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Securing Data with Microsoft Information Protection
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Join our webinar, Protecting Your Information with Microsoft Information Protection, Thursday, February 4, 1 p.m. eastern
Why does Information Protection matter?
Information Protection is the process of securing digital information without restricting the organization's capability to use their data for business purposes or compromising consumer and end-user privacy. The significance of data protection rises as the amount of data created or stored continues to grow at astonishing levels. Data breaches cost companies on average more than $3.8 million and more than one quarter of companies over the next two years will experience a recurring breach (Auth0.com, 2020). Equifax, one of the largest credit bureaus in the US, experienced a data breach that exposed about 147.9 million consumers data. LinkedIn, one of the major social networks for business professionals, suffered from a data breach of 6.5 million passwords that were resold on a Russian hacker forum (CSO Online, 2020). Marriott, a hospitality company, endured a security breach that exposed 5.2 million guests' data. Marriott could have avoided this breach by protecting their data at the file level and by implementing multi-factor authentication (MFA) for employees attempting to access sensitive data (Auth0.com, 2020).
Microsoft. (2020, November 30). Microsoft Information Protection in Microsoft 365 – Microsoft 365 Compliance.
Most organizations experience issues with identifying, classifying, and protecting their data. It's these businesses that will also have challenges protecting the data, especially organizations that do not want their data leaving their environment by email or a third-party file transfer site. Thus, the question arises; How can data safely leave an organization's environment?
What is Microsoft Information Protection (MIP)?
Microsoft Information Protection (MIP) helps a business keep their data secure. Let's start with some key definitions:
Microsoft Information Protection (MIP) – A framework for products and integrated capabilities that use the same labeling store ("unified labels") and help protect the organization's sensitive information
Data classification – Identifies items that have a sensitivity label, a retention label or have been classified as a sensitive information type and the actions that users are taking on them
Sensitivity labels – A single solution across apps, services, and devices to label and protect data as it travels inside and outside the organization
Encryption – The process of converting information or data into a code, especially to prevent unauthorized access
Auto-labeling – The ability to save a document or send an email and have it automatically labeled based on the content within the document or email
Sensitive information types – Identifies sensitive data by using built-in or custom regular expressions or a function, together with corroborative evidence that includes keywords, confidence levels and proximity
Multi-factor authentication (MFA) – Multi-factor authentication is a process where a user is prompted during the sign-in process for an additional form of identification, such as to enter a code on their cellphone or to provide a fingerprint scan.
MIP addresses business concerns regarding data protection by creating safeguarding controls and measures for the document at the file level. It also protects the data by classifying a document or email with a sensitivity label, which can be configured to encrypt the document or email and mark the document/email with a header, footer or watermark. When a file becomes encrypted and leaves the organization's environment, the individual attempting to open the file outside of the organization will not be able to view the content without the appropriate credentials and permissions.
MIP can auto-label a document/email based on the content within the file once that document is saved. There are currently two different methods for automatically applying a sensitivity label:
Client-side labeling is when users edit a document or create an email (also reply and forward) and use a label that is configured for auto-labeling office applications.
Service-side labeling, also known as auto-labeling for data at rest, is when content is already saved in SharePoint Online, OneDrive or email. This is when an auto-labeling policy is used, and because this labeling is applied by services rather than application, there is no need to worry about what application users have.
There are over 100 pre-defined sensitive information types and users can create customized sensitive information types. Microsoft 365 applications that support sensitivity labels can perform actions when Microsoft detects a sensitive information type. For instance, personnel can create a Word document and insert a credit card number in the content of the file. MIP will detect this match when the document is saved, and an auto-label action can be initiated by the MIP policy. Sensitivity labels can encrypt a document so only individuals within a certain group can view that document. A user who is outside of that group, but still part of the company, will not be able to view the contents of that document.
Meeting Today's Compliance Standards and Regulations
Compliance is critical in today's world for a number of reasons, including:
Avoid fines and penalties
Protects a company's business reputation
Enhances a company's data management capabilities
Yields insights that promote operational benefits
Enhances company culture
Supports access controls and accountability
Regulations are rules that are enforced by governmental agencies that set the standard for what a company can and cannot do in business. The degree of compliance is up to every business based on their risk management. Not being compliant can result with a large fine, which s must be considered when assessing their risk management. Additionally, there is always the potential loss of reputation for failing to comply with applicable regulations.
As our society depends more and more on data and information systems, many regulations have a requirement for information security. Losing credit card or health information can be serious for both the company and consumers involved. When most of a company's assets are information, it is vital to protect it accordingly.
Other Key Benefits of Microsoft Information Protection
MIP helps a company understand and control where the data goes and how it is being used. It can also help a company:
Prevent data being copied, modified, or stored without a user knowing
Prevent unauthorized users from viewing data
Provide more control over data by understanding who is using the data and how they are using it
Meet compliance requirements i.e., retaining files for a certain amount of time
A key benefit of MIP is its' granular level of detail, which assists a company with GDPR compliance and encryption. GDPR states that a data breach does not need to be reported to the affected people if the data controller implemented appropriate protective measures such as encryption. This is because encrypted information is unreadable without the encryption key, so no key information would be exposed.
Microsoft Information Protection (MIP) helps organizations with classifying and protection their data. Since MIP protects the data at the file level, the risk of an external user trying to exfiltrate data is significantly reduced.
To learn more about Protiviti's Microsoft Information Protection services, contact us.
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The two weeks of shopping period, which generally benefit students by allowing them to explore courses before finalizing their schedules, make life much more difficult for one particular part of Yale's campus — graduate students who must secure teaching fellow positions in order to fund themselves for the semester.
Because undergraduate enrollment is in flux during shopping period, some graduate students do not know if they can receive a teaching position until the enrollment is finalized two weeks into the semester. The current system of assigning teaching fellow positions in mid-September gives rise to long bouts of uncertainty, said Brian Dunican GRD '15, last year's Graduate Student Assembly chair.
"Some don't find out about appointments until after shopping period concludes in September," Dunican said. "But most people [want to] renew a lease a month or so before, so often we see this tied to a housing concern."
To mitigate these concerns, the GSA has worked with administrators to launch the Graduate Student Teaching Opportunities website this fall — a site that provides live information about teaching fellow opportunities from various academic departments, allowing graduate students to apply for positions outside of their home departments.
The site will disseminate information about hard-to-fill and last-minute opportunities broadly and quickly, alerting graduate students as soon as a position becomes available, said GSA chair Joori Park GRD '17.
"There are currently only limited opportunities listed, as only a few departments are participating in this trial rollout, but we anticipate all departments taking advantage of the site in the future academic terms," Park said in an email to graduate students.
The creation of the site is also part of the GSA's efforts to create a single platform to assign teaching fellow positions across departments, Park said.
Lynn Cooley, dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, called the project "very active."
"I would say its still in the early stages," she said. "It's a little early to know how it's going, but no one has been calling on the phone screaming."
Dean Plummer, a senior business analyst for the University, assisted Cooley and other deans in creating the site. He said he aimed to find a software application that could be quickly and inexpensively modified to support the needs of graduate students and academic departments.
Approximately 20 applications have been received through the site for 10 to 15 postings so far, said Judith Hackman, associate dean of Yale College and director of the teaching fellow program.
"It was kind of a last-minute thing," she said. "I think it will rev up next semester."
Administrators intend to survey departments and students who have used the site this fall to see which elements they found useful and which aspects can be improved for the spring term, Plummer said.
In addition to creating easier access to teaching positions, the GSA plans to advocate for guaranteed funding for graduate students through their sixth year or a guarantee of funding before the start of term, Dunican said. The late assignment of teaching fellow position currently poses a special issue for graduate students pursuing more than five years of study as funding is not guaranteed to students by Yale after their fifth year.
"In reality, when we look at the numbers, most people get teaching positions," Dunican said. "What's causing a major stress is that some don't find out until after shopping period."
The home page of the new site features a dashboard that provides the status of applications submitted, as well as opportunity alerts and a search menu with categorized opportunities.

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Lettice Knollys was a well-known figure in the Tudor court, though she spent little time actually there.
Her mother, Catherine Carey, was a daughter of Mary Boleyn, born about 1524. That was near the time that Mary Boleyn was mistress to Henry VIII, and gossip claimed that the King had fathered Catherine, though he never acknowledged her or her brother Henry, born in 1526, as his children the way he did with Henry Fitzroy (of course, he was pursuing Mary's sister at the time!). Catherine was a Maid of Honor to both Anne of Cleves and Catherine Howard, then wed Sir Francis Knollys and retired from court. She returned in 1559 when her first cousin (or half-sister…) Elizabeth acceded to the throne, and was appointed Chief Lady of the Bedchamber. Acknowledged as one of the new queen's favorites, she also secured a place for Lettice as Maid of the Privy Chamber.
Lettice observed the traditional two-year mourning period, then on September 21, 1578 married Leicester in a secret ceremony. When the Queen discovered it two months later, Lettice was banished from court for life. She was allowed a single visit back – it occurred in 1598, after Leicester had died and before her son, who had inherited the Essex title, launched the revolt that led to his execution – but nothing changed.
Only 45 when Leicester died, Lettice married a third time: Sir Christopher Blount, a trusted friend of her late husband's. Gossip followed this union – since the marriage took place only six months after Leicester's death, Lettice was rumored to have poisoned Leicester so that she could be with her new lover. She claimed it was just hard to be a woman alone.
Blount was caught up in her son's treasonous revolt against Elizabeth, so Lettice lost both of them in 1601. She herself lived on until 1634, dying on Christmas Day at the age of 91. She chose to be buried with Leicester.
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Earthy, romantic, soaring, energetic and bittersweet, this richly orchestrated music awakens and nurtures the mystic heart in us all and invites us to experience our own soul's journey as a never-ending process of becoming.
Life can seem like a series of moments, many of them difficult and painful. Yet through the mystic heart, life is experienced as a wondrous journey. Earthy, romantic soaring, energetic and bittersweet, A Soul's Journey is a composition in eleven movements, each movement representing a universal life experience, from the heartfelt to the mystical to the purely energetic. Richly orchestrated and comprised of many and varied musical styles, this beautiful music awakens and nurtures the mystic heart in us all and invites us to experience our own journey as a never-ending process of becoming.
A Soul's Journey is Beth Green's second CD; the first was the very intimate and meditative program, The Gift of Peace, which Beth created to distribute free of charge to support the energy of peace on our planet. Excerpts can be heard on CD Baby, and it is still available free of charge through Beth's website, www.bethgreen.org. Beth's third CD, In the Mist, is also available on CD Baby. Each album is unique, but each carries a power connection to the divine.
Beth is working on some brand new music now, and her music is evolving. We're looking forward to sharing some of it with you soon.
Beth's output in different modalities is nothing short of amazing. In addition to being a composer, Beth is the founder of The Stream Center for the New Spirituality, which offers tremendous support and groundbreaking spiritual teachings, the author of 5 books, the founder of the Beth Green School of Intuitive Counseling, the co-founder of Consciousness Boot Camp and the creator of many different healing modalities. Currently,, she is offering a program called 15 MInutes with Beth, where in 15 minutes you will learn more about yourself than you thought possible. Plus she's the host of InsideOut radio on VoiceAmerica.com and the creator of Beth Green TV & Radio on YouTube, which is full of her profound, funny and insightful videos.
And all of this is despite chronic and debilitating illness since she was 15 years old. But then Beth has always been breaking the mold. From a young girl until the age of 35, she was a social activist, standing up to popular beliefs and confronting whatever authorities were supporting destructive social policies. (For an example, at the age of 9, Beth was nearly expelled from elementary school for fighting for the principle of separation of church and state.) Throughout her days as a social and political activist, she rallied behind unpopular causes, if she believed them to be right.
Then at the age of 33, Beth had a complete turnaround when she experienced a spiritual awakening. In fact at 35, this blossomed into a deeper connection with higher consciousness and in one day, she became an intuitive counselor, being trained on the inner planes. From then on, she devoted herself to helping shift consciousness on the planet from an ego-based perspective to a worldview based on Oneness. Once again, she was unpopular. When others were teaching people how to gain advantage through manipulating the laws of the universe, Beth was calling us to self-awareness and confronting our egos on both the individual and collective levels.
Today, Beth's message is becoming more and more welcome and heard. Her YouTube channel, Beth Green TV & Radio, is exploding, people are beginning to relate and resonate with her message to confront our egos -- even in our spirituality and religions -- and folks are beginning to take advantage of her incredible intuitive gifts through attending her workshops and utilizing her private consultations. Her music is also becoming more known and it is spreading the energy that imbues it, as well.
All of this is possible because of Beth's connection to the divine. She has been chronically and severely ill since the age of 15, and yet her connection to higher consciousness has enabled her to have a life of creativity and service. Here are a couple of Prior to that she was a social activist, working to support positive change on our planet. In her mid-thirties, she had a spiritual/psychic awakening and discovered her great intuitive capacities and healing power. Since then she has devoted herself to promoting deep inner change and growth, which supports not only the individual but the whole society of which we are a part. She has also taught others to do the same.
Finally, we'd like to expand a bit on the discussion of Beth's health. Born in 1945 in New York City, Beth seemed destined to become a musician, but at the age of 15, she became ill, and her lifelong chronic and debilitating illness prevented her from pursuing music. In her 50s, Beth discovered electronic instruments and has found a way to her musical expression. With her indomitable spirit, she has faced chronic illness and, instead of giving in to illness and pain, she has become a true healer. Her intuitively guided music and words are dedicated to the healing of our planet, and so is her life. For more information, check out Beth's website at www.bethgreen.org for more info.
An inviting musical journey well worth taking. The CD is peaceful, reflective and transends time and place to a beautiful mediative score. The music favorite when I need to relax, focus and find clarity.


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The Top Ten Most Gerrymandered Congressional Districts in the United States
By Zombie Nov 11, 2010 1:30 PM ET
(In the first half of this essay, Gerrymandering 101, I explained how gerrymandering works and why it's so ubiquitous. Here in the exciting conclusion I name and shame the ten most gerrymandered districts of the current 111th Congress — plus 20 bizarre bonus districts not mentioned in the title.)
10. North Carolina-12
This is what most people imagine when they think of a gerrymandered district — what I call "Gerrymander Classic." NC-12 looks very much like the gerrymandered districts of the 19th century, but taken to extremes. As bad as it is, NC-12 at least looks like a congressional district, with meandering lines, consistent width, and hand-drawn appearance. As we'll soon see, modern gerrymandering is often another animal altogether, with jarring shapes and artificial boundaries that are not just offensive to the eye but somehow feel like an insult to rationality.
9. Florida-20
This is what gerrymandering looks like in the modern era: ugly. Gone are any attempts at aesthetics. In the old days, redistricters at least tried to disguise their gerrymandering by drawing district lines that looked almost kinda sorta reasonable. No more. Nowadays many districts, with FL-20 being a good example, seem to be the result of computer algorithms with no regard whatsoever for human or natural boundaries. Needless to say, all sense of "community" within a congressional is out the window altogether when it is shaped like this, with jagged tendrils reaching out every which way to gobble up the desired demographic.
8. Pennsylvania-12
PA-12 is a rare example of "packing" (jamming as many opposition voters as possible into one district) that backfired. This district was created to be a Democratic stronghold formerly held by Congressman Jack Murtha, who was assumed to have a lock on the district. At the last redistricting in 2000, the Republicans in charge gave up on the area, which is solidly unionized, and decided to "pack" Murtha's new district with as many Democrats as possible, to allow the remaining districts in the region a chance to have slim Republican majorities. But in the intervening ten years everything has changed: the area grew more and more conservative, and the locally popular Murtha died, opening up the seat to possible challengers. In the 2010 election, PA-12 barely remained Democratic with Mark Critz winning by a hairsbreadth 50.8%-49.2% margin — while most of the surrounding districts overwhelmingly went Republican. Thus, if the foolish 2000 Republican redistricters had not consciously set out to create a "packed" Democratic district, and had instead just drawn the boundaries at random, they could have easily won all the races in the area, instead of losing this one (and the adjacent PA-4) by the slimmest of margins. Note to gerrymanderers: THINGS CHANGE. What may appear to be a wise gerrymander maneuver today may blow up in your face sometime in the future.
7. North Carolina-6
I have included NC-6 as a perfect example of "inverse gerrymandering," a district that is partly hollowed out internally by a different gerrymandered district — in this case, the northern end of NC-12, our first example above. NC-6 is a stark reminder that no gerrymander is freestanding: all congressional districts are interlocked like jigsaw puzzle pieces, and every time you enclose any area by some outrageous boundary line, you are disincluding that same area from some surrounding district. So for every gerrymander you create, you are likely to also have a less-noticeable but just as offensive inverse gerrymander next door.
6. Florida-3
Florida has more than its fair share of gerrymandering nightmares. But while many of the state's districts were admittedly drawn to favor Republican candidates, FL-3 is instead a federally mandated "minority-majority" district gerrymandered to give black voters a voice:
[FL-3] was drawn in 1992 to be North Florida's black-majority seat and Democrats were shifted from the surrounding districts to make the surrounding districts more Republican. It currently stretches from Jacksonville's downtown in the north to Orlando's in the south, and stretches east and west to include other largely minority and Democratic areas such as Gainesville, Sanford and Eatonville. As a result of this gerrymandering, the district is strongly Democratic with a Cook Partisan Voting Index of D +18 and gave Obama 73% of its vote in the 2008 election. It is 50.9% black and 35.4% white. … The 3rd District is at the center of the debate over the potential impact of the FairDistricts initiative. Due to its shape, the 3rd is one of several districts that violate restrictions in the initiative which require compact districts that conform to geographical and political boundaries. On the other hand, the 3rd District is protected by the Voting Rights Act and a non-compact shape may be necessary to ensure it remains an effective African-American seat.
The "FairDistricts Initiative," ballot proposals designed to finally make Florida's redistricting theoretically nonpartisan, was finally approved by voters this year on November 2 — but was immediately challenged in court not by the Republicans as you might imagine but by none other than Corrine Brown, the representative of FL-3! Why? Because the new law stipulates that districts be geographically compact, which would eliminate her voting bloc and most likely her seat in Congress, when FL-3 is totally reconfigured next year. Which is ironic, because Republicans also view the new law with disdain, seeing it as a plot to swing the redistricting advantage back to the Democrats. Sigh. Can't we all just get along? (Answer: NO!)
5. Illinois-17
Political scientists love to cite IL-17 as the prototypical gerrymandered district, and you are likely to see IL-17 used as the illustration in many academic treatises about redistricting. And we can see why here. Its shape has often been described as "a rabbit on a skateboard," though to me it looks more like an embryonic ichneumon wasp with a pancreatic cyst. We saw above how PA-12 was a gerrymandering blunder by the Republicans; IL-17 is the opposite, a gerrymandered district created by Democrats to ensure themselves a seat in western Illinois — but which this year was snatched from their grasp by Tea Party candidate and now congressman-elect Bobby Schilling. Ooops! The Democrats went out on a limb when drawing IL-17 — several limbs, by the looks of it — but the wave election of 2010 changed the electoral landscape. Let me repeat my warning to over-confident redistricters next year: THINGS CHANGE. Gerrymander at your own risk.
Florida-22 isn't a congressional district: it's series of random lines generated by a malfunctioning dot-matrix printer. What else could explain the sheer purposelessness of the innumerable jagged ins and outs of a district so thin that in a few places you could run across it in under a minute? All of this to achieve — what? A district that is almost perfectly balanced between Democrats and Republicans. Couldn't the same result have been effected a little more simply, perhaps by circling some random part of a Florida map with a felt pen? But all is forgiven, Florida-22, because on November 2 you elected as your representative Allen West MFC (My Favorite Congressman), quite obviously the next President of the United States.
3. Arizona-2
Arizona's second district is the one most likely to make people burst out laughing. I mean, c'mon. And the explanation for this atrocity only makes it seem worse:
The odd shape of the district is indicative of the use of gerrymandering in its construction. The unusual division was not, however, drawn to favor politicians. Owing to historic tensions between the Hopi and the Navajo Native American tribes and since tribal boundary disputes are a federal matter, it was thought inappropriate that both tribes should be represented in the U.S. House of Representatives by the same member. Since the Hopi reservation is completely surrounded by the Navajo reservation, and in order to comply with current Arizona redistricting laws, some means of connection was required that avoided including large portions of Navajo land, hence the narrow riverine connection.
So, the district was drawn this way so that Hopis and Navajos don't give each other "electoral cooties" by having to vote for the same congressman? What — is America now a 3rd-grade playground? Imagine how Republicans in Nancy Pelosi's district feel, or Democrats in rural Texas. All across America people have to line up at polling places alongside people whom they despise. Get over it.
2. Maryland-3
Maryland-3 is the poster child for the lunacy that is gerrymandering. And the funniest part? The Democratic politicians who created it deny that it's gerrymandered at all:
The new district was concocted after the 2000 Census when Maryland, like all states, drew up new congressional and state legislative district boundaries to reflect changes in the population.
Former Secretary of State John T. Willis, who was in charge of the redistricting as chairman of the Governor's Redistricting Advisory Committee, said the committee did not mean for the 3rd District to look like it does. That's just how the numbers worked out, he said.
"It's a very complex situation, and population is the No. 1 driving characteristic," Willis said.
The final plan, Willis noted proudly, created eight congressional districts that had almost exactly the same number of people in them.
"All of our congressional districts don't deviate by more than one person," he said.
But Rascovar said that no matter how the committee "painted it", the new boundaries were drawn to favor Democratic candidates in the 2nd District.
"They needed 'x' number of votes . . . what you end up doing is juggling these neighborhood votes, and it becomes absurd," Rascovar said.
"The most absurd is that the politicians drawing up these districts are no longer concerned with the neighborhoods," he said. "All they care is, 'How many loyal Democrats can I get in this district?' "
Willis disagreed. Although the interests of incumbent representatives were taken into consideration, he said, no single district was favored.
We didn't draw the district that way on purpose. It was an accident! Honest!
1. Illinois-4
Here it is: The most ridiculous congressional district in the entire country. No, you're not looking at two districts; IL-4 has two absurdly gerrymandered halves held together by a thin strip of land at its western edge that is nothing more than the median strip along Interstate Highway 294. The end result is a gerrymandered gerrymander, a complete mockery of what congressional representation is even supposed to be. As with AZ-2, the intention behind IL-4 was to create an ethnic enclave, in this case an Hispanic-majority district within an otherwise overwhelmingly non-Hispanic Chicago. Problem is, Chicago has two completely distinct and geographically separate Hispanic neighborhoods — one Puerto Rican, the other Mexican — but neither is large enough to constitute a district majority on its own. Solution? Lump all Hispanics together into a supposedly coherent cultural grouping, and then carefully draw a line surrounding every single Hispanic household in Chicago, linking the two distant neighborhoods by means of an uninhabited highway margin. Voila! One Hispanic congressperson, by design. And as a side-effect, the most preposterous congressional district in the United States.
But wait — our gerrymander tour isn't over. If you think those ten were bad, you ain't seen nothin' yet. While they may have indeed been the ten most gerrymandered districts in the nation, at least they shared something admirable in common: They were legal. The same cannot be said about our next ten districts, which may not be as crazily shaped as the ones above, but which are in one crucial aspect far worse: they're noncontiguous.
The whole reason gerrymandering even exists as a practice in the first place is to overcome the requirement that each congressional district be contiguous — in other words, a unified single enclosed area, however strangely shaped it may be. This self-evident need to create contiguous districts is the whole reason why gerrymandered district boundaries wander all over the landscape, so as to enclose certain sought-after voters while still keeping them geographically connected to the rest of the district. Without the requirement to have each district be contiguous, politicians could easily have created a new level of fantasmagorial gerrymandering in which demographic groupings are enclosed without any regard to where they might be located on a map, forging "districts" out of disconnected topological islands.
Thank heavens that can never happen, right? Right?
The politicians in charge of redistricting are so brazen in some states that they seem to have gotten drunk on gerrymander wine, tossing caution to the wind and cavalierly creating noncontiguous congressional districts with portions completely cut off from the rest of the voters. How in the world they got away with this, I have no idea — apparently, if you have the hubris to create gerrymandered districts in the first place, it's not so big a step to cross the invisible boundary between unethical and illegal.
That said, I am unaware of any federal law stipulating that districts be contiguous; it seems to be legislated on a state-by-state basis. And it could very well be that certain states intentionally fail to pass or enforce such a law, if it serves a political purpose to violate it. After all, who's going to prosecute the redistricters? Themselves?
If this trend continues, perhaps the time has come to enact nationwide guidelines expressly prohibiting noncontiguous congressional districts. Until that time, we'll have…
The Top Ten Most Blatantly Illegal Noncontiguous Congressional Districts…
10. New York-12
OK, somebody's got to go to jail for this crime against common sense. NY-12 isn't just noncontiguous — it's composed of four completely separate geographical enclaves, scattered across Brooklyn, Manhattan and Queens. Talk about brazen. This is the step beyond mere partisan bias — I hereby dub it "cherrymandering," a combination of cherrypicking and gerrymandering.
9. New York-8
New York apparently has no ethical guidelines or laws against cheating, because here they are at it again: NY-8, like its neighbor NY-12, is utterly, laughably noncontiguous. It may have only two separate components (as opposed to four), but they're not even close to each other. How in the world did the redistricters get away with this? It's not like the district is off in the backwoods somehwere, with no one around to notice: NY-8 covers much of central Manhattan, with many world-famous landmarks. Hellooooo???
NC-3 may be more noncontiguous than any other district in the nation. As far as I can tell, it's composed of at least five different coastal enclaves, none of which actually touch each other. Their excuse? They're all "connected" by the islands of the Outer Banks offshore, even though the connection is only theoretical, not physical.
MD-2 was in the running for the most gerymandered district in the U.S., but its noncontiguity moved it into a category all its own. For not only is the northern part of the district hilariously gerrymandered in the extreme, but the southern part has not just one but two completely disconnected components sitting off all by themselves. Seriously: How did they get away with this?
Another strong contender for "Most Illegal Congressional District in the Country," FL-6 has, under close inspection, at least six separate noncontiguous outposts (although three of them are quite small). Apparently, the Florida redistricters think that if a road connects two areas widely separated by water, then they count as being adjacent.
FL-10 is FL-11's northern twin, once more with a patently noncontiguous outpost around Palm Harbor.
And finally we have FL-18, the last of the Florida Quartet of Noncontiguous Districts. The map above doesn't show it, but other maps, such as this one produced for the election by the New York Times, indicate that FL-18 includes isolated shoreline enclaves scattered across the southern tip of the Florida peninsula:
I've found several other maps confirming the inclusion of these noncontiguous enclaves, so FL-18 earns a spot on this list of shame.
3. Texas-14
TX-14, like NC-3 above, is a series of noncontiguous mainland outposts "connected" by a series of freestanding offshore islands. But could you walk from one end of the district to the other, without crossing other districts? No.
Maryland also apparently subscribes to the "a bridge counts as land" theory of congressional redistricting: two areas on opposite sides of Chesapeake Bay are fused into a single district, connected only by a highway bridge.
1. New Jersey-13
And lastly, NJ-13. New Jersey has only one entry on this page, but it's a doozy: the state's 13th district consists of two almost equal halves, separated by several miles of open land (part of a different district). It's like they didn't even try to make it contiguous. Couldn't they have at least made a pro forma gesture, like running a thin strip along the beach or underwater or something?
Dishonorable Mention: Ten More Notable Gerrymandered Districts…
10. Tennessee-7
I hereby nominate the nickname "Isadora Duncan's scarf fluttering dangerously close to the back wheel" to decribe TN-7's shape.
Yes, a gerrymandered district even surrounds Washington, DC itself. It'd be ironic if it wasn't so predictable.
8. Massachusetts-4
Barney Frank's MA-4 wins the award for District That Most Resembles the Original Gerry-Mander.
Spanish gold from shipwrecked 18th-century galleons isn't the only treasure to be found in Florida; gerrymander-hunters know that Florida is the Mother Lode for ridiculous congressional districts, with glittering examples to be found all across the state. A prime example is Florida-16, perhaps one of the ugliest districts in the nation. It starts on Florida's west coast with a series of soulless rectangles, traverses the entire peninsula and seems to peter out at the Atlantic shoreline…until you notice that the district seems to be leaking out of a tiny fissure on the beach and then drips down the eastern coast, before terminating inland once again. No human could have possibly conceived of such a monstrosity; only a software algorithm could be so unconcerned with proportion or harmony.
Florida-23 doesn't look so bad at first glance, until you notice something screwy with its eastern edge. A seemingly sensible district degenerates into a series of apparently purposeless microscopic zigzags, so miniscule that this map doesn't really capture their intricacy. Needless to say, this is the obvious handiwork of the computer that Florida politicians used to maximize their redistricting manipulation.
Florida-19 isn't so much a congressional district as it is a glob of "gerrymandering leftovers." Trapped between the computer-generated hyper-precise boundaries of Florida's 22nd and 23rd districts, each of which was designed to encompass very specific electorates, FL-19 is little more than the area that didn't match the required demographic profile of the other two districts. The orphaned territory was geographically cut off from the rest of the state, and so was necessarily designated as a district of its own, one with no cultural, geological or political coherence.
4. California-38
Despite being the most populous state, and thus having the most districts available for abuse, California is surprisingly only mildly afflicted with the gerrymandering bug. CA-38 is one of the very few districts in the state which can compete with the severe gerrymandering found elsewhere in the country. Since California's political process is corrupt in the extreme, the only explanation for the lack of gerrymandering is that the state's residents already self-segregate into crisply defined political zones. California may be ethnically integrated, but the state's political camps don't mix; Most Democrats wouldn't be caught dead living withing five miles of a Republican, and vice versa. Politically mixed neighborhoods or areas are a rarity. Thus, there's little need for gerrymandering, and on those few occasions where it would come in handy, it's fairly easy to draw district boundaries to include the sought-after voters without creating a map-monster.
IL-19 goes by the name "Water-Skier Checking His iPad for Emails."
The entire coastline of North Carolina is egregiously gerrymandered, NC-1 being no exception.
1. Pennsylvania-6
And bringing up the rear we have PA-6, which would have won the award for butt-ugliest district if it didn't have so much brutal competition.
Curious to learn more about gerrymandering? Check out the first half of this essay, Gerrymandering 101.
More gerrymander-themed links:
– If you want to find out who won each of these gerrymandered districts in the 2010 elections, the New York Times election results page has a complete rundown of the winners and losers.
– All of the images in this report were derived from the official maps found at the National Atlas.
– A 2002 article in The Economist called "How to rig an election" is out-of-date but does give a good overview of gerrymandering, and explains how computer-assisted redistricting has made things much worse in the modern era.
– The Gerrymander Mojo Index gives a visual overview of district boundary complexity across the whole country, district-by-district.


The coordinators of two FP7 projects in the domain of cloud computing have been awarded "Etoiles de l'Europe" in France.
Healthcare systems face enormous challenges over the coming years. The increasing demands of an aging population, the rising cost of treatments and medications, and budget shortfalls are all issues that will need to be addressed if Europeans are to continue to enjoy high standards of care. eHealth, enabled by information and communication technologies, offers Europe solutions that can help avoid healthcare crisis.


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In the period between January 1 and November 11, 2016, 1 985 natural disasters were reported in Indonesia, the highest number seen in the last 10 years, according to the National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB).
According to the agency report, out of 1 985 total disasters, 659 were floods which induced 572 whirlwinds and 485 landslide incidents. The natural disasters have affected 2.52 million people, caused 375 deaths, and 383 injuries. The worst year, after 2016, was 2014, as 1 967 natural disasters were reported.
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Indonesia will likely experience more intense disaster events by January 2017 due to a strong La Niña phenomenon, known for causing torrential downpours and widespread flooding across the state, the BNPB predicts.
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What were the educational institutions of India from BC to Ce?
Is CE the same as BC?
No. CE is the same as AD. BC is the same as BCE.
Which is first ce or bc?
i do not know what Ce is but ad is after BC and the higher the number in BC the longer ago, in ad its the exact opposite. e.g. this was made in 2009 AD
Is spore educational?
NO! spore can't be Educational because Maxis doesn't want Educational. spore is rated E10+ Not CE
Is 429 BC before or after 450 CE?
BC (also BCE) is before CE, which is a secular form of the suffix AD. BC = Before Christ BCE = Before Current Era (same years as BC) AD = Anno Domini (Year of our Lord, i.e. year after Christ) CE = Current Era (same years as AD)
How do you convert dates from bc and ad to ce and bce?
There is no conversion involved-BCE and CE are simply secular euphemisms (replacements) for the religiously-associated BC (Before Christ) and AD (Anno Domini). Here is how years would be expressed in BC, AD, BCE and CE: September 22, 2010 AD (today's date) September 22, 2010 CE (today's date) January 1, 44 BC January 1, 44 BCE
What came first BC or CE?
If by BC you mean before the birth of Christ and by CE you mean Christian Era, then the Christian Era started with the birth of Christ - so BC came first. The link I will place below is an interesting read!
What comes first BCE or CE?
BCE (or just BC) comes before CE (also known as AD).
What is the order from the oldest to the newest religion?
The world's classic religions (not sects or spinoffs) appeared in this order: Hinduism, c.3200 BC; Sabeanism c.2000 BC; Judaism, c.1300 BC; Zoroastrianism, c.1100 BC; Buddhism, 563 BC; Christianity, c.30 CE; Islam, 621 CE; Baha'i Faith, 1844.
What empire lasted from about 320 CE to about 520 CE?
The Gupta Empire in India.
Columbus sailed the ocean blue in 1492 did he sail in bce or ce?
1492 CE BC means "before Christ"
What do BC and AD stand for in the time line?
BC means before Christ and AD stands for Anno Domini (year of the lord). BC is before the birth of Christ and AD are the years after the birth. People often use BC as Before the Common era and CE for Common Era (CE). Not all people are christian.
What is the term CE as in the year 70 CE?
The term CE stands for Common Era, it takes the place of AD. The term BCE means Before Common Era and takes the place of BC. A politically correct term as the entire world is not Christian and AD and BC have Christian connotations.
Which one is earlier - 30000 BC or 10000 BC?
10,000. In BC/BCE you count down to go forward, in AD/CE you count up to go forward.
What is a almirikia tree?
It is a tree grown by the sea. It is edible. More info at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamarix http://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%91%CE%BB%CE%BC%CF%85%CF%81%CE%AF%CE%BA%CE%B9
What BC means versus CE?
BC stands for 'before Christ' and AD for 'anno Domini', which is Latin for 'year of the Lord'. In recent years these terms have been replaced by CE (common era) and BCE (before common era).
What are the list of major religions from young to old?
Being practiced today: Hindu, Zoroastrian, Judaism, Buddhism, Christianity, Muslim, Bahai. There are many older religions that are no longer practiced. Mithraism is one. ANSWER 2: From young to old as requested, they would be the Baha'i Faith (1863 CE), Islam (621 CE), Christianity (c. 30 CE), Buddhism (563 BC), Zoroastrianism (650 BC), Judaism (c.1300 BC), Hinduism (c.3200 BC).
When did Marco Polo travel to India?
Marco polo traveled to India 1292 ce.
What does CE mean in a date?
CE is Common Era, it's the same thing as AD (Anno Domini) BCE is also used instead of BC We are in the year 2009 AD and 2009 CE.
What came first BC or CE -?
I believe if we are according to time BC is first. BC meaning before christ and AD meaning Anno Domini. These come in a set together to note times for years in history. However, due to controversial reason's BCE and CE have become a new way to mark time through history. BCE meaning before common era and CE meaning common era.
Why is there a movement to use BCE and CE insted of BC and AD?
BCE (Before Common Era) and CE (Common Era) are being increasingly used as secular replacements for the original religious acronyms of BC (Before Christ) and AD (Anno Domini; Latin - in the year of our Lord). The general reasoning behind the propagation of BCE and CE to replace BC and AD is that they are more secular and do not reference Jesus of Nazereth or Christianity.
When did Islam buddhism Sikhism christianity hinduism and judaism start in which year?
Hinduism - c.3200 BC - Krishna Sabeansim - c.2000 BC - Abraham Judaism - c.1300 BC - Moses Zoroastrianism - c.1100 BC - Zarathustra Buddhism - 563 BC - Gautama Buddha Christianity - c.30 CE - Jesus the Christ Islam - 621 CE - Muhammad Sikhism - c.1500 - Guru Nanak
India reached it's Golden age under which ruling family?
Under the Gupta dynasty ruled from 350 CE to 650 CE, India reach its "Golden Age".
What do bc bce ad and ce stand for?
BCE stands for before common era
What abbreviation are used to describe the same period of time?
ce and bce or bc and bce
Islam what does ce stand for?
CE stands for common era. It is, in simple terms, the same as AD. In following with this, there is BCE, or before common era, which is the same as BC.
What are the new terms for BC and AD?
AD = CE or Common Era or Christian Era BC = BCE or Before Common Era or Before Christian Era
What is the differeance between AC BC CE and BCE?
BC = Before Christ, AD = year of our lord, both are Christian ways of counting the years. To make it more embracing, the modern idea is to use the same time frames but call them Common Era - BCE = Before the Common Era = BC, and CE = Common Era = AD.
What time did the pax romana occur?
The Pax Romana existed from 27 BC to 180 CE.
When did the Chinese civilization end?
The Chinese civilization began in 5000 BC and ended in 1300 CE
When did Chinese civilization begin?
The Chinese civilization began in 5000 BC and ended in 1300 CE.
Was the year of world war 2 bc ad bce or ce?
It was 1939-1945 AD.
How does 570 CE convert to AD or bc?
570 AD. CE (common era) is just a secular way of saying AD (anno domini - the year of our lord)
Which is older 1600 BC or 1500 BC?
1600 BCE - with BCE you count backwards, with CE you count forwards - 0 is the neutral point from which you count rather way.
When did AD and BC change to CE?
Political correctness dictates that because many people are not Christian but still wish to use the Christian era for convenience reasons, CE and BCE are more sensitive. Many still use BC and AD, including Wikipedia and other sources.
How many BC is 2016?
The current year, 2016, is in the AD (or CE) era, not BC. Informally speaking, this year could be expressed as -2016 BC, but no academic source will use this notation. If you're referring to the year 2016 BC, it was roughly 4032 years ago.
How many year are there between 200 BCE and 2000 CE?
Assuming that BCE is a renaming of BC and CE is a renaming of AD of the calendar devised by Dionysius Exiguus in 247 Anno Diocletiani which he designated 531 AD since he calculated that Jesus was born 531 years earlier, becoming his year 1 AD, which was preceded by 1 BC as zero was not invented for another 500 years or so, then between 200 BCE and 2000CE there are the 199 years 199… Read More
Where is Babylon located?
Mordern day Iraq (1776-2023) Usa (1,200 BC - 900 CE)
Mohammed was born in BC or AD?
CE - the common era ie - a different way of saying AD
What is divorce rate in India?
As of 2011 CE, the divorce rate in the Republic of India is 1.01 for every thousand marriages annually.
What is the differce between bce ce and ad bc?
Ad means ano domini and bc means before christ bc and ad are both time periods in history bc was before Jesus was born and ad is the time period that we are in now hope I have kind of answered your question
What is the analogy of AD 6?
Perhaps you are referring to CE (Common Era), which in some circles has replaced AD (in the year of our Lord). If so, then AD 6 would be CE 6. (The more usual forms are 6 AD and 6 CE.) Those who use AD for years after Christ's birth will use BC for years Before Christ. Those who prefer CE will use BCE (before the Common Era) in place of BC. The numbers in the… Read More
What year BC did Romans begin Christianity?
The question makes no sense as put. The term "BC" means "Before Christ". Therefore, any year BC would necessarily be prior to Jesus Christ having lived and Christianity could not have been founded. Christianity as a religion developed in the first and second centuries CE. It became the official state religion of the Roman Empire in 381 CE.
When did the ancient Chinese civilization begin and end?
What does ce mean after the year?
Normally BC or BCE, standing for before common era, or before christian era.
What dates are on coins minted in BC?
Most ancient coins do not have a date even into the 8th century A.D. (CE).
The date Hinduism was found?
The date Hinduism (India)was found was 1500 ce
Did India ivent paper?
No, paper was not invented in India. Paper was invented in China around 105 CE. This was during the Han dynasty.
Who were the Hindu kings in India?
Below is the list of Hindu Kings who ruled India: Maurya Dynasty (324 BC-184 BC) Chandragupta Maurya (324 BC-301 BC) Bindusara Amitraghata (301 BC-269 BC) Ashoka Vardhana (269 BC-232 BC) Chanakya: Prime Minister to the Chandragupta Maurya Gupta Dynasty (319-543) Chandra Gupta I (319-335) Samudra Gupta (335-380) Chandra Gupta II (380-415) Kumara Gupta I (415-455) Skanda Gupta (455 -467) Buddha Gupta (467-499) Pallava Dynasty Simhavishnu 555-590 CE Mahendravarman I 590-630 CE Narasimhavarman I (Mamalla) 630-668… Read More
What is the name of the temple rededicated in 164 bc?
There have only been two temples of Jerusalem, King Solomon's and The Second Temple of Jerusalem. The Second Temple of Jerusalem was built in 516 BC, dedicated in 515 BC and destroyed by the Romans in 70 AD, (CE).
How long ago was 8200 bce?
Answering in 2018 CE Assuming that there is a 0 CE since 2000 CE was apparently the first year of the third millennium CE, it was 2018 - -8200 = 10,218 years ago (Unless there was also a 0 BCE, in which case it was 10,219 years ago.) Answering in 2018 AD There was no year 0 AD (nor 0 BC) which means that 2000 AD was the LAST year of the second millennium AD… Read More


Inspiré par la tendance internationale qui encourage la détention et la commercialisation de biens brevetés (Patent Box), Québec innove et met en place la Déduction pour les sociétés manufacturières innovantes (DSI). Les entreprises qui ont bénéficié des crédits R et D pour fabriquer du matériel ou de l'équipement faisant l'objet d'un brevet pourront bénéficier d'un taux d'imposition réduit à 4 % pour les revenus qui en découlent.
On this day (+2) in 1876, one of America's most celebrated inventors was to learn the promise and punishment of punctuality. His name was Elisha Gray and he had already moved interactive communications light years ahead. He had invented an automatic relay for the telegraph which sped up communications by half. He then invented a trans-printer which read Morse code and printed the words in typeface. Partially inspired by the ease and speed provided by Gray's inventions, the telegraph business took off.
That led to capacity constraints and demands for a telegraphic super highway. Since there was no fiber optics at the time, they needed something new. Gray decided to try sending simultaneous multiple messages by using a different musical tone for each message. It was ingenious….but still had a few bugs. And, while Gray worked on them, word spread that his new system had a special quality…..it could transmit the human voice. But Gray thought the ability to send eight telegraphic messages over the same wire simultaneously was more important.
While he plugged away at that, his partners warned that others (including Edison) were said to be working on voice transmission. So just to tie up loose ends, Gray dropped by the patent office to drop off his letter of intent on the telephone. Unfortunately, a guy named Alexander Graham Bell had dropped by just two hours earlier. That coincidence of time would result in patent lawsuits over the next three decades. In an odd twist, the lawsuits became so expensive that Bell and his father-in-law offered Western Union the rights to the telephone for just $100,000. In a decision studied in today's business schools, Western Union replied…..We're in the telegraph business not the phone business….and that's where they stayed….If they had only realized they were in the communications business!!!! They might have ruled the world.
The International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) in co-operation with the EPO and the International Electrotechnical Commission have launched a new online platform giving access to the world's largest collection of global renewable energy standards and patent documents. Also known as INSPIRE, the International Standards and Patents in Renewable Energy platform is the first and most complete solution of its kind. Indeed, the patents section contains information on over two million patent documents relating to carbon mitigation technologies from PATSTAT – a patent statistics database and Espacenet – a public online patent search tool. The standards section enables users to search through a database of more than 400 internationally used standards and explains what standards are, how they can be used and why they are important.
You can read more and access the INSPIRE platform here.
Canada remains on the Watch List in 2015, as a number of IPR and related issues remain. Regarding Canada's implementation of its 2012 Copyright Modernization Act, provisions aimed at addressing copyright piracy over the Internet came into force in January 2015, and Canada completed its ratification of the WIPO Internet Treaties in August 2014. The United States continues to urge Canada to fully implement its WIPO Internet Treaties commitments and to continue to address the challenges of copyright piracy in the digital age. Regarding border enforcement issues, the Combating Counterfeit Products Act became law in December 2014. The new law provides authority to Canadian customs officials to detain pirated and counterfeit goods being imported and exported at the border. The United States is disappointed that the new law does not apply to pirated and counterfeit goods in customs transit control or customs transshipment control in Canada. The United States urges Canada to provide its customs officials with full ex officio authority to improve its ability to address the serious problem of pirated and counterfeit goods entering our highly integrated supply chains. With respect to pharmaceuticals, the United States continues to have serious concerns about the availability of rights of appeal in Canada's administrative process for reviewing regulatory approval of pharmaceutical products. The United States also continues to have serious concerns about the lack of clarity and the impact of the heightened utility requirements for patents that Canadian courts have applied recently. In these cases, courts have invalidated several valuable patents held by U.S. pharmaceutical companies on utility grounds, by interpreting the "promise" of the patent and finding that insufficient information was provided in the application to substantiate that promise. These recent decisions, which have affected products that have been in the market and benefiting patients for years, have led to uncertainty for patent holders and applicants, including with respect to how to effectively meet this standard. This unpredictability also undermines incentives for investments in the pharmaceutical sector. The United States closely monitors developments on these issues and looks forward to continuing to work with Canada to address these and other IPR issues, including through the TPP negotiations.


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Q: Cookies to redirect to 2 possible secondary pages on website I was wondering if someone can assist pretty please. So I'm busy building a website. On first visit to the home landing page a user must choose between 2 call to action buttons. Based on their choice they are either directed to content on /page1.php or to the content on /page2.php.
Now I don't wan't the user to constantly go back to the home page every time they visit the website and have to choose again between these 2 choices. I assume I need to add some sort of cookie to the home page to redirect users to either /page1.php or /page2.php (based on their initial choice.)
Any and all help as to how to do this would be appreciated.

A: At the top of page1.php and page2.php you can set a cookie to say that the user has been on that page.
setcookie('landing_page_reached', 'page1');

Then at the top of the first landing page, have something like this:
if (isset($_COOKIE['landing_page_reached']) && in_array($_COOKIE['landing_page_reached'], array('page1', 'page2'))) {
    header("Location: /{$_COOKIE['landing_page_reached']}.php");
    die;
}

Notice the whitelist array I created... you do not want people to people able to set custom content in headers!

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In this series, we've seen that a true work of the Holy Spirit exalts the true Christ, opposes Satan's interests, and points people to the Scriptures. Today, we will continue by looking at another mark of the Spirit's work. The following material is adapted from Jonathan Edwards's The Distinguishing Marks of a Work of the Spirit of God.
"We know the spirit of truth and the spirit of error" (1 John 4:6).
Another rule by which to judge spirits is that whatever operates as a spirit of truth, leading people to truth, convincing them of those things that are true — we may safely determine that it is a right and true spirit.
For instance, if the spirit at work makes men more aware than they used to be of the central gospel truths: that there is a God; that He is a great and sin-hating God; that life is short and very uncertain; that there is another world; that they have immortal souls; that they must give account of themselves to God; that they are exceeding sinful by nature and practice; that they are helpless in themselves — then that spirit operates as a spirit of truth. He represents things as they truly are. He brings men to the light.


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Specification patterns from research to industry: A case study in service-based applications
Domenico Bianculli, Carlo Ghezzi, Cesare Pautasso, Patrick Senti
2012 2012 34th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE)
https://web.archive.org/web/20170829174135/http://people.svv.lu/bianculli/pubs/bgps-se2014.pdf
Specification patterns [DAC98] have been proposed as a means to express recurring properties in a generalized form, allowing developers to state system requirements precisely and map them to specification languages like temporal logics. The majority of past work has focused on the use of specification patterns in the context of concurrent and realtime systems, and has been limited to a research setting. In this presentation we report the results of our study [BGPS12] on the use of specification more » ... patterns in the context of service-based applications (SBAs); the study focused on industrial SBAs in the banking domain. The study collected and classified the requirements specifications of two sets of case studies. One set consisted of 104 cases extracted from research articles in the area of specification, verification and validation of SBAs published between 2002 and 2010. The other set included 100 service specifications developed by our industrial partner for its service-oriented information system over a similar time period. During the study, each requirement specification was matched against a specification pattern; in total, we analyzed and classified 290 + 625 requirements specifications from research and industrial data, respectively. The requirements specifications were classified according to four classes of property specification patterns. Three of them correspond to the systems of specification patterns proposed by Dwyer et al. [DAC98] , by Konrad and Cheng [KC05], and by Gruhn and Laue [GL06]; these patterns have been widely used for the specification and verification of concurrent and real-time systems. The fourth group includes patterns that are specific to service provisioning and have emerged during the study; they are: Average response time (S1) is a variant of the bounded response pattern [KC05] that uses the average operator to aggregate the response time over a certain time window. Counting the number of events (S2) is used to express common non-functional requirements such as reliability (e.g., "number of errors in a given time window") and throughput (e.g., "number of requests that a client is allowed to submit in a given time window"). Average number of events (S3) is a variant of the previous pattern that states the average number of events occurred in a certain time interval within a certain time window, as in "the average number of client requests per hour computed over the daily business hours". Maximum number of events (S4) is a variant of pattern S3 that aggregates events using the maximum operator. Absolute time (S5) indicates events that should occur at a time that satisfies an absolute time constraint, as in "if the booking is done in May, a discount is given". Unbounded elapsed time (S6) indicates the time elapsed since the last occurrence of a certain event. Data-awareness (S7) is a pattern denoting properties that refer to the actual data content of messages exchanged between services as in "every ID present in a message cannot appear in any future message". The study showed that: a) the majority of requirements specifications stated in industrial settings referred to specific aspects of service provisioning, which led to the definition of the new class of specification patterns; b) the specification patterns proposed in the research literature [DAC98, KC05, GL06] were barely used in industrial settings. Furthermore, the new class of specification patterns led to the definition of a new specification language able to express them; the language, introduced in [BGS13], is called SOLOIST (SpecificatiOn Language fOr servIce compoSitions inTeractions) and is a manysorted first-order metric temporal logic with new temporal modalities that support aggregate operations on events occurring in a given time window. Acknowledgements.
doi:10.1109/icse.2012.6227125 dblp:conf/icse/BianculliGPS12 fatcat:l4zcjx4dnvh2rlroozln523qm4
Domenico Bianculli, Carlo Ghezzi, Cesare Pautasso, Patrick Senti. "Specification patterns from research to industry: A case study in service-based applications." 2012 34th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE) (2012) 968-976


The Eighth Call for Applications to SHAPE (SME HPC Adoption Programme in Europe) invites applications from European SMEs with an interesting idea that would benefit from High Performance Computing for increasing their competitiveness.
Application submissions: The Eighth Call for Applications to SHAPE opens on Monday 1 October 2018 with a closing date of Saturday 1 December 2018. The Selection Committee will include of representatives of the PRACE Industrial Advisory Committee (IAC), the PRACE IP Project and the PRACE Peer Review Team.


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Model 12 and 15 Settings Conversion to LR-Series (LR-20, LR-20B, and LR-24)
Smith-Root Staff August 21, 2013
Thanks to their advanced output design, the LR-Series Backpack Electrofishers are capable of reproducing a range of the most commonly used output settings available on older Smith-Root Model 12 and 15 electrofishers. The chart below shows how to convert the Mode Switch setting of the Model 12 and 15 into Frequency and Duty Cycle settings on the LR-Series electrofishers.
Example: If the Mode Switch setting on a Model 12 were set to H2, the corresponding settings for a LR-Series electrofisher would be 50Hz Frequency at 5% Duty Cycle (D.C.).
Mode Switch
A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
B N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
C N/A N/A N/A N/A 10Hz
5% D.C. 10Hz
10% D.C.
D N/A N/A N/A 15Hz
10% D.C. 15Hz
E N/A N/A 20Hz
5% D.C. N/A 20Hz
F N/A N/A 30Hz
G N/A 40Hz
H N/A 50Hz
I N/A 60Hz
J 70Hz
K 80Hz
L 90Hz
M N/A 100Hz
5% D.C. 100Hz
10% D.C. 100Hz
N/A indicates a Mode Switch setting that cannot be duplicated on the LR-Series electrofishers.


An idol has been modelled on the Ardhanarishwar concept of half-man, half-woman: Shiva and Durga — the masculine and the feminine in the same body.
Pratyay Gender Trust, an Indian transgender collective, is all set to observe India's first transgender Durga Puja in Kolkata after completing this representation of goddess Durga.
The idol was crafted by China Pal, who is known as the only woman artist of the Kumortuli region. It was a result of the vision of Bhanu Naskar, the secretary of the 12-member Puja committee of trans women set up by Pratyay Gender Trust.
Bhanu Naskar, 55, initiated the process towards organising the Transgender Women's Durga Puja with Monorama Kinnar and other senior transgender members.
They collaborated with the local Puja organising committee, Joy Mitra Street Udyami Yubak Brinda, to create scope for conversations between communities where transgender women and their families live.
"The idol is being modelled on the Ardhanarishwar concept of half-man, half-woman: Shiva and Durga — the masculine and the feminine in the same body," Pratyay Gender Trust told BuzzFeed.
The idea, according to the trust, was to explore the gendered lines while keeping within the traditional framework.
"Ours is an attempt to question these practices and caste-class structures, and to cross gender lines as women and 'outcastes' who have traditionally been barred from taking part in integral aspects of socio-religious functions such as Durga Pujas, where decision-making powers and participation has by and large remained in the control of men — powerful and upper caste/class," the trust said.
Funds are being collected here to make the event on Joy Mitra Street a successful one.


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aloud
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Definition of aloud
1 : with the speaking voice in a way that can be clearly heard She read the story aloud.
2 archaic : in a loud manner : loudly
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audibly, out, out loud
inaudibly, silently, soundlessly, voicelessly
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the mischievous teacher likes to call on the sleepiest-looking students to read aloud from the textbook
At schools using these new curricula, all students grapple with the same texts, some of which are read aloud by teachers. — Natalie Wexler, The Atlantic, "Elementary Education Has Gone Terribly Wrong," 9 July 2019 Also on this day: 1776: The Declaration of Independence is read aloud to Gen. George Washington's troops in New York. — Fox News, "This Day in History: July 9," 9 July 2019 In 1776, the Declaration of Independence was read aloud to General George Washington's troops in New York. — BostonGlobe.com, "This day in history," 9 July 2019 On July 9, 1776, the Declaration of Independence was read aloud to Gen. George Washington's troops in New York. — oregonlive.com, "Fatal hit-and-run, consequences for Oregon senator's threats: Morning Briefing for Tuesday, July 9," 9 July 2019 At Old Town's 19th century-style July 4th party, the Declaration of Independence was read aloud by costumed volunteers and a handful of schoolchildren. — Peter Rowe, San Diego Union-Tribune, "Spirit of (18)76: Old Town celebrates July 4 with a 19th century vibe," 5 July 2019 Arizona Yarnell: Nineteen bells rang and 19 names were spoken aloud amid somber silence Sunday afternoon in this town at the edge of a wildfire that killed 19 Granite Mountain Hotshot firefighters six years ago. — USA TODAY, "Women in baseball, Lynyrd Skynyrd, circus fire: News from around our 50 states," 1 July 2019 Nineteen bells rang and 19 names were spoken aloud amid somber silence Sunday afternoon in Yarnell, the town at the edge of a wildfire that killed 19 Granite Mountain Hotshot firefighters six years ago. — Alison Steinbach, azcentral, "Six years later, Yarnell and Prescott remember 19 fallen Granite Mountain Hotshots," 30 June 2019 The names of 107 Colored Troops veterans were read aloud during a ceremony that announced their inclusion to the Roll of Honor at the Cuyahoga County Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument on Public Square on Wednesday. — Lisa Dejong, cleveland.com, "Civil War Colored Troops veterans are added to Roll of Honor at Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument," 19 June 2019
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Ras Ejder o Ras el Jdir () es una pequeña ciudad costera de Libia, en la frontera con Túnez  y el punto más septentrional de  Libia.

Ciencia

Es el lugar donde se sitúa una estación experimental de la energía eólica y energía solar para desalinización.

Transporte

La ciudad es un importante centro de transporte para el comercio por carretera entre Tunicia y Libia. Entre el 15 de febrero y 15 de marzo de 2007, entraron 21.758 extranjeros y 8.112 salieron a través de Ras Ejder.

Puede que Ras Ejder sea una estación fronteriza en la nueva Libia Ferrocarriles que está en construcción en 2007. Se ha firmado un acuerdo para un enlace con Ferrocarriles de Tunecia . La estación ferroviaria más cercana en, situada a de 1 metro, es la de Gabes .

Véase también
 Ben Gardane
 Nalut
 Sollum
 Zaltan
 Zuara
 Wazzin

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Enlaces externos

Pasos fronterizos de Libia
Localidades de Libia

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ABOUT ALIDA
Feeling stuck? Sometimes our thoughts are what's holding us back
by Alida Zweidler-McKay | Nov 5, 2020 | Blog, Executive Leadership | 0 comments
I had a conversation during a Get Out the Vote call on Monday that has me thinking about how our own thoughts can hold us back. There's an important distinction between being aware of our tendencies and allowing them to define us. In this week's video we'll explore that distinction.
Last Monday night I volunteered for a Get Out the Vote effort, making calls to be sure people had a plan to vote. It was a fun way to burn through some pre-election jitters, and to support something I think is important – the idea that we each can contribute to the building systems we want to live in.
One call left me scratching my head. "We don't vote," she said. "I work for the Federal government, and my husband is in the military. We're going to have to work for whoever gets elected, so we don't vote." I was stunned into silence. Finally, I managed to squeak out, "Wow. That's really interested. Is there something that has you worried about voting?"
"No," she said. "We just don't vote."
"I'm so curious about that. Do you mind telling me more?"
"Well, the thing is, if we get all involved and get our hopes up and then our guy doesn't win, we'll be disappointed. In the end we're going to have to work for whoever wins anyway. It's better to not have to go through that."
This really got me thinking about all the different ways we back away from what we want in order to avoid disappointment.
Maybe there's a project or opportunity you'd really like, but you shy away from putting your name in the hat for it, for fear that you won't get it (or worse, that you will get it, but won't be good at it).
Or there's something about how your team is running that doesn't quite work for you, but you stay quiet, out of fear that nothing will really change.
Or you see a process improvement or new approach that your company could benefit from, but you keep it to yourself, because they probably won't listen any way.
We all have that voice inside our head that wants us to stay safe and to avoid disappointment. It's perfectly natural to feel that hesitation. Sometimes it's even smart to listen to it. There are times when speaking up or taking a stand truly does come at a cost.
The thing to pay attention to is whether your current situation is one of those times – truly a risky proposition – or not. Is the decision you're making (to take action or not to take action) coming from a true assessment of your current situation, or from an old habit?
One clue is to listen to the language you're using about the situation. The non-voter I spoke to didn't say, "We aren't voting this time because …." She said, "We don't vote." It was a statement of fact about who she is and what she does.
These types of statements are very powerful. They define who we are, and what we do. They can be helpful as a way to create boundaries or set standards. For example, "I don't drink alcohol" sets out a clear boundary about what I put in my body. "I am athletic" sets a standard for myself as being someone who is active, strong and healthy. "I am someone who meets my goals" keeps my eye on the prize, and keeps me in motion. These identity statements are productive driving forces that contribute to well-being and success.
Unfortunately, some of the identity statements we make about ourselves limit our choices, our power and our possibilities. "We don't vote" takes away the opportunity to have a say in local, state and national representation. "I don't make waves" or "I go along to get along" eliminates the possibility of changing circumstances that aren't working for us. "Success is for other people" reduces our energy to achieve. "I'm not very organized" or "I'm not good with technology" or provide excuses for why we're not where we want to be. These kinds of identity statements are restraining forces that can hold us back, if we're not paying attention.
Moving away from disempowering beliefs takes courage. It takes a willingness to risk disappointment. Your candidate might not win. You might not get the promotion. Your idea might not work. Things on your team might not change.
To face that possibility, it helps to see the power in the action itself. I vote not only so my candidates will win, but because I value the core idea of democracy – that every voice matters. You take the steps to get the promotion not only for the promotion itself, but because of what you'll learn from the process of going for it. You risk speaking up, not only for the specific thing you want, but because in doing so you're claiming your place as a contributing member of the team.
When you take action from a place of possibility, you win, regardless of the outcome.
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Curator's essay: Arctic Echoes, Arctic Noises
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The following curatorial text accompanies Geronimo Inutiq's ARCTICNOISE on view November 6 to December 5, 2015. Co-curated by Britt Gallpen and Yasmin Nurming-Por.
ARCTICNOISE is an immersive, audio and visual media installation by Geronimo Inutiq (madeskimo). More …
Arctic Echoes, Arctic Noises
On the evening of Dec. 28, 1967 the CBC Radio programme "Ideas" first broadcast "The Idea of North", an experimental "contrapuntal radio documentary" by celebrated Canadian pianist Glenn Gould. The piece, which runs just shy of an hour, carefully interweaves the voices of various characters, including: an anthropologist; sociologist; prospector; government employee; nurse and surveyor, to form a complex narrative centered on the idea of the North vs. the reality of lived experience. The documentary is comprised of voices from "individuals with direct experience of the North." Gould, himself notes:
"I've long been intrigued by that incredible tapestry of tundra and taiga which constitutes the Arctic and Subarctic of our country. I've read about it, written about it and even pulled up my parka once and gone there; yet, like all but a very few Canadians, I've had no real experience of the North. I've remained, of necessity, an outsider. And the North has remained for me a convenient place to dream about, spin tall tales about, and in the end, avoid."
Gould produces, through his narrators, a broadcast about the North for a southern audience that corresponds to both his own investment in researching solitude and to depicting aversion of arctic life devoid of community. Tellingly, for the majority of southern Canadians who have spent a lifetime dreaming of the North, this dream remains both romantic and elusive, shaped largely by the depictions, fictions and visions by various governing and pedagagical bodies. Gould's Idea of North is one such example in a long line of "Arctic Imaginings" that privilege an abstracted representation of the North, at the expense of allowing circumpolar peoples a platform to tell their own story. The ongoing perpetuation and power of these representations provided the impetus for a different kind of imaging of the North, and therein ARCTICNOISE.
Following a series of discussions and meetings in Montreal and Toronto, artist Geronimo Inutiq and co-curators Britt Gallpen and Yasmin Nurming-Por began a process of collective research into the relationships amongst Gould's representations and more contemporaneous representations of the North, as well as the role of technology in disseminating these identity-based constructions. This early research led to the identification of the Igloolik Isuma Archive at the National Gallery of Canada as the ideal research site for the project, chosen for the breadth and variety of its holdings in cinema and television. Igloolik Isuma Productions, Canada's first Inuit production company, was incorporated by Zacharias Kunuk, Paul Apak Angilirq, Pauloosie Qulitalik and Norman Cohn in Igloolik, Nunavut in 1990.
This project seeks to provoke dialogues about the changing role of representation beyond fixed identity categories. As an immersive installation, ARCTICNOISE aims to address both abstracted historical and contemporaneous ideas of the North through conflating modes, mediums and methods of representation. Additionally, as an ongoing modular work, ARCTICNOISE will shift formats in subsequent exhibitions, thereby purposefully negating any concrete or authoritative understandings of what the North is or might become..
Written by co-curators, Britt Gallpen and Yasmin Nurming-Por


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Matti Henrikki Järvinen, finski atlet, 18. februar 1909, Tampere, Finska, † 22. julij 1985, Helsinki, Finska.

Järvinen je pokojni tekmovalec v metu kopja, olimpijski in dvakratni evropski prvak ter nekdanji svetovni rekorder.

Na poletnih olimpijskih igrah je nastopil v letih 1932 v Los Angelesu in 1936 v Berlinu. Leta 1932 je osvojil naslov olimpijskega prvaka, leta 1936 pa je bil peti. Na evropskih prvenstvih je osvojil naslova prvaka v letih 1934 v Torinu in 1938 v Parizu. Med 8. avgustom 1930 in 18. junijem 1936 je desetkrat zapored postavil nov svetovni rekord v metu kopja. Prvič ga je postavil z 71,57 m, njegov zadnji rekord pa je znašal 77,23 m. Veljal je do 25. avgusta 1938, ko ga je izboljšal Yrjö Nikkanen.

Njegov oče Verner Järvinen ter brata Kalle Järvinen in Akilles Järvinen so bili prav tako atleti.

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Rojeni leta 1909
Umrli leta 1985
Finski atleti
Olimpijski tekmovalci za Finsko
Prejemniki zlatih olimpijskih medalj za Finsko
Atleti Poletnih olimpijskih iger 1932
Atleti Poletnih olimpijskih iger 1936
Nekdanji svetovni rekorderji v atletiki
Metalci kopja


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La lisière désigne une limite entre deux milieux, dont l'un est généralement forestier. La Lisière peut désigner :

 La Lisière, titre alternatif de L'Affrontement (), film russe d'Alekseï Outchitel, sorti en 2010 ;
 La Lisière, film franco-allemand de Géraldine Bajard, sorti en 2011 ;
 La Lisière, roman de Patrick Grainville, publié en .


Estrella, which translates to "Star" in English, grew up dancing as a child in Mexico. There she learned to dance traditional folk dances and more modern styles such as Cumbia, Salsa, Merenge, Bachata, Hip Hop, and Iraqi style / qawliya dance.
In 2002, Estrella began taking belly dancing classes for exercise and enjoyment. Estrella has studied belly dancing under the instruction of her good friends and beautiful performers, Amayla and Sohaila. She has also taken many workshops from nationally and internationally known performers.
From those humble beginnings, Estrella's passion for dancing has developed into a blossoming career as a professional belly dancer. Estrella specializes in Cabaret and Egyptian styles of belly dancing. She also enjoys performing with a sword, veils, and finger cymbals.
Estrella and friends can liven up any special event, wedding, birthday, baby shower, grand opening, or party with her charisma and enchanting family oriented belly dancing style as she interacts with the audience.
Estrella's mesmerizing belly dancing can liven up your next party, wedding, baby shower, quinceanera or corporate event. Estrella will perform only at family events (no all-male or bachelor parties).Additional professional belly dancers, musicians or DJs are available upon request.For details, pricing and booking in Southern California, please contact Estrella.
Para tu proximo evento especial familiar o de trabajo. Estrella habla Espanol para cualquier pregunta.
As a belly dancer at some of San Diego's and Temecula's most popular restaurants, Estrella is also available to perform at weddings, birthday parties, quinceaneras, bridal and baby showers, corporate events and special family gatherings.


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So we all travel hours every couple of weekends to rabbit shows. Sometimes we have the children with us. Entertaining ourselves is difficult enough, but to keep them busy, and occupied can be a challenge. So we will sleep, if we�re not driving of course, or we�ll read a book, if we don�t get motion sick, or we�ll play a game.
Are you tired of doing the same old things? Maybe its time to try something new. Have you ever heard of geocaching?
Geocaching is a treasure hunt of sorts where you use a GPS device to find the cache. The general object is rather simple, however at times finding the cache can be rather difficult. The concept is simliar to weapons caches in war. Except in these caches you won�t find weapons or ammunition, as they are prohibited.
To get started, go to the largest geocaching site on the internet, www.geocaching.com . In the upper right hand corner of the screen will be a search box. Start by typing in your zip code and press enter. You may be surpised to find out how close a cache may actually be to you.
There are several types of caches. Many are what is called a microcache. This is a small cache usually with no prizes or tradable items inside, but rather a log sheet that you can sign indicating you were there. Other larger caches will actually have items that you can trade. This is always exciting for our girls. Some caches are called multicaches. These are multiple stage caches, where each stage leads you closer to the final cache. Some require you to solve various puzzles.
All you need to participate in geocaching is a gps device. I purchased a used Etrex Legend for $50. The gps is great for travelling as you can enter start and end locations and it will guide you on your trip, telling you when to turn and how far you have to go, show where the nearest McDonalds is, etc. For geocaching, you just enter the coordinates of the cache given on the web site, and the gps guides you to the general spot of the cache, usually within a few feet.
Once you find the cache, you write your geocaching name on the log book. You then trade items, or you can just sign the book and trade nothing. When you get back home, you enter your find on the geocaching website.
This adds just a little bit of fun to what is often a long trip. It gives the children a little bit of excitement, and something to divert their attention for a while. Hey, we all dreamed of finding hidden treasure as a kid, well now you can live that out!


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US Water Park Allows Burkinis for Muslim Women
"I want not only my children; I want every kid here to feel the belongingness. Nobody should feel any different than anybody else"
After two years of campaigning to have their modest swimming attire allowed, Ruhee Kapadia and her 15-year-old daughter were pleased for the new policy of Echo Park Pool in New York which has lately allowed burkini for Muslim women, Huffington Post reported.
"It was like a dream that day. It was just this moment of this is it," Kapadia, a Muslim mother from Long Island, New York, told HuffPost.
"I want not only my children; I want every kid here to feel the belongingness. Nobody should feel any different than anybody else," the Muslim American mother said.
It all started in 2017 when Kapadia took her young daughter for a swim at the Echo Park Pool. The staff of the swimming pool did not allow her daughter to swim citing her clothing.
When the mother tried to negotiate it with them, they said it was out of their hands and to take up her concerns with local West Hempstead officials.
Kapadia met with Laura Gillen, a Democrat who was running for Hempstead town supervisor. Though her candidacy was a long shot, Gillen promised that if she wins the election she would address this issue.
In 2018, Gillen won, and, she told HuffPost, she wanted to promote "tolerance and transparency" in her new role. So this summer, there are new signs posted local pools that read, "To respect religious customs, a burkini can be worn."
Another Muslim woman named Ala Yamout, 21 applauded the park's new rule.
"Towns have to explicitly allow modest swimwear at pools because the new policy prevents a type of harassment I've faced. Last summer, I was at a neighborhood pool with my niece and sister-in-law when another resident at the pool yelled at us."
Burkini in the News
Over the last decade, Muslim women across the globe have been subject to an increasing amount of harassment when swimming while wearing modest swim attires.
Muslim women in France, where the burkini is banned in several cities, have staged a protest on July 7 defying the prohibitions.
Although the USA doesn't have a similar ban, Muslim women across the North American country say they're denied admittance to their local pools because of their modest swimwear.
A burkini is a type of modesty swimsuit for Muslim women that was originally designed in Australia by Aheda Zanetti. The suit follows the modesty regulations for women in Islamic Shari'ah as it covers the whole body except the face, the hands, and the feet while being light enough for swimming.
Some Muslims scholars accept the burkini as meeting a commonly applied standard that requires a woman to cover all parts of her body except her hands and face (including covering her hair) when in mixed company.
Others are concerned that stretchy or clinging fabric reveals the outline of the body. Thus, they may also advocate that the head covering be long enough to cover the breasts, or that a skirt covers the hips.
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