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New edition furthers interoperability and portability of military avionics software across a common development platform
SAN FRANCISCO, March 13, 2013 — The Future Airborne Capability Environment (FACE™) Consortium, an Open Group managed consortium, today announced the immediate availability of the FACE™ Technical Standard, Edition 2.0, an enhanced version of the open avionics standard for making military computing operations more robust, interoperable, portable and secure. The FACE Technical Standard enables developers to create and deploy a wide catalog of applications for use across the entire spectrum of military aviation systems through a common operating environment. The new edition of the standard further promotes application interoperability and portability with enhanced requirements for exchanging data among FACE components and emphasis on defining common language requirements for the standard.
Developed in collaboration with more than 50 consortium member organizations, the FACE Technical Standard is a vendor-neutral approach for addressing the affordability initiatives of the military aviation community. It is designed to enhance the U.S. military aviation community's ability to address issues of limited software reuse and increase warfighter capabilities, as well as enable the community to take advantage of new technologies more rapidly and affordably.
"The FACE Consortium brings together leading minds in industry and government to improve portability and reuse within the aerospace and defense communities," said Allen Brown, President and CEO, The Open Group. "Utilizing industry best practices, the latest version of the FACE Standard is another important milestone in extending open standards to environments that have traditionally relied on unique interfaces. The FACE Technical Standard is a key enabler for achieving cost-effective solutions at a high level of flexibility and openness."
Key additions to Edition 2.0 of the FACE Technical Standard include the FACE Data Model, Language Run-Times and Component Frameworks, Protocol Mediation Services, Streaming Media Services and expanded definitions of Units of Portability. These additions broaden the standard to accommodate other languages and aviation mission requirements, including required capabilities such as streaming video, and will accelerate the rate of adoption as Edition 2.0 now further accommodates the requirements and needs of organizations within the industry implementing the standard.
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"The release of Edition 2.0 of the FACE Technical Standard is a testament to the Government – Industry – Academia cooperation of the FACE Consortium under the guidance of The Open Group," said Mark Swymeler, vice president of Electronic Product Line in Lockheed Martin's Mission Systems and Training. "Lockheed Martin is a founding member and has been an active participant in the FACE Consortium since its inception three years ago. The benefits of a FACE Conformant Common Operating Environment and the rapid deployment of FACE Conformant software capabilities to the warfighter will be realized through the increased efficiencies and affordability of procurement, design, upgrade and sustainment for the modern military cockpit and mission systems. Lockheed Martin Corporation has embraced the use of open standards for our aviation systems and will be incorporating FACE conformant software for the US Navy on the C-130T program, and across our product lines."
"The FACE approach is enabling the Navy to save money while still providing capabilities to the warfighter faster through software portability and reuse," said Keith Sanders, the assistant commander for Acquisition for the Naval Air Systems Command, whose organization leads FACE development for the Navy. "It was the right thing to do before, but it is now imperative with the current defense budget environment. I applaud the government and industry members of the FACE Consortium whose collaborative efforts resulted in the publication of Edition 2.0 of the FACE Technical Standard. This standard will serve as a cornerstone to provide the Navy and our partners in the other service branches with innovative approaches to delivering cost-effective solutions in the future."
"This publication continues the progress toward more affordable systems for our customers," said Dave Nieuwsma, vice president of strategy and business development, Rockwell Collins. "Edition 2.0 of the FACE Technical Standard sets the framework for innovation in software-centric avionics capabilities, where completed and mature products can move from platform to platform with reduced development and integration effort. Rockwell Collins looks forward to utilizing this open architecture advancement in the development of next generation capabilities on programs such as the UH-60L."
"The FACE initiative and the FACE Consortium are a "blue-print" approach for optimal industry and government (inter-service) collaboration," said Colonel Jerry Davis, program manager, PM Aviation Systems, US Army. "The FACE program has made significant progress in standard development and we expect to achieve integration cost and schedule savings as we leverage those standards and best practices developed by the FACE Consortium."
About The Open Group FACE™ Consortium
The FACE™ Consortium formed in June 2010 as a government and industry partnership to define an open avionics environment for all military airborne platform types. Today, it is an aviation-focused professional group made up of industry suppliers, customers, academia, and users. It provides a vendor-neutral forum for industry and government to work together to develop and consolidate the open standards, best practices, guidance documents and business models necessary to result in:
- Standardized approaches for using open standards within avionics systems
- Lower implementation costs of FACE systems
- Standards that support a robust architecture and enable quality software development
- The use of standard interfaces that will lead to reuse of capabilities
- Portability of applications across multiple FACE systems and vendors
- Procurement of FACE conformant products
- More capabilities reaching the warfighter faster
- Innovation and competition within the avionics industry
Further information on the FACE Consortium can be found at www.opengroup.org/face
The FACE Technical Standard, Edition 2.0 is available for download from The Open Group online bookstore, along with additional FACE publications including the FACE Business Guide and the previous version of the FACE Technical Standard: FACE publications in our bookstore.
About The Open Group
The Open Group is an international vendor- and technology-neutral consortium upon which organizations rely to lead the development of IT standards and certifications, and to provide them with access to key industry peers, suppliers and best practices. The Open Group provides guidance and an open environment in order to ensure interoperability and vendor neutrality. Further information on The Open Group can be found at www.opengroup.org.
FACE is a trademark and The Open Group is a registered trademark of The Open Group


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VOIPPACK 1.4 with added support for Cisco and Trixbox
Last week we distributed a new version of VOIPPACK with the following new tools:
Cisco environment:
- vp_cucmjailbreak : Given an ssh username and password for CUCM's restricted shell, this script creates a new root user and installs MOSDEF
- vp_ciscophonescanner : Searches for Cisco phones on the target network by using HTTP and DNS probes
- vp_cucmtftplist : Makes use of CUCM's "TFTP" server to list the phone's mac addresses / phone names
Trixbox / FreePBX environment:
- vp_fopextensionenum : Enumerates extensions on FreePBX through the flash operator panel
- vp_freepbx_exec1 : Installs MOSDEF on vulnerable Trixbox or FreePBX servers given a username and password for the admin interface
- vp_mgcpscanner : A generic MGCP network scanner
Additionally we improved vp_sipenumerate to be able to scan Asterisk servers regardless of the alwaysauthreject option in Asterisk and work better wtih vp_bypassalwaysreject too!
What does cucmjailbreak do?
This is a new tool that automates the procedure outlined on Recurity lab's blog and allows CANVAS to install MOSDEF. This effectively allows you to use stolen Cisco Call manager credentials to fully compromise the server. The following video demonstrates the tool in action:
What does fopextensionenum do?
When trying to gain access to phone extensions on a target PBX server, attackers first need to find out which extensions exist on the server. Typically one would use features in SIP to do this, however an easier method is to abuse the Flash Operator Panel (FOP) to enumerate extensions easily. The following video demonstrates the tool in action:
What does ciscophonescanner do?
This tool scans a target IP address range and extracts the names of each phone found. It currently does this by making use of 2 methods: reverse DNS names and connecting to the HTTP interface of the Cisco phone. Video demo:
What about the other tools?
- CUCM TFTP list tool (vp_cucmtftplist) makes use of the Cisco CallManager's special TFTP server which allows listing of the files on the TFTP server
- FreePBX exec1 tool (vp_freepbx_exec1) allows installation of MOSDEF on a target vulnerable Trixbox and FreePBX by abusing an unpatched php script in the administrative section. This leads to root access to the target server
- We also added a generic MGCP scanner (vp_mgcpscanner) which helps finding devices that speak the protocol
That's it for now. For more information about VOIPPACK take a look at the products page.
*** This is a Security Bloggers Network syndicated blog from EnableSecurity authored by Sandro. Read the original post at: https://enablesecurity.wordpress.com/2011/01/25/voippack-1-4-with-added-support-for-cisco-and-trixbox/


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I will start with a little background info. I am a web developer and I have an up-to-date laptop, so I am not looking for a high-tech desktop PC as well. I am looking to get myself something that I can use for work only, leaving the laptop for entertainment and on-the-road stuff.
That's why I decided to get a (cheap) desktop PC for . I found a pretty good offer for an affordable one with the following configuration and since I am not very knowledged when it comes to hardware, I'd like to consult with you guys. I will only install Ubuntu (or another linux distribution) and use Netbeans (a web development IDE). Some SVN and web surfing activities as well will be done, but no heavy multimedia stuff like watching movies or playing games or Photoshop (thees will be done on the laptop).
The configuration itself:
Intel Pentium 4 1.7GHz (256KB L2 Cache)
RAM: 1024MB 266MHz DDR SDRAM
HD: 20GB 5400 rpm SMART III Ultra ATA/100
CD Rom drive
Video: Intel Extreme Graphics 845G
Connection: Integrated Intel PRO/100 VM
Other: Integrated Intel Audio, 2+2xUSB 2.0
Box/case type: SFF
I know this is pretty old, but it's dead cheap and I think it will do the job for my needs. What do you think? Will this configuration suffice or should I spend a few bucks more for a better PC?


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Spoof rockers Spinal Tap and 80s rock icons Van Halen are both heading to the studio this year to record new material.
VH guitarist Eddie Van Halen has a busy year ahead with his impending wedding and son (also band bassist) Wolfgang's graduation to attend, but once that's done he reckons the band, including original frontman David Lee Roth, will record a new album.
"Dave, Wolfie, Alex (VH, drums) and I are a band," he told Spinner.com. "I hope that...we sit down and discuss recording new music, which I have tons of. If Dave's up for singing ... then do another tour, and just see where it takes us."
And details are sketchy, but Spinal Tap, the band made famous by 1984 mockumentary 'This Is Spinal Tap,' aim to record tracks including 'Warmer Than Hell,' which they performed at Wembley during Live Earth 2007.
"It'll be for download as well as on conventional media later this year," bassist Derek Smalls (aka actor Harry Shearer) told the BBC.
He continued, "I think they are trying to revisit their old success. Not that they were ever popular, maybe in their own universe. We'll do a song called 'Gimme Some More Money', probably with some dubious results."


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Twenty days or so ago, we showed you guys a few Windows 8 games that were in the process of a beta. We had Halo: Spartan Assault, Ty: The Tasmanian Devil, and AlphaJax. Since then, two of those three games became available for you to officially download without being a resident of Trinidad and Tobago. Now, you can grab the last piece of the puzzle – Alphajax is on Windows 8.
AlphaJax blew up early on in the history of Windows Phone. It launched back in October 21st 2010, a few weeks before Windows Phone 7 became available to the public. The word game is a variant of Scrabble, so it quickly shot up to the top downloads lists for anyone wanting a fun game on Windows Phone. It didn't take long for Microsoft to notice this gem in the Windows Phone Store. They quickly began working with the developers to help get it certified for Xbox Live status and bring in achievements.
Now you with AlphaJax for Windows 8 you can take everything you love about the game on Windows Phone to larger screens. Sure enough after installing the game on our Surface Pro we quickly noticed all the achievements we've unlocked on Windows Phone syncing with the Windows 8 version. Yup, everything syncs. All games, scores, and statistics will stay in harmony as you move between games on Windows Phone 8 and Windows 8. It's a beautiful world.
You can grab AlphaJax for free for all your Windows 8 machines. The game works on all machines regardless of processor and is ad-supported. Grab it here in the Store.
Thanks for the tip Edwin!
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David Colman peels back the layers of one of camp's most iconic stories to uncover the film's strange heart and why it's still beating.
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David Colman peels back the layers of one of camp's most iconic stories to uncover the film's strange heart and why it's still beating.
Like most of the best things in life -- opera, wine, meditation, anal sex -- the weird world of Grey Gardens is an acquired taste. And as with many acquired tastes, the first sip makes quite an impression. When I first saw the film in college, my reactions were shock and dismay at what felt like exploitative invasion of privacy, a mockery of two sadly deranged women.
"I tell people, 'You may not like it the first time,'E,f;" explains Michael Sucsy about the 1975 Maysles Brothers documentary. Over the past few years, Sucsy has researched, written, and directed a new dramatic film, also titled Grey Gardens , starring Jessica Lange and Drew Barrymore as the mother and daughter who shared an East Hampton, N.Y., house (Grey Gardens) and a name (Edith Bouvier Beale) for about 25 years too long. In the process of creating the film, which premieres April 18 on HBO, he got used to people reading his script (or seeing a rough cut of the film) and saying they now wanted to see the Maysles version. In each of these instances, Sucsy, who had the same reaction I did when he first saw the '75 documentary, warned everyone that they might be disappointed -- at first.
It takes repeated viewings of the film to truly understand why it's become, as University of Sussex film professor John David Rhodes describes it, a "rite of passage for gay men." (Rhodes remembers how in 1992, on his first night in New York, his gay uncle took him to Kim's Video on Bleecker Street to get the tape.) Spotting the camp beneath the train wreck is crucial to honing the camp sensibility that's as much a part of the urban gay man's development as big biceps-augmenting the movie-queen Grand Guignol curriculum of What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? and Mommie Dearest .
"It was one of the films that all of us quoted to each other," Rhodes says. "It served as a kind of recondite, East Village version of camp, classical Hollywood."
Still, you don't need a degree in queer theory to see the attractions: Little Edie's famous, madcap approach to wardrobe; her equally hilarious flair for conversation, in which, like her clothing, she melds the utterly practical and sublimely absurd; and the fact that she was Jackie Kennedy's first cousin. What gay man wouldn't identify with someone who wore outlandish outfits, starred in her own movie, and was related to (and prettier than) Jackie? "The Revolutionary Costume for Today" -- Edie's highly hummable fashion manifesto from the 2006 Grey Gardens Broadway musical -- packed all three of these, Little Edie's biggest charms, into one big bring-down-the-house number that leapt into the camp hall of fame right next to "Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend" and "I'm the Greatest Star."
The musical's success also underscored just how mainstream camp has become. Since the Criterion Collection DVD release of the documentary in 2001, Grey Gardens and Little Edie are anything but recondite. In 2003 the movie was number 33 on Entertainment Weekly's list of the top 50 cult films. If the list were published today, Gardens would easily make the top 10. The Grey Gardens musical defied cynics to make it to Broadway, where it was a hot ticket and has spawned other major productions around the world. There are now Grey Gardens books, fan sites, Facebook pages, fashion lines, and homemade YouTube videos. In 2005 the original inspired what may have been the first documentary about a documentary, Ghosts of Grey Gardens , and in 2006, Albert Maysles released a sequel cobbled from outtake reels, The Beales of Grey Gardens . Kent Bartram, a Chicago writer and researcher, is writing an exhaustive biography of Little Edie, uncovering more of the story's strange complications and secrets, expected out in 2011. And Sucsy's film reveals more explicitly the dramatic narrative that lurks beneath the surface of the Maysles Brothers' films.
But the camp is also something of a red herring. As divine as a kooky cross between Diana Vreeland and Lee Radziwill sounds, Drew Barrymore herself will tell you that Little Edie is far more complex. "She has this brilliant fashion sense and these great lines -- I don't know a movie I quote more," Barrymore says. "But when you go deeper than that, what's there is a truly remarkable injured bird with the most amazing feathers."
Without the trappings of a single coherent narrative -- Little Edie would never be tied down to just one -- Grey Gardens is, in its mangled, tangled way, one of the clearest and most sophisticated expressions of gayness the world has created.
"Gay men think they're latching on to Grey Gardens because they think it's camp, but it's really because it's about a parent-child relationship," explains John Epperson, whose performance-art persona, Lypsinka, has turned the mimicry of movie-queen line readings into an art form of its own. "The best movies are always about identity, and that movie certainly is."
He draws a parallel to Imitation of Life , another gay favorite. The film is famous for Lana Turner's over-the-top acting and costumes, but it's the supporting story of the black maid and her daughter, Sarah Jane -- who can pass for white and tragically tries to -- that really resonates with gay viewers, Epperson says. Sarah Jane is like a gay man in that she's trying to find a place in the world where she fits.
Sucsy says he wasn't trying to place his Grey Gardens film within the context of the old-school Hollywood women's pictures; it just turned out that way.
"I remember, it wasn't that long ago, I was just catching up on my classics, and I rented Now, Voyager ," he says. "It didn't have anything to do with [my work on Grey Gardens ]. I started watching it, and I just thought, Oh, my God, the way the two overlap is eerie ."
And the similarities don't end with Bette Davis's Now, Voyager . What's surprising is how many other haunting mother-daughter stories there are in the gay cult canon: Stella Dallas , Mildred Pierce , Gypsy , Carrie , Female Trouble , Postcards From the Edge . Throw in the house mothers of Paris Is Burning too. Even films like Baby Jane and All About Eve (not to mention Showgirls ) are power struggles between two women trapped in a world somewhat of their own making, echoing the mother-daughter push-pull.
"There's a certain kind of identification with this mother and daughter who are locked together," says Charles Busch, the playwright and performer whose play Die, Mommie, Die! -- later made into a film -- was a send-up of 1960s gay cult hits like Dead Ringer and Strait-Jacket . "Until recently, gay people, since they didn't get married and didn't have kids, often had unusually intense relationships with their parents. I was raised by my aunt, who during her last years was an invalid. I'd be making her lunch and she'd start in with the bell. I felt just like Baby Jane."
The Edie resonance goes even deeper than that, Sucsy says. While researching, he was struck by how closely Edie's status during her time in New York -- young, single, and "bohemian" -- corresponded to that of gay men at the time. In his film, which alternates between re-created scenes of the filming of the '75 documentary and flashbacks of the Edies' lives through the '30s, '40s, '50s, and '60s, Little Edie is always longing to get away. First she evades her father's desire for her to settle down and marry a nice rich WASP, and later she escapes Grey Gardens altogether.
Flamboyant, witty, and childlike -- traits that for years were ascribed, accurately or not, to gay men -- she tries and tries but, despite her enthusiasm, can't make her way in New York City. She runs out on her social debut in the 1930s, has trouble holding a job in the 1940s, and embarks on an affair with a married man in the early 1950s.
"Part of [our attraction] is generational," says Doug Wright, who wrote I Am My Own Wife and the book for the Grey Gardens musical. "In a closeted culture, there were no public figures who identified as gay. So many gay men came to see themselves in these high-functioning, artistically expressive, heartbreakingly single, and deeply neurotic women. That world undervalued [Edie's] extravagant expressiveness, and she couldn't find love in any successful way. If that doesn't describe your average gay man, circa 1950, I don't know what does. Our stories were closer to Stella Dallas than John Wayne."
Even so, if you think it's strange that gays should gravitate toward two women whom most people would call insane, remember this: It was only in 1973 -- around when David and Albert Maysles were first knocking on the Edies' front door -- that the American Psychiatric Association declassified homosexuality as mental illness. Little more than a decade earlier, films like Suddenly, Last Summer ; The Manchurian Candidate ; and, most famously, Psycho were all painting portraits of weak but dangerous young men with troubling attachments to a forceful mother. Gay men and women today may identify with racial minorities, but for most of the past century, gays were lumped in with crazies, alkies, spinsters, and eccentrics -- they all ate at the same unmentionable table, preferably hidden.
Barrymore, who comes from a famous family herself and whose own wild-child behavior has resulted in a headline or two, can relate -- but mostly to the Edies' love-hate filial relationship.
"In my experience the term apron strings doesn't even begin to cut it," she says. "There's an insane amount of pain and guilt with mother-daughter relationships, and some people are eaten alive by it. It's a really interesting dynamic."
Barrymore was also drawn to Little Edie's freewheeling way of saying one thing and then coming back with the completely opposite point of view. This fast-twirling yin-yang of contradictions is something most people might attempt to hide behind a cool and composed facade. Not Edie.
"I remember meeting with a studio executive once who said, 'Look, I read your script, and frankly, this is full of contradictions,'E,f;" Sucsy says. "That's one of the things that was so amazing about Drew -- how she was excited by that. She really understood."
The most frequent (and poignant) of the contradictions is Little Edie's wish to be married versus her desire to remain single and free. While superficially opposite, both betray the loneliness Edie felt as well as her sad suspicion that she was inherently too flawed to be loved.
The theme of contradiction is echoed in the house itself. Although broken-down and decrepit, Grey Gardens is right there in glamorous East Hampton, the cream of America's summer resorts, less than 200 yards from one of the nation's most desirable beaches. In many ways, gay people live that close to the country's culture and may even go to that beach; but we are, in other ways, still as far away as Little Edie was.
For all the heartbreak, though, the growing cult around Grey Gardens seldom dwells on the down spots, and the new film ends on a sweetly high note. Young gay men today are less likely to sing along to the bittersweet strains of "I Will Survive." Today's camp icons are characters like Cher Horowitz from Clueless , Elle Woods of Legally Blonde , and the gals from Sex and the City . So while there may not be much for them in the mother-daughter melodramas of yesterday, there's plenty for fashion-besotted 20-somethings to be had in Little Edie and her take on style.
And that style, Barrymore explains, has a mystery all its own. "Cat and I would have to freeze-frame [the documentary] to figure out how [Little Edie] pinned things," she says, referring to the film's costume designer, Catherine Marie Thomas. "One time, it took us forever to figure what she'd done. It was two shirts, one worn as a shirt and one worn as a skirt -- with the arms wrapped around for a belt. These were extremely theatrical people. Life was a stage."
Robb Brawn, custodian of the fan site MyGreyGardens.com , agrees that Little Edie's fashion sense was far from superficial. The two of them became friends in 1979, after Big Edie had died, Grey Gardens had been sold, and Little Edie moved to New York City to launch her long-dreamed-of, short-lived cabaret career. (She gave 16 performances at Reno Sweeney in the West Village.)
"To me, Edie's thing wasn't just that it's OK to be different -- and this was the 1970s, when it wasn't OK," Brawn says. "She was saying, 'I'm not just here to be accepted, I want to be celebrated.' They were happy in their own skin, she and Big Edie, being who they were, and that's what a lot of gay people relate to. We shouldn't have to explain why we're here or be tolerated or accepted. We're not all as philosophical as Edie, but we feel that way."
So why settle for Gloria, Mae, Joan, Bette, Judy, Rita, Katharine, Marilyn, Lana, Barbra, Faye, Liza, Sissy, Jessica, Meryl, or Madonna? Edie is all of them, stripped down to one sparkling, hilarious talent yearning to be loved and applauded.
And brimming over, as she always is, with the fervent hope that tomorrow will be different and with the nagging fear that it won't be, she is also, so clearly, all of us.
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How to Engender the Return of a Bull Market
Did you miss us, Dear Reader?
You won't believe this…we hardly believe it ourselves…but after months of planning and preparation for our expedition to the high, dry mountains of Argentina, we're still here in the city of Salta… Our project has been delayed…by floods.
As you may recall, it is so dry up at the ranch that visitors wonder what the cows eat. We tell them we have developed a new race of low-fat, low cholesterol cattle we call "sand fed beef."
But what ho! Now we are still in Salta, a city about a 5-hour drive from the ranch, and we are stuck.
"Well…" says our foreman "…the road to Angastaco is blocked by the river. The road to Molinos is blocked by mud. But you don't have to worry about that. You can't get anywhere near there, because the road to Cafayate is impassable because of rockslides…and the road over the mountain pass has been washed out completely."
Yes, dear reader, we have been hit by a low, unexpected blow…from water! The ranch got only 120 mm, or about 5 inches, of rain last year. The year before it was only about 4 inches. It looked to us as though the whole place was going to dry up and blow away.
But so far this year, the gods have poured 15 inches of water on that parched ground…and it keeps raining. Fifteen inches is not a lot. Not for Maryland. But up in the barren mountains, the water rolls of the rocks…down through the gullies…and fills the rivers. Soon, it is over its banks, floating automobiles and rolling boulders.
"They're clearing the main road now," says our friend. It should be passable tomorrow…if it doesn't rain tonight. But getting from Cafayate up to your ranch is another matter. Nobody knows what has happened up there. They've been cut off for weeks."
And so, we cool our heels…we rest our heads…we pace the room and watch the skies…eager to see a ray of sunlight…and some hope of proceeding to our objective.
And so…we have time to reckon after all.
And we reckon that investors are in 'hope mode.' How else to explain the recent bullishness? Albert Edwards elaborates:
One key lesson from Japan is that an essential ingredient to the end of a long valuation bear market is revulsion. It is when "buyers-on-dips" become "sellers-on-rallies". It is when volume dries up to almost nothing. It is the loss of hope. In Japan we saw huge rallies in the Nikkei on the back of short-lived cyclical recoveries. Each cyclical failure and further new lows in the equity market saw hope being progressively crushed. Previous US valuation bear markets typically take 4 or 5 recessions to fully play out. We have only had two.
The market is once again in a hope phase — hoping that the US is now in a self-sustaining recovery; hoping that China might be soft-landing; hoping that the Greece bailout and the ECB liquidity polices have settled things down in the eurozone. These bursts of hope are essential in long bear markets. Essential in the sense that hope must be crushed. It will be crushed. Hope still beats in the breasts of equity investors. The market will rip out that hope and consume it in front of investors' eyes. Only then can the bull market begin.
In our view, the real turning point came in the year 2000. That's when America's decline began to speed up. It's when the credit-driven economy could no longer produce real jobs…or real GDP…or real wealth.
Stocks rose. But they were rising on a bubble of debt. Then, it was mostly private debt. Now, they rise again…this time on public debt.
Either way, it can't last. Eventually, the bear market will resume…taking down the prices of assets until they are cheap again. At 16 times earnings, stocks are higher than usual…and earnings are at near record levels. We expect earnings to fall…and stocks to fall too… Then, they will keep falling…until they finally reach the bottom. Edwards:
A flattening of the profits cycle is exactly what you might expect as the easy, early cycle productivity gains come to an end. It is worth noting that the last time this occurred was just ahead of the start of the recession which the NBER date as having started in December 2007. Back then too, both markets and policymakers all felt the economy was still quite healthy. Indeed neither non-farm payrolls nor the headline ISM signaled the economy had already entered recession at the end of 2007 — indeed like now, payrolls actually accelerated in the second half of 2007, just as profits began to slip!
But we can't reach the bottom of this cycle unless and until investors give up hope. As long as they have hope they will buy the dips, hoping to catch the next up-move. Only when they become convinced that there will be no move to the upside, will they stop buying the dips and prices can finally fall to their ultimate low.
Hope must be destroyed. Then, a real bull market can begin.


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Lahars are mudslides caused by the mixing of volcanic ash and debris with water. They can occur when the heat from a volcano melts snow and ice on the volcano's summit, or if an eruption disturbs a crater lake.
Lahars can cause great environmental and economic damage. They can cover fertile fields and topple buildings. Lahars are very dangerous, and anyone caught in the path of one is in great danger of death from severe crushing injuries.


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YORK, Pa. – When you think of emotional support animals, you probably think of dogs, cats or other household pets. But one Pennsylvania man has made global headlines because of his emotional support alligator, Wally.
"He was only about maybe 20 inches when we got him, he was 14 months old," Joie Henney told WPIX. Wally is now 5 feet and weighs about 60 pounds.
Henney, who used to host a fishing and hunting television show, rescued his now 3-year-old alligator in 2015. He thought he would keep him as a pet, but after suffering with depression after the deaths of several of his friends, Henney found that being with Wally also made him feel better.
"The longer I've had him, he just grew close to me," Henney said. "He took care of the problem. So we got him registered as an emotional support [alligator]. We got a letter from the doctor stating that it worked."
After a month-long training period, Wally is now housebroken. He lives with another alligator, Scrappy, in a 300-gallon pond in Henney's living room.
He began taking Wally to schools, senior centers and other educational events in his community. That's when Henney said he noticed that his alligator was also helping others, especially children with special needs.
While the gator has never tried to bite or attack anyone, Henney says people have to be careful around him because he is a wild animal. Henney also warns people that they should not try to keep alligators as pets in their homes.
"He does well with me, but I guess now where I get a lot of my support from him is seeing what he does for other people," Henney said.


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This distribution allows installing XWiki and every component needed for a production instance automatically.
This method works for all Debian-based linux distribution. Feel free to use the User Forum to report issues, or discuss about it.
APT Configuration
First, you have to configure your package manager in order to use xwiki's repository. This can be done simply, using this command:
sudo wget "https://maven.xwiki.org/stable/xwiki-stable.list" -P /etc/apt/sources.list.d/
Now you can update the packages database to read the data from this repository.
Now you can make a little search to see what this repo offers.
It shows the following packages (the exact list depends on the version the repository contains):
- xwiki-common - XWiki, you can install this if you want to take care yourself of the database and application server
- xwiki-mysql-common - XWiki MySQL common package, you can install this if you want to take care yourself of the application server
- xwiki-pgsql-common - XWiki PostgreSQL common package, you can install this if you want to take care yourself of the application server
- xwiki-tomcat7-common - XWiki Tomcat 7 common package, you can install this if you want to take care yourself of the database link
- xwiki-tomcat8-common - XWiki Tomcat 8 common package, you can install this if you want to take care yourself of the database link
- xwiki-tomcat9-common - XWiki Tomcat 9 common package, you can install this if you want to take care yourself of the database link
- xwiki-tomcat7-mysql - XWiki Tomcat 7/MySQL based package
- xwiki-tomcat8-mysql - XWiki Tomcat 8/MySQL based package
- xwiki-tomcat9-mysql - XWiki Tomcat 9/MySQL based package
- xwiki-tomcat7-pgsql - XWiki Tomcat 7/PostgreSQL
- xwiki-tomcat8-pgsql - XWiki Tomcat 8/PostgreSQL
- xwiki-tomcat9-pgsql - XWiki Tomcat 9/PostgreSQL
- xwiki-solr-data - A pre configured Solr core to be used to setup a standalone instance of Solr for XWiki
Plus legacy packages from older versions of XWiki like xwiki-enterprise-* packages.
Java 8
XWiki require Java 8 since XWiki 8.1, OpenJDK 8 will be automatically installed as dependency on recent distributions.
For some older distributions the problem is that Ubuntu and Debian did not bothered put OpenJDK 8 on older but still supported distributions default repositories (for example Ubuntu 14.04 or Debian Wheezy/Jessie). For those you will have to make sure there is some repository with it so that Java 8 is installed as a package so that XWiki find it as dependency.
Also if you have several versions of Java installed you might need to explicitly tell Tomcat which one to use after the install. See Tomcat Usability section.
Here is a few helpers for specific distributions:
Ubuntu 14.04 (Trusty Tahr), Debian < 9
- AdoptOpenJDK provide a Debian repository to install OpenJDK, see https://adoptopenjdk.net/installation.html#linux-pkg
Complete Installation
Using MySQL
You only have to run this command to install all the interesting components.
This package depends on xwiki-common, xwiki-tomcat9-common, xwiki-mysql-common, mysql-server, tomcat9 and libmysql-java. You might have to select a different version of Tomcat depending on what's available in your system repository.
During the installation, you may have some questions from dbconfig, in charge of the configuration of the database. Don't confuse it with the MySQL root password prompt, which beg you to put a password for the superuser.
DBconfig prompt is about the configuration of xwiki and mysql. If you haven't any mysql already installed and you aren't familiar with it, you should let dbconfig handle this.
DBconfig is then asking you for the mysql root password (you may have entered before). Then, you can choose the password for the "xwiki" mysql user. This user will be used to connect from XWiki application. Choose it wisely, but you don't have to pay a lot of attention to it, because after that, dbconfig is configuring XWiki automatically with these credentials.
The installation now ends, with the automatic start of tomcat daemon ("Starting Tomcat servlet engine tomcat9 [OK]").
Using PostgreSQL
It's as simple as the MySQL installation, you only need to choose the right virtual package.
After you've made sure to update the memory settings (see below), you can now point your favorite browser to the following URL to use your wiki: http://localhost:8080/xwiki
PostgreSQL is slightly different than MySQL in the handling of databases and in the manual configuration, but everything should work on the first try.
Security settings
Open /etc/xwiki/xwiki.cfg file and change lines:
#-# Cookie encryption keys. You SHOULD replace these values with any random string,
#-# as long as the length is the same.
...If you need, add password to the built-in superadmin account, by changing line:
#-# Enable to allow superadmin. It is disabled by default as this could be a
#-# security breach if it were set and you forgot about it. Should only be enabled
#-# for recovering the Wiki when the rights are completely messed.
Tomcat Usability
You can find various generic advices and troubleshooting related to Tomcat on https://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Documentation/AdminGuide/Installation/InstallationWAR/InstallationTomcat/.
Java Version
Make sure Tomcat is executed with the right Java version.
This is usually indicated in the file /etc/default/tomcat8 (or /etc/default/tomcat7 for Tomcat 7, etc).
The default Tomcat memory setup is too low for XWiki's needs.
You can change it in the file /etc/default/tomcat8 (or /etc/default/tomcat7 for Tomcat 7, etc).
Modify the property JAVA_OPTS. For example:
You should check the Memory settings we recommend.
In most Debian-based systems the default random implementation is /dev/random which can be very slow. /dev/urandom is much faster and it's fine for XWiki's needs so you should use it when possible:
- edit /etc/default/tomcat8 file and add
Concluding Step
At this point your wiki is empty, i.e it doesn't contain any wiki page. Since applications in XWiki are done in wiki pages so you also don't need any application available (e.g. Blog, User Directory, User Profiles, etc). In addition, your wiki doesn't contain any user.
Thus the final step is to fill your Wiki with some initial content (i.e. wiki pages).
This is the job of the Distribution Wizard which automatically starts when you are browsing your new XWiki instance for the first time.
The default distribution is a fully configured wiki that you can use as a starting point for creating your own wiki content. It provides the following:
- A Dashboard
- A Panels Application
- Search
- Administration features (Access rights, Group and users management, etc)
- ... and much more
Installing without internet connection
XIP Package
A XIP package is available. It contains an offline extension repository with all the extensions making the Standard Flavor.
This is actually a zip file containing the required XWiki extensions for both the main wiki and subwikis, in the same format as the one of the local extensions repository. It allows the Distribution Wizard to find the extensions locally instead of getting them online and is thus suited for offline installations of XWiki.
- download it (use the exact same version of the XIP package as the version of XWiki you have)
- Unzip it (rename it to .zip if your zip tool does not recognize it) in the folder <permanentdirectory>/extension/repository (if you get complains about already existing files don't overwrite them)
- Make sure the user running XWiki has the permissions to write to these unzipped files
- Restart XWiki if it was running
- Resume standard installation, this time it will find the flavor locally
Other methods
Several options:
- Set up a local Extension Repository, either as a Maven Repository or using the Extension Repository Application. Of course you'll need to prefill it with all the extensions you'll wish to install when offline, which isn't something easy to do.
- Install the Standalone Distribution which contains a default set of wiki pages.
- Use the Offline Packager Maven plugin.
Extension Repositories
XWiki performs some checks at startup and even at runtime and tries to connects to remote Extension repositories. This will not cause any problem if you're offline but you'll get some error logs. You may want to disable Extension repositories by editing your xwiki.properties config file and adding the following empty property (make sure that this is the only property defined with the name):
If you want to remove XWiki from your system, you only have to uninstall the package you've installed at the beginning of this documentation. For example:
Attention, these commands do not remove MySQL/PostgreSQL nor Tomcat from your system. To do so, if you don't use these applications for another purpose, you can make some cleaning with
See Tomcat Installation for generic Tomcat related issues.
Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial Xerus)
At time of writing the version of Tomcat provide by Ubuntu 16.04 repository has a serious classloader related bug which makes impossible to use code macro or write Python scripts in XWiki. See https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/tomcat8/+bug/1644144 and https://forum.xwiki.org/t/code-macro-requirements/909/20 for some more detailed explanations and workarounds.
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install tomcat8=8.0.32-1ubuntu1.3~ppa2
sudo apt-get install tomcat8-common=8.0.32-1ubuntu1.3~ppa2
sudo apt-get install libtomcat8-java=8.0.32-1ubuntu1.3~ppa2
sudo service tomcat8 restart
Don't hesitate to click on "This bug affects me" on launchpad page if it's still not fixed, might help speeding up things...
See MySQL Installation for generic MySQL related issues.
See PostgreSQL Installation for generic PostgreSQL related issues.
Bad version of PostgreSQL driver on Debian Wheezy
The version of the PostgreSQL driver on Debian Wheezy is the 9.1 (at least when writing those lines) which does not work well with XWiki. You will have to upgrade it.
The latest JDBC postgres driver is available at https://jdbc.postgresql.org/download.html , at the time of this writing, the latest version is postgresql-9.4-1201.jdbc41.jar (which works fine with xwiki), you need to download the driver to your server, a good place is where the other drivers are: /usr/share/java, then remove the symlink postgresql-jdbc4.jar and replace it by one to the new driver:
rm /usr/share/java/postgresql-jdbc4.jar
ln -s /usr/share/java/postgresql-9.4-1201.jdbc41.jar /usr/share/java/postgresql-jdbc4.jar
Restart tomcat and you will not have any issue with the JDBC driver.
XWiki won't start and I get Solr related error(s) in the log
There is no automatic migration of Solr schema and it changes from time to time. The simplest fix in such case is usually to stop Tomcat, delete the folder /var/lib/xwiki/data/solr and restart Tomcat. XWiki will automatically create a new one and start indexing the wiki.
rm -rf /var/lib/xwiki/data/solr
sudo /etc/init.d/tomcat8 start
Other useful info
XWiki as root webapp (short URLs)
- Rename file /etc/tomcat7/Catalina/localhost/xwiki.xml into /etc/tomcat8/Catalina/localhost/ROOT.xml
- Edit file /etc/xwiki/xwiki-tomcat8.xml (or /etc/xwiki/xwiki-tomcat7.xml depending on your tomcat version) and modify Context XML element path from /xwiki to / as in moving from<Context path="/xwiki" docBase="/usr/lib/xwiki" privileged="true" allowLinking="true" crossContext="true">
<!-- make symlinks work in Tomcat -->
<Resources className="org.apache.naming.resources.FileDirContext" allowLinking="true" />
<Context path="/" docBase="/usr/lib/xwiki" privileged="true" allowLinking="true" crossContext="true">
<!-- make symlinks work in Tomcat -->
<Resources className="org.apache.naming.resources.FileDirContext" allowLinking="true" />
</Context> - Edit file /etc/xwiki/xwiki.cfg and uncomment xwiki.webapppath=
Note that this is only the part of Short URL which is specific to the Debian setup, for the rest you will have to look at the generic documentation.
Integrate with LibreOffice
Install libreoffice with sudo apt-get install libreoffice.
And setup XWiki to automatically start and access libreoffice in /etc/xwiki/xwiki.properties:
See Office Importer Application for more details.
Overview of the important files
Here is a list of a different tree. The point is to help you find useful files easily. This list is showing a few files and directories, to keep it simple and clear. The '->' is used to show a link to another file/directory.
- hibernate.cfg.xml Hibernate configuration, helping to configure the database resources
- xwiki.cfg
- xwiki.properties
- resources
- skins
- templates
- hibernate.cfg.xml -> /etc/xwiki/hibernate.cfg.xml
- xwiki.cfg -> /etc/xwiki/xwiki.cfg
- xwiki.properties -> /etc/xwiki/xwiki.properties
- context.xml
- logging.properties
- server.xml
- tomcat-users.xml
- web.xml
- tomcat<version> This file helps configuring the Tomcat daemon. Every change needs a restart to be effective
- tomcat<version> Daemon start/stop script
- common
- conf -> /etc/tomcat<version>
- logs -> ../../log/tomcat<version>
- server
- shared
- webapps
- catalina.out First logging file. Check this one if you're experiencing troubles with Tomcat/XWiki.
- localhost.<date>.log "Container Log file": Start of each filter and failures thereof are listed.
- debian.cnf
- my.cnf Database configuration. Max_allowed_packet is the parameter you need to change to improve upload data size. permitted.
- mysql
- xwiki This is the xwiki database. You may want to backup this directory from time to time.
- syslog
- mysql
- error.log
- <version>
- main
- postgresql.conf
- pg_hba.conf
- main
- base


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On December 6-7, 2012, the Program on Law and Human Development hosted an inter-disciplinary symposium on Human Development and Migration at the Notre Dame London Law Centre.
As capstone event to 18 months of programming around the theme of human development and migration, the symposium brought together a distinguished group of scholars from both the United States and Europe representing various disciplines, including law, political science, anthropology, international relations, economics, and theology. Symposium participants also included individuals in high level policy and political positions.
The symposium generated a lively discussion across disciplinary boundarie around several broad questions, such as: What can a human development approach contribute to our understanding of migration issues generally? How is it related to, and also distinctive from, human rights paradigms? Can it generate innovative practical insights with policy implications?
Alexander Aleinikoff's address entitled "The Responsibility to Solve" served as the symposium's centerpiece. An expert on refugee law and policy, now UNCHR Deputy High Commissioner, and former Dean of Georgetown Law Center, Mr. Aleinikoff proposed a new approach for the international community to address intractable refugee situations that entails a morally-based commitment from the world community to find lasting solutions, rather than merely legal remediation. [Mr. Aleinikoff delivered his address at Notre Dame Law School in March 2012; a recording of that address can be viewed here.]
While strengthening relationships between scholars and practitioners, the interdisciplinary symposium also left its participants with new questions to consider in the trajectory of their work. Photos from the London symposium can be found here.


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Hanover Park Police Department policy does not ever permit force that is 'excessive.' Any force used must be objectively reasonable and necessary under the circumstances in which it is used. Officers must report all uses of force and are held accountable for each use of force. Officers are only permitted to use deadly force when the officer reasonably believes that such force is necessary to prevent imminent death or great bodily harm to the officer or another person. By policy, the use of a firearm is always considered force likely to cause death or great bodily harm regardless of the extent of the injury inflicted.
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De-escalation is an integral part of our officers' training beginning at the police academy. In the State of Illinois, the Police and Community Relations Improvement Act (50 ILCS 727) and the Illinois Police Training Act (50 ILCS 705) provide training mandates for police officers in a variety of relevant areas. These include:
These concepts are then reinforced in ongoing online training officers receive annually. Further, the Hanover Park Police Department has set as a goal that all officers will receive the 40-hour Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) training. CIT training has been a major training development in law enforcement in the past several years. CIT focuses on better preparing officers to work with people who are in crisis and employ alternatives to the use of force that can be employed when possible. While CIT is a comprehensive, multi-faceted program, the general focus of it is:
Overall, we seek to train officers that the use of force, while sometimes unavoidable, should be a last resort when there are other strategies that can be attempted safely.
By Illinois state law, officers may not use chokeholds unless they are in a situation in which lethal force is justified against that person (720 ILCS 5/7-5.5). This means that the force must be reasonable and in direct response to a threat of imminent death or great bodily harm to themselves or another person. We do not train officers to use these holds; they would be considered a last resort type of maneuver.
By policy, Hanover Park Police Officers are not permitted to transport prisoners in the prone position. Additionally, policy requires that if a subject is subdued in a prone position, officers must get the subdued person out of the prone position as soon as possible and monitor for the need of medical assistance.
Hanover Park Police Officers are required to report any employee of the department engaged in any type of criminal behavior or inducing another employee to commit an unlawful act or violation of a regulation. Officers failing to abide by this policy would be subject to disciplinary action.
Officers are forbidden from firing at moving vehicles except in self-defense or defense of another. They are also not permitted to fire from moving vehicles.
Hanover Park Police Officers must use only the objectively reasonable amount of force that is necessary to neutralize an unlawful assault, overcome resistance of taking a person into custody, or to accomplish another lawful objective. Force must always start at the objectively reasonable level considered safe and appropriate considering the resistance and threat confronted. The scale of use of force options ranges from verbal persuasion to non-deadly force, and then to deadly force. Officers are limited to the use of weapons that are approved by the department, and any other items are prohibited.
Officers may only use the objectively reasonable amount of force that is necessary in a given situation. Hanover Park Police Policy states that, when practicable, verbal commands should accompany all levels of force in an effort to gain compliance. Officers are held accountable for all force that is used and must report each use of force conducted.
Yes. All uses of force by officers must be reported to the on-duty supervisor immediately and then, as soon as is practicable, in written form via the Response to Resistance Report as well as documented in a standard police report. If the use of force involves the use of a Conducted Electrical Weapon (a TASER or similar device), a CEW Deployment Form must also be completed. Once submitted, these use of force reports are reviewed by supervisors at multiple levels of authority, culminating with the review of the Deputy Chief of Operations. Use of force incidents are complied and analyzed by the Deputy Chief of Operations, who submits an annual review of use of force by the department.
Yes. The Hanover Park Police Department hiring and background process is stringent and comprehensive. Police Officer candidates must pass a written exam, an oral interview, a polygraph exam, and a thorough background investigation. Upon receiving a conditional offer of employment, the candidate must complete a psychological examination and medical examination. A review of the candidate's past work history, social media, arrest history, and many other areas are thoroughly reviewed. Candidates whose background investigations turned up evidence of any of those listed issues would be disqualified from the process.
Any time force of any nature is used against a person, it is the initial responsibility of personnel using the force or making the arrest to ensure that the subject of that force receives medical attention if needed. Any injuries that are sustained must be documented in the Response to Resistance Report. Additionally, the on-duty supervisor is required to ensure that medical attention is provided to every person who has been struck by a less lethal extended range impact device or conducted electrical weapon (CEW or TASER).
The Hanover Park Police Department records, reviews, and evaluates every single incident involving use of force by an officer. Each incident is reviewed at multiple levels of supervision, culminating with a review by the Deputy Chief of Operations. On an annual basis, the Deputy Chief of Operations completes a comprehensive analysis of all use of force incidents by the department.
There is no set number of incidents that is established when determining police officer discipline for use of force. When inappropriate force is used, a determination will be made following the completion of an internal investigation. It could be that one incident, if egregious enough, could lead to an officer's termination.
If a civilian death occurred in police custody, for any reason, an investigation would be conducted by the DuPage or Cook County State's Attorney's Offices, and the Illinois Department of Corrections. It is anticipated that, should an in-custody death occur as a result of an excessive use of force, an investigation would be conducted by the Illinois Attorney General and the United States Department of Justice. There have been no in-custody deaths that have occurred resulting from any use of force by Hanover Park Police in the past twenty years.
The Hanover Park Police Department takes and investigates ALL complaints. This practice is prescribed by our written policy, which is reviewed by personnel on at least an annual basis. It is important to note that we will take complaints in any form. Historically, we have received complaints in person, voicemail, email, written letters, and social media messages as examples. Complaints can also be transmitted internally (i.e. employee complaining about another employee's conduct).
Complaint forms are available at the front desk of the PD. Additionally, they can be emailed, faxed, or mailed to complainants. Once a complaint is received, the Deputy Chief of Support Services oversees the handling of this complaint. For less serious conduct, an informal inquiry is conducted. For serious policy violations, illegal activity, or other significant allegation, a formal inquiry is conducted. Formal inquiries generally involve allegations that, if found to be factual, could result in a suspension of more than three days or termination of the officer.
Following the investigation, the Deputy Chief ensures that the complainant is notified of the outcome of the case. This is done in writing. The Deputy Chief also tracks all internal investigations and completes an annual analysis. The results of this analysis are published here on this website and in the Annual Report for transparency purposes. Historically, we experience only a handful of internal investigations each year.
To learn more about internal investigations, click here.
In December of 2014, President Obama commissioned the President's Task Force on 21st Century Policing. This Task Force was chaired by Philadelphia Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey and was comprised of law enforcement professionals, community and youth leaders, and academics. The President's Task Force sought to identify best practices in policing and provide guidance on how to promote effective crime control while focusing on building public trust in the police. The Task Force released a comprehensive report in 2015, presenting six main topic areas or 'pillars' for law enforcement agencies to focus on: Building Trust and Legitimacy, Policy and Oversight, Technology and Social Media, Community Policing and Crime Reduction, Officer Training and Education, and Officer Safety and Wellness. Within each Pillar's subsection of the report, the Task Force made numerous recommendations for law enforcement agencies to adopt. Use of force, de-escalation strategies, community policing, and partnership building were major areas of concentration in the report. The Task Force report became a significant topic of conversation within the law enforcement profession immediately upon its release.
As an agency, we took an in-depth look at the report and all the recommendations made under each pillar. A comprehensive report on Hanover Park PD's compliance with the Task Force Report was completed and disseminated in June of 2016. We found that most of the recommendations made were things we had already done or were in the process of doing. While the report is now several years old, we consider it to still be an excellent guiding document for managing a police agency in the United States. The Hanover Park compliance report was unique, and we are proud to say we were one of the first agencies to undertake this. The report itself has been shared with police agencies in several states, and Deputy Chief Johnson, who compiled the report, was a guest blogger on the International Association of Chiefs of Police Social Media Beat blog, discussing how the department analyzed and implemented the Task Force Report's recommendations. The report can be viewed here.
The Hanover Park Police Department, with the full support of Village officials and administrators, is nationally accredited by the Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies (CALEA). CALEA is a joint effort of law enforcement's major executive associations:
CALEA accreditation is an on-going process that requires our Department to:
We are a Gold Standard agency, having been accredited continuously since 2001. We comply with 100% of the mandatory CALEA standards and over 97% of the non-mandatory standards.
Hanover Park Police Department directives clearly define police officer and civilian employee authority, procedures, and responsibilities. Annual reviews are conducted in many areas, such as use of force and commendations/complaints, to guide policy development and management decisions. CALEA compliance ensures the Department is prepared to properly address daily operations, critical incidents, training needs, and to build community relationships.
With CALEA guidance, the Hanover Park Police Department is dedicated to policing in a manner that provides services properly and enforces laws fairly, while demanding all our employees protect the rights and dignity of all people equally.


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New Comfora provides quiet efficiency with improved comfort
Daikin is to introduce an updated version of its compact Comfora home climate control solution this Spring. Part of Daikin's revolutionary Bluevolution portfolio of products, the new generation Comfora incorporates important additional features and design enhancements, providing increased energy and operational efficiency, together with improved air quality.
Using R-32 refrigerant with a low Global Warming Potential (GWP), the Comfora FTXP-M offers a future-proof solution with low environmental impact. Both heating and cooling capacities have been increased across the range offering greater flexibility to meet all sizes and requirements. Improved efficiency resulting from design enhancements to the 50 and 71 classes delivers higher performance values within the existing A++ energy standard, for optimum home comfort with even greater energy savings.
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The Comfora FTXP-M range offers a discreet, wall-mounted solution with a contemporary look that is ideal for renovation projects. Its compact profile can be mounted just about anywhere, with options including above-door installations where space is a constraint.
Automatic changeover between heating and cooling provides a responsive solution for the perfect all year-round climate, while maintaining pre-set temperatures to suit individual preferences and seasonal requirements. A built-in energy saving mode helps to reduce energy consumption while the Comfora FTXP-M 's fan-only mode keeps interiors cool in summer.
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The addition of a 3D air flow to the design of the new Comfora FTXP-M ensures an even heating profile for optimum room comfort and reach. Combining vertical and horizontal auto swing patterns, the 3D airflow feature circulates a stream of warm or cool air right to the corners of even large spaces for all-year round comfort throughout the house.
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The latest Comfora FTXP-M puts an end to stale air and irritants. A new silver allergen filter has been incorporated into the system, which combined with the existing titanium apatite deodorizing filter, removes impurities, providing a constant stream of clean pure air, to ensure healthy homes, whatever the time of year.
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In the 20, 25 and 35 classes the Comfora is even more silent than before. With sound values down to 19 dBA, the latest models are practically inaudible. Ensuring peaceful nights, the unit runs so quietly it is virtually unnoticeable, leaving the householder free to enjoy the comfort of a perfect indoor climate.
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Available as an optional extra, Daikin's advanced online controller allows homeowners to control the Comfora unit at home or away with an app or via the internet. As well as adjusting individual settings to fit in with their lifestyle, the online controller allows homeowners to keep a check on energy spending and their environmental profile.
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Designed in Europe to meet the requirements of changing local climate conditions, the new, improved Comfora FTXP-M complements Daikin's range of home heating solutions to maintain the company's lead in delivering high efficiency, high performance systems with a low environmental impact.
The new Comfora FTXP-M will be available from Spring 2019. For more information visit: https://www.daikin.eu/en_us/products/FTXP-M.html
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Can Mitt Romney damage Obama over Benghazi attack?
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Suddenly, Mitt Romney and the Republicans are attacking President Obama on an election issue on which the incumbent looked to be almost untouchable – foreign policy. Can it work?
The events of Sept. 11 in Benghazi, Libya – the firebombing of the US consulate that resulted in the deaths of four American diplomats including the ambassador to Libya, Christopher Stevens – have provided an opening to question Mr. Obama's handling of an international crisis, and in particular, of American security overseas, foreign policy experts say.
Yet Republicans face their own pitfalls in zeroing in on the previously barren soil of foreign policy.
One is that many independent voters, in particular, have an aversion to the kind of muscular rhetoric about how the US should act in the world that Mr. Romney and a number of his surrogates have used in their broadsides at Obama, says Aaron David Miller, a foreign policy specialist with long experience in both Republican and Democratic administrations.
"There are vulnerabilities [for Obama], for sure, that flow from the latest series of events. The questions that are resonating are about competency and whether there was too much nonchalance … about the security of our diplomats and our diplomatic missions," says Mr. Miller, now a Middle East expert at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington.
Calling this new vulnerability on foreign policy "a clear shift in focus" on an issue where Obama seemed previously almost unassailable, Miller says, "Does it limit the president? Yes. But can it cost him the election? No."
Until the Benghazi attack, Obama was considered to have greatly improved Democrats' standing with the public on issues of national security. He pledged to get Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden and he did, he ordered many more drone attacks on militants in Pakistan than President George W. Bush did, and perhaps most important, a number of potentially devastating attacks on the US were foiled.
When asked at a press conference last December about Republican attacks on his firmness with America's adversaries, Obama answered, "Ask Osama bin Laden and the 22-out-of-30 top Al Qaeda leaders who've been taken off the field whether I engage in appeasement."
But Benghazi casts doubts on the president's preparedness for the uncertainties resulting from upheaval in the Middle East, says Miller. Moreover, he adds, the administration has a "messaging problem" in that there was a "clear effort at painting these events … in a way to make the administration's response look more favorable."
But to compare the Benghazi attack to the Iran hostage crisis and the 1980 election is an exaggeration, Miller says. As for former Gov. Mike Huckabee (R) characterizing the administration's changing account of Benghazi – from a spontaneous mob flare-up to a terrorist attack – as "Obama's Watergate," Miller says, "Oh, please."
A new Washington Post poll shows Romney leading now among independents on whom they most trust on the broad issue of "international affairs." (The poll suggests that the same independents still prefer Obama on handling terrorism and an international crisis.)
That suggests Romney can capitalize on the issue of Obama's "competence" as raised by the Benghazi attack – but not, Miller says, if the Republican challenger continues to go from there to attacking Obama as weak on Iran or saying he "lacks resolve" in the Middle East in a way that suggests Romney would steer the US into another war.
"Only two issues move voters in the area of foreign policy, and those are one, security, and two, prosperity," Miller says. To the extent that a war with Iran could trigger skyrocketing gasoline prices, he says, and as long as there are no terrorist attacks on American soil, "it's going to be hard for Romney to move the dial with his talk of a tougher approach" to the world.


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Hello. I'm Dr. George Lundberg, and this is At Large at MedPage Today.
Death is not the enemy. We all die.
The enemies of patients and physicians are premature death, disease, disability, pain, human suffering.
I believe that all people deserve a death with dignity and without pain. Palliative care is the right mode for as many as 80% of all Americans who will die of chronic progressive incurable diseases. Eighty percent of those state that they do not want to die in a hospital and especially not in an intensive care unit.
Yet, that is exactly what does happen to so many Americans, often against their will. Some knowledgeable people have even designated the common American practice of aggressive intervention in patients who are truly hopelessly ill as a form of assault or torture.
Hospice at the end of life is also right for many. The problem is that too many patients and their physicians take too much time to make the decision to move to palliation or hospice.
Of course, some individuals really do want to fight hard for their lives for as long as possible, no matter what the adverse effects are on them and their families, and the costs involved.
The main key to getting it right for the patients with incurable, chronic, progressive disease is to have a conversation, call it counseling, with their physician, about how to handle the end of their lives.
We all know, and the literature supports, the frequent failure of institutions to actually follow the expressed wishes of patients as represented in DNR orders, living wills, and advance directives.
We in medicine need to relearn and practice an obvious truth. Patients value their physician's opinions and recommendations. Nursing staffs, including those at nursing homes, follow doctor's orders. If the doctor and the patient (not only an administrator, nurse, lawyer, ethicist, or social worker) agree that when it is time to die, no emergency rooms or hospitalizations, no feeding tubes, no gastrostomy, no IV fluids, no antibiotics -- but all the pain relievers necessary to maintain a dignified and pain-free state. Then nature can take its course.
That explicit agreement should be placed in the patient's chart, not in an administrative or legal office; then, the patient's wishes will likely actually be followed.
One doctor; one patient; one moment; one decision. Let it be a shared decision, informed by best evidence and considering physical, emotional, and financial costs.
That's my opinion. I'm Dr. George Lundberg, At Large for MedPage Today.


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Peace sand mandala construction
The University of Notre Dame's Ruth M. Hillebrand Center for Compassionate Care in Medicine, the College of Science and the Harper Cancer Research Institute will host Arjia Rinpoche, director of the Tibetan Mongolian Buddhist Cultural Center in Bloomington, Ind., and seven Tibetan Buddhist monks from Labrang Tashi Kyil Monastery in Dehra Dun, India, for the construction of a peace sand mandala and a presentation on compassion from Nov. 18-21 (Monday-Thursday).
The monks have been touring the United States to give teachings on Buddhism, to educate the public about the culture and religion of Tibet and to raise funds for their monastery. The monks will be ending their U.S. tour at the University of Notre Dame. Rinpoche has been raising funds for the Children's Cancer Care Treatment Center adjacent to the Maternity Hospital in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.
The painting with colored sands is considered the most unique and exquisite of all artistic traditions of Buddhism. This Tibetan art form is called dul-tson-kyil-khor, which means "mandala of colored powders." The sand mandala represents many things, including the cycle of life — creation, beauty of existence and its impermanence, and finally, the return to the natural world for creation again.
At 9:30 a.m. Monday (Nov. 18), an opening ceremony will be held in the Jordan Hall of Science Reading Room with the seven monks to consecrate the site of the mandala with chants, music and mantra recitation. The monks will be constructing the mandala from Monday through Thursday from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. each day. The campus community and public are welcome to visit and watch the progress of the sand mandala throughout the four days. The construction process will also be streamed live on the College of Science website.
Closing ceremony
At 4:30 p.m. Thursday (Nov. 21), the mandala will be dismantled with a closing ceremony in the Jordan Hall of Science Reading Room, which will include sweeping up the colored sands to symbolize the impermanence of all that exists. A portion of the sand will be given to the guests and the remainder carried in a procession by the monks to a flowing body of water, where it will be ceremonially poured to disperse the healing energies of the mandala throughout the world.
In addition to the creation of the sand mandala, Rinpoche and the monks will give a presentation called, "The Power and Practice of Compassion: Taking in Harshness and Giving out Kindness," at 7 p.m. Wednesday (Nov. 20) in DeBartolo Hall, Room 102. Rinpoche, a prominent Buddhist teacher and lama who escaped from China in 1998, will give a talk on the practice of cultivating compassion, followed by a moving ceremony conducted by the monks to mark this occasion. The evening will be facilitated by Dominic Vachon, director of the Hillebrand Center, and Jan-Li Lin, visiting assistant professor of mathematics.
"In our teaching and research on compassionate care in medicine, one of the major issues we run into is how physicians, nurses and other helping professionals deal with discouragement in encountering suffering or dealing with difficult patients," said Vachon. "Buddhism is one of a number of religious traditions that really deal with this issue. We are excited to have Arjia Rinpoche and the Tibetan monks discuss their insights about cultivating compassion and to be a catalyst for others to reflect on how they are compassionate in their helping work."
The campus community and public are invited and encouraged to attend all events with the Buddhist monks and Rinpoche.
These events are co-sponsored by the Department of Art, Art History and Design, the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, the Notre Dame Institute for Advanced Studies, the Office of Information Technologies and the Snite Museum of Art.
Contact: Dominic Vachon, 574-631-9536, firstname.lastname@example.com
Originally published by news.nd.edu on November 14, 2013.


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The films of Steven Spielberg
Director Steven Spielberg on the set of "Close Encounters of the Third Kind." One of the most influential filmmakers working today, the director-producer is responsible for some of Hollywood's most popular films, including "Jaws," "E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial," "Raiders of the Lost Ark" and "Jurassic Park," as well as the Oscar-winning dramas "Schindler's List" and "Saving Private Ryan." He also co-founded the film studio Dreamworks, and has helped launch the careers of many other successful filmmakers.
By CBSNews.com senior producer David Morgan
Born in 1946 in Cincinnati, Steven Spielberg grew up in New Jersey and Arizona, where he began making amateur films with his friends, including a World War II drama, "Escape to Nowhere," inspired by his father's war stories. His first "commercial" release, at age 17, was his 2 hour and 20 minute "Firelight" (1964), a science fiction story of UFOs and alien abduction that presaged his later blockbuster "Close Encounters of the Third Kind." Filmed in 8mm for $400 using his high school's drama students, "Firelight" was given its premiere at a rented theatre in Phoenix. It augured his future money-making potential, in a way: The director claimed the screening earned him a profit of $1.
"Night Gallery"
Spielberg's student film "Amblin" (1968) became his calling card to Hollywood. Having worked errand jobs on the Universal Studios lot beginning in high school, he worked his way quickly into television production, and at age 22 directed Joan Crawford in a segment of Rod Serling's "Night Gallery" pilot in 1969.
Spielberg drew great attention with his hit ABC TV-movie "Duel" (1971), starring Dennis Weaver as a motorist being terrorized by an unseen truck driver. Cleverly shot, the film made good use of its taut 74-minute running time (not counting commercials, of course). An expanded version was later issued theatrically.
"The Sugarland Express"
Spielberg got his first feature film directing assignment on the premise that veteran producers oversee him and a bankable star be cast. With Richard Zanuck and David Brown producing, and Oscar-winner Goldie Hawn as a desperate mother helping her husband escape from jail, "The Sugarland Express" (1974) was a very promising debut, and not just for the director: screenwriters Hal Barwood and Matthew Robbins received the Best Screenplay award at the Cannes Film Festival.
Spielberg suffered no sophomore jinx with this next feature film, "Jaws" (1975), a gripping thriller about shark attacks that was released in the dead of summer - then considered by Hollywood an unpromising time to market a movie - only to became the biggest moneymaker of all time. "Jaws" (and "Star Wars" two summers later) redefined how the movie industry scheduled and marketed films forever more.
"Close Encounters of the Third Kind"
Director Steven Spielberg on the set of "Close Encounters of the Third Kind," for which he received his first Academy Award nominations, for Best Director and Best Original Screenplay.
John Belushi in "1941," a manic comedy about paranoia of an invasion on America's West Coast following the attack on Pearl Harbor.
"Raiders of the Lost Ark"
Harrison Ford and Karen Allen in a sticky situation, in the conclusion of the action-adventure "Raiders of the Lost Ark" (1981), directed by Steven Spielberg.
"Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom"
"Raiders" led to three sequels starring Harrison Ford, including "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom."
"Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom"
Director Steven Spielberg and producer George Lucas on the set of "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom."
"E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial"
Steven Spielberg on the set of "E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial" (1982). The story of an alien who is stranded on Earth and befriended by a young boy who tries to help him return home, "E.T." passed "Star Wars" to become the biggest box office up to that time. It also became that rarity - a science fiction film nominated for a Best Picture Oscar.
"E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial"
Steven Spielberg has been acclaimed for the naturalism of the performances he elicits from child actors. Here he confers with Drew Barrymore on the set of "E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial."
In addition to directing, Spielberg has served as producer or executive producer for such filmmakers as Joe Dante ("Gremlins"), Robert Zemeckis ("Back to the Future"), Michael Apted ("Continental Divide") and Barry Levinson ("Young Sherlock Holmes"). He has also overseen several TV series, including the anthology "Amazing Stories."
Left: A scene from the supernatural thriller "Poltergeist" (1982), directed by Tobe Hooper and produced by Spielberg.
"Empire of the Sun"
Christian Bale and director Steven Spielberg on the set of "Empire of the Sun," based on J.G. Ballard's autobiography of his internment as a young boy in a Japanese camp during World War II.
Director Steven Spielberg and Dustin Hoffamn on the set of "Hook," a return to Never-Never Land.
Richard Dreyfuss and Holly Hunter in the spectral romance "Always" (1989), a remake of the Spencer Tracy tale "A Guy Named Joe."
"A.I.: Artificial Intelligence"
Director Steven Spielberg and Haley Joel Osment on the set of "A.I.: Artificial Intelligence" (2001). Stanley Kubrick originally developed the project with Spielberg but eventually handed it over, believing the story of a boy-robot was closer to Spielberg's sensibilities. The final film was released two years after Kubrick's death.
"The Color Purple"
Spielberg directed the film adaptation of Alice Walker's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of a young African American woman's awakening after years of abuse, "The Color Purple" (1985). Pictured are stars Akosua Busia and Whoopi Goldberg.
The film received 11 Academy Award nominations, but not one for Spielberg (although he received the Directors Guild of America Award).
"Jurassic Park"
A scene from Steven Spielberg's "Jurassic Park." The science fiction adventure based on the Michael Crichton bestseller was a monster hit, and ushered in a new era of visual effects with its revolutionary computer-animated dinosaurs.
"Schindler's List"
Steven Spielberg filming "Schindler's List" (1993), the wrenching Holocaust drama for which he won his first Academy Award as Best Director.
"The Lost World"
Spielberg returned to the prehistoric dangers of "Jurassic Park" in the sequel, "The Lost World." Here he directs a cast member.
Cameo appearances by director Steven Spielberg: As a bureaucrat who stamps a receipt for "The Blues Brothers" (upper left); as a wheelchair-driver attendee at an inventors' convention in "Gremlins" (upper right); and as himself, telling Mike Myers what he can do with his directing tips, in the opening credit sequence of the comedy "Austin Powers in Goldmember."
Steven Spielberg, Anthony Hopkins and Morgan Freeman on the set of the historical drama "Amistad" (1997).
"Saving Private Ryan"
A scene from the World War II drama "Saving Private Ryan" (1999), starring Tom Hanks. The film's unflinching recreation of the D-Day invasion won Spielberg his second Academy Award for Best Director.
"Saving Private Ryan"
Director Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks filming the assault on Normandy in "Saving Private Ryan."
"Minority Report"
Steven Spielberg directs Tom Cruise and Samantha Morton in "Minority Report" (2002), a science fiction thriller loosely based on a story by Philip K. Dick.
"Catch Me If You Can"
Actor Leonardo diCaprio and director Steven Spielberg filming "Catch Me If You Can," about a globe-trotting con artist.
"The Terminal"
Catherine Zeta Jones and director Steven Spielberg on the set of "The Terminal" (2004), a whimsical comedy about a visitor from abroad (played by Tom Hanks) trapped in a New York City airport.
Steven Spielberg is photographed on set of the political thriller "Munich."
"War of the Worlds"
Steven Spielberg with actor Tom Cruise on the set of the science fiction thriller "War of the Worlds."
Academy Awards
Steven Spielberg and his wife, actress Kate Capshaw, arrive at the 79th Annual Academy Awards at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, Calif., Sunday, February 25, 2007. Spielberg was nominated as producer of the Clint Eastwood film "Letters From Iwo Jima."
Academy Awards
Steven Spielberg captures the moment for Ellen DeGeneres and Clint Eastwood at the 79th Annual Academy Awards, in Hollywood, Calif., Sunday, February 25, 2007.
Academy Awards
Martin Scorsese (second from left), Academy Award-winner for Best Director for "The Departed," poses with presenters, directors Francis Ford Coppola, Steven Spielberg and George Lucas at the 79th Annual Academy Awards at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, Calif., on Sunday, February 25, 2007.
"Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull"
Karen Allen, who starred in "Raiders of the Lost Ark," returned to the role of Marion Ravenwood in the sequel, "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" (2008). Here she is seen on the set with director Steven Spielberg.
"Super 8"
Producer Steven Spielberg and director J.J. Abrams on the set of "Super 8."
"The Adventures of Tintin"
Spielberg ventured into the world of motion capture performance for the animated film "The Adventures of Tintin" (2011), based on Herge's comic books about the intrepid young reporter. Above: Spielberg operates a "camera" on the virtual "set."
"War Horse"
Steven Spielberg on location shooting his World War I epic "War Horse" (2011), an adaptation of the Tony Award-winning stage play.
"I see it as a story about, you know, the connections that an animal can make that perhaps only an animal can make in bringing people together and bringing everybody on the same side of an issue, even an issue as large as the Great War," he told Martha Teichner. "Sometimes it takes something as, I guess, primal as a magnificent horse to let everybody share a common goal, which is this: Rescue it. And I think that's where the story came down emotionally for me."
"War Horse"
A scene from Steven Spielberg's "War Horse," which was nominated for six Academy Awards, including Best Picture.
"Lincoln" (2012) reveals the drama of President Abraham Lincoln's final days in office. Starring Oscar-winner Daniel Day Lewis, the film examines the president's moral courage during the closing days of the Civil War and the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation to end slavery.
Spielberg told Lesley Stahl of "60 Minutes" that he always wanted to tell the story of America's 16th president, and took more than 10 years to research. The director of such period films as "Schindler's List," "Amistad" and "The Color Purple" says "Lincoln" is like no other film he has ever done.
Spielberg tells Stahl that in Lincoln he "saw a paternal father figure, someone who was completely, stubbornly committed to his ideals, his vision. I think the film is very relevant for today. It's about leadership. ...
"I think there's a sense of darkness [with] him," he said of Lincoln. "He was living with two agendas, both of which had to do with healing ... first, to abolish slavery, end the war. But he also had his personal life and I think there's darkness in there."
"Bridge of Spies"
In the real-life Cold War thriller, "Bridge of Spies" (2015), Tom Hanks stars as a private attorney (whose specialty is insurance cases) who is asked to broker a spy exchange in East Berlin between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. -- captured U-2 spy plane pilot Francis Gary Powers, for convicted Soviet spy Rudolf Abel. Mark Rylance received the Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his performance as Abel.
"The Post"
Appearing with Spielberg regular Tom Hanks, Meryl Streep worked with the director for the first time in "The Post" (2017), portraying Washington Post owner Kathryn Graham, who in the early 1970s committed her newspaper to publishing the Pentagon Papers - pitting herself against the Nixon administration over releasing government secrets about the Vietnam War.
"Ready Player One"
Based on Ernest Cline's bestselling 2011 novel, "Ready Player One" (2018) follows a game enthusiast whose search for a hidden Easter Egg within a virtual reality universe known as the OASIS pits him against multitudes of pop culture avatars in the VR world, and flesh-and-blood corporate villains in the real one.
"West Side Story"
Spielberg earned his eighth Oscar nomination for direction for 2021's "West Side Story," a remake of the classic 1961 musical directed by Jerome Robbins and Robert Wise. Ariana DeBose won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her performance as Anita (the same role for which Rita Moreno won an Oscar for the original).
"The Fabelmans"
In what is his most personal film to date, "The Fabelmans" (2022), Spielberg tells a semi-autobiographical story of a young boy's growing interest in filmmaking, and of his parents, touching on a family secret he had buried for years.
Steven Spielberg
A portrait of director Steven Spielberg on the set of the movie "Schindler's List."


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Cervical Screening
Try not to put off cervical screening. It's one of the best ways to protect yourself from cervical cancer. For more information on your Cervical Screening, please see our Cervical Screening leaflet.
- Women aged 25-64yrs
- Invited every 3 years age 25-49 and every 5 years age 50-64
- Cytology with HPV triage
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The Results
- Result unclear: women are asked to repeat the test
- Results show mild cell changes: In England the sample is checked for HPV. If it is HPV positive, women will be invited for a colposcopy. If it is HPV negative, the woman will be returned to routine screening.
- Results show moderate to severe changes: women will be invited for a colposcopy.
The Benefits of cervical screening
- Saves at least 2,000 lives each year in the UK.
- Benefit of screening on cervical cancer risk increases with age.
- The cervical screening programme started in the late 1980s and since the early 1990s cervical cancer incidence rates have decreased by almost a quarter in the UK.


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