Google for his exploit. The remaining $940,000 in the purse, which Google has promised to pay out in increments of $60,000, $40,000 and $20,000 – depending on the severity and characteristics of the exploits – is awaiting other challengers who so far have yet to join the contest.
According to the rules of the Pwnium contest, (pronounced Ponium in hackerspeak), Glazunov is required to hand over details about the vulnerabilities he uncovered and the exploits he created so that Google can patch the security holes.
"We're very happy because we have the full exploits, we have the full details. We'll be able to figure out everything that needs to be fixed," said a member of Google's security team, who asked not to be identified because he wasn't authorized to speak with the press.
Glazunov's attack takes advantage of the Chrome extension subsystem to sidestep the browser's sandbox, according to the security team member, but he declined to offer any additional details while the company works on patches for the vulnerabilities.
The sandbox is a security feature in Chrome that's meant to contain malware and keep it from breaking out of the browser and affecting a computer's operating system and other applications. Sandbox vulnerabilities are highly prized, because they're rare and hard to find and allow an attacker to escalate his control of a system.
Glazunov has an advantage in trying to cash in on Google's bounty. He's one of Google's most prolific bug finders, has earned around $70,000 for previous bugs he's found under the company's year-round bug bounty program, and is familiar with the Chrome code base.
Google's Pwnium challenge, held for the first time this year, is playing out at the CanSecWest security conference in parallel with another hacking contest, Pwn2Own, which also produced a successful zero-day attack against Chrome on Wednesday.
Both contests were aimed this year at uncovering security vulnerabilities in browsers, so that they could be fixed. While Pwnium focused only on Chrome, Pwn2Own asked contestants to find zero-days in Chrome, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Apple Safari and Mozilla Firefox. The contest provides the makers of browser software with valuable information about security flaws in their products, without having to spend the time and resources to uncover the vulnerabilities themselves.
The successful Chrome zero-day attack in the Pwn2Own contest was conducted by a five-man team from the French firm Vupen Security, which sells exploits to government customers. Vupen's attack, which exploited two vulnerabilities that are different from the ones Glazunov exploited, put the team in the lead to win a separate $60,000 payoff being offered by HP Tipping Point, which sponsors the Pwn2Own contest.
The Vupen team, composed of company co-founder Chaouki Bekrar and four colleagues, spent about six weeks researching vulnerabilities and developing the exploit. The first vulnerability attack involves bypassing the data execution prevention (DEP) and address space layout randomization (ASLR) features in Windows; the second attack breaks the attackers out of the Chrome sandbox.
The team, dressed in matching black "hoodies" with their company name on the back, demonstrated a hack using the exploit that involved a malicious web page containing the exploit code. When the target machine using the Chrome browser visited the page, the exploit automatically executed and opened the calculator application.
Because the exploit had been prepared in advance of the conference, it took just a short time after the contest launched for them to demonstrate their attack using it.
Bekrar provided details of the first vulnerability to HP Tipping Point so that it can be fixed, but declined to discuss the nature of the second one, saying he would be withholding that information and the exploit to sell to his customers. Under the rules of the Pwn2Own contest, winners aren't required to hand over details about sandbox exploits.
The reporting rule has stirred up controversy and was the reason Google launched its own exploit challenge this year, instead of simply adding its bounty money to the Pwn2Own contest. Pwn2Own organizer Aaron Portnoy, who is manager of Tipping Point's security research team, told Wired that no one would want to participate in the contest if they had to disclose details about sandbox exploits, since these exploits can earn much more money on the open and underground markets than the $60,000 the contest pays out.
A Google engineer offered Bekrar $60,000 on top of the $60,000 he stands to earn in the Pwn2Own contest if he handed over the sandbox exploit and details. But Bekrar declined and joked that he might consider the offer if Google bumped it up to $1 million. After the Google engineer left the conversation, Bekrar told Wired that money wasn't the main enticement for him and he had no plans to hand over the exploit to Google.
The Google security team member expressed frustration at Bekrar's reluctance to provide information about the vulnerability so that it could be fixed.
The Pwn2Own contest consists of two parts. The first part is the zero-day contest, in which contestants can bring zero-day exploits they've created in advance. If the exploit works, they earn 32 points for the exploit.
The second part of the contest consists of on-the-fly exploits that contestants are required to develop for browser vulnerabilities that have already been patched. They're only told which vulnerabilities they'll have to write exploits for after the contest begins, and can earn 10 points on the first day of the contest for every successful exploit against a patched vulnerability, and 9 and 8 points for each day thereafter. At the end of the contest, the points are added up and the first-place winner gets $60,000, followed by the second place prize of $30,000 and a third-place prize of $15,000.
Bekrar said his team has three other zero-day exploits in its pocket, each aimed at the other three browsers in the contest - Microsoft Internet Explorer, Apple Safari and Mozilla Firefox — but would only bust them out if it looked like a competitor might show up who seriously threatened their lead position. In addition to demonstrating their zero-day Chrome exploit on Wednesday, the team produced three exploits on-the-fly for patched vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer, Firefox and Safari.
So far only one other team is competing in the Pwn2Own contest, but that team, composed of two men, has yet to submit any exploits or even show up in the contest room, preferring to work remotely in another part of the hotel where the conference is being held.


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New chief administrative officer for Mary and Elizabeth Hospital announced
January 14, 2020 Matthew Keck
By Matthew Keck —
U of L Health – Mary and Elizabeth Hospital announced that Melisa Adkins, RN, BSN, MBA, will be the new chief administrative officer Jan. 9. Adkins was previously the CEO for Heartland Regional Medical Center in Marion, Ill. since 2017.
"I'm very excited for the opportunity to work with Mary & Elizabeth Hospital and with the outstanding team they have in place," said Adkins. "I look forward to helping them continue providing first-rate services to their patients, staff and employees."
While at Heartland Regional, Adkins helped lower contract labor expenses by 31 percent. She also aided in creating an occupational health clinic and increased the net revenue growth by 4 percent.
Along with her accomplishments at Heartland Regional, Adkins has earned multiple award nominations for her work. Two of her nominations include Citizen of the Year in 2018 and the Community Health System Excellence in Nursing Leadership award in 2012.
"We're very pleased to have Adkins join our team at Mary & Elizabeth," said Tom Miller, CEO of U of L Health. "She has an outstanding reputation in healthcare, and we know she will bring added value and expertise that will help us continue improving the quality care we can provide to our patients."
Adkins served as the chief nursing officer at Physicians Regional Medical Center (PRMC) in Knoxville, Tenn., before joining Heartland Regional in 2017. She oversaw more than 30 departments along with opening two units that assisted in patient transfers from the ICU at PRMC.
At PRMC, Adkins implemented a new emergency department, neonatal ICU and cardiac and step-down monitors at the facility in 2016. Adkins also increased the facilities three-star rating to four-stars in just one year.
Adkins has an associate degree in nursing from John A. Logan College, along with a bachelor's degree in nursing and an MBA from University of Phoenix.
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Mean level signal crossing rate for an arbitrary stochastic process
Harold T. Yura, Steen Grüner Hanson
Optical Sensor Technology
Department of Photonics Engineering
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The issue of the mean signal level crossing rate for various probability density functions with primary relevance for optics is discussed based on a new analytical method. This method relies on a unique transformation that transforms the probability distribution under investigation into a normal probability distribution, for which the distribution of mean level crossings is known. In general, the analytical results for the mean level crossing rate are supported and confirmed by numerical simulations. In particular, we illustrate the present method by presenting analytic expressions for the mean level crossing rate for various probability distributions, including ones that previously were unavailable, such as the uniform, the so-called gamma-gamma, and the Rice–Nakagami distribution. However, in a limited number of cases the present results differ somewhat from the result reported in the literature. At present, this discrepancy remains unexplained and is laid open for future discussion.
Optical Society of America. Journal A: Optics, Image Science, and Vision
https://doi.org/10.1364/JOSAA.27.000797
This paper was published in Optical Society of America. Journal A and is made available as an electronic reprint with the permission of OSA. Systematic or multiple reproduction or distribution to multiple locations via electronic or other means is prohibited and is subject to penalties under law.
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This two-part session dealt with the work of UNESCO in the field of Internet governance and journalism. The first part was an open forum in which stakeholders from different regions reflected on the use of the UNESCO Internet Universality indicators as a tool for assessing Internet development, fostering online democracy and human rights and achieving 2030 SDGs. The second part of the session was devoted to launching the new UNESCO curriculum that deals with journalism and misinformation. This curriculum is designed to give journalism and educators a framework regarding the navigation of disinformation.
The first part session, which dealt with Internet Universality indicators, was moderated by Mr Moez Chakchouk, Assistant Director-General for Communication and Information, UNESCO.
Mr David Souter, UNESCO commissioned author of Internet Universality Indicators, presented the Internet Universality development indicators. Souter explained that the purpose of the framework is to help governments to (a) develop an understanding of the national Internet environment; (b) assess how well national environments conform with the UNESCO ROAM principles; and (c) develop policy approaches and practice interventions that will enable national governments and communities to meet these goals. Soutter addressed the challenges in implementing indicators and announced that to facilitate these difficulties UNESCO will issue an implementation guide.
Mr Enrico Calandro, Research Manager, Research ICT Africa (South Africa), presented the results of the indicator pilot study in Nigeria and Senegal. The pilot study in both places highlighted the (a) difficulties in creating advanced analytics required by UNESCO; (b) lack of information; and (c) unwillingness of state officials to cooperate with the initiative. Calandro offered several recommendations such as creating a separate entity in charge of gathering data, involving the government and the public sector from the onset and reducing the number of indicators, especially in the developing countries.
Mr Alexandre Barbosa, Head of the Center of Studies for Information and Communications Technologies (CETIC.br), highlighted the relevance of ROAM framework and the indicators for understanding and measuring the Internet environment in a given state. He underlined the importance of this exercise for policy makers, civil society organisations, academia, and for society.
Mr João Brant, Ex Executive Secretary of the Brazilian Ministry of Culture and External Consultant for the Pre-testing and Piloting of UNESCO's Internet Universality Indicators framework in Brazil (Brazil), presented the following conclusions based on a Brazil pilot study: strengthening the work with state institutions and agencies, using experts (individuals and organisations) as sources, and getting civil society, academia, and the private sector involved in the process. Brant also referred to challenges experienced in the work, such as recognising researcher bias, defining accurately the scope of the work, and dealing the absence of sources and data available.
Ms Pirongrong Ramasoota, Vice-President of Chulalongkorn University, Member of the Content Board, Broadcast Section, National Broadcasting and Telecommunications (Thailand), raised issues for UNESCO to consider in the future based on the pilot study in Thailand: combining qualitative and quantitative research methods, improving the coherence of the measured variables, adding a section of a few essential questions and issues, and defining the shelf life of the assessments for each question.
Ms Silvia Grundmann, Head of Media and Internet Division and Secretary to CDMSI, Council of Europe, addressed the need for using UNESCO Internet universality indicators in conjunction with the Council of Europe Internet freedom recommendations. The Council of Europe's recommendations are based on the law of the European court for human rights and UNESCO indicators are very much complementary. Grundmann plans to present the UNESCO initiative to the Council of Europe in November and will invite the members of the Council to consider implementation of the indicators, together with UNESCO representatives.
In her closing remarks, Ms Albana Shala, Chair of UNESCO's International Program for Development of Communication (IPDC) Council, UNESCO, underlined the importance of planning for the future when making Internet policy decisions. Shala explained that the indicators can be used by governments to improve the situation of the Internet within their countries. According to Shala, next week the indicators and the pilot results will be discussed in IPDC and hopefully the member states will agree to endorse these indicators so that more member states will be willing to test the indicators.
The second part of the session was moderated by Mr Guy Berger, UNESCO Director for Freedom of Expression and Media Development, who launched officially UNESCO's publication Journalism, Fake News and Misinformation: Model Course for Journalism Educators and Trainers written by Ms Julie Posetti, Senior Research Fellow, Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at the University of Oxford (England).
Posetti criticised the use of the phrase 'fake news' and instead suggested misinformation, disinformation, and mal-information. Posetti explained that the book is aimed at students, journalists, and policy makers to provide them with assessment and verification skills. She addressed the importance of strengthening quality journalism and ethical journalism practice and urged the Internet governance community to consider the possible implications of Internet regulation policy on freedom of speech and independent journalism.


The 'Spawn to be Wild' project is an innovative education project that seeks to engage pupils with the wildlife in their local river by bringing the wildlife to their classroom, in the form of the critically endangered European eel, Anguilla anguilla.
Suffering declines as great as 97% since the 1970s and more endangered than the red panda, the eel has a fascinating lifecycle that is hugely affected by our everyday lifecycles.
The European eel is thought to spawn in the Sargasso Sea in the North Atlantic Ocean, before floating in their larval form on ocean currents towards Europe. Once they reach the freshwater estuaries around the coast, they morph into 'elvers' and swim up into rivers where they spend up to 20 years living and feeding. Once they have grown and matured, they swim back to the Sargasso Sea where they lay their eggs. Their decline in numbers of up to 97% is due to numerous factors, all of which are thought to be human induced. Structures including weirs, tidal gates and dams all act as barriers to migration as the eels swim up-river, and pollution, climate change, overfishing and habitat loss all have a negative impact on eel survival.


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Chapter 480-7 - PERMITS
Ga. Comp. R. & Regs. R. 480-7-.07 - Credit for Returned Expired Drugs
(1) Effective with all drug orders placed on or after July 1, 2002, all wholesale drug distributors shall make adequate provisions for the return of outdated prescription drugs, both full and partial containers, for up to six months after the labeled expiration date for prompt full credit or replacement.
(2) Wholesale drug distributors shall establish a written policy consistent with O.C.G.A. Section 26-4-115(c)providing for the return of outdated prescription drugs sold to a client by such wholesale drug distributor. Such policy may include a procedure for the drugs to be returned to the drug manufacturer, may include a requirement that the drugs be returned in the original containers in which it was purchased, and may include the use of a reverse drug distributor. Said policy shall be available to the Board or its agents upon request.
(3) The Board has determined the following listed drugs will be exempt from the requirements of this provision as they are essential to health care treatment and have an expiration date of less than one year from the date such drug is manufactured:
(a) Influenza Vaccines
(4) In order to be eligible for full credit or replacement, the drug must be received by the wholesale drug distributor, or if not the wholesale drug distributor, its agent designated in its return policy, no later than the sixth month from the labeled expiration date. A signed delivery receipt shall constitute evidence of the drugs having been returned.
(5) Prompt full credit to the purchaser shall occur within sixty days from the date the return drugs were received by the wholesale drug distributor or its designated agent. If the wholesale drug distributor determines that the drugs were not returned within six months of the labeled expiration date, or were not returned consistent with the written return policy, then the wholesale drug distributor shall notify said purchaser in writing within thirty (30) days of the receipt of the drugs of its intent not to give full credit or replacement. Wholesale drug distributors shall maintain documentation supporting its refusal to give full credit or replacement for a period of two (2) years. Such documentation shall be available to the Board or its agent upon request.
(a) "Full credit" shall be defined to include a cash refund or credit with the drug wholesale distributor for the purchase price of the drug as established by drug invoice less a reasonable fee for handling of the returned drugs. A reasonable fee shall not be more than 7% of the total invoice price of the returned drugs.
(6) In lieu of full credit, a wholesale drug distributor may elect to replace the drug. Said replacement drug must be a drug of like value mutually agreed upon by the wholesale drug distributor and the original drug purchaser. Said replacement drug must be sent to the original drug purchaser within sixty (60) days from the date of return.
(7) Wholesale drug distributors shall maintain records of all credits and replacements made under this rule for a period of two (2) years and such record shall be made available to the Board or its agent upon request.
(8) The submission of drugs by a purchaser licensed by the Board in State of Georgia for refund or credit to a wholesale drug distributor pursuant to O.C.G.A. Section 26-4-115 and this rule when said drugs are in a container other than the one in which it was purchased, when said drugs were not purchased from that wholesale drug distributor, or when the drugs were purchased for a pharmacy or facility outside the State Of Georgia shall constitute fraudulent and unprofessional conduct and may subject the purchaser to disciplinary action by the Board.
(9) The return of drugs under this rule shall also be consistent with all other applicable Federal, State, and local laws and regulations.
Ga. Comp. R. & Regs. R. 480-7-.07
O.C.G.A.§§ 26-4-27, 26-4-28, 26-4-115.
Original Rule entitled "Credit for Returned Expired Drugs" adopted. F. Jan. 29, 2003; eff. Feb. 18, 2003. Amended: F. Mar. 21, 2018; eff. Apr. 10, 2018.


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One Direction Home
Niall Horan Has Seriously Upset His New Neighbours With These Gardening Activities
His LA adventure hasn't exactly had the smoothest start...
When Niall decided to buy a house in Los Angeles, we're pretty sure he didn't expect any drama.
But after we told you that his new pad was haunted by the ghost of a former actress, there's now a new issue.
Move Over Stormzy - Liam Payne Is About To Become The New Grime Kid On The Block
His neighbours are now annoyed with him because he's decided to remove a tree from outside the front of his home.
The tree has been planted in its current location for over 100 years and local residents aren't happy that it's gone.
Speaking to a tabloid, a source said, "Workers spent hours with a crane to lift the tree out."
"These sort of celebs disrupt everything with no regard for others."
Check out this pic of the tree being hoisted onto the back of a lorry outside of Niall's house...
Picture: Atlantic
This all sounds like the plot to an episode of The Simpsons to us!
Of course Niall isn't the only celeb to have upset their neighbours in recent times.
Last year Rita Ora was slammed by her neighbours for putting up a 'huge' plastic hedge outside of her home...
Madonna's neighbours weren't happy when she put up unofficial 'No Parking' signs outside of her New York house...
And don't forget Justin Bieber's notorious egging incident...
In Niall's case, there's no word about what actually happened to the tree after it was removed or exactly why he didn't want it there in the first place.
We're sure it's gone to a good home though!
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Lives often depend on the quick reaction and competent care of emergency medical service personnel. The EMT course provides training to acquire the emergency skills necessary to assess a patient's condition and manage respiratory, cardiac and trauma emergencies. The theory portion is presented online. In addition, you will complete hands-on skills training in the classroom and additional clinical training in the emergency room and on an ambulance.
Initial Education Courses through the Idaho EMS website. Directions for completing these courses are provided after students register.


For more than 28 years, the Law Office of Larry P. McDougal has provided experienced representation in criminal defense and personal injury. Practicing exclusively in Fort Bend County, Texas, Larry P. McDougal Sr. uses his law enforcement background and familiarity with the local courts to protect clients and solve serious legal problems.
Our Richmond law firm serves clients in Sugar Land, Rosenberg and all of Fort Bend County. Larry P. McDougal Sr. has practiced law in Texas since 1990, and his son, Larry P. McDougal Jr. joined the firm in 2010. We are lawyers who work closely with clients to understand their situation and their priorities, so that we can provide custom solutions and help them make informed decisions.
Larry McDougal Sr. has served as a police officer, a deputy sheriff, an assistant prosecutor and a municipal court judge in Fort Bend and Harris counties. The insights he gained from those positions are a big advantage to clients who are facing criminal charges. He uses his criminal justice insights and courtroom experience to help clients fight the allegations they face or avoid the worst consequences. Larry McDougal's professionalism and proven results have earned him the President's Award from the Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers Association and a seat on the Board of Directors of the Texas State Bar.
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The Prophet, which was to become enduringly popular, is a prose piece which is partly auto-biographical. In the story, a young man prepares to leave for his homeland; but first he must say goodbye to those he has lived amongst for the previous twelve years. The book is his farewell speech, touching on love, friendship, children, joy, sorrow and much else besides. Summing up the message of the book, Gibran said this: 'The whole prophet is saying one thing: "You are far far greater than you know – and all is well."'
Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931) best selling author and spiritual guide, was a man in search of himself and his place in the world. He was a writer and painter, based in the United States. An immigrant from Lebanon at the beginning of the 20th century, he wrote with one eye on his homeland, and with a restless questioning spirit. 'He had an impetuous soul, a rebellious mind and an eye mocking everything it sees,' one of his teachers said. 'Half of what I say is meaningless,' Gibran wrote. 'But I say it so that the other half may reach you.' Through Gibran's writing, much has reached many.
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//  Copyright Pavol Droba 2002-2003.
//
// Distributed under the Boost Software License, Version 1.0.
//    (See accompanying file LICENSE_1_0.txt or copy at
//          http://www.lslboost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt)

//  See http://www.lslboost.org/ for updates, documentation, and revision history.

#ifndef BOOST_STRING_REPLACE_STORAGE_DETAIL_HPP
#define BOOST_STRING_REPLACE_STORAGE_DETAIL_HPP

#include <lslboost/algorithm/string/config.hpp>
#include <algorithm>
#include <lslboost/mpl/bool.hpp>
#include <lslboost/algorithm/string/sequence_traits.hpp>
#include <lslboost/algorithm/string/detail/sequence.hpp>

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    namespace algorithm {
        namespace detail {

//  storage handling routines -----------------------------------------------//

            template< typename StorageT, typename OutputIteratorT >
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                while( !Storage.empty() && OutputIt!=DestEnd )
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                    *OutputIt=Storage.front();
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                return OutputIt;
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            {
                Storage.insert( Storage.end(), ::lslboost::begin(What), ::lslboost::end(What) );
            }

//  process segment routine -----------------------------------------------//

            template< bool HasStableIterators >
            struct process_segment_helper
            {
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                template<
                    typename StorageT,
                    typename InputT,
                    typename ForwardIteratorT >
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                    // Copy data from the storage until the beginning of the segment
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                            return SegmentEnd;
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                            return std::copy( SegmentBegin, SegmentEnd, It );
                        }
                    }
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                        while( It!=SegmentEnd )
                        {
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                            Storage.push_back( *It );
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                            *It=Storage.front();
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                            // Advance
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                        }

                        return It;
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                template<
                    typename StorageT,
                    typename InputT,
                    typename ForwardIteratorT >
                ForwardIteratorT operator()(
                    StorageT& Storage,
                    InputT& Input,
                    ForwardIteratorT InsertIt,
                    ForwardIteratorT SegmentBegin,
                    ForwardIteratorT SegmentEnd )

                {
                    // Call replace to do the job
                    ::lslboost::algorithm::detail::replace( Input, InsertIt, SegmentBegin, Storage );
                    // Empty the storage
                    Storage.clear();
                    // Iterators were not changed, simply return the end of segment
                    return SegmentEnd;
                }
            };

            // Process one segment in the replace_all algorithm
            template<
                typename StorageT,
                typename InputT,
                typename ForwardIteratorT >
            inline ForwardIteratorT process_segment(
                StorageT& Storage,
                InputT& Input,
                ForwardIteratorT InsertIt,
                ForwardIteratorT SegmentBegin,
                ForwardIteratorT SegmentEnd )
            {
                return
                    process_segment_helper<
                        has_stable_iterators<InputT>::value>()(
                                Storage, Input, InsertIt, SegmentBegin, SegmentEnd );
            }

        } // namespace detail
    } // namespace algorithm
} // namespace lslboost

#endif  // BOOST_STRING_REPLACE_STORAGE_DETAIL_HPP

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A MEDIEVAL GEM WILL HOST CONTEMPORARY ART IN RIMINI
Location: Rimini, Italy
Year: 2018 | Ongoing
The fascinating museographical challenge of a new contemporary art collection displayed inside two medieval treasures to be restored in the town centre of Rimini.
Categories architecture, art+architecture, museumsTags san patrignano foundation
An opportunity to reconsider the dialogue between art and architecture, between past and present. With the aim of involving new audiences.
On one hand a small and affluent town, steeped in history and culture with millions of tourists every year, strongly motivated by a new vocation towards contemporary art to broaden its cultural offer, and keen to recoup two medieval buildings – highly representative from a historical and civic point of view – as part of this vision. A town without its own collection and on the lookout for original contents to display. On the other hand, the rehabilitation community of San Patrignano, only a few miles away, supported by a Foundation which has recently begun to collect contemporary artworks to support its own projects, thanks to numerous donations by collectors, gallerists and even artists themselves, in search of a representative place in which to display the works on a permanent basis.
Both the protagonists of this extraordinary joint venture, which meets the reciprocal needs in an innovative and satisfying manner, have a strong common denominator. For both, the principle of the valorisation of both the contents and the container, of both history and contemporaneity is of utmost importance. In keeping with a vision in which contemporary art offers us the keys with which to interpret our era, and in the dialogue between past and future, above all in Italy, also the extraordinary potential of an identity which, being forged by the solidity of memory, may guide us towards a more self-aware future if nothing else. The relationship between a historical container and a contemporary art collection thus lies at the heart of a challenge for a museographical project which aims to reach out to a vast and diverse audience.
Firstly, the two containers: the 13th-century Palazzo dell'Arengo and the 14th-century Palazzo del Podestà, for centuries the institutional space of public life, today lie in a state of deterioration due to a process of 'normalisation' which has managed to obscure all its elements of merit. In agreement with the Superintendency and the City Council of Rimini, the decision was made to halt this typically Italian process, avoiding the historicisation of a series of macroscopic errors which will be removed, while instead following the principle of the valorisation of medieval buildings with a discreet and contemporary approach that, while avoiding historical falsehoods, will allow for the reading of a new stratification, one which will remain fully reversible.
The aim is to restore the awe-inspiring perception of the huge medieval architectural volumes and bring back to light all its valuable historical elements, such as the endless sequence of Palladian trusses and the elegant polifore. But the aim is also to be able to house a contemporary art collection in a careful and rigorous manner, at the same time casting an outward gaze through a form of museum communication which is open, outgoing and suited to the context.
As for the contents: a prestigious collection but one by nature nonhomogeneous, having been formed by highly diverse donations, and for this reason deliberately free of any strict scientific boundaries. And this gives rise to the ensuing difficulty of finding that common thread necessary for a collection that must also be flexible and ready to welcome further acts of solidarity over time that will go on to increase its value and its intrinsic relations.
Both the container and the contents would appear to have major underlying issues for any hypothetical dialogue; however, it's these very difficulties that must be transformed into an opportunity in which their extraordinary nature and the limitations of each may achieve a synthesis and reciprocity in their dialogue and in their mutual valorisation.
The architectural/museographical project will steer clear of an excessively rigid or over-constructed display setup: the 'box within the box', or the easy spectacular value of an ephemeral exhibition sub-container. The more the container is valorised in terms of its own historical components, the more the dialogue between past and present may afford openness and freedom in the positioning of the contemporary works, in a constant and natural dialogue between them and the space, seeking an equilibrium in which all the components play their own role, without any excesses of protagonism.
The aim is to foster dialogue between the works on show and a reappraised monumental and museum dimension of the architecture housing it, attempting to pay homage to the most consolidated Italian museographical tradition of the great masters who undertook the reconstruction of the country's Civic Museums in the wake of WWII: almost a moral duty in a country like ours, so rich as it is in history, and which must also come face to face with the contemporary sphere. The project will restore a historical symbol to citizens, with new, forward-looking contents, in the attempt to speak to all. Also thanks to the contribution of further 'conversations' with young artists who, instead of donating a work, enthusiastically took up the invitation to create site-specific works that will be contextualised as part of a more far-reaching project. In a renewed dialogue between artists and architects which may learn lessons and benefit from our glorious past in order to project us into the future in the far-sighted attempt to find a new form of dialogue between past and present, between art and architecture. Thereby, starting from Rimini, the project aims to question once again the relationship between art and its audience, which is also the message handed down to us by Gillo Dorfles in some of his last writings, with regard to this exciting new challenge.


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This water based gel is an ideal lubricant for your Calexotics pelvic floor trainer, or indeed any other probe or silicone trainer you have. It is completely safe for use with all silicone NMES trainers and is free of parabens, glycerine, dyes and salt. The Calexotics E-Stim Conductive Gel has been formulated cruelty free and is a water based, skin-safe solution.


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Q: Can't get Guzzle working in my Laravel app on Bluemix I have a working PHP app running in Bluemix that I want to extend to call a RESTful service (Insights for Twitter). Since PHP has no built-in way to call the service, I looked around and decided to use Guzzle.
I downloaded Guzzle 6.0.2 from its Git and imported the zip into my httdocs/vendor path and renamed the imported path GuzzleHttp I changed my buildpack to get PHP 5.5 and updated composer.json to the Autoload.psr4 property with:
"GuzzleHttp\\": "htdocs/vendor/"

I redeployed my app and it still worked.
Then I added the following code to my MainController.php: after some other uses:
use GuzzleHttp\Client;

and then later:
$client = new GuzzleHttp\Client([
// Base URI is used with relative requests
'base_uri' => 'https:myserviceURI.mybluemix.net',
// You can set any number of default request options.
'timeout'  => 2.0,
]);
// Use guzzle to send a GET request to Watson Twitter Insights
 $guzzleresponse = $client->request('GET', '/api/v1/messages/search');

Now, when I redeploy the app I get:
FatalErrorException in HomeController.php line 100:
Class 'App\Http\Controllers\GuzzleHttp\Client' not found

I don't know why it's looking in app\Http\Controllers\ but I tried copying the Guzzle src folder - which includes Client.php - there, renamed it GuzzleHttp and it still fails the same way.
I'm neither a PHP nor a Laravel expert. I inherited the code from an intern team so I don't quite know how all the pieces fit together.
I have some questions:
Did I really need to install Guzzle in my workspace or would it be picked up automatically from the buildpack?
Did I import the Guzzle code in the right way?
Why is it looking for the Guzzle Client in my Controllers path?
Is there a good PHP sample program that drives Insights for Twitter? I found one in Javascript but I need to run this server-side?
And of course, most importantly, what do I need to do to get this working?
Answers to any or all of these questions wold be greatly appreciated

A: Since you added
use GuzzleHttp\Client;

You have to use Guzzle Client like this:
$client = new Client([
// Base URI is used with relative requests
'base_uri' => 'https:myserviceURI.mybluemix.net',
// You can set any number of default request options.
'timeout'  => 2.0,
]);

It tries to look for Guzzle Client in the Controllers path probably because your controller namespace is App\Http\Controllers and you are trying to use Guzzle client like new GuzzleHttp\Client

A:    $client = new Client(array_merge([
        'base_uri' => 'URL',
        'timeout' => 30.0
    ]), $options);

/if you need options/
    $options = array_merge_recursive([
        RequestOptions::AUTH => [
            'Conversation_USERNAME',
            'CONVERSATION_PASSWORD',
        ],
        RequestOptions::HEADERS => [
            'Content-Type' => 'application/json'
        ]
    ], $options);

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Dal 1977 al 1987 svolge la sua attività di tecnico nel settore giovanile della Lazio, e poi nuovamente nel 1992, come allenatore degli Allievi Nazionali, dopo una parentesi - tra il 1987 e il 1991 - come allenatore delle Nazionali Italiane Under-15 e Under-16.

Nella stagione 1996-1997 viene nominato allenatore "in seconda" di Dino Zoff, che sostituisce l'esonerato Zeman. L'anno seguente diventa allenatore della Lazio Primavera.

Ha allenato la Nazionale Femminile Under-19, con la quale, il 19 luglio 2008 batte la Norvegia aggiudicandosi l'Europeo Under-19, per la prima volta nella sua storia.

Nel 2011 è tornato alla Lazio come responsabile del vivaio. Dal 2016 è il responsabile del progetto calcio femminile per la Scuola Calcio della .

Dal 29 agosto 2019 è direttore generale dell'ASD Real Selva Candida, scuola calcio della periferia di Roma.

Da luglio 2020, invece, è il Club Manager della Lazio Women.

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Q: Finitely generated $k$-algebra of Krull-dimension one has infinitely many primes I am looking for a reference or a quick proof of the statement that

Every finitely generated $k$-algebra of Krull-dimension one has infinitely many prime ideals.

Here $k$ is a field.

A: Expanding user26857's comment into an answer:
Let $R$ be a finitely generated $k$-algebra of dimension at least one, $k$ an arbitrary field. (The result does not require the dimension 1 hypothesis but does require that $R$ not be dimension zero.)
By Noether normalization, $R$ has a subring $S$ such that (a) $S$ is a polynomial ring (i.e. generated over $k$ by a finite number of algebraically independent elements), and (b) $R$ is finite over $S$. Because the dimension of $R$ is at least one, $S$ has at least one indeterminate.
(b) implies $R$ is integral over $S$, and the lying-over theorem then implies $R$ has at least one prime ideal for each prime ideal of $S$.
Thus the problem is reduced to proving the polynomial ring $S$ (with at least one indeterminate) has infinitely many prime ideals. Since any irreducible polynomial generates a prime ideal, and no two distinct monic polynomials can generate the same ideal, it will be sufficient to exhibit infinitely many irreducible monic polynomials.
At this point, Euclid's proof of the infinitude of the primes can be reappropriated to complete the proof. Given any finite list of monic irreducible polynomials $f_1,\dots,f_r$, the polynomial $f_1\dots f_r + 1$ is also monic, and it cannot have an irreducible factor already in the list $f_1,\dots,f_r$. Thus, any of its monic irreducible factors will extend the list. Thus there are infinitely many distinct monic irreducible polynomials in any polynomial ring, and therefore infinitely many prime ideals.


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Home / News/Press / Press / Positive signs for further growth in Asia: Syntellix receives product approvals in Malaysia and Myanmar earlier than planned
Positive signs for further growth in Asia: Syntellix receives product
approvals in Malaysia and Myanmar earlier than planned
Hanover, 11 February 2020.
MAGNEZIX® StarFuse® and Compression Screw 4.8 (CSc 4.8) product lines receive approval from Malaysian authorities eight months ahead of schedule.
Two product families, MAGNEZIX® Compression Screw (CS) and MAGNEZIX® Cortical Bone Screw (CBS), also granted approval in Myanmar, six months earlier than expected.
Subsidiary in Singapore, Syntellix Asia Pte. Ltd., coordinating development of ASEAN market and acting as an important catalyst.
Syntellix now has product approvals in 65 countries worldwide.
Syntellix AG, the world's leading supplier of highly innovative magnesium implants for orthopaedics and trauma surgery, has achieved important milestones for the further development of the high-potential Asian market. It has announced that it has received approval from the Medical Device Authority in Malaysia for its patented MAGNEZIX® StarFuse® arthrodesis implant and the new larger version of its successful MAGNEZIX® CS compression screw, the CSc 4.8. Together with the smaller CS variants, the MAGNEZIX® Pins and the MAGNEZIX® CBS cortical screw, which have already received approval, the Hanover-based biomedical engineering and material & life science company now has a fully approved product portfolio in a further country in Southeast Asia.
In Myanmar, Syntellix has received initial approval from the Ministry of Health and Sports for the planned basic product range comprising MAGNEZIX® CS and CBS. The country with over 55 million inhabitants has undergone extremely positive economic development following the political reforms and the opening up of the economy in 2011. Its economy is growing at an average rate of 6-8% p.a., GDP per capita has risen by almost 59% during the same period, and in terms of aspects such as life expectancy and density of care its healthcare system is making great strides towards catching up with the rest of the world. During a plenary lecture given by Syntellix chairman Prof. Dr. Utz Claassen at the 51st Annual Scientific Meeting of the Myanmar Orthopaedic Society in Yangon in November 2019, it was evident that scientists and practitioners in the field of orthopaedic and trauma surgery were extremely interested in the revolutionary bioabsorbable material developed by Syntellix that would benefit patients in Myanmar. Its use was seen as a great opportunity for the health care system there.
Asian countries have consistently shown that they are very open-minded and highly interested in medical innovations as a basis for excellent and efficient healthcare. With their high growth rates in terms of population and the economy, the rapidly emerging markets are increasingly relying on new and sustainable forward-looking technologies, also in their healthcare systems, to improve quality of life, reduce the perceived gap between them and the established industrialised nations, and become self-sufficient. Such an environment, which is particularly conducive to progress, favours the growth potential of the trendsetting MAGNEZIX® material, because the magnesium-based material and the implants manufactured from it set new standards in patient safety. According to the WHO, hundreds of millions of patients worldwide are affected by surgery and care-related infections every year. The use of MAGNEZIX® implants eliminates the need to remove material, because although they are metallic and correspondingly stable, they decompose and are converted to bone tissue by the body, which means no foreign material remains in the body. This completely eliminates the risk of infection during an otherwise necessary second operation and the corresponding inpatient hospital stay. According to the experience reported, magnesium also stimulates bone growth in an osteoconductive manner, has an infection-inhibiting effect and has a particularly good tolerability. MAGNEZIX® implants therefore make a substantial contribution to patient safety.
The most recent approvals mean that Syntellix now has MAGNEZIX® product approvals in a total of 65 countries worldwide - for the treatment of malpositions, fractures and cartilage-bone defects using the most advanced magnesium implants in orthopaedic, trauma, paediatric and sports surgery.
About Syntellix AG:
Syntellix AG based in Hanover, Germany, is an international company engaged in biomedical engineering and material & life science that is undergoing dynamic organic growth. The company specialises in the research and development and marketing and sales of highly innovative transformable metallic implants. These are broken down by the body and transformed into autologous bone tissue and in doing so offer an ideal combination of stability, elasticity and bioabsorbability. In recent medical-scientific publications concerning various clinical applications, MAGNEZIX® implants are rated as being very beneficial or even clinically superior to conventional titanium implants.
Syntellix AG is the world's market and technology leader in the field of bioabsorbable metallic orthopaedic implants and has already been honoured with numerous important awards and prizes, including the Innovation Award of the German Economy 2012/13, the Future Award 2016 of the German Healthcare Economy, the German Medical Award 2017, the STEP Award 2017, the Innovator of the Year 2017 award and the German Innovation Award in Gold (2019); internationally, the implants were a winner in the Product of the Year category of the Sustainability Award 2018 program.
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Last weekend I popped up to Sheffield to visit family and managed to pay a visit to the city's newest addition to Chinese food establishments, Oisoi, located in St Paul's Place restaurant quarter in the city centre. Oisoi is a modern oriental food market split into two floors – with a neat-looking food market on the ground floor and in-store dining to the first floor. The market was sectioned up into various 'food zones' including a fresh noodle counter; Shibanuma Soy Sauce area; 'Grab & Go' fresh produce and refreshments; and counters for fresh fruit, veg, fish and meat. All of the first floor is dedicated to their in-store dining where ingredients from the food market are used and customers can get the chance to watch their food being cooked through a glass fronted kitchen. You can tell Oisoi pays a lot attention to the presentation of everything they do – right down to the product swing tickets!
Oisoi introduces a new lifestyle through their own branded ingredients and artisan food by encouraging their customers to try something new; and to develop a palate for oriental food that's perhaps more 'out of our comfort zone'. There were a range of Oisoi branded cooking sauces that are made in store – encouraging us to create our own taste of Oisoi at home. Whilst walking around the store, I noticed how they shared their oriental food experiences via graphical communications in and around the store, and were generous in offering food samples to help us gain a better understanding of Asian food culture.
I managed to grab some lunch up in their restaurant area – and ate and ate….
I went for their crispy Japanese Katsu salmon served on crunchy asparagus with Thai rice and a side of pak choi as my veggies. Everything was very tastefully presented. There's really nothing better than freshly made 'home cooked' styled food and I ate everything! Oisoi certainly doesn't look like your typical Chinese supermarket which is really refreshing to see – a fusion of Whole Foods, the food slickness of Yauatcha (London) and the food was really good! Like most people, I have only tried the mass produced soy sauce and managed to pick up some of their Shibanuma's aged versions to take home. Soy sauce plays such an important condiment in Chinese cooking so I thought it would be great to try in recipes at home.
On a final note, it's always great to keep the link with Sheffield and its talented food producers. Oisoi are a great addition to the Sheffield City Centre and I'm looking forward to popping back up and indulging on more stuff from the bakery soon!
Oisoi | St Paul's Place, 121 Norfolk Street, Sheffield, S1 2JF – opposite Smoke BBQ Restaurant.


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Yami's experience as model helped her in 'Bala'
Actress Yami Gautam says her personal experience as a model has come in handy to get the nuances right for her role in the upcoming film "Bala".
Yami, who will be seen playing a model in the film, said in a statement: "I play a popular model from a local city in Lucknow. Unlike a lot of characters shown on screen so far, my character is a local model who's famous in a local town.
"There have been many occasions in my heydays which I associate with my character on a personal level even though the character is far different and her experiences are different from what I have experienced."
The only similarity, she said, is the fact that she is a model
"There are basics I understand understand of the character. Of course this character is very different and something I haven't done before. But my personal experience as a model has come in handy in certain nuances," she added.
"Bala" marks Yami's second association with the film's producer Dinesh Vijan after "Badlapur".
The film also stars Ayushmann Khurrana, with whom she shared screen space with in "Vicky Donor".
It is about a man who balds prematurely and how he deals with it. Directed by Amar Kaushik, the film also features Bhumi Pednekar, Saurabh Shukla, Jaaved Jaffrey and Seema Pahwa in pivotal roles.